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Hillsborough disaster.", "Frantic scenes unfolded after India's horrific train crash which has killed at least 288 people.", "After six years as editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful will help lead Vogue brands globally in a new role.", "A group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of Britain's Got Talent.", "A protester is tackled by police after entering the track at the Derby Festival at Epsom racecourse.", "Rescuers found the child's body in the wreckage of a residential building in Ukrainian city Dnipro.", "Emergency services worked overnight to rescue survivors, after hundreds were killed in eastern India.", "A top-flight match in Argentina is abandoned after a fan falls to their death from a stand at the stadium.", "The price of diesel fell to £1.47 in May but the RAC argues the price should be cut further.", "Faith Kipyegon sets a new 1500m world record in the Florence Diamond League meeting on Friday, with Britain's Laura Muir a distant second.", "The 700-year-old Declaration of Arbroath continues to inspire the country's independence movement.", "At least 288 people were killed in the collision of two passenger trains and a goods train in Odisha.", "The BBC put these pro spellers to the test during the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.", "Dáithí Mac Gabhann is given the freedom of Belfast days after a law named after him came into effect.", "More than 260 people are known to have died in the train collision in the Indian state of Odisha.", "Her mother says police came to their Belfast home after she questioned why the book was still taught.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf writes to PM Rishi Sunak urging him to revoke the UK's rejection of glass by Monday.", "Welsh tech billionaire Michael Moritz is criticised over an anti-drug campaign in San Francisco.", "The US president signs the package into law on Saturday after it cruised through Congress.", "Iga Swiatek says she has to \"remain disciplined\" after thrashing Wang Xinyu, while Coco Gauff fights back to beat 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva.", "Frankie Dettori is denied victory on Arrest in his final Derby as Auguste Rodin, ridden by Ryan Moore, wins the race at Epsom.", "The incident came after a drug smuggling operation was thwarted at the border, the army says.", "Rescue efforts are under way after a train collision in Odisha caused a number of casualties.", "Celtic proved too strong for second-tier Inverness Caledonian Thistle as they claimed the Scottish Cup and a fifth domestic treble in seven seasons.", "Brian Alexander Stalford, 48, is remanded in custody on charges of possessing a pistol-type weapon.", "The former Newsline presenter alleged discrimination on the basis of age, sex and disability.", "Two people are arrested after a woman in her 70s dies in a dog attack in Bedworth.", "The broadcaster has failed to learn lessons since my daughter died, Christine Flack tells the BBC.", "Schools in England face more disruption as the National Education Union announces fresh strikes.", "The US president makes the remark at the end of speech calling for tougher gun control measures.", "Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed Vietnam War lies, only recently warned of the risks of new conflicts.", "Wales suffer one of their most embarrassing and damaging defeats in recent memory as they lose 4-2 at home to Armenia in a chaotic Euro 2024 qualifier.", "David Galway says he is \"delighted\" to be acquainted with the Bible he did not know existed.", "The horrific tragedy off Greece underlines the need to bring people smugglers to justice, the UN says.", "Prince Louis salutes the crowd as he watches the flypast with Prince George and Princess Charlotte.", "The US Open first round features record lows, two holes-in-one and a charging Rory McIlroy as the championship returns to Los Angeles after a 75-year absence.", "The star ends a decade-long dry spell in the charts - but what does Padam Padam actually mean?", "Twenty-five homes were destroyed in the densely populated area of Yarmouk, where civilians are trapped.", "England waste chances and are defied by a classy century from Australia's Usman Khawaja on a riveting second day of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.", "A man who takes his snakes to his local public park sparks a debate about what animals are acceptable in public spaces.", "Simon Parry \"persistently followed\" the MP on two occasions, Westminster Magistrates' Court hears.", "After two students were killed in Nottingham, others share their experiences of loss at university.", "Lucy Caldwell picks up the award for historical fiction for These Days at the Borders Book Festival.", "Peter Johnson, who was jailed for \"rigging\" interest rates, speaks publicly for the first time since being released in 2018.", "England continue their perfect record in Euro 2024 qualifying with a comfortable 3-0 win at Malta, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Harry Kane and Callum Wilson on the scoresheet", "Rickie Fowler ties the lowest 36-hole score in US Open history as Rory McIlroy produces a sensational back nine to jump into contention in Los Angeles.", "Hundreds of buildings in western France are declared uninhabitable following the rare earthquake.", "Erin Harvey has written birthday and wedding cards to her surviving sons for occasions she'll miss.", "Rishi Sunak says it would not be fair to restrict shoppers' options during a cost-of-living crisis.", "The bodies in the west London property include those of an 11-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy.", "Princes Louis and George and Princess Charlotte joined other royals to watch the flypast.", "Louise Gray has raised thousands for a bereavement suite at the hospital where she lost her baby.", "US media reports the team is worth an estimated $3bn (£2bn) but details of the deal are undisclosed.", "A report identifies a serious drug problem and other major areas for improvement at HMP Maghaberry.", "The Department of Education and Education Authority have to make swingeing savings.", "The Take That singer apologises for liking \"derogatory\" posts on \"the LGBTQIA+ community\".", "The Royal Family wave from Buckingham Palace after King Charles' first Trooping the Colour ceremony as monarch.", "Shehryar Sultan was told he would only be at sea for two to three days, before the boat he was in sank.", "German archaeologists find a Bronze Age sword so new-looking it \"almost shines\".", "Robert Bowers has been found guilty in the 2018 attack - the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.", "The resignation will leave Rishi Sunak potentially facing four by-elections in the coming months.", "Attackers linked to the Islamic State group used machetes and burned a dormitory during the attack.", "Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death on Tuesday.", "When it comes to Boris Johnson, Tory activists form three distinct groups, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders met the Ukrainian and Russian presidents in their peace bid.", "Valdo Calocane is remanded in custody over the deaths of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates.", "The conductor popped the question to his partner Dina De Luca on stage at London's O2 Arena.", "A yellow weather warning is issued, with parts of the UK set to see up to a month's rainfall in a few hours.", "Simon Parry, 44, was arrested on Thursday following an incident with an unnamed MP in Westminster.", "A look inside the Welsh Ballroom scene as it takes to Cardiff Castle for this year's Pride.", "Russia's leader says the move is to remind anyone \"thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on us\".", "Vetting committee say the former prime minister should have cleared his new column with them first.", "Phil Martin performed with Fender and AC/DC's Brian Johnson at a sold out St James' Park.", "The former president prepares to be formally charged with illegally retaining classified documents.", "A homelessness charity provides housing for young people with jobs but struggling with costs of rent.", "The suspect is accused of targeting French HR managers he held responsible for wrecking his career.", "The ex-president did not speak and let his lawyer enter a plea on his behalf, says a BBC reporter in the courtroom.", "Wildlife specialists got the call from a Florida resident and were able to release the 10ft (3m) reptile.", "Eleven-year-old Solaine Thornton was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden on Saturday.", "A tribunal rules Adéla Koubová should get her deposit back because her Edinburgh flat was not a holiday let.", "The bill would introduce an amnesty scheme, stop future inquests and prohibit new civil cases.", "One has access to migrant workers, the other does not, but both are struggling to fill essential jobs.", "The Commons equalities committee chair says it is time to debate \"outdated\" abortion rules.", "The star of Hair and Everwood had over 130 acting credits in career that spanned almost 50 years.", "Two teenagers and a man in his 50s were fatally stabbed on Tuesday, before three were hit by a van.", "Italians say goodbye to the four-time PM and ask who will lead his party and run his businesses.", "A report says many schools use language in their sex education that stigmatises young people", "The tech giant is developing new tools to help track down the brokers buying and selling reviews.", "The risk of dying from the disease has fallen in past 20 years thanks to new treatments, a study says.", "Footage shows rescuers tending to the children after they survived 40 days in the Amazon.", "Ethan John, 11, and his sister Elizabeth, seven, were found with significant injuries, said police.", "Marathon Eryri says it is important to focus on \"authenticity\" as it drops Snowdonia from its title.", "A committee will look at how useful inspections are for parents, governors and schools in England.", "Kylian Mbappe told Paris St-Germain last July he would not extend his contract beyond 2024 as Real Madrid links persist.", "Wildcat Haven lodged a complaint against North Wales Police after it seized a feline named Finlay.", "A councillor says second homes are \"immoral\" amid a \"huge housing crisis\" in one Welsh county.", "A heat-health alert has been extended until next week as 30.7C was recorded in Wales on Tuesday.", "One of the three victims killed in the attacks has been named locally as University of Nottingham student Barnaby Webber.", "Alfie Steele, 9, was repeatedly dunked head first into a cold bath as part of a discipline regime.", "The Home Office says 616 people crossed the Channel on Sunday - the highest daily number this year.", "The BBC reaches Neskuchne in Donetsk region, which saw heavy fighting before it was liberated.", "The bill is set to pass into law before summer but is opposed by victims' groups in Northern Ireland.", "A man appears in court in Ballymena after suspected human remains were found on Sunday.", "The conduct of two officers in a police van before the fatal crash will be examined by the watchdog.", "The supermarkets are accused of stopping rivals opening nearby, potentially reducing consumer choice.", "The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author wrote novels including The Road and No Country for Old Men.", "The funding paid for specialist coaching delivered by the GAA and IFA at more than 200 schools.", "The former president denies 37 charges related to his alleged mishandling of US government secrets.", "A woman had to be rescued after a 100-tonne landslide hit a Highland road, leading to a 113-mile diversion.", "Louis De Zoysa is accused of murdering Sgt Matiu Ratana by shooting him at a custody centre.", "The NHS website's hay-fever advice pages received one visit every three seconds on Sunday.", "Ukrainian officials have reported a \"massive missile attack\" on Kryvyi Rih.", "The star says machine learning helped lift John Lennon's voice from a demo and turn it into a song.", "BMA Scotland said its members would take three days of strike action between 12 and 15 July.", "The tragedy has rocked a small rural town in the Hunter Valley where many victims lived.", "Temperatures will nudge close to 30C, which is 10C above average for this time of year.", "As a massive public inquiry in the UK opens to the public, we asked key people what questions they have.", "The Queens of the Stone Age frontman says he is \"extremely thankful that I'll get through this\".", "The inquiry says it is \"dealing with\" submissions from the former PM, as it prepares its findings.", "Coastguard says the pilot made his way to dry land after the aircraft came down into the sea.", "If Kyiv can split Russian troops in the south and hold ground, its push will have achieved its aims.", "Excavators say the discovery is incredibly rare and \"completely unique\".", "Previous schemes in England and Wales only applied to some offences linked to gay men.", "Mourners in Ecuador realise the 76-year-old is still alive hours after she was placed in a coffin.", "Jemma and Sian Batchelor-Thomas were rescued by police when their coach broke down in Hedge End.", "American sprinter Tori Bowie, who died in May at the age of 32, died from complications in childbirth, her agent says.", "Carla Foster, 44, pleaded guilty to procuring drugs to induce an abortion at 32-34 weeks.", "Jean Jefferson's aunt was killed 50 years ago but she forged a friendship with the man responsible.", "The Supreme Court said the treatment of the 14 men was \"deplorable\" and \"deliberate policy\".", "The former cabinet minister is yet to officially resign as an MP, putting a vote to replace her on hold.", "AI could improve our lives hugely or destroy us all, the experts say - so how do we make it safe?", "The former US president made a stop after his court appearance in Miami.", "The plan would see the new homes built alongside a new community greenway in west Belfast.", "Boris Johnson says Rishi Sunak is \"talking rubbish\", in a row over the former PM's nominations.", "A lawyer for the families accuses the authorities of \"complacent\" pandemic planning that was geared towards a flu outbreak.", "More than £6m was paid out in compensation payments in the last 10 years, lawyers tell BBC News.", "Malcolm Myers says rescue dog Buddy started digging to free him after he got trapped under a branch.", "Manchester turns blue as Pep Guardiola and his players stage an open-top bus parade.", "It comes as Santander becomes the latest big lender to withdraw deals due to market turbulence.", "A 31-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the \"horrific and tragic\" attacks.", "Police say he \"had some explaining to do\" after being caught driving at 121mph on the M4.", "Cars were seen ploughing through deep puddles as thunderstorms brought downpours to parts of the UK.", "Tata Steel UK's chairman says a \"level playing field\" is needed for its steelworks to decarbonise.", "The capital has experienced thunderstorms after a weekend of some of the hottest temperatures this year.", "The Duke of Sussex accuses Mirror Group Newspapers of hacking his phone \"on an industrial scale\".", "Prince Harry becomes the first royal in modern times to face cross-examination in court.", "Towns and villages are under water with thousands of people trying to flee flooded areas after dam breach.", "Researchers have found the first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant.", "About 80 people escape a five-storey block of flats as fire crews tackle a blaze.", "Russia and Ukraine are pointing the finger at one another, but where does the truth lie?", "It denies a character with red eyes and a \"Terf\" badge is based on Rowling but re-edits the animation.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky says hundreds of thousands of people are without access to drinking water.", "An MP and a protester both air worries about safety amid plans to put asylum seekers in a hotel.", "The BBC's James Waterhouse witnesses an evacuation in the Ukrainian city of Kherson.", "Lloyds is looking to recover debts owed by the network of companies controlled by the Barclay family.", "Paul Scully says there should be more of a focus on the good artificial intelligence can do.", "The Bridgend Male Voice Choir sang the Welsh national anthem at Coldplay's Principality Stadium gig.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess died after being pulled from the sea near Bournemouth Pier.", "Labour dismisses the idea Just Stop Oil supporters are influencing policy,", "Angela Rayner accuses the government of obstructing the Covid inquiry - Oliver Dowden denies it.", "They failed to mention Shell's more polluting activities, the advertising watchdog rules.", "Japan moves to reform its sex assault laws, finally recognising consent.", "Argentina legend Lionel Messi will join MLS side Inter Miami after leaving Paris St-Germain.", "But experts warn \"skinny jabs\" are not a quick fix or a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise.", "The prime minister says he is acting transparently, despite the government's legal action over WhatsApp disclosures.", "The 14-year-old pupil from St Kentigern's Academy in West Lothian died in hospital on Tuesday.", "A 19-year-old suspect has appeared in court and faces at least two murder charges.", "Louis De Zoysa \"pulled the trigger on purpose\" when he shot Met Sgt Matiu Ratana, his trial hears.", "Beth Winter calls the party's selection process to be the election candidate for a new seat \"unjust\".", "It means the scheme is likely to launch at the same time as similar proposals for other parts of the UK.", "About 2,000 security officers will walk out for 31 days in June, July and August.", "Jarrod Bowen scores in the 90th minute as West Ham win the Europa Conference League - beating Fiorentina in a tense and dramatic final.", "The challenge for the prime minister now is delivery, and quickly, with a general election expected next year.", "Supplies are delivered to those trapped by floodwaters in Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson region.", "Players call for PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan to resign in a 'heated' meeting following its shock merger with the DP World Tour and LIV Golf.", "Timelapse video of the city's skyline shows the air quality worsen in a matter of a few hours.", "Gilot, who was 101, emerged from Picasso's shadow to become acclaimed as an artist in her own right.", "The Coronation Street actress's husband says there is now \"no hope of a reversal in the situation\".", "The city was flooded after Ukraine accused Russia of destroying a huge dam nearby.", "It will be compulsory for all post-primary schools to teach access to abortion and pregnancy prevention.", "Many landmines planted near the Dnipro river are likely to have been washed away by the surging water.", "The uninvited guest managed to open the door of the vehicle and went in it to get dog food left inside.", "Met Asst Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said the force is reviewing its policing of the event.", "The dance music DJ was due to play at the Parklife festival in Manchester and Glastonbury this summer.", "Supermarket becomes the latest to remove the dates, urging customers to use their judgement instead.", "US President Joe Biden says the dense cloak of smoke is a \"stark reminder\" of climate change.", "After a day and a half in the witness box, how did Prince Harry handle his questioning in court?", "The Barclay family, which also owns the Spectator magazine and courier Yodel, owes debts to Lloyds Bank.", "West Ham condemn the behaviour of \"a small number of fans\" after Fiorentina's Cristiano Biraghi is hit by an object thrown from the stands during the Europa Conference League final.", "The actor, who has faced multiple misconduct allegations, has said the encounter was consensual.", "The prime minister says \"subsidy races\" are not a solution to hitting climate goals, as he visits Washington.", "A report urges ministers to improve uptake to a tutoring scheme designed to help students in England catch up.", "Around 40,000 people need to be evacuated, says Ukraine, after a collapse released a torrent of water.", "During the peak of his wrestling career in the 1980s he faced many greats, including Hulk Hogan.", "Ukraine's president says hundreds of thousands have no access to drinking water after the dam disaster.", "The National Lottery says 205 ticket-holders in the city have become millionaires since 1994.", "The Duke of Sussex is giving evidence in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers.", "A carved piece of wood found during a construction project is believed to be the oldest in Britain.", "Thousands of clips filmed in East Asia are sold online. BBC Eye reveals the men who are cashing in.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales pledge to replace all items stolen by thieves.", "Satellite images reveal the full extent of the devastation caused by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.", "Real Madrid have agreed a deal with Borussia Dortmund to sign England midfielder Jude Bellingham for 103m euros (£88.5m).", "Helen Holland, 81, died after being hit by a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh", "Lawyers have questioned whether Nicola Sturgeon's messages are relevant to the Covid inquiry.", "The mum of a boy who killed his father and tried to kill her is still waiting for an inquest.", "The BBC’s analysis editor looks at what we know about the Ukraine dam collapse at Nova Kakhovka.", "The Duke of Sussex says the press have \"got into bed\" with the government to ensure the status quo.", "Ballon d'Or winner Karim Benzema agrees terms with Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad after leaving Real Madrid.", "Denise Gossett, her children Roman and Sabrina and granddaughter Morgana were killed in the blaze.", "The group warns personal details of 100,000 staff will be published if employers do not get in touch.", "The first Heat-Health Alert of the year is issued across large parts of England.", "Air quality in the US and Canada is the worst in the world today due to smoke billowing from hundreds of fires.", "'I couldn't trust anybody' - Harry on the impact of alleged unlawful information gathering on his life.", "The three-hour operation at a Roman hospital was completed without complications, says the Vatican.", "One of the most common swear words will no longer be automatically changed when typing.", "President Zelensky shared a video of the Kakhovka dam, in Kherson region, on his Telegram page.", "Prince Harry says the press have \"misled\" him his whole life as he finishes two days of cross-examination in court.", "The woman is the latest to allege sexual violence against the controversial social media influencer.", "London Irish are suspended from the Premiership after missing a second deadline to pay staff and failing to complete a takeover.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about the War in Ukraine from across the BBC.", "The streets in the district of Neftehavan have been flooded by rising water.", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis says his party is now the most powerful centre-right party in Europe.", "South East Water claims shortages are partly down to more people working from home.", "England's hopes of victory in the one-off Ashes Test are dented by the loss of five late wickets on day four at Trent Bridge.", "A revamp of Leominster town centre is expected to start at the end of the year, the town council says.", "Emails reveal behind-the scenes discussions involving ministers and officials at the start of the procurement.", "The star's last ever UK tour date attracts the biggest TV audience in the festival's history.", "The Air Accident Investigation Bureau is investigating after a hot air balloon \"fell to the ground\".", "Adam Chadwick's parents are still none the wiser on why their son was gunned down 15 years ago.", "The buyer of the prospective battery plant in Northumberland has not yet paid for the site.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.", "Stockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.", "Following the withdrawal of a team-mate Belgian shot putter Jolien Boumkwo competes in the 100m women's hurdles to gain important points for her nation at the European Athletics Team Championships.", "Scotland's Andy Butchart, 31, finished a 5k in Silverknowes, Edinburgh in a blistering 13:45.", "Joseph O'Connor, 24, targeted some of the most popular accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam.", "The SNP leader says if his party wins a majority of general election seats he will call for the legal means to hold a democratic referendum.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the nation after an attempted mutiny at the weekend.", "SNP members gather this weekend to flesh out a new strategy on achieving Scottish independence.", "Carlos Alcaraz wins his first title on grass and regains the world number one ranking with victory over Alex de Minaur in the Queen's final.", "Two teenagers were airlifted to hospital shortly after 19:30 BST on Saturday, police say.", "The actress and Strictly star, who is deaf, believes tuition should be a right, not a privilege.", "The Prince of Wales launches a five-year project to cut homelessness and change public attitudes.", "Video shows Suleman Dawood wowing people as he successfully matches up colours on each side of the puzzle.", "The joint hottest day of the year so far was recorded on Sunday but the week ahead looks cooler for most.", "The South London rapper talks us through his powerful and personal set on The Other Stage.", "Choose your stage and watch performances from Elton, Lil Nas X, Blondie, Cat Stevens, and many others.", "After suffering vocal problems, the Scottish star suggests he might have to take an extended break.", "The 65-year-old disappeared in mountains north of Los Angeles after hiking in bad weather in January.", "John McKenna, who played for Scotby FC, died after apparently falling from his hotel balcony.", "The hard rock band play a long, but rewarding headline set, while Lana Del Rey is cruelly cut short.", "The Wagner mutiny was years in the making, as Russia's system of competing powers finally collapsed.", "An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son were among those on the Titanic sub.", "The plan to reform NHS training and recruitment comes at a time of record-high waiting lists.", "BT says a backup service is available and people should call 999 as usual.", "Top US diplomat Antony Blinken says an attempted rebellion was a \"direct challenge\" to President Putin.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin agrees to stop his troops' march on Moscow and move to Belarus, in a sudden climb down.", "Canadian investigators in Newfoundland are looking for clues as to what caused the sub's implosion.", "Vladimir Putin's mixed messages on the Wagner mutiny have been raising eyebrows and changing perceptions of him.", "Betsan Moses says news reports featuring criticism of the rule were \"clickbait\".", "The prime minister continues to back the Bank of England as mortgage pressure rises for homeowners.", "People in UK less likely to survive treatable conditions than in other rich nations, study suggests.", "In a week where interest rates rose again, the prime minister tells Laura Kuenssberg the plan to cut inflation will work - even if it's difficult.", "Carlos Alcaraz will face Alex de Minaur in the Queen's final for the chance to win a first grass title and return to world number one.", "Footage appears to show locals in Rostov-on-Don gathering to show departing fighters their support.", "The British-Iranian national says civil unrest in Iran has made readjusting to the UK difficult.", "Fans woke up at the crack of dawn to ensure they could be in the front row when the star plays.", "Sarah Ferguson's doctors have told her that the prognosis is good, her spokesman says.", "Stockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.", "The UK prime minister is watching events closely, as the government holds an emergency planning meeting.", "She was the first female general secretary of the party and played a major role in two election wins.", "It is currently in its initial phase and efforts to recover the wreckage of the sub are ongoing.", "Avon and Somerset Police say they are not treating the death of a man in his 40s as suspicious.", "For many the pandemic may feel behind us but others say their lives have been ruined by the virus.", "Lil Nas X, Elton John and Blondie are among the stars who performed on the festival's final day.", "Nine others were injured when the ride at a Stockholm amusement park partly derailed, witnesses say.", "Christine Dawood told the BBC she lost hope of her son being found alive when the 96-hour mark passed.", "Iain Hughes, 42, has not been seen after starting the swimming challenge on Tuesday.", "The special show, on the seventh anniversary of the vote to leave the EU, came from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.", "The Windrush generation shaped modern Britain, so what does its 75th anniversary mean to them?", "The US Coast Guard says condolences have been sent to the families of the passengers.", "Around 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and the concert near Denver was cancelled.", "Interest rates are expected to go up to 4.75% from 4.5% as the Bank tries to slow soaring prices.", "The bosses of some large UK festivals say they will be checking drugs, but smaller events aren't sure.", "Experts have raised concerns over the regulation of deep-sea vessels following the Titanic dive tragedy.", "He calls the decision \"extraordinarily major\" and a \"big new idea\" that wasn't considered in advance.", "The bridge linking the peninsula to Kherson in the south was hit by British missiles, say officials.", "One of Lucy Letby's favourite ways of harming babies was by injecting air, a prosecutor tells a jury.", "Actress Michelle Collins will soon be followed back on the show by on screen ex-husband Ian Beale.", "Debris found in the search includes a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible.", "A South African woman tells a Lords committee about \"shocking\" working conditions on English farms.", "Pregnant Fawziyah Javed secretly recorded her husband's threats - but he murdered her before she could leave.", "The arrest of a man over \"suspicious chemicals\" found at a house is not terror-related, a force says.", "Experts say the insects, which carry viruses, have moved into new parts of the continent.", "Up to 600 people are feared dead after the migrant boat disaster off Greece - many from Egypt and Pakistan.", "There has been a big increase across the UK in the number of students earning money, research reveals.", "Iain Hughes, 42, has not been seen after starting the swimming challenge on Tuesday.", "They were dismissed by a council of senior bishops after two members said their work was obstructed.", "The horse fell into the pool in Paso County after being spooked by another horse.", "The defence secretary says the US wants the current head, Jens Stoltenberg, to stay on.", "The Love Islander leaves her creative director role at PrettyLittleThing to focus on her daughter.", "The co-founder of the firm which runs Titan tours was speaking after debris was found in the search area.", "Ex-Brookside star Louis Emerick \"utterly and deeply regrets his error\", his defence says.", "An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son were among those on the Titanic sub.", "Deals are changing so fast customers face making snap decisions or risk losing deals, a broker says.", "Jonathan Amos explains how passengers of the missing sub could try to communicate with the outside world.", "Four of the injured are in a critical state after the blast in the historic Latin Quarter, police say.", "Pearse Doherty graduated from St Vincent's Training Centre in Belfast last year, against the odds.", "If it is still functional and intact, it may only have a small amount of oxygen left on board.", "Nadia Kalinowska was tortured and killed in her home in Newtownabbey by her stepfather Abdul Wahab.", "It comes after parliament passed a bill requiring tech giants to compensate publishers for news.", "One victim's injuries are serious, while the suspected attacker is taken from hospital into custody.", "On the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush landing, some of those in Wales share their memories.", "Councils warn getting rid of fees to dispose of DIY material will see costs passed on to households in other ways.", "Nadia Kalinowska, five, died in her family home with more than 70 injuries, including a fractured skull.", "The RMT says 20,000 members will walk out on 20, 22 and 29 July as part of a long-running dispute.", "The BBC's Jonathan Amos explains how search and rescue operations go about locating the missing sub.", "The US has sued Amazon for allegedly manipulating customers during the Prime sign-up process.", "The Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest.", "An 18-year-old is found guilty of murder after stabbing a schoolboy at a Glasgow railway station.", "The Canadian aircraft CP-140 can provide a surface search and sub-surface acoustic detection.", "Nadia Zofia Kalinowska died after being found injured at her family home in Newtownabbey in December 2019.", "Organisers said they had been subjected to a \"campaign of misinformation\" by the Bectu union.", "Benefit payments could be delayed as frontline staff face brunt of Department for Communities’ cuts.", "The Prince of Wales pays tribute to the Windrush generation on the 75th anniversary of the first crossing.", "James Cameron, who did 33 submersible dives to Titanic's wreck, says the Titan sub's design was risky.", "In 1948, passengers from the Caribbean disembarked in Tilbury - the first of what became known as the Windrush generation.", "One victim sustained life-threatening injuries while the arrested person has \"self-inflicted\" wounds.", "President Xi has called for \"all-out efforts\" in investigating the suspected gas leak explosion.", "Forces say update that lets button pushes trigger calls is bombarding operators with \"silent\" calls.", "At a climate summit in Paris, Barbados's prime minister wants to raise billions for poor nations.", "The family of Strathclyde University student Suleman Dawood are \"overwhelmed with love\" after his death.", "The Bank of England's bigger-than-expected increase puts the base rate at 5% for the first time since 2008.", "Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.", "David Gill must serve 16 years for killing Pat McCormick and dumping his weighted body in a lake.", "Culture minister Lord Parkinson announced changes to the bill to give coroners new powers.", "Sir Chris laments treatment as he gives evidence to Covid Inquiry on pandemic preparedness.", "The annual pilgrimage to Worthy Farm just keeps getting better, festival regulars say.", "The principal of Belfast's Holy Evangelists' Primary School says budget cuts will hit the vulnerable.", "Richard Jackson posted that he would take a van to the event and blow himself up, prosecutors say.", "Ian 'H' Watkins says a clause in the contract said there was to be no mention of sexuality.", "One of the most iconic figures in the Scottish independence movement has died, her family confirms.", "The Church of England says relations broke down with a panel overseeing how it deals with abuse.", "Caerwyn Ash is found guilty of possessing indecent images and videos of the most serious category.", "Manipur faces the darkest chapter in its modern history and could be engulfed by ethnic violence.", "The US Coast Guard are said to have used the information to narrow the search area.", "Some in government want to ease impact of inflation but others are exasperated with \"knee-jerk\" interventions.", "Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves sets out Labour's response to the crisis facing many mortgage payers.", "A court says the ex-IS member encouraged her husband to rape and beat the young woman.", "Phil Martin performed with Fender and AC/DC's Brian Johnson at a sold out St James' Park.", "Paris Mayo did not believe Stanley was alive after giving birth to him, a court hears.", "NHS bosses worry as junior doctors in England stage a third walkout in their attempt to secure a 35% rise.", "The deal is yet to be approved by regulators, which will look at whether it will push up customer prices.", "The ex-president did not speak and let his lawyer enter a plea on his behalf, says a BBC reporter in the courtroom.", "A series of violent incidents which left three people dead triggered a major police investigation.", "A civil engineering body says it had been known for years a target date would not be met.", "The Labour leader has pressed the PM on Tory infighting over Boris Johnson's honours list.", "The RNLI has outlined the extent of its involvement in small boat crossings for the first time.", "\"This is not rough and tumble of political life, this is out and out hate,\" says Conservative MP.", "Thousands of disabled people with over £6,000 stuck in savings also face cuts to their benefits.", "The iconic actress tells the magazine she \"wouldn't want to be straight for anything\".", "The takeover, which has split global regulators, would be the largest in the video games industry.", "Chechen commander and MP Adam Delimkhanov's whereabouts are unknown, but colleagues say he is alive.", "Two teenagers and a man in his 50s were fatally stabbed on Tuesday, before three were hit by a van.", "Footage appears to show the suspect shortly before he allegedly killed a third person.", "Italians say goodbye to the four-time PM and ask who will lead his party and run his businesses.", "Fiona Wightman, Paul Whitehouse's former spouse, says her phone was hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers.", "The fathers of Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar say their children loved life at Nottingham University.", "Jurors clear eight defendants of the murder of Ramarni Crosby, who was stabbed to death.", "Alan Massie beat and stabbed 90-year-old William Yule in Forfar last December.", "The home secretary tells MPs that more staff must be hired to clear the backlog of asylum seeker claims.", "There's been a sharp decline in the numbers taking a strong interest in the news in recent years.", "Some fear plans for two new sites will be run by the same company which ran now-closed Penally.", "The permit gate will be active between 07:00 and 19:00 from Monday until Saturday for 18 months.", "Reunited in Seoul after a decade apart, Songmi asks her mother why she left her behind in the north.", "The risk of dying from the disease has fallen in past 20 years thanks to new treatments, a study says.", "The BBC and ITV agree a deal with football's governing body Fifa to broadcast the Women's World Cup in the UK, five weeks before the tournament begins on 20 July.", "The strike is thought to have shattered a stone pillar that sits at the top of the UK's highest mountain.", "Officials declare three days of mourning after one of Greece's biggest ever migrant tragedies.", "A 26-year-old man is being questioned after the disappearance of Chloe Mitchell, 21, in Ballymena.", "Chloe Mitchell's brother and sister thank the public as vigils are held in Ballymena and Belfast.", "The bus was travelling at 70mph on the M74 when it started swerving across two lanes of the motorway.", "The Department of Health accepts it may have made different decisions with the \"benefit of hindsight\", its lawyer says.", "North Wales Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service were called reports of a collapsed man.", "Retailers are facing growing pressure to do more to help people with the soaring cost of living.", "A heat-health alert has been extended until next week as 30.7C was recorded in Wales on Tuesday.", "Alfie Steele, 9, was repeatedly dunked head first into a cold bath as part of a discipline regime.", "Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive has resulted in some further advances, a minister says.", "The conduct of two officers in a police van before the fatal crash will be examined by the watchdog.", "Caretaker Ian Coates and students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were killed in the city.", "The supermarkets are accused of stopping rivals opening nearby, potentially reducing consumer choice.", "The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author wrote novels including The Road and No Country for Old Men.", "Belarus's opposition leader says the West is silent over the transfer of weapons to Alexander Lukashenko.", "An indictment against the controversial influencer could be issued later this month, marking the start of a trial.", "Margrethe Vestager tells the BBC using AI for decisions that affect lives could lead to discrimination.", "Real Madrid complete the signing of England midfielder Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year deal.", "Kyiv paints a different picture - of pushing Russian troops back in the east and south-east.", "The former president denies 37 charges related to his alleged mishandling of US government secrets.", "ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall answers questions before a House of Commons committee.", "The first new polio vaccines in 50 years are less likely to mutate into a dangerous form that causes disease.", "The pair are alleged to have used a cloned Clubcard app to scam Northern Ireland Tesco stores.", "BMA Scotland said its members would take three days of strike action between 12 and 15 July.", "The Lords votes through the new regulations, despite an attempt to block them by opposition peers.", "The Labour leader accuses Rishi Sunak of failing to stand up to his predecessor over controversial peerages.", "The fathers of two students killed in Tuesday's attacks address thousands of people gathered at Nottingham University.", "Georgia Bilham denied deceiving a young woman by posing as a man from Birmingham.", "The inquiry says it is \"dealing with\" submissions from the former PM, as it prepares its findings.", "Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive has resulted in some further advances, a minister says.", "Thomas Cato, 34, is jailed for 11 years and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.", "Chancellor says he \"unstintingly\" supports the Bank of England to \"do what it takes\" to cut inflation.", "Daniel Penny faces second-degree manslaughter charge for killing street performer Jordan Neely.", "The number of a popular service to the coast is being changed after complaints were made.", "A former senior intelligence adviser says these were some of the nation's most sensitive secrets.", "Chris Heaton-Harris denies he's pressurising the DUP by asking civil servants for revenue raising options like water charges.", "As a man on his honeymoon received life support in Hawaii, thieves stole his car and belongings.", "The Supreme Court said the treatment of the 14 men was \"deplorable\" and \"deliberate policy\".", "The former cabinet minister is yet to officially resign as an MP, putting a vote to replace her on hold.", "Nigel Walker says he has absolute faith in Henry Engelhardt who criticised an investigation.", "The plan would see the new homes built alongside a new community greenway in west Belfast.", "The man had earlier been pursued by officers after failing to stop a car he was driving, police say.", "People under 25 get less Universal Credit benefits and campaigners say it penalises young parents.", "Industrial action for Amazon staff could go on for the rest of the year as union members vote in favour.", "Malcolm Myers says rescue dog Buddy started digging to free him after he got trapped under a branch.", "Jo Farrell's appointment comes after her predecessor said the force was institutionally racist.", "Jo Farrell takes over from Mike Barton who has held the post for seven years.", "Police say they have reason to believe 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell from Ballymena was murdered.", "Fathers of two students killed in Nottingham stand united in grief, with David Webber telling mourners: \"I've lost my baby boy.\"", "The frenzy stoked by the start of the singer's world tour is seen driving up prices in Sweden.", "Jocelyn Chia tells the BBC she is not making fun of victims, after Malaysia asked Interpol to locate her.", "Nadine Dorries says her name was removed from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.", "Account of how a damning NHS finance report came about was disputed by ex-senior health officials.", "Boris Johnson stood down as an MP after seeing an advanced copy of the report.", "A woman who died along with two other Britons would be \"missed beyond words\", her family says.", "Prof Yann LeCun says fears that AI will pose a threat to humanity are \"preposterously ridiculous\".", "Michael Donnelly says he does not accept the police's apology, describing it as fairly meaningless.", "The vessel was carrying around 300 passengers travelling from a wedding ceremony in Kwara state.", "Nigel Adams is the third Conservative MP in 24 hours to announce they are quitting the Commons.", "Julie James says she will not try to ban artificial grass, despite suggesting she would like to.", "Leeds chairman Andrea Radrizzani agrees a deal to sell his stake in the club to co-owners 49ers Enterprises.", "The boy, 16, is charged following a violent assault on two teenagers and an adult at a boarding school.", "The winner outran the fastest horse by over 10 minutes in the 22-mile race held in mid Wales.", "A parking firm has lost a case against a driver after she requested the details of a fine in Welsh.", "Mr Trump spoke at a Republican convention, his first outing since his indictment were announced.", "NHS England says the drugs will only be prescribed for those signed up to a clinical research programme.", "Quitting Parliament is entirely on brand and raises questions about his next move, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Donald Trump is accused of keeping classified documents in a ballroom and bathroom at his Florida home.", "As a massive public inquiry in the UK opens to the public, we asked key people what questions they have.", "Ch Insp Yvonne McManus gave the latest figures after eight officers were assaulted in one evening.", "The ex-PM, with a life-long knack for throwing stones and grabbing attention, is doing just that.", "A 26-year-old man is being questioned after the disappearance of Chloe Mitchell, 21, in Ballymena.", "They set sail to flee persecution, they say - but ended up on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.", "It's been talked of for months, now it looks like Ukraine is finally launching its plan to recapture land.", "A look back on the former prime minister's political career as he announces as a resignation as an MP.", "The children have begun playing again in hospital, officials say, as the eldest is praised for her care.", "It's an uphill challenge, but there are plans to cut out all single-use plastics on Yr Wyddfa.", "The English Spider-Man star says his \"tough\" latest project had left him feeling broken.", "Poland's Iga Swiatek maintains her recent grip on the French Open by beating Karolina Muchova to win her third Roland Garros title in four years.", "Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies says he \"regrets\" that Boris Johnson has quit as an MP.", "Lucy Letby is a \"calculating woman\" who lied \"to try and get sympathy\", a prosecutor tells her trial.", "Police are investigating deaths following surgery at the hospital over a five-year period.", "The passengers narrowly escaped with their lives when the Carlton Queen capsized.", "Boris Johnson quit as an MP, saying he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\" over Partygate report.", "Manchester City win their first Champions League title by beating Inter Milan in Istanbul to claim the Treble.", "It is a \"magical day\", says the president, as the four siblings are found after 40 days missing.", "Quebec has seen improvements in the last 48 hours but country's west coast warns fire challenges ahead.", "Glasgow City Council is having to hire vans as vehicles in its fleet are banned from the low emission zone.", "The famous loch along with the River Ness have hit record low water marks.", "The former PM's close allies are given honours in a list published just before he resigned as an MP.", "Fire crews are tackling a blaze at Daviot, south of Inverness, on the hottest day of the year.", "Relative of IRA bomb atrocity victim criticises MP's planned attendance at an IRA commemoration event.", "Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP but insists that \"I did not lie\" over Covid lockdowns.", "City supporters in a Manchester fanzone voice their joy at their historic 1-0 win against Inter Milan.", "The pandemic was far from Dr Alena's only challenge on a far-flung archipelago in the Philippines.", "Saul Cookson died when his e-bike collided with an ambulance after he was followed by police.", "Former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson is accusing the publisher of breaching her privacy.", "Crispin Odey, a prominent hedge fund boss, strenuously denies the allegations.", "Novak Djokovic says he is relishing the chance to make tennis history as he aims to become the first man to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles.", "Ukraine's president refused to say which stage the counter-offensive against Russian forces was in.", "A 64-year-old man has been arrested after the bodies of a man and woman were found on Friday.", "Cranogwen has become only the third real woman in Wales to have a statue built commemorating her.", "Four children and two adults were attacked in a park in France's Alpine region on Thursday.", "The former UK prime minister has resigned as a MP, saying there is no evidence that he misled Parliament.", "Catholic pilgrim Henri said he simply followed his instincts when confronting the Annecy attacker.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the party is in \"healthy shape\" as it prepares to vote for a new deputy leader.", "The Met Office has warned of hail and \"torrential\" rain in some parts as a result of warm weather.", "Dragos Tigau made a racist comment at a meeting in April but has only now been disciplined.", "Kaczynski evaded capture for 20 years after a mass US bombing campaign that killed three people.", "Michelle Hodgkinson had been walking to meet her mum to take her shopping when she was attacked.", "The Dumfries town centre feature was carefully removed, restored and returned to its former glory.", "A collision between three trains in Odisha state left at least 288 people dead and over 800 injured.", "Former PM is told his legal costs will not be covered if he tries to \"undermine\" government position.", "The Business Council, set up by the Chambers of Commerce, has Heathrow, BP and Drax among its members.", "Watch as Manchester City players bump into Elton John at the airport after their 2-1 FA Cup final victory over Manchester United at Wembley.", "Ilkay Gundogan scores twice, including the fastest FA Cup final goal ever, as Manchester City beat Manchester United to secure the second part of a possible Treble.", "He has said he will give the Covid inquiry his messages in full, after the government refused to.", "Five former home secretaries tell Laura Kuenssberg the truth about immigration policy.", "Other oil-producing countries also agreed to continued cuts in production to try to shore up prices.", "The 32-year-old is due to appear in court after animal rights protesters targeted the horse race.", "Yoshikazu Higashitani, aka GaaSyy, returns to Japan months after Tokyo police issued his arrest warrant.", "Five-time Champions League winner Karim Benzema is to leave Real Madrid after 14 years at the club.", "India's Railway Board says there was \"some kind of signalling interference\".", "The Strawberry Moon marks the start of meteorological summer.", "The FA said it condemned the action, which it said referred to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.", "Frantic scenes unfolded after India's horrific train crash which has killed at least 288 people.", "The family of 17-year-old trainee chef Joe Abbess said he had had a \"bright future ahead of him\".", "BBC reporter was asked to help after a patient held a doctor at gunpoint in 48-hour hospital siege.", "Ten days after leaving a psychiatric unit, David Fleet stabbed a man who was walking his dog.", "The service, overseen by Highland Council, has been without a useable vessel since 15 April.", "They say they will hand the men over to Ukraine, after accusing a Russian official of failing to meet them.", "Defence Minister Li Shangfu says Beijing is open to dialogue in his first major speech in the role.", "Rescuers found the child's body in the wreckage of a residential building in Ukrainian city Dnipro.", "A group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of Britain's Got Talent.", "A top-flight match in Argentina is abandoned after a fan falls to their death from a stand at the stadium.", "Rishi Sunak was in Moldova for a summit of 47 nations that was dominated by the war in Ukraine.", "A protester is tackled by police after entering the track at the Derby Festival at Epsom racecourse.", "Emergency services worked overnight to rescue survivors, after hundreds were killed in eastern India.", "Relatives of the victims of the India train crash tell of their struggle to locate loved ones.", "Politicians including main opposition leader Donald Tusk led crowds calling for a change of direction.", "Scams are becoming more common, with fraudsters charging up to £4,000 per paper, exam boards warn.", "At least 288 people were killed in the collision of two passenger trains and a goods train in Odisha.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack wants Rishi Sunak to stand by the decision to exclude glass from the Scottish scheme.", "The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner - a keen naturalist - has been on their trail.", "Police say officers were called to the beach by paramedics after reports a body had been seen.", "The 12-year-old, named locally as Sunnah Khan, died after an incident on Bournemouth beach.", "There are many unanswered questions on what exactly led to a deadly multiple train collision in India.", "Internal Home Office figures include the costs of developing detention facilities, the BBC understands.", "Robert Jenrick says that taxpayers must come first - but denies conditions for asylum seekers are poor.", "More than 260 people are known to have died in the train collision in the Indian state of Odisha.", "Russia claims to have routed two groups that crossed the border from Ukraine.", "The awards were hosted by Jane McDonald after Phillip Schofield left ITV last week.", "The result of a vote on reforms is likely to be seen as a key moment in the CBI's future.", "The pop star speaks to the Hay Festival about her passion for reading and her drive for success.", "Police and protesters clash for a second night over a jail term for a woman who attacked neo-Nazis.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf writes to PM Rishi Sunak urging him to revoke the UK's rejection of glass by Monday.", "Thousands of Ukrainians are moving back to towns close to the front line, despite the dangers.", "Three female MPs say they were advised to \"watch out\" for the Labour MP Geraint Davies.", "The star headlines a different kind of festival, and says he wants to publish more diverse voices.", "Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer says Manchester United will have to spend big this summer if they are to challenge Manchester City's supremacy.", "The incident came after a drug smuggling operation was thwarted at the border, the army says.", "For the first time in the modern era a senior royal is going to give evidence in open court.", "Quinten has a severe allergy to dairy, egg, soya and nuts and \"feels like the odd one out\".", "Two people are arrested after a woman in her 70s dies in a dog attack in Bedworth.", "Immigration minister says he has to look after taxpayers and reduce use of hotels for housing asylum seekers.", "England spinner Jack Leach is ruled out of the Ashes series against Australia with a back stress fracture.", "The 33-year-old from Warwickshire has been charged with displaying threatening or abusive writing.", "Pro-democracy activists have been detained in a crackdown on marking the 1989 massacre in Beijing.", "They caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage when they broke into an electronics factory.", "The company has apologised \"sincerely\" for the problems with the emergency phone service at the weekend.", "Wagner troops fume at their leader's decision to halt his march on Moscow in furious online posts.", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis says his party is now the most powerful centre-right party in Europe.", "Racism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in English and Welsh cricket, according to a long-awaited independent report.", "Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons were quizzed on their prices by MPs, but denied making excess profits.", "Kyle Jamie Eldridge reckons autism has given him \"excellent\" skills for his role in public service.", "The star's last ever UK tour date attracts the biggest TV audience in the festival's history.", "Russia's president says the organisers of the march on Moscow will be \"brought to justice\".", "Jesse Watters, who joined the network in 2002, will host the channel's primetime evening slot.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.", "Stockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.", "Australia beat England by 89 runs to win the one-off Ashes Test match and take a 4-0 points lead in the multi-format series.", "A report finds the estimated savings of removing a migrant to a \"safe country\" such as Rwanda are uncertain.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the nation after an attempted mutiny at the weekend.", "The Conservative Party says it will not investigate the allegations as no formal complaint was made.", "SNP members gather this weekend to flesh out a new strategy on achieving Scottish independence.", "Two teenagers were airlifted to hospital shortly after 19:30 BST on Saturday, police say.", "The Prince of Wales launches a five-year project to cut homelessness and change public attitudes.", "Video shows Suleman Dawood wowing people as he successfully matches up colours on each side of the puzzle.", "BBC reporter Daniel De Simone asks the Acourt brothers questions about new information in the Stephen Lawrence case.", "The mother-of-two went missing on a dog walk in Lancashire, prompting a major police search.", "The joint hottest day of the year so far was recorded on Sunday but the week ahead looks cooler for most.", "The BBC traced witnesses, saw police documents and uncovered new leads to name Matthew White as a suspect.", "The Wagner mutiny was years in the making, as Russia's system of competing powers finally collapsed.", "Dame Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer at the start of the pandemic, has given evidence.", "The Migos rappers return to the stage to pay tribute to their late bandmate at the BET Awards.", "An eyewitness has captured the moment a large funnel cloud tore through a neighbourhood in the US state of Indiana.", "Ministers confirm they are considering next year's public sector pay deals, as Rishi Sunak warns about inflation.", "Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, killed five people at the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs last year.", "BT says a backup service is available and people should call 999 as usual.", "An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son were among those on the Titanic sub.", "Scotland's longest-serving manager Craig Brown has died at the age of 82.", "For months Jamie Hart continued to work with no idea he had a collapsed vertebra.", "Evidence about Matthew White, now dead, implicates other suspects and reveals more police failings.", "\"Absolutely horrific\" stories found by damning report into discrimination in cricket show game's culture is \"rotten\", says report chair.", "The bank will move to a smaller London office to allow for more flexible working post-pandemic.", "The Scottish SPCA has warned wild fawns are needlessly dying because people keep taking them home.", "There is some cynicism about Prince William - a wealthy landowner - pledging to tackle homelessness.", "The BBC traced witnesses, saw police documents and uncovered new leads to name Matthew White as a suspect.", "Drone footage shows a humpback whale swimming alongside a kayaker near Bondi Beach in Australia.", "Labour's plan to end North Sea exploration and the government's tax policy both come under fire.", "Police are treating criminal damage in Ballymena, County Antrim, as a racially-motivated hate crime.", "Vladimir Putin's mixed messages on the Wagner mutiny have been raising eyebrows and changing perceptions of him.", "BBC Panorama worked with an artificial intelligence company to sift through millions of satellite pictures.", "The winner of this year's BBC Scotland series was selected ahead of five other regional finalists.", "People in UK less likely to survive treatable conditions than in other rich nations, study suggests.", "The struggling cinema chain is undergoing a restructuring as it tries to escape huge debts.", "Strangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK.", "Sarah Ferguson's doctors have told her that the prognosis is good, her spokesman says.", "The dramatic moment a horse stranded down a four metre-deep Italian pit is hauled free by helicopter.", "An eight-month-old baby dies in hospital, four days after being hit outside Withybush Hospital.", "Paris Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to Stanley after concealing her pregnancy from her family.", "The airport employee died after they were \"ingested\" into an engine, transport officials said.", "It is currently in its initial phase and efforts to recover the wreckage of the sub are ongoing.", "Avon and Somerset Police say they are not treating the death of a man in his 40s as suspicious.", "Lil Nas X, Elton John and Blondie are among the stars who performed on the festival's final day.", "There have been calls to reopen police inquiries after the BBC revealed new evidence in the racist murder.", "Christine Dawood told the BBC she lost hope of her son being found alive when the 96-hour mark passed.", "The Ecuadorean woman died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.", "All passengers and crew on board have been accounted for and no casualties were reported.", "Same-sex relationships are not legally recognised in Poland and gay couples cannot adopt children.", "Schools in England face more disruption as the National Education Union announces fresh strikes.", "One man who had a breakdown after seeing the traumatic birth of his son says dads can be overlooked.", "Italian authorities handed over the ancient tablet to Iraq after more than four decades.", "Katie Boulter wins her first WTA title with a dominant victory in Nottingham over Jodie Burrage in the first all-British tour-level final in 46 years.", "BBC Europe correspondent reveals data challenging the Greek authorities' account of boat disaster.", "The horrific tragedy off Greece underlines the need to bring people smugglers to justice, the UN says.", "The housing secretary says a 90-day Commons suspension for the ex-PM is \"not merited\".", "The Scottish Labour leader says his party still has work to do despite signs of improved fortunes.", "Mourners of those killed by suspected Islamist militants describe their shock at the raid's brutality.", "Two Essex Police officers saved their elderly neighbours after their house was struck by lightning.", "There is unexploded ordnance in the UK economy, and there are fears that it will start to ignite.", "Hundreds of buildings in western France are declared uninhabitable following the rare earthquake.", "The bodies in the west London property include those of an 11-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy.", "Princes Louis and George and Princess Charlotte joined other royals to watch the flypast.", "Katie Boulter will play Jodie Burrage in the Nottingham Open final - the first all-British WTA final since 1977.", "The two rival superpowers are having their most important talks in years. Here are the points of tension.", "The Levelling Up Secretary says he does not think the 90-day suspension that Boris Johnson would have faced if still an MP was merited.", "The BBC finds evidence an overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.", "The Take That singer apologises for liking \"derogatory\" posts on \"the LGBTQIA+ community\".", "The actor is pleased to see \"things have improved\" for actors from underrepresented backgrounds.", "The ex-footballer finishes the challenge in 12 hours and 17 minutes as part of a six-person relay team.", "Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the first US diplomat to visit China in almost five years.", "The resignation will leave Rishi Sunak potentially facing four by-elections in the coming months.", "The parents of a student killed with two others in Nottingham stabbings pay tribute at his cricket club.", "Attackers linked to the Islamic State group used machetes and burned a dormitory during the attack.", "When it comes to Boris Johnson, Tory activists form three distinct groups, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "After winning the Nottingham Open, Andy Murray is surprised to discover his children are in the crowd to support him on Father's Day.", "Why music lovers turn to second-hand clothes sites as they strive to become more sustainable.", "Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders met the Ukrainian and Russian presidents in their peace bid.", "A yellow weather warning is issued, with parts of the UK set to see up to a month's rainfall in a few hours.", "Andy Murray wins the Nottingham Open for back-to-back grass-court titles to maintain a perfect Wimbledon build-up.", "The Prince of Wales has posed with his three children in a portrait released for Father's Day.", "Scotland's former first minister appears in public for the first time since her arrest a week ago.", "Officers got an \"off-the-scale\" shock when they spotted the large snake in Birmingham, police say.", "Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark take a one-shot lead into the final round of the US Open with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler firmly in contention.", "The UK-US Atlantic Declaration \"sets a new standard for economic cooperation\", Rishi Sunak says.", "Nia Phillips says she \"felt alone\" after her stroke, due to a lack of support.", "The killing of father-of-two Alistair Wilson in Nairn is one of Scotland's biggest crime mysteries.", "Shelby Lynn's allegations triggered a wave of sexual misconduct allegations that the band denies.", "The Duke of Sussex accuses Mirror Group Newspapers of hacking his phone \"on an industrial scale\".", "The evangelical Christian ran for president and helped put religion at the heart of Republican politics.", "Leanne Wood says Plaid Cymru needs a female leader who \"understands the issues of misogyny\".", "Thousands of people are being evacuated from flood-hit Kherson after the breach of the Kakhovka dam.", "Staff shortages are driving up waiting times in all four UK nations, the Royal College of Radiologists says.", "The bank said on Thursday it would temporarily pull new deals, indicating mortgage market pressures.", "He \"never thought it possible that such a thing could happen\" to a former US president, he says.", "The data watchdog examined a range of potential future uses of “neurotech” in a new report.", "US President Joe Biden says the dense cloak of smoke is a \"stark reminder\" of climate change.", "A decision has been made to consolidate maternity services within Antrim Area Hospital.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he is hopeful of progress as a result of talks about restoring Stormont.", "The 14-year-old died in hospital after an incident at St Kentigern's Academy in West Lothian on Tuesday.", "The \"economic partnership\" is not the same as a free trade deal, but is designed to strengthen ties.", "The National Police Chiefs' Council says it met its target to improve domestic burglary responses.", "The licensing scheme to regulate Airbnb-style lets had been due to come into force later this year.", "The last two Senedd members who could have run in the contest confirm they will not challenge him.", "After a day and a half in the witness box, how did Prince Harry handle his questioning in court?", "Crowds in east London celebrate West Ham football club's first major trophy for 43 years.", "Parts of the country are predicted to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife in the coming days.", "The prime minister says \"subsidy races\" are not a solution to hitting climate goals, as he visits Washington.", "Prosecutors are investigating the potential mishandling of classified files after he left the White House.", "The festival extends its \"reduce, reuse, recycle\" slogan to \"environmentally hazardous\" e-cigarettes..", "The Peter Tatchell Foundation wants all police chiefs to apologise for \"decades-long victimisation\".", "The first Heat-Health Alert of the year is issued across large parts of England.", "During the peak of his wrestling career in the 1980s he faced many greats, including Hulk Hogan.", "A committee is deciding whether the former PM purposely misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.", "Storms, droughts and record high temperatures lie ahead as US scientists confirm El Niño has arrived.", "The mayor of Annecy tells French media that children injured in the knife attack are \"out of the operating room\".", "The first ever Green MP says her role meant she had struggled to focus on climate issues.", "News of the investigation comes as founder Mr Odey is accused of sexually harassing or assaulting 13 women.", "Air quality in the US and Canada is the worst in the world today due to smoke billowing from hundreds of fires.", "The 15-year-old boy collided with a moving ambulance after he was followed by police traffic officers.", "Russian shelling kills at least one person as residents flee floods caused by the Ukraine dam breach.", "West Ham will celebrate their Europa Conference League triumph with an open-top bus parade in east London.", "The Galleri test revealed the correct site of a tumour 85% of the time in a study with 5,000 patients.", "The nurse denies attacking a baby to gain the attention of a doctor she allegedly \"had a crush on\".", "The actress left the stage saying she had trouble breathing due to poor air caused by Canada fires.", "US officials warn reduced visibility from smoke will continue to impact air travel on Thursday.", "Aspiring computer scientist Alexander Kareem, 20, was shot in Shepherds Bush in 2020.", "Kerri-Anne Donaldson was part of the super-group Kings and Queens, who reached the 2014 semi-finals.", "Researchers say the nutrient may be an \"elixir of life\" but warn against buying it until more research is done.", "Stars are wishing the Strictly dancer well as she starts treatment for grade three breast cancer.", "Jurors are allowed to fire in court an antique revolver used to allegedly murder Sgt Matiu Ratana.", "The Sex and the City actress will star opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite.", "Maureen Hamblin describes the verbal insults she deals with on a regular basis in Northern Ireland.", "A former royal reporter says then-editor Piers Morgan took a \"really genuine interest\" in coverage.", "The challenge for the prime minister now is delivery, and quickly, with a general election expected next year.", "Thousands of clips filmed in East Asia are sold online. BBC Eye reveals the men who are cashing in.", "Jarrod Bowen scores in the 90th minute as West Ham win the Europa Conference League - beating Fiorentina in a tense and dramatic final.", "Supplies are delivered to those trapped by floodwaters in Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson region.", "The chief executive of a software firm says adversaries must not be allowed to catch up.", "Satellite images reveal the full extent of the devastation caused by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.", "MPs criticise banks as instant access savings rates sit well below the Bank of England base rate.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales pledge to replace all items stolen by thieves.", "Timelapse video of the city's skyline shows the air quality worsen in a matter of a few hours.", "Ex-health secretary Matt Hancock says he feared being pushed down an escalator by Geza Tarjanyi.", "Labour dismisses the idea Just Stop Oil supporters are influencing policy,", "Footage shows a man with a knife attacking people at a playground in Annecy, France, this morning.", "A 10m humpback whale has been rescued after becoming entangled in a shark net off Australia’s Gold Coast.", "NHS England says its key cancer recovery target could be delayed a year as record numbers seek care.", "The Coronation Street actress's husband says there is now \"no hope of a reversal in the situation\".", "People were thrown to the floor and others tried to escape over the sides of the escalator.", "Karolina Muchova, one of lowest-ranked players to reach the French Open women's final, saves a match point before beating second seed Aryna Sabalenka.", "Michelle Hodgkinson had been walking to meet her mum to take her shopping when she was attacked.", "Princess Eugenie is the King's niece, and the baby boy is her second child.", "Rishi Sunak said the numbers of people crossing the Channel in small boats is down by around a fifth since last year.", "A report calls on a new deal for carers, as one says every aspect of her children's care is a fight.", "The Business Council, set up by the Chambers of Commerce, has Heathrow, BP and Drax among its members.", "Robert Hanssen had received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds and money paid into Russian accounts.", "Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic makes the announcement after AC Milan's final game of the season.", "Kyiv hasn’t responded to the claim, the latest sign an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive may have begun.", "Other oil-producing countries also agreed to continued cuts in production to try to shore up prices.", "The 32-year-old is due to appear in court after animal rights protesters targeted the horse race.", "Ukraine says its has gained ground near Bakhmut, as Russia claims to have thwarted a new attack.", "Panorama investigates the links between UK's food safety advisors and the ultra-processed food industry.", "The money schools get for special educational needs coordinators is going from £22m to £11m.", "Lidl is following an eco-friendly move that some Sainsbury's shoppers complained turned the meat to mush.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess died after being pulled from the sea near Bournemouth Pier on Wednesday.", "The family of 17-year-old trainee chef Joe Abbess said he had had a \"bright future ahead of him\".", "Oleksiy Danilov tells the BBC that Kyiv has an \"historic opportunity\" to strike a major blow to Russia.", "Ten days after leaving a psychiatric unit, David Fleet stabbed a man who was walking his dog.", "They say they will hand the men over to Ukraine, after accusing a Russian official of failing to meet them.", "Rescuers found the child's body in the wreckage of a residential building in Ukrainian city Dnipro.", "England cricketers Nat and Katherine Sciver-Brunt will read about an emotional sloth.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf urged the UK to allow glass to be part of the Scottish recycling scheme.", "Bob Stewart faces two public order charges over an incident in central London last year, police say.", "Relatives of the victims of the India train crash tell of their struggle to locate loved ones.", "Willoughby hosts the show for the first time since Schofield left, after he admitted an affair with a colleague.", "Ministers in England say mental health should be a priority, but parents want a change in the law.", "Scams are becoming more common, with fraudsters charging up to £4,000 per paper, exam boards warn.", "The Scots singer says he wants to be at his best and return to the stage at Glastonbury.", "The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner - a keen naturalist - has been on their trail.", "Thirty people would get a monthly lump sum for two years, under a think tank's scheme in England.", "The two-year-old is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict in the West Bank this year.", "Fleur the cat stole the limelight as her owner answered questions about Prince Harry live on BBC News.", "The iconic fashion designer died in December 2022 and is buried in her birthplace of Tintwistle.", "ITV's talent show, hosted by Ant and Dec, chooses between this year's finalists.", "The presenter appeared on the ITV show on Monday for the first time since Phillip Schofield's exit.", "Russia claims to have routed two groups that crossed the border from Ukraine.", "The first minister said he would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead without glass.", "Thousands of Ukrainians are moving back to towns close to the front line, despite the dangers.", "Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou agrees to become Tottenham's new manager.", "Jordan Thomson was also found taking coffee, washing detergent, vodka and meat from Worthing stores.", "Social media footage shows a man being kicked and attacked by a gang at Ballymoney train station.", "Russia is taking Ukrainian children. Their mothers are travelling into enemy territory to save them.", "The British journalist was killed along with an Brazilian indigenous expert in the Amazon last year.", "For the first time in the modern era a senior royal is going to give evidence in open court.", "The High Court hears how newspaper coverage affected Prince Harry's relationship with Chelsy Davy.", "The high price and two-hour battery life raise questions about how popular the new device will be.", "Prince Harry's lawyers claim his privacy was invaded by Mirror Group newspapers throughout his life.", "Immigration minister says he has to look after taxpayers and reduce use of hotels for housing asylum seekers.", "France's most famous avenue turns into an open-air classroom for a record-breaking dictation event.", "Staff at multiple organisations are warned of a payroll data breach after an IT supplier is hacked.", "Some say the 20mph plans are \"ridiculous\" while others say children will be safer.", "Seven people are punished for acts of racism towards Real Madrid's Brazil forward Vinicius Jr.", "A watchdog says the former health secretary tried to influence an inquiry into a Conservative MP.", "They caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage when they broke into an electronics factory.", "Sarah Henshaw's body was discovered in a layby near Chesterfield after she was reported missing.", "The president says more than $1bn was given to the mercenary group in the past year.", "The company has apologised \"sincerely\" for the problems with the emergency phone service at the weekend.", "Racism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in English and Welsh cricket, according to a long-awaited independent report.", "Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons were quizzed on their prices by MPs, but denied making excess profits.", "Ultra-runner Jamie Aarons climbs every Scottish mountain above 3,000 feet in just over 31 days.", "Almost 200,000 tonnes of coal have been dug up in the six months since planning permission ended.", "There is no evidence the 45-year-old had \"any desire\" to take her own life, a coroner concludes.", "In just 10 minutes, Lady with a Fan becomes the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe.", "The singer wants to get his \"mental and physical health in order\" after struggling at the festival.", "Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha and rapper Stormzy are set to buy non-league club AFC Croydon.", "The mother-of-two's body was was discovered in the River Wyre earlier this year, following a police manhunt.", "A minke whale is seen leaping from the water off Scarborough.", "At one point Ellie, who has autism and ADHD, was getting just an hour of schooling a day.", "Data shows that cutting down tropical forests increased by 10% in 2022, despite promises made at COP26.", "Russia's president says the organisers of the march on Moscow will be \"brought to justice\".", "The 65-year-old went missing in snow-covered mountains north of Los Angeles more than five months ago.", "Marianna Spring goes to visits St Michael's on Wyre to try to understand the scale of the social media frenzy.", "WhatsApp and iMessage could be forced to scan for child abuse images under the Online Safety Bill.", "BBC uncovers more than 600 social media posts offering to help people illegally pass driving tests.", "England captain Ben Stokes said he is \"deeply sorry\" to hear about experiences of discrimination in a report into cricket in England and Wales.", "Evidence shows members of the president's family and armed forces are involved in the Captagon trade.", "A report finds the estimated savings of removing a migrant to a \"safe country\" such as Rwanda are uncertain.", "Virginia Crosbie attended an event in London while restrictions were in place in 2020.", "The Conservative Party says it will not investigate the allegations as no formal complaint was made.", "Humza Yousaf's government is challenging Westminster's use of Section 35 powers to block the reforms.", "The move comes after pop star Diddy accused the firm of neglecting his tequila brand because of his race.", "The sisters have been named as 14-year-olds Yuliya and Anna Aksenchenko.", "The mother-of-two went missing on a dog walk in Lancashire, prompting a major police search.", "The technology will be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England, following successful pilot studies.", "Councils say they will struggle to enforce the ban effectively without more staff.", "It appears to be the same recording cited by prosecutors in their indictment of the former president.", "A 48-hour walkout by consultants will follow five-day strike by junior doctors in England.", "Two states are seeing locally acquired cases - the first spread inside the US in 20 years.", "The charity has said that meeting workers' demands would leave it not \"financially viable\".", "Unrest follows the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old who apparently failed to obey traffic police.", "A further 56 are injured in the Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk, Ukrainian officials say.", "There will be limits on the sale of combinations of food with high levels of fat, sugar or salt.", "It comes as Ukraine's president says the country's counter-offensive is making advances on all fronts.", "Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville is to join Dragons' Den as a guest Dragon for the 2024 series.", "Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.", "One of the Girls Aloud singer's final wishes was to find new ways of spotting breast cancer early.", "Residents are evacuated after a fire rips through a high-rise residential building in Ajman.", "\"Absolutely horrific\" stories found by damning report into discrimination in cricket show game's culture is \"rotten\", says report chair.", "The US-owned chain says it will \"consolidate\" stores in close proximity to each other.", "Ballot of members by Royal College of Nursing fails to reach 50% threshold for walkouts to continue.", "The mother-of-two had a \"blip\" over Christmas but was back to herself in January, an inquest hears.", "Labour's plan to end North Sea exploration and the government's tax policy both come under fire.", "The former health secretary tells bereaved families at the Covid Inquiry he is \"profoundly sorry for each death that occurred\".", "A public inquiry hears an argument that Sheku Bayoh \"created the situation that led to his death\" in Kirkcaldy.", "The star's honorary award comes months after she lost out on an Oscar for the Black Panther sequel.", "Police are treating criminal damage in Ballymena, County Antrim, as a racially-motivated hate crime.", "The winner of this year's BBC Scotland series was selected ahead of five other regional finalists.", "Sarah Bentley steps down weeks after giving up her bonus over the company's poor performance.", "Italian officers are investigating the act of vandalism at the historic Roman amphitheatre.", "Strangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK.", "The government is amending the Online Safety Bill after campaigners demanded changes.", "Paedophiles are using the technology to create and sell life-like abuse material, the BBC finds.", "The dramatic moment a horse stranded down a four metre-deep Italian pit is hauled free by helicopter.", "A US institute alleges it lost 25 years of work because a man wanted to stop \"annoying\" alarms.", "Dame Sally Davies apologises to bereaved families and says the UK was poorly prepared for the pandemic.", "Gracie Nuttall tells a celebration of her sister that her impact went \"beyond any of our knowledge\".", "Paris Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to Stanley after concealing her pregnancy from her family.", "Israel has approved the construction of 5,700 new homes in the occupied West Bank.", "The UK's statutory climate body criticises the government for backing new oil and gas projects.", "There is not yet enough evidence to justify the cost on the NHS in England, says NICE.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a Russian mutiny, arrives in Belarus and his men are offered a military base.", "The youngsters defied the odds in a part of the Amazon rainforest home to jaguars and wild dogs.", "The boy, 16, is charged following a violent assault on two teenagers and an adult at a boarding school.", "Solaine Thornton was playing on a swing in her garden when a neighbour shot her through a hedge.", "The arrest of the former first minister is the latest remarkable twist in the investigation into the SNP's finances.", "Dragos Tigau made a racist comment at a meeting in April but has only now been disciplined.", "He spoke out after a rapper was told he could not play the festival if he performed in English.", "Mr Trump spoke at a Republican convention, his first outing since his indictment were announced.", "Aerial images show the partial disintegration caused by an oil tanker fire underneath the I-95 highway.", "Music at the Parklife festival in Manchester was paused as a storm hit the area.", "As a massive public inquiry in the UK opens to the public, we asked key people what questions they have.", "The bus was returning from a wedding in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, when it overturned.", "The crew members are receiving medical treatment after the accident while filming in Morocco.", "Thousands gathered at live screenings where they watched the Blues secure the Treble.", "The energy secretary tells Laura Kuenssberg people – both inside the Tory party and out - don't miss the drama of Johnson's premiership.", "They set sail to flee persecution, they say - but ended up on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.", "The children have begun playing again in hospital, officials say, as the eldest is praised for her care.", "Six boys and two girls, aged between 15 and 17, are arrested on suspicion of murder in Bath.", "Publishing 100,000 copies a month, the Light shares calls for war-crime style trials of MPs and doctors.", "Sinn Féin MP John Finucane was speaking at an IRA commemoration in south Armagh on Sunday.", "It appears to be the latest in a public falling out between the Wagner boss and Russian officials.", "Ms Sturgeon says she is \"innocent of any wrongdoing\" after being released while more inquiries are carried out.", "Manchester City's Champions League success was \"written in the stars\", says manager Pep Guardiola after his side seal the Treble in Istanbul.", "Police say they have reason to believe 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell from Ballymena was murdered.", "Manchester City win their first Champions League title by beating Inter Milan in Istanbul to claim the Treble.", "Boris Johnson quit as an MP, saying he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\" over Partygate report.", "Scotland's first minister says SNP would not cooperate if Labour refuse indy powers in hung parliament.", "The energy secretary dismisses Boris Johnson's claim that he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\".", "Novak Djokovic says it is not down to him to decide if he is the greatest men's player of all time after winning a record 23rd Grand Slam title.", "One local man told the BBC his family had left their Highlands property as the flames were so close by.", "Derek Martin, 64, also known as Derek Glenn, of Brighton, is charged with two counts of murder.", "Fire crews are tackling a blaze at Daviot, south of Inverness, on the hottest day of the year.", "Novak Djokovic shows his greatness once again by beating Casper Ruud to win the French Open and claim a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title.", "Peter Murrell was taken into police custody as officers searched his home and the SNP's headquarters.", "The party risks \"civil war\" if the ex-PM is ever stopped from returning to Parliament, Mr Rees-Mogg says.", "Hotel boss Glenn Evans says he is paying 90p per unit of electricity - triple the current price.", "City supporters in a Manchester fanzone voice their joy at their historic 1-0 win against Inter Milan.", "He said he would also be stepping back from his role on the public audit committee.", "Novak Djokovic says he is relishing the chance to make tennis history as he aims to become the first man to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles.", "Ukraine's president refused to say which stage the counter-offensive against Russian forces was in.", "Headlines about Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon are a distraction for Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf.", "Scotland's former first minister attended a police interview on Sunday before being arrested by detectives.", "Russian state television broadcast footage from Mr Leake's trial that showed him locked in a metal cage.", "Most refugees coming to the UK would be denied access to the asylum system under the law, MPs and peers warn.", "Twelve other Britons were rescued after a fire on a boat which was on a cruise in the Egyptian Red Sea.", "Hundreds of people have been trapped on the Russia-held eastern bank of the Dnipro River.", "Live updates after the former FM's arrest, questioning and release as part of an investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP.", "Defender Gordon McQueen, who won 30 caps for Scotland and scored a famous goal against England at Wembley, dies at the age of 70.", "Firefighters will remain at the scene at Glenariff overnight, with more arriving at first light on Friday.", "Thousands of disabled people with over £6,000 stuck in savings also face cuts to their benefits.", "But the former PM says the committee has reached a \"deranged conclusion\" that was \"patently absurd\".", "Chechen commander and MP Adam Delimkhanov's whereabouts are unknown, but colleagues say he is alive.", "A 30-year-old US man is suspected of shoving a woman off a hill near Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria.", "People are waiting for 'any good news' after a migrant boat believed to be carrying hundreds sank.", "The women accuse the former star of using his \"enormous power, fame and prestige\" to target them.", "Footage appears to show the suspect shortly before he allegedly killed a third person.", "The fathers of Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar say their children loved life at Nottingham University.", "Fiona Wightman, Paul Whitehouse's former spouse, says her phone was hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers.", "'This is a sad day for Southern Baptists,' says Pastor Linda Barnes Popham of a now-expelled church.", "Gangs send videos of the abuse to hostages’ families demanding ransoms, a BBC investigation reveals.", "Professor Alexander tells the UK's Covid inquiry another pandemic from a \"novel\" virus is an \"inevitability\".", "Just 40 weeks ago, Boris Johnson was PM. Now this report raises questions whether he can ever return, the BBC's political editor says.", "Colin Pitchfork, jailed in 1988 for raping and murdering two 15-year-old girls, is granted parole.", "There are at least 5,000 recorded cases of violence by learners against school staff since 2018.", "After deciding to stand down as an MP, what will the former prime minister be entitled to?", "The graffiti artist is set to display new versions of his iconic work at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art.", "Pat McErlean takes viewers on tours of the countryside near his home in Dumfries and Galloway.", "Reunited in Seoul after a decade apart, Songmi asks her mother why she left her behind in the north.", "A report by MPs into whether the former prime minister misled Parliament has finally been published.", "It comes as authorities push to ban the unofficial song of the 2019 pro-democracy protests.", "The actress and former MP had completed a film with Sir Michael before her death aged 87.", "Officials declare three days of mourning after one of Greece's biggest ever migrant tragedies.", "Archaeologists first spotted the hair of the 3,000-year-old mummy at the site of a rubbish dump.", "Ukrainian police released footage showing the end of what it said was an hours-long rescue mission.", "Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urges EU institutions to take action to stop migrant boat crossings.", "A 26-year-old man is being questioned after the disappearance of Chloe Mitchell, 21, in Ballymena.", "The synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help explain infertility and pregnancy loss.", "Greatest Days, named after one of the group's biggest hits, stars comic actress Aisling Bea.", "Chloe Mitchell's brother and sister thank the public as vigils are held in Ballymena and Belfast.", "Footage has been released of an Greek Air Force helicopter rescuing migrants after one of the country's biggest maritime tragedies.", "The bus was travelling at 70mph on the M74 when it started swerving across two lanes of the motorway.", "Some in Boris Johnson's former constituency stick by him but others are glad he's no longer their MP.", "The intruder drank from a can of lager while he was pinned down in Durham.", "Champions Manchester City will kick off the new Premier League season on Friday, 11 August at promoted Burnley - managed by their former captain Vincent Kompany.", "The teenager got into difficulty in a stretch of water near the village of Broadbottom on Wednesday.", "Families who lost relatives say the former PM should say sorry after MPs found he deliberately misled the Commons over lockdown gatherings at No 10.", "Belarus's opposition leader says the West is silent over the transfer of weapons to Alexander Lukashenko.", "The hedge fund will be dismantled after allegations emerged about its founder Crispin Odey.", "Laws are quickly passed to halt construction, in light of an alleged spying risk.", "Alfie Steele, nine, was subjected to a campaign of torture by his abusers in his final months.", "Families say they may have to put their children in different schools after their council miscalculated numbers needed.", "An American tourist came to a local woman's aid when the animal became aggressive at a sanctuary.", "The event is due to take place later as officers continue to question the murder suspect.", "Elle Edwards was caught up in the crossfire of a gangland feud in Merseyside, a trial has heard.", "Daniel Penny faces second-degree manslaughter charge for killing street performer Jordan Neely.", "Chris Heaton-Harris denies he's pressurising the DUP by asking civil servants for revenue raising options like water charges.", "Charles Ndhlovu's mother says care plans were added to when her son died.", "The country's central bank has aggressively raised interest rates since October 2021.", "The former prime minister has been allowed to use public money to hire top lawyers to defend himself.", "Louis De Zoysa admits he pointed a gun at Sgt Matiu Ratana but says he did not mean to shoot him.", "Foxconn, which makes over half of the world’s Apple products, seeks its next big growth driver.", "The former PM's closest allies are rallying behind him, before MPs vote on the Partygate findings.", "National Grid says that the Russia-Ukraine war poses a risk to future energy supplies.", "The man had earlier been pursued by officers after failing to stop a car he was driving, police say.", "Scottish rivers have broken low water records while southern England benefitted from a wet spring.", "Forecasters say the cyclone has begun to make landfall as 170,000 are evacuated.", "It is six months since Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson died. What progress have police made?", "Two 19-year-old students and a 65-year-old school caretaker were killed in the knife attacks.", "The former UK prime minister has been written off many times in a long and extraordinary political career.", "Two boys, aged 15 and 16, appear at Bristol Youth Court over the death of Mikey Roynon.", "Police say they have reason to believe 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell from Ballymena was murdered.", "A pub owner who relies on the industry says he is worried he may have to close for part of the year.", "The frenzy stoked by the start of the singer's world tour is seen driving up prices in Sweden.", "Fathers of two students killed in Nottingham stand united in grief, with David Webber telling mourners: \"I've lost my baby boy.\"", "The blaze the size of about 140 football pitches is one of several being tackled in the region.", "Nadine Dorries says her name was removed from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.", "Boris Johnson stood down as an MP after seeing an advanced copy of the report.", "Cole Bridges, 22, shared tactical guidance in an attempt to help IS attack and murder US troops.", "One broker describes the current situation as a vicious circle as the mortgage maelstrom continues.", "A woman who died along with two other Britons would be \"missed beyond words\", her family says.", "Prof Yann LeCun says fears that AI will pose a threat to humanity are \"preposterously ridiculous\".", "Adrian Kwiatkowski is told to pay the money, half of which is in bitcoin, after he was jailed.", "Nurse Lucy Letby is on trial accused of murdering babies and attempting to kill others at a hospital.", "Man City ace Erling Haaland stunned an ice cream seller when he climbed onboard for a frozen treat.", "The pilot allegedly remarked on female colleagues' bodies and altered rosters to fly with cadets.", "A number of women have alleged they were recruited for sex with singer Till Lindemann at concerts.", "Ben Roberts-Smith says he has done nothing wrong and is looking to appeal a landmark defamation ruling.", "Minority and unemployed voters were more likely to be turned away, the Electoral Commission suggests.", "The company says it will work with pupils in Skegness, Coventry, Peterborough, Corby and Hartlepool.", "Councils say app payments save money but charities warn people without a smartphone could be excluded.", "Around 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and the concert near Denver was cancelled.", "St Joseph's Catholic School says the death of 15-year-old David Ejimofor is a \"devastating shock\".", "Experts have raised concerns over the regulation of deep-sea vessels following the Titanic dive tragedy.", "The bridge linking the peninsula to Kherson in the south was hit by British missiles, say officials.", "A South African woman tells a Lords committee about \"shocking\" working conditions on English farms.", "The Cornfield which is owned by the National Gallery is on show at a shopping centre in Jarrow.", "Paris Mayo was 15 when she delivered her son Stanley alone in her family home in Ross-on-Wye.", "The department is accused of leaving people homeless by outbidding councils for accommodation.", "The announcement comes as the global toy industry faces a slowdown in demand.", "An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son were among those on the Titanic sub.", "Louis De Zoysa shot Sgt Matiu Ratana with an antique gun while in custody in south London.", "Louis De Zoysa \"pulled the trigger on purpose\" when he shot Met Sgt Matiu Ratana, his trial hears.", "Festival-goers party in the sun as Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, Texas and more fill Worthy Farm with Friday fun.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin claims Vladimir Putin and the country have been deceived by Sergei Shoigu.", "Pearse Doherty graduated from St Vincent's Training Centre in Belfast last year, against the odds.", "Actress Freema Agyeman will star in a new production of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage in September.", "The defamation lawsuit over allegations of rape and defamation has been ongoing for nearly a decade.", "It comes after parliament passed a bill requiring tech giants to compensate publishers for news.", "Edinburgh City Council says it was not consulted on the plans for the ship, which currently houses Ukrainian refugees.", "Five people died after OceanGate's Titan sub imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck this week.", "Scotland Yard says Ernest Moret will face no further action over his arrest in April.", "Warnings over the sub's safety were dismissed by OceanGate's CEO, emails seen by the BBC show.", "The 54-year-old Met Police sergeant died after being shot in the chest by a man in custody.", "The RMT says 20,000 members will walk out on 20, 22 and 29 July as part of a long-running dispute.", "The Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest.", "Marius Mihai Draghici pleads guilty after migrants were found in a lorry in 2019.", "The health-giving mineral waters at Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham were first discovered in 1716.", "A court hears Louis De Zoysa was able to \"control his actions\" when he shot Sgt Matiu Ratana.", "Michael Saltmarsh ran a red light and hit a married couple who were crossing the road.", "James Cameron, who did 33 submersible dives to Titanic's wreck, says the Titan sub's design was risky.", "The weekend got off to an electric start as thousands descended on Worthy Farm for the UK's biggest festival.", "Security staff at Heathrow will no longer strike after accepting an improved pay offer.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin says his fighters have crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia.", "Forces say update that lets button pushes trigger calls is bombarding operators with \"silent\" calls.", "Narendra Modi addresses the US congress, attends a state dinner and receives a 21-gun salute.", "Retail sales rose 0.3% last month as shoppers bought summer clothes and goods, official figures show.", "Culture minister Lord Parkinson announced changes to the bill to give coroners new powers.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.", "Exiled rights activist Teng Biao apologises to a journalist as the MeToo movement picks up in Taiwan.", "The measure, intended to address a labour shortage, will lower hurdles for migrants to the country.", "Sir Chris laments treatment as he gives evidence to Covid Inquiry on pandemic preparedness.", "The annual pilgrimage to Worthy Farm just keeps getting better, festival regulars say.", "At least 227 migrants were saved on Thursday, Spain's officials say, a day after a deadly shipwreck.", "The walkout in England, beginning at 07:00 on July 13, will last for five consecutive days.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the nation after an attempted mutiny at the weekend.", "SNP members gather this weekend to flesh out a new strategy on achieving Scottish independence.", "The principal of Belfast's Holy Evangelists' Primary School says budget cuts will hit the vulnerable.", "Richard Jackson posted that he would take a van to the event and blow himself up, prosecutors say.", "New video shows the moment a French woman was attacked by a dingo at a beach in K’gari, Australia.", "Ian 'H' Watkins says a clause in the contract said there was to be no mention of sexuality.", "The Church of England says relations broke down with a panel overseeing how it deals with abuse.", "The High Court hears players living in “small communities” have been abused and intimidated.", "An organiser says she's \"sure\" the band will play their headline set, despite Alex Turner's laryngitis.", "Matteo Bottarelli, 43, appears in court charged with three counts of attempted murder.", "The gang sent people fake court summonses, accusing them of viewing images of children being sexually abused.", "The US Coast Guard are said to have used the information to narrow the search area.", "Residents of a Ukrainian town devastated by floods when a dam collapsed describe life without water.", "Shelling in the Russian region of Belgorod wounds eight people and strikes in Kyiv kill three people, officials say.", "Novak Djokovic has stood by the political message he wrote on a camera lens about Kosovo, saying it is an issue he \"stands for\".", "Ben Roberts-Smith had sued newspapers over allegations he killed unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan.", "Owners of vehicles violating the new rules face fines mounting to hundreds of pounds per day.", "RSPB Scotland says ground-nesting birds have lost chicks and eggs to the blaze near Cannich.", "The 61-year-old is leaving ITV with immediate effect as he apologises for misleading employers, his family and the public.", "Sevilla claim a record-extending seventh Europa League title as they beat Roma on penalties at a raucous Puskas Arena in Budapest.", "Rishi Sunak was in Moldova for a summit of 47 nations that was dominated by the war in Ukraine.", "Prosecutors investigating the former president's handling of classified files obtain an audio tape.", "Glasgow Caledonian University says a £26m project launched in 2013 has \"not reached its potential\".", "It was flown to the UK from Chicago two weeks ago, with the bud displayed at Chelsea Flower Show.", "President Joe Biden will now sign the measure into law, staving off worldwide economic chaos.", "Referees' body PGMOL says it is appalled by the abuse directed at Anthony Taylor by supporters at Budapest Airport after the Europa League final.", "Footage of potential human rights abuses may be lost after platforms delete it, the BBC has found.", "Euro 2022 top scorer Beth Mead is not included in England's Women's World Cup squad, having not recovered from an anterior cruciate ligament injury.", "The artist says the business relationship with the drinks giant was \"tainted by racial prejudices\".", "The US says the airline did not \"provide timely refunds to passengers\" during Covid.", "Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans were found by a member of the public, an inquest opening hears.", "Officials say the 80-year-old president stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Colorado.", "But its chief executive insists that the \"gravy train\" at the troubled Ferguson yard has come to an end.", "A video circulated online shows the driver pointing what appears to be a gun at a passenger.", "Officials say it is not clear if items found at a reservoir in Portugal are linked to the missing Briton.", "The online giant is also penalised for allowing Ring doorbell workers access to customer recordings.", "Officials were searching a ravine near Guadalajara for seven young people reported missing last week.", "A 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy died after being pulled from the sea in Bournemouth on Wednesday.", "The FCA is banning fees that debt advisors receive for referring people to debt solution companies.", "Women say they are facing \"soul-destroying\" waits for reconstructive surgery after breast cancer.", "Canada will be the first country to have warning labels on the tipping paper of individual cigarettes.", "A photography student learned of her own connection to the market after embarking on the project.", "The mural by street artist Rogue One appeared on the side of a pub in Pittenweem last Halloween.", "The US actor faced an accusation of rape an allegations he sent a string of explicit messages online.", "A barrister is leading a review into how ITV handled the affair between Schofield and his colleague.", "A Church of England support scheme for abuse survivors risks re-traumatising victims, report finds.", "Daniel Knott's mother says her grief has been amplified by a video of his body being shared online.", "Only two industrialised nations have debt ceilings - how come only the US fights about it?", "Shares in Musk's electric car company Tesla have almost doubled since the start of the year.", "The Senate must approve the deal and send it to the president's desk this weekend to avoid a default.", "Phillip Schofield left his role on the daytime show after admitting an affair with a colleague.", "Officials in Ukraine's capital say a child, her mother and another woman died in the missile strike.", "Alex Belfield, jailed in 2022, is barred from contacting a man he had sent a tweet to and his wife.", "Rail workers have walked out on the 29th day of industrial action but are travellers adapting?", "The Galleri test revealed the correct site of a tumour 85% of the time in a study with 5,000 patients.", "Labour suspended Geraint Davies earlier after allegations of sexual misconduct reported by Politico.", "Singer and presenter Jane McDonald replaces Phillip Schofield as host and is best known as a singer and presenter.", "The government’s refusal to share Boris Johnson’s messages sets up an unprecedented legal showdown.", "The head of the pandemic inquiry is demanding that the government releases the unredacted messages.", "The television presenter quit This Morning after admitting an affair with a younger colleague.", "William Paton says the ban on high-polluting vehicles will have a huge impact on his business.", "A vehicle repair business took the council to court in a bid have the LEZ scheme suspended.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and eight others are treated for injuries.", "A Nepali sherpa guide carried the man on his back for six hours during the \"very rare\" high-altitude rescue.", "The aim is to protect the most vulnerable as high temperatures become more common due to climate change.", "Chana Nachenberg, a US-Israeli citizen, was 31 at the time of the deadly attack on a pizzeria.", "Firefighters say flames burned through a 30 sq mile area near Cannich but it is now under control.", "Children as young as 16 are working at TV channels in occupied Ukraine, spouting Russian propaganda.", "Three women said the actor sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home between 2001-03.", "Samantha Jones was noticeably absent from the first series of the hit drama's spin-off show.", "The US president had been shaking hands with Air Force Academy graduates when he fell on stage.", "The defence ministry claims it has also thwarted attempts by Kyiv to \"invade\" the Belgorod region.", "The former This Morning presenter speaks to the Sun about an affair he had with a young male colleague.", "The health ministry says making the pill more easily available \"removes an important barrier\".", "The government is in a stand-off with the Covid inquiry over Boris Johnson's texts to officials and ministers.", "Jack Rigby has raised more than £50,000 for the charity Scotty's Little Soldiers.", "Australia's BHP said the leave and allowance 'errors' will cost the company up to $280m.", "Most Americans think a default is impossible, and few have planned for the potential economic chaos.", "The Canadian fires have had a wide impact, with air quality warnings issued in the US northeast.", "This is the influencer's first TV interview with a major broadcaster while under house arrest.", "Pristina and Belgrade trade blame after ethnic Albanian mayors were elected in ethnic Serb areas.", "Police in Bournemouth release more details about the \"devastating\" deaths of a boy and girl.", "Shelby Lynn's allegations triggered a wave of sexual misconduct allegations that the band denies.", "A decision has been made to consolidate maternity services within Antrim Area Hospital.", "One of two students injured is in a critical condition after a \"serious incident\" at Blundell's School.", "Ch Insp Yvonne McManus gave the latest figures after eight officers were assaulted in one evening.", "\"This case is about dog toys and whiskey, two items seldom appearing in the same sentence,\" a judge wrote.", "Russian shelling kills at least one person as residents flee floods caused by the Ukraine dam breach.", "The move is welcomed by a tenants' group but landlords warn it would be a \"disaster\".", "Manchester City win their first Champions League title by beating Inter Milan in Istanbul to claim the Treble.", "The truck driver got away in time and no injuries were reported.", "The former UK prime minister has resigned as a MP, saying there is no evidence that he misled Parliament.", "Police forces are facing one of their biggest crises in living memory, a report finds.", "This weekend will be 5C to 10C hotter than normal June weather, forecasters predict.", "Nuclear secrets, classified documents stored in a ballroom, and aides ordered to hide files - the charges against Donald Trump revealed.", "Leeds chairman Andrea Radrizzani agrees a deal to sell his stake in the club to co-owners 49ers Enterprises.", "Rachel Reeves says she cannot be \"reckless\" with spending and will ramp up investment to reach the figure by 2027.", "The bank said on Thursday it would temporarily pull new deals, indicating mortgage market pressures.", "He \"never thought it possible that such a thing could happen\" to a former US president, he says.", "Crowds in east London celebrate West Ham football club's first major trophy for 43 years.", "The festival extends its \"reduce, reuse, recycle\" slogan to \"environmentally hazardous\" e-cigarettes..", "A 26-year-old man is being questioned after the disappearance of Chloe Mitchell, 21, in Ballymena.", "A committee is deciding whether the former PM purposely misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.", "The 14-year-old pupil from St Kentigern's Academy in West Lothian died in hospital on Tuesday.", "The 15-year-old boy collided with a moving ambulance after he was followed by police traffic officers.", "People in Kherson have been left trapped on roofs without food and water after the Kakhovka dam breach.", "BBC Click had exclusive access to a trial exploring the impact of using AI in breast screenings.", "Lucy Letby is a \"calculating woman\" who lied \"to try and get sympathy\", a prosecutor tells her trial.", "Jurors are allowed to fire in court an antique revolver used to allegedly murder Sgt Matiu Ratana.", "The BBC has been told a complaint about Bambos Charalambous was made to Labour's complaint process.", "Former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson is accusing the publisher of breaching her privacy.", "Military observers say Kyiv is trying to split the occupying forces in Zaporizhzhia.", "A 14-year-old boy who died after collapsing at a school on Tuesday had an undiagnosed heart condition.", "The consumer group claims Clubcard pricing is not clear enough but Tesco says it meets current rules.", "The UK-US Atlantic Declaration \"sets a new standard for economic cooperation\", Rishi Sunak says.", "NHS England says the drugs will only be prescribed for those signed up to a clinical research programme.", "US President Joe Biden says the dense cloak of smoke is a \"stark reminder\" of climate change.", "The non-binary singer's hedonistic new album is a celebration of black, queer pleasure.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he is hopeful of progress as a result of talks about restoring Stormont.", "With the cost of borrowing up, the £28bn of investment is more expensive to deliver, says the BBC's Iain Watson.", "There's an economic elephant in the diplomatic corridors so big it has turned heads in boardrooms globally.", "Parts of the country are predicted to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife in the coming days.", "Mistrusted by some in the arts, the new culture secretary is said by a colleague to be \"up for the fight\".", "A look back on the former prime minister's political career as he announces as a resignation as an MP.", "Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves declares \"globalisation as we know it is dead\", in a speech in Washington DC.", "The ex-culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson says she is standing down \"with immediate effect\".", "The global climate activist says she will keep protesting despite graduating from school", "The former PM's close allies are given honours in a list published just before he resigned as an MP.", "Researchers say the nutrient may be an \"elixir of life\" but warn against buying it until more research is done.", "Relative of IRA bomb atrocity victim criticises MP's planned attendance at an IRA commemoration event.", "The pandemic was far from Dr Alena's only challenge on a far-flung archipelago in the Philippines.", "The French president has visited Annecy, where four children were wounded in a knife attack.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the party is in \"healthy shape\" as it prepares to vote for a new deputy leader.", "Nigel Adams is the third Conservative MP in 24 hours to announce they are quitting the Commons.", "The Netherlands says its citizen is \"out of danger\", and Macron says the British girl is awake after surgery.", "The MP has begun work on what is being called \"a political whodunnit: murder on the Downing Street express\".", "Bereaved relative Miranda Evans says the government has not helped families get their voices heard.", "Mountain rescuer David Dooher's challenge was in aid of a cause set up by the late Doddie Weir.", "Donald Trump is accused of keeping classified documents in a ballroom and bathroom at his Florida home.", "Fire chiefs are set to increase the number of specialist teams trained in 'fighting fire with fire'.", "The last two Senedd members who could have run in the contest confirm they will not challenge him.", "King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales will take part in ceremonial events.", "The Labour leader addressed the GMB after union leaders criticised his green energy plans.", "It's been talked of for months, now it looks like Ukraine is finally launching its plan to recapture land.", "The English Spider-Man star says his \"tough\" latest project had left him feeling broken.", "Designs for a new Hampden, which were commissioned before the Covid-19 pandemic, have emerged.", "Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP but insists that \"I did not lie\" over Covid lockdowns.", "Saul Cookson died when his e-bike collided with an ambulance after he was followed by police.", "The smog in Toronto, New York and Washington lifts a little, but the US South may now see more haze.", "Catholic pilgrim Henri said he simply followed his instincts when confronting the Annecy attacker.", "Nine men have appeared in court in connection with last week's migrant boat disaster in Greece.", "The home secretary says it is needed to bring an end to the \"dangerous culture\" of people carrying weapons.", "Katie Boulter wins her first WTA title with a dominant victory in Nottingham over Jodie Burrage in the first all-British tour-level final in 46 years.", "Bukayo Saka scores the first hat-trick of his career as England make it four wins out of four Euro 2024 qualifiers by thrashing North Macedonia at Old Trafford.", "Mourners of those killed by suspected Islamist militants describe their shock at the raid's brutality.", "The top US diplomat met China's president at a time when both sides have acknowledged relations are poor.", "The Russian opposition leader faces multiple charges of extremism, which he says are politically motivated.", "The competition is a major event in the classical music calendar and has been running since 1983.", "There is a call to help families as bills can mount when their child needs long-term hospital care.", "But the former PM says the committee has reached a \"deranged conclusion\" that was \"patently absurd\".", "The officer and the man he was rescuing are swept through a drainpipe, and underneath a four-lane highway in Florida.", "Only seven MPs vote against the report which found the former PM deliberately misled Parliament.", "The BBC finds evidence an overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.", "Nadine Dorries and other Tories have said they will vote against damning report on ex-PM's conduct.", "The Met Office warns that up to 20mm of rain could fall in some places across NI in under an hour.", "Mohammed Nazam described his attendance at a Pride event as a \"lapse of judgement\".", "For the first time in 15 years divers have explored the Titanic wreck and say it is deteriorating.", "The parents of a student killed with two others in Nottingham stabbings pay tribute at his cricket club.", "Alfred Dorris was tried at the Old Bailey over a derailment in Croydon in which seven people died.", "Artist Valda Jackson, who designed it, told BBC News the coin honours \"our parents and their legacy\".", "Quentin Sommerville joins troops pushing eastward from a recaptured village in Donetsk.", "The pop star collapsed to the floor after being hit in the face during a concert in New York.", "Scientists say water temperatures are as much as 3 to 4C above the average for this time of year in some areas.", "The Commons voted to endorse the Privileges Committee's finding that the ex-PM deliberately misled them.", "A report by MPs into whether the former prime minister misled Parliament has finally been published.", "Sir Keir Starmer vows to cut bills and create jobs as he sets out his party's green energy plans.", "More than 40 big European firms pledge to hire and train 250,000 Ukrainian and other refugees.", "The move is due to differences over finance, governance and \"cultural differences\" on faith matters.", "David Galway says he is \"delighted\" to be acquainted with the Bible he did not know existed.", "Philip Booth of Supajump is given a 10-month sentence, suspended for a year and a half.", "Wyndham Clark produces a nerveless display as he holds off Rory McIlroy to win the US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club.", "An adventurer and a British businessman travelling with his son were among those on the Titanic sub.", "The BBC reaches Neskuchne in Donetsk region, which saw heavy fighting before it was liberated.", "The ex-footballer finishes the challenge in 12 hours and 17 minutes as part of a six-person relay team.", "Monika Wlodarczyk was found dead alongside her partner and two children in west London.", "The former PM would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, but quit after seeing the findings in advance.", "Actor Michael Turner is one of four people suing Mirror Group Newspapers.", "A yellow weather warning is issued, with parts of the UK set to see up to a month's rainfall in a few hours.", "US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met China's president for talks at the end of a visit to Beijing.", "Scotland's former first minister appears in public for the first time since her arrest a week ago.", "The Irish delegation raises concerns at a meeting of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference.", "Nurse Lucy Letby is accused of being a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who killed babies.", "One man who had a breakdown after seeing the traumatic birth of his son says dads can be overlooked.", "Italian authorities handed over the ancient tablet to Iraq after more than four decades.", "A year-long investigation uncovers a sadistic abuse network stretching from Indonesia to the US.", "Full-sized digital scans reveal shipwreck in stunning detail, showing unopened champagne bottles.", "He was best known as a member of the Screwed Up Click, an influential group of Houston-based artists.", "A look back on the former prime minister's political career as he announces as a resignation as an MP.", "Louise Gray has raised thousands for a bereavement suite at the hospital where she lost her baby.", "A student tells the BBC he survived an attack by suspected Islamist rebels by pretending to be dead.", "Former mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey was pictured drinking with aides while London was in lockdown.", "No 10 says the PM's schedule does not currently include attending Parliament, as MPs prepare to debate report into Boris Johnson.", "The Department of Education and Education Authority have to make swingeing savings.", "Rescuers are searching for a submersible used to take tourists and experts to view the famous wreck.", "If Kyiv can split Russian troops in the south and hold ground, its push will have achieved its aims.", "Elle Edwards, 26, was caught up in the crossfire of a gangland feud on Merseyside, a trial hears.", "Why music lovers turn to second-hand clothes sites as they strive to become more sustainable.", "Quentin Sommerville joins troops pushing eastward from a recaptured village in Donetsk.", "Officers got an \"off-the-scale\" shock when they spotted the large snake in Birmingham, police say.", "The Ecuadorean woman died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.", "A senior civil servant tells the Covid Inquiry an influenza outbreak was thought to be \"most likely\".", "BBC Europe correspondent reveals data challenging the Greek authorities' account of boat disaster.", "The horrific tragedy off Greece underlines the need to bring people smugglers to justice, the UN says.", "The scale of long-term use - and concerns about withdrawal symptoms - are revealed by BBC Panorama.", "The housing secretary says a 90-day Commons suspension for the ex-PM is \"not merited\".", "It comes as tensions between Beijing and the West are in focus as the US secretary of state visits China.", "A new law will require less dependence on imported oil and gas and more use of renewable sources.", "The US Coast Guard confirms noises have been detected, after media reports of \"banging sounds\" from the area.", "It was sent on behalf of Ben Mallet, a former aide to Boris Johnson, who was awarded an OBE last week.", "She played Marjory Frobisher in the BBC comedy series, alongside Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles.", "Alexei Navalny's trial was held miles from Moscow - a sign the authorities want to avoid publicity.", "Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the first US diplomat to visit China in almost five years.", "Quentin Sommerville traces the journey of a 22-year-old from the start of the war to being awarded the highest honour for bravery.", "James White wore a Manchester United shirt with the number 97 and the words \"Not Enough\" on the back.", "Russia is taking Ukrainian children. Their mothers are travelling into enemy territory to save them.", "Speaking in Scotland, the party leader says Labour's plans will cut bills, create jobs and provide energy security.", "Prince Harry becomes the first royal in modern times to face cross-examination in court.", "A report calls on a new deal for carers, as one says every aspect of her children's care is a fight.", "Princess Eugenie is the King's niece, and the baby boy is her second child.", "Robert Hanssen had received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds and money paid into Russian accounts.", "Ukraine says its has gained ground near Bakhmut, as Russia claims to have thwarted a new attack.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky says hundreds of thousands of people are without access to drinking water.", "The boss of Ferguson Marine says Glen Sannox is almost finished and the yard is ready to move on from the ferries fiasco.", "Bob Stewart faces two public order charges over an incident in central London last year, police say.", "Fleur the cat stole the limelight as her owner answered questions about Prince Harry live on BBC News.", "Thousands of Ukrainians are moving back to towns close to the front line, despite the dangers.", "Paul Scully says there should be more of a focus on the good artificial intelligence can do.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess died after being pulled from the sea near Bournemouth Pier.", "A man appears in court after four people, including a baby, are found dead after a fire in Fermanagh.", "The money schools get for special educational needs coordinators is going from £22m to £11m.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess died after being pulled from the sea near Bournemouth Pier on Wednesday.", "The senior civil servant quit government after being offered a job as Keir Starmer's chief of staff.", "A former employee claims the superstar DJ and producer violated her employment and workplace rights.", "The PCS union says members will walk out in Ireland and Wales this week and at the DVLA from 11 June.", "But an executive says remarks about aubergines by the show's editor were \"extremely ill-judged\".", "Kevin Stewart says he has been suffering from bouts of low mental health and can no longer do the job.", "The high price and two-hour battery life raise questions about how popular the new device will be.", "Prince Harry's lawyers claim his privacy was invaded by Mirror Group newspapers throughout his life.", "Seven people are punished for acts of racism towards Real Madrid's Brazil forward Vinicius Jr.", "Prof Dame Lesley Regan was appointed to support the Women's Health Strategy implementation in England.", "It will be compulsory for all post-primary schools to teach access to abortion and pregnancy prevention.", "Thousands of people in Wales wait nearly 12 years for a diagnosis, according to a report.", "The dance music DJ was due to play at the Parklife festival in Manchester and Glastonbury this summer.", "Sheffield hosts the launch of a Disney+ series that reunites the characters from the hit 1997 film.", "The actor, who has faced multiple misconduct allegations, has said the encounter was consensual.", "Members have backed the lobbying giant but some say they will continue to pause engagement.", "Around 40,000 people need to be evacuated, says Ukraine, after a collapse released a torrent of water.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf urged the UK to allow glass to be part of the Scottish recycling scheme.", "A mum says a virtual reality headset gives her a new understanding of her girl's visual impairment.", "Afghanistan's leaders are following through on their anti-drug decree to stop cultivation.", "Tottenham confirm the appointment of Ange Postecoglou as their new manager, with the Australian leaving Celtic to take over at the Premier League club.", "The Duke of Sussex is giving evidence in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers.", "The presenter appeared on the ITV show on Monday for the first time since Phillip Schofield's exit.", "Staff at multiple organisations are warned of a payroll data breach after an IT supplier is hacked.", "She was only in the studio as a translator, but ended up singing on the hit song and becoming a star.", "Figen Murray is campaigning to implement Martyn's Law to tighten security at venues.", "Helen Holland, 81, died after being hit by a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh", "Lawyers have questioned whether Nicola Sturgeon's messages are relevant to the Covid inquiry.", "The Duke of Sussex says the press have \"got into bed\" with the government to ensure the status quo.", "Ballon d'Or winner Karim Benzema agrees terms with Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad after leaving Real Madrid.", "Denise Gossett, her children Roman and Sabrina and granddaughter Morgana were killed in the blaze.", "Essence Gayle still speaks regularly to her brother Garvey, two years after he killed their father.", "A Cardiff-based nurse on the picket line says there simply is not enough staff to cope.", "The Labour leader addressed the GMB after union leaders criticised his green energy plans.", "Oleksiy Danilov tells the BBC that Kyiv has an \"historic opportunity\" to strike a major blow to Russia.", "But others warn that could stop some adults giving up cigarettes, which are much more harmful.", "The SNP's former Westminster leader says he will not stand in next year's general election.", "The lead singer hopped on to the platform ahead of the band's two nights of gigs in Cardiff.", "The PGA Tour and DP World Tour agree to merge with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund [PIF] in a deal that ends the split in the game.", "'I couldn't trust anybody' - Harry on the impact of alleged unlawful information gathering on his life.", "Daniel Allen is accused of murdering members of the Gossett family in a fire in Fermanagh in 2018.", "A 26-year-old is the latest man to be charged in relation to the break-in at the elite cyclist's home.", "The Southeast Asian island nation's only racecourse will hold its final meeting next year.", "The Scots singer says he wants to be at his best and return to the stage at Glastonbury.", "The tech giant used data collected from child Xbox users without telling parents, US regulators say.", "One of the most common swear words will no longer be automatically changed when typing.", "President Zelensky shared a video of the Kakhovka dam, in Kherson region, on his Telegram page.", "Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four infant children.", "The first minister said he would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead without glass.", "At the High Court, Harry accuses the Mirror group of hacking - but their lawyer disputes his evidence.", "The woman is the latest to allege sexual violence against the controversial social media influencer.", "Mourners are told the deaths of four members of a family 'stunned and bewildered' their community.", "London Irish are suspended from the Premiership after missing a second deadline to pay staff and failing to complete a takeover.", "Social media footage shows a man being kicked and attacked by a gang at Ballymoney train station.", "The streets in the district of Neftehavan have been flooded by rising water.", "Russia is taking Ukrainian children. Their mothers are travelling into enemy territory to save them.", "What's the evidence Prince Harry will present in court next week to try and prove his case?", "South East Water claims shortages are partly down to more people working from home.", "Belle Moore, 19, who started vaping at 16 years old says she feels like she has \"no control over it\".", "The department is accused of leaving people homeless by outbidding councils for accommodation.", "Adam Chadwick's parents are still none the wiser on why their son was gunned down 15 years ago.", "Five people died after OceanGate's Titan sub imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck this week.", "The first set of results shows the incumbent has 56% of the votes cast - he needs 55% for victory.", "Warnings over the sub's safety were dismissed by OceanGate's CEO, emails seen by the BBC show.", "Scotland Yard says Ernest Moret will face no further action over his arrest in April.", "Scotland's Andy Butchart, 31, finished a 5k in Silverknowes, Edinburgh in a blistering 13:45.", "The SNP leader says if his party wins a majority of general election seats he will call for the legal means to hold a democratic referendum.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the nation after an attempted mutiny at the weekend.", "Stefanos Tsitsipas says comments he made towards Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon in 2022 have been \"misinterpreted\" after they were perceived as racist on social media.", "Police said Michael Anton O'Connor was acting as a peacemaker between rival gangs when he was ambushed.", "Manchester United have a third bid for Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount, worth about £55m, rejected.", "After suffering vocal problems, the Scottish star suggests he might have to take an extended break.", "Australia take control of the one-off Ashes Test at Trent Bridge despite Tammy Beaumont's record-breaking 208 for England.", "Marius Mihai Draghici pleads guilty after migrants were found in a lorry in 2019.", "John McKenna, who played for Scotby FC, died after apparently falling from his hotel balcony.", "South East Water restricts usage as demand reaches \"record levels\" and thousands are without water.", "The pop star draws a huge crowd to the Pyramid Stage, for a midday singalong to his greatest hits.", "The health-giving mineral waters at Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham were first discovered in 1716.", "Louis De Zoysa shot Sgt Matiu Ratana with an antique gun while in custody in south London.", "Wolves sell captain Ruben Neves to Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal for a club record £47m.", "\"Joy and sorrow were always communal rites in small maritime communities\" like the Canadian city.", "Festival-goers party in the sun as Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, Texas and more fill Worthy Farm with Friday fun.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin claims Vladimir Putin and the country have been deceived by Sergei Shoigu.", "The rock band battle through illness to play their headline slot, but the set divides the audience.", "Canadian investigators in Newfoundland are looking for clues as to what caused the sub's implosion.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin agrees to stop his troops' march on Moscow and move to Belarus, in a sudden climb down.", "The British-Iranian national says civil unrest in Iran has made readjusting to the UK difficult.", "Steps to fund the UK's hydrogen industry will not be tied to energy bills, the Energy Security Minister says.", "The gang sent people fake court summonses, accusing them of viewing images of children being sexually abused.", "Paris Mayo was 15 when she delivered her son Stanley alone in her family home in Ross-on-Wye.", "The BBC's Ros Atkins looks at Yevgeny Prigozhin's unusual rise through the military ranks.", "The UK prime minister is watching events closely, as the government holds an emergency planning meeting.", "She was the first female general secretary of the party and played a major role in two election wins.", "For many the pandemic may feel behind us but others say 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weather.\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Fire Service said: \"We are heartbroken to confirm that one of our crew managers, Iain Hughes, is missing after his inspiring attempt to swim the English Channel for charity.\"\n\nMr Hughes, a married father-of-two who has been with the fire service since the age of 19, currently works in its technical rescue unit.\n\n\"In spite of search efforts involving French and Belgian military helicopters, plus navy and police patrol boats, Iain's whereabouts remain unknown,\" the fire service statement continued.\n\n\"We are giving Iain's family all the support we can at this distressing time,\" he said.\n\nThe Channel crossing is 21 miles (34km) and can take swimmers anywhere between seven and 27 hours to complete.\n\nMr Hughes has been aiming to raise £21,000 for the British Heart Foundation, Midlands Air Ambulance and Fire Fighters' Charity.\n\nThe Gris-Nez operational surveillance and rescue centre (CROSS) was informed a swimmer had disappeared on Tuesday, off the Cap Gris-Nez.\n\nIt sent helicopters from the French and Belgian navies, as well as a French Navy patrol boat, to join the search.\n\nThe RNLI confirmed it had not been called on to assist.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CS&PF), which monitors swimmers in the channel, announced with \"deep regret\" Mr Hughes could not be found after a sea search.\n\nThe Channel Swimming Association said the swimmer was not involved with the organisation and it was therefore unable to comment, but said its \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the swimmer and his family.\n\nThe BBC has contacted HM Coastguard and Kent Police for comment.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Eavis kickstarts the events for thousands of festival-goers\n\nThe Glastonbury Festival gates have been opened to allow thousands of patiently waiting campers to descend upon the grounds for the 38th time.\n\nCo-organiser Emily Eavis greeted the first group of festival-goers to reach the site in Pilton, Somerset.\n\nThe music bill across the long weekend includes Sir Elton John, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi and Lil Nas X.\n\nMs Eavis said she had aimed for gender balance but a female headline act had pulled out.\n\nCrowds queue for entry on the first day of the festival\n\nThousands of people walked on to the festival site after the gates opened\n\nWhen asked how it felt to greet the crowd, Ms Eavis said it was \"good\".\n\n\"I love welcoming people in - it's always my favourite moment,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople at the front of the queue set off from their homes as early as 01:30 BST to secure their spot.\n\nFestival-goers can expect a wet evening, after a Met Office yellow thunderstorm warning was issued that covers much of the west of England until 19:00.\n\nThe Met Office warned of a 75% risk of rain at Worthy Farm.\n\nEdyta Krzesak, who arrived wearing a T-shirt, trousers, bucket hat and sunglasses. was left \"soaking wet\" by a heavy downpour at 11:30.\n\n\"I would say it's been the whole week [of weather] in one day,\" said the 45-year old.\n\nMs Krzesak, at her eighth Glastonbury, said the weather \"could always be worse\" as she recalled \"horrendous\" mud in previous years.\n\nMs Eavis said she tried to create a \"gender balanced\" line-up this year\n\nNigel Hayes and his sister Joanne Hayes travelled from London early on Wednesday to get through the festival gates as soon as possible\n\nNigel Hayes, 42, a kitchen fitter from London, said he had been to every Glastonbury since 2002.\n\n\"We got here at 4.30am, we set off at 1.30am from London… it would be nice to set off and get a beer,\" he said.\n\nHis 40-year-old sister Joanne Hayes, who is also from London and works as a personal assistant, has been to every festival since 2007.\n\n\"We're a bit surprised to be at the front (of the queue) to be fair,\" she said.\n\nFestival organisers say they have tried to push for an environmentally friendly ethos even more this year\n\nWhen asked what he liked about the festival, Mr Hayes said it was \"all about the people\".\n\n\"It's a lovely vibe, it's a lovely place to be,\" he said.\n\nMs Hayes added: \"There's something for everyone, I always say - no matter who you are, try it once if you can. There's so much going on with music and comedy.\"\n\nKathy Sharp, 53, and her 55-year-old husband Tony, from Liverpool, are making their Glastonbury debut this year.\n\n\"Our daughter came here last year for the first time, so she came home and was raving, and it's on Tony's bucket list,\" said Mrs Sharp.\n\n\"I think [her] experience made us more eager to try and get the tickets.\"\n\nFestival-goers arrive on the first train service from London into nearby Castle Cary railway station\n\nTwo Somerset locals, who live less than 10 miles from Worthy Farm and have been to the festival site dozens of times, said they set off on Tuesday morning to pitch their tent next to the Pyramid Stage.\n\nMike Bash, a 37-year-old project manager working in construction, said: \"We arrived at quarter past midnight, then stayed up in the queue and had a few beers.\"\n\nHe is at the festival with a group including 66-year-old Nigel Bryant, who has been to more than 20 years of the festival.\n\nMr Bryant said his favourite memory was featuring in a Lily Allen music video. He said they got caught on camera at the top of the Pyramid stage field.\n\n\"There are a few of us in the little film... that was a memorable thing,\" Mr Bryant said.\n\nThe pair said they had made \"great friends\" by coming to the festival.\n\n\"The spirit - it's free, you can go where you want and do what you want,\" Mr Bash added.\n\nPeople have been warned of wet weather which is expected to clear by Friday\n\nFriday's main stage has a mystery band listed as the The Churnups set to perform before Arctic Monkeys and rock duo Royal Blood, which has been rumoured to be the rock band Foo Fighters.\n\nYusuf, also known as Cat Stevens, will play the legend slot on Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe veteran folk-rocker, best known for a string of albums in the 1970s, follows in the footsteps of artists such as Dolly Parton, Kylie Minogue and Diana Ross in the coveted slot.\n\nHe will be followed by classic rock outfit Blondie.\n\nOrganisers urged people not to bring a number of items, with disposable vapes top on the list because they \"pollute the environment and can be hazardous at waste centres\".\n\nFestivalgoer Jennifer Barton from Australia makes her way on to the festival site\n\nGazebos, non-biodegradable body glitter, disposable wipes, knives and anything made of glass were also all on this year's \"what not to bring\" list.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'I'm over the moon to play at Glastonbury'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden made the comments in California on Tuesday\n\nUS President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event in California.\n\nHis remarks came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers.\n\nMr Biden also said Mr Xi was embarrassed after an alleged Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the US.\n\n\"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset, in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it, was he didn't know it was there,\" Mr Biden said at the event on Tuesday.\n\n\"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened,\" he added.\n\nThe balloon, which China says was monitoring weather, drifted across the continental US before being destroyed by American military aircraft in February.\n\nWashington later said it was part of a sprawling Chinese intelligence collection programme. Mr Blinken, who was meant to visit Beijing at the time, postponed the trip in the wake of the incident.\n\nChina's foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called Mr Biden's remarks \"extremely absurd and irresponsible\". Speaking at a regularly scheduled press conference on Wednesday, she said that the comments were \"an open political provocation\" that violated diplomatic etiquette.\n\nMr Blinken's visit over the weekend, the first by a US secretary of state in almost five years, restarted high-level communications between the two countries.\n\nMr Xi said some progress had been made in Beijing, while Mr Blinken indicated both sides were open to more talks. Major differences, however, remain between the two countries.\n\nRelations have plummeted in the wake of a Trump-era trade war, Beijing's assertive claims over Taiwan and the shooting down of the alleged spy balloon.", "Ukraine's leader said people's lives were at stake in the counter-offensive\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged battlefield progress has been \"slower than desired\", weeks into Ukraine's military offensive to recapture areas occupied by Russia.\n\n\"Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not,\" he told the BBC.\n\nUkraine says its counter-offensive has reclaimed eight villages so far in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to the east.\n\nMr Zelensky said the military push was not going easily because 200,000 sq km (77,220 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory had been mined by Russian forces.\n\n\"Whatever some might want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield the way we deem best,\" Mr Zelensky added.\n\nHe reinforced the need for Ukraine to be given security guarantees from Nato but said ultimately the goal was membership of the defensive alliance.\n\nNato's secretary general made clear this week that no plan was on the table to issue an invitation to Ukraine at next month's summit in Lithuania.\n\n\"[Jens] Stoltenberg knows my position,\" the Ukrainian leader said \"We've told them numerous times: 'Don't knock the ground from under our feet.'\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader again made the case for Ukraine to receive US-made F-16s and said he believed fighter pilots could start training as soon as August, and that the first jets could arrive in six or seven months' time.\n\nMr Zelensky was speaking to the BBC to mark a Ukraine Recovery Conference in London focusing on the role the private sector can play in rebuilding his country. He later spoke at the conference, along with UK PM Rishi Sunak.\n\nUkraine's economy shrank by 29.2% in 2022 and earlier this year the World Bank estimated the cost of reconstruction and recovery at $411bn (£339bn).\n\nThe Ukrainian leader told the BBC that the support he needed was not just for recovery but for transformation as well.\n\nHe said \"quick steps\" to be done immediately included finding places for people to live, rebuilding the destroyed Kakhovka dam and decentralising the energy network.\n\n\"But on the larger scale we are speaking about the transformation of Ukraine,\" he explained. \"This is Ukraine not only with its energy and agriculture and industrial complexes, but with its reforms we can see.\"\n\nHe spoke of \"the digitilisation of Ukraine\" as well as judicial and anti-corruption reforms.\n\nWhen I asked him what the endgame of the war looked like at this stage, he made clear that \"victories on the battlefield are necessary\" and that Ukraine would never sit down with whoever was president in Moscow, if Russia remained on Ukraine's territory.\n\n\"No matter how far we advance in our counter-offensive, we will not agree to a frozen conflict because that is war, that is a prospectless development for Ukraine.\"\n\nRussia announced a few days ago that it had moved tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus and President Joe Biden has warned that the threat of Vladimir Putin using them is real.\n\nSo I asked Mr Zelensky if he was worried by that threat.\n\n\"Putin has been dangerous for us since 2014 when he occupied the first of our territories,\" he said.\n\n\"He will talk about the use of nuclear weapons, I don't think he is ready to do it because he is scared for his life, he loves it a lot. But there is no way I could say for sure, especially about a person with no ties to reality, who in the 21st Century, launched a full-scale war against their neighbour.\"\n\nI also asked for his reaction to President Putin telling an international conference in St Petersburg last week that he was a disgrace to the Jewish people. Mr Zelensky lost many of his relatives in the Holocaust, including his grandfather, and it was clear that he was taken by surprise by the question.\n\nHe took a deep breath, put his head down and a few seconds later said he wasn't quite sure how to answer the question.\n\n\"It's like he doesn't fully understand his words. Apologies, but it's like he is the second king of antisemitism after Hitler.\n\n\"This is a president speaking. A civilised world cannot speak that way. But it was important for me to hear the reaction of the world and I am grateful for the support.\"", "Joshua Beynon called the police support he received \"lacklustre\", apart from some advice to buy a camera doorbell and being given window alarms\n\nPolice have apologised to a victim after an investigation into graphic homophobic, sexual and violent threats took nearly three years to complete.\n\nJoshua Beynon, 25, said Dyfed-Powys Police made him feel \"like some criminal\" and would not bother to report a crime like this again.\n\nMr Beynon, from Pembroke Dock, said he was left struggling with anxiety.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police apologised for an investigation that was \"below the standard that should be expected\".\n\nThe investigation was eventually dropped, with Mr Beynon saying: \"What I saw was an organisation that couldn't be bothered to actually deal with it.\"\n\nThe abuse started when, in summer 2020, the Pembrokeshire councillor tried to get County Hall lit up in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, provoking a backlash.\n\nAs a gay politician speaking in support of refugees, he said the abuse continued, with a co-ordinated campaign of graphic homophobic and racist messages, some threatening sexual and physical violence.\n\nHe said: \"It was that kind of anxiety you have that, 'are these social media comments or threats going to materialise into something physical one day?'\"\n\nJoshua Beynon waited almost three years until he found out no-one would be charged with a crime\n\nInitially, Mr Beynon did not want to report the abuse he was receiving, but things escalated when he received a threatening message pushed through his door.\n\nFearing for his safety, he called 101 multiple times but received no response and, when he received another threat of violence online, he panicked and called 999 but it took four days for the police to arrive.\n\nHe said there was a complete lack of communication from Dyfed-Powys Police and called the force's response \"extremely poor\".\n\nHe added: \"I was extremely distressed it's probably fair to say worried about my safety, you know, afraid to go out checking if doors were locked.\n\n\"I'm not blaming that on Dyfed-Powys Police, but I think if I know there was real action, or if I'd seen that, actually, they were trying, I think I would have felt better.\"\n\nJoshua Beynon says the abuse started when he wanted to get County Hall lit up in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement\n\nPolice lost Mr Beynon's evidence, uploaded via a secure portal, meaning he had to re-upload it and re-tell his experiences multiple times.\n\nThey also admitted missing the need to interview a suspect and, at one point, his case was lost in a system which meant it had not been flagged to a police officer to review.\n\nWhen he was called to the police station to give a statement, he found officers recording him on body-worn camera as they told him they did not want him to overreact when they told him they were not going to pursue charges.\n\nMr Beynon said he went from \"feeling like a victim, to feeling like you're some criminal\".\n\nHe was finally told in March that the case was being dropped.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police apologised for the \"lapse in service\" and said \"a full and thorough investigation of the reported hate crime followed\".\n\nOne of the people abusing Mr Beynon was given a Community Protection Notice, but when it was breached he reported it to the police and said no action was taken.\n\n\"I've not reported stuff that I've seen towards me as in hate crime in more recent months because I haven't seen the point,\" he said.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was \"committed to effectively respond and thoroughly investigate\" hate crime reports to ensure victims got \"appropriate support\".\n\nRecorded homophobic hate crime in Wales went up five-fold in 10 years, to 1,329 offences in 2021-22.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police saw the biggest proportional jump in homophobic hate crimes and sexual orientation hate crime made up about one in five of all hate crimes recorded in Wales.\n\nIn 2021-22 just 9% of all hate crimes reported to police in England in Wales led to a charge or summons to court.\n\nAccording to LGBT+ anti-abuse charity GALOP, Mr Beynon's experience is common.\n\nIt has had to expand its services, including a helpline survivors can call and an advocacy service to help people through the process of reporting a crime, due to \"ever-increasing\" demand.\n\nIts research said only one in eight victims reported an incident to the police and, of those, 46% were happy with the response they received.\n\nDeputy chief executive Amy Roch said LGBT+ people's experiences were \"minimised or treated as something that's just not that serious or important, that it hasn't been investigated properly\".\n\nShe said this in turn \"kind of reinforces the distrust that the community have for policing\".\n\nDyfed-Powys Police's hate crime lead Ch Insp Dyfed Bolton said a complaint the force received about its handling of a hate crime was investigated and a response was given.\n\nHe added: \"The response acknowledged that the service provided on this occasion had fallen below the standard that should be expected.\n\n\"Dyfed-Powys Police apologised for the lapse in service and a full and thorough investigation of the reported hate crime followed.\"", "These buildings in Bakhmut are amongst the thousands destroyed across Ukraine as a result of the war with Russia\n\nUkraine's economy will need external help for many years to come, a senior World Bank official has told the BBC.\n\nThe war-torn country \"also has a lot of potential to turn a lot of its assets into economic opportunity and recovery\", according to Anna Bjerde.\n\nThe managing director for operations was talking before a major international conference in London on rebuilding Ukraine's economy.\n\nLast year the country's economy shrank 29% to just over $140bn (£109bn).\n\nThe World Bank and other multilateral development bodies are playing a key role in the Ukraine Recovery Conference which is focusing on the role the private sector can play in rebuilding the country.\n\nThe total reconstruction bill was estimated at $411bn in March but continued fighting with Russia means that will now be higher.\n\nThe conference will start on Wednesday, hearing from the co-hosts, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMr Sunak is set to announce $3bn in World Bank loan guarantees, and will tell the delegates: \"As we've seen in Bakhmut and Mariupol, what Russia cannot take it will seek to destroy. They want to do the same to Ukraine's economy.\"\n\n\"President Zelensky's government is determined to drive reforms to become more open, more transparent and ready for investment.\"\n\nWhen asked about the conference in a BBC interview, Mr Zelensky said: \"On the larger scale we are speaking about the transformation of Ukraine. This is Ukraine not only with its energy and agriculture and industrial complexes, but with its reforms we can see. This is the digitalisation of our country.\"\n\nHe also thanked the UK government and the people for their support of Ukraine since the start of a full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022.\n\nRishi Sunak and Volodymyr Zelensky, seen meeting at May's G7 summit in Japan, will both address the Ukraine Recovery Conference seeking help for the economy\n\nIn the immediate term Ukraine needs $14bn from international donors to get through this year.\n\nMs Bjerde says this will go towards \"essential social expenditures\" such as pension payments, healthcare and salaries for doctors and teachers. It will also help fund urgent repairs that are needed to infrastructure such as roads and the power system that are crucial for the battered economy to function.\n\nDespite the difficulties that many economies around the world are suffering as a result of the war in Ukraine Ms Bjerde is hopeful that the funding will be forthcoming. \"I think there's been a huge level of commitment shown to Ukraine, and I think that will continue. Ukraine is just too important.\"\n\nThe World Bank's Anna Bjerde says Ukraine will need economic support for many years to come\n\nThe billions of dollars poured in so far have \"helped arrest what otherwise would have been even more devastating humanitarian impacts on the country\", she says, adding that Ukraine will also need to help itself.\n\nThat may prove difficult given that agriculture is a crucial source of income for Ukraine. It is a major global source of crops including wheat, sunflower and corn. Despite a deal to facilitate some exports, which is set to expire next month, output is expected to fall to around 45 million tonnes from 53 million in 2022.\n\nSome of that is because damaged infrastructure makes it harder to get goods out of Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's economy has been held back by Russian attacks on infrastructure such as these rail tracks in Kharkiv\n\nThose challenges have been highlighted in a survey from the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (AmCham Ukraine). It shows that 49% of companies have suffered damage to their buildings. It also found that 32% of companies have had staff killed, and 27% staff had injured during 15 months of fighting.\n\nNonetheless it also found 63% of companies intend to invest in new projects, plants or facilities and 74% want to create jobs for Ukrainians in existing projects.\n\nAmCham Ukraine's President Andy Hunder pointed to some of the issues that will be addressed at the conference in London. He told the BBC that \"the majority of businesses in Ukraine don't plan to make claims for war damages until proper and clear compensation mechanisms are developed and eventually implemented\".\n\nCoca-Cola's factory in Kyiv was damaged early in the war but has since been reopened\n\nThe two-day meeting of business leaders and politicians will also look at if a war insurance scheme can be put into place to encourage some of the private sector investment that the World Bank says is vital to rebuilding the economy.\n\nIn a separate survey it found firms have seen an average 53% drop in sales compared with pre-war 2021. It reported that larger companies have suffered more disruption that smaller firms.\n\nWhilst big companies including Coca-Cola, Mondelez and Unilever have seen their buildings damaged some have already started spending money on rebuilding in Ukraine.\n\nFor that to continue Mr Hunder says \"comprehensive war risk insurance for investors has a key role to play to secure investment in Ukraine's rebuilding and recovery\".\n\nMajor US financial firms Blackrock and JP Morgan are helping Ukraine's government secure private sector investment for rebuilding. That will be key to providing the jobs and innovation that will drive Ukraine's recovery according to the World Bank's Ms Bjerde.\n\n\"Even if the war was to end today, there will be an adjustment period, the economy has changed a lot. Poverty in Ukraine has gone up, the dynamics and the demographics have changed. So there will need to be support for the time to come\".", "The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for a 13th consecutive time later as it tries to tackle rising prices.\n\nOfficial data on Wednesday showed that inflation, the annual rate at which prices go up, was stuck at 8.7% in May.\n\nThat has made it more likely for the Bank to announce a rise in its benchmark rate from 4.5%.\n\nInterest rates remain its primary tool to lower inflation, despite debate over its effectiveness.\n\nAnalysts say an increase to 4.75% is most likely, but a bigger increase to 5% remains a possibility, although one economist suggested such a rise could suggest the Bank has \"completely lost control of inflation\".\n\nAny such change would mean further pain for some homeowners, but it could benefit savers.\n\nThe Bank rate is already at its highest level for about 15 years, rising consistently since December 2021 in response to the soaring cost of living.\n\nThe theory is that raising interest rates makes it more expensive to borrow money, meaning people have less to spend, and so bringing down demand and therefore easing price rises.\n\nA further rise is expected to be confirmed at 12:00 BST on Thursday after a meeting of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, which makes the decision independently of government.\n\nSir Charlie Bean, former deputy governor of the Bank of England for monetary policy, told the BBC's Today programme that if he were on the committee he would \"probably\" vote for a 0.5% hike.\n\n\"The news since the last meeting has been unambiguously bad on an inflation front,\" he said. \"You've had two bad inflation releases and also the labour market release showed pay growth much stronger than they would have expected - you put all of that together and it's a pretty clear signal it needs further rate increases.\"\n\nSir Charlie said the question for the Bank was whether they wanted to do a \"big step today, or a smaller step, but maybe indicating there will be more [rate rises] in the pipeline\".\n\nHow are interest rate rises affecting you?\n\nLuke Hickmore, investment director at Abrdn, told the BBC there was a \"large risk\" of a 0.5% rise, but added that if the Bank did that it \"may give the wrong message to the markets that it has completely lost control of inflation\".\n\nIn a speech he is due to give shortly after the decision is announced, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will recommit to halving inflation by the end of the year and say he feels a \"deep moral responsibility to make sure the money you earn holds its value\".\n\nHe is expected to tell a business event in south east England that he is \"completely confident that if we hold our nerve\" the target can be hit.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has criticised the government over the impact of rising rates on people with mortgages.\n\nAhead of the rate decision, she said: \"Instead of squabbling over peerages and parties and ruling out any action on mortgages, the Tories should be taking responsibility and acting now.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Office for National Statistics said that inflation was unchanged on the previous month at 8.7%. That was met with surprise by analysts who had expected it to fall.\n\nThe shock figure was driven by higher prices for flights and second-hand cars but supermarket food prices also continued to rise rapidly.\n\nSo-called \"core\" inflation, which strips out volatile factors such as direct energy and food prices, along with alcohol and tobacco prices, continued to rise last month at its fastest rate for 31 years.\n\nEconomists said this made the UK stand out from other countries such as the US and Germany where inflation is falling.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt appeared to back further interest rate rises saying it would not \"hesitate in our resolve to support the Bank of England as it seeks to squeeze inflation out of our economy\".\n\nThe government's target is to halve the inflation rate to 5% by the end of the year. The official, long-term target set for the Bank is 2%.\n\nRob Morgan, from investment firm Charles Stanley, said: \"Getting the inflation genie back into the bottle is proving troublesome for the Bank of England.\n\n\"With price momentum continually running above expectations alongside strong wages data, the Bank has no choice but to continue on a path of raising interest rates several more times.\"\n\nWhen interest rates rise, a range of loans can get more expensive. More than 1.4 million people on tracker and variable rate mortgage deals usually see an immediate increase in their monthly payments.\n\nThe increase in the Bank rate to 4.75% from 4.5% would mean those on a typical tracker mortgage would pay about £24 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages would face a £15 jump.\n\nThis comes on top of increases following the previous recent rate rises. Compared with pre-December 2021, average tracker mortgage customers would be paying about £441 more a month, and variable rate mortgage holders about £282 more.\n\nIf the rate goes up to 5%, those on a typical tracker mortgage would pay about £47 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages would face a £30 jump.\n\nEight out of 10 mortgage customers hold a fixed-rate mortgage. Their monthly payments may not change immediately, but house buyers or anyone seeking to remortgage face a sharp rise in repayments when they move on to a new deal.\n\nThe so-called \"mortgage bomb\" has become a huge economic and political issue. An average two-year fixed deal, which was 2.29% in November 2021, is now above 6%.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a politically independent economics-focused think tank, says rising interest rates could mean 1.4 million mortgage holders see their disposable incomes fall by more than 20%.\n\nRenters are also feeling the impact. \"It is likely that at least part of the increases in rents we are seeing is due to high interest rates hitting landlords' borrowing costs,\" the IFS said.\n\nRents have been growing faster than wages in the UK for nearly two years, according to exclusive data given to the BBC by property portal Zoopla.\n\nMeanwhile, savers should benefit from a rise in interest rates, but MPs on the Treasury Committee have criticised banks and building societies for failing to pass this on in full to loyal savers who have instant-access savings accounts.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris Image caption: Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris\n\nAny investigation into the Titan sub will undoubtedly focus on trying to work out what exactly happened to it - but how will experts do this?\n\nOne of the things they will be looking to do is examine the debris.\n\nIn particular, they will be looking for the site of the rupture - which will be hard because the Titan's body is in small pieces, and harder still because it is being collected by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in the darkness of the deep sea.\n\nAnother focus of the investigation will be whether there were sufficient checks following each dive. Each time the Titan went down on a deep dive, its hull would have been compressed by the immense water pressure - it would have become smaller and then returned to its normal size on its return to the surface.\n\nThis regular stress would have led to fatigue of the material, weakening it. It is so far unclear whether there were checks for cracks after each dive and if so how extensive they were.\n\nYou can read more on what experts will be looking for here.", "Vallance says Covid advice took 'far too long' to be published\n\nVallance says it was a \"regret\" that during the pandemic it often took a long period of time for research produced by the Sage group of scientific advisers to be published. \"I believe that scientific advice should be made public; that's beneficial for everybody,\" he says. He says that research relied on by ministers should always be open to \"scrutiny, comment and challenge\". Often, at the start of the pandemic, the minutes and research papers produced by Sage took \"far longer\" than they should have done to be made public, says Vallance. He says there have already been changes made to system and - going forward - he sees no reason why faster publication cannot be the norm, except in areas of national security.", "Former prime minister Boris Johnson visited Valneva's manufacturing site in Livingston in January, 2021 - eight months before the vaccine deal was axed\n\nA Covid vaccine contract which was axed by the UK government cost taxpayers £358.6m, new figures show.\n\nFrench firm Valneva was meant to make more than 100m vaccines at its West Lothian plant, but the deal was controversially scrapped in 2021.\n\nFinancial records filed by Valneva show it has received hundreds of millions of pounds in non-refundable payments.\n\nThe UK government reached a final settlement with Valneva last year and no more money is due to the firm.\n\nAt the time ministers said all further details of this resolution were commercially confidential.\n\nMeanwhile, Valneva has revealed it is now considering selling the mothballed Almeida plant in Livingston that it built to make the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe UK government scrapped its vaccine deal with Valneva in September 2021 over allegations of a breach of the agreement - which was \"strenuously denied\" by the biotech firm.\n\nDetails of how much the UK government paid out to Valneva are contained in a filing made to the United States government agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission.\n\nIt states that Valneva has received a total of €420.6m (£358.6m) as part of its UK government vaccine supply agreement.\n\nThis breaks down as €47.5m (£40.5m) in a \"settlement agreement\" after the deal was terminated; €78m (£66.5m) in capital expenditure; and the rest in non-refundable payments for manufacturing expenses.\n\nThe UK government has previously said the cancellation of the Valneva deal did not affect the nationwide rollout of Covid vaccines.\n\nValneva CEO Thomas Lingelbach delivers a speech at the plant in 2022\n\nValneva employs about 190 people in Livingston. Its existing operations in the town are not affected by the possible sale of the mothballed Almeida plant.\n\nThe French firm has now hired a commercial real estate firm to explore options for the 75,000 sq ft facility, which was built to the high technical standards needed to manufacture vaccines.\n\nLast month Valneva chief executive Thomas Lingelbach told Bloomberg News that about a dozen potential buyers had expressed an interest in the site.\n\nUnder the original deal between Valneva and the UK government, the French firm had an obligation to repay £69.8m of the advances it received in the event the Almeida plant was sold or it was transferred away from the manufacture of Covid vaccines.\n\nAccording to the financial statement filed by Valneva, this obligation expired on 31 December last year.\n\nLast year Scottish Enterprise awarded Valneva up to £20m in grants to support its future growth and vaccine development.\n\nA total of £4.3m of this support from Scotland's economic development agency has been drawn down so far.\n\nA spokesman for Valneva said the firm was \"exploring options for its Almeida manufacturing facility in Livingston, initially built to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, including a possible sale or a repurposing to produce its vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis, and its chikungunya vaccine, if approved\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chloe Mitchell was last seen alive on CCTV on 3 June\n\nThe process of identifying human remains found in the Chloe Mitchell murder investigation is ongoing, police have said.\n\nA post-mortem examination had been completed but the remains had still not been formally identified.\n\nMs Mitchell, 21, was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of 3 June in Ballymena.\n\nHuman remains were later found following a huge search operation.\n\nBrandon John Rainey, 26, of James Street in Ballymena has been charged with murdering Ms Mitchell.\n\nRyan Johnson Gordon, 34, of Nursery Close, Ballymena, is charged with attempting to impede justice by concealing evidence around the alleged murder of Ms Mitchell.\n\nMr Gordon appeared at Ballymena Magistrates' Court for a brief hearing on Tuesday.\n\nHis barrister told the court there was no application for bail and the defendant was remanded into custody until 6 July.\n\nMr Rainey is also in custody.", "They RSPCA says without the Kept Animals Bill, the government's animal welfare plan is \"merely smoke and mirrors\"\n\nMPs have rejected an attempt by Labour to force the government to revive its flagship animal welfare bill.\n\nIn May, the government quietly dropped its Kept Animals Bill which aimed to crack down on dog thefts and ban the live exports of farm animals.\n\nThe government is still pursuing plans to ban keeping primates as pets - a 2019 Tory manifesto pledge and a central tenet of the previous bill.\n\nBut campaigners accuse the government of betraying its animal welfare agenda.\n\nIn a joint statement, 18 animal protection organisations, including the RSPCA, Humane Society International/UK and Dogs Trust, urged MPs to reintroduce the bill describing it as \"the obvious and most expedient vehicle to create protections for farmed, companion and wild animals\".\n\n\"Animals are sentient individuals, with needs and emotions, vulnerable to mistreatment. They are not political footballs,\" the statement added.\n\nLabour's motion in the Commons aimed to force the bill back into Parliament, in defiance of the government's plans.\n\nIf passed, the motion would have allocated 12 July to try to pass the bill through its final legislative steps in the House of Commons.\n\nHowever, following a debate, MPs voted by 256 votes to 183 to reject Labour's motion.\n\nRSPCA adverts calling on MPs to back the Kept Animals Bill were placed around Westminster\n\nA number of Conservatives have previously expressed frustration at the government's decision to pull the bill, but during the debate some attacked Labour for tabling the motion.\n\nTory Dame Andrea Jenkyns said that, by attempting to reintroduce the bill rather than simply a motion to support it, the opposition party had been \"too clever by half\"\n\nShe said she had been prepared to vote with the opposition on the issue, but couldn't \"let an unelected opposition take control\" of Parliament's timetable.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith said: \"If the opposition has genuinely wanted to make this and put pressure on the government to do this, a simple motion that said we would support the bill moving and being adopted would have got everybody in favour of it. By doing this in a way that tries to take over the business he knows very well that this is actually about the politics.\"\n\nLabour's shadow environment minister Alex Sobel said Conservative MPs had supported the bill, \"so why can they not today join us and give us the time to get this through\".\n\n\"Let's work together to do the right thing and put animal welfare before party politics,\" he said.\n\nThe SNP's Patricia Gibson described the government as a \"weak, lily-livered husk\" which \"doesn't even have the confidence to deliver its own manifesto commitment\". She added that Scotland was \"shackled to a corpse that can not act\".\n\nEnvironment minister Trudy Harrison sought to reassure MPs that the government was committed to introducing the animal welfare measures \"successfully and swiftly\" through different bills.\n\nAnnouncing in May that the bill had been scrapped, environment minister Mark Spencer put the blame mostly on Labour, saying the opposition were \"clearly determined to play political games by widening the scope of this bill\".\n\nMr Spencer said at the time that the government would use single-issue legislation to keep to commitments on \"cracking down on puppy smuggling\", \"ban live exports for fattening and slaughter\", and tackle pet abduction and livestock worrying.\n\nLivestock worrying is when a dog attacks or chases livestock on agricultural land, which can result in injury or death.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government announced plans to consult on a new system of licences to effectively ban the keeping of primates as pets.\n\nThe new licensing system, based on the results of a consultation held in December 2020, requires \"zoo-level standards\" of care for any primate kept in captivity in the UK.\n\nUp to 5,000 primates - mammals which include apes, monkeys and lemurs - are living outside licensed zoos in the UK, according to RSPCA estimates.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said: \"The UK is a world leader on animal welfare and we are fully committed to maintaining and enhancing our strong track record to date.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering the Kept Animals Bill measures individually during the remainder of this Parliament and look forward to progressing these. We will be setting out next steps in due course.\"\n• None Monkeys could be banned as pets, says government", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward\n\nOne of nurse Lucy Letby's \"favourite ways of killing and trying to kill children\" on a hospital neonatal unit was by injecting air, a prosecutor has told her trial.\n\nMs Letby is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said experts for the prosecution had told Manchester Crown Court at least 12 of those received an air injection.\n\nOn the third day of his closing speech, Mr Johnson told jurors not to ignore the \"constellation of coincidences\" in baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nHe said they should \"put all the pieces of the jigsaw together\" and suggested the \"cumulative picture\" told only one story, that Ms Letby \"tried to murder or murdered these children\".\n\nMr Johnson cited the case of Child C, who stopped breathing without warning on 13 June 2015 while being treated in the unit's nursery one.\n\nHe said the collapse and death was \"inconsistent\" with all natural causes, as asserted by the medical experts in the case.\n\nThe prosecutor noted the nurse was seen in nursery one at the time of Child C's collapse, despite being allocated a baby in nursery three.\n\nHe said she was there \"with death on her mind\".\n\nMr Johnson went on to remind the jury of Sophie Ellis' evidence, who was Child C's designated nurse that day.\n\nMs Ellis told the jury how she had briefly left Child C and when she returned to the nursery, Ms Letby was standing over him.\n\nShe said the nurse told her: \"He's just had a brady/desat\".\n\nThe alleged attacks were said to have been carried out at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nMr Johnson also said nurse Melanie Taylor had recalled being surprised at how \"cool and calm\" Ms Letby appeared as medics rushed to help the baby.\n\nHe alleged that swelling noted by a doctor in Child C's vocal cords indicated that \"something had been put down his throat\".\n\nThis was also a feature in the cases of Child E, Child G, Child H and Child N, he said.\n\nMr Johnson went on to state that another clue the jurors should consider in Child C's case was the \"massive ballooning\" to his stomach.\n\n\"It's as plain as the nose on your face that Lucy Letby must have injected air down the nasogastric tube,\" he said.\n\n\"It was, after all, one of her favourite ways of killing or trying to kill children in this case.\n\n\"There are a constellation of coincidences which can make you sure that [Child C] didn't die of natural causes and that Lucy Letby killed him.\"\n\nThe nurse, originally from Hereford, has denied all of the charges against her\n\nMr Johnson also noted how Ms Letby's defence counsel, Ben Myers KC, had repeatedly questioned witnesses about the competence of Ms Ellis, who Ms Letby had called the \"new girl\" in messages to colleagues.\n\nThe prosecutor said it was insinuated Ms Ellis was not qualified to be looking after Child C.\n\n\"It's trying to create in the impression in your minds that something was seriously wrong with the hospital,\" he said, adding: \"It's gaslighting you, doing to you what Lucy Letby did to her colleagues.\"\n\nMr Johnson later turned to the evidence heard about Child G, who was transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital from Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital in mid-August 2015.\n\nThe court has heard she was \"clinically stable\" until 7 September, when she projectile vomited at about 02:00 BST.\n\nThe prosecution case has been that Ms Letby overfed Child G with milk through a nasogastric tube or injected air into the same tube and made two more attempts to kill her on 21 September.\n\nMr Johnson pointed the jury to what Dr Alison Ventress said about Child G.\n\nThe medic told the jury she saw blood-stained secretions coming from the vocal cords in the early hours of 7 September 2015.\n\n\"What caused the throat of an otherwise well baby to bleed?\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\n\"It is a signature of many of her attacks on these babies.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has denied knowledge of unlawful activity\n\nThe judge in a privacy trial brought by Prince Harry and others has questioned why nearly 30 journalists, including Piers Morgan, have not given evidence.\n\nMr Justice Fancourt said Mr Morgan had recently had \"a good deal to say\" about phone hacking \"outside the court\".\n\nHe is among a list of journalists about which the judge may have to \"make inferences\" given that they have not appeared in the witness box.\n\n\"To be clear, originally I said I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anyone to hack a phone. And no story's ever been published in the Mirror in my time from hacking a phone,\" he said, in an interview with Amol Rajan.\n\nThe judge also highlighted a recent interview by the former newspaper executive, Neil Wallis.\n\nMr Wallis, who was cleared of phone hacking, recently criticised those bringing cases against newspapers in the BBC documentary Scandalous: Phone Hacking On Trial.\n\nHe told that programme: \"You have just about anybody who's ever appeared in a tabloid newspaper saying - give me large wadges of cash please. I think it's actually a legal scandal.\"\n\nMr Justice Fancourt said: \"There's a question in my mind whether any of the individuals on my list could and should have given evidence.\"\n\nAs well as Piers Morgan and Neil Wallis, the list of 29 journalists includes:\n\nOne of those mentioned, Eugene Duffy, has died.\n\nThe two leading barristers in the case, David Sherborne, and Andrew Green KC, will address the judge next week in closing submissions.\n\nThey will make arguments about missing witnesses and Mr Justice Fancourt will have to weigh up allegations made during the case against those who have not given evidence.\n\nThe privacy action has been brought by Prince Harry, Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nIn civil actions such as this one, each side can make their own decisions about which witnesses to rely on when making their case.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers called a handful of journalists, but there has been detailed evidence about many others who have not appeared in the witness box.\n\nThe claimants have called a series of former reporters, some of them convicted of phone hacking, who have become whistleblowers.\n\nThe judge's comments came as the last witnesses in the trial gave evidence.\n\nCoronation Street star Michael Turner, who works under his stage name Michael Le Vell, told the court that appearing in the witness box had taken him to \"really dark places\" but it was time for him to speak up for himself.\n\nHe is suing the publisher of the Mirror newspapers for using phone hacking to gather stories about him dating back to the 1990s.\n\nMr Turner said at the time he suspected friends and colleagues were leaking information about him to newspapers.\n\n\"I feel I wasted a lot of years alienating a lot of decent people in my life for want of trust,\" he told the court.\n\nTwenty-eight articles published in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror or People newspapers often attributed quotes to \"pals\", \"friends\" or a \"Corrie source\".\n\nThe claimants say these phrases are used to cover up the fact information has been taken from intercepted mobile phone voicemail messages by journalists.\n\nIn one story, a conversation Michael Turner had with a friend, Alan Halsall, was reported by the Mirror as having been overheard in a pub.\n\nMr Turner was discussing how sexual abuse allegations had left him devastated, despite being cleared by a jury, and returning to Coronation Street.\n\nHe suggested he was not overheard because he and his friend deliberately chose a quiet corner of the pub away from members of the public.\n\nHe also said he spotted the photographer who took the pictures for the story in the back of a car with a long lens on the other side of the car park.\n\nRepeatedly he told the court he believed at the time of the story that people were selling stories about him.\n\n\"It made me question everything about who you were associating with and who to trust,\" he said.\n\nBut now he suspects his messages had been hacked.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers has previously apologised after a previous judge ruled that unlawful information gathering had been widespread at the publisher's titles.\n\nHowever MGN denies allegations made by the four claimants at the centre of this case, three of whom were chosen as representative of hundreds of people who could bring legal cases in future.\n\nPrince Harry has refused to settle out of court.", "An influencer who bombarded Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount with messages has been given a suspended prison term.\n\nOrla Melissa Sloan, 22, who called herself Devil Baby on Instagram, used 21 phone numbers to target Mount.\n\nShe also stalked his ex-teammate Billy Gilmour and caused harassment to fellow Chelsea star Ben Chilwell.\n\nMount, 24, became worried she would turn up at the club's training ground in Cobham, Surrey, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nThe court was told Sloan slept with Mount after they met at a party at Chilwell's home in November 2020.\n\nProsecutor Jason Seetal told an earlier hearing the pair remained in contact for about six months before Mount \"decided that the relationship was not going to progress\".\n\nChelsea's Mason Mount was subjected to a four-month stalking campaign\n\nHe said: \"Upon informing Ms Sloan of this, he has been subjected to a bombardment of messages.\n\n\"He began asking her to stop messaging him before blocking the number.\n\n\"He then began to receive messages from new numbers and each time he would block those numbers, there would be messages from a different number.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old pleaded guilty to stalking and harassment\n\nMount was \"concerned she had an obsession or fixation with him and he didn't know what she was capable of\", Mr Seetal told the previous hearing.\n\nIn mitigation her lawyer Michael Cogan said she had been \"naive\" in not realising any relationship with Mount was not going to progress, adding that she was remorseful.\n\nSloan, who admitted stalking Mount and Gilmour and causing harassment to Chilwell, was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to complete 30 rehabilitation days and 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of a runaway tortoise is tightening up security after her 60-year-old pet reached the other end of a busy Borders town.\n\nCathryn Scott is still unsure how Tommy crossed at least three busy roads, a town centre and a footbridge to end up about a mile away from home.\n\nBut the legal services officer from Selkirk is taking no more chances.\n\nCathryn said: \"We are reinforcing his pen by building up the wire netting and creating an overhang.\"\n\nDespite looking after Tommy for 40 years, Cathryn can only recall a couple of previous escapes before this summer.\n\nHe was found within a short walk following both of his breakouts in 2017 - the first on a neighbouring road, and then in a neighbour's garden.\n\nTommy the tortoise travelled for more than a mile across a busy town before being found\n\nDuring his two-day great escape last week, Tommy reached the other side of Selkirk.\n\nCathryn explained: \"We had been away in Arran on a long weekend and a friend was looking after him.\n\n\"He wasn't in his pen when we got back on the Sunday evening, and despite searching in and around our garden he couldn't be found.\n\n\"I put up a post on Facebook for friends to look out for him and the following evening I got a message to say that he had been found walking around the grassy area outside Riverside Nursing Home - that's at the other end of the town.\n\n\"We think he's made his own way down to the High Street and someone has helped him with the rest, although it's unlikely we'll ever know for sure.\"\n\nCathryn believes Tommy reached Scotts Place, where he may have been helped through the town centre\n\nIt is estimated that tortoises can travel at speeds of up to one kilometre (about half a mile) every three or four hours.\n\nBut Tommy still had to manoeuvre his way across the town's busy Scotts Place, High Street and the A7 trunk road before descending either the Green or Forest Road to reach the Ettrick Water.\n\nHe also had to cross either the road or foot bridge to reach the Bannerfield area where he was found on Monday evening.\n\nWithin days of being returned to his pen, Tommy made another bid for freedom at the weekend.\n\nThis time he was found later in the day wandering in the undergrowth at the bottom of a neighbour's garden.\n\nCathryn and husband, Michael, are building up the fences around Tommy's pen\n\nCathryn added: \"The neighbours are landscaping their garden so he was lucky.\n\n\"There's a digger working in there and they are spraying all of the overgrown areas of grass.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be the last drama we have with Tommy.\"", "The Archbishops of York and Canterbury confirmed the dismissals\n\nThe Church of England has sacked a panel of experts who provided independent oversight of how it dealt with abuse.\n\nThe Archbishops' Council confirmed it was \"ending the contracts\" of all three board members - acting chair Meg Munn, Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves.\n\nThe latter two recently claimed the Church had been obstructive and interfered with their work.\n\nThe Church said relations between them and senior bishops had \"broken down\".\n\nIn a statement, it referred to a \"widely reported\" dispute between two members of the Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) and the Church.\n\nMs Sanghera and Mr Reeves claimed in April the Church had refused to share data with them and denied them their own computers, according to the Telegraph.\n\nThey told the newspaper there had been \"clear interference\" with their work and described working with church officials as \"an uphill battle\".\n\nThey had also objected to the appointment of Ms Munn, who also holds a position within the Church.\n\nIn the statement, the Church thanked Ms Munn for her work and asked her to continue in an interim role.\n\nSpeaking after his dismissal, Mr Reeves said: \"This is a deeply disappointing decision for those who want genuinely independent scrutiny of safeguarding in the Church of England.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said the panel \"had one overriding objective; to work independently and free from undue influence\".\n\nHe continued: \"That shouldn't be a problem for any institution with sound governance, survivor focus, and proper motivation.\"\n\nMs Sanghera wrote on social media: \"This is absolutely appalling. We have spoken with truth and conviction, got on with what we were contracted to do. Now this?\"\n\nIn a joint statement, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said: \"We bitterly regret that we have reached this point and the Archbishops' Council has not reached this decision lightly.\n\n\"We know this is a serious setback and we do not shy away from that - we lament it.\"\n\nThey said there was \"no prospect of resolving the disagreement and that it is getting in the way of the vital work of serving victims and survivors\".\n\nThe Church said: \"The Council recognises that this news will be concerning and unsettling to victims, survivors and others.\"\n\nThe Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) was set up in 2021, following a scathing report the previous year by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.\n\nIt concluded the Church had created a culture where abusers \"could hide\".\n\nThe ISB describes its mission as \"to hold the Church to account, publicly if needs be, for any failings which are preventing good safeguarding from happening\".\n\nEarlier this month it published its first review into the way in which the Church handled one abuse survivor's case.\n\nThe review criticised \"significant consequences of the lack of strategic oversight and management of the response to survivors with chronic and enduring needs\".", "The test case could have implications for the future of fossil fuel exploration in the UK\n\nThe latest step in a woman's legal fight over a Surrey oil drilling permit has concluded.\n\nSarah Finch's lawyers told the Supreme Court that planning authorities should have considered the climate impacts of burning the oil, not just extracting it.\n\nSurrey County Council said it followed planning law.\n\nThe case could spell the end of new UK fossil fuels projects when judges reach a decision in the coming months.\n\nThe climate impacts at the heart of the case are 'downstream emissions' - the greenhouse gas emissions released when the oil will be burned. Ms Finch says these are estimated to be 10 million tonnes over 20 years.\n\nOne airline passenger on a return trip from London to Boston, US emits around one tonne of carbon.\n\nLawyers for Ms Finch told the court that greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil are an \"inevitable\" and \"indirect\" effect of extracting oil.\n\nBarristers acting for Surrey County Council said that only impacts from constructing the oil wells themselves should be assessed by authorities.\n\n\"This is not a climate change case,\" Harriet Townsend KC told the court.\n\nBarrister Estelle Dehon KC, acting for Ms Finch, said the defence used \"distinctions that have an aura of unreality about them\".\n\nMs Finch's first challenge in the High Court was thrown out. She took it to the next level, the Court of Appeals, where the three judges were split, with one upholding the appeal.\n\n\"Planning authorities say that they don't need to consider the climate impacts of the actual burning of the oil - just from the drilling. It's like saying a chocolate cake is low calorie as long as you don't eat it,\" Ms Finch, who campaigns with local organisation Weald Action Group, told BBC News.\n\n\"The County Council is required to determine planning applications in accordance with the Development Plan, the National Planning Policy Framework, national policy and other material considerations, as set out in legislation and case law. The Horse Hill planning application was determined on this basis,\" a spokesperson for Surrey County Council said.\n\nSarah Finch has campaigned against the oil wells at Horse Hill since 2012\n\nFriends of the Earth lawyer Katie de Kauwe told BBC News that carbon emissions from these projects are \"being vastly underestimated\".\n\n\"Developers are fighting court cases like this because they are very concerned that if decision-makers are confronted with the full carbon impacts of these projects, so with downstream emissions added, then they might think twice about granting them planning permission,\" she added.\n\nMs Finch's solicitor Rowan Smith said: \"It's difficult to overstate the importance of this case.\"\n\nThe Horse Hill site is near Gatwick\n\nThe UK government is legally committed to lowering its carbon emissions to reach net zero in 2050, meaning it will no longer add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.\n\nCampaigners including Friends of the Earth say new fossil fuels projects like Horse Hill undermine those promises.\n\nNew fossil fuels projects in the UK have become politically controversial. Campaigners and experts including the International Energy Agency say all oil and gas must be left in the ground if the world has a chance of meeting climate goals.\n\nGovernment advisors in the Climate Change Committee say the best way to protect consumers from high energy prices is to invest in renewables not fossil fuels.\n\nThe national significance of the case is highlighted by the involvement of external groups, invited by the court to provide additional evidence.\n\nThey include the company behind a new coal mine in Whitehaven called West Cumbria Mining, as well as the Office for Environmental Protection which is intervening in a case for the first time.\n\nFriends of the Earth lawyer Katie de Kauwe said it is highly unusual for a private company like West Cumbria Mining to make this type of intervention.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining was given permission by the government in 2021 to open the first new coal mine in the UK for 40 years.\n\n\"It is obvious that they are worried about the potential implications of the case on their coal mine,\" Ms de Kauwe said.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining told BBC News it did not consider it appropriate to comment on a live legal case.\n\nThe Office for Environmental Protection told BBC News it is intervening because it wants legal clarity on how decision-makers conduct Environment Impact Assessments when assessing fossil fuel projects.", "Shema had been told her chances of conceiving naturally were slim\n\nThe chance of becoming pregnant naturally after having an IVF baby is quite high, about one in five, which is something couples should be aware of, researchers say.\n\nIt is news that could give some fresh hope around planning a family, they say, or important information about contraception.\n\nThey analysed data from more than 5,000 women to judge how common it was.\n\nThe findings are averages over three years.\n\nThe odds for individuals will differ.\n\nAccording to the NHS, the chance of any couple conceiving naturally within the next year, if they have already been trying for a few years, is one in four, or less.\n\nInfertility is usually diagnosed only after a couple have failed to conceive despite a year of trying.\n\nBut since female fertility declines with age, women aged over 35, and anyone already aware they may have fertility problems, should see their GP sooner, according to the advice.\n\nFertility problems can be permanent or come and go and can affect either partner. There are lots of treatable reasons, but for about one in four couples it may not be possible to find a cause.\n\nFertility treatments, such as in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), are not always free on the NHS.\n\nOne cycle of IVF treatment may cost up to £5,000 or more.\n\nShema Tariq, from London, was diagnosed with \"low ovarian reserve\", meaning she had fewer remaining eggs, and told her chances of conceiving without IVF were almost zero.\n\nIt took six rounds of IVF to conceive her son, who was born in 2018.\n\n\"My GP briefly mentioned contraception to me after he was born - but we both laughed and agreed that it wasn't relevant,\" Shema says.\n\n\"It never occurred to me that I might get pregnant, despite being a sexual-health doctor.\n\n\"I was 43 and had been told that my chances of conceiving naturally were less than 1%.\n\n\"Eight months later, I was unexpectedly, and naturally, pregnant with our daughter.\n\n\"She has been the most wonderful surprise - but when we first found out, I felt overwhelmed and unprepared for another pregnancy.\n\n\"If I'd known that one in five women conceives naturally after IVF, I'd have used contraception until I was ready both emotionally and physically.\"\n\nLead author of the new research, published in the journal Human Reproduction, Dr Annette Thwaites, from University College London, said: \"Our findings suggest that natural pregnancy after having a baby by IVF is far from rare.\n\n\"This is in contrast with widely held views - by women and health professionals - and those commonly expressed in the media, that it is a highly unlikely event.\"\n\nThe 11 international studies her team looked at found at least one in five women conceived naturally after having had a baby using fertility treatment, mostly within three years. And this applied across the different types and outcomes of fertility treatment.\n\nClinical Embryologist Dr Marta Jansa Perez, from the British Fertility Society, said: \"This study highlights the importance of giving patients accurate information about their chances of conception at any point, in particular after giving birth to an IVF baby.\n\n\"It is good news that such a high proportion of patients are able to conceive naturally after IVF, but people should be aware that in cases where the age of the woman is a factor for the initial failure to conceive or there is severe male factor infertility, it would be advisable to seek treatment for a second child sooner rather than later.\"", "Interest rates are expected to rise again after UK inflation remained much higher than expected for the fourth month in a row.\n\nInflation, which measures the rate of rising prices, stuck at 8.7% in May.\n\nThe shock figure was driven by higher prices for flights and second-hand cars but supermarket food prices also continued to rise rapidly.\n\nIn a heated exchange at PMQs, Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer clashed over who was to blame.\n\nSir Keir accused the Conservatives of being to blame for \"the mortgage catastrophe\". But Prime Minister Mr Sunak hit back, citing \"the global macroeconomic situation\" and saying it had spent \"tens of billions\" supporting people with the cost of living.\n\nInterest rates are widely expected to rise by 0.25% to 4.75% on Thursday but some suggest they could now go up to 5%. Rising rates mean homeowners are facing big increases in mortgage payments.\n\nInfluential think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned higher rates would result in a drop of more than 20% in disposable income for 1.4 million mortgage holders.\n\nKaren Ward, a member of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's economic advisory council, said the Bank had \"been too hesitant\" in its interest rate rises so far and called on it to \"create a recession\" to curb soaring prices.\n\n\"It's only when companies feel nervous about the future that they will think 'Well, maybe I won't put through that price rise', or workers, when they're a little bit less confident about their job, think 'Oh, I won't push my boss for that higher pay,'\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nBut Andrew Selley, chief executive of Bidfood UK, a wholesale food supplier said increasing interest rates was \"not the right thing to do\".\n\n\"It's stifling the economy. They need to look at other ways to support businesses so they can weather the storm,\" he said.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt appeared to back further interest rate rises saying it would not \"hesitate in our resolve to support the Bank of England as it seeks to squeeze inflation out of our economy.\"\n\nThe Bank is tasked with keeping inflation at 2% but the current inflation rate is four times higher than this. It has been steadily raising interest rates since the end of 2021. This makes it more expensive to borrow money and theoretically encourages people to borrow less and spend less, meaning price rises should ease.\n\nHomeowners - a third of adults in the UK - are facing large increases in repayments when fixed-term deals come to an end. First-time buyers are also at risk of being priced out of the market as lending conditions become tighter.\n\nThe average two-year fixed rate mortgage on Wednesday hit 6.15%, while five-year deals were 5.79%.\n\nIn May, increases to flight fares, second-hand car prices, live music events and video games all drove prices higher.\n\nOne analyst said it was possible the release of Nintendo's new Zelda had helped boost the sale of computer games.\n\nSo-called \"core\" inflation, which strips out volatile factors such as direct energy and food prices, along with alcohol and tobacco prices, continued to rise last month rising at its fastest rate for 31 years.\n\nEconomists said this made the UK stand out from other countries such as the US and Germany where inflation is falling,\n\nGrant Fitzner, chief economist at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which produces figures on the UK economy, said the increase was being driven by rising service prices in cafes, restaurants and hotels.\n\n\"That's probably driven, at least in part, by the increase we've seen in wages,\" he added.\n\nYael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, also said rising core inflation suggested firms might be passing on rising costs from higher wage bills to consumers,\" she said.\n\nUK wages have risen at their fastest rate in 20 years, excluding the pandemic, but are still lagging behind the rate of inflation.\n\nPay failing to keep up with price rises has led to many households come under financial pressure in recent months.\n\nFood price inflation, which is the rate at which prices for groceries have risen compared to the year before, was 18.3% in May, down slightly from 19% in April.\n\nSergio Ronga, who owns Nanninella Pizzeria in Brighton, said he had to put his prices up as a result of higher costs.\n\nHe said costs had soared for his ingredients with tomatoes almost doubling in price, as well as flour rising by 60% and cheese jumping by 50%.\n\nSergio Ronga has seen his costs sharply increase\n\nSarah Coles, head of personal finance at Hargreaves Lansdown, said while food price inflation had eased, it was still at a level that \"causes agony at the tills\".\n\n\"Costs have risen so far and so fast that we're not going to see prices drop back to the level we were used to. In many cases we won't actually see them fall at all: they'll just get more expensive at a slower rate,\" she said.\n\nSeparately, figures also released on Wednesday revealed that national debt was greater than the UK's economic output for the first time since 1961.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Archaeologists located a number of buildings including this one with stone steps\n\nArchaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Maya city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán Peninsula.\n\nExperts found several pyramid-like structures measuring more than 15m (50ft) in height.\n\nPottery unearthed at the site appears to indicate it was inhabited between 600 and 800 AD, a period known as Late Classic.\n\nArchaeologists have named the site Ocomtún (Mayan for stone column).\n\nThe abundance of stone columns inspired the name researchers gave the city\n\nThe Maya are considered to have been one of the great civilisations of the Western Hemisphere, renowned for their pyramid temples and great stone buildings in an area which is now southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.\n\nThese latest remains were found in an ecological reserve in the state of Campeche, an area so dense with vegetation that it has been little explored.\n\nMexico's National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) said that its discovery was the result of field work aimed at documenting the archaeology of the Central Maya Lowlands, an area spanning 3,000 sq km of uninhabited jungle.\n\nINAH said that airborne laser scanning carried out by the University of Houston had helped the research team spot \"numerous concentrations of pre-Hispanic structures\".\n\nIvan Sprajc, who led the team, said they had been most surprised by the discovery of an elevated terrain surrounded by wetlands.\n\nOn that elevated terrain, they found several large buildings, including a number of pyramid-shaped ones measuring more than 15m.\n\n\"The site would have served as an important regional centre,\" Mr Sprajc said in a statement released by INAH.\n\nThe cylindrical stone columns which prompted the researchers to name the site Ocomtún were probably entrances to rooms in the upper parts of the buildings, he added.\n\nAccording to Mr Sprajc the site probably underwent considerable changes between 800 and 1000 AD before falling victim to the collapse of the Lowland Maya civilisation in the 10th Century.", "The Titanic sits 3,800m (12,500ft) down at the bottom of the Atlantic (file image)\n\nSearch teams are racing against time to find a submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic's wreck.\n\nFive people were on board when contact with the small tourist sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive on Sunday.\n\nThere was about 40 hours of oxygen left in the sub as of 13:00 EST (18:00 BST) on Tuesday, the US Coast Guard said.\n\nThe rescue operation has expanded into deeper waters in the mid-Atlantic, but so far, nothing has been found.\n\nThe five people on board are British businessman Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Stockton Rush - the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm behind the dive.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Capt Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard said crews were \"working around the clock\" to find the sub, but so far, the search had \"not yielded any results\".\n\nHe added it was a \"very complex search\" across an \"enormous amount of distance\".\n\nUS and Canadian agencies, navies and commercial deep-sea firms are all helping the rescue operation, using military planes, a submarine and sonar buoys. Several private vessels are assisting.\n\nA commercial pipe-laying ship, Deep Energy, with remote submersibles has also arrived at the site.\n\nOceanographer and world-renowned shipwreck hunter, David Mearns, told the BBC that he was hopeful Deep Energy's subs could reach the 3,800m (12,500ft) depth of the Titanic wreck to search for the missing vehicle.\n\nMr Mearns knows two of the passengers on board personally - Mr Harding, 58, and Mr Nargeolet, 77.\n\nMr Harding is a renowned explorer who has flown to space and holds three Guinness World Records. At the weekend, he said he was \"proud to finally announce\" that he was part of the mission.\n\nMr Nargeolet is a former French navy officer and diver, and also director of underwater research at a company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nPakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and Hamish Harding (on the left)\n\nTitanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, in Canada, though the rescue mission is being run from the US city of Boston in Massachusetts.\n\nThe US Coast Guard said research ships the Polar Prince - which was the support ship on Sunday's tourist expedition - and Deep Energy are continuing to search the ocean's surface.\n\nA Canadian P3 Aurora aircraft is carrying out sonar searches of the area, which as of Tuesday morning was of more than 10,000 sq miles (26,900 sq km), the Coast Guard added.\n\nOn Tuesday, France's sea ministry diverted the Atalante, a vessel equipped with a subsea robot, to assist with the search.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2022, the BBC filmed inside the Titan sub with the company's boss Stockton Rush\n\nThe missing craft is tour firm OceanGate's Titan submersible, which CBS journalist David Pogue travelled aboard last year to reach the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nHe has told the BBC that when the support ship is directly above the sub, short text messages are able to be sent between the two.\n\nOtherwise, communication via GPS or radio systems is not available as neither work underwater.\n\nMr Pogue said it was also not possible for those aboard the sub to escape by themselves because they are sealed inside by bolts applied from the outside.\n\nA submersible vessel is different from a submarine. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a submarine can launch itself into the ocean from a port independently, while a submersible has very limited power reserves so needs a mother ship that can launch it and recover it.\n\nAdded to this is the fact that visibility is quickly lost below the surface of the water as light cannot penetrate far.\n\nThe OceanGate website lists three submersibles it owns, and only the Titan is capable of diving deep enough to reach the Titanic wreckage.\n\nThe vessel weighs 23,000lb (10,432 kg) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 13,100ft.\n\nTickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip, including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m.\n\nOn social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nHe later wrote: \"A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow.\"\n\nOceanGate said it had \"been unable to establish communications with one of our submersible exploration vehicles\", but that its \"entire focus [was] on the crew members in the submersible and their families\".\n\n\"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep-sea companies in our efforts to re-establish contact with the submersible,\" it added.\n\nThe company bills the eight-day trip on its carbon-fibre submersible as a \"chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary\".\n\nIt sets sail from St John's in Newfoundland, with each full dive to the wreck, including the descent and ascent, reportedly taking around eight hours.\n\nAccording to its website, one expedition is ongoing and two more have been planned for June 2024.\n\nThe Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 died.\n\nIts wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.\n\nDo you have information about this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The actor, who is best known for playing Brookside's Mick Johnson, has also appeared in Casualty and Doctors\n\nActor Louis Emerick has been given a suspended jail sentence after hitting two 12-year-old girls with his car.\n\nThe former Brookside star, 65, admitted causing serious injury by careless driving in Wallasey on 2 October 2022.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he \"was not speeding but admitted he couldn't see clearly because of the sun so he should have slowed down\".\n\nEmerick was handed a 26-week prison sentence, which was suspended for 12 months, at Wirral Magistrates' Court.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Emerick said he did not know how he could have lived with himself if either of the girls had died.\n\nThe actor, who was charged under his full name Louis Emerick Grant, was driving towards Wallasey Village on Merseyside as the two girls crossed Poulton Road at about 17:15 GMT.\n\nTwo CCTV clips were played to the court showing his Honda car cutting the corner of the right-hand bend, going into the \"centre hatched markings\" and hitting the friends, who were thrown to the ground.\n\nOne of the girls suffered a broken leg while the other sustained fractures to her left leg, right ankle, jaw and nose and damaged four teeth, two of which she may lose, the court heard.\n\nIn victim impact statements, their mothers said the girls had been physically and mentally affected by the trauma and had missed months of schooling.\n\nThe mother of the eldest victim said her daughter still had nightmares and needed surgery to remove a metal plate from her leg.\n\nShe added signing a consent form for her daughter's leg to be amputated if necessary \"was one of the hardest things I have ever done,\" saying \"the last eight months have been horrendous\".\n\n\"We don't hold grudges with the driver. He has been in touch and apologised,\" the other girl's mother said.\n\n\"I realise it was an accident, I don't want him punished for an accident.\"\n\nNatasha Williamson, prosecuting, said Emerick, who stayed at the scene and called the emergency services, had been co-operative with police.\n\nBut she added: \"He should have slowed down if his view was impaired by the sun.\"\n\nTony Nelson, defending, said the defendant had no previous convictions and had been driving for nearly 50 years with a clean licence.\n\n\"He utterly and deeply regrets his error on the day in question,\" he said.\n\nHe added Emerick had not been speeding, drinking, using drugs or on a phone.\n\n\"This was human error. A momentary lapse of concentration and he thinks about it every day,\" he said.\n\nSentencing Emerick, Peter Mawdesley, chairman of the bench, said: \"Since the accident you have clearly shown remorse and contrition and taken various steps to contact the victims and their parents.\"\n\nEmerick was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and given an 18-month driving ban.\n\nThe actor is best known for his role as Mick Johnson on the Liverpool-based soap Brookside, but has appeared on a number of other shows, including Doctors, Last of the Summer Wine, Casualty, Coronation Street, Silent Witness and Zapped.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Molly Dixon says seeing her friends rack up debts has stopped her using buy now, pay later\n\nMore young people are getting into buy now pay later debt as some turn to schemes for essentials, charities say.\n\nFirms such as Clearpay, Zilch and Klarna let people pay their debt off over a short period, but many charge a fee if payments are missed.\n\nMolly Dixon went \"cold turkey\" after some of her friends ran up \"£500 worth of debt they can't pay\" and she \"never wants it to get to that point\".\n\nThe UK government said it was ensuring schemes were \"safe and regulated\".\n\nRichard Lane, director of external affairs at Step Change, said the debt charity had seen \"more and more young people coming to us\" with buy now, pay later debt since the start of the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe added: \"These products are being primarily marketed to young people.\n\n\"We are incredibly worried that people are taking out credit without necessarily understanding what they're committing to and what the repercussions are if they're unable to pay.\"\n\nMr Lane told Wales Live that buy now, pay later was \"a great product\" that worked well for many people to spread the costs of larger purchases.\n\nBut the market is unregulated and debt charities have been demanding that the UK government brings it under the oversight of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nKlarna said it had measures to help protect consumers and restricts the use of services after missed payments to stop debt from building up, with 99% of its lending getting repaid.\n\nRichard Lane of Step Change said buy now, pay later was \"being primarily marketed to young people\"\n\nCitizens Advice Cymru said 8% of the people it helped in February had used this type of credit to pay for essentials such as food and toiletries.\n\nDirector Simon Hatch said: \"We know that many people are staying at home, having to live with their parents, and they're working.\n\n\"But that still doesn't mean that they're earning sufficient to contribute or pay all of their bills. And what we are seeing is that people are going into debt to support their buy now, pay later needs.\"\n\nCardiff University student Mia Herford, 21, used a lending scheme once and thought it was \"quite good\" at the time.\n\n\"But then I realised I wasn't a massive fan of it because then I was seeing the payments coming out of my account after the following months,\" she added.\n\nEvie Old said her experience using Klarna was positive and would do it again\n\nNot everyone has had problems and Evie Old said she would use it again.\"I've used like Klarna and things like that when I'm buying quite a few items of clothing,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not saving money but it feels like you are because you're spreading the cost out over a few months.\"It was pretty positive, I would do it [again], I didn't have any problems with it.\"\n\nMolly Dixon said: \"You feel like 'oh great I'm getting a bunch of new clothes' or whatever it is - you're buying but then the payments come out every month and you're still thinking 'wait I actually couldn't afford this even then, why am I still paying for it'?\n\n\"I think it's marketed to - and I'm literally stood here in a Pretty Little Thing top - consumerism and fast fashion. It just makes it so much easier to buy into the trends.\"\n\nTalia Lieberman said she \"wouldn't normally be able to buy\" £120 shoes without buy now, pay later companies\n\nTalia Lieberman, 22, said she tried to avoid buy now, pay later but had used it \"for one-off purchases\" for \"clothes or shoes\" in order to be able buy things she would not otherwise be able to afford.\n\nShe said she had never been worried about repayments.\n\n\"For me it was positive because I think I've been quite responsible with it,\" she added.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University has brought in a specialist debt advisor to help students.\n\nLeanne Herberg, the university's money advice coordinator, said she believed short-term loans were spreading and people were now using them for takeaways.\n\nShe added: \"They have that option and the worry is if you are putting everything on to a [buy now, pay later] credit payment then that is really is hard to manage and keep a track of in terms of the repayments subsequently going out and making sure that you've got the budget to accommodate the repayments.\"\n\nPhilip Belamant is the founder of Zilch, which is regulated by the FCA.\n\nHe said some similar schemes were designed \"for retailers, not consumers\" with the aim of some companies being to keep shoppers on the website and \"hurry customers through the journey\".\n\nIn 2021, the UK government said it would regulate buy now, pay later products.\n\nProposed draft legislation is being consulted on, but there is no set timeframe for regulation.\n\nThe Treasury said: \"While these products can help consumers manage their finances when used appropriately, we are making sure the product is safe and regulated - protecting borrowers from falling into problem debt.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jonathan Amos explains how passengers of the missing Titan sub could try to communicate with the outside world.", "Tens of thousands of Harry Styles fans are in Cardiff\n\nPeople in Cardiff have woken up to a \"feather boa massacre\" following the first of two Harry Styles concerts in the city.\n\nAnd locals have more colour to look forward to as the star gears up to do it all over again in front of 60,000 at the Principality Stadium on Wednesday.\n\nStyles donned a Welsh flag during the first Cardiff show, and said it was a \"pleasure\" to be in Wales.\n\nSome fans spent days camping outside the stadium beforehand.\n\nStreets were littered with remnants of feather boas after Styles' first night in Cardiff\n\nExtravagant dress has become synonymous with Harry's style, so bright colours and feather boas are commonplace with fans.\n\nOn Twitter, one Cardiff resident described the scenes of loose feathers in the city centre on Wednesday morning as a \"feather boa massacre\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eleanor Prescott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHarry Styles wore a feather boa himself at his Edinburgh show\n\nCardiff Council said the feathers will be sent to an energy waste facility to help create green energy and further recycling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff wakes up to feathers across the city\n\nZoe, 29, said she has travelled from Brighton for the gig in the Welsh capital on Wednesday, and said of the colourful litter: \"I think it's quite cute. It is pretty seeing all the feathers and stuff.\n\n\"But obviously it's not very good for the environment having all these feathers sort of floating around the city.\"\n\nStyles donned a Welsh flag in Cardiff as he launched into his 2022 hit Late Night Talking\n\nAnd she said she thinks Styles would be \"quite upset\" about the littering.\n\n\"He probably would care, because he does care about things like that,\" she said.\n\n\"But he's not selling them, it's not his merch team - it's people outside that are selling them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Excitement built ahead of Harry Styles' first concert in Cardiff\n\nMeanwhile, 25-year-old Ellen, from Bristol said: \"I think Cardiff can cope with a few feathers.\n\n\"Its definitely the sign of a good night, and brightens up the place a bit.\"\n\nBut she added that the city \"does need a clean-up\".\n\nEllen said the colourful feathers were \"the sign of a good night\"\n\nStyles' two Cardiff gigs are part of his global tour, which next takes him to Belgium on Saturday.\n\nDuring Tuesday's concert, Styles took a break from the music to read fans' signs, including one from a girl named Alicia whose sign read: \"Harry I'm gay help me come out.\"\n\n\"Alicia I think you've just done it,\" Styles said, before wrapping himself in a pride flag.\n\nFeathers were seen all around Cardiff city centre on Wednesday morning\n\nStyles also singled out couple Elliot and Sian who had thrown him a cup with \"name our baby\" written on it.\n\nThe former One Direction star then stalled the show so pregnant Sian could have a toilet break.\n\nWhen she came back, he asked the audience to cheer in favour of their favourite name from the options of Stevie, Harley, Rafe and Caleb - Stevie got the loudest cheer.", "We're pausing our coverage here\n\nWe're going to pause our live coverage on this story for now - but you can catch all the key details in our main story here. Today's updates were brought to you by Thomas Mackintosh, Owen Amos and Dulcie Lee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage from the scene shows thick black smoke coming from a destroyed building\n\nThirty-seven people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a large explosion in central Paris.\n\nThe blast took place in a building that housed a design school and the Catholic education system headquarters in Rue Saint-Jacques, in the fifth arrondissement of the French capital.\n\nEmergency workers are searching through the wreckage of the building, with one person still thought to be missing.\n\nAccording to witnesses, there was a strong smell of gas before the blast.\n\nLocal deputy mayor, Edouard Civel, said on social media the cause was a \"gas explosion\".\n\nBut authorities said the cause of the blast had not yet been determined.\n\nParis prosecutor Laure Beccuau said after arriving at the scene that initial checks of camera footage suggested the explosion occurred within the building, which was next to the Val de Grâce church.\n\nThe building was initially engulfed by fire, but the blaze was later brought under control, said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez.\n\nThe area has been cordoned off and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has been to the scene.\n\nOne of two missing people has been found in a hospital, Paris's first deputy mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said on Thursday. Rescuers are still looking for one other person.\n\nThe area where the explosion took place runs south from the Latin Quarter in Paris's Left Bank area that is popular with tourists and known for its student population.\n\nA student at Ecole des Mines on Boulevard Saint-Michel told Le Parisien: \"I was in front of the Val de Grâce, I heard a huge boom and I saw a ball of fire 20 or 30m high. And the building collapsed with a huge noise. I smelled gas, but took several minutes to come to my senses.\"\n\nAnother witness, Antoine Brouchot, told the BBC he was at home when he heard a \"big explosion\".\n\n\"I stuck my head out of the window and looked towards Cochin [hospital], then I saw a big cloud of smoke and as I got closer, there was a building that had collapsed and for the moment, there is a fire.\"\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so share your experiences? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Inmates outside the Women's Center for Social Adaptation (Cefas) prison after the fire\n\nAt least 46 women have been killed in a riot at a women's prison in Honduras on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood that a fight broke out between rival gangs, after which one gang set a cell alight.\n\nOfficials say most of those who died were killed in the fire but others were shot, stabbed or beaten to death.\n\nAn investigation is under way to determine how the inmates managed to smuggle automatic weapons and machetes into the jail.\n\nPresident Xiomara Castro, who last year launched a crackdown on gangs, said on social media that she was \"shocked by the monstrous murder of women\" and would take \"drastic measures\" in response.\n\nShe has dismissed Security Minister Ramón Sabillón and replaced him with the head of the national police force, Gustavo Sánchez.\n\nSurvivors of the deadly incident told local media that it was triggered by rivalries between two of Central America's most notorious criminal organisations: the 18th Street Gang and MS-13.\n\nRelatives gathered outside the jail desperate for news of their loved ones\n\nThey said members of one gang had been taunting their rivals, who then set fire to the mattresses in the cell holding those taunting them.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed a huge cloud of grey smoke rising from the women's prison, which is located about 25km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and holds approximately 900 inmates.\n\nWhile the warring factions are locked up in different parts of the jail, the wings are located close to each other.\n\nThe unrest broke out early in the morning local time on Tuesday.\n\nSurvivors said that many of those who died had been seeking refuge from the flames in a bathroom. Their burnt bodies were found piled on top of each other.\n\nOthers were shot dead and stabbed by gang members in the corridors and a prison courtyard.\n\nSome of the victims are not thought to have been linked to either of the two gangs but were caught up in the incident.\n\nAmong them is a former police cadet who was serving a 15-year prison sentence after confessing to killing a fellow police officer.\n\nAnother of those killed was only days away from being released after serving her sentence for kidnapping.\n\nHonduras is known for corruption and gang violence, which have infiltrated government institutions and seen the homicide rate soar.\n\nAlong with neighbours El Salvador and Guatemala, the country is a major transit route for cocaine coming from South America to the United States.\n\nIt also has a history of deadly prison riots, which are often linked to organised crime.\n\nAt least 18 people were killed in gang violence at a prison in the northern port city of Tela in 2019.", "Stephen McKinney has always denied killing his wife\n\nJurors found a man guilty of murdering his wife after \"an overwhelmingly strong prosecution case\", a court has heard.\n\nStephen McKinney was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for murdering Lu Na McKinney.\n\nShe drowned during a boating holiday in County Fermanagh in April 2017.\n\nMcKinney, who is originally from Strabane, is seeking to overturn his conviction and also challenge the sentence.\n\nA prosecution lawyer told the Court of Appeal there was no unfairness to the defendant during his trial.\n\nThe body of Mrs McKinney, 35, was recovered from Lough Erne near a jetty at Devenish Island, where the couple were moored on a cruise with their two young children.\n\nMcKinney, 46, claimed his wife fell into the water while on deck to check mooring ropes and that he tried to save her.\n\nBut in 2021 a jury at Dungannon Crown Court found him guilty of his wife's murder after accepting the prosecution case that it was not a boating accident.\n\nMcKinney's lawyers have advanced a number of grounds in his attempt to have the verdict declared unsafe.\n\nProsecution lawyer Richard Weir KC said the sudden death of one of the two defence barristers before the end of the trial was tragic.\n\nHowever he argued that every effort was made by the judge to ensure the trial continued to be fair.\n\nHe said issues regarding the admissibility of evidence were also ruled on by the trial judge and that evidence was not changed or exaggerated.\n\nThe jury were attentive throughout the trial and the judge was \"above criticism\" in her \"fair, comprehensive and effective\" charge to them.\n\n\"Given the overwhelming nature of the Crown case, nothing should cause this court unease or disquiet in any way,\" Mr Weir added.\n\nThe three appeal court judges will listen to the recording of the 999 calls McKinney made on the night his wife drowned.\n\nLady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said judgement in the appeal would be reserved and a ruling will be given as soon as possible.", "The two gunmen arrived in a car and fire at people at the petrol station and a nearby hummus restaurant\n\nFour Israelis, including a teenage boy, have been shot dead in an attack near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.\n\nFour others were wounded, one of them seriously, when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a restaurant and petrol station outside Eli on Tuesday.\n\nThe Palestinian militant group Hamas said the gunmen were its members.\n\nOne was shot dead at the scene by an armed civilian, while the second fled in a stolen car and was later killed by Israeli forces in the town of Tubas.\n\nIsrael's prime minister said \"all options are open\" in response to what he called the \"shocking and abhorrent terrorist attack\", which followed heightened violence across the West Bank in recent days.\n\nA spokesman for Hamas said the shooting was a response to an Israeli military raid in Jenin on Monday in which seven Palestinians were killed.\n\nTuesday's shooting took place just to the south of Eli on Highway 60, the main road between the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Nablus.\n\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement that the two gunmen arrived in a car from the village of Urif, about 10km (6 miles) to the north.\n\nThey opened fire at a roadside hummus restaurant first, killing three civilians, then shot dead another civilian in the forecourt of the petrol station, he added.\n\nOne of the gunmen was shot and killed by an armed civilian, but the other was able to flee the scene in a stolen car.\n\nAdm Hagari said IDF soldiers and officers from the Shin Bet security service later found the vehicle near Tubas, 29km to the north-east, and shot and killed the second gunman.\n\nA paramedic with the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service, Motty Dahan, said that he and his colleagues saw a \"complex site\" when they arrived at the scene of the attack. He added that there were seven victims suffering from gunshot wounds.\n\n\"We performed medical checks and began providing medical treatment, three of the victims were evacuated in MDA MICUs [Mobile Intensive Care Units] to hospital, and unfortunately four of the victims were pronounced dead.\"\n\nThose killed were identified by Israeli media as 18-year-old Elisha Antman and 63-year-old Ofer Fairman from Eli; 17-year-old Nachman Mordoff from the Ahiya settler outpost east of Eli; and 21-year-old Harel Masoud from Yad Binyamin, a town in central Israel.\n\nThe number of Israelis killed was the highest since an attack by a Palestinian outside a synagogue in occupied East Jerusalem in January, when seven died.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: \"From the depths of my heart, I send condolences to the families of those who were murdered, may God avenge them, and on behalf of the entire people, I send my best wishes for a swift recovery to the wounded.\"\n\n\"I would like to remind all those who seek to harm us: All options are open. We will continue to fight terrorism with full force and we will defeat it,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Hamas, Hazem Qassem, described the shooting as a \"response to the crimes of the occupation [Israel] in Jenin refugee camp yesterday\".\n\nSeven Palestinians were killed - including a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl named Sadil Ghassan Turkman, who died of her wounds on Wednesday morning - and more than 90 wounded during a raid into the camp by Israeli forces. Several Israeli soldiers were also wounded during the incursion.\n\nHours after the shooting in Eli, groups of Israeli settlers attacked several nearby Palestinian towns and villages, throwing rocks and setting fire to vehicles, properties and olive groves.\n\nA Palestinian official in the Nablus region, Ghassan Daghlas, told Wafa news agency that a total of 140 cars were damaged or torched, and that 34 Palestinian civilians were injured by rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters fired by Israeli troops as they tried to defend themselves from the settlers.\n\nMeanwhile, far-right parties in Israel's coalition government put pressure on Mr Netanyahu to launch a major military operation in the northern West Bank to counter the wave of Palestinian attacks.\n\nNational Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told reporters in Eli that it was time to \"return to targeted assassinations from the air, to bring down buildings, to erect roadblocks, to expel terrorists, and to finish passing the death penalty for terrorists law\".\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 160 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The figures include militants as well as civilians.\n\nIn addition, 27 people on the Israeli side have been killed - including two foreigners and a Palestinian worker - in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor says some of the mortgage relief schemes being talked about would prolong the \"inflationary agony\".\n\nThe government has ruled out introducing major financial support to mortgage holders over fears it would drive the cost of living higher.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said offering mortgage relief schemes would \"make inflation worse, not better\".\n\nBut he said he would meet mortgage lenders later this week to ask what help they could give to households struggling with rising bills.\n\nBut the government said it was \"spending record amounts\" helping people and that it already had \"specific tools\" to provide support, citing help - in the form of a loan - for people who receive benefits.\n\nA spokesperson added households had been provided with £3,300 each on average to help ease the cost of living pressures.\n\nConservative MP Sir Jake Berry asked Mr Hunt in Parliament on Tuesday to consider \"reintroducing a bold Conservative idea of mortgage interest relief at source\" to avoid what he described as a \"mortgage bomb\" happening.\n\n\"If we don't help families now all the other money we have spent helping them will be wasted if they lose their home,\" he said.\n\nBut the chancellor said the government was not considering such a move.\n\n\"Those kind of schemes, which involve injecting large amounts of cash into the economy, would be inflationary,\" he said.\"As much as we sympathise with the difficulties and do everything we can to help people seeing their mortgage costs go up, we won't do anything that would mean we prolong inflation.\"\n\nMr Hunt said he would be meeting the principal lenders to ask what help they could give to people struggling to pay more expensive mortgages and \"what flexibilities might be possible for families in arrears\".\n\nInflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, stood at 8.7% in April, meaning consumer prices overall were 8.7% higher than they were in April 2022.\n\nIn an attempt to reduce inflation, the Bank of England has been raising interest rates, making the cost of borrowing, including for a mortgage, more expensive.\n\nIt is expected that the Bank will raise rates further this week and that they will stay higher for longer.\n\nPrior to the Bank's decision, expectations of a rise has already been reflected in the funding cost of mortgages, hitting new borrowers, and people trying to remortgage.\n\nLenders have been pulling deals and putting up rates at short notice and on Monday the average rate on a two-year fixed deal rose above 6%.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also called for mortgage relief and a mortgage protection fund, but Treasury minister Andrew Griffith said such policies would delay bringing down inflation.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves asked Mr Hunt where are families \"going to get the money to pay the Tory mortgage penalty\", claiming that higher costs were a \"a consequence of the Conservative mini-budget last year and 13 years of economic failure\".", "First LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Edgbaston (day five of five)\n\nAustralia somehow prevailed in one of the all-time great Ashes Tests to beat England by two wickets and take a 1-0 lead in the series.\n\nOn an unbearably tense final day of another Edgbaston classic, ninth-wicket pair Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon added an unbroken 55 to defy the raucous crowd and get Australia to their target of 281.\n\nIn doing so, they exacted revenge for Australia's famous two-run defeat on this ground 18 years ago, when the tailenders just fell short of reaching a target of 282.\n\nCummins, with 44 not out, and Lyon's unbeaten 16 took Australia to their narrowest Ashes win in terms of wickets since 1907.\n\nEngland looked to be surging towards victory when captain Ben Stokes produced a magical slower ball to bowl Usman Khawaja for 65 and Joe Root held a stunning return catch off Alex Carey.\n\nBut as a breathless match entered its final hour, Cummins and Lyon swung the bat at England's short-ball plan to inch Australia closer.\n\nStokes almost dismissed Lyon with a flying catch for the ages when 37 were still needed, the skipper losing control of the ball as he dived backwards at square leg.\n\nThe target ticked down, the evening drew in. With three runs required and less than five overs remaining, Cummins deflected Ollie Robinson towards third man, a diving Harry Brook fumbled and Australia had an incredible victory.\n\nA series that has already lived up to the hype continues with the second Test at Lord's on 28 June.\n• None 'Cummins is The Boss but England can come back'\n• None Relive an incredible day with all the best clips\n• None Watch the highlights on Today at the Test\n\nThis was not just an homage to the epic contest on the same ground 18 years ago, but the perfect opening to the most anticipated Ashes series in a generation.\n\nFrom the moment Zak Crawley crunched the first ball of the series for four, this Test had everything: England's daring first-day declaration, Root's attempted reverse-ramp off Cummins from the first ball of day four and the fascinating clash of style between the two teams.\n\nBut none of that could match the nerve-shredding drama of the final hour, played out in front of a buoyant crowd that had earlier waited until 14:15 BST for rain to pass and play to begin.\n\nEngland have been involved in some thrilling Tests since Stokes took charge, but none with the stakes as high as this. In truth, they wasted chances throughout, but have shown enough quality, endeavour and bravery to suggest they have what it takes to get back into the series.\n\nFor Australia, the narrow win just about vindicates their cautious approach to combatting England's Bazballers. It was fitting that captain Cummins, the architect of the safety-first plan, played the vital role on the final day.\n\nThis was magnificent sporting theatre, whetting the appetite for the rest of the series and for the Test between England and Australia's women, which begins at Trent Bridge on Thursday.\n\nCummins and Lyon get revenge 18 years in the making\n\nIn 2005, Australia arrived on the fourth morning needing 107 with only two wickets remaining and almost got them thanks to the efforts of their last three batters - Shane Warne, Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz.\n\nFrom a position almost as hopeless, Cummins and Lyon launched their own rescue mission and this time got Australia over the line.\n\nThe tourists had been almost inert for most of the day. At 107-3 overnight, they did not shift from a neutral gear. Khawaja, who made a century in the first innings, added only 31 runs from 116 balls and looked immovable.\n\nStokes somehow conjured the slower ball from his fragile body and Root held on to Carey to make England favourites, but fearsome competitors Cummins and Lyon refused to yield.\n\nRoot had already failed to cling on to a low caught-and-bowled chance when Cummins had six and the captain would later make him pay by crashing 14 from a single over.\n\nIn the next over, Stokes flung himself at a catch that would have matched his grab in the 2019 World Cup, but this time could not hold on.\n\nThe new ball was belatedly taken, but Australia's confidence grew. For every time the outside edge was beaten, a single was pinched. Cummins slapped Robinson past a flying Ollie Pope at cover, Lyon twice belted Stuart Broad down the ground for fours.\n\nThe outside edge was beaten, England kept the field back, James Anderson was ignored. Australia were within one hit of victory for more than two overs.\n\nWith three required, Cummins fended off a short ball and the flailing Brook could not prevent the boundary. Australia ended on 282 - their target back in 2005 - and the brilliant Cummins threw his bat in the air to begin wild celebrations.\n\nEngland had lost two of their past 12 Tests and one of those, against New Zealand in Wellington in February, was by just one run after they had made the Black Caps follow on.\n\nThis, though, will test the resolve of their new attitude under captain Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum like never before. Not because their swashbuckling style has failed its first examination by Australia, but because they were so close to winning and it is their own errors that have cost them.\n\nThey missed eight chances of varying difficulty in the field, four of which were by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow. Most crucially, Bairstow failed to move for an edge when Khawaja had only five on the fourth evening.\n\nQuestions will linger over Stokes' decision to declare on the first evening and the fitness of Moeen Ali, who was badly hampered by a cut on his spinning finger throughout the match.\n\nIt was also telling that Stokes, who is managing a left-knee injury, did not bowl himself until the 70th over of the second innings and that Anderson, England's all-time leading wicket-taker, was not trusted with the second new ball.\n\nNo team has come from behind to win an Ashes series since 2005. Stokes' England have shown they can get at Australia, but they must be near-perfect in the remaining four Tests if they are to win the urn for the first time since 2015.\n• None How did Messi win the World Cup with Argentina? Captivating interviews reveal what happened behind the scenes in Qatar\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Video footage posted online showed Max recoiling after being struck by a concertgoer\n\nSinger Ava Max has said a concertgoer \"slapped me so hard\" during a show in Los Angeles that he \"scratched the inside of my eye\".\n\nVideos shared online appeared to show a man hit the US pop star in the face while she was performing.\n\nThe footage shows Max recoiling and holding her eye after being struck.\n\nFollowing the show, the singer wrote on Twitter: \"He slapped me so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye. He's never coming to a show again.\"\n\nShe added: \"Thank you to the fans for being spectacular tonight in LA though!!\"\n\nThe 29-year-old singer was performing at The Fonda Theatre on Tuesday when she was hit.\n\nIt came days after pop star Bebe Rexha sustained facial injuries after an audience member threw a phone at her while she was on stage in New York.\n\nAva Max rose to fame with Sweet But Psycho and has since had hits with Salt and Kings & Queens\n\nMax had been near the end of her show when she was struck and left the stage soon after. She wore sunglasses during a meet-and-greet with fans following the show.\n\nJoel Rangel, 30, from Tucson, Arizona, who captured the moment on video, told the PA news agency: \"She was ending the show with her song The Motto and a fan just ran and jumped on the left side of the stage.\n\n\"As he jumped on stage some of the lights fell to the floor and he was running for Ava with his arms wide open like he was going to hug her.\n\n\"But the security ran and grabbed him and as they did she just happened to turn and his arm was out and hit her in the face.\"\n\nMr Rangel, who said he flew to Los Angeles for the concert, added: \"Also, they almost cancelled the meet-and-greet because of the situation.\n\n\"She had to wear sunglasses and she was disoriented and dazed so it was sad having to talk to her like that.\"\n\nAnother fan, Cory Larrabee, tweeted: \"The security guard tackled him and literally THREW him down the stairs. Wild!!! It happened so fast.\"\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Amanda Ava Koci, rose to fame following her breakout single Sweet But Psycho in 2018 and has since enjoyed chart success with Kings & Queens, Salt and My Head & My Heart.\n\nHer debut studio album, Heaven & Hell, peaked at number two in the UK in 2020 and she released her second album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, earlier this year.", "Nadia suffered a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death\n\nThe stepfather of Nadia Kalinowska must serve at least 22 years in prison for her \"brutal and merciless\" murder.\n\nThe five-year-old girl died after being found at her family home with more than 70 injuries including a fractured skull.\n\nAbdul Wahab, 35, pleaded guilty in court in January and was given an automatic life sentence.\n\nNadia's mother Aleksandra Wahab, who pleaded guilty to allowing the death of a child, was sentenced to 11 years.\n\nThe 29-year-old had also pleaded guilty to allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nShe will serve half her sentence in prison and half on licence.\n\nNadia's family in Poland said their lives had been shattered by her death.\n\nAt Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice O'Hara said what Abudl Wahab had done to Nadia was \"brutal, merciless and outrageous\" .\n\nHe added the 22-year minimum tariff reflected the \"sustained nature of brutality\" he had inflicted on her.\n\nAleksandra Wahab allowed her daughter to be murdered\n\nIn January, a court had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed in her home in Fernagh Drive in Newtownabbey and details of the injuries inflicted on Nadia were given.\n\nAs well as suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an injury to her bowel.\n\nThe injuries were inflicted over many months.\n\nAt the time she died she also had surface injuries including bruising and abrasions and her teeth were decayed and rotten.\n\nAbdul Wahab had claimed she was clumsy and had fallen down the stairs on the night she died.\n\nThe court was told the young son of Aleksandra and Abdul Wahab was taken to medical appointments regularly for \"relatively minor matters\" in stark contrast to how Nadia was treated.\n\nNadia often attended school in what was described as \"traditional Muslim dress\" which covered up her injuries.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Insp Gina Quinn said the \"young and innocent\" Nadia was subjected to a \"campaign of violence\" by her stepfather Abdul Wahab, while her mother ignored the \"very obvious attacks\".\n\n\"This was the ultimate betrayal of trust by the two people who should have protected loved and cared for Nadia,\" she said.\n\nDet Insp Quinn also read a statement from Nadia's family in Poland who \"loved and treasured\" her.\n\n\"Nadia was just a child. A child who had her young and innocent life cruelly taken away,\" the statement says.\n\n\"We are still trying to come to terms with what happened to Nadia, and I am not sure that we ever will.\n\n\"To be honest our worlds have been shattered.\n\n\"Nadia will always remain in the heart of her loving grandmother and her closest family in Poland.\"\n\nAbdul and Aleksandra Wahab sat in the glass-fronted dock at Belfast Crown Court, with guards on either side.\n\nAnother member of the security staff sat in between them.\n\nThe pair looked down at the floor for most of the sentencing hearing.\n\nTowards the end of the 45-minute-long session, Abdul Wahab put his head in his hands and appeared to weep.\n\nThe court heard how the defendant had described Nadia as his \"fairy princess\" - but the judge said that was a \"pathetic\" attempt by Mr Wahab to \"disavow\" his plea of guilty.\n\nAs well as admitting murder, Abdul Wahab pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours before the child's death and on other occasions between July and December 2019.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Public Prosecution Service assistant director Ciaran McQuillan said it was a deeply distressing case.\n\n\"Every murder is abhorrent, but this was an especially sickening and brutal murder of a young child,\" he added.", "Rising interest rates could see 1.4 million mortgage holders lose more than 20% of their disposable incomes, a think tank has warned.\n\nSome 690,000 of those set to be hit hardest will be under 40, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.\n\nThe body said high borrowing costs was \"unquestionably going to cause serious difficulty for many families\".\n\nThe Bank of England, which sets interest rates, is expected to raise them again to try to tackle inflation.\n\nData released on Wednesday showed inflation to be unchanged at 8.7% in the year to May, solidifying expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates by 0.25% to 4.75% on Thursday.\n\nInflation is the increase in the price of something over time.\n\nThe IFS, which is a politically independent economics-focused think tank, said that given inflation was at \"levels not seen in decades, rising interest rates are essentially inevitable\".\n\nIts economists said many banks had increased mortgage rates again in recent weeks, in anticipation of the Bank increasing its base rate further.\n\nThat meant mortgage holders would pay on average almost £280 more each month compared to March 2022, if mortgage rates remained at around 6%. It said people aged between 30 and 39 would typically pay about £360 more.\n\nOverall, 60% of those with a mortgage - 8.5 million adults - are set to spend more than a fifth of their incomes on mortgage payments, the IFS said.\n\n\"This is a substantial increase. In March 2022, only 36% of mortgagors were in this position. It also higher than in 2007-08,\" it added.\n\nBut the think tank pointed out while a third of all adults aged 20 and over have a mortgage, many are on fixed rate deals so have been shielded by rate rises, although around a quarter of such deals are due to finish by the end of this year, exposing people to higher costs.\n\n\"For some the rise will be substantially larger: almost 1.4 million - 690,000 of whom are under 40 - will see their disposable incomes fall by over 20%,\" the IFS said.\n\nThe Bank of England has been hiking interest rates since December 2021 in a bid to slow the rate prices are rising at. The Bank's base rate, which is used by lenders to set interest rates on mortgages, loans and credit cards, but also for savings accounts, is currently 4.5%.\n\nIn theory, raising interest rates makes it more expensive for people to borrow and they have less money to spend, meaning households will buy fewer things and then price rises will ease.\n\nBut inflation has not been falling as fast as hoped, and there have been calls for the Bank to be more aggressive with interest rates.\n\nIn recent weeks, lenders have been pulling deals and putting up rates at short notice in expectation of interest rates being hiked again.\n\nOn Wednesday, the average rate on a two-year fixed deal rose to 6.15%. In March 2022 it was 2.65%.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), which campaigns for people on low-incomes, said its research had found almost three-quarters of low-income households with a mortgage reported going in some cases without showers or had experienced \"food insecurity\" in the past month.\n\nAlfie Stirling, JRF chief economist, said there was a \"strong case\" for the Bank to \"take a pause for breath\" and avoid raising rates until the impact of previous hikes had been fully felt.\n\n\"Rising interest rates won't prevent the UK becoming poorer, they merely reflect a choice over how and where the economic pain is felt; taking some of the hit away from faster price increases, towards those with debts, and ultimately hitting pay growth and job creation for us all,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a balancing act, which if misjudged, risks converting a medium-term price shock into a horrendous new normal for those who can least afford it.\"\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has ruled out the government introducing major financial support to mortgage holders over fears it would \"make inflation worse, not better\".\n\nBut he said he would meet lenders later to ask what help they could give to households struggling.\n\nEwan has to find an additional £400 a month\n\nEwan Cameron bought a flat in London two years ago and has just managed to secure a new fixed deal, but not before he had two mortgage offers pulled.\n\nHe has now got to find an extra £400 a month to pay for his home, and is considering renting out the spare room to help pay for it.\n\n\"I remember speaking to a friend who bought at roughly the same time and he locked into a five year mortgage, we both joked about who would end up on the better end of the spectrum in a couple of years' time - he's certainly the one laughing and I'm certainly the one paying the price,\" he said.\n\nThe IFS said the UK's benefits system currently provides \"relatively little support for low income mortgagors compared to what's on offer for low income renters\".\n\nIt said this meant there was \"not much of a safety net for those who are particularly likely to struggle with rate rises\".\n\nAs well as different age groups being impacted by higher borrowing costs, the think tank said there were also differences in where people lived.\n\nFor example, it said average rises ranged from just over £150 in Northern Ireland to £390 per month in the South East and £520 in London.\n\nIt pointed out that it was not just homeowners under pressure, with renters seeing \"very large increases\" in recent months.\n\n\"It is likely that at least part of the increases in rents we are seeing is due to high interest rates hitting landlords' borrowing costs,\" the IFS said.\n\nData shared with the BBC has shown rent now typically accounts for 28.3% of income, compared with 27% on average for the past 10 years. A small rise in percentage terms can still have a significant effect on people's finances.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "As the number of migrants trying to reach Europe grows so does the number of deaths in the Mediterranean.\n\nWhile European Union officials struggle to contain the exodus, the plight of those fleeing poverty and persecution is leaving its tragic mark on the shores of Tunisia.\n\nAs the sun creeps above the horizon off the shores of its eastern coast, fisherman Oussama Dabbebi begins hauling in his nets. His face fixes anxiously on its contents, because sometimes fish are not all he finds.\n\n\"Instead of getting fish, I sometimes get dead bodies. The first time I was afraid, then step by step I got used to it. After a while getting a dead body out of my net is like getting a fish.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old fisherman, clad in a dark, hooded sweatshirt and shorts, says he recently found the bodies of 15 migrants in his nets over a three-day period.\n\n\"Once I found a baby's body. How is a baby responsible for anything? I was crying. For adults it's different because they have lived. But you know, for the baby, it didn't see anything.\"\n\nMr Dabbebi has fished these waters near Tunisia's second city of Sfax since he was 10 years old.\n\nIn those days he was one of many casting their nets, but now he says most fishermen have sold their boats for vast sums to people smugglers.\n\n\"Many times smugglers have offered me unbelievable amounts to sell my boat. I have always refused because if they used my boat and someone drowned, I would never forgive myself.\"\n\nMany African migrants are determined to reach Europe in the hope of a better life\n\nA short distance away a group of migrants from South Sudan - which has been hit by conflict, climate shocks and food insecurity since its independence in 2011 - are walking slowly away from the port.\n\nAll ultimately hope to reach the UK. One explains that they have reluctantly abandoned a second attempt to cross to Italy because of an overcrowded boat and worsening weather.\n\n\"There were so many people and the boat was very small. We were still going to go, but when we pushed away from the shore it was really windy. There was too much wind.\"\n\nAccording to Tunisia's National Guard, 13,000 migrants were forced from their often overcrowded boats near Sfax and returned to shore in the first three months of this year.\n\nBetween January and April this year some 24,000 people left the Tunisian coast in makeshift boats and made it to Italy, according to the UN refugee agency.\n\nThe country has now become the biggest departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe. Libya previously held this dubious accolade, but violence against migrants and abductions by criminal gangs have led to many travelling to Tunisia instead, before heading on to Europe.\n\nThough the boat involved in last week's disaster off the Greek coast, which has left at least 78 people dead and an estimated 500 missing, had sailed from Libya.\n\nMost fisherman in Sfax have sold their boats for vast sums to people smugglers\n\nMany of their rusting and rotting vessels lie either half-submerged in water or stacked in huge piles next to Sfax's port. Forlorn reminders of the dangers of the world's deadliest known migration route.\n\nAnother stark reminder can be found at the cemetery on the outskirts of the city.\n\nRows of freshly dug graves lie empty in an extended part of the graveyard, waiting for the next loss sea disaster.\n\nBut they will not be enough. A new cemetery entirely dedicated to migrants is now being planned.\n\nIn just one two-week period earlier this year, the bodies of more than 200 migrants were retrieved from the sea here.\n\nAcross the whole Mediterranean, more than 27,000 people are known to have died trying to reach Europe since 2014.\n\nThis accelerating tragedy is causing great difficulties for the city.\n\nThe director of the regional health authority, Dr Hatem Cherif, says there simply are not the facilities to deal with so many deaths.\n\n\"The capacity of the hospital mortuary is a maximum of 35 to 40. This is usually sufficient, but with all this influx of bodies, which is getting worse, it's way past the numbers we can take.\"\n\nAs many as 250 bodies were brought to the mortuary recently. Most had to be placed in a chilled adjoining room, grimly named the \"catastrophe chamber\", one on top of each other. Though Dr Cherif was keen to point out that all will be buried in separate, numbered graves.\n\nMany of those who die are unidentified, so DNA tests are being organised and the results carefully stored.\n\nThe idea is to enable relatives searching for loved ones to see if they are buried here, by checking for matches with their own DNA.\n\nAfrican migrants in Tunisia say they have become targets of racist attacks\n\nThree hours' drive north-west of Sfax, several hundred members of Tunisia's black minority, many of them women and children, are camped in small tents outside the offices of the International Organization for Migration in central Tunis.\n\nAll were evicted from their homes and sacked from their jobs in the city after an incendiary, racist speech in February by the country's President Kais Saied.\n\nHe claimed \"hordes\" of illegal migrants were entering the country as part of a \"criminal\" plan to change its demography.\n\nThese comments were widely viewed as an attempt to find scapegoats for the country's economic crisis, which has led many desperate Tunisians to become migrants themselves.\n\nPointing to a recent stab wound on his arm, a young man originally from Sierra Leone - which still recovering from a brutal civil war that ended in 2002 - says that since the president's speech, knife-wielding local youths have assaulted many people here.\n\n\"Some Arab boys came here to attacks us. The police said they would keep us secure if we stay here. But if we go outside of this area, we are not safe.\"\n\nThis worrying situation and the continued jailing of opponents and erosion of civil rights by the country's president appear to be less of a priority for EU officials than curbing the flow of migrants.\n\nSo far this year more than 47,000 migrants have arrived in Italy, a three-fold increase on the same period of last year and demands have grown for something to be done.\n\nDuring a brief visit here earlier this month a visiting delegation led by the head of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen promised a possible financial support package of nearly 1bn euros ($1bn; £850m).\n\nIf approved, around a tenth of this sum would be spent on measures to tackle human trafficking.\n\nLast week's tragedy off the Greek coast has heightened demands for something to be done.\n\nYet with many migrants so desperate and people smuggling so profitable for traffickers, stopping the flow of small boats will not be easy.\n\nCrowds of migrants from all over Africa and parts of the Middle East gather in groups in shaded spots of the streets of Sfax.\n\nSome have funds to pay for a place on a trafficker's boat, others live in limbo, unable to even pay for their food and shelter.\n\nMany have either lost their passports or had them stolen, while some never had one having left their countries illegally.\n\nAll have heard of the deaths of so many who tried to reach Europe, but it seems desperation continues to trump danger, as a young man from Guinea made clear.\n\n\"We cannot go back to our country because we don't have money or passports. I'm not afraid. I'm starving, there is so much poverty [at home] and my parents have nothing. I don't want my children to live like that. I need to go.\"\n\nThe tragedy is that this basic human aspiration for a better life so often comes at such a very high price.\n\nYou can watch Mike Thomson's report from Tunisia for Newsnight on the BBC iPlayer here (only available in the UK)", "Annabelle says she had a lack of control over her life in lockdown, which was difficult to deal with\n\nGP records show a sharp rise in teenage girls in the UK developing eating disorders and self-harming during the Covid pandemic, a study has found.\n\nThe increases were greatest among girls living in the wealthiest areas, which could be due to better GP access.\n\nYoung women have told the BBC that the lack of control over their lives during lockdown was a behavioural trigger.\n\nThe government says it is investing in eating disorders services to help more children and young people.\n\nCharities maintain everyone needs access to early support for mental health issues, no matter where they live.\n\nAnnabelle, 19, from Surrey, recalls how difficult she found lockdown.\n\n\"We had very little control over our lives - our GCSEs were cancelled, we had no say in what our grades were going to be.\n\n\"We couldn't see people, we couldn't control where we went.\n\n\"The only thing we could control was what you ate and how you looked - so that's what I chose to focus on.\"\n\nAnnabelle received help overcoming bulimia and is feeling better, but her family is still paying for therapy privately.\n\nShe says people don't realise how common eating disorders are: \"I don't know a single girl or female friend who hasn't had some sort of struggle with eating.\"\n\n\"It's incredibly hard, but there isn't enough help for everyone on the NHS.\"\n\nSophie says getting positive message from her TikTok videos made her feel good and helped her recovery\n\nSophie Rowland, 18, from South Shields, has been posting about her recovery from anorexia on TikTok.\n\nShe loved food before the pandemic, but being stuck in the house during lockdown made her obsessive about exercise and watching workouts online.\n\n\"I just realised I couldn't stop tracking calories. It had taken over my life.\"\n\n\"Everything was just food, food, food - and it was food that became the enemy.\"\n\nShe told her mum one day, and says she was \"very lucky\" with the help she received from nurses, friends and family.\n\nPositive feedback from her videos have also aided her recovery and now she wants to help others.\n\nEating disorders and self-harming have been rising among children and young people for a number of years but \"increased substantially\" between 2020 and 2022, the study found.\n\nOver that period, around 2,700 diagnoses of eating disorders were anticipated among 13-16-year-olds, but 3,862 were actually observed - 42% more than the expected figure.\n\nIn the same age group, 6,631 cases of self-harm were expected but 9,174 were recorded by GPs - 38% more than predicted.\n\nAmong 17-19-year-olds eating disorders also rose above expectations.\n\nThe analysis, by the University of Manchester, Keele University and University of Exeter, looked at nine million records belonging to patients aged 10-24 years, from nearly 2,000 GP practices across the UK.\n\nDr Shruti Garg, from the University of Manchester - a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the study author - called it a \"staggering rise\" which highlighted an urgent need to improve early access to support.\n\nAn eating disorder - most commonly anorexia or bulimia - is a mental health condition where control over food is used as a means of coping with distress and other difficult situations.\n\nDuring the pandemic, prolonged access to social media, more focus on body image and less face-to-face contact may have led to feelings of low self-esteem and psychological distress, particularly among adolescent girls, the study says.\n\nSocial media may also have exposed young people to content which increased the risk of developing an eating disorder.\n\nIn the media \"there was a lot of emphasis on food availability and restriction, and also on the message that being overweight was a risk for Covid,\" Dr Garg notes.\n\nThe research also suggests young people might self-harm as a coping strategy in times of uncertainty.\n\nEven before the pandemic, there had been a gradual decline in mental health generally among teenagers and young people - and a recent study found five children in every classroom had a probable mental disorder in 2022.\n\nSince March 2020, GP records show a big rise in eating disorders among the richest in the UK population - with 52% of flagged eating disorders occurring in the least deprived areas and 22% in the most deprived.\n\nTom Quinn, director of external affairs at charity Beat, says there is still \"a postcode lottery\" for care and everyone needs to get \"the help they need as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"These figures are shocking but sadly not surprising,\" he adds.\n\n\"We also know that the NHS is treating more children and young people than ever before, with healthcare professionals under huge amounts of strain.\"\n\nThe study found no sign of increasing rates of eating disorders among boys or young men, but this is not the experience of charities. Researchers say males have a higher suicide risk than females, suggesting mental health issues manifest in different ways.\n\nThe charity YoungMinds says it is hearing more often about complex mental health cases where young people develop an eating disorder and experience other mental health issues, but are unable to find support when they need it.\n\nSevere delays \"can put them at risk of getting worse and reaching crisis before they get any help\", said Olly Parker, head of external affairs.\n\nThe research, which was supported by mental health research charity The McPin Foundation, is published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said they recognised \"the devastating impact eating disorders can have on an individual and [their] family's life\".\n\nThe government says it will invest an additional £2.3 billion a year in NHS mental health services by March 2024, alongside £54m a year to increase capacity at children and young people's community eating disorder services.\n\nIf you've been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "Quarantining people sooner \"might have avoided\" the first Covid lockdown, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nAlong with this, the progress of the disease could have been slowed with more testing, the former health secretary told the Covid inquiry.\n\nA \"narrow\" focus on flu in pandemic planning led to an assumption viruses could not be slowed down, he said.\n\nMr Hunt told the inquiry that the UK had not learnt lessons from East Asia over the Sars and Mers outbreaks there.\n\nHe added that he wished he had done more to challenge this \"groupthink\" over this.\n\nAs health secretary between 2012 and 2018, Mr Hunt, played a key role in overseeing the UK's preparation for a future pandemic.\n\nHe is the latest politician to give evidence to the first part of the Covid inquiry, which is looking at how well prepared the UK was to respond to a new disease.\n\nIn his testimony on Wednesday, Mr Hunt said the UK was well prepared for pandemic flu, but \"we hadn't given nearly enough thought to other types of pandemics that could emerge\" during planning exercises during his tenure.\n\nHe added that Exercise Cygnus, a government exercise in 2016 to test the response to a flu pandemic, had made no reference to quarantining or testing and took as its \"starting point\" that 1.2m people were already infected.\n\nHe added that there were \"no questions asked at any stage\" about how the government could stop things getting that bad, something \"in retrospect\" he now wishes he had challenged at the time.\n\nDuring the early weeks of the inquiry, one key topic is beginning to dominate: why did the UK not consider in its planning the idea of trying to stop a pandemic virus from taking hold?\n\nMr Hunt told those assembled that there was a \"shared assumption\" across western Europe and North America that \"herd immunity was inevitably going to be the only way you could contain a virus, because it spread like wildfire\".\n\nLessons were not learned from South Korea, he told the inquiry, which adapted its pandemic approach following the outbreak of Mers, another coronavirus, in 2015, and took greater steps to slow down Covid when it emerged.\n\nSouth Korea, he told the inquiry, \"did not have a lockdown in the first year of the pandemic\".\n\nFailing to learn from East Asia was a \"blind spot\", he said.\n\nWhen Covid struck in the UK, he said, government scientific advisers did not come round to a \"Korean approach\" until transmission of the new disease had increased to 5,000 a day.\n\n\"And then it was inevitable you were going to have to use a lockdown,\" he added. \"Had we got on the case much earlier with that approach, we might have avoided that.\"\n\nHe added that a separate government exercise in 2016 based on the Mers outbreak, Exercise Alice, was the \"only place\" where the \"importance of quarantining\" was clearly laid out.\n\nHowever, he said he had not known about the exercise at the time \"because it wasn't shown to me,\" and \"it got very little attention, in the grand scheme of things\".\n\nElsewhere in his evidence, he revealed that before Exercise Cygnus there was a protocol that allowed the health secretary to order intensive care beds to be emptied to free up nursing capacity outside hospitals.\n\nThe chancellor said he didn't feel comfortable with the idea he might one day be asked to \"flick a switch that would have led to instant deaths\" - and asked for the protocol to be changed.\n\nHe added that he didn't feel comfortable that someone \"a long way from front line\" could make such a decision, which would be better made by people closer to the situation on the ground, he added.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?", "A ban on fees to get rid of DIY waste in England will push up costs for all households, councils have warned.\n\nCurrently around a third of local authorities charge to dispose of DIY waste at recycling centres.\n\nThe government said the ban, which is expected to come into force later this year, aims to deter fly-tipping.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA) said the costs would still be passed on, for example through higher council tax.\n\nThe organisation, which represents councils in England, said the change would cost many councils more than £1m a year.\n\nSuffolk County Council said scrapping the charges would cost an estimated £500,000 a year, while Norfolk County Council said the cost would be more than £1m a year.\n\nCharges to dispose of materials like paving slabs, plasterboard and bricks can be up to £10 an item.\n\nThe LGA's environment spokesman, Darren Rodwell, said: \"Where councils are no longer able to charge for DIY waste at recycling centres the cost will be passed to all householders, including households that do not have a car and those with no possibility of carrying out building works, for example people living in rented accommodation.\"\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturers should also contribute to the costs to councils of clear up, by providing more take-back services so people can hand in sofas, old furniture and mattresses when they buy new ones.\"\n\nThe government said the change was part of its wider action to tackle fly-tipping, which costs the economy an estimated £924m a year in England.\n\nHowever, Mr Rodwell said evidence from councils and recycling campaign group Wrap did not show a link between charges and fly-tipping.\n\nEnvironment Minister Rebecca Pow said: \"We want to make it as easy as possible for people to dispose of their waste properly and that's why we are removing the financial burden on doing the right thing with DIY trash.\"\n\nJacob Hayler, executive director of the Environmental Services Association, which represents the waste management industry, said: \"We welcome any measures that make it easier for householders to dispose of waste correctly and responsibly at their local Household Waste Recycling Centre, which in turn reduces the chance of it falling into the hands of criminals or being fly-tipped.\"\n\nIn 2015, the government banned charges on local residents disposing of household rubbish at household waste centres.\n\nGuidance made clear this includes DIY household waste. But some local authorities were still able to charge for certain types of DIY material, under rules designed for construction waste.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "That concludes our coverage of the sentencing of Abdul and Aleksandra Wahab following the brutal death of five-year-old Nadia.\n\nA judge said the little girl had suffered a \"horrific collection of injuries\".\n\nHer extended family in Poland said their \"worlds have been shattered\".\n\n\"Nadia was just a child,\" they said. \"A child who had her young and innocent life cruelly taken away.\"", "New legislation would require Disney+ to remind its customers about their subscription every six months\n\nDisney has raised concerns about new UK laws which will require it to remind its customers about their streaming subscription every six months.\n\nCurrently, Disney+ users sign up to the service and remain subscribed until they choose to cancel.\n\nBut new legislation would require streamers to send \"reminder notices\" to customers to make sure they are aware they remain subscribed.\n\nThe government said the bill would \"ensure consumers get a fair deal\".\n\nBut Disney said that it already provides \"timely and clear notice\" of its fees - which are £7.99 per month or £79.90 for a year.\n\nAccording to Deadline, the company said the UK government's draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill was attempting to \"micro-manage\" the way subscription streamers interact with their customers.\n\nDisney argues it currently makes it easier for users to cancel their contract than to subscribe in the first place.\n\nThe company also suggested email reminders could have a counterproductive effect because it will make users more likely to ignore the messages they receive.\n\nIn a submission to the Lords Communications and Digital Committee, Disney said: \"The combination of the market imperatives, consumer preferences, our practice of providing timely and clear notice of the recurring fee and the ease of terminating the agreement should obviate the need for mandated renewal notices.\n\n\"At a minimum, it obviates the need for the micro-managing of how and when these notices should be sent, which is a serious flaw in the draft bill that fails to recognise that it could lead to consumer's ignoring notices.\"\n\nAvatar: The Way of Water, the most successful film of the past year at the box office, recently arrived on Disney+\n\nDisney requested the UK government limit the reminder notices to sectors that have a track record of \"attempting to trap their consumers\".\n\nThis \"obviously does not apply to SVODs [subscription videos on demand],\" it added.\n\nDisney also raised concerns about the bill's effort to introduce a 14-day cooling-off period for digital subscription services.\n\nThe company argues that this will allow consumers to \"game the system\" by subscribing, consuming all the content they want in two weeks, and then cancelling.\n\nDisney said that such behaviour could result in price rises for loyal customers.\n\n\"This would allow these bad actors to benefit from our service without compensation to the detriment of the vast majority of good actors as it could likely result in a price increase given the reduction in the subscriber base and the high cost of producing high-quality content,\" it said.\n\nA Department of Business and Trade spokesperson told BBC News: \"The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill aims to boost competition in online markets currently dominated by a small number of firms - delivering on the government's commitment to grow the economy through increasing consumer choice and accelerating innovation.\n\n\"Our new bill will ensure consumers get a fair deal while not overburdening businesses with regulatory barriers.\"", "MPs delivered their verdict on Boris Johnson on Monday night, endorsing a report that found he deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate.\n\nBut 225 of his former Conservative MP colleagues were absent, including Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman has said he \"respects\" the result.\n\nBut Mr Sunak is yet to say if he actually agrees with the findings, with his spokesman telling reporters on Tuesday he considers the matter closed.\n\nThe prime minister wasn't the only member of the government staying away, with the majority of the cabinet also absent. So where were they?\n\nMost had decided to stay away from the Commons debate, rather than record their verdict against the man who led them to victory at the last general election.\n\nIt did not stop the report, written by the Commons privileges committee after a year-long inquiry, passing easily by 354 votes to seven.\n\nConservative MPs who voted against it included Sir Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey and Heather Wheeler.\n\nWork and Pensions Minister Mel Stride has told the BBC he had abstained from the vote because its main sanction - a hypothetical 90-day suspension for Mr Johnson, had he not already quit as an MP - was too severe.\n\nAnother cabinet minister - Michael Gove - said the same on Sunday.\n\nBut what about Rishi Sunak?\n\nWe are told the prime minister had longstanding engagements on Monday.\n\nIn the afternoon, he had a meeting with Sweden's PM Ulf Kristersson. In the evening, he attended an event hosted by a health and social care charity.\n\nWhen asked how Mr Sunak would have voted if he'd attended, his spokesman refused to engage, calling the question \"hypothetical\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor the prime minister, this question is about more than just logistics.\n\nMr Sunak has gone to great lengths not to deliver a verdict on whether his predecessor lied to Parliament.\n\nHe was asked about it on Thursday morning, just before the committee's report was published. He said he did not want to pre-empt their conclusions.\n\nOn Sunday evening, having had the weekend to digest the report's findings, he was asked how he would vote.\n\nSeveral times, he dodged a direct answer and simply said he did not want to influence other MPs, who were not being instructed by party managers - called whips - how they should vote.\n\nSo as things stand, we still do not know what the prime minister thinks about the report. We'll keep asking.\n\nIn some respects, that uncertainty is convenient for Mr Sunak.\n\nIf he had voted to endorse the report, he would have been seen by Boris Johnson's allies as having committed another act of treachery.\n\nMany would never have forgiven him. They could have made life difficult in the coming months.\n\nIf he had rejected the report, that would have angered other Conservatives who spoke passionately in defence of the privileges committee in the Commons on Monday.\n\nIt would have, in the eyes of opponents, undermined his commitment to integrity, professionalism and accountability, which he made on the steps of Downing Street when he became PM.\n\nBut his decision not to vote or comment on the report is not without risk.\n\nYou can expect opposition parties to hammer home the argument that Mr Sunak is too weak to deliver judgment on Mr Johnson.\n\nLiberal Democrats have accused him of a \"cowardly cop-out,\" while Labour has called him \"too weak to lead a party too divided to govern\".", "More than 200 million people subscribe to Amazon Prime globally\n\nThe US has accused Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and making it difficult to cancel.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's consumer rights watchdog, made the claims in a lawsuit.\n\nAmazon rejected the charges, calling them \"false on the facts and the law\".\n\nMore than 200 million people subscribe to Prime globally. The service, which offers shipping perks, access to streaming movies and more, costs $139 a year or $14.99 monthly in the US and £95 per year in the UK.\n\nThe FTC said Amazon used website designs that pushed customers into agreeing to enrol in Prime and have the subscription automatically renew as they were making purchases.\n\nThe company attempted to make it difficult for users to opt out of auto-enrolment because \"those changes would also negatively affect Amazon's bottom line\", the agency alleged in the complaint, filed in federal court in Seattle.\n\nIt also said Amazon put customers seeking to cancel through a cumbersome \"four-page, six-click, fifteen option\" process, which the FTC said was known internally as \"Iliad\" in a nod to the Greek epic about the \"long, arduous Trojan War\".\n\nThough Amazon altered the cancellation process shortly before the lawsuit was filed, the FTC said the company's tactics broke laws aimed at protecting shoppers.\n\n\"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money,\" FTC Chair Lina Khan said.\n\nThe FTC is seeking a court order to force Amazon to change its practices, as well as financial penalties in an unspecified amount.\n\nAmazon said it had been in the middle of discussing the issues with the agency when the lawsuit was filed without notice.\n\n\"The truth is that customers love Prime, and by design we make it clear and simple for customers to both sign up for or cancel their Prime membership,\" the company said.\n\nThe FTC has repeatedly warned online firms against using \"dark patterns\" to manipulate shoppers.\n\nIt had been investigating Amazon's Prime programme since 2021.\n\nIt said the company had attempted to delay the probe on multiple occasions, including by refusing to deliver documents in a timely manner.\n\nEvelyn Mitchell-Wolf, a senior analyst at Insider Intelligence analyst said the FTC was \"making an example of Amazon\".\n\n\"It's quite common for companies to make it more difficult to cancel an account than it is to create one,\" she said.\n\nMs Khan, who was appointed to her post by President Joe Biden, made her name critiquing US competition policy related to Amazon.\n\nShe has promised to move more aggressively to police online shopping and the power of America's tech giants.\n\nThe lawsuit marks the third action from the FTC involving Amazon in recent weeks.\n\nThe company agreed to pay $25m last month to settle charges it had violated child privacy laws by keeping recordings children made on Alexa.\n\nIt agreed to pay another $5.8m to resolve claims that Ring, the doorbell company Amazon purchased in 2018, had violated privacy protections by giving staff unrestricted access to customer videos and failing to implement precautions against hackers.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This is a grim number. Inflation isn't just stubborn, or sticky. It is, on the latest numbers, stuck. These figures should be falling by now, and they are in other countries such as the US and Germany.\n\nMy inbox was deluged with instant takes at 7am ranging from \"unfortunate\" to \"challenging\" to \"disaster\".\n\nOver the past 18 months the Governor of the Bank of England has told the BBC workers should not ask for excessive pay rises and companies should not hike prices too much either.\n\nCore inflation, a measure of underlying and ongoing inflationary pressure that strips out month to month volatility, is, however, going up, even as it is in decline elsewhere in other major economies. The polite requests have not worked.\n\nThe response of Karen Ward, a respected City economist who serves on the chancellor's council of advisers that the Bank of England \"has to create a recession\" partly to \"nip in the bud\" a spiral of wages going up and in turn pushing up prices, and then pushing up wages again.\n\n\"It's only when companies feel nervous about the future that they will think 'Well, maybe I won't put through that price rise', or workers, when they're a little bit less confident about their job, think 'Oh, I won't push my boss for that higher pay,'\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nShe said out loud what the Treasury cannot say out loud but has implied in repeated interviews - people have to feel the pain for interest rate rises to work. The Chancellor again said he would support the Bank of England in its decisions - making clear his support for further rate rises. But any hope of a controlled economic descent with plenty of distance ahead of an election late next year, now looks fraught.\n\nBut it is not just about the specific decision on Thursday, but about the path of interest rates for the next two years. The markets are pretty openly questioning whether the Bank is in full command over where inflation is going. Financial markets and banks are effectively pushing up fixed term mortgage rates, without waiting for actual Bank of England decisions.\n\nBut the unflattering international comparison also shows a limit to how much the government can blame everything on \"global factors\". Continental Europe was particularly hit by surging energy prices in the aftermath of the Ukraine war, the rest of the world by food prices, and the US by a worker shortages. The UK still suffers from a cocktail of all three.\n\nAnd the government's own post Brexit policies on trade and workers may have lessened competitive pressures that would in the past have brought inflation down more rapidly.\n\nWednesday's number shows that the already tricky balancing act between inflation and recession is getting worse. It may require more than just the Bank of England to do the heavy lifting.", "Labour has insisted it still wants to abolish the Lords, despite planning to increase its size by creating new peers if it wins the next election.\n\nSir Keir Starmer's spokesman said he stood by a pledge to get rid of the Lords during a first term in office, but there could be \"interim reforms\".\n\nCurrently, Labour would need 90 more peers to overtake the Conservatives' 263 in the upper chamber.\n\nNew Labour peers would be expected to back abolition, the spokesman said.\n\nEarlier, The Times reported that Labour was planning to appoint dozens of peers to the Lords to prevent a Starmer government having its agenda thwarted.\n\nThe spokesman said he did not recognise \"arbitrary figures\" and would not go into timescales.\n\nBut he admitted previous governments had needed more than one term to create enough peers to ensure they could get their business through Parliament.\n\nHe said: \"Every government when they first come into power do not have a majority within the House of Lords because of the nature of the appointments process.\n\n\"And every government as a matter of custom and practice looks to make appointments to the House of Lords, but it's not something that's done in one fell swoop, it's something that takes time and often takes more than a term in government for that to happen.\"\n\nFull details of the policy would be set out ahead of the next general election, he added.\n\nBut Labour's position raises a number of questions, including why appoint any peers at all if the number will not make Labour the largest party in the Lords before it is abolished.\n\nThere would be a question over who might take a peerage while having to commit themselves to abolishing it within five years.\n\nAt present, there are 174 Labour peers, 263 Conservatives, 84 Liberal Democrats and 183 unaligned crossbenchers.\n\nIn December, Sir Keir unveiled plans put forward by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown for sweeping constitutional changes, including replacing the Lords with an elected assembly representing the UK's nations and regions.\n\nThe Labour leader described the House of Lords as \"indefensible\".\n\nEven before the new peers nominated in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list take up their positions, there are currently 779 members of one of the world's biggest upper chambers.\n\nLord Speaker Lord McFall, a former Labour MP, has argued that the Lords is too large and that its numbers should be reduced, but has pressed for reform rather than abolition.\n\nSir Keir's spokesman suggested reforms could take place before full abolition, such as getting rid of by-elections for the remaining hereditary peers.\n\n\"There may be interim reforms along the way, I'm not ruling that out,\" he said.\n\nFormer cabinet minister, Tory MP Sir Simon Clarke, has described Lords abolition as a \"terrible idea\".\n\n\"Anyone who has looked at the institutionalised gridlock in US politics can see the utter stupidity it would be to create an elected upper house,\" he said.\n\nLabour peer and former cabinet minister Lord Mandelson has warned that, without agreement from other parties, Labour's plans risk dragging the party into a \"quagmire\", soaking up \"acres of time and energy\" that would be better spent on other priorities.", "Canadian Air Force has deployed their CP-140 Aurora aircraft, which provides a surface search and sub-surface acoustic detection.", "The stepfather of a five-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to her murder.\n\nNadia Zofia Kalinowska died after being found injured at her family home at Fernagh Drive in Newtownabbey in December 2019.\n\nHer mother, 28 year-old Aleksandra Wahab, and the child's stepfather, 34-year-old Abdul Wahab, went on trial on Wednesday at Belfast Crown Court, accused of murder.\n\nWhen the case resumed on Thursday, Abdul Wahab pleaded guilty to murder.\n\nThe Pakistani national also pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours before the child's death and on other occasions between July and December that year.\n\nA minimum period, before he can be released, will be set at a future date.\n\nThe trial had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed in her home - a place where she should have felt safe.\n\nDuring the opening, Crown barrister Liam McCollum detailed the injuries inflicted on Nadia.\n\nAs well as suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an injury to her bowel.\n\nAlso present at Nadia's time of death were 70 surface injuries including bruising and abrasions.\n\nNadia was rushed to hospital from her home in Newtownabbey\n\nThis led the Crown to conclude that Nadia had been subjected to a campaign of physical abuse in the family home which culminated in her death.\n\nAs the hearing was due to resume on Thursday, barristers for both Mr and Mrs Wahab asked that their clients be re-arraigned.\n\nAt this point Abdul Wahab bowed his head and tearfully pleaded guilty to the murder.\n\nAleksandra Wahab pleaded guilty to allowing the death of a child and allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nThese pleas were accepted by the court and the jury was discharged.\n\nShe was remanded back into custody.\n\nAddressing the jury of seven men and five woman, the judge said that as both defendants had now pleaded guilty to three charges each, he directed them to return not guilty verdicts on all the remaining counts.\n\nA spokesperson for the school said: \"Our school community is still in shock at this terrible tragedy. We have lost Nadia who was a much loved pupil.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted at this time.\"", "Front line staff vacancies account for 75% of those cut\n\nMore than 600 vacancies at the Department for Communities (DfC) - including those for front line staff - will not be filled, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe decision means there is a risk of slowing down the delivery of benefits for those in need.\n\nThe DfC is responsible for benefits, housing, addressing homelessness, arts and culture and sport.\n\nFrontline staff vacancies account for 75% of those cut.\n\nThe department said the cuts would be made in order to live within an \"inadequate\" budget.\n\nArm's length bodies of the DfC and third-party organisations funded by the department will receive a 5% cut to their budgets.\n\nThese include the Arts Council, Libraries NI and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive among others.\n\nCouncils will receive a £4m cut to the Rates Support Grant compared to the previous year, which will affect seven of Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nThe department has also decided to leave four offices in the greater Belfast area.\n\nNone of the offices are public facing, meaning services will not be impacted.\n\nThe DfC is the largest department in the Northern Ireland Civil Service with more than 9,000 staff.\n\nIn taking these decisions, the department said it would be £10m over budget, understood to be a calculated risk which is expected to be managed throughout the year.\n\nConfirming the funding decisions, DfC permanent secretary Colum Boyle said the department had \"sought to mitigate the significant and adverse impact\" of the budget, which he described as \"sub-optimal\".\n\n\"Our shared priority remains supporting the most vulnerable and at-risk in our society,\" he said.\n\n\"However, difficult decisions had to be made to live within the funding available.\"\n\nFunding for homelessness is set to be increased by £2m\n\nThe Supporting People programme which helps people live independently in the community has had funding sustained at the same as last year's level.\n\nDiscretionary support, which provides emergency financial support for people in crisis situation, will receive £20m funding.\n\nLast year, £40m of discretionary support grants were handed out after significant demand due to the cost of living crisis.\n\nFunding for homelessness is to be increased by £2m (or 8%) compared to last year.\n\nThe Affordable Warmth Scheme and Neighbourhood Renewal programmes have also been protected.\n\nIn terms of the capital budget, the DfC is facing a £59m (27%) shortfall compared to what was asked for, against a backdrop of record inflation in areas such as construction.\n\nThis mean's the budget will not be able to meet the department's target to start 2,000 new social homes this year and is now only expected to achieve 1,470 new starts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after one person was left in a life-threatening condition and another was injured in a stabbing attack at a London hospital.\n\nPolice said the man arrested at Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal also sustained \"self-inflicted\" injuries.\n\nThe hospital was temporarily locked down but has since reopened with a heightened police presence.\n\nOne witness described how patients and visitors were locked in a nurses' room while police dealt with the incident.\n\nStaff were evacuated from the hospital building, where officers will remain as searches are carried out.\n\nThe Met Police said it was satisfied no-one else was being sought and that the stabbings were not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe attack was reported at about 13:20 BST. Paramedics said they treated three people at the scene.\n\nJamie Hogg, a contractor who saw the incident unfold, said he and his colleagues were visiting the hospital to carry out work and he saw police \"just swarming in\".\n\nStaff waited outside the hospital after being evacuated from the building\n\n\"It was armed police, one after another, one after another, and they just sprinted straight into the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like this before in my life, I thought it was crazy. It's quite hard to believe.\"\n\nHe described the incident as \"scary\", continuing: \"It could have been any of us. I don't know what were the reasons that drove him to that.\"\n\nAmie Ferris-Rotman, who was visiting the hospital dialysis unit with her father, told Sky News police checked the area where they were, before locking them in a nurses' room for about 45 minutes.\n\nShe said: \"All the dialysis patients were quite freaked out.\"\n\n\"And at one point those who were about to go on to dialysis were put in wheelchairs and brought into a room, which is where we were as well, and they were locked in.\"\n\nDetectives have been carrying bags of evidence out of the hospital, including a clear bag containing what appeared to be clothing.\n\nThree unmarked police cars, identifiable by the logbooks on their dashboards, remain in the car park of the hospital.\n\nArmed police are responding an incident at Central Middlesex Hospital in London\n\nThe London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said the building was locked down as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nIn a tweet, the trust said: \"While our clinics are reopening, we may need to reschedule your appointment if we can't see you today.\"\n\nThe Labour MP for Brent Central, Dawn Butler, told BBC Radio London: \"The police have the situation very much under control.\n\n\"They have arrested somebody and I think the situation should be a lot calmer now.\n\n\"It's quite reassuring that the police are not at this stage looking for anybody else, and they have the whole situation in hand.\"\n\nShe added: \"That additional stress when you're in hospital isn't very good, so I'm grateful the police acted really quickly and got this under control as quickly as they did.\"\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it had sent an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic, an ambulance crew and a medic in a fast-response car, as well as a hazardous area response team and the air ambulance.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adele Roberts is leaving Radio 1 after \"an incredible eight years\" at the station.\n\nThe DJ has already presented her last show, which was in May.\n\nIn the last few years she's spoken openly about her treatment for bowel cancer and in June last year she said she was free from the disease.\n\n\"She continually goes above and beyond for others and I want to say a huge thank you to her for everything,\" said Aled Haydn Jones, head of Radio 1.\n\nAdele first joined the BBC in 2012 as a presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra before joining Radio 1 in 2015 as the station's Early Breakfast show host.\n\nShe revealed she was undergoing treatment for bowel cancer in October 2021.\n\nThe 44-year-old has regularly used her social media to talk about her treatment and stoma - which she has named Audrey.\n\nAdele has been joined on the airwaves by a number of big names over the years\n\nThanking Adele for her time on the station Radio 1 boss Aled said she \"always puts others first\".\n\n\"Whether it's key workers during the pandemic on her show, other people's health during her own diagnosis of cancer.\"\n\nAdele's previously been honoured at the Diva Awards, picking up the Diva Choice Award for raising LGBTQ+ awareness in broadcasting, and for sharing her cancer journey.\n\nIn 2019, she appeared on ITV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - lasting 13 days in the jungle.\n\nAnd this year she broke a world record by becoming the fastest woman to complete the London Marathon with a stoma bag.\n\nHer departure comes almost a year after Scott Mills and Chris Stark left the station - and a number of other new changes to the Radio 1 schedule have also been announced.\n\nDanni and Sam have already covered shows for Radio 1\n\nFrom September, Sam MacGregor and Danni Diston will join forces to co-host the new Weekend Breakfast show, which will move from London to Cardiff.\n\nThe pair were given their first opportunity to host on the station during the 2020 festive period as part of Radio 1's Christmas Takeover.\n\nFrom there, they have become regulars covering a range of shows as well as hosting Radio 1's coverage of Boardmasters Festival 2022 and most recently being part of Big Weekend festival in Dundee.\n\nThey say having their own show is something they've \"dreamed of since we can remember\" and are excited about being in Wales' capital city.\n\n\"It's the city where we became best mates, began presenting together and now the city we proudly call home.\"\n\nJess Iszatt will also be joining Radio 1 as the new host of BBC Introducing on Sundays, taking over from Gemma Bradley.\n\nShe started working on student radio stations and has hosted the BBC Music Introducing show for BBC Radio London, championing artists such as Arlo Parks, Freya Ridings and Celeste.\n\n\"Supporting new artists at the very beginning of their career is the most exciting part of the journey,\" she said.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Another week, another PMQs. Today's showdown between the prime minister and the opposition leader largely centred on mortgages and inflation.\n\nIn a sentence: Rishi Sunak claimed the government is \"on track to keep reducing\" inflation, while Keir Starmer accused the Conservatives of being to blame for \"the mortgage catastrophe\".\n\nIt comes as thoughts turn to an announcement from the Bank of England tomorrow, when it is expected to increase interest rates further in attempt to tame price rises.\n\nOur story here outlines all the key exchanges from the Commons today. You can also read our mortgages explainer here.\n\nToday's page was brought to you by Dulcie Lee, Nathan Williams, Heather Sharp, Chas Geiger, Paul Seddon, Ece Goksedef and myself. We'll be back next week with more coverage from the Commons, hope you can join us then.", "Kateryna Fuglevych was working as a TV reporter in the Ukrainian city of Odesa when the war began\n\nMore than 2,650 Ukrainians have arrived in Northern Ireland since Russia invaded their country in February 2022.\n\nOne of them is former TV reporter and presenter Kateryna Fuglevych.\n\nThe 32-year-old has been living in Belfast and working in a creche since fleeing Ukraine last spring.\n\nWhen the war began, Ms Fuglevych left Odesa, where she was working as a journalist, and travelled to join her parents in her home city of Kherson, which was under Russian control.\n\nShe told BBC News NI she thought she would be there for a few days but ended up living in the basement of her family home for two months.\n\n\"Thank God my grandfather built that basement,\" she said.\n\n\"But even when we were down there we could hear the bombs, the missiles - we barely slept.\n\n\"We just could not believe that this could happen, that the war would come to our land. But I had to be with my family.\n\n\"We would swap medicine and food with neighbours so everyone could survive.\"\n\nKateryna Fuglevych sheltered from bombs in the basement of her family home in Kherson\n\nMs Fuglevych then made the decision to leave Kherson with the help of a friend.\n\n\"I had 15 minutes to pack everything, my whole life, in my car and leave,\" she said.\n\n\"The roads were gone - they had been destroyed - so we had to follow people who knew the way through fields.\n\n\"It was eight hours, no water because I forgot water, and it was very scary.\n\n\"I was worried that Russians would recognise me as a journalist when I hit a checkpoint.\n\n\"When I first saw a Ukrainian soldier, I hugged him.\"\n\nKateryna Fuglevych in a Ukrainian TV studio before she fled to the UK\n\nMs Fuglevych eventually made it to Odesa but when bombing started there, she decided to leave Ukraine.\n\nShe drove to Hungary and onwards to France before getting a ferry to Dover in England, eventually ending up in Belfast in the same car in which she had fled Ukraine.\n\n\"That car saved my life. It's been through a lot,\" she said.\n\n\"You can imagine, it needs a lot of repairs.\"\n\nMs Fuglevych's home city of Kherson has been in the headlines this month following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam which has cause serious flooding of vast areas of land on both sides of the Dnipro river.\n\nAn aerial view of flooded homes in Kherson after the Nova Kakhovka dam breach\n\nWhile her parents managed to make it to Odesa, many of Kateryna's relatives are still in Kherson.\n\n\"Every day they live in huge fear because they live under the shelling and the missiles. They are in danger,\" she said.\n\n\"The flood has caused so much damage, I was crying. I knew there were animals and older people who could not escape.\n\n\"My parents thought they had escaped when they got to Odesa but it's under attack too.\n\n\"I haven't seen them in a year but sometimes we can video call. You can't imagine how difficult it is.\"\n\nMs Fuglevych has now been living in Belfast for eight months and says she is grateful for a chance to build a new life in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It's very different to my life as a journalist,\" she said.\n\n\"I was speaking to politicians and celebrities and now I work with children, but it's great.\n\nKateryna Fuglevych pictured in the headquarters of BBC News NI in Belfast\n\n\"Belfast is amazing because of the people who are so kind and so pleasant when I'm talking about my parents, about my life.\n\n\"I know in Belfast in the past there were not such easy times so they feel in their soul how it is to try to live for Ukrainians.\n\n\"For me it's really very nice that I am here in Northern Ireland and I have a possibility to start a new life in Belfast.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Dame Sally Davies tells the Covid inquiry that \"it wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died\".\n\nEngland's former chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies was close to tears at the Covid Inquiry as she apologised to families bereaved by the pandemic.\n\n\"It wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died... it was harrowing and it remains horrible,\" she said.\n\nShe also said the UK did not have enough resilience to cope with the pandemic, with fewer doctors, nurses or hospital beds than similar countries.\n\nThe inquiry is currently examining the UK's preparedness ahead of Covid.\n\nIn her evidence, Dame Sally also expressed concern about the impact of the lockdowns on children and students.\n\n\"We have damaged a generation, and it is awful... watching these people struggle,\" she said.\n\nThe former chief medical officer told the inquiry the UK did not have plans in place to cope with a Covid pandemic, but she added \"it didn't have resilience either\".\n\nCompared with similar countries, the UK was at the bottom of the table for numbers of doctors, nurses, beds, IT units and ventilators per 100,000, she said.\n\nDuring questions about preparation exercises for pandemics, Dame Sally broke off to say: \"Maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families.\"\n\n\"I heard a lot about it from my daughter who was on the front line as a doctor in Scotland,\" she added.\n\nDame Sally Davies became chief medical officer in 2010 and left in 2019 to be replaced by Sir Chris Whitty. He is due to give evidence on Thursday along with Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic.\n\nAt the same hearing, George Osborne said his spending cuts meant the UK was better able to cope with the pandemic.\n\nThe former chancellor argued that without austerity Britain would have been \"more exposed\" and rejected claims his approach left the health and social care \"depleted\" ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nLast week Sir Michael Marmot, a professor of epidemiology at University College London told the inquiry that the UK had entered the pandemic with \"depleted\" public services.\n\nAsked by inquiry lawyer Kate Blackwell KC if he agreed with the statement, Mr Osborne said: \"Most certainly not, I completely reject that.\"\n\nHe accepted more money could have been spent on the NHS, but said as chancellor he had to balance demands for resources from other public services.\n\n\"You can't just say we like public spending to be higher without explaining where you get money from,\" he told the inquiry.\n\nHe said the public had elected the Conservatives to government in 2010 and 2015 knowing the party was planning to cut public spending.\n\nDuring the period, cuts were introduced in welfare spending, school building programs, local government, police, courts and prisons. There was also an overall squeeze on health spending.\n\nGeorge Osborne was quizzed on the impact of spending cuts\n\nMr Osborne - who was chancellor from 2010 to 2016 - said: \"If we had not done that Britain would have been more exposed, not just to future things like the coronavirus pandemic, but indeed to the fiscal crisis which very rapidly followed in countries across Europe.\n\n\"If we had not had a clear plan to put the public finances on a sustainable path then Britain might have experienced a fiscal crisis, we would not have had the fiscal space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic when it hit.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association said Mr Osborne's \"denial\" of a connection between austerity and the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable was \"staggering\".\n\nOn Monday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) produced a report which said austerity had led to unsafe staffing in public services leaving the UK \"hugely unprepared\" for Covid.\n\nDuring the one hour 20 minute question session, Mr Osborne was also asked about the Treasury's planning for potential national lockdown.\n\nHe said the department had plans for an outbreak of influenza but added \"given what subsequently happened that was very small scale\".\n\n\"There was no planning done by Treasury - or any western Treasury - for asking the entire population to stay at home for months and months on end.\n\n\"If someone had said to you the UK government should be preparing for a lockdown that might last for months, then I have no doubt the Treasury would have developed schemes it did subsequently develop around the furlough and the Covid loans.\n\n\"Planning could have been done for a furlough scheme in advance - I'm not clear that would have made a better furlough scheme than the one we as a country actually saw.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Sir Oliver Letwin, a senior minister in David Cameron's government, told the inquiry a rapid turnover of civil service staff hindered the government's ability to plan for pandemics.\n\nHe also warned that the UK was \"wildly under-resilient\" and said there should be a minister \"solely devoted\" to the subject.\n\nLabour said the admissions were \"too little, too late\", adding the Conservatives \"cannot be trusted to protect the public from the emergencies of tomorrow\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Emergency services were called to Bordon, Hampshire after reports of a man trapped in a hole\n\nA man has been rescued after falling into a well that suddenly opened up in a back garden.\n\nEmergency services were called to Bordon in Hampshire, at about 18:00 BST on Tuesday, after reports of a man trapped in a hole.\n\nThe 76-year-old man fell 2m (6.5ft) and suffered minor cuts and bruises, according to Hampshire's fire service.\n\nIt said water had caused part of the well to erode, creating a void underneath a garden patio.\n\n\"He was fortunate not to slide down the slope where he could have dropped approximately 12 metres further into the well,\" the service said in a statement.\n\nFirefighters worked along with paramedics to save the man and set up a rope system that lifted him from the well.\n\nHe was treated at the scene by paramedics and a cordon was put in place around the hole.\n\nThe fire service praised its crews for their \"quick and efficient response\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Taylor Swift has announced international dates for her record-breaking Eras tour, with shows set for UK, Europe and Asia in 2024.\n\nThe pop star will play nine shows in the UK, with concerts in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and London.\n\nThere is also a gap on Glastonbury's final night, with the star rumoured to be reclaiming the headline slot she missed in 2020 due to the pandemic.\n\nThe first leg of the tour has seen her play to record audiences in the US.\n\nDemand for the tickets was so high that it overwhelmed Ticketmaster's systems, with thousands of fans left unable to obtain seats.\n\nThe fiasco led to Ticketmaster being hauled in front of US senators to answer questions on the company's handling of the event.\n\nSwift herself said it was \"excruciating\" to watch fans struggling to get tickets, and that she had been assured Ticketmaster could cope with the demand.\n\nFor the UK dates, fans have been invited to register interest via Swift's website, although those who tried to do so after the announcement were put in a long queue.\n\nAfter registration closes, fans will be sent a purchase link for tickets. The London dates then go on sale on 18 July, followed by Edinburgh on 19 July and Cardiff on 20 July.\n\n\"We expect there will be more demand than there are tickets available,\" Ticketmaster warned those who successfully registered.\n\n\"Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis while currently-available inventory lasts\".\n\nEras is Swift's first world tour since 2018, since when she has released four new studio albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Folklore.\n\nMusic publication Billboard has estimated the ticket revenue from the 52-date US tour to be $591m (£464m).\n\nThose shows launched in March, with Swift playing a three-hour, 44-song set spanning the entirety of her recording career.\n\nAs well as hits like Shake It Off, Love Story and Lover, she plays two \"surprise\" acoustic songs at every show, often bringing out special guests to help.\n\nSo far, the acoustic section has included fan favourites like Mirrorball, Snow On The Beach and Getaway Car alongside more mainstream hits like Welcome To New York and her debut single Tim McGraw.\n\nFans have been clamouring for international dates for months, and the tour extension will see her play in Asia and Australia at the start of 2024, before reaching Europe in May.\n\nReactions from 'Swifties' - a term the pop star has trademarked and uses to call her fans - in Asia have already been wild on social media.\n\nShe will begin her Asia tour in the Japanese capital Tokyo, where she will play for four nights beginning 7 February. She will then make her way to Australia, performing first in Melbourne for two nights, and then three nights in Sydney.\n\nHer Asia leg ends in Singapore, the only South East Asian country in her Eras tour, where she will set up stage for three nights ending on 4 March.\n\nThe UK dates will kick off at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium on 7 June, and wrap up with two nights at London's Wembley Stadium in August.\n\nTwo earlier Wembley shows appear to clash with Glastonbury's first two nights. But she has a space in her diary on Sunday 23 June, which means she could close the festival with a headline slot on the Pyramid Stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReviews for the US leg of the Eras tour have been overwhelmingly positive.\n\n\"The queen of pop reclaims her throne,\" declared The Times, adding: \"If there is a danger that shifting between 10 such different albums could lead to an uneven experience it is somehow avoided here, with Swift managing to produce a cohesive experience despite the constantly changing outfits and backdrops.\"\n\n\"The Swifties are certainly going to be Enchanted,\" said Hello magazine in a review peppered with Swift's song titles.\n\n\"It's been a long wait back to this moment, but karma is, indeed, a queen - and this was worth the wait.\"\n\n\"The achievement is often staggering,\" concluded Billboard, \"with costume changes, set-piece upheaval [and] vulnerable moments in a crowd of thousands and sing-alongs that will rival the scope of any tour this year.\"\n\nThere have been reports of fans who couldn't get tickets gathering in car parks outside venues to sing along with the star's songs.\n\nOther fans have reported suffering a form of amnesia after the show, due to the overwhelming nature of the experience.", "Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan were first arrested at their Bucharest home in December\n\nControversial influencer Andrew Tate has been charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.\n\nHis brother Tristan and two associates also face charges. All have denied the allegations.\n\nThe Tate brothers appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nAs he left court Andrew Tate said: \"I love this country... and I look forward to being found innocent.\"\n\nThe brothers were first arrested at their Bucharest home in December before being moved to house arrest in March.\n\nThe indictment deposited with the Bucharest court says that the four defendants formed an organised criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries including the US and the UK.\n\nIt names seven alleged victims who it says were recruited by the Tate brothers through false promises of love and marriage.\n\nThe alleged victims were later taken to buildings in Ilfov county in Romania where they were intimidated, placed under constant surveillance and control and forced into debt, according to a statement from Romanian prosecutors.\n\nThe defendants allegedly then forced the women to take part in pornography which was later shared on social media.\n\nOne defendant is accused of raping a woman twice in March 2022, the statement adds.\n\nThe trial will not start immediately and is expected to take several years.\n\nA Romanian judge now has 60 days to inspect the case files before it can be sent to trial.\n\nThe media team for the Tate brothers said: \"While this news is undoubtedly predictable, we embrace the opportunity it presents to demonstrate their innocence and vindicate their reputation.\"\n\nIt added that the indictment \"allows us to present a comprehensive body of evidence, diligently collected and prepared over time, which will undoubtedly substantiate the brothers' claims of innocence\".\n\nThere are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.\n\nIn 2016, Andrew Tate, a British-American former kickboxer, was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.\n\nHe went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear some responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.\n\nDespite social media bans, he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting what he presented as a hyper-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Port of Everett is a popular place for mariners in the northern Puget Sound area of Washington state.\n\nMore than a dozen companies, like OceanGate, are based here. But OceanGate is the only company that makes underwater submersibles here, port workers tell me.\n\nCorie Reed, the owner of the Seas the Day coffeeshop, says that more than half of her customers are regulars - since many both live on their boats and work in the port's administrative offices.\n\nShe's served Stockton Rush, the owner of OceanGate who is now missing, and his employees many times in the past year, she says.\n\nAfter returning from a recent trip to see the Titanic, Reed says OceanGate workers told her baristas all about their unique view of the famous shipwreck.\n\n\"Lots of people are coming in and talking about it,\" Reed told me about the missing sub.\n\n\"People are saying how scary it is, and 'they have x amount of oxygen left',\" she says.\n\nBut as someone who is not personally involved in shipping, she says she has \"no idea\" how likely the submersible is to be found.\n\n\"Lots of rumours,\" she says. \"But it's always a rumor mill here.\"", "Hunter Biden is expected to avoid jail time under a plea agreement\n\nUS President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanour tax crimes and admit to illegally possessing a gun while a drug user, after a five-year investigation.\n\nThe US Attorney in Delaware has filed papers indicating a plea agreement has been reached.\n\nThe terms of the agreement are likely to keep him out of jail.\n\nTop Republicans have called it evidence of a \"two-tiered system of justice\".\n\nIn theory, the president's son still faces a maximum penalty of a year in prison on each of the tax charges and 10 years in prison on the gun charge, the justice department said in a statement.\n\nHe is expected to agree to drug treatment and monitoring as part of the proposed deal.\n\nThe final deal would need to be approved by the judge in the case, who will also determine his sentence.\n\nIt is unclear when Hunter Biden will appear in court to enter his guilty plea on the tax charges.\n\nHe will admit to felony gun possession as part of a \"pre-trial diversion agreement\" that is separate from the plea deal, his lawyer Chris Clark said in a statement.\n\n\"I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life,\" Mr Clark added. \"He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward.\"\n\nMr Clark told MSNBC that the conditions of his client's probation were \"up to to the court\" but that he expected Mr Biden would be released without conditions after his court appearance.\n\n\"I think the judge is going to do what's fair and I think what's fair is my client gets on with his life,\" he said.\n\nHunter Biden, 53, has previously worked as a lawyer, and a lobbyist including abroad in China and Ukraine. He was discharged from the US Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.\n\nThe plea deal brings to an end a long-running justice department investigation into whether he properly reported his income and made false statements on paperwork used to purchase a firearm in 2018.\n\nThe two misdemeanour tax charges stem from a failure to pay more than $100,000 (£78,000) in taxes in both 2017 and 2018. A former justice department official told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that these amounts would lead to most clients being charged with misdemeanours, but \"in the jail time range\".\n\nIn a statement, Joe Biden said that neither he nor Jill Biden would comment further on Hunter Biden's case.\n\nThe gun charge stems from a 2018 possession of a firearm while a drug user.\n\nIn a 2021 book, the younger Mr Biden admitted to being a heavy user of crack cocaine at that time.\n\nBut he reportedly said \"no\" on a federal form asking if he was \"an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug or any other controlled substance\". Lying on these forms can lead to jail time.\n\nThe deal comes as some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have accused Joe Biden of \"weaponising\" the justice department against political opponents.\n\nHunter Biden has long been a target of scrutiny from conservatives, who have alleged that his dealings overseas indicate a pattern of corruption.\n\nNews of the plea deal was met with swift and strong criticism from Donald Trump and his campaign, as well as senior congressional Republicans.\n\nKaroline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the pro-Trump Make America Great Again Inc, called the agreement a \"sweetheart deal\" that allows the justice department to \"turn a blind eye\" to corruption. Mr Trump, for his part, called the deal a \"mere traffic ticket\".\n\nHouse majority leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill that the deal was evidence of a \"two-tier\" system of justice and vowed that the case would \"enhance\" a separate Republican investigation into Hunter Biden.\n\nProminent Democrats have remained largely quiet on the case. David Brock, a former right-wing investigative reporter turned pro-Democrat operative, said in a statement that the case should now be considered closed since \"Hunter will not be charged with any of the unfounded and outlandish issues Republicans and right-wing media have used to smear him with for years\".\n\nIn a brief statement, the White House also said that Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden \"love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will have no further comment\".\n\nWhile the younger Mr Biden has detailed a troubled life and \"massive drug addiction\", he long denied engaging in illegal activity.\n\nHe first admitted knowledge of an investigation into him in December 2020.\n\nIn a statement at the time, he said that he was \"confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, with the benefit of professional tax advisers\".\n\nMr Clark has said he believes the investigation is now \"resolved\", but the justice department in its statement said that the probe is \"ongoing\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A damaged BMW was removed from Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest\n\nAn infant has been airlifted by air ambulance after a car hit pedestrians outside a hospital.\n\nPolice were sent to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, at 11:50 BST.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said the child was airlifted to Cardiff for treatment, while the driver, passenger and a pedestrian were also taken to hospital.\n\nOfficers could be seen overseeing the removal of a damaged white BMW from the scene on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe force added that there would be a police presence outside the hospital for a number of hours.\n\nThe incident happened outside the hospital at Wednesday lunchtime\n\nHospital director Andrew Burns said: \"A traffic incident occurred at lunchtime today on the grounds of Withybush Hospital and Dyfed-Powys Police are in attendance.\n\n\"Appropriate medical care is being given to those who were injured in the incident and we kindly ask people not to contact the hospital for more information at this time.\"\n\nServices at the hospital are running as normal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge in Wiltshire\n\nAbout 10,000 people have gathered to welcome the summer solstice at Stonehenge.\n\nDruids and pagans joined a colourful mix of visitors to mark the longest day of the year at the ancient site near Salisbury, Wiltshire.\n\nOn the solstice, the sun rises behind the entrance to the stone circle, and rays of light are channelled into the centre of the monument.\n\nMany people travel from around the world to celebrate at the stones.\n\nStonehenge's distinctive formation aligns to both the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset.\n\nPeople capture the sunrise over the stones\n\nRhode Island family Katelyn Sanders, Carolyn Pare and Vanessa had come for their first solstice\n\nBBC Radio Wiltshire's Karen Gardner was at Stonehenge as the morning broke.\n\nThere will be 16 hours of daylight on Wednesday.\n\nFriends Janet Burns and Gill Richardson wore sunflowers to celebrate the solstice\n\nJanet Burns and Gill Richardson, from County Durham, joined the celebrations in Salisbury.\n\n\"I wasn't sure what to expect but it exceeded my expectations,\" Ms Burns said.\n\nMs Richardson added: \"Amazing, absolutely amazing. Never experienced anything like it, it was just fantastic.\"\n\nPeople often touch or hug the stones as the sun rises\n\nFriends take a selfie as the sun rises about the stone circle at Stonehenge\n\n21 June will be the longest day of 2023\n\n\"What a sunrise that we've experienced this morning,\" said Scott Ashman, head of Stonehenge for English Heritage.\n\nHe said the sunrise \"catches you off guard\".\n\n\"You walk around with your back towards the sun, then you hear the cheers then you turn around and it's there.\"\n\nScott Ashman from English Heritage said it was a \"perfect sunrise\"\n\nMr Ashman said he has to pinch himself sometimes, adding: \"I really do look after one of the greatest wonders of the world.\"\n\nKate, who lives in France, said she had not had the chance to visit Stonehenge since before the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It feels really wonderful to be back in the craziness of it all,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it's a really lovely way for people to exist in a more gentle and more present way than we have the opportunity to do in our normal lives.\"\n\nKate said solstice at Stonehenge was \"a beautiful way to celebrate our more ancient traditions in the UK\"\n\nThousands waited to mark the longest day of the year\n\nSarah (l) introduced her newborn Rudi to Stonehenge, along with friend Charlotte\n\nSarah, from Bristol, said baby Rudi \"slept the whole way through\".\n\n\"It's been a lot more noise than we thought there might be.\"\n\nShe said that made it hard to \"connect with nature\", but added: \"It's been an experience.\"\n\nSenior druid King Arthur Pendragon conducts a service at Stonehenge on every solstice\n\nIt is believed solstices have been celebrated at Stonehenge for thousands of years.\n\nIt is the second summer solstice event at the stones since the pandemic\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shockwaves triggered by the impact of Russia's invasion on food and energy bills have been felt globally. But inflation in the UK has climbed faster and been more stubborn than in the US and EU.\n\nSome, including Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, claim Brexit may be to blame. But it's a complex picture.\n\nSingling out the impact of Brexit isn't easy, especially with the effects of a pandemic and a war. But there is evidence that the red tape - the form filling and other hurdles - required to bring goods into the country may have added to food bills.\n\nMore than a quarter of our food is imported from the EU.\n\nResearchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) compared how the prices of some of those items rose compared with those of food from elsewhere. The differences may reflect other factors, and may not be purely down to Brexit.\n\nBut the academics claimed that if they were, then the extra red tape could have added £250 in total to the typical household's grocery shopping bills between December 2019 and March 2023, with meat and cheese particularly affected.\n\nMost of that rise - about £210 - they say came through before our current cost-of-living crunch, in 2020 and 2021, as businesses were preparing and first implementing the new processes.\n\nBut in total, the LSE team reckons the changes could have accounted for over a quarter of the rise in food bills we've seen since the end of 2019. By contrast, the cost savings in new trade deals agreed since then have been minimal.\n\nSo while Brexit may not have been the biggest reason for our surging food inflation, the higher costs it added may have played a significant part.\n\nBut here's a small crumb of comfort - even with these changes, academics at Oxford Economics believe food is 7% cheaper in the UK than on average in the EU.\n\nAnd official statistics show a smaller part of spending in the UK goes on food - less than £1 in every £8 - than in France or Germany.\n\nHowever, a trip to the butchers, deli counter or nipping out for a pizza could become still more expensive.\n\nThe remainder of post-Brexit import checks and formalities on items brought into the UK to guard against risks to animal health and food fraud are due to be phased in from October, after they were postponed during the pandemic.\n\nThe government has streamlined several processes in the meantime, considerably reducing the extra bills importers were due to face.\n\nBut meat, dairy or fish products, for example, will have to be signed off as safe by a vet before entry, at a cost of hundreds of euros.\n\nEvery consignment of goods in such medium- and high-risk categories entering the UK will face a new charge at border posts of up to £43.\n\nThe changes will cost businesses hundreds of millions of pounds per year. And customers may ultimately foot the bill.\n\nMeanwhile, the end of free movement means 330,000 fewer workers in the UK, according to one estimate from economists at the Centre for European Reform.\n\nThat is 1% of the workforce, but it is hitting some sectors harder than others - transport, hospitality and retail are all seeing more acute staff shortages.\n\nSuch employers tend to have to offer larger pay rises to attract and keep staff. While that is good news for those in work, who might have scored a bigger pay rise than they would have done otherwise, those costs are often passed on to customers.\n\nThen there is a less visible possible impact. Investment - in things like equipment, skills and IT - has stalled since the referendum.\n\nEconomists, including those at the government's own independent forecasters, say part of that gap may reflect Brexit-related costs or uncertainty. That makes the UK less efficient than it could be, meaning the cost of producing stuff is higher.\n\nBut with the Windsor Framework settling the arrangements for trading with the EU between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, economists hope some uncertainty has disappeared, and investment may get a boost. But that takes time.\n\nThe current inflation shock is truly global. But those escalating bills in the UK may come with a Brexit surcharge on top - just when households and businesses feel they can least cope.", "Four years on from his diagnosis, Spike says he's thriving rather than simply surviving.\n\nWhat started as a shoulder ache led to a whirlwind diagnosis of stage four cancer and a rare genetic mutation for Spike Elliott.\n\nBut his journey also highlighted a worrying ethnicity data gap in our health system.\n\nIt comes as research by one charity shows just how few patient records include ethnicity information in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working to improve the diversity of data collection and health research.\n\nOne oncologist said it meant assumptions were made about how patients will respond, despite there being \"clear differences\" in how certain cancers affect different racial groups.\n\n\"It made me feel isolated, as though I wasn't included in the cancer world,\" said Spike, whose parents are both Jamaican.\n\n\"I was given a life expectancy of six to 12 months. That was statistically supported.\n\n\"But I was alarmed when I was made aware that the statistics don't include the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) community.\n\n\"Because what was my outcome then?\"\n\nJudi Rhys from cancer charity Tenovus said patient ethnicity data was not routinely gathered, despite a mandate to do so.\n\nShe has written to the health minister calling for more to be done.\n\n\"We know in terms of cancer, right throughout the journey that ethnicity is an issue and often people from black and minority ethnic groups have poorer outcomes,\" she said.\n\n\"We know that health boards are not collecting that data routinely - the figures vary between the health boards from 15% to 55%.\n\n\"We are clearly a long way behind, with lot of work to do in Wales.\"\n\nSpike's brain scan (left) show a his tumour smaller after treatment, compared to the larger tumour on the right\n\nShe added that a new IT system used in cancer informatics does not have the option to detail a patient's ethnicity.\n\nEmmanuel Ogbonna is professor in management at Cardiff University Business School.\n\n\"The vast majority of people don't intend to discriminate in any way, shape or form,\" he said.\n\n\"But because in their everyday lives they support a system that is already racialised, the only outcome you can get from that system is a racialised outcome.\"\n\nAs co-chairperson of a group that helped produce the Welsh government's anti-racist Wales action plan he knows work is under way to address disparities, but said trust was a factor.\n\nDr Jason Lester knew that the ALK gene mutation was incredibly rare, particularly among black men, but felt the genetic testing was worth pursuing for Spike\n\n\"Many people from minority ethnic communities will tell you that they have data coming out of their ears and out of the ears of the authorities, but nothing gets done to benefit them.\n\n\"So we have to create that degree of trust, so that people feel and know that if you are asking them for health information that you are going to use it for something that is going to benefit them and not something that disadvantages them.\"\n\nSpike was a fit, active 49-year-old father-of-two when he first felt an ache in his shoulder in 2018.\n\nA scan detected \"abnormalities\" but he was shocked to be told immediately after the scan to go straight to A&E for further tests.\n\nAfter five days of tests and blood screenings, the interior architect from Cardiff was formally diagnosed with stage four cancer.\n\n\"I said 'I think you've got the wrong person'.\"\n\nWhile the cancer had started in his lung, it had spread to his brain, causing the ache in his shoulder.\n\nProf Emmanuel Ogbonna said gathering data was not enough without change coming as a result\n\nThe initial plan was surgery to try and access the tumour, but during a meeting between specialists, consultant clinical oncologist Dr Jason Lester recognised that non-smoking Spike might actually have a rare gene mutation called ALK.\n\nIt meant Dr Lester \"was very hopeful\" that a tablet would be more beneficial to Spike, rather than surgery to try and remove as much of the tumour as possible.\n\nHe said ALK mutations were very uncommon in lung cancer, with higher frequency among Asian people, compared to \"very low incidence\" in white people.\n\n\"In black patients there's very little published data on it,\" Dr Lester said.\n\n\"But the evidence suggests it's even less common in black patients than it is in white patients, so it could easily be missed.\"\n\nWhile Spike waited for the results of the genetic test, his symptoms worsened as the cancer spread to his spine, kidneys and lymph nodes, as well as gaining weight due to the steroids he had to take.\n\n\"My right side was becoming limp, especially my legs,\" he said.\n\nMy arm started to claw and I couldn't walk any distance and I was constantly breathless.\n\n\"I just tried to keep my sanity by focusing on my breathing.\n\n\"I was in pieces and just trying to bring myself together again.\"\n\nOnce the ALK gene mutation was identified he was put on a drug called Alectinib.\n\n\"Within days I felt different,\" he said.\n\nAfter several months the brain tumour had more than halved and all other organs were clear of cancer.\n\nSpike said: \"I'm now beginning to thrive. Which is a huge step from surviving.\"\n\nHis health has now improved to the extent that he has returned to playing his beloved sport football and coach his son's under-11s team.\n\nSpike has been able to return to the things he loves, including coaching his son's under 11s football club\n\nAs a mixed race man himself, Dr Lester supports the call for better ethnicity data.\n\n\"What's always struck me about the research that is published out there on cancers is that there's very little actually on black people,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the big studies that have been done on treating patients with lung cancer - the vast majority of the patients are either white or Asian.\n\n\"Black people make a very small proportion of those clinical trials.\n\n\"So you're almost having to second guess, in some ways, the sorts of cancers that you might see and how those individuals might respond to treatment if they are black because the data out there is very poor.\n\n\"It's all guesswork, but it shouldn't be.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are working with partners to identify barriers and find solutions to improve data collected at point of contact, including through our race disparity evidence unit, so more data is captured and available on ethnicity.\n\n\"Clearer guidance and expectations are also being developed around how diversity needs to be considered in the design and delivery of health research studies. This will influence treatments offered.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Getting inflation down could mean cranking up interest rates\n\nSpeaking to MPs, from ministers to backbenchers and across all the parties, and inflation is the big topic. Back to the present, if you like, after 10 days of Westminster being consumed by looking at Boris Johnson’s conduct in the rear view mirror. The government is in a bind: it is desperate to get inflation down, and yet it is stuck. It is desperate to be able to point to a sense of people feeling better off. But getting inflation down will make many people feel worse off - because the Bank of England cranking up interest rates is a key way to do it. Those timeless trade offs of economics and politics never go away. What is different this time — courtesy of the government’s colossal interventions in the last few years around Covid and soaring energy bills due to the war in Ukraine — is there is arguably a greater expectation ministers can or should intervene again. This expectation, or hope, extends to some Tory MPs. The former party chairman Sir Jake Berry has called, for instance, for the return of Mortgage Interest Tax Relief at Source - a Conservative policy in the 1980s and 90s. The Chancellor has rejected this idea. Privately, some ministers and Conservative MPs are exasperated, arguing that not only does there have to be a limit to what government can do and can afford, but a large scale intervention would make inflation worse.", "Sophie Lambert went missing from her home in Harrogate on Friday\n\nPolice searching for a missing woman in North Yorkshire have found a body.\n\nSophie Lambert, 22, from Starbeck in Harrogate, was first reported to have gone missing from her home at about 22:10 BST on Friday.\n\nA body was found in the River Nidd near Knaresborough on Wednesday morning, North Yorkshire Police said.\n\nOfficers said it was too early to confirm the identity, but Ms Lambert's relatives had been informed and were being supported by specialist officers.\n\nExtensive searches have taken place in woodland and along the riverside in the nearby Nidd Gorge.\n\nA member of the public found Ms Lambert's mobile phone, bank card and jumper there on Saturday morning.\n\nPolice officers looking for missing Sophie Lambert searched woodland near the River Nidd\n\nPolice have also made house-to-house inquiries in the area since her disappearance.\n\nMountain rescue teams and a drone pilot assisted with the search operation.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"We thank everyone who has supported the missing person appeal over the last few days.\"\n\nA North Yorkshire Police drone pilot assisted with searches in the area\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's on me personally\" if inflation isn't halved this year, Rishi Sunak said earlier this month.\n\nNo 10 has now described the promise as an \"ambitious target\" which they \"remain committed to\".\n\nThe economic and political consequences of inflation that is both high and seemingly wedged high are broad.\n\nAs interest rates rise to try to drag the rate of price rises down, the desire from some for government help to ameliorate the impact on people grows.\n\nIt is a clamour magnified by recent precedent - the colossal state interventions during the pandemic and after the energy price spikes caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"The thing is they were black swan events, they came out of nowhere, were a massive surprise and we were right to do something big. But you can't do that when interest rates go up to deal with inflation,\" one minister said to me.\n\nAnd, ministers add, both privately in candid terms and publicly rather more carefully, it would be counterproductive anyway: it wouldn't help squash inflation.\n\nIn other words, what a bind.\n\nAll of which has been tempting me into the archive.\n\nLet me take you to Northampton, in October 1989. It's for a speech by the chancellor at the time, John Major.\n\nYou can easily imagine some of his words then being used by Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor, now.\n\n\"The problem is inflation. I have no doubt that the central task before us is the reduction and the elimination of rising prices. Not only does this objective remain the same, but so do the policies needed to achieve it,\" Sir John said, in what was his first speech as chancellor.\n\nBut he was also rather more blunt than today's generation of politicians are usually willing to be.\n\nHe also said: \"I understand the difficulties that many face with high interest and mortgage rates. But they - and the resulting slowing of the economy that we must see - are the means by which we will cure the problem. They are not the problem.\"\n\nAnd he added: \"So inflation must go. Ending it cannot be painless. The harsh truth is that if the policy isn't hurting, it isn't working.\"\n\nAs chancellor, John Major gave the public a blunt message on inflation\n\nSir John spoke then, very candidly, about a timeless economic and political trade-off, between inflation and interest rates.\n\nGranted interest rates were then under the direct control of the government. They are now decided by the independent Bank of England, which is tasked with keeping to an inflation target set by the government.\n\nBut the trade-offs remain and privately, ministers acknowledge that. And if interest rates go too high, the risk is a recession, a year or so out from a general election.\n\nOne minister told me that interest rates had been close to zero for so long that people had collectively forgotten that that couldn't possibly last forever.\n\nAnother added that it was about time that savers could get some returns on their savings, even if, for now at least, those returns remain below inflation.\n\nPlenty I speak to in government privately are exasperated by what they see as a knee-jerk instinct for government intervention, including from some on their own side.\n\nBut politicians can never be blind to the public mood - and the realities of economic pain.\n\nThe chancellor will meet mortgage providers later this week and we can expect to hear from the prime minister on all this again too.\n\nLabour has set out its approach. The Liberal Democrats want a Mortgage Protection Fund to help homeowners on the lowest incomes.\n\nOh and one final thought: Rising interest rates have an impact too on the biggest borrower of all: this government, and its successors.\n\nThat rising cost of borrowing will affect millions of households. But it will also affect what political parties conclude is affordable for them to promise.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It the winner is a single ticket-holder they are set to become wealthier than England striker Harry Kane.\n\nIt marks the second UK-based winner this month, after another ticket-holder took home £117.1m on 2 June.\n\nKane reportedly earns £200,000 per week, netting a crisp £10.4m per year. He is worth around £51m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nHe adds to his wealth with a lucrative Nike sponsorship deal and could be in line for a raise this summer, with reports that he is angling for a move away from his club.\n\nHowever, his wealth is still dwarfed by that of some of his fellow pros.\n\nFormer Wales and Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale leads the line of professional footballers with a personal wealth of £70m, while England and Chelsea star Raheem Sterling can boast a comfortable fortune of £61m.\n\nLeading the pack is former Real Madrid star David Beckham, who shares a war chest of some £425m with his wife Victoria, according to the rich list.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said the win marked a fantastic night for British players, calling the jackpot a \"life-changing\" amount of money.\n\nAnd he urged players \"to check their tickets and to give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner\".\n\nThe winning numbers were 11, 17, 28, 32 and 35, with Lucky Stars 05, 06.\n\nLast year's biggest win in the UK was £195m by a ticket-holder who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nEuroMillions winners are under no obligation to identify themselves to the general public. But once a ticket has been validated and paid, the winner can decide if they want to share the news.\n\nSix EuroMillions jackpots were won in the UK in 2022, with prizes totalling more than £820m.\n\nThe EuroMillions game is played in nine countries - Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan will join Barcelona on a free transfer when his contract expires at the end of this month.\n\nGundogan, 32, was offered a new contact by City but is thought to have negotiated a more lucrative three-year deal with the Spanish champions.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola was keen to keep Gundogan, who was integral to the club winning the Treble this season.\n\nGundogan's influence was crucial in the closing weeks of City's season with six goals in his final seven games - including a double in the 2-1 FA Cup final win over Manchester United.\n\nHe played 90 minutes in the Champions League final as City beat Inter Milan 1-0 to add to their Premier League and FA Cup triumphs this season.\n\nGuardiola said earlier this month City director Txiki Begiristain was \"working\" to keep Gundogan and he \"hoped he can be successful\".\n\nGundogan's departure follows City agreeing a £30m deal with Chelsea to sign Croatia midfielder Mateo Kovacic.\n• None What else could change at Manchester City after Mateo Kovacic's arrival?\n\nGundogan joined City from Borussia Dortmund for a reported £20m in 2016 and made 304 appearances for the club, scoring 60 goals.\n\nDuring his seven years at Etihad Stadium he has won 14 trophies - five Premier League titles, one Champions League, two FA Cups, four Carabao Cups and two Community Shields.\n\nHe was made club captain at the start of 2022-23 following the departure of Brazil midfielder Fernandinho.\n\n'Gundogan will be remembered like Silva, Kompany and Toure at City'\n\nUltimately, it has come down to simple economics from Manchester City's point of view.\n\nYes, they wanted Gundogan to stay. Yes, Guardiola was unstinting in his praise of the German during the final weeks of an historic season.\n\nBut City did not want to keep Gundogan at any price.\n\nThey offered the German a one-year contract with the possibility of an extra season on top. Barcelona offered an additional year on top of that.\n\nGundogan is 32 and, while he was outstanding for City and has an awareness few can match, he is not going to get any better.\n\nCity, as Treble winners, are in a position of strength. Players want to play for Guardiola. The club can attract high-class talent and, in Kovacic, are on the brink of doing just that.\n\nGundogan will be fondly remembered at the club, just as David Silva, Yaya Toure and Vincent Kompany still are.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Rachel Reeves says lenders must offer a full range of support\n\nThe government should force banks to help homeowners struggling with mortgage payments, Labour has said.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said borrowers should be allowed to switch to interest-only payments for a temporary period to ease the crisis.\n\nMany lenders are already offering this but Labour says it needs to be enforced across the board.\n\nHowever, Ms Reeves said major financial support for mortgages was not a good idea as this could fuel price rises.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme \"a big fiscal injection of cash into the economy, especially an untargeted injection, would not be the right approach\".\n\nLabour's announcement came ahead of interest rates rising by more than expected, from 4.5% to 5%, as the Bank of England seeks to tame soaring prices.\n\nIt means mortgage-holders are facing further rises in payments.\n\nRaising interest rates makes it more expensive to borrow money and theoretically encourages people to borrow less and spend less, meaning price rises should ease.\n\nMs Reeves said Labour's plan \"to ease the Tory mortgage penalty offers practical help now, while our commitment to fiscal responsibility and growth will secure our economy for the future\".\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is meeting bank chiefs again on Friday to see what additional help they can give. He has already urged lenders to offer the measures which Labour wants to make mandatory.\n\nHe is coming under pressure for the government to step in with Covid-style financial help for households.\n\nBut he has rejected calls by Tory backbenchers Sir Jake Berry and Jonathan Gullis to bring back a tax break that would cut monthly payments.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Those kind of schemes, which involve injecting large amounts of cash into the economy, would be inflationary.\"\n\nThe government has also rejected a Liberal Democrat plan for grants of up to £300 a month for homeowners on \"the lowest incomes\" whose mortgage payments rise by more than 10% of their income.\n\nThe party says its scheme would last for one year, funded by increasing taxes on bank profits.\n\nDowning Street insists Rishi Sunak is on course to meet his target of halving inflation - the rate prices are rising - this year, even though the rate remains stubbornly high at 8.7%.\n\nSpeaking at an event on Thursday, the prime minister is expected to say he feels a \"deep moral responsibility\" to lower inflation, adding: \"I'm completely confident that if we hold our nerve, we can do so.\"\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly admitted \"not all the levers of control are in the government's hands\", with the independent Bank of England responsible for setting interest rates, one of the main tools to tackle inflation.\n\nInstead, Mr Cleverly told the BBC the government was doing things like being cautious on offering big public sector pay increases and being conscious that increased government borrowing could fuel inflationary pressures.\n\nLabour's plan includes guaranteeing that relief measures such as temporary interest-only payments and extending the time period for paying back mortgages are available.\n\nThe party is also calling for a six-month grace period for homeowners threatened with repossession as well as guarantees that credit scores will not be affected by asking for help.\n\nLabour says the government should order regulator the Financial Conduct Authority to require lenders to offer all these options.\n\nThe Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative-linked think tank, said there could be \"big unintended consequences\" from the proposals.\n\n\"Labour's plan mostly 'requires' lenders to do a variety of things they will already be doing voluntarily,\" said Tom Clougherty, the think tank's research director.\n\n\"To the extent that it forces banks to offer greater cross-subsidies to particular customers, it is bound to raise costs for other borrowers - or prevent necessary adjustments in the mortgage market,\" he added.\n\n\"A legislated, one-size-fits-all approach is bound to cause as many problems as it solves.\"\n\nIn a statement, UK Finance, which represents the banking and finance industry, said: \"Over the last year, lenders have helped nearly 200,000 borrowers who cannot meet their full mortgage payments by providing tailored forbearance.\n\n\"This could be a period of reduced payments, a period of zero payments or a temporary switch to interest-only.\n\n\"Contacting your lender to find out the options available won't impact your credit score, but missing payments will.\"", "A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim the £111.7m jackpot from Friday's EuroMillions draw.\n\nLottery operator Camelot said it had received a claim which would now go through a process of validation.\n\nOnce the ticket has been validated and paid, the winner can decide if they want to share the news.\n\nThis winner will become the 18th UK player to win more than £100m in a EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nThe winning numbers were 03, 12, 15, 25 and 43 with Lucky Stars 10 and 11.\n\nThe lucky winner will be wealthier than England footballer Harry Kane (£51m), Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe (£92m) and pop singer Dua Lipa (£75m), according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"It is wonderful news that a lucky ticket-holder has claimed this incredible prize.\"\n\nLast month, a UK ticket-holder claimed £46.2m out of a possible £138m.\n\nIn July last year, a UK ticket-holder won a record jackpot of £195m, but kept their identity anonymous.", "Novelist Jojo Moyes says the thing that has struck her most since reaching her early 50s is \"the absolute joy of the solidarity of other women\".\n\nSpeaking at the Hay Festival on Friday, the writer behind bestsellers such as Me Before You, said: \"I've always been a woman's woman.\n\n\"In your 20s, there's an anxiety... you're constantly measuring yourself up against other women,\" she explained.\n\n\"Now, there is nothing apart from empathy and supportiveness.\"\n\nMoyes also gave credit to fellow writers Sophie Kinsella and Jodi Picoult for encouraging her to keep going with her writing at times when she felt like giving up.\n\nShe grew up in London's Hackney, which was then \"not overburdened with literary types\" - although her parents were \"penniless sculptors\" so she was exposed to the arts at home.\n\nMoyes, 53, credits her Protestant work ethic for her success, which was evident from an early age. At 14, she saved up money from cleaning jobs to buy a stray horse called Bomber, who was kept in a stables located behind Hackney town hall.\n\nSome of Moyes's work has been adapted for the big screen, including Me Before You\n\nJobs on a market stall and a mini-cab office followed after school before she landed a bank job and was sent on a management course taking place at Oxford University.\n\n\"All my school mates' horizons were very limited so... I didn't have an idea of what I wanted to do,\" she says.\n\n\"It wasn't just the environment... I was surrounded by really ambitious young people. Everybody had a goal. And they were the first people I met who had goals and by the end of that week, I didn't want to go home.\"\n\nShe broke off her engagement with her then-boyfriend and applied to London's City University before embarking on a career in journalism, ending up at the Independent alongside the likes of Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding.\n\n\"I watched that turn into a column that spoke to so many women my age at the time - early 20s - and I suddenly had that feeling of 'wow, if she can do it, so can I'.\"\n\nBut Moyes had her first three books rejected, which she describes as \"crushing... like someone telling you your baby is ugly\", although she wasn't going to give up.\n\n\"There's definitely a girder of bloody-mindedness running down my spine. I can't see why I can't do something.\n\n\"My mum used to put it down to me being very premature as a baby. She was told I was going to die. I was 10 weeks early. There's this bit of me that just says, 'No, I'm going to do it!'\"\n\nHer third book, about an art heist, was knocked back after being deemed too political for the female market and too romantic for the male market at the time.\n\nMoyes's next eight books went to print but did not exactly set the publishing world alight.\n\nBy the time she wrote her hit 2012 novel Me Before You, one publisher had told her her career was \"unrecoverable\" and she had built an extra room on her house so she could rent it out to a lodger.\n\nShe says the reason Me Before You - about a woman who is a carer for a man with paralysis and later falls in love with him - got past a few thousand words was down to Sophie Kinsella, the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series.\n\n\"She took me out for lunch, I told her about this idea I'd had for a book. I said I'm not sure about it. And I told her the whole thing. At the end of it, she said: 'You have to write this book.'\"\n\nThe same thing happened with her latest book, Someone Else's Shoes, which fellow author Jodi Picoult encouraged her to keep ploughing on with.\n\nThe two female protagonists in the book come from very different backgrounds and Moyes recognises that \"social inequality, whether it's class or money... has been a big factor in a lot of my books\".\n\nShe adds: \"But it's not about how much money you've got, it's how loved and connected you feel to other people.\"\n\nMoyes herself is now enjoying a renewed connection with her best friend - who she has known since she was 16 - having moved back to London after 22 years in the Essex countryside.\n\nIt follows a rough couple of years for the author, who has sold more than 38 million copies of her books worldwide.\n\nHer prolific output plus writing screenplays had begun to take its toll.\n\n\"I overworked myself for 10 years. I burnt out. So I thought, 2020 is going to be my year of rest and relaxation, I'm going to see people, take a sabbatical. I decided to take time out, see friends... and then my mum died of cancer, I got divorced and we had a pandemic!\"\n\nBut writing has always got her through.\n\n\"Often I find when I write a book, I only realise four or five years later that it was actually therapy and I wasn't processing something at the time.\n\n\"And it's cheaper than therapy.\"", "The video shows the driver pointing what appears to be a gun\n\nA 48-year-old man has been charged in connection with a video circulating online showing a man with a suspected firearm.\n\nIn the video posted on social media, a driver for Belfast firm FonaCab points what appears to be a gun.\n\nA man was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of a number offences.\n\nHe is charged with possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, threats to kill and common assault.\n\nThe man is also charged with having a Class A controlled drug.\n\nHe is due to appear before Laganside Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nFonaCab said on Thursday that it had terminated the employment of a driver over the video.\n\nA spokesperson for the company said it was liaising with the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) Northern Ireland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City remain on course for the Treble after Ilkay Gundogan scored twice to give them victory over Manchester United in the FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nHaving already won the Premier League title, City now go into next Saturday's Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul with the opportunity to emulate United's feat of 1999.\n\nAnd City captain Gundogan was the big game match-winner again, assuring his place in history with the quickest goal in FA Cup final history, a stunning volley after only 12 seconds eclipsing Louis Saha's strike for Everton after 25 seconds against Chelsea in 2009.\n\nManchester United equalised after 33 minutes when the video assistant referee ruled that Jack Grealish had handled, Bruno Fernandes coolly sending Stefan Ortega the wrong way from the spot.\n\nIt was Gundogan, as he does so often, who made the decisive contribution when he volleyed Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick past United keeper David de Gea six minutes after the break to give City the FA Cup for the seventh time.\n• None Man City have set the standard, how can Man Utd catch up? - Shearer analysis\n• None Gundogan once again the man for the big moments\n\nManchester City stand just 90 minutes away from the greatest season in their history.\n\nWith the league and FA Cup secured, next comes the chance to claim that elusive Champions League against Inter Milan.\n\nShould they succeed, they would become only the second English club to complete the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.\n\nUnited, who did it 24 years ago, did their best to halt City's bid, but the league champions had too much power - and in Gundogan, they had a player who revels in the pressure of the big occasion.\n\nHis two goals, including that stunning early opener, emphasised what a figure of significance he has become, assuring him of a special place when the story of City's glory years is written.\n\nAnd in John Stones, City have a player of the highest class in his latest role defined by Guardiola, one which allows him to advance into midfield and utilise all his composure and quality.\n\nIstanbul and Inter Milan are next on City's agenda and in their current relentless, irresistible mood, it would be more of a surprise if they did not complete the Treble than if they did.\n\nMan Utd progress - now for the next step\n\nManchester United's season ended in the bitter disappointment of a cup-final defeat by their neighbours, but any assessment must regard this as a campaign of progress under Erik ten Hag.\n\nThe Carabao Cup was United's first trophy in six years, and they also returned to the Champions League. They may have settled for that after starting the season by losing at home to Brighton and then being humiliated 4-0 at Brentford.\n\nTen Hag will now demand further reinforcements and improvements to push United forward in his second campaign in charge.\n\nUnited are increasingly confident of signing Chelsea's England midfield man Mason Mount, while a top line striker is a pressing priority, with Tottenham's Harry Kane linked on a regular basis.\n\nTen Hag also needs to decide whether David de Gea should be his first-choice goalkeeper next season after another flawed display here that raised further questions.\n\nDe Gea was rooted to the spot for Gundogan's opener then went down desperately slowly for the second, late to react to a volley that was not cleanly hit and even bounced in front of the Spaniard twice before he belatedly got a hand to it.\n\nCaptain Harry Maguire will surely be on the move as he has been marginalised by Ten Hag, who will regard this season as the platform to move United closer to where he wants them to be.\n\nIt has been a good season - but one that will be followed by a busy summer.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Aymeric Laporte replaces Kyle Walker because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kyle Walker (Manchester City).\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raphaël Varane (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Rodri (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wout Weghorst.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Casemiro tries a through ball, but Wout Weghorst is caught offside.\n• None Phil Foden (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A mural of Sanda Dia has been painted at the university he was studying at in Leuven\n\nThe death of black Belgian student Sanda Dia shocked Dutch-speaking Flanders in 2018.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find some of the details in this article upsetting.\n\nThe 20-year-old student was made to drink excessive amounts of fish oil and alcohol, made to swallow a live goldfish, and forced to stand outside in an icy pit as part of a hazing ritual for an elite fraternity at one of Belgium's most prestigious universities, court documents say.\n\nHazing - the practice of putting someone in physical or emotional distress - was part of the process aspiring members of Reuzegom had to go through to gain entry to the fraternity.\n\nDuring the initiation, Mr Dia collapsed and was taken to hospital. He died there two days later.\n\nA coroner's report would find that toxic salt levels caused by the excessive consumption of fish oil was a leading cause in his death.\n\nMore than four years on, 18 students have been sentenced to up to 300 hours of community service and a €400 ($430; £340) fine each after being found guilty in their role in Mr Dia's involuntary death and degrading treatment.\n\nThey have also been ordered to pay damages to Mr Dia's family, as well as to two others who were also subjected to the hazing initiation.\n\nThe court ruled that the students - members of the now-disbanded Reuzegom, whose members were traditionally associated with some of Belgian society's elites - were not guilty of intentionally administering harmful substance causing death or illness.\n\nHowever suggestions that race and class played a part in the treatment Mr Dia was subjected to during the hazing have sparked discussion since his death - particularly among young people on social media and in student circles.\n\nAllegations of racism within the Reuzegom fraternity appeared in Belgian media, including that Mr Dia was subjected to a racial slur and singled out to clean on behalf of Reuzegom members on a separate occasion because of his race.\n\nOther local media reports have claimed some of Reuzegom's members were the sons of politicians and judges - pointing to their privileged positions in society.\n\nWith this in mind, some Belgians have reacted to the verdict with indignation, viewing the sentencings as overly lenient.\n\nA silent protest was held in front of Antwerp's court of appeal on 27 May\n\nOn TikTok, the hashtag #justiceforsanda has gained more than 6.5m views.\n\nProtests have also taken place in the cities of Antwerp, Brussels, Gent and Leuven - the university city where Mr Dia studied. Another has been organised in Brussels on Sunday.\n\n\"Everybody is just angry and disappointed in the Belgian justice system,\" Eliza Plesea, a 22-year-old student and Brussels protest co-organiser, told the BBC.\n\nSpeaking about the sentencings, she said, \"In Belgium, if you take the bus but you don't have a ticket... you get a higher fine for that\" than what the students involved in hazing received.\n\nFollowing the court ruling, one of the students' defence lawyers, John Maes, described the sentencings as \"balanced and well reasoned\".\n\nBut protest organiser and student Jean Kitenge, 25, feels race \"definitely\" played a part in Mr Dia's death.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Kitenge said that at Belgian universities, it is common for students to be subjected to \"humiliation\" as part of society initiations, but some are subjected to more extreme treatment than others.\n\n\"Everyone gets humiliation independently of their colour, but some people have some remarks which are not given to others,\" Mr Kitenge, president of the youth branch of the French speaking DéFI party, said.\n\n\"Justice is not for everyone in Belgium.\"\n\nOthers disagree. During the trial of the 18 students, a defence lawyer responded to Mr Dia's father's questioning of why his son did not survive the hazing, stating in quotes cited by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad: \"It has nothing to do with colour and everything to do with physique, with height, with weight.\"\n\nMr Maes meanwhile praised the court for rising \"above the war language\" of recent years with its ruling.\n\nA lawyer for Sanda's father Ousmane Dia say they will not recommend that he appeals the court's verdict\n\nSome of Mr Dia's family say the ruling has left them with \"mixed emotions\".\n\n\"We said from the beginning that we are not spiteful people and we don't want anyone in jail,\" Seydou De Vel, Mr Dia's brother, said in an interview with Flemish TV earlier this week.\n\nBut he added that there were still questions about his brother's final hours.\n\nOne is who was responsible for administering the fish oil to Mr Dia. The students have not divulged who was responsible for administering it.\n\n\"It's just very painful not to know those things when those 18 Reuzegom defendants know it all,\" Mr De Vel said.\n\nSven Mary, the lawyer representing Mr Dia's father, Ousmane Dia, said after the court verdict it was \"difficult\" for the family not to know the full facts. He added, however, that he would not be recommending that the family seek to appeal the verdict.\n\nElite fraternity Reuzegom has been disbanded since Mr Dia's death.\n\nThe university at which it was a fraternity, KU Leuven, said sanctions were implemented against seven students who still remained at the university in 2021 - which involved their expulsion and, in some cases, lifetime banishment from registering at the university again.\n\n\"No sanction or proceedings can take away the grief over Sanda's death,\" it said in a statement to the BBC. \"The fact remains that a great tragedy happened during the Reuzegom initiation ruling.\n\n\"As a university community, we will never forget Sanda and what happened.\"\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.", "The Empire Pool and trolley buses - two sights no longer seen in Cardiff\n\nSome of the last traces of arguably the biggest event ever to be hosted in Wales are set to disappear.\n\nWith 1,130 athletes from 35 countries descending on Cardiff, experts believe the country may never see the like of the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games again.\n\nLittle remains of the venues used, with the Sophia Gardens Pavilion demolished in 1982 and the Empire Pool in 1998.\n\nThe velodrome at Maindy could soon be bulldozed too under plans.\n\nIt is the last remnant of an event sports author Huw Richards believes trumps the 1999 Rugby World Cup as the biggest hosted here.\n\n\"As soon as you set foot in the Arms Park, and saw the gathering of elite athletes from all over the globe, you could feel a sense that Wales had become a grown-up member of the world community,\" is how cultural historian Prof Peter Stead described the games.\n\nFor younger generations, Maindy Velodrome is best known for nurturing some of Wales' greatest cycling talents, including 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas.\n\nBut it is also where riders battled it out for gold in 1958.\n\nUnder proposals, an expansion of Cathays High School would see the velodrome lost, and a new track built at Cardiff Bay.\n\nBritish cyclist Ray Booty waves as he gets the chequered flag to win the 120 miles road race - which started and finished in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThe club that uses it, Maindy Flyers, said the prospect of \"being left with nothing for future generations of cyclists\" was \"unacceptable\".\n\nCardiff council replied by saying it fully understands the site's \"historic nature\", but the new velodrome had the support of the national governing body for cycling.\n\nCardiff Central station remains - but the frontage looked a bit different in 1958\n\nSimilar pain was felt by the swimming community when another of the venues from 1958 disappeared.\n\nThe Empire Pool had 1,722 seats, diving boards and the country's only 50m pool - but was flattened as the Millennium Stadium rose up to dominate the city centre in the late '90s.\n\n\"The Empire Pool was an iconic facility in the heart of the capital that not only opened its doors to the world at the 1958 Empire Games, but also served to develop some of our nation's finest athletes,\" said Swim Wales' head of aquatics and inclusion Sioned Williams.\n\n\"To lose this piece of history was a big blow to the Welsh aquatics community.\"\n\nHowever, she said its replacement, the Wales National Pool in Swansea has become a \"thriving hub\" for its elite programme and events, while there is also now an Olympic-sized pool in Cardiff Bay.\n\nOpening ceremony for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff Arms Park\n\nComing three years after Cardiff was confirmed as capital, the 1958 games were \"a significant moment\" for the nation, according to sports historian Huw Richards.\n\nBut he added: \"It has to be remembered that they were rather smaller than they have since become - with just over 1,100 athletes in 94 events, compared to 5,000 competing in 280 at the most recent games in Birmingham.\"\n\nCardiff Arms Park was where the drama on the track unfolded - but it looked very different then, a 60,000-capacity stadium where Cardiff RFC and the national rugby side played.\n\nA series of redesigns means it now holds 12,500, with the only remaining parts the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates - erected in 1949 to commemorate one of Wales' greatest rugby players.\n\nThe Empire Pool and other buildings were demolished as the new Millennium Stadium - now the Principality Stadium - rose up on the banks of the River Taff in the mid '90s\n\nIt stands in the shadow of the Principality Stadium next door, the site of which has also undergone massive transformation since 1958.\n\nWork on a new National Stadium began in 1969, with it not officially opened until 1984.\n\nBut just 11 years later, it was decided to demolish it for a super-stadium to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup.\n\nThis tournament is the main rival to the 1958 games as Wales' biggest ever event - but comparisons do not stand up to scrutiny, according to Mr Richards.\n\n\"In 1999, Wales was the host of record, staging the opening game and the final, but the event was spread evenly across all of what were then the five nations,\" he added.\n\n\"Wales had only nine games out of 41. The other four nations got eight each and the most memorable of them, the two semi-finals, were both at Twickenham.\"\n\nHe said this makes it \"all the odder\" Wales is the only nation to build a new stadium for a Rugby World Cup.\n\nA recent poll on European membership is something most people are familiar with - votes from another were counted at the Sophia Gardens Pavilion in 1975\n\nSophia Gardens Pavilion, which hosted boxing and wrestling in 1958, was also a concert venue, with Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix among those appearing.\n\nHowever, its end came in 1982 after its roof collapsed under heavy snow.\n\nShirley Bassey returned home to perform at the Sophia Gardens Pavilion in November 1961\n\nThere is one location used for the 1958 Cardiff-hosted event that remains untouched - and it is 170 miles (274 km) away.\n\nRowing took place on Llyn Padarn in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia.\n\nLlyn Padarn in Eryri: One location for the 1958 games is in no danger of falling victim to redevelopments in Cardiff\n\nOther big events to come to Wales include golf's Ryder Cup, a Champions League final and an Ashes test - but they were far shorter.\n\nTourism consultant Prof Terry Stevens believes if Wales was to host the Commonwealth Games again, it would probably be in collaboration with other nations.\n\n\"What used to be fairly straightforward, a cycle, is far more complicated now,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not just money, there are lots of other objectives of the organisers, plus TV deals. It used to be done on a 'your turn next' basis. Now it's much more nuanced, sophisticated.\n\n\"If you go back 15 years, relatively few venues could hold these big events. Now, every city has at least one decent venue - it's incredibly competitive.\"\n\nMr Stevens said sporting bodies increasingly wanted events hosted by multiple countries, such as the next World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico.\n\nThis puts the bid of the UK nations and Ireland for Euro 2028 in a strong position, he believes, especially considering its rival Turkey is going solo.\n\n\"It doesn't prevent Wales going alone for one-off games like the Champions League or a golf competition with one course,\" he added.\n\n\"The trend is Wales would have to collaborate to host the Commonwealth Games. It doesn't deny us, it's just a different model.\"", "Alice Mahon was MP for Halifax from 1987 until 2005\n\nFormer MP Alice Mahon died of a cancer linked to asbestos exposure. Now her son is calling for asbestos to be removed from all buildings to protect lives.\n\nAsbestos is a material which if inhaled can cause cancer and is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK.\n\nMrs Mahon, who died last year of malignant mesothelioma at the age of 85, was best known as a fiery Labour left-winger and a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut the former Halifax MP also campaigned tirelessly for asbestos victims, backing calls for a public inquiry into the high incidence of asbestos-related disease amongst former power industry workers.\n\nShe said she had been exposed to asbestos when she worked as an auxiliary nurse at a West Yorkshire hospital in the 1960s and 1970s, an inquest was told in January.\n\nShe also believed she could have been exposed during the 17 years she spent in Parliament, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Mahon's son, Kris, tells the BBC: \"Alice was very keenly aware of what was going to happen to her once she had her diagnosis.\n\n\"Her plans had to be replaced with a calm acceptance that death was coming.\"\n\nHis mother lived next door to a plumber who also died from mesothelioma at the age of about 60. Additionally a young man who was a carpenter and builder and well known to the family died from mesothelioma.\n\n\"So we saw two hard-working men reduced to ghosts before their early deaths,\" says Kris.\n\nAsbestos is classified as being carcinogenic, which means it can cause cancer such as mesothelioma and other dangerous lung conditions when the fibres are inhaled.\n\nUntil it was banned in 1999, it was widely used as a building material for roofing, insulation, walls and flooring.\n\nIt remains present in buildings across the UK.\n\nAs long as the asbestos is in good condition and is not disturbed there is negligible risk, according to the Health and Safety Executive.\n\nBut if it is disturbed it can become a danger to health because asbestos fibres are released into the air and people may breathe them in.\n\nCompanies have a duty to prevent employees being exposed to the substance at work, under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.\n\nHowever, the regulations state that asbestos-containing materials that are in good condition and unlikely to be disturbed can be left in place.\n\nMPs from all parties have campaigned for more action to get rid of asbestos, which can be a complex and costly process.\n\nLast year, the Commons Work and Pensions Committee called for a strategy with a 40-year deadline to remove all asbestos from public and commercial buildings.\n\nThe government's position was set out in April by Rishi Sunak, in answer to a question from Conservative MP Jane Hunt.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The law does require duty holders to assess whether asbestos is present, what condition it is in and whether it gives rise to a risk of exposure, and they must draw up a plan to manage that risk, which must include removal if it cannot be safely managed where it is located.\"\n\nMs Hunt backs the charity Mesothelioma UK's campaign for a register of all workplaces in the country that contain asbestos and a timetable for eradicating it.\n\nThe charity says the situation is a \"ticking time bomb\" and is asking the government to prioritise high-risk settings such as schools and hospitals.\n\nKris, who works as a professor of law in New Zealand, is also calling for more action from the government, arguing that asbestos should not be left in place.\n\n\"The government has a duty to protect lives from a known, indiscriminate killer such as asbestos: that requires proactive action to locate and remove asbestos,\" he says.\n\n\"Asbestos is in many settings, often mingled with other products, and the argument is often put forward that it is best left in place because it is only a risk if it is disturbed.\n\n\"But the problem is that buildings deteriorate and need refurbishment, or are knocked down and replaced, and this will lead to asbestos being released in uncontrolled circumstances. The safest thing to do is remove the risk.\"\n\nKris, who now lives in New Zealand, is a professor of law\n\nIn 2019 there were more than 5,000 asbestos-related deaths, including from cancers such as mesothelioma.\n\nIn January, an inquest ruled that Mrs Mahon \"came by her death as a result of an industrial disease\".\n\nMrs Mahon had blamed the disease on her exposure to asbestos during time as a nurse at Northowram Hospital, in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, the inquest was told.\n\nShe had described in a compensation claim how the temporary huts she worked were made of corrugated asbestos sheets, that had been disturbed by maintenance work.\n\nBut she also believed she may have been exposed to the substance during her time as an MP, after being told after her retirement in 2005 that Parliament was \"riddled with asbestos\".\n\nAsbestos was identified in 680 rooms across the parliamentary estate in surveys carried out between 2019 to 2022 by the parliamentary maintenance services team.\n\nA UK Parliament spokesperson says: \"As with many historical buildings, asbestos is present - and appropriately managed. The risk to anyone on the estate is very low.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that any work posing an asbestos risk is \"properly planned\" in compliance with regulations.\n\nMPs have long been concerned about Parliament's state of disrepair\n\nHowever, the Public Accounts Committee recently released a report that found a growing list of health and safety incidents within Parliament, including some involving asbestos.\n\n\"There are already people on decades-long risk watchlists after being exposed to asbestos in the building,\" warned the committee's Labour chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier.\n\nRegarding asbestos in Parliament, Kris says: \"Every workplace, including such grand places as the Palace of Westminster, should be a safe place.\n\n\"The risks of asbestos are so well known now, and have been for decades, that steps to identify and remove asbestos from all workplaces should have been completed by now.\n\n\"At the very least, there should be detailed audit to determine the risks, which can no doubt be done alongside other refurbishment.\"\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency says asbestos should not be removed without expert advice. People are advised to contact their local council for more information about its removal and disposal.", "The former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemic\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is giving unredacted WhatsApp messages dating back to May 2021 directly to the Covid inquiry, bypassing the government which has refused to hand them over.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for texts from the former PM and officials.\n\nIt argues that many of the messages are irrelevant to the investigation.\n\nHowever, the head of the inquiry, Baroness Hallett, has said it's her job to decide what is and is not relevant.\n\nIn a letter to Baroness Hallett, Mr Johnson said that he understood why the government was taking legal action, but that he was \"perfectly content\" to release messages he had already sent to the Cabinet Office.\n\nMr Johnson added he would like to send messages pre-dating April 2021, but that he had been told he could no longer access his phone from that period \"safely\".\n\nSecurity concerns were raised over the phone, after it emerged the number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years.\n\nThe messages received before this date would be likely to cover discussions about the coronavirus lockdowns implemented in 2020.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted to \"test\" the advice received from the security services and had asked the Cabinet Office for assistance in turning his old phone on securely.\n\nHe added he no longer had access to his contemporaneous notebooks as he had handed these to the Cabinet Office.\n\n\"I have asked that the Cabinet Office pass these to you. If the government chooses not to do so, I will ask for these to be returned to my office so that I can provide them to you directly.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward said the risk of turning on Mr Johnson's old phone was \"minimal\", adding: \"It is perfectly possible to do that without exposing it to the potential threat.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the inquiry told the government to submit messages sent between Mr Johnson and 40 other ministers and officials during the pandemic by 16:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"more than happy\" to give the unredacted material to the inquiry.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - which supports the prime minister in running the government - also holds communications between ministers and civil servants which do not involve Mr Johnson.\n\nOn Thursday, it missed the deadline and said it would \"with regret\" be launching a judicial review of the demand, but promised to \"continue to co-operate fully with the inquiry\".\n\nDefending its decision not to hand over certain messages, the Cabinet Office argued that many of the communications were \"unambiguously irrelevant\", and that to submit them to the inquiry would compromise ministers' privacy and hamper future decision-making.\n\n\"It represents an unwarranted intrusion into other aspects of the work of government. It also represents an intrusion into their legitimate expectations of privacy and protection of their personal information,\" the Cabinet Office said, in a letter to the inquiry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC One's Question Time on Thursday, science minister George Freeman said he thought the \"courts will probably take the view\" that Baroness Hallett was entitled to decide \"what evidence she deems relevant\".\n\nBut he added \"people's privacy is really important\" and that the question of how private correspondence should be handled was a \"point worth testing\".\n\n\"I would like to see a situation where the inquiry says: 'Listen, we will wholly respect the privacy of anything that's not related to Covid. We will redact it',\" he said.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the government's legal action as a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\". The Liberal Democrats called it a \"kick in the teeth for bereaved families\".\n\nLord Barwell, who worked as chief of staff to former Prime Minister Theresa May, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought the government was making a \"bad mistake\".\n\nHe added: \"We're having the inquiry to give people confidence we're getting to the truth. And if the government is controlling what the inquiry can and can't see, then people are not going to get confidence in the outcome.\"", "If you were given a fiver every time a government minister parroted the slogan that promises to end migrant channel crossings you would be pretty flush by now.\n\nIt's branded on government lecterns, on the backdrop behind the prime minister when he gives speeches, it's all over social media, and the methods the government wants to use are in a big set of new laws making their way through Parliament. You can read about it here.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak's vow to \"stop the boats\" is far from the first time that a government has said it will get a grip on immigration.\n\nMr Sunak is concentrating on curbing illegal immigration and the number of asylum seekers, which rose sharply last year and is close to record levels.\n\nBut the headline figure for net migration - the difference between the numbers entering the country legally and those leaving - hit an all-time high over the past 12 months, despite years of Conservative promises to get it down.\n\nSo, I have spoken to five former home secretaries, Conservative and Labour, about why it is just so hard to manage the numbers of people who want to come to the UK - whether those who make dangerous journeys and arrive here illegally, or to claim asylum, or those who have permission to work or study and move here from other countries.\n\n\"We can't be honest\", says one former occupant of one of the hardest jobs in government.\n\nThe first barrier is a political one. This former home secretary said governments \"want to give the impression that you can do something about it, but it is very, very difficult\".\n\nAnd when it comes to the overall numbers, that include asylum seekers and those who come here with permission to work or study, in 2022 they hit 606,000 - a record level.\n\nThe Conservatives promised the public that they would get the net migration figures under 100,000 but that \"created the fundamental problem\", says another ex-home secretary.\n\nThe government \"said we'll get the numbers down…but the country needs immigrants\", they add.\n\nThis ex-minister told me it was a target \"I never believed in - I never thought that it was sensible\".\n\nOur third former home secretary told me \"it was vainglorious\" to try to cap numbers at 100,000, a figure that now seems totally and utterly out of reach.\n\nAnd repeatedly promising the public that the numbers will fall makes it hard for ministers to admit that the immigration system is now, ironically after Brexit, more liberal than it was before.\n\nOne of the former home secretaries said the numbers are \"sky high because of deliberate Tory policy\".\n\nAnother said: \"We have put in place the most liberal regime ever\" to enable workers the economy needs and students to come to the country legally.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman might want to put her foot on the brake, but half a mile further up Whitehall, the Treasury tends to put its foot on the accelerator if there simply are not enough Brits either willing or able to do jobs that business and public services need to fill.\n\nBeyond the political contradictions, our five former Home Office bosses shared a long list of tricky practical considerations.\n\nThey all agreed, and had tried in various ways, to work more closely with France and the rest of the European Union, on illegal migration, something that inevitably became harder after the UK left the bloc and relationships soured.\n\nRishi Sunak has tried to improve things with Emmanuel Macron, but it's a long way off a so-called \"returns agreement\" where France would take migrants back who have crossed the Channel.\n\nAnd one of our sources said: \"When other countries hear us whingeing they don't have much sympathy.\"\n\nSeveral suggested making a dent in the overall net migration figures by taking students out of the count, and also removing Brits who have returned to live at home. They agreed that reducing the number of family members who could join immigrants in the UK as the government is doing would help.\n\nBut there was a good dose of scepticism among the five Conservatives and Labour former home secretaries I spoke to about whether the government's more controversial plans to tackle illegal immigration will work.\n\nMinisters want to detain and then remove anyone who arrives in the country without legal permission to claim asylum, either to Rwanda or another safe country, so far there are no other names on the list.\n\nOne of them told me they don't disagree with the concept \"but I just don't think it's going to work\".\n\nAnother was more scathing, saying \"it's ridiculous - where are all these thousands of people going to go?\"\n\nOne of their other former colleagues told me it is \"insane\" to imagine that thousands upon thousands of people can be removed or sent back to their original country.\n\nThe current home secretary is deeply committed to the plan, and points to the success it had in Australia.\n\nBut many experts in the sector describe it as a gamble and, as another of Suella Braverman's predecessors said, \"there is absolutely no evidence that it will work\".\n\nThat does not of course mean that it is doomed to fail, but Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman cannot be sure that their plans will indeed \"stop the boats\".\n\nMigrants picked up at sea are a highly visible symbol of the problem\n\nThere's suspicion too, as one of our five ex-ministers says, that the focus on small boats \"is a campaigning tool to drive a wedge between the government and the opposition\", and the policy \"won't work\".\n\nThey suggested that illegal immigration has always, and will always be, a problem - and it is only the visibility of boats on the Channel coast that has increased the pressure to act.\n\nThe government \"smashed\" illegal entries through the Channel tunnel, they claimed, so those desperate to enter the UK turned to small boats.\n\n\"When they came through the tunnel we didn't know\" how many migrants there were, they suggested, but now they are picked up at sea rather than disappearing into the Kent countryside from trucks or containers.\n\n'It is possible that we are getting the same numbers but no one wants to talk about that, no one wants to admit, 'if you shut down one route, what's next'?\" the former minister told me.\n\nAll five of the former home secretaries I spoke to were crystal clear about one thing.\n\nThe UK government can change and improve the immigration system and make a difference to the numbers of people who come to live in the UK.\n\nBut as much as politicians hate to admit it, there are factors that they cannot control that lead people to leave their countries - conflict, climate change, economics.\n\nOne warns that the pressure is only going one way: \"If you think it's bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet,\" they said.\n\nAnother was frustrated that our politics has made it difficult to set out a positive case for immigration - \"there is a problem of a rising population but it's better than the problem of a falling one\".\n\nThis government has made big promises on immigration. But it has big difficulties.\n\nThere are disputes in towns and cities over migrants being put up in hotels, controversy in Parliament over the new laws, and huge backlogs in dealing with asylum cases.\n\nAnd again, at root, there is that contradiction, the government says it wants to bring the numbers down, but also is allowing record numbers of people to come from overseas to work, or seek refuge from Ukraine or move here from Hong Kong.\n\nRepeating a slogan does not solve a problem, especially when a government is in a tug of war with itself.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 261 people have been killed and 1,000 are injured in a crash involving three trains in India's eastern Odisha state.\n\nOne passenger train derailed on to the adjacent track and was struck by an incoming train on Friday, also hitting a nearby stationary freight train.\n\nA massive recovery operation is under way, after hundreds of emergency workers searched the wreckage.\n\nThe cause of India's worst train crash in over 20 years is not yet clear.\n\nOfficials say several carriages from the Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), derailed at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) in Balasore district after hitting a stationary goods train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track.\n\nAnother train travelling in the opposite direction - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - then hit the overturned carriages.\n\n\"The force with which the trains collided has resulted in several coaches being crushed and mangled,\" Atul Karwal, chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told ANI news agency.\n\nMore than 200 ambulances and hundreds of doctors, nurses and rescue personnel were sent to the scene, the state's chief secretary Pradeep Jena said.\n\nSudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, had earlier said 288 had died.\n\nAll trapped and injured passengers have been rescued. It is not clear how serious the injuries of those taken to hospitals were.\n\nWork to restore the site of the crash begun, India's South Eastern Railway company said on Saturday.\n\nIt is India's worst train crash this century\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site of the accident on Saturday afternoon, joining Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the scene.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched, although Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has blamed \"technical reasons\".\n\nSurvivors and eyewitnesses have described chaotic scenes and the heroic efforts of people from nearby villages to save trapped passengers.\n\nMukesh Pandit, who was trapped for half an hour before being rescued, told the BBC he heard a \"thunderous sound\" shortly before the carriage overturned.\n\n\"Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing. A lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in,\" he added.\n\nResidents of the neighbouring villages were among the first to reach the site of the accident and start the rescue operation.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.\n\nTrains can get very packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.\n\nBoth passenger trains involved in the crash were full and had many more people on the waiting list, according to passenger lists on the Indian rail ministry website reviewed by the BBC.\n\nIndia's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing at least 800 people.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Listen to race commentary on the Derby at 13:30 BST on Saturday on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nFrankie Dettori will look to continue his remarkable farewell season when he rides Arrest in the Derby on Saturday.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who is retiring this year, won both Group One races on Friday, including a seventh victory in the Oaks on Soul Sister.\n\nIt means Arrest, trained by John and Thady Gosden, is now favourite for the 244th Derby, with Dettori seeking his third win in the famous race.\n\nThe Classic race at Epsom Downs Racecourse will start at 13:30 BST.\n\nIt has been moved from its traditional 16:30 time slot to avoid clashing with the FA Cup Final at 15:00.\n\nA field of 14 runners will take part in the race over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards.\n\nDettori took 15 attempts to win his first Derby, on Authorized in 2007, before he also triumphed on Golden Horn in 2015.\n\nHe comes into his 28th and final Derby in stirring form, having won two of the three British Classic races so far this year - the Oaks, and the 2,000 Guineas last month on Chaldean.\n\nThe Italian rode Emily Upjohn to victory in the Coronation Cup on Friday, while he also won the Chester Vase aboard Arrest in May.\n\nDettori said he \"never thought\" he would \"be able to ride a horse with a great chance to win the Derby\" when he announced he was going to retire in December.\n\n\"The point about the Derby is that it's only once a year and once it's gone, it's gone,\" he added.\n\n\"It is the most important race. For a jockey, when you start, you want to win the Derby.\"\n\nThe rest of the field\n\nAidan O'Brien, the race's most successful trainer with eight victories, has three contenders, led by Auguste Rodin and also featuring Adelaide River and San Antonio.\n\nWhite Birch, trained John Murphy, and Jessica Harrington's Leopardstown Derby Trial winner Sprewell are the other Irish hopefuls.\n\nSir Michael Stoute has one entry in Passenger, ridden by Richard Kingscote, who won on Desert Crown for Stoute's sixth Derby win last year.\n\nFormer market leader Military Order, winner of the Lingfield Derby Trial for trainer Charlie Appleby, will be ridden by William Buick.\n\nDante winner The Foxes is in contention for Andrew Balding, while Charlie Johnston has two entries in Dubai Mile and Dear My Friend.\n\nRalph Beckett's unbeaten Artistic Star, the Roger Varian-trained King Of Steel and Waipiro for Ed Walker are the other contenders.\n\nThe Jockey Club won a High Court injunction last month to prevent animal rights protestors disrupting the Derby Festival.\n\nThere was no disruption on Friday, though the Animal Rising group have said they will attempt to cancel or delay the Derby on Saturday.\n\nAnimal rights activists delayed the start of the Grand National by getting on to the track at Aintree in April.\n\nProtestors also tried to disrupt the Scottish Grand National the following week.\n\nAnimal Rising spokesperson Nathan McGovern said: \"We are looking to continue the conversation that we started at the Grand National about our broken relationship with animals and nature.\n\n\"On the ground we are looking to cause the cancellation or severe delay of the event so that everyone in the country has this discussion.\"\n\nSurrey Police said they are planning \"robust action\" to deal with any disruption and \"any criminal activity or risk to public safety will not be tolerated\".\n\n\"We believe everyone should have the right to peaceful protest and have offered Animal Rising an area near the entrance of Epsom Downs Racecourse to express their views in a law-abiding way,\" said Jockey Club chief executive Nevin Truesdale.\n\n\"However, anyone who attempts to disrupt the race or compromise the safety of horses or humans will be dealt with robustly by our security teams and the police.\"", "The queen of YA fiction, Alice Oseman, has told the Hay Festival that the second TV series of Heartstopper will \"be a little bit darker\".\n\nThe writer and illustrator behind the hit graphic novel series of the same name also said there would be more from the character Isaac in series two.\n\n\"I'm really excited there's going to be asexual and aromantic representation with Isaac,\" Oseman said.\n\nThe British writer, 28, identifies as aromantic and asexual herself.\n\nAromantic is an umbrella term used by people who don't typically experience romantic attraction, while somebody who is asexual does not experience sexual attraction to anyone.\n\nIsaac (played by Tobie Donovan in the Netflix show) is a good friend of lead character Charlie (Joe Locke). He was a new character created for the TV series and did not appear in the books.\n\nOseman took to the stage after long queues built up ahead of her event, with many teenagers grasping their books in the hope she would be able to sign them backstage.\n\nShe was one of the most anticipated literary stars to grace Hay on Saturday, and was thrilled to learn there was even a Heartstopper ice cream on offer at the festival - strawberries and rhubarb, just so you know.\n\n\"I still can't quite wrap my head around the journey and how much Heartstopper has blown up,\" Oseman told the crowd.\n\nCharlie, played by Joe Locke (right), forms a friendship-turned-romance with Nick (Kit Connor)\n\n\"It's so surreal, especially the (TV) scenes that are word-for-word from the comics. Seeing my imagination come to life is mind-blowing.\n\n\"I was very committed to prose writing... I thought this would be a one-year project!\"\n\nWe're now seven years in, with two new novels in the works and series two of the TV adaptation dropping on Netflix at the beginning of August.\n\nOseman has adapted Heartstopper for the small screen herself and is also executive producer of the show, with the first series landing a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.\n\n\"I just care about Heartstopper so much. It was my passion project when I started and it still is. It's so important to me that it never gets taken and twisted into something which I hate, which is always a danger when authors do book adaptations.\n\n\"But I'm so lucky that I've been able to have so much control. Writing it, being on the set, being really involved in all the different aspects of the show,\" she said.\n\nFans have enjoyed the banter between Elle (Yasmin Finney) and her close friend Tao (William Gao)\n\nThe new series will follow the continuing romance between Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) as they navigate exams, a school trip to Paris and a prom, while Elle (Yasmin Finney) and Tao (William Gao) work out if they can be more than just friends.\n\n\"Season two's... aim was to capture the joy and the magic of season one while also feeling that the characters have grown up and matured a little bit, so we're exploring some things that are maybe a little bit darker than season one,\" Oseman explained.\n\n\"The romances are getting a little bit more mature... it's like an elevation, I like to think, of season one.\"\n\nOseman wrote her first book, Solitaire, when she was just 17 and it was published when she was 19.\n\nShe said she didn't put her age on any of the emails she sent to prospective literary agents, although she said \"a good agent would not see your age as being detrimental at all\".\n\nShe's certainly had her hands full since then, with the Heartstopper books, the accompanying web comics, other novels, and the TV series.\n\nOseman had to take time out from updating the Heartstopper web comic last year due to \"burnout and intense stress\".\n\nSpeaking at Hay, she told the audience that she is \"a workaholic but I do try to make the effort to have downtime\".\n\nShe said she listens to audiobooks to relax but won't be dipping into fan fiction anytime soon.\n\n\"All authors should stay away from fan fiction,\" she laughed. \"It's dangerous waters.\"\n\nHer fandom is made up of not just teens but older adults, some of who are remembering past experiences, particularly those who grew up gay or had questioned their identity.\n\nOne woman in the audience said she was at school in the days of Section 28 and didn't come out as gay until her late 20s because \"I didn't know it was a thing\". She thanked Oseman and said she wished her books had been there for her when she was growing up.\n\n\"Obviously, the target audience for the books is teenagers but it has really found an amazing audience of older readers and that's been wonderful to see,\" Oseman said.\n\n\"It just goes to show that everyone wants to read about queer joy for whatever reason.\"\n\nThe Heartstopper books will come to an end at some point and Oseman told the audience she already knows what the ending will be and when it will happen (\"roughly when Nick leaves to go to uni.\")\n\nBut we can't see her creative juices drying up anytime soon.\n\n\"Writing and drawing are my passion and the reason I wake up every day. It's just something that I love and my stories keep me going. They feel like my reason to be.\"", "The Met said it worked \"proactively\" with officials at Wembley Stadium to identify the man during the FA Cup final\n\nA man has been arrested during the FA Cup final at Wembley after concerns about a football shirt slogan.\n\nA photo of the back of a man wearing the number 97 and the words \"not enough\" on a Manchester United top was widely shared on social media.\n\nThe FA said it \"strongly condemned\" the action, which it said referred to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster when 97 Liverpool fans died as a result of a stadium crush in 1989.\n\nIt said it would not \"tolerate abuse\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police tweeted that a man had been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody.\n\nThe force confirmed to the BBC that the arrest was solely due to the shirt worn by the football fan but would not confirm that it was because of its alleged reference to Hillsborough.\n\nSharing a tweet by a Liverpool FC fan account called the Kop Watch, the Met's events Twitter account said: \"We are aware of this and have worked proactively with officials at @wembleystadium to identify the individual.\n\n\"He has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the English FA issued a statement saying it would \"not tolerate abuse relating to Hillsborough or any football tragedy\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with the authorities to ensure strong action is taken against perpetrators,\" it added.\n\nIt has previously said it was concerned about \"the rise of abhorrent chants\" over the Hillsborough disaster and other football tragedies.\n\nLiverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne, who was in the crowd at Hillsborough in 1989, described any inappropriate reference to the disaster as \"sick\".\n\nMr Byrne, who has been campaigning for the disaster to be taught on the national curriculum, told BBC Radio Merseyside: \"All the efforts we have put in over the last three decades - and certainly myself over the last couple of years and many others about the education element about Hillsborough... - and you see that idiot with that disgusting top on and you just think, how do you get through to these people.\"\n\nOfficers also said they were investigating after an object was thrown towards the pitch during the first half of the game.\n\nThe Met said it was working with stadium officials and reviewing CCTV footage.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe train collision in India's eastern Odisha state on Friday evening - the country's worst this century - involved two passenger trains and a freight train.\n\nAt least 288 people were killed and 1,000 injured.\n\nThe BBC spoke to villagers who witnessed the crash, and an injured passenger.\n\nMy mother and my grandmother were on the train. They were going to the city to buy medicines.\n\nI found my granny a few hours after the accident. She was alive. But my mother was missing. We looked for her everywhere but couldn't find her.\n\nI didn't know what to do, so I forwarded a photo of my mother to all my friends and acquaintances. I shared her number as well and described the colour of the dress she was wearing when I last saw her.\n\nThis morning I heard from one of my friends. They sent me a picture of a body - it was my mother. She was wearing the same dress.\n\nAll I want now is to be able to take her body back home safely so that we can put her to rest. But there is so much chaos here - there are no trains and the roads are all jammed.\n\nThere was chaos. There was a loud sound and there was smoke all around.\n\nPeople were running in all directions. I was close to the tracks and decided to run to the spot. We started pulling out some of the trapped passengers. We managed to get some of the survivors out - and some bodies, too.\n\nThere were so many injured, we did not know how to get them out. It became a bit easier after the rescue workers arrived. This work went on almost throughout the night. I am still in a daze.\n\nWe heard a loud sound. When we came out of the house, we saw that this accident had happened outside. I saw the goods train had climbed over on another train.\n\nWhen I reached the spot, I saw that many people were injured, many people had died. A small child was crying whose parents had probably died. That child also died after a while.\n\nMany people were asking for water here. I gave water to people as much as possible. People from our village came here and helped people as much as they could.\n\nI was in the train when we felt a slight jolt and the train derailed.\n\nThere was a thunderous sound and the train overturned. I was trapped and was rescued after half an hour by local people.\n\nAll our belongings were scattered outside. I couldn't find any of it. I came out and sat on the ground. Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing.\n\nA lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in. Those who were seriously injured were brought to the hospital.\n\nMy brother was sitting on his berth and I was standing next to the door of the coach.\n\nWhen the train overturned, I managed to escape. I thought my brother would've escaped too, but that did not happen. He got stuck under his seat.\n\nI ran back to the wreckage and pulled him out - I pulled out a young girl who was stuck with him as well.\n\nI called the police and the ambulance services but they took half-an-hour to get there.\n\nPhotos by Hemant Behara and additional reporting by Reuters news agency\n\nBBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features.", "British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful will be stepping down from his role after six years of breaking boundaries at the top fashion magazine.\n\nThe 51-year-old will remain as an editorial advisor to the UK title but move into a newly-created job next year aimed at growing the brand globally.\n\nHis new portfolio as Vogue's global creative and cultural advisor will also allow him to take on external projects.\n\nEnninful will be involved with the recruitment search for his successor.\n\nThe Ghanaian-British creative is the first black man to hold the top job at the British fashion magazine.\n\nBritish Vogue recently featured its first disabled models, including actress Selma Blair who lives with multiple sclerosis and Ellie Goldstein, a 21-year-old model with Down's syndrome.\n\nIn an interview last year about his favourite Vogue covers, Enninful said the inspiration behind his first one in December 2017 featuring mixed race model Adwoa Aboah was aimed at resetting \"the image of modern Britain\".\n\n\"It was important to create a cover that represented the Britain of today, a multicultural society where everyone was welcome - where my family was welcome,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British Vogue Editor Edward Enninful speaks to the Today Programme about their May cover, which features disabled models.\n\nOther notable cover stars from Enninful's time as editor include:\n\nLast month, Enninful attended the King and Queen's Coronation. He has helped the King's charity, the Prince's Trust, with its work in Africa and worldwide as a global ambassador.\n\nEdward Enninful, pictured alongside singer Katy Perry, attended the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla last month\n\nEnninful has been a high-profile champion for greater inclusivity in the fashion industry.\n\nHe took over as editor-in-chief of British Vogue in August 2017 from Alexandra Shulman, who had been in the job for 25 years. One of his first priorities was to diversify his staff at the publication.\n\nAnd in 2018, model and writer Paris Lees became the first openly transgender woman to be featured in British Vogue as part of a feature celebrating 100 years since women have had the right to vote in the UK.\n\nEnninful has been open about his struggles with racism and being a black gay man.\n\nA few years ago, while working as editor-in-chief, Enninful said he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" by a security guard as he entered work.\n\nIn interviews with the BBC, he has also shared concerns about losing his eyesight, his struggles with alcoholism and being estranged from his father for 15 years.\n\nBritish Vogue's contributing European sustainability editor Dana Thomas told the BBC she was \"thrilled\" by the news of his new role.\n\n\"This gives him more freedom to do what he does best, and what clearly brings him joy, which is the creation of beauty,\" she said.\n\n\"His influence has been immense. I write for British Vogue because I found him so inspiring. His leadership in the areas of inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability - what he calls the three pillars of British Vogue - have been unmatched in any publication.\"\n\nSelma Blair on the cover of British Vogue\n\nIn a memo sent to Vogue staff, Enninful said he would \"continue to contribute to the creative and cultural success of the Vogue brand globally\" in his newly-created job, \"whilst having the freedom to take on broader creative projects\".\n\nA head of editorial content for British Vogue will also be hired, he said, adding: \"For now everything remains the same, and I'm so excited about what the future holds for us.\"\n\nEnninful thanked editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch, the chief executive officer of publishers Condé Nast, \"for their continued support\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: \"We feel so excited, we feel so happy\"\n\nA group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of hit UK talent show Britain's Got Talent, where they have won over the judges and the public with their dazzling dance moves and bubbly personalities.\n\nThey have already made history after becoming the first act to be given a \"golden buzzer\" by one of the judges before they had even finished their performance. This sent them straight through to Wednesday's semi-final, where they received most public votes, meaning they are now among the 10 acts taking part in Sunday's final.\n\nThe group of six children aged between six and 13 all come from impoverished backgrounds in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where they were taken in and cared for by their guardian-turned manager Dauda Kavuma.\n\nHe told the BBC that he hopes their success can encourage other children living in similar circumstances.\n\n\"We feel so happy to keep doing this and to bring hope to all the children around the world who are in the ghetto, who are disadvantaged, who are less privileged - that they can make it in life.\"\n\nWhile they are winning over a new audience in the UK, the Ghetto Kids are already a global internet sensation and performed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBut one of the group, Priscilla Zawedde, 13, told the BBC that winning the TV show - and the £250,000 ($313,000) prize money - would mean \"a bigger house for everyone\".\n\nSome 30 children currently share a five-bedroom house in Kampala, where they are looked after by Kavuma.\n\nHe set up the Inspire Ghetto Kids Foundation in 2007 to care for street children in the Kampala neighbourhood of Makindye and told the AFP news agency that having a bigger house would be a \"dream\" as the children would have more space.\n\nThey currently rely on donations from well-wishers, earnings from their social media posts as well as fees for live performances.\n\nKavuma also started life on the street before he was given a chance by a man who spotted him playing football and asked him if he wanted to go to school.\n\n\"He let me join his team and helped me pay my school fees. He was someone who helped me without knowing me. So from that day, I promised myself that when I grow up I'd hope to help a child one day,\" Kavuma told the BBC.\n\nBut he then switched to music, which he is now using to transform the lives of others.\n\n\"Most people thought street kids... have no value in society but I thought otherwise,\" he told AFP.\n\n\"I thought: 'What if I use music, dance and drama to transform the underprivileged in the ghettos?'\" he says.\n\nAkram Muyana, 13, told the BBC that dancing had always been his way of escaping reality after his father died.\n\n\"Whenever I dance, I feel so happy, and my stress goes away. I started going to churches to dance to get money to give my mother for her to buy me clothes and food.\"\n\nThis is the second generation of Kavuma's Ghetto Kids to have found global stardom - the first generation was discovered dancing to Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo's \"Sitya Loss\" and went on to have millions of YouTube views.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nA protester was detained by police on the racecourse during the Epsom Derby, but failed to stop the race.\n\nPolice said officers acted \"quickly and decisively\" after a man jumped the fence during the day's main event.\n\nMore than 30 protesters were arrested on Saturday.\n\nProtest group Animal Rising said it wanted to protect horses and accused the police of \"heavy-handedness and intimidation tactics\".\n\nLast week, race organisers the Jockey Club won a High Court injunction to prevent animal rights protesters disrupting the event.\n\nA huge security operation has been under way throughout Saturday, including pre-emptive arrests in the early hours of the morning.\n\nDespite security and police officers being stationed around the racecourse, one man was able to break through the cordon while the race was in progress, and another woman was detained while trying to climb over the fence.\n\nActivist group Animal Rising shared a video on Twitter of the protester who entered the track being bundled to the floor by security and quickly dragged away.\n\nRacegoers could be heard jeering at the protesters and shouting abuse.\n\nJack Cummins, 23, from Cambridge, witnessed the protest. He told the PA news agency: \"The guy started running down the course from the hill side - to be fair to security and police, they grabbed him pretty quickly and dragged him off.\n\n\"Pretty stupid of him to do it, protesters don't understand how well-treated these horses are - they're putting the horses in more danger than they'll have ever been in by jumping into the track.\"\n\nNevin Truesdale, head of the Jockey Club, said the protester's actions were \"reckless and illegal\" and \"threatened the safety of our equine and human athletes\".\n\nAnimal Rising said the race was allowed to start once the protester was already on the course but ITV's on-air correspondent said timecodes showed the race had just begun when he came on to the track.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority (BHA) chief executive Julie Harrington said he ran on to the track after the race had started, calling it \"reckless and dangerous behaviour\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Despite The Jockey Club's claim that the horses safety is paramount, they decided to start the race despite knowing that a protester was on the tracks.\n\n\"Another sickening display of profit (over) care for animals.\"\n\nSurrey Police said it had detained 12 suspected protesters in the grounds of Epsom racecourse, while 19 were arrested before the event began.\n\nA police spokesperson said 11 people were arrested at addresses in nearby Mitcham and Byfleet after detectives received \"intelligence\", and a further eight were arrested after their vehicle was stopped less than three miles from Epsom Downs Racecourse.\n\nAll were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance and remain in police custody.\n\nIn a statement following those initial arrests, Animal Rising accused police of using \"heavy-handedness and intimidation tactics\" and reiterated their \"commitment to protect horses and disrupt the Derby\".\n\nOrganisers spent an extra £150,000 on security measures, and there was noticeably more security along the track, with printed-out copies of the High Court injunction attached to the perimeter of the racecourse with plastic coils.\n\nMen who arrived wearing bowler hats were asked to take them off so security could see if there was anything hidden inside them, and a new six-foot fence was installed around the area where members of the public enter the compound.\n\nTight security included police spotters with binoculars at the top of the Queen Elizabeth stand and other police officers with rifles walking around enclosures and the grounds.\n\nRyan Moore won his third Derby by guiding Auguste Rodin to victory at Epsom as Frankie Dettori finished 10th on Arrest in his last ride in the race.\n\nThe race was moved from its traditional 16:30 time slot to avoid clashing with the FA Cup final at 15:00.\n\nIn April, animal rights activists delayed the start of the Grand National by getting on to the track at Aintree.\n\nProtesters also tried to disrupt the Scottish Grand National the following week.\n\nAnimal Rising spokesperson Nathan McGovern has previously said: \"We are looking to continue the conversation that we started at the Grand National about our broken relationship with animals and nature.\n\n\"On the ground we are looking to cause the cancellation or severe delay of the event so that everyone in the country has this discussion.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA two-year-old girl has been killed and 22 injured after an alleged Russian air strike in a residential area of Ukraine's central city Dnipro.\n\nHer body was pulled from the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community overnight, the region's governor said.\n\nSerhiy Lysak said five of those injured were children, with three boys in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nAn earlier video shared by Ukraine's president showed rescuers searching the remains of a two-storey building.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has blamed Russia for the attack, but the Kremlin has yet to comment on the events.\n\nIn a later post, Mr Lysak said the girl, whose name was Lisa, was \"cheerful and full of life\". She and her mother were buried beneath rubble after a rocket exploded near their home.\n\nHer mother was taken to intensive care, Mr Lysak said, along with three boys aged six, 11 and 15, all of whom have multiple injuries, concussions and fractures. The boys are now said to be \"on the mend\".\n\nExplosions have also been heard over the capital, Kyiv, where air defence systems have again been deployed. The entire country had been placed under air raid alerts earlier.\n\nMr Zelensky described the blast in Dnipro as a deliberate Russian strike, although Russia has previously denied targeting civilians during its invasion of the neighbouring country.\n\nFires broke out following the alleged strike in a northern district of the city, according to the regional governor, who said 17 of those injured in the blast were taken to hospital.\n\nExplosions were reported in other parts of the country. Air defence systems were engaged early Sunday in repelling air attacks near Kyiv, the head of the city's military administration said.\n\nAll missiles targeting the city were shot down, Serhiy Popko wrote on the Telegram messaging channel.\n\nOfficials in Sumy, in the north, recorded 87 blasts as a result of Russian shelling, speaking of injuries and destruction of infrastructure.\n\nAn operational airfield near the central city of Kropyvnytsky was hit by cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yury Ignat said on TV.\n\nHe said air defences were only able to shoot down four of the six missiles, and gave no details about damage at the site.\n\nMore than a dozen explosions were also reported in the Russian-occupied southern cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol, though details were scant.\n\nIn Russia, the governor of the border region of Belgorod said that a market area in the town of Shebekino, about four miles (7 km) from the Ukrainian border had been shelled on Sunday morning.\n\nEarlier Vyacheslav Gladkov said two people had been killed in attacks near the town on Saturday. He urged residents in towns and villages along the border to leave their homes.\n\nLocal authorities said Ukraine was to blame, although Ukraine itself said the deaths were the result of Russia trying to target fighters who oppose the government in Moscow.\n\nKyiv denied having any direct involvement, again saying the attack was mounted by Russian paramilitaries.\n\nIn other developments, a close aide of President Zelensky has said his country is not yet ready to begin its long-promised counter-offensive against occupying Russian soldiers.\n\nSpeaking to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, Dr Ihor Zhovkva blamed a lack of weaponry and ammunition.\n\nHis words appeared at odds with those of Mr Zelensky, who was quoted just a day earlier saying Ukraine was ready to start the manoeuvre.\n\nBut inconsistent comments from Ukrainian officials may be a deliberate effort to confuse Moscow, the Sunday Times noted.", "A recovery operation is under way in India after hundreds of people were killed or injured in a three-train crash in the eastern Odisha state.\n\nThe crash took place on Friday evening, after the Coromandel Express passenger train heading south derailed after hitting a stationary goods train.\n\nSeveral carriages from the train ended up on the opposite track. Shortly afterwards a second passenger service, the Howrah Superfast Express, travelling in the opposite direction crashed into the derailed train.\n\nA recovery operation is under way after the crash in Balasore district, Odisha, at about 19:00 local time on Friday\n\nHundreds of emergency workers, more than 100 doctors and 200 ambulances, were involved in rescuing trapped passengers\n\nRescuers dug through debris and used electric cutters to slice through the metal exterior of train compartments to reach survivors\n\nDozens of local people gathered at the site of the crash, with many helping with rescue efforts overnight\n\nAround 1,000 injured people have been taken to hospital for treatment, but the nature and extent of their injuries is not yet clear.\n\nThe cause of the crash is not yet clear and an investigation into the circumstances has been launched\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site of the crash on Saturday afternoon, vowing punishment for anyone responsible", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA top-flight match in Argentina was abandoned after a fan fell to their death from a grandstand at the stadium.\n\nPrimera Division leaders River Plate were playing against Defensa y Justicia at their Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires when the incident happened.\n\nReferee Fernando Rapallini suspended the match while police and firefighters cordoned off the area.\n\nRiver Plate officials said the supporter \"died on the spot\" and that an investigation was under way.\n\nThey also said the area would remain closed for 24 hours while evidence was gathered.\n\n\"The medical service immediately arrived at the area of ​​the incident, as did the police and various security agencies,\" a club statement said.\n\n\"The Sivori Alta grandstand was at 90% of its capacity. At the time of the fall, there was no intervention by third parties. It was also verified that there was no situation of violence in the stands or around it.\"\n\nThe club later named the fan as Pablo Marcelo Serrano and said it was a \"day of deep sadness\" while the league said it shared in the \"pain and suffering of family and friends\".\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Diesel prices fell by a record 12p per litre on average in the UK last month, according to the RAC.\n\nPump prices dropped from about £1.59 to £1.47, the group said, cutting the cost of filling up a family car by £6.50.\n\nThe RAC said the reduction was the largest monthly drop it had seen since it began monitoring prices in 2000.\n\nBut the motoring group argued the drop in price was \"both long overdue and smaller than it should be\" due to wholesale prices being lower.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium, which represents supermarkets, said \"big cuts\" had been made to diesel prices in response to falling wholesale costs.\n\nDiesel prices are now down more than 25% from 2022 highs, after falling for seven months in a row.\n\nThe fuel hit a £1.99 per litre high last summer after oil prices soared following Russian's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPetrol prices have also been falling steadily since then and dropped from £1.46 to £1.43 on average last month, figures from the RAC said.\n\nThe motoring group has suggested that prices have not come down as fast or by as much as they should have, noting that prices were significantly lower in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe RAC said the cut should have been more significant to fully reflect changes in the wholesale market because diesel wholesale costs had been lower than petrol for 10 weeks.\n\nIn May, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced it was investigating fuel prices and whether a \"failure in competition\" had meant drivers overpaid.\n\nThe watchdog said it was \"concerned about the sustained higher margins on diesel compared to petrol\" so far this year.\n\nIt said evidence it had gathered so far suggested at least one supermarket had set a higher target for its profit margin on fuel prices in 2022, which could have led rivals to follow suit and raise prices too.\n\nThe RAC said after calling for prices to fall in recent months, it seemed \"ironic that the latest price cuts have finally come in the two weeks following the Competition and Markets Authority's announcement\".\n\n\"What's happened to the price of diesel in May will no doubt give the CMA something to think about,\" Mr Williams said. \"We strongly hope the pump price reductions continue as they should.\"\n\nGordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retailers Association, which represents thousands of independent forecourts, said its advice to drivers was to \"shop around\".\n\n\"As noted by the CMA, petrol and diesel prices are still volatile due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The market is very dynamic and independent forecourts are in many cases undercutting supermarkets on price,\" he added.\n\nA separate review of the fuel market has been ongoing for several months, over initial concerns that retailers and forecourts were failing to pass on a 5p fuel duty cut to motorists.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nFaith Kipyegon set a new 1500m world record in the Florence Diamond League meeting on Friday, with Britain's Laura Muir a distant second.\n\nMuir was 10 metres behind Kenya's reigning world and Olympic champion, 29, heading into the final lap.\n\nAnd Kipyegon streaked clear to win in 3 minutes 49.11 seconds, breaking the 3:50 barrier for the first time, while Muir ran a season's best of 3:57.09.\n\nEthiopia's Genzebe Dibaba set the previous record of 3:50.07 in 2015.\n\nIreland's Ciara Mageean also ran a season's best time as she finished fourth in 4:00.95.\n\nKipyegon has won both world and Olympic gold on two occasions but this is the first time she has broken the world record.\n\nShe now holds the first and third fastest times in history, running her previous best of 3:50.37 last August.\n• None How Kipyegon achieved the mother of all feats in Tokyo\n\nFormer 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith had to pull out of the women's 100m moments before the race after suffering from cramp in the blocks.\n\n\"Other than that all good, but I didn't want to risk anything today,\" she said on social media.\n\n\"Frustrated as I was so excited to race, but had to make a sensible call for the bigger picture.\"\n\nFellow Briton Imani-Lara Lansiquot finished third in 11.16secs, behind Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast (10.97) and Germany's Gina Lueckenkemper (11.09).\n• None Fred Kerley on aiming for double gold, Lamont Marcell Jacobs and athletics' future\n\nWorld champion Fred Kerley was again denied a meeting with Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs in the men's 100m as the Italian had not recovered from the back problem that forced him out of last Sunday's Diamond League meet in Rabat.\n\nKerley remains unbeaten this season, winning in 9.94 from Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala (10.05) and fellow American Trayvon Bromell (10.09).\n\nMeanwhile, Erriyon Knighton breezed to victory in the men's 200m with a season's best of 19.89.\n\nThe 19-year-old American, who holds the under-18 and under-20 world records, finished well clear of Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards (20.28) and Aaron Brown of Canada (20.31).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The document will be on display for its 703rd anniversary.\n\nOne of the most famous documents in Scottish history has gone on display for the first time in 18 years.\n\nThe Declaration of Arbroath was written on 6 April 1320 by Scottish nobles asking the Pope to acknowledge Scottish independence.\n\nThe fragile text can only occasionally be shown in public to ensure its condition is preserved.\n\nIt will be on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh until 2 July.\n\nThe letter was one of three written to Pope John XXII, who refused to recognise King Robert I - Robert the Bruce - as the monarch in Scotland.\n\nThe King and the Bishop of St Andrews also wrote to the Pope, but the barons' letter is the only surviving document.\n\nTheir collective plea was unsuccessful as the Pope's reply urged reconciliation with the English.\n\nThe two countries had been fighting against each other in the Wars of Scottish Independence since the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, with Robert the Bruce leading the Scottish army to a famous victory in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.\n\nThe first war of independence eventually ended with a peace treaty in 1328, but a second war erupted four years later and continued for 25 years.\n\nHazel de Vere and Eva Martinez Moya work on preserving the letter\n\nDr Alan Borthwick, head of medieval and early modern records at the National Records of Scotland (NRS) said the declaration helps people understand the political feeling at the time.\n\nHe said: \"It encapsulates an awful lot about what the Scots thought about themselves as a nation in 1320 and their rights to be an independent kingdom, not subject to the English king.\n\n\"The way that it is written, using quotes from the Bible but also classical authors - it's a very, very carefully crafted text.\n\n\"It is strongly asserting their position as supporters of Robert the First as their king without having to get an approval from the king of England.\"\n\nThe Declaration was written in Latin and was sealed by eight earls and about 40 barons.\n\nOne of the most famous quotes of the roughly 1,000-word long text still inspires the Scottish independence movement 700 years later.\n\nDr Alan Borthwick at the Declaration of Arbroath display\n\nIt reads: \"As long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English.\n\n\"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.\"\n\nDr Borthwick said: \"There are a number ways in which you can interpret the text.\n\n\"There is the context in which it was produced, and for some undoubtedly it is the context that it may have in more modern times.\n\n\"It's phrases like that which undoubtedly resonate across the generations and across the centuries and across the world. When you think of people fighting for freedom, that is really what it's about.\"\n\nSome historians claim its significance has been overstated and the purpose of the declaration was simply to shore up the reign of the Scottish king.\n\nThe Declaration of Arbroath display has been organised in partnership between National Museums Scotland and NRS, who keep the document.\n\nThe letter is usually kept in a temperature-controlled secure location with limited access and no light.\n\nIt is vulnerable to degradation as it is made from sheep skin, and moving the document for display is a very complex process.\n\nLinda Ramsay, who heads up conservation at the NRS, has worked on preserving the Declaration of Arbroath since 1991.\n\n\"It is a great privilege to be so close to these real history-making documents,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a totemic document, certainly for a Scot. It has a lot of challenges but it is a real privilege.\n\n\"With display there are so many vulnerabilities and so many factors that we are not in total control of.\"\n\nShe said she feels nervous when the document leaves the managed space, adding: \"We like it to be back sleeping in its bed in the store secure.\n\n\"We're pleased that people are going to see the Declaration. A public record is something you can't just keep and nobody sees it, there is an interest and quite rightly we have to make that possible.\"\n\nWe were given rare access to film the Declaration of Arbroath ahead of it going on display.\n\nIn a room where both the temperature and humidity were tightly controlled, we watched as expert conservators from the NRS inspected the document, looking for and recording any signs of deterioration in its condition.\n\nThey explained to me that a visual examination is carried out any time a significant document goes on display.\n\nThe 700-year-old letter is normally kept in a case in a darkened room. We weren't allowed to use artificial lights with our camera when we filmed and instead relied on daylight from the huge windows in the north-facing room to illuminate the medieval writing and seals.\n\nThere was also UV laminate on the window panes to reduce any potential damage from sun light.\n\nThe cupboards in the lab-like room held vellum and dyes and more exotic sounding material such as Goldbeater's skin. Linda Ramsay, head of conservation at the NRS, said their aim was to slow down degradation and preserve the Declaration of Arbroath in the best state they can for future generations.\n\nWe took an immense amount of care while filming and moving around the 14 Century priceless, fragile document. Being allowed such close access was both a privilege and a responsibility.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Archana Shukla in Cuttack: ''Distress and chaos'' at the hospital treating the train crash injured\n\nPeople found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be \"punished stringently\", the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.\n\nAt least 288 people were killed and more than 800 injured in Friday's incident in Odisha state, involving two passenger trains and a goods train.\n\nRescue efforts have concluded, with officials saying all trapped and injured passengers have been retrieved.\n\nMr Modi has visited the scene, labelling the incident a \"painful\" one.\n\nHe also met victims of the disaster in hospital, and vowed that his government would leave \"no stone unturned for the treatment of those injured\".\n\nIt is still not clear what caused the multi-train collision in Balasore district, which has been described as India's worst rail accident this century.\n\nA full investigation has been launched, but a preliminary report indicates that the accident was the result of signal failure, said KS Anand, chief public relations officer of the South Eastern Railway.\n\nSome 2,000 passengers are thought to have been on board the two passenger trains involved.\n\nThe exact sequence of events has been the subject of conflicting accounts.\n\nOfficials say several carriages from the Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), derailed at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) after hitting a stationary goods train. It remains unclear how the Express ended up on the same track as the goods train.\n\nSeveral of the Coromandel Express's coaches then ended up on the opposite track. Another train travelling in the opposite direction - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - collided with derailed carriages.\n\n\"The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for the loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there,\" Mr Anand said.\n\n\"Its coaches then fell on to the tracks on either side, also derailing the Howrah Superfast Express,\" he said.\n\nSounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside the trauma centre in the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack - where critically injured passengers have been wheeled in.\n\nSo far, close to 200 passengers from the train accident site have been brought in, and the numbers continue to rise.\n\nThe hospital is the largest in the state of Odisha, but is still three hours' drive from the accident site.\n\nThe hospital staff - from junior doctors to nurses and ward boys - have been lined up and waiting in groups to assist patients as they are brought in. Wards have been expanded to handle the numbers coming in.\n\nThe constant sounds of whistles and announcements by hospital authorities interrupt the chaos.\n\nFamily members of the injured are waiting anxiously outside praying for their relatives' wellbeing. But many are still looking for their loved ones, not knowing their whereabouts.\n\nThere is a counter set up to assist people who cannot locate their family members. It is crowded, and the lists run long.\n\nSome people met by the BBC ran from the accident site to nearby hospitals before coming to the facility in Cuttack - searching for their families who were on board the trains.\n\nPeople check a list at a hospital in Cuttack to see if their relatives have been taken there\n\nAnnouncing the conclusion of rescue efforts on Saturday, the railway ministry said work to restore the crash site had begun.\n\nSurvivors and eyewitnesses earlier described chaotic scenes and the heroic efforts of people from nearby villages to save trapped passengers.\n\nMukesh Pandit, who was trapped for half an hour before being rescued, told the BBC he heard a \"thunderous sound\" shortly before the carriage overturned.\n\n\"Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing. A lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in,\" he added.\n\nResidents of the neighbouring villages were among the first to reach the site of the accident and start the rescue operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.\n\nTrains can get very packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.\n\nBoth passenger trains involved in the crash were full and had many more people on the waiting list, according to passenger lists on the Indian rail ministry website reviewed by the BBC.\n\nIndia's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee was tough, but the BBC's test really put these whizz kids through their paces.", "The event at City Hall for Dáithí Mac Gabhann featured circus performers and superheroes\n\nA six-year-old boy who successfully campaigned to change Northern Ireland's organ donation laws has become the youngest ever person to be awarded the freedom of Belfast.\n\nDáithí Mac Gabhann, who needs a heart transplant, was given the accolade at City Hall on Saturday.\n\nThe ceremony took place just days after Dáithí's Law came into effect.\n\nIt means most adults will be considered potential organ donors unless they opt-out or are in an excluded group.\n\nThe bill, which brings Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK, was delayed due to political stalemate at Stormont, but was later passed by MPs at Westminster in February.\n\nThe intent of the Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) legislation is to increase the number of organs available to people in need of a transplant.\n\nThe special event at City Hall, which featured circus performers and superheroes, was designed around Dáithí passions.\n\nSpeaking before the ceremony Dáithí's father, Máirtín, said he was full of pride for his son.\n\nDáithí's father Máirtín Mac Gabhann said nobody deserved the accolade more\n\n\"Our Dáithí, he woke up this morning and we just heard from his room him singing: 'Freedom freedom freedom!'\n\n\"It's hard to put into words exactly how I feel but proud - beyond proud - and I'm sure that nobody deserves it more than our Dáithí for everything he's done for our society.\"\n\nIn a speech, Mr Mac Gabhann described his son as a symbol of hope, resilience and people power.\n\n\"To say that we proud of Dáithí would be an understatement,\" he told attendees at City Hall.\n\n\"His courage, resilience, and unwavering determination have shone brightly through the darkest of times.\n\n\"Dáithí's journey has been one of immense challenges, but he has faced them with a spirit that inspires us all.\"\n\nMr Mac Gabhann paid tribute to medical professionals, organ donors and their families who made the \"ultimate selfless act\" of giving life to others.\n\n\"May this recognition serve as a reminder to us all that the greatest power lies within us - the power to transform lives, to inspire change, and to create a world filled with compassion and love.\"\n\nThe sun was shining down on the massive circus tent set up in the grounds of Belfast City Hall in honour of six-year-old Dáithí.\n\nCircus performers entertained guests before the arrival of the little boy who has met the prime minister and changed the law.\n\nDáithí meets other superheroes at the freedom of the city event on Saturday\n\nA huge round of applause rang out as Dáithí was wheeled into the tent by his father Máirtín, and spirits were high throughout the show which featured comedy, magic and, of course, a special presentation to Dáithí with his own key to the city.\n\nEverywhere I looked people were smiling, celebrating a young boy who has hopefully made life better for himself and countless others.\n\nLord Mayor of Belfast Tina Black said all councillors had backed the motion to give Dáithí the award, adding that it was an honour to host the event.\n\n\"He's going to be the youngest recipient ever, he's super excited, it's totally themed around his likes,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"The day is all about him and all the other brave children who are awaiting transplants, so it truly is a glorious day for our city.\"\n\nBelfast's Lord Mayor Tina Black welcomed Dáithí and his family to the special event on Saturday\n\nThe mayor described the Mac Gabhann family as \"unceasingly brave\" and said the six-year-old had \"moved mountains\".\n\n\"He's actually getting a key today for the city but I really do think he has the key to all our hearts anyway - but he can also bring sheep down Royal Avenue, so you never know when that'll come in useful.\"", "Footage filmed in the daylight has revealed the extent of damage in the wake of a train collision in the Indian state of Odisha.\n\nAt least 260 people have been killed and 650 are injured, with officials saying the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nOne passenger train derailed on to the adjacent track and was struck by an incoming train on Friday, also hitting a nearby stationary freight train.", "Apolonia Mbondiya said a police officer visited the family home to tell them of the threat against her daughter\n\nA threat has been made against a teenage girl who called for a novel containing racial slurs to be removed from the GCSE curriculum.\n\nOf Mice and Men is one of seven books that schools in Northern Ireland and Wales can pick for teaching.\n\nIn a BBC News NI interview, Angel said hearing the slurs and the N-word in the classroom made her uncomfortable.\n\nThe girl's mother, Apolonia Mbondiya said a police officer visited their Belfast home earlier this week.\n\nThe police said they do not comment on an individual's security.\n\nThe family are now having to put security measures in place at home and at Angel's school.\n\nThe John Steinbeck novel, which is set in California in the 1930s, has a character who faces discrimination because he is black.\n\n\"It's a very violent book to begin with but it's mostly just to do with racism and how that affects me and some other black students in my class,\" Angel told BBC News NI last week.\n\n\"It's just really uncomfortable sitting in a classroom where we have to listen to racist slurs and comments.\n\n\"I understand the history behind it and stuff but you can learn that in history about slavery.\"\n\nApolonia said she and her daughter were shocked at what had happened.\n\n\"I didn't think that the interview... what she said, how she felt, would cause anyone to put a threat on her life,\" said Apolonia.\n\n\"Difference of opinion is allowed but you don't threaten someone, especially a child, when they're expressing what is affecting them in school.\"\n\nApolonia said she was worried about her daughter's safety but felt she had to speak out and condemn those behind the threat.\n\n\"Are we saying we shouldn't speak about issues that are affecting us in this society?\n\n\"I believe we are in a democratic society - we are allowed to express how we feel in a proper way,\n\n\"What are we teaching children that you can't express yourself - you cannot speak up?\n\n\"Are we saying that they should just keep holding things in?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf said he was not prepared to put companies at a competitive disadvantage\n\nThe first minister has told the BBC he is struggling to see how Scotland's deposit return scheme can go ahead without the UK government's support.\n\nHumza Yousaf has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him to agree to include glass bottles in the scheme.\n\nHe has set Monday as a deadline for a response and agreed that this was \"effectively\" an ultimatum.\n\nThe UK government said deposit return schemes should be consistent UK-wide.\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Mr Yousaf accused the UK government of placing the deposit return scheme (DRS) in \"grave danger\".\n\nHe said the demands would have a \"significant impact\" on business.\n\nThe administrator of Scotland's DRS, Circularity Scotland, has now urged the UK and Scottish governments to \"get round the table\" to deliver the programme.\n\nThe UK government wrote to the Scottish government last week granting a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act which would exclude glass containers from the DRS - which is due to go live in Scotland in March next year.\n\nMr Yousaf has urged a rethink from the UK government, citing concerns from one of Scotland's biggest brewers.\n\n\"The removal of glass fundamentally threatens the viability of Scotland's DRS with reduced revenue for the scheme administrator,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Removing glass will also have a significant impact on business.\n\n\"For example, C&C Group - owners of the iconic Tennent's brand - has been explicit that the decision by the UK government to remove glass threatens investment and jobs.\n\n\"Other Scottish businesses have raised similar concerns privately with us.\"\n\nThe Scottish government wants to include glass bottles in its plans\n\nMr Yousaf later told BBC Scotland Tennent's had said that, apart from threatening jobs and investment, excluding glass would also put the company at a competitive disadvantage.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to do that,\" he said. \"The Scottish government will not be prepared to do that and now that we've heard from these companies I'm saying to the prime minister it's very simple - you agree to include glass in the scheme or I'm afraid I struggle to see how the scheme can go ahead because I will not put Scottish businesses at that disadvantage.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said he hoped the UK government would listen and agree to provide the Scottish government with the necessary exemption from the Internal Market Act.\n\nThe UK government's move sparked another constitutional row between Edinburgh and London, with the first minister writing in his letter to Mr Sunak: \"There are much wider consequences of the decision.\n\n\"This UK government intervention at such a late stage demonstrates a major erosion of the devolution settlement.\n\n\"I urge you to revoke the conditions set out in your letter and grant a full exclusion for Scotland's DRS, to be implemented as per the regulations agreed by the Scottish Parliament in this area of devolved competence.\n\n\"Without this, the Scottish government is not prepared to put Scottish businesses at a competitive disadvantage due to the last-minute demands the UK government has made.\n\n\"There is little doubt your government's action have put the future of DRS in grave danger, not only in Scotland but also in the rest of the UK due to the damage to consumer and investor confidence.\"\n\nIt is looking increasingly likely that the deposit return scheme will be scrapped.\n\nThe Scottish government wants the scheme to cover glass bottles, plastic bottles and drinks cans.\n\nBut the UK government has an effective veto - it needs to provide the Scottish government with an appropriate exemption from the Internal Market Act which is designed to ensure there are no barriers to trade within Britain.\n\nThe UK government is only prepared to offer an exemption covering plastic bottles and drinks cans.\n\nHumza Yousaf hopes the UK government will listen to Holyrood and provide that wider exemption.\n\nBut there seems to be no chance of that happening by Monday.\n\nIf the scheme is dropped, supporters of the Scottish government will argue it is the result of an attack on devolution itself and the rights of the Scottish parliament,\n\nBut critics will say the problem could have been foreseen.\n\nAnother of the conditions placed on the scheme was the insurance of \"interoperability\" between the Scottish scheme and the anticipated English DRS, which is intended to launch in October 2025.\n\nThe first minister conceded the ability for the schemes to work together where possible would be \"desirable\", but added that the UK government was \"unable to provide the operational details required to allow the schemes to be interoperable\" due to it being at such an early stage.\n\n\"Businesses need certainty and they need it now - not in two years time when the UK government scheme potentially, hopefully launches,\" he added.\n\n\"The UK government has significantly undermined the clarity and certainty that businesses unanimously tell us they need.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also pointed out that the UK government had intended to include glass in the English DRS from 2019 right up until March 2022 - two years after regulations were passed by the Scottish Parliament.\n\n\"We planned our scheme on this basis,\" he said.\n\nThe first minister added that as late as January 2023, the UK government confirmed that it was for devolved governments to decide the scope of their DRS.\n\n\"The Welsh government's stated intention has been to include glass in their DRS, meaning that it is the English scheme which is out of step with the design of other UK schemes,\" Mr Yousaf said.\n\nThe first minister asked for a response from Downing Street by Monday to allow for the issue to be discussed by the Scottish Cabinet the following day and to update Holyrood.\n\nThe DRS would see customers given money back by returning empty bottles\n\nThe Scotland Office said it would respond to the first minister's letter in due course, with a spokeswoman adding: \"The government remains unwavering in its commitment to improving the environment while also upholding the UK's internal market.\n\n\"The drinks industry has raised concerns about the Scottish government's DRS differing from plans in the rest of the UK, resulting in the Scottish government reviewing and pausing their scheme earlier this year.\n\n\"We have listened to these concerns and that is why we have accepted the Scottish government's request for a UK internal market (UKIM) exclusion on a temporary and limited basis to ensure the Scottish government's scheme aligns with planned schemes for the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the UK and this is the best way to provide a simple and effective system.\n\n\"A system with the same rules for the whole UK will increase recycling collection rates and reduce litter - as well as minimise disruption to the drinks industry and ensure simplicity for consumers.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scotland's DRS administrator said: \"Circularity Scotland, our members and business and industry partners have invested around £300m to develop a deposit return scheme and have done so at no cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"This scheme will be ready to launch in March 2024 and will be a platform for a scaled-up and interoperable pan-UK scheme.\n\n\"We urge both governments to urgently get round the table and agree a pathway for integrated and harmonised deposit return schemes across the UK.\n\n\"Without this agreement, investment and public confidence will be seriously damaged, jeopardising credibility for investment in any future major environmental projects.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden said: \"Issuing this ultimatum is a cynical and transparent attempt to create a constitutional spat to divert attention from another unravelling SNP-Green policy.\n\n\"The reality is that DRS has been an utter shambles from the start - and nationalist ministers only applied for an internal market act exemption at the very last minute.\n\n\"Retailers have no confidence that the SNP-Greens can deliver the efficient recycling system that we all want to see.\"", "Cardiff-born Sir Michael Moritz began his career as a journalist for Time magazine and wrote the first biography of Steve Jobs and Apple in 1984\n\nA Welsh billionaire has been criticised over a \"misguided\" poster campaign aimed at heavier enforcement of laws against drug users and dealers on the streets of San Francisco.\n\nMichael Moritz is a funder of Together SF, whose poster campaign called for an end to open-air drug markets and more city-sponsored recovery programmes.\n\nThe posters were graffitied and some have labelled the campaign \"misguided\".\n\nSir Michael and Together SF have been contacted for comment.\n\nSir Michael was born in Cardiff and moved to the States after graduating from Oxford in 1974. He made his fortune after investing in tech start ups such as Google and PayPal.\n\nSome online have claimed the Together San Francisco project was \"shaming\" drug and Narcan (a brand of anti-opiate drug naloxone) use and calling for the \"criminalisation of poor people\".\n\nThe alleged graffiti artists wrote: \"Under the cover of night, with the Frisco fog as our accomplice, a crew of friends vandalised over 10 of the right-wing, pro-police 'Fentalyfe' street poster installations.\"\n\nThe anonymous blog posters claimed they painted messages such as \"Narcan saves lives\", \"cops kill people\" and a message against Mr Moritz.\n\nIn February, Sir Michael wrote an article for the Financial Times saying San Francisco \"bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles\".\n\nHe also claimed the Californian city saw more deaths from drugs than Covid between 2020 and 2022 and said any attempt to combat the city's problems would be \"fruitless\" without handling drug problems.\n\nSir Michael also wrote that the drug fentanyl - a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin - had turned many of the blocks of the city into \"zombie zones\".\n\n\"Beyond the shocking waste of potential, the drug use and homeless tents consume an enormous part of San Francisco's annual $13.95bn (£11.1bn) budget,\" he said.\n\n\"Direct city spending on homelessness has risen from about $200m (£160m) for the fiscal year 2016 to $680m (£543m) this year.\"\n\nSan Francisco journalist Christopher Cook has lived in the city for 30 years and said \"nobody in the city denies that there are issues and problems on the streets with fentanyl and homelessness and drug addiction\".\n\n\"It's very clear there's a lot of suffering and tragedy in the streets,\" he said. \"The issue is how are we going to deal with it? What's causing these problems?\"\n\nHe claimed Sir Michael and the campaign group had \"fomented ... a really misleading narrative that somehow a handful of progressive supervisors, local legislators are somehow to blame for this huge crisis that is national in scope\".\n\nMr Cook said the tech billionaire had been \"one of the major funders for this whole reactionary movement\" and the benefits homeless people get are \"enough to barely keep them alive\".\n\nHe added that \"the solution isn't to throw them in jail\", where overdose rates are higher.\n\nChristopher Cook says the authority raids on homeless settlements are \"incredibly destructive\"\n\n\"What many of us would propose is expanded treatment on demand in the streets, combined with fully supportive housing where people have somewhere to stay, not just a shelter overnight.\"\n\nHe said shelters were often \"very dangerous places\", leaving people \"to fend for themselves\" outside.\n\nThe San Francisco resident added homelessness was \"a systemic problem in America\".\n\nCalifornia's homeless population grew by 22,000 over the Covid pandemic, according to CalMatters\n\nMr Cook said the city had changed a lot in the 30 years he has lived there.\n\n\"The largest change has been city-wide massive gentrification which has displaced literally thousands of people.\"\n\nHe said \"working people\" could not afford to live in the city because \"basic level apartments [are] going for $2,000 to $3,000 a month (£1,600 to £2,400) [for] a one-bedroom studio\".\n\nMr Cook added: \"The ad campaign seems incredibly tone deaf and simplistic.\"\n\nAlthough the ad campaign calls for funding to treat substance abuse, it attacks City Hall and the \"very people\" who are \"the strongest supporters of expanding treatment\", said Mr Cook.\n\n\"Together San Francisco and Michael Moritz and these other allied groups have consistently promoted more police presence, more policing of the problems on the streets and arresting users, drug addicts and forcing people into treatment.\"\n\nHe added drug addiction and the homelessness crisis were \"not entirely the same thing\".\n\n\"[Sir Michael] is blaming all the wrong sources.\"\n\nMr Cook added critics should be willing to pay higher taxes to fund drug treatments.\n\nTogether San Francisco and its sister group Together SF Action are non-profit organisations demanding better governance from their elected officials.\n\nNarcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil are handed out to drug users in need as a part of outreach on the streets of San Francisco\n\nIts website says it refuses \"to stand by while our city faces rising homelessness, out-of-control housing costs, a drug epidemic, and failing schools\".\n\nTogether SF Action was started, it says, \"to unite and empower people who are tired of being told those issues are too complicated to solve\".\n\nSir Michael and Together SF have been contacted for comment.\n• None Unhoused population grew by more than 22,000\n• None Fentalyfe Poster Campaign Redecorated by the graffiti artists The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Joe Biden made his first address from the Oval Office on the debt deal\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said raising the US borrowing limit averted \"economic collapse\", in his first Oval Office address to the nation on Friday.\n\nHe signed the bill into law on Saturday after it cruised through Congress with bipartisan support.\n\nThe Democratic president voiced rare praise for his Republican counterparts, saying they \"operated in good faith\".\n\nHe said a US default on its $31.4tn (£25tn) debt by Monday's deadline would have been \"catastrophic\".\n\nSpeeches to the nation from the Oval Office are typically reserved for major crises, such as war or natural disasters.\n\nThe White House said Mr Biden's decision to make his remarks there underscored the gravity of the situation if the debt ceiling had not been raised at the last minute.\n\nFor weeks the White House and Republicans debated details of a deal, and there was scepticism about whether the package would actually be finalised before the US government ran out of money on 5 June.\n\nThe bill passed 63-36 in the Senate on Thursday night, a day after it easily cleared the House of Representatives.\n\nThe president praised congressional leaders, including Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.\n\n\"They acted responsibly, and put the good of the country ahead of politics,\" said Mr Biden, who is running for re-election in 2024.\n\nThe deal suspends the debt limit until 1 January 2025 and caps non-defence spending, while expanding work requirements for food and healthcare assistance, amongst other provisions.\n\nFull funding for the medical care of military veterans would also increase, in line with what President Biden had sought.\n\nThe legislation will result in $1.5tn in savings over a decade, the independent Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.\n\nThough it was largely a bipartisan bill, there were Republicans who said the deal did not go far enough with cuts while some Democrats said it went too far.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nTop seed Iga Swiatek says she does \"not want to get lazy\" after thrashing China's Wang Xinyu 6-0 6-0 to reach the French Open fourth round.\n\nPoland's Swiatek, going for a third Roland Garros title, has won four of her six sets without dropping a game.\n\nCoco Gauff used her greater experience to fight back from a set down against 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva.\n\nAmerican sixth seed Gauff, who is still only 19, remained calm and turned the match around to win 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 6-1.\n\nSwiatek, who beat Gauff in last year's final on the Paris clay, needed just 51 minutes to record her first 'double bagel' at a Grand Slam.\n\n\"I always try to kind of be careful, because you don't want to get lazy after winning these matches,\" Swiatek told a news conference.\n\n\"It's never easy to win these matches. But on the other hand, sometimes all your head can remember is the score, and I always want to kind of be ready for every situation.\"\n\nSeventh seed Ons Jabeur secured her place in the fourth round after coming back from a set down to beat Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic.\n\nTunisian Jabeur initially struggled against Danilovic, who had not dropped a set at Roland Garros this year, but she regrouped to win 4-6 6-4 6-2.\n\nJabeur will face Bernarda Pera next after the American beat Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4 7-6 (7-2).\n• None I am playing to raise money for Ukraine - Tsurenko\n\nSwiatek, 21, has become known for the ruthless nature of her victories and winning a lot of sets by a 6-0 or 6-1 scoreline - known as 'bagels' and 'breadsticks' - led to the creation of a Twitter account called Iga's Bakery.\n\nAsked about it following her win against Wang, she said: \"I don't want to talk about the bakery.\n\n\"Twitter can talk about it but I'm just going to be focused on tennis. With respect to my opponents, I really don't want to get into that.\n\n\"I really get why people do that, because it's fun and tennis is entertainment. But from players' point of view, I want to be respectful to my opponents and you don't see the stuff that is behind the scenes.\n\n\"Sometimes it's not easy to play such matches and sometimes it's not easy also for the opponents.\"\n\nThe world number one will face Lesia Tsurenko in the last 16 after the Ukrainian beat 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu 6-1 6-1.\n\nDespite suffering a thigh injury in Rome before Roland Garros, Swiatek has quelled any fears about her fitness with dominant performances in the opening three rounds.\n\nAlongside Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka, Swiatek is widely considered a favourite to win the clay-court Grand Slam and the pair's chances were also strengthened when Kazakh fourth seed Elena Rybakina - part of the emerging 'big three' on the WTA Tour - withdrew.\n\nWimbledon champion Rybakina, who won the Rome title last month, pulled out shortly before her third-round match on Saturday after struggling with a virus.\n\nWith Gauff bursting on to the scene as a 15-year-old at Wimbledon in 2019 still feeling fresh in the memory, it felt odd seeing her in the rare position of playing a younger opponent.\n\nAndreeva was still only 15 when she started her stunning run to the Madrid Open last 16 in April, turning 16 during the tournament and attracting praise from seasoned professionals - including Britain's former world number one Andy Murray - in the process.\n\nGauff insisted \"age would not be a factor\" when the two teenagers, who have practised together recently, played competitively for the first time.\n\nBut it was the American's greater experience that shone through.\n\nIn front of an enthralled Court Suzanne Lenglen, packed with fans eager to see two players who could be around at the top for years to come, the pair demonstrated their talent in a dramatic first set full of stunning shot-making, intense long rallies but also fragility.\n\nAndreeva fortunate not to be defaulted after 'stupid move'\n\nGauff fell a set behind on the same court in her opening match against Spain's Rebekah Masarova, saying afterwards she told herself not to \"freak out\" despite having lost her previous 15 matches when falling behind.\n\nInstead, it was Andreeva whose frustration spilled over.\n\nThe youngster received a code violation, as per Grand Slam rules, in the first-set tie-break when she thumped a ball into the crowd and it hit a spectator, although the world number 147 could have been defaulted if umpire Timo Janzen had deemed it more serious.\n\n\"Right after I thought that it was a really stupid move because it was not necessary to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"It was really bad what I did. I had thoughts [about being defaulted], but he just gave me a warning.\"\n\nAndreeva regained her composure to take the first set, but was unable to maintain her level as Gauff fought back.\n\n\"Mirra is super young and has a big future,\" said Gauff, who will take on Slovakia's world number 100 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova next.\n\n\"I remember I played here when I was 16 so she has a lot to look forward to. I'm sure you'll see a lot more matches between us.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None No small talk, no messages, just one kiss:\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nRyan Moore won his third Derby by guiding Auguste Rodin to victory at Epsom as Frankie Dettori finished 10th on Arrest in his last ride in the race.\n\nSurrey police made 19 arrests before the meet and there was tight security to prevent animal rights protesters disrupting the Classic's 244th running.\n\nOne did make it on to the track before he was tackled by police, while another was stopped from climbing a fence.\n\n\"He came with a massive reputation as a beautiful horse but he kept stepping up to all the markers all the way, which is very unusual,\" said O'Brien.\n\nThe 9-2 winner chased down 66-1 outsider King of Steel to win by half a length and the two finished well clear of White Birch in third, with Sprewell in fourth.\n\nAuguste Rodin had finished 12th of 14 runners when sent off favourite for last month's 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket.\n\n\"We had a smooth run. We landed in a smooth spot, I had William [Buick, on Military Order] and Frankie [Dettori, on Arrest] ahead of me and was always confident I had them covered,\" Moore told ITV.\n\n\"We didn't go that quickly, it turned in to a bit of a dash, but I was getting a nice smooth run.\n\n\"I always thought I had the race won, but I just had to get into him in the last furlong and he responded very gamely. He's done that quite cosily, I think.\"\n\nDettori, who has won the Derby twice, is retiring this year.\n\n\"The track was too much for him [Arrest], he just could not run down the hill,\" said the 52-year-old Italian.\n\n\"He had legs everywhere bless him, so we were a long way out.\"\n\nThe race was moved from its traditional 16:30 time slot to 13:30 to avoid clashing with the FA Cup final at 15:00.\n\nAnimal rights activists delayed the start of the Grand National in April by getting on to the track at Aintree and had pledged to similarly disrupt the Derby, one of Flat racing's five British Classics.\n\nThat led to the Jockey Club winning a High Court injunction to ban people from entering or throwing objects on the race track, entering the parade ring and any other action that could disrupt proceedings.\n\nThe organisation was critical of Saturday's \"reckless and illegal behaviour\", while the British Horseracing Authority said the actions - for which protest group Animal Rising has claimed responsibility - jeopardised the safety of horses and riders.\n• None No small talk, no messages, just one kiss:\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health", "Israeli forces have in the past clashed with drug smugglers near the border with Egypt\n\nThree Israeli soldiers have been killed by an Egyptian security officer in exchanges of fire on the Israeli side of the border.\n\nThe armed forces of both countries say they are jointly investigating the unusual incident.\n\nEgypt says its officer crossed into Israel while chasing drug traffickers.\n\nThe Israeli military has said the shootings were assumed to be connected with a drug smuggling operation it had thwarted overnight.\n\nAccording to the army, two Israeli soldiers - a man and woman - posted in a remote spot along the border were shot dead early on Saturday morning.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered after a senior officer was unable to contact them by radio.\n\nHours later, after a search operation, the alleged attacker was encircled and there was a shootout, the Israeli military says.\n\nA third soldier was killed, along with the gunman, who it said was an Egyptian policeman. Another soldier was wounded in that exchange.\n\nIn a vaguely worded statement, the Egyptian military said that its security officer was pursuing drug smugglers and that a shooting led to the Israeli deaths.\n\nIt also conveyed \"sincere condolences\" to the families of the victims.\n\nThe Israeli military says contraband worth about $400,000 was seized by its forces during the overnight operation against smugglers.\n\nThe attacks reportedly happened near Mount Harif military base in the Negev desert\n\nSoldiers are continuing to search in the area for others that may have been involved, the army says. It is not clear how the policeman managed to enter Israel from Egypt.\n\nIsraeli media say the attacks happened between Mount Harif and Mount Sagi - which lie in the Negev desert, about half-way between the Mediterranean coast and the Red Sea Israeli resort of Eilat.\n\nIsraeli military spokesman Richard Hecht told journalists: \"Co-operation with the Egyptians is ongoing, it's good. This is not geopolitical.\"\n\nThis appears to be one of the most serious border incidents since Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.\n\nAlthough the two states are often described as having \"a cold peace\" in recent years, they have worked together closely on military and intelligence matters, particularly on counter-terrorism.\n\nThe Israeli air force has supported the Egyptian army in its fight against so-called Islamic State militants in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.\n\nThe most serious infiltration attempt in recent times took place in 2012.\n\nBack then, militants attacked an Egyptian checkpoint near to Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip, killing 16 Egyptian policemen and stealing two armoured cars.\n\nThey used these to break through the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel where one of the vehicles exploded. After a firefight, Israel said the bodies of eight attackers were found.\n\nIn the past decade, Israel has built a tall border fence to try to keep out militants and to stop people-smuggling from Egypt - in particular migrants crossing from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nHowever, drug smuggling attempts in the area remain frequent. The border stretches some 255km (160 miles), making it difficult for security patrols.\n\nRecent years have seen several cases of gunfire between smugglers and Israeli soldiers. The Egyptian army has also shot at drug smugglers and jihadists which has occasionally led to accidental cross-border fire.\n\nLast December, Israeli soldiers shot dead a suspect who was apparently trying to smuggle drugs into Israel.", "More than 120 people have been killed and 850 injured after trains collided in India's eastern Odisha state, local officials say.\n\nFootage shows people climbing over the wreckage of the trains.\n\nDozens of ambulances were sent to the scene in the Balasore district, the state's chief secretary said.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nCeltic proved too strong for second-tier Inverness Caledonian Thistle as they claimed the Scottish Cup and a fifth domestic treble in seven seasons.\n\nInverness were looking to cause one of the tournament's biggest final shocks, and defended stoutly until the prolific Kyogo Furuhashi turned in his 34th goal of the season with virtually his first touch as half-time approached.\n\nThe deluge of goals that might have been expected never followed, but substitute Liel Abada finished a slick move to put Celtic firmly in control and start the treble party for the Premiership champions.\n\nHowever, out of nothing, Daniel MacKay stooped to head in Wallace Duffy's wonderful cross with six minutes left to suddenly give the final life and the small corner of Inverness fans some hope again.\n\nBut as they have all season, Celtic persisted and Abada's dinked cross was eventually turned home in stoppage time by Jota to seal a 41st Scottish Cup and yet another domestic clean sweep.\n\nManager Ange Postecoglou has now won five of the six domestic trophies available since joining the club in the summer of 2021, but the question is whether the Australian will be around for more amid links to to the Tottenham job.\n\nRegardless, he has achieved what he was brought in to do - restore Celtic as the Scottish football's dominant force - and he has done so in emphatic fashion, also becoming the manager to take the club past their great rivals Rangers on to eight trebles won.\n\nIt was far from a vintage performance from Celtic, though, at a sun-soaked and mostly green and white Hampden.\n\nInverness, who finished sixth in the Championship and had not played a game for nearly a month, were well drilled by manager Billy Dodds and gave precious few chances to an uncharacteristically sluggish Celtic.\n\nBut Kyogo has shown all season he only needs one sight of goal, and the Japanese striker tucked the ball into the top corner from Matt O'Riley's cross for his fifth cup final goal in a Celtic jersey.\n\nEven the small blue and red band of Inverness fans might have feared the worst at that point, but their team stuck at it despite posing little threat.\n\nCeltic looked home and hosed by the 65th minute when Abada tapped in Callum McGregor's cross to make it 2-0, which allowed the club's fans to party in the sunshine on Glasgow's south side.\n\nBut from nowhere, Duffy surged down Celtic's right-hand side and picked out a diving MacKay and set up an exciting finish.\n\nBut Celtic celebrations were only on hold for six minutes. Jota went tearing off to celebrate with the delirious fans after taking one touch before burying Abada's cross to seal the win.\n\nMission accomplished for Postecoglou and Celtic, even if it was less emphatic than many expected. Their fans, who are living through an era of dominance, will not care.\n\nPostecoglou has now won everything in Scottish football, taking Celtic from 25 points behind Rangers when he arrived to back-to-back champions and now treble winners, while bringing an effervescent style of play.\n\nJust before Celtic lifted the trophy, fans sang in tribute to their totemic manager, in another plea to show just how much he is loved in Glasgow's east end. The Aussie took it all in quietly, soaking in the atmosphere and applauding, before getting a massive cheers when he hoisted the trophy.\n\nWho knows what's going through his head. He has expertly avoided saying whether he will be at the club next season or not amid persistent links to Spurs.\n\nWhether he goes or not, his time at Celtic will be revered.\n\nAs for Inverness, they gave it absolutely everything and unsurprisingly fell just short.\n\nNot playing competitively for a month before the final was hardly ideal preparation, but they looked as though they had been coached brilliantly in the interim to frustrate Celtic in the first half.\n\nThey deserved their goal at the end for sheer effort and resilience, and it made for a frantic final few minutes. Dodds and his team can walk away with their heads held high.\n\nWhat they said\n\nCeltic manager Ange Postecoglou: \"I'm very proud. It's been an extraordinary season by the boys. We caught people by surprise last year. It's always hard defending things. The challenge was, 'can we be better this year and we push on?'\n\n\"We've won the trophy that eluded us last year, so it feels great, it's the last day of the season. It's an occasion and it was nice to finish it off that way.\"\n\nInverness Caley Thistle manager Billy Dodds: \"I was always going to have a go but we lost goals at bad times. I'm so proud of the boys. They gave me everything.\n\n\"Talks are ongoing (on a new contract) and we hope to get things tied up, so we'll see what happens over the next few days. I love working with these players and you can see the team spirit we have.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Sead Haksabanovic (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by James Forrest.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oh Hyeon-Gyu (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Turnbull.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, Inverness CT 1. Jota (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liel Abada with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Sead Haksabanovic (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum McGregor with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oh Hyeon-Gyu (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Turnbull.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jota (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Greg Taylor.\n• None Goal! Celtic 2, Inverness CT 1. Daniel Mackay (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wallace Duffy with a cross.\n• None Roddy MacGregor (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Liel Abada (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Oh Hyeon-Gyu. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How was Wales' first serial killer unmasked? The inside story of the police investigation into the 1973 murders of three teenage girls\n• None Why did Jimmy Carr start his career all over again? He reveals all to Steven Bartlett in The Diary of a CEO", "The video shows the driver pointing what appears to be a gun\n\nA 48-year-old Belfast man charged in connection with a video circulating online showing a man with a suspected firearm has been denied bail.\n\nBrian Alexander Stalford of Park Avenue in the city is charged with possession of a pistol-type weapon with intent to cause fear of violence, threats to kill and common assault.\n\nHe was also charged with possession of cocaine.\n\nAn officer told the court he could connect the defendant to the charges.\n\nThe officer outlined the contents of the conversation contained in the online video and told Belfast Magistrates' Court there had been a number of malicious threats made in the car and the muzzle of a gun had been used.\n\nThe passenger had been instructed to work off a drugs-related debt, the officer said.\n\nThe detective told the court he investigated the activities of the east Belfast UVF and he believed the defendant was an \"enforcer of a drugs-related matter\".\n\nHe added that there was nothing to say the defendant was a member of the east Belfast UVF.\n\nThe two passengers in the car had been unwilling to cooperate with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the officer said.\n\nA defence solicitor told the court there had been no complaints made to the police by the two passengers.\n\nIn a series of questions to the detective, the solicitor asked if in the defendant's account of what had happened, the defendant had stated that the firearm was a toy.\n\nThe solicitor told the court that his client had said everyone in the video had consented to what had happened and that the video, which had been recorded in March, had been watched by all three in the weeks following.\n\nHe said social media had been littered with these types of videos.\n\nThe PSNI detective rejected those claims and said that what they saw was \"two frightened passengers\".\n\nIn opposing bail, the officer told the court: \"We say this is not TikTok foolery. We say this is an enforcer of a drugs debt.\"\n\nThe judge denied bail, citing a risk of interference with the case and the defendant was a risk to committing further offences.\n\nMr Stalford was remanded into custody and will appear again on 30 June.", "The former BBC Newsline presenter claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability\n\nThe employment tribunal case between Donna Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth has been settled.\n\nThere was no admission of liability.\n\nMs Traynor, a former BBC Newsline presenter, had claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability.\n\n\"The parties are pleased that this matter has been brought to a conclusion and intend to put it behind them,\" an agreed joint statement said.\n\n\"The dispute between Donna Traynor and the BBC and Adam Smyth has ended, without any admission of liability on the part of either respondent.\n\n\"Donna Traynor acknowledges the BBC and Adam Smyth continue to refute strongly all the allegations made against them, including the claims made on the opening day of the tribunal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Smyth was asked to comment on the case after it had been settled\n\nAfter the case had ended, Ms Traynor said she did not want to comment to reporters.\n\nHowever, in a social media post on Friday, she wrote: \"My employment tribunal case is now settled and over.\n\n\"Many thanks to everyone who has sent me supportive messages in recent times. Wishing you well.\"\n\nA BBC statement said: \"We settled Donna's claims at a level of payment consistent with what we would pay out in a redundancy-type arrangement.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donna Traynor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, the tribunal was told that Ms Traynor was treated in a manner that amounted to bullying and harassment by the BBC.\n\nHowever, the hearing, which had been due to last for several days, was halted on Friday morning when a settlement between the parties was announced.\n\nMs Traynor announced she was leaving the BBC in November 2021 with immediate effect, after a career at the corporation spanning more than 30 years.\n\nMs Traynor joined the BBC in 1989, presenting radio news bulletins before moving into television.\n\nShe was one of BBC Northern Ireland's most high-profile presenters and in 2022 made a cameo appearance in the finale of hit sitcom Derry Girls.\n\nAt the time of Ms Traynor's departure, Mr Smyth was the head of news at BBC Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was appointed director of BBC NI in April 2023, after almost a year and a half as interim director.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said: \"We strongly refute all of the allegations that were made against us.\"\n\nHe added the settlement was \"acceptable\" and that the BBC treats the use of licence fee payers' money \"very carefully and very sensitively\".\n\n\"It's a very sad day but we're glad to have the dispute come to an end,\" he said.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"Speculation on the settlement amount is far from accurate. We settled Donna's claims at a level of payment consistent with what we would pay out in a redundancy-type arrangement.\"", "A police investigation is under way and the dog has been seized, police say\n\nA woman in her 70s has died after being attacked by a dog.\n\nThe woman died in Kathleen Avenue, Bedworth, Warwickshire, following the attack at about 15:50 BST on Friday, police say.\n\nA man, 52, and a woman, 49, have been arrested on suspicion of owning a banned breed of dog and having a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe dog has been seized and poses no ongoing risk to the community, Warwickshire Police said.\n\nThe arrested woman was taken to hospital and treated for an injury caused by the dog. Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe man has been released on police bail while inquiries continue.\n\nPolice remain at the scene in Kathleen Avenue following the attack\n\nThe force has warned of a heightened police presence in and around the area while its investigation into the attack is under way.\n\nSupt Sutherland Lane said: \"This was a tragic isolated incident.\n\n\"Thankfully dog attacks of this nature are exceedingly rare, but I recognise this will be deeply upsetting for the local community.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Caroline Flack's mum says ITV treats presenters such as Phillip Schofield like \"commodities\"\n\nCaroline Flack's mother has criticised ITV over its handling of the departure of presenter Phillip Schofield, saying the broadcaster had failed to learn lessons from the death of her daughter.\n\nPresenters are not always protected, Christine Flack, whose daughter fronted ITV's Love Island, told BBC Newsnight.\n\nEx-This Morning host Schofield has apologised for lying about an affair and said he had \"lost everything\".\n\nITV says it feels \"badly let down\" by him and takes \"duty of care seriously\".\n\nAccusing the broadcaster of treating employees as \"commodities\", Christine told Newsnight that presenters are \"people\" but are sometimes \"sidelined, not protected\".\n\nShe also appeared to question ITV's aftercare, saying: \"They could have someone speaking for him really, whether he did right or wrong.... it's not a good look really.\"\n\nCaroline Flack was found dead in February 2020 at the age of 40.\n\nShe stood down from hosting the hugely-popular Love Island in December 2019 after being charged with assault by beating.\n\nA coroner later ruled she took her own life - a day after learning that prosecutors were going to press ahead with the assault charge after an incident involving her boyfriend Lewis Burton.\n\nChristine believes ITV \"haven't learned anything\" since the death of her daughter.\n\nShe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: \"If my employer didn't take care of me, there'd be all hell to pay. And there's not.\"\n\nChristine said Schofield and his former lover were going through an \"awful time\" and urged them not to do \"anything silly\".\n\nSchofield gave his first interviews this week, after admitting to lying about having an affair with a younger male colleague.\n\nAsked how he was, and after a long pause, the TV presenter told the BBC's Amol Rajan: \"I think I understand how Caroline Flack felt.\"\n\nChristine told the BBC that Schofield \"knew Caroline\" and when she died, \"he was very upset\".\n\n\"I think he's now realising even more what she went through,\" Christine said. \"But until it happens to you, you feel sad but you don't understand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nSchofield told the BBC that the fallout in the media had been \"relentless\", which Christine said was \"exactly\" how her daughter Caroline had felt.\n\n\"Every day she would try to be a bit stronger, which I should imagine Phillip is [doing],\" she said.\n\nThe problem is, she continued: \"You get more and more thrown at you\".\n\nImploring people to let the situation \"settle\", she said Schofield had \"lost his job\" and \"his world\", adding: \"I think that's enough. I think that's enough for anybody.\"\n\nIn a statement, ITV said: \"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust. Phillip made assurances to us and his agency which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\n\n\"As a producer and broadcaster, ITV takes its responsibilities around duty of care seriously and has robust and well-established processes in place to support the mental and physical health of employees and all those we work with.\"\n\nITV has already ordered an external review into its handling of the relationship between Schofield and his colleague.\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight, former ITV's News executive Lis Howell said it was not just an issue with the channel.\n\n\"It's a problem across the entertainment sector,\" she said.\n\n\"It's also a problem as regards to the tabloid press. They are very responsible in many cases for making people's lives a misery, and of course there is social media. So let's not just pretend, it's ITV, because it's not.\"\n\nSchofield, who came out as gay in 2020, also said he believed homophobia had fuelled the media coverage surrounding his extra-marital affair.\n\nHe said revelations about a similar heterosexual relationship would have been treated as \"nudge nudge, wink wink\" but \"if it's a gay relationship, then suddenly it raises eyebrows\".\n\nHe continued: \"People do find each other attractive in different age groups, I mean it does happen... I appreciate it's the workplace and the history, and I get that - but the fact it is so massive is predominantly homophobia.\"\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.", "Teachers in the National Education Union have held five national and three regional strike days already this year\n\nTeachers in England will strike over pay again on two dates in July, the National Education Union (NEU) has announced.\n\nNational strikes are scheduled for 5 and 7 July. Many schools are likely to fully or partially close.\n\nThe NEU is calling for negotiations with the government to start again and says strike action is a \"last resort\".\n\nThe Department for Education said further strike action would cause \"real damage\" to pupil learning.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan has previously said strike action was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nThere have already been five national and three regional strike days since February by members of the NEU, which is UK's largest education union.\n\nThe most recent one, on 2 May, affected more schools than ever - with fewer than half of schools (45.3%) fully open.\n\nDr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, the NEU's joint general secretaries, said the education secretary had \"turned her back\" on teachers in England.\n\nThey called for Ms Keegan to get round the negotiation table, saying their calls have time and again \"fallen on stony ground\".\n\nIt is within her power to halt these strikes, added Dr Bousted and Mr Courtney in a joint statement.\n\nMost state school teachers in England had a 5% pay rise for the year 2022-23. The government also offered a £1,000 one-off cash payment which was lost when talks failed.\n\nUnions want the offer to be higher to match inflation, and for any pay rise to be funded by extra money from the government rather than from schools' existing budgets.\n\nThe government has offered a 4.3% pay rise for most teachers for 2023-24 with starting salaries reaching £30,000.\n\nThe Department for Education described it as a \"fair and reasonable offer\" and said that schools would receive an extra £2.3bn over the next two years.\n\nIt said on average across England, the offer is fully funded. This refers to the national picture and each school will be affected differently.\n\nHowever, talks stalled after all four unions rejected the government's offer, saying most schools would have to make cuts elsewhere to afford it.\n\nThey are calling on the government to publish the recommendations of the independent pay review body, which advises what pay rise teachers should be offered for next year.\n\nOldfield Primary School in Chester has partially closed on previous strike days, and will do the same for the July strikes.\n\nHead teacher Alan Brown says the last thing teachers want to do is strike as their students have already missed education because of the pandemic.\n\nBut he says the dispute is about \"the future of these children\" and \"not just about teachers' pay\".\n\n\"This is about funding for schools,\" he says.\n\n\"We have seen a decrease in the amount of funding available for us. We do get more money in our budget, don't get me wrong, but to run a school, it costs a lot more money and something needs to happen to actually get us back in sync.\"\n\nIn Leeds, business owner Virginia Nnomo has three children who all had to stay at home on previous strike days. She is weighing up the cost of childcare and whether it is worth opening her salon for the upcoming strikes.\n\nVirginia Nnomo from Chandos Beauty has had to cancel appointments on previous strike days\n\n\"The cost of a babysitter is a lot of money and she charges me per child, so when I weigh it up, maybe it is better to stay home - but I will lose money, that's for sure,\" Virginia says.\n\nKate, a doctor at the local hospital, had to take time off work when her seven-year-old daughter's primary school closed on previous strike days. But she says she is fully supportive of the teachers.\n\n\"They don't get paid enough money in my opinion so I am quite happy to jiggle things around so we can support them,\" she says, adding that she hopes the dispute is resolved soon.\n\nThree other teaching unions, the NAHT, the NASUWT, and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), are also balloting members on strike action for the autumn term.\n\nThe four unions say they would co-ordinate that action to maximise disruption - which the government has said is \"unreasonable\".\n\nElsewhere in the UK, teachers in Northern Ireland, and NAHT members in Wales, are continuing to take action short of a strike. In Scotland, the pay dispute has ended following a revised pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said the strike would cause disruption for parents across the country.\n\n\"Thousands of schools are receiving significant additional funding as part of the extra £2bn of investment we are providing for both 2023/24 and 2024/25, which will take school funding to its highest level in history next year, as measured by the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank).\"\n\nAs is normal process the School Teachers' Review Body has submitted its recommendations to the government on pay for 2023/24, said the spokesman, adding it would consider the recommendations and publish \"in the usual way\".", "President Joe Biden was speaking at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut, calling for tougher gun control laws when he seemingly confused the audience by closing his speech with the phrase \"God Save the Queen\".\n\nVideos of the president's unusual sign off quickly started circulating online, with social media users questioning what he meant.\n\nThe White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Olivia Dalton, later responded to reporters by saying the president was \"commenting to someone in the crowd\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2022 interview: Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg says he was a secret back-up for Wikileaks\n\nDaniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, has died, aged 92.\n\nHe died at his home in Kensington, California, of pancreatic cancer, his family said.\n\nThe former US military analyst's 1971 Pentagon Papers leak led to him being dubbed \"the most dangerous man in America\".\n\nIt led to a Supreme Court case as the Nixon administration tried to block publication in the New York Times.\n\nBut espionage charges against Ellsberg were ultimately dismissed. \"Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an anti-war activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more. He will be dearly missed by all of us,\" Ellsberg's family said in a statement obtained by NPR.\n\nFor decades, Ellsberg was a tireless critic of government overreach and military interventions.\n\nHis opposition crystallised during the 1960s, when he advised the White House on nuclear strategy and assessed the Vietnam War for the Department of Defense.\n\nDaniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to expose actions the US had taken in the Vietnam War\n\nWhat Ellsberg learned during that period weighed heavily on his conscience. If only the public knew, he thought, political pressure to end the war might prove irresistible.\n\nThe release of the Pentagon Papers - 7,000 government pages that exposed deceptions by multiple US presidents - was a product of that rationale.\n\nThe papers contradicted the government's public statements on the war and the damning revelations they contained helped bring an end to the conflict and, ultimately, sowed the seeds of President Richard M Nixon's downfall.\n\nEllsberg was \"the grandfather of whistleblowers\", the former chief editor of The Guardian newspaper, Alan Rusbridger, told the BBC.\n\nHis intervention \"radically changed the public opinion in the Vietnam War\", Rusbridger said on Radio 4's World Tonight programme. The case against him set a precedent and \"no US government has ever tried to injunct a paper on grounds of national security since\", he said.\n\nThe Pentagon Papers created a First Amendment clash between the Nixon administration and The New York Times, which first published stories based on the papers - cast by government officials as an act of espionage that compromised national security. The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of the freedom of the press.\n\nEllsberg was charged in federal court in Los Angeles in 1971 with theft, espionage, conspiracy and other counts.\n\nBut before the jury could reach a verdict the judge threw out the case citing serious government misconduct, including illegal wiretapping.\n\nThe judge said that in the middle of the case he had been offered the job of FBI director by one of President Nixon's top aides.\n\nIt also emerged that there had been a government-sanctioned burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.\n\nEllsberg was born in Chicago on 7 April 1931, and grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Before reaching the Pentagon, he was a Marine Corps veteran with a Harvard doctorate who had worked for the Defense and State departments.\n\nAccording to Rusbridger, recent whistleblowers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were \"moulded by\" Ellsberg.\n\nHe told the BBC that the Pentagon Papers case had prompted him to think \"who gets to define the national interest: is that the government of the day or people with a conscience like Daniel Ellsberg?\"\n\nEllsberg continued his quest to hold the government accountable years after the Pentagon Papers leak.\n\nDuring an interview in December 2022, he told BBC Hardtalk that he was the secret \"back-up\" for the Wikileaks documents leak.\n\nIn the Wikileaks case, Julian Assange's organisation published more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables, provided by a US Army intelligence analyst, in 2010.\n\nEllsberg said he felt Mr Assange \"could rely on me to find some way to get it [the information] out\".\n\nIn the wake of a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in February, in which doctors told Ellsberg he had three to six months to live, he spent recent months reflecting on the Pentagon Papers and whistleblowing more broadly.\n\nIn a March 2023 email obtained by the Washington Post, Ellsberg wrote: \"When I copied the Pentagon Papers in 1969, I had every reason to think I would be spending the rest of my life behind bars. It was a fate I would gladly have accepted if it meant hastening the end of the Vietnam War, unlikely as that seemed.\"\n\nPolitico released an interview with Ellsberg on 4 June and, within it, the publication asked him whether whistleblowing is worth the risk despite his view that it has not made the government any more honest.\n\n\"When we're facing a pretty ultimate catastrophe. When we're on the edge of blowing up the world over Crimea or Taiwan or Bakhmut,\" he replied.\n\n\"From the point of view of a civilization and the survival of eight or nine billion people, when everything is at stake, can it be worth even a small chance of having a small effect?\" he said. \"The answer is: Of course... You can even say it's obligatory.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWales suffered one of their most embarrassing and damaging defeats in recent memory as they lost at home to Armenia in a chaotic and foul-tempered Euro 2024 qualifier.\n\nThe hosts seemed to be on course for a comfortable evening when Daniel James fired them in front from Brennan Johnson's low cross, but the home crowd were soon silenced by an exquisite volley from Armenia's Lucas Zelaryan.\n\nThere were then gasps of disbelief as Grant-Leon Ranos was given the freedom of the Cardiff City Stadium to head the visitors - 71 places below Wales in the world rankings - into a first-half lead which was as deserved as it was shocking.\n\nWales had several chances to equalise but their wasteful finishing was punished after the break as Ranos hit a fine first-time shot from the edge of the area to send Armenia's small contingent of travelling fans into raptures.\n\nHarry Wilson pulled a goal back for Wales with a little under 20 minutes remaining, only for Zelarayan to curl in a superb second to restore Armenia's two-goal advantage.\n• None The state of play in Euro 2024 qualifying\n\nAny hopes Wales had of salvaging something from this game were then dealt another blow when striker Kieffer Moore was sent off for an off-the-ball clash with Armenian goalkeeper Ognjen Chancharevich.\n\nThat final calamity set the seal on a nightmarish evening for Wales, who squandered the chance to go top of Group D with previous leaders Croatia instead in Nations League action.\n\nRob Page and his Wales players must now try to recover from this humiliation in time for Monday's trip to face new leaders Turkey, touted by many as their closest rivals for qualification behind group favourites Croatia.\n\nWales were heavily criticised for last year's World Cup, where their first appearance at the tournament since 1958 was spoiled by three dismal performances which saw them knocked out in the group stage.\n\nA promising start to their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign in March - drawing in Croatia and beating Latvia at home - seemed to suggest Wales had purged themselves of their experience in Qatar, but this display against Armenia suggested otherwise.\n\nIt could, or more pertinently should, have been straightforward. Within 10 minutes, the pace of Johnson and James overwhelmed Armenia as they combined to put Wales ahead.\n\nInstead of seizing control of the match from that point, however, Wales surrendered it.\n\nArmenia's first goal was a gem, Zelarayan's sweet volley the kind that you could write off as just one of those things, a moment of individual class - even if Wales' defenders were sloppy in tracking their runners.\n\nBut there was no justifying the second. Joe Rodon tried carrying the ball out of defence but lost it carelessly and then his colleagues did nothing to reduce the masses of space afforded Ranos to head in.\n\nWales did not learn their lesson. As players rushed forward in the desperate hope of getting themselves back into this game, they instead fell further behind as Ranos struck again.\n\nThe porous Welsh midfield practically invited their Armenian opponents into their penalty area, while the home defence was passive and, at times, statuesque.\n\nBut it is not only the players who should shoulder the responsibility for this horror show.\n\nJust as he did against the United States and Iran at the World Cup, Page got this game horribly wrong.\n\nWales still have five games left to revive their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2024 but this result could have long-lasting and serious ramifications for Page and his players.\n\nWhile Wales wallow in the humiliation of this result, Armenia can bask in the afterglow of one of their greatest victories.\n\nThey had lost nine of their previous 10 competitive matches, conceding 29 goals in the process and sliding down to 97 in the world rankings.\n\nIn Cardiff, however, they made a mockery of those statistics, harrying their opponents and counter-attacking astutely.\n\nTheir goals were no flukes. Indeed, they could have scored more and, apart from the occasional wayward shot, the visitors' finishing was supreme.\n\nThis was also a moment to savour for their manager Oleksandr Petrakov, who had stood by the same touchline a year ago as his then Ukraine side were beaten by Wales in their World Cup play-off final.\n\nThe pain of that rain-soaked Sunday afternoon may now have eased for Petrakov, while the jubilation of World Cup qualification seems like a distant memory for Wales.\n• None Norberto Briasco (Armenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Ugochukwu Iwu (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Tom Bradshaw (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Neco Williams (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Artak Dashyan (Armenia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dan James (Wales) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.\n• None Kieffer Moore (Wales) is shown the red card for violent conduct. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Church of Ireland lay reader, Melanie Houston, returned the book to David Galway, the original owner's grandson\n\nA 98-year-old family Bible has been reunited with its rightful owner after being found in a second-hand bookshop.\n\nChurch of Ireland lay reader Melanie Houston was given the Bible by a member of the congregation and made it her mission to find out who owned it.\n\nThe grandson of the original owner, David Galway, said he was \"delighted\" to be acquainted with a piece of family history he did not know existed.\n\nAnd he plans to pass the book on to his own children.\n\nMs Houston of Christ Church in Ardkeen, County Down, feared she was being sent on a \"wild goose chase\" when asked to trace the owners of the precious book.\n\nShe said she acknowledged the importance of family bibles as she still has her great grandmother's bible and feels a connection to her through the handwriting on the pages.\n\nBut she said: \"I just thought there was no way I was going to find this family, some of whom had travelled to England.\"\n\nBut after an appeal on the BBC News NI website Mr Galway got in contact with the BBC and was put in touch with Ms Houston.\n\n\"I spoke with David on the phone and there was no doubt that he was James Galway's grandson. He was able to give me all of the information about the marriages, even the ones in England,\" she said.\n\nThe bible was given to David Galway's grandfather David on his wedding day on 22 October 1925\n\nThe Bible was given to John Galway and Mary Eleanor Mills on their wedding day at St Mark's Church in Armagh on 22 October 1925.\n\n\"We are happy to have it reunited with ourselves. It contains some valuable information in relation to marriages and deaths, some of which is new to me,\" said Mr Galway.\n\nThe birth of his father William John Galway, known as Jack, is recorded in the bible in 1926.\n\n\"We knew there was bible from the other side of the family. It was a revelation that this book existed but I recognise some of the later entries as my father's writing so he appears to have kept it up.\"\n\nThe birth of David Galway's father William John Galway, known as Jack, is recorded in the bible in 1926\n\nThe current rector at St Mark's, the Reverend Canon Malcolm Kingston, explained that the gifting of a Bible to newlyweds is still common practice in the Church of Ireland.\n\n\"We would still give a Bible to every couple getting married in the church, although they would not have the family tree and record which seems to be something from the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Galway is unsure how the book got misplaced but believes it may have been donated to a charity shop along with other books after his parents died.\n\nMr Galway said that he recognises his father's writing in some of the later entries in the records\n\nHappy to be reunited with the family record, Mr Galway said that he plans to hand down the Bible to his youngest daughter.\n\n\"We pass down other items and they have been divided among the family, but I think it is important. She's so happy to be keeping it and it will be precious to her.\"​", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 500 people are still missing from a migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN human rights office says.\n\nLarge numbers of women and children were among those missing in the \"horrific tragedy\" that left 78 people dead, said spokesman Jeremy Laurence.\n\nThe appalling loss of life underscored the need to bring people smugglers to justice, he added.\n\nBut it also made clear that search and rescue at sea was a \"legal and humanitarian imperative\".\n\nIn a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration, the refugee agency said any search and rescue action had to be conducted to prevent loss of life..\n\nSince the fishing boat carrying up to 750 people went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, the role of the coastguard has come under increasing scrutiny.\n\nGreece's caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, said a \"thorough investigation of the real facts and technical judgements\" would take place to determine what had caused the boat to sink.\n\nGreek officials have denied a series of reports that suggest it went down after 02:00 on Wednesday because a rope was attached by coastguards. Two of the 104 survivors of the wreck have described how the highly crowded boat had veered from side to side.\n\nInitially the coastguard said it had kept a \"discreet distance\" from the boat. But then Greek newspaper Kathimerini quoted a source saying members of the coastguard had tied a rope to the boat so its crew could check on conditions, and those on board had then untied it to continue heading for Italy.\n\nThat incident is understood to have taken place at around 23:00, three hours before the boat went down.\n\nGovernment spokesman Ilias Siakantaris confirmed on Friday that the coastguard had \"used a rope to steady themselves, to approach, to see if they wanted any help\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"There was no mooring rope,\" suggesting that there was no attempt to tow the boat or tether it for any length of time.\n\n\"They refused it, they said 'no help, we go to Italy' and continued on their way.\"\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nThe question of whether a rope had been tied to the migrant boat was first raised by a refugee activist who said people on board had told her they feared it could prompt their highly crowded boat to turn over.\n\nThe coastguard emphasised that its patrol boat had for a few minutes \"dropped a small rope on to the fishing vessel to find out the current condition of the boat and passengers\".\n\nSome of those on board then untied it in order to continue their route northwards to Italy and the patrol \"moved away to watch from a close distance\".\n\nBut since the tragedy unfolded, its timeline and account have been challenged. The coastguard has stressed that from the first moment it was in contact with the crew no request for assistance was made and further repeated offers of help were turned down.\n\nOne organisation which provides support for migrants at sea, Alarm Phone, sent an email on Tuesday afternoon warning the coastguard and others that as many as 750 people were on board and that they were urgently asking for help.\n\nTwo accounts from survivors have suggested that tying a rope to the fishing boat may have led to it going down.\n\nOne has come from a local councillor in the port city of Kalamata who had earlier spoken to a 24-year-old Syrian.\n\n\"The coastguard boat tied them with some rope and tried to tow them to the left. For an unknown reason the boat veered to the right and suddenly sank,\" said Tasos Polychronopoulos.\n\nNew footage from the search and rescue operation has been shared by the Greek military\n\nAnother survivor gave a similar version to former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a visit to Kalamata on Thursday.\n\n\"The Greek coastguard asked the vessel to follow them, but they couldn't,\" a translator told Mr Tsipras. \"The coastguard then threw a rope but because they didn't know how to pull the rope, the vessel started dangling right and left.\"\n\n\"The coastguard boat was going too fast but the vessel was already dangling to the left, and that's how it sank.\"\n\nNine people, including several Egyptians, have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, Greek TV is reporting.\n\nPolice officers escort a man as they arrest several Egyptians as part of their investigation\n\nGeorgios Vasilakos, a volunteer rescue doctor for the Hellenic Red Cross, told the BBC that no women and children were among the survivors.\n\nHe said survivors reported that \"all women and children were isolated below deck\".\n\n\"This is why, because of the rapid unfolding of events and the rapid capsizing of the boat, they were unable to get out in time,\" he said.\n\nPeople on the boat had been drinking sea water for at least two days before it sank, he said.\n\nFamilies of some of the missing have arrived in Kalamata in search of their loved ones.\n\n\"My relatives were on the boat,\" said Aftab, who had travelled from the UK and said at least four of his relatives from Pakistan were unaccounted for.\n\nA Syrian man from the Netherlands broke down as he revealed his wife and brother-in-law were missing.\n\n\"The authorities are looking for their bodies in the sea... They're looking in hospitals, they're looking among dead bodies, and among the survivors,\" Kassam Abozeed said.\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video reportedly showed the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles III's grandchildren have enjoyed watching the monarch's first Trooping the Colour, with Prince Louis even saluting the crowd.\n\nHe joined other members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a 70-aircraft flypast.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis travelled by carriage in the procession with their mother, the Princess of Wales, and the Queen.\n\nIt is the King's first parade since becoming monarch.\n\nThe royals enjoyed an extended military flypast after the display on Coronation day had to be scaled back as a result of bad weather.\n\nAs the planes roared above Buckingham Palace, the Princess of Wales could be seen encouraging Prince George to wave and patting down Prince Louis' hair as she ushered him to turn and face the spectators.\n\nIt was the final event to mark the King's birthday parade.\n\nAs most people had their eyes on the flypast, some were lucky enough to spot Prince Louis throwing his fists into the air\n\nPrince Louis salutes the crowd as he leaves the balcony with his family\n\nThe King's grandchildren travelled in a carriage during the Trooping the Colour ceremony\n\nPrince Louis leads the way ahead of his older sister and brother\n\nPrince George points to a plane as the Royal Family watches the flypast from the balcony at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe Princess of Wales, in emerald green, travelled with her children in the carriage\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles's first Trooping the Colour as King... in 60 seconds", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-8 -6 -5 -3 S Scheffler (US), B DeChambeau (US), H English (US), S Bennett (US), SW Kim (Kor), P Barjon (Fra), M Hughes (Can)\n\nThe US Open first round featured record lows, two holes-in-one and a charging Rory McIlroy as the tournament returned to Los Angeles after a 75-year absence.\n\nCalifornians Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele lead on eight under after recording the US Open's first 62s.\n\nFormer champions Dustin Johnson and McIlroy led the chase but bogeyed their last holes to end six and five under on a day of unusually low scoring.\n\nFrenchman Mathieu Pavon and American Sam Burns both aced the 15th.\n\nThey were the 49th and 50th holes-in-one at the championship, which was last played in the city in 1948 and is making its first visit to exclusive Los Angeles Country Club.\n\nAmerican Wyndham Clark birdied the last to post a 64 and join Johnson at six under while Brian Harman is level with McIlroy after a 65.\n\nScottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau add more star power to a stacked leaderboard, both five shots adrift, while a frustrated Jon Rahm shot a 69.\n\nIt's been quite a journey for Fowler, one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour, who went from a career-high fourth in the world ranking in 2016 all the way down to 173rd just a year ago.\n\nThe 34-year-old, one of just four players in history with top-five finishes in all four majors in one season, failed to qualify for the past two US Opens but marked his return in some style.\n\n\"It has been long and tough. It's a lot longer than you ever want it to be,\" Fowler said after his record round. \"It's been so worth it and now being back.\"\n\nWhile Fowler tied the US Open record with 10 birdies in his round to counter two bogeys, current Olympic champion Schauffele had eight birdies in a bogey-free round.\n\n\"It's a great start. I hit a lot of really good shots,\" said Schauffele, who like Fowler is yet to win a major. \"Rickie was just right in front of me and I was playing really good golf so thought I may as well just chase him down.\n\n\"You have to play hard here, dig your way around.\"\n\nFor a notoriously slow starter in the majors, McIlroy's 65 on the quirky par-70 layout represents a huge improvement for the Northern Irishman as he looks to end his nine-year wait for a fifth major.\n\nMcIlroy made five front-nine birdies - his best effort in majors - on the back of some explosive driving off the tee.\n\nAnd he played solid golf on the back nine, adding one more birdie before making his only mistake at the 18th - playing an air shot from the greenside rough before making an 11-foot putt to drop just one shot.\n\nJohnson came flying home with five birdies on his back nine but he too made a mistake on the 18th.\n\nHe missed the par-three ninth green by a good 20 yards and his ball plunged into a bunker by the 18th green. He took three from there to drop his only shot of the day and finish two off the lead.\n\n\"The golf course is in perfect condition,\" said Johnson. \"I really like it. You just have to drive it well or you have no chance.\n\n\"The course was set up really nicely. I would imagine the next few days you're going to see the golf course set up as hard as they want to.\"\n\nScheffler, DeChambeau and best of the rest\n\nWorld number one Scheffler bookended his round with a bogey on the first and last, but found a spark around the turn with five birdies in eight holes to card a creditable 67.\n\nThat scored was matched by 2020 US Open champion DeChambeau, who had an eventful round with six birdies and three bogeys.\n\nLocal favourite Max Homa, who was born in Los Angeles and holds the course record of 61, is just a shot further back on two under while Viktor Hovland is one under after a round of highs and lows that included a hole-out eagle from 175 yards and a double-bogey seven.\n\nNorwegian Hovland, 25, has come close in the past three majors, playing in the final groups in both last year's Open Championship and last month's US PGA Championship.\n\nReigning Masters champion Rahm looked largely frustrated with three birdies and two bogeys in his one-under 69.\n\nThe Spaniard has a great record in California, with five of his PGA Tour wins coming in the state - including his 2019 US Open victory at Torrey Pines in nearby San Diego.\n\nJordan Smith is the leading Englishman after shooting a level-par 70 that featured five bogeys and five birdies, while defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick headed to the practice range after signing for a 71.\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "Padam Padam is the star's 52nd top 40 hit in the UK\n\nKylie Minogue has scored her biggest solo hit in more than a decade with the infectious dance anthem Padam Padam.\n\nIt's the star's first song to break into the UK top 10 since All The Lovers peaked at number three in 2010.\n\nThat means Kylie is one of only four women to reach the UK's top 10 in five separate decades, alongside Cher, Lulu and Diana Ross.\n\nThe singer said the success of the song, which has gone viral on TikTok, had \"really taken us all by surprise\".\n\n\"I can't even, I can't even, full stop!\" she told Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show earlier this week. \"We loved it as a team, but the way that it's taken off is way beyond me.\"\n\nThe song has been steadily climbing the chart since entering at number 26 four weeks ago. This week, it rose three places to reach number nine.\n\nKylie hasn't been in the top 10 in any capacity since appearing as a featured artist on Taio Cruz's 2011 single Higher.\n\nPadam Padam is also a hit in Ireland, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Germany, El Salvador, New Zealand and Kylie's home country, Australia.\n\nSaid to be inspired by the Edith Piaf song of the same name, its title mimics the sound of a racing heart.\n\nBut since its release last month, the word \"Padam\" has been adopted by fans, especially during Pride month, to represent all sorts of things - from hello and goodbye, to a vocal seal of approval.\n\nWhat do you think of her outfit? Padam. How do you take your coffee? Padam. Is it hot outside? Padam Padam.\n\n\"It means being gay and having a great time,\" one fan explained on Instagram.\n\n\"People are hilarious. It's become a noun, a verb, an adjective,\" Kylie told Zoe Ball.\n\n\"You know, friends leaving going: 'Padam!' Like they've turned into minions or something. It's taken on a life of its own and I am having the time of my life seeing what people are doing.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Kylie Minogue This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWriting in Harper's Bazaar, Louis Staples said the phrase fits into a history of \"queer people using art as part of a coded language that only we - the initiated - understand\".\n\n\"A historic example would be San Francisco's Castro District in the 1970s, during the time of Harvey Milk, when there was an entire sartorial code for gay men, according to which not only different-coloured handkerchiefs, but also everyday garments like Converse and plaid shirts all meant different things,\" he observed.\n\n\"Padam Padam seems to have entered that same gay lexicon, the shorthand many of us use to communicate with each other.\"\n\nAccording to The Sun, fans are even petitioning the Oxford English Dictionary to add the word to its next edition.\n\n\"That's a wild thought,\" Kylie told Capital Radio. \"Because what does it mean? It means whatever you want it to mean.\"\n\nPadam Padam is the second song to be taken from the star's upcoming album Tension, which is due for release in September.\n\nAfter the disco vibes of her last record, and the country-pop songs of 2018's Golden, she said the musical reference point for her new material was her slow-burning and sensual 2003 single Slow.\n\nCoincidentally, that song was Kylie's last number one in the UK.\n\nBut with streams of Padam Padam increasing week-on-week, the singer could return to the top five very soon.\n\nNiall Horan poses with his Official Charts number one trophy\n\nElsewhere in the charts, One Direction star Niall Horan achieved his second number one album with The Show, closely followed by McFly, with their seventh studio album, Power To Play.\n\nDave and Central Cee have the number one single for a second week with the laid-back summer jam, Sprinter. Another high-profile rap collaboration - J Hus and Drake's Who Told You - is the week's highest new entry at two.\n\nAnd Sam Fender and Harry Styles both get a boost after playing huge UK shows this week.\n\nFender's Seventeen Going Under returns to the Top 40 at 29, while Styles' singles Late Night Talking and Satellite are at 30 and 31 respectively.", "Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed since the start of the conflict mid-April\n\nSeventeen people - five children - have been killed in an air strike in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, officials say.\n\nTwenty-five homes were destroyed in Saturday's strike in the densely populated Yarmouk district.\n\nIt came a day after a top army general threatened to step up attacks against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.\n\nFighting between the Sudanese army and the RSF broke out mid-April as a result of a vicious power struggle within the country's military leadership.\n\nIn early June, the RSF claimed full control of Yarmouk, an area of the capital which houses an arms manufacturing facility.\n\nLater on Saturday the warring factions agreed a 72-hour ceasefire starting at 06:00 (04:00 GMT) on Sunday. It was announced by Saudi and US mediators. Similar ceasefires in the past have not been observed.\n\nPrecise figures on the number of people killed in the fighting are difficult to establish, but it is believed to be well over 1,000, including many civilians caught in the crossfire.\n\nRoughly 2.2 million people have been displaced within the country and more than half a million are sheltering in neighbouring countries, according to the UN.\n\nSeveral ceasefires have been announced to allow people to escape the fighting but these have not been observed.\n\nThe recent attack targeted civilians in Mayo, Yarmouk, and Mandela areas, according to the RSF. The army has not commented.\n\nSince the hostilities began, tens of thousands of civilians have fled across the border into neighbouring Chad.\n\nDoctors and hospitals there have been overstretched and struggling to cope.\n\nThe violence has also resurrected a two-decade-old conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.", "First LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Edgbaston (day two of five)\n\nEngland wasted chances and were defied by a classy century from Australia's Usman Khawaja on a riveting second day of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.\n\nKhawaja batted throughout the day for his unbeaten 126, the left-hander's first Ashes ton in England guiding Australia to 311-5, just 82 runs adrift.\n\nHe was bowled by a Stuart Broad no-ball on 112, one of four errors from England that also included Jonny Bairstow missing two opportunities behind the stumps.\n\nIn an electrifying morning session, England used favourable overhead conditions to reduce the tourists to 67-3 in reply to their 393-8 declared.\n\nThe renewal of Broad's battle with David Warner resulted in a 15th dismissal in Test cricket and, next ball, Broad sent Edgbaston into rapture by having Marnus Labuschagne brilliantly caught by Bairstow.\n\nBen Stokes, proving his fitness to bowl, trapped Steve Smith lbw for 16.\n\nBut Khawaja stood firm, adding 81 with Travis Head, who made 50, and 72 with Cameron Green. Both Head and Green were removed by Moeen Ali on his return to Test cricket.\n\nEven at 220-5, Australia were on the back foot, only for Khawaja to add another unbroken stand of 91 with Alex Carey, the beneficiary of a Bairstow drop in his 52 not out.\n\nBy the end, Australia had moved to a position from where they can take a first-innings lead, which could be crucial on an extremely dry pitch that seems set to deteriorate later in the match.\n• None 'No excuse' for crucial no-ball, says Broad\n• None 'Stokes has told Australia \"I'm not scared of you\"'\n\nIf day one was frantic from start to finish, this was a strategic battle, yet still every bit as compelling, dramatic and competitive.\n\nJust as they were defensive in the field on Friday, Australia barely engaged in England's full-throttle approach. There were more maidens in the first three overs than the whole of day one and Australia crawled at marginally more than two an over in the first session - and it played right into England's hands.\n\nStokes was relentlessly tinkering. Seven bowlers were employed in the first session, and the use of Harry Brook's medium pace inside the first hour stretched credulity. Smith was greeted by eight close catchers on his arrival.\n\nBroad's dismissal of Warner was almost comical in its inevitability, followed by wild celebrations at the Labuschagne dismissal next ball. The Edgbaston roar returned when Stokes got Smith and for Moeen's important interventions.\n\nBut on such a placid surface, and with Khawaja fronting the Australian resistance, England needed to take all of their chances. The four mistakes - there was also an edge between Bairstow and slip Joe Root in the dying moments - could yet prove to be hugely costly.\n\nKhawaja stands up in the chaos\n\nSince being recalled in the last Ashes series, Khawaja has outperformed all of his Australia team-mates, but retained the stigma of an average below 18 in this country.\n\nHowever, this was an assured century when Australia badly needed him - Khawaja showing steel to be the constant presence in the rearguard partnerships with Head, Green and Carey.\n\nKhawaja is a beautifully languid player. When England's pace bowlers dropped short, he swivelled to pull. When Moeen was bowling, he chased down the pitch to hit straight, twice for six.\n\nHe reached his 15th Test hundred, and first Ashes century outside of Sydney, by late-cutting Stokes then celebrated passionately by throwing his bat into the air. At the end of the day, he took his daughter to the news conference.\n\nKhawaja was, though, decisively beaten in Broad's first over with the second new ball. With the off stump pegged back, Khawaja's walk back to the pavilion was halted when the TV umpire detected the no-ball.\n\nBy that point, Carey had been let off on 26 by Bairstow off Root's off-spin and later, on 46, another edge off Moeen went between the keeper and Root, who was slow to move low to his right.\n\nEngland were superb in the morning session, making use of clouds and humidity that even the home side could not have predicted when they surprisingly declared on Friday.\n\nAfter Australia resumed on 14-0, Warner had added only one to his overnight eight when he played a wild hack at Broad and dragged on. Next ball, world number one-rated batter Labuschagne poked at an out-swinger and was superbly caught one-handed by Bairstow.\n\nSmith, so often England's tormentor, was easing himself in when he got into an awful position to Stokes. Even after seeing the review, Smith could not believe the decision.\n\nFrom then on, England had to work much harder. Khawaja and Head frequently belted Moeen down the ground, only for Stokes to refuse to drop men out.\n\nIt worked when Head miscued to mid-wicket and Moeen followed with a beauty that turned to bowl Green through the gate. In his first Test in almost two years, Moeen performed admirably, getting through 29 overs.\n\nGreen should have been stumped off his second ball by Bairstow, who also missed the fine edge off Carey. Though Bairstow made 78 with the bat and took the spectacular catch off Smith, those mistakes add ammunition for those who believe Ben Foakes should be keeping wicket.\n\nThe dry conditions did little for James Anderson, while Ollie Robinson looked short of fitness. Mark Wood's pace was missed and Broad's overstep was a crucial error.\n\n'England's bruising day' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England will be rueing four missed chances and on this pitch, which is very flat, my concern is their bodies. They looked jaded and this is their first day in the dirt of a five-match series over six weeks.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Phil Tufnell on Test Match Special: \"A bruising day for England. They will be kicking themselves, a dropped catch, missed stumping, a wicket off a no-ball. They could have got Australia seven or eight down.\n\n\"They must get a lead otherwise Nathan Lyon will be licking his lips. He will fancy getting stuck into this positive England side.\"", "The snakes appear to have enjoyed regular visits to Barshaw Park in Paisley during the recent heatwave\n\nA man who takes his snakes to sunbathe in his local park has sparked an online debate about what animals are - and are not - acceptable in public spaces.\n\nThe Friends of Barshaw Park group said it had been contacted by people who were worried about someone taking up to 20 of the reptiles to the Paisley park.\n\nIt urged anyone who saw the snakes to call the police.\n\nFar from being horrified, many locals have defended the snake owner - who appears to be a regular visitor.\n\nThey said he was clearly doing no harm and kept his snakes under control at all times, and questioned why the police would need to get involved.\n\nMargaret Winters, who lives just along the road from the park, said everyone she spoke to was happy to see the snakes lapping up the sunshine.\n\nShe said: \"The first time I spotted the snakes, they ended up literally crawling over my feet. I got a bit of a fright, but they were really nice.\n\n\"I'm not scared of snakes so it was quite nice to get the chance to hold a baby one.\"\n\nShe added: \"It was bizarre because you expect to see dogs running around the park but not snakes.\n\n\"The man who owned them said they were quite clever and friendly and they looked as if they were enjoying the sun. Most people were really interested.\"\n\nSome people using the park said the snakes were always kept under control\n\nPhotos of the man posted on social media show him happily posing with the snakes draped around his neck or standing close to them as they slithered on the grass.\n\nBut the Friends group said in a post on its Facebook page that it had been told by the local council that \"no-one has permission to bring snakes into Barshaw Park\".\n\nIt added: \"The police request that if you see anyone in the park with snakes, please do not approach the person but call the police on 101 and they will attend\".\n\nThe snakes have sparked a debate over what type of animals should be allowed in public parks\n\nA woman who responded to the warning said she had met the man a couple of times with her kids.\n\nShe added: \"Really nice guy, answered the 1,001 questions we had about snakes. The snakes were under control and enjoying a little sunbathe.\n\n\"Can we show the same concern for people bringing their out-of-control dogs to the park?\"\n\nAnother said the snake owner was \"really nice and full of smiles\" and that any concerns about him were \"OTT\".\n\nOne local wrote that the man only had two snakes when she saw him - one around his arm and another on the grass - and that she had to warn a passing family not to stand on one of them.\n\nAnother pondered what newspaper headline writers would make of the snakes going for a ride on the park's miniature railway, while someone else opened up a second front in the debate by claiming to have once seen people with ferrets in the park.\n\nSupport for the snakes was not universal, however, with potential safety issues also being raised.\n\nOne social media user succinctly summed up the argument against taking snakes to parks by pointing out: \"Nope. Ban it. Ban him. No no no.\"\n\nJamie Kinlochan, a regular visitor to Barshaw, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme that most people he had spoken to seemed happy to share their green spaces with snakes - so long as they were not venomous.\n\nHe added: \"People have, much to my surprise, been loving this.\n\n\"I had never thought about it before, but I guess when it come to things like dogs in the park we are kind of cool about that even though they can still present some form of danger if not well looked after or not treated properly.\n\n\"I guess people's arguments here are not any different and I probably agree with that.\"\n\nA spokesman for Renfrewshire Council confirmed: \"Non domestic pets such as snakes should not be brought into our parks and consent has not been provided for this to take place.\"", "A man accused of stalking MP Sir Gavin Williamson has appeared in court\n\nA man charged with stalking and impersonating a police officer while threatening to arrest MP Sir Gavin Williamson has appeared in court.\n\nSimon Parry \"persistently followed\" the Conservative MP on two occasions, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nOn one occasion he produced a warrant card and told Sir Gavin he would arrest him, Ola Oyedepo, prosecuting, said.\n\nMr Parry, 44, denied one count of stalking and one count of impersonating a law enforcement officer.\n\nHis trial is set for 18 October at City of London Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Parry, of no fixed address, was bailed on the condition that he would not enter the City of Westminster or approach Sir Gavin.\n\nThe court heard Mr Parry followed the MP on two occasions between 24 May and 14 June.\n\nProsecutor Ms Oyedepo said on 14 June Sir Gavin left the House of Commons and noticed the defendant following him.\n\nMr Parry was trying to speak to the MP who kept saying he was on the phone, the court heard.\n\n\"The defendant told him he would arrest him and brought out a warrant card,\" said Ms Oyedepo.\n\n\"The MP said 'you are not a police officer'. This is when the defendant left.\"\n\nSonia Larbi Aissa, defending, said Mr Parry lived in a protest encampment in Westminster, but an acquaintance had offered to put him up in south-east London ahead of his next court appearance.\n\nDuring a lull in the court proceedings, Mr Parry asked the judge if he could read one of his poems aloud.\n\nSir Gavin has been an MP for South Staffordshire since 2010 and served as defence secretary before becoming education secretary under the then-PM Boris Johnson in 2019.", "Students were among the thousands of people to attend a vigil on Wednesday for those killed in the Nottingham attacks\n\nThere was a moment of heavy silence before the father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, addressing a vigil with tears in his eyes, asked her former classmates to look after each other.\n\nThousands of people showed up to the vigil at the University of Nottingham this week, shaken by the deaths of Grace and fellow student Barnaby Webber - two of the three people killed in a series of attacks on Tuesday. The attacks might have taken place in Nottingham, but their impact is likely to be felt by students all around the UK.\n\nHere, students and graduates who have lost loved ones share their experiences of what it is like to grieve at university, and what advice they have for fellow-students who might be struggling.\n\nMatt, whose full name we have not used, was working on his final-year coursework in his room at a university in England, when he found out that a friend had died.\n\nHe didn't know how to share the news with his flatmates and other friends who were upstairs at the time, listening to music and drinking.\n\n\"I was almost pacing back and forth a bit, like, do I tell them?\" he says. \"I didn't even know what I would do, what I would say. My mind was just spinning.\"\n\nMatt, who is now 25, left the flat that night to support another friend of the one who had died, and told his flatmates what had happened the following morning.\n\nOver the next few weeks, he couldn't bring himself to do university work and ended up getting an extension. He said parties became \"awkward\" because people didn't know how to talk about what had happened.\n\n\"With time it did get better. But I think those initial weeks were just so hard. Everyone was almost speechless and going through it in their own way,\" he says.\n\n\"But then you're expected to go out and have fun. It's someone's birthday, you've got to go for drinks... you're at uni, that's happening every couple of days.\"\n\nLooking back, Matt wishes he had tried to have more open conversations with friends.\n\nThat's something that Anna May, founder of the Student Grief Network, wants to encourage. Her brother died in an accident when she was a child, but it only \"hit very hard\" once she moved from home to university.\n\n\"It felt like I was a failure of a student. I wasn't very fun,\" she says. \"I thought...these are supposed to be really valuable precious years and I've used them feeling sad.\"\n\nAnna, 26, initially organised support sessions for fellow students at the University of Leeds, and - after Covid - began organising online groups for students across the country.\n\nWhen Anna's dad died in her final year at university, she felt \"less lonely\" than when she had lost her brother, because her support work had taught her about the grieving process.\n\nThe people who contact her, mostly through Instagram, range from those who have lost friends to suicide, to grandparents. Some of their losses are recent, while others date back years.\n\nAnna says grief after the attacks in Nottingham this week is likely to take place on two levels. It will affect those who knew Grace and Barnaby, but also students at universities elsewhere in the UK because \"it's something that could happen anywhere\".\n\n\"It can be really complicated when there are lots of people in one space grieving something,\" she says.\n\n\"Grief impacts people so differently that it's going to undoubtedly cause awkwardness and conflict and tension.\"\n\nBut she urges students who are struggling, to avoid setting \"expectations on what your grief journey is going to look like, because it will change all the time\".\n\nHer tips for any student struggling with grief at university include:\n\nThe University of Nottingham has directed students to its wellbeing support teams. Universities UK told students that support teams would be \"standing by to speak to anyone who feels affected by the news\".\n\nAnna May (second from left) lost her dad, Neil (left) and her brother, Benny (middle)\n\nBut Jay Lewis, 22, a student at the University of Cardiff who lost his dad while studying there, says there is a \"lack of support for students who are grieving within universities\".\n\n\"My first experience with grief was very isolating... I found the social aspects [of university] quite difficult.\"\n\nJay says online meetings he had with the Student Grief Network allowed him to talk through his anxieties about how to approach particularly tough dates without his dad, such as graduation and the anniversary of his death.\n\nJay is in the process of setting up his own grief support network at the university, which will offer in-person sessions to help people open up about their experiences.\n\n\"Hopefully through having this group, it allows people to realise they're not isolated, there are more people than you realise our age who are going through it.\"\n\nThe University of Cardiff has welcomed the move. It said it offered \"comprehensive support services\" but \"there is always more that could be done\".\n\nJay went to an RnB event on the first anniversary of his dad's death, to remember him through the music he enjoyed\n\nAndy Langford of Cruse Bereavement Support says grief \"hits particularly hard in a university setting\" and that \"most, if not all, universities are currently falling short of the standard of grief support they should be offering\".\n\nHe says Cruse offers free one-to-one support sessions, a helpline and online support - and is developing training for universities.\n\nUniversities UK says institutions have \"stepped up their efforts\" to help grieving students in recent years, with many providing specific bereavement support, and making sure students with any mental health difficulties are pointed towards \"the right support\".\n\nDominic Smithies, of Student Minds, called the response from the wider higher education sector to events in Nottingham \"really heartwarming\".\n\n\"When a member of the university community is lost, I think universities do a really good job of bringing the community together,\" he says, pointing to the vigil at the University of Nottingham this week as an example.\n\nBut he believes the sector \"can do better to support students who are dealing with grief and loss at any point during their university life\".\n\nStudents who are struggling can visit the charity's website for \"tips, guidance and reassurance\", as well as stories of other people who have dealt with grief, he adds.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Caldwell's novel was praised for its \"pitch-perfect, engrossing narrative\"\n\nBelfast writer Lucy Caldwell has won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for her novel These Days.\n\nShe was announced as the winner at the Borders Book Festival which is taking place in Melrose.\n\nShe took the £25,000 top prize for her story of the aerial bombardment of her home city during World War Two.\n\nThe judges of the award praised her winning work for its \"pitch-perfect, engrossing narrative ringing with emotional truth\".\n\nFounded in 2009, the Walter Scott Prize has become one of Britain's most important literary awards with previous winners including Sebastian Barry, Robert Harris, Andrea Levy and Hilary Mantel.\n\nThe judges said Ms Caldwell's novel was a \"a story of both great violence and great tenderness\".\n\nShe immersed herself in eyewitness accounts while she was writing the book, interviewing survivors, including a 103-year-old.\n\nShe said winning the award was a \"bit overwhelming\".\n\n\"One of my absolute favourite authors is Hilary Mantel who was twice a recipient of this prize,\" she said.\n\n\"She wrote some words that are on the cover of my hardback and I thought that was the greatest privilege of my writing life to have my name alongside hers on the cover.\n\n\"So to win a prize for historical fiction which she and so many other great writers have won in the past feels incredible.\"\n\nThe other shortlisted novels for the award were The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan, Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry, The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane, Ancestry by Simon Mawer and I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former Barclays trader jailed in connection with a $9bn interest rate rigging scandal has said telling his father about it was \"the hardest day of my life\".\n\n\"I burst into tears. I felt like I'd let him down,\" Peter Johnson told the BBC, as he struggled to compose himself.\n\nIn an emotional interview, Johnson revealed the devastation caused not only to his life but that of his family by what is now regarded by some MPs as a state-level cover-up, followed by a whole series of miscarriages of justice.\n\nJailed for four years for \"manipulating\" interest rates, Johnson was released in 2018 after serving two years.\n\nHe was later revealed to be one of the original whistleblowers of the scandal.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since his release, he says when he was put on gardening leave by Barclays in 2011, he descended into depression and avoided being seen in the streets near his house or informing his family about his predicament.\n\nIn 2012, Johnson was sacked by Barclays after more than 30 years' service and faced the risk of prosecution by the US Department of Justice (DoJ), which could lead to up to 30 years in a US prison.\n\n\"[When I woke up] I'd have about five seconds when I thought all was well with the world. And then I'd realise that it wasn't. And I'd go around all day with a sort of a weight pressing against my chest. I'd wait for six o'clock before I started self-medicating with alcohol. I had panic attacks,\" he says.\n\n\"I spent years trying to suppress my emotions because I don't want to get upset and bitter and twisted and everything else.\n\n\"[But] this is too important to forget - to sweep under the carpet. People need to know and once they know the full facts, they can make their judgements on whether what people did was wrong or right.\"\n\nSuch was the psychological pressure on him that when he was charged with a crime in the UK, rather than the US, it came as a relief.\n\n\"It was ridiculous. There I was feeling relieved that I was going to be charged with a crime. And it was good! I mean, it's just stupid. It just shows how mad things were for me at the time.\"\n\nJohnson's lawyer Tony Woodcock, now retired but then a senior partner at prominent white-collar crime specialists Stephenson Harwood, sees his former client's prosecution as an outrage.\n\nSenior MPs including former Brexit secretary David Davis and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell have come to share that view after reading a book I have written exposing the scandal.\n\n\"In over 30 years in practice I never had a case in which I felt so powerless and bullied and where the smell of politics was so rancid. Hopefully all the evil lurking in the mud will be found out,\" Mr Woodcock says.\n\nAndy Verity seeks to interview Peter Johnson outside court in 2016. His lawyer Tony Woodcock is on the right\n\nOne reason he feels so strongly is that Johnson, who worked as a cash trader for Barclays from 1981 to 2011, was the original whistleblower of the interest rate rigging scandal, in which banks paid nearly $9bn in fines and 37 traders and brokers were prosecuted for \"manipulating\" Libor and Euribor, two benchmarks that track the cost of borrowing cash.\n\nFrom 2007 to 2009, Johnson repeatedly alerted the US central bank and the Bank of England to other banks publishing false, low estimates of the interest rates they'd have to pay to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars at a time - so-called \"lowballing\".\n\nHe tried to publish higher, more honest estimates, but kept getting instructions from above to be no more honest than any other bank. Leaked audio recordings indicate the pressure on Johnson to lie came first from the board of Barclays, then from the Bank of England, then from the UK government.\n\nEvidence revealed in the book indicates that then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown's head of policy, the late Sir Jeremy Heywood, was one senior Whitehall figure who wanted Barclays to lower its Libor estimates of the cost of borrowing dollars.\n\n\"I thought they were wrong,\" says Johnson. \"But I didn't feel I had any choice but to go along with them. You're being asked by the UK government and the supreme financial establishment in the land to do something. It's very, very difficult to say, 'No, stuff you!'\"\n\nYet four years later, on 27 June 2012, suppressed anger towards the banks at the lack of accountability for the 2008 banking crisis exploded into the media when Barclays was fined a record £290m by US and UK regulators for rigging interest rates.\n\nBoth Labour and Conservative MPs angrily condemned 14 unnamed traders - which Johnson knew included himself.\n\n\"When something like that happens to a major corporation, there's usually a scapegoat. And I sort of felt that maybe it might be me.\n\n\"Quite justifiably, the public was outraged at what they saw as excesses in the banking industry. And they wanted heads on a pike. And I became one of the heads,\" he says, adding: \"I think they could have chosen better ones.\"\n\nPeter Johnson says he would like to have his reputation restored\n\nCriminal authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, co-operating with lawyers working for Barclays, lined him up for prosecution.\n\nHe was not prosecuted for lowballing, but for manipulating rates on a much smaller scale by accepting requests from traders between 2005 and 2007 to nudge his Libor rates up or down very slightly.\n\nIn 2014, Johnson became the first banker to plead guilty to manipulating interest rates. But it was only because he felt the odds were against him and he had no choice. Barclays had cut him off from any financial support with his legal fees.\n\nBecause of the very high cost of defending himself, he feared he might lose his home, his savings and therefore his ability to support his children and grandchildren, even if he were found innocent.\n\n\"I didn't feel as if I'd done anything wrong. But I could see the way the whole thing was going and it didn't look good for me.\"\n\nJohnson, a 68-year-old grandfather, was sentenced in 2016 to four years and jailed alongside three other Barclays traders.\n\nHis first jail was HMP Wandsworth, which he describes as \"pretty basic, pretty horrible\".\n\n\"There was a shortage of prison officers... and there are some times when we were not let out of our cells, apart from for 10 minutes to get our meals, for 54 hours at a time.\"\n\nHe was later transferred to Ford open prison, where he decided to improve his fitness by walking around the perimeter of the prison, clocking up 6,000 miles and raising £3,000 for charity.\n\nIn the US, all 19 convictions for interest rate rigging are being overturned at the request of the DoJ - the same body that originally declared conduct like Johnson's to be illegal - following a US appeal court ruling that the prosecution case was misconceived.\n\nThe trader requests that Johnson was jailed for, it found, were not illegal - and didn't even break any rules. Many of those convictions arose from guilty pleas, made under the threat of prosecution in the US, which the DoJ no longer views as sound.\n\nThe UK is now the only country where making or accepting the requests is viewed as criminal. David Davis, John McDonnell and other MPs, peers and senior lawyers have written to the Times saying the cases must be sent back to the courts.\n\n\"In my most optimistic view, I would like my guilty plea to be revoked. I'd like to basically have my reputation restored. And I'd like senior people to be held accountable,\" says Johnson.\n\nAsked who they are, his reply is simple: \"The board of Barclays Bank, the Bank of England and the government of the UK.\"\n\nBarclays declined to comment for this article.\n\nA spokesperson for the Serious Fraud Office, which prosecuted Johnson, said its cases were based on evidence. It said nine bank traders knowingly rigged rates for their own benefit. \"Separate juries and the Court of Appeal agreed they committed a crime.\"\n\nA Bank of England spokesperson said: \"The Bank fully co-operated with the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into Libor manipulation, responding to all requests for information and documents.\"\n\nThe Treasury said in a statement: \"The government did not seek to influence individual bank Libor submissions.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland continued their perfect record in Euro 2024 qualifying with a comfortable win at Malta.\n\nLiverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold - who started in central midfield - scored a fine 25-yard strike between an own goal, and two penalties from Harry Kane and Callum Wilson.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.\n\nThe Three Lions are next in action against North Macedonia on Monday.\n\nTheir qualifying campaign to reach Germany next summer is going to plan with nine points from three games - six ahead of Ukraine, North Macedonia and reigning champions Italy.\n\nThe three points at Ta'Qali National Stadium were sealed inside the first 31 minutes as Ferdinando Apap turned past his own goalkeeper before Alexander-Arnold's impressive strike.\n\nJust 96 seconds after Alexander-Arnold's goal, Kane made it 3-0 from the penalty spot after being fouled by Matthew Guillaumier. It was his 50th competitive England goal, and means he has now scored in 11 straight Euro qualifiers.\n\nKane was replaced in the second half, allowing Wilson the chance to score from the spot when his cross was handled by Malta captain Steve Borg and a penalty was awarded by VAR.\n\nWearing number 66 for his club side, Alexander-Arnold is no stranger to an unusual shirt number. Regardless, the sight of the right-back wearing 10 in central midfield for England was guaranteed to catch the eye.\n\nSouthgate deploying Alexander-Arnold there is not an entirely new idea - he was used as a playmaker against Andorra in 2021, albeit to limited effect.\n\nHere, against similarly limited opposition, Alexander-Arnold was much more effective - his quick and accurate through-balls for Bukayo Saka and James Maddison causing no end of issues for the Maltese defence.\n\nIt was via this route that England took the lead - a great Alexander-Arnold ball over the top from deep for Saka to cut back towards Kane. Covering Malta defender Apap had no option but to try and intervene and he could only steer the ball into the roof of the net.\n\nPlaying further up the field also allowed England to exploit Alexander-Arnold's long-range shooting ability, so often seen at free-kicks. Here, he found space 25 yards out in open play midway through the first half and curled an unstoppable effort past Henry Bonello.\n\nThe real test of Alexander-Arnold as a viable midfield option will come if he plays there against stronger opponents - but as an experiment, this game was a success.\n\nSouthgate resisted the temptation to try much more experimentation. Maddison started in the front three and produced some good touches, as he continues to be monitored by several Premier League clubs following Leicester's relegation.\n\nHe was replaced midway through the second half by Crystal Palace midfielder Eberechi Eze, making his long-awaited debut two years after he was denied a place in the provisional Euro 2020 squad by a major Achilles tendon injury.\n\nTrips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.\n\nThis was a much more comfortable experience, with only a couple of minor worries. Among them was Saka requiring treatment to his ankle after a tough first-half challenge. He was replaced by Phil Foden at the interval.\n\nUltimately there are tougher qualifying challenges lying ahead. North Macedonia's 2-0 win over Ukraine on Friday night is proof of that, before England then face Ukraine away and Italy at home in September and October respectively.\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Wilson (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Eberechi Eze (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.\n• None Goal! Malta 0, England 4. Callum Wilson (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Steve Borg (Malta) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Selected:-1 Level B Koepka (US), C Morikawa (US); +1 +2\n\nA record-breaking Rickie Fowler holds the halfway lead at the 123rd US Open but has Rory McIlroy in hot pursuit.\n\nEight birdies helped Fowler to 10 under and a one-shot lead over Wyndham Clark, with McIlroy just a shot further back in third alongside Xander Schauffele.\n\nDefending champion Matthew Fitzpatrick hit a hole-in-one while Dustin Johnson had a quadruple bogey in a level-par 70 to sit four off the lead on six under.\n\nA furious Jon Rahm just made the cut at the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club.\n\nThe world number two snarled his way around the Californian course during a frustrating round in which he posted four of his six bogeys on the back nine.\n\nThe Spaniard almost snapped a wedge as his temper got the better of him before he signed for a three-over 73 to finish on the cut line of two over par.\n\nMany expected tournament organisers to toughen up the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club after a day of record scoring on Thursday, but there were still plenty of birdies to be had on Friday and a remarkable third hole-in-one of the tournament.\n\nFor a player who failed to even qualify for the US Open last year after tumbling down to 173rd in the world rankings, it has been a relentless attacking display from Fowler.\n\nThe 34-year-old is chasing his first major victory and far from resting on his US Open record round of 62 on Thursday, came out firing again with three straight birdies making him the fastest player ever to get to 10 under in this event.\n\nIn a rollercoaster round containing just four pars, Fowler carded six bogeys but eight birdies to take his total to a championship record 18 in his first two rounds, while his 36-hole score of 130 tied Germany's 2014 champion Martin Kaymer for the lowest in US Open history.\n\n\"I'm in the lead, but we're only halfway there,\" said the American. \"Being in the lead is nice, but it really means nothing right now.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to continuing to challenge myself and go out there and try and execute the best I can.\"\n\nSchauffele, who matched Fowler's 62 on Thursday, did not bring the same fireworks on Friday, but after three consecutive bogeys he finished with two birdies to sign for a level-par 70 to join McIlroy on eight under.\n\nThe reigning Olympic champion will play with McIlroy in the penultimate group out on Saturday at 23:39 BST.\n\nWorld number one Scottie Scheffler is not too far away on five under after a 68, with Open champion Cameron Smith rounding out the top 10 on four under after a 67.\n\nBryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland are on one under, while last month's US PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka is at level par.\n\nTeeing off on the 10th in the early wave, things did not go McIlroy's way in his first nine holes and he was in danger of sliding out of contention with three bogeys and a solitary birdie, but the response was emphatic.\n\nSix birdies followed, four in his last five holes including coming within inches of making a hole-in-one at the par-three ninth, in contrast to his bogey finish in the first round.\n\n\"It was a great way to finish the round,\" McIlroy told NBC. \"It was nice to finish the round off properly and put myself right into the mix going into the weekend.\"\n\nLike McIlroy, Dustin Johnson is also in contention for a second US Open title, despite a nightmare start when he took eight on the par-four second. The American fought hard to deliver a level-par round and show his title credentials.\n\n\"Making a quad on number two definitely didn't get the day started off how I envisioned it,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"But to battle back and still be right in the mix going into the weekend, I'm definitely proud of the way I came back and finished off the round.\"\n\nJohnson was joined on six under by Australian Min Woo Lee, who carded the lowest round of the day, a five-under 65.\n\nAmerican Clark set the pace for the early starters, putting together a superb round of 67, with just one bogey, to get to nine under after some nerveless putting on the greens.\n\nThe 29-year-old won his one and only PGA Tour title last month and this is a huge US Open performance for him after missing the cut on his two previous appearances.\n\nAlthough generally unhappy with his performance, especially off the tee, Sheffield's Fitzpatrick had a moment to remember on the short 15th, although he only realised he had aced it thanks to the crowd's reaction.\n\n\"It was so exciting and a first ever professional hole-in-one,\" said the 28-year-old from Sheffield, who carded a level-par 70 to end the day one over.\n\n\"As soon as I hit it I thought that it had a good chance of going close. My hand was a bit sore after all the high fiving.\"\n\nFitzpatrick squeezed into the weekend on one over alongside Tyrrell Hatton, Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia, while Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood scraped through on two over.\n\nPhil Mickelson missed the cut on his 53rd birthday, with the six-time runner-up looking destined to miss out on the one major to elude him, while Jordan Spieth was another big name to miss out on three over.\n\nThe 2013 US Open champion Justin Rose is also heading home after letting his round slip away from him with two late bogeys as he finished at four over.\n\nMeanwhile, two-time major winner Justin Thomas had three double bogeys in his nightmare 11-over round of 81 to finish on 14 over.", "About 170 people were relocated from the western French town of La Laigne after an earthquake on Friday evening.\n\nThe quake, believed to have been between magnitude 5.2 and 5.8 was felt from Rennes in the north-west to Bordeaux in the south-west.\n\nHomes, schools and churches were damaged, with hundreds of buildings declared uninhabitable.\n\nEarthquakes above magnitude five are unusual in France, with the last affecting the country in November 2019.\n\nTwo people were injured in Deux-Sevres following Friday's tremor.\n\nThe Charente-Maritime region just north of Bordeaux was particularly affected.\n\nIn La Laigne, the local fire service chief Didier Marcaillou warned the church had become \"completely unusable\" and a top government regional official said that most of the houses in the town centre were affected.\n\n\"The school will have to be closed as a precaution,\" Nicolas Basselier said.\n\nOne woman cried as she told local station BFMTV that she had could no longer live in her home. \"I wouldn't wish this on anyone,\" the woman, named Christine said. \"In my son's room you can fit your entire hand through the crack in the wall.\"\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne described the earthquake as \"unusual\" and expressed her solidarity with those \"who may have been worried\".\n\n\"We will obviously ensure that everyone has access to rehousing,\" Ms Borne said.\n\nInterior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the government would initiate an accelerated natural disaster recognition procedure to help quickly assess the structural damage to buildings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Erin also plans to bring forward her wedding to her partner, Dan, to this year\n\nA mum who lost her youngest son in a caravan fire has said she has been given months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nErin Harvey lost a son as a baby after he was born prematurely before Zac was killed three years ago - and now the 30-year-old has a rare form of cancer.\n\nErin has written birthday and wedding cards for her two surviving sons, one of whom was seriously hurt in the fire.\n\n\"They've already lost brothers and now they'll lose their mum,\" she said.\n\n\"Just knowing that I'm not going to be there to watch them grow up, that's the hardest thing about this whole situation.\"\n\nErin is focusing on making her remaining time fun for sons Alex, 13, and eight-year-old Harley - and plans to marry partner Dan before she dies.\n\n\"We want to have a nice big celebration with all our family and friends,\" said Erin, who is from Ceredigion in mid Wales.\n\n\"We want to go to Legoland for Harley. We've got a camper van so, in between chemotherapy, we'll take any chance we get to go away and make memories.\n\n\"And we hope to have one last big, happy Christmas with all of the family around.\n\nZac (left) died, aged three, in a caravan fire three years ago while his brother Harley, who was then four, survived\n\n\"My main focus now is making the most of the time we have. I'm just not thinking about all the things that I'm going to miss and all of the things that we won't get to do.\"\n\nErin, who has been documenting her cancer journey on TikTok, had been trying for a baby with fiancé Dan, who she was due to marry - but they are hoping to bring the wedding forward to this year.\n\nErin, fiancé Dan and Harley are trying to go away in their camper van as much as they can\n\n\"I've been trying to distract myself by doing positive things so I'm making the boys' scrapbooks and have bought birthday cards all the way up to their 21st birthdays,\" said Erin.\n\n\"I've also done cards for their weddings and when they pass their driving tests.\n\n\"I'm just focusing on the now and making this next few months as normal for the kids as we possibly can. I have to be strong for them, I don't want them seeing me being upset all of the time.\"\n\nErin's second son Tyler, who had health complications after being born prematurely, died in December 2012 when he was just a few months old after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nErin says the hardest thing she is dealing with is the knowing her two sons will grow up without their mum\n\nErin's fourth and youngest son Zac died, aged three, during a sleepover with his dad Shaun after suffering smoke inhalation in a caravan fire in January 2020 that was probably caused by an electric fan heater.\n\nZac's elder brother Harley suffered lifechanging injuries in the blaze after being airlifted to Bristol in a critical condition. He was treated in hospital for six weeks and was not expected to survive but has now recovered.\n\nNow Erin, a support worker for adults with disabilities who lives in Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion, has been diagnosed with stage four Ampullary cancer, a rare form of the disease related to the digestive system.\n\nErin had surgery to remove the tumour but the cancer has spread and now friends have started an online fundraiser to help the family \"make magical memories\".\n\n\"It's terminal and I have been given months rather years to live,\" said Erin.\n\nErin Harvey has documented being diagnosed with cancer on social media\n\n\"I don't think anyone thinks they'd have that conversation with their kids about this situation, especially not at 30 years old and when they're still so young with a lot of growing up to do.\n\n\"Alex has already lost two brothers in his lifetime and I think it's going to be really hard on them because they're so close since the fire.\n\n\"I had to sit Alex down the other day about the terminal diagnoses and tried not to cry - but I did.\n\nErin's son Harley climbed the equivalent of Everest to raise money for a burns charity in Wales after he was seriously injured in a fire that killed his brother\n\n\"It's going to be tough but it's finding that balance between what we can do and what we can't because we don't have control over it.\n\n\"Everyone around me is hurting and it's horrible to see people so upset, knowing that I can't do anything to make them feel better.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice", "Plans to ban two-for-one junk food deals have been delayed by the government for another two years.\n\nIt would have meant shops being unable to sell food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar using multibuy deals.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said it would be unfair to restrict options when food prices remain high.\n\nThe policy, part of an anti-obesity strategy, had already pushed back to this October. It has now been delayed until 2025 while a review takes place.\n\nThe delay is likely to disappoint health campaigners who have previously been critical about length of time it is taking to ban the deals.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"I firmly believe in people's right to choose - and at a time when household budgets are under continuing pressure from the global rise in food prices, it is not fair for government to restrict the options available to consumers on their weekly shop.\n\n\"It is right that we consider carefully the impact on consumers and businesses, while ensuring we're striking the balance with our important mission to reduce obesity and help people live healthier lives.\"\n\nDowning Street said the policy would be delayed until October 2025 while the government reviews the impact it would have on shoppers and businesses.\n\nThe ban was also previously delayed under Prime Minister Boris Johnson in May last year due to the \"unprecedented global economic situation\".\n\nIn a guidance document updated this month, the Department of Health explained evidence showed the deals are effective at influencing purchases, particularly for children.\n\nThe rule would apply to medium and large retailers who would be banned from using promotions like three for the price of two or buy one get one free.\n\nFoods listed in the document include crisps, sweets and ready meals.\n\nRestaurants would also be banned from offering top-ups of drinks for free after all or part of first drink has been finished.\n\nThe policy had come under fire from Conservative MPs in the Commons. Shipley MP Philip Davies called the policy \"idiotic\", \"nannystate\" and \"utterly bonkers\".\n\nBuckingham MP Greg Smith described the ban as \"catastrophic for people's food bills.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said the government was tackling obesity which costs the NHS around £6.5bn a year and is the second biggest cause of cancer.\n\nHe highlighted the launch of pilot schemes for the latest anti-obesity drugs.\n\nFollowing the previous delay of the ban, Barbara Crowther, co-ordinator of the Children's Food Campaign, said the organisation was \"disappointed\" while celebrity chef Jamie Oliver protested outside Downing Street.", "The bodies of Dawid Wlodarczyk, 3, Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11, and Michal Wlodarczyk, 39 were found on Friday\n\nPolice have named four people, including two children, found dead at a flat in Hounslow.\n\nMichal Wlodarczyk, 39, Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11, and Dawid Wlodarczyk, aged three, have been named by police.\n\nAll four were found at the property on Staines Road, Bedfont, and thought to be from the same family, police said.\n\nOfficers said they were called at 15:12 BST on Friday by a person \"concerned about the welfare of the occupants\".\n\nAfter officers carried out a \"forced entry\" they discovered all four bodies.\n\nTheir next of kin have been informed and are being supported by family liaison officers. The Metropolitan Police's investigation is being led by homicide detectives.\n\nThe force described it as \"a terrible incident\" and revealed that no other parties were currently being sought.\n\nPolice officers were at the property on Staines Road on Saturday\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being arranged to establish their cause of death.\n\nIt is understood that the property where the bodies were found comprises two flats and they were discovered in the upstairs flat.\n\nAccording to neighbours, they were a Polish family. Mr Wlodarczyk worked as a builder, while Mrs Wlodarczyk was a cleaner at a hotel, they told PA Media.\n\nNaura Hooper, 46, who attended the scene, said she used to take 11-year-old Maja out with her daughters.\n\nShe said: \"Maja was a nice girl, very intelligent and well-liked. The family were nice whenever I met them.\"\n\nA man who lives next door, who did not wish to be named, said: \"They were just normal neighbours - we just had greetings here and there, that kind of stuff.\"\n\nA female neighbour - who also did not wish to be named - said she exchanged pleasantries with the family and revealed the woman was a \"lovely mother with two young children\".\n\nShe told the BBC the family were \"absolutely gorgeous\".\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson told reporters officers were keeping an open mind about the circumstances\n\nFeltham resident Michael Oban, 56, who lives about half a mile from the property, said he was \"disturbed\" by the discoveries.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, the death of four people inside a property really is quite shocking,\" he added.\n\n\"You have two children in there. It's always distressing when you hear children lose their life.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ch Supt Sean Wilson explained that the police's \"investigation is at a very early stage, and based on our initial inquiries, we are not currently seeking anybody else in connection with the incident\".\n\n\"I know the shock and distress that this terrible incident will cause among the community in Hounslow and beyond,\" he added.\n\n\"I can assure local people that specialist officers are working to establish exactly what happened and I will provide further information as soon as I can.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am also aware that this incident will be particularly upsetting for children, and I ask people to please be responsible about what they post on social media, including not naming or speculating as to the names of those who've died.\"\n\nHounslow council leader Shantanu Rajawat said the deaths had sent \"shockwaves\" through the community and he expressed his \"heartfelt sympathies\" to the family and friends of the deceased.\n\nFloral tributes were laid at the scene\n\nIt's clear that the incident has left Hounslow's community incredibly distressed.\n\nSome neighbours, parents of young children, were too upset to speak.\n\nOthers said they simply couldn't believe it, and never expected to wake up to this news on a Saturday morning.\n\nLocals have been stopping near the property, and comforting each other, as they come to terms with four deaths in the London suburb.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles's first Trooping the Colour as King... in 60 seconds\n\nKing Charles III has taken part in his first Trooping the Colour since becoming monarch.\n\nPrinces Louis and George and Princess Charlotte joined other royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony to watch a flypast in honour of their grandfather's official birthday.\n\nIn a surprise tribute, aeroplanes were used to spell out the King's initials, CR.\n\nThousands watched the event at Horse Guard's Parade and the Mall in London.\n\nThe royals watched an extended military flypast after the display on coronation day had to be scaled down due to bad weather.\n\nAround 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force took part - including aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the C-130 Hercules on its final ceremonial flight, modern Typhoon fighter jets with a red, white and blue finale from the Red Arrows.\n\nA sea of mobile phones were spotted among the crowds, with many holding them up in the air to capture the moment.\n\nThe Trooping the Colour is part of the annual calendar of big royal events and for the first time, it was with King Charles in the leading role.\n\nThere may have been a moment of poignancy for the King too. Just a year ago, at the Platinum Jubilee, it had been his mother on the same balcony, appearing before the crowds.\n\nIt is the first time a monarch has ridden on horseback at the event since 1986, when the late queen rode her horse, Burmese.\n\nHe was joined by the other royal colonels on horseback - the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal.\n\nThe King's horse appeared to be a little skittish at the start, but calmed down as the event went on.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh also rode during the ceremony in his role as Colonel of the 1st Battalion London Guards.\n\nThe ceremony started at Buckingham Palace, with the King and senior royals travelling down The Mall towards Horse Guards Parade.\n\nThe colour - or regimental flag - was then trooped in front of hundreds of Guardsmen and officers from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.\n\nThere was music and marching while the King carried out an inspection of the soldiers - moving slowly along the line as they stand in formation.\n\nAfter he coursed through the Mall, the King received the royal salute as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Division's regiments.\n\nThe senior royals on horseback were joined by the Queen, the Princess of Wales and her children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, who travelled in a carriage to support their grandfather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands gathered to watch King Charles at the birthday parade\n\nPrince George of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales rode along in the carriage\n\nThe Duchess of Edinburgh and Vice Adm Sir Timothy Laurence, during Trooping the Colour\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak was spotted in the crowd, as well as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, along with prime ministers of Commonwealth states and realms.\n\nOne royal fan said they were \"so happy\" to be at Trooping the Colour after missing out on the King's Coronation.\n\nThey said: \"We're so happy about coming today. We've been bringing our kids to see all of the pomp and ceremony for years.\n\n\"We've been exchanging photos, and we've got plans for birthday cocktails later.\"\n\nBefore the ceremony began, the Prince of Wales paid tribute to those took part in last week's rehearsal in soaring temperatures, which reached 30°C (86F) in London.\n\nAn aerial view of the parade captured the scale of the event\n\nLeader of the Opposition Sir Keir Starmer is spotted in the crowd\n\nQueen Camilla and the Princess of Wales ride along in a carriage\n\nRishi Sunak was also in attendance\n\nA view of the crowd at the event\n\nThe last time a monarch was on horseback was when chart toppers included Wham! and Doctor and the Medics.\n\nFollowing the parade, troops fired a 41-gun salute in Green Park to mark the King's official birthday - while from the Tower of London the Honourable Artillery Company fired 62 volleys.\n��� None The King's birthday parade... in 57 seconds. Video, 00:00:57The King's birthday parade... in 57 seconds", "Louise and Harry Gray were left devastated by the loss of their son\n\n\"It's all been done in his memory. They'll talk about Henry Gray.\"\n\nLouise Gray was at a routine check-up last May when she was told her baby boy had died. She was 35 weeks pregnant.\n\nThe 33-year-old was admitted to Antrim Area Hospital to give birth, but unlike other maternity units in Northern Ireland, it did not have a dedicated bereavement suite for parents.\n\nThat meant Louise had to deliver Henry on a busy labour ward. After her harrowing experience, she channelled her energy - and grief - into changing that.\n\n\"I had to walk past all the other delivery suites,\" said Louise, from County Londonderry.\n\n\"You're hearing those first newborn cries. Nothing was more deafening to us.\"\n\nAfter Henry's death, Louise and her husband Harry, who live in Ballinascreen in Derry, contacted their local MLA Emma Sheerin and started writing letters to then health minister Robin Swann.\n\nThey appealed for funding for a bereavement suite at Antrim to better support parents dealing with baby loss.\n\nLouise said: \"It was an ongoing issue that people had been fighting for for years, but we wanted to raise awareness. We thought how can we support them?\"\n\nBereavement suites are a safe, non-clinical place for mothers, as far away from live births as possible. They have separate delivery and living areas where parents can take time to grieve the loss of a baby, in a private and comfortable setting.\n\nLouise described the circumstances of Henry's birth at Antrim as \"extremely clinical\".\n\n\"I kind of staggered at the door when I first saw where they were taking us,\" she said.\n\n\"Harry was sleeping in a hospital bed or an armchair. All you want is somewhere to make it more bearable.\"\n\nThe couple spent the months that followed lobbying politicians and fundraising for a bereavement suite in Henry's memory. They hosted a hugely successful fundraising night on 25 November, the six-month anniversary of his death.\n\nFunding for the suite was eventually granted last year and construction is currently under way.\n\nWhile the Grays initially hoped to raise £3,000 to help furnish the unit, they recently presented the hospital with a cheque for £28,800.\n\n\"We drew up a list of items we wanted to use the money for. Things like a microwave, a coffee machine, a double bed,\" said Louise.\n\n\"It may seem materialistic but they're things you would appreciate so you can stay behind a closed door and cry all day.\"\n\nThe Grays, pictured with their two-year-old daughter Olivia, helped raise £28,000\n\nLouise said the new unit was being built in a repurposed area of the labour ward, close to theatre but \"far enough away from the other suites\".\n\nShe has unintentionally witnessed much of its construction, as she is currently being cared for at Antrim's maternity unit ahead of giving birth again in a few weeks' time.\n\n\"We are so lucky to get pregnant again. But there's no excitement or anything with this pregnancy. I'm filled with nerves,\" she said.\n\n\"I had this decision to make - 'Do I go back to Antrim?' But if anything was going to get me through, it was coming back here.\n\n\"The doctors and midwives are fantastic and constantly making me feel better. I know I've made the right choice. They are superstars.\"\n\nSands, a charity that supports parents in baby loss, has been working for several years to provide bereavement facilities in every maternity unit in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We are delighted to learn that Antrim, which was the next hospital on our list, will also have a dedicated bereavement suite soon, thanks to the fundraising efforts of Louise and Harry, meaning that every acute maternity unit in Northern Ireland will have a suite, which is what we set out to achieve,\" he said.\n\nLouise said baby Henry had \"10 fingers, 10 toes and a perfect button nose\"\n\nLouise hopes the new facility will provide some comfort to those going through such a traumatic experience, but she won't accept too much credit.\n\n\"One of the midwives said 'do you realise how proud you should be of yourself?' They can't believe what we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"But there are so many women, midwives and doctors who have been fighting for this for years. Our grief and our frustration helped, but it was already on the radar long before we went through it.\"\n\nThe Northern Health and Social Care Trust, which runs Antrim Area Hospital, said construction of the suite was almost complete and it would open in \"early summer\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"The Northern Trust is very grateful to the Gray family, and all the families who have contributed to the development of this new facility.\n\n\"It will provide comfort during the most difficult of times and ensure that parents and families are afforded privacy and sanctuary when they need it most.\"\n\nLouise said there was still \"so much stigma around baby loss\".\n\n\"For us and the people grieving with us, we talk about Henry all the time in a positive way. I am not afraid to say his name,\" she added.\n\n\"It's been a long road to recovery and the fundraising has provided us with a distraction. It's got us through some very dark days.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Michael Jordan has agreed to sell his majority stake in the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, the basketball team announced.\n\nDetails of the deal have not been disclosed, but ESPN report the Hornets are worth an estimated $3bn (£2bn).\n\nWhen the sale concludes, it will bring an end to Jordan's 13-year run as the Hornets' majority owner.\n\nJordan, who is currently the only black majority team owner in the NBA, will keep a minority stake after the sale to a group of investors.\n\nThe group is led by financiers Gabe Plotkin, a current minority owner, and Rick Schnall, a minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks.\n\nIt has been announced, however, that Mr Schnall will sell his ownership in the Hawks.\n\nThe investor group also includes North Carolina rapper Jermaine Cole, known as J. Cole, and country music singer Eric Church.\n\nJordan is a six-time NBA champion and five-time MVP and is widely celebrated as the greatest player in NBA history.\n\nHaving paid $275m for a majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets in 2010, he is also the league's only black majority owner.\n\nPreviously, he was a minority owner with the Washington Wizards basketball team.\n\nNBA Commissioner Adam Silver has spoken of the need for more diversity in the NBA's highest ranks, where owners are overwhelmingly white men.\n\nIn a press conference earlier in June, Mr Silver hinted at the possibility of Jordan joining the NBA's governing board, according to CBS, the BBC's US media partner.\n\nOf the four major US sports leagues, there are few owners who are not white: Kim Pegula, an Asian woman and a principle owner of the NFL's Buffalo Bills; Shad Khan, from Pakistan, owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars.\n\nArte Moreno, a Mexican American, owns the MLB Los Angeles Angels; and Sheila Johnson, an African American woman who is part-owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals and NBA's Washington Wizards.", "Pressures caused by the numbers of inmates at Maghaberry Prison are expected to continue for some time, the head of the prison service has said.\n\nDirector general Ronnie Armour was speaking after a \"disappointing\" inspection in the autumn.\n\nThe Criminal Justice Inspection and HM Inspector of Prisons report found a \"serious drug problem\" at the prison.\n\nIt said there were also major areas for improvement in the delivery of education, skills and work activities.\n\nJacqui Durkin, chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland, said: \"Forty-one per cent of prisoners surveyed during this inspection indicated it was easy to get illicit drugs at Maghaberry and 28% said they had developed a drug problem while they were there.\n\n\"We found there was no effective or co-ordinated plan in place to reduce the demand for and supply of drugs and no means of assessing the effectiveness of actions taken.\n\n\"This needs to be addressed as a priority.\"\n\nThe report identified a number of concerns regarding the prison, which included:\n\nMr Armour said the drugs issue was being addressed with the use of X-ray body scanners.\n\nThe head of the prison service also said the demands placed on prison officers were unprecedented.\n\nHe said there were now 1,230 prisoners, up from 830 in 2018.\n\n\"More than half are being held on remand and therefore do not have to engage in rehabilitative work,\" he said.\n\nWhen the inspection was carried out, the number of prisoners stood at 1,050.\n\n\"While it is important that we don't seek to make excuses for the decline in service delivery at the prison since the pandemic, no-one should underestimate the pressures prison staff are currently facing,\" Mr Armour added.\n\nRonnie Armour is director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service\n\nOn the report's comments on the treatment of Catholic prisoners, Mr Armour said this was an allegation taken very seriously and would be investigated.\n\n\"No stone should or will be left unturned in dealing with such allegations of unacceptable behaviour,\" he explained.\n\nAddressing the safeguarding concerns, Ms Durkin added: \"We accept the Covid-19 pandemic was challenging for Maghaberry as it has been for all prisons in the United Kingdom and we acknowledge the increase in the prison population and high numbers of men held on remand.\n\n\"However, prison leaders must focus on getting prisoners off wing and into the sort of meaningful work, training, education and rehabilitative support that will make them less likely to offend on their release.\"\n\nThe prison service accepted it was struggling with regards to prisoners' access to education, skills and work activities, but said there had been improvement since the inspection.\n\nIt also said the most significant area of concern related to the lack of a specialist provision for personality disorder for inmates.\n\nThe service accepted demand was growing for such a provision but that resources had not been made available.", "Will there be further cuts to education in the near future?\n\nSchools are far too good at disguising their problems.\n\nGo into the vast majority of schools and you will enter a warm and welcoming place.\n\nBrightly lit classrooms, well-taught children, artwork on the walls, trophy cabinets, old and new photos of smiling staff and pupils.\n\nIn some ways that is necessary.\n\nPupils, for instance, do not need to know that their school is sliding further into deficit.\n\nBut those disguises mean that the real financial problems faced by education are easy to overlook.\n\nIt is different to the - also financially stretched - health service, where there is a tangible reality to lengthening waiting lists, cancelled operations or long waits for surgery.\n\nMany schools, to an extent, have never had as much money as they felt they needed to deliver what they wanted.\n\nBut what makes 2023 different is that the Department of Education (DE) and the Education Authority (EA) are now having to make radical and swingeing savings.\n\nThere has been an end to funding for soccer and GAA sports coaches\n\nThe 2023-24 budget for education, which at about £2.5bn is Stormont's biggest behind health, was reduced by about £70m or 2.5% - but the real-terms reduction is much larger.\n\nThe department has said that there is a £300m gap between what is needed to run the education system and what it has.\n\nAnd that has led to so many cuts over the last few months that it is hard to keep track.\n\nBut bear with me while I try to list them.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure has said it may not have the money to pay for road safety education materials\n\nMeanwhile, schools are on standstill funding for pupils despite rising costs.\n\nThat is despite many facing increasing demands due to the impact of pandemic restrictions on children's development and mental health, and the money struggles some pupils' families are facing.\n\nForgive me if I have missed anything above; I am sure I have.\n\nI also have not even begun to consider the possible impact of reductions in funding for further and higher education from the Department for the Economy.\n\nA list, though, does not gave any real idea of the full effect of each cut.\n\nFor example, what is the impact on struggling families of losing £27 per child per fortnight? That is the money they will now not receive over the summer holidays to help them pay for food when a child is not receiving a free school meal.\n\nThere is no doubt that there could be some reform of the education system.\n\nOne consequence of that would presumably be some savings.\n\nHowever, I have never known there to be unanimous agreement on what reforms should be a priority.\n\nAn independent review of Northern Ireland's education system was agreed in the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) deal.\n\nThat has been going on for a couple of years now, but is presumably on ice until a Stormont Executive appears again.\n\nBut let's face it, we have quite a history of reviews in Northern Ireland which have led to limited action.\n\nThe fear is that there are more cuts to education to come in the near future.", "Take That member Howard Donald has apologised for his \"huge error\" in liking social media posts that he said were \"derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community\".\n\nThe singer, 55, has since been dropped from appearing at a Pride festival.\n\nDonald said he was sorry and had \"let everyone down\" by \"my uneducated actions\".\n\nThe performer had been due to play a solo show at Groovebox's Nottingham Pride Festival event in July.\n\nGroovebox thanked the public for \"alerting us to the situation\".\n\nAccording to Pink News, Donald \"liked\" Tweets that included criticism of a campaign promoting period product inclusivity featuring trans men, and a tweet calling for Disney to be \"defunded\" for holding a Pride in Concert event in June.\n\nHe had also reportedly liked posts by controversial influencer Andrew Tate.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to substantiate activity on Mr Donald's Twitter account which has been deleted.\n\nIn an Instagram story on Saturday, the singer wrote: \"I have made a huge error in my judgement (by) liking social media posts that are derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community and for that, I am deeply sorry and I know I have let everyone down.\n\n\"I am really disappointed in myself and I am sorry for any hurt that I have caused by my uneducated actions.\n\n\"I clearly have a lot to learn and it's a priority for me that I do this.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, Groovebox Festival said: \"In light of recent events, Howard Donald will no longer be playing at our Nottingham Pride Festival on Saturday 29 July at Binks Yard.\n\n\"We would like to offer our thanks to the public for alerting us to the situation this morning and also appreciate your patience while we spoke to the relevant parties.\"\n\nThe statement added organisers were working on finding a replacement act.\n\nTake That are due to headline the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park, London, on 1 July.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When the King stepped back inside from his balcony he must have had a sense of relief, after a morning when everything went to plan.\n\nHis horse might have been a little skittish at the start, but the choreography of the day went with spectacular precision.\n\nIt was picture postcard stuff in the summer sunshine.\n\nThis is part of the annual calendar of big royal events and for the first time it was with King Charles in the leading role.\n\nIt was a point even made in the thundering fly-past, with RAF jets marking out CR - Charles Rex, Latin for King - in the London skies.\n\nBut there might have been a moment of poignancy for him too.\n\nA year ago, at the Platinum Jubilee, it had been his mother on the same balcony, appearing before the crowds. Much has happened for him in the year since then.", "The father of Shehryar Sultan, a migrant from Pakistan who went missing after a boat he was travelling in sank off Greece, says that people smugglers \"brainwashed him\" into embarking on the dangerous voyage from Libya to Europe.\n\nThe fate of Shahid Mehmood's son is currently unknown, but the family back in Mandrah are worried for him after learning that the body of a man he was travelling with has been found.\n\nThe UN human rights office says that up to 500 people are missing from the capsized fishing boat and that dozens of people are known to have died.\n\nTo read more about the disaster, click here.", "German archaeologists are thrilled to have dug up a Bronze Age sword more than 3,000 years old which is extraordinarily well preserved.\n\nThe bronze sword with an octagonal hilt was found in a grave in the southern town of Nördlingen. It is thought to be from the late 14th Century BC.\n\nIts condition is so good \"it almost still shines\", Bavaria's State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD) says.\n\nThe grave contains the bones of a man, woman and boy, and other bronze items.\n\nThe archaeologists are not sure whether the three were related, and the rarity of the find raises questions about the sword's origin.\n\nThe BLfD says manufacturing such a sword was complicated, as the hilt was cast on to the blade. The Nördlingen sword does not appear to have been used in anger, but it is believed to have been a real weapon, not just ornamental.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A gunman accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has been found guilty by a jury in the US state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThe federal trial of Robert Bowers, 50, now moves to the sentencing phase, with the court poised to decide whether he should be given the death penalty.\n\nThe 27 October assault inside the Tree of Life synagogue was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.\n\nBowers pleaded not guilty to all 63 charges against him.\n\nThe jury convicted him on all counts after less than a full day of deliberations.\n\nDuring the three-week trial, prosecutors called 60 witnesses as they tried to prove the gunman carried out his attack because of a hatred for Jews.\n\nBowers' defence team did not call any witnesses and did not deny he carried out the attack, but said it was due to a delusional hatred for immigrants and a Jewish non-profit group, not Jewish people.\n\nUS Attorney Mary Hahn said in closing arguments on Thursday that the defendant had \"hunted\" his victims.\n\n\"He outright told Swat operators he went to the synagogue to kill Jews,\" she said.\n\nDefence attorney Elisa Long had argued that \"stopping religious study was not his intent or motive\".\n\nThe distinction is important because under US federal law, in order for the jury to impose the death penalty prosecutors must prove that Bowers was motivated by race hate or killed people to stop them exercising their religious beliefs.\n\nA psychiatric evaluation of Bowers has been prepared by the government, and the state of his mental health may be raised during the sentencing.\n\nThat hearing will begin on 26 June and is expected to last six weeks.\n\nThe 11 worshippers who died in the attack ranged in age from 54 to 97. Seven others were injured, including five police officers who rushed to the scene.\n\nThree congregations - Dor Hadash, New Light and the Tree of Life - shared the synagogue.\n\nMost families of those killed have voiced support for the death penalty, although some other family members and the Dor Hadash congregation have stated that they are opposed to it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rabbi Doris Dyen: 'I'm broken and I can't pray' (from 2018)\n\nCommunity groups, Jewish advocacy organisations and survivors thanked police and prosecutors after the verdict was announced.\n\n\"I am grateful to God for getting us to this day,\" Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who survived the attack, said in a statement.\n\n\"And I am thankful for the law enforcement who ran into danger to rescue me, and the US attorney who stood up in court to defend my right to pray.\"\n\n\"Justice has been served,\" the American Jewish Committee said in a statement.\n\n\"We realise it does little to ease the pain for the families and friends of the 11 people murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh simply for being Jewish and practising their faith. However, we hope this verdict allows them to continue the slow process of healing if not closure.\"\n\nThis is only the second federal death penalty case under the Biden administration, which has placed a moratorium on federal executions.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump allowed 13 executions to take place in the last six months before he left office.", "David Warburton has resigned after a newspaper published allegations of sexual misconduct\n\nAn MP who was suspended from the Conservative Party over allegations of sexual misconduct has resigned.\n\nDavid Warburton, who represents Somerton and Frome in Somerset, is the fourth MP in eight days to announce their resignation.\n\nMr Warburton said the past 14 months since allegations were published in a national newspaper had been \"extraordinarily difficult\".\n\nHe added that the allegations about him had been \"malicious\".\n\nThe MP had been accused of taking drugs and making unwanted advances towards two women, after they and another woman spoke to the Sunday Times about his conduct. That led to his suspension from the Conservative Party in April last year.\n\nHe announced his resignation in an interview with the Mail On Sunday in which the paper reports him as admitting to taking cocaine after drinking \"incredibly potent\" Japanese whisky.\n\nHe added in the interview: \"I was set up, but I have been naive and incredibly stupid.\" He went on to deny the harassment claims he is accused of.\n\nHis immediate departure means the Conservatives will now face a fourth by-election.\n\nMr Warburton has represented his constituency as an independent since losing the Tory whip. A writ for a new election is usually issued with three months of the resignation, according to Parliament's website.\n\nMr Warburton, who had taken the constituency from the Liberal Democrats in 2015, was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. He won with a majority of 19,213 in that last poll.\n\n\"My constituents in Somerton and Frome who elected me three times with overwhelming majorities have for a year been deprived of the voice they need,\" said Mr Warburton.\n\n\"I am so grateful for their many messages of support, and it is with sorrow that I have no choice but to provoke the upheaval of a by-election.\"\n\nHe also said in his three-page resignation letter he had been denied a fair hearing by the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) and prevented from \"speaking out\" while it investigated the accusations.\n\nThe House of Commons rejected the claim saying ICGS was \"there to ensure all complaints are dealt with in a manner that is fair, thorough, independent and efficient\".\n\nIn a statement, a Commons spokesman said: \"We remain committed to ensuring that lasting cultural change can be delivered for all of those in Parliament.\"\n\nMr Warburton joins Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams who resigned last week triggering by-elections in their constituencies.\n\nNadine Dorries also announced her resignation, but said her departure would not be immediate as she wanted to stay while she seeks to investigate how she was denied a seat in the Lords on Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nLabour's national campaign co-ordinator Shabana Mahmood accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of being \"too weak to act himself\" after Mr Warburton resigned \"in disgrace\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Time after time the Conservatives have mired themselves in sleaze and scandal neglecting the issues that really matter to people. Then they decided it was OK to leave local people in this seat without any proper representation at all.\"", "Some of the victims died as attackers burnt a dormitory\n\nNearly 40 pupils have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nFive militants attacked the Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe at around 23:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThey entered dormitories, setting fire and using machetes to kill and maim the pupils, officials said.\n\nThe Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - based in the Democratic Republic of Congo - have been blamed and a manhunt is under way.\n\nMore than 60 people are educated at the school, most of whom live there.\n\nUganda's information minister said 37 students were confirmed to have been killed, but did not give their ages.\n\nTwenty of them were attacked with machetes and 17 of them burned to death, Chris Baryomunsi told the BBC.\n\nThe Ugandan army said the rebels had also killed a school guard and three members of the local community.\n\nSurvivors said the rebels threw a bomb into the dormitory after the machete attack. It is not clear if this resulted in a fire in the building which was reported earlier.\n\nSix students were also abducted to carry food that the rebels stole from the school's stores, he added. The militants then returned across the border into the DR Congo.\n\nSome of the bodies are said to have been badly burnt and DNA tests will need to be carried out to identify them.\n\nEight people remain in a critical condition after the attack.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the \"appalling act\" and called for those behind it to be brought to justice.\n\nSoldiers are pursuing ADF insurgents towards the DR Congo's Virunga national park - which is home to rare species, including mountain gorillas.\n\nMilitias including the ADF also use the vast expanse, which borders Uganda and Rwanda, as a hideout.\n\n\"Our forces are pursuing the enemy to rescue those abducted and destroy this group,\" defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said on Twitter.\n\nThe Ugandan army has also deployed helicopters to help track the rebel group over mountainous terrain.\n\nThe two neighbours have held joint military operations in the east of DR Congo to prevent attacks by the ADF.\n\nSecurity forces had intelligence that rebels were in the border area on Congolese side for at least two days before Friday night's attack, Maj Gen Olum said.\n\nBut local residents have criticised the authorities for not being prepared for an attack.\n\n\"If they are telling us the borders are secure and security is tight, I want the security to tell us where they were when these killers came to kill our people,\" one resident told reporters.\n\nThe deadly episode follows last week's attack by suspected ADF fighters in a village in DR Congo near to the Ugandan border. More than 100 villagers fled to Uganda but have since returned.\n\nThe attack on the school, located less than 2km (1.25 miles) from Congolese border, is the first such attack on a Ugandan school in 25 years.\n\nIn June 1998, 80 students were burnt to death in their dormitories in an ADF attack on Kichwamba Technical Institute near the border of DR Congo. More than 100 students were abducted.\n\nThe group may target schools as a way of recruiting children, according to Richard Moncrieff, an expert in the region at the International Crisis Group. But they also do it for the shock value, he told the BBC.\n\n\"These are terrorist groups who want to make and impact through violence, they want to show that they are there, show that they are active to their colleagues and allies in Isis in other parts of the world,\" Mr Moncrieff said, using another acronym for IS.\n\nThe ADF was created in western Uganda in the 1990s and took up arms against long-serving President, Yoweri Museveni, alleging government persecution of Muslims.\n\nMuslims make up almost 14% of the Ugandan population, according to official government figures, though the Ugandan Muslim Supreme Council estimates the figure is closer to 35%.\n\nSome members of the Ugandan Muslim community say they face discrimination in public life, including in education and the workplace.\n\nAfter defeat by the Ugandan army in 2001, the ADF relocated to North Kivu province in DR Congo.\n\nThe group's principal founder, Jamil Makulu, was arrested in Tanzania in 2015 and is in custody in a Ugandan prison.\n\nADF rebels have been operating from inside DR Congo for the past two decades.\n\nMakulu's successor, Musa Seka Baluku, reportedly first pledged allegiance to IS in 2016, but it was not until April 2019 that the group first acknowledged its activity in the area.\n\nIS is a group has been mostly defeated, though there are significant numbers of IS-affiliated militant groups across the Middle East and Africa.\n\nAfter years of not operating openly in Uganda, the ADF was blamed for a series of attacks in late 2021 including suicide bombings in Uganda's capital Kampala.\n\nDR Congo allowed Uganda to cross the border to assist in efforts against the ADF in 2021", "Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nA man has been charged with the murders of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham.\n\nNineteen-year-old students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Mr Coates, 65, were stabbed in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nValdo Calocane has also been charged with attempted murder after three people were injured, one critically, when they were hit by a van.\n\nThe 31-year-old will appear before magistrates in the city on Saturday.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed in Ilkeston Road, just after 04:00 BST on Tuesday, while Mr Coates was found dead with knife injuries in Magdala Road after his van was allegedly stolen.\n\nMr Calocane, of no fixed address, is accused of using the van to drive at pedestrians.\n\nOne man was struck in Milton Street and left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nA number of roads in Nottingham city centre were cordoned off on Tuesday\n\nPolice said an attempt was also made to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area. They are believed to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had received a referral from police and was investigating.\n\nA spokesman for the police watchdog said: \"We have viewed dashcam footage from the police car and can confirm the officer, in a single-crewed vehicle en route to a linked incident, had sight of the van for less than a minute before the collision in the South Sherwood Street area. The officer immediately stopped to provide first aid.\n\n\"We will be contacting the two people injured in the collision to wish them a speedy recovery and advise them that we have decided to investigate this specific police interaction.\n\n\"Our investigation will consider whether the actions of the van driver were influenced by the police car's presence shortly before he collided with the two pedestrians.\"\n\nThousands gathered in Nottingham city centre to remember Mr Coates, Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar on Thursday\n\nNottinghamshire Police Chief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"These charges are a significant development and arise as a result of our thorough investigation into these horrific incidents that occurred in our city.\n\n\"We are keenly aware of the deep emotion being felt surrounding these tragic events and the high level of interest, not only in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire but also across the whole country.\n\n\"However, posting prejudicial information online about an active case could amount to contempt of court and, in the most serious cases, have the potential to cause the collapse of a trial.\"\n\nPolice previously revealed Mr Calocane was a former University of Nottingham student, but said \"this is not believed to be connected with the attack\".\n\nThe dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national had settled status in the UK through his Portuguese citizenship.\n\nThe BBC understands he grew up in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Mr Webber's parents embraced at another vigil held at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a first-year history student and keen cricketer, described as \"fun, friendly, and full of life in his seminars\".\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar, from north-east London, was in her first year of studying medicine, while playing top-flight hockey at university. Her family said she was \"an adored daughter and sister\".\n\nMr Coates worked at the Huntingdon Academy in Nottingham and was four months from retirement.\n\nHis sons, Lee and James, said he was a keen fisherman and \"die-hard\" Nottingham Forest fan.\n\nRelatives of Mr Webber, including his father David (second left), laid flowers at the spot where he was stabbed in Ilkeston Road\n\nTheir deaths have prompted an outpouring of grief in the city and beyond.\n\nThousands of people gathered at emotional vigils - at the university on Wednesday and then in the Old Market Square in the city centre on Thursday - where relatives addressed the crowds and paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Webber's family visited the scene of where he was stabbed.\n\nThey said they laid flowers at the spot in Ilkeston Road because \"we owe it to both Barnaby and Grace to let them know we are here\".\n\n\"As has been expressed by so many already, heartbreak cannot begin to describe our loss,\" his family said.\n\n\"As painful as this tribute today has been, it is yet another step forward on the very long, dark journey we have been forced to take.\"\n\nMr Webber's family placed a picture of him at the scene of the stabbing and circled it with flowers\n\nThe England and Australia men's cricket teams also paid tribute to those who died at the start of the Ashes test series at Edgbaston on Friday.\n\nPlayers wore black armbands as a mark of respect and to \"show solidarity\", with a minute's silence observed before the national anthems.\n\nEngland and Australia players paid their respects at Edgbaston\n\nBoth Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber were keen and talented cricketers.\n\nA trumpeter from England's Barmy Army supporters group played Amazing Grace during the match in memory of the pair.\n\nThe tribute took place during the 56th over, chosen because 56 was Mr Webber's player number.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Judged a liar. Chucked out of the building. Condemned by colleagues.\n\nYou would think you'd want to crawl under the duvet and stay there for a good while after a massive public disgrace. Perhaps not Boris Johnson.\n\n\"He loves oxygen and he doesn't care about Parliament. Everyone is talking about him and he'll be delighted,\" suggests a former ally who knows him well.\n\nAnd his remaining die-hard backers claim the verdict of the privileges committee, which investigated whether he deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties at No 10, is a vindictive strike against a politician loved by party members and much of the public.\n\nWhen it comes to the public, the polls have suggested for many months that claim is tripe - to use Boris Johnson's terminology for the report into his conduct.\n\nHe did have an unusual ability to connect with voters. But he long ago fell out of favour with the public.\n\nAnd what about inside the Conservative Party, that is again indulging in what seems like its favourite hobby, arguing with itself?\n\nI've been talking to activists and MPs from around the country to test that out. Like in any big organisation there are differing views, but repeatedly, different sources describe three distinct groups.\n\nOne experienced party member describes the different tribes as Boris Johnson's \"super fans, never fans, and only fans while he was an asset\".\n\nThe reference to the Only Fans website - known for its adult content - may be a mischievous hint that perhaps there was a transactional element all along.\n\nThis is the group for whom Boris Johnson is a political rock star.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has made her views plain - warning that Conservatives who endorse the privileges committee's findings could be chucked out of their seats.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister told me there was such unhappiness the party might even split over how Mr Johnson has been treated.\n\nA different senior backer told me their colleagues were totally underestimating the anger among members and Mr Johnson's magic ability to win, warning that \"people are making a terrible mistake\" which could undermine democracy.\n\nThe howls of rage from the super fans are matched by massive sighs of relief from the \"never fans\".\n\nOne former president of the Conservative National Convention, the top brass of the voluntary party, told me: \"I am so relieved he is gone - and really gone. Boris was never suited to the top job.\"\n\nOne Scottish activist said: \"For goodness sake man, just go. If you really care about our party and our country then go quickly and quietly. You made your bed and you were caught lying in it.\"\n\nEven if members do still have affection for Mr Johnson, this activist argues they \"aren't who we need to appeal to\" to win elections, saying the super fans are \"delusional idiots\".\n\nThe biggest group by far however is those who were content to back Boris Johnson for as long as he was useful.\n\nThis is summed up by one activist who backed him as PM: \"It was a transaction. At the time I absolutely realised and knew what his flaws were.\n\n\"But I took the view that you have to decide what is the bigger issue and it was keeping Corbyn out.\"\n\nAnother association chair in south-east England said his members absolutely do not want Mr Johnson back, apart from a few die-hards, telling me: \"It's like when someone has had a really exciting but disastrous boyfriend, afterwards, you have a pang occasionally and you miss the excitement but you don't really want them back.\"\n\nAn activist in the Midlands who once backed him said: \"Everyone liked him to start with and were willing to take a punt. He has smashed his credibility and his likeability.\"\n\nOne MP, in a constituency with one of the highest Brexit Leave votes, told me: \"Practically nobody has got in contact. He's so popular he appears to have rendered my constituents incapable of using their fingers to tap out an email or pick up a phone - it's been staggering.\n\n\"It's like all those X Factor winners, one of their songs comes on and you think, 'oh yeah people actually used to love that'. Then you think 'but why?'.\"\n\nNot so much the rock star any more.\n\nIt is impossible to be scientific about the size of each group, but in each of my conversations it is clear the super fans are very definitely a minority.\n\nOne source calculates \"you have gone from 70% being supportive of him to only around 20%\", adding: \"The sensible middle ground of members has definitely gone away.\"\n\nAnother party chair says only \"10% of the grassroots are pro - who would actually want him back\". There is a desire to move on, not just from the political melodrama, but also the era that Boris Johnson defined.\n\nAs one activist says: \"What we need is Boris Johnson to go away. And most people want Covid and Brexit to go away. He represents both of those.\"\n\nA regular peep at the Telegraph letters page would suggest its readers gave up on him months ago. If Boris Johnson is no longer tickling the tummies of the party's most traditional media backer then the notion he's still the Tory darling just does not hold.\n\nThere still is the possibility of a vote on the report into his conduct in the Commons on Monday.\n\nHaving promised to uphold integrity and accountability it is tricky for the prime minister to sit it out, but that does seem the most likely outcome. One minister joked: \"He is likely to be many miles away.\"\n\nAnd it's worth noting that Boris Johnson's camp has backed away from turning the vote into another bout of a fight it has already lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis remaining supporters are not going to vote against the committee's findings, which would have been a way of protesting against what they saw as its vicious judgement.\n\nIt seems, realising the support might have looked embarrassingly paltry - maybe \"20 votes on a good day\" as one minister said - they now won't turn up at all.\n\nThere is evidence of some campaigning to make the vote count at the margins. Tory website the Conservative Post is encouraging MPs to vote against the report, along with circulating some wild claims that the committee ignored the rule of law.\n\nSeparately, the Liberal Democrats have been making hay in local media, demanding their Conservative rivals vote to endorse the verdict that Johnson lied. If they don't, you can imagine they'll use that to try and embarrass their opponents.\n\nBut neither Labour nor the Lib Dems are at the moment planning to force a vote to endorse the report. It may therefore go through \"on the nod\", where MPs do not have to vote, sparing Tory blushes.\n\nThere is a small irony in MPs not even bothering to vote on the departure of the most prominent politician of his generation. Alternatively, it tells you all you need to know.\n\nBut however messy his exit, the end of the Johnson era is prompting questions about what he leaves behind.\n\nSome Conservatives - including the never fans and the only fans - just want to see the back of Boris Johnson\n\nRishi Sunak is yet to sketch out a bold, new canvas. His brand - and it very much is a brand - is designed to create an impression of quiet competence rather than create fireworks.\n\nThe risk - or maybe the reality - is that's created a sense of quiet drift.\n\nOne of the activists I spoke to said this \"is the beginning of whatever will be the story after the election\" - assuming Rishi Sunak will lose - and \"it is going to be brutal and nasty - you can see the various wings in the party already beginning to manoeuvre themselves\".\n\nOne of the other members just wants the Conservatives to concentrate on what the public needs: \"I just feel what people want to talk about on the doors is health and the cost of living.\"\n\nAs the pressures of rising mortgage costs in particular become horrifyingly clear, the Conservative Party - already well behind in the polls - can ill-afford another week like this.\n\nIt is not clear yet how much trouble Boris Johnson wants to cause. Will he use his new newspaper column to sledge Rishi Sunak at every opportunity? Or actually, as he did yesterday, confine himself to writing about battles with his weight?!\n\nThat seems vanishingly unlikely. Whatever he chooses to do there is a sense that the Conservative Party is exhausted by it all. Years of drama. Years of fighting. Years of its majority being spent on arguments with each other.\n\nOne of the activists I spoke to warned of a spreading sentiment: \"More than half the grassroots are just disillusioned - too apathetic to campaign, too apathetic to vote, some talking about spoiling ballot papers.\"\n\nWhether super fans, never fans, or only fans, Conservatives have to deal with the legacy of Boris Johnson.\n\nBut after all the drama, all the political pain and adrenalin mixed in, they may have to confront the horror of apathy too.", "Ukraine has recently launched an offensive to reclaim territory seized by Russia\n\nThe war in Ukraine must end, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told Russia's leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nMr Ramaphosa's remarks came as he met Mr Putin in St Petersburg on Saturday as part of a peace mission with six other African countries.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the delegation on Friday that he would not enter talks with Russia while they occupied Ukrainian land.\n\nMr Putin told the African leaders Ukraine had always refused talks.\n\nAt the meeting in St Petersburg, Mr Ramaphosa also called for both parties to return their prisoners of war, and said children removed by Russia should be returned home.\n\nMr Putin has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court over the forced removal of hundreds of Ukrainian children from their families during Russia's occupation of Ukraine.\n\nAs the African delegation called for the return of children to their families, Mr Putin interrupted their speech and claimed Russia was protecting them.\n\n\"Children are sacred. We moved them out of the conflict zone, saving their lives and health\", he said. The UN said they have evidence of the illegal transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia.\n\nMr Ramaphosa also warned Mr Putin of the impacts of the war on Africa, and said it should be settled by diplomacy.\n\n\"The war cannot go on forever. All wars have to be settled and come to an end at some stage,\" he said. \"And we are here to communicate a very clear message that we would like this war to be ended.\"\n\nThe war has severely restricted the export of grain from Ukraine and fertiliser from Russia, which has affected African countries in particular and intensified global food insecurity.\n\nBut Mr Putin blamed the West for the grain crisis - not the war in Ukraine - as he said only 3% of the grain exports permitted under a UN-sponsored deal to ensure its safe passage through the Black Sea had gone to the world's poorest countries.\n\nRussia has repeatedly complained that Western sanctions are restricting its own agricultural exports. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were \"no grounds for extending\" the grain deal, because \"so far what we were promised has not been done\".\n\nMr Putin praised what he described as Africa's balanced position on the war, which Russia continues to call a \"special military operation\".\n\nThe African delegation, made up of representatives from South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Congo-Brazzaville, Comoros, Zambia, and Uganda has been specifically designed for breadth and balance, with members from different parts of Africa with different views on the conflict.\n\nSouth Africa and Uganda are seen as leaning towards Russia, while Zambia and Comoros are closer to the West. Egypt, Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville have remained largely neutral.\n\nAfrican countries have primarily seen the conflict a confrontation between Russia and the West.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The road to peace is not an easy one,' said President Cyril Ramaphosa in Ukraine\n\nThe delegation also met with Ukrainian leaders on Friday, where Mr Ramaphosa warned the war in Europe was affecting between 1.2 and 1.3 billion people in Africa.\n\nAfter the leaders landed, air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, which Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said demonstrated that Mr Putin wanted \"more war\".\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Zelensky told the delegation that \"an important result of your mission\" would be to intercede to bring about the release political prisoners held by Russia.\n\nThe meeting comes amid heightened tensions between both Russia and Ukraine, as Ukraine launches its counteroffensive near the region of Bakhmut.\n\nRussia has claimed the counteroffensive has failed, but Kyiv said it has retaken about 100 sq km of territory on its southern front.", "Valdo Calocane gave his name as the alias Adam Mendes\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three people who died in attacks in Nottingham.\n\nValdo Calocane, 31, is accused of killing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65.\n\nHe appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court and spoke only to confirm his name, giving an alias of Adam Mendes.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to face a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on 20 June.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed on Ilkeston Road just after 04:00 BST on Tuesday, while Mr Coates was found dead with knife injuries on Magdala Road after his van was allegedly stolen.\n\nMr Calocane, of no fixed address, is also charged with three counts of attempted murder after a van was used to drive at three pedestrians, Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller.\n\nHe appeared in the dock wearing a grey T-shirt and grey jogging bottoms, and flanked by three security officers. He was not required to enter a plea at this stage.\n\nOne man was struck by the van on Milton Street and left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nPolice said an attempt was also made to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area. They are believed to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nThousands gathered in Nottingham city centre to remember Mr Coates, Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar on Thursday\n\nPolice previously revealed Mr Calocane was a former University of Nottingham student, but said it was not being linked to their inquiry.\n\nThe dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national had settled status in the UK through his Portuguese citizenship.\n\nThe BBC understands he grew up in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe deaths prompted an outpouring of grief in the city and beyond.\n\nThousands of people gathered at emotional vigils - at the university on Wednesday and then in the Old Market Square in the city centre on Thursday - where relatives addressed the crowds and paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Mr Webber's parents embraced at a vigil held at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a first-year history student and keen cricketer, described as \"fun, friendly, and full of life in his seminars\".\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar, from north-east London, was in her first year of studying medicine, while playing top-flight hockey at university. Her family said she was \"an adored daughter and sister\".\n\nMr Coates worked at the Huntingdon Academy in Nottingham and was four months from retirement.\n\nHis sons, Lee and James, said he was a keen fisherman and \"die-hard\" Nottingham Forest fan.\n\nRelatives of Mr Webber, including his father David (second left), laid flowers at the spot where he was stabbed on Ilkeston Road\n\nOn Friday, Mr Webber's family visited the scene of where he was stabbed.\n\nThey said they laid flowers on Ilkeston Road because \"we owe it to both Barnaby and Grace to let them know we are here\".\n\n\"As has been expressed by so many already, heartbreak cannot begin to describe our loss,\" they added.\n\n\"As painful as this tribute today has been, it is yet another step forward on the very long, dark journey we have been forced to take.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer surprised audiences at London's O2 Arena by proposing to his partner live on stage during a show.\n\nThe 65-year-old brought Dina De Luca on to the stage on Thursday night before asking her, \"will you marry me?\"\n\nAmid rapturous applause from the crowd, his partner nodded and the pair embraced and shared a kiss.\n\nZimmer is renowned for his award-winning scores for movies like the Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the thunderstorms forecast for the weekend\n\nThunderstorms, winds and hail are sweeping across the UK and could cause flash flooding, the Met Office has warned.\n\nWarm, humid air this week has caused the storms to develop, the forecaster said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for England, Wales and Scotland is in place until Monday in some places.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said some of the worst storms could produce a month's worth of rain in a few hours.\n\nThe hot weather will continue, with temperatures reaching highs of 29C (84F) in some areas.\n\nHowever, seven flood warnings have been issued on Sunday evening in places including Bagley Dike at Grimesthorpe and Hunsworth Beck at Oakenshaw.\n\nThere are also 35 flood alerts, including for the River Maun in Nottinghamshire and the River Blythe in Warwickshire.\n\nThe entrance to the A&E department of Rotherham General Hospital was flooded on Sunday evening, as footage showed water seeping into the waiting area while a member of staff put down large paper towels on the floor to try to mop the water up.\n\nA person tries to mop up the flooding at Rotherham General Hospital\n\nFlash flooding also left roads \"impassable\" in Wrexham, North Wales Police said on Sunday evening, while Wrexham AFC said the 1864 Suite restaurant inside its Racecourse ground had to be evacuated due to structural damage caused by the heavy rain.\n\nOn Sunday, yellow weather warnings were in place for thunderstorms across Wales and most of England for most of the day.\n\nWeather warnings for rain were also in place until the evening of Sunday across northern England and the south of Scotland, due to a risk of spray and flooding.\n\nThe Met Office have issued further yellow warnings for heavy rain and the risk of flooding in the north of England a large part of Scotland for Sunday night and Monday morning.\n\nFlooding is expected across parts of England due to the heavy rainfall on Sunday, the Met Office said, adding that Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield, saw 35.6mm of rain between 18:00 and 19:00 BST.\n\nMr Taylor warned more rain was on the way, as he said: \"Some parts of the UK could see over a months worth of rain fall in just a few hours today and tonight, leading to flash flooding and disruption in places.\n\n\"Due to the nature of thunderstorms, there could be huge variations in weather conditions over a short distance. Whilst some areas stay dry and humid, others close-by could experience the severe storms with torrential rain, hail and frequent lightning.\n\n\"Thundery rain will develop more widely this evening across northern and eastern England, before heading into Scotland.\"\n\nHowever, he said that not everyone will see the storms, with conditions \"highly variable over just short distances, and many areas remaining dry\".\n\nLate on Sunday, and into the night, the thundery rain could affect more of northern and eastern England, as well as eastern Scotland, he added.\n\nA couple and their seven pets had to be rescued by neighbours after a lightning strike set fire to the roof of their bungalow on York Avenue, in Corringham, Essex, at about 03:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThunder and lightning was spotted overnight in Penmon, Anglesey\n\nThe stormy forecast follows a week of high temperatures, where many parts of the UK officially experienced a heatwave.\n\nThe heatwave has caused some to experience heavy hay fever and worsened asthma attacks.\n\nPeople have complained on social media that their hay fever symptoms are worse than usual this year.\n\nGrahame Madge, a spokesperson for the Met Office, said this was a result of the hot, dry weather over the last few weeks.\n\n\"Pollen season is certainly with us,\" he said. \"The fact we've had very dry conditions means that grasses can release pollenen masseinto the air column.\"\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures are expected to keep rising.\n\nDespite the storms, the heat is set to continue. The highest temperature of the year so far was at Chertsey Water Works in Surrey on Saturday where highs of 32.2C were recorded.\n\nA hosepipe ban was issued in Kent and Sussex on Friday after South East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water reached \"record levels\" in June.\n\nThousands of South East Water customers were left without water or experienced low pressure over the last week due to supply issues - however the water company says people in Kent and Sussex should have now seen full supplies return.\n\nHow have the thunderstorms and rain affected your area? Share your experiences, pictures and videos by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A man has been charged with stalking an MP and impersonating a police officer.\n\nSimon Parry, 44, was arrested on Thursday following an incident with the unnamed MP in Westminster, on Wednesday.\n\nMet Police said officers had \"acted swiftly to identify, arrest and charge\" the man, adding \"we take the safety and security of MPs extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Parry will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\n\"Our officers have acted swiftly to identify, arrest and charge a man in relation to this incident after it was reported to us,\" said Ch Supt Elisabeth Chapple, who leads the Met Police's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command,\n\n\"I'd like to thank the teams involved for their fast action and hard work on this case.\"\n\nShe added: \"More broadly, we continue to work with MPs and their offices, the Parliamentary Security Department and with local police forces through the Operation Bridger network to provide MPs and their staff safety and security advice.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are many categories in Ballroom, including Old Way, New Way and Vogue Femme\n\n\"It's important to have safe spaces in Cardiff and Wales, and all around the world, and Ballroom allows you to be your most authentic self.\"\n\nLeighton Rees is referring to the Welsh Ballroom Community - the first and, so far, only one of its kind in Wales for LGBTQ+ people.\n\nA dancer and choreographer, Leighton founded the community when he wanted to learn more about the art form voguing and the history behind Ballroom.\n\n\"I wondered if there was a want for it in Cardiff,\" Leighton said. \"So I put out a status on Facebook and it had a really overwhelming response, so [I thought] there needs to be a community in Wales.\"\n\nLeighton founded the community when he wanted to learn more about the art form voguing and the history behind Ballroom\n\nThe Ballroom scene, as it is also known, is where LGBTQ+ people come together to celebrate each other and take part in walk balls.\n\nBalls are events where \"houses\" compete against each other by walking in front of a panel of judges and showcasing different categories such as face, body, runway and voguing.\n\nA participant gets up close with the judges at the Fairy Tale Ball in Madrid, Spain in 2022\n\nOne of the more popular categories is voguing, which has five elements - hand performance, catwalk, duckwalk, floor performance and spins and dips.\n\nThere are variations of voguing: Old Way, New Way, and Vogue Femme.\n\n\"Femme queens would have probably been 'this is all too masculine for me,' so then there's a style of vogue called Vogue Femme, which is a more feminine version of voguing,\" Leighton said.\n\nVoguing on stage during the Kiki Ball in Madrid Spain in 2020\n\nAnother category is FQ Realness, where contestants are judged on their ability to blend in with cisgender (when a person's gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth) women.\n\nAn alternative is BQ Realness, where the participants are judged on how well they can blend in with cisgender men in society.\n\nThere are also bizarre, best dressed, labels and sex siren categories.\n\nMost, but not all, of those participating in Ballroom belong to \"houses\".\n\nHouses are surrogate families that look after and protect members of the community who are, at times, ostracised and disowned by their biological relatives.\n\n\"So, the queer people of colour, who would have been disowned by their [biological] family members found [surrogate] gay mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, who would have been in the community, then that would have turned into [their] chosen family,\" Leighton said.\n\nNot everyone, however, is in a house.\n\nAlia says she is a 007 agent, meaning she is not a member of a house\n\n\"When you're not in a house you're a 007,\" said Alia, a femme queen in the community.\n\n\"We are free agents, but we still have our community that has our back, which is like our family.\"\n\nParticipants prepare to perform at a Voguing Masquerade Ball in Washington DC\n\nThe first balls took places in 1920s New York, in what is often referred to as the Harlem Renaissance - an intellectual and cultural revival of African American literature, dance, music and art.\n\nThe Harlem Renaissance provided a safe space for queer African-Americans to gather and showcase their artistic works, and themselves, without fear of backlash or criticism.\n\nUnable to take part in the drag queen pageantry and competitions of the time, black and Latino LGBTQ+ people decided to start their own, creating a safe space where anyone's sexual identify and race was not only welcomed but celebrated.\n\nBalls were considered underground, subculture events that were held in opposition to the racism and discrimination they had experience at the more mainstream events.\n\nGaining popularity as the years progressed, Ballroom spread to other US cities like Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, St Louis and others.\n\nThe community, or scene, is now celebrated around the world, and is enjoying its latest incarnation here in Wales.\n\nMalori did not come out as trans until joining the Ballroom community\n\n\"The Welsh Ballroom Community has definitely made itself known,\" said Malori, a transwoman who only came out after joining the Welsh Ballroom scene.\n\n\"We've been extremely busy. And I think you can feel it.\"\n\nAnd the community will be busier than usual this weekend as Cardiff gears up to celebrate this year's Pride.\n\nThe Welsh capital is hosting a number of events over the weekend and throughout the month, and the Welsh Ballroom Community will be putting on a special show at Cardiff Castle.\n\nLeighton explained: \"In the castle we are going to be walking around in outfits made by local Welsh designers made out of football kits in collaboration with FA Wales.\n\n\"We will be looking fab as we always do, celebrating Pride and representing our Ballroom community.\"\n\nMalori said: \"It gives queer people in Wales a different outlet, a different something to aspire to.\n\n\"As trans people, and queer people more generally, there's a tendency to be quite isolated.\n\n\"You don't really have role models, and so that's the most important thing, really, is having a queer community.\"\n\nRosy think Ballrooms are essential safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people\n\nFemme queen Rosy agreed: \"It's so important. People realise their sexuality in safe space like this.\n\n\"People realise how they really are.\"\n\nLeighton was keen to stress the importance of safe spaces like the Welsh Ballroom Community.\n\n\"Some people don't know where to go,\" he said, \"and I feel like Ballroom is needed all around the world.\n\n\"Times have changed, but there is still a long way to go where people can fully be themselves.\"", "Vladimir Putin said moving nuclear weapons was about \"containment\"\n\nRussia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Vladimir Putin says.\n\nRussia's president told a forum they would only be used if Russia's territory or state was threatened.\n\nThe US government says there is no indication the Kremlin plans to use nuclear weapons to attack Ukraine.\n\n\"We don't see any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon,\" US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after Mr Putin's comments.\n\nBelarus is a key Russian ally and served as a launchpad for Mr Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nMr Putin said transferring the tactical nuclear warheads would be completed by the end of the summer.\n\nAnswering questions after a speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia's president said the move was about \"containment\" and to remind anyone \"thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on us\".\n\nWhen asked by the forum's moderator about the possibility of using those weapons, he replied: \"Why should we threaten the whole world? I have already said that the use of extreme measures is possible in case there is a danger to Russian statehood.\"\n\nTactical nuclear weapons are small nuclear warheads and delivery systems intended for use on the battlefield, or for a limited strike. They are designed to destroy enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread radioactive fallout.\n\nThe smallest tactical nuclear weapons can be one kiloton or less (producing the equivalent to a thousand tonnes of the explosive TNT). The largest ones can be as big as 100 kilotons. By comparison, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was 15 kilotons.\n\nThe Russian leader is meeting African leaders in St Petersburg after they visited Kyiv on Friday as part of a peace initiative they are presenting to both countries.\n\nHowever while they were in the city it came under Russian missile attack.\n\nMr Putin is also expected to hold a separate meeting with the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThe African leaders are due to meet Mr Putin on Saturday\n\nIn Kyiv, Mr Ramaphosa called for de-escalation on both sides and negotiations for peace.\n\n\"We came here to listen and recognise what the people of Ukraine have gone through,\" he said.\n\nBut Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said instead of making diplomatic overtures to Russia it should be frozen out diplomatically to send a message that the international community condemned its invasion.\n\nKyiv would not enter negotiations with Moscow while it still occupied Ukrainian territory, Mr Zelensky said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The road to peace is not an easy one,' said President Cyril Ramaphosa in Ukraine\n\nMr Putin also repeated his claim that Ukraine stood no chance of succeeding in its ongoing counter-offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian military was also running out of its own military equipment and would soon only be using Western-donated equipment, he said.\n\n\"You can't fight for long like that,\" he said, warning that any F16 US fighter jets given to Ukraine \"will burn, no doubt about it\".\n\nUkraine has previously dismissed similar remarks, asserting they are making progress in recapturing territory in both eastern and southern Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian leader also addressed economic themes, claiming that Western sanctions on Russia had failed to isolate it and instead led to an expansion in its trade with \"the markets of the future\".\n\nHe praised new deals with countries in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America - calling them \"reliable, responsible partners\".", "Boris Johnson has committed a \"clear breach\" of the ministerial code by not clearing a new role writing a column for the Daily Mail with the parliamentary authorities.\n\nThe committee that vets ex-ministers' appointments says he informed them only half an hour before the news emerged.\n\nThe first weekly column by the former prime minister appeared online late on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe paper was one of Mr Johnson's staunchest supporters when he was PM.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as an MP on Monday, but is still required to seek advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) on new jobs for two years after leaving ministerial office.\n\nHe stepped down as prime minister last September.\n\nIn a statement, Acoba said: \"The ministerial code states that ministers must ensure that no new appointments are announced, or taken up, before the committee has been able to provide its advice.\n\n\"An application received 30 mins before an appointment is announced is a clear breach.\n\n\"We have written to Mr Johnson for an explanation and will publish correspondence in due course, in line with our policy of transparency.\"\n\nA spokesman for the former prime minister said: \"Boris Johnson is in touch with Acoba and the normal process is being followed.\"\n\nDescribing Acoba as \"toothless\", deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson was \"once again breaking the rules and taking advantage of a broken system for his own benefit\".\n\nAcoba, chaired by Conservative peer Lord Pickles, exists to ensure there is \"no cause for any suspicion of impropriety\" when a former minister or senior official takes up a new job.\n\nIt is currently looking into the case of former Partygate investigator Sue Gray, who quit the civil service in March, having been offered a post as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff. Both Ms Gray and Labour have said they will abide by Acoba's recommendations.\n\nThe committee has no powers to enforce its recommendations or to punish MPs - or former MPs - who have broken the rules, but it can issue public rebukes.\n\nEarlier, an Acoba spokeswoman told the BBC \"newspaper columns are not considered significantly problematic\", but Mr Johnson was still meant to seek its advice.\n\nMr Johnson's first column details his experience with the anti-obesity medication Ozempic, which he used to try and control his weight.\n\n\"It's a cinch, said the doctor,\" he wrote. \"All you need to do is inject a tiny dose of clear Ozempic fluid into your abdomen, once a week, and hey presto — no more raiding the fridge at 11.30pm for the cheddar and chorizo washed down with half a bottle of wine.\"\n\nWhile the ex-PM hoped he was \"going to become an ex-glutton\" and \"start to resemble chiselled whippet\", things \"started to go wrong\" after a month of injections, which he puts down to \"constantly flying around the world and changing time zones\".\n\n\"For now I am back to exercise and willpower,\" he added.\n\nThe Daily Mail announced an unnamed \"erudite new columnist\" on its Friday front page\n\nThe Daily Mail Online Twitter account described Mr Johnson as \"one of the wittiest and most original writers in the business\".\n\nIn a video shared by the paper, he said: \"I am thrilled to have been asked to contribute a column to the Daily Mail.\n\n\"It is going to be completely unexpurgated stuff.\n\n\"I may even have to cover politics, but I'll obviously try to do that as little as possible unless I absolutely have to.\"\n\nIn his opening column, the former prime minister made good on that promise, steering clear of politics and the events of the past week altogether.\n\nInstead, he wrote of his experience trying a weight-loss drug which, he said, worked \"miraculously\" for one of his cabinet ministers, but not for him.\n\n\"I was going to search for the hero inside myself - the one that was three stone lighter. I was going to locate that svelte and dynamic version of Johnson, imprisoned for decades in pointless extra body weight, and I was going to set him free,\" wrote the former MP.\n\nHe said he had to give up injecting the fluid into his stomach once a week \"because they were making me feel ill\", but still believed such drugs could be \"transformative\".\n\nMr Johnson has declared millions of pounds in earnings outside Parliament since leaving No 10 last September, most of it from making speeches.\n\nIn February, the total was nearing £5m.\n\nNow that he has stood down as an MP, he will not have to declare his earnings in the register of members' interests.\n\nThe committee previously found Mr Johnson broke the rules by taking up a £275,000 a year column with the Telegraph weeks after standing down as foreign secretary.\n\nIt said it was \"unacceptable\" Mr Johnson had not sought its advice before signing the contract.\n\nHis Telegraph column became an important platform for his opposition to then-Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans, and for building support for his own leadership ambitions. He stopped writing it when he entered Downing Street in July 2019.\n\nHis new role with the Mail could give him the chance to take public pot shots at Rishi Sunak, with whom he has recently clashed over his resignation honours list.\n\nPaul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the Mail titles, was rumoured to have been nominated for a peerage by Mr Johnson, but was reportedly one of the names removed during the House of Lords vetting process.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has asked his supporters not to vote against a report that found he deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate.\n\nSeveral of his allies, including Nadine Dorries, had said they would oppose the Privileges Committee's findings in a Commons vote on Monday.\n\nIts main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already resigned as an MP.", "Phil Martin's dream came true as he played for thousands with his former student\n\nSam Fender's former guitar teacher said performing with his old student in front of thousands of fans was \"a dream come true\".\n\nNorth Shields musician Phil Martin made an appearance on stage during one of Fender's sold-out concerts at St James' Park.\n\nThe self-confessed \"old rocker\" rehearsed two AC/DC tracks for weeks in order to \"nail\" the performance.\n\nHe said he \"always had faith\" in his former student.\n\n\"Eventually, I opened a studio with a friend where Sam came to rehearse and record and hang out, but prior to that I'd taught him since he was about 12.\"\n\nSam Fender performed two sold out shows at the home of Newcastle United\n\n\"I don't think there's words I can find at the moment. It was awesome. It's what dreams are made of. It's a fantasy.\n\n\"I've known Sam for so long and it came up three or four years ago before he could have sold it out, he'd say, 'What I'd love to see, is you, me and 'Johno' from AC/DC back-to-back'. I'd say to him, 'yeah, that would be something, now ha'way'.\n\n\"And the other day, it came to pass.\"\n\nPhil was brought on stage with AC/DC frontman and fellow Geordie Brian Johnson to perform Back In Black and You Shook Me All Night Long.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I rehearsed the parts so I didn't have to think. You've got to nail it. I've played those tunes dozens of times a day for the past few weeks. I enjoyed myself in a way I never have.\n\n\"We've never lost contact. We've always been friends despite the age difference - we speak the same language. Music is a language.\n\n\"I always had faith in him. His creative energy was massive. He wasn't the easiest to teach, you had to go his way. Whatever he learned, he always added something or an idea would come out of it. He's still like that.\n\n\"To be there with him... I wanted to give him the show he deserved. I didn't want to let him down.\n\n\"He's united so many parts of the community that wouldn't normally mix - the football crowd, the music crowd, old rockers, young kids... He's had that appeal because his songs tell the truth.\"\n\nPhil has known Sam Fender since the singer-songwriter was 12\n\nPhil's own band, Sticky Fingers, have been going since 1994.\n\nHe said he was excited to see if people would come out to see him perform again.\n\n\"I've already been getting loads of messages from people saying they want to come and see me play - I hope even half of them turn up.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump is spending the night in Miami, Florida, before he appears in court there on Tuesday charged with mishandling national security files.\n\nThe former US president flew from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to his Trump Doral resort near Miami.\n\nMr Trump is facing dozens of charges of illegally retaining classified information, including some about nuclear secrets.\n\nIt is the second time this year he has been charged with a crime.\n\nMr Trump, campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024, has denied wrongdoing as he faces the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president.\n\nHe appeared muted but unflustered as he strolled into the steakhouse at his Miami golf resort on Monday evening.\n\nMr Trump greeted the smattering of guests at the BLT Prime restaurant with his signature thumbs-up, and even posed for a photo with a group of men enjoying their happy hour.\n\n\"With you all the way!\" shouted one patron seated at the bar.\n\n\"Thank you very much,\" Mr Trump replied, before security escorted him to the dining area.\n\nThe guests had an inkling of Mr Trump's arrival when several security agents appeared and casually swept diners with metal detectors. A few had their phones ready to snap photos.\n\nThe staff, on the other hand, were nonchalant about their boss' presence, continuing to mix drinks and serve guests.\n\nA handful of supporters were also at the bar. One woman sipped wine with a Trump flag draped over the back of her chair.\n\nMr Trump has continued to strike a defiant tone. In an interview on a Spanish-language talk radio programme in Miami, he aired grievances with the indictment, while accusing the Biden administration of weaponising law enforcement agencies against him.\n\nMeanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters the city was preparing for Mr Trump's court appearance.\n\nPolice will be deployed in anticipation of crowds up to 50,000 people, he said, though other sources told US media the expected number was in the low thousands.\n\n\"We encourage people to be peaceful,\" Mr Suarez said.\n\nThe former president flew to Miami on his Trump Force One jet\n\nHe is holed up at his Trump Doral golf course complex near Miami\n\nOn Saturday, in his first public appearances since the charges were filed, Mr Trump said the case amounted to \"election interference\" by the \"corrupt\" FBI and justice department.\n\nThe former president will appear in court alongside a close aide, Walt Nauta, who was charged by the same grand jury in Florida.\n\nMr Nauta faces six criminal counts related to alleged handling of national security documents. Both men are scheduled to make their initial appearances at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nA federal judge denied a request by news organisations for photo and video access during Tuesday's hearing - though a court sketch artist will be present.\n\nAfterwards, Mr Trump is expected to return to Bedminster to make remarks to the media.\n\nLast week's 37-count indictment comes after more than 100 documents with classified markings were found at Mr Trump's private Florida resort Mar-a-Lago in August.\n\nFederal prosecutors accuse the Republican of illegally retaining documents, storing some in a ballroom and a shower at Mar-a-Lago and engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the government's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe documents allegedly contained information about the defence and weapons capabilities of both the US and foreign countries, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.\n\nMr Trump, the indictment claims, tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing files by suggesting his lawyer \"hide or destroy\" them, or tell investigators he did not have them.\n\nLegal experts say the criminal charges could lead to substantial prison time if he is convicted. Mr Trump has vowed to continue his campaign for president whatever the verdict.\n\nMr Trump has also pointed out that classified files were also found in Mr Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage.\n\nThe White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, a contrast with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators.\n\nA federal investigation into Mr Biden's handling of classified documents is being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur and is still under way.\n\nWhat do you want to know about Donald Trump's court appearance? Our US experts will be answering your questions on Tuesday.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Prince William visited the new housing units, where rents are set at a third of tenants' pay\n\nThe Prince of Wales has opened a homelessness-charity project for young people in work or apprenticeships who need help finding affordable housing.\n\nCentrepoint says the project opened by Prince William - bringing 33 new mini flats to Peckham, south London - is a response to the \"housing crisis\".\n\nThe homes are constructed in Hull and transported to London by lorry.\n\nResidents will pay different amounts based on income, with the rent capped at a third of each tenant's pay.\n\nAnd solar panels will cut heating bills to £200 per year.\n\nWithout stable accommodation, it could be impossible for young people to keep their jobs or to stay in training, the homelessness charity says.\n\nFigures published earlier this year showed an average UK 11% annual increase in private rents, with some areas seeing over 20%.\n\nThe project provides independent living, Centrepoint's Sally Orlopp says, giving young people their own front door and a \"stepping stone\" for those struggling to rent or buy and who might have been stuck in temporary accommodation.\n\nIt also helps those facing other barriers, such as landlords wanting a previous track record of paying rent.\n\nThe modules, built in Hull, were driven down to south London\n\n\"It's not just in London, it's getting more and more difficult for young people,\" she says. And even so-called \"affordable\" property is often too expensive for many, with the charity estimating there are 129,000 homeless young people across the UK.\n\nPrince William, patron of Centrepoint, met some of those moving into the low-cost housing units, called Reuben House, on his visit to Peckham.\n\nFood banks say one in five using their services is now in a working family\n\nThey have to be working more than 30 hours per week and earning no more than £32,000 a year.\n\nThe first residents have jobs in construction, information technology (IT), social services and hairdressing, Ms Orlopp says.\n\n\"This is a real mix of young people,\" she says, with the project challenging stereotypes about who might be at risk of becoming homeless.\n\nPrince William met some of the first residents of the housing project\n\nThe project highlights the issue of work not necessarily protecting people from poverty - with the Trussell Trust charity reporting that about one out of every five people using their food banks is from a working household.\n\n\"There are many negative stereotypes associated with homelessness that are at odds with the evidence,\" Centre for Homelessness Impact chief executive Dr Ligia Teixeira says.\n\nThe research group says almost a quarter of households at risk of homelessness who ask local authorities for help include someone working.\n\nMs Teixeira welcomes Prince William's visit as a way of shifting attitudes on homelessness.\n\nHe could use \"compassion, empathy and evidence to challenge stereotypes and prejudices and fundamentally change how homelessness is perceived, in the same way that his late mother, Diana, helped to shed the stigma associated with HIV [Human Immunodeficiency Virus] and Aids in the 1980s\", she says.\n\nThe prince has made homelessness one of his biggest causes, also working with charities such as the Passage and the Big Issue magazine.", "The trial is held in Valence, where two of the murders took place\n\nA man has gone on trial in France, accused of killing three women he is alleged to have held responsible for wrecking his career.\n\nGabriel Fortin, 48, was arrested in 2021 in the southern city of Valence.\n\nOver the previous days, two human resources managers who helped sack him years earlier had been shot dead.\n\nThe third victim worked at a job centre. Mr Fortin, dubbed by media as the \"HR killer\", is also accused of trying to murder another manager.\n\nAn unemployed engineer at the time of his arrest, he has refused to speak to investigators since then.\n\nThe first killing happened on 26 January 2021 in the Alsace region of eastern France. Human Resources manager Estelle Luce was shot in the head in her company car park after work.\n\nLater that evening, about 50km (30 miles) away, another HR manager was shot at his home by a man posing as a pizza deliverer. The victim, Bertrand Meichel, survived.\n\nTwo days afterwards, 500km to the south, a man wearing a facemask and carrying a white plastic bag entered the Valence local job centre, pulled a gun from a plastic bag and killed the benefits director, Patricia Pasquion.\n\nMinutes later another HR manager, Géraldine Caclin, was shot dead at an environmental services company near Valence.\n\nThe number plate of the car used by the gunman as he left the job centre led police to Mr Fortin. He was immediately linked to the later murder.\n\nIn 2009 Ms Caclin had led dismissal proceedings after an unsuccessful trial period. Mr Fortin had then registered with the Valence job centre, and eventually his unemployment benefits ran out.\n\nMs Pasquion never dealt with him, but police believe he held a grudge against staff at the centre.\n\nInvestigators quickly connected him with the earlier shootings in eastern France.\n\nEstelle Luce and Bertrand Meichel had been involved in his dismissal from another company in 2006, more than 14 years earlier.\n\nPolice spent more than two years combing through data on his computer. They say they have extensive evidence of his enduring bitterness, as well as efforts to track the movements of his eventual victims.\n\nGabriel Fortin appeared in court in Valence on Tuesday accused of three murders and a charge of attempted murder.\n\nAhead of the trial, Ms Pasquion's sister told France's Europe 1 radio: \"He was armed and facing defenceless women... He never tried to speak or listen. He just killed. It's pure cowardice.\"\n• None Man with hatred for HR suspected in French murders", "Donald Trump’s indictment played out in two courts on Tuesday afternoon - a federal courtroom in Miami and the court of public opinion.\n\nInside the Miami courthouse, Trump and his legal team were demure. One of Trump’s lawyers told the presiding judge that the former president was pleading not guilty to all charges.\n\nThere was some back-and-forth over what kind of contact Trump could have with his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, and with potential witnesses in his case. The former president was released without any restrictions on his travel.\n\nOutside the courthouse, and on social media, it was a very different scene.\n\nThroughout the day, the former president posted to his Truth Social website, insulting Special Counsel Jack Smith and questioning why he wasn’t investigating alleged crimes by Democrats.\n\n“One of the saddest days in the history of our country,” he wrote. “We are a nation in decline!!!”\n\nThat’s standard rhetorical fair for Trump, who tends to launch his fiercest attacks when he feels the most threatened.\n\nThe other message Trump sent following his arraignment was a more subtle political one. His motorcade stopped at Versailles, a Cuban restaurant and bakery popular with residents of the Little Havana neighbourhood and tourists alike.\n\nWhile there, he shook hands, took pictures and made brief remarks, as patrons serenaded the soon-to-be 77-year-old former president with a rendition of Happy Birthday.\n\nIt looked and felt like a typical meet-and-greet for a campaigning politician in a key battleground state. It was a visible sign that, for Trump, his bid for the White House is moving forward, indictments be damned.", "Trappers in the US were dispatched to a Florida home after a massive 10ft (3m) crocodile was discovered in the pool in the middle of the night.\n\nTodd Hardwick and Jeff Peterla worked to pull the reptile from the pool and restrain it, with some help from a police officer, according to their Instagram page.\n\nThe pair later removed the restraints from the crocodile, a threatened species in Florida, and were able to safely return it to its habitat.", "The suspect held over the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old British girl in France is under investigation for murder, prosecutors say.\n\nSolaine Thornton was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden on Saturday evening.\n\nProsecutors said Dirk Raats, a 71-year-old neighbour, got to within 10m of the girl's father before opening fire through a hedge.\n\nHe had been in conflict with the family over building work on their property.\n\nMr Raats then shut himself in his house in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany, following the incident but gave himself up to police an hour later.\n\nHis wife, who was also arrested, surrendered half an hour after he did, but she has since been released.\n\nProsecutor Camille Miansoni said the couple had been in conflict for years with their British neighbours over works taking place on their property.\n\nThe suspect was \"profoundly exasperated\" over the works, which he said affected his privacy and caused disturbance to him and his wife.\n\nMr Miansoni said the suspect had gone into his home to fetch one of the guns and returned to the garden before opening fire and shooting three or four times through a hedge. This suggested a level of premeditation, he said.\n\n\"It appears that he clearly aimed at the father, that he aimed at his wife, but however he seems less clear as to a possible admission that he aimed at the girl,\" Mr Miansoni said.\n\nSolaine Thornton and her eight-year-old sister Celeste had been playing on a swing as their parents tended the barbecue when the neighbour began firing.\n\nThe younger girl ran to another neighbour's house to raise the alarm and is now said to be in shock.\n\nA local resident told French media that the younger child ran to neighbours shouting: \"My sister is dead, my sister is dead\".\n\nThe victim's parents Adrian and Rachel Thornton were also hurt and are in hospital.\n\nA search of Mr Raats' home uncovered two rifles, one of which had not been previously declared. The couple, both Dutch nationals, tested positive for alcohol and cannabis. They had no previous convictions, prosecutors said.\n\nMr Miansoni said the suspect had expressed regret, and that a mental health assessment had found nothing notable.\n\nFlowers and teddies have been left on the family's front door step\n\nAdrian and Rachel Thornton, both from Oldham, came with their two daughters to live in the hamlet of Saint Herbot in 2019. Theirs is the only English family in the area.\n\nPreviously, the Thorntons had lived in other parts of France. Solaine was born in Brittany and Celeste in the Massif Central in central France.\n\nThe family home in Saint Herbot is a square, whitewashed, relatively modern house with a large plot of land behind and a workhouse which was once a sawmill.\n\nWhile his wife worked in social services and his two children attended local schools, Adrian, a mechanic, spent a lot of time working on his plot of land.\n\nAccording to Marguerite Bleuzen, mayor of the town of Plonevez-du-Faou, the land had been abandoned and was returning to the wild. Adrian set about the task of clearing the land, cutting down undergrowth and some trees.\n\nThis appears to have caused the friction with his neighbours, whose large green-shuttered house looks down onto the Thorntons' plot.\n\n\"I was called out there three years ago, when there were the first tensions,\" said Mr Bleuzen. \"We managed to settle things down, but since then I had never had to intervene.\"\n\nBut after Saturday's shooting, the mayor later heard from neighbours that there had been regular flare-ups.\n\n\"On one occasion, I was told that the Dutch man brought out a weapon. I wish I or the police had been told, and this might have been avoided,\" he said.\n\nLocals say that the English family were well-liked. They lent their plot of land for parking at the hamlet's annual September festival which honours the saint after which it is named. The 14th Century church lies 100m from the Thorntons' house.\n\nBy contrast, no-one seems to have had any contact with Mr Raats or his wife.\n\nAt around 22:00 local time on Saturday night, he fired through his hedge into the plot of land where the Thorntons were having a barbecue.\n\nThe rough-and-ready children's play area, with a swing and a small trampoline, is right next to the hedge which separates the two properties. When the man fired, the girls were at practically point-blank range.\n\nAccording to Mayor Bleuzen, when police arrived, Rachel Thornton was holding her dead child in her arms.\n\nThe UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was providing assistance to a British family.", "Scotland's Housing and Property Chamber has ruled that Adéla Koubová should be paid her deposit back\n\nA tenant who took her landlord to a tribunal to win her deposit back has urged other renters to follow her lead.\n\nEdinburgh Holiday and Party Lets (EHPL) was ordered to refund Adéla Koubová after a housing tribunal ruled her former flat was not a holiday let.\n\nIt means the legal relationship was that of landlord and tenant - giving Adéla greater protection.\n\nThe flat is owned by Mark Fortune, a businessman who has been refused entry to Scotland's landlord register.\n\nAdéla, who is from the Czech Republic, said she had taken a stand \"for the other people in this situation\".\n\nA series of housing tribunal rulings have now rejected EHPL's argument that it is operating holiday lets from Mr Fortune's properties and as such the people living there should get the same protections as ordinary letting agreements.\n\nHousing campaigners are asking why no further action is being taken against the firm.\n\nAdéla moved to Edinburgh from the Czech Republic in January 2020 as part of a University of Edinburgh exchange programme and found the flat in the city's Bruntsfield Place through a Gumtree advert.\n\nBut after just one day in the property, which she said was freezing because of a hole in her bedroom window, she gave four weeks' notice to EHPL's representative but then failed to get her deposit back.\n\n\"When I realised I lost my deposit I was sad, for me then it was a lot of money,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"But it has been three years now, a lot of effort and stress in this process, but I am doing it for the other people in this situation.\n\n\"There are people in these properties who are moving to Edinburgh for the first time and they maybe don't know the situation.\"\n\nAdéla, who was supported in her case by Scotland's tenants' union Living Rent, said she was still waiting to be paid the £275 she is due more than two months after the ruling.\n\nThe flat that Adéla lived in is, according to the housing tribunal ruling, owned by controversial businessman Mark Fortune\n\nShe added: \"I am not sure if we will see the money, the best prize was winning though and hopefully through my experience we can let other people know there is a way to not let this happen to them.\"\n\nThe Housing and Property Chamber ruling states that it has \"no difficulty in concluding that both parties were aware that this agreement was not for a holiday let and did not intend it constitute one\", meaning the legal relationship between the parties was that of landlord and tenant.\n\nIn 2013, Mr Fortune was refused entry to Scotland's landlord register after being convicted of offences directly relating to his letting business, including threatening tenants.\n\nHe has previously denied that he operates as a landlord and rents out flats.\n\nThe businessman said the properties were operated by limited companies, not him personally.\n\nThe latest tribunal ruling said Mr Fortune gave submissions on behalf of EHPL - of which he is a former director - and on a number of occasions \"seemed to refer to himself as the landlord accidentally\".\n\nThe property at the centre of the tribunal ruling is in Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh\n\nIt also added that his \"position was often contradictory and therefore could not be treated as reliable\".\n\nIn 2021, a BBC Scotland investigation found that rooms in flats owned by Mr Fortune were being let out under contracts which did not give tenants the same protection as residential agreements.\n\nAnd last month, EHPL was ordered to make improvements to one of its flats which had been described as \"not fit for human habitation\".\n\nA spokesman for Living Rent said most tenants did not have \"the time or resources\" to take landlords to housing tribunals like they did with Adéla.\n\nHe said: \"Mark Fortune has been refused landlord registration and yet his properties have continued to be rented out across the city.\n\n\"Tenants face conditions unfit for human habitation and have their deposits improperly withheld while the authorities take no action.\"\n\nThe spokesman called on both City of Edinburgh Council and Police Scotland to \"start enforcing their own rules\" on the issue.\n\nAs a landlord or a tenant, have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victims of the Troubles have held several protests against the proposed law, including this one in January\n\nThe government has published a series of new amendments to its controversial legacy bill, ahead of its likely passage at Westminster.\n\nIt will introduce an amnesty scheme, stop future inquests into Troubles-era killings and prohibit new civil cases.\n\nOne of the amendments would delay changes for another year to \"ensure a smooth transition\" to new arrangements.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the government was \"absolutely committed\" to the bill.\n\nReacting to the amendments, one victims' group, Relatives for Justice, said they \"only make the situation worse\".\n\nThe bill is opposed by all Northern Ireland political parties, as well as groups representing bereaved families and victims of the Troubles.\n\nThe legislation will establish a new body, the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR), which would take over legacy cases.\n\nIn return for co-operation, it can grant suspects immunity from prosecution.\n\nIn a statement, the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said ongoing police investigations, inquests, the publication of reports and consideration of prosecution decisions will continue until May next year, to allow time for the ICRIR to become fully operational.\n\nAny inquest which has not reached point of verdict or findings would be ended.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly said: \"The proposed new timeframe for concluding inquests will make it more difficult for families to have this most basic investigation into the killings of their loved ones.\n\n\"The new amendment states that conflict-related inquests must conclude by 1 May next year.\n\n\"This effectively closes the door in the faces of families looking to make progress in a large number of inquests.\n\n\"This amendment is particularly cruel as expectations had been raised among families that once inquests had been opened that they would be concluded.\"\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said the changes address \"a number of key concerns raised by interested parties\"\n\nAnother amendment states any investigation run by the ICRIR must comply with obligations under the Human Rights Act 1998.\n\nAlso, the ICRIR would be \"under a new duty to offer victims and their families the opportunity to submit personal impact statements\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said: \"The government has consistently stated that it would continue constructive dialogue in order to alleviate concerns and strengthen the bill.\n\n\"That is why we have published a number of significant amendments that directly address a number of key concerns raised by interested parties,\" he continued.\n\n\"This includes amendments on the conduct of reviews, compliance with Convention Rights, the independence of the commission, conditional immunity, and ongoing legal processes.\"\n\nThe bill is due to go through its final stages in the House of Lords later this month.\n\nPrior to the NIO announcement, the Irish government repeated its concerns about the bill.\n\nThe Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said if it was enacted it \"would undermine rather than assist reconciliation\".\n\nVictims' campaigner Raymond McCord said the amendments were disgraceful and disgusting.\n\nHe called for Stormont politicians \"to speak with one voice\" and accused the Conservatives of \"whitewashing the murders of the Troubles\" with the bill.\n\nGrainne Teggart, of Amnesty International UK, said: \"The government is treating troubles victims with contempt - these amendments do nothing to address the fundamental flaws with the bill.\n\n\"No-one is fooled by these changes and the government is still clearly intent on denying victims their basic rights and pressing ahead with a bill only it wants.\"", "Two Scottish business owners will be looking at Tuesday's jobs figures with interest.\n\nFruit farmer Iain Brown is days away from his strawberry harvest when he needs about 100 fruit pickets at his farm in Pittenweem, Fife.\n\nHotelier and hospitality businessman Stephen Leckie is about to enter the busy summer tourist season with hundreds of unfilled vacancies.\n\nFor these two people-based industries, low unemployment rates are bad news.\n\nBoth have significant staffing issues, but are not on an equal playing field.\n\nOne of them has access to migrant workers, the other does not.\n\nStephen Leckie owns Crieff Hydro and several other hospitality businesses.\n\nAt that one venue, he currently has 60 vacancies with a lack of housekeeping and cleaning staff causing the biggest problems.\n\nHis Glencoe hotel has 70 vacancies and finding chefs has become nearly impossible.\n\nAcross the business he has 1,800 posts to fill.\n\nThis means bars and restaurants are limited in opening times and sales of food and drink are down.\n\nChefs are very difficult to find in the current jobs climate\n\nHe said: \"We still face significant staff shortages in this business and every other business that I speak to.\n\n\"Here we should have 900 staff, but we have 840 staff. We need food and beverage staff, chefs, frontline staff, reception, housekeeping staff and self-catering staff.\n\n\"I've heard of four businesses in Perth closing down in the last two weeks alone just because of the shortage of staff. They can't open the doors.\n\n\"Then if you have enough to keep open then we need a restriction on menus or opening times which means you can then do some kind of business but you can't perform in the way you would like to\"\n\nHe said this puts a stop to reinvesting profits back into the business.\n\n\"What we need from the government is to release the working visas, help the European staff who left in the early part of the lockdown return to Scotland and work for us where they want to work hard for us.\"\n\n\"It's as simple as that and it is the same request we've been asking for for more than a year now but it is throttling our businesses and restricting our ability to grow.\n\nHe added: \"Tourism is looking good for Scotland but some businesses can't open more than four days a week.\"\n\nIain Brown has access to foreign workers but visas are adding a significant cost\n\nAt Easter Grangemuir Farm in Pittenweem, Iain Brown has an advantage. His industry has access to eastern European workers through the UK government's seasonal worker visa scheme.\n\nBut, costing £300 per worker and only guaranteed until 2024, it is still causing issues.\n\nMr Brown said: \"Labour is very important for harvesting fruit and vegetables in Scotland and up until Brexit we had free movement of labour and it was quite easy for farms to access and recruit from Bulgaria and Romania to work on our farms.\n\n\"Now we have to use the seasonal worker scheme which does work but it needs the government to commit to it longer term.\"\n\nHe said local staff were hard to recruit because unemployment is at a 40-year low and people do not want a seasonal job.\n\nEaster Grangemuir Farm needs about 100 temporary workers to harvest its fruit\n\n\"The UK government have committed to the 2024 visa scheme but we don't know any further than that,\" he added.\n\n\"Plant commitments have been made, investments into infrastructure have been made and we need to know longer term where these workers are going to come from.\n\n\"One thing we do know is our traditional labour force from eastern Europe is becoming less. Each year we get fewer and fewer returnees coming back.\"\n\nMr Brown said people were questioning their commitment to the industry, believing the risk was becoming \"too high for the reward\".\n\n\"Prices have gone up on the retail shelf, but those prices are not coming back to farm gate level,\" he said.\n\n\"We need the governments to speak to retailers because the policy they have in place isn't supporting our domestic producers. Retailers are bringing in more imported material from Europe and that could result in a food security problem.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Leaving the EU enabled us to introduce a points-based immigration system and we want to see employers make long-term investments in the UK's domestic workforce instead of relying on cheap labour from abroad.\n\n\"We work closely with the Migration Advisory Committee to ensure our system delivers for the UK and works in the best interests of the economy.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that many roles within the tourism, travel and hospitality sectors - including chefs and hotel, catering and bar managers - were eligible under the points-based system and that firms could hire workers through the immigration system if they met the required English language and salary thresholds and were sponsored by a registered Home Office sponsor.", "Conservative MP Caroline Nokes has called for a debate in Parliament on abortion laws\n\nParliament should debate overhauling abortion rules after a woman was jailed, the chair of the Commons equalities committee has said.\n\nCaroline Nokes MP told the BBC the 1861 law used to prosecute mother-of-three Carla Foster was \"out of date\".\n\nThe 44-year-old was convicted of inducing an abortion outside the legal limit using pills at home.\n\nCampaigners urged reform after she received a sentence of 28 months, 14 of which will be spent in custody.\n\nFoster was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she took medication acquired via the \"pills by post\" scheme introduced during lockdown, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.\n\nAbortion is legal up to 24 weeks, and the procedure must be carried out in a clinic after 10 weeks.\n\nFoster was initially charged with child destruction, which she denied, and later pleaded guilty to an offence under Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.\n\nUnder the law, women \"who use drugs or instruments\" that are \"unlawfully administered\" to cause an abortion could be \"kept in penal servitude for life\".\n\nWhile abortion was legalised with the Abortion Act in 1967, the 1861 law was not repealed, meaning that women still face life imprisonment if they carry out an abortion over the legal time limit.\n\nMs Nokes, who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said MPs should \"decide in the 21st Century whether we should be relying on legislation that is centuries old\".\n\nThe Tory MP told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme: \"This is not something that has been debated in any great detail for many years now.\n\n\"And cases like this, although tragic and thankfully very rare, throw into sharp relief that we are relying on legislation that is very out of date. It makes a case for Parliament to start looking at this issue in detail.\"\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy also called for urgent reform, telling BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"I don't understand in whose interests this case was.\"\n\nMadeline Page, director of the Alliance of Pro-Life Students, described the case as a \"sad situation\" and said she would welcome a parliamentary debate.\n\nThe Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, which opposes abortion, criticised providers for \"pushing for dangerous home abortions,\" and said women such as Foster were \"left to self-administer these drugs alone with no medical supervision or support.\"\n\nBut providers say the most common side-effects of at-home abortions are \"usually easy to treat\", and \"rarely have any long-term health effects\".\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is one of 30 campaign and health groups calling for the law to be repealed to decriminalise women seeking to end their own pregnancies.\n\nBPAS chief executive Clare Murphy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are now seeing a mother-of-three prosecuted under laws that do not exist in the same way in any other country.\"\n\nShe said \"a growing number of women\" were coming under police investigation over suspected illegal abortions, with another woman facing trial later this year.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said cases such as that of Carla Foster were \"exceptionally rare... complex and traumatic\".\n\nThey added: \"Our prosecutors have a duty to ensure that laws set by Parliament are properly considered and applied when making difficult charging decisions.\"\n\nDowning Street said it recognised that abortion was \"a highly emotive issue and there is a strength of feeling on all sides,\" but \"the law is clearly set out.\"\n\n\"It's up to the police and the judiciary to enforce it,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nDame Diana Johnson, chair of the home affairs select committee, called for the government to decriminalise abortion.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Removing the criminal law is a very sensible, reasonable step, but it's not to deregulate abortion care and who can provide it.\"\n\nThe CPS argued in court that Foster had been aware of abortion limits and had provided false information during a remote medical consultation.\n\nHer defence said lockdown and minimising face-to-face appointments had changed access to healthcare, adding: \"This will haunt her forever.\"\n\nFoster went into labour on 11 May 2020 and the baby was confirmed dead 45 minutes later.\n\nThe 44-year-old from Staffordshire had moved back in with her estranged partner at the start of lockdown while carrying another man's baby, the court heard.\n\nSentencing, judge Mr Justice Edward Pepperall accepted she had been \"in emotional turmoil\" as she sought to hide the pregnancy.\n\nHe said she was a good mother to her three sons, one of whom has special needs, and that a suspended sentence might have been possible if there had been an earlier guilty plea.\n\nBut he rejected appeals from women's health organisations to pass a non-custodial sentence, saying it was the court's duty to \"apply the law as provided by Parliament\".\n\nAhead of Monday's hearing, a letter co-signed by a number of women's health organisations was sent to the court calling for a non-custodial sentence.\n\nThe judge told the defendant the letter's authors were \"concerned that your imprisonment might deter other women from accessing telemedical abortion services and other late-gestation women from seeking medical care or from being open and honest with medical professionals\".\n\nBut he said it also \"has the capacity to be seen as special pleading by those who favour wider access to abortions and is, in my judgment, just as inappropriate as it would be for a judge to receive a letter from one of the groups campaigning for more restrictive laws\".", "Treat Williams was an \"actor's actor\", according to his long-time manager\n\nActor Treat Williams, who starred in the film musical Hair and the US television series Everwood, has died in a road accident aged 71.\n\nWilliams was thrown from his motorbike in Vermont on Monday after being hit by an SUV turning left, police said.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital with critical injuries, but pronounced dead on arrival.\n\nThe actor recorded over 130 screen credits in a career that spanned almost 50 years.\n\n\"As you can imagine, we are shocked and greatly bereaved at this time,\" a family statement published by Variety magazine said.\n\n\"Treat was full of love for his family, for his life and for his craft, and was truly at the top of his game in all of it.\"\n\nWilliams' agent of 15 years, Barry McPherson, described him as \"the nicest guy\" who was \"so talented\".\n\n\"He was an actor's actor,\" McPherson told People magazine, adding that Williams had been at \"the heart of Hollywood since the late 1970s\".\n\nActor Wendell Pierce described Williams on social media as a \"passionate... creative man\" whose \"adventurous spirit was infectious\".\n\nFollowing his 1979 breakthrough in Hair as hippie George Berger, Williams appeared in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), Dead Heat (1988), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) and Deep Rising (1998).\n\nHe was also known for his stage acting, with roles in Stephen Sondheim's Follies and as Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of Grease.\n\nIn the early 2000s, Williams appeared as widowed Dr Andy Brown in four series of the US TV drama Everwood, and he also took on roles in Chesapeake Shores, Blue Bloods and Chicago Fire.\n\nHe was nominated for an Emmy award for his work in the 1996 TV movie The Late Shift, and received three Golden Globes nominations during the 1980s.\n\nBorn Richard Treat Williams in Connecticut in 1951, he is survived by his wife Pam Van Sant, whom he married in 1988. The couple had two children.", "Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have been identified in reports as the two students killed in the attack\n\nThe city of Nottingham has been shaken by a series of attacks which left two teenage students and another man dead.\n\nBarnaby Webber, 19, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, 19, and a man in his 50s were fatally stabbed. Three people were hit by a van police believe was stolen from the older stabbing victim.\n\nA suspect was Tasered by police before being arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nCounter-terrorism police are involved in the investigation, but no link to extremism has been confirmed.\n\nPolice said they were still in the early stages of the inquiry into the attacks, which occurred during the early hours of Tuesday, and had yet to determine an exact motive.\n\nThe BBC has been told by official sources the 31-year-old suspect was originally from West Africa but had been in the UK for \"many years\" and had settled status.\n\nIt is also understood the man has a history of mental health issues.\n\nThat is why at this stage, while counter-terrorism police are assisting the investigation, they are not running it.\n\nHe did not have a criminal record, they added.\n\nSeveral roads in Nottingham were closed throughout the day as police combed for evidence, and armed officers were seen on the city's streets.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said the city was in \"shock and mourning\", while the city's three MPs said the area had been \"devastated\" by the bloodshed.\n\nMr Webber's family said he was \"just at the start of his journey into adulthood\"\n\nPolice have not formally identified the victims, but Mr Webber, a student at the University of Nottingham, was named by friends and family.\n\nIn a statement, his family - from Taunton in Somerset - said: \"Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.\n\n\"At 19 he was just at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man.\n\n\"As parents we are enormously proud of everything he achieved and all the plans he had made.\n\n\"His brother is bereft beyond belief, and at this time we ask for privacy as a family to be allowed time to process and grieve.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left for Mr Webber in Taunton\n\nThe amateur cricketer was described by Somerset's Bishops Hull Cricket Club as a dear friend whose memory would live on.\n\nA tribute continued: \"'Webbs' joined the club back in 2021 and has since then been a key part of our club and made such an impact in such a short space of time.\"\n\nTaunton School, which he attended, said the school community was \"heartbroken\" at the news of his death.\n\n\"He was a much-loved, kind and engaging character, That a young man of such promise should lose his life in these circumstances is utterly devastating,\" it said.\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar has been named locally as the second victim and a talented sportswoman. The man in his 50s has also not been named by the authorities.\n\nEngland Hockey said it was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms O'Malley-Kumar's death.\n\n\"Grace was a popular member of the England U16 and U18 squads and our thoughts are with Grace's family, friends, teammates and the whole hockey community at this time,\" it said.\n\nLondon-based Woodford Wells Cricket Club, close to the Essex border, also paid tribute to their former player, describing her as a \"fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player\" who was \"fun, friendly and brilliant\".\n\nAnd Southgate Hockey Club in London said it was \"shocked and devastated\" by the death of the \"much loved\" team member.\n\nThe deadly episode unfolded in less than two hours.\n\nPolice were called out to Ilkeston Road around 04:00 BST where they found the two students fatally injured.\n\nSome time after 05:00 the body of the man whose van was apparently stolen was found with knife wounds in Magdala Road, just under two miles (3.2 km) from the scene of the first two killings.\n\nAround 05:30 the van was driven into three people waiting at a bus stop on Milton Street in the city centre. One of those hit remains in hospital fighting for their life. The other two were lucky to escape with minor injuries.\n\nShortly after the van attack the vehicle was stopped in nearby Maples Street and the suspect was detained after being Tasered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What happened and where in Nottingham attacks\n\nIn the afternoon armed officers carried out a raid on a property on Ilkeston Road.\n\nNottinghamshire Police, which described the incident as \"horrific and tragic\", said detectives were not looking for anyone else in connection with the inquiry.\n\nMr Mellen told BBC Breakfast it had been an awful day for the city but the \"spirit of Nottingham will shine through this\".\n\n\"It was shown right at the start of this as people ran to help those who had been driven into as they were waiting for a bus first thing in the morning,\" he said.\n\nThe flag on Nottingham's Council House has been lowered to half-mast and a book of condolence opened.\n\nPeople have also been invited to lay flowers on the steps of the building and its lights will be lowered as a mark of respect.\n\nA vigil, including a minute's silence, will be held on Thursday evening in the Old Market Square.\n\nPolice tape could be seen outside a block of flats in Lucknow Road, Nottingham on Wednesday morning\n\nOne eyewitness told the BBC he had seen a young man and young woman being stabbed in Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street.\n\nThe man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had heard \"awful, blood-curdling screams\" and had seen a man dressed in black, with a hood and rucksack, \"grappling with some people\".\n\n\"It was a girl, and a man or boy she was with - they looked quite young,\" he said.\n\n\"She was screaming 'Help!'. I just wish I'd shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.\n\n\"I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing - four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.\n\n\"The girl stumbled towards a house and didn't move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that's where they found her.\"\n\nA dozen bouquets of flowers were left at the scene on Ilkeston Road.\n\nThe cordon that had been put in place was lifted on Wednesday, with two officers still standing outside a property that appeared to be the subject of police searches on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nPolice tape could be seen outside a block of flats in Lucknow Road, Nottingham, on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe attack has sent shockwaves through Nottingham's large student population, a city which is home to two universities and more than 50,000 students.\n\nA male student, who knew one of the victims, said: \"It hurts, it hurts a lot. It's the first time I'm dealing with something like this and at university it's a challenge for sure.\n\n\"The road that I live on leads directly on to the scene of the incident - when it happens on your doorstep you feel scared and frightened.\n\n\"It makes you realise what's important in life, to check on people and see how they're doing.\"\n\nThe University of Nottingham confirmed \"with great sadness\" that the two teenage victims of the attack had been students there.\n\nA planned graduation event was cancelled on Tuesday, and its students' union said it was \"devastated and shocked\" by the attacks.\n\nNeighbouring Nottingham Trent University said it had contacted its students to reassure them and encourage them to speak to staff about safety concerns.\n\nAhead of a church vigil held in the city on Tuesday evening, Paul Williams - the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham - said the city was \"in shock\".\n\n\"But what people in Nottingham do is pull together, friendship is the heart of Nottingham,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"My thoughts are with those injured, and the family and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.\"\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said her thoughts were first and foremost with \"all of those who've been involved, their friends, their families and their communities\".\n\nShe urged anyone with any information relating to the incident to report it to the police, who she says should be allowed \"time and space\" to investigate.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer sent his \"thoughts to all those affected and to the emergency services who are responding\".\n\nLilian Greenwood, Labour MP for Nottingham South, said the whole city was \"absolutely devastated\" by what had happened.\n\n\"My heart goes out of course to the families of Barnaby, Grace and the other gentleman killed yesterday, and indeed those who are in hospital after being hit by the van.\n\n\"There's nothing I can say that is going to make this right. It's absolutely desperately sad.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Berlusconi's three children by his second wife - Eleonora, Barbara and Luigi - were among the many mourners paying their final respects\n\nItaly has held a state funeral for ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, attended by political leaders, his family and a string of ex-girlfriends.\n\nThousands of mourners gathered in Milan's main square to say a final farewell to the one-time cruise singer who led Italy with no prior political experience and built a media empire.\n\nAs Berlusconi's coffin entered the cathedral, they chanted: \"Silvio will always be our president.\"\n\nThere were flags, tears and applause.\n\nThe Archbishop of Milan led the funeral, in a cathedral packed with 2,000 relatives, friends, and allies and rivals from Italian politics and business. Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, were among the few figures from the world stage.\n\n\"To be happy means to love parties, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to have a sense of humour,\" said Archbishop Mario Delpini in a homily that encapsulated the four-time prime minister's flamboyant life.\n\nBerlusconi was a divisive figure for Italians, and renowned abroad for his crude jokes and so-called bunga-bunga parties.\n\nIn the front row of the cathedral were his five children, who have been catapulted into the limelight, as part of an inevitable succession story.\n\nBerlusconi's coffin left the cathedral flanked by Carabinieri police in plumed helmets\n\nDuring his lifetime, Berlusconi amassed a vast empire that spanned media, real estate, finance, cinema and sport - as well as a powerful political party that is part of Italy's current government.\n\nHe was one of Italy's richest men. According to Forbes, his business assets are worth about €6bn (£5.15bn).\n\nBut he never publicly indicated who should lead his business empire after his death and there are also big questions over the future of the Forza Italia party he created.\n\nBerlusconi has two children from his first marriage and three from his second. All of them have stakes in Fininvest, his holding company.\n\nThe future of his business interests will likely depend on how he has chosen to distribute the 61% stake he had in Fininvest.\n\nWill there be equal shares for all, or more for the two eldest children, Marina and Pier Silvio, who have held management roles in the empire since the early 1990s?\n\nThis 1993 picture shows Silvio Berlusconi with his wife Veronica and their 3 children, Luigi, Eleonora and Barbara\n\nOther valuable assets are undoubtedly Berlusconi's numerous luxurious villas. They could be tricky to pass on to his offspring in an equal way.\n\nHis Villa San Martino in Arcore, north-east of Milan, covers 3,500 sq m and dates back to the 18th Century. He also has homes at Lake Maggiore, in Rome, Cannes, the Caribbean and elsewhere.\n\nThe jewel in Berlusconi's crown of properties is Villa Certosa, a mansion in Sardinia that he bought in the 1970s.\n\nHe hosted world leaders there, from Vladimir Putin to George W. Bush. It has 126 rooms and looks like a theme park - including a fake volcano that erupts lava. Its value is estimated at €259m.\n\nPeople close to the family have described Berlusconi as \"the glue\" who kept his children united.\n\nThere has been no dispute so far over who takes over the empire - that is expected to fall to his oldest child Marina, 56, considered closest of the five to her father.\n\nThe big question is whether that family unity can be maintained now that Berlusconi has gone, and what impact that might have on the future of his business empire.\n\nBerlusconi's eldest daughter Marina (L) was considered closest of the five children to him. His girlfriend Martina Fascina is to her right\n\nHis death could prove disastrous for the future of his political party. Can Forza Italia survive without its charismatic creator - or could it fall apart in a matter of months?\n\nHe was the ultimate populist leader, and unsurprisingly, the party he created was entirely shaped around his persona.\n\nHis right-hand man, foreign minister Antonio Tajani, has categorically denied its future is at risk: \"It's unthinkable that the party would disappear.\"\n\nBut Forza Italia's share of the vote had already slipped to 8% in last September's general election.\n\nMany Italians who backed the party did so because they were Berlusconi loyalists and it will be tricky to appoint a successor they will warm to.\n\nIn reality, party members will probably look to the Berlusconi family to make a decision.\n\nWill the two eldest, Marina and Pier Silvio, want to keep investing in their father's political creation, or will they turn off the financial tap and cut their losses?\n\nPier Silvio Berlusconi runs the commercial TV side of the family's Fininvest holding\n\nWithout their financial support, Forza Italia has no chance of surviving. Berlusconi heavily funded his party - reportedly injecting it with nearly €100m.\n\nThere is some speculation that Marina could succeed him as leader, but for now this remains a rumour. She is seen as more of a behind-the-scenes operator.\n\nAnother unknown is Berlusconi's partner Marta Fascina, who is 53 years his junior. She's an MP in his party and has said several times that \"her passion is politics and she grew up with the myth of Silvio Berlusconi\".\n\nBerlusconi's eldest daughter reportedly blocked his plan to marry her last year. So there is a cloud over Ms Fascina's future role in her late partner's party.\n\nOne thing is certain: if Forza Italia does fracture, it would be a big problem for the other members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition government.\n\nIn a country so well-known for regular political crises, a government collapse triggered by the disintegration of one of the coalition partners does not seem such an unlikely scenario.\n\nUntil now, Berlusconi's children have avoided the limelight. But his death might force them to emerge from the shadows to take the reins of his empire.\n\nBerlusconi had health problem for years so it is likely he and his children had thought all of this through.\n\nThey might opt for an easy transition heralded by their eldest sister Marina, rather than get into a succession battle which could go wrong.", "The report was carried out by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission\n\nSome schools in Northern Ireland are teaching pupils that homosexuality is wrong in relationships and sex education (RSE).\n\nA Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) report said \"many schools use language that shames and stigmatises young people\" who had sex.\n\nSome told pupils that those who \"engage in casual sex must bear the consequences of their actions\".\n\nThe NIHRC investigated schools policies on the teaching of RSE.\n\nThe detailed investigation found most schools were not providing \"age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on access to abortion services\".\n\n\"Some schools actively contributed to the shame and stigma surrounding unplanned pregnancy and abortion, by making statements such as 'abortion is not a means of contraception and those who knowingly engage in casual sex must bear the consequences of their actions',\" the NIHRC report said.\n\nIt also said about two-thirds of post-primaries promoted abstinence in their sex education policies.\n\nOne school's policy stated that \"sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it, will be presented as the positive and desirable option and an achievable reality\".\n\nThe commission recommended that schools should be monitored to ensure sex education is taught in \"an objective and non-judgemental manner\".\n\nThat should include \"detailed assessments of the content and delivery of lesson plans\".\n\nThe NIHRC was established following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIt has the power to conduct investigations and compel evidence.\n\nIts investigation into relationships and sex education focused mainly on legal and policy matters but it also made recommendations on delivery of the subject in schools.\n\nAbout three-quarters (149) of post-primaries in Northern Ireland provided evidence to the commission's investigation and 124 provided their RSE policies.\n\nSome schools provided lesson plans and teaching notes, and experts were also consulted by the commission.\n\nSpeaking about the findings, NIHRC chief commissioner, Alyson Kilpatrick told Good Morning Ulster that \"an awful lot more needed to be done by a majority of schools in relation to age appropriate, comprehensive, scientifically accurate education and sexual reproductive health and rights\".\n\n\"The Department for Education needs to work with schools, consult with parents and children, to work out what the appropriate content should be and that it is delivered properly,\" said Ms Kilpatrick.\n\nIn 2018, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) said RSE in Northern Ireland should be compulsory and comprehensive.\n\nAs a result, the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris recently laid new regulations in parliament making teaching topics like abortion and prevention of pregnancy compulsory in schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said he had a legal duty to act on the recommendations made in the CEDAW report.\n\nBut the change has been criticised by Protestant and Catholic church leaders.\n\nThe NIHRC investigation into RSE was carried out before Mr Heaton-Harris's move.\n\nBut the commission said that there must be monitoring to \"ensure that schools are meeting their new obligations\".\n\n\"It's very easy to have a policy or to have a list of things you are going to teach, but it is the actual teaching of them and the way in which they are taught which is so influential,\" said Ms Kilpatrick.\n\nAt present, each school in Northern Ireland has to teach sex education but can decide what to teach \"based on the ethos of their school,\" according to Department of Education (DE) guidance.\n\nThe NIHRC said that the majority of schools who submitted their RSE policy to the investigation \"still promoted the value of the 'sanctity of marriage'\", and related terms, such as \"permanent committed sexual relationship\", and \"married love\" in their RSE policies and school ethos.\n\n\"In addition to this idealisation and promotion of abstinence, marriage, and monogamy, many schools use language that shames and stigmatises young people who do engage in sexual practices,\" the report continued.\n\n\"Most schools also contributed to this association of shame with sexual activity, by attributing specific moral values and personal characteristics to those who engaged (or did not engage) in sexual behaviour.\"\n\nThe NIHRC said about two-thirds of post-primaries taught pupils about contraception, but it was difficult to know if they offered accurate information.\n\nIn their RSE policies, some schools stated that \"they will present the Catholic teaching that 'the use of any artificial means of preventing procreation is not acceptable',\" the report said.\n\n\"Some schools even outline their beliefs that \"homosexuality\" is wrong,\" in their polices, the NIHRC said.\n\n\"For example, one [school] writes that 'the belief that homosexual acts are against the nature and purpose of human relationships will be presented to pupils',\" the report continued.\n\nOne third of schools who provided information to the NIHRC said their school would teach pupils that \"heterosexual relationships was the 'main' or 'ideal' context for sexual intimacy\".\n\nThe report also said most schools \"indirectly contribute to the societal victim-blaming and slut-shaming of women and girls.\"\n\nIt said this was because they focused on how young people could stop themselves becoming victims of sexual abuse or violence, rather than challenging the perpetrators.\n\nThe NIHRC said that while their investigation showed some schools provided \"comprehensive and scientifically accurate\" relationship and sex education, the majority in Northern Ireland did not.\n\nThe commission concluded that the case for reforming the RSE curriculum was \"compelling\".\n\nIt provided 13 recommended reforms, including schools involving their students in drawing up RSE policies.", "Amazon says it is using the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) to crack down on fake reviews and identify comments that aren't genuine.\n\nThe tech giant has been grappling with fake review \"brokers\", which are a huge problem for its shopping site.\n\nAmazon has invested in machine learning models that analyse thousands of data points to help it detect the fraudulent behaviour.\n\nBut UK consumer group Which? says the action is still \"nowhere near enough\".\n\nFake review brokers use third-party platforms, including social media and encrypted messaging services, to buy, sell and host fake reviews.\n\nFake reviews can sway customers to make purchasing decisions, for example over which laptop or children's toy to buy, based on what they believe is genuine feedback from other shoppers, when in reality someone has been paid to write a glowing review to boost a seller's ratings, or to undermine a rival firm.\n\nThey aren't always easy to spot, although generic information, or a very high percentage of five star reviews can be a give-away.\n\nIn 2022, Amazon reported more than 23,000 social media groups, with over 46 million members and followers, that facilitated fake reviews.\n\nAmazon has been using AI in the battle against fake reviews for several years, but the company says continued investment in more \"sophisticated tools\" should improve protection for customers and sellers on its platform.\n\nThe company said its fraud-detecting AI was able to look at a range of factors to calculate the likelihood that a review is fake. That can include the author's relationship with other online accounts, their sign-in activity, review history, and any unusual behaviour.\n\n\"We use machine learning to look for suspicious accounts, to track the relationships between a purchasing account that's leaving a review and someone selling that product,\" Dharmesh Mehta, the head of Amazon's customer trust team, told the BBC.\n\n\"Through a combination of both important vetting and really advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence - that's looking at different signals or behaviours - we can stop those fake reviews before a customer ever encounters it,\" he said.\n\nHarry Kind from Which? said in the UK some estimates suggest around one in seven online consumer reviews are fake.\n\n\"Amazon has been trying all sorts of technology to crack down on fake reviews and by all accounts that's having some success.\n\n\"But as far as we're concerned, it's still nowhere near enough to solve this huge problem,\" he said.\n\nFake reviews made consumers more than twice as likely to choose poor-quality products, the consumer group said.\n\nAs a result of the new methods it had developed, Amazon said it had blocked over 200 million suspected fake reviews last year and would \"continue to build sophisticated tools that protect customers\".\n\nBut the retail platform is calling for more cooperation between the private sector, consumer groups and governments to make the strategy more effective.\n\nThe Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill that is currently going through the UK parliament is expected to strengthen the legal powers available to the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in this area.\n\nWhich? welcomed Amazon's call for a more collaborative approach, but called for the UK legislation to go further than currently envisaged \"by explicitly making the buying, selling and hosting of fake reviews subject to criminal enforcement.\"\n\nIt said fake review \"factories\" on Facebook that trade reviews for Amazon and other sites were still easy to find.\n\nThe CMA said it had already taken significant action against fake and misleading reviews and those who trade them.\n\nA spokesperson for the CMA said: \"Our investigations relating to fake reviews - including the case into Amazon - are ongoing and further updates will come later this year.\"\n\nIn the UK, Amazon recently took legal action against the operators of NiceRebate.com, a fake review broker aimed at British customers.\n\nOther websites run by the same operators were also shut down, with simultaneous legal action taken against them in the US.\n\n\"We are aggressively fighting review brokers,\" said Mr Mehta.\n\nAmazon had taken legal action against 94 such \"bad actors\" he said, including fraudsters in the US, China and Europe.", "Most women with early breast cancer now beat the disease thanks to huge improvements in treatments in recent years, a BMJ analysis has found.\n\nTheir risk of dying within five years of diagnosis is estimated to be around 5% - down from 14% in the 1990s.\n\nCancer Research UK says this offers \"reassurance\" to many women but warns more highly-trained staff are needed to meet rising demand.\n\nA plan for NHS staffing in England has been repeatedly delayed.\n\nGovernment ministers say this workforce strategy is due shortly.\n\nMairead MacKenzie, 69, from Surrey, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, after finding a swelling under one arm.\n\nShe remembers feeling \"very scared\" because she had no idea of her chances of surviving.\n\n\"But I knew it had to be bad,\" she says.\n\nMairead started chemotherapy treatment, which uses drugs to kill off cancer cells, within days of seeing her GP.\n\nThis was followed by a mastectomy (removal of one breast), breast reconstruction and radiotherapy treatment before seven years on the drug tamoxifen to reduce the chances of the cancer coming back.\n\n\"It felt like they were throwing the book at me,\" she says.\n\nMairead is now involved in a patient-advocate group that helps scientists understand patients' experiences.\n\nShe is grateful for the care she received - and the gardening, walking and travelling she has been able to do in the intervening years.\n\n\"Good, clear communication about prognosis can make a vast difference to a patient's quality of life, and how they can cope with things,\" Mairead says.\n\nBreast screening looks for cancers that are too small to see or feel - it's offered only to age groups most at risk\n\nThe BMJ analysis tracked more than half a million women with early, invasive breast cancer - mostly stage one and two - diagnosed in the 1990s, 2000s and between 2010 and 2015.\n\nIt found the prognosis for nearly all women \"has improved substantially since the 1990s\", with most becoming long-term cancer survivors.\n\nAnd based on those trends, the researchers behind the Oxford University-led study say women diagnosed today also have a much lower risk.\n\n\"That's good news - and reassuring for clinicians and patients,\" oncologist and lead researcher Prof Carolyn Taylor says.\n\nFor two-thirds of women diagnosed recently, their five-year risk of death from breast cancer was less than 3%, but for one in 20 women it was 20% or higher.\n\nPrognosis depends on someone's age, type of breast cancer and underlying health, among other factors.\n\nSurgery cures most breast cancers - but if some disease remains, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy can reduce the long-term risk of dying.\n\nProf Taylor says more women are being screened for the cancer than 20 years ago and there is greater awareness of the symptoms.\n\nIn time, research will look at the survival rates of patients diagnosed during the Covid pandemic - but there is no data on this yet.\n\nCancer Research UK evidence and implementation director Naser Turabi says Covid was \"very disruptive\" but accepts \"we were already on a worsening trend before the pandemic\".\n\nThe difference now is \"we are seeing diagnostic and treatment delays\" and \"highly fragile services\".\n\n\"We need more highly trained staff, such as radiologists and oncologists, to cope with increased demand and an ageing population,\" Mr Turabi adds.\n\nIt is a view recently echoed by radiologists who say the NHS is struggling to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, cancer treatment should start within 62 days of an urgent referral by a GP.\n\nBut only 61% of patients in England are currently starting treatment in that time - against a target of 85% - and in Northern Ireland, just 37%.\n\nThe charity Breast Cancer Now says significant progress has been made on breast cancer research over the decades but it is \"not a done deal\".\n\nChief executive Baroness Morgan says: \"11,500 people a year in the UK die from the disease - and despite the tireless work of NHS staff, we know many women are waiting far too long for a diagnosis and are experiencing anxious delays to their treatment.\n\n\"Without urgent action from governments across the UK to get breast cancer services back on track, we risk seeing these decades of progress unravelling.\"\n\nIn rare cases, men can also be diagnosed with breast cancer but this study did not look at male trends.\n• None Breast cancer- Woman who got diagnosis at 23 encourages checks - BBC News", "Newly released video shows the first moments four missing children were found alive after surviving a plane crash. They had spent weeks fending for themselves in the Amazon jungle in Colombia.\n\nRescuers can be seen tending to the children in the footage, with one man cradling a child in his arms.\n\nTwo pilots and the children's mother and were killed when their light aircraft crashed on 1 May.\n\nThe siblings, aged 13, nine, five, and one, weren't found until 9 June - where they were rescued and airlifted out of the jungle. They were then moved to a military hospital in Colombia's capital, Bogota.\n\nRead more about the story here.", "Elizabeth and Ethan John were both found unresponsive with significant injuries\n\nTwo children who were killed inside a house in Stoke-on-Trent have been named.\n\nEthan John, 11, and his sister Elizabeth, seven, were both found unresponsive with significant injuries.\n\nA woman who was known to the siblings was arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice discovered the children when they went to the house in Flax Street after first being called to the stabbing of a man at a car wash nearby.\n\nThe suspect, 49, was arrested in connection with the stabbing and then on suspicion of murder. She remains in custody and is being questioned.\n\nThe children's schools paid tribute to their pupils, saying Ethan had an \"infectious smile\" and Elizabeth was a \"ray of sunshine\".\n\n\"Ethan was a wonderful member of our school community. He had impeccable manners and an infectious smile,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He will be hugely missed by the staff and pupils alike and will forever be part of our hearts.\"\n\nElizabeth's school said she was \"a kind, caring and friendly member of our school family\".\n\n\"She was a ray of sunshine who always had a smile on her face. She was everyone's friend - she was both bright and popular,\" a statement said.\n\n\"The loss of Elizabeth is truly devastating for us all and her absence will leave a huge hole within our school community.\"\n\nThe children were found fatally injured at an address on Flax Street\n\nThe stabbed man, in his 40s, was treated in hospital but has since been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cheryl Hannan said: \"We are solely focussed on finding out what happened to these two children and supporting those affected by this deeply traumatic incident.\n\n\"I cannot begin to imagine the pain and suffering felt by the family and friends of these two children at this time.\"\n\nSpecially-trained officers are supporting \"those closest to the children whilst we find out more about what happened yesterday afternoon\", she added.\n\nNeighbours said they were heartbroken at hearing the news.\n\nA neighbour near the scene said she burst into tears when she found out the news\n\nJade Halket said: \"It's scary with it being so close, I have two young kids myself, I find it devastating. It's awful.\"\n\nAnother resident told the BBC: \"I can't put it into words, I'm absolutely gutted.\n\n\"[The children] haven't even seen a life yet. We started crying when we found out, it's just not fair,\" she said.\n\nOfficers have appealed to anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the area of Flax Street and Campbell Road between 13:30 and 14:30 BST or to hear those who were in the area at the time.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Murder arrest as children, 11 and 7, die at home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 3,000 people take part every year in the 26.2-mile race\n\nA marathon has announced it will be known solely by its Welsh name, dropping its English title.\n\nMarathon Eryri was previously also known as Snowdonia Marathon, but organisers said it was a \"no brainer\" to remove the English name.\n\nLast year, the national park authority voted to refer to the national park and Wales' tallest mountain by their Welsh names - Eryri and Yr Wyddfa.\n\nThese are also known as Snowdonia and Snowdon respectively in English.\n\nThe Bannau Brycheiniog national park made a similar move earlier this year, electing to use its Welsh name rather than the English name, the Brecon Beacons.\n\nMarathon Eryri starts and finishes at the bottom of Yr Wyddfa and includes 2,750ft (838m) of climbs.\n\nAnnouncing the move on Facebook, the race said: \"Same awesome race, same fantastic views, same incredible participants, new authentic name.\"\n\nJayne Lloyd, the race coordinator, said: \"It seemed a no brainer really to drop the Snowdonia. We always referred to ourselves as Marathon Eryri locally.\n\nJane Lloyd, the race co-ordinator, says that the Welsh language is a \"centrepin\" of the race's identity\n\n\"Snowdonia's name is Eryri. Snowdonia is an English word, an English imposition - the same as Yr Wyddfa.\n\n\"I think it's important to focus on the authenticity of the name.\"\n\nMs Lloyd described the Welsh language as the \"centrepin\" of the race's identity.\n\n\"It's a Welsh event and people coming here have a Welsh experience, it's something they can't get anywhere else in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"People travelling here really appreciate the language and the culture of the area. It's really important that they know Welsh is a thriving language and culture.\"\n\nOriginally taking place in 1982, Marathon Eryri has been voted Best British Marathon twice.", "MPs will look at whether inspections help schools improve\n\nMPs have launched an inquiry into Ofsted's school inspections, looking at how useful they are to parents, governors and schools in England.\n\nThe suicide of head teacher Ruth Perry led to a debate about how Ofsted works.\n\nEducation Select Committee chairman Robin Walker said Ofsted had an important role, but there had been a \"notable groundswell of criticism\".\n\nOfsted welcomed the inquiry and said it had already made changes in response to concerns, with a focus on children.\n\nThe inquiry - by cross-party MPs on the committee - will not look at the circumstances around Ruth Perry's death. Those will be examined fully in an inquest later this year.\n\nShe took her own life while waiting for publication of a report downgrading Caversham Primary School from Outstanding to Inadequate, over how it kept children safe at school.\n\nMPs will consider how inspections affect the workload and wellbeing of school staff and pupils, and what contribution its reports make to helping schools improve.\n\nAmong the issues likely to be discussed are the current system of awarding one overall grade to a school, and whether it is right to automatically deem a school as inadequate if inspectors raise concerns about child welfare.\n\nMr Walker said keeping children safe was a vital part of inspection but \"ensuring that inspections are proportionate, timely and reasonable is essential to build trust\", especially after Mrs Perry's death.\n\nMrs Perry's sister, Prof Julia Waters, said she was delighted there would be a \"proper investigation into the inspection system\" that would \"hold Ofsted to account\".\n\nParents, school governors, teachers and unions will be able to submit evidence, alongside the government and Ofsted itself. The committee will also look at the complaints process, which schools say has made it almost impossible to challenge a judgement.\n\nA primary school in Cambridge recently managed to have its inspection report scrapped - but only after launching a legal challenge. It had previously failed to overturn the rating via Ofsted's complaints process.\n\nChanges announced by Ofsted on Monday include a plan to escalate complaints more quickly to an independent adjudicator.\n\nHead teachers' union, the NAHT, was among those to say the changes already made have not gone far enough. General secretary Paul Whiteman said he hoped the committee \"will listen carefully to the experiences and concerns of the profession and help bring about much-needed change\".\n\nChief inspector Amanda Spielman welcomed the inquiry launch, adding that Ofsted was particularly focused on \"how we can contribute to reducing the pressure that is undoubtedly felt by school leaders around inspection\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"I think it is fair to say that a great deal of that pressure does relate to the perceived consequences of inspection - it's not just about the process itself.\"\n\nShe said the government, and not Ofsted, had responsibility for the consequences of inspection - such as support or interventions which a school might need following a report.\n\nThe Department for Education said it funds the charity, Education Support, to provide wellbeing help for school leaders. That programme will be doubled in size to support an additional 500 heads by March 2024.\n\nA spokesperson welcomed the inquiry, adding: \"We will continue to work with Ofsted, the sector and Ruth Perry's family to improve the way schools are inspected.\"\n\nMs Spielman is due to step down from Ofsted this year, and a new chief inspector will take over.\n\nMr Walker said the inquiry could provide a \"rounded, nuanced examination\" of Ofsted, to inform the work of her successor.\n\nWatch the story of head teacher, Ruth Perry, who took her life after her school's rating was downgraded by Ofsted.\n• None Ofsted inspection changes 'nowhere near' enough\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kylian Mbappe: PSG were told last year he would not extend contract, says France forward Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nKylian Mbappe wants to stay at Paris St-Germain for now but says he will not extend his contract beyond 2024. The 24-year-old France forward's deal expires after next season, with the option of another year. On Tuesday he tweeted he \"will continue\" at PSG, but a letter from his camp said next season would be his last at the club. Mbappe says PSG were first told on 15 July, 2022 of his decision to reject the extension. Official correspondence has followed to that effect this week, with Mbappe saying the \"only aim of the letter was to confirm what had already been spoken about\". However, PSG are prepared to sell their record goalscorer this summer rather than risk losing him for free in a year's time. Mbappe said reports he wants to join Real Madrid this summer were \"lies\". His camp told the AFP news agency on Tuesday the possibility of extending his contract \"has not been discussed since [he informed PSG last year] over the course of the year, except a fortnight ago to announce the sending of the letter\". \"No potential contract extension has been mentioned,\" they added. \"After maintaining publicly in recent weeks that he would be a PSG player next season, Kylian Mbappe has not asked to leave this summer and has just confirmed to the club that he would not be activating the extra year.\"\n• None Real Madrid? Man Utd? Where Mbappe might go next If Mbappe is sold this summer, Real Madrid are long-time admirers of the Frenchman, although he rejected a move to the Bernabeu to stay at PSG last year. The exit of Karim Benzema to Saudi Arabia means Real need a striker, but it was thought Tottenham's Harry Kane was top of their list. Mbappe, who joined PSG in 2017 initially on loan from Monaco before a 180m euro move, has scored 212 goals in 260 games. He has 38 goals in 68 games for France, including a hat-trick in last year's World Cup final in Qatar, as France lost to Argentina on penalties. Mbappe finished as Ligue 1's top scorer in each of the past five seasons and has won five league titles in his six seasons at PSG. PSG ended 2022-23 with just the Ligue 1 title after once again failing to win the Champions League, losing to Bayern Munich in the last 16. Mbappe would be the second high-profile forward to depart Parc des Princes this summer, after Argentina forward Lionel Messi left at the end of his two-year contract to join Major League Soccer's Inter Miami. Neymar, the third member of PSG's superstar frontline last season, has been linked with a big-money move to Saudi Arabia. The most important thing in Mbappe's statement today is that once again he is saying he doesn't want to leave the club this summer and that's important because now, it's all about PSG. They have to open the door (to a transfer this summer). In my understanding he will leave because he doesn't want to renew and his position won't change and I think PSG's position won't change so I think they will open the door (to a transfer) before the end of the market. The more complicated thing now is to find an agreement with Real Madrid because PSG won't want to do any gifts to Real and the Spanish club will try for a low price because they will say they don't want to pay a big amount of money for a player who is out of contract in a year. I think he wants to go to Real Madrid, but Liverpool is also there since many years as well. They kept contact with the family for many years. And I would add Manchester United because they will have a new project soon under new owners.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Wildcat Haven has written to North Wales Police after it took the animal, named Finlay\n\nA cat seized by police has prompted a legal complaint by a wildlife rescue group which said the animal suffered mental trauma.\n\nWildcat Haven wrote to North Wales Police after it took Finlay the cat.\n\nIt was seized by the force after it received a report the organisation was keeping an unlicensed Scottish wildcat.\n\nThe animal was returned after four months when police said tests showed Finlay was a common tabby. The force has declined to comment.\n\nWildcat Haven, based in St Asaph, Denbighshire, has said he suffered \"physiological and psychological trauma\", and has made a number of claims about police actions.\n\nWildcat Haven's lawyer, Joseph Morgan, said the group found the animal dehydrated, soaking wet and close to death as a three-week-old kitten in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nBelieving he was a Scottish wildcat, he was taken to an enclosure in Conwy for rehabilitation before eventual release.\n\nPlans to release Finlay in spring 2022 were derailed on Valentine's Day in February that year, when officers took him from the farm claiming he was being held without a licence.\n\nWildcat Haven claimed no licence was required to rehabilitate Finlay.\n\nMr Morgan said: \"North Wales Police acted excessively in seizing Finlay from Wildcat Haven's care and holding on to him for over four months.\n\n\"In doing so, they undermined months of hard work that went into rehabilitating Finlay for release into the wild, meaning that Wildcat Haven has had to start from square one in their journey to see Finlay in the wild again.\"\n\nWildcat Haven is also unhappy police do not believe Finlay is a wildcat, but a domestic tabby with some wildcat genes.\n\nThe assessment could pose problems for the group if it does release Finlay into the wild, as it could be committing an offence under the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006.\n\nFinlay was not returned until 28 June 2022, allegedly in a \"very poor state\". Wildcat Haven said it took more than six months to bring him back to good health.\n\nIts director Emily O'Donoghue said: \"Finlay was wrongly seized as no licence is required for the rehabilitation and release of a Scottish wildcat.\"\n\nShe claimed that he was kept \"in a quarantine cage for four-and-a-half months\", and on his return he was \"emaciated\".\n\nWildcat Haven said Finlay was discovered in the Scottish Highlands as a kitten\n\n\"The police returned him because they said he was a domestic tabby cat, even though an assessment of him arranged by the police gave him a score which should have identified him as a Scottish wildcat, according to the scientific literature,\" Ms O'Donoghue said.\n\nThe police, she claimed, caused Finlay to \"suffer unnecessarily\" and delayed his release.\n\n\"We will continue to fight for his freedom,\" she said.\n\nWhile North Wales Police has declined to comment on Wildcat Haven's claims, it has previously said it kept Finlay at a special facility where it had regular visits and vet assessments.\n\nIt said there was no evidence of disease and Finlay displayed traits of domestic cat behaviour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gwynedd has the highest number second homes in Wales, and the council cabinet wants to \"control\" this\n\nSecond home owners in part of north Wales could have to seek planning permission.\n\nDafydd Meurig, the Gwynedd council cabinet member for environment, said second homes were \"immoral\" during a \"huge housing crisis\".\n\nCouncillors voted on Tuesday afternoon to proceed with a move to \"control the numbers\".\n\nBut there are claims of \"anti-English\" messaging and suggestions housebuilding should be the focus.\n\nNorth Wales Tourism said Gwynedd council was a \"rich authority\" which should be building more houses.\n\nWelsh government amendments to planning regulations have introduced three new classes of use: main home, second home and short-term holiday accommodation.\n\nCouncils also now have the power to control the use of houses as second homes or holiday lets.\n\nUnder the proposal, people wanting to use their property for one of those purposes would need permission.\n\nIt has been backed by cabinet members, so a public consultation will now be held, and a final decision made next year.\n\nMr Meurig said Gwynedd had about 8,000 second homes, while 3,600 people were on waiting lists for social housing and 150 residents were presenting as homeless every month.\n\n\"I think as long as people don't have a single home, then a second home is immoral in my view,\" he said.\n\n\"There are people who are homeless, who don't have somewhere to live in their own area, and somebody has a second home that they can use part of the year. I think that is certainly a problem.\"\n\nMr Meurig said people in Gwynedd were living in temporary hotel accommodation, paid for by the council, while others were \"coming on holiday into houses\".\n\nThe move comes just months after Gwynedd Council voted to increase taxes for second home owners, which means they now pay a 250% council tax rate.\n\nJim Jones, of North Wales Tourism, said \"ineffective policies\" were not the way forward.\n\n\"We urge the council to build new homes for local people, because after all, Gwynedd council is a rich authority with huge reserves,\" he said.\n\nHe said self-catering accommodation was the \"bread and butter of Gwynedd's economy\" and the new policy would encourage people to \"sell up\".\n\n\"They won't sell to local people, they'll sell to the highest bidder,\" he said.\n\n\"I think all these policies that are ongoing at the moment seem to be very anti-tourism.\"\n\nMr Meurig added: \"Where's the money coming from to buy houses or to build houses? The council has a £77 million housing action plan to build houses and to make houses available, but that is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the problem that second homes bring.\"\n\nJanet Finch Saunders, Welsh Conservative shadow minister for climate change said it was a \"shocking decision\" from the Plaid Cymru-run council, which \"smacks of nationalism at its worst\".\n\nShe said people from England had told her they felt such policies were \"anti-English\".\n\nShe added: \"If you look back in history, people have come on holiday to Wales, fallen in love with it and then they've wanted to move here, and why shouldn't they? We are a free country.\n\n\"I think it's a barmy idea and to be honest I think it could be challengeable in law.\"\n\nPaul Gill, from Cheshire, who bought a second home in Abersoch with his wife 40 years ago, said he did not believe the council's policies would result in \"any great change in the housing market here\".\n\nGwynedd council said planning permission would not be needed to turn a second home or short-term let into a primary residence.\n\nBut Mr Gill said the planning process could deter buyers, and delay potential house sales by months.\n\n\"Purchasers don't wait weeks. They go away, they find something else. It's half-baked and it won't work,\" he said.\n\nBusiness owner Griff Owen, who runs chalets, a cafe, beach huts and a car park in Abersoch, said: \"If it gets harder for second home owners, they're going to move somewhere else.\n\n\"If you drive tourism away there'll be nothing left here for people.\"\n\nHe said second home owners employed cleaners, builders, gardeners and other services, adding: \"There's nothing much here besides the view, the beaches and the mountains and you can't live off views.\n\n\"Without money coming in, how do you pay the bills?\"\n\nHowever, Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith welcomed the proposal.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This is an extremely important first step and we really hope that more planning authorities will follow suit in due course, because time is short.\n\n\"The recent results of the census clearly show that our Welsh-speaking communities are under siege.\"\n\nThe report which was discussed on Tuesday defined short-term letting accommodation as use of a property for holiday accommodation, with fewer than 30 days per occupation. Meanwhile, second home ownership was defined as use of a property \"other than as a sole or main residence, occupied for 183 days or less\" per year.", "Many parts of the UK are officially experiencing a heatwave as temperatures continue to climb to 30C.\n\nThe hot weather may have arrived at the weekend, but a heatwave is only being recognised now as areas in the UK have seen highs of at least 25C for more than three consecutive days.\n\nA heat-health alert has been extended until next week as 30.7C was recorded in Porthmadog, Wales, on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office warned the humid air will bring thunder until this evening.\n\nThe forecaster has issued yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms in northern Scotland and western parts of Northern Ireland until 21:00 BST on Tuesday evening, with more rain and thunder possible later in the week.\n\nHeavy rainfall resulted in flooding in the Golders Green area of North West London on Monday, as cars struggled to drive through waterlogged streets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office defines a heatwave as three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nHowever, the threshold varies across the country, from 25C in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the North and South West of England, to 28C in parts of South East England.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nEngland's highest temperature of the year so far was at Chertsey Water Works in Surrey on Saturday after highs of 32.2C were recorded.\n\nBridgefoot in Cumbria has so far seen Tuesday's highest temperature in England, at 30.1C.\n\nNorthern Ireland started experiencing a heatwave on Tuesday too after temperatures climbed to 27C at Magilligan in County Derry and 28C in Armagh.\n\nHighs of 30.7C in Porthmadog meant Wales also had its hottest day of the year so far on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland saw its hottest day of the year on Monday after temperatures reached 30.7C in Threave in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nMet Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said the rest of the week will be hotter than average for the time of year, but that the extreme heat may come down slightly, meaning that heatwave criteria may not last much longer.\n\n\"The heat is set to drop slightly in coming days. London might not meet heatwave criteria, for example, but there's a good deal of dry, fine, sunny weather to be had this week with temperatures remaining well above average,\" he said.\n\nLast week's high temperatures led to the UK's Health Security Agency and the Met Office to issue an amber heat-health alert.\n\nBut all regions of England have now been placed under a yellow alert until 09:00 on Monday by the UK Health Security Agency, which means the hot weather is likely to affect vulnerable groups.\n\nThere are concerns about healthcare services becoming overwhelmed during this period, as well as an increase in the risk to health of people aged over-65 and those with pre-existing health issues, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.\n\nIn order to keep cool during the hot weather, people should ensure they drink plenty of water, wear loose-fitting clothes, stay in the shade as much as possible and use fans, ice and cool showers to reduce their body temperature.\n\nDogs and other pets can also be kept cool and safe by being kept out of the sunshine and not left in a hot car even for a short amount of time, along with being given lots of fresh water.", "We're going to pause our live coverage for the night now, thank you for joining us.\n\nYou can continue to follow the latest developments on this story here, and we'll be back tomorrow to bring you more updates from Nottingham.\n\nWe also have this explainer outlining everything we know so far about the attacks.\n\nToday's page was a joint effort between our teams in Nottingham and London - thank you for joining us.", "Alfie had more than 50 injuries on his body when he died, the court heard\n\nA mother and her partner have been convicted of killing her nine-year-old son in the bath after months of abuse.\n\nAlfie Steele was found unresponsive at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021.\n\nDirk Howell, 41, was found guilty of murdering the young boy and his mother, Carla Scott, was convicted of his manslaughter.\n\nJurors cleared her of Alfie's murder. They were told by the judge they would never have to sit on a jury again.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing horrific details of the nine-year-old's final months, the jury deliberated for 10 hours over the verdicts.\n\nAlfie was subjected to a cruel discipline regime and had more than 50 injuries on his body when he died.\n\nHis punishments included beatings, being forced to stand outside and being dunked head first in cold baths, Coventry Crown Court heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hear the 999 calls that laid neighbours' fears bare during the trial\n\nThe family was known to social services - not least because Howell had an order in place preventing him from staying at the house, which he routinely flouted.\n\nNeighbours also made repeated calls to police after hearing screaming and crying coming from both inside and outside the family home.\n\nA safeguarding review will now explore what more could have been done to save Alfie.\n\n\"It fills us with immense sadness that we will never be able to see that same cheeky smile again,\" he said.\n\n\"Losing Alfie has left a massive void in our lives. To think that we will never be able to hug him and watch him grow into an accomplished young man causes us such anguish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court had heard emergency services arrived at the home on Vashon Drive at about 14:30 GMT on 18 February but paramedics were unable to revive him.\n\nAlthough an exact cause of death could not be ascertained, evidence strongly suggested he died after being dunked in the freezing cold water.\n\nScott, 35, claimed Alfie had fallen asleep while enjoying a warm bath. However, his injuries and low body temperature - 23C (73F) - indicated a different story.\n\nThe trial heard Scott struck up a relationship with Howell in 2019 and his discipline regime quickly escalated during 2020, when the country went into lockdown during the Covid pandemic.\n\nJurors heard harrowing 999 calls from neighbours who tried to raise the alarm, before Alfie eventually died from the brutal regime.\n\nSome neighbours heard him screaming as he was forced into the cold baths and others reported seeing him standing in the garden at night \"like a statue\" while being berated by Howell.\n\nCarla Scott (left) struck up a relationship with Dirk Howell (right) in 2019\n\nHe had admitted four counts of child cruelty, but Scott repeatedly maintained her innocence. As well as manslaughter, the jury convicted her of child cruelty.\n\nAlfie's mother was in tears as she was taken down to the cells, but Howell, of Princip Drive, Aston, Birmingham, showed no visible emotion.\n\nOutside court, Det Ch Insp Leighton Harding said Alfie \"suffered the most horrifying physical and emotional abuse\" and it was \"unimaginable to consider the fear and distress he must have felt during the events that led to his collapse\".\n\n\"Alfie should have expected unconditional love and protection of Scott, yet she deliberately neglected his needs, choosing to prioritise her own needs and relationship with Howell, knowing the cruel treatment he was inflicting on Alfie,\" he added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said the case had not been referred to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), because it \"did not meet the criteria\", despite officers' contact with the family.\n\nWest Mercia Police will come under scrutiny in a review, said Det Ch Insp Harding\n\n\"We are of course committed to learning from this sad case,\" he said, adding the force would be complying with the forthcoming safeguarding review.\n\nStephen Eccleston, independent chair of Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership, said the team was \"shocked and saddened by the death of Alfie\".\n\n\"On behalf of the partnership, I would like to take this opportunity to pass on our condolences to Alfie's family.\"\n\nHe said the review would be published later this year.\n\nNigel Huddleston, MP for Mid-Worcestershire, described the case as \"absolutely horrendous\".\n\n\"We must endeavour to learn lessons from Alfie's murder to help ensure that such a horrific event never happens again,\" he added.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Mark Wall said Howell and Scott would be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twelve boats were detected crossing the Channel on Sunday\n\nMore than 600 migrants crossed the English Channel on Sunday, the highest number on a single day so far this year, the Home Office said.\n\nSome 616 people were detected making the journey from France in 12 small boats.\n\nThe previous daily high for this year was 497 people on 22 April.\n\nThe total number of migrants making the journey this year is more than 8,000, which is about 2,000 less than at the same point last year.\n\nSpeaking in Dover last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his plan to cut the number of migrants crossing the Channel in boats was working and numbers were down for the first time.\n\nMr Sunak told BBC political editor Chris Mason that crossings were down by a fifth, and figures for Albanians heading to Britain were down by 90%.\n\nAt this point last year, the cumulative figure had just passed 10,000. The total number of crossings last year was 45,755.\n\nTim Loughton, MP for East Worthing & Shoreham, and a member of the Home Affairs Committee, said \"we shouldn't read anything\" into this latest figure \"except we still have a problem\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he suggested the wind in the Channel had not \"worked\" for crossings in the last few weeks, so \"we may now see a surge\".\n\nBut he said Mr Sunak's claim numbers were coming down was \"premature\".\n\nHe said the French needed to arrest people on the beaches, not just confiscate their boats, while the Home Office \"has got to do far better\" at turning around those people who do not have legitimate asylum claims.\n\nHe added: \"We need to have properly-assigned safe and legal routes, so that legitimate asylum seekers can apply from overseas.\"\n\nMr Sunak has made reducing the number of Channel crossings a key part of his premiership, including via the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nThe plans would mean anyone reaching the UK without permission would be detained and promptly deported, either to their home country or a third country such as Rwanda.\n\nThe bill would create broad new detention and search powers, and migrants would be barred from claiming asylum. It would apply even if a person claims to be a victim of trafficking or modern slavery.\n\nIt has been heavily criticised by some campaigners, and the Joint Committee on Human Rights - which is made up of MPs and peers - said earlier this week it would breach a \"number of the UK's human rights obligations\".\n\nWhile the bill has already passed in the Commons, it was strongly criticised on Monday in the House of Lords during a debate which ran into the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nLiberal Democrat Baroness Ludford said peers had been \"abused, bullied and intimidated\" by the government over the plans.\n\nBut Mr Sunak and government ministers say the tough measures are necessary to prevent people smuggling networks from profiteering from the dangerous Channel route.\n\nResponding to Monday's crossings, a No 10 spokesperson said: \"There is a great deal of work going on which is stopping these criminal gangs in their tracks.\n\n\"But, clearly, crossings are continuing and that is because we have not been able to put in place our full plans; and obviously there is a great deal of work across government to that end.\"\n\nLabour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the PM \"needs to roll up his sleeves and start doing the hard graft, rather than ploughing on with the headline-chasing, government-by-gimmick approach\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was among the first media organisations to gain access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine's counteroffensive.\n\nOut of this cluster of four settlements in the eastern Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting according to the battalion which liberated it. Ukraine lost six soldiers in the process.\n\nIts name means \"not boring\" in Ukrainian.\n\nAn obvious irony for a village that was occupied by Russia in spring last year - a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt was at the most northern point of a protruding Russian front line.\n\nAs our army escort, Anatoliy, speeds along scarred roads in his camouflaged truck towards Neskuchne, it's clear this is a different kind of liberation to what we saw last year.\n\nFirstly there are no civilians here. The only remnants of civilisation come in the form of a blown out pharmacy and food store.\n\nThere isn't a complex network of trenches either. A makeshift wooden bridge over a river is all it takes to take us into territory Russia has held for so long.\n\nBuildings are also riddled with bullet holes from smaller calibre weapons. There's been a lot of close quarter fighting here.\n\nAnatoliy doesn't like to hang around for long.\n\nMortars are periodically fired from Ukrainian troops hidden in thick tree lines or abandoned gardens. He explains the Russians are just on the brow of hill in three directions.\n\nThe sudden rising of three plumes of smoke is a cue to keep moving. The Russians are responding with Grad missiles.\n\nThe situation here is far more fluid than the triumphant claims of liberation which had come from from Kyiv this week.\n\nRussian forces have been pushing back as recently as last night, which Ukrainian officials have now acknowledged.\n\nUkraine's counteroffensive is in its early stages with modest gains.\n\nIf Neskuchne is anything to go by, any liberation will be far from immediate, and won't necessarily bring freedom straight away.\n\nFormer residents of Neskuchne told the BBC that the village was also briefly occupied in 2014 - when Russia-backed fighters seized large swathes of land in the Donetsk and neighbouring Luhansk regions. This followed the illegal annexation by Russia of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.\n\nThe small village then went back into Ukrainian hands only to be seized by Russian troops soon after last year's invasion.\n\nEarlier this week, a video emerged purportedly showing two Ukrainian soldiers raising the country's blue-and-yellow national flag on destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.\n\nThe loud booming sound of nearby shelling can also be heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A video on social media purports to show a Ukrainian flag being raised in Neskuchne, Donetsk Oblast", "The Troubles was a period of conflict which lasted for 30 years and cost the lives of more than 3,500 people\n\nA new call for the government to shelve its Troubles legacy bill has been rejected, with a minister stating he sees \"no circumstances\" in which it would be withdrawn.\n\nThe bill, which introduces conditional amnesties, is on course to pass into law before summer.\n\nVictims' commissioner Ian Jeffers said: \"We would love to see the bill withdrawn, it is as simple as that.\"\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"The bill certainly will not be voted down (in Parliament) and I see no circumstances in which it would withdrawn.\"\n\nHe indicated there will be additional changes to the bill beyond those outlined recently and urged people \"to give them a fair wind when they see them\".\n\nThe bill would create a new information recovery body, headed by a senior judicial figure, to produce reports on hundreds of pre-1998 incidents in which people were killed or seriously injured.\n\nMany victims' groups are opposed to the legislation put forward\n\nIt would offer conditional amnesties to perpetrators who co-operate and \"conduct criminal investigations where appropriate\".\n\nIt would also end all future civil actions related to the Troubles and there would be no further inquests beyond those already commenced.\n\nMr Jeffers said: \"It is believed it will not deliver truth recovery and for some it removes the opportunity for justice they continue to hold out for.\n\n\"Lord Caine has made a good attempt at listening to victims and survivors but I still have not heard anything coming from government to say this will work for victims and survivors.\n\n\"I am genuinely worried we are going to see the bill pushed through by government for its own means and not really for reconciliation in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nArising from a 2019 manifesto commitment, the government pledged better protection for military veterans from investigations and prosecutions related to the Troubles.\n\nThe bill is opposed by victims' groups and Northern Ireland political parties, as well as the Irish government.\n\nLord Caine said the narrative around the legislation \"could have been more victim-focused\"\n\nRecently, experts at the United Nations and the Council of Europe called for the bill to be withdrawn, arguing it was not compatible with the UK's human rights obligations.\n\nAt the bill's second reading in the House of Lords six weeks ago, Lord Caine outlined amendments which the government will table in coming weeks, claiming they will improve the investigative powers of the information body.\n\nThey also propose tougher penalties for those who refuse to co-operate.\n\nLord Caine said: \"I would be very, very surprised if I do not table more amendments.\n\n\"The responsibility I have is to try and put this bill in the best possible shape.\n\n\"If you were to ask me in a personal capacity: 'Do I think the narrative around the legislation could have been better and more victim focused?' then the answer would almost certainly be: 'Yes.'\"\n\n\"But in politics I am often less interested in how we got to a situation than how we actually get out of a situation and how we improve things.\"", "Chloe Mitchell was last seen between ten and eleven days ago\n\nA 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell in County Antrim.\n\nBrandon John Rainey of James Street, Ballymena, was charged with murdering Ms Mitchell between 2 and 5 June.\n\nMs Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town on the night of 2 June and into the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation got under way and, on Sunday, suspected human remains were found. These have not been formally identified.\n\nMr Rainey appeared at court via video link along with fellow accused Ryan Johnson Gordon, 34, of Nursery Close, Ballymena who is charged with attempting to impede justice by concealing evidence around the alleged murder of Ms Mitchell.\n\nBallymena Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Rainey has serious mental health problems and is a paranoid schizophrenic.\n\nIn court, when asked if he understood the charge against him, Mr Rainey replied: \"Yeah.\"\n\nBrandon John Rainey, who appeared in court via video link, denied murdering Ms Mitchell\n\nHis defence lawyer said he had \"acute mental health difficulties\"and that he denied the charge.\n\nAn application was made for Mr Rainey to be released to the Shannon Clinic - a medium secure unit for people with mental illness - outside Belfast, but police objected as he had previously escaped from the clinic.\n\nJudge Peter King said Mr Rainey had been charged with the \"most serious offence in the criminal canon\" and remanded him in custody at Maghaberry Prison until 6 July. No application for bail was made.\n\nCounsel for Mr Gordon said he wanted to \"echo similar sentiments to my colleague\" in terms of his client, adding: \"There are mental health difficulties.\"\n\nMr Gordon was also remanded pending a bail application which will be heard at Ballymena Magistrates Court on 20 June.\n\nNone of Chloe's family was present for the hearing.\n\nA huge search operation was launched in Ballymena after Ms Mitchell's disappearance\n\nEarlier on Monday, North Antrim MP Ian Paisley told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that Chloe Mitchell's death was an \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"There is a terrible shadow over the town - the sadness is palpable,\" he said.\n\nMr Paisley paid tribute to the teams of people - both professionals and volunteers - saying that they showed \"great courage and bravery\".\n\n\"They were just brilliant; they worked in very hot weather through river beds and through difficult terrain.\n\n\"It shows the community spirit. No-one wanted to hear that awful news that emerged and the sadness that is there. They worked in hope, but unfortunately that has been put aside now.\"\n\nThe Ballymena community worked alongside the Community Rescue Service (CRS) last week searching along the banks of the Braid River as well as in the water.\n\nSurrounding parklands and the Ecos centre were also searched.\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nA prayer vigil for Chloe Mitchell was held in Harryville in Ballymena on Sunday\n\nBallymena resident Patricia Mitchell, who is not related to Chloe Mitchell, said people in the town were devastated.\n\n\"There's no words to describe what has happened around here - absolutely unbelievable,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nIndependent councillor Rodney Quigley said it was \"beyond people's worst nightmares\".\n\n\"This is a great community and to have this happen right on the doorsteps is heart-breaking,\" he said.", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash in Ely, Cardiff\n\nTwo police officers are under investigation for their conduct prior to the death of two boys in an e-bike crash in Cardiff which led to rioting.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said gross misconduct notices had been served on the driver and passenger seen in a police van behind the boys in the Ely area.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in the crash on 22 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nThe two officers have not been suspended, South Wales Police said.\n\nThe IOPC said its investigation focused on the nature of the police interaction with the two boys before the crash and the appropriateness of the officers' decisions and actions.\n\nIn particular, the police watchdog said it was examining whether the officers in the police vehicle were pursuing the boys.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on the night of the crash.\n\nFifteen officers were injured during the unrest and the total number of arrests stands at 20.\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially insisted the two teenagers were not being chased by police before they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tomos Morgan: \"It was complete chaos\"\n\nBut CCTV footage analysed by BBC Verify showed police following the boys just minutes before the crash.\n\nThe force later confirmed its officers had been following the teenagers prior to their deaths.\n\nThe watchdog said investigators were reviewing hundreds of video footage clips and had reviewed initial accounts and body-worn video from police officers and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crowd released the blue balloons in memory of the two teen boys\n\nPaying tribute to Harvey days after the crash, his mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared\".\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".", "Sainsbury's and Asda have been told to stop using \"unlawful\" land agreements to prevent rivals from opening stores near their own shops.\n\nThe move may have reduced consumer choice of groceries and access to cheaper prices, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said.\n\nAsda and Sainsbury's played down the breaches, saying they had been \"technical\" and not harmed consumers.\n\nThe regulator previously reprimanded Tesco and Waitrose for similar actions.\n\nThe CMA's latest action comes as supermarkets are being investigated by the competition watchdog over high food and fuel prices.\n\nAccording to the CMA, between 2011 and 2019 Sainsbury's and Asda had placed restrictions on land they own to stop it being used by rival supermarkets.\n\nThey also used legal agreements to block landlords from allowing competing stores on land in the same block as existing shops.\n\nThe regulator said Sainsbury's breached the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010 18 times, while Asda did it 14 times.\n\nDavid Stewart, executive director of markets and mergers at the CMA, said: \"Restrictions of this nature are against the law, cause real harm to shoppers and will not be tolerated. This is particularly important at a time when many families are struggling to pay their weekly grocery bills.\n\n\"With families under increasing pressure, it is even more critical that competition between supermarkets is helping people to get the best deal.\"\n\nSainsbury's has agreed to remove the outstanding restrictions the CMA identified from its land agreements. The restrictions identified within Asda's land agreements have been removed.\n\nA Sainsbury's spokesperson said the regulator had found \"minor, unintentional technical breaches\" that did not reduce competition in the grocery market .\n\nIt added that there had only been a \"small number\" of breaches, amounting to less than 1% of its relevant land agreements over more than a decade. \"We have co-operated fully with the CMA throughout this process and we are now resolving these issues, as well as taking steps to make sure this does not happen again.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said: \"We have reviewed details of over 1,600 property related transactions which identified 14 issues. All of these relate to legacy transactions that occurred between 2011 and 2019, when Asda was under different ownership, and involve technical errors in documentation that have all been resolved.\n\n\"We have also taken action to strengthen our CLO-related training and guidance.\"\n\nThe CMA took action against Tesco in 2020 for 23 breaches of the land rules, and and Waitrose in 2022 for seven breaches.\n\nGrocery price inflation has soared in recent months, and some have questioned whether supermarkets are passing on falling wholesale food costs.\n\nHowever, the grocers have denied profiteering, with the British Retail Consortium saying stores are working to keep prices \"as low as possible\".", "Despite global fame, Cormac McCarthy was said to be a very private man\n\nTributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89.\n\nMcCarthy's novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films.\n\nFellow author Stephen King called him \"maybe the greatest American novelist of my time\".\n\nBooker-Prize-winner John Banville, a friend of McCarthy's, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was a \"great loss\" and he was a \"giant figure\".\n\n\"He was unique,\" Banville said. \"He stood out - he jutted out from the literary landscape like a monolith.\"\n\nBlood Meridian, McCarthy's 1985 dark epic set in the American West in the mid-19th Century, was his \"masterpiece\", Banville said.\n\n\"Sometimes, reading Cormac's prose, especially in Blood Meridian, you say to yourself, 'This is just so far over the top that it's unreal',\" he said. \"And yet it was extraordinarily compelling. I mean, nobody wrote the way he did.\"\n\nSamuel L Jackson (left) and Tommy Lee Jones (right) starred in 2011's The Sunset Limited, written by McCarthy\n\nMany of his novels were violent tales describing the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. In real life, he was said to be a very private man.\n\nBanville noted his fellow writer did have \"a very bleak view of life\".\n\n\"You did not have many laughs with Cormac,\" he said. \"He didn't see the world as a particularly comic place, which I do. But we got on well. I liked him enormously.\"\n\nIn his tribute, King added: \"He was full of years and created a fine body of work - but I still mourn his passing.\"\n\nMcCarthy had died of natural causes, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday, Penguin Random House said.\n\nThe publisher's chief executive, Nihar Malaviya, said McCarthy had \"changed the course of literature\".\n\n\"For 60 years he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,\" Mr Malaviya said.\n\n\"Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless for generations to come.\"\n\nHis UK publisher, Picador, described McCarthy as \"one of the world's most influential and renowned writers\".\n\nThe company's boss, Mary Mount, hailed his \"extraordinary body of work\", saying he was \"a writer of great vision and great beauty\".\n\nHis greatest books included The Road, McCarthy's 10th novel, which was published in 2006 and won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. It describes a father and son's arduous journey as they struggle to survive in the US after the apocalypse.\n\nHis 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, a grim story of a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert, was adapted for the screen by Joel and Ethan Coen.\n\nStarring Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, the thriller went on to win four Oscars, including best picture.\n\nThere have been a string of attempts to adapt Blood Meridian for the cinema. In April, Deadline reported The Road director John Hillcoat would become the latest to tackle it.\n\nMcCarthy's \"career spanned nearly six decades and several genres, including fiction and drama\", publisher Pan Macmillan said in its tribute\n\nBorn in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933, in an Irish Catholic family, McCarthy was one of six siblings.\n\nHe spent most of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father worked as a lawyer. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965.\n\nMcCarthy's last two books - The Passenger and Stella Maris - were published at the end of last year. As well as his novels, he also wrote screenplays and short stories.\n\nDuring his long career, his media interviews or appearances on the red carpet were a rarity.\n\nIn 2007, McCarthy told US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey: \"I don't think [interviews] are good for your head.\n\n\"If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to write a book, you probably shouldn't be thinking about it, you probably should be doing it.\"\n• None The chaos and carnage in Cormac McCarthy's novels", "Specialist coaching was delivered in more than 200 primary schools\n\nFunding for specialist sports coaching in primary schools will end, the Department of Education (DE) has said.\n\nThe school sports programme was delivered by coaches from the Irish Football Association (IFA) and Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).\n\nIt was run in more than 200 schools each year by 22 coaches and cost about £500,000 a year.\n\nThe department has told the sports bodies \"no further funding is available\".\n\nIt said due to budget cuts \"difficult decisions have had to be made\" to halt funding to a number of third party organisations.\n\nIn a statement, the IFA and GAA said they and a number of assembly members (MLAs) have requested an urgent meeting with the department's permanent secretary about the decision to end the funding.\n\nThe department has already stopped a number of schemes to save money, including the school holiday food grant for children entitled to free school meals.\n\nThat came after funding for education was reduced in the 2023-24 Stormont budget.\n\nIn their letter announcing it was ending the funding for the scheme, the department said: \"Faced with this extremely challenging position the department has had no choice but to take a number of very difficult decisions.\"\n\nThe coaches from the IFA and GAA went into schools to provide extra PE classes.\n\nThey delivered lessons for pupils in athletics, dance, games and gymnastics as well as soccer and GAA, and provided advice to teachers.\n\nThe low level of physical activity among children and young people in Northern Ireland has previously been described as a \"major health concern\" in a Stormont report.\n\nIt said more than a quarter of children in Northern Ireland were classed as overweight or obese.\n\nA separate report from the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) said that about three-quarters of primary schools were not providing the recommended amount of PE.\n\nThe ETI had said that the IFA and GAA scheme gave teachers \"access to specialist local knowledge and skills which improve the quality of their planning for PE and extra-curricular physical activities\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about inactivity among children\n\nIn a joint statement to BBC News NI, the IFA and Ulster GAA said the school sports programme supported 900 teachers and 24,000 children, delivering more than 400 PE classes a week.\n\nIFA Foundation director James Thompson said the decision to axe the funding \"has been taken at a time when physical inactivity risks long-term harm to the physical and mental health of children\".\n\n\"Three quarters of primary schools are unable to provide the recommended two hours per week for PE,\" he said.\n\n\"If this was the case for any other statutory subject there would be government support rather than a reduction in provision.\n\n\"We are asking our MLAs to take all possible action to protect this vital programme and, most importantly, the health, wellbeing and resilience of children in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nUlster GAA director Eugene Young said ending the scheme \"would be a significant loss to our children and schools\".\n\n\"We cannot allow children to have decreased access to the statutory curriculum for PE and call on our political representatives to support the campaign to retain the wide-ranging benefits of this programme,\" he said.\n\nThomas McKee, who is principal of Our Lady's Primary School in Tullysaran, County Tyrone, said the coaches provided by the school sports programme were \"absolutely vital\" to the physical and emotional wellbeing of his pupils.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Education said it \"recognises how disappointing this decision will be for everyone involved in the delivery of the programme and for the young people who have benefitted from it\".\n\nIt added: \"The education budget has been reduced by 2.5% and faces estimated pressures of £382m.\n\n\"While the department acknowledges the value that both organisations have added to support and enhance the delivery of the curriculum, difficult decisions have had to be made to cease funding to a number of third party organisations.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Trump's indictment in Miami court unfolded - in 60 seconds\n\nDonald Trump has pleaded not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida.\n\nMr Trump is the first US president - current or former - to be hit with a federal criminal indictment.\n\nArms crossed, in a dark suit and red tie, he sat in stone-faced silence for his second court appearance this year.\n\nThe Republican later travelled to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he addressed supporters.\n\nAgainst a backdrop of American flags, Mr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, struck a defiant tone and told the assembled crowd he had \"every right\" to hold the classified documents, but \"hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes\".\n\nHe said he followed the law and went on to list series of unsubstantiated claims as well as grievances against President Joe Biden and his former rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nEarlier in the day before leaving Miami, Mr Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, thanked the city for \"such a warm welcome on such a sad day for our country\".\n\nJust hours before, in a 13th-floor room of a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, a sombre, subdued Mr Trump looked on while his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.\n\n\"We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,\" the attorney, Todd Blanche, told the judge.\n\nMr Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nauta - a close aide charged with six criminal counts in the case - was sitting at the same table as the former president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The view from inside the Trump courtroom\n\nOn the opposite side of the room sat the entire prosecution team, including special counsel Jack Smith, who announced the indictment last week.\n\nThe former president, who turned 77 on Wednesday, was allowed to leave court without any restrictions to domestic or international travel. Prosecutors told Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman the defendant was not considered a flight risk.\n\nBut Mr Trump will not be allowed to discuss the case with Mr Nauta.\n\nAfter the hearing, the Republican flashed supporters a thumbs-up as his motorcade left the courthouse. As they drove away, an anti-Trump protester dressed in a prison jumpsuit ran into the street in front of the motorcade before he was pushed away by security - perhaps the most unruly moment of a largely peaceful day.\n\nMr Trump and his security detail travelled directly to Versailles, a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami's Little Havana, where he was greeted by a throng of supporters who lined up for photos with the former president.\n\nHe appeared to take part in a prayer with some patrons, and was treated to a chorus of Happy Birthday to You.\n\nAlina Habba, a lawyer attorney for the former president, repeated the former president's claims that the charges were politically motivated as she addressed media outside court.\n\n\"We are at a turning point in our nation's history, the targeting prosecution of a leading political opponent is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"What is being done to the President Trump should terrify all citizens of this country,\" she added.\n\nBefore the hearing, court officials said Mr Trump would not have a mugshot taken but would be digitally fingerprinted and asked to submit a DNA sample by swab.\n\nA trial date has not yet been set, though the case is still earmarked for Aileen Cannon, a federal district judge in South Florida who was appointed by Mr Trump.\n\nThe charges, which were made public on Friday, came after FBI agents found more than 100 documents with classified markings at Mr Trump's private Florida estate Mar-a-Lago in August.\n\nThey allegedly contained information about the defence and weapons capabilities of both the US and foreign countries, as well as plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.\n\nProsecutors accuse him of hoarding the files, storing some in a ballroom and a bathroom, and of engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the FBI's inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nMr Trump's legal troubles appear not to have diminished his support among Republican voters.\n\nA poll by the BBC's US partner CBS found 76% of likely Republican primary voters were more concerned about the indictment being politically motivated than about the documents posing a national security risk.\n\nProtocol dictates that the Department of Justice, the federal agency that enforces US law, should operate independently from the White House. Mr Biden, who is subject to a separate probe into his own handling of classified files, said last week: \"I have never once - not one single time - suggested to the justice department what they should do.\"\n\nLegal experts say the criminal charges could lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted. He has vowed, however, to continue his campaign for president whatever the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's court appearance is his second in less than three months. He was arraigned in April in New York on charges that he falsified business records for a hush-money payment to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.", "A landslide on the B863 between Glencoe and Kinlochleven\n\nLandslides and flooding have disrupted road and rail travel in the Highlands following thundery downpours on Monday and overnight.\n\nIt comes as heatwave conditions continue across Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said the West Highland Line could be closed near Roybridge until Thursday due to flood damage.\n\nThe A86 at Roybridge has also been closed because of a landslide. Traffic Scotland said a 113-mile (181km) diversion was in place.\n\nTransport Scotland said at least 600 tonnes of mud and other debris was washed across an almost mile-long stretch of the A86.\n\nIt said the road could be reopened with the use of temporary traffic lights later on Tuesday, but the clear-up would continue on Wednesday.\n\nAbout a mile of the A86 was covered with at least 600 tonnes of mud and other debris\n\nNetwork Rail said the West Highland Line in Lochaber had been affected by flooding\n\nIn one incident, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team said a driver had a lucky escape when a 100-tonne landslide struck the B863 loop road between Glencoe and Kinlochleven on Monday night.\n\nAfter finding the road blocked by debris, the woman made a three-point turn before her car came within 100m (328ft) of a second, larger landslide.\n\nGlencoe team leader Andy Nelson said this slide was estimated to have involved 100 tonnes of boulders, mud and trees and carried a small road bridge down a hillside.\n\nOn Monday, Scotland recorded its hottest day of the year so far, with Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reaching 30.7C.\n\nParts of the country have had thunderstorms since Saturday, and the Met Office has a yellow \"be aware\" warning in place for the weather affecting the Highlands until 21:00 on Tuesday.\n\nWater and landslide debris on the B863\n\nGlencoe MRT was called out to help a motorist stuck between landslides on the road\n\nGlencoe MRT said it was asked by police to go to the aid of the driver stuck on the B863 at about 18:00 on Monday.\n\nMr Nelson said the area had been hit by an \"almost tropical\" storm and waterfalls in Glen Coe were swollen and black with mud and other debris.\n\nHe said the driver had managed to turn her car around when a larger landslide hit, washing away a bridge and its solid granite parapet.\n\n\"She was lucky. The landslide came down at least 100m from her,\" said Mr Nelson.\n\n\"Police asked us to assist and for us it was simple job. We basically gave her a 'piggy back' so she wasn't knee deep in mud.\"\n\nHighland Council said the road had been affected by three separate landslides on Monday.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The B863 Kinlochleven loop road is currently closed as engineers assess the damage cause by landslips yesterday evening.\"", "A man accused of murdering Metropolitan Police custody sergeant Matiu Ratana has told a jury he felt \"sad\" the officer died.\n\nLouis De Zoysa agreed CCTV footage showed him firing a gun at 54-year-old Sgt Ratana, who was shot at Croydon custody centre on 25 September 2020.\n\nHe told the court he had not meant to kill Sgt Ratana nor to cause him really serious harm.\n\nAs he began giving evidence at Northampton Crown Court, Mr De Zoysa sat in a wheelchair in the well of the courtroom with a small whiteboard and marker on the desk in front of him, which he is using because of communication difficulties.\n\nIn a modified oath, he promised to tell the truth and confirmed his name and date of birth using the whiteboard.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Mr De Zoysa, from Banstead in Surrey, \"pulled the trigger on purpose four times\" while he was handcuffed in a holding room.\n\nThe court has heard that the first and second shots hit Sgt Ratana, the third hit the wall during a struggle with officers and a fourth hit the defendant.\n\nMr De Zoysa has been left with brain damage as a result of the gunshot wound.\n\nAnswering questions from from Mr Khan, he confirmed to the court he is autistic and regularly gets stressed out, leading him to punch chairs and walls.\n\nAsked about his family, Mr De Zoysa alleged his father used to beat him over \"trivial matters\".\n\nHe later wrote the word \"coke\" on his whiteboard before describing his father as a \"criminal\", adding that he used to be a \"drug dealer\".\n\nThe defendant drew a stickman wearing a cast on one leg before confirming his father hit and broke his leg.\n\nLouis De Zoysa used a whiteboard and pen to help him communicate\n\nMr De Zoysa told the court how he once hit his father on the head using a metal rod. He said this was out of \"panic\" and possibly caused by his autism.\n\nThe court heard in June 2019 he was arrested for \"fighting\" his father because his dad was upsetting him and talking \"too loud\".\n\nHe confirmed to jurors he had previously broken the stairs in his family home and set a carpet on fire because he was \"upset\", and also said he smoked cannabis due to \"stress\" as it helped him feel \"mellow\".\n\nThe court heard the defendant received A grades at A-Level for chemistry, physics and maths, and attended University College London but did not finish his degree, going on to work in coding at HMRC.\n\nThe jury was told that during the early hours of 25 September 2020, Mr De Zoysa was arrested on London Road in Norbury, south London, after a stop and search by officers found cannabis and seven rounds of ammunition on him.\n\nThe court heard officers did not know he had a gun until it was used to shoot Sgt Ratana.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sitting in long grass is not recommended for hay-fever sufferers\n\nMore than 122,650 people visited the NHS website seeking hay-fever advice last week, as the pollen count hit some of its highest levels this year.\n\nWeekly visitors to the site's hay-fever advice pages have tripled in the past five weeks, NHS England says, with one visit every three seconds on Sunday.\n\nThe allergy usually strikes from late March to September, when it is warm, windy and humid and pollen counts high.\n\nThere is no cure but over-the-counter medication can manage most symptoms.\n\nPeople with asthma may also suffer worse symptoms than usual over the coming days. Thunderstorms are predicted for parts of the UK and water breaks down pollen granules into smaller particles that can lodge deeper into the airways in the lungs.\n\nThe pollen count is set to be high or very high across most of the UK this week - and the NHS website features recommendations on how to manage symptoms, including:", "The BBC is among the first media organisations to be given access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine’s counter-offensive.\n\nOut of this cluster of four settlements in the Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting - according to the battalion which liberated it.\n\nIts name means “not boring” in Russian. An obvious irony for a village which has been occupied since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. Neskuchne was at the most northern point of a protruding Russian front line.\n\nAs our army escort, Anatoliy, speeds along scarred roads in his camouflaged truck towards Neskuchne, it’s clear this is a different kind of liberation to what we saw last year.\n\nFirstly, there are no civilians here. The only remnants of civilisation come in the form of a blown-out pharmacy and food store. There isn’t a complex network of trenches either. A makeshift wooden bridge over a river is all it takes to take us into territory Russia has held for so long.\n\nBuildings are also riddled with bullet holes from smaller calibre weapons. There’s been a lot of close-quarter fighting here.\n\nAnatoliy doesn’t like to hang around for long. Mortars are periodically fired from Ukrainian troops hidden in thick tree lines or abandoned gardens. He explains the Russians are just on the brow of hill in three directions.\n\nThe sudden rising of three plumes of smoke is a cue to keep moving. The Russians are responding with Grad missiles.\n\nThe situation here is far more fluid than the triumphant claims of liberation which had come from from Kyiv this week. Russian forces have been pushing back as recently as last night, which Ukrainian officials have now acknowledged.\n\nUkraine’s counter-offensive is in its early stages with modest gains. If Neskuchne is anything to go by, any liberation will be far from immediate, and won’t necessarily bring freedom straight away.", "The Beatles previously cleaned up John Lennon demos to create the \"new\" songs Free As A Bird and Real Love\n\nSir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls \"the final Beatles record\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the technology had been used to \"extricate\" John Lennon's voice from an old demo so he could complete the song.\n\n\"We just finished it up and it'll be released this year,\" he explained.\n\nSir Paul did not name the song, but it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now And Then.\n\nIt had already been considered as a possible \"reunion song\" for the Beatles in 1995, as they were compiling their career-spanning Anthology series.\n\nSir Paul had received the demo a year earlier from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. It was one of several songs on a cassette labelled \"For Paul\" that Lennon had made shortly before his death in 1980.\n\nLo-fi and embryonic, the tracks were largely recorded onto a boombox as the musician sat at a piano in his New York apartment.\n\nLennon wrote Now And Then during his \"retirement\" era, when he had no record contract and was busy raising his son, Sean\n\nCleaned up by producer Jeff Lynne, two of those songs - Free As A Bird and Real Love - were completed and released in 1995 and 96, marking the Beatles' first \"new\" material in 25 years.\n\nThe band also attempted to record Now And Then, an apologetic love song that was fairly typical of Lennon's later career, but the session was quickly abandoned.\n\n\"It was one day - one afternoon, really - messing with it,\" Lynne recalled.\n\n\"The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn't finish.\"\n\nSir Paul later claimed George Harrison refused to work on the song, saying the sound quality of Lennon's vocal was \"rubbish\".\n\n\"It didn't have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it,\" he told Q Magazine.\n\n\"[But] George didn't like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn't do it.\"\n\nThe three remaining Beatles (L-R Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, pictured with producer George Martin) re-entered the recording studio in 1995\n\nThere were also said to have been technical issues with the original recording, which featured a persistent \"buzz\" from the electricity circuits in Lennon's apartment.\n\nIn 2009, a new version of the demo, without the background noise, was released on a bootleg CD. Fans have speculated that this recording may not have been available in 1995, suggesting it was stolen from his apartment, along with other personal effects, after his death.\n\nIn the intervening years, Sir Paul has repeatedly talked about his desire to finish the song.\n\n\"That one's still lingering around,\" he told a BBC Four documentary on Jeff Lynne in 2012. \"So I'm going to nick in with Jeff and do it. Finish it, one of these days.\"\n\nIt would seem that technology has now afforded the musician a chance to achieve that goal.\n\nThe turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices and separate them from background noises, and even their own instruments, to create \"clean\" audio.\n\nThe same process allowed Sir Paul to \"duet\" with Lennon on his recent tour, and for new surround sound mixes of the Beatles' Revolver album to be created last year.\n\n\"He [Jackson] was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette,\" Sir Paul told Radio 4's Martha Kearney.\n\n\"We had John's voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, 'That's the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar'.\n\n\"So when we came to to make what will be the last Beatles' record, it was a demo that John had [and] we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI.\n\n\"Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.\"\n\nHowever, the musician admitted that other applications of AI gave him cause for concern.\n\n\"I'm not on the internet that much [but] people will say to me, 'Oh, yeah, there's a track where John's singing one of my songs', and it's just AI, you know?\n\n\"It's kind of scary but exciting, because it's the future. We'll just have to see where that leads.\"\n\nThe star was talking to Radio 4 ahead of the launch of a new book and accompanying photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.\n\nTitled Eyes Of The Storm, the project features portraits taken by Sir Paul on his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964, as the Beatles were catapulted to global fame.", "Junior doctors in Scotland are set to strike after rejecting a pay offer made by the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said three days of strike action would take place between 12 and 15 July unless an improved offer was made.\n\nThe Scottish government had proposed a 14.5% pay rise over a period of two years, which it described as the best offer in the UK.\n\nBut the union said that 71.1% of its members had voted to reject the offer.\n\nIf the action goes ahead it will be the first time junior doctors will have gone on strike in Scotland.\n\nDr Chris Smith, the chair of the BMA's Scottish junior doctor committee, said members had spoken \"decisively and clearly\" - but that strike action would be taken \"reluctantly\".\n\nHe said: \"It is beyond doubt that they do not consider this offer sufficient to begin the process of addressing the pay erosion we have suffered since 2008 - when pay for a junior doctor was some 28.5% higher.\n\n\"That is why our message to the Scottish government today is stark. Come back with an improved offer and we can still avert the need for strikes and the disruption they will cause us all and patients in particular.\n\n\"The ball is now firmly back in the government's court, and I hope they respond urgently and positively.\"\n\nIndustrial actions have already been taken by Junior doctors, ambulance staff and nurses in England\n\nThe union, which has been calling for a 23.5% increase, says it is now seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary Michael Matheson.\n\nHe said he was disappointed in the decision, and that strike action was in \"no-one's interest\".\n\n\"This was the biggest investment in junior doctor pay for the last 20 years and a step forward to modernising pay bargaining, restoring confidence amongst junior doctors and ensuring that their contribution to our healthcare system is appropriately recognised,\" he said.\n\n\"My door remains open, and I will meet with BMA Scotland later this week to discuss how we move forward.\"\n\nHe previously told the BBC he would \"do everything\" to avoid industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs - make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nThey had originally voted to take strike action in May, before a fresh pay offer was made by the government a few weeks later.\n\nThat would have involved a pay rise of 6.5% in 2023/24 and an additional 3% towards an already agreed 4.5% uplift in 2022/23, as well as talks on a change to the system of pay reviews in future.\n\nMichael Matheson said he would meet BMA Scotland this week\n\nBMA Scotland put the offer to its members with no recommendation.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane urged the government to \"get back round the table\" and find a solution to the dispute.\n\n\"Patients who are already suffering will be deeply alarmed at the impact looming strike action will have on waiting times which are already too high on the SNP's watch,\" he said.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said the responsibility for the strikes \"lies solely\" with the health secretary.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said that talks with the BMA should be escalated to bring the dispute to \"a swift conclusion\".\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said the government would continue to engage with junior doctors.\n\nAnd he added: \"In my time as health secretary we didn't lose a single day of winter to NHS strikes - which is very different to every other part of the UK.\"\n\nIn England, Junior doctors who are asking for a 35% pay rise, are set to head to the picket line again on Wednesday as part of a 72-hour walkout. The latest industrial action by members in England follows strikes in March and April, leading to the cancellation of more than 196,000 hospital appointments.\n\nAmbulance staff in England and Wales have also taken action with members belonging to three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - striking in January. Unite members in the south-east walked out in May.", "The man driving a bus in Australia that crashed, killing 10 and injuring at least 20, was allegedly going too fast in foggy conditions, police say.\n\nThe bus was carrying passengers returning from a wedding on Sunday when it overturned at a roundabout near the town of Greta in New South Wales (NSW).\n\nMany of the victims are connected to tight-knit rural sporting clubs, local media have reported.\n\nThe crash is one of Australia's deadliest road incidents.\n\nBrett Andrew Button, 58, has been charged with multiple counts of dangerous driving and negligence, after being arrested on Monday.\n\nHe was allegedly driving \"in a manner that was inconsistent with the conditions\", the NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander told reporters on Tuesday.\n\n\"He lost control of that vehicle... obviously the speed was too quick for him to negotiate that roundabout,\" Acting Assistant Commissioner David Waddell added.\n\nFourteen people injured in the crash in the Hunter Valley wine region remain in hospital, with two in a critical condition, police say.\n\nThey have not formally identified any of the victims, but the mayor of Singleton said many lived in the small town.\n\n\"I know we'll never get over it,\" Sue Moore told the BBC.\n\nSome local families have been at the side of injured people in hospital in Newcastle and Sydney, Ms Moore said, and others are planning funerals while reeling from \"the worst possible thing that could ever happen in their lives\".\n\n\"As far as I know, one lot of parents are leaving two kids orphaned,\" she said.\n\nA junior doctor, Rebecca Mullen, was among those killed, said NSW Health Minister Ryan Park.\"This has made a very dark day even darker for NSW Health,\" he said.\n\nThe bus overturned while making a turn at a roundabout late on Sunday night\n\nTasmanian man Kane Symons also died in the crash, his former surf club confirmed on social media.\n\nPosting on behalf of his family, the Carlton Park Surf Lifesaving Club described Mr Symons as \"an amazing athlete... a great bloke and a mate to many\".\n\n\"We adored him and he will be truly missed,\" they said.\n\nPop-up mental health clinics have been set up in Singleton and the nearby town of Cessnock to support the local community, and Ms Moore said discussions are under way to fundraise for the victims' families.\n\nMr Button is also a Hunter Valley local, and is clearly hurting along with the victims' relatives, a magistrate said when he faced court on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"I see before me a man suffering,\" Magistrate Robyn Richardson said, granting him bail.\n\nThe Cessnock Local Court heard Mr Button had committed seven driving offences over the past 30 years, but did not have a criminal record.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said the \"horrific tragedy\" had rocked the country, particularly because people \"associate weddings with love and... celebrations\".\n\n\"Of course, the scars will last for such a long, long period of time,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nThe crash site was \"still an active crime scene\", police said on Monday, with forensics officers working through the wreckage.\n\nThe Hunter Valley in NSW is known for its vineyards and native bushland, making it a popular spot for wine lovers and group outings or celebrations.", "Weather watchers enjoyed the Bangor coastal path at the weekend with better weather to follow\n\nA heatwave is set to hit Northern Ireland as temperatures nudge close to 30C at times.\n\nThermometers could climb to the high 20s towards the east on Monday in parts of counties Down, Antrim, and Armagh.\n\nThose are temperatures up to 10C above average for the time of the year.\n\nThat would make it as warm as some holiday hotspots like Benidorm and Gran Canaria in Spain, and Albufeira in Portugal.\n\nThe Met Office defines a heatwave in Northern Ireland as three consecutive days above 25C.\n\nThat heat could spark off thunderstorms on Monday and Tuesday, especially across western counties where a warning has been issued.\n\nThe yellow alert for counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Londonderry lasts from noon until 21:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt is expected that the yellow weather warning will extend to counties Antrim, Armagh and Down on Tuesday and will last from noon until 21:00 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough many places will avoid them, the Met Office says 20-30mm of rain could fall in an hour where the showers hit.\n\nA few spots could see between 40-50mm with lightning and hail.\n\nThe rest of the week will stay very warm with the chance of some heavy and thundery showers, especially the first half of the week.\n\nTemperatures will stay in and around the mid twenties right through until next weekend, at least.\n\nOn Saturday the hottest day of the year so far was recorded as temperatures hit 25.3C in Armagh.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Met Éireann, has also issued a yellow weather warning for counties Leinster, Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary and Waterford.\n\nIt said localised heavy downpours could lead to localised flooding and difficult travelling conditions in these areas.", "A massive inquiry to understand the UK's response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic, throws its doors open later. Following a statement from chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett, a film featuring bereaved families will be played. Not one of us was left untouched by the effects of the pandemic, and we all have questions. I asked a range of people who were in the eye of the Covid storm what one question each of them most wants answered.\n\nLobby Akinnola had been due to return to his family home in Royal Leamington Spa, Warkwickshire, to celebrate his 29th birthday when lockdown began in March 2020.\n\nInstead, he stayed at home, in London, apart from his parents and four siblings. A month later, his father, Femi, was dead.\n\n\"It changed my life forever,\" Lobby says. \"He was isolating in the living room of our home and that's where he died. He was 60 and fit and healthy. We never expected him to die.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola wants to ensure the death of his father, Femi, and others were not in vain\n\nFemi is one of nearly 250,000 people killed by Covid in the UK - and Lobby, part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, wants to ensure these deaths were \"not in vain\".\n\nFor him, the key question is: How can we better protect people when there is another pandemic?\n\nA crucial part of that will be looking at why people belonging to ethnic minorities were at such greater risk. There is no \"physiological reason\" why they had worse outcomes, Lobby says. Instead, he believes it is linked to society - the jobs and housing conditions people belonging to ethnic minorities experience.\n\nBut the people who died from Covid - and those still struggling with complications known as long Covid - are not the only victims of the virus. As restrictions were imposed on the UK, at the start of the pandemic, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, warned about the indirect costs. They have been huge.\n\nChildren were unable to attend school, businesses were closed, non-Covid treatment delayed and mixing banned, stopping everything from socialising to seeing dying loved ones in their final days.\n\nThe legacy of that remains, in terms of rising rates of mental-health problems, lost learning and the economic hit. It's also there in the continued high rates of non-Covid deaths and ill health as the impact of missed treatment for conditions such as cancer and heart disease materialises.\n\nSo a crucial element of the inquiry must be to look at why the government imposed restrictions - and whether they were always necessary.\n\nOne senior public health official, who played a key role in the pandemic and is due to give evidence, says it is hard to see how the first lockdown could have been avoided once the virus was here. Put simply: \"We did not know what we were dealing with.\" But after the first wave was over and scientists understood more, the government should not have been so quick to reimpose restrictions.\n\nIn one 80-day period during autumn 2020, England went from few restrictions, to the \"rule of six\" limit to gatherings, tiered levels of restrictions by region, a national lockdown and back to tiers.\n\n\"We had so many rules and regulations people could not keep up,\" the official, who asked not to be named because of rules on what they can say in public ahead of the inquiry, says. \"It was very top down and heavy handed. It goes against all the evidence of what works during disasters.\"\n\nSo they want to know: How did the UK get to have such complex and confusing rules?\n\n\"One of the things Sweden did was rely on the strong social consciousness of their population,\" the official says. \"In the UK, we did not place enough trust in the public - it was damaging.\n\n\"We could have given them good information and guidance and let them act. The public showed throughout they were, on the whole, cautious and responsible.\" And closing schools to all but the most vulnerable children and those of key workers was the \"biggest system failure\" of the pandemic.\n\nUK children spent six months remote learning, with hairdressers and pubs opening before schools in the first lockdown - a decision repeated for hairdressers in Scotland after the second UK-wide lockdown, in early 2021.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, is extremely worried about the impact this has had on children - even now, school attendance is below its pre-pandemic level.\n\nSo her big ask is: How are we going to support children to recover and avoid such harm in future pandemics?\n\n\"Where they need additional support, be that because they are worried about their mental health or because they have fallen behind at school, they want it quickly,\" Dame Rachel says.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza says children must be prioritised\n\n\"Children sacrificed so much to keep adults safe, we need to make sure we give something back - prioritising their wellbeing.\"\n\nFor Association of Directors of Public Health president Prof Jim McManus, it comes down one basic question: How do we avoid lockdowns in future pandemics?\n\n\"We will only do that if we are better prepared, act at the earliest stage and have good testing and contact tracing in place,\" he says.\n\n\"The UK and much of Europe and North America was largely underprepared for a pandemic of this magnitude - and that cost us.\"\n\nThe UK decided to stop community testing in late March. And in England, it took until May to launch a national large-scale contact-tracing system and September for the government to start giving sick pay to people being asked to isolate\n\nThe way care homes were supported is another topic that needs addressing.\n\nAbout 40% of Covid deaths in the first few months were in care homes, as the lack of testing and personal protective equipment (PPE), heavy use of agency staff and decision to transfer, en masse, hospital patients to care homes let the virus rip through the sector.\n\nAnd NHS workers want the role of austerity during the 2010s examined.\n\nAdult nurse Stuart Tuckwood had never worked in intensive care but was deployed there to look after the sickest Covid patients during the first and second waves, working through breaks to start with because he was worried about using up the limited PPE.\n\n\"The fact I had to work in intensive care because we didn't have enough trained nurses says it all really,\" he says. \"But it wasn't a surprise - staffing shortages were terrible in the lead up to the pandemic.\"\n\nAnd the NHS - and other public services - cannot wait until the end of the inquiry to rectify the problems.\n\nThe first time nurse Stuart Tuckwood worked in intensive care was during the pandemic\n\n\"We need action now,\" Stuart says, \"staff are having to strike to get the pay they need.\"\n\nSo his key question is: What should be done to tackle staffing shortages, so we don't face the situation again?\n\nThe wait for the inquiry is something others are worried about.\n\nOne epidemiologist who advised government during the pandemic and will also be giving evidence to the public inquiry so does not want to be named fears another pandemic could hit before the necessary changes have been made.\n\nSome say the inquiry could well last five years.\n\nThe inquiry team says recommendations will begin next year, as it is being broken down into six different modules.\n\nHowever, the epidemiologist says: \"The modular approach makes sense - but some elements are going to get dragged out too long. We can't wait - pandemics happen every 10 years.\"\n\nThey are particularly concerned with how decision-making became skewed.\n\n\"There was no cost-benefit done on the use of restrictions which we would with other policy decisions,\" the epidemiologist says.\n\nSo they want to know: How should the system be changed \"so we can work out the trade-offs\" of the decisions we make?\n\n\"The phrase 'follow the science' became really unhelpful,\" the epidemiologist says. \"There was no acknowledgement of the uncertainty.\n\n\"Instead, we got trapped into looking at it through a narrow lens of Covid. Even now, I am worried the inquiry has not quite got the focus right.\n\n\"If it just looks at Covid deaths in 2020 and 2021 and not what has been happening with other deaths since, the inquiry will come to the wrong conclusions. This is about more than just the virus.\"", "Homme said he was \"extremely thankful that I'll get through this\"\n\nSinger and guitarist Josh Homme, founder of rock band Queens of the Stone Age, has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nHe had a successful operation to remove it and is \"still healing\", according to Revolver magazine.\n\nHomme told Revolver: \"Cancer is just the cherry on top of an interesting time period, you know? I'm extremely thankful that I'll get through this.\"\n\nThe 50-year-old has not disclosed what sort of cancer it was.\n\n\"I never say it can't get any worse,\" he told the magazine. \"I never say that, and I wouldn't advise it. But I do say it can get better.\"\n\nHe added: \"There's a lot of stuff I want to do. And there's a lot of people I want to do that with.\"\n\nQueens of Stone Age are known for songs like 2002's No One Knows, which featured the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on drums. They have had three Grammy nominations and won an NME award for best live band.\n\nHomme spoke following a tumultuous several years, which has also seen the deaths of several close friends and a bitter divorce and custody battle with Distillers singer Brody Dalle, with the pair accusing each other of physical abuse.\n\nAsked about Dalle by Revolver, he said: \"I would never talk bad about the mother of my children. And I will not talk about my children.\"\n\nHomme now has custody of the three children, who will accompany him on the Euoropean dates of the Queens of the Stone Age's tour this summer.\n\nHe told Revolver he was determined to get back on the road. \"When I'm on tour, I'm back on the streets where I belong,\" he said. \"I'm not such a caged animal out there.\"\n\nQueens of the Stone Age are about to release their eighth studio album, titled In Times New Roman..., and will play a string of UK dates including the Glastonbury Festival later this month.\n\nHowever, the band will spend less time on the road than in previous album cycles so he can spend more time at home with his family. \"Things have changed a little bit for me. However long I go away, I must come back for at least that length of time,\" he said.\n\nHomme also co-founded Eagles of Death Metal, with whom he plays the drums.", "Boris Johnson has submitted a last-ditch letter to the MPs investigating whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties, as they prepare to publish their findings.\n\nThe privileges committee said it was \"dealing with\" submissions received from the former PM at 23:57 on Monday.\n\nThe committee is set to publish its conclusions this week, but is unlikely to do so on Wednesday, as expected.\n\nMr Johnson quit as an MP last week after seeing the committee's report.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Johnson said the committee should \"publish their report and let the world judge their nonsense\", adding \"they have no excuse for delay\".\n\n\"I have made my views clear to the committee in writing - and will do so more widely when they finally publish,\" he said.\n\nUnder the published process, Mr Johnson was entitled to respond to the committee up to 14 days after receiving its draft findings, which were sent last week.\n\nThe committee said it would deal with the new developments and \"report promptly\".\n\nLast week, the former prime minister branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nMr Johnson accused the committee of mounting a \"witch hunt\" against him, and its chairwoman, Labour's Harriet Harman, of showing \"egregious bias\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures\" at all times and accused Mr Johnson of impugning \"the integrity of the House by his statement\".\n\nFor almost a year, the seven-person committee - a majority of whom are Conservatives - have been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid-19 breaches in Downing Street and what he knew about them.\n\nGiving evidence in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns, but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nThe Partygate scandal dogged Mr Johnson's premiership, with police fining him for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation as an MP, which has triggered a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, came last Friday.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows the moment the aircraft crashed into the sea\n\nAn aircraft has crashed into the sea off the south Wales coast.\n\nHM Coastguard was called out on Tuesday morning after reports of a light aircraft going into the sea at Porthcawl, in Bridgend county.\n\nIt said the alarm was raised at about 09:20 BST as the pilot was making his way on to dry land.\n\nOne person has been taken to hospital for further treatment, the Welsh Ambulance Service said.\n\nThe Renegade Spirit biplane was later hauled onto the shore as part of the recovery effort, the coastguard added.\n\nResident Margaret Kendrick said she looked out of her window to see the upside-down aircraft.\n\nThe aircraft crashed into the sea off Porthcawl\n\n\"He was very lucky where it landed, I walked out of my house and saw a red shape,\" she said.\n\n\"Somebody not far away saw it coming down, all of a sudden the plane was quiet and the engine went off.\"\n\nThe coastguard said the pilot made his way to dry land after the crash\n\n\"There's RNLI boats, the police and a helicopter there - the tide is coming in now,\" said Ms Kendrick.\n\n\"The pilot walked away apparently, he was so close to the rocks - I thought I was seeing things.\"\n\nJames Brown, 75, saw the plane crash while walking on nearby Lock's Common.\n\nThe retired church minister said he heard the aircraft's engine \"stutter\" before the plane \"swooped\" into the water.\n\nOnlookers said the crash was a \"near miss\" from the nearby rocks\n\nHe told the PA news agency: \"As I was observing the bay I could hear a fairly low noise of a plane and as I looked to the Swansea direction I saw a light aircraft.\n\n\"It was a bright red colour, very visual, and it passed me right by on the edge of the rocks.\n\n\"Then three or four seconds later I heard the engine begin to splutter and stutter. As I watched it, the engine died completely and then very rapidly it just swooped right down into the water.\n\n\"I couldn't see the exact moment of the crash, but I walked over and could see it had upended, with the nose in the water and the tail sticking up in the air.\"\n\nMr Brown described the incident as \"a very near miss\" and said if the pilot had landed on nearby rocks, it \"would have been a very different outcome\".\n\nEmergency services attended the scene after being called shortly before 09:30\n\nChris Page, from the RNLI, said the team were \"incredibly relieved\" to arrive on scene to find the pilot was able to be safely recovered.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it was aware of the incident and was investigating.", "Ukrainian soldiers from 35th Brigade posted a photo, saying its soldiers retook the village of Storozheve in the eastern Donetsk region\n\n\"Don't call it a counter-offensive,\" say the Ukrainians. \"This is our offensive, it's our chance to finally drive out the Russian army from our land.\"\n\nAll right, but what will it take to actually succeed?\n\nFirst off, let's not get distracted by the recent hard-fought but tiny territorial gains Ukraine has been making as it retakes obscure, half-abandoned villages in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, images of victorious, battle-stained Ukrainian soldiers holding up their country's blue and yellow flag in front of a bullet-ridden building is a welcome morale boost for Ukrainians.\n\nBut in the big strategic picture, this is a sideshow.\n\nThe area of Russian-held territory that matters most in this campaign is the south: the area between the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Sea of Azov.\n\nThis is the so-called \"land corridor\" that connects Russia to illegally annexed Crimea, the central part of that purple-shaded strip on the map below that has barely changed since the early weeks of the invasion last year.\n\nIf Ukraine can split that in two and hold the ground it's retaken, then its offensive will have largely been successful.\n\nIt would cut off Russia's troops in the west and make it hard to resupply their garrison in Crimea.\n\nIt would not necessarily spell an end to the war - which some are now predicting could drag on for years - but it would put Ukraine in a strong bargaining position when the inevitable peace talks finally take place.\n\nBut the Russians have looked at the map, quite some time ago, and reached the same conclusion.\n\nSo while Ukraine sent its soldiers off to Nato countries for training and readied their 12 armoured brigades for this summer campaign, Moscow spent that time constructing what is now being called \"the most formidable defensive fortifications in the world\".\n\nBlocking Ukraine's path to the coast - its own coast, let's not forget - are layer upon layer of Russian minefields, concrete tank-blockers (known as \"dragons' teeth\") bunkers, firing positions and trenches wide enough and deep enough to stop a Leopard 2 or M1 Abrams tank literally in its tracks.\n\nAll of this is covered by pre-determined artillery impact zones calibrated to rain down high explosive on Ukraine's armoured vehicles as they and their crews wait for their engineers to find a way through.\n\nThe early signs are - and it is still very early in this campaign - that those Russian defences are so far holding fast.\n\nRussia's military claims that a number of Ukraine's western-supplied tanks and armoured personnel carriers have been destroyed in fierce fighting\n\nUkraine has yet to commit the bulk of its forces - so these are probing, reconnaissance attacks designed to reveal the whereabouts of Russia's artillery and search out areas of vulnerability in their lines.\n\nIn Ukraine's favour is morale. Its soldiers are highly-motivated and fighting to liberate their own country from an invader.\n\nMost of Russia's troops do not share that motivation, and in many cases their training, equipment and leadership are inferior to Ukraine's.\n\nThe General Staff back in Kyiv will be hoping that if they can achieve a sufficient breakthrough then a collapse in Russian morale will be contagious, spreading across the battlefront as demoralised Russian troops lose the will to fight.\n\nAlso in Ukraine's favour is the quality of hardware that Nato countries have provided. Unlike Soviet-designed armoured vehicles, Nato's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can often withstand a direct hit, or at least enough to protect the crew inside who then live to fight on.\n\nBut will that be enough to counter the strength of Russia's artillery and drone attacks?\n\nRussia, as the vastly bigger country, can draw on more resources than Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin, who started this war in the first place, knows that if he can only wear down the Ukrainians into a stalemate that drags on into next year then there is a chance that the US and other allies will tire of supporting this expensive war effort and start to pressure Kyiv to reach a ceasefire compromise.\n\nFinally, there is the matter of air cover, or lack of it. Attacking a well dug-in enemy without sufficient close air support is highly risky.\n\nUkraine knows this, which is why it's long been pleading with the West to supply it with F16 fighter jets.\n\nThe US, which makes them, did not give the green light for this until late May, by which time the first, preparatory, phase of Ukraine's offensive was already under way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A video on social media purports to show a Ukrainian flag being raised in Neskuchne, Donetsk Oblast\n\nCritically for Ukraine, the game-changing F16s may now arrive too late on the battlefield to play a key role in the early phases of this counter-offensive.\n\nThis is not to say the Ukrainians will lose.\n\nTime and again they have proved themselves agile, resourceful and inventive. They successfully drove the Russian army out of Kherson by hitting their rear-area logistics hubs to the point where the Russians could no longer resupply their troops in that southern city.\n\nEquipped with long-range weapons like Britain's Storm Shadow cruise missile, Ukraine will be attempting to do the same now.\n\nBut amidst all the claim and counter-claim of a propaganda war, it may yet be weeks or even months before we get a clearer picture of who is likely to ultimately prevail in this war.", "The mausoleum features a mosaic surrounded by a raised platform, which archaeologists believe was for burials\n\nA \"completely unique\" Roman mausoleum has been discovered by archaeologists in south London.\n\nThe remains of the structure at the Liberty of Southwark site in Borough have been described as \"extremely rare\" and feature preserved floors and walls.\n\nArchaeologists think the site was used as some form of burial ground or tomb for wealthier members of Roman society.\n\nWork on creating a permanent display is planned, says the team behind the find.\n\nThe discovery was made at the Liberty of Southwark excavation site\n\nThe dig was led by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) on behalf of Landsec and Transport for London (TfL).\n\nMOLA believes the quality of preservation makes it the most intact Roman mausoleum ever to be discovered in Britain.\n\nAlongside the central mosaic, raised platforms were found and steps on the lowest side were still intact.\n\nExcavators were surprised to find two layers to the site, with another similarly designed mosaic found beneath the first floor. They believe that the building was modified at some point, with the floor raised.\n\n\"All signs indicate this was a substantial building,\" says MOLA, \"perhaps two storeys high.\"\n\nA second mosaic was found beneath the first, suggesting the floor was raised at some point\n\nWhile the site is believed to be a burial location, no coffins were found. However, more than 100 coins, fragments of pottery, roofing tiles and pieces of metal were discovered.\n\nThere has been a sustained period of excavation at the site, where the largest Roman mosaic found in London for over 50 years was uncovered in 2022.\n\nAntonietta Lerz, senior archaeologist at MOLA, says the site is a \"microcosm for the changing fortunes of Roman London\" and provides \"a fascinating window\" into the life of its settlers.\n\nThe aim is to preserve the area alongside continued urban development\n\nArchaeologists from MOLA hope to pinpoint the age of the mausoleum and have provided a three-dimensional model of the site.\n\nLandsec and TfL say they are committed to restoring and retaining the mausoleum for permanent public display.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women convicted of offences related to being gay can apply to have their convictions removed, under an expansion of the government's pardon scheme.\n\nThe Disregards and Pardons Scheme, launched in England an Wales in 2012, initially applied to only men - and specified offences.\n\nNow, anyone convicted or cautioned under former laws related to same-sex activity can apply.\n\nOne charity welcomed the move but said pardons should be automatic.\n\nHomosexuality was partially decriminalised in 1967. While lesbians were not explicitly outlawed in the same way as gay men, they were sometimes punished for same-sex activity under indecency laws.\n\nThis means the government is unable to estimate the number of women likely to be eligible and applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.\n\nOffences sometimes used to criminalise behaviour between gay men will also be included in the scheme - \"solicitation by men\", for example, which essentially criminalised one man \"chatting up\" another, the Home Office says.\n\nBut pardons will be granted only if certain conditions are met, such as the sexual activity is not an offence today.\n\nOnly 208 people have successfully applied for a pardon since 2012, Home Office data shows. More than 400 people's applications have been rejected because their convictions were not covered by the scheme.\n\nWorld War Two code breaker Alan Turing was given a posthumous pardon, in 2013\n\nJo Easton, chief executive of Unlock, a charity for people with criminal records, said the expansion was \"an important step\".\n\n\"We firmly believe people should not have to apply to have their record wiped of things that are quite rightly no longer offences,\" she said.\n\nThose who successfully apply will have their convictions deleted from official records and no longer be required to disclose them during court proceedings or when applying for jobs.\n\nSafeguarding Minister Sarah Dines hopes it will help \"right the wrongs of the past\".\n\nThose who may be eligible can apply online.\n\nHave you been affected by this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Dead' woman breathing in coffin is taken to hospital\n\nMourners at the wake of an Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.\n\nA hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.\n\nShe was placed in a coffin and taken to a funeral parlour, where relatives held a vigil before her planned burial.\n\nWhen, after almost five hours, they opened the coffin to change her clothes ahead of the funeral, the woman gasped for air.\n\n\"My mum started to move her left hand, to open her eyes, her mouth; she struggled to breathe,\" her son Gilbert Balberán described the moment he realised his mother was still alive.\n\nVideo taken by a mourner shows her lying in an open coffin struggling to breathe, while another complains that an ambulance they called has not yet arrived.\n\nMinutes later, firefighters arrive and lift Bella Montoya onto a stretcher and take her back to the hospital where she had been declared dead.\n\nHer son told Ecuadorean media that she was in intensive care, but was responsive.\n\n\"My mum is on oxygen, her heart is stable. The doctor pinched her hand and she reacted, they tell me that's good because it means she is reacting little by little,\" newspaper El Universo quoted him as saying.\n\nMr Balberán said he had taken his mother to hospital at about 09:00 \"and at noon a doctor told me [she] died\".\n\nHe said a death certificate had even been issued, stating that she had suffered cardiopulmonary arrest after suffering a stroke.\n\nBella Montoya is not the only person to \"come alive\" after being officially declared dead.\n\nIn February, an 82-year-old woman was found to be breathing while lying in a funeral home in New York State. She had been pronounced dead three hours earlier at a nursing home.\n\nDr Stephen Hughes, a senior lecturer in medicine at Anglia Ruskin University's School of Medicine in Chelmsford, says such cases are very uncommon but he points out that \"death is a process\".\n\n\"Sometimes somebody may look like they're dead but they're not quite dead,\" Dr Hughes told the BBC. \"Careful examination is necessary to confirm death.\"\n\nThe consultant in emergency medicine says that if patients don't respond and have no pulse, doctors listen for heart sounds and watch for breathing effort for at least a minute. \"If that's all absent then you can say they're dead.\"\n\nBut it may be hard even for health professionals to determine that someone has died - for example when bodies are very cold. \"The patient in such instances will have an almost imperceptibly slow heart rate and their bodies will have shut down,\" Dr Hughes says.\n\nSome drugs can also slow down body processes, giving the appearance of death, he adds. Such \"confounding factors\" can happen if the examination is carried out in a cursory manner or under time pressure.\n\nEcuador's health ministry has set up a committee to investigate the incident.", "Jemma (left) and Sian (right) had planned to travel with their guests by coach to the ceremony\n\nTwo brides who got a lift to their wedding in a police car after their coach broke down said the officers who rescued them went \"above and beyond\".\n\nJemma and Sian Batchelor-Thomas were on the coach with 20 of their closest family and friends when it broke down in Hedge End on Saturday morning.\n\nOfficers gave the couple a lift to the ceremony in a police car while others accepted lifts from passing motorists.\n\nThey said, despite the stressful start to the day, everyone made it on time.\n\nThe officers said they were in the right place at the right time\n\nJemma said: \"It was a really intimate service so we booked the coach from the hotel where we were staying so everyone could relax and enjoy the journey.\n\n\"That obviously didn't happen because after 10 minutes we broke down.\n\n\"The guests thought we were joking.\n\n\"We had about half an hour to get to the registry office but we were still half an hour away.\"\n\nA wedding guest approached the police car to ask for help\n\nSian said, despite their predicament, the guests were \"very cool, calm and collected\".\n\nShe said: \"One of the bridal party saw the police car and asked them if they could give us a lift.\"\n\nTwo strangers, who introduced themselves as Mark and Tash, also pulled over and offered a ride to Jemma and Sian's witnesses.\n\nJemma said: \"Sian was very calm but I was extremely stressed - I thought 'this is terrible' but now, looking back, we can see the funny side of things.\n\n\"Everyone was just so kind and supportive - all the members of the public, the people who gave our witnesses a lift. There were so many nice messages from random people.\n\n\"Being a same-sex couple, that was massive - there were no negative comments, everyone was so supportive.\n\n\"It also shows that the police are there to serve as well as to protect the community. Rachel and Lucy [the officers] went above and beyond in their roles.\"\n\nIn a Facebook post, PCSO Rachel Barry and PC Lucy Stoneley of the Hedge End Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: \"We wish them all the best for a very happy future together and are very happy that we could be there to help.\"\n\nThe couple made it to their ceremony with minutes to spare\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAmerican sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications in childbirth, her agent has said.\n\nBowie, who won 4x100m relay gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016, plus 100m silver and 200m bronze, died at her home in Florida in May at the age of 32.\n\nHer agent Kimberly Holland told CBS News that speculation over Bowie's death had been \"very hurtful\".\n\n\"So hopefully, now knowing the truth, there will be many apologies,\" said Holland.\n\nAccording to an autopsy report obtained by USA Today Sports, the manner of former 100m world champion Bowie's death was ruled \"natural\".\n\nThe report said she was estimated to be eight months pregnant and undergoing labour at the time of her death.\n\nIt added possible complications Bowie had included respiratory distress and eclampsia - when a person develops seizures, or convulsions, during pregnancy.\n\nIn May, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said deputies had attended a home in the area \"for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.\" A woman \"tentatively identified as Frentorish 'Tori' Bowie was found dead in the home\".\n\nBowie converted from long jump in 2014 and had an immediate impact on the track, becoming the fastest woman in the world that year.\n\nShe was the only American woman to have won an Olympic or world 100m title since Carmelita Jeter in 2011.\n• None Why US mothers are more likely to die in childbirth", "A mother-of-three has been jailed for more than two years for inducing an abortion after the legal limit.\n\nCarla Foster, 44, received the medication following a remote consultation where she was not honest about how far along her pregnancy was.\n\nThe \"pills by post\" scheme, introduced in lockdown, allows pregnancies up to 10 weeks to be terminated at home.\n\nHowever, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the woman was between 32-34 weeks pregnant when she took them.\n\nAbortion is legal up to 24 weeks. However, after 10 weeks the procedure is carried out in a clinic.\n\nProsecutors argued Foster had provided false information knowing she was over the time limit and had made online searches which they said indicated \"careful planning\".\n\nThe court heard between February and May 2020 she had searched \"how to hide a pregnancy bump\", \"how to have an abortion without going to the doctor\" and \"how to lose a baby at six months\".\n\nBased on the information she provided the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), she was sent the tablets because it was estimated she was seven weeks pregnant.\n\nThe woman was initially charged with child destruction, the court heard\n\nHer defence argued that lockdown and minimising face-to-face appointments had changed access to healthcare and so instead she had to search for information online.\n\n\"The defendant may well have made use of services had they been available at the time,\" said her barrister Barry White. \"This will haunt her forever.\"\n\nOn 11 May 2020, having taken the abortion pills, an emergency call was made at 18:39 BST saying she was in labour.\n\nThe baby was born not breathing during the phonecall and was confirmed dead about 45 minutes later.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded the baby girl's cause of death as stillbirth and maternal use of abortion drugs and she was estimated to be between 32 and 34 weeks' gestation.\n\nFoster, from Staffordshire, already had three sons before she became pregnant again in 2019.\n\nThe court heard she had moved back in with her estranged partner at the start of lockdown while carrying another man's baby.\n\nThe judge accepted she was \"in emotional turmoil\" as she sought to hide the pregnancy.\n\nFoster was initially charged with child destruction, which she denied.\n\nShe later pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion, which was accepted by the prosecution.\n\nSentencing, judge Mr Justice Edward Pepperall said it was a \"tragic\" case, adding that if she had pleaded guilty earlier he may have been able to consider suspending her jail sentence.\n\nHe said the defendant was \"wracked by guilt\" and had suffered depression and said she was a good mother to three children, one of whom has special needs, who would suffer from her imprisonment.\n\nShe received a 28-month sentence, 14 of which will be spent in custody with the remainder on licence.\n\nAhead of Monday's hearing, a letter co-signed by a number of women's health organisations was sent to the court calling for a non-custodial sentence.\n\nHowever, the judge said it was \"not appropriate\" and that his duty was \"to apply the law as provided by Parliament\".\n\nHe told the defendant the letter's authors were \"concerned that your imprisonment might deter other women from accessing telemedical abortion services and other late-gestation women from seeking medical care or from being open and honest with medical professionals\".\n\nBut he said it also \"has the capacity to be seen as special pleading by those who favour wider access to abortions and is, in my judgment, just as inappropriate as it would be for a judge to receive a letter from one of the groups campaigning for more restrictive laws\".\n\nThe sentencing has sparked outcry among women's rights organisations and campaigners.\n\nBPAS said it was \"shocked and appalled\" by the woman's sentence which they said was based on an \"archaic law\".\n\n\"No woman can ever go through this again,\" said its chief executive, Clare Murphy.\n\n\"Over the last three years, there has been an increase in the numbers of women and girls facing the trauma of lengthy police investigations and threatened with up to life imprisonment under our archaic abortion law,\" she said.\n\n\"Vulnerable women in the most incredibly difficult of circumstances deserve more from our legal system.\"\n\nShe said MPs must do more to offer protection so \"no more women in these desperate circumstances are threatened with prison again\".\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy said \"no other patient group would be treated this way\"\n\n\"The average prison sentence for a violent offence in England is 18 months,\" she said in a tweet.\n\n\"A woman who had an abortion without following correct procedures just got 28 months under an 1868 act - we need urgent reform to make safe access for all women in England, Scotland and Wales a human right.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"These exceptionally rare cases are complex and traumatic.\n\n\"Our prosecutors have a duty to ensure that laws set by Parliament are properly considered and applied when making difficult charging decisions.\"\n\nWhen asked whether the prime minister was confident criminalising abortion in some circumstances was the right approach, Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said the current laws struck a balance.\n\n\"Our laws as they stand balance a woman's right to access safe and legal abortions with the rights of an unborn child,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not aware of any plans to address that approach.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jean Jefferson says IRA bomber helped her come to terms with husband's death\n\nA woman whose father was injured in an IRA bomb 50 years ago has said the friendship she forged with the bomber has helped her through the recent death of her husband.\n\nJean Jefferson's father was severely disfigured in the blast, which killed six people, including her aunt, in Coleraine in 1973.\n\nIn 2011, Jean met and forgave the man who was convicted of the bombing.\n\nSean McGlinchey spent 18 years in jail for his part in the car bomb attack.\n\nTwo car bombs exploded in the County Londonderry town on 12 June 1973.\n\nAll of those injured or killed were caught up in the first explosion, which went off on Railway Road at 15:00 BST.\n\nA second explosion went off in Hanover Place five minutes later.\n\n\"I was teaching in England at the time and got a call that changed our lives forever,\" Mrs Jefferson told BBC News NI.\n\n\"My sister ran down town to see what happened. My father was sat with his head in his hands. She didn't even recognise him because he was that injured.\n\n\"I remember arriving back at the airport in Northern Ireland. Nobody was able to meet me at Aldergrove because of what happened at home.\n\n\"Home changed from then. How could someone do that in my home town, I thought.\"\n\nSean McGlinchey, who is currently a Sinn Féin councillor, faced criticism after being appointed as mayor of Limavady in 2011.\n\nMrs Jefferson said: \"People gave him such a hard time and I remember being angry as he said he was sorry.\n\n\"My father also forgave Sean although he never told him directly. He was the instigator of forgiveness. How could we as a family not forgive then?\n\n\"I understand why some people can't do what we've done. I understand all sides.\"\n\nShe added: \"My husband died last year and Sean has been a great friend to me. Bill had a great deal of time for Sean.\n\n\"Sean had a mass said for him in the monastery in Portglenone. He was really upset about Bill's death. That meant a lot to me.\"\n\nWhen asked in advance about John Finucane attending an IRA commemoration in south Armagh, Mrs Jefferson said she \"has a lot of time\" the Sinn Féin MP.\n\n\"I understand how people struggle to understand it but I really think he was condemned before he gave his speech. That's not right either.\"\n\nMrs Jefferson said she will spend the 50th anniversary of the IRA bombing on her own at home to reflect.\n\nThe new memorial was unveiled in the presence of the mayor and relatives of victims\n\nA memorial to the victims of the bombing was unveiled during an act of remembrance service in Coleraine on Monday afternoon.\n\nMayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Steven Callaghan said the memorial would ensure the innocent lives lost that day would never be forgotten.\n\n\"This beautiful sculpture will ensure the victims are never forgotten and will give the families a place to come and remember them,\" he said.\n\n\"We would not have reached this point without the help and support of the victims' families and I want to thank them for engaging with this long collaborative process to bring about this fitting memorial.\"\n\nThe permanent memorial follows the unveiling in 2022 of a granite plaque enshrined on a pavement at Railway Road in the town - marking the location of the first bomb.", "The men were held without trail in 1971\n\nThe Supreme Court has ruled that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was wrong not to investigate allegations that 14 men were tortured in Northern Ireland in 1971.\n\nThe men, known as the 'Hooded Men', were interned without trial during the Troubles.\n\nThe judges said the decision by the PSNI, made in 2014, was \"irrational\".\n\nThe court also said the men's treatment was \"deplorable\" and was \"deliberate policy\".\n\nHowever, the Supreme Court did not accept that the PSNI was not sufficiently independent to carry out a new investigation into the \"Hooded Men\" case.\n\nLord Hodge said: \"In our view, it has not been established that the LIB (Legacy Investigations Branch) is not capable of carrying out an effective investigation on the basis either of institutional or hierarchical connection or that it is not capable of conducting an investigation with practical independence.\n\n\"There is nothing to suggest that it would not be possible to assign appropriate officers of the PSNI to carry out any further investigations to a proper standard.\"\n\nFrancis McGuigan said their case now needed to be investigated\n\nOne of the men, Francis McGuigan, said it had been a frustrating process to get to this point.\n\n\"It's been rough - we're seven years in and out of court and we seem to win each time we go into court, but we seem to get no further forward,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm hoping now… it can go nowhere else, we've appealed to the highest court in the land and we won there as well.\n\n\"So I'm looking forward now to the investigation into it, the results of the investigation into it and hope that eventually the truth comes out that the British government sanctioned torture against its citizens.\"\n\nHis solicitor Darragh Mackin described the decision as \"a landmark victory\".\n\nMr Mackin added that the government's legacy proposals should not affect a police investigation into what happened to the men.\n\n\"That legislation is not only about an amnesty, it goes much beyond that, it is about removing an individual's access to justice,\" he said.\n\n\"Today is exactly why the British government are bringing about such proposals.\"\n\nHe added: \"Given that we're talking about the crime of torture, no proposal that the British government seeks to advance would any event stymie such an investigation.\"\n\nDeirdre Montgomery, whose late father Michael was one of the \"Hooded Men\", said she was \"absolutely elated\" for her family and for her \"father's memory\".\n\nShe told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme that she received therapy for what happened and her \"children have been affected\" by the legacy of the events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. “I believed they weren’t going to let us out alive”\n\nThe 'Hooded Men' have long called for a new, independent investigation into their treatment, saying there were subjected to \"deep interrogation\" by the Army during their detention.\n\nThe men said they were forced to listen to constant loud static noise; deprived of sleep, food and water; forced to stand in a stress position and beaten if they fell.\n\nThey also said they were hooded and thrown from helicopters a short distance off the ground, having been told they were hundreds of feet in the air.\n\nIn 2014, an RTÉ documentary unearthed fresh evidence, but the PSNI decided there was not enough evidence to warrant an investigation.\n\nIn 2019, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, Northern Ireland's most senior judge, said their treatment \"would, if it occurred today, properly be characterised as torture\".\n\nAnother of the three judges at the Court of Appeal in Belfast dissented with that conclusion.\n\nThe court was ruling on an appeal by police against a ruling that detectives should revisit the decision to end their inquiry.\n\nIn a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said the PSNI acknowledged Wednesday's court judgment and welcomed \"the clarity it brings to some complex legal issues\".\n\n\"We recognise the difficult realities that victims, families, friends and broader society continue to deal with as a result of our troubled past,\" he said.\n\n\"We will now take time to study today's judgment around these complex legacy issues in detail and we will carefully consider its implications for future legacy investigations.\n\n\"If we are to build a safe, confident and peaceful society, then we must find a way of dealing with our past and we are committed to playing our part in that process.\"\n\nThe Supreme Court also looked at a second Troubles-era case - the shooting of Jean Smyth-Campbell.\n\nMs Smyth-Campbell was 24 when she died after being shot as she sat in a car on the Glen Road in west Belfast in 1972.\n\nHer death was initially blamed by police on the IRA, but an undercover Army unit has since been linked to the shooting.\n\nIn March 2019, the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled that the PSNI would not be independent in carrying out a new investigation into the death.\n\nJean’s sisters Margaret McQuillan, Ann Silcock, Pat Smith & Sheila Denvir, seen here in 2020\n\nOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court found that the proposed investigation \"would not have been effective in the particular circumstances of that case because the Chief Constable of the PSNI had failed to explain to her family and the public, and when faced with the judicial review challenge, the court, how he proposed to secure the practical independence of that investigation\".\n\nIn a statement following the ruling, Ms Smyth-Campbell's sister Margaret McQuillan, said: \"Our family has today been vindicated by the ruling of the British Supreme Court.\n\n\"They have confirmed the Police Service of Northern Ireland failings in the case. The PSNI have already apologised for these failings. We believe, however, that the PSNI cannot be trusted, now or ever, in any legacy case, by any family.\"\n\nIn June 2019, the PSNI asked former Bedfordshire chief constable Jon Boutcher to investigate the killing.\n\nReferring to this case, the assistant chief constable said the PSNI welcomed the \"clear legal ruling\" that the PSNI did not have any legal obligations under article two of the European Convention on Human Rights to investigate the case.\n\n\"We will now carefully consider the judgments and their impact on the legacy caseload,\" Jonathan Roberts added.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan said the case of the 'Hooded Men' and other Troubles incidents showed the need to \"find a way forward that allows us to provide that truth, also that justice, and make sure we can move into the future\".\n\n\"Whether it's this case or whether it's other cases that happened within Northern Ireland dealing with the past is something that needs to be resolved. It continues to have implications for the present and for future generations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the PSNI should investigate the case\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she welcomed the ruling and \"it was over to the PSNI to do their job\".\n\n\"They should have investigated this. These men have been tortured, it's been confirmed internationally, everybody recognises that is the case.\"\n\nGrainne Teggart from Amnesty International described the 'Hooded Men' decision as a \"victory for justice\".\n\nShe said police had \"shamefully added to the trauma already inflicted and has delayed the truth, justice, and accountability to which these men are entitled\".", "Last week Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with immediate effect\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has not yet officially resigned as an MP, to the frustration of the Conservative Party.\n\nThe close Boris Johnson ally announced last Friday she would be standing down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire \"with immediate effect\".\n\nBut she is yet to officially tender her resignation - putting a by-election to replace her on hold.\n\nNo 10 said it was important for her constituents to have \"certainty\".\n\n\"It's obviously unusual to have an MP say they will resign with immediate effect and for that not to take place,\" the prime minister's press secretary added.\n\nMs Dorries announced she would be standing down as an MP, shortly before it was confirmed she would not become a member of the House of Lords in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nShe has since accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's political team of removing her name from the list - something No 10 denies.\n\nNigel Adams, another MP close to Boris Johnson who was reported to be in the running for a peerage but whose name was not on the list either, has also announced he is quitting.\n\nAs Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nAnything she says would be covered by parliamentary privilege, allowing her to be outspoken on any issue, without fear of legal consequences.\n\nMr Johnson also announced he was leaving Parliament on Friday, ahead of a Commons report expected to accuse him of misleading MPs over the Partygate scandal, which is due to be published on Thursday.\n\nThe former prime minister has denounced the committee writing the report as a \"kangaroo court\" determined to \"drive me out of Parliament\".\n\nUnlike Ms Dorries, both Mr Johnson and Mr Adams have officially resigned their seats, in Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty respectively.\n\nThe by-elections to replace them were triggered on Wednesday, with 3 July or 20 July the possible polling dates.\n\nIf Ms Dorries's formal resignation is tendered soon, it could still be possible for all three by-elections to be held on 20 July.\n\nBut while she keeps her party waiting, the capacity for mischief exists.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM's press secretary said Rishi Sunak \"believes the people of Mid Bedfordshire deserve proper representation in [the Commons], and he looks forward to campaigning for the Conservative candidate in the by-election\".\n\nA Conservative Party source said: \"We don't know why Nadine hasn't resigned.\n\n\"But we don't want to hang around, we want to get on with those things.\"\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - wanted to conclude swift campaigns before Parliament's summer recess and for any political pain from the by-elections to be short and sharp.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting, she could force them into a potentially divisive by-election later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.", "Artificial-intelligence experts generally follow one of two schools of thought - it will either improve our lives enormously or destroy us all. And that is why this week's European Parliament debate on how the technology is regulated is so important. But how could AI be made safe? Here are five of the challenges ahead.\n\nThe European Parliament has taken two years to come up with a definition of an AI system - software that can \"for a given set of human-defined objectives, generate outputs such as content, predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing the environments they interact with\".\n\nThis week, it is voting on its Artificial Intelligence Act - the first legal rules of their kind on AI, which go beyond voluntary codes and require companies to comply.\n\nFormer UK Office for Artificial Intelligence head Sana Kharaghani points out the technology has no respect for borders.\n\n\"We do need to have international collaboration on this - I know it will be hard,\" she tells BBC News. \"This is not a domestic matter. These technologies don't sit within the boundaries of one country\n\nBut there remains no plan for a global, United-Nations-style AI regulator - although, some have suggested it - and different territories have different ideas:\n\n\"If people trust it, then they'll use it,\" International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation EU government and regulatory affairs head Jean-Marc Leclerc says.\n\nThere are enormous opportunities for AI to improve people's lives in incredible ways. It is already:\n\nBut what about screening job applicants or predicting how likely someone is to commit crime?\n\nThe European Parliament wants the public informed about the risks attached to each AI product.\n\nCompanies that break its rules could be fined the greater of €30m or 6% of global annual turnover.\n\nBut can developers predict or control how their product might be used?\n\nSo far, AI has been largely self-policed.\n\nThe big companies say they are on board with government regulation - \"critical\" to mitigate the potential risks, according to Sam Altman, boss of ChatGPT creator OpenAI.\n\nBut will they put profits before people if they become too involved in writing the rules?\n\nYou can bet they want to be as close as possible to the lawmakers tasked with setting out the regulations.\n\nAnd Lastminute.com founder Baroness Lane-Fox says it is important to listen not just to corporations.\n\n\"We must involve civil society, academia, people who are affected by these different models and transformations,\" she says.\n\nMicrosoft, which has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT, wants it to \"take the drudgery out of work\".\n\nIt can generate human-like prose and text responses but, Mr Altman points out, is \"a tool, not a creature\".\n\nChatbots are supposed to make workers more productive.\n\nAnd in some industries, AI has the capacity to create jobs and be a formidable assistant.\n\nBut others have already lost them - last month, BT announced AI would replace 10,000 jobs.\n\nChatGPT came into public use just over six months ago.\n\nNow, it can write essays, plan people's holidays and pass professional exams.\n\nThe capability of these large-scale language models is growing at a phenomenal rate.\n\nAnd two of the three AI \"godfathers\" - Geoffrey Hinton and Prof Yoshua Bengio - have been among those to warn the technology has huge potential for harm.\n\nThe Artificial Intelligence Act will not come into force until at least 2025 - \"way too late\", EU technology chief Margrethe Vestager says.\n\nShe is drawing up an interim voluntary code for the sector, alongside the US, which could be ready within weeks.", "Donald Trump, the former US President, made a stop after his court appearance in Miami.", "Building work at the site of the proposed community greenway has already begun.\n\nA fresh proposal that would aim to create up to 900 homes at the former Mackies site in west Belfast is to be put to Belfast City Council.\n\nCampaigners have long argued the 25-acre plot on the Springfield Road should be used in part for much-needed housing.\n\nIt comes after a plan for a community greenway through the land was approved by the council.\n\nBuilding work at the site of the new greenway has already begun.\n\nBut a new design would allow for both the greenway and new homes to co-exist.\n\nMatthew Lloyd's design for the site includes a city farm, work spaces and some commercial spaces\n\nLondon-based architect Matthew Lloyd came up with the design as part of an international competition.\n\nHis design, which includes a city farm, work spaces and some commercial spaces, was selected by campaign group Take Back the City from a shortlist of submissions from international architects.\n\n\"Our plans are to, in essence, put a whole lot of housing on this site,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's a really, really big place and the greenway is actually in the distance, nestled in the trees behind.\n\n\"So actually the greenway is going to be beautifully done from the plans I've seen and it's going to be a wonderful public amenity.\n\n\"And then, either side, we can build homes.\"\n\nMarissa McMahon said there are 2,000 children in west Belfast waiting for homes\n\nSome 40,000 people across Northern Ireland are said to be on a waiting list for a home, with residents in west Belfast among those in most acute need.\n\nTake Back the City campaigner Marissa McMahon said: \"In west Belfast we have thousands, and I mean thousands of people, waiting on a home. Some that I've been working with for 15-and-a-half years with not one single offer.\n\n\"You've over 2,000 children in this area alone waiting to be housed in hostels in and around this site.\n\n\"And Matthew's here, ideally, to develop a masterplan and to put alongside the greenway that's already here, homes for people who need them.\"\n\nBelfast City Council is currently developing the greenway, which would form part of a wider £5.1m project seeing the creation of a 12km (7.5 mile) route from Clarendon Playing Fields to the new Transport Hub in Belfast's city centre.\n\nThe project is to be paid through a European Union peace and reconciliation fund.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"As the local planning authority, if council receives a formal planning application for the remainder of the site, our planning committee will consider this as it would any other planning application.\n\n\"As council will also be responsible for managing and maintaining Forth Meadow Community Greenway once it fully opens, we would also expect to be consulted on any future development proposals for land which neighbours the greenway.\"\n\nThey added that the council was in the process of completing work on the Forth Meadow Community Greenway, and that proposals for the remainder of this site would be \"a matter for the landowners\".\n\nThe site, which was once home to the old Mackies factory, is now owned by the Department for Communities.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the department told BBC News NI that it had an agreement in principle to transfer land at the Mackies site to Belfast City Council to assist with its Peace IV-funded Reconnecting Open Spaces project.\n\nIt said this had been \"widely consulted on and has community support to build connections and cohesion across communities\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn't prepared to do\"\n\nA war of words has erupted between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the former prime minister's attempt to give peerages to several close allies.\n\nMr Sunak accused his former boss of asking him to \"overrule\" the vetting advice on his House of Lords nominations.\n\nBut in a fiery statement, Mr Johnson accused Mr Sunak of \"talking rubbish\".\n\nThe House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) said it rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations.\n\nThere has been no confirmation of who the nominees were, and why they were not included on Mr Johnson's controversial resignation honours list.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said HOLAC did not support the peerage nominations of the MPs put forward by Mr Johnson.\n\nThe honours list was published by Mr Sunak's government on Friday, without the names of some of Mr Johnson's key supporters, including Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams.\n\nA few hours after his honours list was released, Mr Johnson announced he was standing down as an MP over an investigation into whether he had misled Parliament about lockdown parties.\n\nCompeting claims have now surfaced about how and why the names would not have appeared on the list.\n\nMr Adams and Ms Dorries have both announced they would immediately standing down as MPs, triggering by-elections to replace them.\n\nEarlier, the row over the nominations spilled into a public spat between Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking at a tech conference in London earlier, Mr Sunak claimed Mr Johnson had asked him to do \"something I wasn't prepared to do\" on peerage nominations.\n\n\"I didn't think that was right. And if people don't like that, then tough,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Johnson claimed it \"was not necessary to overrule HOLAC - but simply to ask them to renew their vetting, which was a mere formality\".\n\nMr Sunak's comments are the first made publicly about the dispute over peerages, and marks a heightening of tensions between the two.\n\nTheir relationship has been an uneasy one after Mr Sunak quit as chancellor in Mr Johnson's government, setting off a wave of resignations that brought down his premiership.\n\nThe process of vetting Mr Johnson's nominees for peerages appears to be the one of the points of disagreement between the former allies.\n\nThere has been speculation in media reports about what would happen if a serving MP was nominated for a peerage, and whether they could remain in the House of Commons until the next general election, before taking up their seats in the Lords.\n\nBut HOLAC says its vetting checks expire after six months, meaning its advice on nominations is only valid for that period.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Johnson appears to be suggesting the vetting checks for his nominees could be carried out again.\n\nIn an interview with TalkTV, Ms Dorries claimed Downing Street had not been \"telling the truth\" about her nomination for a peerage.\n\nMs Dorries said Mr Johnson had told her in autumn last year she had been put on his resignation honours list.\n\nThe former culture secretary said she had been vetted for the peerage, but because six months had passed, her checks had expired.\n\nShe said Mr Sunak and Mr Johnson had a meeting last week to discuss his honours list.\n\nMs Dorries accused the prime minister of using \"weasel words\" to give Mr Johnson the impression Mr Sunak would ask HOLAC to restart the vetting process.\n\nShe said Mr Sunak used those words because he \"knew a situation had been engineered\" in which her name would not be on the list.\n\nWhen asked who she believed had stopped her from entering the House of Lords, she replied: \"The prime minister - Rishi Sunak.\"\n\nFollowing her interview, the Cabinet Office said it would be \"unprecedented for a sitting prime minister to invite HOLAC to reconsider the vetting of individual nominees on a former prime minister's resignation list.\n\n\"It is not therefore a formality.\"\n\nAs a departing prime minister, Mr Johnson has the right to nominate people for seats in the House of Lords, and for other honours such as knighthoods.\n\nBy convention, current prime ministers pass on the list of nominees to HOLAC, which can recommend their names do not go forward after a vetting process.\n\nHOLAC advises prime ministers on the suitability of candidates for peerages and usually, they accept its recommendations on appointments, whatever the outcome.\n\nBut Mr Johnson broke with this convention in 2020, when he nominated businessman Peter Cruddas for a peerage, despite his rejection by HOLAC.\n\nOn Sunday, a spokesman for the vetting commission said it had rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations, but declined to name them or say why, adding it \"does not comment on individuals\".\n\nDowning Street has insisted that Mr Sunak passed on Mr Johnson's list of nominations unaltered. It says it also accepted HOLAC's full approved list and passed it to the King.\n\nBut on Monday, a source describing themselves as an ally of Mr Johnson accused the prime minister of \"secretly\" blocking peerages for \"Nadine and others\".\n\n\"He refused to ask for them to undergo basic checks that could have taken only a few weeks or even days,\" the source added.\n\n\"That is how he kept them off the list - without telling Boris Johnson.\"", "Instead of reporting from the inquiry HQ in Paddington, west London, today as I planned, I’m stuck trying to work from home after testing positive for Covid again over the weekend.\n\nLike many people, it’s the third time I’ve contracted the disease in a little over 18 months.\n\nThe first dose certainly felt the worst with a fever and a hacking cough. The second was more like a heavy cold, and I bounced back quickly.\n\nI have to say though that this third infection is more like the first one with a complete loss of taste and smell and a couple of very uncomfortable sleepless nights.\n\nLooking back at news reports, there was a debate at the start of the pandemic about whether it was even possible to catch Covid more than once.\n\nIt may have now become part of our everyday lives in the same way as other respiratory diseases.\n\nLike flu though, it can still be a dangerous illness, especially for someone with a weakened immune system.\n\nAnd we've still got more than 2,700 hospitals beds in England currently occupied by someone who's tested positive as of the end of last month.", "Millions of pounds have been paid out in the last ten years to people who were abused in the Scouts, lawyers say.\n\nBBC File on 4 contacted 13 law firms who specialise in child abuse claims, and data from the eight that responded revealed more than £6m had been paid out in compensation in the last decade.\n\nSome 166 cases were settled over the same time, while more female survivors were now coming forward, lawyers said.\n\nThe Scout Association said it was \"deeply sorry\" anyone suffered abuse.\n\nIt comes as two women, who both say they were abused in the Scouts, have started a campaign asking the organisation to change its safeguarding policy.\n\nFile on 4 contacted 13 firms who specialise in abuse claims, all in the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers.\n\nAccording to data from the lawyers who responded, at least 260 claims were taken on against the Scouts in the last ten years, and 166 cases were settled. Some 50 had been unsuccessful and others were still ongoing.\n\nThe BBC asked the Scouts how much money it had paid out in the last ten years.\n\nThe association said it had not been able to get to a definitive number because much of the information related to historical cases and was spread across numerous insurers - but the number of payouts broadly matched what they were aware of.\n\nAccording to the association, 96% of claims related to offences that happened prior to 2013 - with many from the 1960s to 1990s. But some have happened more recently, including in the last few years.\n\nHundreds of thousands of children across the UK are signed up as members of the Scout Association, whose programmes include Squirrels, Beavers, Cub Scouts, as well as Scouts and Explorer Scouts for older children.\n\nAbbie Hickson, from Bolt Burdon Kemp solicitors, says her firm has settled more than 100 abuse claims in the last ten years. She said a key problem was \"safeguarding policy relies much on the integrity of the adult involved\".\n\n\"Scout leaders who sexually abused children in their care are by their very nature highly manipulative, secretive, devious and opportunistic individuals. And their very aim is to separate a child from the group in order to facilitate that abuse.\"\n\nDino Nocivelli, from Leigh Day solicitors, has spent the last 20 years representing abuse survivors. He said the number of female complainants was rising.\n\nYoung women were able to join the Venture Scouts from 1976. Then, in 1991, girls were allowed to join across all age groups - but it wasn't until 2007 that it became compulsory for Scout groups to accept girls.\n\n\"In the last 12 months, a number of women and girls have contacted me about sexual abuse in the Scouts,\" Mr Nocivelli said. \"This is not an issue from the 60s, 70s, 80s. This abuse is happening in the 2000 and the 2010s and sadly the 2020s.\"\n\nSheanna Patelmaster, 27, and Lucy Pincott, 29, both say they were abused when they joined the Scouts, in 2007.\n\nSheanna was 13, and her leader was 24. She says he noticed she was having an unhappy time at home and offered to let her stay at his house one night a week after Scouts. It was there, she says, he sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions.\n\nLucy was also 13 when she says she was groomed by a young leader. He bought her necklaces and he would often arrange to meet her before Scouts.\n\nIt was at one of these meetings that Lucy says she was forced to have sex with him. She says the sexual abuse continued for nine months in the grounds where the Scout meetings took place and on camps.\n\nLucy says other adult volunteers were aware of what was going on but failed to report the abuse. She subsequently sued the Scout Association for failing in their duty of care. It didn't accept liability but settled out of court, paying Lucy £160,000.\n\nSheanna and Lucy have now set up a petition asking the Scouts to change their safeguarding policies.\n\nThey want a paid safeguarding lead officer in every Scout county in the UK, who would be responsible for monitoring the conduct of volunteers and ensuring allegations of abuse are properly reported. They are calling for both the Scouts and Girlguiding to be subject to an inspection regime, similar to Ofsted.\n\nThe campaign, called Yours in Scouting, includes a call for personal testimonies from anyone who has suffered abuse in the Scouts.\n\nIn a statement, the Scout Association told the BBC: \"Any form of abuse is abhorrent and we're sorry for Sheanna and Lucy's terrible experiences.\"\n\nIt added: \"In the UK almost half a million young people enjoy Scouts every week and nothing is more important than their safety. We have robust safeguarding policies, training and procedures in place. These are now reviewed every other year by the NSPCC.\"", "Malcolm Myers says 10-year-old rescue dog Buddy is his hero\n\nA man who was trapped under a fallen tree branch has said his life was saved by his dog.\n\nMalcolm Myers, from Thirsk, was walking his rescue dog Buddy on a footpath when he heard a loud crack.\n\nA branch from a horse chestnut tree hit him on the back and head, burying him - but he said Buddy dug away the foliage to help free him.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council said it had contacted the landowner and had launched an investigation.\n\nMr Myers, 63, was walking on a path near Thirsk and Sowerby Institute on 7 June at around 13:45 BST when he said he heard a sound like a \"clap of thunder\".\n\n\"I was buried with a tree that had fallen on top of me, I was trapped, I couldn't move,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a branch around my leg. It was sheer darkness, I couldn't see anything. I was really fearful for my life at this point.\"\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council has launched an investigation after the branch fell on to a footpath\n\nHe said he could hear people screaming, but his terrier-chihuahua cross Buddy \"frantically started digging\" at the foliage.\n\n\"I remember saying to him, 'keep digging Bud'. I put my hand out to his paw and then he gave me the strength to fight to get out.\"\n\nMr Myers said he suffered a trauma injury and concussion as a result of being hit by the fallen branch, leaving him \"mentally and physically totally wrecked\".\n\n\"All I can say is that he's my little hero, without Buddy by my side I would have died.\"\n\nBuddy helped dig his owner out from underneath the fallen tree\n\nHe is now calling for the council to do more to inspect older trees that could be at risk of falling on passers-by.\n\nThe tree, which is on private property, has a tree protection order on it.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council's interim head of highway operations, Jayne Charlton, said the authority was investigating the situation.\"A member of the public alerted us to the incident, which we responded to immediately, closing the footpath while the debris was cleared,\" she said.\"We received a further report that a man walking his dog was hit on the back by a large branch, while a smaller one struck him on the head.\"We have made contact with the landowner to inform them of their responsibilities with regard to the tree, which is subject to a tree preservation order.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The parade was delayed by heavy rain and lightning but tens of thousands of fans turned out\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans gathered to celebrate their team's historic Treble as they staged an open-top bus parade through the city.\n\nBlue flares were set off and fans threw inflatable bananas in the air as several of the players went shirtless in the heavy rain.\n\nManager Pep Guardiola was seen puffing on a cigar as fans climbed lamp-posts.\n\nThe parade was delayed by lightning storms. City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final.\n\nIt comes after the club clinched the Premier League and FA Cup this season.\n\nGuardiola said his side's Champions League success following Rodri's 68-minute goal was \"written in the stars\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drenched Guardiola was later seen pumping his fists to the crowd as the players showed off all three trophies.\n\nDefender Ruben Dias and striker Erling Haaland were among several players who went shirtless after they were drenched in the rain.\n\nHaaland, 22, led the dancing players onto a stage just after 20:00 BST as midfielder Kalvin Phillips serenaded England defender John Stones.\n\nGuardiola hailed the fans for coming out in the storms.\n\nHe said: \"We had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise it is not Manchester.\n\n\"We don't want sunshine, we want rain, so it was perfect. The fans are used to the rain.\"\n\nTopless defender Ruben Dias held up the FA Cup in the rain\n\nCaptain Ilkay Gundogan said it was \"incredible\" that they had \"three trophies\".\n\nEngland midfielder Jack Grealish said: \"For the past 24 hours, I have had the best day and night.\n\n\"To be fair, I don't think I have slept.\"\n\nThe team had departed from Tonman Street, Deansgate, at the slightly delayed time of 19:00 BST due to stormy weather and travelled to St Mary's Gate.\n\nThe parade was delayed due to forecast lightning storms\n\nOne fan climbed up a set of traffic lights to get a good view of the parade\n\nThe delays did not dampen the spirits of the fans.\n\nZoro and his family said they were looking forward to seeing Guardiola, Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden.\n\nCity players show off the three trophies\n\nHe said: \"This goes down in history for us. Pep has just redesigned the football world. It's a big statement but it's true.\"\n\nThe parade travelled through Cross Street and King Street, before finishing on the corner of Princess Street and Portland Street.\n\nZack, Nic and Noah have travelled from Blackpool to be at the parade\n\nZoro said Guardiola has \"just redesigned the football world\"\n\nCity became just the second English men's team to win the Treble, following in the footsteps of rivals Manchester United, who achieved the feat in 1999 under Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nThe team were welcomed back by fans at Manchester Airport on Sunday after travelling from Istanbul, where the European final was played.\n\nManchester City clinched the Champions League after a 1-0 final win over Inter Milan\n\nA mural has been created on New Cathedral Street celebrating the team's success\n\nA street vendor sold trophy balloons as fans waited for the parade\n\nFormer City boss Joe Royle said Guardiola's current side was one of the best teams English football had ever seen.\n\nRoyle, 74, who led the club from the third tier to the Premier League after back-to-back promotions in 1999 and 2000, said: \"There's no doubt about it. They're one of, if not the best English club side there has been.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Askam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Borrowers are being warned mortgage rates are set to rise further as turbulence continues to hit the market.\n\nBroker London & Country said lenders had been withdrawing deals and raising rates at a \"relentless pace\" and this week would \"bring more of the same\".\n\nMortgage rates have gone up about 0.5 percentage points in the last month to approach an average fixed deal of 6%.\n\nOn Monday Santander became the latest big lender to temporarily withdraw new deals due to \"market conditions\".\n\nMeanwhile, NatWest said it was increasing rates for new residential mortgages by 0.2 percentage points, and for buy-to-let mortgages by up to 1.57 percentage points from Tuesday.\n\nAbout 1.5 million households are set to come off fixed mortgage deals this year and face a sharp rise in their monthly repayments.\n\nRates have been rising since recent data showed that UK inflation is not coming down as quickly as expected.\n\nThere have been predictions that the Bank of England will raise interest rates higher than previously thought, from their current 4.5% to as high as 5.5%.\n\nIt has a direct impact on mortgage lenders, many of whom have raised rates and taken deals off the market over the last few weeks.\n\nIn the latest move, Santander said it was \"temporarily withdrawing all our new business residential and buy-to-let fixed and tracker rates at 7.30pm on Monday 12 June\".\n\n\"We're relaunching our full new business range on Wednesday 14 June,\" it added.\n\nIt comes after HSBC suspended new deals via brokers last week only to temporarily reopen them on Friday.\n\nOn Monday it returned to the market with higher rates for its fixed residential and buy-to-let mortgages.\n\nDavid Hollingworth from London & Country told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's been pretty relentless for the last couple of weeks. We're back to that phase of you can't hang around if you are looking at a fixed rate.\"\n\nHe said lenders were being forced to reprice deals as the market shifted around them and those with cheaper deals faced a \"tidal wave\" of business.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think this week we may still have to see more of that happening.\n\n\"But hopefully those rates will just start to find a level and we'll see things start to calm down in the near future.\"\n\nAccording to financial data firm Moneyfacts, the average two-year fixed-rate mortgage deal is 5.86%, while a five-year deal has hit 5.51%.\n\nLast May they were 3.03% and 3.17% respectively, meaning many households have seen sharp rises in their borrowing costs.\n\nWhen a fixed term comes to an end then a borrower reverts automatically to their lender's standard variable rate (SVR). But brokers say these SVRs have soared, meaning anyone who adopts a wait and see approach would see a massive jump in the rate they pay, and therefore a much higher monthly mortgage bill.\n\nIan Stuart, boss of HSBC in the UK, admitted it was a \"deeply concerning\" time for a lot of customers.\n\n\"If you've got an old rate, as many will have, let's say 1.5%, and you're going to come off that rate and go onto something like 5%, that is a big impact on your monthly budget.\"\n\nHe said the bank had been forced to pause sales of new deals last week as it was struggling to meet \"unprecedented\" demand.\n\nHe also said HSBC expected UK interest rates to rise further, putting more pressure on the market.\n\n\"So not the news mortgagees would be looking for, but I don't think inflation is going to fall quite as fast as we had hoped.\"\n\nRising mortgage rates are also putting pressure on landlords, pushing some to consider selling up, surveyors say.\n\nIn turn, that could further squeeze the availability of rental properties and raise costs for tenants, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was being updated on developments in Nottingham\n\nThree people have been killed - and another three injured - in connected \"horrific and tragic\" attacks in Nottingham.\n\nTwo people, believed to have been stabbed, were found dead by police in Ilkeston Road just after 04:00 BST.\n\nOfficers were then called to Milton Street where a van had attempted to run over three people.\n\nPolice, who have arrested a man on suspicion of murder, later found a man dead in Magdala Road.\n\nThe 31-year-old arrested man is in custody and several police cordons are in place in the city centre.\n\nAmed officers also raided a property in Ilkeston Road shortly before 13:00.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the three people injured in the van attack in Milton Street were being treated in hospital.\n\nWarning: People may find some of the details in the story upsetting\n\nChief Constable Kate Meynell said the force believed all three incidents were linked.\n\n\"This is an horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people,\" she said.\n\n\"This investigation is at its early stages and a team of detectives is working to establish exactly what has happened.\n\n\"We ask the public to be patient while inquiries continue.\"\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC he witnessed a young man and young woman being stabbed in Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street, at about 04:00.\n\nThe man, who asked to remain anonymous, said: \"Being a hot night, I had the window open and I just heard some awful, blood-curdling screams.\n\n\"I looked out of the window and saw a black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people. It was a girl, and a man or boy she was with - they looked quite young.\n\n\"She was screaming 'help!' I just wish I'd shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.\n\n\"I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing - four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.\n\n\"The girl stumbled towards a house and didn't move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that's where they found her.\"\n\nPolice said three people injured in the van attack were being treated in hospital\n\nCarl Cassidy said he witnessed two people get knocked over by a white van while dropping his wife off at work.\n\n\"We pulled up outside the Theatre Royal and as my wife opened the car door we heard an almighty bang,\" he said.\n\n\"A white van was heading for my car but it swerved and missed us by inches, mounting the pavement.\n\n\"I got out of the car and saw two people lying on the ground. The lady seemed OK, she was shaken but sitting up and OK. The man who was hit harder seemed a bit worse.\n\n\"He was on the other side of the road and people were helping to put him in the recovery position.\n\n\"Police were following the vehicle but stopped to tend to the injured.\n\n\"The van drove off and within seconds three more police cars arrived at the scene.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lynn Haggitt said she wished she had not seen the crash\n\nNic Chuter lives in Mapperley Road, close to the junction of Woodborough Road, not far from where a man was found dead in Magdala Road.\n\nThe former emergency planner said he was greeted by armed police officers as he left the house.\n\nHe said: \"[The] first thing we saw this morning when I took the children to nursery was someone calling me over with a very large gun saying 'hello, what are you up to?'\n\n\"We're not able to use the car as it's being counted as part of a crime scene, so everything within the cordon is staying put.\"\n\nEmergency services have been at multiple locations in the city\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak thanked the emergency services and said he was being updated on developments.\n\n\"My thoughts are with those injured, and the family and loved ones of those who have lost their lives,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"shocked and saddened\" by the deaths, adding she had spoken to Nottinghamshire Police's chief constable and was \"receiving regular updates\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his \"thoughts to all those affected and to the emergency services who are responding\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA damaged white Vauxhall Vivaro van and a cordon could be seen in Bentinck Road, Nottingham, which BBC Verify has confirmed is where an arrest took place.\n\nIt is not yet known if it is the same van that was involved in the incident.\n\nA damaged white van could be seen near the scene of the arrest\n\nA statement from the city's three Labour MPs - Lilian Greenwood, Nadia Whittome and Alex Norris - said: \"Awful news for our city to wake up to today.\n\n\"Our community's thoughts and prayers are with all those affected.\n\n\"Our gratitude is with our blue light responders for their work today also.\"\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said: \"Ours is an overwhelmingly peaceful and tolerant city where people get along with one another and it's incomprehensible that such dreadful violence has happened here.\n\n\"I'm grateful to the police for swiftly making an arrest and for all the emergency services responding to this tragic situation and keeping us safe.\"\n\nThis is normally an incredibly busy part of the city, it is where all of the buses come in.\n\nThere is a huge police presence and lots of people around wondering what is going on, trying to make their way into work, into college, into school.\n\nIt is a huge incident for the city and I have seen at least 40-50 police officers at the two cordons I have visited.\n\nThe police are talking to people, reassuring them and making sure they know where they're going. Most questions are being answered simply with \"there has been a major incident\".\n\nThe public were told to avoid the area\n\nA number of roads in the city have been closed while investigations take place. These are:\n\nNottinghamshire Police has set up a dedicated phone line and asked anyone concerned about a family member or friend to call 0800 0961011.\n\nA vigil is due to be held at St Peter's Church in the city centre from 17:00.\n\nBishop Paul Williams said everyone was welcome to attend.\n\nUpdate 28 June: This story has been updated to quote the eyewitness referring to the ethnicity of the suspect, which was originally included but had been removed in error.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incidents? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What we know about the Nottingham attacks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The speeding groom was pulled over on the M4 in Wiltshire\n\nA groom heading to his wedding was pulled over by traffic police who caught him speeding at 121mph on a motorway.\n\nWiltshire Police Special Ops tweeted \"usually, the bride is always late\" but the wedding-bound driver had \"some explaining to do\" after being pulled over on the M4 in his silver BMW.\n\n\"A rear nearside tyre with cord exposed topped this stop off,\" the force added.\n\nThe speeding groom will appear in court at a date to be confirmed.\n\nWiltshire Police confirmed that members of the wedding party later collected the groom to take him to his ceremony.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wilts Specialist Ops This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThunderstorms have brought torrential downpours and flooding to parts of the UK on Monday.\n\nCars could be seen ploughing through deep puddles after flash flooding in north-west London.\n\nEasyjet said some flights leaving Gatwick Airport had been disrupted after thunderstorms \"caused air traffic control delays\".\n\nMeanwhile, lightning delayed Manchester City's victory parade celebrating their Treble win by 30 minutes.\n\nOfficial weather warnings have now passed for Monday, but two storm warnings are in place for Northern Ireland and Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThe yellow warnings, which mean storms may bring some disruption, will cover much of Northern Ireland, and a western area of Scotland from 12:00 BST to 21:00.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Stav Danaos said a number of thunderstorms in the Midlands had brought intense downpours in places, with Woburn in Bedfordshire catching 26.4mm in one hour on Monday afternoon.\n\nTuesday will be drier and more settled, with large amounts of sunshine, BBC Weather said. There could be some isolated showers and cloud in the afternoon, mainly in western areas. Later in the week, temperatures are expected to be less humid.\n\nIt is hard to tie specific weather events to climate change, but we do know that extreme weather is becoming more likely and more intense because of human-induced climate change.\n\nDrumnadrochit, on the western shore of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, saw 32.4mm in one hour, followed by another 10.6mm in the following hour. Other parts of Scotland had their hottest day of the year so far, with Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reaching 30.1C.\n\nThere were around 7,500 lighting strikes recorded nationwide, with more expected.\n\nDespite the poor weather causing delays, thousands of Manchester City fans lined streets in the city centre for the open-top parade celebrating the club's Treble.\n\nMany of the club's players - including star striker Erling Haaland - were unfazed by the rain, taking their shirts off as they paraded their silverware around the city.\n\nFormer City goalkeeper Shay Given told BBC Radio 5 Live he had experienced \"rain, hailstones and wind - four seasons in one hour\".\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans braved poor weather for the club's open-top parade celebrating its Treble\n\nMeanwhile, Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire asked people to only attend its emergency department for life-threatening illness and injuries because of \"localised flooding\". Heavy rain also caused flood-flashing in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire.\n\nSome flight cancellations were also reported at London Heathrow.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has also issued an amber alert for hot weather until 09:00 BST on Tuesday in the West Midlands, East Midlands, east of England, South East and South West.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nSadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has also issued a high air pollution alert for Tuesday, the second of the year, caused by high temperatures and pollution travelling from Europe.\n\nHe urged people to avoid unnecessary car journeys, and instead to walk, cycle or take public transport.", "Henrik Adam says Tata's competitors in Europe are receiving \"billions of pounds\" in help to decarbonise\n\nThe chairman of Tata Steel UK has called for a \"level playing field\" as it seeks UK government subsidies to decarbonise its Port Talbot steelworks.\n\nHenrik Adam said European competitors were receiving \"billions of pounds\" from governments to transition to greener operations.\n\nThe UK government said it was committed to a \"decarbonised, competitive future for the sector\".\n\nThe UK government Department for Business and Trade said: \"The business secretary knows how critical the steel industry is to Wales, and made her commitment to securing a decarbonised, competitive future for the sector clear when she visited Port Talbot earlier this year.\n\n\"We cannot comment on commercially sensitive negotiations.\"\n\nPort Talbot is home to Britain's biggest steelworks with two blast furnaces working around the clock to produce steel used in a plethora of products, from tin cans to submarines.\n\nIt is considered to be a strategic asset, and allows the UK to have a local and reliable source of steel production.\n\nThe works is also one of the UK's largest polluters, and its owners have committed to transforming the site and dramatically reducing its emissions.\n\n\"The only thing we are really asking for is a level playing field across our peers in Europe,\" said Henrik Adam in an exclusive interview for BBC Wales.\n\nHe said Tata is \"really committed\" to decarbonising the site.\n\n\"We are in competition with European steel makers, and so we are not asking for a special deal,\" he added.\n\nThe company needs to be on an equal footing \"with competitive grounds on support for investment, but also a competitive landscape on energy costs,\" he said.\n\nBoth blast furnaces at Port Talbot are nearing the end of their lives, and would require multi-million pound upgrades in the next few years to keep going.\n\nOne option is to replace them with electric arc furnaces powered by renewable energy, but this would cost billions of pounds and take years of planning and building.\n\nThe cost of construction, and its future energy bills, is something that Tata Steel UK would like the UK government to subsidise.\n\nSteel is currently responsible for 14% of the climate-warming gases produced by UK industry\n\nWhile he would not confirm if the reported £300m offered by the UK government was enough, Mr Adam said: \"Other nations are pouring billions of pounds into our competitors, and they give support with energy costs.\n\n\"That is something which we are considering with quite some, I would say, nervousness. Because if that is happening around us, it's difficult for us to be competitive,\" he said.\n\nCheaper steel imports, particularly from China, have proved difficult for companies like Tata Steel.\n\nThe mission to decarbonise is a common one across the steel industry, according to the independent think tank Green Alliance.\n\nRoz Bulleid from Green Alliance says consumers are demanding low carbon steel\n\n\"The Port Talbot site in south Wales is one of the largest individual sites in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, so there really is a significant impact from the steel industry,\" Roz Bulleid from Green Alliance said.\n\nNew technologies had emerged which could bring down emissions, she said, adding the steel industry was taking the issue seriously.\n\n\"Demand from customers for cleaner steel is encouraging investment,\" she said, but she called on steelmakers to commit more money and to hasten their decarbonisation process.\n\n\"Having said that, there are governments around the world investing tens, and sometimes hundreds of millions in lower carbon steelmaking in their own countries,\" she said.\n\n\"So I can also see why steelmakers here are turning to the government and wondering if they could also get a more direct subsidy as well.\"\n\nGreen Alliance estimated turning off two of the UK's four blast furnaces would have the equivalent impact on emissions of removing 2.4 million petrol cars from the roads.\n\nAsked if the long-term transformation of Port Talbot would result in fewer steel industry jobs, Mr Adam said: \"I think it's too early to say it's a job cutter, the jobs will change in the profile, there will be new jobs, other jobs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Footage from the Golders Green area of North West London shows how torrential rain has disrupted traffic.\n\nThe capital has been hit by thunderstorms after a weekend of some of the highest temperatures this year.\n\nThe Met Office had issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms, which remained in place until 21:00 BST on Monday, 12 June.", "The Duke of Sussex has told a court he is suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror to stop \"absolute intrusion and hate\" towards him and his wife.\n\nPrince Harry was giving evidence against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over illegal newsgathering claims, including phone hacking.\n\nHe was choked-up as he finished giving evidence for a second day, and said it had been \"a lot\".\n\nMGN denies it used illegal methods to gather stories about the prince.\n\nAt London's High Court, the prince explained he started discussions about possible legal action after a chance-meeting in France in 2018 with David Sherborne, now his barrister.\n\nThe prince said before then he had no concerns over any particular newspaper stories due to unlawful activity because it \"was all contained in the Palace\".\n\nWhen asked about his discussions with lawyers after that chance meeting with Mr Sherborne, Prince Harry said he had wanted to put a stop to the \"absolute intrusion and hate that was coming towards\" him and the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nHe said he also wanted to \"see if there was any way to find a different course of action, rather than relying on the Institution's way\".\n\nBut in cross-examination, Andrew Green KC, the lawyer representing the publisher of the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, suggested Harry had not found a single story that came from phone hacking.\n\nHarry replied \"there is hard evidence to suggest an incredible amount of suspiciousness\" over how stories were sourced and he believed burner phones were used \"extensively\", referring to phones that can be disposed of so no records are kept.\n\nPrince Harry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 - from his childhood into early adulthood - contained information gathered using unlawful methods, with a sample of 33 stories written about him being considered by the civil court.\n\nMany of the stories the prince claimed were obtained illegally concerned his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.\n\nIn a 2006 Sunday People article Ms Davy was said to have been \"screaming for half an hour\" at him on the phone and \"blew her top\" over his visit to a Spearmint Rhino lap dancing club in Berkshire.\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nAsked where he thought the information on her screaming had come from, the prince said: \"At this point, knowing that my girlfriend's number was bizarrely in the hands of Mirror journalists, that they probably looked through her call data and saw missed calls, late calls… and managed to put together a story based on that.\"\n\n\"It was very suspicious that they had her number,\" he added, and he did not believe she would have given the Mirror Group or any journalists her phone number.\n\nThe prince told the court he once found a tracking device on Ms Davy's car at a time when the press were reporting on what was described as a \"make-or-break\" holiday for the couple.\n\nHe also highlighted another article in The People in 2007 which reported a \"Palace source\" saying the couple had been having \"monumental\" rows and their relationship was \"in crisis after a string of bitter bust-ups\". Again he said it was \"incredibly suspicious\" as he had never discussed his relationship with the Palace.\n\nMr Green responded by saying we are in the \"land of total speculation about where this information might have come from\".\n\nThe couple broke up in 2010 after a six-year on-off relationship. She attended the prince's wedding to Meghan in Windsor in 2018.\n\nThe prince was also asked about The People publishing photographs of the prince, a friend Mark Dyer and the late TV presenter Caroline Flack meeting up.\n\nAt the time he suspected one of his friends had leaked the details after they were confronted by photographers. In turn this led him and his brother William to stop talking to Mr Dyer for some time afterwards.\n\nHowever he said: \"I now believe the information came from our voicemails… Even those I trusted the most, I ended up doubting.\"\n\nAsked how he would react if the court concluded that he had never been hacked by any MGN journalist, Harry said that he had been hacked on an \"industrial scale\" and he would \"feel some injustice\" if he did not win the trial.\n\nAfter Prince Harry's evidence concluded, he stayed to see the Daily Mirror's former royal correspondent Jane Kerr give her evidence.\n\nShe had been a royal reporter for the newspaper and later royal correspondent for a decade up to 2007 and wrote a number of the articles under scrutiny in the case.\n\nIn her written witness statement, she denied voicemail hacking or using private investigators to carry out unlawful information gathering.\n\nAsked about her use of private investigators, Ms Kerr told the court she had \"no reason to believe\" details for stories had been obtained unlawfully.\n\n\"These were people who were well known to the news desk, I did not think there was anything wrong with using them,\" she said.\n\nThree other people are also bringing claims against MGN in this case - Coronation Street actors Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nThe publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late.", "Prince Harry arriving at the High Court where he spent the day being cross-examined\n\nThis was Prince Harry's highly-anticipated day in court - and by the end he sounded increasingly weary, but still doggedly sticking to his arguments.\n\nThere were no clear-cut knock-out arguments, no courtroom fireworks, no angry outbursts - instead it was a rather intense stalemate.\n\nThe Mirror's barrister Andrew Green has been described as a \"beast\" in court, but in this case he was more of a well-mannered bulldozer, repeatedly ramming into the prince's allegations of phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry sat behind a desk and computer screen, water at hand, quietly answering questions for hours about tabloid news stories that mirrored his life since childhood.\n\n\"My mind's gone blank for a second,\" he said at one point, but there was no bristling or irritation about the cross-examining, when royals might be accustomed to more stagey, softball interviews.\n\nThe historic hearing was in a modern, open-plan courtroom, full of strip-lighting, modular furniture and boxes of paper, more like the set of The Office than a Victorian court drama.\n\nLike everything else in Prince Harry's life, there was huge press attention here, with a packed courtroom, hovering helicopters and banks of TV cameras and photographers crowded around the court entrance, fighting to get the best pictures for this press intrusion story.\n\nWhen the hearing had begun this morning, Prince Harry initially seemed hesitant, but he changed the mood with a nervous joke about juggling with so many files of documents.\n\n\"You've got me doing a work-out,\" he told the court.\n\nAnd he seemed to grow in confidence, with an increasingly frequently repeated reply to questions about his hacking claims.\n\nWhen Prince Harry was asked whether he thought the disputed news stories were based on unlawfully gathered information - he said why not ask the journalists who wrote them.\n\n\"I do not believe that as a witness it's my job to deconstruct the article or be able to answer which parts are unlawfully obtained and which aren't. I think the journalist themselves should be doing that,\" he said in one reply.\n\nPrince Harry's approach was not to get dragged into the detail\n\nThe Mirror's barrister kept drilling away at the foundations of Prince Harry's claims - saying they were \"in the realms of total speculation\".\n\nIn particular he highlighted that a number of these disputed Mirror news stories had already been published in other newspapers or news agencies.\n\nOr in the case of a story about Prince Harry's role in a school army cadet force, the Mirror's lawyer said the story seemed to have come directly from a Palace press release, rather than any more nefarious sources.\n\nThe question left hanging in the air was why would hacking have even been necessary if the key information in these stories had already been openly published elsewhere?\n\nPrince Harry's approach was not to get dragged into the detail - \"if you say so\" - he said ironically a number of times in response to questions.\n\nInstead he got in some spiky barbs of his own. He cast much doubt on the credibility of the terms \"royal sources\" and \"insiders\" used in royal reporting.\n\nAnd he talked about the \"paranoia\" created by the constant sense of intrusion into his private life, making him suspicious of everyone around him. Even going to the doctor at school was a worry for him, in case medical information was leaked.\n\nThere were unexpectedly wide attacks in his witness statement - claiming that the state of the government, as well as the press, was at \"rock bottom\", and this was from someone who remains a counsellor of state, although no longer a \"working royal\".\n\nHe has an almost evangelical ire, driving him forward, with his battle to change the media his \"life's work\".\n\nThere were glimpses too into the sheer oddness of his life.\n\n\"I don't walk down the street,\" he said emphatically, in questions about a news story about meeting friends in a Fulham restaurant.\n\nThat was because of security and he said it as if it were an obvious matter of fact, that the everyday pavements were off limits to him.\n\nWhile the focus of the High Court was on the machinery of the legal process, there's no escaping that the public fascination in this spectacle was to see a senior royal facing questioning as a witness in open court.\n\nThe last time it was Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, in the 19th Century. It's been something of a taboo for royals in modern times, for fear of uncorking something that couldn't be put back into the bottle.\n\nIt's also a lonely place, in court on his own, with the gulf from the rest of the Royal Family seeming even wider.\n\nBut Prince Harry emerged from court so far unscathed, got into his car and was driven away into the London streets, where he says he never feels able to walk.\n\nHe'll be back for more of this journey, even further away from his comfort zone than his Californian home, for further questions on Wednesday morning.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A building is seen floating along the Dnipro river in the Kherson region\n\nA major catastrophe has been declared in southern Ukraine after a major dam in the Kherson region was breached. President Volodymyr Zelensky said nearly 100 towns and villages are under water with thousands of people being evacuated as a result. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of being saboteurs, but once again civilians are facing immediate consequences.\n\n\"This is a huge ecological catastrophe,\" Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko told the BBC, adding that more than 150 tonnes of engine oil from the dam near the town of Nova Kakhovka is contaminating the water.\n\n\"Maybe more will come,\" he says. \"The consequences will last decades.\"\n\nMr Goncharenko warned that tens of thousands of lives are at risk on both sides of the River Dnipro - including in the Russian occupied region of Ukraine to the south and in the city of Kherson to the north which was regained by Ukraine back in November.\n\n\"We see with our own eyes the level of water is increasing,\" he adds. \"Also we can see the water is moving really quickly. To destroy the bridge with such awful consequences is just so barbaric.\"\n\nLocal residents wait for an evacuation train at a railway station in Kherson\n\nVideos on social media show water gushing through the breach near the dam in the town of Nova Kakhovka.\n\n\"Flood waters are coming,\" Andriy Kostin, prosecutor general of Ukraine told the BBC. \"We expect the maximum will come in several hours.\"\n\nHe said 17,000 people have already been evacuated as he warned over 40,000 people are in danger of being flooded.\n\nA man wades through water in Kherson - a city which sits on the west bank of the Dnipro\n\nHanna Zarudnia, 65, was one of those evacuated from the village of Antonivka - which is just north of the banks of the River Dnipro.\n\n\"Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded, the stadium was completely under water and the floodwaters were reaching the school,\" she told Reuters.\n\n\"The road was completely flooded, the bus was stuck. Only one elevated point could be reached by the bus and this is where we were taken from.\"\n\nAnother Kherson resident, Olga, said she was woken up at 08:00 local time by messages that houses were flooded and the evacuation was under way.\n\nShe says she has packed her suitcase and has prepared everything she needs but she has four cats and two dogs and doesn't know how she'll take all of them with her.\n\n\"I'm 62 and my whole life I've lived here. My kids had to leave, and I stayed... I don't want to leave this place,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nCats, dogs, cows and other animals have been rescued by Kherson residents as water sweeps through the region\n\nOn the southern banks of the River Dnipro one official in the Russian-occupied province of Kherson said the town of Oleshky has been \"completely flooded\".\n\n\"Evacuation... is possible only using special equipment,\" Andrei Alexeyenko said on Telegram.\n\nHe also posted videos showing one car standing in floodwaters up to window level and a lorry driving along a highway in water at least a foot (30 cm) deep.\n\nThe Red Cross said eight teams were involved in the evacuation of more than 70 people\n\nRussian soldiers were patrolling the streets, several local people told Reuters.\n\n\"Getting close, and especially taking a photo or video, is deadly. They say they are ready to shoot without warning,\" said one local man, Hlib.\n\nYevheniya, another resident, said the water was up to the knees of Russian soldiers walking the main street in high rubber boots.\n\n\"If you try to go somewhere they don't allow, they immediately point their machine guns at you,\" she said.\n\n\"More and more water is coming every hour, it's very dirty.\"\n\nElsewhere, a local Ukrainian politician in the Mykolaiv region, just north of the Nova Kakovka dam, told the BBC he expects to receive a large number of refugees fleeing flooding in the coming days.\n\nOleh Pylypenko, the head of the Shevchenkivka United Territorial Community, said: \"We have an aid point for refugees, where they are provided with food, medicine, clothing and psychological assistance.\"\n\nHe said civilians would then be taken to temporary accommodation elsewhere in the Mykolaiv region by bus.\n\nAt least 24 different settlements in the Kherson region are already flooded, Ukraine's interior ministry says\n\nOn Tuesday in an address to the Bucharest Nine - a summit which brings together nations on Nato's eastern border - President Volodymyr Zelensky detailed the immediate affects of the floods.\n\nHe said: \"At least 100,000 people lived in these areas before the Russian invasion.\n\n\"At least tens of thousands are still there. Eighty towns and villages are under water.\"\n\nPresident Zelensky, who claimed back in October that Russia was plotting to blow up the Kakhovka dam, warned the evacuations are just the initial consequences.\n\nPresident Zelensky said the Russian-controlled dam on the River Dnipro was destroyed by an internal explosion, but Russia insists Ukrainian shelling destroyed the dam\n\nIt may take some time for questions over who breached the dam to be answered as much of the evidence is also under water.\n\nBut Nato general secretary Jens Stoltenberg is clear civilians on both sides of the war will have to deal with the consequences of the flooding threats.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The destruction of the Kakhovskaya Dam today puts thousands of civilians at risk and causes serious damage to the environment.\n\n\"This is an outrageous act that once again demonstrates the cruelty of Russia's war in Ukraine .\"", "''Virgin births'' in crocodiles may be common, say the researchers.\n\nThe first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica.\n\nShe produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself.\n\nThe phenomenon of so-called \"virgin birth\" has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in crocodiles.\n\nThe scientists say the trait might be inherited from an evolutionary ancestor, so dinosaurs might also have been capable of self-reproduction.\n\nThe research has been published in the Royal Society journal, Biology Letters.\n\nThe egg was laid by an 18-year-old female American crocodile in Parque Reptilania in January 2018. The foetus inside was fully formed but stillborn and so did not hatch.\n\nThe crocodile who laid the egg was obtained when she was two years old and was kept apart from other crocodiles for its entire life. Because of this, the park's scientific team contacted Belfast-born Dr Warren Booth, now working at Virginia Tech in the US. He has been studying virgin births, known scientifically as parthenogenesis, for 11 years.\n\nDr Booth analysed the foetus and found that it was more than 99.9 % genetically identical to its mother - confirming that it had no father.\n\nHe told BBC News that he wasn't surprised by the discovery.\n\n''We see it in in sharks, birds, snakes and lizards and it is remarkably common and widespread''.\n\nHe speculated that the reason that parthenogenesis has not been seen in crocodiles is because people have not been looking for instances of them.\n\n''There was a big increase in reports of parthenogenesis when people started keeping pet snakes. But your average reptile keeper doesn't keep a crocodile,\" he said.\n\nOne theory is that it happens in species capable of parthenogenesis when numbers dwindle, and they are on the verge of extinction. And Dr Booth told BBC news that this may have happened to some species of dinosaurs when their numbers dwindled due to environmental changes.\n\n''The fact that the mechanism of parthenogenesis is the same in so many different species suggests that it is a very ancient trait that has been inherited throughout the ages. So this supports the idea that dinosaurs could also reproduce this way.", "The blaze spread to four floors within the five-storey block of flats\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from a block of flats after a fire spread through three floors in south London.\n\nA witness reported seeing adults and children running from the five-storey building in Whitehorse Road, Croydon.\n\nAmbulance crews treated one man and one woman at the scene.\n\nSome 60 firefighters spent nearly two hours putting out the blaze, which started at 17:00 BST. London Fire Brigade said the cause was not yet known.\n\nTwo flats and two balconies on the first and second floors of the building were destroyed by fire. Most of a third-floor flat and balcony were also damaged.\n\nTwo people were treated at the scene by paramedics\n\nStation commander Chris Young said: \"Around 80 people left the building, thankfully uninjured.\n\n\"Road closures are expected to be in place for a number of hours this evening and we're urging people to avoid the local area.\"\n\nThe fire caused traffic queues in the area\n\nWitness Allan Brown, 44, who lives and works in Croydon, said: \"From where I was standing, which was quite close at one point, many residents, including children, could be seen running from the building's lower floor, with some residents trying to get back into the building.\n\n\"This was before the fire department arrived with the first two engines. There were residents leaving the building and trying to get back into it, but the blaze was very high.\n\n\"We had to clear the area due [to] the smoke that filled the area.\"\n\nThe LFB sent eight engines to the scene, with police and ambulance crews also responding.\n\nThe brigade said it received more than 40 calls about the fire, with crews from Croydon, Woodside, Wallington and surrounding fire stations deployed to the scene.\n\nAn LAS spokesperson said it sent an ambulance crew, an incident response officer and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team in response.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A huge dam in the Russian-occupied area of southern Ukraine has been breached, unleashing a flood of water downstream. So who benefits from this act of vandalism?\n\nWith both sides, Russia and Ukraine, blaming the other for breaching the dam, there are echoes of last year's unexplained Nordstream gas pipeline explosions. In both cases western suspicions have immediately fallen on Russia. But both times Moscow has responded with: \"It wasn't us. Why would we do this? This hurts us\".\n\nIn the case of the Kakhovka dam breach Russia can point to at least two ways it damages their own interests. The flooding of land downstream has forced it to evacuate troops as well as civilians eastwards, away from Kherson and the banks of the broad River Dnipro. This will provide some limited respite for Kherson's residents who have had to live with daily Russian artillery and missile strikes.\n\nSecondly, this could affect the water supply for Russian-occupied Crimea, an arid peninsula that relies on fresh water from a canal close to the breached dam. Since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 it has become a heavily fortified piece of land that both Russia and Ukraine claim as their own.\n\nBut the breaching of the Kakhovka dam needs to be seen in the wider context of the Ukraine war and more specifically in the light of Ukraine's summer counter-offensive, which shows signs of already being under way.\n\nIn order for this counter-offensive to succeed, it needs to break Russia's stranglehold over a swathe of territory it seized last year that connects Crimea to Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. If Ukraine can find a way to break through Russian defensive lines south of Zaporizhzhia and split that territory in two then it can isolate Crimea and achieve a major strategic victory.\n\nBut the Russians have learnt a lot of lessons since their full-scale invasion in February last year. They've looked at the map, worked out where Ukraine is most likely to attack and spent the last few months building truly formidable lines of fortifications to block any Ukrainian advance towards the Sea of Azov.\n\nIt's by no means certain that Ukraine was planning to send its forces around to the western side of those defences. The High Command in Kyiv sensibly keeps its cards close to its chest to keep Russia guessing.\n\nBut this action, whoever did it, now makes that option far more problematic.\n\nThe Dnipro was already a wide river by the time it reaches southern Ukraine and getting an armoured brigade across it, under Russian artillery, missile and drone fire would be extremely hazardous.\n\nWith the dam across it now breached and huge swathes of land downstream flooded the area on the left (eastern) bank opposite Kherson has effectively become a no-go area for Ukrainian armour.\n\nOne historical footnote is that Russia does have past form in this area. In 1941 Soviet troops blew up a dam over the same River Dnipro to block the advance of Nazi troops. Thousands of Soviet citizens are said to have perished in the ensuing floods.\n\nThe bottom line now though, is that whoever breached the Kakhovka dam this week has upset the strategic chessboard in southern Ukraine, forcing both sides to make a number of major adjustments and possibly delaying Ukraine's next move in its long-promised counter-offensive.", "Oxfam has apologised after posting an animation for Pride Month featuring a character in a \"hate group\" who some say resembles author JK Rowling.\n\nThe charity has denied the cartoon woman with red eyes and a \"Terf\" badge is based on the Harry Potter writer.\n\nIn trying to make a point about \"the real harm caused by transphobia\", Oxfam said it had \"made a mistake\".\n\nRowling has attracted controversy for voicing concerns about how transgender issues affect women's rights.\n\nOxfam has now removed the section featuring two angry men and a woman alongside fingers pointing at rainbow-coloured figures.\n\nAccompanying wording said \"LGBTQIA+ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex and asexual] people around the world\" were being \"preyed on by hate groups online and offline\".\n\nTerf (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) is a derogatory term for those considered hostile to transgender people.\n\nRowling has spoken against allowing trans women access to women-only spaces. But the author denies being transphobic and says she supports trans rights.\n\nOxfam has been criticised by both those offended at the original video and those who say the charity bowed to pressure by re-editing it.\n\nIts statement said: \"Oxfam believes that all people should be able to make decisions which affect their lives, enjoy their rights and live a life free of discrimination and violence, including people from LGBTQIA+ communities.\n\n\"In efforts to make an important point about the real harm caused by transphobia, we made a mistake.\n\n\"We have therefore edited the video to remove the term 'Terf' and we are sorry for the offence it caused.\n\n\"There was no intention by Oxfam or the film-makers for this slide to have portrayed any particular person or people.\n\n\"We fully support both an individual's rights to hold their philosophical beliefs and a person's right to have their identity respected, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics.\"", "A flooded residential area of Kherson today after the Kakhovka dam was breached Image caption: A flooded residential area of Kherson today after the Kakhovka dam was breached\n\nTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken to his counterparts in both Ukraine and Russia, and called for a joint investigation to establish the cause of the breach of the Kakhovka dam. Tens of thousands of people have been left at risk of flooding as a result of the incident.\n\nTurkey has attempted to play a mediator role during the Ukraine war.\n\nErdogan office says he told Russian President Vladimir Putin a comprehensive investigation was needed to establish how the dam was damaged. He suggested Turkey could establish an international commission to carry this out alongside the UN.\n\nErdogan earlier made the same proposal to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president. Zelensky's statement about the call does not mention the suggestion of a commission, and says they discussed \"the humanitarian and environmental consequences of the Russian act of terrorism\".\n\nUkraine's leader says he gave Erdogan a list of \"urgent needs to eliminate the disaster\", adding that Turkey's \"voice is important when it comes to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Ukrainian territory\".\n\nThe Kremlin has yet to release its own statement about the call, but has previously denied being responsible for the breach of the dam.", "The Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli is set to house up to 207 asylum seekers from 3 July\n\nAn MP and an opponent of plans to house hundreds of asylum seekers in a hotel have both voiced concerns about people's safety amid protests.\n\nThe Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, is set to house up to 207 asylum seekers from 3 July.\n\nMP Dame Nia Griffith appealed that nobody should be hurt and said hotel staff were under \"immense stress\".\n\nRobert Lloyd, of protest group Furnace Action Committee, said the situation was \"getting out of control\".\n\n\"We are trying to object on reasonable grounds but there are elements creeping into town which lead me to fear for people's safety,\" he said.\n\nMr Lloyd, who described his group's campaign as \"not racist or nimby (not in my back yard) in any way\", said he was concerned that \"commuter campaigners\" were coming into town and being \"threatening\".\n\n\"I worry that somebody's going to be hurt or even killed in all this because it's getting a little bit out of control,\" he told the BBC Radio Wales Phone-In.\n\n\"I can see particularly on social media some of the things that are being said; it's quite awful.\"\n\nRobert Lloyd said he had heard of a Christian group feeling \"threatened\" by right-wing groups in the area\n\nCarmarthenshire council, which has said it is \"firmly against\" the Home Office plan, has confirmed the hotel will accommodate up to 207 people across 77 rooms.\n\nOn Tuesday, five boulders appeared at the entrance, with a hotel manager - who did not want to be identified - and the local authority saying they did not know who was responsible.\n\nThe Furnace Action Committee denied involvement in placing the boulders, but said it hoped it would help the hotel \"see sense\".\n\nDame Nia said: \"What I would really stress to people is please don't let anybody get hurt.\n\n\"Please do not make it more difficult for the staff at this time, they're under immense stress with worries about their jobs,\" she told Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"People have the absolute right to express opinions and protest but think not to cause any accidents or cause any unnecessary stress on the wrong people.\"\n\nNo group has yet claimed responsibility for placing the boulders\n\nCarmarthenshire council leader Darren Price has previously said he was \"outraged\" the plan was going ahead.\n\n\"Even at this stage I call on the hotel owners, Sterling Woodrow, to reconsider their position and stop this from progressing,\" he said.\n\nLast week, a couple from Llanelli said the plan has caused them \"stress and sleepless nights\" after paying £2,000 towards their October wedding at the hotel.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"The number of people arriving in the UK who require accommodation has reached record levels and has put our asylum system under incredible strain.\n\n\"Under normal circumstances, someone seeking asylum in the UK would stay in a hostel-style accommodation, before being provided with longer term housing.\n\n\"Due to a backlog in asylum applications waiting a decision, has led to hotels like Stradey Park to be used.\"", "The BBC's James Waterhouse witnessed an emotional rescue in the city of Kherson, as people were evacuated through the flooded streets in dinghies.\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated after a dam collapsed by the Russian-controlled city of Nova Kakhovka.", "The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine are set to be put up for sale due to debts owed by their parent group.\n\nReceivers Alix Partners have now taken control of the group, and replaced the current owners, the Barclay family.\n\nThe receiver said it doesn't expect the changes to affect the operations of the papers, which are profitable.\n\nLender Lloyds Bank is unlikely to recover the original value of the loan, worth hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe bank has placed B.UK, a Bermuda-based holding company controlled by the Barclay family, into receivership.\n\nAlix Partners said on Wednesday that it has taken control of Telegraph Media Group, which owns the newspapers, and the company which runs The Spectator.\n\nFamily members Howard and Aidan Barclay have been removed as directors, it said.\n\nLloyds Banking Group said it \"regrettably\" had no choice other than to appoint receivers, but said \"it was willing to continue discussions to find a suitable solution.\"\n\n\"The decision... follows numerous discussions with B.UK's parent company, Penultimate Investment Holdings Limited (PIHL). The aim of these discussions, which were held over a long period and undertaken in good faith, had been to find a consensual solution and repayment of PIHL's borrowing to Bank of Scotland.\n\n\"Unfortunately, no agreement could be reached.\"\n\nWhile the bank remains open to returning the titles to the Barclays' control if the loans are repaid, it is likely that they will now move to a sale, and the investment bank Lazard has been appointed to start exploring options.\n\nLloyds and the receiver say they will not seek to influence the editorial decisions of the newspapers while in receivership.\n\nAnalysts estimate the titles to be worth around £500m, though a wealthy buyer keen to acquire the Telegraph as a trophy asset may pay in excess of that figure.\n\nFor the last few years the Telegraph's billionaire owners have consistently denied rumours that their newspapers could be sold.\n\nTwin brothers Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay bought Telegraph Media Group for £665m in 2004 from the company Hollinger, following the dismissal of its chairman Conrad Black.\n\nSir David died in 2021 and the business is now run by his son Aidan. Its interests stretch beyond the media and include the courier Yodel.\n\nSir David Barclay and his twin brother Sir Frederick collecting their knighthoods in 2000\n\nA spokesperson for the Barclays confirmed discussions with Lloyds Banking Group were \"ongoing\".\n\n\"We hope to come to an agreement that will satisfy all parties,\" they said. \"As Alix Partners made clear, this situation is in no way related to the financial health or performance of the Telegraph or Spectator businesses.\"\n\nThe Barclay family previously owned the Ritz hotel in London, before selling in 2020.\n\nThe sale of the iconic hotel exposed a bitter rift between the two brothers' families, including claims of commercial espionage over the bugging of business meetings.", "Tech minister Paul Scully has warned so-called \"Terminator-style\" risks to humanity from artificial intelligence (AI) should not be highlighted at the expense of the good it can do.\n\nLast week several firms warned AI could pose a threat to human existence.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is about to travel to the US where AI is one of the items he will be discussing.\n\nAI describes the ability of computers to perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence.\n\nWhen it came to AI, there was a \"dystopian point of view that we can follow here. There's also a utopian point of view. Both can be possible\", Mr Scully told the TechUK Tech Policy Leadership Conference in Westminster.\n\nA dystopia is an imaginary place in which everything is as bad as possible.\n\n\"If you're only talking about the end of humanity because of some, rogue, Terminator-style scenario, you're going to miss out on all of the good that AI is already functioning - how it's mapping proteins to help us with medical research, how it's helping us with climate change.\n\n\"All of those things it's already doing and will only get better at doing.\"\n\nThe government recently put out a policy document on regulating AI which was criticised for not establishing a dedicated watchdog, and some think additional measures may eventually needed to deal with the most powerful future systems .\n\nMarc Warner, a member of the AI Council, an expert body set up to advise the government, told BBC News last week a ban on the most powerful AI may be necessary.\n\nHowever, he argued that \"narrow AI\" designed for particular tasks, such as systems that look for cancer in medical images, should be regulated on the same basis as existing tech.\n\nResponding to reports on the possible dangers posed by AI, the prime minister's spokesperson said: \"We are not complacent about the potential risks of AI, but it also provides significant opportunities.\n\n\"We can not proceed with AI without the guard rails in place.\"\n\nLabour's shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell told the BBC that while there was a \"level of hysteria going on and that's certainly dominating the public debate at the moment, there are real opportunities with the development of a technology like AI\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"But we do have to think really carefully about the risks, make sure we've got good regulation in place.\"\n\nIt was also important that everyone benefited from the impact of AI and it \"doesn't just go to the big tech giants in the US as happened in the last technological revolution\".\n\nMs Powell earlier told the Guardian she felt AI should be licensed in a similar way to medicines or nuclear power, both of which had dedicated regulators.\n\nAI company OpenAI recently blogged that a global regulator like the International Atomic Energy Authority might be needed for super-intelligent AI.\n\nAt the same event, Microsoft president Brad Smith said the most powerful AIs may need safety licences to operate.\n\n\"Before a model can be deployed it will have to pass some some kind of safety review.\"\n\nMr Smith argued it would be better if there was international co-operation and a single model of regulation. He said that when it came to cyber and national security, the UK and US were well placed to work together.\n\nHe told reporters at the event that Microsoft would not join \"the fear parade\", adding it would be better to reduce some of the rhetoric and focus more on current problems.\n\nA number of other experts have also said focusing on sci-fi-like disaster scenarios is a distraction from current issues with AI, such as the risk of racial or gender biases in algorithms.", "Coldplay featured several Welsh acts during their first night at Cardiff's Principality Stadium\n\nA member of Bridgend Male Voice Choir said it was \"mindboggling\" to join Coldplay on stage to perform the Welsh national anthem.\n\nThe choir sang Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau towards the end of Tuesday's show at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.\n\nMeanwhile, singer-songwriter Hana Lili said it was \"such an honour\" to be a support act for the band.\n\nFans were also treated to a guest appearance from Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Chris Jones, one of the choir's performers said: \"We walked on and I couldn't stop grinning.\n\nChris Jones (front row, third from left) and his fellow choir members performed at a concert at National Museum Wales in December 2022\n\n\"I looked around at the 80,000 people and I couldn't stop laughing to myself and thinking 'what the heck am I doing here'.\"\n\nMr Jones said Chris Martin, the lead vocalist and guitarist of Coldplay, spoke Welsh several times on stage.\n\n\"He made the effort and he was wonderful.\"\n\nMr Jones said one of the chorister's sons went to university with Martin.\n\nColdplay often source their support acts from the area they are performing in\n\nHe said: \"They've kept in touch of the years, and he's always said 'if I do need a male voice choir I'll give Bridgend a ring'.\n\n\"He kept his word,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nKelly Jones of Welsh rockers Stereophonics was also a surprise performer at the show, playing the band's number one hit Dakota for the Cardiff crowd.\n\nKelly Jones joined Coldplay on stage last night to play Dakota\n\nHana Lili, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, was the first support act of the night, and told : \"It was so surreal, I still don't think it's quite sunk in yet.\n\n\"Sometimes I just catch myself and think 'that was absolutely insane'.\"\n\nShe said she almost did not reply to the email asking her to perform.\n\nHana Lili and her band were the support act for Coldplay\n\n\"I got an email from Coldplay's live team asking me if I wanted to support them in Cardiff,\" she said. \"At first my dad thought it was fake and told me to ignore it, saying it was one of those scams.\n\n\"I said I'll answer just in case, and I'm glad I did.\"\n\n\"I think it so brilliant that their ethos as a band is wherever they're going to they have a local support act.\"\n\nCommuters have been urged to plan their journeys ahead of the shows, with the M4 and surrounding roads expected to be very busy.\n\nColdplay were originally set to play a single night at the Principality Stadium, but a second night was added after overwhelming demand.\n\nThere will be a full city centre road closure from 16:00 BST to midnight on Wednesday.\n\nCardiff council said congested roads can be avoided by using its Park & Ride facility at the Cardiff City Stadium in Leckwith or the Park & Walk facility at County Hall, in Cardiff Bay.\n\nTransport for Wales and Great Western Railway are both running extra services after the concert.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess both died in hospital last Wednesday\n\nAll boat operations from Bournemouth Pier have been suspended \"as a precaution\" following the deaths of two children.\n\nThe council said the ban affected just one company, which operates the Dorset Belle sightseeing boat.\n\nThe vessel was impounded by police after the deaths of Joe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan, from Buckinghamshire.\n\nAn inquest heard a \"suggestion\" a riptide led to the pair drowning.\n\nThe council said the ban on boat operations would remain pending the outcome of a police investigation.\n\nThe Dorset Belle pleasure boat was seen on Friday morning being guarded by police\n\nDorset Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about the incident last Wednesday and dismissed speculation the pair had jumped from the pier.\n\nThe force said it was considering causes including the impact of weather conditions and the state of the water.\n\nThe incident involved 10 swimmers on a day when the beach was packed during half-term.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, the Dorset Belle sightseeing boat was impounded by police, but the force said it was \"just one of several lines of inquiry\".\n\nIt added that none of the swimmers were involved in any collision or contact with any vessel in the water.\n\nStephanie Williams (pictured with Sunnah) said she had lost her \"beautiful girl\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has said \"no formal investigation has been launched\" but it was continuing to make inquiries.\n\nIn a statement released earlier, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said all boat operations from the pier had been paused \"as a precaution\" while police continue to investigate.\n\n\"We are aware the investigation is complex and will consult with Dorset Police when the investigation is complete,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was \"on the water\" at the time, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nIn a hearing to open the inquest proceedings at Bournemouth Town Hall on Monday, Dorset coroner's officer Nicola Muller said post-mortem examinations identified drowning as the cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The brief circumstances are that emergency services were contacted by members of the public... following suggestion they had been caught in a riptide,\" she said.\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.\n\nJoe's family described him as \"a fabulous young man\", while Sunnah's mother Stephanie Williams posted on Twitter to pay tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\".\n\nShe wrote: \"No parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through. We love you so much baby girl.\"\n\nFriends of Joe Abbess (L-R) - Jack, Ben, Leo and Jack - paid tribute to the \"much-loved\" student\n\nSunnah's school described the 12-year-old as \"bold and happy\", whose personality \"resonated throughout the school\".\n\nBourne End Academy said in a statement: \"Her energetic character and fierce sense of loyalty meant that she had built strong and positive relationships with her peers and teachers. She will be enormously missed.\"\n\nTeachers at City College Southampton, where Joe was studying catering, said they were \"in tears\" over his death.\n\nHis friend and fellow student Ben said: \"Joe was kind of an inspiration to me. He was obviously very passionate about cooking. Head chef one day, for sure.\"\n\nAnother student Jack said: \"He was definitely the life of the kitchen. Bubbly, happy, trying to spread the cheeriness throughout the kitchen.\n\n\"Now I'm heartbroken. We all loved him so much.\"\n\nThe inquest was opened and adjourned for a pre-inquest review hearing on 18 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said \"eco-zealots\" from Just Stop Oil are \"writing Keir Starmer's energy policy\".\n\nLabour has pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK. Some unions have warned this risks creating a \"cliff-edge\" for jobs.\n\nDale Vince, a major donor to campaign group Just Stop Oil, has also given Labour more than £1.4m.\n\nLabour dismissed the idea Just Stop Oil influence policy, saying Sir Keir has condemned its protests.\n\nMr Vince's green energy firm Ecotricity, has donated more than £1.4m to Labour since 2014, according to filings to the Electoral Commission. He has also donated to the Green Party as well as given money to environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil.\n\nThere is no suggestion Just Stop Oil have funded Labour directly. But Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands has called for Labour to return donations, arguing it legitimises Just Stop Oil's tactics.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Washington DC, where he is due to meet President Biden, Mr Sunak said \"it does appear that these kind of eco-zealots at Just Stop Oil are writing Keir Starmer's energy policy\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"Not content with disrupting our summer and cherished sporting events, they are essentially leading us into an energy surrender.\n\n\"My view is we should focus on energy security, not weakness and dependency which seems to be the Labour Party's policy.\n\n\"They are putting ideology ahead of jobs, ahead of investment, and ahead of our energy security. I think that is wrong.\n\n\"It is a completely bizarre policy which says, 'we won't ban oil and gas; we will just ban British oil and gas'.\n\n\"The only people that benefit from Keir Starmer's energy policy are dictators and autocrats like Vladimir Putin.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is currently in Washington DC ahead of a meeting with US President Joe Biden\n\nLabour said that Sir Keir had been \"outspoken in his condemnation\" of Just Stop Oil, \"who he believes have put lives and livelihoods at risk\".\n\n\"The idea that they have influenced our policy is for the birds,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\n\"The modern Labour Party doesn't bow to fringe lobbies or extremists.\n\n\"Every position we take and everything we do is firmly focused on providing security and opportunity for hard working Brits.\"", "The deputy prime minister also said at PMQs: \"What do we have from the party opposite? Plans for an unfunded £28bn spending spree. And what would that do? Drive up borrowing, push up interest rates, adding £1,000 to everyone's mortgage.\"\n\nWe've asked Downing Street how he worked that out and have not yet heard back, but he may be referring to a report in Monday’s Daily Mail of Treasury analysis (that we have not seen) of Labour's plans to increase investment in the green economy.\n\nThe thrust of the analysis, according to the Mail, is that the Bank of England would increase interest rates in order to prevent extra government spending causing inflation.\n\nThe article’s sources say this could add 0.75 percentage points to the Bank of England’s rate, which in turn could feed through to mortgages.\n\nSuch an increase, if it happened, would add a little less than a £1,000 to the cost of the average outstanding mortgage, which is a bit less than £200,000.\n\nInterest rates have been going up over the last year as mortgage lenders reacted to global events, attempts to combat inflation and the government’s mini-Budget last Autumn.", "Oil and gas giant Shell has had some of its adverts banned for misleading claims about how clean its overall energy production is.\n\nThe ban applies to one TV advert, a poster displayed in Bristol and a YouTube ad, all shown in 2022.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled they all left out information on Shell's more polluting work with fossil fuels.\n\nShell said it \"strongly\" disagreed with the ASA's findings.\n\nThe adverts cannot be shown in their current form again, the ASA ruled.\n\nShell had stated that the ads were intended to raise awareness of the lower emissions energy products and services it is investing more money in.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the YouTube advert incorrectly gave the impression that low-carbon energy products made up a significant proportion of Shell's energy products, when in fact they did not.\n\nShell said that people who saw the adverts would already be well-informed of its operations and would mainly associate the brand with petrol sales.\n\nBut the ASA said the selection of ads were likely to mislead consumers as they \"misrepresented the contribution that lower-carbon initiatives played, or would play in the near future\" compared with the rest of the company's operations.\n\nOne of the banned advertisements was a poster shown in Bristol, with the text \"Bristol is ready for cleaner energy\". It included text quoting the number of homes in the South West of England which used renewable electricity. The ASA ruled the poster was misleading because it gave the impression that Shell as a whole was providing cleaner energy.\n\nThe ASA said Shell's poster gave the wrong impression that overall, Shell provided predominantly clean energy across its whole business\n\n\"We also considered that the emphasis the ads placed on \"Ready\", implied that lower-carbon energy products, like those shown in the ads, already comprised a significant proportion of the energy products Shell invested in and sold in the UK, or were likely to do so in the near future,\" the ASA said.\n\nA spokesperson for Shell said the ASA's decision \"could slow the UK's drive towards renewable energy\".\n\n\"No energy transition can be successful if people are not aware of the alternatives available to them. That is what our adverts set out to show, and that is why we're concerned by this short-sighted decision,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe ruling comes as the ASA is combatting companies overstating their environmental friendliness, known as \"corporate greenwashing\". Last year, it banned a Tesco plant-based burger ad, a Persil advert, and two HSBC adverts over their claims of environmental benefits, which the agency deemed \"misleading\".", "Warning: this article contains details that some readers may find distressing.\n\nDays after their rape, Megumi Okano says, they already knew the attacker would get away scot-free.\n\nMegumi, who uses they as a personal pronoun, knew the man who did it, and where to find him. But Megumi also knew there would be no case, because Japanese authorities were not likely to consider what happened as rape.\n\nSo the university student decided not to report the incident to the police.\n\n\"As I couldn't pursue [justice] that way, he got to live a free and easy life. It is painful to me,\" Megumi says.\n\nBut change may be coming. The Japanese parliament is now debating a landmark bill to reform the country's sexual assault laws, only the second such revision in a century.\n\nThe bill covers a number of changes, but the biggest and most significant one will see lawmakers redefine rape from \"forcible sexual intercourse\" to \"non-consensual sexual intercourse\" - effectively making legal room for consent in a society where the concept is still poorly understood.\n\nCurrent Japanese law defines rape as sexual intercourse or indecent acts committed \"forcibly\" and \"through assault or intimidation\", or by taking advantage of a person's \"unconscious state or inability to resist\".\n\nThis is at odds with many other countries which define it more broadly as any non-consensual intercourse or sexual act - where no means no.\n\nActivists argue that Japan's narrow definition has led to even narrower interpretations of the law by prosecutors and judges, setting an impossibly high bar for justice and fostering a culture of scepticism that deters survivors from reporting their attacks.\n\nIn a 2014 Tokyo case, for instance, a man had pinned a 15-year-old girl to a wall and had sex with her while she resisted. He was acquitted of rape as the court ruled his actions did not make it \"extremely difficult\" for her to resist. The teenager was treated as an adult because the age of consent in Japan is only 13 years - the lowest among the world's richest democracies.\n\n\"The actual trial processes and decisions vary - some defendants were not convicted even if their acts were proven to be non-consensual, as they did not meet the case of 'assault or intimidation',\" says Yuu Tadokoro, a spokesman for Spring, a sexual assault survivor group.\n\nIt's why Megumi says they did not go to the police after the assault by a fellow university student.\n\nAccording to Megumi, the two of them were watching TV together when he began making sexual advances towards Megumi, who said \"No\".\n\nThen, he attacked. The two \"wrestled\" for a while, says Megumi, before Megumi froze and gave up resisting. This well-documented response to an attack is sometimes not covered by the current law, according to activists.\n\nJapan's current law has long deterred women from reporting assault, activists say\n\nIn the days afterwards Megumi - a law student - pored through the penal code and case precedents and realised what had happened would not meet court standards of \"assault and intimidation\".\n\nThey had also heard of survivors experiencing victim blaming and \"second rape\" - where survivors are re-traumatised when encountering insensitivity from the police or hospital staff - in Japanese investigations.\n\n\"I did not want to go through that process [of an investigation] for my scarce hope of getting justice. That's why I didn't go to the police. I wasn't even sure whether my report would be accepted,\" they say.\n\nInstead, Megumi says, they went to the university's harassment counselling centre, which launched an investigation and ruled the attacker had committed rape.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC, the centre refused to comment on the case, citing confidentiality.\n\nBy the time the investigation concluded, the attacker had graduated - so he suffered little consequences apart from receiving a warning, says Megumi. \"I felt disappointed that I could not make this person properly regret his action through criminal procedure.\"\n\nMegumi is not alone. In Japan only a third of cases recognised as rape result in prosecutions, slightly lower than the general criminal prosecution rate.\n\nBut there has been a growing public clamour for change.\n\nIn 2019, the Japanese public was enraged when a series of four sexual assault cases, each resulting in the acquittal of the alleged attacker, emerged within a month.\n\nIn one case in Fukuoka, a man had sex with a woman who'd passed out drunk - which could be considered as sexual assault in other places. The court heard the woman took part for the first time at a regular drinking session at a restaurant.\n\nAccording to reports, the man said he thought \"men could easily engage in sexual behaviour\" at the event, which was known for its sexual permissiveness, and others who witnessed the incident did not stop him. He also assumed the woman gave consent because at one point during intercourse she had opened her eyes and \"uttered noises\".\n\nIn another case in Nagoya, where a father had sex with his teenage daughter repeatedly over many years, the court doubted he had \"completely dominated\" his daughter because she went against her parents' wishes in picking a school to attend, even though a psychiatrist testified she was generally psychologically incapable of resisting her father.\n\nFollowing the public outcry, most of these cases were re-tried and the attackers were found guilty. A nationwide campaign, known as the Flower Demo, was launched by activists to show solidarity with sexual assault survivors.\n\nActivists say this, along with the burgeoning #MeToo movement and journalist Shiori Ito's landmark victory, helped to spur the national conversation on sexual assault and moved the needle on legal reform.\n\nAs part of the redefinition of rape, the new law explicitly sets out eight scenarios where it is difficult for the victim to \"form, express, or fulfil an intention not to consent\".\n\nThey include situations where the victim is intoxicated with alcohol or drugs; or subject to violence or threats; or is \"frightened or astonished\". Another scenario appears to describe an abuse of power, where the victim is \"worried\" they would face disadvantages if they do not comply.\n\nThe age of consent will also rise to 16 years, and the statute of limitations will be extended.\n\nSome rights groups have called for more clarity on the scenarios, saying they are too ambiguously worded. They also fear that they make it more difficult for prosecutors to prove the charges. Others have said the statute of limitations should be extended even further, and that there should be more protection for survivors who are minors.\n\nNevertheless, if passed, the reforms would mark a victory for those who have long lobbied for change.\n\n\"The very fact that they are changing even the title of this law, we are hoping that people will start this conversation in Japan on: What is consent? What does non-consent mean?\" says Kazuko Ito, vice-president of the Tokyo-based Human Rights Now\n\nBut time is running out. The upper house of the Diet, Japan's parliament, must pass the new law by 21 June, but it is currently embroiled in a debate over immigration.\n\nMissing that deadline would throw the sex assault reforms into uncertainty. Activists last week denounced the delay as \"unacceptable\" and called on lawmakers to take action immediately.\n\nBut the reforms address only one part of the problem, say activists, whose call for change stretches well beyond the courtroom.\n\nSexual assault is still a taboo subject in Japan and has gained national attention only in recent years in the wake of high-profile cases such as Shiori Ito's court battle, former member of the Self Defence Force and sexual assault survivor Rina Gonoi's public statements, and the Johnny Kitagawa expose.\n\nPart of the problem, Kazuko Ito says, is that generations of Japanese have grown up with \"a distorted idea of sex and sexual consent\".\n\nOn the one hand, sex education is usually taught in a veiled and modest way, and consent is hardly touched upon. And yet, Ms Ito says, Japanese children have easy access to porn where an all too common trope is of a woman enjoying having sex against her will.\n\nScenes from a 2019 protest following string of rape acquittals\n\nJapan should offer more financial and psychological support for sexual assault survivors, says lawyer and rights advocate Sakura Kamitani.\n\nBut the attackers should also receive help, she adds. \"Sex crimes have such a high recidivism rate, we must focus on prevention, otherwise there would be more and more victims.\"\n\nBut the more important task at hand now, activists say, is ensuring the reforms are passed and enacted, encouraging survivors to report cases.\n\n\"If this becomes a superficial change and doesn't actually save victims, it would be devastating to people,\" says Ms Ito.\n\nMegumi says they would consider reporting their attack to the police if the law changes - but not immediately.\n\n\"I kind of succeeded in settling my feelings already. I think it is too hard to put myself into that serious position of the 'first penguin',\" they say, using a Japanese term for the first person to take the plunge into something new.\n\nInstead Megumi, who identifies as gender-fluid, is focusing on campaigning for sexual assault survivors and sexual minority rights, and hopes to start a law firm to help these groups.\n\n\"I am relieved that I now see some hope. Many are starting to realise that the current situation we are in is distorted and wrong.\n\n\"I believe things are going to change faster and more significantly than we think, if everyone joins in and works together. My message [to everyone] is: 'If you think something is wrong, let's change it together.'\"\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArgentina legend Lionel Messi will join American side Inter Miami after his exit from French champions Paris St-Germain.\n\nMessi, 35, had a more lucrative offer from Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal while a return to Barcelona became an impossibility because of Financial Fair Play (FFP) limitations.\n\n\"I've taken the decision that I am going to Miami,\" Messi told newspapers Diario Sport and Mundo Deportivo.\n\nHe added: \"It's true that I had offers from another European team but I didn't even think about it because in Europe, my idea was only to go to Barcelona.\n\n\"After winning the World Cup and not being able to go to Barca, it's time to go to MLS to live football in a different way and enjoy my day to day life more.\n\n\"Obviously with the same responsibility and desire to win, and to do things well, but with more calm.\"\n\nThe ex-Barcelona forward was keen on a return to the Catalan club this summer but the FFP limitations that will be in place for next season in La Liga made any ambitious plan to bring him back an impossibility.\n\nThe Spanish club were unable to keep Messi in 2021, leading to a tearful news conference as he left the Nou Camp and signed for PSG.\n\n\"I was afraid that it would happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"I really wanted, I was very excited to be able to return [to Barcelona], but after having experienced what I experienced and the exit I had, I did not want to be in the same situation again - waiting to see what was going to happen.\n\n\"I heard that they had to sell players or lower players' salaries and the truth is that I didn't want to go through that, nor take charge of obtaining something that had to do with all that.\"\n\nBarcelona later released a statement saying Messi had chosen a Miami move over an offer from the Catalan club.\n\n\"President [Joan] Laporta understood and respected Messi's decision to want to compete in a league with fewer demands, further away from the spotlight and the pressure he has been subject to in recent years,\" it added.\n\nThe Miami deal includes collaboration from brands like Adidas and Apple.\n\nMessi won the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player seven times and is expected to win it later this year after World Cup success.\n\nThis is the first time Barcelona icon Messi has played outside Europe.\n• None Quiz: How well do you know Messi?\n\nWith a Barcelona return failing to materialise, he had the straight choice between Inter Miami or Al-Hilal.\n\nHe was heavily tipped to be favouring a move to Saudi Arabia, where he would have joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema in the league in a deal that could not be matched financially.\n\nBut Messi was ultimately tempted to Major League Soccer (MLS) side Inter Miami for a variety of reasons including lifestyle, and a deal with big brands that extends beyond football.\n\nHe already owns a house in Miami, which he rents out.\n\nParis St-Germain won Ligue 1 in both his seasons at the club but went out in the Champions League last 16, which means his time in France was not seen as a huge success.\n\nHe netted 32 goals in 75 games for the club - and ended this season with 16 goals and 16 assists in Ligue 1.\n\nMessi's two-year contract comes to an end this summer and both parties agreed to go their separate ways, with the forward suspended for two weeks in May for an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia.\n\nHis legacy comes from his time at Barcelona and winning the World Cup with Argentina in December.\n\nHe left Barca in 2021, after 21 years with the club, because of the club's financial problems.\n\nMessi is Barcelona's record scorer with 672 goals and won 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and seven Spanish Cups.\n\n'If it was about money I'd have gone to Saudi'\n\nMessi said he had chatted with close friend Xavi, the Barcelona manager, about returning to the club but \"very little, once or twice at most\" with president Joan Laporta.\n\n\"We were very excited, because when something came out we would discuss if he really wanted me to come back, if it was good for the team and for him, and we kept in communication,\" Messi said.\n\n\"We never even got to talk about the contract. A proposal was passed over, but never a formal, written, signed proposal, because there was still nothing and we did not know if it was going to be possible or not.\n\n\"There was the intention, but we couldn't advance anything, we didn't even talk about money formally.\n\n\"If it had been a matter of money I would have gone to Saudi Arabia or elsewhere.\"\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "GPs in England may start offering weight-loss jabs to some patients to reduce obesity-related illnesses and resultant pressure on hospitals.\n\nWegovy was approved for NHS use after research suggested users could shed over 10% of their body weight.\n\nThe drug blunts appetite, so users feel full and eat less.\n\nRishi Sunak said it could be a \"game-changer\" as he announced a £40 million pilot scheme to increase access to specialist weight management services.\n\nBut experts warn \"skinny jabs\" - widely used in the US and endorsed by many celebrities - are not a quick fix or a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise.\n\nIn trials, users often put weight back on after stopping treatment.\n\nSimilar injections, such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, which work in much the same way as Wegovy but are designed to treat diabetes, have not yet been approved for NHS use specifically for weight loss.\n\nNHS drugs watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), says patients can access Wegovy for a maximum of two years via specialist weight-management services.\n\nThese are largely hospital based, meaning only about 35,000 have access, but the government says tens of thousands more could be eligible - although the UK has no supply of the drug yet.\n\nThe new scheme will test how GPs could safely prescribe such drugs and the NHS provide support in the community or digitally, contributing to the government's wider ambition to reduce pressure on hospitals and give patients access to the care they need where it is most convenient for them.\n\nSemaglutide injections will be approved under NICE guidance\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Obesity puts huge pressure on the NHS.\n\n\"Using the latest drugs to support people to lose weight will be a game-changer by helping to tackle dangerous obesity-related health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer.\"\n\nProfessor Kamila Hawthorne, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, welcomed the move but said there would need to be \"sufficient resource and funding to account for the increased workload\".\n\nShe added that there also needs to be enough of the drug available \"so as not to raise patients' expectations, as there may be a significant number of people who would benefit from it\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Health Secretary Steve Barclay pointed to the impact obesity has on rates of cancer and diabetes.\n\nHe continued: \"We recognise it's often a real challenge for people to lose weight or keep the weight off, and that's why we're embracing the latest medication and making sure the NHS is at the front of the queue.\"\n\nMr Barclay also said there could be \"potential economic benefits\" from reducing the numbers of people absent from work because of health issues linked to obesity.\n\nThe government says obesity costs the NHS in England £6.5 billion a year, with more than one million hospital admissions linked to obesity in 2019-20.\n\nMore than 12 million adults in England are obese, estimates suggest.\n\nAnd some High Street chemists are set to sell Wegovy to customers, prescribing and dispensing a weekly jab they can inject themselves using pre-filled pen devices.\n\nAs with any medication, there can be side-effects and risks.\n\nThe most common are nausea or an upset stomach, bloating and gas.\n\nNHS medical director Prof Sir Stephen Powis said: \"Pharmaceutical treatments offer a new way of helping people with obesity gain a healthier weight and this new pilot will help determine if these medicines can be used safely and effectively in non-hospital settings as well as a range of other interventions we have in place.\"\n\nHe said NHS England was negotiating with the manufacturer to secure long-term supplies at prices representing value for money for taxpayers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Chris Mason asks Rishi Sunak if he has something to hide from the Covid inquiry\n\nRishi Sunak says he is not worried about being embarrassed by messages seen by the Covid inquiry, despite a legal wrangle over their disclosure.\n\nThe government has taken the unprecedented step of suing the inquiry over its demands to see unredacted WhatsApps sent during pandemic.\n\nBut the prime minister insisted he was being transparent in his approach.\n\nHe added that he was personally providing information, and it was taking up \"a lot of my own time\".\n\nThe inquiry has asked to see unredacted messages on former prime minister Boris Johnson's phone, between him and around 40 politicians and officials, including Mr Sunak.\n\nBut the government says some of them are not relevant to the inquiry's work, and could compromise individuals' privacy if handed over unredacted.\n\nLast week, it launched legal action against the inquiry over its demands to see the unredacted WhatsApps, as well as Mr Johnson's notebooks.\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Chris Mason during a two-day trip to the United States, Mr Sunak said he could not comment on the specifics as the case was ongoing.\n\nBut he insisted the government had acted with \"candour and transparency\", including disclosing more than 55,000 documents so far, with \"more to come\".\n\nAsked directly whether he was worried about something coming out that would embarrass him personally, he replied: \"No, not at all.\n\n\"I as well am co-operating and providing information to the inquiry,\" he added. \"It's actually taking a lot of my own time, and that's right that I do that.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner questioned his response, writing on Twitter: \"So why are you taking legal action to hide them [the messages]?\"\n\nThe inquiry, set up in May 2021, is investigating the government's handling of the pandemic and is due to begin public hearings next week.\n\nMr Johnson has said he is happy to hand over unredacted WhatsApps on his phone dating back to May 2021, around a year into the pandemic response.\n\nHe says he is unable to hand over messages prior to that point, because the messages were on his old phone, which he changed for security reasons.\n\nHowever, he has said he is happy to co-operate with security officials to find a way to ensure the messages are passed to the inquiry.\n\nOn Tuesday, a lawyer for the Covid inquiry said it had written to the Cabinet Office to get hold of the old device and confirm how it will be \"accessed fully\".\n\nThe prime minister laid a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery earlier on the first day of his trip to Washington DC\n\nElsewhere in his BBC interview, Mr Sunak said it was too early for a \"definitive answer\" about who was responsible for damage to the Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied Ukraine, with British security officials continuing their investigations.\n\nBut he added if Russia was found to be responsible, it would fit with a \"pattern of behaviour\" it had displayed throughout the war to \"deliberately attack\" civilian infrastructure.\n\nUkraine has blamed Russia for the collapse of the dam, which has prompted the evacuation of thousands of people. Moscow has denied responsibility, instead blaming Ukrainian shelling.\n\nMr Sunak also said the UK should \"have confidence\" in its ability to act as a global leader in regulating artificial intelligence (AI), a topic he is set to discuss with President Biden at a White House meeting on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister is hoping to put post-Brexit UK in the driving seat of efforts to set new global rules for the emerging technology.\n\nSome experts have questioned the extent to which the UK will be able to shape new global rules outside the European Union, with the UK now shut out of key gatherings between European and American regulators such as the Tech and Trade Council.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the level of AI investment in the UK, and the quality of British research, meant it could \"shape the conversation\" on future rules.\n\n\"Other than the US, there's no other democratic country that has that strength in AI,\" he argued.", "Police Scotland said they were trying to establish the full circumstances of the death at St Kentigern's Academy\n\nA school says it has been devastated by the death of a 14-year-old boy after an \"isolated incident\" on its grounds.\n\nEmergency services were called to St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian, on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nPolice officers were sent to the school at about 13:20. The S3 pupil, who has not been named, was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nPolice Scotland said inquiries were ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the death.\n\nIn a statement, St Kentigern's Academy said it was an \"isolated incident within the school grounds\".\n\nIt added: \"All parents of pupils directly affected have been contacted and we are assisting the relevant authorities with their ongoing inquiries.\n\nHead teacher Andrew Sharkey said the school community was \"devastated to learn of the tragic death of one of our pupils\".\n\nHe said: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with their family and friends and we extend our deepest condolences and offers of support.\n\n\"We would like to respect the family's privacy at this incredibly painful time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Head teacher Andrew Sharkey said \"thoughts and prayers\" are with the pupil's family and friends\n\nMr Sharkey told BBC Scotland that the school - where singers Lewis Capaldi and Susan Boyle are former pupils - remained open and pupils were being supported.\n\nHe said: \"We deal with it as a community, we provide support, we look after them and we make sure they are always as safe as we can make them.\"\n\nScotland's Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said: \"My heartfelt sympathies go out to the family and friends of this pupil, and all of the students and staff at the school affected by this terrible news.\"\n\nLinlithgow and East Falkirk MP Martyn Day offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family and friends.\n\nHe added: \"I would ask everyone to respect the family's privacy whilst a full investigation takes place into this tragic incident.\"", "A student and his stepfather were killed and five others injured in a shooting at a high school graduation ceremony in Virginia.\n\nPolice identified a 19-year-old suspect as the gunman and said they believed the attack was \"targeted\".\n\nThe shooting outside the Altria Theater in Richmond sent hundreds of people, many of them wearing graduation gowns, running for safety on Tuesday evening.\n\n\"It was obviously chaos,\" the city's police chief said. \"People scattered.\"\n\nRenzo Smith, 36, was celebrating the graduation of his 18-year-old stepson, Sean D Jackson, when the gunman opened fire. Both men were killed.\n\nA nine-year-old girl who is \"related to the family\" was also hit by a car during the ensuing chaos, police said. She was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nThe suspect, identified as Omari Pollard, 19, was arraigned in court and faces two counts of second degree murder, officials said at a news conference on Wednesday. Police believe the shooting was \"targeted\" and the \"result of an ongoing dispute\".\n\nOfficers did not fire their weapons when apprehending the suspect and several guns were recovered from the scene.\n\nPolice said all five victims injured in the attack have recovered and are in \"non-life-threatening condition\".\n\n\"A day that should have been a moment of joy and celebration with friends and family was taken away in seconds and lives changed forever,\" said Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. \"Our city, our community, will not be defined by this violence.\"\n\nThe gunman opened fire in Monroe Park, which is directly opposite the theatre, shortly after the ceremony for Huguenot High School had finished at around 17:15 (21:15 GMT).\n\nFamilies and graduates were leaving the theatre, which is near the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, when at least eight shots rang out.\n\nPeople ran to escape, some carrying young children and babies, while others sought cover in nearby buildings. Graduates hugged and cried when they were reunited after the attack.\n\nAs well as those who were shot, police said another 12 people were injured in the rush or treated for anxiety due to the chaos.\n\n\"This should have been a safe space. People should have felt safe at a graduation,\" said interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards.\n\n\"It's just incredibly tragic that someone decided to bring a gun to this incident and rain terror on our community,\" he said.\n\nSuperintendent of Richmond Public Schools Jason Kamras said the attack occurred on what was \"supposed to be a joyous day when our kids walk the stage and get their diploma\".\n\n\"I don't have any more words on this, I'm tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot and I beg the entire community to stop,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richmond mayor: 'Day of joy changed in seconds and life's changed forever'", "A jury has been shown the moment when a Met Police sergeant was shot with an antique revolver in a custody holding cell in south London.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25, denies killing Matiu Ratana, 54, with a gun concealed in an underarm holster at Croydon Custody Centre in 2020.\n\n\"Louis De Zoysa pulled the trigger on purpose four times,\" prosecutors said.\n\nDuncan Penny KC added Mr De Zoysa \"injured himself with the fourth shot\".\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Ratana, who was also known as Matthew and was the on-duty custody sergeant, was killed while Mr De Zoysa was handcuffed in a holding cell.\n\nMr Penny KC told the jury Mr De Zoysa bought the antique gun at an auction in June 2020, that it was legal to own, and he had made his own bullets because ammunition for it was no longer manufactured.\n\nOfficers who arrested and searched Mr De Zoysa earlier in the day \"did not find\" he was carrying a loaded revolver in a holster, the court heard.\n\nMr Penny KC told Northampton Crown Court: \"The prosecution say Louis De Zoysa pointed his gun at Sgt Ratana\", and that he \"pulled the trigger on purpose twice when he was pointing the gun at Sgt Ratana\".\n\n\"There is CCTV footage and other video of what happened,\" he added.\n\nMr De Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020, the court heard\n\n\"The video and the audio shows Louis De Zoysa killing Matthew Ratana,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nOn the opening day of the case on Tuesday, the court heard the fourth shot hit Mr De Zoysa in the neck, causing him to suffer brain damage.\n\nAs a result, he will be assisted by an intermediary during his trial and uses a whiteboard because of communication difficulties, the jurors were told.\n\n\"I am going to be talking in short sentences and simple words,\" Mr Penny KC told the court on Wednesday. \"This is so that Louis De Zoysa can understand what I am saying.\"\n\nThe prosecution opened their case by recounting the events that led up to the shooting.\n\nIt told the jury that: \"On Friday 25 September 2020, Louis de Zoysa was walking along London Road, in Norbury.\"\n\nHe was stopped by the police and searched by officers on the street and handcuffed, the prosecution told jurors, who were also shown the officers' body-worn camera footage.\n\n\"The police officers found that Louis De Zoysa was carrying cannabis and seven rounds of ammunition but the police officers did not find that Louis De Zoysa was carrying a loaded revolver in a holster.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana suffered a fatal injury to his heart and lung\n\n\"The gun and holster were probably concealed under one of his armpits,\" the court was told\n\nMr De Zoysa, who was 23 at the time, was then taken to Croydon Police Station and put in a holding room, still handcuffed.\n\nJurors were told: \"Louis De Zoysa kept the gun hidden and was able to point the gun at Sgt Ratana,\" who was on duty.\n\n\"He deliberately shot Sgt Ratana, once to the chest, at very close range. He did not give a warning.\"\n\nThe court heard the other officers present were not able to stop Mr De Zoysa, and the shot caused a fatal injury to Sgt Ratana's left lung and heart. The prosecution says this was \"deliberate\".\n\nThree further shots, including the one that injured Mr De Zoysa, were fired during a struggle with the other officers, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution alleges: \"The second shot was another deliberate shot at Sgt Ratana.\" That hit the officer in the leg.\n\nThe third shot hit the cell.\n\nThe prosecution told the court Mr De Zoysa \"must have been able to get hold of the gun after he was arrested and before he left the police van\".\n\nThe court has previously been told Mr De Zoysa has an autistic spectrum condition.\n\nDefence barrister Imran Khan KC told jurors: \"Louis De Zoysa says he did not mean to or want to kill Sgt Ratana, or to cause him really serious harm.\n\n\"Louis De Zoysa says that he is not guilty of murder.\n\n\"The reason Louis De Zoysa says he is not guilty of murder is because at the time he was suffering from an abnormality of mental function.\n\n\"The abnormality of mental function that Louis De Zoysa was suffering was an autistic meltdown.\"\n\nMr De Zoysa, of Banstead, Surrey, has pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A left-wing Labour politician has accused her party of running an unfair selection after she lost a contest to be the candidate for a new seat.\n\nFellow MP Gerald Jones defeated Beth Winter in the selection for the new constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon.\n\nMs Winter said the process, which had no in-person hustings, was \"unjust\" and accused the party of placing \"unacceptable obstacles\" in her way.\n\nThe two constituencies Ms Winter and Mr Jones currently represent - Cynon Valley, and Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney - are due to be scrapped under UK boundary changes.\n\nGerald Jones is a frontbencher in Keir Starmer's Labour party, as shadow Wales Office minister.\n\nMeanwhile Beth Winter is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of left-wing Labour MPs, and had been a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Winter said she sought reselection \"as Labour's candidate on a platform of solidarity with striking rail workers, nurses, and teaching staff, all of who I have been proud to stand with on the picket line\".\n\n\"However, unacceptable obstacles were placed in the way of this grassroots campaign, undermining the democratic process,\" she said.\n\n\"The online-only process was bulldozed through in just two weeks, with no face-to-face hustings.\n\n\"This was not a fair contest, and I will be taking advice and soundings in the days ahead about my next steps.\"\n\nBeth Winter previously called the selection process undemocratic and wanted it to be paused\n\nMr Jones said: \"I'm incredibly grateful that Labour members have chosen me to be their candidate for Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon.\n\n\"This contest was only needed due to Tory changes to parliamentary boundaries and it's regrettable that members were forced to choose between myself and Beth Winter.\n\n\"That so many members took part in the selection process, is a sign of active political engagement.\"\n\nBBC Wales reported last month that First Minister Mark Drakeford had voiced support at the party's Welsh executive for a longer contest with in-person hustings.\n\nGerald Jones has represented Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney since 2015\n\nA Welsh Labour spokesperson said: \"Congratulations to Gerald Jones on his selection today.\n\n\"Thanks to him, fellow candidate Beth Winter and all members across the new constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon for taking part in the selection process. \"It is regrettable that the boundary review meant two sitting Welsh Labour MPs have been forced to stand against one another.\n\n\"The selection procedure was designed to give all members across the new seat a chance to take part in selecting their candidate and as a result we saw a very high turnout.\"\n\nA Labour source said that the selection process had been over three weeks \"from start to finish\", there had been a \"very high\" turnout of voters and all party members had been written to.\n\nMembers unable to vote online were given the chance to cast a proxy postal vote, the source added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorna Slater says 'no option but to delay' Deposit Return Scheme\n\nThe deposit return scheme in Scotland is to be delayed until October 2025 at the earliest.\n\nThe flagship recycling scheme was supposed to launch in March next year.\n\nBut Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater said she had been left with no choice after the UK government excluded glass from the Scottish scheme.\n\nShe said she remained committed to introducing the recycling scheme - although it will be more limited than originally intended.\n\nThe delay means that the Scottish scheme is likely to launch at the same time as similar proposals for other parts of the UK - as many retailers and drinks companies had been calling for.\n\nWhen it is finally introduced, the deposit return scheme (DRS) will see a 20p charge placed on drinks containers which would be refunded to consumers when they return the bottles and cans in a bid to increase recycling levels.\n\nLarger stores, shopping centres and community hubs will operate reverse vending machines for people to return their containers.\n\nMs Slater said: \"The overwhelming feedback from producers, retailers and hospitality is that they cannot prepare for a March launch based on the changes being required by the UK government without any certainty even about what those changes would be\".\n\nShe added: \"As of today, it is now clear that we have been left with no other option than to delay the launch of Scotland's DRS until October 2025 at the earliest based on the UK government's current stated aspirations.\n\n\"I remain committed to interoperable DRS schemes across the UK provided that we can work in a spirit of collaboration not imposition.\n\n\"Scotland will have a deposit return scheme. It will come later than need be. It will be more limited than it should be and more limited than parliament voted for\".\n\nMs Slater is a co-leader of the Scottish Greens, and has a ministerial post under her party's power sharing agreement with the SNP in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nKat Jones, director of Action to Protect Rural Scotland, which has campaigned for a DRS, said: \"This is a bleak day for anyone who cares about Scotland's litter crisis, or indeed the global climate crisis.\"\n\nShe also raised doubts about whether the UK government will be able to introduce a DRS for England by October 2025 - describing that date as being \"at best provisional\".\n\nThe scheme is now likely to launch at the same time as similar proposals for other parts of the UK\n\nThe UK government approved a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act for the Scottish deposit scheme last week, but said glass bottles would need to be excluded.\n\nIt said this was to bring Scotland into line with similar schemes that are due to launch in England and Northern Ireland in October 2025, which will also not include glass.\n\nThe exemption means that the Scottish deposit return scheme would only be allowed to cover PET plastic, aluminium and steel cans.\n\nGlass is still included in proposals for a Welsh scheme, with the Welsh government having not yet asked for an exemption.\n\nCircularity Scotland, the company set up to run the Scottish DRS, said there was no reason why it could not launch in March 2024 without including glass and that it was \"disappointed\" by Ms Slater's announcement.\n\nIts chief executive, David Harris, said: \"Further delaying the introduction of DRS will hinder Scotland's progress towards net zero and mean that billions of drinks containers continue to end up as waste.\"The board of Circularity Scotland will now consider the impact of this announcement and our immediate priority will be communicating with our people. We will provide further updates in due course.\"\n\nSeveral major retailers and drinks companies, including Tesco and Tennents, had already called for Scotland to join a UK-wide initiative rather than introduce its own scheme a year earlier than everyone else.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the announcement was the \"final admission that Scotland's deposit return scheme has met its inevitable demise\".\n\nIts Scotland policy chairman, Andrew McRae, said: \"The delay until a UK-wide scheme has taken shape will give much-needed breathing space for the small producers and retailers who have spent months wrestling with the implications of DRS for their operations.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, welcomed the announcement that the Scottish scheme would now start at the same time as the UK government's proposals were introduced.\n\nHe added: \"Deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the whole of the UK, to provide a simple and effective system for businesses and consumers.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the Scottish government, and the other devolved administrations, on a UK-wide deposit return solution.\"\n\nMs Slater had to apply for an exemption to the Internal Market Act because of UK government concerns that the Scottish scheme would effectively introduce trade barriers in different parts of the UK if it was introduced first and had different rules to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish Licensed Trader's Association has previously likened Ms Slater's approach to \"building a 20-storey skyscraper then applying for retrospective planning permission\".\n\nMs Slater revealed last month that businesses in Scotland have spent about £300m preparing for the introduction of the DRS, and there have been suggestions that many could seek compensation from the government now that it will not be introduced until much later than anticipated.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the Scottish DRS had \"already failed long before any intervention from the UK government\" and that a great deal of time and effort could have been saved if the SNP and Greens had listened businesses calling for a UK-wide approach.\n\nScottish Labour MSP Boyack accused the Scottish and UK governments of being \"more interested in a constitutional fight\" than making the recycling scheme work, and said Scotland was \"paying the price for two bad governments\".\n\nThe DRS was originally due to launch in Scotland in July of last year but had already been delayed twice amid concern about its implementation from many businesses which would be affected.\n\nWe now have confirmation of what was starting to feel inevitable. Scotland's deposit return scheme won't start next March - it will be operating by October 2025 at the earliest.\n\nThe logic behind that date is that it's when the UK government wants to have its own scheme.\n\nThere's been a long-running argument about glass being excluded from the Scottish scheme. But this, Lorna Slater told MSPs, was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nShe argued that more \"sabotage\" came via other UK government conditions: such as one administration fee and one logo for the schemes that will (eventually) operate across all of the UK.\n\nBut this is about more than how beer bottles, cartons and juice cans are recycled. This is about how devolution works.\n\nScottish ministers feel that the UK government has thwarted plans to introduce legislation in an area where they have responsibility.\n\nThe UK government argues that their approach is sensible. If all UK schemes are to align at a later point, then they say they have to ensure certain conditions are put into place in Scotland now.\n\nMany businesses may be less concerned with who's to blame, and more concerned with the money and time spent preparing for a project that's now been kicked into the long grass.", "Long security queues at Heathrow were last seen during the pandemic\n\nSecurity officers at Heathrow airport will take part in a fresh wave of strikes this summer that could affect travellers at the UK's busiest airport.\n\nAbout 2,000 officers who are members of the Unite union will walk out for 31 days between 24 June and 27 August.\n\nTerminals 3 and 5 and checks for non-passengers will be affected and the action could spark queues at security.\n\nUnite described it as \"a major escalation\" in its pay dispute with the airport.\n\nIt said workers had rejected a \"below inflation pay offer of 10.1%\", while noting that the higher rate of inflation, RPI, is now 11.4%.\n\nPrevious strikes have appeared to have little impact on passengers due to Heathrow's contingency measures, but the fresh wave of strikes will include Terminal 3 workers for the first time.\n\nHeathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world and people from all over the UK could be affected.\n\nThe strikes could lead to longer queues going through security, but it is unclear at the moment whether any airlines will cancel flights, says the BBC's transport correspondent Katy Austin.\n\nThe walkouts coincide with busy times for travel including the Eid festival (28, 29 and 30 June), the beginning of the school holidays (21, 22, 23 and 24 July) and the August bank holiday (24, 25, 26 and 27 August).\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said it will do \"everything\" it can to minimise disruption during the strikes.\n\n\"Unite has already tried and failed to disrupt the airport with unnecessary strikes on some of our busiest days and we continue to build our plans to protect journeys during any future action.\n\n\"The simple fact remains that the majority of colleagues do not support Unite's strikes. There is a two-year inflation-beating pay rise ready for colleagues, if only Unite would allow them to have a say\".\n\nThey added that talks to resolve the dispute with Unite would continue.\n\nThe strikes come as Heathrow is struggling to recover from the impact of the pandemic. The airport's operator recorded a £139m loss in the first three months of this year.\n\nBut Unite's Sharon Graham said: \"This is an incredibly wealthy company, which this summer is anticipating bumper profits and an executive pay bonanza\", adding that the airport had \"got its priorities all wrong\".\n\nBorder Force staff at Heathrow who are members of the PCS union held a series of separate walkouts this year, prompting the government to bring in military personnel to staff entry gates.\n\nHundreds of thousands of workers in several UK industries have been holding strikes since last summer.\n\nMost are demanding improvements to terms and conditions and for pay to match the cost of living, which is rising at its fastest rate in nearly 40 years.\n\nThere was chaos at airports last summer when strikes and staff shortages coincided with a surge in demand for travel post-pandemic.\n\nUnite regional co-ordinating officer Wayne King said on Wednesday that customers could expect more of the same.\n\n\"Delays, disruption and cancelations will be inevitable as a result of the strike action. But this dispute is completely of Heathrow Airport's own making.\"\n\nThe consumer group Which? says if an airline cancels a flight because of staff strikes, passengers are entitled to compensation unless they are given two weeks' notice.\n\nHowever, if a flight is cancelled because of airport staff, Border Force or air traffic control strikes, this will be classified as an extraordinary circumstance.\n\nAccording to Which?, this means that passengers due to travel should be offered a refund or alternative flight, but are not owed compensation.\n\nWill you be affected by the strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham finished 14th in the Premier League this season, the lowest position any team has finished in the table in the same season they won a major European trophy. West Ham ended their 43-year wait for a major trophy as Jarrod Bowen scored a last-minute goal to beat Fiorentina and win the Europa Conference League in Prague. The final seemed to be heading for extra time after Said Benrahma's second-half penalty was cancelled out just seven minutes later by a well-taken effort from Giacomo Bonaventura. It was a testy and sometimes bad tempered game - and at one point it got downright ugly as Fiorentina captain Cristiano Biraghi was struck by a plastic bottle thrown from the West Ham section. The match was settled in the most dramatic manner. Bowen timed his run to perfection as Lucas Paqueta slid a superb pass through the Fiorentina defence. The England man ran free, steadied himself, then beat Pietro Terracciano with a calm finish to thrill the Hammers fans - who were far greater in number than the 5,000 tickets they were allotted - and send manager David Moyes running down the touchline to celebrate the first major silverware of his career. It means captain Declan Rice, in probably his final game for the club, emulated club greats Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds by leading the club to glory. Moore captained West Ham to the 1965 European Cup Winners' Cup and Bonds led them to the FA Cup in 1975 and 1980. The victory also seals a place in next season's Europa League and means European football for the third year running for the first time in the club's history.\n• None What did you make of West Ham's Europa Conference League win? Send us your views here Said Benrahma opened the scoring for West Ham in the 62nd minute The manner of victory could not have been any sweeter for West Ham. Whilst Nayef Aguerd took time out to console Morocco team-mates Sofyan Amrabat at the final whistle, the celebrations of the Premier League team were something to behold. From 18-year-old forward Divin Mubama, who played no part, to Moyes himself, finally a trophy-winner after such a long career in management, all joined in joy, leaping around trying to take it all in. There will be an unwanted post-script as Uefa is bound to come down hard on the Hammers for the unwanted first-half scenes that left Biraghi playing with a bandage round his head for the last hour of the contest and forced the club to condemn those responsible. Fiorentina's Biraghi was hit in the head by an object thrown from the West Ham end However, that is for another day. The reaction from the pitch and the stands at the final whistle give a lie to anyone who feels this tournament is beneath them and should give hope to Aston Villa, England's entrants next season. At the centre of it all was Rice. There was no thought of his future as he lapped up the adulation of the fans who have followed his journey from rising academy star to full England honours. David Moyes on goal celebration and West Ham's 'super season' in Europe Some West Ham fans must have thought they had won it when Benrahma coolly drove home his spot-kick after the video assistant referee intervened to rule Biraghi had handled Bowen's header. But the loss of Kurt Zouma to injury just before Benrahma scored disrupted West Ham's rhythm and after Nicolas Gonzalez had provided the knockback, Bonaventura's excellent control and shot was too good for Alphonse Areola, preferred in goal to first-choice Lukasz Fabianski and maintaining his 100% appearance record in the competition. Areola had been fortunate to escape conceding the opener in the final minute of the opening period when he failed to get down to a Christian Kouame header, which bounced off a post and fell kindly for Luka Jovic. Areola should have kept out Jovic's header, which was straight at him. Instead, he fumbled it over the line. The Frenchman was hugely relieved to see the offside flag raised, a decision confirmed by VAR. Jovic got an accidental boot in the face from Tomas Soucek instead and had to be replaced at the break. The game didn't really develop any momentum as too many players exaggerated non-existent fouls, which made it a tough evening for Spanish referee Carlos Del Cerro Grande, much as it was for Anthony Taylor in the Europa League final seven days earlier. Grande did keep command of the contest, rightly booking Benrahma for diving at one point. In the end though, all this was a footnote. Bowen scored. West Ham got their trophy and Rice got to lift it.\n• None Sofyan Amrabat (Fiorentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lucas Paquetá (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Fiorentina 1, West Ham United 2. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Paquetá with a through ball following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "This is the fourth time in as many months that the prime minister has met President Biden.\n\nI have been in tow each time, and it's been fascinating to get a glimpse of their growing relationship.\n\nAnd quite some growing it's had to do.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak became prime minister, President Biden, in congratulating him, managed to call him Rashee Sanook.\n\nNot long after that, Mr Sunak acknowledged to me that the UK's reputation had \"taken a bit of a knock,\" courtesy of the rolling political chaos of much of 2022.\n\nCore to his brand as prime minister is attempting to personify the opposite: hoping to be seen as dependable, believable, credible, trustworthy.\n\nLittle wonder, then, he ducked a question on the way here about what he made of Prince Harry's remarks that the UK is judged globally by the state of the press and the government - both of which the prince reckons are at \"rock bottom.\"\n\nBut, having tried to prove he can be the gentle jazz of politics rather than the heavy metal that came before, the challenge for Rishi Sunak now is delivery, and quickly, with a general election expected next year.\n\nUkraine will be a recurring theme on this trip.\n\nMr Sunak has told us the UK is looking into who was to blame for the destruction of the huge dam there.\n\nHe said it was too soon to make \"a definitive judgement.\"\n\nBut, he added, if it was intentional, it would represent \"the largest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine since the start of the war.\"\n\nThe UK and US's ongoing support for Kyiv will be central to the discussions between the leaders at the White House on Thursday.\n\nRishi Sunak and Joe Biden met in Japan, last month\n\nAlso on the agenda, the regulation of artificial intelligence and economic cooperation.\n\nOn AI, the prime minister is expected to make the case that the UK can be a global leader on its development and regulation.\n\nAnd on the economy, Rishi Sunak has said he will \"continue discussing\" America's Inflation Reduction Act - which has seen billions in new subsidies targeted at green industries in the US - with some fretting the UK is being left behind.\n\nYou can read more about it here from my colleague Faisal Islam.\n\nThe gulf between the president and the prime minister's instincts on this is wide, if not surprising: a Democratic president opting for massive state intervention, in the hope of greening his economy, reviving left behind areas and bringing manufacturing back to the US.\n\nAnd a Conservative prime minister not naturally drawn towards huge interventions like this - and suggesting \"subsidy races,\" as he put it, were a \"zero sum\" game.\n\nBut even if there is a philosophical opposition from some to what the president is doing, what are the political responses to it?\n\nRishi Sunak said \"we've created lots of jobs\" in green industries and \"reduced carbon faster\" than comparable countries.\n\nHe doesn't believe attempting the same plan as Washington would be wise.\n\nMeanwhile, Rachel Reeves - who hopes to become the UK's first ever female chancellor if Labour win the next election - was in the US capital just a few weeks ago, and openly embracing a strategy very similar to Joe Biden's.\n\nIs her plan affordable, and achievable? They are big and, as yet, unanswered questions.\n\nWhat is much clearer is President Biden's attempts to rewire the global economy has implications all over the place - not least on our own domestic economy - and politics.", "Ukraine's army has released footage appearing to show drones delivering water bottles to people stranded by floodwaters in Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson region.\n\nWater from the destroyed Kakhovka dam has engulfed the area, causing thousands to flee and sparking a humanitarian disaster.\n\nRead the latest on the dam disaster here.", "PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan has faced calls to resign at an \"intense and heated\" players meeting following the shock merger with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF).\n\nSeveral players left the American PGA Tour and European-based DP World Tour to join the $2bn (£1.6bn) Saudi-backed LIV circuit when it launched last year.\n\nMonahan said those who joined LIV would not be welcome back on the PGA Tour.\n\n\"I recognise that people are going to call me a hypocrite,\" Monahan said.\n\nNorthern Ireland's world number three Rory McIlroy, who has been a firm defender of the PGA Tour, is set to speak to the media at around 15:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nMcIlroy is the defending champion at this week's PGA Tour event at the RBC Canadian Open in Toronto and was at Tuesday's 75-minute players meeting.\n\nThere are reports that he was involved in an angry exchange during the meeting, telling world number 227 Grayson Murray to \"just play better\" as the American criticised Monahan. Murray reportedly swore at McIlroy but another player, Wesley Bryan, later confirmed the exchange on social media, adding they \"were cordial and pleasant post meeting\".\n\nAmerican golfer Johnson Wagner, a PGA Tour winner, told the Golf Channel: \"There were many moments where certain players were calling for new leadership of the PGA Tour and even got a couple of standing ovations.\n\n\"I think the most powerful moment was when a player quoted Monahan from the 3M in Minnesota last year when he said, 'as long as I'm commissioner of the PGA Tour, no player that took LIV money will ever play the PGA Tour again'. It just seems like a lot of backtracking.\n\n\"Players were mad, players were calling for [his] resignation, and Jay sat there and took it like a champ, he really did.\"\n\nAn agreement has been signed that will combine the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV's commercial operations and rights into a new, yet to be named for-profit company and it means pending litigation between the tours will be halted.\n\nBut the announcement took players by surprise with many reacting with anger, while the specifics of how the Tours will look going forward is not yet clear.\n\nFormer US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy added: \"(Monahan) just sort of explained the structure, how it's going to look going forward.\n\n\"He didn't really talk specifics. It was a tough meeting for both sides because nobody really knows what this is going to look like in the end.\"\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty say the announcement is further evidence of Saudi Arabian efforts to draw attention away from the country's human rights record, known as sportswashing.\n\nMeanwhile a 9/11 victims group say the PGA Tour should be \"ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed\" after Monahan previously referenced the terror attacks when criticising players for leaving the PGA Tour for LIV.\n\n\"Any time I've said anything I've said it with the information I had at that moment, and I said it based on someone that's trying to compete for the PGA Tour and our players,\" said Monahan.\n\n\"I accept those criticisms but circumstances do change and I think looking at the big picture got us to this point.\n\n\"It probably didn't seem this way to them but as I looked to those players that have been loyal to the PGA Tour, I'm confident they made the right decision.\n\n\"They have helped re-architect the future of the PGA Tour, they have moved us to a more competitive model. We have significantly invested in our business in 2023 and we're going to do so in 2024.\"\n\nLIV players lost their places on DP World Tour and PGA Tour, were fined for taking part and also saw their world rankings plummet as LIV events were not officially sanctioned.\n\nEuropean players who resigned from the DP World Tour are also not currently eligible for the 2023 Ryder Cup, with Henrik Stenson removed as captain for this year's event, which takes place in Rome from 29 September to 1 October.\n\nStalwarts such as Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are among the ineligible players but Padraig Harrington, who captained Europe in their defeat by the United States at Whistling Straits in 2021, told BBC Radio 5 live that he thinks the \"rules will be changed\" although he was unsure if that would be in time for this year's contest.\n\n\"I'm sure a mass of lawyers will be going over the details,\" added the Irishman, who also pointed out there are many financial and moral issues to resolve.\n\n\"The top six players who didn't go were offered $2.1bn (£1.7bn) between them to go. That payment can't be equalised. Someone can't come along and go here's the $2.1bn.\n\n\"What looks like will happen is the PIF will put enough money into the new entity that the players as a pool will get a share.\n\n\"All the players will gain financially but they're not going to gain like they would've done had they jumped ship.\"There were costs to jumping too. The guys who left lost sponsors. As much as they got upfront money, they lost other things.\"There is a financial situation to this but it's more the moral side.\n\n\"If you'd taken a stance and said you weren't going, how do you feel? I'm assuming that you don't have to [play]. It's not like you have to do anything in golf. I think players will still be able to speak out.\"\n• None 'From shock to anger' - how golf reacted to historic merger\n• None The Sports Desk: Has Saudi Arabia just bought golf?\n\nMonahan said all golfers who joined LIV will be able to reapply for PGA Tour membership in 2024.\n\nHe also said that conversations about compensation may take place with golfers who stayed loyal to the PGA Tour, such as Tiger Woods and McIlroy.\n\nFifteen-time major winner Woods and turned down a lucrative offer to join LIV last year.\n\n\"Those are the serious conversations that we're going to have,\" said Monahan.\n\n\"Ultimately everything needs to be considered. Ultimately what you're talking about is an equalisation over time and I think that's a fair and reasonable concept.\"\n\nHigh-profile players who accepted lucrative offers to join LIV, such as Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson, were supportive of the merger with Mickelson saying it was an \"awesome day\".\n\nFormer US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, told CNN it was \"the best thing that could ever happen for the game of golf\" adding: \"We are better together and not apart.\"\n\nBut ex-PGA Tour player Brandel Chamblee, who is now a television analyst, has been critical, describing the announcement as \"one of the saddest days in the history of professional golf\".\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Millions across North America are breathing the hazardous air from the wildfires in Canada. The country is facing its worst wildfire season in history.\n\nNew York City, which is hundreds of miles south of the blazes, has been shrouded with orange haze because of the air quality.", "Francoise Gilot, who emerged from the shadow of her lover Pablo Picasso to become acclaimed as an artist in her own right, has died at the age of 101.\n\nAn accomplished painter, Gilot also wrote a best-selling 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous relationship with the Spanish giant of modern art.\n\nShe described the \"hell\" of being Picasso's mistress and artistic muse.\n\nFrance's culture minister Rima Abdul Malak called Gilot \"one of the most striking artists of her generation\".\n\nHer \"disappearance plunges the world of art into great sadness as her personality was bright and inspiring\", Malak said.\n\nHuffington Post founder and Picasso biographer Arianna Huffington thanked Gilot for \"the insights, love and wisdom you brought into my life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arianna Huffington This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn near Paris in 1921, to a businessman father and watercolour artist mother, Gilot set up her first studio in her grandmother's apartment.\n\nShe studied English, philosophy and law at the insistence of her father, who was reluctant to see her become an artist. But privately she kept painting.\n\nWhile living in occupied Paris during World War Two, she was briefly arrested for her part in an anti-Nazi demonstration under the Arc de Triomphe.\n\nAged 21, she met the married Picasso, 40 years her senior, at a restaurant and the pair went on to strike up a personal and professional relationship.\n\nAfter the best part of a decade together, which brought them two children, she left him.\n\n\"Pablo was the greatest love of my life, but you had to take steps to protect yourself,\" Gilot said in Janet Hawley's 2021 book Artists in Conversation. \"I did. I left before I was destroyed.\"\n\nThe Spaniard was unsuccessful in his attempts to block her candid memoir, Life with Picasso, and cut off contact with Gilot and their two children, Claude and Paloma.\n\nThe book inspired the 1996 film of the same name, starring Anthony Hopkins as Picasso and Natascha McElhone as Gilot.\n\nAlthough Picasso reportedly pressured galleries not to show her works, Gilot continued to exhibit them, and they are now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.\n\nA 1965 portrait of her daughter, Paloma à la Guitare, sold for $1.3m (£1m) at auction in 2021.\n\nPaloma à la Guitare by Francoise Gilot was sold at Sothebys in London in 2021\n\nShe ultimately moved to the US, marrying twice - including to the US polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk - and giving birth to another child, as well as becoming chairwoman of the fine arts department at the University of Southern California.\n\nA keen travel artist, in 2018, Gilot - then 96 - published a book of sketches made during trips to India, Senegal and Venice.", "Julie Goodyear, known for playing Bet Lynch in Coronation Street, has received a \"heartbreaking diagnosis\" of dementia, her husband has said.\n\nThe actress had sought medical advice after \"suffering forgetfulness\" but there was now \"no hope of a reversal in the situation\", Scott Brand said.\n\nGoodyear, 81, played the leopard-skin-loving barmaid from 1966 to 2003.\n\n\"My darling wife and I have had to come to terms with this heartbreaking diagnosis,\" Mr Brand said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Julie has been suffering forgetfulness for some time and we have been seeking medical advice and assistance - but we now know that there is no hope of a reversal in the situation and that her condition will get progressively, and perhaps speedily, worse.\n\n\"We have taken the decision to publicly announce the diagnosis as Julie still loves visiting friends and eating out. Inevitably, she is recognised and fans love to meet her - and she them - but she can get confused, particularly if she is tired. I hope people will understand.\"\n\nThanks to Goodyear, Bet Lynch became one of the ITV soap opera's longest-serving and best-loved characters.\n\nThe actress has also appeared on reality shows such as Celebrity Big Brother and Celebrity Fit Club.\n\nHilary Evans, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"Our hearts go out to Julie Goodyear and her family, following the announcement that she is living with dementia.\n\n\"So many of us have such fond memories of watching Julie on screen, playing the iconic role of Bet Lynch.\n\n\"It is incredibly brave of Julie's husband to share this news and help raise much-needed awareness of dementia, a condition affecting almost one million people in the UK today.\n\n\"With no treatments to slow or stop the diseases that cause dementia, a diagnosis is truly heartbreaking.\"", "Swans were seen swimming through the city of Nova Kakhovka, in southern Ukraine, after Kyiv accused Moscow of destroying a huge dam nearby.\n\nEvacuations are under way after the incident in the Russian-held region of Kherson.", "It will be compulsory for all post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to teach pupils about access to abortion and prevention of early pregnancy.\n\nIt comes after Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris laid new regulations in Parliament, covering relationships and sex education (RSE).\n\nIn a written statement, he said he had a legal duty to act on recommendations made in a United Nations (UN) report.\n\nUntil now individuals schools have decided how to teach sex education.\n\nBut the Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, or the CEDAW Report, it said RSE in Northern Ireland should be compulsory and comprehensive.\n\nIn practice that will mean pupils have to be taught about issues like how to prevent a pregnancy, the legal right to an abortion in Northern Ireland, and how relevant services may be accessed.\n\nIn a statement, Stormont's Department of Education said: \"The department will now consider the implications of the new duties placed on it, including assessing any additional resources that will be required.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said: \"I have today laid regulations in Parliament to implement the CEDAW recommendation to 'make age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, a compulsory component of curriculum for adolescents, covering prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion in Northern Ireland, and monitor its implementation.'\"\n\n\"The regulations will mirror the approach taken in England with regard to education about the prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion.\n\n\"It has always been my preference that, as a devolved matter, the Department of Education in Northern Ireland updates the curriculum.\n\n\"However, nearly four years have passed since the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, adolescents in Northern Ireland are still not receiving comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights.\"\n\nEach school in Northern Ireland is currently required by the department to develop its own RSE policy and to teach RSE.\n\nHowever what is actually taught to pupils about RSE has been a matter for each school to decide, based on their school ethos.\n\nThat approach has previously been criticised by some experts, who have said it leads to \"different and inconsistent learning experiences\" for pupils.\n\nThe Executive Formation Act previously led to new laws on abortion being introduced in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut according to Mr Heaton-Harris, that act also required him to implement recommendations on RSE contained in the CEDAW report.\n\nThe CEDAW report said that young people were \"denied the education necessary to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights\".\n\nIn his written statement on Tuesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said he was amending previous education acts in Northern Ireland to make aspects of RSE compulsory.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris says he is amending previous education acts in Northern Ireland to make aspects of sex education compulsory\n\nAlthough the changes to the RSE curriculum will come into effect from 1 July, the Department of Education must issue guidance to schools by 1 January 2024 on what they are required to teach.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said that would give six months for \"meaningful engagement with teachers, parents and young people\" about the changes.\n\nHe also said that parents could still withdraw their children \"from education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, or elements of that education\".\n\n\"This follows the approach taken in England and Scotland,\" he said.\n\n\"Consultation with parents on relationship and sexuality education is already common practice in Northern Ireland and we expect the Department of Education to ensure schools afford parents the opportunity to review relevant materials.\n\n\"Educating adolescents on issues such as contraception, and access to abortion in Northern Ireland, should be done in a factual way that does not advocate, or oppose, a particular view on the moral and ethical considerations of abortion or contraception.\"\n\nThe changes to RSE have been welcomed by the NSPCC in Northern Ireland.\n\nNatalie Whelehan from the children's charity called the new regulations a \"positive step\".\n\n\"Making excellent quality RSE teaching available to all secondary school-aged children will ensure they receive information on what constitutes healthy and unhealthy relationships both online and offline and about their right to be safe, heard and protected,\" she said.\n\n\"This positive step also means that young people in Northern Ireland will now have consistent access to similar information available to young people in the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr John Kirkpatrick, said the Northern Ireland Secretary was trying to \"impose a particular worldview on the education of children in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"In an increasingly pluralistic context, RSE of course should be taught in a sensitive and inclusive manner, where teaching is reinforced and supported by policies and processes that schools have in place around safeguarding, bullying and pastoral care,\" he said.\n\n\"Young people should have the opportunity to explore their own personal morals, values and beliefs including the moral and ethical considerations around sensitive issues like abortion and contraception.\n\n\"The secretary of state's actions run contrary to these aspirations,\" he continued.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See the extent of the dam breach devastation and rescue attempts\n\nThe breaching of a major dam in southern Ukraine will have a catastrophic effect on locating landmines, the Red Cross has warned.\n\nThousands of people have already been evacuated from parts of the Kherson region as water continues to surge down the Dnipro river which divides Russian and Ukrainian-controlled territory.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia blame each other for sabotaging the Kakhovka dam.\n\nThree flood-related deaths have been reported in the Russian-held Oleshky.\n\nYevhen Ryshchuk, the town's exiled Ukrainian mayor, told public broadcaster Suspilne he believed there would be more casualties.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify claims by Ukrainian and Russian officials.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the flood-hit region of Kherson where he said the priority was to \"protect lives and help people as much as possible\".\n\nDuring his visit on Thursday, the Ukrainian leader also went to a medical facility and met people evacuated from the region.\n\nThe president earlier appealed for international effort to help people and accused agencies of failing to help, including the UN.\n\nErik Tollefsen, head of the Red Cross's weapon contamination unit, warned dislodged mines had sparked major concerns not just for Kherson residents, but also those coming to help.\n\n\"We knew where the hazards were,\" he told AFP news agency. \"Now we don't know.\n\n\"All we know is that they are somewhere downstream.\"\n\nNataliya Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's military South Command, told Ukrainian TV: \"Many anti-infantry mines [in Russian-seized areas] have been dislodged, becoming floating mines.\n\n\"They pose a great danger,\" she said, explaining that they were likely to explode if they collided or hit debris.\n\nLocal residents have tried to save pets and livestock from flooded areas\n\nThe dam in Russian-controlled Nova Kakhovka was breached in the early hours of Tuesday, leading to mass evacuations as water levels downstream rapidly increased.\n\nOfficials say 30 towns and villages along the river have been flooded and nearly 2,000 homes have been submerged in the city of Kherson - the region's capital controlled by Ukraine.\n\nOne woman, who arrived in Kherson on a rescue boat from the Russian-occupied east side of the river, explained how quickly the situation escalated after she heard about the disaster early on Tuesday.\n\n\"We managed to collect our things but the water kept rising. At that moment I was cooking buckwheat and my feet were already underwater. It started to flood really fast,\" Kateryna Krupych, 40, told the BBC.\n\n\"It feels like we lived a whole life in just one day.\"\n\nInterior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the Ukrainians are developing a plan to help people on both sides of the Dnipro river.\n\n\"We are saving everyone on the right [Ukrainian-controlled] bank and developing a plan to help people on the [Russian-held] left bank.\"\n\nOf the 30 flooded towns and villages, 20 were controlled by Ukraine and 10 were temporarily occupied by Russia, he said.\n\nMr Klymenko also accused the Russians of leaving \"people to fend for themselves\".\n\nRising water levels were expected to peak in Kherson late on Wednesday, but officials fear a catastrophic impact on agriculture as the vast Kakhovka reservoir - upstream of the dam - empties into the Black Sea.\n\nKherson's regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said 1,700 have so far been evacuated while Kremlin-installed officials on the other side of the river say 1,200 people have been taken to safety.\n\nOfficials say more than 40,000 people - 17,000 in Ukraine-held territory west of the Dnipro and 25,000 in the Russian-occupied east - need to leave.\n\nUnicef's Damian Rance said the charity has seen homes completely destroyed as concerns continue to linger around trapped residents.\n\n\"Safe water has been impacted in many of these locations as the water supply obviously came from the reservoir there, as has the electricity supplies that have been cut off.\"\n\nPolice, state emergency service and charity workers have been evacuating people since the dam burst\n\nPresident Zelensky said earlier on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of people across the Kherson region were without drinking water.\n\nBoth sides blame each other for the destruction of the dam.\n\nUkraine says it was mined by Russian forces, and accuses Russia of doing little to help people in flooded areas of the Russian-occupied east bank of the river.\n\nAmerica's Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who chairs the upper chamber's influential Foreign Affairs Committee, told the BBC he was \"not certain yet\" that Russia was responsible for blowing up the dam.\n\n\"But then again the Russians have denied all the actions they've taken against critical infrastructure in Ukraine - and those actions we know have been taken by Russia,\" he added.\n\nRussia says the damage was caused by Ukrainian shelling, and President Vladimir Putin it \"a barbaric act\" in a phone call with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nThis is just the latest difficulty to hit the city of Kherson. It was occupied by Russian forces soon after the war began last year, but liberated by Ukraine in November. Since then the city has been bombarded with shelling.\n\nViktoria Yeremenko, 57, told the BBC her house was destroyed in February and she moved to her son's apartment which has now been flooded.\n\n\"We managed to get out,\" she said. \"There was panic, we had to leave quickly and grab the dogs. My brother is half paralysed too.\"\n\nIn recent years the Kakhovka dam has become a symbol of leverage between Kyiv and Moscow.\n\nWhen Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, Kyiv closed down the dam and cut off Ukraine's southern peninsula from a major water supply.\n\nThen last year, invading Russian forces were accused by Ukraine of planting the dam with explosives, which the Kremlin denied.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials, bears know how to open car doors and they will if there is food inside.\n\nThis unlucky car owner had dog food in his unlocked vehicle in Evergreen, Colorado. The bear locked itself inside the car, until wildlife officials arrived.", "The Met said most of those who protested at the coronation were not arrested\n\nOne of the Met Police's most senior officers has said the force will apologise if it finds mistakes were made in its policing of the Coronation.\n\nIt has been criticised for some of the arrests made, which included six anti-monarchy protesters.\n\nAsst Commissioner Louisa Rolfe told the London Assembly on Wednesday it is reviewing its policing of the event.\n\nShe said: \"If we've got things wrong, we will apologise to individuals affected and we'll work through that.\"\n\nThe members of the group Republic were detained for for 16 hours before being released and were later told no further action would be taken.\n\nThree women's safety volunteers were also incorrectly arrested before the Coronation and were also released later without charge.\n\nMet Commissioner Mark Rowley had previously said the force had \"significant\" intelligence that protesters were planning to disrupt the coronation of King Charles III.\n\nQuestioned by the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, AC Rolfe was asked if officers were acting on evidence.\n\n\"The way that we work and we operate, is that we have to respond swiftly to a developing intelligence picture and it may not always be feasible or practical to ensure evidence before an arrest is made,\" she said.\n\nShe added the law allowed officers to act on \"reasonable suspicion\".\n\nAsst Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said officers acted in a way to keep the public safe\n\nShe added: \"They will make inquiries to validate the information they hold but also they will sometimes need to make very fast time decisions to ensure that they're carrying out their duties to ensure the safety and security of an event.\"\n\nShe later told the committee: \"We want to understand the detail of what happened, and those individual arrests, and the circumstances surrounding them, will be fully explored in our debrief process.\"\n\nAC Louisa Rolfe said there was currently no timeline for the review.\n\nThe female safety workers were carrying rape alarms. The Met had said previously that some protesters had been planning to use to frighten participating horses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe group of six protesters, including the chief executive of Republic Graham Smith, was arrested on the day of King Charles III's coronation under a controversial new law - the Public Order Act 2023 - which allows police greater powers to deal with protests.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of going equipped to lock-on, which is when a person attaches themselves to an object so that they cannot be easily moved.\n\nAsked if officers were using their new powers correctly, AC Rolfe said officers understood the practical application of the new legislation.\n\nThe Met's security operation, which involved 11,500 officers and staff and volunteers, was also praised by several committee members.\n\nA total of 64 arrests were made during the policing operation for the Coronation, the Met previously said.\n\nIt added 52 of those were related to concerns people were going to disrupt the event.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Bibi's a big name on the UK dance scene, and is a regular in Ibiza\n\nDJ Michael Bibi has been diagnosed with a rare form of brain and spinal cancer.\n\nThe dance music producer said it was \"moving fast\" and he was staying in hospital for treatment.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Monday night, he told fans he'd been diagnosed with primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma.\n\n\"I don't know what lies ahead, I'm tired but I know I am strong and I won't let this beat me,\" the 32-year-old added.\n\nMichael is one of the British dance scene's most popular DJs, known for his groove style of house music.\n\nHe's been on residency at DC10 nightclub in Ibiza and was due to play at the Parklife festival in Manchester and Glastonbury this summer.\n\nThe DJ posted the news on Insta alongside a picture of him doing a peace sign with a cannula in his hand.\n\n\"Typing this message doesn't quite seem real and I'm sorry for the bad news,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I will be back stronger for you all. Love Bibi.\"\n\nSolid Grooves, the record label he founded also posted on Insta, saying he'd taken the brand around the world \"while maturing and growing into an international superstar\".\n\n\"The entire team sends our love and support while he recovers, and we hope to have him back with us as soon as possible to make more memories,\" they added.\n\nMichael Bibi (left) came to see Danny Howard in the Radio 1 studios a couple of years ago\n\nMichael's rise has been sharp over the last five years - going from London heavyweight to global superstar is testament to his hard work and talent.\n\nA brilliant producer and influential DJ, he's leading the new generation of ravers with his Solid Grooves-branded UK warehouse parties and popular Ibiza residency.\n\nWhile his profile has soared, he's always remained humble and the same guy I used to support back in the day on my late-night Radio 1 show when he was breaking through.\n\nSeeing the news is obviously a highly emotional time for everyone who's ever worked with or been connected with Michael.\n\nWe all need to be strong for him, send him love and support as he battles through this devastating time, I know the whole dance community is behind him.\n\nSome of the biggest artists in dance music commented on Michael's Insta post to let him know they were thinking of him, including Skrillex and Jamie Jones.\n\nDutch DJ Martin Garrix wrote: \"You got this bro! sending lots of strength and love.\"\n\n\"This is heartbreaking. Can't imagine what you're going through right now. Wishing you a speedy recovery,\" Belgian DJ Charlotte de Witte said.\n\nMichael runs two of his own music labels, Solid Grooves and SG Raw, and is known for playing lengthy sets.\n\nEarlier this year, he was forced to cancel some performances due to ongoing tinnitus health-related issues.\n\nThe DJ then posted a video online in May saying the problems were down to a \"more serious\" neurological concern.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Marks & Spencer has become the latest retailer to scrap use-by dates on milk as part of efforts to cut food waste.\n\nThe dates, which are meant to tell customers when food is safe to eat, will be replaced by best-before dates instead, which are recommendations on freshness.\n\nThe supermarket chain urged customers to use their judgement on whether the milk is safe to use.\n\nMilk is among the foods that are thrown away the most by UK households, alongside bread and potatoes, according to environmental charity Wrap.\n\nIt said nearly 490 million pints are wasted each year, and the \"main reason is not drinking before the use-by date\".\n\nM&S said better shelf-life and improvements in milk quality meant consumers could use \"their judgement on what's still good to eat\" without having to rely on labels.\n\nThe changes to labelling on M&S Select Farms British and organic fresh milk will come into effect this week.\n\nRival retailer Morrisons said in January it would get rid of use-by dates on 90% of its own-brand milk and encourage its customers to \"use a sniff test\".\n\nThat followed a similar move by dairy giant Arla in 2019.\n\nAccording to food regulators, whether milk needs a use-by date depends on how much it has been processed.\n\nFood businesses should assess the \"microbiological risk\" before deciding whether to apply a use-by date or best before date, the Food Standards Agency said.\n\nIt warned that a \"sniff test\" is not always reliable.\n\n\"People can't always smell the bugs that cause food poisoning,\" it said in 2022.\n\nIt advised against consuming milk after a specified use-by date \"even if it smells fine\".\n\nHowever, milk with a best before date label \"can be sniffed to see if it has gone bad,\" it said.\n\nPeople who have a problem with their sense of smell should get someone else to check it, or not use the milk after the best-before date, it added.\n\nSupermarkets have been ditching use-by dates on fruit and vegetables to help reduce food waste for a number of years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to keep safe from wildfire smoke\n\nWashington DC and Philadelphia experienced their worst air quality in years as intense wildfires in Canada continue to impact millions.\n\nThe poor conditions have forced event cancellations and grounded flights across the US.\n\nNearly 100 million people are experiencing very poor air quality in North America.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described the fires as a \"stark reminder of the impacts of climate change\".\n\nData from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index (AQI) shows that cities in North America had the worst air quality in the world on Thursday morning.\n\nCities including Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York had significantly worse air quality than cities abroad such as Lahore, Dhaka and Hanoi.\n\nThe smoke has caused the cancellation of school outings and sporting events, and, in the capitol, the White House's planned pride celebrations.\n\nThe National Zoo was also closed, with its animals, including three giant pandas, taken indoors to shelter.\n\nIn nearby Baltimore, residents were wearing masks as they went about their day-to-day activities. One local, Sean Montague, said people \"have to put your health first and be cautious\".\n\nAt the city's Inner Harbour, friends Sharifah and Sheila disembarked from a water taxi, eager to hurry indoors.\n\nThey said they originally planned to spend the day in Baltimore's Fells Point, a waterside neighbourhood known for its galleries, shops and outdoor seafood restaurants.\n\nBut once on the water, their eyes stung and the smoke was so thick, so they agreed the ride was \"miserable\" and decided to return home.\n\nMuch of the smoke is coming from Quebec, where 150 fires are burning. It is already Quebec's worst fire season on record.\n\nSome areas of Canada continued to experience very high levels of contamination on Thursday. The city of Janvier in Alberta, for example, had an AQI of 338, far above Washington DC's 293.\n\nMr Biden said he spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday and deployed more than 600 firefighters to help battle the blazes in Canada.\n\nOn a typical Thursday, Washington DC's Union Market would usually be packed with customers, dining al fresco in the afternoon sun.\n\nBut with smoke thick in the air, dozens of tables and chairs sat empty. A nearby rooftop bar was completely deserted except for a small group of Canadian tourists, who jokingly apologised for the disruption.\n\nOne customer, Tori, sat back in a lone Adirondack chair, with a mask tied around her wrist having just travelled from West Virginia.\n\n\"As I was driving, I noticed it was more hazy, and I just feel a little bit different too. I had a headache,\" she said. \"It's very scary, if you think about it.\"\n\nEnvironment Canada said conditions were worsening in Toronto on Thursday, as more smoke poured in. The agency has recommended that anyone outdoors wear a mask.\n\n\"These fine particles generally pose the greatest risk to health. However, respirators do not reduce exposure to the gases in wildfire smoke,\" the Environment Canada statement said.\n\nIn New York, an orange haze blanketed the city's skyline and shrouded landmarks including the Statue of Liberty.\n\nPublic health officials have cautioned people not to exercise outside and to minimise their exposure to the smoke as much as possible, as the air poses immediate and long-term health risks.\n\nCanadian officials say the country is shaping up for its worst wildfire season on record.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason behind the trend. These conditions are projected to continue throughout the summer.\n\nFires across Canada have already burned an area that's 12 times the 10-year average for this time of year.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nExperts say exposure to wildfire smoke can cause a litany of health issues, such as an elevated pulse, chest pain, and inflammation in the eyes, nose and throat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather forecaster Chris Fawkes looks at when the wildfire smoke might clear\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires or air quality? What precautions are you taking? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Prince Harry seemed to grow in confidence during the second day of his court appearance\n\nIt might have been the sense of relief, but there was an emotion-packed pause before Prince Harry answered one of his final questions in the witness box.\n\n\"You have had to go through these articles and answer questions knowing this is a very public courtroom and the world's media are watching. How has that made you feel?\" Prince Harry was asked by his barrister at the end of his court appearance in the case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nAfter a day and a half of giving evidence at London's High Court, he looked exhausted and the pause got longer.\n\n\"It's a lot,\" was all he said in the end, sounding distinctly choked up.\n\nIn the witness box over the course of two days he had spoken quietly, often in terse, quickfire answers, interspersed with some nervous quips - \"if you say so\", he said a few times ironically to some details being presented to him.\n\nHe has accused the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People of hacking and illegal information-gathering.\n\nThe great majority of his time in court has been facing questions from the Mirror Group's barrister, Andrew Green, an interrogator with a reputation fearsome enough for him to be known as a \"beast in court\".\n\nBut in the end, it was quite possibly Prince Harry who will have left the court feeling better about the last couple of days. He'd finished his high-wire act without falling off.\n\nHe hadn't crumbled or got wound up or tetchy, he hadn't been dragged into too many awkward questions, he'd stuck to his own lines. You couldn't exactly say he'd been an eloquent witness, but he'd not walked into any traps.\n\n\"For my whole life the press has misled me and covered up the wrongdoing,\" he claimed.\n\nHe talked of how paranoid it had made him. In evidence he said he'd never walk down a London street. But he wouldn't even walk around this court building with its airport-style scanning checks, going everywhere within a bubble of security guards. A guard had stood across the doorway as he went into the toilet.\n\nBut when the hearing was over, Prince Harry looked relieved and relaxed, chatting to his lawyers and those backing him in his battle against the tabloids, before heading downstairs to his waiting car.\n\nThe Mirror's barrister had aimed to punch some big holes in the prince's claims - saying that just because Harry had faced a lifetime of press intrusion, that didn't mean that this specific newspaper group had hacked his phones or done anything unlawful to him.\n\nHe argued that a number of these disputed news stories hadn't even originated with the Mirror's papers, they'd already been published elsewhere or had been based on press releases, rather than by unlawful surveillance.\n\nBut as the hearing progressed it felt like Prince Harry was growing in confidence, his wrist bands on show as he looked at the computer screens on his desk with the evidence under discussion.\n\nFor such an historic event, the first senior royal in the witness box for over a century, it was a low-key setting, a modern open-plan court that was more budget airport departure lounge than mahogany-filled courtroom.\n\nThere was also a sense of history about some of the pun-tastic tabloid articles under discussion.\n\nFor younger audiences it must have seemed like journalistic archaeology, these inky front pages and half-forgotten celebrities. You couldn't search for some of these stories now, because they were published before Google was even invented.\n\nWhile Prince Harry has talked about his \"life's work\" being to change the media landscape, technology has already done much of the work for him.\n\nWhen some of these stories were being published 20 years ago, the Daily Mirror was selling 2 million copies a day, while the most recent ABC circulation figures show sales of about 280,000.\n\nSince the era of these phone hacking claims, mobile phones and digital news have chipped away at the world of the tabloids.\n\nThere was also a sense from his emotional testimony that Prince Harry is still slightly trapped in these tabloid years, making him seem younger than he really is. He's only five years younger than the prime minister, but Harry in the public eye is still somehow remembered as the younger brother mourning the loss of his mother.\n\nThis unprecedented appearance in the High Court also showed how for the prince the blurring between private and public life must be a very strange experience.\n\nWe've spent two days looking at stories chronicling his life in headlines. And when he entered the court building he'd have walked past a photo and a video of his late grandmother, who opened this building. The Dieu et Mon Droit symbol in the courtroom is the motto of the monarch, his father.\n\nBut during this court appearance he also explained precisely why he was really here - why he was bringing this legal action, when previous royals had fought shy of facing questions in court.\n\nIt was a deliberate attempt to find a different course of action \"to stop the abuse, intrusion and hate that was coming towards me and my wife\".\n\nRather than the longstanding royal policy of \"don't complain, don't explain\", he has taken the higher-risk strategy of going into battle in the courtroom.\n\nIt's also an unexpected journey that has seen him making comments a long way from the usual royal political neutrality. In his written statement he seemed to be wading into the culture war with a swipe at a \"rock-bottom\" government.\n\nIt will be up to the judge to decide on balance who seems to be more convincing, the Mirror Group or Prince Harry and other claimants - and it's quite possible that the result won't be known until the autumn.\n\nIf he FaceTimes his family in California, as he said yesterday, it might be more relaxed this evening.\n\nBut given the number of other legal claims involving Prince Harry, this could be the first of a number of courtroom appearances. From the royal court to the law court.", "The billionaire owners of the Telegraph newspapers say their businesses are in good shape following claims they are on the cusp of receivership.\n\nThe BBC understands Lloyds Banking Group wants to recover debts from loans made to the Barclay brothers' family.\n\nThere are reports the Telegraph and Spectator titles could be sold within days.\n\nThe family said \"speculation about the business entering administration is unfounded and irresponsible\".\n\nIt is unclear how much money is owed to Lloyds but the Financial Times (FT) reported it to be in the \"hundreds of millions of pounds\".\n\nOne person close to the talks said the banking group's patience over the debt was \"running out\", the FT said.\n\nSky News said Lloyds Banking Group was being advised by financial firm Lazard and it planned to appoint another bank to immediately begin selling the Daily and Sunday Telegraph titles.\n\nA spokesperson for the Barclays said: \"The loans in question are related to the family's overarching ownership structure of its Media Assets. They do not, in any way, affect the operations or financial stability of Telegraph Media Group.\"\n\nThe statement said businesses within its portfolio continued to trade strongly and the Telegraph was performing \"extremely well\".\n\nFrederick Barclay has been named as the richest person in the Channel Islands\n\nThe twin brothers, Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay, bought the newspapers in 2004 from their owner Hollinger, following the dismissal of chairman Conrad Black. Sir David died in 2021.\n\nThe business, which is now run by Sir David's son Aidan, includes the Spectator magazine and stretches beyond the media world to include the courier Yodel and Shop Direct, with the online retail outlets Littlewoods and Very.\n\nThe sale of the Ritz hotel in London in 2020 exposed a bitter rift between the two families of the twins, with claims of commercial espionage over the bugging of business meetings.\n\nAt the centre of the affair was CCTV footage allegedly showing Sir Frederick's nephew handling a device. It saw the billionaire and his daughter, Amanda, sue three of Sir David's sons for invasion of privacy.\n\nFurther legal issues arose last August - the Guardian newspaper reported Sir Frederick, 88, avoided a prison sentence after a high court judge gave him three months to pay money owed to his ex-wife.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham condemned the behaviour of \"a small number of fans\" after Fiorentina's Cristiano Biraghi was hit by an object thrown from the stands at the Europa Conference League final.\n\nBiraghi was left bloodied after cups and other items were thrown as he took a corner during the match in Prague.\n\nWest Ham said \"these actions have no place in football\".\n\nIt followed trouble before the game, as 16 people were arrested after an incident at a bar.\n\nCzech police said Italian fans attacked West Ham supporters in a bar, leaving three people injured.\n\nWest Ham said the fans' actions inside the Fortuna Arena \"do not in any way represent the values of our football club and the overwhelming majority of our supporters\".\n\nThe club added that fans had \"behaved impeccably\" in Prague and during their time in European competitions in the last two seasons, and that they would assist police in finding the culprits.\n\n\"In line with our zero-tolerance approach, anyone identified will have their details passed to the police and will be given an indefinite ban and therefore be unable to enter London Stadium and travel with the club,\" a statement said.\n\nAs Biraghi received treatment for his head injury in the first half, a PA announcement urged supporters to stop throwing objects onto the pitch and to \"please respect players and the officials\".\n\nFiorentina coach Vincenzo Italiano said Biraghi \"has big gash in the back of his neck and stitches\".\n\nWest Ham ended their 43-year wait for a major trophy as Jarrod Bowen scored a last-minute goal to beat Fiorentina.\n\nEarlier on, Hammers fans were attacked by the Italian side's supporters at the Tek-ila Tek-ila bar in Rytirska Street in the city centre.\n\nThree people were injured, with police confirming an officer had also been attacked during the incident.\n\nOne West Ham fan, who did not want to be named, told PA News his friend was \"quite badly\" hurt with a \"massive cut\" on his head.\n\nPrague emergency service spokeswoman Jana Postova told AFP two people were treated at the scene and one was transported to hospital with a light head injury,\n\nThe fan added: \"About eight Italians walked past, swinging bands and chains. Five minutes later, there was a big group that come down the road and attacked us.\"\n\nA 17-year-old witness, speaking to PA News, said West Ham fans had \"done nothing wrong\" and Fiorentina supporters \"were throwing flares and firecrackers\".", "Cuba Gooding Jr, pictured at an earlier court case in 2022. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed\n\nActor Cuba Gooding Jr has settled a lawsuit with an unnamed woman who accused him of raping her in a New York City hotel room in 2013.\n\nIt came as jury selection was about to begin in a federal civil trial that was expected to include damaging testimony against him.\n\nThe Oscar winner, 55, has denied the allegation and insists his interactions with the woman were consensual.\n\nHe has been accused of groping and unwanted touching by dozens of women.\n\nThe terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.\n\nLast year, Mr Gooding pleaded guilty to kissing a woman without her consent.\n\nThat case saw him spared from jail or a criminal history, with charges relating to three other accusers dismissed as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.\n\nHe was ordered to complete six months of alcohol and behavioural counselling.\n\nBut the testimony of those three women, who say the actor abused them between 2009 and 2019, was due to be heard at this civil case in Manhattan.\n\nThe now-settled lawsuit was filed in 2020 on behalf of a woman identified only as Jane Doe. The plaintiff sought $6m (£4.8m) in damages.\n\nShe alleged that, in the summer of 2013, Mr Gooding had introduced himself to her at a local restaurant and invited her to drinks at The Mercer Hotel in Soho, where he was staying.\n\nAt the hotel, she claimed, the actor told her he needed to change clothes, invited her up to his fifth-floor room and began to undress.\n\nThe woman said she had tried to leave but that Mr Gooding blocked her path, pushed her onto the bed, \"wouldn't stop\" touching her, \"aggressively removed\" her underwear and penetrated her twice.\n\nA lawyer representing the defendant at the time called the allegations \"completely false and defamatory\".\n\nThe presiding judge ruled last week that he would allow testimony from three of Mr Gooding's other accusers because they were \"sufficiently similar\" to the plaintiff's allegation.\n\nOne woman, Kelsey Harbert, said last year that Mr Gooding's previous plea deal had been \"more disappointing than words can say\".\n\nJury selection in the trial was set to begin at 10:00 EDT on Tuesday, but neither Mr Gooding nor attorneys for either side showed up.\n\nAn entry on the court's electronic docket for the case reads: \"TRIAL OFF. Reason for cancellation: The parties have resolved the matter.\"", "Rishi Sunak spoke to reporters on the plane trip to Washington DC\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he expects to discuss Joe Biden's flagship package of investment in green industries when he meets the president during his trip to the United States.\n\nTravelling to Washington DC, Mr Sunak said \"subsidy races\" were not a solution to hitting climate goals.\n\nSome British ministers have criticised Mr Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as harmful to world trade.\n\nThe law includes $370bn (£297bn) to boost green technology in the US.\n\nIn a drive to cut carbon emissions, billions in tax credits and subsidies has been allocated to speed up the production of solar panels and wind turbines, and encourage the up-take of electric cars.\n\nThe European Union has described the law as anti-competitive, while earlier this year, Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said the package was \"dangerous because it could slip into protectionism\".\n\nIt is expected to be one subject of discussion when Mr Sunak meets Mr Biden for the fourth time this year, for talks at the White House on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman suggested Mr Sunak would also talk about boosting green tech, the war in Ukraine, and the regulation of artificial intelligence.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister would seek to boost economic security, bringing it into line with the level of UK-US co-operation on defence.\n\nMr Sunak began the formal events of the US trip on Wednesday by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.\n\nPersonnel from the US army, navy, marines, air force and coastguard formed a guard of honour.\n\nThe ceremony comes ahead of meetings with senior US politicians and business leaders, as well as the president.\n\nTensions over the global implications of Mr Biden's economic package have been building ahead of the visit, Mr Sunak's first official trip to Washington DC as prime minister.\n\nThe UK government has said it had no plans to emulate the scale of the US plans, prompting accusations from Labour that the UK could fall behind in a global race to attract future industries.\n\nMr Sunak's visit was made the day after the 79th anniversary of D-Day\n\nDuring his flight to Washington, reporters asked Mr Sunak if there was anything Mr Biden could do to ease the economic impacts of his package on the UK.\n\n\"It's something that he [President Biden] and I have discussed in the past and you'd expect us to continue discussing it,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nWhen asked whether Mr Sunak accepted President Biden's argument that a resilient economy sometimes required a protectionist approach to key sectors, the prime minister referenced a joint statement issued by the G7 at the end of its latest summit in Japan.\n\nThe statement, he said, \"makes it very clear that G7 countries don't believe in protectionism as the answer to this challenge and also don't believe in in subsidy races that are zero sum\".\n\nThere have been reports his trip could see the two sides unveil a critical minerals pact that would allow British carmakers that export electric vehicles to the US to benefit from some of the tax credits offered to American firms.\n\nThe US signed such a deal with Japan earlier this year, and has entered into talks with the EU.\n\nHowever, one area where progress has stalled is over a wider UK-US free trade deal, where President Biden has put talks on ice, leaving the UK to deepen trade ties through less comprehensive mini-deals with around 20 states.\n\nAnother area where Mr Sunak hopes to hold discussions is the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), where Mr Sunak is seeking to carve out a role for the UK as a global player.\n\nThe prime minister is hosting a global summit on AI regulation in the autumn, and has reportedly expressed an interest in the UK hosting any new international regulator for the emerging technology.\n\nHowever, the extent to which the UK will be able to shape new global rules outside the EU is unclear, with the UK now shut out of key gatherings between European and American regulators such as the Tech and Trade Council (TTC).\n\nThe two leaders will also discuss the war in Ukraine, which is expected to enter a decisive period soon, with signs a long-awaited counter-offensive from Ukrainian forces may have begun.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine blamed Russia for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-held Ukraine, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people. Moscow has denied destroying the dam, instead blaming Ukrainian shelling.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on the plane to the US, Mr Sunak said it was \"too soon\" to make a \"definitive judgement\" on whether Russia was behind the attack.\n\nBut he said if Russia were found to be responsible, it would \"demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from Russian aggression.\"", "Disruption to schools during the Covid-19 pandemic led to lost learning for many pupils\n\nSome pupils are facing a \"lost decade\" of progress in schools in England if action is not taken, MPs have warned.\n\nTheir report expressed alarm that it could take 10 years for the gap between disadvantaged children and others to narrow to what it was before Covid.\n\nIt urged the government to take faster and more effective action, such as improving uptake of a tutoring scheme designed to help students catch up.\n\nThe government said it had made £5bn available for education recovery.\n\nAbout 13% of schools in England did not take part in the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in 2021-22. It was set up in November 2020 to help children catch up after Covid lockdowns disrupted education.\n\nThe NTP provides primary and secondary schools with funding to subsidise tutoring, including one-to-one and group lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) initially subsidised 75% of the costs which schools incurred for delivering the NTP, but this reduced to 60% this year and will go down to 50% next year.\n\nThe report from the Public Accounts Committee recommended that the DfE find out why some schools were not taking part and act to improve uptake.\n\nIt also said the DfE should monitor how much tutoring is being provided while it is being subsidised, and \"intervene if tutoring levels drop significantly\" afterwards.\n\n\"There is a risk that without this central subsidy, the National Tutoring Programme will wither on the vine,\" the report said.\n\n\"We are not convinced that the department fully appreciates the pressures schools are under as they seek to help pupils catch up.\"\n\nThe BBC revealed in April that more than £200m earmarked for the scheme was left unspent.\n\nNigel Attwood, head teacher at Bellfield Junior School in Birmingham, said he cannot afford to run the NTP in the next academic year.\n\nHe said he encountered problems with affordability, capacity, and bureaucracy.\n\n\"We have so many little bits of pots of money that is ring-fenced and it can be really difficult to spend it because capacity is not there,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"What we need is the the money, and the staffing to be able to give the children what they need.\"\n\nNigel Attwood is the head teacher at Bellfield Junior School\n\nThe report also called for the DfE to:\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government was \"in denial\" about the scale of the problems schools are facing.\n\n\"The growing attainment gap with all its implications for children's life chances can't be allowed to continue and the government must take immediate action,\" he added.\n\nThe government does not have to act on the recommendations, but it does have to respond to them within two months. It is expected that it will then set out a timeline for implementing them.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said: \"We are conscious of the effect the pandemic has had on pupils' education which is why we have made £5bn available for education recovery.\n\n\"Despite the effect of the pandemic, England came fourth out of 43 countries that tested children of the same age in the Pirls international survey of the reading ability of nine and 10-year-olds.\n\n\"We remain committed to addressing the attainment gap which is why the National Tutoring Programme is targeted at the most disadvantaged students, and has had over three million course starts to date, backed by more than £1bn investment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: President Zelensky shared a video of the dam on Telegram\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated downstream of a major dam which has collapsed in Russian-held Ukraine.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said 80 towns and villages may be flooded after the destruction of the dam at Nova Kakhovka, which he blamed on Russia.\n\nWater is surging down the Dnipro river, and is said to pose a catastrophic flooding risk to the city of Kherson.\n\nRussia has denied destroying the dam - which it controls - instead blaming Ukrainian shelling.\n\nNeither Ukraine nor Russia's claim has been verified by the BBC.\n\nThe Kakhovka dam, downstream from the huge Kakhovka reservoir, is crucial to the region.\n\nIt provides water to farmers and residents, as well as to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It is also a vital channel carrying water south to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nUkraine's state-owned hydropower plants administrator Ukrhydroenergo warned that the peak of a water spill downstream from the emptying reservoir was expected on Wednesday morning.\n\nIt said this would be followed by a period of \"stabilisation\", with the water expected to rapidly recede in four to five days.\n\nThere are concerns about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - which uses reservoir water for cooling.\n\nThe situation there is said to be under control and there is \"no immediate nuclear safety risk\" for the plant, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nVideo footage shows a torrent of floodwater gushing through a breach in the dam. Several towns are already flooded, while people in areas further downstream have been forced to flee by bus and train.\n\nAbound 40,000 people need to be evacuated, Deputy Prosecutor-General Viktoriya Lytvynova said on Ukrainian television - 17,000 people in Ukraine-controlled territory west of the Dnipro River and 25,000 on the Russian-controlled east.\n\nAlso speaking on Ukrainian television, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said about 1,000 people had been evacuated so far and 24 settlements had been flooded.\n\nHe accused Russia of shelling the southern region of Kherson, from where people were being evacuated, and issued a warning about the dangers posed by mines being exposed by the rising water levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A building is seen floating along the Dnipro river in the Kherson region\n\nOne local resident Andriy, who lives close to the dam - which was seized by Russian forces shortly after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 - said he believed Russia wanted to \"drown\" his city.\n\nIn the Ukraine-controlled city of Kherson, a woman called Lyudmyla - who was loading her belongings including a washing machine onto a trailer that was attached to an old car - said: \"We're afraid of flooding. We're taking our things a little higher up.\"\n\nShe called for Russian forces to be \"kicked out of here... they're shooting at us. They're flooding us or doing something else\".\n\nAnother resident of the city, Serhiy, said he feared \"everything is going to die here\".\n\n\"All the living creatures, and people will be flooded out,\" he said, gesturing at nearby houses and gardens.\n\nThe city of Kherson is 50 miles downstream of the dam\n\nOn the Russian-seized riverbank of Nova Kakhovka, the Moscow-installed mayor Vladimir Leontyev said the city was underwater and 900 people had been evacuated.\n\nHe said 53 evacuation buses were being sent by the authorities to take people from the city and two other settlements nearby to safety.\n\nWater levels had risen to over 11m (36ft) and some residents had been taken to hospital, he added.\n\nThe small town of Oleshky was also heavily flooded, Kremlin-appointed officials said.\n\nThe Kazkova Dibrova zoo on the Russian-held riverbank had been completely flooded and all 300 animals were dead, it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the breach in the dam in the early hours of Tuesday, but Ukraine's military intelligence has accused Russia of deliberately blowing it up.\n\nThis seems plausible, as Moscow may have feared that Ukrainian forces would use the road over the dam to advance into Russian-held territory, as part of their counter-offensive.\n\nFor Russia, anxious to defend conquered territory in southern Ukraine, the dam represented an obvious problem.\n\nJust as Ukrainian forces attacked road and rail bridges further downstream last autumn in a successful effort to isolate Russian forces in and around Kherson, Russia may have decided to destroy the dam to hold up Ukraine's counter-offensive, which it fears could come from multiple directions.\n\nHowever, a Russian official claims Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what they said were the failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.\n\nA major Ukrainian push has long been expected. Kyiv has said it would not give advance warning of its start but a recent increase in military activity is being seen as a fresh sign that the counter-offensive may have begun.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, President Zelensky said the dam destruction would not stop Ukraine. \"We will still liberate all our land,\" he said in a video address.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Zelensky held an urgent meeting of the country's security and defence council to discuss the issue.\n\nAn aerial image shows water pouring through what appears to be a breach in the dam\n\nOn Monday, Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces had advanced around the \"epicentre of hostilities\" in Bakhmut, but did not say whether the counter-offensive had begun.\n\nBakhmut has for months been at the heart of fierce fighting. It has little strategic value - but is important symbolically both for Kyiv and Moscow.\n\nYuri Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's ministry of defence, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that phone intercepts suggest Russia wants to target more dams.\n\n\"They're actually calling to blow up more dams on the Dnipro river,\" he said.\n\nUkraine has branded the attack on the dam \"ecocide\" and said that 150 tonnes of engine oil has spilled into the Dnipro river.\n\nUkrhydroenergo said a power station linked to the dam had been \"completely destroyed... the hydraulic structure is being washed away\".\n\nWorld leaders have laid the blame for the blast at Russia's door, with some calling it a war crime.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that if Russia was found to be responsible for the collapse of the dam it would \"demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from Russian aggression\".\n\nThe head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said the destruction of the dam demonstrated once again the brutality of Russia's war in Ukraine, while Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said he was \"shocked by the unprecedented attack\".\n\nThe Geneva Conventions explicitly ban targeting dams in war due to the danger it poses to civilians.", "The Iron Shiek squared off against other wrestling greats including Hulk Hogan\n\nThe Iron Sheik, a heavyweight champion WWE wrestler and hall-of-famer, has died aged 81, his family announced.\n\nHe was a \"true legend, a force of nature and an iconic figure who left an incredible mark\" on the wrestling world, they said in a statement on Wednesday. \"It is with great sadness that we share the news.\"\n\nBorn in Iran, the wrestling icon's real name was Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri.\n\nHis cause of death has not been given.\n\nAt the peak of his wrestling career, in the 1980s, Vaziri faced off against other greats in the ring including Bob Backlund, Sgt Slaughter and Hulk Hogan.\n\nHe defeated Backlund for the WWF World Heavyweight title in December 1983.\n\nOne month later, in front of an electric crowd of over 20,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden, Hogan took down Vaziri and won the championship belt for the first time. The upset launched Hogan's career.\n\nThe WWE called the event \"one of the most famous wrestling matches of all time\".\n\nVaziri was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\n\"He was a trailblazer, breaking barriers and paving the way for a diverse range of wrestlers who followed in his footsteps,\" the family said.\n\nWith his iconic shaved head, handlebar moustache and curled-toe shoes, Vaziri paid tribute to his Iranian heritage with his persona.\n\nAccording to ESPN, before wrestling he was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran.\n\nHe almost made his country's Olympic wrestling team in 1968.\n\nVaziri eventually moved to the US, became an assistant coach for the American wrestling team, and joined the WWE (then under the name WWF) in 1979.\n\nHe is survived by his wife of 47 years, Caryl Vaziri, and his children Tanya, Nikki and Marisa.\n\n\"He was a loving and dedicated father,\" his family said.\n\n\"He instilled in them the values of perseverance, determination, and the importance of following their dreams. The Iron Sheik's guidance and unwavering belief in their potential served as a driving force for his children, empowering them to become the best versions of themselves.\"", "There are fears that floodwaters will rise further in the coming hours\n\nHundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are without normal access to drinking water after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nTens of thousands remain in flooded areas in southern Ukraine, he said, accusing Russia of failing to help those trapped in parts they controlled.\n\nThere are fears that water levels could rise further.\n\nUkraine and Russia accused each other of blowing up the dam on Tuesday, but the BBC cannot verify the claims.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin called the breach \"a barbaric act\" in a phone call with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kremlin said in a statement.\n\nMr Zelensky said he had also spoken to President Erdogan, and had stressed the \"humanitarian and environmental consequences\" of the disaster.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of people have been left without normal access to drinking water,\" Ukraine's president said on his Telegram channel.\n\n\"We can only help on the territory controlled by Ukraine. On the part occupied by Russia, the occupiers are not even trying to help people,\" he added.\n\nAs mass evacuations continued on Wednesday in Ukraine's Kherson region, satellite images highlighted widespread devastation there.\n\nOne of the photos showed a flooded port and industrial area in the regional capital Kherson, which is under Ukrainian control.\n\nUkrainian authorities say water levels were expected to peak by the end of Wednesday.\n\nThe UN warned the destruction of the dam would have \"grave and far-reaching consequences\". UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said the scale of the catastrophe would only become clear in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia say they have evacuated more than 1,000 people each.\n\nHowever Ukrainian officials say more than 40,000 - 17,000 in Ukraine-held territory west of the Dnipro River and 25,000 in the Russian-occupied east - need to leave.\n\nSome reports suggest that water levels may be dropping in the town of Nova Kakhovka, closest to the dam, as the vast reservoir behind it empties.\n\nKherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces had shelled parts of the region including the city of Kherson several times, and that one person had been killed and one injured.\n\nNova Kakhovka's Russian-appointed mayor Vladimir Leontyev said the village of Korsunka was completely under water, with flooding up to roof level in three other villages.\n\nThe huge Kakhovka reservoir provides water to farmers and residents, as well as to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It is also a vital channel carrying water south to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are concerns about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - which uses reservoir water for cooling.\n\nThe situation there is said to be under control and there is \"no immediate nuclear safety risk\" for the plant, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nThere are also concerns about agricultural land being washed away.\n\nUkraine's agriculture ministry said 10,000 hectares of farmland on the Ukrainian-controlled bank of the Dnipro had been flooded, and several times more on the occupied bank.\n\nKherson resident Viktoriia Yeremenko, 57, said her house was destroyed in February so she moved to her son's apartment, which is now flooded.\n\n\"I'll see what happens next. I don't know what to do,\" she told the BBC.\n\nFlooding was reported by the Kremlin-appointed officials in the nearby small town of Oleshky. Residents say some homes are almost under water, with elderly people sitting on roofs waiting to be evacuated.\n\nValery Melnik, 53, saying authorities were \"not doing anything\".\n\nHe told Reuters: \"We're waiting until the water leaves, we will dry it out.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the breach, but Ukraine's military intelligence has accused Russia of deliberately blowing up the dam to halt an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nRussia says Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what Moscow says are Kyiv's failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: President Zelensky shared a video of the dam on Telegram\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding? If it is safe for you to do so you can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A total of 205 millionaires have been created in Birmingham since the lottery began in 1994\n\nBirmingham has been named the luckiest place to live in the UK by the National Lottery.\n\nIt said 205 millionaires had been created in the city since the lottery began in 1994, an equivalent of one every seven weeks.\n\nThere have been 35 millionaires made in the city in the past three years.\n\nKathy Garrett, who hands over prizes to the winners, said the distribution across the nation was \"quite even\", but Birmingham just came out on top.\n\nOne of the most recent Birmingham winners, Celeste Coles, said she had taken her family to Barbados after receiving £3.6m in the summer.\n\nCeleste Coles, from Birmingham (right), won £3.6m on the lottery and was presented with her winnings by Kathy Garrett (left)\n\nShe said: \"My mum hadn't been back to Barbados, where she was born, for nearly 60 years.\n\n\"My sister, my nieces, nephew, they had never been to Barbados, so it was a fantastic [time] for them.\"\n\nShe also bought a property in Spain and said it was a \"dream come true\".\n\nMs Garrett said one of her favourite winner stories was a young couple who had a six-month-old baby with some disabilities.\n\nShe said: \"The mum was due to go back to work because she couldn't afford to take time out and stay at home.\n\n\"And suddenly, they won £1m on the lottery, and it truly was life-changing for them.\"\n\nThe couple were able to buy a new home with a sensory room for the child and the mum could at stay home and look after her and give her all the care she needed.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has accused tabloid newspapers of hacking his voicemails when he was a teenager, saying it made him feel he \"couldn't trust anybody\".\n\nAppearing in court in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) he said he has \"experienced hostility from the press\" since he was born.\n\nHe is the first senior royal to give evidence in court in over 130 years.\n\nMGN's lawyer said he had sympathy for the duke, but denied journalists' actions were \"all unlawful\".\n\nPrince Harry arrived on Tuesday morning at London's High Court dressed in a dark suit and looking relaxed - dozens of journalists only had a matter of seconds to get their photographs as he made his way swiftly into the building.\n\nIn court he was cross-examined by MGN lawyer Andrew Green KC, who became increasingly direct in his challenges as the hearing wore on. The prince grew in confidence after a nervous start.\n\nMr Green - who has decades of experience and has been described as a \"beast in court\" - built up his line of questioning, asking in detail about the sourcing of stories, and suggesting they were based on official statements or publicly available information.\n\nPrince Harry's responses were often short, stressing his suspicion that each story was connected with a payment to a private investigator.\n\nIn his written statement, issued as he appeared at court, Prince Harry accused the tabloid press of casting members of the Royal Family into roles and creating an \"alternative and distorted version of me\".\n\n\"They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the 'spare' to the 'heir'\", he said.\n\n\"You're then either the 'playboy prince', the 'failure', the 'drop out' or, in my case, the 'thicko', the 'cheat', the 'underage drinker', the 'irresponsible drug taker'...\"\n\nThe duke also said stories he believed originated from hacking not only caused security concerns, but damaged his relationships.\n\n\"I felt that I couldn't trust anybody, which was an awful feeling for me especially at such a young age,\" he said.\n\nHe said numerous papers had reported a rumour that his biological father was former Army officer James Hewitt - a man his mother, Princess Diana, had a relationship with after he was born.\n\nAt the time, he said, he was not aware of the timeline. Aged 18 and having lost his mother six years earlier, he said such stories were \"hurtful, mean and cruel\".\n\nIn his statement, he also:\n\nHis statement is critical of the broader tabloid press, while there are also specific claims levelled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People.\n\nHarry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered in the court case. After being sworn in in court, the duke was initially addressed as \"your royal highness\" before saying he wanted to be called \"Prince Harry\".\n\nEarly in his cross-examination, Mr Green asked Prince Harry about his \"hostility\" towards the press, suggesting to the duke that this pre-dated his discovery that the tabloid press were using unlawful methods to gather information about him.\n\n\"I've experienced hostility from the press since I was born,\" Prince Harry responded, also admitting to having his own \"long-standing hostility\" towards the media.\n\nHe was also challenged on why he said in his witness statement he did not want to meet Paul Burrell, his mother's former butler, but wrote in his book Spare that he did.\n\n\"I honestly can't remember whether I wanted a meeting or not,\" he said.\n\nHe also claimed that remarks he had made about Mr Burrell to his brother, Prince William, were obtained illegally by MGN from a voicemail he left.\n\nA pattern began to emerge in the courtroom battle, with Mr Green pinning Prince Harry down with questions about specific details - while the duke pushed back with broader scepticism about how newspaper stories were gathered.\n\nPrince Harry said the media had a \"twisted objective\" to destroy his relationships\n\nA key strand of MGN's case is that stories were legally reported because they were in the public domain, and Mr Green put it to the duke that some stories written by MGN papers were follow-ups to articles in rival publications.\n\nPrince Harry said journalists were \"desperate for anything royal\" and \"any element of our private lives is interesting to the public\".\n\n\"Just because there was a story which came out previously doesn't mean there weren't attempts to take the story further,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Green said that while there was sympathy for the \"extraordinary level of press intrusion\" Prince Harry has faced \"it does not follow that it was all unlawful activity\".\n\nHarry said that journalists had caused a lot of pain and upset, and asked if he was in court to \"put a stop to this madness\", he replied: \"That is my hope.\"\n\nAfter several hours of questioning in the witness stand from Mr Green, in the afternoon there was a brief pause in proceedings.\n\n\"My mind's gone blank for a moment,\" Prince Harry said, in response to questioning about an article on his part in a school cadet event.\n\nBy appearing at the High Court, the duke has become the first senior royal to give evidence in a court since Edward VII in 1891.\n\nPrince Harry is one of four people suing the publisher, alongside Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nPrince Harry will return to continue his evidence on Wednesday.", "Historic England said the purpose of the markings on the wood is not known\n\nA piece of decoratively carved wood found during a construction project has been declared the oldest in Britain.\n\nThe 6,000-year-old piece of oak, found in Boxford, Berkshire, is only the second wood carving to be found from the Mesolithic period.\n\nIt was discovered preserved in peat at the bottom of a trench.\n\nThe wood is being conserved by Historic England at Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, and will eventually go on display at West Berkshire Museum in Newbury.\n\nThe timber was preserved in peat at the bottom of a trench that had been dug for foundations\n\nLandowner Derek Fawcett has been working with Historic England and the Boxford History Project since finding the timber four years ago.\n\nHe said: \"It was clearly very old and appeared well preserved in peat. After hosing it down, we saw that it had markings that appeared unnatural and possibly man-made.\"\n\nThe timber has been carbon dated to between 4640 BC and 4605 BC, making it around 2,000 years older than Stonehenge, and 500 years older than the only other known piece of carved Mesolithic timber, which was found near Maerdy in Rhondda Cynon Taf in 2012.\n\nThe large timber was carved 2,000 years before Stonehenge was built\n\nHistoric England chief executive Duncan Wilson said: \"This exciting find has helped to shine new light on our distant past and we're grateful to the landowner for recognising its significance.\n\n\"Amazing discoveries like these remind us of the power of archaeology to uncover the hidden narratives that connect us to our roots.\"\n\nThe waterlogged carved oak is one metre long, 0.42 metres wide and 0.2 metres thick.\n\nThe wood is being conserved at Historic England's Fort Cumberland facility\n\nIt was found about 1.5 metres (5ft) below the surface not far from the present course of the River Lambourn in a layer of peat.\n\nMr Fawcett has donated the timber to the West Berkshire Museum in Newbury where it will eventually go on display.\n\nThe museum is also working with the Boxford History Project to arrange for the timber to go on loan to the Boxford village heritage centre.\n\n:: Fort Cumberland's Gill Campbell talks to BBC Radio Berkshire's Andrew Peach about Britain's oldest wood carving. Listen to the full interview here on BBC Sounds.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You cash in on sexual violence against women\" - Tang Zhuoran questioned by BBC reporter Zhaoyin Feng\n\nWomen who are groped on trains in East Asia face the further threat of their assault being filmed and uploaded for sale online. In a year-long investigation, the BBC World Service's investigative unit, BBC Eye, has gone undercover to unmask the men cashing in on sexual violence.\n\nIt was the morning rush hour in Tokyo. The train was packed and rocky.\n\nTakako (not her real name) was on her way to school. The 15-year-old tried to hold on to a grab bar.\n\nSuddenly, she felt a hand pressing on her behind. She thought someone had accidentally bumped into her.\n\nBut the hand started to grope her.\n\n\"That's when I finally realised - it was molestation,\" Takako recalls.\n\nThe hand quickly disappeared in the crowd. \"I couldn't do anything about it.\" She arrived at school in tears that day.\n\nThat was her first time being sexually assaulted on public transport, but Takako was molested almost daily for more than a year on her commute. On countless nights, she went to bed crying. \"I felt like there was no hope in my life,\" she says.\n\nTakako. who was sexually assaulted many times as a teenager, wears a badge that warns off potential attackers\n\nMany women like Takako are targeted in public by sexual predators. In some cases, they face another violation - the attack is filmed and the videos are sold online.\n\nMost videos follow the same pattern - a man secretly films a woman from behind and follows her on to a train. Seconds later, he sexually abuses her. The men act discreetly, and their victims can seem totally unaware. These graphic videos are then listed on the websites for sale.\n\nIn a year-long investigation, we traced the men behind three websites which sell and produce thousands of these sexual assault videos.\n\nEncountering sexual abuse almost daily, Takako found herself unable to speak up during the act due to fear and shame. But every night, she covered her mouth with a towel and repeatedly practised in front of the mirror how to call out a harasser: \"This person is a 'Chikan'!\"\n\n\"Chikan\" is a Japanese term describing sexual assault in public, especially groping on public transport. It also describes the offenders themselves.\n\nChikan perpetrators typically take advantage of crowds, and the victims' fear of causing a scene. In Japan, speaking too directly and openly may be seen as rude.\n\nThousands of arrests are made every year for Chikan offences, but many more go undetected and unpunished. Saito Akiyoshi, mental health professional and author of a book about Chikan, says that only about 10% of victims report the crime.\n\nThe Japanese police encourage victims and eyewitnesses to speak up, but the crime is far from being eradicated. The problem is so widespread that even the UK and Canadian governments warn travellers to Japan about it.\n\nChikan has been normalised by its prominence in Japan's adult entertainment industry. One of the most popular types of pornography in the country - the Chikan genre - has spread to other Asian countries.\n\nThe metro trains in Tokyo become incredibly crowded at certain points of the day\n\nOne Chinese-language website called DingBuZhu (which means \"I can't hold it\" in Chinese) immediately caught our attention.\n\nIt's a marketplace for Chikan videos, filmed secretly on mobile phones in crowded public places, such as trains and buses. They are shot across East Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.\n\nSome videos cost less than a dollar. The site even once allowed users to order tailor-made abuse videos.\n\nWe also found links on DingBuZhu to two other websites - Chihan and Jieshe - with the same type of content.\n\nThere is a Telegram group with 4,000 members who share tips on how to sexually abuse women.\n\nOne name kept coming up on the Chikan websites - \"Uncle Qi\".\n\nHe was hailed as the guru in this community. Dozens of abuse videos were labelled as his work. On Twitter, he put up teasers of the websites' videos to his 80,000 followers. But who was he?\n\nThe Telegram group we had been monitoring revealed a clue. One day, an admin claimed in a series of messages that he had abused a woman with Uncle Qi.\n\nThe messages were accompanied by photos of a woman standing on what appeared to be a metro platform.\n\nWithin hours, we found a match for the location - Ikebukuro station in Tokyo.\n\nBBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.\n\nWatch on BBC iPlayer now (UK only), or on BBC Three at 22:50 BST on Thursday 8 June\n\nAnd there were more leads pointing us to Japan.\n\nThe websites listed a Paypal account receiving Japanese yen which was linked to a Gmail address. When we put the address through Google Contacts, the profile picture that came up was a young man with an elaborate hairstyle and theatrical makeup.\n\nA reverse image search put a name to the face - Noctis Zang, a 30-year-old Chinese-born singer living in Tokyo. He was the frontman of a metal band called The Versus.\n\nAn internet search revealed the name of Noctis Zang, a Chinese rock singer\n\nNoctis had a glamorous public image, but we soon found something hidden behind it.\n\nIn early 2022, The Versus' photographer had alleged on Chinese social media platform Weibo that Noctis built \"porn websites\" alongside another band member, Lupus Fu.\n\nHe had posted pictures of a notebook, which showed some accounting and video categories similar to those on the websites. The photographer had also posted a video which appeared to show Noctis's browsing history, with links to Chihan, Jieshe and the admin pages of DingBuZhu.\n\nCould this rock singer be Uncle Qi?\n\nPosing as a music talent scout called Ian, our undercover journalist met Noctis at a fancy rooftop bar in Tokyo.\n\nThey first talked about music, but the chat soon moved on to the subject of sex. When Ian said his company used to make porn films, Noctis's eyes lit up.\n\nThe two met several more times, and they even celebrated Noctis's birthday together.\n\nNoctis introduced Ian to his fellow band member Lupus Fu, whose name had been mentioned by The Versus' photographer. Lupus, also from China, was studying sociology in Japan.\n\nIan said his company planned to invest in porn sites and asked if they knew anything about this business.\n\nOur undercover reporter, Ian, met key figures linked to one of the abuse video sites in a Tokyo bar\n\nNoctis confessed he had \"some exposure\" through a friend, \"Maomi\", who had created his own porn sites with \"metro\" content.\n\nLupus and Noctis both laughed: \"That's Maomi's website!\"\n\nThey revealed that the person behind the Chikan websites was a Chinese man in Tokyo nicknamed Maomi. They said Maomi was reclusive and paranoid.\n\nNoctis and Lupus also admitted that they played admin roles for the websites.\n\nThey spelled out their business model.\n\n\"In China, sex is the most suppressed,\" Noctis said, \"Some men are very perverted, they just want to see women getting…\" Lupus finished the sentence: \"screwed over.\"\n\nLupus said he was in charge of promoting abuse videos on Twitter. Noctis revealed that he had uploaded more than 5,000 videos on the websites, received payments for the business and taken 30% of revenue. The rest he had transferred to Maomi.\n\nLupus also said he could help connect Ian to Maomi.\n\nOn a quiet back street in the red-light district of Yokohama, a storefront decorated like a metro station catches your eyes. A sign spells out its concept: \"legal Chikan trains\".\n\nIn this sex club, called Rush Hour, customers can pay to enjoy the Chikan experience legally.\n\nIts manager Hasuda Shuhei welcomes us on board. \"We let people do things that can't be done outside. That's why people come here.\"\n\nInside, a sickly-sweet smell of cleaning products permeates the air. Private rooms are decorated like train carriages and equipped with a sound system that plays train announcements. Even the club's membership cards look exactly like Japan's transportation cards.\n\nDecorated like a train carriage, the Rush Hour sex club offers customers the chance to act out fantasies of public groping\n\n\"I think it's important for men to be able to pay to vent in place like this, so they don't commit rape and other forms of sexual assault,\" says Hasuda.\n\nMental health professional Saito says that the matter is not as straightforward as Hasuda claims. He says that most Chikan perpetrators are aroused by the idea of domination over and humiliation of their victims.\n\n\"They do not treat their victims as equals, but as objects.\"\n\nIt's an opinion that rings true with Takako.\n\nAfter months of assaults, she fought back one day. As she felt a hand reach for her skirt in a packed train carriage, Takako shouted at the top of her lungs and grabbed the assaulter by his wrist.\n\nTakako took the man to court, where he only got a suspended sentence, even though he had previously been caught for Chikan offences.\n\nDisappointed by the outcome of her case, Takako went on to start an anti-Chikan campaign, producing colourful badges reading \"Chikan is a crime!\" People can wear them to show they will not keep silent.\n\n\"It's a deterrent for criminals,\" says Takako, who is now 24. There is now an annual anti-Chikan badge design contest among Japanese high school students.\n\nCampaigners make anti-Chikan badges to raise awareness of sexual assaults on public transport\n\nMaomi means \"kitty cat\" in Chinese. However, Lupus said his personality was more like a hamster. \"He's harmless, but cautious of everything and he sometimes overreacts.\"\n\nLupus was right. Maomi repeatedly refused to meet Ian.\n\nBut on Chinese New Year's Eve, Ian's luck changed. Maomi agreed to a meeting at a karaoke bar.\n\nThe air was thick with cigarette smoke, the sound of clinking glasses and Chinese pop songs.\n\nThe person who turned up was not who we expected. A skinny young man wearing half-rim glasses and a dark trench coat, Maomi looked like he could be a college student. He said he was 27.\n\nShowing an interest in investing in his business, Ian asked how much he made.\n\n\"Our daily turnover is around 5,000-10,000 Chinese Yuan (US$700-$1,400; £565-£1,130),\" Maomi said proudly, showing the transactions on his phone. \"Very stable income, right?\"\n\nIan acted impressed, and mentioned the name Uncle Qi.\n\nBut to our surprise, he revealed Uncle Qi was not just one person.\n\nHe managed a team of 15 people, including 10 in China who made videos under the same name. Maomi received 30 to 100 videos from them each month.\n\nThe videos were then sold on the three websites which Maomi confirmed he owned. They had more than 10,000 paying members, mostly Chinese men.\n\n\"The key is to be authentic. It has to be real,\" Maomi said. He later told us his websites even sold videos of drug-facilitated rape.\n\nMaomi talked about his business as though it were any other budding start-up. He described his team as \"passionate\" and \"brave\". He even casually mentioned he had been training others to carry out and film sexual assaults.\n\nBut there was one thing he never mentioned - the women in his videos. It was as if they didn't matter to him at all.\n\nWe wanted to know Maomi's real identity. At another meeting with Ian, he opened up about how he got into this business.\n\nLike many boys, Maomi liked Superman, anime and video games growing up. But when he was 14, he started watching sexual assault videos like the ones he sold now.\n\nHe knew his business was not risk-free.\n\n\"I am so cautious,\" Maomi said. \"Safety first.\" To avoid scrutiny from the Chinese authorities, he planned to naturalise as a Japanese citizen.\n\nHowever, as careful as Maomi was, he made a mistake.\n\nWhen Ian asked where to send the investment funds, Maomi pulled out his bank card and handed it to Ian.\n\nThe card revealed his real name - Tang Zhuoran.\n\nLater, we confronted Maomi with our allegations.\n\nAs we approached, he tried to cover his face and walked away. And all of a sudden, he snapped, hitting out at our camera and crew.\n\nThe next day, by coincidence, we spotted Maomi at the airport. He was leaving Japan.\n\nUncle Qi's Twitter account, where he openly promotes the abuse videos, is still active.\n\nTwitter did not respond to our request for comment. Instead, they sent us a poo emoji, which has been an automatic reply to any inquiry directed to their press email since March.\n\nWe also put our allegations to Noctis and Lupus. They did not respond. We have since learned they no longer work with Maomi.\n\nOn a spring day, we meet up with Takako to tell her about our investigation. Appalled, she says: \"We women are just content in their videos. They see us as objects. They don't think we have a heart.\"\n\nTakako advocates for tougher laws against these crimes.\n\nJapan is set to reform its sexual assault laws. However, campaigners say these changes don't go far enough.\n\nBut Takako will not give up. \"We will not cry ourselves to sleep.\"\n\nYou can watch the full film in English on the BBC World Service YouTube channel.\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales visited St Thomas Church in 2022\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have offered to help replace items stolen from a food bank.\n\nSt Thomas Church in Swansea had food, drink, baby toys and even bikes stolen on Saturday evening.\n\nThe Reverend Steve Bunting said he received the unexpected call from Kensington Palace on Wednesday.\n\n\"They were keen to make sure we could replace the items taken from the food bank,\" he said.\n\n\"I've no idea how they got wind of the story, but I got a phone call early today expressing that the Prince and Princess of Wales were concerned about what happened.\"\n\nThe royal couple visited the church in 2022 in their first visit to Wales since they were given the Prince and Princess of Wales titles.\n\nWhile at the church the prince revealed for the first time that he had begun learning Welsh, like his father had before him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited St Thomas Church last year\n\n\"I couldn't really believe it to be honest,\" added Mr Bunting.\n\n\"It's been a crazy 48 hours and we have been overwhelmed by kindness, from people dropping in £5 to the phone call this morning.\n\n\"They all wanted to do something about it and it's testament to the people of this area and city.\"\n\nFollowing the royal visit in September Mr Bunting was not surprised that the prince and princess wanted to help, describing them as \"a part of our team here, although a very distant part\".\n\nThe Reverend Steve Bunting says he is not surprised the Prince and Princess were willing to help\n\nMr Bunting and the team at the church are also extending the hand of forgiveness to the thieves responsible.\n\n\"There are always people who react to these type of incidents either by saying we should lock them up or by saying these people must be desperate.\n\n\"I am of the last type and we would like to help change people's lives and this is why we are running a food bank and we would like to be part of the redemption of these people.\"", "The scale of the floods caused by the destruction of a huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine on Tuesday is starting to become clear.\n\nSatellite images show how much water has already spread downriver from the Kakhovka dam to the city of Kherson about 75km (45 miles) to the west.\n\nIn closer images the water levels can be seen reaching the roofs of most buildings in the town of Oleshky, on the Russian-controlled side of the river just a few miles from Kherson, with many completely submerged.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe dam is next to the city of Nova Kakhovka, in the Kherson region, and holds back a reservoir that is so huge locals call it the Kakhovka Sea - because you cannot see the opposite bank in certain places.\n\nImages from Nova Kakhovka on Tuesday showed buildings surrounded by floodwaters hours after the dam was destroyed.\n\nIt is unclear when exactly the dam was first damaged or how it happened, but satellite images suggest its condition had deteriorated over a number of days.\n\nA road across the dam can be seen to to be badly damaged from 2 June, but there did not seem to be a change to the flow of the water until 6 June when the breach of the wall and collapse of nearby buildings can be clearly seen.\n\nThe entire south bank of the Dnipro River as far as the eastern end of the vast Kakhovka reservoir has been occupied by Russian forces since the invasion last year.\n\nApart from the flooding, the dam's destruction has raised concern about the state of the Zaporizhzia nuclear power station, about 130km upstream.\n\nThe reservoir provided cooling water to the plant, which is also under Russian control, but the reservoir is now emptying rapidly.\n\nHowever, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says there are alternative water sources to keep the plant cool.\n\nSome reports suggest that water levels may be dropping in the town of Nova Kakhovka, closest to the dam, as the vast reservoir behind it empties.\n\nBut the city's Russian-appointed mayor Vladimir Leontyev said the village of Korsunka - about 15km west of the dam - was completely under water, with flooding up to roof level in three other villages.\n\nUkraine and Russia both say they have evacuated more than 1,000 people each.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian officials say more than 40,000 people - 17,000 in Ukraine-held territory west of the Dnipro River and 25,000 in the Russian-occupied east - need to leave.\n\nThe Ukrainian authorities have released a list of settlements they want people to leave and details of some where rescue teams have been working on the west side of the river, while Russian-installed authorities have given details of places they say are flooded on the side of the river they control.\n\nAnd Kherson itself had already seen heavy flooding on Wednesday morning - even though Ukrainian authorities were not expecting water levels to peak until the end of the day.\n\nOnce again the true scale becomes clearer from satellite images that show just how much of the city has been hit by the deluge.\n\nIt is just the latest tragedy to hit the city since Russia's invasion - occupation, liberation after heavy fighting and shelling most days.\n\nAnd the BBC's James Waterhouse, who is in the city, says it has changed the atmosphere there, with morale lower. People have had enough, he says.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid have agreed a deal with Borussia Dortmund to sign England midfielder Jude Bellingham for 103m euros (£88.5m).\n\nThe 19-year-old, who joined Dortmund from Birmingham City in July 2020, was one of England's top performers at last year's World Cup.\n\nBellingham wants the move and will have a medical in the next few days.\n\nThe midfielder, who has been linked with some of Europe's top sides, will sign a six-year deal.\n\nDortmund have confirmed in a statement that the Spanish side have agreed to pay 103m euros, with various potential add-ons on top of that.\n\nIf those add-ons are achieved, the deal could reach 133.9m euros (£115m).\n\nManchester City and Liverpool were two of the sides keen on Bellingham, who is set to become the world's third-most expensive teenager.\n\nThe Bundesliga's player of the season will also become the second-most expensive English footballer and Real Madrid's second-most expensive signing after Eden Hazard's 115m euro move from Chelsea in 2019.\n\nIn April, Liverpool dropped out of the race to sign Bellingham because of the cost involved. Asked about Bellingham at the time, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp compared talk of big-money transfers to a \"child wanting a Ferrari for Christmas\".\n\nWhen Bellingham left Birmingham for Dortmund for £25m, becoming the most expensive 17-year-old in the history of football, the Championship side were mocked by some for retiring the teenager's shirt number, despite him only playing one full season of professional football.\n\nHe excelled at Dortmund and in October last year he made history by becoming the club's youngest captain aged 19.\n\nBellingham has played 42 times for his club this season - scoring 14 goals and registering seven assists.\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "A criminal investigation has been launched into the death of an elderly woman who was struck by police escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nHelen Holland, 81, was hit by a police motorbike at a junction in Earl's Court, west London, on 10 May.\n\nThe police watchdog said the constable riding the vehicle was being investigated for offences including causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nIt will then decide whether to refer the case for potential charges.\n\nMs Holland suffered serious injuries in the crash and died two weeks later having suffered \"multiple broken bones and massive internal injuries\", according to her son.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Duchess of Edinburgh was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms Holland's death\n\nIn addition to causing death by dangerous driving, the officer is being investigated for causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, as well as potential gross misconduct, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nHowever, it does not necessarily mean that charges or disciplinary proceedings will follow.\n\nIOPC director Amanda Rowe said it was crucial a \"thorough, independent investigation\" was carried out \"to establish the full circumstances, which will include the actions and decision making of the officer under investigation\".\n\n\"At the end of our investigation, we will decide whether to refer the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision and whether the officer should face disciplinary proceedings,\" she said.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the duchess was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms Holland's death and had sent her \"deepest condolences\" to her family.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said: \"We are aware that the IOPC has launched a criminal investigation in relation to the actions of an MPS officer involved in a fatal collision at West Cromwell Road, on Wednesday, 10 May.\n\n\"We continue to fully support the IOPC as they work to establish the facts around this incident.\n\n\"The officer is currently on restricted duties.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lawyers representing bereaved families in the Covid-19 inquiries have demanded clarity on former first minister Nicola Sturgeon's WhatsApp messages.\n\nCounsel acting on behalf of Scottish ministers said Ms Sturgeon did not have any relevant informal correspondence.\n\nHowever, lawyers for the bereaved said it should be up to inquiry officials to decide what was considered relevant.\n\nThis could include private messages, emails or diaries regarding the handling of the pandemic.\n\nAamer Anwar is the lead solicitor for the Scottish Covid Bereaved group.\n\nThe group has made further legal submissions to the UK Covid Inquiry calling for all unredacted WhatsApp messages and other relevant materials to be provided.\n\nThe Covid inquiries are intended to help government officials and the public work out what ministers got right and wrong - before, during and after the pandemic.\n\nIn a new statement, Mr Anwar said a request \"should be made of Scottish ministers to provide to the inquiry any communications held by informal means in order that the primary relevance test can be carried out by this inquiry\".\n\nHe said: \"The government is, and should be, answerable to the people, this applies to both the Scottish government as well as the UK government.\n\n\"We were advised by the Scottish ministers' counsel that Nicola Sturgeon has advised them she does not have such informal messages - i.e. WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"Today we have sought full clarity from the UK and Scottish Inquiry as to what has happened to Ms Sturgeon's WhatsApp messages, and why they are not being disclosed in their entirety.\n\nLawyers Aamer Anwar and Stuart Gale KC met the Scottish Covid Bereaved group in May\n\n\"Ms Sturgeon and other Scottish ministers should be in no different of a position to that of Mr Johnston, Rishi Sunak or Matt Hancock - the job of establishing the relevance is a matter for this inquiry.\n\n\"We have said before and say it again, no individual, no matter how powerful, can be allowed to interfere with the pursuit of truth, justice and accountability in this inquiry.\n\n\"Those who lost their lives to Covid-19 deserve nothing less.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon will give evidence to the Scottish inquiry at a later date, alongside former deputy first minister John Swinney, health secretary Jeane Freeman and Scotland's former chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood.\n\nIt comes as a transparency row erupts between the UK inquiry and the Westminster government after WhatsApp submissions from senior aides had been redacted.\n\nFormer prime minister Boris Johnson said he would give unredacted WhatsApp messages dating back to May 2021 directly to the Covid inquiry.\n\nThis will bypass the UK government which has refused to hand them over.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for texts from the former prime minister and officials, arguing that many of the messages are irrelevant to the investigation.\n\nIt said they needed to protect the privacy of ministers and others.", "Amanda, who was stabbed by her son, says she was \"appalled\" at the time it had taken for the case to be reviewed\n\nInquests held by coroners would make the biggest difference in preventing future killings involving mental health patients, according to a senior barrister.\n\nThere have been seven Welsh homicides carried out by acutely unwell mental health patients since 2016.\n\nHowever none of these have received a full coroner's inquest.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it could not comment on decisions by individual coroners.\n\nA senior barrister said the Welsh government's new system to review such cases was unlikely to be enough.\n\nLord Alex Carlile said it would take more to hold services to account and teach the necessary lessons.\n\nThe Welsh government said its new reviews would see learning from mental health killings \"adopted throughout Wales\".\n\nBBC Wales Investigates found one patient in Borth, Ceredigion, stabbed a stranger 10 days after being released from a psychiatric unit.\n\nHe was discharged despite doctors highlighting his \"worsening mental state\" and the risk he \"posed with knives\".\n\nDavid Fleet, who was 20 at the time, attacked Lewis Stone, 71, while he was walking his dog because of \"the voices in his head\".\n\nAn internal review by Hywel Dda University Health Board into David Fleet's care found \"missed opportunities,\" but lessons from the case were not shared directly with other health boards or made public.\n\nThe killing in 2019 received no coroner's inquest hearing or independent review.\n\n\"In Wales, in my view, the biggest single difference [to preventing mental health homicides] would be to mandate that there should be a proper inquest in each case of this type,\" said Lord Carlile, a previous chairman of parliamentary committees on mental health legislation.\n\nLord Carlile said it was vital to look \"at the lessons from past cases\"\n\n\"It's public, so it is accountable, and the evidence is tested forensically, by which I mean the barristers or solicitors can cross-examine witnesses, including expert witnesses, to ascertain that everything is revealed,\" said Lord Carlile.\n\nHe said it was vital to look \"at the lessons from past cases\".\n\nSeveral coroners' offices told BBC Wales Live that mental health homicides which all go through the crown court were unlikely to get inquest hearings too as it risked duplicating already heard material.\n\nHowever, some of the families involved are concerned.\n\nThey believe more should be done to hear about potential failings and missed opportunities in the build-up to killings.\n\nFour months after he was discharged from a psychiatric unit, Garvey Gayle stabbed his mum Amanda multiple times and killed his father in 2020.\n\nAmanda said the attack could have been prevented if her son had been given more support.\n\nMore than two-and-a-half years later, she is still waiting to find out if there will be a coroner's inquest into Michael's death.\n\nShe is worried lessons, which could help prevent similar incidents, are taking too long.\n\nGarvey Gayle was discharged from a psychiatric unit months before he attacked his parents\n\n\"I just want some answers about how, maybe, this could have been prevented if we'd had more help,\" she said.\n\n\"There are a lot of unanswered questions at the moment we're still waiting on.\"\n\nAmanda is now pushing for a special type of inquest, called an Article 2 inquest.\n\nThis would look at Michael's death and whether any organisations involved in her son's care need to make changes.\n\nShe said it was vital for her family that they learned whether anything could have been done to prevent the attack.\n\nThe Welsh government's new process for independent reviews into these cases is supposed to take less than a year from the time they are commissioned.\n\nGarvey Gayle's case will be one of the first to be looked at under the new system.\n\nAmanda said she had been told not to expect the results until after the third anniversary of Michael's death.\n\nAmanda says the waiting time is not fair on the families\n\nShe said she was \"appalled\" at the time it had taken.\n\n\"I don't think it's fair on the family at all,\" Amanda added. \"I don't understand why these things have taken so long. I just hope another family doesn't have to experience what we're going through.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and the Welsh government said they could not comment on the case because of the review.\n\nThe Welsh government said its new review system would recognise the need for \"greater co-ordination and communication\" between organisations when investigating mental health homicides.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the new system \"eliminates\" the need of multiple \"onerous and traumatising reviews\".\n\nThey added it will \"build a greater understanding of what happened during an incident and why, and provide a clear action plan to improve services.\n\n\"Importantly, it will ensure learning is adopted throughout Wales,\" they added.", "The BBC’s analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at what we know about the Ukraine dam collapse at Nova Kakhovka and the flooding it has caused.\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated downstream and President Zelensky has said 80 towns and villages are at risk of flooding.", "Prince Harry has accused the press and the government of being at \"rock bottom\" in his High Court privacy case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nIn a witness statement, Prince Harry said journalists were harming democracy by \"getting into bed\" with the government to \"ensure the status quo\".\n\nHe later gave evidence in person in the High Court.\n\nMGN denies using unlawful methods, including phone hacking, to find out sensitive information about him.\n\nRishi Sunak declined to be drawn on the remarks during a trip to the US, telling reporters it was a \"long-standing convention\" for prime ministers not to comment on royals.\n\nBy appearing in the witness stand, Harry became the first senior royal to give evidence in a court of law since the future Edward VII in 1891.\n\nIn a written statement issued to the High Court, he said: \"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo.\n\n\"In my view, in order to save journalism as a profession, journalists need to expose those people in the media that have stolen or highjacked the privileges and powers of the press, and have used illegal or unlawful means for their own gain and agendas.\n\n\"I feel that I need to make sure that this unlawful behaviour is exposed, because obviously I don't want anybody else going through the same thing that I've been going through on a personal level.\n\n\"But also on a national level as, at the moment, our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our Government - both of which I believe are at rock bottom.\"\n\nHarry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered in the court case.\n\nThe 55-page statement is critical of the broader tabloid press, while there are also specific claims levelled against MGN - the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People.\n\nThe Duke is bringing claims against the publisher alongside Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nThe publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBallon d'Or winner Karim Benzema has agreed terms on a three-year deal with Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad after leaving Real Madrid.\n\nFrench striker Benzema, 35, won 25 trophies - including five Champions Leagues and four La Ligas - in 14 years with Madrid but they agreed to let him leave his contract a year early.\n\nHe scored 354 goals for Real, second only to Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nRonaldo, who hit 450 Real goals, plays for another Saudi club, Al-Nassr.\n\n\"It's a good league and there are many good players,\" said Benzema. \"Cristiano Ronaldo is already there, a friend which shows Saudi Arabia is starting to further progress its level. I am here to win, like I did in Europe.\n\n\"I have been fortunate to achieve amazing things in my career and achieve everything I can in Spain and Europe. It now feels the time is right for a new challenge and project.\"\n\nAl-Ittihad are managed by former Wolves and Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo.\n\nBenzema played 648 times for Real after his 2009 move from Lyon and scored with his last touch for the club, netting a penalty in Sunday's 1-1 draw with Athletic Bilbao before being replaced.\n\nOn Monday it was announced Al-Ittihad were one of four leading Saudi Arabian clubs to be taken over by the country's Public Investment Fund, which also owns Newcastle United.\n\nRonaldo's Al-Nassr are another, and so are Al-Hilal, who have been strongly linked to Paris St-Germain's Lionel Messi this summer.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Denise Gossett, her son Roman, her daughter Sabrina and Sabrina's daughter Morgana were all killed in the fire\n\nA man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing four members of the same family in County Fermanagh.\n\nDaniel Sebastian Allen, 32, from Doon Road near Derrylin, changed his plea as his trial was about to start.\n\nHe admitted the murders of Roman Gossett, 16, his sister Sabrina, 19, and Sabrina's 15-month-old daughter Morgana Quinn.\n\nBut he denied murdering Denise Gossett, 45, and instead admitted manslaughter by reason of a suicide pact.\n\nCraigavon Crown Court was told that plea was acceptable to the prosecution.\n\nDaniel Allen, pictured at a previous court appearance, was at the scene of the fire when the emergency services arrived\n\nAllen's voice broke as he pleaded guilty to a fifth charge of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe fire happened at a cottage the family were renting just outside Derrylin on 27 February 2018.\n\nAllen had been living with the family at the time.\n\nWhen the emergency services arrived he was standing outside and four bodies were discovered inside.\n\nAllen had previously denied murder and claimed he did not play any part in the deaths of Roman and Morgana.\n\nThe rural bungalow house was gutted by the blaze in February 2018\n\nThe judge said: \"Since you have pleaded guilty to three counts of murder I now sentence you to life imprisonment.\"\n\nA defence barrister said: \"Obviously these are serious matters and reports will be required.\"\n\nIn addition to a pre-sentence report, he said time would be required for a number of other professional reports.\n\nA sentencing hearing was set for 15 September when the judge will set the minimum number of years before Allen can be considered for release.\n\nHe will also be given prison sentences for manslaughter and arson.\n\nAllen nodded as the judge told him he would serve life imprisonment for three murders before he was led from the dock in handcuffs.", "A prolific cyber crime gang thought to be based in Russia has issued an ultimatum to victims of a hack that has hit organisations around the world.\n\nThe Clop group posted a notice on the dark web warning firms affected by the MOVEit hack to email them before 14 June or stolen data will be published.\n\nMore than 100,000 staff at the BBC, British Airways and Boots have been told payroll data may have been taken.\n\nEmployers are being urged not to pay up if the hackers demand a ransom.\n\nCyber security research previously suggested Clop could be responsible for the hack which was first announced last week.\n\nThe criminals found a way to break into a piece of popular business software called MOVEit and were then able to use that access to get into the databases of potentially hundreds of other companies.\n\nAnalysts at Microsoft said on Monday they believed Clop was to blame, based on the techniques used in the hack.\n\nIt has now been confirmed in a long blog post written in broken English.\n\nThe post, seen by the BBC, reads: \"This is announcement to educate companies who use Progress MOVEit product that chance is that we download a lot of your data as part of exceptional exploit.\"\n\nThe post goes on to urge victim organisations to send an email to the gang to begin a negotiation on the crew's darknet portal.\n\nThis is an unusual tactic as normally ransom demands are emailed to victim organisations by the hackers, but here they are demanding that victims get in touch. This could be because Clop itself can't keep up with the scale of the hack which is still being processed around the world.\n\n\"My take is that they just have so much data that it is difficult for them to get on top of it all. They're betting that if you know then you will contact them,\" says SOS Intelligence CEO Amir Hadžipasić.\n\nMOVEit is supplied by Progress Software in the US for many businesses to securely move files around company systems. Payroll services provider Zellis, which is based in the UK, was one of its users.\n\nZellis has confirmed that eight UK organisations have had data stolen as a result, including home addresses, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, bank details. Not all firms have had the same data exposed.\n\nZellis customers which has been breached include:\n\nNova Scotia Government and the University of Rochester is also warning staff that data may have been stolen through the MOVEit vulnerability.\n\nAdvice from experts is for individuals not to panic, and for organisations to carry out security checks issued by authorities like the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Authority in the US.\n\nClop claims on its leak site that it has deleted any data from government, city or police services.\n\n\"Do not worry, we erased your data you do not need to contact us. We have no interest to expose such information,\" it reads.\n\nHowever, researchers say the criminals are not to be trusted.\n\n\"Clop's claim to have deleted information relating to public sector organisations should be taken with a pinch of salt. If the information has monetary value or could be used for phishing, it's unlikely that they will simply have disposed it,\" said Brett Callow, threat researcher from Emsisoft.\n\nCyber security experts have long tracked the exploits of Clop, which is thought to be based in Russia as it mainly operates on Russian speaking forums.\n\nRussia has long been accused of being a safe haven to ransomware gangs - which it denies.\n\nHowever, Clop runs as a \"ransomware as a service\" group, which means hackers can rent their tools to carry out attacks from anywhere.\n\nIn 2021, alleged Clop hackers were arrested in Ukraine in a joint operation between Ukraine, US and South Korea.\n\nAt the time, authorities claimed to have taken down the group which they said was responsible for extorting $500m from victims around the world.\n\nBut Clop has continued to be a persistent threat.", "A heat-health alert has been issued for parts of England as temperatures are predicted to hit 30C (86F) over the weekend.\n\nThe alert is in place from 09:00 BST on Friday 9 June to 09:00 on Monday 12 June in London, the Midlands, eastern and southern England.\n\nPeople are being asked to check on vulnerable friends and family.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says the health and social care sector could be impacted.\n\nThis first alert - graded yellow - means this weekend, predicted to be hotter than Ibiza and Madrid, could affect the vulnerable including the over-65s and those with an underlying health condition.\n\nDr Agostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at UKHSA, said: \"In the coming days we are likely to experience our first sustained period of hot weather of the year so far, so it's important that everyone ensures they keep hydrated and cool while enjoying the sun.\n\n\"Forecasted temperatures this week will primarily impact those over the age of 65 or those with pre-existing health conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.\n\n\"If you have friends, family or neighbours who you know are more vulnerable to the effects of hot weather, it is important you check in on them.\"\n\nThe UKHSA also advises people to:\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker said some parts of the UK official heatwave threshold might be met in parts ofcentral and southern England this weekend.\n\nIn order for a heatwave to be declared, temperatures must be above the official heatwave threshold for at least three consecutive days.\n\nHe said: \"Typically highs will reach the mid to high 20s widely across the country, but there is an outside chance of 30C in England. This is dependent on sunshine.\n\n\"The forecasts point to increasing amounts of cloud and the chance of thunderstorms which will have a bearing on the highest temperatures.\n\n\"Due to the increasing humidity the nights will also become uncomfortable over the weekend.\"\n\nLarge parts of the country have seen little rain recently, with some areas in England not experiencing any rain since 11 May.\n\nTemperatures will be in the high 20s across the UK this weekend\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest ever - Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, reached a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nThe UKHSA expects heatwaves are \"likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead\".\n\nThe new colour-coded alert system, launched last week, is run by the UKHSA and the Met Office. It is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nThere are two further alerts, not yet issued, representing more of a risk:\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.", "Images of the Statue of Liberty in New York - obscured by a thick haze of smoke caused by wildfires in Canada - have shocked the United States.\n\nBut in the Indian capital Delhi, the iconic India Gate hidden behind a layer of smog is a reality every winter.\n\nThe air gets hazardous, with pollution reaching levels nearly five times what the World Health Organization considers safe.\n\nResidents are asked to stay inside, keep the windows and doors closed and wear masks when stepping out.\n\nIt is like a scene from a dystopian novel or an apocalyptic film, except that it is real.\n\nThose who can afford it rush to buy expensive air purifiers. But these only work in closed rooms.\n\nExperts say exposure to such high levels of pollution make people more prone to all kinds of infections. They can elevate the risk of heart attacks and damage vital organs like the liver and brain.\n\nExperts say cleaning up the air requires drastic measures - but they are not a top priority for the country's leaders.\n\nYou can read more about how Delhi deals with pollution here.", "Prince Harry has been facing a cross-examination in the High Court in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nHe believes journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People exploited a security gap to access his voicemails and hear messages left by friends and family.\n\nAs he entered the witness box, Harry's 55-page witness statement was published, detailing the times when he says journalists at the newspaper publisher used unlawful methods to gather information to generate stories about him, including phone hacking. MGN denies phone hacking in this case.\n\nHere are some key extracts from his statement which he is being challenged on in court by barristers on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\n\"In my experience as a member of the Royal Family, each of us gets cast into a specific role by the tabloid press.\n\n\"You start off as a blank canvas while they work out what kind of person you are and what kind of problems and temptations you might have.\n\n\"They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the 'spare' to the 'heir'.\n\n\"You're then either the 'playboy prince', the 'failure', the 'dropout' or, in my case, the 'thicko', the 'cheat', the 'underage drinker', the 'irresponsible drug taker', the list goes on.\n\n\"As a teenager and in my early 20s, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well 'do the crime'.\n\n\"It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers.\n\n\"Looking back, such behaviour on their part is utterly vile.\"\n\nPrince Harry says journalists would blag information about his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy's flights to the UK to see him. The couple were in an on-off, sometimes long-distance, relationship for six years from 2004.\n\n\"I walked into the [airport] arrivals hall with a baseball cap on and immediately spotted five separate paparazzi sitting on benches with cameras in bags, their hands inside rucksacks and everyone else looking at me,\" says the prince.\n\n\"I remember that someone was videoing me with one of those tiny little cameras between their legs.\n\n\"I recall thinking how on earth did they know I was going to be there, but now it's obvious.\n\n\"Here were five big, burly and dodgy looking men, with their hands in their pockets or in rucksacks and satchels in a busy public place.\n\n\"My security and I simply couldn't know whether they were reaching for a camera or drawing some kind of weapon.\"\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nHe adds: \"I always felt the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers.\n\n\"Whenever I got into a relationship, they were very keen to report the details but would then, very quickly, seek to try and break it up by putting as much strain on it and creating as much distrust as humanly possible.\n\n\"The twisted objective is still pursued to this day even though I'm now married.\"\n\n\"Tabloids would routinely publish articles about me that were often wrong but interspersed with snippets of truth.\n\n\"This created an alternative and distorted version of me to the general public - the people I had to serve and interact with as a member of the Royal Family - to the point where any one of the thousands of people that I met or was introduced to on any given day, could easily have gone: 'You know what, you're an idiot. I've read all the stories about you and now I'm going to stab you.\"\n\nPrince Harry on a walkabout in Edinburgh with his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2018\n\nPrince Harry says royal aides gave him his first phone when he went to Eton College, a boarding school in Windsor - and it became crucial to his daily life.\n\n\"As I was very heavily involved with various commitments, I would constantly be leaving and receiving voicemails, as text messaging was much less common back then,\" he says.\n\n\"It was my main means of communicating with my family [including my mother who I was obviously extremely close] ... my girlfriend at the time, my friends, members of the Royal Household and those I was working with.\n\n\"My voicemails would include incredibly private and sensitive information about my relationships, my operational security and that of my family [and in later years] my work both in the Army and as a senior member of the Royal Family.\"\n\nHe says knowing MGN journalists were listening in to private and sensitive voicemails suggests they could have heard \"anything and everything\".\n\nThis created huge stress, presented security concerns and created a \"huge amount of paranoia\" and suspicion in his relationships, he says.\n\n\"I felt I couldn't trust anybody, which was an awful feeling for me, especially at such a young age.\"\n\nThe King accompanied Prince Harry on his first day at Eton College in Berkshire\n\nPrince Harry says numerous papers had reported a rumour that his biological father was James Hewitt - a man his mother had a relationship with after he was born.\n\nAt the time, he says, he wasn't aware of the timeline. Aged 18 and having lost his mother six years earlier, he says such stories felt were \"hurtful, mean and cruel\".\n\n\"I was always left questioning the motives. Were the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so I might be ousted from the Royal Family?\"\n\nJames Hewitt, a former cavalry officer, had a five-year affair with Princess Diana\n\nA 2003 article by The People detailed a disagreement between Prince Harry and his brother, the Prince of Wales, over a potential meeting with their mother's former butler, Paul Burrell. He says the pair had strong feelings about Mr Burrell's indiscretion after he sold their mother's possessions and conducted interviews about her.\n\n\"We firmly believed that she would have expected some privacy in death, especially from someone she had trusted,\" he says.\n\nWilliam had wanted to set up a meeting with him - Harry was firmly against it, having made up his mind about Mr Burrell.\n\nThe article said he believed him to be a \"two-faced shit\", a phrase he believes could have been lifted from a voicemail message.\n\nPaul Burrell said Princess Diana called him her rock\n\nBreaking with the convention that royals never interfere with politics, Prince Harry attacks Rishi Sunak's government in his statement.\n\n\"Our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government - both of which I believe are at rock bottom.\n\n\"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo.\"\n\nPrince Harry says he is determined to see this action through to the end because he is convinced unlawful information gathering was known about by those at the top.\n\n\"The fact that it was not just the journalists who were carrying out the unlawful activity, but also those in power who were turning a blind eye to it so as to ensure that it would continue unabated - and who then tried to cover it up when the game was up - is appalling.\n\n\"The fact they're all ganging up to protect each other is the most disturbing part of all, especially as they're the mothership of online trolling.\n\n\"Trolls react and mobilise to stories they create. People have died as a result and people will continue to kill themselves by suicide when they can't see any other way out.\n\n\"How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness.\"", "Pope Francis has faced a series of health issues in recent\n\nPope Francis has undergone abdominal surgery \"without complications\", the Vatican says.\n\nThe hernia operation at Rome's Gemelli hospital lasted three hours. The 86-year-old is expected to stay in hospital for several days to recover.\n\nAll of his commitments for the next 10 days have been cancelled as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nThe Pope has faced a series of health issues in recent years, and uses a cane and a wheelchair.\n\nIn a statement, the Vatican said the pontiff's medical team had decided in recent days that surgery was needed.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Pope Francis carried out his weekly audience as normal and did not mention his planned operation.\n\nThe Pope was at the same Rome hospital on Tuesday for a scheduled check-up, months after he was taken to hospital with bronchitis.\n\nHe spent three days in hospital in March to treat a lung infection.\n\nIn 2021, Pope Francis spent 10 days in hospital after having a part of his colon removed.\n\nLast month, he pulled out of his Friday audiences due to a fever.\n\nBut while his predecessor Benedict XVI quit in 2013, the Pope has dismissed the possibility of leaving office too.\n\n\"You don't run the Church with a knee but with a head,\" he is said to have told an aide last year.\n\nThe Pope is considered to have been in general good health during his decade leading the Catholic Church\n\nHe continues to maintain a busy schedule, and is due to visit Portugal and Mongolia from August.", "Apple has said it will no longer automatically change one of the most common swear words to 'ducking'.\n\nThe autocorrect feature, which has long frustrated users, will soon be able to use AI to detect when you really mean to use that expletive.\n\n\"In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,\" said software boss Craig Federighi.\n\nHe announced the development at Apple's developers' conference in California.\n\niPhone users have often complained about how autocorrect forces them to rewrite their own messages - with the term \"damn you autocorrect\" becoming an acronym, a meme, an Instagram account and even a song.\n\nThe changes to the function will happen thanks to the use of a transformer model, which learns context by tracking relationships in data, like the words in this sentence, using mathematical techniques.\n\nInitially flagged in a 2017 paper from Google, transformers are some of the most powerful classes of AI models, and autosuggest - or predictive text - systems are beginning to become more mainstream.\n\nThe autocorrect change will be part of the iOS 17 operating system upgrades which are expected to be available as a public beta in July, with the general release in September.\n\nIt should mean that iPadOS 17 also carries the new function.\n\nElsewhere at the developers' conference, Apple unveiled an augmented reality headset, Apple Vision Pro which will retail at $3,499 (£2,849).\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said the new headset \"seamlessly blends the real world and the virtual world\".\n\nIt will be available early next year in the US and in other countries later in 2024.\n\nOn Monday, Apple's market valuation reached just under $3 trillion - a new company record.\n\nHave you sent any funny or unfortunate autocorrect texts? What happened next? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukraine's military has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in the Moscow-seized region of Kherson in the south of the country.\n\nPresident Zelensky shared a video of the damaged Kakhovka dam on his Telegram page.\n\nRead more on this story.", "The trial continues - but we're off for now\n\nAfter two long days, we’re going to end our live coverage of Prince Harry's hacking trial here. Don't worry though, there's more for you:\n• Get up-to-speed in our story here\n• Sign up for insider views on this and more with our BBC's Royal Watch newsletter here\n• Recap what the trial is about here Our reporters James Gregory, Jemma Crew, Dominic Casciani, Tom Symonds and Sean Coughlan have been updating us from the High Court. And in our London newsroom it's been Malu Cursino, with the page edited by Owen Amos and me.", "Andrew Tate is being investigated by Romanian authorities\n\nA British woman says Andrew Tate choked her until she lost consciousness while they were having sex, and then subjected her to threatening behaviour.\n\nThe woman, who was 20 at the time, says she first met the controversial social media influencer in August 2014.\n\nShe says consensual sex turned violent when Mr Tate choked her and when she woke up, he was still having sex with her, adding: \"I didn't consent to it\".\n\nMr Tate said he \"vehemently denies\" the allegations against him.\n\nA spokesman said Mr Tate does not condone violence of any kind towards women, and that all sexual acts he had taken part in had been consensual.\n\nEvie - not her real name - told BBC Newsnight she first met Mr Tate in a bar in Luton, before he was an influencer with millions of followers. She says he was working as a club doorman and she was a student.\n\nShe says she had consensual sex with Mr Tate before meeting him again at her flat later in 2014, in late November or early December. It was then a consensual sexual encounter became violent, she says.\n\nShe says Mr Tate \"put his hand on my throat and strangled me\". Evie says when she came round \"it was a bit confusing at first\", saying the influencer was \"still having sex with me.\"\n\nEvie, now aged 30, claims Mr Tate also subjected her to violent threats, including threatening to kill her, until he left the following morning.\n\n\"He kept saying: 'I own you, you belong to me',\" she says. \"All throughout the night he was being fairly aggressive and saying horrible things.\" The next day, Evie says the white part of one of her eyes had completely turned red.\n\nEvie did not report the alleged incident to police at the time.\n\nAsked by the BBC why she did not go to the police to report a rape, Evie said she did not realise she had been the victim of an alleged crime.\n\nShe added: \"I think I knew what had happened I didn't consent to. But I didn't see it as rape or sexual assault because this was 10 years ago.\"\n\nShe says it wasn't until about six years later when she described the alleged incident to her friends that she began to think she had been sexually assaulted.\n\nThree people who know Evie - and say they remember her describing what had happened - have told her lawyers they are prepared to give evidence in court to that effect.\n\nShe says she wants to share her experience to raise awareness about Mr Tate and get justice.\n\n\"Hopefully it can teach women what [consent] looks like and encourage more women to come forward with stories,\" she added.\n\nEvie is the latest British woman to join a planned lawsuit against Mr Tate. Together with three others, they are pursuing civil claims for damages.\n\nThe women, all in their late 20s and early 30s, allege they were victims of sexual violence by Mr Tate between 2013 and 2016, when he was living in the UK.\n\nAddressing the former kick boxer, Evie added: \"You're going to be held accountable for what you've done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News last week, Mr Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nHe also dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nHe was first arrested, together with his brother, Tristan, at their Bucharest home, in Romania, in December 2022. The pair were later moved from custody to house arrest following a ruling by a Romanian judge.\n\nProsecutors are investigating the brothers for crimes of suspected human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. No charges have so far been brought against them. They deny those allegations.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Tate told the BBC: \"Andrew strongly encourages women who have experienced assault, in any form, to report it to the relevant authorities.\n\n\"He is saddened that a few opportunistic women who he has allegedly spent time with nearly a decade ago have decided to try and take advantage of his current situation. We will not be commenting any further on anyone's alleged intention to pursue legal action unless such action is submitted to the authorities.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nLondon Irish have been suspended from the Premiership after missing a deadline to pay players and staff.\n\nThe club, who were given until Tuesday to complete a takeover or risk being suspended, will not be allowed to play in any league next season.\n\nA US consortium had been trying to buy Irish, who finished fifth in the Premiership during 2022-23.\n\nA statement from governing body the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said the takeover had not materialised.\n\nDespite plans announced in 2021 to expand its top division to 14 teams, English rugby faces the prospect of a 10-team Premiership next season after the earlier demise of Worcester Warriors and Wasps.\n\nThat outcome was discussed by clubs midway through last season, according to Leicester Tigers chief executive Andrea Pinchen.\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney said: \"This is desperately sad news for everyone who is part of the London Irish community as well as all the players, fans, staff and volunteers for whom this club means so much.\"\n\nSweeney said the RFU had worked with the club, Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players' Association to \"do the utmost to secure the long-term viability of the club\".\n\n\"To achieve this, it was imperative that transparent evidence of funding be presented to us,\" he added.\n\n\"This would have been either by the proposed buyers undertaking to provide all required working capital to meet the club's obligations for at least the 2023-24 season; or the club providing evidence that it would continue to fund its operations throughout the 2023-24 season.\n\n\"Despite requesting this evidence over the last six months and receiving assurances on multiple occasions that we would receive proof of ownership and funds; it has not materialised.\"\n\nHow did London Irish get here?\n\nWhile Irish enjoyed a solid season on the pitch - finishing fifth and reaching the final of the Premiership Rugby Cup for the second successive season - there has been talk for some time of issues off the field.\n\nThe club are understood to have debts of about £30m, and owner Mick Crossan has been in protracted talks to sell to a US-based consortium.\n\nCrossan had to step in to pay overdue wages in April, just minutes before players were preparing to submit breach-of-contract notices.\n\nThe club were initially given a deadline of 30 May to complete the takeover or risk being suspended from the Premiership next season, but the RFU pushed that cut-off point back to 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as either completing the takeover or proving they had funding to operate for next season, Irish had to ensure all staff and players were paid in full for May, after just 50% of the money had been forthcoming.\n\nThe club were last week served a winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs over an unpaid tax bill.\n\nPetitions were filed at the High Court on Friday against London Irish Holdings Limited and London Irish Rugby Football Ground Limited.\n\nThe winding-up petition came on the day the UK government appointed independent advisers to support the sport in the wake of the demise of Worcester and Wasps in the early months of last season.\n\nBoth clubs went into administration within the space of 21 days and ended up being expelled from the Premiership.\n\nWasps' demise as a leading domestic club was confirmed last month when the RFU withdrew a conditional offer of a place in the Championship for next season.\n\nThe two-time European and six-times English champions will instead play \"at the bottom of the pyramid\" after being demoted to the 10th tier of English rugby.\n\nWasps went into administration in October, the month after Worcester suffered the same fate.\n\nThey were taken over in December but lost their proposed place in the second tier after the new owners could not provide evidence they were able to pay creditors and other financial commitments.\n\nWorcester, meanwhile, were suspended by the RFU after entering administration in September, just months after winning the Premiership Rugby Cup - their first major trophy.\n\nPlayers and staff had their contracts terminated after part of the club was wound up over an unpaid £6m tax bill.\n\nWorcester were formally taken over by the Atlas Group in May after initially agreeing a deal with administrators Begbies Traynor in February.\n\nWhen, and in which division, the club will return to playing is unknown.\n\nAfter being named as preferred bidders following the collapse of the club, Atlas - led by ex-Warriors chief executive Jim O'Toole - withdrew from negotiations with the RFU over playing in next season's Championship and backtracked on unpopular plans to rebrand as Sixways Rugby.\n\nAlthough proposals remain to merge with the first team of local tier-five side Stourbridge, nothing official has been announced, with Atlas warned by the RFU any move to \"buy their way\" back higher up the league, rather than start at the bottom in tier 10, would not be allowed.\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild\n• None How to get cheap flight tickets: Martin Lewis gives us his top tips...", "Eyes on Orban as EU decides on support for Ukraine , published at 12:42 14 December Eyes on Orban as EU decides on support for Ukraine", "The streets in the district of Neftehavan have been flooded by rising water after a major dam in Ukraine was breached. More than 17,000 people are being evacuated.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky says the dam was \"mined by Russian occupiers\" who \"blew it up\" however Moscow denies this and has claimed Ukraine damaged the dam in a \"deliberate act of sabotage\".", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis trounced his rivals for a second time in a month and now has a majority\n\nGreek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has trounced his centre-left rival in the second election in a month and said he has a \"strong mandate\" to move faster on the path of change.\n\nHis New Democracy party (ND) won 40.5% of the national vote, almost 23 points ahead of Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party.\n\nHe beat Syriza in May, but called new elections in a bid to win a majority.\n\n\"ND is today the most powerful centre-right party in Europe,\" he told delighted supporters in Athens.\n\nMr Mitsotakis, who was sworn as prime minister on Monday, is credited with successfully returning the Greek economy to stability and growth after a severe debt crisis and three international bailouts.\n\nAlthough many Greeks are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, voters chose to stick with the party promising lower taxes and improved public health.\n\nThe vote came 11 days after a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which about 500 people are thought to have died.\n\nThree days of mourning were held, however the disaster had little effect on the campaign and Greeks voted to maintain economic stability.\n\n\"The people have given us a safe majority,\" said Mr Mitsotakis as the extent of his victory became clear. \"Major reforms will go ahead quickly.\"\n\nLast month, his party fell just short of a majority in the 300-seat parliament and his decision to call an election in a bid to form a stable, single-party government was vindicated by Sunday's result.\n\nUnder Greek rules for a second election, the biggest party is awarded a bonus of between 20 and 50 seats. With more than 40% of the vote, New Democracy won all 50.\n\nMr Mitsotakis said he could not promise miracles, but that New Democracy had \"high goals\" to transform Greece with a better public health service and education.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's centre-left Syriza had been soundly defeated in the first election and lost further ground in the second, with less than 18% of the vote. He dampened speculation that he would resign, saying that was a decision for his party members.\n\nOne of the big stories of the election was the success of a newly created far-right Spartans party, which won almost 4.7% of the vote, crossing the 3% threshold to enter parliament.\n\nThe Spartans only emerged as a political force this month when the Supreme Court banned another far-right party, the Greeks, and its jailed founder, Ilias Kasidiaris, threw his weight behind the Spartans.\n\nKasidiaris had been the spokesman for neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which was banned as a criminal organisation and its leaders given long prison terms.\n\nTogether with nationalist Greek Solution and ultra-conservative Niki (Victory), the three hard-right parties won close to 13% of the vote and 34 seats.\n\nThe victory secured by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, over Alexis Tsipras's Syriza is a rarity in Greek politics, as few parties increase their share after a first term in office.\n\nHe also succeeded in attracting more young voters than his rival.\n\nAlexis Tsipras said his future as leader was in the hands of party members\n\nHis party was helped by the fragmentation of the left-wing vote; with Socialist PASOK set for more than 11% and the Communist KKE on around 7%.\n\nTurnout slumped eight points from the first vote to less than 53%.\n\nThe conservative leader has formed a reputation as a Teflon-coated leader, fending off a series of damaging crises in the past year, including a rail disaster and a wire-tapping scandal that brought down the intelligence chief and his own nephew, who worked as the prime minister's chief of staff.\n\nGreece was being led by a caretaker government when the migrant boat sank off the south-west coast in the early hours of 14 June.\n\nSince the migrant crisis, the views of most Greek voters have shifted in favour of stricter, more conservative policies, says Panos Koliastasis, assistant professor of politics at the University of Peloponnese.\n\n\"The reason is rooted in the 2020 migration crisis on the Evros [river], when Turkey tried to push thousands of migrants into Greek territory and the Mitsotakis government acted swiftly. So the greater part of the public perceives the migration issue as an external threat to national sovereignty.\"", "A ban was imposed earlier this month and action can be taken over misuse from Monday\n\nA water company that has imposed a hosepipe ban has blamed people working from home for the shortage.\n\nSouth East Water, which supplies more than two million homes and businesses in Sussex and Kent, will implement the restriction from Monday.\n\nChief Executive David Hinton said demand had swelled by about 20% over a short period of time which had put the existing infrastructure under stress.\n\nCustomers said the real problem was the company's lack of investment.\n\nA petition has been set up calling for a change of ownership at South East Water.\n\nMeanwhile, a Kent MP has defended gardeners who want to water plants in the Garden of England.\n\nIn a letter to customers, Mr Hinton described people working from home as a \"key factor\" behind the ban.\n\nHe wrote: \"Over the past three years the way in which drinking water is being used across the south east has changed considerably.\n\n\"The rise of working from home has increased drinking water demand in commuter towns by around 20% over a very short period, testing our existing infrastructure.\"\n\nMr Hinton also blamed low rainfall since April and a recent spell of hot weather, which he said led to a spike in demand for drinking water.\n\n\"Our reservoir and aquifer stocks of raw water, essential to our water supply but not ready to be used, are in a good position. However, demand for treated mains water, which takes time to process and deliver, was greater than we could meet.\n\n\"Over the past week we have needed to find water to supply the equivalent of an additional four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne, every day.\"\n\nArtist Jutta Wrobel, 61, of Wadhurst, Sussex, who started an online petition demanding a change of ownership of South East Water after having no supply for five days, accused Mr Hinton of \"victim-blaming\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a deflection from the real issue which is how to stop South East Water paying away all our money in dividends rather than reinvesting in our water infrastructure, which is a public utility and a human right.\n\n\"We are supposed to be the Garden of England. We are not supposed to have hosepipe bans for two years running.\"\n\nBottled water stations were set up in Haywards Heath, Crawley, Crowborough and Pembury\n\nIn recent weeks, schools were closed, customers relied on bottled water stations and people were told to use water only for drinking, cooking and hygiene in order to allow the network to refill.\n\nIt led to panic among the elderly, vulnerable people struggling to open heavy bottles, and the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells, Greg Clark, describing the situation as \"woeful\".\n\nIt also followed supply issues in December when pipes burst due to snow and ice, leaving thousands of households without a supply.\n\nMr Clark, who met water company chiefs to demand compensation and plans to tackle the problem, said South East Water planned to expand capacity at water treatment plants but said he viewed it with a \"sceptical eye\".\n\nHe asked: \"They said they couldn't process enough water to get to people and what they are proposing is to expand capacity, but why hasn't it been done before?\"\n\nHe said he went to Bewl Water reservoir on Saturday morning and saw it was \"pretty much full to the brim\".\n\nAnd he said: \"To ban people from watering their gardens or using hosepipes during what's a brief period of hot weather - it hasn't been very long-lasting and not nearly as hot as in July last year - is not acceptable.\n\n\"The implication that somehow watering plants is disreputable in a county known as the Garden of England - that's not something we are prepared to accept. It's metered. People when they use it pay for every unit they use.\"\n\nThe MP also rejected the idea that home-working was to blame. He said: \"The idea that this uniquely affects South East Water and not other companies operating around London I think is ridiculous to suggest.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWomen's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge (day four of five)\n\nEngland's hopes of victory in the one-off Ashes Test were dented by the loss of five late wickets on day four.\n\nThe hosts slipped from 55-0 to 73-4 in pursuit of 268 at Trent Bridge, with Australia's Ash Gardner taking three wickets.\n\nEngland were 116-5 at stumps, with 152 still required in what would be the highest run chase in women's Test history.\n\nAn inspired bowling performance earlier saw Australia all out for 257 - Sophie Ecclestone starring with 5-63 to give her a 10-wicket match haul.\n\nVictory in the Test match is worth four points, which would be shared should it end in an unlikely draw.\n\nOpeners Emma Lamb and first-innings double centurion Tammy Beaumont took the attack to Australia before they were dismissed in consecutive overs - Beaumont caught at slip off spinner Gardner and Lamb lbw to Tahlia McGrath.\n\nNat Sciver-Brunt was caught going for an ambitious slog sweep before captain Heather Knight was pinned lbw by a delivery that kept low from Gardner.\n\nSophia Dunkley and Test debutant Danni Wyatt combined for a 37-run partnership but the former was caught behind off Kim Garth for 16 with three overs remaining in the day, swinging the game firmly in Australia's favour.\n\nEarlier, Australia resumed on 82-0 after England's poor start with the ball late on day three, but made amends through Ecclestone's brilliance combined with an inspired turnaround by the pace attack.\n\nA fired-up Lauren Filer took two wickets before lunch, including Ellyse Perry for the second time in the match, before Australia's middle order lost three wickets for three runs after lunch.\n\nCaptain Alyssa Healy thwarted England's attack with a battling half-century but Ecclestone struck with the last two wickets.\n\nEngland still have batting to come and will commit to their aggressive approach but are faced with Australia's three spinners on a worn pitch which is starting to turn and offer uneven bounce.\n\nAfter a mammoth 46-over spell in Australia's first innings, there was concern over its impact on Ecclestone later in the game.\n\nBut with a second five-wicket haul in the space of three days the left-arm spinner proved there was nothing to worry about after all.\n\nShe toiled away with nagging accuracy and cunning variations for a further 30.5 overs, with each valuable wicket giving her a little more spark and energy to continue.\n\nAs Darcie Brown's review for lbw was unsuccessful for Australia's last wicket - Ecclestone's fifth - the spinner charged across Trent Bridge's outfield, soaking in the applause and hugs from her team-mates.\n\nCredit also to Kate Cross, who took two wickets with a dislocated thumb after dropping a catch, and Filer, whose raw pace once again proved a key point of difference at Knight's disposal.\n\nAustralia played defensively and with little clarity as they unexpectedly collapsed from 151-2 to 257 all out.\n\nBut despite England and Ecclestone's brilliance, the hosts' loose bowling the previous evening, which gifted Australia a 92-run lead, could ultimately prove decisive.\n\nAfter an Ecclestone-inspired collapse accounted for five Australia batters, Gardner ensured she was not the only spinner making headlines on a gripping day full of shifts in momentum.\n\nBatting last was always going to be a challenge for England, as the Nottingham pitch is still playing well but just starting to offer a little more to the bowlers.\n\nOn day one, much was made of Australia's difference in team selection with three spinners to England's one - and it could potentially prove pivotal, although the visitors will be hoping Alana King's elbow injury will allow her to bowl on the final day.\n\nBeaumont and Lamb raced to a half-century partnership as the boundaries flowed and England again pinned Australia on the back foot, with frustrated seamers struggling to find any swing or seam movement to trouble the openers.\n\nBut Beaumont's dismissal, slashing at Gardner's first ball outside off stump, stalled England in their tracks and Australia seized their opportunity.\n\nLamb reviewed her lbw decision but it was upheld on a very marginal umpire's call, Knight's ball from Gardner was almost unplayable and Dunkley was deceived by some late swing.\n\nBut Sciver-Brunt's shot is one that will be questioned, England's number four opting for a slog sweep having just seen Lamb depart in the previous over.\n\nThe hosts might now be up against it, but they have shown they can go toe-to-toe with the world's best side for four days.\n\nAnd with thrilling action that has ebbed and flowed since the first ball, it is shaping up as a Test for the ages which has vindicated the decision to play a fifth day.\n\n'The pressure is on Australia' - what they said\n\nEngland bowler Sophie Ecclestone speaking to BBC Test Match Special: \"The England team are all smiling and we're buzzing for tomorrow. The five wickets are a blow but that's Test cricket for you. It changes so fast.\n\n\"You can't go back and change it so you have to deal with what you've got. We're going for the win. It's either win or lose tomorrow.\"\n\nAustralia's Beth Mooney on TMS: \"We're happy with the five wickets and hopefully we can get some more tomorrow morning.\n\n\"Credit has to go to our bowlers. I thought Ash and Kimmy [Kim Garth] did an exceptional job.\"\n\nFormer Australia captain Alex Blackwell on TMS: \"The pressure is on Australia because they are in the better position now and England have fought back into the game more times than they would like - Australia wouldn't want to lose this Test match.\"\n• None Why did Jimmy Carr start his career all over again?: He reveals it all to Steven Bartlett in The Diary of a CEO", "The planned roadworks are due to start end of the year but the exact date has not yet been confirmed\n\nDespite only being June, one town in Herefordshire has already cancelled its Christmas light switch-on.\n\nLeominster's annual Victorian market and light switch on is usually held in Corn Square.\n\nTown Clerk Julie Debbage said improvement works to streets and pavements were now expected to begin at the end of the year.\n\nThe council said it was working to create alternative events to support local businesses and the community.\n\nUnder proposals, the central car parking area could be removed from Corn Square, making it more suitable for public events, as well as improvements to roads in the town centre as part of the government-funded Heritage Action Zone programme.\n\nThis is being implemented by Herefordshire Council and Historic England in partnership with Leominster Town Council.\n\nCorn Square will have its central car park area removed to make it more suitable for public events\n\nLeominster is one of a number of High Streets in England to receive a share of the £95m funding for heritage regeneration projects, led by Historic England working with local councils.\n\nThe start and completion dates for the work have not yet been confirmed.\n\nThe town's Food Fayre in Corn Square on 2 September will be unaffected, a spokesperson for Leominster Town Council said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glen Sannox was famously launched in 2017 with painted on windows and a huge amount of outfitting still to be done\n\nOpposition parties say newly-released documents raise further concerns about the procurement of two overdue ferries being built at Ferguson shipyard.\n\nEmails from 2014 show that ministers and civil servants checked that the Port Glasgow yard would be ready to bid before the process began.\n\nSeparately, owner Jim McColl says he was offered advice to ensure his firm was \"well positioned\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was trying to \"maximise competition\".\n\nBut Scottish Labour's Neil Bibby said the emails raised \"serious concerns about the procurement process\".\n\nHe said there was a need to \"get to the bottom\" of what happened during the procurement process, and why.\n\n\"Despite claims from the government that they have released all relevant correspondence, more and more information comes to light,\" he said.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the documents showed just how closely ministers and officials were involved in discussions between government-owned ferries agency CMAL and Mr McColl's company.\n\n\"That seems unusual during a procurement process - particularly when there is still no transparency over this deal, which ended up costing the Scottish taxpayer hundreds of millions and has failed to deliver for islanders,\" he said.\n\nThe order for a small ferry, later named MV Catriona, was awarded to the Ferguson shipyard shortly after Jim McColl took over\n\nThe new documents have been released under freedom of information rules. They relate to the earliest weeks of the procurement of Glen Sannox and Hull 802, which are massively overbudget and still being built at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow.\n\nIn the autumn of 2014, Mr McColl had just taken over the yard and was starting to re-hire some of the 70-strong workforce made redundant when Ferguson's went into administration in mid-August.\n\nIn late September his new company Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) was directly awarded the £12.3m contract for a small diesel/electric hybrid ferry for CalMac, two of which the yard had built successfully under its previous owners.\n\nBut Mr McColl had ambitious modernisation plans, and was interested in bidding for the contract for the two much larger CalMac ships, even though they would be bigger and more complex than anything previously built at the small Inverclyde shipyard.\n\nThe new documents include an email dated 1 October from a Transport Scotland official, whose name is redacted, asking then Transport Minister Keith Brown to approve the start of the formal procurement process for the 100m-long ferries.\n\nThe email, cc'd to Finance Secretary John Swinney, continues: \"Tom Docherty [chief executive of CMAL] discussed this with Jim McColl yesterday to ensure that Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) would be in a position to meet the PQQ [pre-qualification questionnaire] requirements within CMAL's proposed timescale.\n\n\"Mr McColl confirmed that he was content whilst noting that FMEL now had to gear up following the award of the third hybrid contract.\"\n\nJim McColl, seated left, and Tom Docherty from CMAL, seated right, signed the contract for the ferries in October 2015\n\nThe email to Keith Brown also notes that a \"spin off\" benefit of beginning the procurement for the two larger ferries was that it might deter \"disgruntled\" shipyards from challenging the direct award of the smaller ferry contract to Ferguson's.\n\nThe BBC contacted Mr McColl who confirmed that he met Tom Docherty at the shipyard on 30 September to tell the workers about the awarding of the small ferry contract.\n\nA note in his diary, from one of his assistants, says: \"Tom keen to discuss with you the tender timeframe that's required for the next two ferries. He will issue a PQQ in a week requesting responses by November.\n\n\"He suggests we might want to get someone in to help with the PQQ process to ensure Fergusons was well positioned as he expects us to have a number of gaps given current manpower and facilities.\"\n\nA leading procurement law expert told the BBC that it could be possible for CMAL to contact Fergusons as a potential supplier at that stage of the process - but that the yard should not be given an unfair advantage.\n\nProf Luke Butler, of the University of Nottingham, added: \"It would be good practice to enter discussions with a range of potential suppliers and ensure that these are properly documented.\"\n\nKeith Brown was transport minister in Alex Salmond's government when the procurement began\n\nThe formal launch of the procurement process by Keith Brown took place a fortnight later at an event in Ardrossan.\n\nThe newly-released documents include a Q&A briefing paper prepared for the minister which suggested how he might answer the question: \"Is it well within the capability and capacity of Fergusons Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow to build it?\"\n\nThe answer was: \"Yes. The aim of the new owners Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) is to build the company up so that it is employing many hundreds of workers.\n\n\"Trying to secure further shipbuilding contracts will be an important part of generating those jobs.\"\n\nThe briefing also provided Mr Brown with a quote from Jim McColl: \"I would expect to be able to get some work in there that would allow us - probably in the first year to 18 months - to get the employee numbers up to about 100 or 120 people.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has repeatedly denied suggestions that it interfered in the award of the contracts, which would have been a breach of EU procurement laws.\n\nLast year a BBC Disclosure documentary - The Great Ferries Scandal - presented evidence that the procurement for the two ferries may have been rigged in favour of FMEL.\n\nMr McColl has previously told the BBC that if this was the case, it happened without his knowledge.\n\nCMAL declined to comment on the latest documents, but noted that it had appointed a KC to investigate the allegations made in the BBC documentary. It said this investigation was ongoing.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Ministers and CMAL have always been clear that they wanted to maximise competition for these contracts, including from FMEL as a local shipyard that had very recently been saved from closure by the action of the Scottish government and Mr McColl's investment company.\n\n\"FMEL still had to take part in an open and transparent procurement process against a number of rival bidders in order to win the contracts to build hulls 801 and 802.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elton John, Lil Nas X and Blondie perform on the final day\n\nThe sun set on one of the greatest careers in British music history, as Elton John played the last UK show of his farewell tour at Glastonbury.\n\nThe 76-year-old legend treated fans to a masterclass in song and stage craft, delivering a two-hour set in which every song was a greatest hit.\n\nHe was watched by a vast crowd, estimated to be over 120,000 people.\n\nMeanwhile, a record 7.3 million people tuned in to watch live on BBC One, according to overnight ratings.\n\nThat was the biggest ever overnight audience for a Glastonbury set, the BBC said. In comparison, last year Diana Ross was the most-watched star with 3.1 million and Paul McCartney's headline set was seen by 2.7 million.\n\nElton told all those watching: \"I'm so happy to be here. I won't ever forget this.\"\n\nThe singer burst onto the stage shortly after 21:00 BST with Pinball Wizard - as promised, a song he hadn't played in over a decade - following it up with a raucous romp through The Bitch Is Back.\n\nPausing to catch his breath, he drank in the crowd and stretched out his arms in gratitude. \"I never thought I'd play Glastonbury - and here I am,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very special and emotional night for me as it may be my last show in England, in Great Britain.\"\n\n\"I'd better play well and I'd better entertain you because you've been standing there so long,\" he added,\n\nIn the audience next to me, a fan hollered their encouragement: \"Go on, you old sausage.\"\n\nMany of the crowd came dressed in replicas of the Rocket Man's most famous outfits\n\nThe show came toward the end of Elton's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour - now officially the highest-grossing tour of all time, with box office receipts of $887m (£697m).\n\nAfter Glastonbury, there are just seven dates left, with the final show in Stockholm on 8 July.\n\nIt puts to rest a touring career that has seen Elton go from a young upstart rocking the Troubador in Los Angeles, to a beloved fixture of the rock establishment.\n\nOver the years, he's gained a reputation for flamboyant excess - feather boas, platform heels, elaborate headdresses and pianos that burst into flames.\n\n\"I don't move around the stage,\" he reasoned. \"I've got to attract attention somehow!\"\n\nBut by Elton's standards, Glastonbury was an understated show that focused purely on his love of music.\n\nHe stayed in the same gold lamé suit all evening, giving off the air of a man who's at his happiest when he's sitting behind a piano, letting rip.\n\nThere were some beautiful, extended flourishes on Your Song and I Guess Why They Call It The Blues. On I'm Still Standing, he pounded the keys so hard, they threatened to fall off.\n\nIt has to be said, however, that his voice isn't what it was. The clipped vowels and marmalade diction have a whiff of Vegas lounge singer - but here at Worthy Farm, his singing was strangely effective, cutting through the air with a clarity that other headliners failed to match this weekend.\n\nThe star, who had a hip injury last year, sat behind the piano for the majority of the show\n\nAhead of the show, rumours of special guests had been bubbling all weekend. Britney Spears was supposedly seen at Bristol airport. A security guard swore they'd seen Dua Lipa. Harry Styles was supposed to be here, then he wasn't, then he was again.\n\nIn the end, however, Elton went against the grain, championing a new generation of musicians over pop stars who could easily headline Glastonbury themselves.\n\nHe invited Jacob Lusk of US soul group Gabriels to sing Are You Ready For Love; while pop newcomer Rina Sawayama took Kiki Dee's place on a rousing Don't Go Breaking My Heart.\n\nNashville's Stephen Sanchez even got to sing a song of his own, Until I Found You.\n\n\"I heard it last year on the radio,\" Elton enthused, \"and I couldn't believe a 19, 20 year old could write a song like this\".\n\nBritish-Japanese star Rina Sawayama has been championed by Elton John on his radio show\n\nThe sole exception was The Killers' Brandon Flowers, who took to the stage in a hot pink suit for a handsome duet of Tiny Dancer.\n\nTheir performance proved so moving that TV cameras picked out a proposal in the audience.\n\nOverall, however, the lack of star power caused a ripple of disappointment. \"Who's that?\" grumbled one fan as Sawayama took the stage.\n\nBut there was something admirable about it, too. Elton stayed true to who he was - a music obsessive, whose hunger for rock and pop has fuelled and sustained his career.\n\nElton said he'd first met Brandon Flowers when the singer came to his Vegas hotel room to play him The Killers' debut album, Hot Fuss\n\nAfter two hours, the set built to an emotional climax.\n\nElton dedicated Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me to George Michael, \"one of Britain's most fantastic singers, songwriters [and] artists\".\n\n\"He was my friend, an inspiration, and today would have been his 60th birthday - I want to dedicate this song to his memory, and all the music he left us with which is so gorgeous,\" he added.\n\nThen he drew the curtain on his UK touring career with an extended, elegiac version of Rocket Man, as fireworks echoed around the site.\n\nAs he took a final bow with his band, the closing lyric, \"I think it's gonna be a long, long time,\" took on a new poignancy.\n\n\"It's been an incredible journey and I've had the best, best time,\" said the star, with a lump in his throat.\n\nIf this really was his last ever UK show, it was the perfect way to bow out.\n\nThe star's set was watched by so many fans that Glastonbury issued a \"standing only\" rule, asking people to fold up their chairs and pack away picnic blankets.\n\nAlso watching were Paul McCartney, actors Matt Smith and Kate Hudson, Jamie Oliver, and Taron Egerton, who played Elton in the hit biopic Rocketman, as well the film's director Dexter Fletcher.\n\n\"That was incredible,\" Fletcher told the BBC after the show.\n\n\"You can't really put it into words how emotional it was, and how engaged he was, and the connection with the crowd. That's what it was all about.\"\n\nThe performance drew the 2023 Glastonbury festival to a close, after high-profile sets from Arctic Monkeys, Guns N' Roses, Lana Del Rey, WizKid, Lizzo, Blondie and Cat Stevens.\n\nOrganiser Emily Eavis has confirmed the event will return next year, with two female headliners already booked.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Emergency services were called to Holt Fleet Road in Ombersley, about seven miles north of Worcester\n\nA man has died after a hot air balloon \"fell to the ground\", police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to Holt Fleet Road in Ombersley, Worcestershire at 06:20 BST.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it had received a call that a hot air balloon had deflated and fallen to the ground in a field near the village.\n\nIt said a man in his 20s was pronounced dead by paramedics and the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) would carry out an investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force said his family is being support by specialist family liaison officers and no-one else was injured in the incident.\n\nAn AAIB spokesperson said: \"We have a team on site and are beginning our investigation.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched by the AAIB\n\nA hot air balloon festival had been taking place seven miles (11km) away from the scene, in Worcester, on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe organisers said they \"aren't able to pass comment at this time\".\n\nThe British Balloon and Airship Club said it was aware of the incident and would be supporting the AAIB with its investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those involved at this time,\" it added.\n\nOne local resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were in their garden, which looks out towards Ombersley, at around 06:00 when they saw two hot air balloons in the sky.\n\n\"One seemed to be alright, but as the other one was going I could see something wasn't right with it - it was semi-deflated,\" they said.\n\n\"Though it was quite a way from me, you can usually see flames, we get quite a lot of balloons over here… then it just started to sort of fold up and then it, literally I blinked, and it had disappeared.\"\n\nA little while later, they said, they heard a number of sirens.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Adam Chadwick was celebrating his daughter Ruby's third birthday on the day of the attack\n\nThe parents of a man gunned down in a doorstep attack 15 years ago have appealed for the \"little piece of evidence\" which could bring his killer to justice.\n\nDetectives believe the killing of Adam Chadwick in Leeds may have been a tragic case of mistaken identity.\n\nThe young father was shot by a masked gang after answering the door at his sister's home on 24 June 2008.\n\nHis family told the BBC: \"We are never, ever going to forget him.\"\n\nMr Chadwick's parents, Jackie and Martin, said they had not been able to rest as their son's killer had not been identified.\n\n\"The more time goes on, the more [angry] and frustrated you get because you just want to focus on his memory and not what happened and the people responsible to get justice for Adam,\" his mother said.\n\nJackie Chadwick said there were a lot of questions, \"but we don't know if we'll ever get the answers we want\"\n\nMr Chadwick, then aged 20, had been visiting his sister Gemma when a woman knocked on the door of the house in Clifton Mount, Harehills, asking for \"Michelle\".\n\nThe woman left but returned a short time later alongside three masked men who attempted to force their way into the property.\n\nMr Chadwick fought to repel them and was shot in the ensuing struggle.\n\nHe died in hospital two days later, leaving behind daughter Ruby whose third birthday the family had been celebrating on the day of the attack.\n\nMr Chadwick was shot as three masked men tried to force their way into his sister's house in Leeds\n\nDespite extensive appeals, including a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and a £12,000 reward, no-one has been charged with his murder.\n\nMrs Chadwick said: \"We just want justice for him. I don't want to be buried with my son, knowing I haven't got justice for him.\"\n\nHer husband added: \"Every year comes round and then goes, but you can sense something in the air, or I can, like butterflies in your stomach.\n\n\"It's that time of year again and you start thinking 'we still miss him'.\n\n\"We just want to remember him and what he did and how he was, but we have to keep the appeals going.\"\n\nAdam Chadwick's sister Gemma continues to be affected by her brother's killing\n\nThe family said knowing those responsible remained free had affected all of them.\n\nMr Chadwick's sister Gemma said: \"Normally you grieve for someone and then you have a funeral and each year you remember them for the good times.\n\n\"We can't do that as a family because instead it's appealing year after year, just trying to get some justice for him.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it remained committed to bringing those responsible for Mr Chadwick's death to justice.\n\nDet Supt Marc Bowes said: \"Adam Chadwick was a completely innocent victim who was shot and fatally wounded on the doorstep of his sister's home 15 years ago in what remains an utterly senseless act with no established motive.\"\n\nHe said despite the passing years it would \"never be too late\" for anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"It must still weigh heavily on their conscience despite the passage of time.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact West Yorkshire Police's major investigation review team.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prospect of a new battery factory in Northumberland has suffered a setback after the buyer of Britishvolt was raided by Australian police.\n\nInvestigators went to the offices of Scale Facilitation and SaniteX, owned by Australian entrepreneur David Collard over alleged tax fraud.\n\nRecharge Industries, a subsidiary of Scale Facilitation, bought Britishvolt this year after it collapsed.\n\nBut it is yet to pay for a prospective plant site near the Port of Blyth.\n\nSources close to Mr Collard, who is a former partner at accountancy giant PwC, said that the tax raid is due to a misunderstanding of the interaction between US and Australian tax filings and that all parties were co-operating.\n\nRecharge Industries is ultimately owned and run by Scale Facilitation, a New York-based investment fund which has offices in Australia.\n\nRecharge Industries bought the assets of Britishvolt after it went into administration despite the public backing of politicians including former prime minister Boris Johnson.\n\nBritishvolt had planned to build a £4bn plant in Cambois near Blyth, Northumberland to make batteries for electric vehicles and create around 3,000 skilled jobs.\n\nHowever, the company struggled to make a profit and eventually ran out of money in January.\n\nA deadline for Recharge Industries to finalise and pay for the purchase of the site in Northumberland has been extended long beyond the original date of 31 March.\n\nInsiders close to Recharge confirmed that staff wages in Australia had gone unpaid for around two weeks but insisted those payments had now been made.\n\nThey said the company remained confident it could secure the funding to complete the purchase of the land near Blyth in the next two to four weeks.\n\nThe BBC understands that the owners of Recharge are still hopeful that a deal to develop the £4bn site can proceed.\n\nRecharge is expected to take a minority shareholding in a new company called North East Gigafactory Development LLP with well known and deep-pocketed investors Tritax and Abrdn owning the majority between them.\n\nRecharge's plan for the site was to initially develop battery storage technology, rather than batteries for electric vehicles.\n\nA person familiar with the situation told the BBC that emphasis had seen government enthusiasm for the project cool.\n\n\"Government certainly wasn't rolling out the red carpet\", they said and the BBC understands that the Australian owners have not met with either Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, or the Secretary for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps.\n\nNevertheless it seems that the hopes for an imminent start on a plant that it is hoped would provide thousands of jobs in the North East are, once again, on hold.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nElaine Wilson, of Lasswade, took this picture of the Dalkeith Arts Moos by artist M Bitici.\n\nSally Williams said of this shot: \"Here’s a photo taken from our front door today, looking towards Kilmaluag. The rain finally arrives in style after weeks of sunny weather on the Isle of Skye.\"\n\nRichard McKay, of Tornagrain, said heather provided the perfect foreground for her picture overlooking Loch Nevis in Knoydart.\n\nHazel Thomson, of Elgin, said of her picture: \"A warm summer’s evening and a gorgeous sunset over Portmahomack harbour.\"\n\nAllan Masson said he made an early ascent of Sgùrr nan Eag to avoid the heat of the day and to capture morning mist on the hills of Kintail.\n\nBob Smart, of Dunfermline, said his family had a great day out at Thirlistane Castle for a Borders Vintage Automobile Club meeting. Bob said the event's cycle stunt team was \"awesome\".\n\nMorag Cordiner, of Peterhead, said: \"I saw these sheep on the rocks at Fionnphort when I was waiting for the ferry to Iona. It's almost as if the big one is shouting 'Hurry up or we'll miss the ferry' to his pals lower down.\"\n\nGeorge Carson, who lives in Greenock, said of his picture: \"While out on a cruise on an old school friend's boat I took a few photos of the Cloch Lighthouse at Gourock. It is lovely to see the Lighthouse from the Clyde.\"\n\nGraham Paton's image was taken from South Queensferry. He said: \"These long sunny evenings make for some great sunsets.\"\n\nGraham Ferguson took a ramble across the long rickety bridge through Aberlady nature reserve on his way to locating the wrecks of World War Two XT midget submarines on Gullane sands.\n\n\"Anyone for chess by the pond in the grounds of Glenapp Castle?\" asks Helen Baird, of Greenock.\n\nKenny Bray, from Bearsden, said he came across this beautiful display of lupins with Crathes Castle in the background while on a road trip of NTS properties in Aberdeenshire.\n\nLaura Hynes, of Amsterdam, took this picture of a geological feature called a hexagonal basalt wheel at Mull's Ardmeanach Peninsula. Laura said: \"My partner and I visited Mull and were hiking to the fossil tree just further along the peninsula.\"\n\nGavin Blainey, of Oban, sent in this shot. Gavin said: \"This tree sits on the Ganavan Road, near Oban. It's fantastically striking during the right conditions.\"\n\nPat Christie captured this picture of Noctilucent clouds over North Berwick harbour at 02:00 in the morning. Pat said: \"So beautiful.\"\n\nLorna Donaldson's photo of perfect reflections of Dumyat on Airthrey Loch, Stirling.\n\nDerek McEwan took this shot. He said: \"Looking into Sgarasta Mhòr Beach from Harris Golf Club on the Isle of Harris.\"\n\nA picture from Michaela Cunningham, of Ayr, looking down Loch Leven.\n\nGillian Leary took this image while doing steps for a charity fundraising effort. She said: \"I chose to go up Berwick Law as part of my challenge. It was made all the more easier when I caught sight of the ponies.\"\n\nJohnny MacLeod's shot of Summer Solstice dawn at St Abbs Head Lighthouse. Johnny said the view was well worth a 02:00 alarm call and two-hour drive from Kennoway, Fife.\n\nAlex Leddy came across this tree washed up on Blackdog beach, near Aberdeen. Alex said: \"I think It looks like the skeleton of a whale or another large creature.\"\n\nCalum Goodfellow, from Elgin, said of his picture: \"A view of the Torridon Hills from the summit of Maol Chean-Dearg.\"\n\nGraham Christie said of this shot: \"The view over Arrochar Jetty and Loch Long looking north.\"\n\nGemma Brown, from Insch, took this picture on a camping trip to Beauly. She said the level of the River Farrar was really low.\n\nLauren McKinnon's picture of mist rising under the sunset from South Calder Water after the downpour that delayed Tuesday's Scotland vs Georgia game at Hampden.\n\nLooking at Bridgend over the Perth Old Bridge in a picture taken by Brian Johnston while he walked along Tay Street.\n\nDerek Bremner's picture of the Whaligoe Steps, south of Wick.\n\nOllie, a golden retriever from Inverkip, concludes the latest gallery. He was on his holidays in Skipness and was pictured by Lorraine Watters.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Stockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nStockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.\n\nBright, driven, born into wealth, his dream was to be the first person to reach Mars.\n\nWhen he realised that was unlikely to happen in his lifetime, he turned his attentions to the sea.\n\n\"I wanted to be Captain Kirk and in our lifetime, the final frontier is the ocean,\" he told a journalist in 2017.\n\nThe ocean promised adventure, adrenaline and mystery. He also believed it promised profits - if he could make a success of the submersible he helped design, which he directed his company OceanGate to build.\n\nHe had a maverick spirit that seemed to draw people in, earning him the admiration of his employees, passengers and investors.\n\n\"His passion was amazing and I bought into it,\" said Aaron Newman, who travelled on Mr Rush's Titan sub and eventually became an OceanGate investor.\n\nBut Mr Rush's soaring ambition also drew scrutiny from industry experts who warned he was cutting corners, putting innovation ahead of safety and risking potentially catastrophic results.\n\nIt wasn't something he was willing to accept.\n\nLast week, he and four other people on board the Titan lost their lives when it imploded.\n\n\"You're remembered for the rules you break,\" Mr Rush once said, quoting US general Douglas MacArthur.\n\n\"I've broken some rules,\" he said about the Titan. \"I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.\"\n\nStockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nHe was sent to a prestigious boarding school, the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984.\n\nAt 19, he became the youngest pilot in the world to qualify for jet transport rating, the highest pilot rating obtainable. He worked on F-15s and anti-satellite missile programmes, with the hope of eventually joining the US space programme and being an astronaut.\n\nBut eventually that ambition lost its appeal, as a trip to the Red Planet seemed increasingly out of reach.\n\n\"If someone would tell me what the commercial or military reason to go to Mars is, I would believe it's going to happen,\" Mr Rush told Fast Company magazine. \"It's just a dream.\"\n\nSo he shifted his gaze downward and in 2009 founded OceanGate, a private company that offered customers - Mr Rush preferred the term \"adventurers\" - a chance to experience deep sea travel, including to the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nJessica Parker explores how the search for the Titan submersible unfolded and its devastating outcome.\n\nThe company, based in Everett in Washington state, was small and tight-knit. Rush would chair all-staff meetings at its headquarters, while his wife Wendy - another member of Princeton's class of 1984 - was his director of communications.\n\nA junior employee who worked at OceanGate from 2017 to 2018, and asked not to be identified, said the company headquarters felt homey and lived-in, with wiring and equipment seemingly everywhere. \"It was very free-flowing.\"\n\n\"He was just really passionate about what he was doing and very good at instilling that passion into everybody else that worked there,\" the employee told the BBC.\n\nAt one staff meeting, Mr Rush brought virtual reality goggles for everyone to take a digital underwater tour. Mr Rush told them that this is what they were aiming for - to allow more people to have this view. \"This is the world I want,\" he told them.\n\nMr Rush was \"not a leader from the back, telling people what to do - he led from the front\", said Mr Newman, the investor.\n\nMr Newman went on the Titan with Mr Rush to see the wreck of the Titanic in the summer of 2021.\n\nThe first time they met, Mr Rush \"spent hours\" talking with him about the potential of exploring the bottom of the ocean.\n\nMr Rush \"followed his own path\", Mr Newman said.\n\nMr Newman's recollection of OceanGate was of a team that looked out for each other.\n\nAnd Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was \"up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things\", he said.\n\nMr Newman was so taken by Mr Rush that he decided to invest in OceanGate. \"You know, I didn't know if I'd ever see any return or not. That was not the point,\" he said.\n\n\"The point was to be part of something that's experimental and is breaking new ground, and pushing forward our technology, and how the world works, and going places and doing amazing things, that's what this is about.\"\n\nMr Newman described himself as a minor investor. As a private company, OceanGate is not obliged to publish all financial records. US financial records from January 2020 show that Mr Rush and his fellow directors sold a stake in the company worth $18m, thought to have been used to fund the development of Titan.\n\nTo recoup the costs, OceanGate's sub, \"well-lit and comfortable,\" the company said, came with a price tag of $250,000 (£195,600) for an underwater trip.\n\nMr Rush's clients were uber-rich thrill seekers, willing to part with that sum for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.\n\nLas Vegas businessman Jay Bloom had been messaging Mr Rush about joining a dive, before finally turning down a seat for himself and his son on the fatal excursion.\n\nHe said the chance to see the wreck up close would have been a \"bucket-list\" experience. It was about being able to say \"you did something very few people have the opportunity to do\", he said.\n\nDespite the large sums of money involved, OceanGate equipment sometimes had a home-made feel.\n\nThe former junior employee told the BBC he was surprised to find that Titan's electrical design included off-the-shelf development boards, as opposed to using a custom, in-house design like other engineering companies.\n\nDavid Pogue, a CBS News journalist who joined Mr Rush on a trip to the Titanic wreck in 2021, said the chief executive drove the Titan with a game controller and used \"rusty lead pipes from the construction industry as ballast\".\n\nYet Mr Rush assured Mr Pogue that only thing that really mattered was the vessel's hull, built from an unusual and largely untested material for a deep sea vessel: carbon fibre, with titanium end plates.\n\nMr Rush knew carbon fibre was used successfully in yachts and aviation, and believed it would allow for his submersible to made more cheaply than industry-standard steels ones.\n\n\"There's a rule you don't do that,\" said Mr Rush in 2021. \"Well, I did.\"\n\nThe tube shape of the Titan was also unusual. The hull of a deep-diving sub is usually spherical, which means it receives an equal amount of pressure at every point, but the Titan had a cylinder-shaped cabin. OceanGate gave it sensors to analyse the effects of changing pressure as it descended.\n\nThe glass viewport, from which passengers could see out, was only certified down to 1,300m, far short of the depths of the ocean floor where the Titantic wreck lay.\n\nRob McCallum, an explorer who acted as a consultant for OceanGate, became concerned when Mr Rush decided against getting official certification for the submersible.\n\nSubs can be certified or \"classed\" by marine organisations, like the American Bureau of Shipping or Lloyd's Register, meaning the vehicle must meet certain standards on things like stability, strength, safety and performance. But this process is not mandatory.\n\nIn emails to Mr Rush in March 2018, seen by BBC News, Mr McCallum said: \"You are wanting to use a prototype un-classed technology in a very hostile place. As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.\n\n\"4,000m down in the mid-Atlantic is not the kind of place you can cut corners.\"\n\nMr Rush, apparently indignant, responded that he was \"tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation\".\n\nSafety was \"about culture, not paperwork\", he said. He talked of needing \"sensible design, extensive testing, and informed consent of the participants\", but said a piece of paper did not guarantee the safety of a sub.\n\nWhile he admitted deviating from some guidelines, such as \"overly conservative\" viewport limits, he argued the Titan's safety systems were \"way beyond\" anything else in use.\n\nHe wrote: \"I know that our engineering focused, innovative approach (as opposed to an existing standards compliance-focused design process) flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation.\"\n\nThe tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nBut Mr McCallum was not the only person linked to the company to speak out about safety.\n\nJust a few months earlier, former OceanGate employee David Lochridge raised concerns in an inspection report which identified \"numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns\", including how the hull had been tested.\n\nAlso in 2018, the Marine Technology Society sent a letter to OceanGate accusing it of making misleading claims about its design exceeding established industry safety standards, and warned that OceanGate's \"experimental\" approach could result in \"negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)\".\n\nIn a blog post in 2019, Mr Rush insisted that the majority of marine accidents were down to operator error. He said OceanGate took safety requirements very seriously, but that keeping an outside body informed on every modification before it was tested in a real-word setting was \"anathema to rapid innovation\".\n\nThe former employee told the BBC that while he had worked at OceanGate, he had felt confident in Mr Rush's commitment to safety.\n\n\"Rush was very level-headed, he knew what needed to be done,\" he said. \"He went on every sub dive, he was the pilot for every single one, and that's because he trusted the safety of the sub.\"\n\nMr Newman told the BBC the sub might not have been certified, but it was tested extensively. Mr Rush \"introduced new ideas and new pieces that are not conventional, and some people don't like that\", he said.\n\n\"The idea that this is something that's unique and Stockton did something wrong is disingenuous,\" he said.\n\nMr Rush himself told CBS reporter Mr Pogue last year that \"if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed\".\n\n\"Don't get in your car. Don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules,\" he said.\n\nThe question is why despite other successful dives, the sub's final trip ended in tragedy, Mr Newman said.\n\n\"Clearly, the pressure hull gave way, right? And the question is, why would that give way?\"\n\nGuillermo Söhnlein, a co-founder of OceanGate and Rush's former business partner, said he would not have taken a different approach himself.\n\n\"The human submersible community globally is very small, and we all know each other, and I think generally we all respect each other's opinions.\n\n\"The bottom line is that everyone's got different opinions on how subs should be designed,\" said Mr Söhnlein.\n\nAfter his son also raised fears about the sub, Jay Bloom declined Mr Rush's invitation.\n\n\"I am sure he really believed what he was saying,\" Mr Bloom said. \"But he was very wrong.\"", "Following the withdrawal of a team-mate Belgian shot putter Jolien Boumkwo competes in the 100m women's hurdles to gain important points for her nation at the European Athletics Team Championships in Poland.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Andrew Butchart represented Team GB at the Rio and Tokyo Games\n\nA Team GB Olympic runner has broken the parkrun record which has stood for 11 years.\n\nThe previous best of 13 minutes 48 seconds was set in 2012 by Andy Baddeley in Bushy Park, London.\n\nButchart, who competed in the 5,000m at the 2016 and 2020 Games, finished 38 seconds ahead of Scottish 5k champion James Crowe.\n\nFellow runner Adrian Stott tweeted: \"See what happens when an Olympian ships up at Silverknowes in Edinburgh to run a 5k and there's 'Nae wind!'\"\n\nThe female UK record was set last December by Welsh athlete Melissa Courtney-Bryant at the Poole Parkrun in Dorset with a time of 15 minutes and 31 seconds.\n\nCourtney-Bryant, 29, won a bronze medal over 1500m at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph O'Connor was arrested in Spain in 2021 and extradited to the US in April\n\nA British man who hacked high profile Twitter accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been jailed in the US.\n\nJoseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk.\n\nThe 24-year-old pleaded guilty to hacking charges last month.\n\nOn Friday, he was sentenced to five years for cyber crimes, according to the United States Attorney's Office in the southern district of New York.\n\nThe hacking was part of a major Bitcoin scam that generated tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money.\n\nAs a result of the fraud, an estimated 350 million Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets from official accounts of some of the platform's biggest users, including Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Bill Gates.\n\nThousands were duped into believing that a crypto giveaway was real.\n\nO'Connor, who went by the alias PlugwalkJoe, was extradited from Spain to the US in April and last month pleaded guilty to hacking charges that carried a total maximum sentence of more than 70 years.\n\nThree other men have been charged over the scam, with US teenager Graham Clark pleading guilty to his part in the deception in 2021.\n\nThe hackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believable tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details - which eventually granted them access to Twitter's administrative tools.\n\nThey managed to use social engineering tricks - more akin to conmen than high-level cyber-criminals - to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.\n\nIn a statement, US Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described O'Connor's actions as \"flagrant and malicious\", saying he had \"harassed, threatened and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm\".\n\nThe US justice department also said O'Connor admitted other hacking crimes including gaining access to a high-profile TikTok account and stalking a minor.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay almost $800,000 in forfeiture, the US justice department said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None US Attorney's Office - Southern District of New York The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Humza Yousaf said the only route to independence was through \"lawful and democratic process\".\n\nHumza Yousaf has told a special SNP conference that greater support for Scottish independence must be built ahead of the next general election.\n\nHe said if the party won a majority of seats north of the border he would press the UK government for powers to hold a second referendum.\n\nScotland's first minister added the only route to independence was through \"lawful and democratic process\".\n\nBoth Labour and the Tories are opposed to further talks on another vote.\n\nBut Mr Yousaf told a convention in Dundee that his party would stand on the proposition that people could \"vote SNP for an independent Scotland\".\n\nHe later told BBC Scotland: \"We will put the simple proposition to the people in a general election because a referendum is being denied to us.\n\n\"If we win that general election we will then negotiate with the UK government of how we give it democratic effect.\n\n\"If it is a referendum or simply the general election that is of course for the UK government to determine because they have told us time and time again this is a voluntary union. If so then prove it.\"\n\nThe first minister said an election win would mean securing the most seats in Scotland - even if the party ends up with fewer than the 45 it currently holds.\n\nMr Yousaf also told the convention a summer campaign would focus on the \"opportunities of independence\" and announced a major march and rally would be held in Edinburgh on 2 September.\n\nThe convention was held at the same time as an independence rally in Stirling\n\nMr Yousaf's speech was interrupted by a protestor demanding a public inquiry into NHS Tayside about its disgraced former head of neurosurgery Sam Eljamel.\n\nThe SNP leader stopped his address and went to speak to the woman before returning to the stage after arranging to meet her later.\n\nSeveral other senior SNP politicians also addressed the convention on both the route to independence and its general election strategy.\n\nAs well as contributions from the floor it also featured \"interactive activist workshops\".\n\nEarlier, there was tributes to former SNP MP Winnie Ewing, an icon of the independence movement who died earlier this week at the age of 93.\n\nThe event will also be used to kickstart a summer programme of independence campaigning, which the party said would include leafleting, canvassing and regional assemblies.\n\nThere has been criticism from some within the SNP and wider Yes movement of the decision to only allow party members to attend the convention, which is being held at the same time as an All Under One Banner independence march in Stirling.\n\nFormer SNP leader Alex Salmond, who now heads the Alba Party, has been among those calling for a cross-party convention to be created that would include the SNP, Alba and other independence supporting parties and organisations.\n\nHe also wants an agreement that would see only one pro-independence candidate stand in each constituency at the general election - a proposal which seems unlikely to be accepted by the SNP.\n\nIn the heat and humidity of the hall, it sounded like Humza Yousaf was going for what's been called a \"de facto referendum\".\n\nThat was using a general election to begin negotiations on independence if won.\n\nIn the coolness of a briefing room, SNP insiders made clear it's not that - it's a nuanced approach.\n\nIn the the most basic way, it's about contesting the general election according to the rules of the game.\n\nSuccess is measured by seats won - whereas in a de facto referendum, success is measured by the popular vote\n\nIt's about saying to the UK government - prove that it's a voluntary union and if the SNP succeed then a referendum should be granted.\n\nThe ball is in their court, the SNP say.\n\nThis approach squares off difficulties - Mr Yousaf has commanded that marches are used to drum up support - that takes them away from the fringes.\n\nIt also neatly gets away from the need to get 50% of the vote - \"polls are tight\", Mr Yousaf noted.\n\nMembers I spoke to were enthused. That's the point - this is about injecting momentum back into the movement.\n\nDespite the widespread assumption that Brexit and Boris Johnson would be gifts for the independence movement, Nicola Sturgeon - who was recently described by Mr Yousaf as being Europe's most impressive politician - did not manage to consistently push support for leaving the UK above 50%.\n\nThe UK government repeatedly refused to give her permission to hold a referendum despite the SNP's electoral successes during Ms Sturgeon's eight years as first minister and party leader.\n\nThe Yes movement was dealt a further blow last November when the Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government did not have the powers to hold a vote without that permission being in place.\n\nMs Sturgeon's response to the court ruling was to propose treating next year's general election as a \"de facto referendum\".\n\nIf the SNP won more than 50% of the votes in the election it would regard it as an endorsement of independence, and the party would then attempt to open negotiations with the UK government.\n\nThe UK government would have been under no legal obligation to do so, however, and the plan was deeply unpopular among many SNP MPs, with Stewart MacDonald - previously seen as being one of Ms Sturgeon's staunchest allies - openly criticising it.\n\nMr Yousaf had previously distanced himself from a \"de facto referendum\" plan during the contest to succeed Ms Sturgeon as SNP leader and first minister earlier this year.\n\nWith polls suggesting support for the party has fallen in recent months his attempt to resurrect it will be seen as a big gamble.\n\nThe SNP leadership has also consistently ruled out holding a referendum that was not seen as being legally binding.\n\nMr Yousaf has previously said he wants to be the \"first activist\" as well as first minister\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said independence support is running at an average of 48% in recent polls - higher than support for the SNP itself.\n\nA Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times last weekend put the SNP at 34% for the next general election and suggested that the party could be on course to win fewer seats than Scottish Labour, a prospect that would have seemed almost unthinkable a year ago.\n\nThe past few months have seen both Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell being arrested and their home searched as part of an ongoing police probe into the SNP's funding and finances.\n\nBoth were later released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nThere has also been controversy over the Scottish government's handling of issues ranging from ferries and NHS waiting lists to gender reform and the deposit return scheme.\n\nFollowing Mr Yousaf's address Scottish Conservative constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said the first minister had \"decided to abandon the pretence he is governing for the whole country\".\n\nHe added: \"The latest push of his independence obsession appears to be an even more extreme version of Nicola Sturgeon's unpopular de facto referendum strategy.\n\n\"The SNP delegation that bothered to turn up to Dundee are speaking to themselves about their number one priority while people are struggling with the global cost-of-living crisis and our public services are under incredible pressure.\"\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray accused the first minister of \"clearly preparing for failure\" with his plans.\n\nHe said: \"We need a government focused on tackling the urgent challenges we face - from the cost of living crisis to the chaos in our NHS to a declining economy - but in the SNP we have a tired party rehashing the same old tired arguments.\n\n\"Today has laid bare just how bereft of fresh ideas the SNP truly is - even when it comes to their driving constitutional obsession.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"The SNP have put on an entire conference dedicated to demonstrating how tired, out of touch and bereft of ideas they are.\n\n\"Nobody believes Humza Yousaf's plan is going to lead to the break-up of the UK. It's a desperate ploy to appease a dwindling band of single-minded nationalist activists.\"", "In Washington, US officials have confirmed that Russian and American diplomats spoke directly on Saturday.\n\nThe US emphasised to Moscow that Washington was not involved in stoking up tensions between Wagner and the Kremlin, officials are saying.\n\n\"There were appropriate diplomat discussions that occurred over the weekend,\" said White House spokesman John Kirby without specifying at what level talks occurred.\n\nHe added Washington views the tensions with Wagner \"as internal Russian matters\" and has not taken a side.\n\nBiden remains focused on supporting Ukraine, rather than meddling in Russia, and spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, Kirby continued.\n\n\"We're not involved and have no intention of being involved,\" he said about the current situation in Russia.\n\n\"What we are involved with is supporting Ukraine.\"\n\nAt the Department of State, spokesman Matthew Miller said the communications involved the US ambassador to Russia as well as \"at other levels here in Washington\".\n\nTwo messages were sent, he said. The first was that the US expects Russia to protect US diplomatic personnel in Moscow and the second was to emphasise that \"this is an internal Russian affair, that in which the United States is not involved and will not be involved\".", "The cross-party All Under One Banner movement holds regular independence marches\n\nThe route to independence used to seem simple for SNP members.\n\nThere was a widespread expectation in the party that election victories would lead to a second referendum.\n\nBut the continued UK government refusal to grant another vote, and last year's Supreme Court confirmation that Holyrood doesn't have the powers to legislate for one, has left the party looking for a new direction.\n\nAnd that's why members will descend on Dundee this weekend.\n\nAt the party's Convention on Independence, they hope to flesh out a new strategy.\n\nSo what are the alternative paths to independence?\n\nThis isn't an exhaustive list, but here are three options the SNP may consider this weekend.\n\nOption one could be called the gradualist approach.\n\nThis involves taking time to drive up support for independence, ultimately reaching a level that means Downing Street can't ignore referendum demands.\n\nIt's rare for anyone in the SNP to publicly put a number on the level of support needed for this, but a sustained period of 60% pro-independence polling is thrown around privately.\n\nThe MSP Ben Macpherson is a former Scottish government minister. He stresses that he's as dedicated to independence as anyone in the SNP, but he believes that patience is required.\n\nHe's urged fellow members to focus on convincing more undecided voters to support independence, which he believes will create \"overwhelming\" pressure on the UK government to grant a second referendum.\n\nBut others feel another referendum won't happen, and that brings us to option two. This involves using elections to secure independence.\n\nIt's a tactic that's gained prominence in SNP circles in recent years.\n\nTowards the end of her leadership, Nicola Sturgeon floated the idea of running an election as a \"de facto\" referendum.\n\nThe concept is fairly simple: the SNP would contest an election (or elections) insisting that a vote for them is a vote for independence. This could be stated in the opening line of a manifesto.\n\nAsh Regan, who ran to replace Nicola Sturgeon earlier this year, backs this approach.\n\nShe believes the SNP could even team up with other pro-independence parties, meaning that more than 50% of the vote combined would lead to independence.\n\nShe thinks it's time to move away from relying on the referendum path, saying \"we've been thinking of it as the gold standard, but in fact it's the ballot box that's the gold standard route\".\n\nBut there are potential weaknesses with this option.\n\nWhy would the UK government agree to this? Would the international community recognise it?\n\nMost advocates of such a Plan B feel that Westminster intransigence on a second referendum means that a radical alternative is needed.\n\nBut others fear it won't deliver independence and would alienate the middle-ground of Scottish politics.\n\nOption three involves taking to the streets - mass demonstrations calling for independence.\n\nPerhaps this option should be seen as complementing others, rather than being a route to independence in itself.\n\nThe cross-party All Under One Banner movement will march from Stirling to Bannockburn at the very same time the SNP gathers in Dundee.\n\nPatrick McCarthy is organising Saturday's All Under One Banner march\n\nAs a party member, Patrick McCarthy could have attended the convention. But he worries the SNP is simply \"talking to themselves\" .\n\nHe'll be \"speaking to the mass movement\" by organising the march instead.\n\nHe says \"the hearts and minds and belief in independence is the thing that's going to get us over the line\".\n\nThe first minister will set out his preferred route to independence at Saturday's convention.\n\nThe first minister must show SNP members that he has an indy plan\n\nHumza Yousaf wants to drive up overall support, but he's also said that elections must be used to advance the cause of independence.\n\nThis convention won't rubber-stamp any strategy. That would have to come at the SNP's autumn conference.\n\nThere are political risks for Humza Yousaf in this weekend's convention.\n\nIt could highlight splits within his party. And it exposes him to accusations that he's prioritising the constitution over day-to-day problems.\n\nBut, given that independence is his party's fundamental aim, it's important for him to show party members that he's formulating a plan to achieve the ultimate goal.\n\nThe SNP may emerge closer to defining their strategy on independence, but making that a reality feels a harder task for the party right now.", "Queen's 2023 results: Carlos Alcaraz beats Alex de Minaur in final to win first grass title Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nQueen's 2023: Best shots as Alcaraz beats De Minaur to win first grass-court title Carlos Alcaraz won his first title on grass and regained the world number one ranking with an impressive victory over Alex de Minaur in the Queen's final. Alcaraz's 6-4 6-4 triumph means he moves above Novak Djokovic in the rankings and will be the top men's seed at Wimbledon, which starts on 3 July. The Spaniard, 20 was playing only his third grass-court tournament. \"So many legends have won here. Seeing my name on the trophy surrounded by the great champions is amazing,\" he said. Alcaraz will now hope to emulate his compatriot Rafael Nadal, who triumphed at Queen's in 2008 before going on to win Wimbledon for the first time a few weeks later. There were questions about Alcaraz's ability on grass at the start of the week but he answered those in emphatic style, becoming a crowd favourite with his attacking play, humble attitude and boyish smile. He will now be considered the main threat to Djokovic's defence of his Wimbledon crown. \"It helps a lot to be top seed at Wimbledon,\" said Alcaraz. \"It's amazing. It wouldn't be possible without the support of the people through the whole week. \"I started the tournament not really well, I had to adapt my movement a bit on grass,\" he said. \"But it's been an amazing week and it's ending with a lot of energy and on a high. \"I have played 11 matches in my career on grass, so I have to get more experience, more hours. \"But obviously after beating amazing guys, great players, and the level that I played, I consider myself one of the favourites - or one of the players to be able - to win Wimbledon.\"\n• None Wimbledon 2023: All you need to know De Minaur, 24, was seeking to become the first Australian winner at Queen's since Lleyton Hewitt secured his fourth title in 2006. The in-form world number 18, who beat Andy Murray in the first round, tested US Open champion Alcaraz with his pace and agility around the court. He had the first break point at 4-3 but the top seed shut that chance down instantly with a 137mph ace. A De Minaur forehand error gave Alcaraz his own break-point opportunity in the next game and the Spaniard roared with delight when the Australian sent another forehand long. Alcaraz demonstrated his ability on grass with a well-judged drop shot, a deft volley at the net, a thumping forehand winner and a huge ace as he wrapped up the first set in style. The Spaniard, who made the fourth round at Wimbledon last year before losing to Jannik Sinner, called for the physio at the end of the set to receive treatment for a right quad issue. With Alcaraz fit to continue, the pair went toe to toe in the second set, and the Spaniard acknowledged De Minaur's tenacity with a handshake at the net after the Australian came out on top of one mesmerising rally. But De Minaur's standards slipped in the next game and a double fault handed Alcaraz the crucial break. From there, Alcaraz's victory looked inevitable and he clinched the title with his first championship point when De Minaur sent a return of serve out of play. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik battled his way past third seed Andrey Rublev 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the Halle Open. World number 48 Bublik served three double faults in the final game before finishing the match with an ace to join 10-time champion Roger Federer on the winners' board. \"This means the world to me. I've been struggling for a year and a half now. It was hard work,\" said the 26-year-old. \"I was walking through the little hall of fame here before entering the court for the very first time. \"I was like 'wow, the different names', a lot of guys I'm familiar with. \"But I could not even imagine I would win this tournament. I'm really, really happy.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Why did Jimmy Carr start his career all over again?: He reveals it all to Steven Bartlett in The Diary of a CEO", "A 15-year-old girl has died after being pulled from the sea at Cleethorpes beach, police have confirmed.\n\nHumberside Police said the girl and a boy, also 15, were airlifted to hospital at about 19:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe boy received treatment but was later discharged, the force said.\n\nBoth children had been reported missing at about 14:00 BST, prompting a search that involved an HM Coastguard helicopter and RNLI lifeboat.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene of Saturday's tragedy\n\nFlowers and tributes to the girl have been left at the scene.\n\nPolice said the girl would not be officially named, at the request of her family.\n\nDet Insp Nathan Reuben said: \"Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with the family at this incredibly difficult time. We ask that they are given the time and space to process this tragic news. The family is being supported by specially trained officers.\n\n\"We are working together with all the relevant agencies, including Humberside Fire and Rescue and the coastguard, to fully understand the circumstances of the tragic accident.\"\n\nAn HM Coastguard spokesperson said a lifeboat was launched at 16:00 and found the pair \"some way\" to sea.\n\nThey said it had been a very difficult day for everyone involved.\n\nEarlier, police thanked the public for helping with the search.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis is calling for sign language lessons to be made freely available to those who need them - such as the parents and guardians of deaf children. The current funding for sign language tuition has been described as inconsistent and insufficient.\n\n\"Being deaf is not something that you overcome, it's something that you embrace,\" says Rose Ayling-Ellis.\n\nThe 28-year-old Olivier-nominated star made history when she became the first deaf actress to play a regular character on EastEnders and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.\n\nBut as a British Sign Language (BSL) user, she says she cannot believe that some parents and guardians of deaf children have to pay for sign language tuition.\n\n\"It's a shame that you have to pay to communicate with your own child,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBritish Sign Language is taught in levels - from one to six. Some basic or taster courses can be free, but the cost of accredited courses can vary from about £200 to £700, depending on the level and the provider.\n\nRose started signing when she was two years old\n\nMartin McLean, senior policy advisor at the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), says funding earmarked by local authorities for BSL tuition is insufficient, \"meaning that most parents wanting to learn BSL to any meaningful level will have to fork out hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pounds in tuition fees\".\n\nHe adds that the funding model is inconsistent - so while some local authorities provide funding, others don't, leading to a \"postcode lottery\".\n\n\"Amid the cost of living crisis, it is wrong that families may have to choose between learning a language that is vital for their children, or simply paying their electricity bill,\" says Mr McLean.\n\nRose mostly lip-reads and uses her hearing aid, but she says she misses a lot of what is being said, so also uses a sign language interpreter on occasion.\n\nSign language is not just about the gestures made with your hands, it also involves facial expressions. It has its own grammar, vocabulary and regional variations.\n\nAfter her appearance on Strictly, learning to sign became a real trend, Rose says, but this hasn't always been the case.\n\nWhen Rose was a child, her parents were discouraged from teaching her sign language - other family members had received advice from a professional who said it would stop her from learning to talk. But research has shown that rather than hinder speech development, sign language may actually encourage it.\n\nRose's mother says she knew how important it was to communicate, and found the money for sign language tuition.\n\n\"As she learnt, she taught me,\" says Rose. \"I found talking difficult, so having some basic sign language really helped.\"\n\nMore than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, who are less likely to have experience of BSL. The British Deaf Association (BDA) says that language acquisition in the first five years of life is essential - and inadequate access to any form of language can lead to life-long consequences for a child's cognitive development and wellbeing.\n\nKatie lives in Cornwall with her husband Joe and their son Alvie\n\nKatie Littlejohns, whose two-year-old son Alvie is deaf, set up a petition calling for the government to fund free BSL classes for all parents and guardians of deaf children.\n\nShe says she felt overwhelmed when she found out, when he was seven weeks old, that Alvie was deaf - as there was so much she had to learn.\n\n\"He was fitted with his hearing aids at 10 weeks and I asked if we would need to learn sign language, but we were told, 'Oh no, don't worry, you don't need to.'\"\n\nHearing aids are amazing says Katie, but there can be certain situations where they might not work as well, such as loud and busy environments, so she decided to learn to sign. But she was shocked that, in many cases, families were having to pay for the courses.\n\n\"I have a friend, her little boy is completely deaf, he can't wear hearing aids or a cochlear implant,\" says Katie. \"She's managed to secure some funding. Her son will only be able to use BSL and her family has spent thousands - he's two. Everybody needs communication and why does it have a price tag?\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Education in England said: \"Many local authorities will already fund sign language lessons for parents of deaf children, and we provide funding for a range of British Sign Language qualifications through our adult education budget and advanced learner loans.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish government said work was under way to develop a new BSL national plan, adding that it provided annual funding to the NDCS which has supported opportunities for families to learn the basics of BSL.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said BSL was included in the curriculum for Wales alongside Welsh, English and other languages and there is \"guidance for supporting progression in BSL for deaf BSL users as well as allowing schools to introduce BSL to other learners\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Department for Communities said it was committed to introducing sign language legislation which includes \"provision of free family sign language BSL/ISL (Irish Sign Language) classes to deaf children, their parents/guardians, siblings and grandparents\". But it added that executive approval was required for the legislation to pass - and the executive is not currently functioning.\n\nWhen the music fell silent in the middle of her couple's choice dance on Strictly Come Dancing, Rose wanted the moment to encapsulate how joyful it is to be deaf.\n\nSince her victory, and the visibility of her interpreter on screen alongside presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly, attitudes towards sign language have been changing.\n\nRose and her dance partner Giovanni's performance on Strictly has been viewed over 30 million times\n\nIn 2022, the British Sign Language Bill was passed, recognising BSL as an official language of England, Scotland and Wales. The Department for Education in England says it is working towards a new BSL GCSE qualification, which will be available in schools from September 2025.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish government has also said that the General Teaching Council is working with the University of Edinburgh on the development of an undergraduate degree in Primary Education and BSL, which \"would lead to graduates qualifying as primary teachers with enhanced BSL skills\".\n\nIn February 2023, Rose was nominated for an Olivier award for her creative signing in a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It in the West End of London.\n\n\"I never overcame my deafness and I'm so glad I didn't, because I don't think I would be at the Oliviers if I didn't celebrate my identity,\" she says.\n\n\"It is amazing to have this recognition, but more needs to change, sign language should be a right not a privilege. Society needs to accept that this is our language and it should be freely available to all who need it.\"\n\nWatch Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change on Monday 26 June at 21:00 BST on BBC One. Or catch up afterwards on BBC iPlayer\n\nFind out more in an interview with Rose on the Access All podcast\n\nRead BBC's Tiny Happy People guide on how to support your child's communication skills and language development if they are deaf", "Prince William wants his campaign to change attitudes towards homelessness\n\nPrince William has launched a major five-year campaign to end homelessness, which he says should not exist in a \"modern and progressive society\".\n\nOn Monday, he visited housing and training projects in Brixton in London, Bournemouth and Newport in South Wales.\n\nThe Prince of Wales's charitable foundation is putting in £3m of start-up funding to help make homelessness \"rare, brief and unrepeated\".\n\n\"Everyone should have a safe and secure home,\" said Prince William.\n\nAt a project in Bournemouth which is helping provide skills to people who have been homeless, he spoke of the need to change the \"narrative\" around homelessness and to stop the \"prejudice and stigma\".\n\nThe prince heard first-hand from people being helped by the Faithworks project, who told him about the sense of isolation among those facing homelessness and the need to rebuild their confidence and sense of self-belief.\n\n\"We all go through times where we could be self-conscious or lost in life, and it's like a gentle guidance back into learning to socialise and be productive in a positive way,\" said Clayton Jeynes, who was homeless and has received training from the project.\n\nThe prince was invited to use a lathe used to teach carpentry skills\n\nThe project teaches carpentry skills and Prince William tried his hand at using a lathe - approaching it with the comment: \"I had five fingers when I began this.\"\n\nThe launch brought together organisations which will be trying to find ways to reduce homelessness - a problem that has different forms in different places.\n\nIn a seaside town like Bournemouth, there were problems of high rental costs and also people with precarious incomes from low-income seasonal jobs.\n\nAlmost 2,400 local households had experienced homelessness in the past year, according to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council.\n\nThere was also an \"acceleration\" in homelessness from families who had previously been renting privately - with over 100 families staying in hotels, said the council.\n\nGraham Farrant, council chief executive, spoke of the need to improve prevention before people became homeless. \"It's not impossible to solve,\" he said.\n\nPrince William heard first-hand about the pressures on people who have faced homelessness\n\nThis Homewards initiative is likely to be one of the defining projects for the Prince of Wales - a commitment which he will be aware comes with the risk of being accused of straying into politics.\n\nAhead of the launch, Prince William had discussed the project with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and the first ministers of Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt is a cause that is deeply personal to the prince, which he has linked to the influence of his mother, Princess Diana, who brought him to homelessness charities as a child.\n\nThere are more than 300,000 people currently homeless across the UK, which includes those who are stuck in hostels and temporary accommodation, living in cars and sofa-surfing, as well as people who are rough sleeping.\n\nAs well as preventing homelessness, there is an aim to change attitudes and show how many people can be affected. Recently the prince opened an affordable housing project for young people with jobs, but who still needed help with accommodation.\n\nPrince William's plan is to bring together local coalitions of housing experts, charities and private industry to develop housing projects and support services, addressing different ways that homelessness occurs, whether in big cities or coastal towns.\n\nPrince William this month visited an affordable housing project in London for people who are in work or training\n\nHe has begun a two-day whistle-stop tour of the UK for what will be six locations for the initiative, which is backed by charities such as Shelter, Centrepoint, Crisis and The Passage.\n\nA media briefing was told that success would be measured in terms of lowering homelessness in those places - and finding approaches that could be replicated elsewhere.\n\nHe has also drawn international inspiration from Finland, seen as a model for reducing homelessness to very low levels.\n\nThe campaign has published opinion polling from Ipsos of more than 3,000 adults in the UK, which suggests the level of public concern and support for an intervention.\n\nBut Prince William will also face challenges about how someone with such wealth and extensive property holdings can make such calls over homelessness.\n\n\"The last thing we need is for William to get involved in this issue, a man who has three huge homes and a vast estate gifted to him by the state,\" says Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy group, Republic.\n\nHe says homelessness is about government policy and investment and will not be \"resolved by charity or royal patronage\", accusing Prince William of being \"hypocritical\".\n\nPrince William with his mother and brother at The Passage homelessness charity in 1993\n\nBut a Kensington Palace spokesman said it was about the prince using his public platform to make a positive difference.\n\n\"This isn't about a PR stunt. This is about trying to change the way that we as a society think about homelessness,\" said the spokesman.\n\nMatt Downie, chief executive of the charity Crisis, said he had personally spoken to the Prince of Wales about the project and endorsed the authenticity of his commitment.\n\n\"People who are experiencing homelessness can smell when someone's not authentic. I certainly can see the difference between people who want to associate for PR purposes in this issue and people who are genuinely driven by righting one of society's wrongs, and I saw that deeply there,\" said Mr Downie.\n\nRoyal author and academic Prof Pauline Maclaran said such an activist approach was likely to go down well with a younger generation, who were more likely to question the value of the monarchy.\n\nBut she said it would need the prince to be seen to make a personal contribution. His Royal Foundation is providing £500,000 in seed funding at each of the six regional centres for the project, but so far there has been no confirmation of earlier reports of social housing plans for his Duchy of Cornwall estate.\n\nHistorian Sir Anthony Seldon said Prince William's initiative showed how royal interventions could look beyond short-term political cycles at wider issues such as \"the mental health and welfare of the population, the physical and built environment, and the economic condition of the people\".\n\nBut he said it meant the prince was \"squarely in the space normally reserved just for elected politicians\".\n\nPolitical parties are already sparring over the response to rising mortgage and rent costs and a lack of affordable housing.\n\nCllr Darren Rodwell, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association, said councils feared a \"national homelessness crisis\" - and there were 1.2 million people on council waiting lists for housing in England.\n\nHe said there was a perfect storm of \"depleting housing stock and an unaffordable and overly-competitive private rented market\" and renters facing eviction - and he called for councils to be able to build 100,000 new social rent homes each year.\n\nBut Prince William said he was confident about the ambition to fundamentally reduce homelessness.\n\n\"I want to make this a reality and, over the next five years, give people across the UK hope that homelessness can be prevented when we collaborate,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities welcomed the prince's initiative.\n\n\"We are giving councils £2bn over three years, to help them tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, targeted to areas where it is needed most,\" she said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video shows the moment Titanic sub victim Suleman Dawood solved a Rubik's Cube in under 20 seconds.\n\nThe 19-year-old died with his father, Shahzada Dawood, and three others, after a submersible they were travelling in to see the Titanic wreck faced a catastrophic implosion.", "The joint hottest temperature recorded so far in 2023 was hit on Sunday - but conditions are already on the turn.\n\nConingsby in Lincolnshire reached 32.2C, matching the same heights seen in Chertsey, Surrey, on 10 June.\n\nMeanwhile, thunderstorms lashed areas across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and the week ahead looks much cooler across the UK.\n\nBBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker said Sunday's heat \"marked the end of our current hot spell\".\n\nHe continued: \"The end of the month looks considerably cooler, but we're still on course for one of the warmest Junes in the UK since records began.\n\n\"Some parts of England have been experiencing temperatures akin to the Mediterranean for over two weeks.\n\n\"The weather has been consistently warmer than average across other parts of Europe as well.\"\n\nThe Met Office said Sunday's peak temperature at Coningsby was registered in the same location as the UK's hottest ever day, when 40.3C was recorded on 19 July last year during an extreme heatwave.\n\nYellow weather warnings for thunderstorms were in place across much of the north of the country during the afternoon, with many reporting downpours and hail.\n\nWhile the south sizzled, storm clouds gathered further north\n\nBut while black clouds rumbled their way towards the north east of Scotland and out to sea, temperatures continued to soar in the south.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were sent to tackle a grass blaze which had engulfed two hectares of land at Rammey Marsh in Enfield, in north London.\n\nAnd New Wimbledon Theatre was forced to cancel a performance of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory the Musical due to the \"impact on working conditions on stage\".\n\nIt stayed hot - and mercifully dry - for festivalgoers at Glastonbury, but the picture for the week ahead is more mixed.\n\nMonday is expected to be breezy, with cloud and showers in the north and west of the country, and more unsettled conditions forecast in the days ahead for many.", "Loyle Carner urged fans to leave their past personal traumas behind and focus on a brighter future\n\nIf you watched Loyle Carner headlining Glastonbury's West Holts stage on Saturday you saw something special.\n\nCompeting with Guns N' Roses and Lana Del Rey, the London rapper, 28, pulled in an adoring crowd for a soul-bearing and personally purifying performance.\n\n\"I'm playing this off like it isn't the craziest night of my life,\" he said.\n\n\"Thanks for being here with me, you could have been anywhere.\"\n\nThe show was largely constructed around his third album, Hugo, which takes a broad look at his relationship with his biological father, his identity as a mixed-race young man growing up in south London, and the scourge of knife crime that's afflicted the capital.\n\nIt was inspired by the birth of his own son, now three - who, he proudly noted, was in the crowd - and how that forced him to re-examine his own relationship with his father.\n\nThe musician was born Benjamin Gerard Coyle-Larner to a white, British mother and a black, Guyanese father who was \"present at times and not present at other times\" during his childhood.\n\nInstead, he and his brother were raised in Croydon by his mum and step-father, Nik, entering music at a young age with the Mercury-nominated Yesterday's Gone in 2017.\n\nWhen his girlfriend became pregnant in 2019, Carner called his dad to break the news and was shocked when he hung up the phone.\n\nA couple of weeks later, however, he called back and offered to teach his son to drive. Their relationship was repaired, or rather rebuilt, over the course of those lessons, as Carner learned about his dad's childhood in the care system, with no role model to show him how to be a father.\n\n\"To cut a long story short, we founded our relationship in that car. It became my safe space for conversation and shouting and apologising and crying,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 6 Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInspired by the transformation, Carner wrote the album to commemorate those car conversations. The number plate of his dad's car, S331 HGU, gave him the album title. And it's that same car that you - and his dad who was watching at home on TV - saw on stage at Glastonbury on Saturday.\n\n\"I needed my son to know where he was from because if you don't know where you're from you don't know where you're going,\" Carner told the audience.\n\n\"At first I was trying to understand, I was angry, I was hateful. And over the course of these journeys, these driving lessons, I stopped talking for a second and started listening. When I started listening to my father's side of the story and understood that when my father was growing up as a black man... he didn't have the tools to love me the way he wanted to love me.\n\n\"But my mother over there, she raised me with the tools to be the father I could be for my son.\"\n\nThe stage show was designed to reflect that narrative - a transition from anger and resentment to understanding and ultimately forgiveness.\n\n\"We wanted to translate that emotional story into a physical story,\" explains George Thomson, creative director at The Unlimited Dream Company.\n\n\"And with Ben, we arrived on the idea of using the sun as a 12-hour day cycle. So the show goes from the intense red of sunset during the first song, Hate, through the moody contemplation of night and into a new dawn that shows the new way forward in his relationship with his father.\"\n\nIt was an intense and hands-on collaboration.\n\n\"Even in rehearsals, while Ben's rapping perfectly, he would also be sketching and writing notes and making like colour charts,\" says co-creator Harrison Smith.\n\n\"He automatically thinks visually, which is why I think he's such a good storyteller.\"\n\nCarner took his real-life story and used it to impart wider lessons\n\nHis Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture.\n\nAt his angriest, Carner performed on top of the car, bouncing aggressively on the bonnet. On the more introspective Polyfilla, where Carner questions how his flaws will compromise his parenting, he stands in the dark, illuminated only by the beam of a single streetlight.\n\n\"I treated it like a Shakespearean play where it's divided into acts, and every act has its own beginning, middle and end,\" Carner explains.\n\nAs on the album, he uses his personal story to explore bigger frustrations with the world.\n\nAt Glastonbury that included urging fans to \"forget all that toxic masculinity... that ruined my childhood\", as well as a barbed commentary on his personal dissatisfaction with the government.\n\nAfter playing Blood On My Nikes, he brought out former youth MP Athian Akec, for a poignant speech about knife crime, while also praising teachers who are striking for better work conditions and pay.\n\n\"I want to speak up for teachers. I want to speak up for nurses,\" he tells the BBC. \"I want to speak up for the people in my community. I feel a responsibility for the people that I'm around.\"\n\nThe stage was designed to look like a car window, offering the audience a glimpse into Carner's inner life\n\nIt's a topic he's personally connected to. Both his mum and his girlfriend work as educators, and he says some of the teachers he encountered as a child \"saved my life\".\n\n\"I've a lot of friends who wouldn't be here, or wouldn't have amounted to anything if they didn't have that one person to believe in them,\" he adds, \"and I'm upset that we're not giving teachers the world.\n\n\"We treat them like they're babysitters [when] they're basically the last line of defence for so many kids who, for whatever reason, are struggling at home.\"\n\nHe describes the current strikes in schools and hospitals as a Catch 22 situation, that ends up hurting the pupils they're supposed to mentor.\n\n\"Teachers can't be busy fighting for themselves, they need to be fighting for the students that need their help.\n\n\"But when they don't stand up for themselves, nobody else seems to.\"\n\nThe rapper drew a big crowd to the West Holts stage, despite competition from Fatboy Slim, Guns N' Roses and Lana Del Rey\n\nIn lesser hands, this could easily have become heavy-handed; but Carner has a relaxed demeanour, that made his headline show feel more like an intimate conversation with a friend.\n\nHe was helped out by an impeccably funky live band - including special guest Olivia Dean - who added depth and texture to his lyrical meditations.\n\nAll those complex, intertwined frustrations and fears culminated in the set's final track, HGU - a song not just about forgiving his dad, but forgiveness and acceptance in general.\n\n\"Within rap, everyone else is like, 'If your dad left and he's rubbish, just let that anger be your motivation,'\" he explained in liner notes for the record.\n\n\"That's cool to an extent, but it can cripple you if you let it go further than an initial youthful rebellion.\"\n\n\"You'd think a song about forgiveness would be all lovey-dovey and light,\" says Smith, \"but it's about an active choice to forgive someone, so there's an outpouring of anger that allows you to transition to forgiveness.\n\n\"It's not a natural step. And when the audience experiences that all coming together, it's quite emotional.\"\n\nCarner says it's a cathartic act to come out every night \"so frustrated and broken-hearted with the way the world is going\" and end in \"a place of forgiveness, not only for my father, but also for myself.\"\n\n\"For me, it's been such a beautiful thing.\"\n\nThe set called to mind Stormzy's iconic appearance on the Pyramid Stage four years ago\n\nOn stage, he offered his story up as an example to the audience.\n\n\"I used to carry this weight, this chip on my shoulder. I thought if I forgave my father, I'm setting him free [but] what about me?\n\n\"I didn't realise when I forgave my father, I forgave myself, I was able to love myself, look after myself, remove this chip on my shoulder.\"\n\nAnd as he left the Glastonbury stage, forever changed, the star offered this mantra: \"Take these words and go forwards\".", "We're drawing our live coverage of Glastonbury Festival 2023 to a close now, after Sir Elton John attracted huge crowds to the Pyramid Stage for (possibly) his final UK show.\n\nThere have been lots of other incredibly memorable performances over the weekend, including from our Friday night headliners Arctic Monkeys and Saturday night's main act Guns N' Roses.\n\nRoyal Blood, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Blondie, Lewis Capaldi, the ChurnUps (otherwise known as Foo Fighters), Lana Del Rey and Young Fathers are some other names that spring to mind.\n\nThe live pages have been edited by myself, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Owen Amos and Marita Moloney.\n\nThanks to our writers Paul Glynn, Laura Gozzi, Christy Cooney, Imogen James, Aoife Walsh and all our reporters on site.\n\nSee you for Glastonbury 2024!", "The singer started his set in full voice, but was largely unable to sing by the time he left the stage\n\nLewis Capaldi struggled to complete his Glastonbury set on Saturday evening, with vocal problems leaving him almost unable to sing his final songs.\n\nThe show was supposed to be a comeback, after Capaldi cancelled three weeks of shows to \"rest and recover\" amid concerns for his health.\n\nBut despite a warm reception from the crowd, his voice quickly faltered and he left the stage looking dejected.\n\n\"Glastonbury, I'm really sorry,\" he said. \"I'm a bit annoyed with myself.\"\n\nThe audience lent him their vocal support, willing him along and belting out the words. They wanted him to know it was OK, that they were there for him.\n\nIt was a wonderful, communal display of both the Glastonbury spirit, and the genuine public affection for Capaldi, who walked around the stage, singing when he could manage, and taking in the view.\n\nBy the end of the set, the star suggested he would need to take more time away from public life to recuperate.\n\n\"I feel like I'll be taking another wee break over the next couple of weeks. So you probably won't see much of me for the rest of the year, maybe even.\n\n\"But when I do come back and when I do see you, I hope you're still up for watching us.\"\n\nAs his band played Someone You Love, the singer largely stayed silent, with the crowd carrying him along on an affectionate wave of support,\n\n\"I genuinely dreamt of doing this,\" he said as he walked off. \"If I never get to do it again, this has been enough.\"\n\nThe singer has been remarkably brave in discussing his struggles with anxiety and the pressures of fame.\n\nLast year, he announced that he'd been given a diagnosis of Tourette's syndrome, and he recently appeared in a candid Netflix film documenting his mental health issues.\n\n\"When I have a panic attack, it feels like I'm going insane, completely disconnected from reality,\" he told the director, Joe Pearlman. \"I can't breathe. I can't feel my breath going in. I get dizzy. I feel like there's something happening to my head. I'm sweating.\n\n\"The big thing for me with it is, I'm always going to feel like this now, this is me.\"\n\nThe crowd took Capaldi's predicament to heart, and buoyed him along with a mass singalong\n\nAfter the release of his second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, earlier this year, he found that the pressures of touring and promotion were having an adverse effect.\n\nOn 5 June, he posted a statement on social media saying he was scrapping all of his tour dates in the run-up to Glastonbury to recuperate.\n\n\"The last few months have been full-on both mentally and physically,\" he wrote, \"I haven't been home properly since Christmas and at the moment I am struggling to get to grips with it all.\"\n\n\"I need to take a moment to rest and recover, to be at my best and ready for Glastonbury, and all of the other incredible shows coming up so that I'm able to continue doing what I love for a long time to come.\"\n\nHe was given a hero's welcome when he walked out onto Glastonbury's biggest stage, drawing a crowd to rival the one that watched Arctic Monkeys on Friday.\n\nAfter playing Forget Me and Forever (interrupted, unexpectedly, by a fly past from the Red Arrows), the audience started chanting, \"Ohhh, Lewis Capaldi\" to the tune of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.\n\n\"That's enough,\" he scolded. \"I don't need Jack White making money off this situation.\"\n\nBut as the chorus continued, he began to feign exasperation.\n\n\"All of you, I imagine, would make terrible lovers. You're so keen. Let me tease you a little bit, please.\"\n\nAnd tease he did, introducing Pointless with a bit of banter about how he'd written the song with \"fellow ginger\" Ed Sheeran.\n\n\"So ladies and gentlemen,\" he announced. \"Ed Sheeran... is not here.\"\n\nThe star said he would take an extended break after his performance\n\nBut by the fifth song, his voice began to sound raspy and fractured.\n\n\"I really apologise. You've all come out and my voice is really packing in,\" he said, in the first of many apologies.\n\nHe soldiered through, but the issues were clearly agitating him and the symptoms of his Tourette's began to become more visible.\n\nAlthough he was visibly upset, the audience were firmly on his side throughout.\n\nWhen he announced towards the end of his set that he might only be able to finish two more songs, the woman next to me stretched out her arms and whispered: \"You just play as many as you want, babe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sands appeared in films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Benediction and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo\n\nHikers in the US have found human remains near the area where British actor Julian Sands disappeared.\n\nIdentification should be completed next week, the San Bernardino County sheriff's department in south California said on Saturday.\n\nSands, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nHe is best known for his roles in the Oscar-winning film A Room With A View, and the TV dramas 24 and Smallville.\n\nHis other credits included 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in which he appeared opposite Daniel Craig.\n\nSands, born in Otley, West Yorkshire, disappeared in the Baldy Bowl area during bad weather.\n\n\"Civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff's Station after they discovered human remains in the Mt Baldy wilderness,\" the sheriff's department said.\n\nThe statement gave no other details.\n\nSands's family issued a statement early this week expressing gratitude \"to the search teams and coordinators who have worked tirelessly to find Julian\".\n\n\"We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer,\" they said.", "John McKenna played for Scotby Football Club in Carlisle, who have paid tribute to him\n\nTributes have been paid to a popular footballer who died after apparently falling from a hotel balcony in Ibiza.\n\nJohn McKenna, 22, from Carlisle, Cumbria, had been on holiday when the tragedy happened on Friday at about 11:00 local time (10:00 BST).\n\nThe Scotby FC player, an electrician, is reported to have fallen from the third floor of his San Antonio hotel.\n\nHis Sunday league club said it had \"lost a legend, a brilliant player but an even better person\".\n\nIt added that he would be \"never forgotten but loved always. RIP big John.\"\n\nFriend and former Carlisle United player Josh Dixon, who went to school with Mr McKenna, also paid tribute and said he was \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\n\"One of my closest mates all the way through school,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Wherever you went you would put a smile on someone's face, will be a huge miss to us all. Rest easy big man.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside the club's pavilion, alongside a football shirt.\n\nScotby FC has received messages of support from other teams across the league\n\nThe Cumberland Football Association said it was \"so sorry to hear this tragic news\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with John's family and friends as well as his teammates in the AFC Scotby family at this time and always\".\n\nClubs from the Carlisle City Premier Sunday League have also sent their condolences, as well as other teams from the county.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of a British man who died in Ibiza and was in touch with the Spanish island's authorities.\n\nAn investigation is continuing into what happened, which is being led by the Civil Guard.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuns N' Roses have always been a law unto themselves, and their headline set at Glastonbury was no exception.\n\nThe hard rock legends played a meandering, sporadically brilliant set that mixed stadium-level classics with less familiar deep cuts over an endurance-busting three hours.\n\nHighlights included a raucous Welcome To The Jungle and the always-welcome Sweet Child O' Mine.\n\nBut they drew a smaller crowd than US pop star Lizzo earlier in the day.\n\nThe US band took to the stage at 21:30, opening with the Appetite For Destruction classic It's So Easy, as Axl Rose prowled the stage and Slash peeled off riffs from beneath his trademark top hat.\n\nAt 61, Rose's vocals aren't what they once were, but he can still pull off a wolverine yowl when he warms up - and his snarling delivery remains convincingly menacing. (Some TV viewers complained his microphone was too quiet, but in the field he cut through the swathes of guitar like a knife through butter.)\n\nThe set took a while to get going - front-loaded with songs like the title track from the band's misfiring 2008 album Chinese Democracy; and Slither, a single by Slash's post-GNR side project Velvet Revolver.\n\nIt's only when the riff to Welcome To The Jungle rings out across the Pyramid Arena, a good 20 minutes into the set, that they achieve lift-off, following it up with the a fierce rendition of Mr Brownstone.\n\nThe US rabble-rousers played for almost three hours without flagging\n\nThey show support for Ukraine while playing Civil War, with Rose wearing the country's flag on his t-shirt, and footage of bombed out homes illuminating the screens.\n\nTowards the end of their set, Nightrain has a pent-up punky energy; and a cover of UK Subs' Down On The Farm is a nice hat-tip to Michael and Emily Eavis, who run the festival.\n\nOccasionally, they veer into choppy waters. Even hardcore fans are split over the merits Use Your Illusion's bondage-themed song Pretty Tied Up; and the 2021 single Absurd feels superfluous.\n\nBut they claw it back with the pent-up punk energy of Nighttrain, before bringing out Dave Grohl (\"because you can never have too many guitars\") for a frenzied, euphoric encore of Paradise City.\n\nIn their chaotic pomp, buying a ticket to see Guns N' Roses was a gamble. You never knew whether they'd turn up and, if they did, Rose had a habit of storming off stage if the crowd so much as looked at him funny.\n\nBut there was no sign of that temperamental performer on Saturday night.\n\n\"What a lovely evening\" commented the former hellraiser, a model of politesse. \"We'd like to thank you for inviting us.\"\n\nLana Del Rey was unable to complete her set, to the distress of her fans\n\nThe Pyramid Stage audience wasn't as large as it had been for Arctic Monkeys on Friday night, with thousands of fans opting to see Lana Del Rey headline the Other Stage instead.\n\nThe US singer was half-an-hour late for her set, starting after 23:00 with an apology: \"My hair takes so long to do... super sorry I'm so late.\"\n\nWhen she finally began, her set was a lyrical, high-concept performance that featured ballet dancers and contortionists as Del Rey draped herself languidly across the stage.\n\nSadly, her late arrival clashed with Glastonbury's strict curfew. She cut several songs, telling the crowd: \"I'm about to rush this set to death.\"\n\nBut it wasn't enough. Her mic was cut at midnight, with at least six songs left to play. A printed setlist suggested they'd have been some of her biggest songs, including Summertime Sadness and Video Games.\n\nClearly devastated, the singer tried to talk to her fans, who rewarded her by singing Video Games a cappella, while chanting \"one more song\".\n\nDel Rey sang along with them, then walked to the pit at the front of the stage, so they could console each other directly. After that, she had to leave, clearly devastated.\n\nOver on West Holts, UK rapper Loyle Carner gave a more punctual, but equally emotional performance.\n\nThe set was built around his third album, Hugo, which looks at his fraught relationship with his biological father, and how generational pain can be passed down the bloodline.\n\nIt was a powerful show, that also saw Carner criticise the government for its handling of knife crime, and urging fans to \"forget all that toxic masculinity [rubbish] that ruined my childhood\".\n\nOther headliners across the site on Saturday included French pop maverick Christine And The Queens and dance legend Fatboy Slim.\n\nIt was an embarrassment of riches that meant Glastonbury's 200,000 festivalgoers were dispersed to every corner of the 1,000 acre site.\n\nIt also meant that Lizzo was able to claim the biggest audience of the day.\n\nThe US star burst onto the Pyramid Stage like a human glitter cannon around 19:30 BST, playing a euphoric set of sparkly soul hits that included Cuz I Love You, Juice and 2B Loved.\n\nSporting jade-coloured hair and dressed in a steampunk ballgown, her infectious energy stretched all the way to the hilltops, where fans in colourful wigs and fairy wings danced like their lives depended on it.\n\nSurveying the audience, the singer recalled how quickly her star had risen since her first Glastonbury appearance in 2018.\n\n\"We were in a tent that was real big, with nobody in there and me and my DJ Sophia played our hearts out.\n\n\"And we kept playing, until now I'm standing in front of all of you. I'm so proud. Thank you for supporting me.\"\n\nHer set ended with an ebullient version of the smash hit About Damn Time, complete with aerobic choreography and a flawless flute solo from the woman herself.\n\nThe people that drifted off before Guns N' Roses did so on cloud nine.\n\nEarlier in the day, 80s pop legend Rick Astley opened the stage to an equally warm reception.\n\nKnowing that people had mostly turned up to hear Never Gonna Give You Up, he sprinkled his set with crowd-pleasing covers of Harry Styles' As It Was and AC/DC's Highway To Hell as he built up to the inevitable, cheese-tastic climax.\n\n\"It was absolutely amazing. It's very hard to put into words, but that was the loveliest crowd I've ever played in front of,\" he said after coming off stage.\n\n\"They were so generous, so loving, so amazing. Just a great experience.\"\n\nCroydon-born soul singer Raye was up next, with a white-tuxedoed big band who gave a distinctly retro, Amy Winehouse vibe to her lunchtime set.\n\nShe kicked off her shoes to dance to Black Mascara, and choked back tears as she sang the harrowing Ice Cream Man - a song that details her experiences with sexual abuse.\n\nLike Lizzo, she couldn't quite believe she'd been booked for Glastonbury's main stage, after a very public split with her record label who she accused of stifling her career.\n\n\"It seems like yesterday we were playing festivals where we had more people on stage than we had in the audience,\" she said, cueing up the hit single Escapsim.\n\n\"I do not take your presence here for granted.\"\n\nAitch gained one of the day's youngest audiences\n\nGrammy-nominated duo Amadou and Mariam brought the warm and earthy vibes of Mali to the Pyramid Stage over lunchtime, before Mancunian star Aitch raised the temperature with a simmering set of UK rap anthems (and a perfectly-judged cover of Oasis's Wonderwall).\n\nAnd that was just the acts in the main arena…\n\nJohnny Marr joined The Pretenders for their 'surprise' set on the Park Stage\n\nRick Astley popped up again at the Woodises Stage to perform a set of Smiths covers with Stockport indie band Blossoms; while former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined Chrissie Hynde for a set with The Pretenders on The Park Stage.\n\nIt turned out he wasn't their only guest.\n\n\"Apparently there's a drunk guy backstage [and] he insists on playing,\" Hynde joked before Dave Grohl appeared (again) to play drums on Mystery Achievement, while Paul McCartney, who'd been watching from the sidelines, made a brief appearance to give a thumbs-up before disappearing again.\n\nOscar winner Tilda Swinton treated the crowds to an unexpected spoken word performance alongside composer Max Richter; and rap star Dave cropped up during Central Cee's set on The Other Stage to perform their summer anthem Sprinter.\n\nDave and Central Cee gave the public debut of their number one smash Sprinter\n\nThe festival wraps up on Sunday with the most-anticipated set of the weekend - as Elton John wraps up his UK touring career with a headline set on the Pyramid Stage.\n\nThe singer has promised a bespoke show with several special guests, and speculation has already run rampant.\n\nAmong the names rumoured to be joining him (so far) are Britney Spears, Dua Lipa, Sam Fender, Harry Styles, Eminem and actor Taron Egerton - who played Elton in the blockbuster film Rocketman.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin's brief rebellion was motivated as much by personal rivalries as any real political differences with the Kremlin\n\nIn the end, the Wagner mutiny lasted less than 24 hours. But the toxic cocktail of jealousy, rivalry and ambition that gave rise to it has been months, if not years, in the making.\n\nThe main characters of this drama were Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, and the heads of Russia's enormous military - Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov.\n\nPrigozhin - a former criminal who was associated with organised crime in the 1980s and for which he spent several years in prison - is a creation of the Kremlin who owes his enormous wealth to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nSince he formed the Wagner mercenary group in 2014, he has become a key tool of Mr Putin's desire to reimpose Russian influence across the globe. From the shadows, his forces - made up of hardened former Russian special forces - have propped up Mr Putin's ally Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and helped roll back and replace French influence in Mali.\n\nUntil last year Prigozhin consistently denied mounting evidence that he controlled the group, launching lawsuits in British courts against Bellingcat journalist Elliot Higgins who accused him of running the private militia.\n\nThe deniable nature of his group's operations have made him popular with Mr Putin and allowed him to build up his own power base, over the last year coming to rival that of the military and security elite that rule Russia.\n\nA man at ease with violence, corruption and ambition - his rise is emblematic of the modern state built by President Vladimir Putin over the past 24 years.\n\nBut despite his increasing power, he has remained an outsider among Mr Putin's small inner circle of advisers, unafraid to criticise officials in Moscow he sees as corrupt, lazy or both.\n\nAnd he has reserved a particular hatred for the head of the military, Valery Gerasimov, and the Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu - a fellow outsider - for years.\n\nSergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov have run Russia's enormous military together for more than a decade\n\nUnlike most of Mr Putin's key advisers, who tend to hail from the president's home city of St Petersburg, Mr Shoigu was born in a small village on the Russian-Mongolian border.\n\nDespite leading the Russian military for more than a decade, Mr Shoigu never served in uniform, rising through the ranks of the Communist Party before becoming the head of Russia's emergency ministry in the 1990s.\n\nMr Gerasimov, the third figure in this rivalry, is the ultimate army insider. He cut his teeth putting down a bloody rebellion in Chechnya in the 1990s, and is now the longest serving post-Soviet military chief.\n\nPrigozhin's growing importance in projecting Russian power - and his group's ability to poach top special forces operators from the military by offering higher wages - are believed to have created tensions between the men for several years.\n\nBut it's really after the Russian invasion of Ukraine - and in particular post the bloody fighting in the meat grinder of Bakhmut, the battle where thousands of Wagner troops are believed to have been killed - that Prigozhin's hatred for the military elites has come to the fore.\n\nThe attempt to seize Bakhmut - a small city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 people - is puzzling. Most observers believe that it has limited military significance and some say the campaign was designed by Prigozhin to allow him to claim credit for a victory amid the military's faltering campaign.\n\nHe regularly accused Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov of \"constantly trying to steal [credit for] Wagner's victory\" in cities like Soledar, where thousands of paramilitary troops - often recruited from prisons - met their deaths.\n\nAnd by contrast to his more bureaucratic rivals, Prigozhin's often foul-mouthed rants made him a personality that often caught the attention of the world's media. Leaked documents suggested that the Russian defence ministry was unsure of how to combat his messaging and increasing popularity.\n\nBut in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin was content to let it continue.\n\nAllowing rivalries to simmer is very much President Putin's style. He has long permitted competing power centres to fight among each other for influence, believing that it would prevent one faction from gaining enough prominence to challenge him directly.\n\nDaniel Triestman, a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote last year that the system created by Mr Putin contains \"tripwires\" to prevent a coup, noting that officials \"with armed men at their command lack the mutual trust to organise a conspiracy\".\n\nIn this regime, Mr Shoigu is kept in check by Wagner, while the mercenaries remain cowed by the military. At the top of the pyramid sits Mr Putin, the chess master moving pieces around the board and maintaining balance in the system.\n\nMeanwhile, Prigozhin has always been careful to avoid criticising the president directly, instead suggesting that Russia's litany of failures since the invasion in February 2022 were due to Mr Putin being misled by his commanders.\n\nFor Mr Putin, it was useful to allow the mercenary boss to pin the blame for the failing military campaign on underlings. The Russian president is believed to have privately criticised Shoigu and Gerasimov for the slow pace of the invasion.\n\nBut in recent months, Mr Putin's long held strategy has appeared to fray.\n\nPrigozhin - increasingly irate over his suspicion that the military was withholding ammunition from his forces as they attempted to complete the capture of Bakhmut - began posting more and more unhinged Telegram rants.\n\nIn one video - with the remains of dozens of dead Wagner fighters visibly surrounding him in the background - he raged: \"You [expletive] who aren't giving us ammunition, you scum, you will eat their guts in Hell!\"\n\n\"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices,\" he yelled in another video, seemingly attempting to blackmail Moscow by threatening to pull his forces off the front lines and abandon the fight for Bakhmut.\n\nAccording to US intelligence documents leaked by American airman Jack Teixera, Prigozhin was summoned to a meeting with Mr Putin and Mr Shoigu on 22 February - the same day he posted the video among the Wagner corpses.\n\n\"The meeting almost certainly concerned, at least in part, Prigozhin's public accusations and resulting tension with Shoygu,\" one document read, using a different spelling of the defence chief's surname.\n\nBut the summit appears not to have had the desired effect.\n\nQuestions will be asked about the ease with which Wagner troops moved through Russian and took key sites\n\nMeanwhile, in Moscow, Mr Shoigu was putting the finishing touches to a plan he hoped would reduce his adversary's influence for good.\n\nThe defence chief has sometimes faced criticism over his lack of uniformed service, but his knowledge of how to bend the Russian political system to his will is second to none.\n\nHe has remained in the Kremlin in one capacity or another since 1991, and few of President Putin's advisers have spent longer at his side.\n\nOn 10 June he unveiled his plan, announcing that \"volunteer formations\" would be asked to sign contracts directly with the ministry of defence, integrating them with the military and giving them a new legal status.\n\nThe bill gave PMCs - or Volunteer Formations - until 1 July to comply and sign the contracts.\n\nWhile the announcement didn't mention Wagner directly, it was widely viewed as a move to reduce Prigozhin's influence, immediately invoking the mercenary boss's fury.\n\n\"Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu,\" Prigozhin raged. \"Shoigu cannot properly manage military formation.\"\n\nNonetheless, the move will have set off alarm bells in Prigozhin's head. As a veteran political operator, Mr Shoigu would not have moved to take control of Wagner without knowing he had the approval of President Putin.\n\nPrigozhin may have recognised that after months of indulging his attention-seeking rants and criticism of the \"special military operation\", the president had finally decided to back his defence chiefs and marginalise his old ally.\n\nDays later, Mr Putin delivered his personal seal to the move, telling reporters in Moscow it was \"in line with common sense\" and had to \"done as quickly as possible\".\n\nSome have suggested that this was the moment Prigozhin started to plan his mutiny, with the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) saying he \"likely gambled that his only avenue to retain Wagner Group as an independent force was to march against the Russian Ministry of Defence\".\n\nHis troops soon escalated their campaign against the regular military, kidnapping a Russian field commander they accused of opening fire on Wagner troops.\n\nUS media reports that intelligence officials, having analysed Wagner movements for several days, briefed the Biden administration that Prigozhin was planning some sort of action.\n\nAnd on Friday the mercenary boss unleashed his most damning criticism of the defence minister yet.\n\nDeparting from the false Russian line long promoted by President Putin himself that Russia invaded Ukraine to ward off Nato and Nazis, Prigozhin raged that the conflict was nothing more than an excuse for Mr Shoigu to win more medals and obtain the ultimate military honour of being promoted to the rank of Marshal.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president,\" he raged in a Telegram video.\n\nThat evening, less than two weeks after the defence ministry announced their plan to seize control of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin and his troops left Ukraine and took the Russian city of Rostov.\n\nSome have speculated that Prigozhin agreed to end his rebellion after winning concessions from Mr Putin, which could include changes at the top of the defence ministry, but whether this is true remains unclear.\n\nWho would replace Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov is equally unclear.\n\nGen Sergei Surovikin, once an ally of Prigozhin's but who spoke out against his mutiny, could be in line for a promotion. Known as General Armageddon, he commanded the invasion force briefly last year and was behind the largely ineffectual bombing campaign against civilian targets.\n\nWhat happens to Prigozhin himself is another matter. His decision to halt his march on Moscow will likely anger many hard-line pro-war elements in Russia, while the ISW observed that \"many Wagner personnel will likely be displeased with the potential of signing contracts\" with the defence ministry.\n\nAnd it is unclear whether he will be permitted to retain his enormous wealth. Reports in Russian media said some £38m ($48m) in cash was found during a raid on Wagner headquarters in St Petersburg, which Prigozhin said was used to compensate the families of dead troopers.\n\nWhile this rebellion was largely strangled in its crib, and the military duo of Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov have removed a major threat to their power, the conditions that gave rise to the mutiny remain.\n\nAround 10 private military companies now operate in Russia, with their allegiance belonging to a collection of security officials, oil giants and oligarchs.\n\nMr Shoigu is said to control his own company called Patriot PMC which operates in Ukraine and is in direct competition with Wagner, according to the US state department.\n\nThe loyalty of these groups to the regime must now be questionable at best, and may weaken the assumption that Mr Putin's government is more capable of withstanding a long conflict in Ukraine than President Volodymyr Zelensky's government in Kyiv.\n\n\"The hopes of a part of the Russian elite, including, apparently, the president himself, that a long war is beneficial for Russia…are a dangerous illusion,\" said Ruslan Pukhov, an analyst with the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (Cast).\n\n\"Prolongation of the war carries huge domestic political risks for the Russian Federation.\"", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Reducing waiting times in the NHS is one of the five pledges announced at the start of the year by the prime minister\n\nThe NHS is set to undergo the \"largest expansion in training and workforce\" in its history, Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the prime minister said the plans would reduce \"reliance on foreign-trained healthcare professionals\".\n\nIt comes at a time of record-high waiting lists in the NHS and junior doctors set to stage a five-day strike next month.\n\nThe full plans are expected to be published next week.\n\nPressed about the length of time it would take to see the results of the changes, Mr Sunak accepted it could take \"five, ten, fifteen years for these things to come through\", but that did not mean it was not the right thing to do.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting accused the government of stealing Labour's plans on increasing the NHS workforce. \"Had the Conservatives trained the staff the NHS needs over the past 13 years, it would not be going through the biggest crisis in its history today,\" Mr Streeting said.\n\n\"And still they have no plan to stop staff leaving today, end the strikes, or to reform the NHS.\"\n\nAlmost everyone is agreed there needs to be a significant increase in the numbers of doctors and nurses going into training.\n\nThe current system for training UK doctors and nurses simply cannot keep up with the needs of the NHS. At the moment, around half of all new doctors and nurses joining the workforce in the UK have been trained abroad.\n\nWhile the workforce has grown over the past decade, the squeeze in funding that the NHS has received has left the service with fewer doctors and nurses per head than many of our European counterparts.\n\nThe pressures on the NHS mean services are increasingly finding it difficult to give students the time and support they need - so the challenge facing the government in terms of increasing training places is ensuring there are enough clinical placements for students to do during their training.\n\nThe new package of measures could see apprentice-doctor roles brought in to fill NHS staffing gaps in England.\n\nThe proposal would see people who finish the five-year apprenticeships becoming junior doctors - offering an alternative to the traditional medical degree route.\n\nThe plan also aims to expand the nurse apprenticeship scheme that already exists.\n\nOn the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, Mr Sunak said the plans would \"mean people can have confidence that the doctors and nurses and GPs that we all need will be there\".\n\nHe said the \"long-term workforce plan\" would mean the NHS can recruit doctors, nurses and GPs \"not just today but for years into the future to provide the care that we all need\".\n\nReducing waiting times in the NHS is one of the five pledges announced at the start of the year by the prime minister.\n\nIn the first half of this year, the number of patients waiting for consultant-led elective care in England grew to 7.4 million, up from 7.2 million in January.\n\nIn March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, there were about 4.4 million people in England on an NHS waiting list.\n\nMr Sunak was pushed by the BBC on failing to secure a pay deal which would avert the strike action by junior doctors.\n\nThe action by the BMA union is the longest yet, and is being held between 13 and 18 July in protest over pay. It has rejected at 5% pay rise, which it describes as not \"credible\".\n\nHe said had he had reached agreements with \"over half a dozen NHS unions\" and was required \"to make difficult decisions as prime minister\".\n\n\"When it comes to public sector pay, I'm going to do what I think is affordable, what I think is responsible,\" he said.", "Most police forces and other emergency services have confirmed they are able to receive 999 calls again, following a fault on Sunday morning.\n\nEarlier, a nationwide technical issue meant calls were not being connected.\n\nSome said they were still experiencing a \"residual impact\" so people should only use 999 in a genuine emergency.\n\nBT confirmed the issue was caused by a technical fault, and said a back-up system was being used while it worked to restore the primary 999 lines.\n\nIt said its priority was getting the lines \"up and running as soon as possible\" and experts were trying to work out the cause.\n\nThe telecoms company has already ruled out a third-party issue, the hot weather and an Android handset 999 problem from earlier this week.\n\nBut it said it would not be able to share technical information on the system nor how the back-up works because the 999 call service is part of the critical national infrastructure.\n\nBT also warned that call handling times might be \"slightly longer than normal\", but urged people to call 999 as usual.\n\nProblems with the service were first reported at about 08:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nBy about 10:00 some emergency services were saying services had been restored and by midday most emergency services said call services had been restored.\n\nForces who were still experiencing issues around lunchtime included Essex Fire Service, South Wales Police, the PSNI, and Police Scotland.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 999 lines were \"very busy following the technical fault that impacted all emergency services earlier\".\n\nIt said the back-up system was \"not as effective at telling us where you are calling from\", and for people to have the address or street information available when they call.\n\nCheshire Fire and Rescue Service warned of a 30-second delay to connect to 999, while Suffolk Police said its system may not be working to full capacity and urged people to use 999 only in a genuine emergency.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) said if a 999 call was not successful, people should call 111 for urgent medical help instead.\n\nRichard Lyne, strategic commander at EMAS, said: \"We urge people to seriously consider the alternative services available and if it's possible to make your own way to a treatment centre.\n\n\"For example, if a relative or friend can take you by car.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin says the actions from mutineers are \"a knife in the back of our people\"\n\nAn attempted armed mutiny in Russia shows \"real cracks\" in President Vladimir Putin's authority, America's top diplomat Antony Blinken has said.\n\nHe told US media that the rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner fighters was a \"direct challenge\" to Mr Putin, forcing him into an amnesty agreement.\n\nThe deal halted Wagner's march on Moscow on Saturday. The mercenaries had earlier seized two Russian cities.\n\nMr Putin accused the group of treason, but all charges were later dropped.\n\nUnder the deal, Wagner fighters must return to their field bases and Prigozhin move to Russia's western neighbour Belarus, whose leader Alexander Lukashenko was involved in the negotiations.\n\nThe current whereabouts of Prigozhin, a former Putin loyalist, are unknown. He was last seen in public leaving Rostov-on-Don - one of the two southern cities where his fighters had taken control of military facilities.\n\nPrigozhin's press service said he would answer questions from the media \"when he has normal communication means\", Russia's RTVI news website reported on Sunday afternoon. It provided no further details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, President Putin has not been seen in public since his nationwide TV address on Saturday morning to condemn the mutiny.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Blinken told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, that the 24-hour rebellion in Russia \"raises profound questions, it shows real cracks\".\n\nMr Blinken, who also appeared on several other US talks shows, said it was \"too early\" to predict what impact the mutiny could have on the Kremlin or on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.\n\n\"If you put this in context 16 months ago, Putin was on the doorstep of Kyiv in Ukraine, looking to take the city in a matter of days, erase the country from the map,\" Mr Blinken told ABC.\n\n\"Now, he's had to defend Moscow, Russia's capital, against a mercenary of his own making.\"\n\nThe US diplomat added that he did not want to \"speculate\" on where this all could lead Russia and President Putin personally.\n\nRussia has not publicly commented on Mr Blinken's remarks.\n\nThe BBC's Russia editor in Moscow Steve Rosenberg says President Putin does not emerge from Saturday's events looking particularly strong.\n\nHe says the Wagner group had been able to seize control of military facilities in a major Russian city with apparent ease, then push north towards Moscow.\n\nAnd Prigozhin is a free man - despite trying to topple the military leadership of Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTroops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group have reportedly started leaving the city of Rostov-on-Don, less than 24 hours after attempting a rebellion.\n\nEarlier, the group's chief said he had told his fighters to return to Ukraine to avoid bloodshed.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin will now move to neighbouring Belarus and charges against him and his troops will be dropped, Russian state media reports.\n\nIt signals the end of a chaotic and extraordinary day in Russia.\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nTension had been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.\n\nIt came to a head on Saturday morning, when Wagner mercenaries crossed the border from their field camps in Ukraine and entered the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.\n\nIn developments that were breathlessly fast, they reportedly took over the regional military command and seized military facilities in Voronezh, another city further north, towards Moscow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fighters started to march toward the capital, prompting the Kremlin to introduced tighter security in many regions, including Moscow, where the mayor of the capital city had told residents to avoid travelling.\n\nThere were also warnings that thousands of elite Chechen troops were heading to Moscow to fight off the Wagner soldiers, if needed.\n\nIn response, President Vladimir Putin had pledged to punish those who had \"betrayed\" Russia.\n\nThe agreement to suddenly de-escalate the situation came on Saturday evening, after Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Prigozhin, according to Russian TV channel Rossiya 24.\n\nHours later, video emerged purportedly showing Wagner troops leaving Rostov, and their leader being driven away to the cheers and handshakes of supporters.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin was pictured leaving Rostov-on-Don, where some took photos and shook his hand\n\nCommenting on the day's events, Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation was \"complete chaos\".\n\n\"The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. I am sure that he is no longer in Moscow,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"He knows what he is afraid of, because he himself created this threat. All evil, all losses, all hatred - it is he who spreads it.\"\n\nThere were rumours that Mr Putin had fled Moscow, after flight tracking showed that two presidential planes had left the city on Saturday.\n\nHowever his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the president was still in the Kremlin.\n\nMr Peskov added that the arrest warrant for Prigozhin would be dropped and criminal case against him and his troops would be closed.\n\nWagner mercenaries who wish to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence can still do so, the press secretary said.", "Officials from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada board the Polar Prince after it arrived back in St. John's\n\nInvestigators in Canada have boarded the support ship used to launch the Titan submersible in their bid to understand what caused the vessel's catastrophic implosion.\n\nFlags on board the Polar Prince were at half-mast as it docked in St John's, Newfoundland, on Saturday.\n\nAnother boat was seen in the harbour towing the Titan's launch platform.\n\nThe Titan was on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic when it broke apart, killing all five people on board.\n\nLocals in St John's gathered around the cannon on top of Battery Lookout at 08:00 (11:30 BST) to watch the Polar Prince return to port. As some passengers disembarked, investigators in hard hats and high-visibility jackets climbed aboard.\n\nThe Polar Prince was the Titan's support vessel\n\nThe Polar Prince was the Titan's support vessel and had towed the submersible out to the area in the North Atlantic where it carried out its dive on Sunday, about 400 miles from St John's.\n\nOn board were members of the support team and some family members of the victims. It was also involved in the search for the Titan once it lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into its dive.\n\nParts of the submersible were found on the ocean floor on Thursday, approximately 1,600ft (487m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck.\n\nCanada announced on Friday that it was launching a safety investigation. Other countries' government agencies may join in, but it is unclear at this stage which will lead the investigation.\n\nAs well as the role of the Polar Prince, experts say officials will also look at the materials used to make the sub's outer walls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nSince news of the accident broke, industry experts have come out to say that they had previously raised questions about safety practises at OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan, and whose CEO Stockon Rush was on board at the time of the accident.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC showed Mr Rush dismissing concerns from one expert as \"baseless cries\".\n\nAlso on board the Titan were Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet.", "After a weekend of mayhem, I'm beginning to understand why Russia's national symbol is the double-headed eagle: two heads staring in opposite directions.\n\nFirst, Yevgeny Prigozhin declares he's ready to \"go all the way\" in his mutiny against the Russian military. Then he makes a sudden U-turn and orders his Wagner fighters back to base.\n\nIn a TV address, President Vladimir Putin declares the rebellion \"a criminal adventure… a grievous crime… treason… blackmail and terrorism.\" Yet just a few hours later, as part of an agreement with Prigozhin, it's revealed that all criminal charges against the Wagner leader are being dropped.\n\nSo much for \"grievous crime\".\n\nThe Kremlin leader's mixed messages have been raising eyebrows here and changing perceptions of President Putin.\n\n\"He definitely looks weaker,\" says Konstantin Remchukov, owner and editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which is privately owned and one of Russia's main national dailies.\n\n\"You can't make a public statement declaring people are criminals and then, on the same day, at the end of the day, let your press secretary disagree with you and say 'No, those people haven't broken the criminal code.'\"\n\nIn a post on social media, Mr Nechaev argues: \"The law has lost all power. Even grievous crimes won't be punished due to political expediency. In the morning, you might be declared a traitor. In the evening, you can be forgiven and the criminal case against you dropped.\n\n\"The country is so clearly on the threshold of big change.\"\n\nBig change? Bold prediction. But if change is coming, might the Wagner rebellion be the trigger? A deal may have been done and the mutiny called off. But the fact the uprising happened on Mr Putin's watch is embarrassing for the president, who is also commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces.\n\nAnd keep in mind: Mr Putin's current presidential term runs out next year.\n\n\"All elite groups will now begin to think about the 2024 presidential election,\" predicts Mr Remchukov. \"They will ask themselves whether they should rely on Vladimir Putin, as they have been doing until this military coup.\n\n\"Or should they think about someone new, who is capable of dealing with problems in a more contemporary manner?\"\n\n\"Someone new\" for the presidency is not something you normally hear the Russian elite discussing openly. That doesn't mean a change of guard in the Kremlin is imminent. If there's one thing Vladimir Putin has perfected after 23 years in power, it is the art of political survival.\n\nBut his decision last year to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered widespread instability within his own country: everything from economic problems to drone attacks on Russian regions, from shelling of Russian border areas near Ukraine to cross-border incursions into Russia by saboteur groups, and now an armed uprising by Wagner.\n\nAll of this ratchets up the pressure on the Kremlin leader.\n\nDon't expect President Putin to concede that he got things wrong, though. Admitting mistakes and miscalculations is not his style.\n\nSo what will be the Russian president's next move? A clue, perhaps, came in the latest edition of Russian State TV's flagship Sunday night news show. Reporting on the Wagner uprising, the presenter played an extract from an old Putin interview.\n\n\"Are you able to forgive?\"\n\n\"Yes. But not everything.\"\n\n\"What can't you forgive?\"\n\nI wonder if Yevgeny Prigozhin was watching.", "Betsan Moses described news stories on the festival's Welsh language policy as \"clickbait\"\n\nA National Eisteddfod boss has described news coverage of its refusal to let a bilingual rapper perform at the festival as \"clickbait\".\n\nChief executive Betsan Moses said it was inaccurate to use the word \"ban\" to describe the festival's decision to turn down Sage Todz.\n\nTodz was told he could not perform at the festival this year because of its Welsh-language only policy.\n\nThe festival's rules state all performances must be in Welsh.\n\nMs Moses told BBC Radio Cymru's Bore Sul programme that \"it is the responsibility of journalists to check their wording\".\n\nShe said: \"I feel, at times, that journalism has turned into clickbait and that we have lost sight of the truth as it doesn't sell so well, and the word ban sounds better than 'there is a discussion or a decision that he will not take part'.\"\n\nThe National Eisteddfod's rules state that all compositions and competing must be in Welsh \"unless specified to the contrary\".\n\nIt said several options had been offered to Todz, including a commission to create new songs in Welsh, something the rapper refused.\n\nHe said later that his songs were \"finished products, not subject to change\".\n\nMs Moses said that she and chairman of the National Eisteddfod management board, Ashok Ahir, had received \"personal, unfair and inappropriate messages\" following news reports about its decision.\n\n\"I've told staff, take a step back. We have to protect our artists, be clear about the welcome to the Eisteddfod, but also be true to our language rule,\" she said.\n\nSage Todz posted on social media to confirm he would not be performing at the festival this year\n\nEarlier this week ,singers Izzy Morgana Rabey and Eadyth Crawford said they would not perform at the Eisteddfod pavilion gig this year unless the language policy for \"invited artists\" changed.\n\nWelsh government minister for economy, Vaughan Gething, called on the National Eisteddfod to reconsider the language rule, adding including an artist like Todz in the Eisteddfod would bring the Welsh language to a wider audience.\n\nBut Ms Moses claimed Mr Gething was responding to the concept of a ban, and \"there never was a ban\".\n\n\"It is necessary to ensure that the evidence is there before the story begins,\" she said.\n\n\"That headline was given and what happened afterwards is that one side attacked the other.\"\n\nVaughan Gething urged the Eisteddfod to rethink its rules\n\nDefending the language rule, she said: \"It sounds like something negative, but it is one week in a year where someone can hear Welsh.\n\n\"We have had lovely emails from learners saying that the rule is important to [them] - it means that we can immerse ourselves in the language and see where we are on the journey.\"\n\nShe said that artists' decisions \"must be respected\", but added: \"We must also respect the rule and that the Eisteddfod is for promoting the Welsh language and giving people the opportunity to be immersed in the Welsh language.\"\n\nMs Moses also said the Eisteddfod was a \"mirror of Wales\", and that the festival organisers want the event to show \"that this is contemporary Wales\".\n\nThe full interview can be heard on Radio Cymru's Bore Sul program and on BBC Sounds", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Are you in a parallel universe on economy and NHS? - PM asked\n\nThe UK Prime Minister has urged homeowners and borrowers to \"hold their nerve\" over rising interest rates aimed at bringing down stubborn inflation.\n\nRishi Sunak told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: \"I want people to be reassured that we've got to hold our nerve, stick to the plan and we will get through this.\"\n\nThis week the Bank of England raised interest rates to a 15-year high of 5%.\n\nMillions of people are facing higher mortgage repayments following the rise.\n\nMeanwhile, those who rent could face higher payments or the prospect of squeezed landlords selling their property, according to the National Residential Landlords Association.\n\nMr Sunak continued to back the Bank of England despite some Conservatives saying it has not done enough to bring inflation back to its 2% target.\n\nInflation - which measures the rate at which prices are rising - remained at 8.7% in May despite the Bank raising interest rates 13 times since December 2021.\n\n\"I can tell you as prime minister, the Bank of England is doing the right thing,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC. \"The Bank of England has my total support. Inflation is the enemy.\"\n\nHe said: \"People need help, not a prime minister instructing them to hold their nerve.\n\n\"Struggling homeowners will be rightly furious after watching an out of touch prime minister who has no idea of the pain caused by rising mortgage rates.\"\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the end of the year.\n\nBut former Treasury Minister Andrea Leadsom accused the Bank of doing \"too little, too late\".\n\nWhile Karen Ward, a member of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's economic advisory council, said the Bank had \"been too hesitant\" in its interest rate rises so far and called on it to \"create a recession\" to bring inflation under control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We've got to hold our nerve and stick to plan on finances, says Sunak\n\nMr Sunak said: \"I've never said that it's not challenging. I've never said that this isn't going to be a difficult time to get through. But what I want to give people the reassurance and confidence is, that we've got a plan, the plan will work and we will get through this.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, banks and building societies have been withdrawing mortgage deals in anticipation of higher interest rates.\n\nThe average two-year fixed residential mortgage is now 6.19% while the five-year rate is 5.82%. In June last year, those rates were closer to 3%.\n\nLast week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met with UK banks who have agreed that borrowers will be able to make a temporary change to their mortgage terms.\n\nThe voluntary changes allow homeowners to just pay the interest on their mortgages and Mr Hunt said this would not affect borrowers' credit scores.\n\nLabour has called for the agreements to be mandatory and rolled out across the banking sector. Otherwise, according to Labour's housing secretary Lisa Nandy, an estimated two million people \"will not experience the benefits\".\n\nThe government must \"not just talk a good game,\" Ms Nandy told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,\"but make sure that it happens\".\n\nElsewhere Labour has called on banks to pass on interest rate rises to savers in order to reduce inflation.\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for a targeted Mortgage Protection Fund, paying grants of up to £300 a month to homeowners on the lowest incomes and those suffering from the sharpest rises in rates.", "Stroke damage can be limited or avoided with the right treatment\n\nPeople in the UK are less likely to survive treatable conditions, such as breast cancer and stroke, than those in other rich nations, a study has found.\n\nThe review, by the King's Fund think tank, said the problem may be directly linked to the performance of the NHS.\n\nIt said below-average spending on the UK health service led to fewer staff and equipment than systems elsewhere.\n\nBut the study showed the NHS was very efficient within its budget, with less cash spent on admin than other nations.\n\nThe government says the NHS is one of the most efficiently run healthcare systems, and that investment is happening to further improve services.\n\nAhead of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS next month, the think tank compared the UK's health service with the performance of 18 other health systems, including those in Europe as well as Japan, the US and Australia.\n\nBut the think tank also found the UK had low levels of people avoiding medical care due to cost fears - just one in 10 of those questioned maintain there are major difficulties accessing NHS treatment.\n\nThe NHS also had the sixth-lowest spend on administration, with an outlay of less than 2% of the budget.\n\nThe review noted waiting lists for routine treatments, such as knee and hip replacements, were rising in many countries - with waiting times in the NHS around average.\n\nFor these reasons, it concluded the UK health service was neither a \"leader nor a laggard\".\n\nBut report author Siva Anandaciva said it was clear the the NHS had \"sadly seen better days\".\n\n\"While the UK stands out in removing most financial barriers to accessing healthcare and the NHS is run relatively efficiently, it trails behind its international cousins on some key markers of a good healthcare system.\n\n\"The pressures of the pandemic on our health service compounded the consequences of more than a decade of squeezed investment,\" he said\n\n\"This leaves the NHS delivering performance that is middling, at best, and the UK must do much more to reduce the number of people dying early from diseases such as heart disease and cancer.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Anandaciva said the findings were not an argument for moving to a different funding model, adding there was little evidence any one particular approach to health funding was inherently better than another.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"This report recognises the NHS is one of the most efficiently run healthcare systems and we are investing up to £14.1 billion to improve services and cut waiting lists, one of the government's top five priorities.\"\n\nHe said this was paying for new community diagnostic centres, while the number of staff working in the NHS was increasing.\n\nThe government is due to publish a workforce plan soon, which is expected to set out a big increase in training places for doctors and nurses.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "I've never said this won't be difficult - Sunak\n\nLaura tells the PM how the show’s production team is inundated with emails from viewers who say they can’t afford their rent and are struggling to pay the bills. For a fourth time, she asks if he’ll admit putting up interest rates will hurt people financially. He says he fully supports the Bank’s decisions to raise rates, and points out the UK is not alone in facing this challenge, with the US, Australia, Europe and elsewhere also pushing rates up. He says: \"I’ve never said that this isn't going to be a difficult time to get through. “But what I want to give people the reassurance and confidence is, that we’ve got a plan, the plan will work and we will get through this.” Laura tells the PM he sounds like he’s reading a script - but he says that’s important context for people to understand why rates are going up.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Red Button, the BBC Sport website and app, with live text commentary of selected matches online\n\nCarlos Alcaraz will face Alex de Minaur in the Queen's final for the chance to win a first grass title and return to world number one before Wimbledon.\n\nA win at the London tournament would lift Alcaraz above Novak Djokovic in the rankings and make him top seed for Wimbledon, which starts on 3 July.\n\n\"At the beginning of the week I didn't know that a good result would put me number one but in the press conference yesterday they told me and I thought 'oh my god - it's in my mind, I'm going to go for it',\" Alcaraz said after his win over Korda.\n\nLifting the Queen's trophy would be quite an achievement for someone playing only their third tournament on grass, with this the Spaniard's first final on the surface.\n\n\"I'm getting better, feeling better every match and right now I feel like I've played for 10 years on grass,\" Alcaraz said.\n\n\"I didn't expect to adapt my movement and my game so fast on grass and I'm really happy with that.\"\n\nSince losing the opening set in the first round, Alcaraz has looked slick at the tournament and broke Korda's serve twice in the opening set on Saturday, making just one unforced error in the set to take a dominant lead.\n\nHe went an early break ahead in the second and proceeded to curry favour with the London crowd when he hit three outstanding returns over 90mph to break Korda for a second time and go on to serve out the match.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n'One more to go' for in-form De Minaur\n\nSunday's final will be a first at this tournament for both players but De Minaur boasts more grass experience than his Spanish counterpart.\n\nHaving won at Eastbourne in 2021, De Minaur has proved this week his quick feet and efficient style of play are a good match for the surface.\n\nThe 24-year-old becomes the first Australian to reach the final of Queen's since 2006 when Lleyton Hewitt won the title after defeating American James Blake in straight sets.\n\n\"I'm having an amazing week, let's just hope I can do just one better tomorrow,\" De Minaur said.\n\n\"I love being here, love playing on this court in front of this amazing crowd.\n\n\"It's a pretty special tournament, today was my best match so far. So, happy days - one to go. It would be pretty nice [to win], I'll do my best.\"\n\nDe Minaur immediately broke Rune and served efficiently to take the opening set before the world number six, who has won his first matches on grass at this tournament, saved three break points in the eighth game of the second set on his way to an important hold.\n\nBut De Minaur was methodical on serve and bided his time before a dominant tie-break display secured his place in the final and sparked a roar of emotion from the otherwise restrained Australian.\n\nDe Minaur has never gone further than the fourth round at Wimbledon but has been in fine form at the warm-up tournament, with his semi-final win over a player ranked 12 places above him evidence of that.\n\nKazakhstan's Alexander Bublik will take on Russian third seed Andrey Rublev in the final of the Halle Open in Germany after shocking home favourite and French Open semi-finalist Alexander Zverev 6-3 7-5.\n\nThe 26-year-old's run to the final will lift him 15 spots to number 33 in the world rankings before Wimbledon as he aims for a first title on grass.\n\nWorld number seven Rublev, who reached the final in Halle in 2021 but was beaten by Frenchman Ugo Humbert, comfortably beat eighth seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 6-4 in his semi-final on Saturday after the Spaniard had knocked out top seed Daniil Medvedev on Friday.\n\nBublik, who won his only tour-level trophy in Montpellier in 2022, has found form on grass and advanced to the last four when quarter-final opponent Jannik Sinner of Italy retired injured in their second set.\n• None How will Princess Georgiana cope Down Under?\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car? Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads", "As Wagner fighters left the military headquarters in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, locals gathered to show their support to the mercenaries.\n\nFootage shows people cheering, applauding and saying goodbye to the troops, with some fighters firing into the sky as they left.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said settling down was more complicated than she expected\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said readjusting to life in the UK after six years in an Iranian jail had been slower than she had expected.\n\nThe British-Iranian national said protests and civil unrest in Iran since her release had kept her story \"fresh on a daily basis\".\n\n\"I resonated very much with what they have gone through,\" she said.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Iran in 2016 on spying charges, which she denied.\n\nShe was released in March 2022 and returned to the UK following a sustained campaign.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe made the comments on Friday at Glastonbury Festival, where she was giving a talk about Iranian women's rights.\n\nAsked what it has been like readjusting to life in the UK, she said: \"A lot slower than what I thought it would be.\n\n\"Just because early on when I was released, the uprising in Iran happened... since then I went through stories of many other people who were arrested, and then their stories came out.\"\n\nShe discussed the impact of seeing unrest which centred on the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September while in police custody for wearing her hijab too loosely.\n\n\"My story was all of a sudden so fresh on a daily basis and I couldn't get myself out of it - it was very hard,\" she told the audience.\n\n\"So I think settling down was a lot more complicated and difficult than what I was expecting because of what is happening.\n\n\"But, you know, I can't complain. I'm free and I'm out, whereas many of my friends are still in prison.\"\n\nThe British-Iranian national was part of a panel discussion at Glastonbury Festival\n\nDuring the talk, she said the first names of the friends she was still campaigning to free: Nilufar, Sepideh, Mahvash, Fariba, Morad, Siamak, Emaad and Nargess.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from West Hampstead in London, said she felt the continued unrest in Iran was no longer getting the attention it deserved.\n\n\"I think when this whole uprising happened back in September 2022, there was a lot of momentum, but then, of course, the world moves on,\" she said.\n\nHer husband Richard Ratcliffe also commented on a damning report by the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Foreign Office's handling of hostage diplomacy.\n\nIt highlighted examples of \"ministerial clumsiness\" and \"hurtful comments\" in its communication with families.\n\nMr Ratcliffe described it as an important report.\n\n\"At the moment, cases like Nazanin's are reasonably rare... but they're growing, and that growth is something that the government is not really dealing with,\" he said.\n\n\"The head-in-the-sand 'let's hope we keep this at a low level' [approach] and manage it like you would with a really rare illness - it doesn't work.\n\n\"There are a number of countries who are taking hostages, there aren't many that make the media, there aren't many that the government will acknowledge as hostages or even acknowledge as arbitrarily detained.\n\n\"We'll await to see whether the government says 'yes, hands up, we need to get better' or whether what we get is a 'we'll carry on what we're currently doing but we'll tweak around the edges'.\n\n\"I've had both in my time... so let's see what comes.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"The best interests of British national detainees is at the heart of our consular work and we support and work with their families wherever we can.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Elton fans (L-R): Ben Monk from Surrey, Elle Clements from Somerset and Alejandro Torres from Bogota, Colombia\n\nEager Elton John fans have already staked their claim to front row spots for the star's Glastonbury headline set on Sunday night.\n\nFestival-goers gathered at the barriers from 04:00 BST, with sandwiches and snacks to keep them going before the Rocketman walks on stage at 21:00.\n\n\"I just had to be here. It's really important,\" said Greg Rathbone, who came from Coventry dressed as Elton.\n\nThe show will be the last UK date of the star's long-running farewell tour.\n\nEarlier this week, he told Radio 1's Clara Amfo it \"couldn't be a more perfect ending\" to his touring career.\n\n\"I'm starting with a song I haven't played for about 10 years, so we'll see how it goes,\" he said.\n\n\"I've got the set list down, I've got rehearsal dates booked for the guest artists, so we just have to hope the weather will still be nice.\"\n\nMark Rathbone was among the first people to reserve a place for Elton's show\n\nWearing a replica of Elton's iconic silver sequinned baseball jumpsuit, Rathbone said he thought Sunday's show would \"get really emotional.\"\n\n\"It's the end of a long story for him.\"\n\nAlejandro Torres travelled 9,000 kilometres from Bogota, Colombia, just to see the star in action.\n\n\"I knew I had to be here,\" he told BBC News. \"I want to hear Benny and the Jets, Candle In The Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Songs I've been hearing since I was a little kid but, like, in my face!\"\n\n\"I just want a bit of Glastonbury magic, \" said Ben Monk, who \"ran out of the tent\" at the crack of dawn to reserve his spot.\n\n\"I've heard he's going to bring out some special guests. We've heard it'll be Britney [Spears], we've heard it'll be Eminem.\n\n\"But it's not about them, it's about him. It's going to be good.\"\n\nElle Clements also grabbed a space in the front row but confessed she'd managed to have a lie-in, sending her boyfriend as a place-saver.\n\n\"I got to do my make-up. My only job was to bring the breakfast, bring the coffee,\" she laughed.\n\nThe star is reaching the end of his five-year long farewell tour\n\nWith the temperature in Pilton due to reach 26 degrees, many of the fans worried about their ability to last the course.\n\n\"I've had five hours sleep in three days, and I wondered if I was going to be able to do this,\" confessed Rathbone.\n\n\"But now that it's getting nearer, I'm feeling better and better. I'm really excited, Adrenalin's definitely going to get me through.\"\n\nBefore Elton's historic set, the fans will be treated to performances from Sophie Ellis Bextor, Cat Stevens, Blondie and Lil Nas X.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage opened at 11:00 BST with the Bristol Reggae Orchestra and Windrush Choir, marking the 75th anniversary of Windrush and the Black British contribution to the UK.\n\nWindrush Choir lead Gena Rose told BBC West it was an \"amazing opportunity\" for the community group.\n\n\"Music is such a wonderful, powerful way to honour the Windrush story and the Windrush generation,\" she said.\n\n\"Last year I was at the festival and seeing Diana Ross and other amazing artists, I said to myself it would be so amazing to be there and wondered what it would be like to be on stage and look out at the audience. Now I will know.\"\n\nSir Elton John's set will be broadcast on BBC television, radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Catch up with all the BBC's Glastonbury coverage here.", "The Duchess of York is recuperating with family after having a single mastectomy following a diagnosis for breast cancer.\n\nSarah Ferguson, 63, who was formerly married to Prince Andrew, was given the news after a routine mammogram screening.\n\nHer spokesman said: \"She was advised she needed to undergo surgery which has taken place successfully.\"\n\nHer doctors have told her that the prognosis is good, he added.\n\nThe spokesman said she was \"receiving the best medical care and... is now recuperating with her family\".\n\nShe underwent the procedure earlier this week at King Edward VII hospital, a private clinic in central London which previously treated the late Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.\n\nThe duchess is said to have returned home to Windsor this weekend, where she is now recovering.\n\nShe revealed details of the procedure in an interview for her new podcast, Tea Talk, recorded ahead of the operation.\n\nSarah discussed her recent diagnosis, urging others to take advantage of cancer screening programmes.\n\n\"I want every single person that is listening to this podcast to go and get checked,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm taking this as a real gift to me to change my life, to nurture myself,\" said the duchess, adding she would \"stop trying to fix everyone else\" and start \"taking myself seriously\".\n\n\"Now is my chance,\" she said. \"This extraordinary position I'm in right now - it means there's no choice.\n\n\"I can't make another excuse. I have to go through this operation and I have to be well and strong. And therefore no choice is the best choice.\"\n\nIn a statement, her spokesman expressed the duchess's \"immense gratitude to all the medical staff who have supported her in recent days\".\n\nShe had been \"symptom free\" before the screening and the statement said she \"believes her experience underlines the importance of regular screening\".\n\nThe duchess and Prince Andrew were divorced in 1996 after 10 years of marriage, but remain close.\n\nThey continue to live together at Royal Lodge, a property owned by the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park.\n\nThey have two daughters - Princess Beatrice, 34, and Princess Eugenie, 33 - and three grandchildren.\n\nThe duchess has had something of a revitalised career, reinventing herself as a successful author and now podcast host, and cheerfully riding out such disappointments as not being invited to the Coronation.\n\nHer style has become relaxed and approachable, chatting to fans recently at the London Book Fair and posing for selfies.\n\nThe Tea Talks podcast, which has been running for several weeks, is an often self-deprecating look at life, with a recent episode talking about her friendship with Princess Diana, and the loneliness and sense of being ostracised that they both felt.\n\nShe said Diana had told her: \"I know what it's like to be left in the corner of a room.\"\n\nAnd the duchess said in the podcast: \"I know that feeling too, when people don't wish to talk to you because 'Bad Fergie' sells papers. They've already judged you and you're left alone.\"\n\nThe Duchess and Duke of York - pictured in 2019 - are no longer married but remain close\n\nThe majority of women whose breast cancer is detected early now beat the disease because of progress in treatments, analysis by the British Medical Journal found earlier this year.\n\nSurgery cures most breast cancers, while chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy can reduce the long-term risk of dying in cases where some disease remains.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Stockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nStockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.\n\nBright, driven, born into wealth, his dream was to be the first person to reach Mars.\n\nWhen he realised that was unlikely to happen in his lifetime, he turned his attentions to the sea.\n\n\"I wanted to be Captain Kirk and in our lifetime, the final frontier is the ocean,\" he told a journalist in 2017.\n\nThe ocean promised adventure, adrenaline and mystery. He also believed it promised profits - if he could make a success of the submersible he helped design, which he directed his company OceanGate to build.\n\nHe had a maverick spirit that seemed to draw people in, earning him the admiration of his employees, passengers and investors.\n\n\"His passion was amazing and I bought into it,\" said Aaron Newman, who travelled on Mr Rush's Titan sub and eventually became an OceanGate investor.\n\nBut Mr Rush's soaring ambition also drew scrutiny from industry experts who warned he was cutting corners, putting innovation ahead of safety and risking potentially catastrophic results.\n\nIt wasn't something he was willing to accept.\n\nLast week, he and four other people on board the Titan lost their lives when it imploded.\n\n\"You're remembered for the rules you break,\" Mr Rush once said, quoting US general Douglas MacArthur.\n\n\"I've broken some rules,\" he said about the Titan. \"I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.\"\n\nStockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nHe was sent to a prestigious boarding school, the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984.\n\nAt 19, he became the youngest pilot in the world to qualify for jet transport rating, the highest pilot rating obtainable. He worked on F-15s and anti-satellite missile programmes, with the hope of eventually joining the US space programme and being an astronaut.\n\nBut eventually that ambition lost its appeal, as a trip to the Red Planet seemed increasingly out of reach.\n\n\"If someone would tell me what the commercial or military reason to go to Mars is, I would believe it's going to happen,\" Mr Rush told Fast Company magazine. \"It's just a dream.\"\n\nSo he shifted his gaze downward and in 2009 founded OceanGate, a private company that offered customers - Mr Rush preferred the term \"adventurers\" - a chance to experience deep sea travel, including to the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nJessica Parker explores how the search for the Titan submersible unfolded and its devastating outcome.\n\nThe company, based in Everett in Washington state, was small and tight-knit. Rush would chair all-staff meetings at its headquarters, while his wife Wendy - another member of Princeton's class of 1984 - was his director of communications.\n\nA junior employee who worked at OceanGate from 2017 to 2018, and asked not to be identified, said the company headquarters felt homey and lived-in, with wiring and equipment seemingly everywhere. \"It was very free-flowing.\"\n\n\"He was just really passionate about what he was doing and very good at instilling that passion into everybody else that worked there,\" the employee told the BBC.\n\nAt one staff meeting, Mr Rush brought virtual reality goggles for everyone to take a digital underwater tour. Mr Rush told them that this is what they were aiming for - to allow more people to have this view. \"This is the world I want,\" he told them.\n\nMr Rush was \"not a leader from the back, telling people what to do - he led from the front\", said Mr Newman, the investor.\n\nMr Newman went on the Titan with Mr Rush to see the wreck of the Titanic in the summer of 2021.\n\nThe first time they met, Mr Rush \"spent hours\" talking with him about the potential of exploring the bottom of the ocean.\n\nMr Rush \"followed his own path\", Mr Newman said.\n\nMr Newman's recollection of OceanGate was of a team that looked out for each other.\n\nAnd Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was \"up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things\", he said.\n\nMr Newman was so taken by Mr Rush that he decided to invest in OceanGate. \"You know, I didn't know if I'd ever see any return or not. That was not the point,\" he said.\n\n\"The point was to be part of something that's experimental and is breaking new ground, and pushing forward our technology, and how the world works, and going places and doing amazing things, that's what this is about.\"\n\nMr Newman described himself as a minor investor. As a private company, OceanGate is not obliged to publish all financial records. US financial records from January 2020 show that Mr Rush and his fellow directors sold a stake in the company worth $18m, thought to have been used to fund the development of Titan.\n\nTo recoup the costs, OceanGate's sub, \"well-lit and comfortable,\" the company said, came with a price tag of $250,000 (£195,600) for an underwater trip.\n\nMr Rush's clients were uber-rich thrill seekers, willing to part with that sum for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.\n\nLas Vegas businessman Jay Bloom had been messaging Mr Rush about joining a dive, before finally turning down a seat for himself and his son on the fatal excursion.\n\nHe said the chance to see the wreck up close would have been a \"bucket-list\" experience. It was about being able to say \"you did something very few people have the opportunity to do\", he said.\n\nDespite the large sums of money involved, OceanGate equipment sometimes had a home-made feel.\n\nThe former junior employee told the BBC he was surprised to find that Titan's electrical design included off-the-shelf development boards, as opposed to using a custom, in-house design like other engineering companies.\n\nDavid Pogue, a CBS News journalist who joined Mr Rush on a trip to the Titanic wreck in 2021, said the chief executive drove the Titan with a game controller and used \"rusty lead pipes from the construction industry as ballast\".\n\nYet Mr Rush assured Mr Pogue that only thing that really mattered was the vessel's hull, built from an unusual and largely untested material for a deep sea vessel: carbon fibre, with titanium end plates.\n\nMr Rush knew carbon fibre was used successfully in yachts and aviation, and believed it would allow for his submersible to made more cheaply than industry-standard steels ones.\n\n\"There's a rule you don't do that,\" said Mr Rush in 2021. \"Well, I did.\"\n\nThe tube shape of the Titan was also unusual. The hull of a deep-diving sub is usually spherical, which means it receives an equal amount of pressure at every point, but the Titan had a cylinder-shaped cabin. OceanGate gave it sensors to analyse the effects of changing pressure as it descended.\n\nThe glass viewport, from which passengers could see out, was only certified down to 1,300m, far short of the depths of the ocean floor where the Titantic wreck lay.\n\nRob McCallum, an explorer who acted as a consultant for OceanGate, became concerned when Mr Rush decided against getting official certification for the submersible.\n\nSubs can be certified or \"classed\" by marine organisations, like the American Bureau of Shipping or Lloyd's Register, meaning the vehicle must meet certain standards on things like stability, strength, safety and performance. But this process is not mandatory.\n\nIn emails to Mr Rush in March 2018, seen by BBC News, Mr McCallum said: \"You are wanting to use a prototype un-classed technology in a very hostile place. As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.\n\n\"4,000m down in the mid-Atlantic is not the kind of place you can cut corners.\"\n\nMr Rush, apparently indignant, responded that he was \"tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation\".\n\nSafety was \"about culture, not paperwork\", he said. He talked of needing \"sensible design, extensive testing, and informed consent of the participants\", but said a piece of paper did not guarantee the safety of a sub.\n\nWhile he admitted deviating from some guidelines, such as \"overly conservative\" viewport limits, he argued the Titan's safety systems were \"way beyond\" anything else in use.\n\nHe wrote: \"I know that our engineering focused, innovative approach (as opposed to an existing standards compliance-focused design process) flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation.\"\n\nThe tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nBut Mr McCallum was not the only person linked to the company to speak out about safety.\n\nJust a few months earlier, former OceanGate employee David Lochridge raised concerns in an inspection report which identified \"numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns\", including how the hull had been tested.\n\nAlso in 2018, the Marine Technology Society sent a letter to OceanGate accusing it of making misleading claims about its design exceeding established industry safety standards, and warned that OceanGate's \"experimental\" approach could result in \"negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)\".\n\nIn a blog post in 2019, Mr Rush insisted that the majority of marine accidents were down to operator error. He said OceanGate took safety requirements very seriously, but that keeping an outside body informed on every modification before it was tested in a real-word setting was \"anathema to rapid innovation\".\n\nThe former employee told the BBC that while he had worked at OceanGate, he had felt confident in Mr Rush's commitment to safety.\n\n\"Rush was very level-headed, he knew what needed to be done,\" he said. \"He went on every sub dive, he was the pilot for every single one, and that's because he trusted the safety of the sub.\"\n\nMr Newman told the BBC the sub might not have been certified, but it was tested extensively. Mr Rush \"introduced new ideas and new pieces that are not conventional, and some people don't like that\", he said.\n\n\"The idea that this is something that's unique and Stockton did something wrong is disingenuous,\" he said.\n\nMr Rush himself told CBS reporter Mr Pogue last year that \"if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed\".\n\n\"Don't get in your car. Don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules,\" he said.\n\nThe question is why despite other successful dives, the sub's final trip ended in tragedy, Mr Newman said.\n\n\"Clearly, the pressure hull gave way, right? And the question is, why would that give way?\"\n\nGuillermo Söhnlein, a co-founder of OceanGate and Rush's former business partner, said he would not have taken a different approach himself.\n\n\"The human submersible community globally is very small, and we all know each other, and I think generally we all respect each other's opinions.\n\n\"The bottom line is that everyone's got different opinions on how subs should be designed,\" said Mr Söhnlein.\n\nAfter his son also raised fears about the sub, Jay Bloom declined Mr Rush's invitation.\n\n\"I am sure he really believed what he was saying,\" Mr Bloom said. \"But he was very wrong.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: All sides should be responsible and protect civilians - UK PM\n\nRishi Sunak has urged all sides in Russia to \"be responsible and to protect civilians\", as mercenaries from the Wagner group seize military sites from Russia and Vladimir Putin vows to \"punish\" those involved in the move against his government.\n\nIn the UK, a meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra, was chaired by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Saturday afternoon.\n\nWe don't get to hear much about what is said in those meetings, but the government says Mr Cleverly received all the latest information and particular attention was paid to the situation of British nationals still in Russia.\n\nMr Sunak has also spoken to US President Biden, French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz about the situation.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Sunak suggested the government has been watching the internal threats to Vladimir Putin for some time.\n\nHe told me: \"We have been monitoring for a while the potentially destabilising impacts of Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.\"\n\nAnd he said the situation was \"evolving on the ground as we speak\".\n\nBut he urged calm on all sides, saying: \"The most important thing I'd say is for all parties to be responsible and to protect civilians\", a clear hint that the UK is concerned about how conflict inside Russia's borders could spiral, when for months the focus has naturally been on fighting in Ukraine.\n\nThe prime minister did not repeat a more candid assessment from the Ministry of Defence, which said on its official Twitter feed that \"this represents the most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak did not deny that was the case.\n\nWith so much unclear, it is evident that Number 10 does not yet want to give an official verdict on what is happening.\n\nYet it is clear from the Ministry of Defence's comments that the government sees the action taking place as a potential game changer.\n\nThe situation is volatile and no-one in Westminster would predict with any certainty what will happen next.\n\nIt is not clear exactly what Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's motives are.\n\nNor is it certain how many resources and men Wagner really has at their disposal.\n\nBut one of the questions being asked in Westminster this afternoon is how Ukraine can make the most of what seems like disarray inside Russia to make progress in what is now a long-running conflict.\n\nOur politicians, like the rest of us, are watching events and wondering what on earth is going on, and unable to be sure what will happen next. But they are watching with eager attention.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has had such enormous implications for politicians in the UK, because it has indirectly affected every family, every firm, and every household in the country by driving up the cost of energy.\n\nThat's one of the biggest factors in high inflation the prime minister describes as the \"number one enemy\".\n\nWe talk to the prime minister about that, his plans for the NHS and Boris Johnson in an exclusive interview you can watch on Sunday morning.\n\nBut as events unfold in Russia, remember that the actions of one man, Vladimir Putin, upended so much here.\n\nMoscow may be nearly 2,000 miles away, but what happens in the next few days to stability in Russia matters hugely to our politicians in Westminster, and to us all.", "Baroness McDonagh played a major role behind the scenes during Labour's success in the late 90s and early 2000s\n\nBaroness Margaret McDonagh, the first female general secretary of the Labour Party, has died aged 61.\n\nShe was a key figure in the party under Sir Tony Blair's leadership, and played a central role in both the 1997 and 2001 general election victories.\n\nShe was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2021.\n\nSenior Labour figures have paid tribute, including Sir Keir Starmer, who said she was \"absolutely essential\" in returning the party to power.\n\nHe called her a \"tireless champion for women\" who \"may not have been as famous as some of the politicians she worked with but they wouldn't have got into power without her\".\n\nAs part of Tony Blair's inner circle during the New Labour era, she helped lead the party back into government and became its general secretary in 1998, playing a key role behind the scenes.\n\nSir Tony called her the \"most loyal friend anyone could wish for\" and said she was a \"vital element\" during Labour's success in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nShe went on to run the successful 2001 election campaign and was made a life peer in 2004.\n\nLord Mandelson, who was the party's campaign director during the1997 election, said she was a \"tour de force\" who ran Labour's headquarters \"with a rod of iron\".\n\nHe continued: \"Everyone was terrified, including me. I have never met anyone so resolute, so uncompromisingly honest and so direct.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Neil Kinnock said she was \"magnificent in every way\" and had shown courage in fighting her illness.\n\nHe added: \"She strove in the most practical ways for true equality for women throughout her life, she was a brilliant organizer for democracy and she had mixture of steel and charm which earned her loyalty from friends and admiration from foes.\"\n\nIn March, her sister Siobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, accused the NHS of abandoning people with glioblastoma, the brain condition Margaret was diagnosed with.\n\nIn an emotional Commons speech, she was critical of the lack of progress in how the cancer is treated, saying: \"There is no hope, no future, no trials, nothing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nAn investigation into the causes of the Titan submersible disaster has been opened by the US Coast Guard.\n\nChief investigator Cpt Jason Neubauer said its priority would be recovering debris, and precautions would be taken in case human remains are found.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, he also said the investigation would be able to recommend civil or criminal charges.\n\nThe Titan was on a dive to the Titanic wreck on 18 June when it imploded, killing all five people on board.\n\nCpt Neubauer told reporters in Boston that the US Coast Guard had convened its highest level of investigation.\n\nHe said it would would try to establish what caused the disaster, and make recommendations to prevent future tragedies. He added that it would be run jointly with Canadian, UK and French authorities.\n\nThe investigation is currently in its initial phase and efforts to recover the wreckage of the sub are ongoing. So far, five major pieces have been found 3,800m (12,467ft) below the surface in a large debris field near the bow of the Titanic.\n\nCpt Neubauer said investigators would be taking \"all precautions\" if they discover human remains.\n\nHe said the investigation could lead to tougher regulations and safety recommendations for submersibles, but could not confirm how long it would take to complete.\n\nOnce all evidence has been collected, Cpt Neubauer said investigators would likely hold a formal hearing to get witness testimony.\n\nHe added that interviews were already being conducted in the Canadian city of St John's, where the Titan's support vessel, the Polar Prince launched and towed the submersible into the North Atlantic Ocean.\n\nCanadian investigators boarded the support ship on Saturday as part of their own investigation into the disaster.\n\nUS Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger, who also spoke to reporters, was asked about the cost of the search and rescue operation but declined to answer.\n\nHe said it was not policy to charge for search and rescue and the service does not put a cost on human life or rescuing people in the \"dangerous environment\" of the ocean, adding \"we always answer the call\".\n\n\"We conduct disciplined operations with warranted risk to put our resources and lives at risk to save others. That's who we are.\"", "A man in his 40s has died at Glastonbury Festival following a \"medical incident\", police have said.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said they were called to part of the site known as the old railway line at 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe man died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services. His next of kin have been informed.\n\nThe death is not being treated as suspicious but officers are carrying out inquiries on behalf of the coroner.\n\nDeaths at the festival - which is attended by more than 200,000 people - are uncommon.\n\nIn 2019, a 60-year-old security guard working at the event was found dead in his tent. His death was not treated as suspicious.\n\nThe site has the fourth-largest population in the south-west of England - and covers an area roughly the size of 500 football pitches.", "Since getting Covid three years ago Iva Safrova spends much of her time at home, often in bed\n\nIva Safrova's existence is unrecognisable from the full and active life she led three years ago.\n\nBack in March 2020 she got Covid-19 when she was a health care worker on a renal ward at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales - and she never recovered.\n\n\"My life is ruined,\" said the 59-year old from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"No job, no social life. Cycling, travelling, walking - everything is gone.\"\n\nWith the Covid Inquiry under way with the aim of learning lessons from the past, it would be easy to assume the pandemic was behind us.\n\nBut with an estimated 2% of the population in Wales reporting they still have Covid symptoms a year after diagnosis, Covid-19 is far from over for many.\n\nIva became unwell right at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"I think I caught Covid from the first patient on our ward,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gareth Evans says he would like to see dedicated health facilities for people with long Covid in Wales\n\nShe went to bed with a temperature, exhaustion and a cough, assuming she would feel better within a couple of weeks at most.\n\nBut weeks turned into months, with simple tasks leaving her feeling like a \"walking zombie\".\n\n\"I was crying a lot and I didn't know what to do. The doctor told me to be patient,\" said Iva, who moved to the UK from the Czech Republic 14 years ago.\n\n\"You feel alone, you feel very alone, [with] nobody [to] help you.\"\n\nShe was prescribed antibiotics which did not help.\n\nEventually with no progress in her recovery, numerous tests all coming back clear and barely able to leave the house she was dismissed from her job because of long-term ill health.\n\nAt rock bottom she came across Long Covid Support - back then it was a Facebook group, today it is a registered charity.\n\n\"The Facebook group helped me because I was thinking I was crazy,\" said Iva.\n\nIva likes to visit family in the Czech Republic but now has to use a wheelchair at the airport\n\n\"With the illness I'm crying every day and [a girl in the group] said 'I have the same'.\"\n\nThree years on she still spends much of her time in bed.\n\n\"You feel tired, tired, tired from in the morning... because I do little, sit down, do little, lie down,\" she said.\n\nIn a bid to get well, Iva has taken things in to her own hands and lost weight, drastically changed her diet and spent hundreds of pounds on supplements and alternative medicine - but nothing seems to work.\n\nShe said being prescribed antidepressants \"saved her life\" and she is due to start HRT (hormone replacement therapy).\n\nIva loves to swim but now finds it exhausting\n\nLooking back over the past three years, one of the biggest frustrations has been barely being able to see doctors face-to-face.\n\nAs time moves on she said she and others like her are being forgotten.\n\n\"I think people don't know long Covid exists - it's an invisible illness,\" she said.\n\n\"Covid is gone [from the news] and millions of people have long Covid.\"\n\nGareth Evans has struggled to regain his fitness after getting Covid more than three years ago\n\nGareth Evans, 45, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, said he felt lucky compared with others with long Covid as he has been able to return to work and regain some of his previous fitness.\n\nIn April 2020 he became unwell with ear pain, fever and fatigue. With no testing available and the absence of a cough he was told he did not have Covid.\n\nHe went to bed to rest but as time went on instead of getting better he found he was developing new symptoms.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital under observation and in June 2020 was told he was suffering from anxiety and depression.\n\nBrain fog meant Gareth had to list all his symptoms before speaking to his doctor\n\nDuring this time he too came across the Facebook group Long Covid Support .\n\n\"It was a great source of comfort to me in terms of sharing experiences with other people or getting that validation that I was actually sick,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen messages from people where as a result [of long Covid] they've lost their partners or their homes, they're trying to claim disability but because they can't prove that they're ill they have real difficulty trying to get that help.\"\n\nHe said for him one of the most challenging symptoms was insomnia.\n\nGareth at the top of Pen y Fan before getting Covid\n\n\"I was lying in the bed for hours on end. It was difficult because it was a condition no-one knew anything about, I wasn't sure if I was ever going to recover or if I was going to live or die.\n\n\"The mental toll it took on me was enormous,\" he said.\n\nBefore getting sick Gareth had been training for a triathlon and was at the peak of his fitness - but he found himself signed off work and barely able to leave the house.\n\nWith so many symptoms Gareth was referred to countless specialists.\n\n\"Looking back, I've gone back and counted the number of appointments that I've had - at the moment I've had 127 appointments and that's outside of the stays I've had in hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"In my view isn't an effective use of resources.\"\n\nHe wants to see big changes in the way Wales treats people with long Covid.\n\n\"I think we'd be better served with a specialist clinic here in Wales, similar to what they have in England,\" he said.\n\nHe wants somewhere where patients can \"access all the various tests to rule out certain life-threatening conditions and give you that peace of mind\".\n\nGareth is speaking out to raise awareness of long Covid\n\nHe also wants to see patients involved in the conversation about how best to treat those with the condition.\n\nThe Welsh government said it has increased funding for long Covid patients and supporting them remained a priority.\n\nAlthough there are no long Covid clinics in Wales, it said rehabilitation services could be accessed through GPs\n\nSince Gareth first got Covid the UK has seen three prime ministers and, until the Covid inquiry, the cost-of-living crisis and war in Ukraine has knocked Covid from the headlines.\n\n\"Covid was everywhere in the news when you turned on the TV but nowadays you just don't hear about it,\" said Gareth.\n\n\"For some people we are still in the middle of the pandemic because we are suffering, we still haven't got back to our old lives.\"\n\n\"I think people don't know long Covid exists - it's an invisible illness,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very worried, if I stay like that all my life will be hell, it's horrible, horrible.\"", "Watch as Elton John brings Glastonbury 2023 to a close on the Pyramid Stage - the final UK show of his farewell tour.\n\nLil Nas X, Blondie and Phoenix were among the stars to have performed on the final day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An ambulance helicopter was filmed above the fairground\n\nA rollercoaster accident at an amusement park in Sweden has killed one person and injured at least nine.\n\nThe ride at the Gröna Lund park in Stockholm came partly off the rails, witnesses said. The Jetline rollercoaster reaches a height of 30m (90ft) and a speed of 90km/h (55mph).\n\nThe park was evacuated after the accident and police and emergency services were called to the scene.\n\nThree of the nine injured people are understood to be severely wounded and are receiving treatment at a nearby hospital.\n\nThe accident took place just after 11:30 Swedish local time (9:30 GMT).\n\nFourteen people were on the ride when the front part of the rollercoaster separated from the vehicle, then stopped in the middle of the track and sent people crashing to the ground.\n\nJenny Lagerstedt, a journalist visiting the park with her family, told Swedish broadcaster SVT she was nearby, heard a metallic noise and saw the track shaking.\n\n\"My husband saw a rollercoaster car with people in it falling to the ground,\" she said, adding that her children were scared.\n\n\"Something like this should not happen at Gröna Lund, and yet it happened,\" Mr Eriksson said.\n\nHe added that the 140-year-old park would be closed for a week for police to carry out an investigation.\n\nThose who have already bought tickets for that period will have their money refunded.\n\n\"It is important for us to do everything we can to get to the bottom of this,\" Annika Troselius, a spokeswoman for Gröna Lund, told a news conference.\n\nParisa Liljestrand, Sweden's culture minister, said news of the accident was incomprehensible and expressed her condolences.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Titanic sub victim Suleman Dawood solves a Rubik's Cube in under 20 seconds\n\nTeenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, took his Rubik's Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record, his mother has told the BBC.\n\nThe 19-year-old applied to the Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.\n\nChristine Dawood and her daughter were on board the Polar Prince, the sub's support vessel, when word came through that communications with the Titan had been lost.\n\n\"I didn't comprehend at that moment what it meant - and then it just went downhill from there,\" she said.\n\nIn her first interview, Mrs Dawood said she had planned to go with her husband to view the wreck of the Titanic, but the trip was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,\" she said.\n\nAs well as Suleman and his father Shahzada Dawood, three other people died on board: Stockton Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of OceanGate which owned the Titan, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver and renowned explorer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Suleman did not go anywhere without his Rubik's Cube' - Christine Dawood\n\nSpeaking of her son, Mrs Dawood said Suleman loved the Rubik's Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds.\n\n\"He said, 'I'm going to solve the Rubik's Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic'.\"\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in the UK. Businessman Shahzada Dawood, who was British, was from one of Pakistan's richest families.\n\nThe family, including daughter Alina, 17, boarded the Polar Prince on Father's Day.\n\nMrs Dawood said they hugged and made jokes in the moments before her husband and son boarded the Titan submersible.\n\n\"I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,\" she said.\n\nMrs Dawood described her husband as infectiously curious about the world around him - the kind of person who made the family watch documentaries after dinner.\n\nJessica Parker explores how the search for the Titan submersible unfolded and its devastating outcome.\n\n\"He had this ability of childlike excitement,\" she said.\n\nMrs Dawood and her daughter stayed on board the Polar Prince as the search and rescue mission shifted from hopeful to desperate.\n\nSuleman Dawood wearing a Rubik's Cube costume in a photograph shared by his family\n\n\"I think I lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark,\" Mrs Dawood said.\n\nShe said that's when she sent a message to her family. \"I said: 'I'm preparing for the worst.' That's when I lost hope.\"\n\nAlina held out a bit longer, she said. \"She didn't lose hope until the call with Coast Guard. When they basically informed us that they found debris.\"\n\nThe family returned to St John's on Saturday, and on Sunday held a funeral prayer for Shahzada and Suleman. Mrs Dawood said she was touched that the Imam said a prayer for all five of the men killed.\n\nMrs Dawood said she and her daughter will try to learn to finish the Rubik's Cube in Suleman's honour, and she intends to continue her husband's work.\n\n\"He was involved in so many things, he helped so many people and I think I really want to continue that legacy and give him that platform... it's quite important for my daughter as well.\"\n\nMrs Dawood declined to discuss the ongoing investigations into the tragedy. But when asked how she and her daughter would find closure she said: \"Is there such a thing? I don't know.\"\n\n\"I miss them,\" she said, taking a deep breath. \"I really, really miss them.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Iain Hughes had been attempting a solo swim of the English Channel\n\nA firefighter has gone missing while on a charity swim across the English Channel, it has been confirmed.\n\nIain Hughes, from Dudley, started the solo challenge with a support boat on Tuesday from Dover before disappearing.\n\nMr Hughes, 42, remains missing despite a search involving military helicopters and navy and police boats.\n\nBased at Wednesbury fire station, he posted on social media two weeks ago that the swim had been delayed because of bad weather.\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Fire Service said: \"We are heartbroken to confirm that one of our crew managers, Iain Hughes, is missing after his inspiring attempt to swim the English Channel for charity.\"\n\nMr Hughes, a married father-of-two who has been with the fire service since the age of 19, currently works in its technical rescue unit.\n\n\"In spite of search efforts involving French and Belgian military helicopters, plus navy and police patrol boats, Iain's whereabouts remain unknown,\" the fire service statement continued.\n\n\"We are giving Iain's family all the support we can at this distressing time,\" he said.\n\nThe Channel crossing is 21 miles (34km) and can take swimmers anywhere between seven and 27 hours to complete.\n\nMr Hughes has been aiming to raise £21,000 for the British Heart Foundation, Midlands Air Ambulance and Fire Fighters' Charity.\n\nThe Gris-Nez operational surveillance and rescue centre (CROSS) was informed a swimmer had disappeared on Tuesday, off the Cap Gris-Nez.\n\nIt sent helicopters from the French and Belgian navies, as well as a French Navy patrol boat, to join the search.\n\nThe RNLI confirmed it had not been called on to assist.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CS&PF), which monitors swimmers in the channel, announced with \"deep regret\" Mr Hughes could not be found after a sea search.\n\nThe Channel Swimming Association said the swimmer was not involved with the organisation and it was therefore unable to comment, but said its \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the swimmer and his family.\n\nThe BBC has contacted HM Coastguard and Kent Police for comment.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As we approach the end of the programme, Alastair Campbell says there's a real danger that the UK will be reduced to to the third and fourth tier of international relations.\n\n\"I honestly believe this is one of the biggest acts of self harm we as a country have ever inflicted on ourselves,\" he says, adding that the next generation has a right to undo what their predecessors did.\n\nBen Habib, the former Brexit Party MEP, says the country has to leave the EU as one United Kingdom.\n\nThe Windsor Framework needs to be ditched and 1.8 million British citizens need to be brought back into the UK, he says.\n\nAsked what he would do with the border, he says the border is recognised in the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nHe accuses Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar of weaponising the border.\n\nHe says there is a border in the middle of the United Kingdom, which is an \"abomination to me\".", "The recreation of a British-Caribbean home is nostalgic\n\nIt has been 75 years since the first of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK - a landmark moment that altered the course of British history. But what does the day mean to them?\n\n\"Coming from the different islands, we have done a lot in this country - I say we have put the 'Great' in Britain,\" said Joan Harry, who came to the UK in 1960, aged 19.\n\nShe was one of thousands of people who made the move from the Caribbean between the late 1940s and early 1970s, known as the Windrush generation.\n\nI discussed the anniversary with her and some of her friends in a nostalgic recreation of a classic, mid-century British-Caribbean home, run by the Windrush Generation Legacy Association, tucked away in a Croydon shopping centre.\n\nFor Ms Harry, the anniversary is an opportunity to remind people of what her generation has accomplished in - and for - this country.\n\nJoan Harry reunited with her boyfriend in the UK, and married him here\n\n\"It means a lot - because it's about memory, and it reminds you of how Windrush came about,\" she said.\n\n\"We have worked hard to put this legacy forward - that is a mark that our children can look back and say, 'our forebears did that'.\"\n\nJune Grandison, meanwhile, tells me that many believed that their stay in the UK would only be brief.\n\n\"I came here in 1962,\" Ms Grandison recalled. \"I thought I was coming for five years, and then would go back home to practise as a nurse. But 60 years later, I'm still here!\"\n\nFor others, the day has also brought up a lot of memories of when they first arrived here.\n\nJoycelyn Styles, who arrived in 1962 aged 12, vividly remembered what a shock the climate was and says she has still not quite got used to it.\n\n\"It was cold and miserable then and it's cold and miserable now,\" she laughed, tongue in cheek.\n\nBut while there was a lot of light for this generation, there has also been shade.\n\nMs Grandison told me of one of her earliest experiences of discrimination in this country, which is still vivid in her mind.\n\n\"Before I did nursing, I applied for a job in the West End - not knowing anything about racism, because of course we came from the mother country,\" she said.\n\nJune Grandison vividly recalls her first experience of racism in the UK\n\n\"My [maiden] name was 'Brookes'. I applied for the job, I went for the interview, and the lady put me in a room and she never came back to me. I sat there for about six hours, and then the shop was closing, and I left.\n\n\"Because my name was 'Brookes', they thought when I applied that I was an English person.\"\n\nInequality has been pervasive for this generation - not just in those early years, but also in recent ones.\n\nIn the last five years, the name \"Windrush\" has become synonymous with injustice. The Windrush scandal affected thousands of people from former British colonies who moved to the UK before immigration laws changed in 1971.\n\nThe mock-Windrush home is tucked away in a shopping centre in Croydon, south London\n\nThey were given the permanent right to live and work in the UK, but not the documentation to prove this.\n\nThis meant they were later denied employment, housing and benefits to which they were entitled. Many were also deported.\n\nJohnny Samuels, from Coventry, came to the UK in 1964, aged eight.\n\nAfter an injury left him out of work in 2008, he was told he could not claim benefits.\n\nJohnny Samuels has \"mixed feelings\" about the day\n\nMr Samuels was also threatened with deportation, and detained three times while trying to return to the UK from trips abroad.\n\n\"To tell you the truth, I had a breakdown,\" he said. \"The pain is still there - even though I've received my passport, after more than 55 years.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office told BBC News that that it has \"paid or offered more than £75m in compensation\" to victims.\n\n\"We know there is more to do, and will work tirelessly to make sure such an injustice is never repeated,\" it added.\n\nFor Mr Samuels, the anniversary is tainted by his experience.\n\n\"I have very much mixed feelings, because for one, it took so many years for some recognition of some sort - it's not there yet - of what the Windrush generation did, and are still doing to date,\n\n\"And also of the negative things that we met, like [signs reading] 'No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks'. That is still hurting today.\"\n\nAre you part of the Windrush generation? Share your stories by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The debris of the Titan submersible that was found near the wreckage of the Titanic is consistent with a \"catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber\", according to Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard.\n\nThe announcement came after reports that debris had been found in the search for the missing submersible that was carrying five people.\n\n\"On behalf of the US Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families,\" he added.", "A Louis Tomlinson concert being held at the Red Rock Amphitheatre near Denver, Colorado, was called off before it started, after fans were injured during an intense hail storm.\n\nWest Metro Fire Rescue department announced that up to 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, with some suffering broken bones and cuts.\n\nThe former One Direction singer posted on Twitter that he was \"devastated\" and that he \"hopes everyone's ok\".", "The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for a 13th consecutive time later as it tries to tackle rising prices.\n\nOfficial data on Wednesday showed that inflation, the annual rate at which prices go up, was stuck at 8.7% in May.\n\nThat has made it more likely for the Bank to announce a rise in its benchmark rate from 4.5%.\n\nInterest rates remain its primary tool to lower inflation, despite debate over its effectiveness.\n\nAnalysts say an increase to 4.75% is most likely, but a bigger increase to 5% remains a possibility, although one economist suggested such a rise could suggest the Bank has \"completely lost control of inflation\".\n\nAny such change would mean further pain for some homeowners, but it could benefit savers.\n\nThe Bank rate is already at its highest level for about 15 years, rising consistently since December 2021 in response to the soaring cost of living.\n\nThe theory is that raising interest rates makes it more expensive to borrow money, meaning people have less to spend, and so bringing down demand and therefore easing price rises.\n\nA further rise is expected to be confirmed at 12:00 BST on Thursday after a meeting of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, which makes the decision independently of government.\n\nSir Charlie Bean, former deputy governor of the Bank of England for monetary policy, told the BBC's Today programme that if he were on the committee he would \"probably\" vote for a 0.5% hike.\n\n\"The news since the last meeting has been unambiguously bad on an inflation front,\" he said. \"You've had two bad inflation releases and also the labour market release showed pay growth much stronger than they would have expected - you put all of that together and it's a pretty clear signal it needs further rate increases.\"\n\nSir Charlie said the question for the Bank was whether they wanted to do a \"big step today, or a smaller step, but maybe indicating there will be more [rate rises] in the pipeline\".\n\nHow are interest rate rises affecting you?\n\nLuke Hickmore, investment director at Abrdn, told the BBC there was a \"large risk\" of a 0.5% rise, but added that if the Bank did that it \"may give the wrong message to the markets that it has completely lost control of inflation\".\n\nIn a speech he is due to give shortly after the decision is announced, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will recommit to halving inflation by the end of the year and say he feels a \"deep moral responsibility to make sure the money you earn holds its value\".\n\nHe is expected to tell a business event in south east England that he is \"completely confident that if we hold our nerve\" the target can be hit.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has criticised the government over the impact of rising rates on people with mortgages.\n\nAhead of the rate decision, she said: \"Instead of squabbling over peerages and parties and ruling out any action on mortgages, the Tories should be taking responsibility and acting now.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Office for National Statistics said that inflation was unchanged on the previous month at 8.7%. That was met with surprise by analysts who had expected it to fall.\n\nThe shock figure was driven by higher prices for flights and second-hand cars but supermarket food prices also continued to rise rapidly.\n\nSo-called \"core\" inflation, which strips out volatile factors such as direct energy and food prices, along with alcohol and tobacco prices, continued to rise last month at its fastest rate for 31 years.\n\nEconomists said this made the UK stand out from other countries such as the US and Germany where inflation is falling.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt appeared to back further interest rate rises saying it would not \"hesitate in our resolve to support the Bank of England as it seeks to squeeze inflation out of our economy\".\n\nThe government's target is to halve the inflation rate to 5% by the end of the year. The official, long-term target set for the Bank is 2%.\n\nRob Morgan, from investment firm Charles Stanley, said: \"Getting the inflation genie back into the bottle is proving troublesome for the Bank of England.\n\n\"With price momentum continually running above expectations alongside strong wages data, the Bank has no choice but to continue on a path of raising interest rates several more times.\"\n\nWhen interest rates rise, a range of loans can get more expensive. More than 1.4 million people on tracker and variable rate mortgage deals usually see an immediate increase in their monthly payments.\n\nThe increase in the Bank rate to 4.75% from 4.5% would mean those on a typical tracker mortgage would pay about £24 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages would face a £15 jump.\n\nThis comes on top of increases following the previous recent rate rises. Compared with pre-December 2021, average tracker mortgage customers would be paying about £441 more a month, and variable rate mortgage holders about £282 more.\n\nIf the rate goes up to 5%, those on a typical tracker mortgage would pay about £47 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages would face a £30 jump.\n\nEight out of 10 mortgage customers hold a fixed-rate mortgage. Their monthly payments may not change immediately, but house buyers or anyone seeking to remortgage face a sharp rise in repayments when they move on to a new deal.\n\nThe so-called \"mortgage bomb\" has become a huge economic and political issue. An average two-year fixed deal, which was 2.29% in November 2021, is now above 6%.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a politically independent economics-focused think tank, says rising interest rates could mean 1.4 million mortgage holders see their disposable incomes fall by more than 20%.\n\nRenters are also feeling the impact. \"It is likely that at least part of the increases in rents we are seeing is due to high interest rates hitting landlords' borrowing costs,\" the IFS said.\n\nRents have been growing faster than wages in the UK for nearly two years, according to exclusive data given to the BBC by property portal Zoopla.\n\nMeanwhile, savers should benefit from a rise in interest rates, but MPs on the Treasury Committee have criticised banks and building societies for failing to pass this on in full to loyal savers who have instant-access savings accounts.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Secret Garden Party is due to take place 20-23 July\n\nGlastonbury, Leeds and Reading Festivals have said they'll have drug safety tests this year.\n\nThere were fears the service wouldn't be at UK festivals in 2023 after it was missing from Manchester's Parklife.\n\nBut Glastonbury and Festival Republic, which runs events including Leeds and Reading, say they'll have \"back-of-house\" testing as usual.\n\nThe picture for smaller events which previously relied on a charity to carry out their tests isn't so clear.\n\nIndependent festival organisers have told Newsbeat that last-minute changes by the government mean they can't check drugs this year.\n\nOne event that says it definitely won't have drug testing in 2023 is the Secret Garden Party (SGP).\n\nThe boutique festival in Cambridgeshire was the first in the UK to offer public access front-of-house testing in 2016.\n\nThis is where people can have drugs checked to make sure they're safe - but the last time it happened at UK festivals was in 2018.\n\nSince then, events have used back-of-house testing - where confiscated or surrendered drugs are checked behind the scenes and alerts sent out if problems are found.\n\nSGP boss Freddie Fellowes tells BBC Newsbeat it was due to return to his festival this year, but now that won't be happening.\n\nThe situation is similar to Parklife, which had planned to have tests in place but ditched them 48 hours before the event.\n\nFounder of the Manchester event, Sacha Lord, said he was told a special licence would be needed this year, and blamed a government \"u-turn\".\n\nBut the Home Office, which is in charge of policing and drugs policy, insists nothing has changed.\n\nWarnings about troubling substances - like this one from Secret Garden Party last year - are often circulated\n\nGlastonbury Festival says it will be carrying out back-of-house testing \"on drugs which have been surrendered or seized\" this year, as they normally do.\n\n\"The results of these tests are used to inform appropriate healthcare messaging,\" it told Newsbeat.\n\nAnd Festival Republic Boss Melvin Benn told BBC Radio Berkshire he was \"confident\" Leeds and Reading's testing arrangements \"meet all the government requirements\".\n\nNewsbeat's been told that bigger festivals with corporate backing are able to employ private companies to do their testing.\n\nBut smaller festivals have previously used The Loop - a drugs charity - to perform theirs.\n\nThe bosses of Parklife and SGP both told BBC Newsbeat that they'd been able to do this through agreements with police and local councils.\n\nRegulations in place since 2001 state that drug testing providers need to have a licence.\n\nBut the Home Office has previously said it \"wouldn't stand in the way\" of arrangements with local authorities.\n\nHowever, festivals say this is the first year that they've been told at short notice they'll need a separate permit - and that getting one could take three months.\n\nFreddie says this isn't enough time for SGP - which is being held from 20 to 23 July.\n\nGlastonbury Festival say they will have drug testing this year\n\n\"We are now in a position where harm reduction has been set back by over 10 years,\" says Freddie.\n\n\"Let's just be really honest, people do take recreational drugs. And there's nothing that I as a festival organiser can do to change that.\"\n\nFreddie says the lack of testing at SGP this year means the festival \"will be responding by upping the amount of eyes and ears we have out on welfare\".\n\nHe feels there's a lack of clear guidance and a \"complete unwillingness from the Home Office to engage\" in the conversation with anyone on the front lines.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson says: \"Our position hasn't changed. Drug testing providers must have a licence to test for controlled drugs, including at festivals.\n\n\"We have consistently made this condition clear, and law enforcement have always had a responsibility to uphold this legal requirement.\n\n\"We continue to keep an open dialogue with any potential applicants.\n\n\"Festivals aiming to test drugs off their site this summer must work with the police and a Home Office-licensed drug-testing provider\".\n\nSacha Lord's told Newsbeat he's meeting lawyers and other festival bosses to discuss taking the Home Office to court.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris Image caption: Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris\n\nAny investigation into the Titan sub will undoubtedly focus on trying to work out what exactly happened to it - but how will experts do this?\n\nOne of the things they will be looking to do is examine the debris.\n\nIn particular, they will be looking for the site of the rupture - which will be hard because the Titan's body is in small pieces, and harder still because it is being collected by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in the darkness of the deep sea.\n\nAnother focus of the investigation will be whether there were sufficient checks following each dive. Each time the Titan went down on a deep dive, its hull would have been compressed by the immense water pressure - it would have become smaller and then returned to its normal size on its return to the surface.\n\nThis regular stress would have led to fatigue of the material, weakening it. It is so far unclear whether there were checks for cracks after each dive and if so how extensive they were.\n\nYou can read more on what experts will be looking for here.", "Vallance says Covid advice took 'far too long' to be published\n\nVallance says it was a \"regret\" that during the pandemic it often took a long period of time for research produced by the Sage group of scientific advisers to be published. \"I believe that scientific advice should be made public; that's beneficial for everybody,\" he says. He says that research relied on by ministers should always be open to \"scrutiny, comment and challenge\". Often, at the start of the pandemic, the minutes and research papers produced by Sage took \"far longer\" than they should have done to be made public, says Vallance. He says there have already been changes made to system and - going forward - he sees no reason why faster publication cannot be the norm, except in areas of national security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine has attacked a bridge linking southern Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula with long-range British missiles, Russian officials say.\n\nThe two parallel Chonhar bridges were both damaged, said the Russian-installed governor in occupied Kherson Vladimir Saldo. No-one was hurt.\n\nMr Saldo said it was likely British Storm Shadow missiles were used in an attack \"ordered by London\".\n\nThe bridge is the shortest route from Crimea to the front line in the south.\n\nIt is also an important link to the occupied city of Melitopol, which lies on the coastal route from the Russian border across southern Ukraine to Crimea.\n\nPhotos posted by Vladimir Saldo showed a gaping hole in one of the two bridges, but he said repairs would be made quickly and vehicles would take an alternative route temporarily. Another Russian-installed official, Nikolai Lukashenko, said repairs could take weeks.\n\nUkrainian military spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk said on national TV that the army was aiming to disrupt Russia's supply routes and a military intelligence official, Andriy Yusov, said more attacks would follow.\n\nThe surface of the Chonhar bridge was damaged prompting traffic to use an alternative route\n\nRussia uses the road as a land bridge to Crimea, and Melitopol is thought to be one of the targets of Ukraine's counter-offensive, which began in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia earlier this month.\n\nRussian forces seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and then in February last year they invaded Ukraine's southern coastal region too.\n\nUkrainian forces have bombed Russian-controlled bridges in the region before. Last summer, in the weeks before they recaptured the city of Kherson on the east bank of the Dnipro river, they repeatedly attacked the Antonivskiy bridge to stop Russian forces bringing supplies from occupied Crimea.\n\nThen in October a bridge across the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to Russia was put out of action for weeks in a deadly attack condemned by President Vladimir Putin called an \"act of terrorism\". Even now the Kerch bridge is not open to all traffic.\n\nVladimir Saldo threatened to retaliate for the latest attack by targeting a bridge linking neighbouring Moldova with Romania. Romania, a Nato member, and Moldova condemned his comments as unacceptable.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive in the south and east has made slow progress, with claims of eight villages recaptured so far.\n\nThe campaign was made harder when the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river was destroyed this month in a suspected Russian sabotage attack. Areas downstream of the dam were flooded, making crossing the Dnipro river much harder. Dozens of people have died, farms have been ruined and water supplies have been affected.\n\nRussian forces have continued to target Ukrainian cities including a residential area of President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rih and the southern port of Odesa overnight.\n\nPresident Zelensky told Ukrainians on Thursday that intelligence services had received information that Russia was preparing the \"scenario of a terrorist attack\" on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, seized during the full-scale invasion last year.\n\nThe plant is the biggest in Europe and Mr Zelensky warned that \"radiation has no state borders\". The Kremlin immediately rejected his comments as \"another lie\".\n\nAlthough the plant's six reactors have all been shut down, the UN's atomic energy agency warned on Wednesday that the safety and security situation there was \"extremely fragile\".\n\nWater levels in a channel used to cool the reactors have declined since the Kakhovka dam was destroyed and the UN agency said the situation around the plant had become increasingly tense amid reports of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nThe Chonhar bridge could be out of action for several weeks", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward\n\nOne of nurse Lucy Letby's \"favourite ways of killing and trying to kill children\" on a hospital neonatal unit was by injecting air, a prosecutor has told her trial.\n\nMs Letby is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said experts for the prosecution had told Manchester Crown Court at least 12 of those received an air injection.\n\nOn the third day of his closing speech, Mr Johnson told jurors not to ignore the \"constellation of coincidences\" in baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nHe said they should \"put all the pieces of the jigsaw together\" and suggested the \"cumulative picture\" told only one story, that Ms Letby \"tried to murder or murdered these children\".\n\nMr Johnson cited the case of Child C, who stopped breathing without warning on 13 June 2015 while being treated in the unit's nursery one.\n\nHe said the collapse and death was \"inconsistent\" with all natural causes, as asserted by the medical experts in the case.\n\nThe prosecutor noted the nurse was seen in nursery one at the time of Child C's collapse, despite being allocated a baby in nursery three.\n\nHe said she was there \"with death on her mind\".\n\nMr Johnson went on to remind the jury of Sophie Ellis' evidence, who was Child C's designated nurse that day.\n\nMs Ellis told the jury how she had briefly left Child C and when she returned to the nursery, Ms Letby was standing over him.\n\nShe said the nurse told her: \"He's just had a brady/desat\".\n\nThe alleged attacks were said to have been carried out at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nMr Johnson also said nurse Melanie Taylor had recalled being surprised at how \"cool and calm\" Ms Letby appeared as medics rushed to help the baby.\n\nHe alleged that swelling noted by a doctor in Child C's vocal cords indicated that \"something had been put down his throat\".\n\nThis was also a feature in the cases of Child E, Child G, Child H and Child N, he said.\n\nMr Johnson went on to state that another clue the jurors should consider in Child C's case was the \"massive ballooning\" to his stomach.\n\n\"It's as plain as the nose on your face that Lucy Letby must have injected air down the nasogastric tube,\" he said.\n\n\"It was, after all, one of her favourite ways of killing or trying to kill children in this case.\n\n\"There are a constellation of coincidences which can make you sure that [Child C] didn't die of natural causes and that Lucy Letby killed him.\"\n\nThe nurse, originally from Hereford, has denied all of the charges against her\n\nMr Johnson also noted how Ms Letby's defence counsel, Ben Myers KC, had repeatedly questioned witnesses about the competence of Ms Ellis, who Ms Letby had called the \"new girl\" in messages to colleagues.\n\nThe prosecutor said it was insinuated Ms Ellis was not qualified to be looking after Child C.\n\n\"It's trying to create in the impression in your minds that something was seriously wrong with the hospital,\" he said, adding: \"It's gaslighting you, doing to you what Lucy Letby did to her colleagues.\"\n\nMr Johnson later turned to the evidence heard about Child G, who was transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital from Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital in mid-August 2015.\n\nThe court has heard she was \"clinically stable\" until 7 September, when she projectile vomited at about 02:00 BST.\n\nThe prosecution case has been that Ms Letby overfed Child G with milk through a nasogastric tube or injected air into the same tube and made two more attempts to kill her on 21 September.\n\nMr Johnson pointed the jury to what Dr Alison Ventress said about Child G.\n\nThe medic told the jury she saw blood-stained secretions coming from the vocal cords in the early hours of 7 September 2015.\n\n\"What caused the throat of an otherwise well baby to bleed?\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\n\"It is a signature of many of her attacks on these babies.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cindy and Ian Beale have had a troubled relationship\n\nCindy Beale, played by actress Michelle Collins, has returned to EastEnders after almost 25 years away.\n\nCollins' character made her comeback on Wednesday, long after she was said to have died in prison while giving birth.\n\nThe episode ended in typically dramatic fashion with a shot of her on a sun lounger, drinking a glass of wine.\n\nProducers confirmed afterwards that another former favourite Adam Woodyatt would also be reprising his role as her ex-husband Ian Beale.\n\nCollins, 61, said returning was a \"surreal\" experience. \"It's nerve wracking, but it's also very exciting,\" she told the Sun.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I think things are about timing, really life is about timing,\" she continued. \"And I think if it happened five years ago, I probably would have said no.\"\n\nWoodyatt, 54, who himself left Albert Square two-and-a-half years ago, noted how the EastEnders set had been rebuilt since he left and so it was \"the weirdest thing for me\" on his return to work.\n\n\"[The] nicest thing has been going back and seeing all the faces that I haven't seen,\" he said.\n\nCindy and Ian Beale: Michelle Collins and Adam Woodyatt pictured in 1994\n\nBefore she was killed off - or so it seemed - Cindy had been in prison for hiring a hitman to kill Ian, following a bitter custody battle over their children, Lucy and Peter\n\nWriter Chris Clenshaw, who developed the storyline of the return of the Beales, said the production team had been discussing it for more than a year.\n\n\"We started to look at the story and obviously, make sure it was credible in terms of, she's dead, how could that work? But... we didn't see a body.\n\n\"We made sure that it worked with our research and our advisors and they came back and said, 'Yeah, this is in fact, what could and would happen' and that's when I was like, OK, I think we've got a shot of being able to do this.\"\n\nFamous for her scheming and manipulative behaviour during her previous stints in the show between 1988 and 1998, Cindy had countless affairs during her tumultuous relationship with Ian.\n\nOn Wednesday night's show she was revealed as Rose Knight, the long lost wife of George Knight (Colin Salmon).\n\nSpeaking on her return, Collins said: \"For over 25 years I've constantly been asked, 'are you going back' and now finally I can say I am!\n\n\"It's an honour to be asked to reprise the role of Cindy Beale, a character that has really never left me, and just like the old days, where Cindy goes, drama usually follows\".\n\nEastEnders won the best soap prize at the recent British Soap Awards and Collins stressed that the genre gives \"fantastic stories\" to women her age.\n\n\"They are really matriarchal figures and there aren't many shows on TV, really, that can give women of a certain age central characters and to show their stories.\"\n\nEastEnders will air next on BBC One on Thursday at 19:30 BST", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the story of the Titan sub unfolded... in 90 seconds\n\nDebris has been found in the search for the missing Titan submersible, reportedly including parts of its outside cover.\n\nDive expert David Mearns told the BBC the president of the Explorers Club - which is connected to the diving community - says the debris includes \"a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible\".\n\nThe US Coast Guard earlier said a \"debris field\" had been found.\n\nIt is now being analysed.\n\nThe debris was located by a remote-controlled underwater search vehicle (ROV) near the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nA US Coast Guard news conference is scheduled for 1500 EST (1900 GMT) on Thursday afternoon.\n\nTwo of the five men on board, British businessman Hamish Harding and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, are members of the US-based Explorer's Club.\n\nThe Titan vessel went missing in a remote area of the North Atlantic on Sunday with a four-day oxygen supply for its crew of five.\n\nSome experts have speculated that it could have suffered a catastrophic implosion as a result of a hull failure. The minivan-sized submersible was owned and operated by the private company OceanGate Expeditions.\n\nThe firm's co-founder, Guillermo Söhnlein, told the BBC that he believes there may have been an \"instantaneous implosion\" of the craft.\n\n\"If that's what happened, that's what would have happened four days ago,\" he said.\n\nMr Söhnlein added that his \"biggest fear\" during the search was that the Titan had surfaced after communications had been lost - which he said would have been standard protocol.\n\n\"From the beginning I always thought that's probably what Stockton [Rush, the sub's pilot] would have done,\" he added. \"In which case it becomes very difficult to find the sub, because the surface ship wouldn't have known it was coming up and wouldn't have known where to look.\"\n\nIf the sub is found under the sea's surface, it will need to be reached by complex rescue equipment and then brought to the surface in an operation that would likely take hours.\n\nThe debris is believed to include a landing frame and rear cover\n\nEarlier in the week, Canadian search planes reported hearing undersea noises. It remains unclear what these noises were, and authorities have cautioned they may not have been related to the Titan.\n\nThursday's announcement that a debris field was found is so far the only potential clue discovered by ROVs that have been deployed to the area.\n\nOne of the ROVs, deployed from the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic, reached the ocean floor early Thursday morning. Several more were expected to arrive later in the day.\n\nA French research ship, the Atalante, also arrived in the area on Thursday morning and deployed its own ROV, the US Coast Guard said. That robot is capable of reaching depths below the Titanic wreck, which lies about 12,500 ft (3,810m) below the surface, and has experience of surveying the Titanic.\n\nThe overall area of sea being scoured is about 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles), twice the size of the US state of Connecticut. The area is prone to stormy conditions and poor visibility which makes search operations more challenging, experts say.", "A South African woman has described working as a fruit picker on farms in the south of England as \"slave labour\".\n\n\"We weren't viewed as humans,\" Sybil Msezane told a House of Lords committee.\n\nShe said workers were addressed by numbers, rather than names, as if they were in prison, forced to work 18 hour days and live in overcrowded caravans.\n\nIf they complained to bosses they were threatened with deportation, the Lords horticultural committee was told.\n\nThe committee is investigating the treatment of migrant workers on British farms.\n\nAndrey Okhrimenko, from Kazakhstan, speaking via video link, said: \"If you don't work fast enough, if you don't comply with quality... they will say 'we will cancel your visa, we can send you back home to your country'.\n\n\"We had extremely bad living conditions, we had problems with working conditions. We were disrespected and manipulated.\"\n\nLike Ms Msezane, he was recruited last year by an agent in his home country via an advertisement on social media, and had to pay for his own airfare and visa before being put to work on fruit farms in the south of England.\n\nMs Msezane, who is from Johannesburg, is now a care worker for an English local authority.\n\nShe told the BBC she was treated with respect in her new role, in sharp contrast to her experience last year as a seasonal agricultural worker, picking and packing strawberries for British supermarkets.\n\n\"I could not have thought that the conditions I found in 2022, in the United Kingdom, were what I found. It was beyond shocking.\n\n\"I'd spent close to, almost, £2,500 equivalent. There is no way I am going home at that point. I am here to make money. That's essentially it. So you get to work.\"\n\nShe had to pay rent to live in a caravan with six people of different nationalities, both men and women, who had a single shower and fridge between them.\n\n\"My country is going through a lot economically. People need work. So I would never say to people not to come on the seasonal worker visa,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Everyone who was on the scheme with me was able to support their families in different ways.\"\n\nBut she added: \"You need to be aware that you are coming into a country where you don't have as many rights as a worker as you do in South Africa. So that can be challenging.\"\n\nVadim Sardov, from Kazakhstan, said conditions on his farm were so bad several people had decided to leave and work illegally instead.\n\nSeasonal workers were not asking for \"five star hotels\", he told the committee, but \"employers must provide proper living and working conditions\".\n\nEmiliano Mellino, a journalist for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who has written a series of articles on the treatment of migrant workers, told the Lords committee some workers had been subjected to bullying and abuse.\n\nHe said many take out loans to cover the costs of coming to the UK, and they also had to pay rent of up to £80 a week for their accommodation, which meant they were reluctant to speak out for fear of losing their job.\n\nThe government's official policy is to train British workers to fill the 50,000 seasonal jobs on British farms currently carried out by migrant workers.\n\nBefore the UK left EU, most of these casual workers came from Europe.\n\nWhen the current seasonal workers visa scheme was launched in 2019, it had a quota of just 2,500 places a year, with most coming from Russia and Ukraine.\n\nIt was expanded to 38,000 visas in 2022, following pressure from the farming industry, who had been forced to leave crops unpicked.\n\nThe net was cast to a wider range of nationalities, including South Africa and central Asian countries like Kazakhstan.\n\nThe scheme is due to run until 2024, with debate raging in government over whether it should be expanded to keep food costs down and help tame inflation.\n\nThe government has authorised only a small number of recruitment companies, known as \"scheme operators\", to arrange seasonal worker visas.\n\nFarmers must hire their overseas workers through those companies and must demonstrate that they are actively trying to recruit UK-based workers as well.\n\nScheme operators also have explicit duties to look after workers' welfare and make sure they are paid properly.\n\nAt an earlier committee hearing, in April this year, farmer Mike Newey said it was a \"myth\" that seasonal fruit picking was a low skilled, poorly paid job with bad accommodation.\n\n\"Our seasonal workers are paid a minimum of £10.42, the national living wage, and often earn £15 to £20 an hour when they are on piece-work rates. It is good pay. They have subsidised accommodation on the farm.\"\n\nHe added: \"We should be proud of giving people from other countries a leg up. That is what we are doing.\"\n\nAli Capper, of the West Sussex Growers' Association, said: \"To have staff, we need to accommodate them, and ensure their welfare and that they are very well looked after.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're not living anymore, we're just existing\" - Arthur's Seat murder victim's mother\n\nThe mother of a woman murdered by her husband who pushed her off a hill says he was \"evil, jealous and insecure\".\n\nFawziyah Javed died after she was pushed from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar in 2021.\n\nIn her first TV interview, Fawziyah's mother Yasmin Javed told BBC Newsnight she believes Anwar did not like his wife being independent.\n\nIn a recording Fawziyah secretly made, her husband told her to stop behaving like a British woman.\n\nFawziyah's mother said Anwar resented the 31-year-old solicitor being an independent, well-educated young woman.\n\n\"He didn't like the fact that Fawzi had her own voice, her own opinions. He didn't like that,\" she said.\n\nFawziyah Javed died after she was pushed off Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar in 2021\n\nFawziyah Javed, from Leeds, married Anwar, an optical assistant, in an Islamic ceremony on 25 December 2020.\n\nThree months after their wedding Anwar knocked Fawziyah unconscious in a cemetery, the court case into her death was told.\n\nAt around the same time, he put a pillow over her face and punched her in the head.\n\nThe court also heard Anwar withdrew £12,000 from her bank account while she was sleeping.\n\nFawziyah's mother Yasmin said she had encouraged her daughter to leave Anwar but she said Fawziyah was biding her time and said she knew what she was doing.\n\n\"She had contacted divorce lawyers to get the ball rolling to get a divorce because he always said, 'I'm never going to divorce you'.\n\n\"And she'd also made voice recordings of him where he's being threatening and abusive towards her. So obviously that was all evidence of how he was treating her.\"\n\nIn one voice recording Fawziyah is heard saying: \"You've ruined my life.\"\n\nAnwar replies: \"I'll tell you one thing. You end this and I will ruin yours.\"\n\nKashif Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for killing his pregnant wife\n\nIn another recording Anwar is heard telling his wife: \"Who do you think you are? You're not a man … so come back tomorrow like you've been told.\"\n\nAnwar replies: \"My problem? Don't challenge me, do not be that British woman.\n\n\"Because I'm telling you, it will not work. I promise it will not work. It won't work with me.\"\n\nFawziyah went to the police twice so that there was a record of Anwar's behaviour, although she didn't want them to intervene at that point.\n\nThe second police report was made just days before Anwar killed her, on a weekend away to Edinburgh in September 2021.\n\nThe couple were captured on CCTV heading to the Edinburgh landmark Arthur's seat.\n\nAfter falling 50ft off a cliff edge, Fawziyah was able to tell passers-by what had happened, before she died.\n\nFawziyah Javed had been married for eight months\n\nIn April this year, Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for murdering his wife, who was 17 weeks pregnant, and causing the death of her unborn child.\n\nFawziyah's mother said she cannot forget her daughter's last words: \"'Am I going to die? Is my baby going to die?'\"\n\n\"The words go round around my head every single day,\" Ms Javed said.\n\n\"Alongside the grief and pain, I can't get them words out of my mind.\"\n\nMs Javed told Newsnight she did not feel like the family got justice and Anwar is still exerting his control even though he's in prison.\n\n\"I still don't have all of Fawziyah's possessions back,\" she said. \"The possessions that I have got back. I've had to fight tooth and nail to get them.\n\n\"And his parents are honouring that control, by not giving all her possessions back to us.\"\n\nThe court previously heard a recording of Anwar telling his wife: \"Anything that's here that you're probably going to say it belongs to you. You're not taking anything from here.\n\n\"It's all going to stay here, that's my possessions because it's my house.\"\n\nThe parents of Kashif Anwar told BBC Newsnight that they had returned all of Fawziyah's possessions to the police and to her family.\n\nMs Javed believes Anwar's motives for murdering her daughter stemmed from honour-based control, jealousy, and insecurity.\n\nFawziyah Javed died after falling on Arthur's Seat. Arrows show from where she was pushed and where she landed\n\nHonour-based abuse is a crime or incident committed to protect or defend the 'honour' of a family or community.\n\n\"He used to say to Fawziyah, we don't have divorces in our family, we don't divorce, we stay in marriages no matter what,\" she told BBC Newsnight.\n\nPolice Scotland, who carried out the investigation into Fawziyah's murder, said they did not identify any honour-based abuse, adding that domestic abuse and coercive control were the main factors in the case.\n\nBut charity Karma Nirvana, who are supporting Yasmin - including prior to Fawziyah's death - said they recognised honour abuse as part of Fawziayah's experience.\n\nBaroness Shaista Gohir, chair of Muslim Women Network UK (MWNUK), said there can be additional barriers faced by some South Asian women when leaving abusive relationships.\n\nPointing to how religious divorces can be used as tools of control, she highlighted the need for increased awareness and support for victims in these communities.\n\nBaroness Gohir said as a member and volunteer at MWNUK, Fawziyah was an intelligent and educated woman who knew her rights, \"yet she still ended up dead\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Man murdered wife by pushing her off Arthur's Seat", "A 59-year-old man was arrested before being released on bail\n\n\"Suspicious chemicals and potential explosive equipment\" have been found at a house after a man was arrested under the Explosives Act, police have said.\n\nLancashire Police said \"suspicious items\" were found at a property in Nursery Close, Leyland, during a raid at about 06:00 BST.\n\nA 59-year-old man was arrested before being released on bail.\n\nPolice said counter-terrorism officers were investigating but the incident was not thought to be terror related.\n\nVarious buildings near the town's civic centre were evacuated following the raid and military personnel were also earlier at the scene.\n\nSouth Ribble MP Katherine Fletcher said she was being kept updated by police\n\nBroadfield Drive, which had been shut by police later reopened, while the cordon around Nursery Close, the cul-de-sac where the man was arrested, has also now been lifted.\n\nLocal resident Peter Hughes told BBC Radio Lancashire the occupants of 10 houses were asked to leave by police and a nearby leisure centre had been made available for them to gather.\n\n\"It's quite quiet, this area of Leyland,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very close to all sorts of amenities and yet, to some extent, off the beaten track.\"\n\nHis wife Susan said residents were asked to leave at about 07:00 BST.\n\n\"It's rather a shock,\" she said.\n\n\"Nothing like this has ever happened before.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, very disappointed that this kind of thing is happening.\"\n\nArmy personnel have been at the scene\n\nThe nearby Woodlea Junior School was also closed and pupils sent home.\n\nSouth Ribble MP Katherine Fletcher said she had been kept updated by police about what had happened.\n\nPraising Lancashire Police on Twitter while sharing her statement to the House of Commons about the \"major incident\", the Conservative MP said it was \"an excellent example of our police working proactively to protect our communities,\" she added.\n\n\"I thank all officers involved for their work today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katherine Fletcher MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Using insect repellent and covering up can help protect against mosquito bites\n\nMosquitoes that carry viruses like dengue and chikungunya have moved into new parts of Europe, increasing the risk of illness, top experts warn.\n\nEuropean scientists say more frequent heatwaves and flooding, and longer, warmer summers, have created more favourable conditions for the bugs.\n\nThey are calling for better measures to control and protect against mosquitoes.\n\nWithout these, more illness and deaths from mosquito-borne diseases are likely, they say.\n\nThe report, by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), tracks the spread of different species of mosquitoes that can carry and transmit a number different of viruses to humans.\n\nThese include dengue and Zika - which can cause a range of symptoms such as fevers and muscle aches, and in the worst cases make people extremely ill.\n\nThe ECDC report suggests this year, the Aedes albopictus mosquito (known to carry dengue and chikungunya) \"established\" itself in 13 countries in Europe - meaning it has developed a self-sustaining population that is reproducing - compared with eight European countries a decade ago.\n\nMeanwhile, last year, Aedes aegypti, which can spread diseases such as yellow fever, Zika and West Nile virus, became established in Cyprus, and scientists warn it may continue to spread to other countries.\n\nAccording to the report, in 2022:\n\nAndrea Ammon, ECDC director, said: \"In recent years we have seen a geographical spread of invasive mosquito species to previously unaffected areas in the EU/EEA.\n\n\"If this continues, we can expect to see more cases and possibly deaths from diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and West Nile fever.\n\n\"Efforts need to focus on ways to control mosquito populations, enhancing surveillance and enforcing personal protective measures.\"\n\nZika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day\n\nExperts recommend eliminating standing water sources where mosquitoes breed and using eco-friendly larvicides, alongside increasing awareness of the personal measures people can take to protect themselves.\n\nThe ECDC says it is \"essential\" that healthcare workers and the public have a greater awareness of the different diseases transmitted by mosquitoes.\n\nDengue (spread by mosquitoes that bite during the day) can cause a fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and a blotchy rash.\n\nThe number of cases has grown around the world in recent decades. It is endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, South and South East Asia, and the Western Pacific region.\n\nMost cases of West Nile virus do not cause symptoms, but when people fall ill the virus can cause headaches, severe tiredness, muscle aches, vomiting, rashes and eye pain.\n\nOlder people and people with weakened immune systems are at higher risk of a form of the illness that affects the brain and can be fatal.\n\nThe most common symptoms of chikungunya virus are fever and joint pain, alongside headaches, muscle pain and rashes.", "Rida al-Sayyed has lost his son, nephew and five members of his family in the Greek boat disaster\n\nA father is hunched over with grief, his wiry frame almost cut in two.\n\n\"My son was only 16 years old,\" says Reda al-Sayed, staring at a smiling photo of him on a phone.\n\n\"Mohamed would see pictures of other youths who managed to travel to Italy and started saying he would take the journey too. The cost of living here is very high and he wanted a better future.\"\n\nEvery house in Abrash - a farming village north of the Egyptian capital - has a similar story. They fear their young men are now at the bottom of the Mediterranean.\n\nDozens of them are believed to have travelled to Libya and boarded a fishing boat which sank 80km off the coast of Greece on 14 June.\n\nThe UN says between 400 and 750 people could have been crammed onto the vessel. Hundreds are feared dead.\n\nMr al-Sayyed says seven members of his family, including his son, are missing.\n\n\"He left without telling me and called me before he got on the boat,\" says Mr al-Sayyed, sitting on the bed in his one-room house.\n\n\"I urged him to return to Egypt, but he didn't come back. Now I'm searching for his name in the list of survivors.\"\n\nMohamed al-Sayyed is just 16, with his whole life ahead of him, but his father fears the worst\n\nIn the neighbouring village of Mashtoul al-Souq, wailing women crowd the narrow streets.\n\n'We need to know if our sons are dead or alive,\" says one.\n\nAn estimated 300-350 Egyptians are said to have been on the sunken vessel, but no official figures have been given.\n\nEgyptian authorities have released the names of 43 survivors from the country, but have otherwise said little.\n\nThey have set up a team to find out how many were on board and to verify their identities. But this will take time. The shipwreck lies in one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean.\n\nWomen are desperate to learn anything about the fate of their men\n\nIn the meantime, many of the families are facing massive debts after borrowing heavily to pay for the journey.\n\n\"My son was picked up near the border with Libya by one of the traffickers, who then demanded that I pay him around 140,000 Egyptian pounds ($4,300) or he'd kill my son,\" says Mr al-Sayyed.\n\nAccording to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) figures, 6,232 Egyptians have crossed by sea to Italy so far in 2023, the second largest group making the dangerous voyage.\n\nThe official Egyptian unemployment rate stands at just over 7% but a devaluing currency and rocketing food prices mean life is very difficult.\n\nRaja Anwar's family took out a loan of over $8,000 from relatives to send his son to Italy\n\nThousands of miles away, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, another family is shrouded in grief.\n\nRaja Anwar stands on the roof of his house in Kotli district in the village of Bundli, overlooking lush green forests, staring helplessly at the gate.\n\nHe longs to see his son Abdul Jabbar walk through it. The 38-year-old had messaged Mr Anwar to tell him he was getting on the boat in Libya.\n\n\"We had to take a huge loan of 22 lakhs ($8,000) from our extended family to pay for his journey,\" says Mr Anwar.\n\nHe says they have lost a young generation of men - his son and four nephews. His youngest nephew, Owais Tariq, was only 19 years old. All but one were married with young children.\n\nAbdul Jabbar was earning around $120 a month and wanted to build a better life for his family\n\nMr Jabbar had worked in the Middle East as a labourer, earning around $120 a month. He came home, saying the conditions were tough, and started working as a baker at a local hotel.\n\nBut he wanted to earn enough money to buy a house and a car for his wife and two daughters. He thought making it to Europe was his only way.\n\nFor the first few days, Mr Jabbar and his four cousins were in constant contact with the family, as the group travelled from Islamabad to Dubai, then on to Egypt and Libya.\n\nAfter they arrived at the location in Libya specified by their agent, they were taken to a small room packed with other travellers to wait until the boat arrived, says Mr Anwar.\n\nHis son had sent him a video from the room which made his heart sink.\n\n\"They lay on top of each other like sheep in that tiny room and had not been given anything to eat for days. It broke my heart.\"\n\nLike in Egypt, hundreds of Pakistanis are said to have been on the fishing trawler heading for Italy. There were 28 people from the village of Bundli alone, with only two survivors confirmed so far.\n\nThe Greek authorities say there were 12 Pakistani survivors among the 104 people who were rescued.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced a high-level probe into human trafficking to \"identify loopholes\" in the system.\n\nMeanwhile, the media have blamed the country's political and economic crisis for unemployment and poverty, which pushes people to risk everything.\n\nInflation has risen to a record 40% this year, the highest rate in South Asia, according to Pakistan's statistics bureau.\n\nThe overcrowded vessel was pictured a number of times before it capsized and sank\n\nNine Egyptian men accused of causing the disaster have pleaded not guilty in a Greek court to people-smuggling and other offences.\n\nBut Greek authorities are also under pressure over their role in the catastrophe. The BBC obtained evidence casting doubt on the account of events put forward by the coastguard - which claimed the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of assistance in the hours before it sank.\n\nGreek officials maintain those on board said they did not want help and were not in danger until just before their boat sank. But the UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.", "More than half of students are now in paid employment while at university, a study suggests\n\nMore and more university students are working a paid job alongside their studies, according to an annual survey.\n\nResearch suggests 55% of students are now doing paid work, compared with a total of 45% of them 12 months ago.\n\nIn the survey of over 10,000 students, 76% also said the cost of living has had a negative impact on their studies.\n\nThe findings by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) are part of a wider snapshot of experiences of being at university in the UK.\n\nThe survey of full-time undergraduates, co-authored by Advance HE, is the largest dataset on student experience in the UK, and is weighted to be representative of the university population.\n\nSecond-year student Clarissa Struthers, 26, works three jobs to support herself financially while doing her degree in social work at the University of Hertfordshire.\n\nShe combines lectures with paid work as a nanny, teaching assistant and children's home support worker - often working up to four days per week.\n\nClarissa Struthers says balancing her jobs alongside university \"stresses her out\"\n\n\"It affects your grades because you're so tired from working around lectures,\" she said.\n\nShe also lives at home with family in east London to cut costs as much as possible.\n\n\"There are so many things I've cut back on, even thinking about what I can eat when I'm buying food,\" she said.\n\n\"It's really sad but that's the reality.\"\n\nTo help with living costs while at university, students receive a means-tested maintenance loan. This means the amounts differ depending on the household income of a student's family.\n\nThey are separate from tuition fees - which pay for the cost of the course - and are intended to cover accommodation, food, books and any other equipment students need.\n\nThe Hepi report encouraged the government to review the maintenance loans system to ensure they increase \"in a timely fashion\" and in line with inflation, which has soared in the past year.\n\nA survey conducted last September by Save the Student found students' living costs had increased by 14% in 12 months.\n\nBut maintenance loans are not increasing at similar rates.\n\nThey will go up by 2.8% in 2023-24 for those with loans in England, 9.4% in Wales and 40% in Northern Ireland. The overall support for living costs in Northern Ireland remains lower than elsewhere in the UK.\n\nThose eligible for maintenance loans in Scotland will be able to borrow an extra £900.\n\nA spokesperson from Universities UK, which represents 140 universities across the UK, said: \"Universities are doing their bit by increasing hardship funding, offering subsidised or free food on campus and increasing other forms of pastoral support.\n\n\"But there is a limit to what they can do without action from government.\"\n\nThe Department for Education previously told the BBC it has made an extra £15m in funding available for disadvantaged students, increasing the total to £276m this academic year.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise students continue to face financial challenges, which is why we are increasing loans and grants for living and other costs for a further year.\n\n\"To help students who need further support, we have asked the [Office for Students] to maintain the level of funding to HE providers to support students in hardship. We urge students who are worried about their circumstances to speak to their university.\"\n\nTrying to stay warm, juggling part-time jobs and the impact on their mental health. BBC News follows the lives of three university students in Leeds to find out how they are tackling the cost of living crisis.\n\nAvailable now on BBC iPlayer (UK only).\n\nStrike action was one reason 23% of students in the Hepi survey gave for saying their courses were of poor value, behind other reasons such as the cost of living (41%) and tuition fees (40%).\n\nUniversity staff went on strike for 18 days in February and March in their long-running dispute with employers.\n\nThe authors of the Hepi report speculated that the timing of those strike days - coinciding with the survey being conducted between January and March - might have contributed to its high ranking.\n\nStudents were also asked about their mental health and wellbeing, including a question about loneliness.\n\nThe 2022 Hepi survey was the first time the question was asked, with almost one in four students reporting feeling lonely most or all of the time.\n\nThat figure has since increased from 23% to 26% in 2023.\n\nOne of Hepi's 13 recommendations was for universities to tailor their support for students with different living arrangements, with those living alone or at home with family more likely to experience loneliness.\n\nThe survey also suggests that an increasing number of students would choose an apprenticeship over their degree if they could make their choice again.\n\nIt said this could be down to cost-of-living pressures, or an increasing awareness of available apprenticeship programmes.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Iain Hughes had been attempting a solo swim of the English Channel\n\nThe search for a \"highly respected and much loved\" firefighter who went missing while on a charity swim across the English Channel has been called off.\n\nIain Hughes, from Dudley, started the solo swim with a support boat on Tuesday from Dover before disappearing.\n\nMr Hughes, 42, remains missing despite a search involving military helicopters and navy and police boats.\n\nHis disappearance was \"unspeakably sad\", West Midlands Fire Service said.\n\nBased at Wednesbury fire station, Mr Hughes had posted on social media two weeks ago that the swim had been delayed because of bad weather.\n\nIn a statement, the fire service said: \"We are heartbroken to confirm that one of our crew managers, Iain Hughes, is missing after his inspiring attempt to swim the English Channel for charity.\"\n\nFrench authorities have confirmed the search has now ended, it said, adding: \"In spite of search efforts involving French and Belgian military helicopters, plus navy and police patrol boats, Iain's whereabouts remain unknown.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Chief Fire Officer Simon Barry said West Midlands Fire Service would raise money for charities close to Mr Hughes' heart\n\nMr Hughes was also a volunteer at the Stourbridge Rugby club, which said it was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"We know Iain has trained long and hard for this challenge with pure dedication and determination,\" a statement from the club read.\n\n\"His fitness is at a level some of us could only dream about, which makes this tragic news even harder to comprehend.\"\n\nThe club described him as \"a man who has devoted his life to helping others,\"and that he was \"kind, sincere, inspirational and a 'top man'\".\n\n\"We all feel numb and helpless at this tragic news,\" it added.\n\nKent Police said it received a report that a cross-Channel swimmer was missing in French waters at about 14:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt added that although the French search had concluded, inquiries were ongoing to locate Mr Hughes and that it was working with partner agencies such as the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to establish what had happened.\n\nMr Hughes started training and fundraising for the swim two years ago\n\nMr Hughes, a married father-of-two who has been with the fire service since the age of 19, currently works in its technical rescue unit.\n\nChief Fire Officer Wayne Brown described Mr Hughes as a \"highly-respected and much-loved colleague and friend to many\".\n\n\"We are giving Iain's family all the support we can at this distressing time,\" he said.\n\nThe Channel crossing is 21 miles (34km) and can take swimmers anywhere between seven and 27 hours to complete.\n\nMr Hughes has been aiming to raise £21,000 for the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Midlands Air Ambulance and Fire Fighters Charity.\n\nSince it was confirmed Mr Hughes was missing, donations to his online fundraiser have soared and exceeded his target.\n\nIn a fresh statement on Thursday, the fire service said it would honour Mr Hughes by holding events at the weekend to raise money for the charities close to his heart.\n\n\"It's terribly, terribly sad that this has happened during an event that Iain was so keen to do,\" Dr Jill Tolfrey from the Fire Fighters Charity told the BBC.\n\n\"It's really sad that he was nearly there, he nearly got to France, and then whatever happened, happened.\"\n\nDr Charmaine Griffiths, BHF's chief executive, said the charity was \"shocked and saddened\" to hear Mr Hughes had gone missing.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Iain's family, friends and colleagues at the West Midlands Fire Service at this difficult time,\" she said.\n\nHannah Sebright, from Midlands Air Ambulance, added that Mr Hughes' family, friends and colleagues were in their thoughts.\n\nThe Gris-Nez operational surveillance and rescue centre (CROSS) was informed a swimmer had disappeared on Tuesday, off the Cap Gris-Nez.\n\nThe Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CS&PF), which monitors swimmers in the channel, announced with \"deep regret\" Mr Hughes could not be found after a sea search.\n\nThe Channel Swimming Association said the swimmer was not involved with the organisation and it was therefore unable to comment, but said its \"thoughts and prayers\" were with the swimmer and his family.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishops of York and Canterbury confirmed the dismissals\n\nThe Church of England has sacked a panel of experts who provided independent oversight of how it dealt with abuse.\n\nThe Archbishops' Council confirmed it was \"ending the contracts\" of all three board members - acting chair Meg Munn, Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves.\n\nThe latter two recently claimed the Church had been obstructive and interfered with their work.\n\nThe Church said relations between them and senior bishops had \"broken down\".\n\nIn a statement, it referred to a \"widely reported\" dispute between two members of the Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) and the Church.\n\nMs Sanghera and Mr Reeves claimed in April the Church had refused to share data with them and denied them their own computers, according to the Telegraph.\n\nThey told the newspaper there had been \"clear interference\" with their work and described working with church officials as \"an uphill battle\".\n\nThey had also objected to the appointment of Ms Munn, who also holds a position within the Church.\n\nIn the statement, the Church thanked Ms Munn for her work and asked her to continue in an interim role.\n\nSpeaking after his dismissal, Mr Reeves said: \"This is a deeply disappointing decision for those who want genuinely independent scrutiny of safeguarding in the Church of England.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said the panel \"had one overriding objective; to work independently and free from undue influence\".\n\nHe continued: \"That shouldn't be a problem for any institution with sound governance, survivor focus, and proper motivation.\"\n\nMs Sanghera wrote on social media: \"This is absolutely appalling. We have spoken with truth and conviction, got on with what we were contracted to do. Now this?\"\n\nIn a joint statement, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said: \"We bitterly regret that we have reached this point and the Archbishops' Council has not reached this decision lightly.\n\n\"We know this is a serious setback and we do not shy away from that - we lament it.\"\n\nThey said there was \"no prospect of resolving the disagreement and that it is getting in the way of the vital work of serving victims and survivors\".\n\nThe Church said: \"The Council recognises that this news will be concerning and unsettling to victims, survivors and others.\"\n\nThe Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) was set up in 2021, following a scathing report the previous year by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.\n\nIt concluded the Church had created a culture where abusers \"could hide\".\n\nThe ISB describes its mission as \"to hold the Church to account, publicly if needs be, for any failings which are preventing good safeguarding from happening\".\n\nEarlier this month it published its first review into the way in which the Church handled one abuse survivor's case.\n\nThe review criticised \"significant consequences of the lack of strategic oversight and management of the response to survivors with chronic and enduring needs\".", "Firefighters came to the rescue after a horse fell into a swimming pool in Florida.\n\nThe team from Pasco County used a harness to lift the animal out of the water.\n\nPasco County Fire Rescue said the horse was in a \"good condition\" after being saved.", "Several Nato members, including the US, are thought to be lobbying for current chief Jens Stoltenberg to stay on\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace has said he is out of the race to become the next Nato chief.\n\nAsked about leading the alliance from the end of September, when Jens Stoltenberg's term ends, he told The Economist: \"It's not going to happen.\"\n\nSeveral Nato members, including the US, are thought to have been lobbying Mr Stoltenberg to stay on.\n\nBut on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his country was not \"promoting any particular candidate\".\n\nNato - the West's defensive military alliance - has 31 members who agree to help one another if they come under attack.\n\nSpeaking to German media about the top job last month, Mr Wallace said: \"I've always said it would be a good job. That's a job I'd like. But I'm also loving the job I do now.\"\n\nDespite his obvious enthusiasm to succeed Mr Stoltenberg as the next head of Nato, he appears to have failed to get the backing of key allies.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described Mr Wallace as \"very qualified\" for the job when he met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Washington recently.\n\nBut in private, the US is believed to be one of the nations trying to persuade Mr Stoltenberg to stay - at least for another year. This was echoed by Mr Wallace in comments to The Economist.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has re-focused diplomatic attention on Nato's role in the 21st Century and whether it can deter Russian aggression.\n\nMr Wallace proved popular with a number of countries on the alliance's eastern flank because of his leadership in supplying weapons to Ukraine.\n\nBut others have argued for continuity in a time of war, or that the job should be reserved for a former head of government.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, who has been the alliance's top boss for nine years, has neither confirmed or denied his intentions to continue in the job.\n\nHe told reporters last week: \"I am responsible for all decisions that this alliance has to take except for one. And that is about my future. That is for the 31 allies to decide.\"\n\nAnother contender for the role is Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who - if elected - would be the first female Nato chief.\n\nIn his interview with The Economist, Mr Wallace said whoever takes on the role would need to deal with \"a lot of unresolved issues in Nato,\" including differing demands from US and French leadership.\n\nFrance believes Nato's secretary general should come from within the European Union.\n\nWith less than a month to go until the Nato summit in Lithuania, it looks increasingly likely that Mr Stoltenberg will be asked to extend his tenure again.\n\nNato was formed in 1949 by 12 countries and its original goal was to challenge Soviet expansion in Europe after World War Two.\n\nMore recently, Russia has used the expansion of Nato as a pretext for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv is not a member, but has received support from alliance members.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was disappointed his country had not been invited to join Nato at next month's summit in Vilnius, adding that Ukraine would be the strongest member of Nato's eastern flank.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Molly-Mae Hague, pictured this year, left the Love Island villa as a finalist in 2019\n\nLove Island star Molly-Mae Hague has said she is stepping down from her role as creative director of fast fashion brand PrettyLittleThing after less than two years to focus on being a mum.\n\nThe influencer took on the reportedly big-money role in August 2021, before giving birth earlier this year.\n\nShe said while \"everything is going incredibly\" work-wise she wanted to commit fully to raising her daughter.\n\nThe 24-year-old will continue to work as a brand ambassador for the company.\n\nSpeaking on her YouTube channel, Hague - who met her partner, boxer Tommy Fury on the ITV2 dating show - said she would \"forever have the most insane relationship\" with her \"family\" at PrettyLittleThing (PLT).\n\n\"I am still working with them and doing collections and edits, but I have actually decided to step down as my creative director role,\" she said.\n\n\"Over the last few weeks, I have realised that I'm only going to get this time once with my first-born child and I'm only going to get Bambi being four months old once and I feel like I've had to rearrange my life a little bit and lose some commitments that I did have.\"\n\nShe went to say she had \"loved being the creative director of PLT more than anything\", stressing that there had been \"no drama\" and \"nothing [bad] has gone on\". It was simply that this \"amazing chapter\" of her life had \"naturally come to an end\".\n\n\"I am a mum now and I never really gave myself a maternity leave and I got straight back into work instantly because my work is my phone and showing my life is my work,\" she continued.\n\n\"The last thing I would want to be is in a role that I can't fulfil right this moment.\"\n\nHer departure comes two months after longstanding PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani left the Boohoo Group brand, to pursue new opportunities.\n\nIn 2021, Hague announced she was taking a new direction by accepting a senior job with the label. \"I'm excited to be a creative director - I'm not an influencer any more and people can see that, it's become a lot more than that,\" she told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I'm basically going to eat, sleep, breathe PrettyLittleThing - although I do that anyway\".\n\nIt was a big and controversial signing at the time, with some commentators suggesting it was unfair she had walked from the Love Island villa into a hugely influential fashion job.\n\nHague argued she had worked hard and was passionate about the brand, one she had decided to work with despite having been offered more money to go elsewhere.\n\nShe said she had turned down an offer of £2 million to work with a high street brand, simply because she did not wear their clothes.\n\nAt the time she said she wanted to improve the inclusivity of the brand by creating clothes in sizes 4-30, as well as encouraging people to remove cosmetic fillers, if, like her, they had felt they'd made a mistake.\n\n\"I think for me it was a journey of accepting that you don't need to get all these things done to your face, you're fine the way you are,\" she said.\n\nHague was also criticised for her involvement with the company after PrettyLittleThing owner BooHoo was accused of paying garment workers in Leicester only £3.50 per hour following a 2020 investigation by The Sunday Times.\n\nThe following year, BooHoo said: \"We recognise the risks of poor labour practices, human rights abuses and modern slavery in complex global supply chains and we are committed to establishing robust due diligence programmes and collaborating with others from the industry, authorities and NGOs to tackle poor practices and protect those people who are most vulnerable.\"\n\nLast year, Hague had an Instagram post banned after she failed to include any mention of it being an advert.\n\nIt was the third time she had been in trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nShe posted a picture of her wearing a PrettyLittleThing dress, along with a link to buy it, on her story.\n\nThe ASA said it was not \"immediately clear\" that she had a commercial interest in PLT. The brand confirmed their contract expressly stated the requirement for her to include the \"£ad\" disclosure in posts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. OceanGate co-founder: 'Rush one of the most intelligent people'\n\nA co-founder of OceanGate - the company which runs the Titan submersible tours to the Titanic - says he fears there may have been an \"instantaneous implosion\" of the sub.\n\nGuillermo Söhnlein said there was a possibility there had been a catastrophe.\n\nHe was being interviewed as news of the emergence of debris in the Atlantic came in.\n\nA friend of passengers aboard the Titan said the debris found was from the sub.\n\nSpeaking about his fears of an implosion, Mr Söhnlein told the BBC: \"What I do know is regardless of the sub, when you're operating at depth the pressure is so great on any sub that if there is a failure it would be an instantaneous implosion. If that's what happened that's what would have happened four days ago.\"\n\nMr Söhnlein founded OceanGate in 2009 along with current CEO and pilot of the sub, Stockton Rush, who is among the missing.\n\nAlso onboard the 22-foot vessel is British businessman Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet.\n\nHe said he would not be surprised if there was something on the surface.\n\n\"I know that our protocol for lost comms is for the pilot to surface the sub. From the beginning I always thought that's probably what Stockton would have done.\n\n\"In which case it becomes very difficult to find the sub because the surface ship wouldn't have known it was coming up and wouldn't have known where to look.\n\n\"My biggest fear through this whole thing watching the operations unfold is that they're floating around on the surface and they're just very difficult to find.\"\n\nMr Söhnlein, who left OceanGate 10 years ago, said he would not have acted differently in the circumstances.\n\nHe said: \"If anything, I think we need to go back and learn from what's happening, find out what's happened, take those lessons and carry them forward.\"\n\nIn a statement issued on Thursday after, the US Coast Guard said the debris field was discovered by a remote-controlled underwater search vehicle (ROV) near the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nExperts are now evaluating the information to determine whether it is linked to the submersible.\n\nBut dive expert David Mearns, who is a friend of passengers aboard the Titan, said the debris found was from the submersible and included a landing frame and a rear cover.\n\nThe US Coast Guard will provide an update at a press conference at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What debris has been found and what does it mean?\n\nQuestioned by the BBC why the Titan sub had not been made subject to official regulations, Mr Söhnlein said that the \"human submersible community globally is very small\" and that \"developing innovations and any new technology, including submersibles, means that sometimes you have to go outside of the balance of the regulatory scheme\".\n\nHe said that within the community \"we all know each other and I think generally we all respect each other's opinions\".\n\n\"But the bottom line is that everyone's got different opinions on how subs should be designed, how dives should be conducted, how expeditions should be conducted.\n\n\"The challenge, though, is with all of us having opinions is none of us have all the facts. So it's difficult to form these opinions.\"\n\nOceanGate describes the sub as an experimental vessel and when a correspondent from the BBC's US partner, CBS, travelled on it a few years ago, he had to sign a waiver accepting that it \"has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death\".\n\nIn a press release in 2019, the company explained why the Titan had not been classed by an independent body. \"Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation,\" it said.\n\nIn a promotional video, OceanGate Expeditions software security expert Aaron Newman tells prospective clients that travelling on the sub is \"not a ride at Disney, you know\".\n\n\"There's a lot of real risk involved, and there's a lot of challenges,\" he says.", "The actor, who is best known for playing Brookside's Mick Johnson, has also appeared in Casualty and Doctors\n\nActor Louis Emerick has been given a suspended jail sentence after hitting two 12-year-old girls with his car.\n\nThe former Brookside star, 65, admitted causing serious injury by careless driving in Wallasey on 2 October 2022.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he \"was not speeding but admitted he couldn't see clearly because of the sun so he should have slowed down\".\n\nEmerick was handed a 26-week prison sentence, which was suspended for 12 months, at Wirral Magistrates' Court.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Emerick said he did not know how he could have lived with himself if either of the girls had died.\n\nThe actor, who was charged under his full name Louis Emerick Grant, was driving towards Wallasey Village on Merseyside as the two girls crossed Poulton Road at about 17:15 GMT.\n\nTwo CCTV clips were played to the court showing his Honda car cutting the corner of the right-hand bend, going into the \"centre hatched markings\" and hitting the friends, who were thrown to the ground.\n\nOne of the girls suffered a broken leg while the other sustained fractures to her left leg, right ankle, jaw and nose and damaged four teeth, two of which she may lose, the court heard.\n\nIn victim impact statements, their mothers said the girls had been physically and mentally affected by the trauma and had missed months of schooling.\n\nThe mother of the eldest victim said her daughter still had nightmares and needed surgery to remove a metal plate from her leg.\n\nShe added signing a consent form for her daughter's leg to be amputated if necessary \"was one of the hardest things I have ever done,\" saying \"the last eight months have been horrendous\".\n\n\"We don't hold grudges with the driver. He has been in touch and apologised,\" the other girl's mother said.\n\n\"I realise it was an accident, I don't want him punished for an accident.\"\n\nNatasha Williamson, prosecuting, said Emerick, who stayed at the scene and called the emergency services, had been co-operative with police.\n\nBut she added: \"He should have slowed down if his view was impaired by the sun.\"\n\nTony Nelson, defending, said the defendant had no previous convictions and had been driving for nearly 50 years with a clean licence.\n\n\"He utterly and deeply regrets his error on the day in question,\" he said.\n\nHe added Emerick had not been speeding, drinking, using drugs or on a phone.\n\n\"This was human error. A momentary lapse of concentration and he thinks about it every day,\" he said.\n\nSentencing Emerick, Peter Mawdesley, chairman of the bench, said: \"Since the accident you have clearly shown remorse and contrition and taken various steps to contact the victims and their parents.\"\n\nEmerick was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and given an 18-month driving ban.\n\nThe actor is best known for his role as Mick Johnson on the Liverpool-based soap Brookside, but has appeared on a number of other shows, including Doctors, Last of the Summer Wine, Casualty, Coronation Street, Silent Witness and Zapped.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mike Powell says homeowners are having to make their biggest financial decisions for a decade within minutes\n\nHomeowners needing to renew their mortgages are being given just 20 minutes to make a decision or risk losing deals, according to a broker.\n\nMany lenders have been pulling deals from the market this week ahead of an expected rise in interest rates.\n\nMike Powell, who runs a brokerage in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, said he had to tell the same customer three times the deal they had agreed no longer existed.\n\nThe Bank of England is releasing its latest interest rates later.\n\nThey are expected to rise from 4.5% to 4.75%, although some have suggested they could reach as high as 5%.\n\nThis could mean homeowners face paying hundreds of pounds a month more on their next deal.\n\nMr Powell said: \"You'd spend more time choosing a holiday than you would trying to choose whether this mortgage deal is best for you.\n\n\"You're asking clients to make massive decisions, maybe their husband or wife is in work and they want to chat about it. By the time they come back to us the mortgage deal could be gone.\"\n\nHe said the past week had been the most difficult since starting the job 14 years ago, with lenders partially to blame.\n\nHe said lenders would historically give two or three days' notice before pulling a deal, but recently many had been removed within hours.\n\n\"Lenders, I like to think, could do better. As brokers now we're trying to start a petition to say we need a minimum of 48 hours' notice [before deals are pulled].\"\n\nAlmost a quarter of fixed-term mortgages in Wales are expected to end this year, data shared with Wales Live shows.\n\nAbout 36,000 of these - 12% of all 291,000 fixed-term mortgages in Wales - are set to expire in the second half of this year.\n\nNicholai Rider faces going into debt or selling his home because of rising rates\n\nOne of those is Nicholai Rider, 45, from Denbigh, who said if interest rates continued to rise his family faced either selling their home or going into debt to make ends meet.\n\nHe and his wife bought their three-bedroom house in 2021 after finding out they were expecting a second child.\n\nIn order to find a home within their budget they opted to buy a property which needed major renovation works, but the rising cost-of-living meant the heating was switched off for most of the winter.\n\nMr Rider said he expected their mortgage repayments to rise between £300 to £500 a month depending on whether they locked in a rate now by paying a penalty fee.\n\n\"It feels like gambling. It really does. It's one of those things where no one can give you an answer because no one knows. It's a constant worry,\" he said.\n\nPrincipality, the largest building society in Wales, said about 26,800 of its fixed-term mortgage deals in Wales would end this year - about a third of the approximately 75,000 fixed-rate mortgages on its books in the country.\n\nNiall Jones wanted to move home but has struggled to sell his property\n\nNiall Jones, 28, decided he needed to lock in a new mortgage deal this week.\n\nMr Jones, who lives with his wife Natalie and one-year-old daughter Mia, said they had hoped to sell their home in Caerphilly and move before their fixed rate ended, but hadn't received much interest since putting it on the market a few months ago.\n\n\"I think we were aware that there was going to be quite an uplift [in our mortgage repayments]. I don't think we were aware quite how much,\" said Niall.\n\n\"When we started getting reminders from a mortgage provider, maybe a couple of months ago, we could have renewed for just over £100 extra a month, but we've now locked in to one which is £170.\n\n\"We're going from paying £803 a month to £970.\"", "Jonathan Amos explains how passengers of the missing Titan sub could try to communicate with the outside world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage from the scene shows thick black smoke coming from a destroyed building\n\nThirty-seven people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a large explosion in central Paris.\n\nThe blast took place in a building that housed a design school and the Catholic education system headquarters in Rue Saint-Jacques, in the fifth arrondissement of the French capital.\n\nEmergency workers are searching through the wreckage of the building, with one person still thought to be missing.\n\nAccording to witnesses, there was a strong smell of gas before the blast.\n\nLocal deputy mayor, Edouard Civel, said on social media the cause was a \"gas explosion\".\n\nBut authorities said the cause of the blast had not yet been determined.\n\nParis prosecutor Laure Beccuau said after arriving at the scene that initial checks of camera footage suggested the explosion occurred within the building, which was next to the Val de Grâce church.\n\nThe building was initially engulfed by fire, but the blaze was later brought under control, said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez.\n\nThe area has been cordoned off and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has been to the scene.\n\nOne of two missing people has been found in a hospital, Paris's first deputy mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said on Thursday. Rescuers are still looking for one other person.\n\nThe area where the explosion took place runs south from the Latin Quarter in Paris's Left Bank area that is popular with tourists and known for its student population.\n\nA student at Ecole des Mines on Boulevard Saint-Michel told Le Parisien: \"I was in front of the Val de Grâce, I heard a huge boom and I saw a ball of fire 20 or 30m high. And the building collapsed with a huge noise. I smelled gas, but took several minutes to come to my senses.\"\n\nAnother witness, Antoine Brouchot, told the BBC he was at home when he heard a \"big explosion\".\n\n\"I stuck my head out of the window and looked towards Cochin [hospital], then I saw a big cloud of smoke and as I got closer, there was a building that had collapsed and for the moment, there is a fire.\"\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so share your experiences? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pearse Doherty now mentors at St Vincent's, having graduated from the school last year\n\nA teenager from north Belfast who became a father at 14 and lost his brother to suicide has won two Prince's Trust education awards.\n\nPearse Doherty graduated from St Vincent's Training Centre in Belfast against the odds last year.\n\nIt is the only school in the city that works specifically with children who have social, behavioural, emotional and wellbeing difficulties.\n\nHe left with the equivalent of eight GCSEs and now trains as a youth worker.\n\nHe hopes to one day go to university.\n\nPearse has been asked back to school as a special guest to inspire the next generation of students.\n\nBrenda McMenamin says positive role models are really important for children at St Vincent's\n\nHe told BBC News NI that St Vincent's was \"all about helping people change their mindsets\" and that is the advice he has for the pupils still studying at the school.\n\nWell, that and to \"learn how to accept help when it's needed\" because he says you cannot do everything in life yourself.\n\nHis former Prince's Trust tutor Brenda McMenamin says it is important for the children to have a role model like Pearse.\n\n\"A lot of our children arrive to us with very negative self-beliefs,\" she explains.\n\nFor them to see somebody like Pearse, \"who is essentially one of them\", succeed in life makes them realise that success can be theirs as well.\n\nSean Paul, who is 16, says Pearse has been a huge help to him, not only to control his anger and \"not let stuff get to me\" but also to mentor younger kids.\n\nSean Paul, pictured with his uncle Jim, says St Vincent's has been positive for him\n\nSean Paul is leaving St Vincent's this year and says he is going to miss it.\n\n\"[Pearse] has helped me really good with my mental health and stuff.\"\n\nSean Paul's uncle Jim, who is his guardian, says his nephew never fitted into mainstream school but when he came to St Vincent's he felt comfortable \"because there are pupils exactly the same as him\".\n\nSean Paul is now hoping to train as a barber.\n\nPaula says her son Connall is thriving at the school\n\nWhile 12-year-old Connall has only been at St Vincent's for a year, he says \"it's the best school I've ever been in\".\n\nIt has given him more confidence, he says, and when \"you get angry or anything they know what to do\".\n\nConnall's mum Paula says he was \"statemented at the end of P6\" and although he was worried he wouldn't like it when he first arrived at the school, it has turned out to be brilliant.\n\n\"This school is the best school in the world, says Connall.\n\n\"But you have to understand, it is still school.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The latest on the Titanic sub... in 70 seconds\n\nThe huge search for a missing submersible vessel near the wreck of the Titanic has entered a critical stage, as fears mount over the oxygen levels that may be on board.\n\nIf the sub is still functional and intact, it may only have low levels of oxygen left based on earlier estimates.\n\nIt went missing in a remote area of the North Atlantic on Sunday with a four-day oxygen supply for its crew of five.\n\nAnd on Thursday many questions remained over how it could be recovered.\n\nThe minivan-sized submersible, which was owned and operated by the private company OceanGate Expeditions, is yet to be located. If it is found, it will need to be reached by complex rescue equipment and then brought to the surface in an operation that would likely take hours.\n\nThat would need to happen before the oxygen supply runs out and without damaging its structure or endangering those on board.\n\nThe condition of the vessel and its crew of five is unknown, but the US Coast Guard said the operation remains a rescue mission. \"This is a search-and-rescue mission, 100%,\" Captain Jamie Frederick told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nThere appeared to be a glimmer of hope after officials said undersea noises had been detected by Canadian search planes on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nBut it is still unclear what these were, and officials said they may not have come from the submersible. Remote-controlled underwater search vehicles (ROVs) were deployed to the area where the sounds were detected but are yet to find anything.\n\nOne of the ROVs, deployed from the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic, reached the ocean floor early Thursday morning. Several more were expected to arrive at the site later in the day, along with more multi-national support.\n\nA French research ship, the Atalante, also arrived in the area on Thursday morning and deployed its own ROV, the US Coast Guard said. That robot is capable of researching depths below the Titanic wreck, which lies about 12,500 ft (3,810m) below the surface, and has experience of surveying the Titanic.\n\nThe overall area of sea being scoured is about 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles), twice the size of the US state of Connecticut. The area is prone to stormy conditions and poor visibility which makes search operations more challenging, experts say.\n\nOn board the 21-foot vessel is British businessman Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet and the CEO of OceanGate - which operates the submersible - Stockton Rush.\n\n\"One of the factors that makes it hard to predict how much oxygen is left is that we do not know the rate of the consumption of oxygen per occupant on the sub,\" Rear Admiral John Mauger from the US Coast Guard told the BBC.\n\nDr Ken LeDez, a hyperbaric medicine expert at Memorial University in St John's, Newfoundland, told the BBC it was possible the crew could survive even as oxygen supplies dwindle, depending on the crew's fitness and the conditions in the submersible.\n\nWhile it is impossible to know the exact conditions inside, Dr LeDez said the crew will likely be facing increasing levels of carbon dioxide and could also be dealing with cold temperatures, along with the declining levels of oxygen.\n\nA combination of these factors could lead to hypothermia and a loss of consciousness, he said. But these conditions aren't necessarily deadly and their metabolisms slowing down because of the cold could help them survive longer, he added.\n\n\"They're very smart... very accomplished people in there,\" he said. \"If anybody can survive\" in it, \"it's these individuals.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Nadia suffered a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death\n\nThe stepfather of Nadia Kalinowska must serve at least 22 years in prison for her \"brutal and merciless\" murder.\n\nThe five-year-old girl died after being found at her family home with more than 70 injuries including a fractured skull.\n\nAbdul Wahab, 35, pleaded guilty in court in January and was given an automatic life sentence.\n\nNadia's mother Aleksandra Wahab, who pleaded guilty to allowing the death of a child, was sentenced to 11 years.\n\nThe 29-year-old had also pleaded guilty to allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nShe will serve half her sentence in prison and half on licence.\n\nNadia's family in Poland said their lives had been shattered by her death.\n\nAt Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice O'Hara said what Abudl Wahab had done to Nadia was \"brutal, merciless and outrageous\" .\n\nHe added the 22-year minimum tariff reflected the \"sustained nature of brutality\" he had inflicted on her.\n\nAleksandra Wahab allowed her daughter to be murdered\n\nIn January, a court had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed in her home in Fernagh Drive in Newtownabbey and details of the injuries inflicted on Nadia were given.\n\nAs well as suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an injury to her bowel.\n\nThe injuries were inflicted over many months.\n\nAt the time she died she also had surface injuries including bruising and abrasions and her teeth were decayed and rotten.\n\nAbdul Wahab had claimed she was clumsy and had fallen down the stairs on the night she died.\n\nThe court was told the young son of Aleksandra and Abdul Wahab was taken to medical appointments regularly for \"relatively minor matters\" in stark contrast to how Nadia was treated.\n\nNadia often attended school in what was described as \"traditional Muslim dress\" which covered up her injuries.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Insp Gina Quinn said the \"young and innocent\" Nadia was subjected to a \"campaign of violence\" by her stepfather Abdul Wahab, while her mother ignored the \"very obvious attacks\".\n\n\"This was the ultimate betrayal of trust by the two people who should have protected loved and cared for Nadia,\" she said.\n\nDet Insp Quinn also read a statement from Nadia's family in Poland who \"loved and treasured\" her.\n\n\"Nadia was just a child. A child who had her young and innocent life cruelly taken away,\" the statement says.\n\n\"We are still trying to come to terms with what happened to Nadia, and I am not sure that we ever will.\n\n\"To be honest our worlds have been shattered.\n\n\"Nadia will always remain in the heart of her loving grandmother and her closest family in Poland.\"\n\nAbdul and Aleksandra Wahab sat in the glass-fronted dock at Belfast Crown Court, with guards on either side.\n\nAnother member of the security staff sat in between them.\n\nThe pair looked down at the floor for most of the sentencing hearing.\n\nTowards the end of the 45-minute-long session, Abdul Wahab put his head in his hands and appeared to weep.\n\nThe court heard how the defendant had described Nadia as his \"fairy princess\" - but the judge said that was a \"pathetic\" attempt by Mr Wahab to \"disavow\" his plea of guilty.\n\nAs well as admitting murder, Abdul Wahab pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours before the child's death and on other occasions between July and December 2019.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Public Prosecution Service assistant director Ciaran McQuillan said it was a deeply distressing case.\n\n\"Every murder is abhorrent, but this was an especially sickening and brutal murder of a young child,\" he added.", "Meta has said it will begin to restrict news on its platforms to Canadian consumers after parliament passed a controversial online news bill.\n\nThe bill forces big platforms to compensate news publishers for content posted on their sites.\n\nMeta and Google have both already been testing limiting access to news to some Canadians.\n\nIn 2021, Australian users were blocked from sharing or viewing news on Facebook in response to a similar law.\n\nCanada's Online News Act, which cleared the senate on Thursday, lays out rules requiring platforms like Meta and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news organisations for their content.\n\nMeta has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nOn Thursday, it said news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada - before the bill takes effect.\n\n\"A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platforms, is neither sustainable nor workable,\" a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.\n\nThe company said the changes to news would not have an impact on other services for Canadian users.\n\nGoogle called the bill \"unworkable\" in its current form and said it was seeking to work with the government to find a \"path forward\".\n\nThe federal government says the online news bill is necessary \"to enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news market\" and to allow struggling news organisations to \"secure fair compensation\" for news and links shared on the platforms.\n\nAn analysis of the bill by an independent parliament budget watchdog estimated news businesses could receive about C$329m ($250m; £196m) per year from digital platforms.\n\nEarlier this month, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez told Reuters the tests being run by the tech platforms were \"unacceptable\" and a \"threat\".\n\nIn Australia, Facebook restored news content to its users after talks with the government led to amendments.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Rodriguez's office said he had met both Google and Facebook this week and planned further discussions - but the government would move forward with the bill's implementation.\n\n\"If the government can't stand up for Canadians against tech giants, who will?\" he said in a statement.\n\nMedia industry groups hailed the bill's passage as a step towards market fairness.\n\n\"Real journalism, created by real journalists, continues to be demanded by Canadians and is vital to our democracy, but it costs real money,\" said Paul Deegan, president and chief executive officer of News Media Canada, a media industry group, said in a statement\n\nThe Online News Act is expected to take effect in Canada in six months.", "The hospital was locked down during the incident and witnesses described how patients and visitors were locked in a nurses' room\n\nTwo people attacked by a man at a London hospital were injured by a type of pick-axe, police said.\n\nArmed police were called to Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal at 13:18 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThey found two men, believed to be aged in their 40s, with injuries thought to have been caused by a mattock.\n\nPolice located a man, also aged in his 40s, outside the hospital and he has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nBoth the suspect and the injured men were contracted hospital staff who were known to each other, the Metropolitan Police said, adding that no patients or visitors were hurt during the incident.\n\nThe victims were not in a life-threatening condition, but one's injuries \"may be life-changing\", the force said.\n\nA third victim was also targeted by the attacker but \"was fortunate not to have sustained any injuries\".\n\nStaff waited outside the hospital after being evacuated from the building\n\nThe arrested man was treated in hospital for \"self-inflicted\" injuries and has since been discharged from hospital into police custody.\n\nOfficers have since further arrested him on suspicion of possessing of an offensive weapon, affray and a third count of attempted murder.\n\nBoth injured victims were continuing to receive treatment in hospital and their next of kin were aware, the Met said, adding the incident was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe hospital, on the border of Brent and Ealing in north-west London, was temporarily locked down during the incident and witnesses described how patients and visitors were locked in a nurses' room.\n\nThe building later reopened with a heightened police presence.\n\nJamie Hogg, a contractor who saw the incident unfold, said he and his colleagues were visiting the hospital to carry out work and he saw police \"just swarming in\".\n\n\"It was armed police, one after another, one after another, and they just sprinted straight into the hospital,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like this before in my life, I thought it was crazy. It's quite hard to believe.\"\n\nHe described the incident as \"scary\", continuing: \"It could have been any of us. I don't know what were the reasons that drove him to that.\"\n\nAmie Ferris-Rotman, who was visiting the hospital dialysis unit with her father, told Sky News police checked the area where they were before locking them in a nurses' room for about 45 minutes.\n\nShe said: \"All the dialysis patients were quite freaked out.\n\n\"And at one point, those who were about to go on to dialysis were put in wheelchairs and brought into a room, which is where we were as well, and they were locked in.\"\n\nDet Supt Will Lexton-Jones, acting commander for policing in Brent, said: \"While our inquiries are ongoing, I can say that both the suspect and victims are contracted hospital staff who are known to each other.\n\n\"We are satisfied that no-one else is sought in connection, and there were no reported injuries to any patients or visitors.\"\n\nPippa Nightingale, from London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, said she wanted to express her \"sincere thanks\" to everyone who responded to the incident, adding \"their professionalism is to be applauded\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roy Grant moved from Jamaica to the UK 62 years ago\n\nEducating people about the lives of the Windrush generation should not just be limited to anniversaries, a man who emigrated has said.\n\nRoy Grant moved from Jamaica to the UK 62 years ago, and is marking the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush arriving from the Caribbean in 1948.\n\nEvents will be held across the UK.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was the first UK nation to make it mandatory to teach black history.\n\nThe Windrush generation refers to the Caribbean people who moved to the UK between 1948 and 1971, when British immigration laws changed.\n\nRoy was 19 when he left Jamaica for Birmingham, hoping to get an engineering apprenticeship and become a \"fantastic production toolmaker engineer\".\n\nBut the reality was very different.\n\n\"People did not want a black person within the engineering work,\" he said.\n\n\"People did not like the idea of being a black person living next door or in their house. In fact, you couldn't get a room to rent in those days.\"\n\nRoy said the situation was \"traumatic\" and \"very discriminative\", saying he faced many racist incidents and was rejected from every job he applied for in his first three months in Birmingham.\n\n\"Those experiences were very much devastating to me as a young chap arriving into the country,\" he said.\n\nRoy Grant said his move to the UK was initially \"traumatic\" and \"very discriminative\",\n\nRoy's fortunes changed though when his cousin, who was living in Wales, asked him to move there.\n\n\"I have to give thanks to Wales,\" he said. \"I applied for an engineering job here, the owner looked at me and employed me.\"\n\nRoy said people needed to be taught about the struggles and resilience of the Windrush generation all-year round, rather than just on anniversaries.\n\nHe said: \"We have all this exposure now of the Windrush, and thank goodness recognition is being given.\n\n\"But what we need is more continuity. We need more of it in schools, we need more of it at home with a young people.\"\n\nGrowing up, Errol was taught Britain \"was our mother country\"\n\nErrol Alexis, 87, moved to Cardiff, where his father was in the merchant navy, from St Vincent and the Grenadines - a former British colony - in 1957.\n\nGrowing up in St Vincent, Errol was taught Britain \"was our mother country.\"\n\nBut despite his excitement to move there, he said he was \"disappointed\" on arrival.\n\n\"There wasn't any motherly love that you expect. In the job situation, and especially in housing situation,\" he said.\n\n\"After a big build up…. you face reality and it wasn't nice.\"\n\nErrol and his family lived in Cardiff Docks, a racially diverse, close-knit community which \"helped each other\".\n\nAfter doing a range of jobs in the city, Errol joined the military, which he served in for some years.\n\nErrol lived in the Cardiff Docks after moving to the UK\n\nHe was married and had four children, but when he went to renew his passport after leaving the Army, he was told he \"wasn't a British citizen anymore\".\n\nIn 2018, it emerged the UK government had not properly recorded the details of people who had been granted permission to stay in the UK, with many wrongly deported.\n\n\"I went out of control. Years in the country, you're settled... and all of a sudden, they say 'you're not British any more, you could be deported'.\"\n\nHe said the experience and insecurity lasted for two years, for which he was unsure if he would be allowed to remain in Britain.\n\nErrol was eventually given a British passport, and years later received some compensation for the impact the experience had on him.\n\nAfter 66 years in Wales, Errol said he had \"no regrets\" about coming here despite the hardships he has faced.\n\n\"I'd do it again. I've learned so much. Remember, I'm from a tiny island you can put in north Wales, so I've learnt so much. I've had a good life. I'm part Welsh and part Windrush aren't I?\"\n\nRoma Taylor said sailing solo from Antigua to Cardiff at 15 to join her mum and brother in Tiger Bay - the local name for the area of the city covering Butetown and the Docks was \"so exciting\".\n\n\"My dad asked the crew to look after me because I was coming over by myself. There was lots of ladies and children my age and so we all got together and you know their children played together. It was a lovely journey,\" the 79-year-old recalled.\n\nRoma (middle) with two girls dressed in traditional Welsh outfits\n\nRoma said her community was multi-cultural and close-knit.\n\n\"We lived happy. One big family in Tiger Bay. You wouldn't believe it. All different people, but loving. I'm so glad my mum came to Cardiff.\"\n\nRoma set up the The Windrush Cymru Elders group In 2017. A group of more 50 elders who come together to socialise and mark the contributions of the Windrush generation.\n\nShe said she was so excited to celebrate Windrush's 75th anniversary.\n\n\"We're free. We can enjoy what the Lord has blessed us with. After all these years, coming into Britain.\n\n\"Blood, sweat and tears, putting up with the racism.\"", "A ban on fees to get rid of DIY waste in England will push up costs for all households, councils have warned.\n\nCurrently around a third of local authorities charge to dispose of DIY waste at recycling centres.\n\nThe government said the ban, which is expected to come into force later this year, aims to deter fly-tipping.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA) said the costs would still be passed on, for example through higher council tax.\n\nThe organisation, which represents councils in England, said the change would cost many councils more than £1m a year.\n\nSuffolk County Council said scrapping the charges would cost an estimated £500,000 a year, while Norfolk County Council said the cost would be more than £1m a year.\n\nCharges to dispose of materials like paving slabs, plasterboard and bricks can be up to £10 an item.\n\nThe LGA's environment spokesman, Darren Rodwell, said: \"Where councils are no longer able to charge for DIY waste at recycling centres the cost will be passed to all householders, including households that do not have a car and those with no possibility of carrying out building works, for example people living in rented accommodation.\"\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturers should also contribute to the costs to councils of clear up, by providing more take-back services so people can hand in sofas, old furniture and mattresses when they buy new ones.\"\n\nThe government said the change was part of its wider action to tackle fly-tipping, which costs the economy an estimated £924m a year in England.\n\nHowever, Mr Rodwell said evidence from councils and recycling campaign group Wrap did not show a link between charges and fly-tipping.\n\nEnvironment Minister Rebecca Pow said: \"We want to make it as easy as possible for people to dispose of their waste properly and that's why we are removing the financial burden on doing the right thing with DIY trash.\"\n\nJacob Hayler, executive director of the Environmental Services Association, which represents the waste management industry, said: \"We welcome any measures that make it easier for householders to dispose of waste correctly and responsibly at their local Household Waste Recycling Centre, which in turn reduces the chance of it falling into the hands of criminals or being fly-tipped.\"\n\nIn 2015, the government banned charges on local residents disposing of household rubbish at household waste centres.\n\nGuidance made clear this includes DIY household waste. But some local authorities were still able to charge for certain types of DIY material, under rules designed for construction waste.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "That concludes our coverage of the sentencing of Abdul and Aleksandra Wahab following the brutal death of five-year-old Nadia.\n\nA judge said the little girl had suffered a \"horrific collection of injuries\".\n\nHer extended family in Poland said their \"worlds have been shattered\".\n\n\"Nadia was just a child,\" they said. \"A child who had her young and innocent life cruelly taken away.\"", "Thousands of rail workers will strike on three days in July as part of a long-running dispute about pay and conditions.\n\nStrikes at 14 rail firms have been called on 20, 22 and 29 July, the RMT union said.\n\nIt said negotiations with rail firms and the government had stalled.\n\nBut train operators said the action was \"totally unnecessary\" and urged the union to put the latest pay offer to its members.\n\nPrevious strikes in the dispute have caused widespread disruption.\n\nUnions are pushing for more pay as the cost of living rises rapidly, but rail firms have said they will not pay more without concessions on conditions.\n\nThe RMT said 20,000 of its members, including guards, train managers and station staff, would walk out after train operators did not make a new offer.\n\nIts general secretary, Mick Lynch, said that train operators and the government had not \"made any attempt whatsoever to arrange any meetings or put forward a decent offer that can help us reach a negotiated solution\".\n\n\"The government continues to shackle the companies and will not allow them to put forward a package that can settle this dispute,\" he added.\n\nThe latest strike dates coincide with sporting events including the fourth and fifth Ashes Tests and the Open golf championship.\n\nUnions say any pay offer should reflect the rising cost of living. Inflation - the pace of general price rises - is at 8.7%.\n\nThe latest pay offer from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) which represents train operators, was a backdated pay rise of 5% for 2022.\n\nUnions would then have to agree to reforms before members could get a second year's pay rise of 4%, negotiated with individual operators.\n\nThe BBC understands that rail operators are willing to negotiate with the RMT, but want the union to put the latest pay offer to its members before taking further action.\n\nThe RDG said more strikes were \"totally unnecessary\", and that all the RMT had achieved was losing its members more money than they would have received from pay offers.\n\n\"We have now made three offers that the RMT executive have blocked without a convincing explanation,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA senior rail source said union members had lost £2,000 of pay through strike action so far.\n\n\"Negotiation has got us nothing. We have compromised on pay, job protections and issues like driver-only trains,\" the source said.\n\n\"Nothing is ever enough, Every one of our offers has been rejected - not even by our staff who have not cast a single vote. No more ransom demands, the industry must change to survive,\" the source added.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the strikes were \"targeting two iconic international sporting events\" and would disrupt families at the beginning of the school holidays in England and Wales.\n\n\"After a year of industrial action, passengers and rail workers alike are growing tired of union bosses playing politics with their lives,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe government has helped train operators put forward \"fair and reasonable pay offers that would see generous increases for rail workers,\" the spokesperson said. \"Union leaders should do the right thing and give their members a chance to vote on these pay offers.\"\n\nThe strikes announcement comes on the day that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said wage rises \"cannot continue\" at the rate they have been if inflation is to come down, reiterating Bank calls for restraint from workers.\n\nThe union's industrial action began a year ago, and last month members voted for another six months of action.\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality said the rail strikes were a \"hammer blow\" for firms including pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\n\"Strike disruption over the past year has already cost the hospitality sector £3.25bn in lost sales and there is no doubt that figure will increase as a result of these strike days,\" said the group's chief executive Kate Nicholls.", "The BBC's Jonathan Amos explains how search and rescue operations go about locating the missing sub.", "More than 200 million people subscribe to Amazon Prime globally\n\nThe US has accused Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and making it difficult to cancel.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's consumer rights watchdog, made the claims in a lawsuit.\n\nAmazon rejected the charges, calling them \"false on the facts and the law\".\n\nMore than 200 million people subscribe to Prime globally. The service, which offers shipping perks, access to streaming movies and more, costs $139 a year or $14.99 monthly in the US and £95 per year in the UK.\n\nThe FTC said Amazon used website designs that pushed customers into agreeing to enrol in Prime and have the subscription automatically renew as they were making purchases.\n\nThe company attempted to make it difficult for users to opt out of auto-enrolment because \"those changes would also negatively affect Amazon's bottom line\", the agency alleged in the complaint, filed in federal court in Seattle.\n\nIt also said Amazon put customers seeking to cancel through a cumbersome \"four-page, six-click, fifteen option\" process, which the FTC said was known internally as \"Iliad\" in a nod to the Greek epic about the \"long, arduous Trojan War\".\n\nThough Amazon altered the cancellation process shortly before the lawsuit was filed, the FTC said the company's tactics broke laws aimed at protecting shoppers.\n\n\"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money,\" FTC Chair Lina Khan said.\n\nThe FTC is seeking a court order to force Amazon to change its practices, as well as financial penalties in an unspecified amount.\n\nAmazon said it had been in the middle of discussing the issues with the agency when the lawsuit was filed without notice.\n\n\"The truth is that customers love Prime, and by design we make it clear and simple for customers to both sign up for or cancel their Prime membership,\" the company said.\n\nThe FTC has repeatedly warned online firms against using \"dark patterns\" to manipulate shoppers.\n\nIt had been investigating Amazon's Prime programme since 2021.\n\nIt said the company had attempted to delay the probe on multiple occasions, including by refusing to deliver documents in a timely manner.\n\nEvelyn Mitchell-Wolf, a senior analyst at Insider Intelligence analyst said the FTC was \"making an example of Amazon\".\n\n\"It's quite common for companies to make it more difficult to cancel an account than it is to create one,\" she said.\n\nMs Khan, who was appointed to her post by President Joe Biden, made her name critiquing US competition policy related to Amazon.\n\nShe has promised to move more aggressively to police online shopping and the power of America's tech giants.\n\nThe lawsuit marks the third action from the FTC involving Amazon in recent weeks.\n\nThe company agreed to pay $25m last month to settle charges it had violated child privacy laws by keeping recordings children made on Alexa.\n\nIt agreed to pay another $5.8m to resolve claims that Ring, the doorbell company Amazon purchased in 2018, had violated privacy protections by giving staff unrestricted access to customer videos and failing to implement precautions against hackers.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Each year thousands of migrants make the journey from Western Africa to the Canary Islands\n\nMore than 30 migrants may have drowned after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, two charities have said.\n\nWalking Borders and Alarm Phone said the boat was carrying around 60 people.\n\nSpanish authorities said rescue workers found the bodies of a minor and a man, and rescued 24 other people - but did not know how many people were onboard.\n\nThe incident places fresh scrutiny on Europe's response to migration, after a boat sank off Greece last week.\n\nHelena Maleno Garzon, from Walking Borders, said that 39 people had drowned, including four women and a baby, while Alarm Phone said 35 people were missing. Both organisations monitor migrant boats and receive calls from people on board or their relatives.\n\nThe boat sank about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Gran Canaria on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's torture to have 60 people, including six women and a baby, waiting for more than 12 hours for a rescue in a flimsy inflatable boat that can sink,\" Ms Garzon said.\n\nA Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, Reuters reported, citing Spanish state news agency EFE.\n\nThe ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, Reuters reports.\n\nThe BBC has sent a request for comment to Morocco's interior ministry.\n\nAngel Victor Torres, leader of the Canary Islands region, described the incident as a \"tragedy\" and called on the European Union to establish a migration policy that \"offers coordinated and supportive responses\" to the issue of migration.\n\nAlthough off Africa's western coast, the Canary Islands are part of Spain, and many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nIOM said there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledged the figure is \"probably underestimated\" because data is scarce and incomplete.\n\nMost of those making the journey are from Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, it said.\n\nSeparately, Spanish authorities also rescued more than 160 people from three other boats near the islands of Lanzarote and Gran Canaria overnight on Wednesday and Thursday morning.\n\nThe news comes after a migrant boat carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast last week, with at least 78 known to have died, although many more are feared to have drowned.\n\nThe UN's human rights office says that up to 500 people are still missing, and the BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of what happened. The coastguard claims that the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.\n• None Two families united in grief after Greece boat disaster", "Justin was killed two days after his 14th birthday\n\nAn 18-year-old has been found guilty of murder after stabbing a schoolboy at a Glasgow railway station.\n\nJustin McLaughlin, 14, died in October 2021 after being stabbed in the heart by Daniel Haig, who was 16 at the time, at High Street Station.\n\nHe was taken to hospital after the attack but never recovered.\n\nProsecutors and his legal team agreed that Haig delivered the blow which caused Justin's death, but he had denied murder.\n\nAfter two days of deliberations at the High Court in Glasgow, a jury found him guilty.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to assaulting a person with a garden fork and possession of a knife in a public place,\n\nHaig has been remanded in custody after being found guilty of murder\n\nThe killer is said to have become involved in a scuffle with Justin and a group of his friends at the railway station on 16 October 2021 when he pulled a knife out of his bag.\n\nCCTV captured him chasing the group, with Justin tripping and falling before Haig caught up and stabbed him.\n\nHaig told the jury he fled the railway station before disposing of the knife in a bin.\n\nDuring questioning from defence KC John Scullion, Haig said he had a knife in his rucksack for \"protection\" after claiming to have been attacked the day before.\n\nHe told the court he \"tried to aim for the lower abdomen\" of the schoolboy, thinking it would cause a \"minor injury.\"\n\nMr Scullion asked Haig: \"How do you feel that you killed Justin McLaughlin? His family are in the courtroom.\"\n\nHaig replied: \"I feel really bad about it. I would like to apologise to them. It was never my intention to kill anyone.\"\n\nThe court previously heard the schoolboy begged for his mother after being attacked.\n\nJustin's family described him as their \"blue-eyed boy\"\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that Justin, from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, died as a result of a \"stab wound to the heart\".\n\nJustin's family paid tribute to their \"blue-eyed boy\" who was \"tragically taken just two days after his 14th birthday\".\n\nIn a statement, his parents said: \"Justin had his full life ahead of him, our lives will never be the same.\n\n\"He was the character of the family, his younger brothers miss him so much. He was their best friend as well as their brother.\n\n\"He'll be forever our big handsome boy with a smile that lit up the room.\"\n\nSentence was deferred and Haig was remanded in custody.", "Canadian Air Force has deployed their CP-140 Aurora aircraft, which provides a surface search and sub-surface acoustic detection.", "The stepfather of a five-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to her murder.\n\nNadia Zofia Kalinowska died after being found injured at her family home at Fernagh Drive in Newtownabbey in December 2019.\n\nHer mother, 28 year-old Aleksandra Wahab, and the child's stepfather, 34-year-old Abdul Wahab, went on trial on Wednesday at Belfast Crown Court, accused of murder.\n\nWhen the case resumed on Thursday, Abdul Wahab pleaded guilty to murder.\n\nThe Pakistani national also pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours before the child's death and on other occasions between July and December that year.\n\nA minimum period, before he can be released, will be set at a future date.\n\nThe trial had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed in her home - a place where she should have felt safe.\n\nDuring the opening, Crown barrister Liam McCollum detailed the injuries inflicted on Nadia.\n\nAs well as suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an injury to her bowel.\n\nAlso present at Nadia's time of death were 70 surface injuries including bruising and abrasions.\n\nNadia was rushed to hospital from her home in Newtownabbey\n\nThis led the Crown to conclude that Nadia had been subjected to a campaign of physical abuse in the family home which culminated in her death.\n\nAs the hearing was due to resume on Thursday, barristers for both Mr and Mrs Wahab asked that their clients be re-arraigned.\n\nAt this point Abdul Wahab bowed his head and tearfully pleaded guilty to the murder.\n\nAleksandra Wahab pleaded guilty to allowing the death of a child and allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nThese pleas were accepted by the court and the jury was discharged.\n\nShe was remanded back into custody.\n\nAddressing the jury of seven men and five woman, the judge said that as both defendants had now pleaded guilty to three charges each, he directed them to return not guilty verdicts on all the remaining counts.\n\nA spokesperson for the school said: \"Our school community is still in shock at this terrible tragedy. We have lost Nadia who was a much loved pupil.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted at this time.\"", "The festival was held last July after being cancelled twice due to Covid\n\nThe Doune the Rabbit Hole festival has been cancelled after the Bectu trade union called for a boycott.\n\nFestival organisers said they would not be issuing refunds to tickets holders for the event near Stirling on July 21.\n\nThe union, representing the creative industries, called on performers, contractors and fans to boycott the event over a payment row.\n\nThe festival owed hundreds of thousands of pounds to performers and crews who were on site last year.\n\nOrganisers said they did everything to try to hold the event while \"making good on promises to pay creditors\".\n\nHowever unions say in some cases bands are still owed tens of thousands of pounds from the festival \"with no hope of getting their final payments\".\n\nA statement posted on the Doune the Rabbit Hole website claimed a \"campaign of misinformation\" from Bectu created a fall in ticket sales and forced them to cancel.\n\nIt said: \"We've looked at all options to keep the event on the table, as we know how much it means to all the people and families who have bought tickets, but we just aren't able to produce the event in the current environment.\"\n\nThe event was held at the Cardross Estate near Stirling last July after being cancelled the previous two years because of Covid.\n\nIt went into liquidation in December and is now being managed by the Festival Food Beverage and Property Services company.\n\nThe event is held at the Cardross Estate near Stirling\n\nDirector Craig Murray said the debt from last year's festival was about £800,000.\n\nOrganisers also faced a backlash earlier this year after asking volunteers to pay a deposit to work at the event.\n\nDoune the Rabbit Hole said it had already paid out \"almost every single penny of the event's income\" and would not be issuing refunds for tickets.\n\nIt added: \"We are so sorry to be putting you in this position. In terms of refunds, we must urge you to contact your bank/credit card provider, explain the situation to them and they should, in most cases, be able to help recover your money.\"\n\nThe Bectu union represents contractors, including stage crews and technicians, who work behind the scenes at musical festivals.\n\nBectu negotiations officer for Scotland, Paul McManus, previously said the union made the decision to call for a boycott following discussions with the event organisers.\n\nIn a joint statement, Bectu, the Musicians' Union and Equity, said it was unfortunate the festival had been cancelled but it was \"incredibly disappointing\" that unions had been blamed.\n\nIt said: \"As trade unions we have tried to have a constructive dialogue with the organisers of the festival, but the undertakings which were offered to us were not forthcoming.\n\n\"We are concerned that the festival was able to enter liquidation last year and be reborn so quickly with so many of the same faces involved, and that concern has been borne out with so many of the same issues this year.\n\n\"We would urge any members affected by the cancellation to make contact with their trade union and will provide all the support we can.\"", "Front line staff vacancies account for 75% of those cut\n\nMore than 600 vacancies at the Department for Communities (DfC) - including those for front line staff - will not be filled, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe decision means there is a risk of slowing down the delivery of benefits for those in need.\n\nThe DfC is responsible for benefits, housing, addressing homelessness, arts and culture and sport.\n\nFrontline staff vacancies account for 75% of those cut.\n\nThe department said the cuts would be made in order to live within an \"inadequate\" budget.\n\nArm's length bodies of the DfC and third-party organisations funded by the department will receive a 5% cut to their budgets.\n\nThese include the Arts Council, Libraries NI and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive among others.\n\nCouncils will receive a £4m cut to the Rates Support Grant compared to the previous year, which will affect seven of Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nThe department has also decided to leave four offices in the greater Belfast area.\n\nNone of the offices are public facing, meaning services will not be impacted.\n\nThe DfC is the largest department in the Northern Ireland Civil Service with more than 9,000 staff.\n\nIn taking these decisions, the department said it would be £10m over budget, understood to be a calculated risk which is expected to be managed throughout the year.\n\nConfirming the funding decisions, DfC permanent secretary Colum Boyle said the department had \"sought to mitigate the significant and adverse impact\" of the budget, which he described as \"sub-optimal\".\n\n\"Our shared priority remains supporting the most vulnerable and at-risk in our society,\" he said.\n\n\"However, difficult decisions had to be made to live within the funding available.\"\n\nFunding for homelessness is set to be increased by £2m\n\nThe Supporting People programme which helps people live independently in the community has had funding sustained at the same as last year's level.\n\nDiscretionary support, which provides emergency financial support for people in crisis situation, will receive £20m funding.\n\nLast year, £40m of discretionary support grants were handed out after significant demand due to the cost of living crisis.\n\nFunding for homelessness is to be increased by £2m (or 8%) compared to last year.\n\nThe Affordable Warmth Scheme and Neighbourhood Renewal programmes have also been protected.\n\nIn terms of the capital budget, the DfC is facing a £59m (27%) shortfall compared to what was asked for, against a backdrop of record inflation in areas such as construction.\n\nThis mean's the budget will not be able to meet the department's target to start 2,000 new social homes this year and is now only expected to achieve 1,470 new starts.", "Prince William met Alford Dalrymple Gardner, one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Windrush\n\nThe Windrush generation have made the UK \"a better people today\", the Prince of Wales has said on a day of celebrations marking 75 years since the historic crossing from the Caribbean.\n\nPrince William said the voyagers and their descendants had helped rebuild the country and added to its culture.\n\nThe King was also at a Windsor Castle service, and a procession was held in south London.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the commemorations but called them \"bittersweet\".\n\nOver 1,000 people stepped off the HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in Essex on 22 June, 1948, among the first of thousands encouraged to migrate and help fill labour shortages in the armed forces, industry and NHS.\n\nIn 2018, it emerged that many British citizens who arrived as migrants from the Caribbean between the late 1940s and 1970s were facing deportation and detention - despite having the right to live in the UK.\n\nPaying tribute in a video posted on social media, Prince William said: \"Today we celebrate the Windrush generation, their descendants and everything they have given to us all.\"\n\nThe prince said those voyagers had helped to rebuild the country and had added to its culture - \"their contributions to Britain cannot be overstated\".\n\nHe added: \"We are a better people today because the children and the grandchildren of those who came in 1948 have stayed and become part of who we are in 2023. And for that we are forever grateful.\"\n\nPrince William's tribute came after he met Royal Air Force veteran Alford Dalrymple Gardner, who is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Windrush.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Jamaican-born Mr Gardner said quite a lot had happened in the past few months: \"I've met the King and I've met the Queen, and I've met the Prince of Wales.\n\n\"There's a portrait of me to be hung at Buckingham Palace so in a couple of thousand years when I'm dead and gone, my great great great ones will see my name... nothing can beat that.\"\n\nThe portrait of Alford Gardner was painted by artist Chloe Cox after King Charles commissioned a series of paintings to mark the Windrush crossing\n\nProfessor Sir Geoff Palmer is among those to feature in the King's Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation collection\n\nGuests were invited to view the specially commissioned portraits at Buckingham Palace last week\n\nThe portrait is one of ten paintings of members of the Windrush generation by black artists, commissioned by the King. The artwork is on public display for the first time at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, and later in October at the National Portrait Gallery in London.\n\nWriting in a book accompanying the artworks, the King said: \"Though drawn from different parts of the world, they collectively enrich the fabric of our national life and the remarkable tapestry of the Commonwealth.\"\n\nHe said it was \"crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers... and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country\".\n\nOn Thursday morning, the King was joined by young people and dignitaries at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle for a service celebrating the Windrush generation.\n\nThe King met a familiar face during the service - former broadcaster Baroness Benjamin carried his sceptre at the Coronation in May\n\nJermaine Jackman, the former winner of The Voice who was one of the campaigners who called for Windrush 75 to be a \"major national moment\", sang during the service\n\nThroughout the day the Windrush flag was flown at the Houses of Parliament and public buildings across the country, including Bristol and Exeter.\n\nIn south London, there was a party atmosphere as people processed in carnival outfits from Herne Hill to Windrush Square, Brixton, where many of the Caribbean community settled.\n\nIn Essex, there was dancing as a Thames Clipper boat arrived at the Port of Tilbury with 100 NHS workers and 100 people with Windrush connections. A blue plaque commemorating the 75th anniversary of some of the first arrivals was also unveiled.\n\nMeanwhile, a £1m fundraising effort is under way to recover the anchor from the HMT Empire Windrush and put it on public display. The ship sank off the coast of Algeria in 1954.\n\nThe Windrush flag was flown at Parliament, as well other public buildings across the country\n\nPrince William met Alford Dalrymple Gardner, one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Windrush\n\nA woman dresses at the Brixton procession in a nod to the fashion of the female Windrush arrivals\n\nIn 2018, it came to light that some members of the Windrush generation and their descendants were facing deportation and being denied access to public services because their right to live here had not been properly recorded by the government decades before.\n\nThe then-home secretary, Amber Rudd, apologised after a scathing report published in 2020 found it had been \"foreseeable and avoidable\" and that victims were let down by \"systemic operational failings\".\n\nAs of last month, £75m in compensation had been offered to those impacted, with £62.7m of that paid out, analysis by the PA News agency showed.\n\nBut the Home Office has continued to face criticism over the handling of compensation applications.\n\nAmelia Gentleman, a journalist for the Guardian who exposed the scandal, told Radio 4's Today programme: \"The anniversary remains soured by the ongoing failings of the Home Office.\"\n\nShe added the 44-page form involved in claiming compensation was too complicated.\n\nPatrick Vernon, convenor of the Windrush 75 network, said the events were a chance to \"celebrate the diversity of modern Britain\" and to \"acknowledge the legacy of those first Windrush pioneers, the challenges they overcame and the contribution they made to Britain\".\n\nBut he said it was a \"bittersweet moment, tainted by the injustice of the Windrush scandal\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has resisted calls for the programme to be moved out of Home Office control and the department has insisted it is \"absolutely committed to righting the wrongs of the Windrush scandal\".\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has uncovered evidence that hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people were sent back to the Caribbean after arriving in Britain.\n\nCorrection 31 July 2023: An earlier version of this story said that nearly 500 people were on board the Empire Windrush. After further research the figure has been amended to reflect that 1,027 were on board.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: James Cameron told the BBC he \"felt in his bones\" what happened to the sub\n\nHollywood film director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 movie Titanic, has told the BBC the team who built the submersible which imploded with the loss of five lives had \"cut corners\".\n\nOceanGate, the parent company of the Titan sub, \"didn't get certified because they knew they wouldn't pass\".\n\n\"I was very suspect of the technology that they were using. I wouldn't have gotten in that sub,\" he said.\n\nCameron has completed 33 submersible dives to the Titanic wreck.\n\nTitan was built from carbon fibre and titanium.\n\nIn 2012 Cameron used a different technology for the Deepsea Challenger submersible expedition in the Pacific, which took him down to 10,912m (35,800ft), the deepest known oceanic trench.\n\nThe Titanic wreck is 3,810m (12,500ft) down.\n\nCameron said that when he learned the sub had lost both its navigation and communication at the same time he immediately suspected a disaster.\n\n\"I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously - sub's gone.\"\n\nHe said that on Monday, when he heard the sub had gone missing, \"I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community.\n\n\"Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3,500 metres (11,483ft), heading for the bottom at 3,800 metres.\n\n\"Their comms were lost, and navigation was lost - and I said instantly, you can't lose comms and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event or high, highly energetic catastrophic event. And the first thing that popped to mind was an implosion.\"\n\nOn Thursday, an official from the US Navy told the BBC's partner CBS News that the navy had detected \"an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion\" shortly after the Titan lost contact with the surface.\n\nThe official said the information had been relayed to the US Coast Guard team, which used it to narrow the radius of the search area.\n\nCameron suggested that there was a \"terrible irony\" in the loss of Titan and its crew, likening it to the loss of the Titanic itself back in 1912.\n\n\"We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings,\" he said. \"OceanGate were warned.\"\n\nCameron said that some within the deep submergence community, not including himself directly, had written a letter to OceanGate saying they believed, in his words, \"you are going on a path to catastrophe\".\n\nA letter sent to OceanGate by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in March 2018 and obtained by the New York Times stated \"the current 'experimental' approach adopted by OceanGate... could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)\".\n\nSeparately, US court documents show a former employee of OceanGate warned of potential safety problems with the vessel as far back as 2018.\n\nThe documents show that David Lochridge, the company's director of marine operations, raised concerns in an inspection report.\n\nBut the co-founder of OceanGate insisted however that Titan had undergone rigorous testing.\n\nGuillermo Sohnlein, who left the company 10 years ago, told the BBC that the 14-year development programme had been \"very robust\".\n\n\"Any expert who weighs in on this, including Mr Cameron, will also admit that they were not there for the design of the sub, for the engineering of the sub, the building of the sub and certainly not for the rigorous test programme that the sub went through.\"\n\nThe Titan sub was not certified, but then this is not mandatory.\n\nIn a blog post about it in 2019, the company said the way that Titan had been designed fell outside the accepted system - but it \"does not mean that OceanGate does not meet standards where they apply\".\n\nIt added that the classification agencies \"slowed down innovation… bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation\".\n\nCameron told BBC News the past week had \"felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff\".\n\n\"I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That's exactly where they found it,\" he continued.\n\nHe said anyone venturing to the Titanic wreck should be fully aware of the risks, as \"it's a very dangerous site\".\n\n\"Agree to those risks, but don't be in a situation where you haven't been told about the risks of the actual platform that you're diving in there.\n\n\"In the 21st Century, there shouldn't be any risks. We've managed to make it through 60 years, from 1960 until today, 63 years without a fatality... So, you know, one of the saddest aspects of this is how preventable it really was.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "More now from Tilbury in Essex, where 75 years ago, passengers from the Caribbean disembarked from the HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks to begin new lives in the UK.\n\nArtist Evewright is the creator of the Walkway of Memories at the port - an art and sound installation set in one of the original walkways used by the original Windrush passengers.\n\nWalkway of Memories is an art and sound installation Image caption: Walkway of Memories is an art and sound installation\n\n\"I call it the family album from the Windrush generation,\" he says. \"I asked my community to send me images of their parents, grandparents, tickets, passports, just everything and anything they could.\"\n\n\"It is not just the Windrush story, it is a British story, but another type of British story,\" Evewright told the BBC Image caption: \"It is not just the Windrush story, it is a British story, but another type of British story,\" Evewright told the BBC\n\nFlags marking the Windrush 75th anniversary line the Port of Tilbury Image caption: Flags marking the Windrush 75th anniversary line the Port of Tilbury\n\nVisitors view images of the original passenger list at an exhibition space alongside the dock Image caption: Visitors view images of the original passenger list at an exhibition space alongside the dock", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after one person was left in a life-threatening condition and another was injured in a stabbing attack at a London hospital.\n\nPolice said the man arrested at Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal also sustained \"self-inflicted\" injuries.\n\nThe hospital was temporarily locked down but has since reopened with a heightened police presence.\n\nOne witness described how patients and visitors were locked in a nurses' room while police dealt with the incident.\n\nStaff were evacuated from the hospital building, where officers will remain as searches are carried out.\n\nThe Met Police said it was satisfied no-one else was being sought and that the stabbings were not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe attack was reported at about 13:20 BST. Paramedics said they treated three people at the scene.\n\nJamie Hogg, a contractor who saw the incident unfold, said he and his colleagues were visiting the hospital to carry out work and he saw police \"just swarming in\".\n\nStaff waited outside the hospital after being evacuated from the building\n\n\"It was armed police, one after another, one after another, and they just sprinted straight into the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like this before in my life, I thought it was crazy. It's quite hard to believe.\"\n\nHe described the incident as \"scary\", continuing: \"It could have been any of us. I don't know what were the reasons that drove him to that.\"\n\nAmie Ferris-Rotman, who was visiting the hospital dialysis unit with her father, told Sky News police checked the area where they were, before locking them in a nurses' room for about 45 minutes.\n\nShe said: \"All the dialysis patients were quite freaked out.\"\n\n\"And at one point those who were about to go on to dialysis were put in wheelchairs and brought into a room, which is where we were as well, and they were locked in.\"\n\nDetectives have been carrying bags of evidence out of the hospital, including a clear bag containing what appeared to be clothing.\n\nThree unmarked police cars, identifiable by the logbooks on their dashboards, remain in the car park of the hospital.\n\nArmed police are responding an incident at Central Middlesex Hospital in London\n\nThe London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said the building was locked down as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nIn a tweet, the trust said: \"While our clinics are reopening, we may need to reschedule your appointment if we can't see you today.\"\n\nThe Labour MP for Brent Central, Dawn Butler, told BBC Radio London: \"The police have the situation very much under control.\n\n\"They have arrested somebody and I think the situation should be a lot calmer now.\n\n\"It's quite reassuring that the police are not at this stage looking for anybody else, and they have the whole situation in hand.\"\n\nShe added: \"That additional stress when you're in hospital isn't very good, so I'm grateful the police acted really quickly and got this under control as quickly as they did.\"\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it had sent an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic, an ambulance crew and a medic in a fast-response car, as well as a hazardous area response team and the air ambulance.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNine people have been detained over an explosion at a barbecue restaurant in north-west China which has killed at least 31 people.\n\nA gas leak is suspected to have caused the explosion in Yinchuan city on Wednesday night local time.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has called for \"all-out efforts\" in the rescue and an investigation into the blast.\n\nThe owner of the Fuyang Barbecue Restaurant was among those in custody, state media reported.\n\nThe explosion occurred on the eve of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday in China, a time when many families and friends gather for celebratory meals.\n\nSeveral high school students and retirees were among the dead, local media reported.\n\nThe death toll is expected to rise with at least seven people injured, one of whom is in a critical condition, Xinhua news agency reported.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has called for maximum efforts in treating the wounded and boosting safety measures.\n\n\"We must do our best to rescue the injured and reassure the families of the casualties, identify the cause of the accident as soon as possible, and seriously pursue responsibility according to the law,\" Mr Xi said.\n\nThe restaurant is part of a cluster of eateries and entertainment venues in downtown Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia autonomous region.\n\nState broadcaster CCTV aired footage of more than a dozen firefighters fighting the blaze as smoke poured out of a gaping hole in the restaurant's facade. Shards of glass and other debris littered the street.\n\nFire and rescue services dispatched more than 100 personnel and 20 vehicles to the scene, the Ministry of Emergency Management said. The rescue operation lasted until 04:00 local time Thursday.\n\nAccording to a preliminary investigation by the fire department, a restaurant employee had smelled a gas leak about an hour before the explosion.\n\nHe then discovered a broken valve on a liquefied gas tank, and was in the process of replacing it when the blast occurred, local media reported.\n\nBarbeque restaurants are emblematic of China's street vendor economy and a favourite of locals in the country's north-west regions.", "Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent \"silent\" 999 calls.\n\nThe Emergency SOS feature calls when a side button is pressed repeatedly.\n\nPolice chiefs have said they think it is part of the reason for record numbers of 999 calls.\n\nGoogle, which develops the most widely used Android phone software, says it expects manufacturers to issue updates to address the problem.\n\nSmartphones that run on Android operating systems include Samsung's Galaxy, Google's Pixel and OnePlus handsets.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said the new update to Android software \"added a new SOS emergency function for devices to call 999 through the power button being pressed five times or more\".\n\n\"Nationally, all emergency services are currently experiencing record high 999 call volumes. There's a few reasons for this, but one we think is having a significant impact is an update to Android smartphones.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said silent calls took 20 minutes to deal with. They urged people who accidentally dialled 999 to stay on the line and tell the operator it was a mistake.\n\nThe force told the BBC it had received 169 silent 999 calls between 00:00 and 19:00 BST on Sunday alone.\n\nPolice Scotland said BT had reported \"a significant increase in accidental calls to 999\".\n\nWhile the feature was included in Android 12 in 2021, many have reported particular issues since the update to Android 13 last year.\n\nGuidance on how to disable the feature can be found on manufacturers' websites, with most handsets allowing users to turn off the emergency SOS call option in their settings.\n\nThis can typically be accessed by visiting safety and emergency options in settings and tapping the Emergency SOS toggle to \"off\", or by searching for \"emergency call\" in settings.\n\nThe problem is not confined to the UK. At the start of June, the European Emergency Number Association warned that it had been alerted by some of its members to a \"surge in automatic false calls originating from Android devices\".\n\nA Google spokesperson told the BBC it was up to manufacturers who choose to offer Emergency SOS on their devices to manage how the feature worked on their phones.\n\n\"To help these manufacturers prevent unintentional emergency calls on their devices, Android is providing them with additional guidance and resources,\" they said.\n\n\"We anticipate device manufacturers will roll out updates to their users that address this issue shortly. Users that continue to experience this issue should switch Emergency SOS off for the next couple of days.\"", "Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley says rich nations must help developing countries pay for impacts of climate change\n\nWorld leaders meeting in Paris on Thursday could give poorer countries access to hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change.\n\nMia Mottley, Barbados' first female PM, is leading the global fight for this money and tells BBC News that her tiny country urgently needs help.\n\nPoorer nations want more money because they did little to cause climate change but face its worst effects.\n\nThey also struggle to afford expensive projects like renewable energy.\n\nClimate finance, including funding for flood defences or solar plants, has long been one of the biggest sticking points in climate negotiations.\n\nBut Ms Mottley has built a global coalition to support her demand that the international financial system be fundamentally reformed.\n\n\"We are all in this together\", Ms Mottley told BBC News in Paris. \"If we don't realise that, we will not act with the urgency that's necessary to save the planet and save lives.\"\n\nThe Barbadian prime minister is joint host of the Paris conference with President Emmanuel Macron of France.\n\nIsland nations like the Maldives want help to build defences against flooding linked to climate change\n\nDozens of world leaders are attending the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, including the German Chancellor, the president of Brazil and the new president of the World Bank as well as the prime minister of China and the US Treasury Secretary.\n\nThe UK is sending its minister for development, Andrew Mitchell.\n\nShe describes the threat of climate change as \"a death sentence\" on the world. \"If it is a death sentence, then we need to move with urgency,\" she explains.\n\nInsiders at the summit are expecting an announcement that a target for $100bn worth of a kind of international currency called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) has been met.\n\nThese assets will be transferred to low-income countries to be used for climate programmes.\n\nBut Ms Mottley has an even bigger prize in her sights, a plan dubbed the \"Bridgetown Agenda\" after the Barbadian capital.\n\nIt wants to generate more finance for the countries that need it most through a wholesale modernisation of the international monetary system.\n\nThe current institutions - including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - were set up by the victorious nations towards the end of the Second World War at a conference in a ski resort called Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, US\n\nThe so-called \"Bretton Woods system\" will celebrate its 80th anniversary next year.\n\nMs Mottley says she wants to make it fit for the challenges of the modern world by moving the focus away from richer nations and towards delivering outcomes that benefit the entire world, like helping developing countries tackle climate change.\n\nMany countries are facing extreme drought as global temperature rises\n\n\"The reason why these institutions exist is that they were created to help the world in the reconstruction effort after World War Two. We are in a moment that is equal to World War Two with respect to climate,\" she said.\n\nThis week the International Energy Agency warned annual investments in clean energy in developing nations will need to triple from $770bn in 2022 to as much as $2.8tn by the early 2030s if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nOne proposal is that institutions like the World Bank offer cheaper loans for climate action projects.\n\nIt is much more expensive to build flood defences in Barbados or Angola than it is in the Netherlands or the UK, Ms Mottley points out.\n\nThe same goes for erecting wind turbines or installing solar farms.\n\nThat is because low-income countries are charged high interest rates - often two or even three times the rates developed nations face.\n\nYet the risks of individual projects don't vary anywhere near as much as that.\n\nAnother suggestion is that institutions like the World Bank should agree to guarantee loans for climate action in developing nations. That would encourage the private sector to lend at lower interest rates.\n\nExperts say these initiatives could generate hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of loans for climate projects in low-income countries.\n\nAnother proposal involves the creation of an auction in which developing nations would bid for cheap finance for climate projects.\n\nThis \"Climate Mitigation Trust Fund\" would be funded by tens of billions of dollars' worth of SDRs and overseen by the IMF and the UN.\n\nThe winners would be the projects that reduce global warming fastest.\n\nIt is not expected that a final decision will be made on these proposals, but Ms Mottley is confident that progress will be made.\n\nWe tell our children we shouldn't put off to tomorrow what we need to do today, Ms Mottley says.\n\n\"I find myself actually repeating a lot of things that we would say to children, in order to inform global behaviour today,\" she continues. \"That tells us a lot.\"", "Suleman Dawood and his father Shahzada Dawood were on the Titanic sub\n\nA teenager who died in a submersible that went missing on a dive to the Titanic's wreck was a student in Glasgow, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nSuleman Dawood, 19, studied at the University of Strathclyde.\n\nHe was one of five people on board the sub, including his father Shahzada, 48, a businessman who lived in Surbiton, south-west London.\n\nThe US coast guard confirmed all five passengers had died after after debris was found in the search area.\n\nAfter the news emerged, the Dawood family released a statement on the deaths.\n\nIt said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims of this tragedy, one which has been followed around the world.\n\n\"The family remains overwhelmed with the love and support that it has received and is grateful to the those who showcased the best in humanity.\"\n\nContact was lost on Sunday about an hour-and-a-half into its dive in the mid-Atlantic. A massive search operation attempted to locate the vessel and those on board.\n\nEarlier in the week, the Dawood family described Suleman as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nA former pupil of ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, he had just completed his first year at Strathclyde Business School.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nIn the message, he said: \"I write to you with a heavy heart to share the news that one of our students, Suleman Dawood, is a passenger on board the submersible that is missing in the North Atlantic.\n\n\"I know you will join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to their families and loved ones.\"\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The latest on the Titanic sub... in 70 seconds\n\nSuleman's father was from one of Pakistan's richest families and is vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe and wife Christine have another child, Alina. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, USA, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nHis family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nAberdeenshire-based Deep Energy took part in the rescue mission\n\nThe father and son were on board the sub with British adventurer Hamish Harding, former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Stockton Rush, the chief executive of OceanGate, which runs the Titanic voyages.\n\nOceanGate charges $250,000 per person for the deep-sea excursion to the Titanic shipwreck, which sits 3,800m (12,500ft) beneath the surface of the Atlantic.\n\nTitan and its passengers were at the centre of a huge international rescue mission, which included a Scottish ship normally used to work on pipelines in the North Sea.\n\nThe Aberdeenshire-based Deep Energy had remote submersibles that reach the 3,800m (12,500ft) depth of the Titanic wreck to search for the missing vehicle.\n\nPlanes were loaded at RAF Lossiemouth before heading to Canada\n\nA large RAF plane also left Scotland for Canada to join the search operation.\n\nA C17 Globemaster loaded with ancillary equipment - believed to be cables - departed from RAF Lossiemouth at around 15:00.\n\nA second plane - and Atlas A400M - was scheduled to leave later, transporting specialist loaders and crew.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence received a request for assistance on Wednesday night and had been moving assets since then to help with the operation.\n\nMeanwhile, the plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"", "We've been inundated with reaction to today's interest rate decision by the Bank of England - both in favour and against it. Here's a flavour of some of the different views.\n\nAnna Leach of the Confederaton of British Industry (CBI) says the Bank had no other option but to go for a \"bumper rate rise\" - though the it will \"come as a blow to hard-pressed households and businesses who are struggling with rising costs\".\n\nSharon Graham of the trade union Unite said the Bank had made the \"wrong choice\" in \"inflicting pain on ordinary households\".\n\nShe said the rise was \"nothing more than a hand-out\" to banks who had already \"made bumper profits\".\n\nJonathan Samuels, chief executive of loan company Octane Capital said while 0.5% jump was \"probably appropriate\" and \"should help the Bank of England regain a grip over the situation at hand\".\n\nAnalysts from Dutch bank ING said it seems likely that the Bank will hike rates again in the coming months, though more likely with two further 0.25% increases than another 0.5% rise.\n\nAnd finally, Economist Mohammed El-Erian told the BBC he feels Brexit has been a factor in the 13th successive hike.\n\n\"We decided to redefine our trading relationships. that has disrupted our supply chains. That sets us apart and explains why our inflation is higher and more stubborn than what we see elsewhere.\"", "Two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires - Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - have agreed to fight each other in a cage match.\n\nMr Musk posted a message on his social media platform Twitter that he was \"up for a cage fight\" with Mr Zuckerberg.\n\nMr Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, then posted a screenshot of Mr Musk's tweet with the caption \"send me location\".\n\n\"The story speaks for itself,\" a Meta spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nMr Musk then replied to Mr Zuckerberg's response with: \"Vegas Octagon.\"\n\nThe Octagon is the competition mat and fenced-in area used for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The UFC is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.\n\nMr Musk, who turns 52 later this month, also tweeted: \"I have this great move that I call 'The Walrus', where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.\"\n\nHe later tweeted short videos of walruses, perhaps suggesting his challenge to Mr Zuckerberg may not entirely be serious.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also tweeted: \"I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air.\"\n\nMeanwhile, 39-year-old Mr Zuckerberg has already been training in mixed martial arts (MMA) and has recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments.\n\nTwitter did not provide a statement when contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nThe exchanges have gone viral with social media users debating who would win the bout, while others have posted memes including mocked up posters advertising the fight.\n\nFor example, business consultant Seyi Taylor tweeted: \"Choose your fighter\" with pictures of the two tech bosses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ST (∞,∞) 🏴‍☠️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBroadcaster and fight sports journalist Nick Peet told the BBC's World at One programme that Dana White, the president of the UFC, would be \"licking his lips at the possibility of putting this fight on\".\n\nHe said he thought there was a decent chance it could actually go ahead, \"mostly because of Elon Musk and his personality and his eccentric character. His career kind of suggests he's not somebody who willingly steps down.\"\n\nHowever, asked who he thought would come out on top, he replied: \"Zuckerberg all day! He's 12 years younger. He is a lot smaller. I think he's 5ft 7, Elon's probably around 6ft. And Elon's probably got a couple of stone in weight on him.\n\n\"But unfortunately Mr Musk has got no training whatsoever. Even though Zuckerberg's only been training Brazilian jiu-jitsu for 18 months, it wouldn't be difficult for him to take his back, wrap his arms around his neck and give him a good old cuddle and choke him out!\"\n\nMr Musk has a history of making statements that are not serious or which fail to happen.\n\nFor example, he told the BBC in April he had made his dog chief executive of Twitter.\n\nIn 2017 he tweeted he had \"verbal government approval\" for a so-called hyperloop - a kind of train system - to connect New York City with Washington DC, Philadephia and Baltimore. This has yet to materialise.\n\nIn 2018 Mr Musk was forced to step down as Tesla chair by regulators after Tweeting that he intended to take the firm private.\n\nMr Musk has also made good on some of his pronouncements, including stepping down as Twitter chief executive this year after Twitter users voted in favour of his resignation in a poll he ran.\n\nHe had already said he wanted to step back as chief executive in November 2022, however.\n\nEarlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter, sources told the BBC.\n\nIt could allow users to follow accounts they already follow on Instagram, Meta's image-sharing app.\n\nIt could potentially allow the company to bring over followers from decentralised platforms such as Mastodon.\n\nA Meta spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that the platform was in development.\n\nThe text-based network - which has a working title of P92 - could turn out to be a greater rival to Elon Musk's Twitter than either BlueSky or Mastodon.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Father-of-four Pat McCormick was described as a gentle man who was the victim of a brutal and sustained assault\n\nA man who murdered a County Down father of four, disposed of his body in a wheelie bin and dumped it in a lake must serve at least 16 years in prison before being considered for release.\n\nPat McCormick's body was discovered near Ballygowan six weeks after he was last seen on CCTV in Comber.\n\nDavid Gill, 30, of no fixed abode, was sentenced on Thursday after admitting the murder of the 55-year-old.\n\nFive people were sentenced in connection with Mr McCormick's murder.\n\nSpeaking to media gathered outside the court in Belfast afterwards, Mr McCormick's 18-year-old daughter Morgan paid tribute to her dad.\n\n\"We've been stripped of our father,\" she said.\n\n\"My dad will never get to see any of us grow up or get married. He'll never get to hold his future grandkids.\n\n\"We leave here today with memories of our dad who has been taken from us. However those memories are filled with love and happiness, and they're memories that we'll all hold on to forever.\"\n\nMr McCormick was lured to a flat in Comber on the evening of 30 May 2019.\n\nThe 55-year-old believed he was going to meet Gill's fiancée Lesley Ann Dodds, with whom he had had a brief relationship.\n\nDodds, 25, from Queen Victoria Gardens in Belfast, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years after admitting manslaughter, with half of that term to be served in prison.\n\nMr McCormick had received messages from Dodds' Facebook account, saying she had left Gill and asking him to come to her flat.\n\nInstead, when Mr McCormick arrived, only Gill was at the flat.\n\nThe judge at Belfast Crown Court said Mr McCormick had been the victim of a \"brutal and sustained assault\".\n\nThe court heard his cause of death was 24 rib fractures due to blunt force trauma.\n\nMr McCormick was described in court as being \"devoted to his family, thoughtful, gentle and caring\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daughter speaks of loss after father's murderer is jailed\n\nThree other men admitted withholding information in relation to Mr McCormick's murder.\n\nWilliam Gill, 43, from Terrace View in Waringstown, who is Dodds' brother, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years.\n\nThe other men - Andrew Leslie, 24, from Mourne Crescent in Moneyrea, and Jonathon Richard Leslie Montgomery, 24, from Castle Espie Road, Comber - were sentenced to 15 months, suspended for two years.\n\nAddressing the three men, the judge said their actions had left \"a stain on your character in this gruesome and sorry affair\".\n\nMorgan McCormick said \"no amount of jail time will ever bring our dad back\" but said today is \"the start of justice for me, my brothers, my sister, my mum, my dad's friends and family\".\n\nSpeaking after the sentences were issued, Det Insp Jennifer Rea said her thoughts were with Mr McCormick's family.\n\n\"Those weeks of waiting, wondering and hoping were a torturous and prolonged nightmare for a loving family and, of course, their sadness doesn't end today,\" she said.\n\n\"It's over four years on now and their heartache understandably remains.\"\n\nMs Rea said Gill and Dodds had been held accountable for their actions \"that were planned, cowardly and irreversible\".\n\nThe senior officer thanked members of the public in Comber and nearby areas for their support during the murder investigation.", "Molly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 after viewing harmful online content while suffering depression\n\nThe government has agreed to give coroners and bereaved families new powers to access information on their loved ones held by tech companies.\n\nThe pledge came during a House of Lords debate on the Online Safety Bill.\n\nCulture minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said the amendments to the bill would make accessing data \"more straightforward and humane\".\n\nIan Russell, whose daughter Molly ended her life after viewing harmful content online, said it was \"really important\".\n\nThe Online Safety Bill was introduced in March under Boris Johnson, and has been repeatedly altered during its passage through Parliament.\n\nAs it moved towards being passed, the bill went through a final day of scrutiny by a committee in the House of Lords.\n\nDuring the committee hearing crossbench peer Baroness Kidron called for legal powers to request information from Facebook and other \"service providers\", which could be relevant to the death of a child who had used their platform.\n\nIn response, culture minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay announced a \"package of amendments\" to ensure \"coroners have access to the expertise and information that they need in order to conduct their investigations, including information held by technology companies, regardless of size\".\n\nLord Parkinson added: \"This includes information about how a child interacted with specific content online as well as the role of wider systems and processes, such as algorithms, in promoting it.\"\n\nSeveral parents of children who lost their children as a result of online harms were in the public gallery in the Lords during the debate, including Mr Russell.\n\nMr Russell said of the announcement: \"It's absolutely vital if we're to learn lessons\"\n\nMr Russell, from Harrow in north-west London, described the plans as \"the first major concession that the government's really given in this process\".\n\n\"It's absolutely vital if we're to learn lessons and find out how to make this great and fantastic digital world safer for everyone, and particularly children, to use,\" he said.\n\n\"What we have to do is let digital platforms bring their benefits with them but protect people from the harms that they contain.\"\n\nLorin LeFave was one of the parents in the public gallery while the bill was being discussed in the House of Lords\n\nLorin LeFave, whose son Breck Bednar, 14, was groomed and murdered by someone he met online said the progress had been \"very positive\".\n\n\"The speeches were supportive and the interactions were going in the right direction, so I'm hoping of all hopes that this bill will be all that it can be,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want to have to live with the online world being the wild west any longer, I want just to be able to tame it and to make sure our children are safer online.\"\n\nSpeaking after the announcement, Baroness Kidron said: \"It's not a victorious moment because it's so tragic that we've had to fight this hard, that so many families have hit the wall of 'computer says no' when they're in such grief and extremis.\n\n\"The minister said that the government would make a coroner's notice an equivalent of an Ofcom information notice - all of the powers of Ofcom will indeed go to the coroner in effect.\"\n\nShe added this would include powers to fine companies and hold managers responsible.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Chris Whitty has been a key government adviser during the pandemic\n\nThreats to independent experts during the pandemic could undermine responses to disasters in the future, Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned.\n\nGiving evidence to the Covid public inquiry, England's chief medical officer, Sir Chris, said abuse and threats aimed at experts had been \"extremely concerning\".\n\nIn January 2022, a man was jailed for eight weeks after he accosted Sir Chris in a London park.\n\nDuring the hearings into the two men the courts were told how one man, Jonathan Chew, 24, started filming Sir Chris on his phone while another, Lewis Hughes, also 24, grabbed him in a headlock.\n\nThe footage, lasting about 20 seconds, was widely shared on social media and showed the pair jeering as Sir Chris attempted to break free.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer was not injured in the attack during the summer of 2021.\n\nAs well as the incident, Sir Chris and others have reported being abused on social media, as well as being shouted at in public.\n\nSir Chris told the inquiry: \"We should be very firm in saying that society very much appreciates the work of these people [experts and scientists], who put in considerable amounts of time.\"\n\nHe said it was often provided without pay and also noted how universities were becoming stricter about releasing their academics.\n\nInquiry chair Baroness Hallett said she was \"astonished and sorry\" about what had happened.\n\nAfter Sir Chris had finished giving evidence on Thursday into how well prepared the UK was for the pandemic, she said: \"It's wrong for so many reasons, but I do know how distressing it can be.\n\n\"I hope that people will think twice but of course they never do before committing themselves to distressing acts unnecessarily.\n\n\"There are so many different ways to express different opinion. Why do we have to have personal abuse?\"\n\nDuring the rest of his evidence, Sir Chris said one of the key weaknesses the UK faced was the inability to scale up testing quickly.\n\nAnd he described the national lockdown as the \"very big new idea\" of the Covid pandemic and \"very radical thing to do\".\n\n\"It was an extraordinarily major, social intervention with huge economic and social ramifications.\"\n\nSir Chris also defended the government scientific advisory group Sage, which he co-chaired during the pandemic, after suggestions there was not enough diversity of thought within the group.\n\nThere were no economic or social experts for example.\n\nBut Sir Chris said it would have been too \"unwieldly\" if a range of different experts were added to it.\n\nInstead, he said the economic and societal consequences of responding to a pandemic should be done separately through a different mechanism.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, said it was a \"regret\" that during the pandemic it often took a long period of time for Sage research to be published.\n\n\"I believe that scientific advice should be made public - that's beneficial for everybody,\" he said.\n\nHe added it should always be open to \"scrutiny, comment and challenge\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steve Apelt is travelling across the site on his custom-made novelty bike\n\nGlastonbury veterans who have attended for more than four decades say the festival has not lost its magic.\n\nSteve Apelt, 60, from Chiselborough, Somerset, has been a regular since the early 1980s and first went to Glastonbury aged 21.\n\nHe said he had watched the festival go from \"chaotic\" to \"the most beautiful thing on the planet\".\n\nPat Rogers, 73, who has attended since the 1970s said he still finds \"there's so much to see at Glastonbury\".\n\nMr Apelt said: \"It went through that time when it was a festival when everyone was jumping the fence, and it all became a bit chaotic, to now, which is the most beautiful thing on the planet.\n\n\"Last night, we spent hours just walking around and every corner that you turn there's something else that's so innovative, beautiful, pretty and so many people just love it for that.\"\n\nMr Apelt described the festival as \"the most beautiful thing on the planet\"\n\nHGV driver Ben Rogers, 46, from Wells, who first came to Glastonbury aged one, said it is \"simply the greatest show on earth\".\n\n\"Many say it's too commercial now, but for me, it's still kept that incredible vibe and atmosphere you simply can't explain to anyone who hasn't been,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone comes and instantly embraces - it's impossible not to,\" he added.\n\nDancers from the Notting Hill Carnival are among this year's performers\n\nMr Rogers, a retired car technician, said variety is what sets the festival apart.\n\n\"You don't just turn up for the groups and go home, there's so much to see at Glastonbury,\" Mr Rogers said.\n\nBut he added that it has become \"quite political\".\n\n\"At my age, it irks me a little the political side of stuff as everything is in your face,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody has got to have a voice for something, but it's too much down your throat, in my opinion,\" added Mr Rogers.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis performed his own set on Thursday evening\n\nOn Thursday evening the original Glastonbury veteran, founder Michael Eavis, performed a collection of classics on The Park Stage.\n\nThe 87-year-old, who was wheeled on in an office chair due to a foot injury, kicked-off with Frank Sinatra's Love's Been Good To Me.\n\nEavis changed the words from \"There was a girl in Portland\" to \"There was a girl in Pilton\", in reference to the nearest village to Worthy Farm.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Claire Robinson says the cuts are \"wholly unacceptable\"\n\nCuts to schools are \"dire\" and will affect support to the \"most vulnerable children\", according to a Belfast school principal.\n\nClaire Robinson from Holy Evangelists' Primary School has written to parents urging them to fight budget cuts.\n\nThe school in Twinbrook has about 560 pupils, two-thirds of whom are entitled to free school meals.\n\nThere have been numerous cuts to support for children as the Department of Education tries to make savings.\n\nMs Robinson's intervention comes as the Children's Law Centre told Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris that it will take legal action unless he takes steps \"to assess how to protect children from the cumulative effects of the budget cuts\".\n\nIn her letter Ms Robinson said Holy Evangelist had a \"huge cut\" of about £100,000 to its budget for 2023-24, as the school had lost funding for a number of services.\n\n\"Every decision we make always has your children at the heart, but I do feel it is now vital that you know the reality we are facing,\" she told parents.\n\nNurture units are special classes in which small groups of pupils receive specialist teaching and support\n\nThe school is one of 62 primaries which have a \"nurture unit\", a special class in which small groups of pupils receive specialist teaching and support.\n\nBut funding for those classes has been reduced.\n\nLike others, the school has also lost funding for things like counselling for pupils and will also be affected by cuts to sports coaching.\n\nMs Robinson said the cuts \"will impact on how we support our most vulnerable children, those with needs\".\n\n\"Those children who struggled in the aftermath of the pandemic now won't get any additional support classes which is a travesty,\" she continued.\n\n\"This is a dire situation and those who suffer will be your children, future generations and staff who will be feeling the pressure like never before.\n\n\"I for one think this is wholly unacceptable.\"\n\nMs Robinson also said the school would have to end providing a free snack at breaktime to pupils.\n\n\"From September children will need to bring a healthy snack each day.\"\n\nThe principal also apologised to parents that costs for the school's breakfast and after-schools clubs would increase by 50p an hour.\n\n\"For this I am sorry, but we can't continue to offer these services at the current rate,\" she wrote.\n\nMs Robinson asked parents to \"stand up and fight for the children\" by contacting politicians or the media.\n\n\"Shout from the roof tops, because our children matter,\" she concluded.\n\nFergal McFerran, of the Children's Law Centre said Mr Heaton-Harris had \"utterly failed\" to apply the principle of equality when setting his budget.\n\n\"We fear the cumulative impact his budget will have on children and young people will be severe, particularly those most disadvantaged. We already see this in our everyday work,\" he said.\n\nThe Children's Law Centre has also written to Mr Heaton-Harris, telling him it will seek leave to apply to the High Court for judicial review unless the NI secretary takes action.", "The CPS said Jackson told police he was trying to provoke a reaction two days before the Coronation on 6 May\n\nA man who posted on TikTok that he would take a van to the Coronation of King Charles III and blow himself up has been sentenced.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Richard Jackson told police he was trying to provoke a reaction two days before the event and did not own a van.\n\nIt said the 28-year-old admitted sending a threatening communication.\n\nIt added Jackson, of Didsbury, was given a 12-month community order at Manchester Magistrates' Court.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned on a historic day of pageantry on 6 May.\n\nThousands packed the Mall in London despite the rain, after a service at Westminster Abbey and a procession.\n\nA CPS representative said investigators found Jackson did not possess any of the items that could be used to carry out his threat.\n\nThey said Jackson, of Brixton Avenue, was also ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, senior crown prosecutor Louise Hartley said Jackson \"didn't get the reaction he was looking for\" when he posted on the social media app.\n\n\"Instead, he found himself before the court,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope in future he will think twice before commenting on social media.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Band member Ian 'H' Watkins told Chippenham Pride he did not want to perform in Dubai because of the human rights issues there\n\nSteps turned down a show in Dubai over a contract clause which stated they were not allowed to mention sexuality, band member Ian 'H' Watkins has said.\n\nHe told Chippenham Pride in Wiltshire he was at a point in his life where morals were more important than a \"pot of gold gig\".\n\nWatkins said nobody had known Steps were offered the show in the Middle East but he said it was \"important\" to raise the issue.\n\nIn an interview with Bobbi Pickard, chief executive of Trans in the city, on Saturday, Watkins said he was \"emotional\" that he had not spoken up sooner and wished he had had \"the guts\" to do so.\n\n\"This week we were offered a gig, a show, and it was in a country where there's lots of oppression, where the LGBTQ+ community is treated so horrendously,\" he said.\n\n\"And in the contract it said 'no mention of sexuality' and that really jarred with me.\n\n\"I'm at a point in my life now where my morals and what I strive for is more important that that pot of gold gig was in Dubai,\" he said.\n\nThe popstar organised the first-ever Pride for his hometown of Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nMr Watkins said he gave his reasons for not wanting to perform.\n\n\"It's because of all the horrendous human rights issues that are happening there,\" he said.\n\nDubai is one of the United Arab Emirates, which has strict laws against homosexuality.\n\nNearby Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup, has similar rules.\n\nIt was criticised for its attitude to LGBT people, its human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers.\n\n\"Respecting and backing H's position has shown fabulous allyship,\" Ms Pickard said.\n\n\"They [Steps] have a strong Pride community following, and this reinforces their support and love for their fans.\"\n\nShe added she would like to see other artists follow in Steps' example and think twice about performing in places where people in their fan base face imprisonment or the death penalty.\n\nIan \"H\" Watkins publicly came out in 2007, a decade after Steps launched\n\nMr Watkins said he had told the band they were welcome to perform without him, but the band decided to follow his decision.\n\nHe said regardless of one's gender, sexuality, or colour, people should be able to live their best life, and be their authentic selves.\n\n\"It felt like a little win.\n\n\"If everybody did that, all of those ripples will make huge waves, and we will have a much more inclusive and beautiful place to live.\"", "Mrs Ewing became known as Madame Ecosse during her time as a Member of the European Parliament\n\nFormer SNP MP Winnie Ewing - an icon of the Scottish independence movement - has died aged 93.\n\nMrs Ewing was elected to the House of Commons in the 1967 Hamilton by-election and served as president of the party from 1987 to 2005.\n\nHer son Fergus and daughter Annabelle are both MSPs at Holyrood.\n\nMrs Ewing's election to Westminster in 1967 was a breakthrough which marked the start of the SNP's rise throughout the 1970s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs Ewing became the SNP's first female MP in 1967\n\nAfter becoming the SNP's first female MP, she famously told the press: \"Stop the World, Scotland wants to get on\".\n\nA statement issued on behalf of her family said: \"Mrs Ewing, generally considered the most important Scottish politician of her generation, served as an MP, MEP and MSP, and was the first presiding officer of the reconvened Scottish Parliament in 1999.\n\n\"She sparked the revival of the SNP's fortunes, which continue to this day, with her victory in the Hamilton by-election of 1967.\n\n\"Mrs Ewing died on Wednesday surrounded by her family.\n\n\"She is survived by children Fergus, Annabelle and Terry, and grandchildren Natasha, Ciara, Jamie, and Sophie. She also had a deep affection for daughters-in-law Fiona and Jacqui.\n\n\"She was a loving and devoted wife to Stewart Martin Ewing, who died in 2003 aged 76.\n\n\"It would be appreciated if the family could be accorded privacy at this time.\"\n\nWinnie Ewing became an MP after winning the 1967 Hamilton by-election\n\nFlags at Holyrood were lowered as a mark of respect following confirmation of Mrs Ewing's death.\n\nScotland's first minister Humza Yousaf, the SNP's leader, said he was heartbroken at losing \"a shining light of our party\".\n\nHe added: \"Without Winnie's trailblazing victory in the 1967 Hamilton by-election and without her dedication to the cause of independence, the SNP would simply not have achieved the success we have.\n\n\"Winnie, more than anyone else, ensured our party was outward looking. She promoted Scotland's interests in Europe over many years. Thank you Madame Ecosse for your service to our party and country.\"\n\nFormer first minister Nicola Sturgeon - who described Mrs Ewing as her political hero - tweeted her tribute, saying: \"Heartbroken by this news.\n\n\"I can't begin to convey the depth of gratitude I feel for the advice, wisdom, encouragement and inspiration Winnie gave me and so many others over the years. She was a master of the art of campaigning and it was a privilege to learn from her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2018 interview, Nicola Sturgeon described Winnie Ewing as \"the best street campaigner I've ever seen\"\n\nSending her condolences to the family, Ms Sturgeon said Scotland had \"lost one of her foremost patriots and champions\" and that \"the SNP and the independence movement have lost a beloved icon\".\n\nShe ended by saying simply: \"Thank you Madame Ecosse\".\n\nMs Sturgeon's predecessor as FM and SNP leader, Alex Salmond, said Mrs Ewing was \"the most influential Scottish nationalist of the 20th Century\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Salmond said her triumph in the Hamilton by-election of 1967 \"defined modern Scottish nationalism\" and started a period of \"unbroken\" parliamentary representation.\n\nMrs Ewing \"continued to dazzle\" Scottish politics in the following decades, the former first minister said.\n\nHe added: \"Many politicians adapt to the climate. Few make the political weather. Winnie Ewing was one of those\" and said that he would \"never forgot the lessons\" Mrs Ewing taught him.\n\nWinnie Ewing with former first ministers and SNP leaders Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon\n\nMrs Ewing had described her most treasured memory as the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, which she presided over as the oldest member.\n\nShe told the opening session: \"I want to begin with the words that I have always wanted either to say, or hear someone else say: 'The Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on March 25, 1707, is hereby reconvened.'\n\nShe had trained and practised as a lawyer before entering politics full-time, joining the SNP in 1946 and going on to become the head of a family political dynasty within the party.\n\nThe by-election triumph at Hamilton - one of the most famous victories in Scottish political history - was no flash in the pan. In 1974, Ewing famously defeated the then Scottish Secretary, Gordon Campbell, to take the seat of Moray and Nairn.\n\nAs well as serving in both the UK and Scottish Parliaments, Ms Ewing was also a member of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1999, becoming known as Madame Ecosse and being given the title Mother of the European Parliament.\n\nIn July 2001, she announced her intention to stand down as a list MSP for the Highlands and Islands ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections.", "Bishop of Birkenhead, the Right Reverend Julie Conalty, said the \"church seems less safe\"\n\nA senior Church of England bishop responsible for safeguarding has told the BBC she does not \"entirely trust the church\" on tackling abuse.\n\nThe Bishop of Birkenhead, the Right Reverend Julie Conalty spoke after the Church sacked a panel of experts overseeing its safeguarding.\n\nShe later tweeted: \"Today the church seems less safe\".\n\nThe Church said its relations with the two of the experts on the panel had broken down.\n\nThe Archbishops' Council announced on Wednesday it was \"ending the contracts\" of all three members of the Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) it had set up to provide oversight of how the Church deals with abuse.\n\nTwo of the panel - Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves - recently told the Daily Telegraph working with church officials was \"an uphill battle\".\n\nTheir sacking has been met with criticism from some survivors and their advocates and now some members of the clergy.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One, Bishop Conalty, who is the Church's deputy head of safeguarding with a focus on survivor engagement, said: \"I think culturally we are resistant as a church to accountability, to criticism.\n\n\"And therefore I don't entirely trust the church, even though I'm a key part of it and a leader within it, because I see the way the wind blows is always in a particular direction.\"\n\nThe bishop said \"right at the moment it is less accountable\" and \"we have definitely taken a step back\".\n\nShe continued to say the decision causes survivors - who had a \"good degree of trust\" in the board - \"distress and anger\" as the independent body has \"seamlessly disappeared before their eyes\".\n\nAlison Coulter, lay member of the Archbishops' Council, said the decision to sack the panel was not \"taken lightly or easily\" and the Church remains committed to hearing the voices of victims and survivors.\n\nShe told the same World At One show: \"There was a breakdown in our working relationship, which is really regrettable.\n\n\"I don't want to blame anyone but we, the Archbishops' Council, felt we had no choice. There had been a dispute and the Council had been seeking to resolve that in good faith, but the two board members were reluctant to engage in those discussions. \"\n\nShe would not discuss the details of the dispute but added: \"We have been doing our best to work constructively. We haven't found compatibility through this framework.\"\n\nISB was part of the Church's response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report in 2020, which found the Church of England was a \"hiding place for abusers\".\n\nAsked if there were still places where abusers can hide in the Church, Mrs Coulter paused and said: \"I can't with my hand on my heart say there isn't, but I do know… we want the church to be a safe place for everyone.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Telegraph last month, Ms Sanghera -who founded a charity supporting forced marriage victims - and Mr Reeves - a specialist in abuse in organisations - raised the alarm over \"interference\" with their work.\n\nThey also raised their objections to the appointment of Meg Munn as acting chairwoman of their three-strong board.\n\nFormer MP Ms Munn has been the independent chairwoman of the Church's National Safeguarding Panel for the past five years. Although her new role has been ended, she has been asked by the Church to continue in an interim role to provide \"business continuity\".\n\nMr Reeves tweeted on Thursday: \"It's overwhelming to see people standing up for independence in safeguarding. It's been humbling to receive all the messages, in the hundreds now, expressing support for the work that Jas Sanghera and I have been doing - with the support of so many others - recently.\n\nMs Sanghera tweeted: \"We have not been removed because of a breakdown in relationships. I have advocated for victims and survivors for three decades and never experienced anything like this.\"\n\nThe pair were also critical of how the news was delivered, claiming they were not given time to prepare victims for the news.\n\nYou can hear the full report from The World At One on BBC Sounds.", "Caerwyn Ash reached the quarter-finals of MasterChef in 2016\n\nA MasterChef contestant has been jailed for possessing child abuse images and then blackmailing police officers when he was caught.\n\nCaerwyn Ash, 41, from Swansea, threatened to publish images of police officers engaging in sexual acts unless the case against him was dropped.\n\nAsh was found guilty of possessing 20 indecent images and five videos.\n\nHe was also found guilty of possessing extreme pornography and attempting to pervert the course of justice.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Ash went to Swansea Central Police Station the day before he was due to appear at the city's magistrates' court.\n\nHe took a letter addressed to the \"Head of CID\" calling for the charges to be dropped or he would \"create an earthquake\" by publishing material of South Wales Police officers engaged in sexual acts via a \"trusted friend in the Press Association\".\n\nProsecutor James Wilson said out of the 20 indecent images, 11 were of the most serious in category A.\n\nFive videos of category A child abuse and videos of extreme pornography were also found on a hard drive at Ash's partner's home in Morriston, Swansea, in April 2019.\n\nAsh denied the charges and said he \"would never look at such an image\" and if he saw such an image, he would \"report it immediately to the police\".\n\nHe described his life as \"destroyed\" and said he has lost two homes since his arrest.\n\nCaerwyn Ash reached the quarter-finals of MasterChef in 2016\n\nJudge Wayne Beard said: \"You have consistently denied any wrongdoing and I must sentence you on the jury's verdict.\n\n\"In the light of that and you not accepting the jury's verdict there is no prospect of rehabilitation. The images and videos speak for themselves because of their serious categories.\n\n\"Your possession of extreme pornography shows a level of obsession in sexual matters.\"\n\nThe judge described Ash's \"deliberate attempt to stop the prosecution\" against him by blackmailing police officers as \"a manipulative and cynical move\".\n\nThe judge sentenced Ash to a total of three years in prison - two years for perverting the course of justice and one year for possessing and downloading indecent images.", "Armed men guard their village, some 27km from the Manipur state capital Imphal\n\nLast week, a retired lieutenant general in India's army bemoaned the volatile situation in his native Manipur, a violence-wracked state in the north-east of the country.\n\n\"The state is now 'stateless',\" tweeted L Nishikanta Singh. \"Life and property can be destroyed anytime by anyone just like in Libya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Syria etc.\"\n\nNearly two months after it was convulsed by ethnic violence, Manipur is teetering on what many believe is the brink of a civil war. Clashes between the majority Meitei and Kuki communities have left more than 100 dead and over 400 wounded.\n\nNearly 60,000 people have been displaced and taken shelter in some 350 camps. Some 40,000 security forces - army soldiers, paramilitaries, police - are struggling to quell the violence. Only a quarter of the more than 4,000 weapons looted by mobs from police armouries have been voluntarily returned since the violence began.\n\nThe level of mistrust between the warring communities has sharpened, with both accusing security forces of being partisan. More than 200 churches and 17 temples have been destroyed or damaged by mobs. Homes of local ministers and legislators have been attacked and set on fire.\n\nNearly 60,000 people have been displaced and taken shelter in some 350 camps\n\nNormal life has been strangled: a night curfew continues in most of the 16 districts; schools are shut and internet services have been suspended. A main highway for ferrying supplies has been blocked by protesters. There are sporadic killings and arson. The federal government's proposal for a peace panel to broker a truce has received a tepid response.\n\n\"This is the darkest moment in Manipur's history,\" says Binalakshmi Nepram of Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace. \"In two days [when the violence began], homes were burnt and people were lynched, burnt and tortured. Manipur has not seen this kind and type of violence in its modern history.\"\n\nEight states in India's restive and remote north-eastern region are home to some 45 million people belonging to more than 400 communities. More than a dozen peace talks trying to mediate between groups across the region have been dragging on for years. Nestling along the border with Myanmar, Manipur is no stranger to ethnic violence.\n\nWith some 33 ethnic tribes, the state is extremely diverse - and sharply divided. It is home to some 40 insurgent groups. Meitei, Naga and Kuki rebels have waged prolonged armed campaigns, frequently targeting Indian security forces, in protest against controversial anti-insurgent laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which grants search and seizure powers to the security forces. Meitei, Naga and Kuki militias have also fought one another over conflicting homeland demands.\n\nSome 40,000 security forces - army, paramilitaries, police - have been deployed to quell the violence\n\nThe majority Meiteis make up more than half of Manipur's estimated 3.3 million people. Some 43% of the people are Kukis and Nagas, the two predominant tribal communities, who live in the rolling hills. Most Meiteis follow the Hindu faith, while most Kukis adhere to Christianity.\n\nPrevious ethnic - and religious - clashes in Manipur have claimed hundreds of lives. \"This time, the conflict is strictly rooted in ethnicity, not religion,\" says Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur.\n\nMay's large-scale violence was sparked by a controversy over affirmative action: Kukis protested against the demand seeking tribal status for the Meiteis. But this does not entirely explain the explosive ethnic violence that has engulfed Manipur.\n\nThe underlying tensions in the region stem from a complex interplay of various factors, including a long-standing insurgency, a controversial recent war on drugs, illegal migration from troubled Myanmar through porous borders, pressure on land, and a lack of employment opportunities, which make the young vulnerable to recruitment by rebel groups.\n\nAdding to the volatility, say experts, is the alleged complicity of politicians in the drug trade over decades and the nexus between politicians and militancy.\n\nThe charred remains of an official residence of a Manipur minister, which was set on fire on 15 June\n\nThe Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP-led) government of Manipur, under Chief Minister N Biren Singh, who is a Meitei, has launched a controversial \"war on drugs\" campaign targeting farming of poppy. Since 2017, the government claims to have destroyed more than 18,000 acres of poppy fields, the majority of them in Kuki-inhabited areas. (Manipur has battled a drug-addiction crisis and is among four north-eastern Indian states bordering Myanmar, the world's second-largest opium producer.)\n\nMr Singh's campaign appears to have exacerbated divisions between a section of Kukis and the government. He has cautioned that villages growing poppy - mostly Kuki homelands - would be derecognised and stripped of welfare benefits.\n\nIn March, he told a news channel that his government had gone all out against \"some Kukis who were encroaching everywhere, protected forests, reserved forests, doing poppy plantations and doing drugs business\". The same month, Kukis held mass protests in hill districts against what they called the BJP government's \"selective targeting\" of the community. Mr Singh's government accused Kuki insurgent groups of inciting the community.\n\nThere is also a lot of pressure on land in Manipur - about 60% of the population lives on just 10% of the state's land in Imphal, a valley. The Meiteis resent the fact that they and other non-tribal people are not allowed to buy land or settle in the hill districts. They also want to prevent unrestricted entry of \"outsiders\" - settlers from neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar - whose numbers they believe have sharply risen over the years.\n\nA Kuki tradition of migrating across extensive territories - as land ownership exclusively passes down to the eldest son of the village chief - has led to new villages being set up by other male members of the family and put further pressure on land.\n\n\"This mistrust between people here has been weaponised,\" Ms Nepram says. \"Rather than putting out the conflict, small ethnic groups have been armed and trained by Delhi [to fight insurgency] over decades as well as by those who are into guns, drugs and human trafficking.\"\n\nThe Meitei people have protested against growing of poppy in Kuki-dominated areas\n\nThat's not all. There's a dispute over two hills in the state, with conflicting claims of ownership from the Meiteis and Kukis. The Meiteis regard the hills as sacred, whereas the Kukis perceive the land beneath the hills as their ancestral territory which is facing encroachment.\n\n\"For the past five years there has been growing animosity and anger between the two communities, some related to indigenous faith and practices and others related to encroachment,\" says Bhagat Oinam of Jawaharlal Nehru University.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for maintaining a studied silence on the violence. The majority of ministers and legislators from the governing BJP have gathered in Delhi, the capital, to devise strategies for resolving and managing the situation.\n\nKukis have demanded Delhi impose direct rule, and sought a separate administration for the community, a demand that carries the potential for backlash from the Nagas, who might also pursue a similar demand. \"Let us live in peace in our own land with our own people. Let us rule ourselves. After what has happened that is how we define peace,\" says Mary Haokip of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum and a Kuki.\n\nTen of the 60 elected lawmakers in Manipur's assembly are Kukis, as are three ministers in Mr Singh's 10-member cabinet. \"There exists some political and administrative connection between the two communities. However, the growing alienation between them seems to be driving them further apart,\" says Kaybie Chongloi, a Kuki journalist.\n\nThe lack of trust has resulted in a significant divide, leaving lawmakers and ministers from the ruling party, representing both communities, unable to find common ground. \"This is not only a civil war but also a [fight] against the government,\" says Alex Jamkothang, a Kuki villager who lost his brother in the violence, in an interview with BBC Hindi.\n\nKuki protesters have demanded a separate territory for the community\n\nGiving autonomy to tribal groups could be a way to defuse the crisis, says Subir Bhaumik, author of Insurgent Crossfire: North-East India. He cites the example of the north-eastern state of Tripura where a third of the population are recognised as tribespeople and collectively govern two-thirds of the state's land area through an 'autonomous district council'.\n\nOthers like Ms Nepram seek a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including panels for reparations for homes burnt and lives lost in the conflict. Still others fear that Manipur will degenerate into a full-blown civil war unless there is a serious initiative for an \"inter-faith, inter-ethnic dialogue\". \"Nothing of this sort is being attempted,\" Mr Bhaumik says.\n\nClearly, peace in Manipur has always been precarious. Much of the peace in recent years was not organic, says Mr Sadokpam. \"It was what we call an imposed peace in a heavily militarised zone.\" For the moment, there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel as both sides appear to be digging in for a long confrontation. People remember clashes between Nagas and Kukis in the early 1990s which dragged on for a year before ebbing.\n\n\"I don't think this is going to end soon. This will go on until both sides get fatigued - or one side gains dominance,\" says a senior government functionary in Imphal, who refused to be named. \"This is going to be a long haul.\"\n\nBBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features.", "The US Navy detected sounds \"consistent with an implosion\" shortly after OceanGate's Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said.\n\nFive people were aboard the vessel when it went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday.\n\nThe loss of the sub was confirmed after a huge search mission.\n\nThe official told CBS News their information about the \"acoustic anomaly\" had been used by the US Coast Guard to narrow the search area.\n\nAccording to CNN, it was deemed to be \"not definitive\" and therefore the search and rescue mission continued.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Rear Adm Mauger of the Coast Guard confirmed that all five people aboard Titan had been killed following what was probably a \"catastrophic implosion\", based on patterns of debris discovered.\n\nHowever, he said no sounds had been detected during the search mission that were consistent with this.\n\n\"We've had sonar buoys in the water nearly continuously and have not detected any catastrophic events when those sonar buoys have been in the water.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the US Coast Guard confirmed that a Canadian P-3 aircraft had detected \"underwater noises\" in a search area for the missing vessel.\n\nThis brought new hope that the Titan's crew might be found alive and caused the Coast Guard to relocate operations.\n\nAccording to CBS, those noises are now thought to have been coming from other ships in the area.\n\nPaul Hankin, an undersea expert, said the first indication that the sub might have imploded came after a large debris field was found on Thursday.\n\n\"Essentially we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the Titan,\" he said.\n\nEfforts are continuing to map the debris field and to search the sea floor around the Titanic.\n\nContact with the vessel was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive nearly a week ago. Titanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland.\n\nAboard the vessel was British billionaire businessman Hamish Harding, who had written on social media ahead of the dive that it was taking place because a \"weather window\" had opened up,\n\nHe said that because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years\" the mission was \"likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nBritish father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were also part of the crew. They were from one of Pakistan's richest families.\n\nOceanGate CEO Stockton Rush also died on Titan, alongside former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the story of the Titan sub unfolded... in 90 seconds", "\"It's on me personally\" if inflation isn't halved this year, Rishi Sunak said earlier this month.\n\nNo 10 has now described the promise as an \"ambitious target\" which they \"remain committed to\".\n\nThe economic and political consequences of inflation that is both high and seemingly wedged high are broad.\n\nAs interest rates rise to try to drag the rate of price rises down, the desire from some for government help to ameliorate the impact on people grows.\n\nIt is a clamour magnified by recent precedent - the colossal state interventions during the pandemic and after the energy price spikes caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"The thing is they were black swan events, they came out of nowhere, were a massive surprise and we were right to do something big. But you can't do that when interest rates go up to deal with inflation,\" one minister said to me.\n\nAnd, ministers add, both privately in candid terms and publicly rather more carefully, it would be counterproductive anyway: it wouldn't help squash inflation.\n\nIn other words, what a bind.\n\nAll of which has been tempting me into the archive.\n\nLet me take you to Northampton, in October 1989. It's for a speech by the chancellor at the time, John Major.\n\nYou can easily imagine some of his words then being used by Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor, now.\n\n\"The problem is inflation. I have no doubt that the central task before us is the reduction and the elimination of rising prices. Not only does this objective remain the same, but so do the policies needed to achieve it,\" Sir John said, in what was his first speech as chancellor.\n\nBut he was also rather more blunt than today's generation of politicians are usually willing to be.\n\nHe also said: \"I understand the difficulties that many face with high interest and mortgage rates. But they - and the resulting slowing of the economy that we must see - are the means by which we will cure the problem. They are not the problem.\"\n\nAnd he added: \"So inflation must go. Ending it cannot be painless. The harsh truth is that if the policy isn't hurting, it isn't working.\"\n\nAs chancellor, John Major gave the public a blunt message on inflation\n\nSir John spoke then, very candidly, about a timeless economic and political trade-off, between inflation and interest rates.\n\nGranted interest rates were then under the direct control of the government. They are now decided by the independent Bank of England, which is tasked with keeping to an inflation target set by the government.\n\nBut the trade-offs remain and privately, ministers acknowledge that. And if interest rates go too high, the risk is a recession, a year or so out from a general election.\n\nOne minister told me that interest rates had been close to zero for so long that people had collectively forgotten that that couldn't possibly last forever.\n\nAnother added that it was about time that savers could get some returns on their savings, even if, for now at least, those returns remain below inflation.\n\nPlenty I speak to in government privately are exasperated by what they see as a knee-jerk instinct for government intervention, including from some on their own side.\n\nBut politicians can never be blind to the public mood - and the realities of economic pain.\n\nThe chancellor will meet mortgage providers later this week and we can expect to hear from the prime minister on all this again too.\n\nLabour has set out its approach. The Liberal Democrats want a Mortgage Protection Fund to help homeowners on the lowest incomes.\n\nOh and one final thought: Rising interest rates have an impact too on the biggest borrower of all: this government, and its successors.\n\nThat rising cost of borrowing will affect millions of households. But it will also affect what political parties conclude is affordable for them to promise.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Rachel Reeves says lenders must offer a full range of support\n\nThe government should force banks to help homeowners struggling with mortgage payments, Labour has said.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said borrowers should be allowed to switch to interest-only payments for a temporary period to ease the crisis.\n\nMany lenders are already offering this but Labour says it needs to be enforced across the board.\n\nHowever, Ms Reeves said major financial support for mortgages was not a good idea as this could fuel price rises.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme \"a big fiscal injection of cash into the economy, especially an untargeted injection, would not be the right approach\".\n\nLabour's announcement came ahead of interest rates rising by more than expected, from 4.5% to 5%, as the Bank of England seeks to tame soaring prices.\n\nIt means mortgage-holders are facing further rises in payments.\n\nRaising interest rates makes it more expensive to borrow money and theoretically encourages people to borrow less and spend less, meaning price rises should ease.\n\nMs Reeves said Labour's plan \"to ease the Tory mortgage penalty offers practical help now, while our commitment to fiscal responsibility and growth will secure our economy for the future\".\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is meeting bank chiefs again on Friday to see what additional help they can give. He has already urged lenders to offer the measures which Labour wants to make mandatory.\n\nHe is coming under pressure for the government to step in with Covid-style financial help for households.\n\nBut he has rejected calls by Tory backbenchers Sir Jake Berry and Jonathan Gullis to bring back a tax break that would cut monthly payments.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Those kind of schemes, which involve injecting large amounts of cash into the economy, would be inflationary.\"\n\nThe government has also rejected a Liberal Democrat plan for grants of up to £300 a month for homeowners on \"the lowest incomes\" whose mortgage payments rise by more than 10% of their income.\n\nThe party says its scheme would last for one year, funded by increasing taxes on bank profits.\n\nDowning Street insists Rishi Sunak is on course to meet his target of halving inflation - the rate prices are rising - this year, even though the rate remains stubbornly high at 8.7%.\n\nSpeaking at an event on Thursday, the prime minister is expected to say he feels a \"deep moral responsibility\" to lower inflation, adding: \"I'm completely confident that if we hold our nerve, we can do so.\"\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly admitted \"not all the levers of control are in the government's hands\", with the independent Bank of England responsible for setting interest rates, one of the main tools to tackle inflation.\n\nInstead, Mr Cleverly told the BBC the government was doing things like being cautious on offering big public sector pay increases and being conscious that increased government borrowing could fuel inflationary pressures.\n\nLabour's plan includes guaranteeing that relief measures such as temporary interest-only payments and extending the time period for paying back mortgages are available.\n\nThe party is also calling for a six-month grace period for homeowners threatened with repossession as well as guarantees that credit scores will not be affected by asking for help.\n\nLabour says the government should order regulator the Financial Conduct Authority to require lenders to offer all these options.\n\nThe Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative-linked think tank, said there could be \"big unintended consequences\" from the proposals.\n\n\"Labour's plan mostly 'requires' lenders to do a variety of things they will already be doing voluntarily,\" said Tom Clougherty, the think tank's research director.\n\n\"To the extent that it forces banks to offer greater cross-subsidies to particular customers, it is bound to raise costs for other borrowers - or prevent necessary adjustments in the mortgage market,\" he added.\n\n\"A legislated, one-size-fits-all approach is bound to cause as many problems as it solves.\"\n\nIn a statement, UK Finance, which represents the banking and finance industry, said: \"Over the last year, lenders have helped nearly 200,000 borrowers who cannot meet their full mortgage payments by providing tailored forbearance.\n\n\"This could be a period of reduced payments, a period of zero payments or a temporary switch to interest-only.\n\n\"Contacting your lender to find out the options available won't impact your credit score, but missing payments will.\"", "There have been a number of trials in Germany involving women who travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State group (file image)\n\nA German woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group has been jailed for nine years for crimes including keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave.\n\nThe defendant was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership of a foreign terrorist organisation.\n\nA court in the western city of Koblenz said the 37-year-old had abused the young Yazidi woman for three years while they lived in Syria and Iraq.\n\nIt also found she had encouraged her husband to rape and beat the woman.\n\n\"All of this served the declared purpose of IS, to wipe out the Yazidi faith,\" said prosecutors at the start of the trial in January.\n\nIn 2014, IS fighters stormed into the ancestral homeland of the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq's Sinjar region and launched what the UN has said was a genocidal campaign.\n\nThousands of men and boys over the age of 12 were summarily killed after being given the ultimatum to convert or die. Some 7,000 women and girls were enslaved and subjected to brutal abuses.\n\nAmong them was the young woman whom prosecutors said the accused, named as Nadine K, and her husband used as a slave from 2016, when they moved to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.\n\nThey had travelled to Syria to join IS a year earlier and later moved back there with the woman, who was in her early 20s at the time.\n\nIn March 2019, Nadine K and her family were captured by Kurdish forces in Syria. She was arrested last year after being repatriated to Germany.\n\nDuring her trial, the accused denied coercing the Yazidi woman but said she should have done more for her.\n\nThe victim, who was freed in 2019, testified in Nadine K's trial in February and was present for Wednesday's verdict.\n\nHer lawyer said her client hoped that all of those who had committed similar crimes would be brought to justice, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThere have been a number of trials in Germany recently involving former IS members accused of killing or abusing Yazidis.\n\nIn October 2021, a woman was jailed for 10 years over the killing of a Yazidi girl she and her husband had bought as a slave.\n\nA month later, a German court issued the first worldwide ruling that recognised crimes by IS against the Yazidi people as genocide.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nadia Murad was held captive as a sex slave by so called Islamic State - she tells the BBC's HardTalk how she escaped\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Phil Martin's dream came true as he played for thousands with his former student\n\nSam Fender's former guitar teacher said performing with his old student in front of thousands of fans was \"a dream come true\".\n\nNorth Shields musician Phil Martin made an appearance on stage during one of Fender's sold-out concerts at St James' Park.\n\nThe self-confessed \"old rocker\" rehearsed two AC/DC tracks for weeks in order to \"nail\" the performance.\n\nHe said he \"always had faith\" in his former student.\n\n\"Eventually, I opened a studio with a friend where Sam came to rehearse and record and hang out, but prior to that I'd taught him since he was about 12.\"\n\nSam Fender performed two sold out shows at the home of Newcastle United\n\n\"I don't think there's words I can find at the moment. It was awesome. It's what dreams are made of. It's a fantasy.\n\n\"I've known Sam for so long and it came up three or four years ago before he could have sold it out, he'd say, 'What I'd love to see, is you, me and 'Johno' from AC/DC back-to-back'. I'd say to him, 'yeah, that would be something, now ha'way'.\n\n\"And the other day, it came to pass.\"\n\nPhil was brought on stage with AC/DC frontman and fellow Geordie Brian Johnson to perform Back In Black and You Shook Me All Night Long.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I rehearsed the parts so I didn't have to think. You've got to nail it. I've played those tunes dozens of times a day for the past few weeks. I enjoyed myself in a way I never have.\n\n\"We've never lost contact. We've always been friends despite the age difference - we speak the same language. Music is a language.\n\n\"I always had faith in him. His creative energy was massive. He wasn't the easiest to teach, you had to go his way. Whatever he learned, he always added something or an idea would come out of it. He's still like that.\n\n\"To be there with him... I wanted to give him the show he deserved. I didn't want to let him down.\n\n\"He's united so many parts of the community that wouldn't normally mix - the football crowd, the music crowd, old rockers, young kids... He's had that appeal because his songs tell the truth.\"\n\nPhil has known Sam Fender since the singer-songwriter was 12\n\nPhil's own band, Sticky Fingers, have been going since 1994.\n\nHe said he was excited to see if people would come out to see him perform again.\n\n\"I've already been getting loads of messages from people saying they want to come and see me play - I hope even half of them turn up.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk", "Prosecutors allege Ms Mayo put her foot on her baby's head before stuffing cotton wool down his throat\n\nA teenager accused of murdering her newborn son has denied that she killed him to prevent her family from finding out that she was pregnant.\n\nParis Mayo, 19, was 15 when she gave birth to Stanley at her former home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in 2019.\n\nShe is accused of fracturing his skull, possibly with her foot, and stuffing pieces of cotton wool into his mouth.\n\nMs Mayo told Worcester Crown Court that she had checked to see if he was breathing and if his chest was moving.\n\n\"When I looked at him, he genuinely wasn't moving,\" she said. \"His eyes weren't open, he didn't make a noise.\"\n\nShe told the court that she had not believed Stanley had been alive, at any point after giving birth to him on 23 March 2019.\n\nMs Mayo told the court she had not believed Stanley had been alive at any point after giving birth to him\n\nUnder cross-examination by prosecution barrister Jonas Hankin KC, Ms Mayo said she did not remember stuffing cotton wool into the baby's mouth and throat, but accepted that it must have been her that put it there.\n\n\"I knew he wasn't breathing at all, that's what I made sure of before I done it,\" she had told the police during an interview.\n\nThe defendant said she had used the cotton wool to clean up blood which, she said had been coming from his mouth.\n\nShe had admitted putting two pieces of cotton wool into his mouth, but said she could not remember putting three more pieces into his throat and windpipe.\n\n\"I don't remember doing the three, the only ones I remember were the two in his mouth,\" she said.\n\n\"I've accepted the fact that they were there, and it was me, but I don't remember doing it.\"\n\nThe court has also heard she put the newborn into a black rubbish bag and had left it outside the family home.\n\nMs Mayo, who now lives in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, denied that she had no respect for her son, and said she had left him in the bag so that her mother would have found his body.\n\n\"I wanted him to be found,\" she said.\n\n\"I know that, now, I could have gone about it in a different way, I thought that was the right thing to do.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health bosses are warning of major disruption and pressure on the NHS in England, as the hot weather combines with the latest junior doctor strike.\n\nBritish Medical Association members will walk out for 72 hours from 07:00 on Wednesday.\n\nIt is the third strike in the pay dispute and is expected to lead to the cancellation of much routine care.\n\nAnd with the heat placing extra demands on A&E units, bosses urged people to use services sensibly.\n\nJunior doctors, nearly half the medical workforce, will walk out of both routine and emergency care.\n\nNHS England said the health service would have to prioritise emergency and life-saving care. The hot weather was already causing high demand for urgent services - and people should avoid the sun at the hottest time of day and drink plenty of fluids.\n\nAlongside heat-stroke, hot weather also brings an increase in heart failure and kidney problems as well as high rates of sprains and fractures and respiratory problems.\n\nConsultants are being drafted in to provide cover during the strike but the amount could be lower than during previous junior doctors' strikes, in March and April.\n\nRory Deighton, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health bosses, said a particular challenge this time was \"securing the level of consultant cover\" - because of the amount consultants were asking for overtime payments - creating uncertainty over how many appointments would need to be postponed.\n\nThe four-day April walkout saw about 196,000 hospital appointments and treatments postponed. And the hospital waiting list, growing since the start of the pandemic, has now hit a record 7.4 million people.\n\n\"Each wave of strikes chips away at the NHS's resilience, impacting on staff, internal relationships and their ability to deliver on government pledges to reduce the elective backlog,\" Mr Deighton said.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the strike would have an \"enormous impact\".\n\n\"The NHS is facing significant disruption this week, with a three-day strike that is set to be exacerbated by the ongoing hot weather,\" he said.\n\n\"Emergency, urgent and critical care will be prioritised this week but some patients will unfortunately have had their appointments postponed - if you haven't been contacted to reschedule, please do continue to attend your planned appointment.\n\n\"As ever, use 999 and A&E for life-threatening emergencies - and NHS 111 online for all other health conditions.\"\n\nWhile hospitals are expected to bear the brunt of the disruption, community services, including GPs, will be much less affected.\n\nDr Tom Corkery-Bennett is in his second year as a junior doctors and works in the A&E at Royal Berkshire Hospital.\n\nHe works an average of 48 hours a week, but can put in up to 60 and regularly receives messages asking if he can take on extra shifts.\n\nWhat has happened to pay was a major factor in the staffing shortages, the 26-year-old said, and \"grossly unfair\".\n\n\"The resilience in the system is so low - staffing levels are skeletal,\" Dr Corkery-Bennett said.\n\n\"There is very often situations where doctors call in sick for a nightshift and there's no cover available.\n\n\"It means there's a large number of patients without a doctor to cover them and care is really put in jeopardy.\n\n\"One doctor will cover the work of two or three doctors if there's no contingency plan in place, which very often happens, and that's unsafe.\"\n\nJunior doctors want a 35% pay hike to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.\n\nIn talks last month, the government offered an extra 5%, which Health Secretary Steve Barclay called \"fair and reasonable\", adding the \"extremely disappointing\" walkout would put patients at risk.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting said he wished the strikes were not going ahead, but added the reason for them was \"because they haven't got someone to negotiate\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that the strikes should be viewed alongside the broader range of issues affecting doctors, such as retention and career progression, but would not be drawn on what salary Labour would offer doctors if in government.\n\n\"I really do fear what the state of the economy will be by the time of the next general election - I can't yet be sure what the state of the public finances will be and at the moment I'm fearing the worst.\"\n\nProf Powis told the same programme that other discussions held between government and other NHS employees showed it was possible to resolve disputes, but the \"key is talking\".\n\nBMA junior doctor leader Dr Vivek Trivedi said the offer from government \"beggars belief\" given inflation had reached double-digits this year.\n\n\"Junior doctors are in despair at this government's refusal to listen,\" Dr Trivedi said.\n\n\"We have made clear that junior doctors are looking for the full restoration of our pay.\n\n\"The NHS can only function with a workforce that is properly valued.\"\n\nBMA Deputy Chair Emma Runswick told the BBC that doctors' roles had become more important since 2008 and that they were \"not willing to accept that further pay cuts is all the government can give us\".\n\nThis walkout affects services in England only - but junior doctors in Scotland have this week announced they too will be going on strike, after a vote by BMA members.\n\nA strike ballot for consultants in England is also being held. And Royal College of Nursing members are voting on whether to continue their industrial action, after joining the minority of health unions to have rejected the government's offer of 5% plus a one-off payment of at least £1,655.\n\nHave you had your treatment cancelled? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?", "A deal to create the UK's biggest mobile phone operator has been struck by Vodafone and the owner of Three UK.\n\nThe firms plan to merge their UK-based operations, giving them around 27 million customers and making it the biggest mobile network in the UK.\n\nThe deal is yet to be approved by regulators, which will look at whether it will push up customer prices.\n\nThe Vodafone and Three merger will take their combined market share past Virgin Media O2's.\n\nVirgin Media O2 has around 24 million mobile customers while EE, which is owned by BT Group, has 20 million users.\n\nVodafone and Three UK are the country's third and fourth largest mobile firms. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed that it will examine the merger.\n\nThe competition watchdog said: \"Both Vodafone and Three are key players in the UK communications market - with millions of consumers and many businesses relying on their services - so it's right that the CMA reviews the impact this deal could have on competition.\"\n\nVodafone's UK boss, Ahmed Essam, who will retain his role in the merged firm, said: \"As we go into the coming weeks, we are going to bring the case to the CMA. We believe that this case stands on very strong grounds.\n\n\"We're very confident on our case.\"\n\nVodafone will own 51% of the new business while Three UK-owner CK Hutchison will control the remaining stake.\n\nVodafone and Three claimed customers \"will enjoy a better network experience with greater coverage and reliability at no extra cost\" from day one.\n\nThey also said they would invest £11bn in the next generation of telecoms technology - 5G - in the UK over 10 years.\n\nConsumer group Which? said reducing the number of major UK telecoms firms from four to three \"risks reducing the choices available to consumers, raising prices and lowering the quality of services available\".\n\nBut Karen Egan, head of mobile at research firm Enders Analysis, said similar deals in other countries had not led to price hikes.\n\n\"Consumers benefit from effectively funding just three nationwide networks rather than four,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the companies were \"making a strong case\" for approval of the deal, although getting there would be \"a long and tortuous road\" and could take up to 18 months.\n\nMs Egan added that the \"CMA's hawkish approach to mergers of late is not encouraging\", after the competition watchdog blocked UK approval for Microsoft's proposed $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-owner Activision Blizzard.\n\nIn 2016, EU regulators blocked a takeover of O2 by the owner of Three, saying it would reduce customer choice and raise prices.\n\nMargherita Della Valle, chief executive and chief financial officer of Vodafone, admitted in May that its \"performance has not been good enough\" and set out plans to cut 11,000 jobs.\n\nOn Wednesday, Vodafone and Three hinted at additional job cuts within five years if the merger is approved. They said that they expected consolidation of IT, marketing, sales, distribution and logistics operations.\n\nThe Unite union said that the deal was \"reckless\" and would \"hike people's bills and mean job losses for Vodafone and Three workers\".", "Donald Trump’s indictment played out in two courts on Tuesday afternoon - a federal courtroom in Miami and the court of public opinion.\n\nInside the Miami courthouse, Trump and his legal team were demure. One of Trump’s lawyers told the presiding judge that the former president was pleading not guilty to all charges.\n\nThere was some back-and-forth over what kind of contact Trump could have with his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, and with potential witnesses in his case. The former president was released without any restrictions on his travel.\n\nOutside the courthouse, and on social media, it was a very different scene.\n\nThroughout the day, the former president posted to his Truth Social website, insulting Special Counsel Jack Smith and questioning why he wasn’t investigating alleged crimes by Democrats.\n\n“One of the saddest days in the history of our country,” he wrote. “We are a nation in decline!!!”\n\nThat’s standard rhetorical fair for Trump, who tends to launch his fiercest attacks when he feels the most threatened.\n\nThe other message Trump sent following his arraignment was a more subtle political one. His motorcade stopped at Versailles, a Cuban restaurant and bakery popular with residents of the Little Havana neighbourhood and tourists alike.\n\nWhile there, he shook hands, took pictures and made brief remarks, as patrons serenaded the soon-to-be 77-year-old former president with a rendition of Happy Birthday.\n\nIt looked and felt like a typical meet-and-greet for a campaigning politician in a key battleground state. It was a visible sign that, for Trump, his bid for the White House is moving forward, indictments be damned.", "Nottingham's three MPs said the violence had \"devastated\" the city.\n\nNottingham residents woke up on Tuesday to discover their city had been transformed into a major crime scene.\n\nDuring a series of violent attacks in the early hours, in which both a knife and van were used as weapons, three people were killed and another three were injured.\n\nTwo university students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, who were both 19, and school caretaker, Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death. A van was driven at three people waiting at a bus-stop. All three were taken to hospital, one is said to be in a critical condition.\n\nA suspect has been arrested on suspicion of murder and detectives are working to uncover how and why the violence occurred.\n\nThe violence began at around 04:00 BST on Ilkeston Road just outside the city centre, where police investigations carried on throughout the day.\n\nOne of those killed in the first attack was Barnaby Webber, 19, a history student at the University of Nottingham.\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar, 19, who was studying medicine, was killed alongside Mr Webber, reportedly as they walked home.\n\nThe third victim of the Nottingham attack was Ian Coates, a school caretaker at Huntington Academy in the city\n\nMr Coates was found dead at Magdala Road, an area which became another focus of police activity.\n\nAt around 05:30, three people were injured - one seriously - when a van was driven at them as they stood at a bus stop near the Theatre Royal.\n\nArmed police officers were seen across the city throughout the day.\n\nA forensic team was also seen inspecting a white van believed to have been used in the attack.\n\nSeveral roads were closed throughout Tuesday, and forensic officers were seen gathering evidence from where the attacks unfolded.\n\nTributes were left on Magdala Road, where Ian Coates was found dead from knife injuries\n\nNottingham, including the more than 50,000 students who call the city home, is struggling to come to terms with the incident.\n\nA church vigil was held for people to pay their respects to those killed and injured in the attack.\n\nThe death of two teenagers from the university has sent shockwaves through the city's younger population.\n\nNottingham Police, supported by counter-terror officers, are still trying to establish a motive for the attack.\n\nPlayers, officials and fans attending the Rothesay Open 2023 at the Nottingham Tennis Centre on Wednesday stopped for a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the attacks.", "A campaigner said the A9 had been treated like a forgotten back road\n\nCivil engineers said they knew for years a target to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth by 2025 would not be met.\n\nThe Scottish government committed to the date in 2011, when the project was predicted to cost £3bn.\n\nIn February this year, the then transport minister Jenny Gilruth said the target was \"unachievable\".\n\nShe said the project had been hit by delays caused by the Covid pandemic, Brexit and the war in Ukraine.\n\nEleven miles (18km) have been dualled in 10 years, leaving about 77 miles (124km) of road to still be upgraded.\n\nMSPs are due to hear from Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Scotland as part of their consideration of a petition calling for details of the revised timetable for the project.\n\nThe industry body said the dualling so far had been \"glacial\" and engineers had long known the project was progressing too slowly to be completed on time.\n\nThere have been calls for the Inverness to Perth stretch to be dualled for many years due to its strategic importance, connecting the Highland capital with central Scotland, and because of the number of accidents.\n\nIn 2008, the Scottish government said improving the road was a priority.\n\nIn December 2011, it committed to dualing the A9 between Inverness and Perth by 2025 - a timescale which was described as \"challenging but achievable\".\n\nConstruction on the first section - the £35m, 4.6 mile Kincraig to Dalraddy stretch - started in 2015 and was completed in 2017.\n\nThe only other section to be finished to date was the Luncarty to Pass of Birnam project, which cost £96m and involved six miles of dual carriageway. Construction started in 2019 and it opened to traffic in 2021.\n\nNine sections remain to be built.\n\nThere are no plans to dual the A9 north of Inverness, where there are 104 miles of single carriageway from the Black Isle to Scrabster.\n\nGrahame Barn will give evidence on the A9 to Holyrood's petition committee\n\nSpeaking ahead of Wednesday's meeting, chief executive Grahame Barn told BBC Scotland: \"We have known for a number of years that the pace at which the design and road orders were coming forward meant it was impossible to achieve 2025 by that time.\"\n\nCampaigner Laura Hansler, who lives in Kincraig, near Aviemore, is also due to give evidence to MSPs on Holyrood's petitions committee.\n\nShe said the A9 had been treated like a forgotten back road, rather than the \"spine of Scotland\" linking central parts of the country with the Highlands.\n\nLaura Hansler believes the A9 has been forgotten\n\nMs Hansler said: \"We need focus and we need to stop people getting killed on our roads.\"\n\nSNP MSP and former transport minister Keith Brown told BBC Scotland the road project was facing huge challenges.\n\nHe said: \"It is true across the UK more than other countries that infrastructure projects have been extremely expensive and we have a narrower base of construction companies involved in this work.\n\n\"It seems to me, knowing what I know about it, the terms of the project which were taken forward have changed and that is bound to have had an effect.\"", "That's a wrap of our coverage of this week's Prime Minister's Questions from the House of Commons, thanks for joining us.\n\nAs anticipated, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer largely focused his questions to the PM on the row within the Conservative Party following Boris Johnson's honour list nominations.\n\nStarmer also homed in on the cost of living crisis and \"spiralling mortgage rates\".\n\nAs our political editor Chris Mason notes, Starmer tried \"to tie together a fragile economy with a claim the Conservatives’ minds have been elsewhere with the Boris Johnson drama\".\n\nIn turn, the prime minister insisted that due process was followed and hit back at Labour's own record on peerages and the economy.\n\nIf you want to read more, here's the latest from our Business team on interest rates, and from our Politics specialists on the asylum backlog.\n\nToday's coverage was brought to you by Heather Sharp, Oliver Slow, Charley Adams, Kate Whannel, Chas Geiger, Emaan Warraich and myself. We'll be back next week for PMQs, so until then, it's goodbye from us.", "People walk from an RNLI boat on Dungeness beach in April 2023\n\nLifeboats were launched to rescue migrants in the English Channel 290 times last year, the RNLI has said.\n\nThe charity has published details of its work on migrant crossings for the first time.\n\nThe RNLI, which has been criticised as running a \"taxi service\" for migrants, said it had saved 108 lives in the Channel, between France and the Kent coast.\n\nIts chief executive said he made no apology for saving lives at sea.\n\nLifeboats, which are staffed by volunteer crews, were launched more than 9,000 times around the coast of the UK and Ireland in 2022.\n\nRescues of migrants in the Channel were launched 290 times, meaning small boat crossings now make up 3% of the RNLI's work.\n\nCrews are facing increasingly traumatic scenes when they are sent to rescue a small boat.\n\nSimon Ling, the RNLI's head of lifeboats, told the BBC: \"We've had babies thrown at our lifeboats, women screaming, men screaming.\n\n\"It's a very chaotic situation. Our crews are trained how to manage that and how to quickly get into rescue mode.\"\n\nA total of 1,100 small boats made the crossing last year, according to a count kept by BBC News, meaning a lifeboat was called to rescue about one in every four of them.\n\nThere were some deaths, including when a boat capsized in December, killing four people.\n\nHelp from the charity's 238 lifeboat stations is requested by coastguard officers.\n\nLifeboats from nine stations around the Sussex and Kent coast, from Hastings to Whitstable, are those most frequently involved in migrant rescues.\n\nThe former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has criticised the RNLI as a \"taxi service for illegal immigration\", although the response to such public criticism has included an increase in donations.\n\nThe charity's annual report for 2022 reveals a net increase in income of 3.5%, some of which came from higher donations - although costs also rose.\n\nSome of the money has been spent on developing a new device called \"sea stairs\", a floating platform which allows crews to rescue people from the water more quickly.\n\nMr Ling described the floating platform as a \"game-changer\".\n\nHe said a traditional rescue of a stricken small boat would take about one minute per person, while the sea stairs allowed 20 people to be taken from the water in 90 seconds.\n\nMonday's total of 616 people coming across in small boats means 8,380 migrants have made the crossing so far in 2023.", "A councillor has stepped down as deputy leader of the local authority after he reportedly told a meeting that \"all Tories should be shot\".\n\nIeuan Williams apologised for the comment, which the WalesOnline website said was made at an internal Anglesey council meeting on Monday.\n\nThe independent councillor said he was \"angry and emotional\" about poverty when he made the \"crass remark\".\n\nLocal Conservative MP Virginia Crosbie said she was disgusted by the comment.\n\n\"This is not the rough and tumble of political life, this is out and out hate,\" the MP said.\n\n\"Councillor Williams knows I wear a stab vest at surgeries but still he causally remarks I and others who are Conservative should be shot.\n\n\"Two MPs have lost their lives in the last seven years and still he thinks saying such things is OK.\"\n\nMr Williams, who was the council leader between 2013 and 2017, said: \"I apologise profusely for any offence caused by my inappropriate comment.\n\n\"The remark was made at the end of an emotionally charged statement, following a presentation on poverty on Anglesey.\n\n\"I am obviously not advocating shooting anyone and have apologised to all members present at the meeting.\n\n\"I have also referred myself to the standards committee and have stood down as deputy leader and member of the executive whilst any potential investigation takes place.\n\n\"This is not about any one individual. The real issue at hand here is what made me so angry and emotional in the first instance. We have a 99% increase in food bank usage on Anglesey in the three months since November 2022.\"\n\nAnglesey council chief executive Dylan Williams said: \"The comment made was inappropriate and unacceptable.\"\n\n\"Following dialogue with councillor Williams earlier today, he has referred himself to the chair of the standards committee.\n\n\"In the meantime, he has also stood down as deputy leader and education and Welsh language portfolio holder.\"\n\n\"Councillor Williams has accepted that his remarks were unacceptable and has apologised.\"", "Claire says her son, Ryan, will never be able to work because of his disabilities - so his savings and benefits are crucial\n\nThousands of disabled young people who have money stuck in Child Trust Funds could also have their benefits cut.\n\nAbout 80,000 young people have savings in trust funds and are unable to unlock their money without going to court.\n\nAnalysis by BBC News suggests about 4,000 of those are eligible for universal credit, but will receive lower payments because they have more than £6,000 in their accounts.\n\nThe government says it is speeding up the court process for families.\n\nIn April, a report suggested 80,000 young people who lack mental capacity to manage their finances were unable to access their Child Trust Funds without their families going through the Court of Protection.\n\nThe process can take months and cost hundreds of pounds, leaving many unable to access their money.\n\nUsing data from two trust fund providers, BBC News has now calculated that around 9% - about 7,000 - of those disabled young people have more than £6,000 in their accounts.\n\nOf those, more than half will be eligible for universal credit, according to government figures on the population as a whole - and will see reductions to their monthly payments.\n\nOne charity, Contact, said this was a \"double whammy\" for disabled people and their families.\n\nClaire Catherall feels her 16-year-old son Ryan, who is autistic and has learning disabilities, is getting \"penalised\" for having savings.\n\nShe has paid in £25 a month into his account since he was born, so there is now £8,500 in the pot.\n\nWhen Ryan turns 18 he will be eligible for universal credit, which is a benefit for people who are unable to work. But he will receive about £43 less a month as a result of having more than £6,000 in savings.\n\nMost universal credit claimants would stop getting payments if their savings or capital reached £16,000.\n\nClaire, who has three other children, says she cannot face taking legal action to get access to Ryan's savings because she has a full-time job and is already fighting on many fronts to make sure Ryan gets the right education and support.\n\nShe stopped topping up his trust fund a few months ago, when she realised she would have to go through the Court of Protection to access it.\n\n\"I actually cried when I stopped the direct debit,\" she said.\n\nThe park is one of Ryan's favourite places to spend time\n\nSitting hand-in-hand on their sofa at home in north-east England, Ryan gives Claire a big kiss on the cheek.\n\n\"He is so loving, so caring, but because of his autism he can also find the world very difficult and have challenging behaviours,\" she said.\n\n\"He will never be able to work and will always rely on benefits... so the importance of having those savings is massive.\"\n\nMillions of children born between 2002 and 2011 received between £250 and £500 through the then-Labour government's Child Trust Fund scheme.\n\nBut it did not realise how the Mental Capacity Act - designed to protect people who lack capacity - would affect some families trying to access savings.\n\nThe CEO of Child Trust Fund provider, One Family, believes making families go to court to access their child's savings infringes on his duty to the consumer.\n\nTeddy Nyahasha's company has chosen to release £3.6m from 1,000 accounts, without involving the Court of Protection. Around 92 of those will have savings of £6,000 or more.\n\nHe is adamant that doing so is not in breach of the Mental Capacity Act.\n\nHe says if a parent is trusted by the government to handle their child's benefits, then they can be trusted to access their child's savings account.\n\n\"In most of these cases, these families are already receiving benefits from the government,\" he said.\n\n\"If you just follow that paper trail, you can establish the link between the parent who is looking after the young adult, and the owner of the money.\"\n\nTeddy Nyahasha says not helping disabled people's families to access the Child Trust Funds would be \"discriminating on the grounds of disability\"\n\nAlex Ruck Keene, a barrister who specialises in mental capacity law, warns One Family's stance sets a \"dangerous precedent\" which risks \"infantilising\" disabled people and leaves them open to financial abuse.\n\n\"The Court of Protection is a vital process in ensuring that people around those who cannot make decisions for themselves are always acting in their best interests,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said the Court of Protection was a vital legal process and that it had worked to reduce court waiting times.", "Miriam Margolyes says she \"wouldn't want to be straight for anything\", as she makes her Vogue cover debut at 82.\n\nThe actress posed for vibrant photos and discussed the joy she felt in her sexuality, saying she's \"never had any shame\" around it.\n\n\"Gay people are very lucky, because we are not conventional,\" she said.\n\nKnown for her TV and film roles, and candour in interviews, she came out as a lesbian in 1966 - at a time when homosexual acts between men were illegal.\n\nShe also lived through the HIV crisis of the 1980s, during which she lost 34 friends.\n\n\"I never had any shame about being gay or anything really. I knew it wasn't criminal because it was me. I couldn't be criminal,\" she told the fashion magazine.\n\nBut the award-winning actress also revealed she regretted coming out to her parents, who she says never accepted her sexuality.\n\n\"It hurt them and I don't want to hurt people,\" she said.\n\nMargolyes' career in TV and film spans decades; some of her work includes Blackadder, Vanity Fair and Harry Potter.\n\nShe has often made headlines for her hilariously frank interviews, with her wild anecdotes often going viral.\n\n\"It's a strong position if you're not afraid to be who you are,\" she told Vogue.\n\n\"We're all so insecure. People are frightened such a lot of the time and what I've always tried to do... (is) make people feel good about themselves.\"\n\nShe features along with other \"LGBTQ+ pioneers\", including Ncuti Gatwa and Emma D'Arcy, in the July edition of British Vogue.\n\nThe 82-year-old's cover reads \"pride and joy\", where she is shrouded in blue satin, peaking through a chic mesh headpiece.\n\nIn 2020, Dame Judi Dench, at 85, became the oldest star to appear on the cover of British Vogue in its 104-year history.\n\nIn April, the magazine featured its first disabled models, which British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful called one of his proudest career moments.\n\nIt was announced earlier this month that Enninful, who has been a high-profile champion for greater inclusivity in the fashion industry, will be stepping down from the role.\n\nSee the full feature in the July issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 20 June.", "A judge has granted a request by US regulators to temporarily block Microsoft's $69bn (£56bn) takeover of Activision Blizzard.\n\nThe court says the temporary restraining order \"is necessary to maintain the status quo while the complaint is pending\".\n\nThe US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says the deal could \"substantially lessen competition\" in the sector.\n\nA two-day hearing is now due to take place from 22 June in San Francisco.\n\nThe deal to buy Activision Blizzard - the company behind Call of Duty and Candy Crush - would be the biggest in the history of the video games industry.\n\nIt has split competition regulators in the UK, US and Europe. The UK has blocked buyout while the European Union approved it. In order for the deal to go through, Microsoft and Activision need approval from regulators in the UK, the EU and the US.\n\nThe FTC has argued that the deal would give Microsoft's Xbox console exclusive access to Activision games, leaving competitors Nintendo and Sony out in the cold.\n\nMicrosoft and Activision now have until 16 June to submit legal arguments to oppose the preliminary injunction and the FTC will have to reply on 20 June.\n\nMicrosoft has said a takeover of Activision would benefit gaming companies and players.\n\nIt has offered to sign a legally binding agreement with the FTC to provide Call of Duty games to rivals including Sony for a decade.\n\nThe European Commission has approved the acquisition, saying that Microsoft's offer of 10-year free licensing deals - which promise European consumers and cloud game streaming services access to Activision's PC and console games - mean there would be fair competition in the market.\n\nBut the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the deal in April, saying it was concerned the takeover would offer reduced innovation and less choice for gamers.\n\nMicrosoft and Activision hit out at the CMA's decision and said they would appeal.\n\nMicrosoft president Brad Smith said it marked the company's \"darkest day\" in its four decades of working in Britain.\n\nIn response to the announcement by the FTC on Monday, Mr Smith said Microsoft welcomed the \"opportunity to present our case in federal court\" in its attempt to persuade US regulators to allow the deal to be completed.\n\n\"We believe accelerating the legal process in the US will ultimately bring more choice and competition to the market,\" he added.\n\nThe purchase of Activision, which also makes Candy Crush, is seen to be important for Microsoft, which is trying to catch up with its main competitor Sony.\n\nHowever, this attempted investment from Microsoft could be seen as a play for the future of video games, with the firm betting big on its Xbox Game Pass service, which has been described as the \"Netflix of games\".\n\nMicrosoft believes the future lies in players having subscriptions to libraries and streaming games through \"cloud gaming\", rather than making one-off purchases - which is the main way of accessing games at the moment.", "Adam Delimkhanov led Chechen forces during the invasion of Ukraine last year\n\nA senior Chechen commander and member of Russia's parliament has been reported wounded in Ukraine, although colleagues have been quick to say he is alive and well.\n\nAdam Delimkhanov is a close ally of notorious Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who initially described him as \"incommunicado\".\n\nHe appealed to Ukrainian intelligence to help \"find my dear brother\".\n\nChechen paramilitaries have joined Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe missing MP had commanded Chechen forces in 2022, as Russia fought for months to seize the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.\n\nEarlier this week, the missing MP said he had met the head of Russia's Belgorod border region and promised to help protect the area from attack. Belgorod has been targeted in recent weeks by a series of cross-border raids from Ukraine.\n\nHis whereabouts on Wednesday, however, were a mystery.\n\nRussia's official military TV channel Zvezda reported that he was \"alive but wounded\", citing information from the lower house of the Russian parliament.\n\nZvezda said the report rebuffed some social media reports that he had been killed. Ukrainian sources have referred to an unconfirmed attack on the Chechen Akhmat paramilitary in the coastal city of Prymorsk, a long way from the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nRamzan Kadyrov then offered a big reward for help in finding his \"dear brother\", even going so far as to call for help from Ukrainian intelligence.\n\nHowever, Russian officials have since sought to quell reports of such a high-ranking commander being wounded.\n\nFellow MP Dmitry Kuznetsov quoted Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin as saying that he had just talked to Adam Delimkhanov and that he was \"alive and well\".\n\nHours later, the Chechen leader backtracked on his earlier comments, claiming that his close ally was \"not even wounded\" and accusing Ukrainians of lying.\n\n\"I knew this from the very beginning of the injection of fake news, but I decided to show everyone, primarily Ukrainians, to what degree their media have sunk,\" he said.\n\nHe published a video along with his comments that showed the two men with several aides in front of map, but BBC Verify has found a number of inconsistencies in the clip that indicate it may have been manipulated.\n\nSome of the audio of the Chechen leader was out of sync with his lip movements and some military analysts have suggested the map dates back to last year.\n\nDelimkhanov put out a message debunking rumours surrounding his health to his half-a-million followers on social media, and then on Thursday he reposted the Chechen leader's video.\n\nNevertheless, the MP's reported injuries did prompt Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to say it was following events with great concern and awaiting clarification of what had happened.\n\nThe Kremlin has so far refrained from commenting on the fate of another leading military figure, Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev, who was reportedly killed in a missile strike on Monday.\n\nThe incident was widely reported in Russian media, citing popular military blogger Yuri Kotenok, but with no official confirmation.\n\nRussian-installed official Vladimir Rogov appeared to validate the report by offering his condolences to the general's family and friends.\n\nA number of Russian generals have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion, but if confirmed, Goryachev is thought to be the first such fatality for a year.", "Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have been identified in reports as the two students killed in the attack\n\nThe city of Nottingham has been shaken by a series of attacks which left two teenage students and another man dead.\n\nBarnaby Webber, 19, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, 19, and a man in his 50s were fatally stabbed. Three people were hit by a van police believe was stolen from the older stabbing victim.\n\nA suspect was Tasered by police before being arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nCounter-terrorism police are involved in the investigation, but no link to extremism has been confirmed.\n\nPolice said they were still in the early stages of the inquiry into the attacks, which occurred during the early hours of Tuesday, and had yet to determine an exact motive.\n\nThe BBC has been told by official sources the 31-year-old suspect was originally from West Africa but had been in the UK for \"many years\" and had settled status.\n\nIt is also understood the man has a history of mental health issues.\n\nThat is why at this stage, while counter-terrorism police are assisting the investigation, they are not running it.\n\nHe did not have a criminal record, they added.\n\nSeveral roads in Nottingham were closed throughout the day as police combed for evidence, and armed officers were seen on the city's streets.\n\nNottingham City Council leader David Mellen said the city was in \"shock and mourning\", while the city's three MPs said the area had been \"devastated\" by the bloodshed.\n\nMr Webber's family said he was \"just at the start of his journey into adulthood\"\n\nPolice have not formally identified the victims, but Mr Webber, a student at the University of Nottingham, was named by friends and family.\n\nIn a statement, his family - from Taunton in Somerset - said: \"Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.\n\n\"At 19 he was just at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man.\n\n\"As parents we are enormously proud of everything he achieved and all the plans he had made.\n\n\"His brother is bereft beyond belief, and at this time we ask for privacy as a family to be allowed time to process and grieve.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left for Mr Webber in Taunton\n\nThe amateur cricketer was described by Somerset's Bishops Hull Cricket Club as a dear friend whose memory would live on.\n\nA tribute continued: \"'Webbs' joined the club back in 2021 and has since then been a key part of our club and made such an impact in such a short space of time.\"\n\nTaunton School, which he attended, said the school community was \"heartbroken\" at the news of his death.\n\n\"He was a much-loved, kind and engaging character, That a young man of such promise should lose his life in these circumstances is utterly devastating,\" it said.\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar has been named locally as the second victim and a talented sportswoman. The man in his 50s has also not been named by the authorities.\n\nEngland Hockey said it was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms O'Malley-Kumar's death.\n\n\"Grace was a popular member of the England U16 and U18 squads and our thoughts are with Grace's family, friends, teammates and the whole hockey community at this time,\" it said.\n\nLondon-based Woodford Wells Cricket Club, close to the Essex border, also paid tribute to their former player, describing her as a \"fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player\" who was \"fun, friendly and brilliant\".\n\nAnd Southgate Hockey Club in London said it was \"shocked and devastated\" by the death of the \"much loved\" team member.\n\nThe deadly episode unfolded in less than two hours.\n\nPolice were called out to Ilkeston Road around 04:00 BST where they found the two students fatally injured.\n\nSome time after 05:00 the body of the man whose van was apparently stolen was found with knife wounds in Magdala Road, just under two miles (3.2 km) from the scene of the first two killings.\n\nAround 05:30 the van was driven into three people waiting at a bus stop on Milton Street in the city centre. One of those hit remains in hospital fighting for their life. The other two were lucky to escape with minor injuries.\n\nShortly after the van attack the vehicle was stopped in nearby Maples Street and the suspect was detained after being Tasered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What happened and where in Nottingham attacks\n\nIn the afternoon armed officers carried out a raid on a property on Ilkeston Road.\n\nNottinghamshire Police, which described the incident as \"horrific and tragic\", said detectives were not looking for anyone else in connection with the inquiry.\n\nMr Mellen told BBC Breakfast it had been an awful day for the city but the \"spirit of Nottingham will shine through this\".\n\n\"It was shown right at the start of this as people ran to help those who had been driven into as they were waiting for a bus first thing in the morning,\" he said.\n\nThe flag on Nottingham's Council House has been lowered to half-mast and a book of condolence opened.\n\nPeople have also been invited to lay flowers on the steps of the building and its lights will be lowered as a mark of respect.\n\nA vigil, including a minute's silence, will be held on Thursday evening in the Old Market Square.\n\nPolice tape could be seen outside a block of flats in Lucknow Road, Nottingham on Wednesday morning\n\nOne eyewitness told the BBC he had seen a young man and young woman being stabbed in Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street.\n\nThe man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had heard \"awful, blood-curdling screams\" and had seen a man dressed in black, with a hood and rucksack, \"grappling with some people\".\n\n\"It was a girl, and a man or boy she was with - they looked quite young,\" he said.\n\n\"She was screaming 'Help!'. I just wish I'd shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.\n\n\"I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing - four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.\n\n\"The girl stumbled towards a house and didn't move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that's where they found her.\"\n\nA dozen bouquets of flowers were left at the scene on Ilkeston Road.\n\nThe cordon that had been put in place was lifted on Wednesday, with two officers still standing outside a property that appeared to be the subject of police searches on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nPolice tape could be seen outside a block of flats in Lucknow Road, Nottingham, on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe attack has sent shockwaves through Nottingham's large student population, a city which is home to two universities and more than 50,000 students.\n\nA male student, who knew one of the victims, said: \"It hurts, it hurts a lot. It's the first time I'm dealing with something like this and at university it's a challenge for sure.\n\n\"The road that I live on leads directly on to the scene of the incident - when it happens on your doorstep you feel scared and frightened.\n\n\"It makes you realise what's important in life, to check on people and see how they're doing.\"\n\nThe University of Nottingham confirmed \"with great sadness\" that the two teenage victims of the attack had been students there.\n\nA planned graduation event was cancelled on Tuesday, and its students' union said it was \"devastated and shocked\" by the attacks.\n\nNeighbouring Nottingham Trent University said it had contacted its students to reassure them and encourage them to speak to staff about safety concerns.\n\nAhead of a church vigil held in the city on Tuesday evening, Paul Williams - the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham - said the city was \"in shock\".\n\n\"But what people in Nottingham do is pull together, friendship is the heart of Nottingham,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"My thoughts are with those injured, and the family and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.\"\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said her thoughts were first and foremost with \"all of those who've been involved, their friends, their families and their communities\".\n\nShe urged anyone with any information relating to the incident to report it to the police, who she says should be allowed \"time and space\" to investigate.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer sent his \"thoughts to all those affected and to the emergency services who are responding\".\n\nLilian Greenwood, Labour MP for Nottingham South, said the whole city was \"absolutely devastated\" by what had happened.\n\n\"My heart goes out of course to the families of Barnaby, Grace and the other gentleman killed yesterday, and indeed those who are in hospital after being hit by the van.\n\n\"There's nothing I can say that is going to make this right. It's absolutely desperately sad.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "CCTV appears to show the suspect trying to get into a homeless shelter\n\nCCTV footage has emerged that shows a man said to be the suspect in the fatal Nottingham attacks.\n\nStudents Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and school caretaker Ian Coates, were stabbed to death in the city in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nThree others were injured when a stolen van was driven into pedestrians.\n\nInquiries revealed a man matching the suspect's description tried to get into a homeless hostel - an incident not reported to police at the time.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were attacked with a knife in Ilkeston Road, with police receiving a call at 04:04 BST.\n\nIn an update on the sequence of events, Nottinghamshire Police said investigations had found a man matching the suspect's description had attempted to get into a supporting living complex in Mapperley Road, but had been denied entry.\n\nCCTV footage seen by the BBC shows a figure in a black hoodie being pushed away from a window and then confronted, before walking off.\n\nThe force believes the suspect then attacked 65-year-old Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in Magdala Road - and stole his van, which was then used to hit pedestrians in Milton Street, leaving one critically injured.\n\nA 31-year-old man was Tasered by officers before being arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) has given more details of its involvement in the emergency.\n\nA spokesman said it received an initial call to Ilkeston Road at 04:05, then a second call at 05:25 to Milton Street.\n\nIt did not get a call to Magdala Road until 05:39, where CPR was being performed on a victim by police.\n\nPolice have now formally identified the three victims.\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a history student at Nottingham, with a particular interest in US and China geopolitics.\n\nHe was a \"key member\" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for the university team. He also played hockey and rugby.\n\nHis family said: \"Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.\n\n\"Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.\"\n\nThe family of Ms O'Malley-Kumar - a first-year medical student who excelled in hockey and cricket - issued a statement saying: \"Grace was an adored daughter and sister; she was truly wonderful and a beautiful young lady.\n\n\"We were so incredibly proud of Grace's achievements and what a truly lovely person she was.\"\n\nA banner saying \"One City #NottinghamTogether\" has been placed on the city's Council House\n\nMr Coates, who police had previously said was in his 50s, was described by LEAD Academy Trust as a \"much-loved colleague who always went the extra mile\".\n\nVisiting the scene where Mr Coates was found fatally stabbed, his sons Lee and James Coates said their dad was due to retire in four months.\n\n\"We know as much as everybody else,\" Lee said. \"He was a die-hard [Nottingham] Forest fan and an avid fisherman.\n\n\"He used to take under-privileged kids fishing just to get away from crime. You genuinely couldn't find a nicer guy.\n\n\"If we had to think about it, he'd be lying in a bed with us holding his hand, him dying naturally in 20 to 30 years' time.\"\n\n\"Not dying on a street because some guy decided it's not his day today,\" James added.\n\nKaleigh Wylie, 35, said she attended the River Leen School in Bulwell - where Mr Coates used to work - in the early 2000s.\n\n\"Ian worked alongside Jimmy, another caretaker in the school, both very well-loved, and in his spare time Ian used to take all the lads on fishing tournaments for the school,\" she said.\n\n\"He never shouted, never got angry with any of us children, and we all know us children are a handful as teenagers, but he never did.\"\n\nThousands of people have attended a vigil at the University of Nottingham\n\nA vigil at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday afternoon has been attended by thousands of people, including relatives of Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber.\n\nCandles were lit and flowers laid for the pair.\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton, from the university chaplaincy team, told mourners: \"This is one of those moments which we hoped we'd never encounter.\n\n\"Students and staff of the university, community members and, most importantly, family and friends of precious Grace and Barnaby, some travelling many miles to be with us.\"\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor Professor Shearer West said the lives of the two 19-year-olds had been \"curtailed\" by a \"seemingly random\" act of violence.\n\nShe said: \"What should have been a time of celebration and relaxation following the exam period has become a time to mourn tragic loss in the most unimaginable of circumstances.\"\n\nAnother vigil is planned in the Old Market Square at 17:30 on Thursday, during which the Council House lights will be switched off and a minute's silence held.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Berlusconi's three children by his second wife - Eleonora, Barbara and Luigi - were among the many mourners paying their final respects\n\nItaly has held a state funeral for ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, attended by political leaders, his family and a string of ex-girlfriends.\n\nThousands of mourners gathered in Milan's main square to say a final farewell to the one-time cruise singer who led Italy with no prior political experience and built a media empire.\n\nAs Berlusconi's coffin entered the cathedral, they chanted: \"Silvio will always be our president.\"\n\nThere were flags, tears and applause.\n\nThe Archbishop of Milan led the funeral, in a cathedral packed with 2,000 relatives, friends, and allies and rivals from Italian politics and business. Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, were among the few figures from the world stage.\n\n\"To be happy means to love parties, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to have a sense of humour,\" said Archbishop Mario Delpini in a homily that encapsulated the four-time prime minister's flamboyant life.\n\nBerlusconi was a divisive figure for Italians, and renowned abroad for his crude jokes and so-called bunga-bunga parties.\n\nIn the front row of the cathedral were his five children, who have been catapulted into the limelight, as part of an inevitable succession story.\n\nBerlusconi's coffin left the cathedral flanked by Carabinieri police in plumed helmets\n\nDuring his lifetime, Berlusconi amassed a vast empire that spanned media, real estate, finance, cinema and sport - as well as a powerful political party that is part of Italy's current government.\n\nHe was one of Italy's richest men. According to Forbes, his business assets are worth about €6bn (£5.15bn).\n\nBut he never publicly indicated who should lead his business empire after his death and there are also big questions over the future of the Forza Italia party he created.\n\nBerlusconi has two children from his first marriage and three from his second. All of them have stakes in Fininvest, his holding company.\n\nThe future of his business interests will likely depend on how he has chosen to distribute the 61% stake he had in Fininvest.\n\nWill there be equal shares for all, or more for the two eldest children, Marina and Pier Silvio, who have held management roles in the empire since the early 1990s?\n\nThis 1993 picture shows Silvio Berlusconi with his wife Veronica and their 3 children, Luigi, Eleonora and Barbara\n\nOther valuable assets are undoubtedly Berlusconi's numerous luxurious villas. They could be tricky to pass on to his offspring in an equal way.\n\nHis Villa San Martino in Arcore, north-east of Milan, covers 3,500 sq m and dates back to the 18th Century. He also has homes at Lake Maggiore, in Rome, Cannes, the Caribbean and elsewhere.\n\nThe jewel in Berlusconi's crown of properties is Villa Certosa, a mansion in Sardinia that he bought in the 1970s.\n\nHe hosted world leaders there, from Vladimir Putin to George W. Bush. It has 126 rooms and looks like a theme park - including a fake volcano that erupts lava. Its value is estimated at €259m.\n\nPeople close to the family have described Berlusconi as \"the glue\" who kept his children united.\n\nThere has been no dispute so far over who takes over the empire - that is expected to fall to his oldest child Marina, 56, considered closest of the five to her father.\n\nThe big question is whether that family unity can be maintained now that Berlusconi has gone, and what impact that might have on the future of his business empire.\n\nBerlusconi's eldest daughter Marina (L) was considered closest of the five children to him. His girlfriend Martina Fascina is to her right\n\nHis death could prove disastrous for the future of his political party. Can Forza Italia survive without its charismatic creator - or could it fall apart in a matter of months?\n\nHe was the ultimate populist leader, and unsurprisingly, the party he created was entirely shaped around his persona.\n\nHis right-hand man, foreign minister Antonio Tajani, has categorically denied its future is at risk: \"It's unthinkable that the party would disappear.\"\n\nBut Forza Italia's share of the vote had already slipped to 8% in last September's general election.\n\nMany Italians who backed the party did so because they were Berlusconi loyalists and it will be tricky to appoint a successor they will warm to.\n\nIn reality, party members will probably look to the Berlusconi family to make a decision.\n\nWill the two eldest, Marina and Pier Silvio, want to keep investing in their father's political creation, or will they turn off the financial tap and cut their losses?\n\nPier Silvio Berlusconi runs the commercial TV side of the family's Fininvest holding\n\nWithout their financial support, Forza Italia has no chance of surviving. Berlusconi heavily funded his party - reportedly injecting it with nearly €100m.\n\nThere is some speculation that Marina could succeed him as leader, but for now this remains a rumour. She is seen as more of a behind-the-scenes operator.\n\nAnother unknown is Berlusconi's partner Marta Fascina, who is 53 years his junior. She's an MP in his party and has said several times that \"her passion is politics and she grew up with the myth of Silvio Berlusconi\".\n\nBerlusconi's eldest daughter reportedly blocked his plan to marry her last year. So there is a cloud over Ms Fascina's future role in her late partner's party.\n\nOne thing is certain: if Forza Italia does fracture, it would be a big problem for the other members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition government.\n\nIn a country so well-known for regular political crises, a government collapse triggered by the disintegration of one of the coalition partners does not seem such an unlikely scenario.\n\nUntil now, Berlusconi's children have avoided the limelight. But his death might force them to emerge from the shadows to take the reins of his empire.\n\nBerlusconi had health problem for years so it is likely he and his children had thought all of this through.\n\nThey might opt for an easy transition heralded by their eldest sister Marina, rather than get into a succession battle which could go wrong.", "Fiona Wightman claims she was targeted by Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s\n\nThe ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse has told the High Court that being targeted by the tabloids while suffering from ovarian cancer made it harder to recover.\n\nFiona Wightman claims she was \"door-stepped\" and had her phone hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s.\n\nThe publisher apologised unreservedly for using a private investigator to try to access her medical records.\n\nMGN is disputing much of the privacy claim she's brought with Prince Harry.\n\nThe company's barrister Andrew Green KC said on Wednesday there was no witness evidence, documents, call data or numbers in journalists' contacts books to suggest they had used phone hacking against Mr Whitehouse and his then wife.\n\nHer voice sometimes cracking with emotion, Ms Wightman told the court that after her diagnosis in 1997, she was repeatedly visited by journalists desperate for her to tell \"her story\" about her cancer.\n\nThey included, she said, Dominic Mohan from the Sun newspaper, who introduced himself as the showbiz editor. \"It didn't seem very showbiz to me,\" she said.\n\nIn a witness statement made public on Wednesday, she said \"to think it is acceptable to look at a woman's gynaecological cancer and try to find a way to make it public is utterly beyond the pale\".\n\nWhile Mr Mohan worked for Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, Fiona Wightman alleges Mirror Group Newspapers also targeted her.\n\nEarlier the barrister David Sherborne, representing Ms Wightman, spent several hours detailing her claims that Mirror group journalists with a record of phone hacking and commissioning private investigators, tried to get information about her and Paul Whitehouse, a comedian known in the 1990s for his comedy sketches in The Fast Show.\n\nMGN has admitted paying a \"blagger\", Christine Hart, to try to obtain details of her medical condition.\n\nMs Wightman described in her statement receiving a call from her surgeon's secretary who had been asked for information about her treatment by someone purporting to be from Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital.\n\n\"I haven't told them because one, I wanted to call you to check you're OK, and two, because it seemed fishy,\" she said the secretary told her.\n\nThe \"blagging\" attempt was unsuccessful but Andrew Green KC, for MGN, apologised on Wednesday in court saying \"it shouldn't have happened, it did and it won't happen again\".\n\nMs Wightman said the press attention on her began as she was starting to try to recover from cancer.\n\n\"I felt under huge pressure at the point I was being asked to discuss something so personal,\" she told the court.\n\n\"I truly believed it prolonged the time I took to recover. I was anxious, I was on edge, my confidence was at an all-time low.\"\n\nMs Wightman became a subject of tabloid stories again in 2000 when she broke up with Mr Whitehouse, who had an affair with a costume designer he had been working with.\n\nPaul Whitehouse was a famous figure in the 1990s for his comedy sketches in The Fast Show\n\nShe alleged that her mobile voicemail messages to and from Mr Whitehouse were listened to by journalists and private investigators.\n\nThey remained friends with shared children despite the break-up and continued to leave each other voicemail messages, to which she alleges journalists and private investigators listened.\n\nIn her witness statement, she said: \"I was young, I had ovarian cancer, and the prognosis for ovarian cancer then was awful. I was dealing with infertility.\n\n\"My husband had an affair. It sounds like a tragedy. I am not a tragedy, but I was dealing with such incredibly difficult, painful things.\"\n\n\"For someone to have listened to my messages and thought 'there is a great story here' is just awful.\"\n\nThe Mirror papers never published a story about Ms Wightman's cancer, but they did write about Paul Whitehouse's affair.\n\nConcluding her evidence, Ms Wightman said she had been \"really anxious\" about giving evidence.\n\nShe said: \"I've had to discuss some of the most personal things I have had to go through. Most difficult times in my life. The most challenging times. Ironically, it can now be reported. At the time, I chose not to discuss any of it.\"\n\nIn his statement, Mr Whitehouse, who currently stars in BBC Two series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, said: \"It is called a private life for a reason.\"\n\n\"MGN's journalists overstepped the mark. And it was not just my life they were investigating, it was Fiona's, our daughters' and her parents' lives.\n\n\"It makes us both feel very angry and there was zero reason for them to get involved,\" he added.\n\nMs Wightman's claims have been chosen as one of three test cases in this legal action, with many other well-known people also preparing to sue MGM.\n\nPrince Harry has refused to settle his claim against the newspapers, and gave evidence last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMGN apologised in 2015 for using \"unlawful information gathering\" techniques but denies the majority of Ms Wightman's claims.\n\nIt said her allegation that private investigators were accessing credit agencies to get her personal information were false, arguing that journalists were paying for searches on the Electoral Roll.\n\nThe publisher also says her case should be rejected because she failed to take legal action at the time. Victims of privacy breaches usually have a six-year time limit to sue.", "The fathers of Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have addressed a vigil for their children who were killed on Tuesday.\n\nBoth parents said their children loved life at Nottingham University and expressed their shock at their deaths.\n\nStudents Barnaby and Grace, and school caretaker Ian Coates, were stabbed to death in the city in the early hours of Tuesday.", "During the clashes, Ramarni Crosby suffered multiple stab wounds, including to the skull and back\n\nThree teenagers have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death.\n\nA fourth defendant earlier admitted the charge after Ramarni Crosby died in a gang fight in Gloucester.\n\nRamarni was stabbed in the skull and back after clashing with a group, some armed with machetes.\n\nJurors at Bristol Crown Court deliberated for more than two weeks before clearing a total of eight defendants of murder.\n\nRamarni, from Frampton-on-Severn, died after a feud had developed following an earlier fight outside a McDonald's, on 15 December 2021.\n\nThe court heard some of the group were armed with knives during the clashes.\n\nTwo 16-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, and Levi Cameron, 18 were found guilty of Ramarni's manslaughter.\n\nCallum Charles-Quebella, 18, had earlier pleaded guilty to the same charge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Almond, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said CCTV showed Ramarni's group approaching the scene, in Stratton Road, and then running away, pursued by the defendant group.\n\n\"Ramarni was the last to run away, his escape was delayed by a matter of seconds. He was set upon by a number of the defendants,\" he said.\n\n\"After he'd run a short distance, he collapsed on the street.\"\n\nHe had been stabbed multiple times in the back and once in the skull.\n\nAnother four defendants, three 17-year-olds and 20-year-old Dean Smith, were cleared of manslaughter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Mark Almond said CCTV evidence was key to the case\n\nA ninth defendant, Keishaleigh Margrett-Whitter, 20, was cleared of two counts of assisting an offender.\n\nThe two-month trial heard that following the clash, some of the group fled in different directions.\n\nBut Cameron and the two 16-year-olds got a taxi to a nearby house, where some of them stashed their weapons.\n\nA meat cleaver was found hidden in a drain near to the scene of the killing\n\nThe CCTV evidence shown in court featured three defendants outside the property, during which they acted out the stabbing, prosecutors said.\n\nThey then appeared to \"celebrate\" Ramarni's death after being told he had died, prosecutors told the jury.\n\nAfter almost three weeks of deliberations over nine defendants, there was a real risk the jury could struggle to reach a verdict on all counts - and the trial could collapse.\n\nThere was relief at Bristol Crown Court when we were told that, not only were the jury ready to deliver their verdicts, but they had reached decisions on all of the defendants.\n\nHowever, the family were clearly distressed with the results. There were audible sobs and gasps as \"not guilty\" was read out again and again. Unable to listen to any more, they rushed out of court.\n\nKnife crime has once again ruined young lives here in the west of England. One teenager is dead and his killers will find out how long they will spend in prison on 27 July.\n\nAdam Vaitilingam KC, prosecuting, had told the jury that his killing was the culmination of \"ongoing rivalry\" between the two gangs.\n\n\"In particular, there was a fight that had taken place about a week earlier involving one of these defendants and one of Ramarni's friends,\" he said.\n\n\"That fight hadn't settled anything - there were still grievances bubbling away between them and more violence was very much on the cards.\"\n\nThe defendants were part of a gang called GL1 and would wear purple bandanas as a sign of membership, the court was told.\n\nCallum Charles-Quebella (l) and Levi Cameron (r) are among four guilty of manslaughter\n\nDuring investigations officers found two knives and a meat cleaver in drains nearby.\n\nPolice divers also searched the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in the Hempsted area, as part of the inquiry.\n\nAs the verdicts were returned, people in the court's public gallery were visibly upset, while some of the defendants burst into tears.\n\nThose convicted are due to be sentenced on 27 July.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Massie was confronted by Mr Yule in his home in Forfar\n\nA serial criminal has been jailed for at least 20 years after he admitted beating and stabbing a 90-year-old doctor to death in his Forfar home.\n\nAlan Massie entered William Yule's house to steal his car keys, but was confronted by the pensioner.\n\nDr Yule fought back before being stabbed in the neck, puncturing his jugular vein.\n\nJudge Lord Fairley told Massie the attack showed \"a level of evil that is almost beyond comprehension\".\n\nThe court was told that Massie was on bail and had already entered two other nearby houses with intent to steal in the hours before the murder.\n\nAdvocate depute Graeme Jessop said Massie had entered Dr Yule's house at about 11:24 on 6 December.\n\nHe said that Dr Yule's community alarm had issued an alert. The operator had spoken to a man who claimed he was Dr Yule's grandson and the alarm had been triggered by mistake.\n\nThe call had continued to record and groaning and banging were heard in the background.\n\nMr Jessop said that about 13:00 a cleaner had seen Massie in Dr Yule's driveway, and he had claimed to be his grandson, which she knew was false.\n\nThe cleaner subsequently discovered Dr Yule's body in his ransacked kitchen, and called 999.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed that Dr Yule had been stabbed four times, once in the neck.\n\nHis hands showed signs of defensive injuries, indicating he had struggled with Massie.\n\nMassie later told police: \"Wait 'til you see the pictures of the guy I just killed, it's not a pretty sight.\"\n\nMark Stewart KC, defending, said: \"There is nothing that can be said that offers any explanation for what he has done or provides any comfort to the family.\n\n\"He apologises, for what it's worth.\"\n\nLord Fairley told Massie the attack was \"as brutal as it was cowardly.\"\n\nHe added: \"The level of evil of your actions is almost beyond comprehension.\n\n\"Your incarceration will make a substantial improvement to our society.\"\n\nDr Yule grew up in Moray and worked as a doctor in the Royal Navy before working for a short time on Shetland.\n\nIn 1968, he moved to Forfar with his wife Kirsty, where he served as a GP until he retired in 1992.\n\nFollowing his retirement, Dr Yule went on to become an author, publishing two books. He also wrote a number of research papers and was published by the Lancet and other medical journals.", "Asylum seekers who arrive by small boat face long waits for their claims to be decided\n\nSuella Braverman has said the government could fail to meet the prime minister's target of clearing the backlog of asylum claims at the current rate of processing.\n\nRishi Sunak promised in December to abolish the backlog of around 92,000 asylum claims by the end of 2023.\n\nThe home secretary told MPs the target would not be met at the current pace.\n\nBut she said she wasn't \"pessimistic\" about the target because more staff would be hired later this year.\n\nMr Sunak, who has listed \"stopping the boats\" as one of his priorities in office, announced last year that the \"legacy\" backlog of asylum cases dating before 28 June 2022 would be abolished by the end of the year.\n\nParliament is currently debating the government's second major piece of immigration legislation since small boat crossings began in 2018.\n\nIf the Illegal Migration Bill becomes law it will block asylum claims from migrants arriving in small boats, although it is likely to face a challenge under human rights law.\n\nAsylum claims - a legal request for sanctuary, or refugee status, in another country - can be made by anyone who comes to the UK under an international convention agreed in 1951.\n\nThe \"legacy\" asylum backlog total stands at stands at 78,954 cases relating to 104,049 people, according to the latest Home Office data.\n\nThis means that officials need to make 8,773 decisions every month to fulfil Mr Sunak's pledge.\n\nThe Home Office is making around 3,600 asylum decisions a month at present, based on the total of 10,750 decisions in the first quarter of 2023.\n\nMs Braverman told MPs on the Commons Home Affairs Committee: \"If you maintained the current pace we wouldn't meet the target. However that's to overlook we will have our full cohort of decision makers later this year. They will be trained up and fully proficient.\"\n\nAt the start of May, there were 1,280 Home Office staff working on asylum decision making, a big increase on a year previously, although a slight fall from the number employed at the start of 2023.\n\nThe committee also heard from a senior Home Office official, Dan Hobbs, who confirmed that the proportion of asylum decision makers who leave their jobs each year stood at 28%.\n\nThe government has also introduced a streamlined process for asylum claims from nationals of five countries with the highest asylum acceptance rates.\n\nQuestioned by MPs, Ms Braverman also conceded conceded that women trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation could be deported under new measures to tackle illegal migration.\n\nThe home secretary said women could receive protection if there was \"compelling evidence for their reasonable grounds\" or if \"they are part of a police investigation\".\n\nShe was also asked by the SNP's Alison Thewliss about the disappearance of 154 asylum seeker children from temporary hotel accommodation.\n\nMs Braverman said missing persons cases were a matter for the police, but confirmed there were no longer any unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels.", "The report suggests people avoid some stories like the war in Ukraine as they switch off depressing news\n\nThe number of people taking a strong interest in the news has dropped by around a quarter in the last six years, a global study suggests.\n\nA report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute says 48% of people around the world are very or extremely interested in the news - down from 63% in 2017.\n\nIn the UK, the proportion is lower than the global average at 43%.\n\nMore than a third of people (36%) worldwide say they sometimes or often actively avoid the news.\n\nThe authors of the institute's report said there was evidence that audiences \"continue to selectively avoid important stories such as the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis as they cut back on depressing news and look to protect their mental health\".\n\nThe Digital News Report 2023 also concluded that traditional TV and print news media are continuing to decline, while \"online consumers are accessing news less frequently than in the past and are also becoming less interested\".\n\nFour in 10 people (40%) say they trust most news most of the time, down two percentage points compared with last year.\n\nIn the UK, the BBC was the most trusted news brand, followed by Channel 4 and ITV.\n\nThe research also reported that more than half (56%) of those surveyed worry about identifying what news is real and fake online - up two percentage points.\n\nThe most important social media platform for news is still Facebook, although it is in long-term decline, with the number accessing it each week for news dropping from 42% to 28% over the past seven years.\n\nFacebook has also downgraded news. It says less than 3% of its news feed these days is traditional news stories. The tweaking of the algorithm over recent years has been catastrophic for some organisations that relied on its traffic.\n\nIn the UK, 41% of 18 to 24-year-olds say social media is their main source of news (43% across all countries), up from 18% in 2015.\n\nTikTok and Instagram have both seen increases in use. Instagram is now a source of news for 14% of people, with TikTok on 6%.\n\nTikTok is the survey's fastest growing social network, used by a fifth of 18-24-year-olds for news\n\nBut the figures are much higher for young users. One in five (20%) 18 to 24-year-olds get news from TikTok, up from 15% last year. The report says the platform \"is the fastest growing social network in our survey\".\n\nHowever, it is not necessarily news from traditional news providers. TikTok users are more likely to get news on the platform from celebrities, influencers or ordinary creators than mainstream news outlets or journalists.\n\nReuters Institute director Rasmus Neilsen said: \"Younger generations increasingly eschew direct discovery for all but the most appealing brands.\n\n\"They have little interest in many conventional news offers oriented towards older generations' habits, interests, and values, and instead embrace the more personality-based, participatory, and personalised options offered by social media, often looking beyond legacy platforms to new entrants.\"\n\nThe report says younger and hard to reach audiences in particular are taking part in high \"news avoidance\"\n\nLiking, sharing and commenting about news on open social media platforms is also in decline.\n\nOnly around 10% of people in the UK are classed as \"active participants\" - they are largely male, old, have strong political views and are more highly educated than the rest of the population.\n\nOne reason suggested for the change is a growing sense that online conversations on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly toxic.\n\nHowever, while the sharing of articles and engagement time may have dropped, it doesn't mean such sites are being deserted.\n\nTwitter made headlines after it was bought by Elon Musk, but the number of people using the site each week appears to have has barely changed. There is, Reuters said, no evidence of a mass movement to rivals such as Mastodon.", "Hassan said anti-asylum seeker protests made him \"really afraid\" to go out\n\n\"It was the worst period of my life because I thought it would never end.\"\n\nHassan - not his real name - was one of hundreds of asylum seekers housed at an army camp in Pembrokeshire in 2021.\n\nPenally, run by Clearsprings Homes, was later closed after a scathing report, but Hassan is concerned plans to house more men at two new sites, including Stradey Park in Llanelli, will involve that company.\n\nClearsprings Homes said it was unable to comment.\n\nThe Home Office said any new sites would provide asylum seekers with food and other essentials.\n\nThe Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, is set to house up to 207 asylum seekers from 3 July.\n\nThere are also plans to house 400 asylum seekers at a former hotel in Flintshire.\n\nThe Welsh Refugee Council said current asylum seekers would feel \"rightly\" worried about parallels between the new plans and the closed Penally site.\n\nIt said the UK government needed to show it had learnt from previous mistakes.\n\nHassan described Penally as like \"a prison\"\n\nHassan said he fled to the UK after political problems in his home country.\n\nHe had been housed in London for three months in 2020 when he received a phone call telling him to board a bus one evening.\n\n\"A bus came and it was full of men. They squeezed us onto the bus. It was lockdown, Covid's peak, and they put us all together,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the bus drove for hours through the night without anyone telling the men where they were going.\n\n\"It was very dark when we arrived at the camp,\" he said. \"We were all scared.\"\n\nHassan said the men were asked to get into groups of six or 12 so they could be allocated a room to share but could not fully take in their surroundings until the next morning.\n\n\"We were all shocked because it was like a prison,\" he said.\n\n\"The camp was surrounded with barbed wire, it had iron gates and it was in the middle of nowhere.\n\n\"It wasn't proper for winter. And for just all men together in the same place. No activities. All the bathrooms, all the toilets, the dining hall… everything was located outside.\"\n\nHassan says the men washed their clothes outside and in sinks because of faulty washing machines in Penally\n\nWelsh Refugee Council's chief executive Andrea Cleaver said often when asylum seeker sites opened, the standard would be \"far below\" what may have been promised.\n\nShe said people were being \"kept in the dark\" over plans in Llanelli and criticised the \"insufficient information\" from the UK government.\n\n\"Generally speaking, these large multi-occupancy sites have tended to be held in locations which are far from services.\n\n\"Hotels [like the proposed new sites] are never a great idea for housing people because they stop people from flourishing.\n\n\"But they are generally an even worse idea when you're talking about large numbers of people in areas.\"\n\nLlanelli Member of the Senedd (MS) Lee Waters said he worried \"far-right groups\" with their own agenda, and a lack of official communication from the Home Office about plans, had created an \"incendiary\" mix.\n\nAndrea Cleaver of the Welsh Refugee Council says there are parallels between the UK government's handling of Penally and plans for two new sites\n\nHassan said the remote location and lack of any distractions onsite at Penally made life harder for those housed there.\n\n\"I felt useless. Just useless. A human being should not be treated in that way,\" he said.\n\n\"OK, we are refugees or asylum seekers, but no-one wants to lose his or her own country. We were happy [in our lives], but we had to come here.\"\n\nHe said broken washing machines meant the men would sometimes have to wash their clothes in sinks and outdoors, while communal showers and bedrooms meant they had to wash and change in front of each other.\n\n\"When I talk about the camp. I still feel very emotional,\" he said.\n\n\"After a while, some people had some mental health issues, some health issues. We couldn't find doctors or psychologists.\"\n\nWhen inspectors visited Penally and another site in Kent in 2021, they found cramped, filthy conditions.\n\nAsylum seekers protesting about conditions at Penally camp in 2021\n\nThe Home Office has previously said the site provided \"safe and secure accommodation\".\n\nA current backlog of asylum seekers has seen some housed in hotels, something the UK government said was unacceptable.\n\nPlans would see new sites, which includes former and current hotel buildings, being repurposed into asylum seeker sites.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"There are currently more than 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer £6m a day.\n\n\"All asylum seekers in hotels are provided with full board accommodation, with three meals a day served as well as all other essentials, including cash payments where eligible.\n\n\"Asylum seekers are not detained at hotels and are free to leave their accommodation.\"\n\nYou can watch Wales Live on Wednesday at 22:40 BST on BBC One Wales and on BBC iPlayer.", "The permit gate is in the Llanishen area of Cardiff\n\nDrivers who use a residential road in Cardiff as a shortcut in the daytime face fines of up to £70 from Monday.\n\nCardiff Council is introducing the so-called permit gate on Fishguard Road and Crystal Glen in the Llanishen area of the city.\n\nIt means only permit holders and other authorised vehicles will be able to drive on the streets between Heathwood Road to Ty Glas Avenue.\n\nThe permit gate will be active from 07:00 to 19:00 from Monday to Saturday.\n\nLocal resident Stacy Lewis, whose mother has to drive through Crystal Glen every day to help with childcare, described the scheme as a \"pain\".\n\nShe said she's unable to get a permit for her mother as her car is not registered to the address, so will \"have to log on and apply for a visitor's permit every day\".\n\n\"My mum takes two children to school and takes one to toddlers. Every day I'll have to make sure I have a permit, she's there every single day,\" added Ms Lewis.\n\n\"I've spoken to the local councillor and there's nothing I can do because she's not eligible for a carers' permit.\"\n\nInitially, as a trial, the gate will be in operation for 18 months.\n\nOn its website, Cardiff Council said the roads were resident and visitor access only before, but drivers were not following the rules and they were difficult to enforce.\n\nThe council said those without a permit could still access the area, but must leave the same way they came in, and buses and taxis did not need a permit.\n\nMonitored by CCTV, a penalty charge notice of £70 will be issued for those who do not comply with the new rules, although this will be halved if paid within three weeks.\n\nDeborah Morgan lives in the new permit area and welcomed the new scheme, saying Fishguard Road can be \"bedlam\" during peak times.\n\n\"I think the permits are a great idea. I think it'll reduce the traffic first thing in the morning and in the evening rush hour,\" she said.\n\nDeborah Morgan said during peak times, Fishguard Road can be \"bedlam\"\n\nHowever, Ms Morgan said people who have problems using digital technology may find it difficult to apply for the permits in time.\n\n\"It's going to give people no time and particularly around here a lot of older people. It's going to be chaos, absolute chaos, come Monday.\"\n\nCanon Michael Jones from St Bridget's Church on Crystal Glen said he was concerned people attending funerals could be fined.\n\n\"Luckily, Sunday, which of course people think of as a church day, it's not going to apply. But we do have problems when things happen not on a Sunday.\n\n\"Principally weddings and funerals, when we will have to contact the transport department to ask them to turn it off, or not to take any notice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Songmi Park, now 21, is among the most recent North Korean escapees to make it to Seoul\n\nSongmi Park dug her toes into the edge of the riverbank as she prepared to cross.\n\nShe knew she was supposed to be afraid. The river was deep, and the current looked strong. If she was caught she would certainly be punished, perhaps even shot. But she felt a pull far stronger than her fear. She was leaving North Korea to find her mother, who had left her behind as a child.\n\nAs Songmi waded through the icy water at dusk, she felt as if she was flying.\n\nIt was 31 May 2019. \"How can I forget the best and worst day of my life?\" she says.\n\nEscaping North Korea is a dangerous and difficult feat. In recent years Kim Jong Un has clamped down harder on those trying to flee. Then, at the outset of the pandemic, he sealed the country's borders, making Songmi, then 17, one of the last known people to make it out.\n\nThis was the second time Songmi had crossed the Yalu River, which separates North Korea from China, providing escapees with their easiest route out.\n\nThe first time she left she was strapped to her mother's back as a child. Those memories are still as piercing as if they were yesterday .\n\nShe remembers hiding at a relative's pig farm in China, when the state police came looking for them. She remembers her mother and father pleading not to be sent back. \"Send me instead,\" the relative had cried. The police beat him until his face bled.\n\nBack in North Korea, she remembers her father with his hands cuffed behind his back. And she remembers standing on the train station platform, watching both her parents be transported to one of North Korea's infamous prison camps. She was four years old.\n\nSongmi was sent to live with her father's parents on their farm in Musan, a North Korean town half-an-hour from the Chinese border. Going to school was not an option, they told her. Education is free in Communist North Korea, but families are often expected to bribe teachers, and Songmi's grandparents could not afford to.\n\nInstead she spent her childhood roaming the countryside, hunting for clovers to feed the rabbits on the farm. She was often sick, even during summer. \"I didn't eat much and so my immunity was low,\" she says. \"But when I woke up from my sickness my grandmother would always have left me a snack on the windowsill.\"\n\nSongmi with her mother as a toddler\n\nOne evening, five years after the train rolled out of the station bound for the prison camp, her father slipped softly into bed behind her, wrapping her in his arms. She buzzed with excitement. Life could begin again. But three days later, he died. His time in prison had chipped away at his health.\n\nWhen Songmi's mother, Myung-hui, arrived home the following week to find her husband dead, she was distraught. She made an unthinkable decision. She would try to escape North Korea again. Alone.\n\nOn the morning her mother left, Songmi says she could sense something was different. Her mother had dressed strangely, in her grandmother's clothes. \"I didn't know what she was planning but I knew that if she left, I wouldn't see her for a long time,\" she says. As her mother walked out of the house, Songmi curled under her bedsheet and cried.\n\nThe next 10 years were to be her toughest.\n\nWithin two years her grandfather had died. Now she was alone at the age of 10, caring for her bed-ridden grandmother, with no source of income: \"One by one my family were disappearing. It was so scary.\"\n\nIn times of desperation, if you know what to look for, the dense mountains of North Korea can provide meagre sustenance. Every morning Songmi began the two-hour walk up into the mountains, hunting for plants to eat and sell. Certain herbs could be sold as medicine at her local market, but first they needed to be washed, trimmed, and dried by hand, meaning she worked late into the night.\n\n\"I couldn't work or plan for tomorrow. Every day I was trying not to starve, to survive the day.\"\n\nJust 300 miles away, as the crow flies, Myung-hui had arrived in South Korea.\n\nHaving journeyed for a year through China and then into neighbouring Laos, then Thailand, she reached a South Korean embassy.\n\nThe South Korean government, which has an agreement to resettle North Korean escapees, flew her to Seoul. She settled in the industrial town of Ulsan on the south coast. Desperate to earn money that could pay for her daughter's escape, she cleaned the inside of ships at a ship-building factory every day without rest. Escaping from North Korea is expensive. It requires a middleman who can help to navigate the hurdles, and money to bribe anyone who gets in the way.\n\nAt night Myung-hui would sit alone in the dark and think about her daughter, about what she was doing, and what she looked like. Songmi's birthdays were the hardest. She would take a doll from the cupboard and talk to it, pretending it was her daughter, looking for some way to keep their connection alive.\n\nAs Songmi's mother recounts their time apart, from the safety of her kitchen table, she starts to cry. Her daughter strokes her arm. \"Stop crying, all your pretty make-up is getting ruined,\" she says.\n\nAfter paying a broker £17,000 ($20,400), Myung-hui was finally able to arrange her daughter's escape. Suddenly, Songmi's decade of waiting, with dwindling hope, was over.\n\nAfter crossing the Yalu River into China, she kept herself hidden, stealthily moving between locations at night, afraid of being caught once more. She rode a bus over the mountains and into Laos, where she took shelter in a church, before making it to the South Korean embassy. She slept at the embassy for another three months, before being flown to South Korea. When she arrived, she spent months in a resettlement facility, which is typical for North Korean escapees. The whole journey took one year but, to Songmi, it felt like 10.\n\nFinally reunited, she and her mother sit eating bowls of Myung-hui's homemade noodles in a spicy, cold broth.\n\nThe classic North Korean dish is Songmi's favourite. In contrast to her mother's guilt, Songmi radiates an infectious energy. She laughs and jokes as she comforts her mother, concealing any sign of her childhood trauma.\n\n\"The day before I was released from the resettlement centre, I was so nervous. I wasn't sure what I would say to my mother,\" she says. \"I wanted to look pretty in front of her, but I'd gained so much weight during my defection and my hair was a mess.\"\n\n\"I was really nervous too,\" Myung-hui admits.\n\nIn fact Myung-hui didn't recognise her daughter, whom she had last seen when she was eight. Now she was meeting an 18-year-old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why did you leave me behind?' Songmi asks her mother\n\n\"Here she was in front of me, so I just accepted this must be her,\" Myung-hui says. \"There was so much I wanted to say, but the words wouldn't come out. I just hugged her and said, 'Well done, you've gone through so much to get here'\".\n\nSongmi says her mind went blank. \"We just cried and hugged for 15 minutes. The whole process felt like a dream\".\n\nAs Songmi and her mother work to build their relationship from scratch, there is one question Songmi has never mustered the courage to ask. It is a question she has asked herself every day since she was eight years old.\n\nNow, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.\n\nNervously, Myung-hui starts to explain. Their first escape had been her idea. How could she then return home from prison to live with her in-laws, reminding them every day that she had survived, when their son had died? She had no money, and could not see a way for her and Songmi to survive alone.\n\n\"I wanted to bring you, but the broker said no children,\" she says. \"And, if we got caught again, we would both suffer. So I asked your grandmother to watch you for a year.\"\n\n\"I see,\" Songmi says, her eyes cast down. \"Only one year became 10.\"\n\n\"That morning I left, my feet wouldn't move, but your grandfather hurried me along. He told me to get out. I want you to know, I didn't abandon you. I wanted to provide you with a better life. This seemed like the right choice.\"\n\nThis choice might seem unthinkable to anyone living outside North Korea. But these are the gut-wrenching decisions and risks people must take in order to escape - and it is getting tougher. The government, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, has increased security along the border and imposed harsher punishments on those who are caught trying to escape.\n\nBefore 2020 more than 1,000 North Koreans would make it to South Korea every year. In 2020, the year Songmi arrived, the number had fallen to 229.\n\nWhen the pandemic broke out early that year, North Korea sealed its borders and banned people from travelling around the country. Soldiers along the border were ordered to shoot and kill anyone they spotted trying to escape. Last year just 67 North Koreans arrived in the South, most of whom had left the North before the pandemic.\n\nSongmi was one of the last to make it out before the borders closed. Her memories are therefore valuable, as they offer a recent and an increasingly rare insight into life inside the world's most secretive state.\n\nShe recalls how the summers were getting hotter. By 2017, the crops started to dry out and die, leaving nothing to eat between autumn and spring. But farmers were still expected to hand over the same crop yield to the government each year, which meant being left with less, sometimes nothing, to eat. They began to forage in the mountains for food. Some eventually chose to give up farming.\n\nThose who worked in the mine, the other main source of employment in her hometown of Musan, fared worse, she says. The international sanctions imposed on North Korea in 2017, after it tested nuclear weapons, meant no-one could buy the mine's iron ore. The mine almost ceased to operate, and workers stopped receiving their wages. They would sneak into the mine at night, she says, to steal parts, which they could flog. They didn't know how to find food in the wild, like those working the land did.\n\nSongmi spent much of her life in North Korea in Musan\n\nBut by 2019, the biggest fear, other than finding enough food to survive was being caught watching foreign films and TV programmes. These have long been smuggled into the North, and provide citizens with a glimpse of the enticing world that exists beyond their borders. Images of glamourous modern-day South Korea, portrayed in K-dramas, pose the biggest threat to the government.\n\n\"Watching a South Korean film would have got you a fine or perhaps sent to a regular prison for two or three years, but by 2019 watching the same movie would get you sent to a political prison camp,\" Songmi says.\n\nShe was found with an Indian film on a USB stick, but managed to convince the security officer that she hadn't known the film was on there, and escaped with a fine. Her friend was not so fortunate. One day, in June 2022, after arriving in South Korea, Songmi received a call from her friend's mother.\n\n\"She told me my friend had been caught with a copy of Squid Game, and because she was the one who had been distributing it, she had been executed,\" Songmi says.\n\nSongmi's account tallies with recent reports from North Korea of people being executed for distributing foreign shows.\n\n\"It seems the situation is even scarier than when I was there. People are being shot or sent to camps for having South Korean media, regardless of their age,\" she says.\n\nAdjusting to life in capitalist, free-wheeling South Korea is often a struggle for North Koreans. It is alienatingly different to anything they have experienced. But Songmi is taking it remarkably in her stride.\n\nShe misses her friends, who she could not tell she was leaving. She misses dancing with them, and the games they used to play with rocks in the dirt.\n\n\"When you meet friends in South Korea you just go shopping or drink coffee,\" she says, a little disparagingly.\n\nWhat has helped Songmi to integrate is her steadfast belief that she is no different to her South Korean peers.\n\n\"After travelling for months through China and Laos, I felt as though I was an orphan, being sent off to live in a foreign country,\" she says. But when she landed at the airport in Seoul the ground staff greeted her with a familiar \"an-nyeong-ha-say-yo\".\n\nThe word for hello, used in both North and South Korea, blew her away: \"I realised we are the same people in the same land. I hadn't come to a different country. I had just travelled south.\"\n\nShe sat in the airport and cried for 10 minutes.\n\nSongmi says she has now found her purpose - to advocate for the two Koreas to be reunited. This is the future that South Koreans are told to dream of, but many do not buy into the dream. The more time passes since the country was divided, the fewer people, particularly the young, see the need for it to come back together.\n\nSongmi visits schools to teach students about the North. She asks who among them has thought about reunification, and typically only a few hands go up. But when she asks them to draw a map of Korea, most sketch the outline of the entire peninsula, including the North and South. This gives her hope.\n\nAs Songmi settles into her relationship with her mother, there are only small glimpses of strain. The pair frequently laugh and hug, and Songmi dries her mother's tears as they explore the painful details of each other's past.\n\nHer mother's choice was the right one, Songmi says, because they are both now living happily in South Korea.\n\nMyung-hui may not have been able to recognise her daughter initially, but the pair look strikingly alike. Now she can see her 19-year-old self in her daughter.\n\nTheir relationship is more like a friendship or one of sisters. Songmi enjoys telling Myung-hui all the details of her dates.\n\nIt is only when they argue that it hits her.\n\n\"Then I'm like, wow, I really am living with my mother,\" she says, laughing.", "Most women with early breast cancer now beat the disease thanks to huge improvements in treatments in recent years, a BMJ analysis has found.\n\nTheir risk of dying within five years of diagnosis is estimated to be around 5% - down from 14% in the 1990s.\n\nCancer Research UK says this offers \"reassurance\" to many women but warns more highly-trained staff are needed to meet rising demand.\n\nA plan for NHS staffing in England has been repeatedly delayed.\n\nGovernment ministers say this workforce strategy is due shortly.\n\nMairead MacKenzie, 69, from Surrey, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, after finding a swelling under one arm.\n\nShe remembers feeling \"very scared\" because she had no idea of her chances of surviving.\n\n\"But I knew it had to be bad,\" she says.\n\nMairead started chemotherapy treatment, which uses drugs to kill off cancer cells, within days of seeing her GP.\n\nThis was followed by a mastectomy (removal of one breast), breast reconstruction and radiotherapy treatment before seven years on the drug tamoxifen to reduce the chances of the cancer coming back.\n\n\"It felt like they were throwing the book at me,\" she says.\n\nMairead is now involved in a patient-advocate group that helps scientists understand patients' experiences.\n\nShe is grateful for the care she received - and the gardening, walking and travelling she has been able to do in the intervening years.\n\n\"Good, clear communication about prognosis can make a vast difference to a patient's quality of life, and how they can cope with things,\" Mairead says.\n\nBreast screening looks for cancers that are too small to see or feel - it's offered only to age groups most at risk\n\nThe BMJ analysis tracked more than half a million women with early, invasive breast cancer - mostly stage one and two - diagnosed in the 1990s, 2000s and between 2010 and 2015.\n\nIt found the prognosis for nearly all women \"has improved substantially since the 1990s\", with most becoming long-term cancer survivors.\n\nAnd based on those trends, the researchers behind the Oxford University-led study say women diagnosed today also have a much lower risk.\n\n\"That's good news - and reassuring for clinicians and patients,\" oncologist and lead researcher Prof Carolyn Taylor says.\n\nFor two-thirds of women diagnosed recently, their five-year risk of death from breast cancer was less than 3%, but for one in 20 women it was 20% or higher.\n\nPrognosis depends on someone's age, type of breast cancer and underlying health, among other factors.\n\nSurgery cures most breast cancers - but if some disease remains, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy can reduce the long-term risk of dying.\n\nProf Taylor says more women are being screened for the cancer than 20 years ago and there is greater awareness of the symptoms.\n\nIn time, research will look at the survival rates of patients diagnosed during the Covid pandemic - but there is no data on this yet.\n\nCancer Research UK evidence and implementation director Naser Turabi says Covid was \"very disruptive\" but accepts \"we were already on a worsening trend before the pandemic\".\n\nThe difference now is \"we are seeing diagnostic and treatment delays\" and \"highly fragile services\".\n\n\"We need more highly trained staff, such as radiologists and oncologists, to cope with increased demand and an ageing population,\" Mr Turabi adds.\n\nIt is a view recently echoed by radiologists who say the NHS is struggling to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, cancer treatment should start within 62 days of an urgent referral by a GP.\n\nBut only 61% of patients in England are currently starting treatment in that time - against a target of 85% - and in Northern Ireland, just 37%.\n\nThe charity Breast Cancer Now says significant progress has been made on breast cancer research over the decades but it is \"not a done deal\".\n\nChief executive Baroness Morgan says: \"11,500 people a year in the UK die from the disease - and despite the tireless work of NHS staff, we know many women are waiting far too long for a diagnosis and are experiencing anxious delays to their treatment.\n\n\"Without urgent action from governments across the UK to get breast cancer services back on track, we risk seeing these decades of progress unravelling.\"\n\nIn rare cases, men can also be diagnosed with breast cancer but this study did not look at male trends.\n• None Breast cancer- Woman who got diagnosis at 23 encourages checks - BBC News", "Women's World Cup: BBC and ITV agree deal with Fifa to broadcast tournament in UK Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe BBC and ITV have agreed a deal with Fifa to broadcast the Women's World Cup in the UK, five weeks before the tournament begins on 20 July. Fifa president Gianni Infantino had threatened a European TV blackout if rights offers were not improved. But the deal with football's governing body will allow domestic viewers to watch matches when the tournament begins in Australia and New Zealand. European champions England first play in Brisbane on 22 July against Haiti. All 64 matches from the tournament will be broadcast in the UK on either the BBC or ITV, except for the final on 20 August, which will be shown across both BBC One and ITV1. The BBC will also broadcast live audio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra, with fans able to listen to 5 Live coverage on BBC Sounds, DAB radio and the BBC Sport website and app. Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: \"We have shown every Women's World Cup on the BBC since 1999 and we are happy to extend our partnership with Fifa for the upcoming tournament. \"The growth of the women's game is extraordinary, demonstrated by the 28 million who watched BBC coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup and the huge audience of 17.4 million who watched our coverage of the Euro 2022 final last summer on TV. \"In partnership with ITV, we are delighted to make this World Cup available to the widest possible audience and free to air.\" ITV will show coverage of half of the tournament's matches across ITV1 and ITV4 with simulcast and catch-up on ITVX. Niall Sloane, ITV director of sport, said: \"We're delighted to be able to bring comprehensive coverage of the Women's World Cup, free to air to our audiences with both live and highlights broadcasts across ITV and ITVX. \"This tournament promises to provide memorable moments with the popularity of women's football continuing to grow.\" The BBC and ITV have partnered with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), an alliance of public service media organisations, for the deal. Fifa said it had agreed with the EBU to \"extend their existing media right partnership\", which ensures the Women's World Cup will be shown on free-to-air linear TV across 34 European territories. World football's governing body added the deal includes \"a substantial additional commitment to the regular transmission of women's football content beyond the tournament\". \"Fifa is delighted to widen the deal with the European Broadcasting Union for the transmission of the upcoming Women's World Cup to include the five major markets within their existing networks, namely France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as Ukraine, thus ensuring maximum exposure for the tournament,\" Infantino said. \"As part of this agreement, the EBU has committed to working towards broadcasting at least one hour of weekly content dedicated to women's football on its own digital platform and broadcaster network.\" How did we get here? Infantino said last month that offers from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France were a \"slap in the face\" of the players and \"all women worldwide\". He added it was Fifa's \"moral and legal obligation not to undersell\" the event after European broadcasters offered significantly less compared with their bids for the men's World Cup. According to Infantino, they had offered $1m-$10m (£800,000-£8m) for the rights, compared with $100m-$200m for the men's tournament. Politicians from those five countries, including UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, wrote to acknowledge \"with concern\" that an agreement was not in place - although they were confident \"a common path\" would be found. Speaking to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, the BBC's Charlotte Moore said the corporation would not be pressured by Fifa into overpaying but remained \"absolutely committed\" to striking a deal. Prize money trebled after more than one billion watch in 2019 In the UK, the Women's World Cup and European Championship were last year added to the 'crown jewels' of sporting events, which means they require free-to-air coverage. The BBC held the sole broadcast rights in the UK for the 2019 Women's World Cup but shared the rights for the recent men's World Cup in Qatar with ITV. A record 28.1m people across the UK tuned in to the BBC's 2019 Women's World Cup coverage from France, with 11m people watching England's semi-final loss to the United States. According to Fifa's data, a total of 1.12 billion people watched in 2019 - a record for a women's tournament - and almost half the total viewing hours were from Europe. Fifa have trebled the total prize money for the 2023 Women's World Cup, to $152m (£120m). The governing body has also reiterated its aim to have equal pay for the men's and women's World Cups in 2026 and 2027.\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "A BBC Weather Watcher captured the strike on camera on Monday evening\n\nA spectacular lightning strike on the UK's highest mountain has been caught on camera.\n\nThe strike, which came during a thunderstorm on Monday evening, is thought to have shattered a stone pillar at the summit of Ben Nevis.\n\nIt was captured in an image taken by a BBC Weather Watcher from Corpach, near Fort William.\n\nBBC Scotland Weather said the UK and Ireland recorded 28,000 lightning flashes on Monday .\n\nMost of them were concentrated over north-west Scotland and Ireland amid heatwave conditions.\n\nA further 4,800 lightning flashes were recorded across Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThe damage to the pillar was spotted on Tuesday by Kinlochleven-based mountain guide Rich Pyne, who has been to the top of the 1,345m (4,413ft) mountain 562 times.\n\nThe damaged pillar was found the morning after Monday's lightning strike\n\nThe structure once had a metal plate - which had been missing before - with descriptions of locations visible from the edge of the peak's North Face.\n\nMr Pyne said: \"I was puzzled why half the stone pillar was missing and rock and the cement doughnut from the pillar's top were in pieces.\n\n\"I've been working full-time in the Highland mountains for 10 years with regular ascents up Ben Nevis, so I notice changes up there as I see the place almost daily through the summer.\"\n\nThe pillar before it was damaged\n• None Road and rail travel disrupted as heatwave goes on", "The Greek coastguard released images of the crowded boat before it went down\n\nAt least 78 people have died and more than 100 have been rescued after their fishing boat sank off southern Greece.\n\nBut survivors have suggested as many as 750 people may have been packed on to the boat, with reports of 100 children in the hold.\n\nGreece says it is one of its biggest ever migrant tragedies, and has declared three days of mourning.\n\nAuthorities say their offers of aid were refused but they are facing claims of not doing enough to help.\n\nThe boat went down about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Pylos after 02:04 on Wednesday morning local time, according to the Greek coastguard, which lowered an earlier confirmed death toll of 79 to 78.\n\nThe EU's border agency Frontex said it had spotted the boat early on Tuesday afternoon and immediately told Greek and Italian authorities. The coastguard said later that no-one on board was wearing life jackets.\n\nIn a timeline provided by the coastguard, it said that initial contact was made with the fishing boat at 14:00 (11:00 GMT) and no request for help had been made.\n\nIt said the Greek shipping ministry had made repeated contact with the boat and was told repeatedly it simply wanted to sail on to Italy. A Maltese-flagged ship provided food and water at around 18:00, and another boat provided water three hours after that, it added.\n\nThen at around 01:40 on Wednesday someone on the boat is said to have notified the Greek coastguard that the vessel's engine had malfunctioned.\n\nShortly afterwards, the boat capsized, taking only ten to fifteen minutes to sink completely. A search and rescue operation was triggered but complicated by strong winds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlarm Phone, an emergency helpline for migrants in trouble at sea, complained that the coastguard was \"aware of the ship being in distress for hours before any help was sent\", adding that authorities \"had been informed by different sources\" that the boat was in trouble.\n\nIt added that people may have been scared to encounter Greek authorities because they were aware of the country's \"horrible and systematic pushback practices\".\n\nJérôme Tubiana of Médecins Sans Frontières told French radio: \"It's really shocking to hear that Frontex flew over the boat and no-one intervened because the boat refused all offers of help... an overloaded boat is a boat in distress.\"\n\nThe boat is thought to have been going from Libya to Italy, with most of those on board believed to be men in their 20s.\n\nThey had been travelling for days, according to local media reports, which added that the boat had been approached by a Maltese cargo ship on Tuesday afternoon that supplied food and water.\n\nSurvivors spoke of as many as 500 to 750 people on board and regional health director Yiannis Karvelis warned of an unprecedented tragedy: \"The number of the people on board was much higher than the capacity that should be allowed for this boat.\"\n\nOne survivor told a hospital doctor in Kalamata that he had seen 100 children in the hold.\n\nCoastguard Cpt Nikolaos Alexiou told public TV that the boat had sunk in one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean.\n\nThe nationalities of the victims have not yet been announced.\n\nSurvivors have been taken to Kalamata, and many were treated in hospital for hypothermia or minor injuries.\n\nPublic broadcaster ERT said that three people suspected of being the traffickers had been taken to the central port authority in Kalamata and were being interrogated.\n\nGreek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited some of those rescued and expressed her sorrow for those who had drowned.\n\nEach year, hundreds of people die trying to cross the Mediterranean. In February, a boat carrying migrants capsized near Cutro, in the region of Calabria in southern Italy, killing at least 94 people - one of the deadliest incidents recorded.\n\nGreek migration ministry official Yiorgos Michaelidis said Greece had repeatedly called for a \"solid\" EU migration policy \"in order to accept people who are really in need and not just the people who have the money to pay the smugglers\".\n\n\"Right now, the smugglers are the ones who decide who comes to Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The case is for the EU to provide asylum, help and safety for those who are really in need. It's not a problem of Greece, Italy or Cyprus… The EU is the one that must conclude on a solid migration policy.\"\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video footage reportedly showing the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nMore than 70,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe's front-line countries this year, with the majority landing in Italy, according to UN data.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Search and rescue teams have been assisting in the hunt for 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell\n\nThe brother of a missing 21-year-old woman has appealed for information about her disappearance.\n\nChloe Mitchell, who is described as a \"high-risk missing person\", was last seen in Ballymena last Friday night into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPhillip Mitchell said he was \"broken\" by his sister's disappearance and appealed for privacy for his family.\n\nPolice have said they are continuing their searches but are \"increasingly concerned\" for her safety.\n\nA 26-year-old man who was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh is still being questioned.\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother Phillip said he is \"broken\" after her disappearance\n\nThe Community Rescue Service has conducted searches along the Braid River in the County Antrim town.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Ms Mitchell was seen on CCTV walking in the direction of James Street at the weekend.\n\nPSNI Supt Gillian Kearney says Chloe's family are very worried\n\n\"It's out of character for her not to have contacted her family or friends,\" PSNI Supt Gillian Kearney said on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"Her family are being supported by specialists but it's a very worrying time.\n\n\"I hope she is safe and well and that's why we are appealing for information and for the public to look at her photo and contact us if they have seen her.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up near homes on James Street\n\n\"Chloe was wearing a green and black The North Face-style jacket, a white t-shirt, leggings and Nike trainers,\" said Ch Insp Arnie O'Neill.\n\nThe Harryville Partnership Initiative, a community group for the area, said Ms Mitchell's family \"want left in peace\".\n\n\"It's a very hard time at present,\" the group said.\n\nAs well as searches along the river, there are also other areas involved in this investigation, including a house on James Street.\n\nThe house is cordoned off and forensic enquires were taking place inside it earlier today.\n\nAs we head towards a full week from when Chloe Mitchell was last seen heading towards James Street, the thoughts of this community are with her family.\n\nCommunity Rescue Service searching through dense shrubbery near James Street in Ballymena\n\nOn Thursday night, Community Rescue Service teams gathered along the banks of the Braid River while others searched in the river itself.\n\nSpokesperson Darren Harper said it was a \"pretty significant operation\".\n\nDarren Harper said the search area is significant in size and the terrain is difficult\n\nMr Harper said the river was not the only area being searched by at least 25 people.\n\n\"We do have the water technical team in the water and [on] the river banks and we also have ground teams searching other areas,\" he added.\n\nHe said difficult terrain, with dense shrubbery, brambles and steep river banks made the search difficult.\n\nThe hot weather also added to the challenge faced by personnel wearing waterproof gear, flotation devices and dry suits, he said.\n\nSearches are being carried out along the river Braid and near James Street in Ballymena\n\nAsked if the Community Rescue Service had found anything significant, Mr Harper said: \"We wouldn't be doing our job right if we didn't have some sort of finds. That's then passed on to the police to find out if it's relevant or not.\"\n\nOne of the search sites on Friday evening was close to the ECOS centre near Ballymena\n\nAnother voluntary search and rescue group, K9 Search and Rescue, said in a social media post that its team had assisted in the search for Ms Mitchell in the Harryville area of Ballymena.\n\nThe PSNI appealed for anyone with information to contact them by phoning 101.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She had half my heart and I had half of hers\" - Chloe Mitchell's sister pays tribute to her\n\nThe family of Chloe Mitchell have been going through a \"living hell\" following the murder of the 21-year-old Ballymena woman, her older brother has said.\n\nPhilip Mitchell told BBC News NI his family was \"devastated,\" but he also thanked people in the County Antrim town for the support they have shown.\n\nMs Mitchell went missing in Ballymena on 2 June and just over a week later a man was charged with her murder.\n\nHundreds of people attended vigils in Ballymena and Belfast on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think its amazing the way the community - not just the Ballymena and Harryville community - but every community and further afield has come together in memory of my wee sister Chloe,\" Philip Mitchell said.\n\n\"And the flowers and respect they've had is absolutely outstanding. It's completely respected by our family and will always be remembered.\"\n\nThere were emotional scenes at a vigil near where Chloe grew up\n\nAsked how the family was coping, Mr Mitchell said: \"I wouldn't want any family to go through this, it's just a living hell really and there's no words.\"\n\nSpeaking beside her brother, Nadine Mitchell said: \"I've not only lost my sister but I've lost my best friend.\"\n\nDescribing Chloe, she said she \"was special because she touched so many hearts\".\n\n\"My sister will always be living, while I am, because she had half of my heart and I currently have half of hers.\"\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother and uncle viewing floral tributes ahead of the vigil in Ballymena\n\nChloe Mitchell was the youngest of her family and is survived by her parents, two older sisters and two older brothers.\n\nChloe's uncle Billy McDowell said the family's grief was \"unbearable\".\n\n\"It's so hard for them to cope with at the minute,\" he added, explaining that the immediate Mitchell family had asked for privacy when in their own home.\n\nBut he said they appreciated the public's help during the searches and their support at the vigils.\n\nMourners released balloons into the air in Chloe's memory\n\nHundreds of people attended a vigil in King George V park in Ballymena, organised by a mental health charity, Turning Point NI.\n\nSpeaking at the event Philip Mitchell thanked the charity for hosting the vigil and paid tribute to police for \"every thing they had done for my wee sister\".\n\nIt feels like all of Harryville has turned out to this vigil, within sight of where Chloe Mitchell grew up.\n\nMany were in tears as they hugged and comforted each other.\n\nThere is a growing pile of floral tributes in the park, many bearing the words: \"Forever 21\".\n\nThis is a tight knit community and people are gathering tonight to remember Chloe and comfort her family.\n\nThere was a round of applause for members of the Community Search and Rescue team who searched for her.\n\nA vigil in Belfast was also held at City Hall, organised by the socialist feminist movement Rosa NI.\n\nThe father of Natalie McNally, who was murdered in Lurgan in December, attended the Belfast event to show solidarity with the Mitchell family.\n\n\"Our family knows exactly what [they're] going through, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy,\" Noel McNally said.\n\n\"Everyone has to stick together to stop this violence against women…stop treating women like second-class citizens, everybody has to be treated equally.\"\n\nAnn Orr from Rosa said she organised the vigil to give people an opportunity to express their grief and sorrow as well as a show of support for Chloe's family and friends.\n\nShe said there was a \"collective grief\" over Ms Mitchell's death, highlighting she is the 18th woman to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020.\n\nCrowds gathered in front of Belfast city hall this evening holding banners with different words but the same message - to end violence against women and girls.\n\nAmong the banners were posters featuring the face of 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell as well as other women murdered in Northern Ireland including Natalie McNally and Hollie Thomson.\n\nSome of those posters were held by members of those women's families who were there to show solidarity with the Mitchell family.\n\nA one minute silence was held in honour of Chloe - a stark contrast to the chants lead by organisers before that silence.\n\nOn Monday, police investigating the murder appealed for people to stop sharing and commenting on graphic videos and texts circulating on social media platforms.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the material contained inaccuracies and was \"also causing significant distress to Chloe's family and friends\".\n\nFlowers have been spread across King George's Park, Harryville, Ballymena\n\nDet Ch Insp Millar added: \"I am also aware of commentary in the media speculating about the recovery of human remains at specific locations.\n\n\"We would ask people not to comment and share such matters as they are likely to be incorrect, inaccurate and very hurtful to Chloe's family.\"", "The bus driver was off-duty when he had to step in\n\nA man helped save a speeding bus full of passengers from disaster after the driver fell ill at the wheel.\n\nThe coach was doing about 70mph on the M74, taking 50 people to a concert by Pink in Sunderland, when it started swerving towards an embankment.\n\nAlex Brewer, from South Lanarkshire, who is also a bus driver, sprung into action and brought it safely to a halt.\n\nAn air ambulance attended the scene near Moffat last Saturday, and the driver is said to be recovering.\n\nThe Caledonian Travel coach was heading south when the passengers noticed something was wrong.\n\nMr Brewer, 40, from Larkhall, told the BBC: \"I was on my mobile phone when I heard the passenger next to me saying very loudly 'where is he going?' He swerved across the two lanes and the hard shoulder, onto the grass verge towards an embankment.\n\n\"I jumped up and got the bus to a stop using the handbrake gently so not to lock the coach up, while moving it to the hard shoulder.\"\n\nTwo nurses who were on board the coach tended to the driver, while Mr Brewer made sure the bus was moved safely off the road.\n\nAlex Brewer and his wife Siobhan made it to the concert despite the ordeal\n\nPolice and an air ambulance met the passengers on the hard shoulder. The driver was taken to hospital.\n\n\"Caledonian Travel and the coach company arranged a new driver and we went on to have a great night at Pink,\" Mr Brewer added. \"[I am] thankful the driver is home and getting the medical treatment he needs.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Caledonian Travel said they were \"grateful\" for Mr Brewer's \"precautionary assistance\".\n\n\"The driver of the coach has confirmed that he unexpectedly felt unwell whilst driving and in the interests of safety pulled over to the hard shoulder of the motorway.\" said the spokesperson.\n\n\"The coach was brought safely to a standstill and we do understand that a qualified coach driver who was seated at the front of the coach quickly moved to ensure that the driver was able to bring the coach safely to a stop.\"\n\nThey added that the driver was \"recovering well\", while undergoing medical examination.", "The inquiry has made it clear it is not going to investigate the origins of the Covid pandemic but concentrate only on its impact on the UK.\n\nIn questioning, though, Dr Charlotte Hammer was asked about the dangers of a virus being leaked, either deliberately or accidentally, from a laboratory.\n\nShe said that accidents had happened in the past and she was aware of four incidents involving the Sars virus. In terms of controlling an outbreak once it has started to infect thousands of people, the actual origins of the virus matter “very little”, Hammer said.\n\nProf Jimmy Whitworth was then asked about the surveillance of Covid once it had been detected in Wuhan, China, and started to spread around the world in early 2020.\n\nHe said that by mid-January of that year, people working in the international health community were aware that the outbreak was “out of the ordinary” and was not going to die away.\n\nThe parallels with diseases like Sars and Mers, also caused by different forms of coronavirus, were “something that was giving us shivers,” he added.\n\nBy the end of January 2020, he said those working in public health were clear that an impending wave was coming to the UK.", "Emergency services were called to a lane adjacent to Cefn Road, Wrexham, on Monday morning\n\nTwo men from Wrexham have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found collapsed in a lane.\n\nNorth Wales Police and Welsh Ambulance Service were called to the scene on a lane adjacent to Cefn Road, Wrexham at 06:42 BST on Monday, 12 June.\n\nThe victim, 59-year-old John Ithell, from Pentre Gwyn, Wrexham was treated in hospital but died from his injuries.\n\nHis family has been informed and is being supported by specialist officers, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sainsbury's is cutting the price of its own-brand toilet paper as supermarkets face pressure to do more to help people with the soaring cost of living.\n\nThe retailer said its loo roll prices would drop by up to 11% as it passed on savings from the falling cost of pulp.\n\nGrocery price inflation is stubbornly high and retailers face claims they are not passing on falling wholesale costs to customers.\n\nSupermarkets deny profiteering and have cut the price of some basics recently.\n\nSainsbury's, Tesco, Aldi and Lidl have all reduced bread, milk and butter prices in the last few months.\n\nLoo roll is more expensive in the UK compared to some of our biggest European neighbours, research for the BBC showed last week.\n\nOur snapshot suggested that shoppers in the UK were typically paying £3.80 for toilet roll when a comparable pack costs £2.66 in Italy and £2.87 in Germany.\n\nHowever, the price of pulp - which is used to make paper and tissue - has been falling globally due to weaker demand.\n\nRhian Bartlett, food commercial director at Sainsbury's, said: \"After more than two years of inflation on the price of pulp, we are now seeing a decline which is enabling us to pass savings directly on to our customers and reduce the price of our own brand toilet roll.\"\n\nLast year, the war in Ukraine pushed up the price of food and energy but recently those prices have fallen sharply.\n\nHowever, food prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, with staples like sugar and pasta up sharply.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into high food and fuel prices, saying it will look at whether a \"failure in competition\" meant customers are overpaying.\n\nThe regulator has already found some supermarkets have increased margins on petrol and diesel.\n\nGrocers have denied profiteering, with the British Retail Consortium saying stores are working to keep prices \"as low as possible\".\n\nSupermarkets say there is usually a lag before falling wholesale prices are reflected in the shops due to the long-term contracts retailers sign with food producers.", "Many parts of the UK are officially experiencing a heatwave as temperatures continue to climb to 30C.\n\nThe hot weather may have arrived at the weekend, but a heatwave is only being recognised now as areas in the UK have seen highs of at least 25C for more than three consecutive days.\n\nA heat-health alert has been extended until next week as 30.7C was recorded in Porthmadog, Wales, on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office warned the humid air will bring thunder until this evening.\n\nThe forecaster has issued yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms in northern Scotland and western parts of Northern Ireland until 21:00 BST on Tuesday evening, with more rain and thunder possible later in the week.\n\nHeavy rainfall resulted in flooding in the Golders Green area of North West London on Monday, as cars struggled to drive through waterlogged streets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office defines a heatwave as three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nHowever, the threshold varies across the country, from 25C in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the North and South West of England, to 28C in parts of South East England.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nEngland's highest temperature of the year so far was at Chertsey Water Works in Surrey on Saturday after highs of 32.2C were recorded.\n\nBridgefoot in Cumbria has so far seen Tuesday's highest temperature in England, at 30.1C.\n\nNorthern Ireland started experiencing a heatwave on Tuesday too after temperatures climbed to 27C at Magilligan in County Derry and 28C in Armagh.\n\nHighs of 30.7C in Porthmadog meant Wales also had its hottest day of the year so far on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland saw its hottest day of the year on Monday after temperatures reached 30.7C in Threave in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nMet Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said the rest of the week will be hotter than average for the time of year, but that the extreme heat may come down slightly, meaning that heatwave criteria may not last much longer.\n\n\"The heat is set to drop slightly in coming days. London might not meet heatwave criteria, for example, but there's a good deal of dry, fine, sunny weather to be had this week with temperatures remaining well above average,\" he said.\n\nLast week's high temperatures led to the UK's Health Security Agency and the Met Office to issue an amber heat-health alert.\n\nBut all regions of England have now been placed under a yellow alert until 09:00 on Monday by the UK Health Security Agency, which means the hot weather is likely to affect vulnerable groups.\n\nThere are concerns about healthcare services becoming overwhelmed during this period, as well as an increase in the risk to health of people aged over-65 and those with pre-existing health issues, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.\n\nIn order to keep cool during the hot weather, people should ensure they drink plenty of water, wear loose-fitting clothes, stay in the shade as much as possible and use fans, ice and cool showers to reduce their body temperature.\n\nDogs and other pets can also be kept cool and safe by being kept out of the sunshine and not left in a hot car even for a short amount of time, along with being given lots of fresh water.", "Alfie had more than 50 injuries on his body when he died, the court heard\n\nA mother and her partner have been convicted of killing her nine-year-old son in the bath after months of abuse.\n\nAlfie Steele was found unresponsive at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021.\n\nDirk Howell, 41, was found guilty of murdering the young boy and his mother, Carla Scott, was convicted of his manslaughter.\n\nJurors cleared her of Alfie's murder. They were told by the judge they would never have to sit on a jury again.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing horrific details of the nine-year-old's final months, the jury deliberated for 10 hours over the verdicts.\n\nAlfie was subjected to a cruel discipline regime and had more than 50 injuries on his body when he died.\n\nHis punishments included beatings, being forced to stand outside and being dunked head first in cold baths, Coventry Crown Court heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hear the 999 calls that laid neighbours' fears bare during the trial\n\nThe family was known to social services - not least because Howell had an order in place preventing him from staying at the house, which he routinely flouted.\n\nNeighbours also made repeated calls to police after hearing screaming and crying coming from both inside and outside the family home.\n\nA safeguarding review will now explore what more could have been done to save Alfie.\n\n\"It fills us with immense sadness that we will never be able to see that same cheeky smile again,\" he said.\n\n\"Losing Alfie has left a massive void in our lives. To think that we will never be able to hug him and watch him grow into an accomplished young man causes us such anguish.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court had heard emergency services arrived at the home on Vashon Drive at about 14:30 GMT on 18 February but paramedics were unable to revive him.\n\nAlthough an exact cause of death could not be ascertained, evidence strongly suggested he died after being dunked in the freezing cold water.\n\nScott, 35, claimed Alfie had fallen asleep while enjoying a warm bath. However, his injuries and low body temperature - 23C (73F) - indicated a different story.\n\nThe trial heard Scott struck up a relationship with Howell in 2019 and his discipline regime quickly escalated during 2020, when the country went into lockdown during the Covid pandemic.\n\nJurors heard harrowing 999 calls from neighbours who tried to raise the alarm, before Alfie eventually died from the brutal regime.\n\nSome neighbours heard him screaming as he was forced into the cold baths and others reported seeing him standing in the garden at night \"like a statue\" while being berated by Howell.\n\nCarla Scott (left) struck up a relationship with Dirk Howell (right) in 2019\n\nHe had admitted four counts of child cruelty, but Scott repeatedly maintained her innocence. As well as manslaughter, the jury convicted her of child cruelty.\n\nAlfie's mother was in tears as she was taken down to the cells, but Howell, of Princip Drive, Aston, Birmingham, showed no visible emotion.\n\nOutside court, Det Ch Insp Leighton Harding said Alfie \"suffered the most horrifying physical and emotional abuse\" and it was \"unimaginable to consider the fear and distress he must have felt during the events that led to his collapse\".\n\n\"Alfie should have expected unconditional love and protection of Scott, yet she deliberately neglected his needs, choosing to prioritise her own needs and relationship with Howell, knowing the cruel treatment he was inflicting on Alfie,\" he added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said the case had not been referred to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), because it \"did not meet the criteria\", despite officers' contact with the family.\n\nWest Mercia Police will come under scrutiny in a review, said Det Ch Insp Harding\n\n\"We are of course committed to learning from this sad case,\" he said, adding the force would be complying with the forthcoming safeguarding review.\n\nStephen Eccleston, independent chair of Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership, said the team was \"shocked and saddened by the death of Alfie\".\n\n\"On behalf of the partnership, I would like to take this opportunity to pass on our condolences to Alfie's family.\"\n\nHe said the review would be published later this year.\n\nNigel Huddleston, MP for Mid-Worcestershire, described the case as \"absolutely horrendous\".\n\n\"We must endeavour to learn lessons from Alfie's murder to help ensure that such a horrific event never happens again,\" he added.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Mark Wall said Howell and Scott would be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukraininan troops have recaptured several settlements in the east of the country\n\n\"Extremely fierce battles\" are raging in parts of Ukraine as Kyiv's forces continue their counter-offensive, the country's deputy defence minister says.\n\nHanna Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had managed to advance near Bakhmut in the east and Zaporizhzhia in the south.\n\nBut she conceded Russian forces were mounting a stiff defence in some areas.\n\nHer comments come after another night of Russian missile and drones strikes on cities across Ukraine.\n\nRussia has stepped up its bombing campaign in recent weeks, despite President Vladimir Putin admitting that his forces are suffering from a shortage of missiles and drones.\n\nIn the early hours of Thursday morning, overnight attacks hit industrial facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukraine's army. Regional military spokesperson Serhiy Bratchuk said a series of drone attacks on the Black Sea region of Odesa were repelled by air defence systems.\n\nThe previous day, a strike on a warehouse and a shopping centre in the city of Odesa had killed three people.\n\nKyiv's much-anticipated advance has been long in the making, and Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of increasing strikes in recent weeks to deflect attention from the offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainians say their troops have recaptured seven settlements and at least 90 sq km (35 sq miles) since starting their counter-offensive.\n\nMs Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian troops had advanced around the city of Bakhmut, long the centre of a grinding and bloody street-by-street battle with Russian forces.\n\nShe said soldiers advanced by 200m to 500m towards the city, as well as advancing 300m to 500m in the southern Zaporizhzhia province. The BBC cannot independently verify these claims.\n\nBut she conceded that the counter-offensive had already led to some \"extremely fierce battles\", as Ukrainian forces try to break through well-established Russian defensive lines.\n\nSenior Western officials have warned against the idea that Russian forces will simply \"melt away\" in the face of Ukrainian attacks, adding that Kyiv's gains had already been \"costly\".\n\n\"Russian forces have generally put up a good defence from their well-prepared, defended positions and had been falling back between tactical lines,\" the sources said.\n\n\"This 'manoeuvre defence approach' is proving challenging for the Ukrainians and also costly to attacking forces. Hence, the advance at the moment has been slow,\" they observed, adding that it was too soon to say how effective Ukraine's offensive has been.\n\nBut they emphasised that heavy losses were to be expected, given Russia has had months to prepare defensive lines.\n\n\"This was never going to be without risk,\" they said. \"What we're seeing is not unexpected. It's difficult, and it is going to be challenging for Ukrainians. What we have seen, though, is they've continued to push through where they have had losses, and then continued to advance. So overall is going in the right direction.\"\n\nBoth sides have reported mounting casualties among their opponents which cannot be independently verified.\n\nWednesday night's strikes on the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at east three people, Ukrainian officials have said.\n\nAnother 13 people were injured in the early morning attacks, which targeted a warehouse and damaged shops.\n\nThe south-western city is vital to Ukraine's grain exports through the Black Sea and has come under infrequent missile fire during the war.\n\nMilitary commanders said Russia fired 10 missiles and 10 drones overnight, most of which were shot down by air defences.\n\nThey added that three of four KH-22 missiles launched from a Russian warship in the Black Sea were shot down, with the final one managing to hit Odesa.\n\nA number of civilians buildings were destroyed by the Russian attack in Odesa, including a shopping mall\n\nOleg Kiper, the head of the region's military administration, said the three dead were workers in the warehouse, which was being used as a food storage centre.\n\n\"There may be people under the rubble,\" he added. More civilians were injured after the blast and \"air combat\" damaged shops, restaurants - including a McDonald's - and residential areas, Mr Kiper wrote on Telegram.\n\nElsewhere, strikes on the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka killed a further three people and destroyed dozens of residential houses, Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nAnd six people - including four forestry workers - were killed after Russia shelled a a van in north-eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Ukrainian prosecutors said the attack occurred near the village of Seredyna-Buda, close to the Russian border.\n\nThe director of the UN's nuclear watchdog has postponed a planned trip the the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.\n\nSenior Ukrainian officials said Rafael Grossi had agreed to delay his trip until it was safer to travel. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said on Tuesday that he was \"very concerned\" that the plant could be caught in the crossfire of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nHis officials have also stressed their need to access a site near the plant to check water levels, after the nearby reservoir supplying cooling pools for the plant was hit by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.\n\nMeanwhile, in Moscow the state Duma [parliament] has approved a new bill allowing the defence ministry to sign contracts with convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine.\n\nThe new law will allow anyone who is being investigated for committing a crime, having their case heard in court or who has been convicted but before the verdict takes legal effect, to sign up to the army.\n\nPeople accused of sexual offences, treason, terrorism or extremism will be excluded from the law.\n\nThe move - widely seen as the latest attempt by Russian to avoid moving to full conscription - seeks to fill gaps left by mounting casualties.", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash in Ely, Cardiff\n\nTwo police officers are under investigation for their conduct prior to the death of two boys in an e-bike crash in Cardiff which led to rioting.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said gross misconduct notices had been served on the driver and passenger seen in a police van behind the boys in the Ely area.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in the crash on 22 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nThe two officers have not been suspended, South Wales Police said.\n\nThe IOPC said its investigation focused on the nature of the police interaction with the two boys before the crash and the appropriateness of the officers' decisions and actions.\n\nIn particular, the police watchdog said it was examining whether the officers in the police vehicle were pursuing the boys.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on the night of the crash.\n\nFifteen officers were injured during the unrest and the total number of arrests stands at 20.\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially insisted the two teenagers were not being chased by police before they died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tomos Morgan: \"It was complete chaos\"\n\nBut CCTV footage analysed by BBC Verify showed police following the boys just minutes before the crash.\n\nThe force later confirmed its officers had been following the teenagers prior to their deaths.\n\nThe watchdog said investigators were reviewing hundreds of video footage clips and had reviewed initial accounts and body-worn video from police officers and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crowd released the blue balloons in memory of the two teen boys\n\nPaying tribute to Harvey days after the crash, his mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared\".\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".", "Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber were two gifted students who excelled at sport, while Ian Coates was a popular school caretaker who always went the extra mile. All three were stabbed to death in the horror and chaos that unfolded on the streets of Nottingham.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar, 19, was studying medicine at the University of Nottingham. The first-year student volunteered for the national vaccination programme during the pandemic and took on work placements in a GP surgery.\n\nMr Webber, also 19, was a history student at Nottingham, with a particular interest in US and China geopolitics. His tutors said he was an energetic student, \"fun, friendly, and full of life in his seminars\".\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar was a member of the England U16 and U18 hockey squads, as well as playing for Southgate Hockey Club and Woodford Wells Cricket Club in London. Her team-mates said she was \"fun, friendly and brilliant\".\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a \"key member\" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for the university team. He also played hockey and rugby. His family said he was a \"beautiful, brilliant, bright young man\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'My beautiful boy' - families pay tribute at the vigil\n\nMr Coates, who was 65, was the site manager at Nottingham's Huntingdon Academy. The school said he did all he could \"for the benefit of our children\" and would be greatly missed.\n\nTributes have been pouring in for all three victims, and a vigil was held in Nottingham city centre on Thursday.\n\nMr Webber's family said they were \"enormously proud\" of his achievements\n\nMr Webber's parents David and Emma Webber and younger brother Charlie said he was \"at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man\".\n\n\"Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain,\" they said.\n\n\"Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"A talented and passionate cricketer, who was over the moon to have made selection to his university cricket team.\n\n\"As parents we are enormously proud of everything he achieved and all the plans he had made.\n\n\"His brother is bereft beyond belief, and at this time we ask for privacy as a family to be allowed time to process and grieve.\"\n\nAt Thursday's vigil, Mr Webber's mother Emma said her son was \"more than a victim\", and spoke about his love of Nottingham and the job he dreamed of carrying out in adult life.\n\n\"He was obsessed with aeroplanes and he still carried a dream of being a pilot in the RAF one day,\" she said.\n\nBarnaby Webber's mother Emma joked they \"couldn't get him home\" from Nottingham\n\nEx-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan also paid tribute to Mr Webber, saying he was a \"young cricketer gone far too soon\".\n\nTaunton-based Bishops Hull Cricket Club have asked people to lay flowers and pay their respects to their \"dear friend\" at the ground.\n\nMr Webber, who was also in the Combined Cadet Forces, was a former Taunton School pupil.\n\nStaff and students there said they had been \"heartbroken by the recent, tragic news\".\n\n\"Barnaby joined us in the nursery and studied here all the way through to the end of the sixth form, leaving just last year,\" the school said.\n\n\"In his long association with the school, he touched the lives of many staff, pupils and parents and his loss will be very difficult to come to terms with. He was a much-loved, kind and engaging character.\n\n\"That a young man of such promise should lose his life in these circumstances is utterly devastating.\n\n\"We send our love and deepest condolences to his family. We continue to do all we can to support them and all in our community affected by these events.\n\n\"When the time comes, we will find a fitting way in which to remember Barnaby and his special contribution to our school.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's family said she was \"an adored daughter and sister\".\n\nHer parents and brother James said: \"She was truly a wonderful and beautiful young lady.\n\n\"As parents, words cannot explain our complete and utter devastation. She will be so dearly missed.\n\n\"We were so incredibly proud of her achievements and what a lovely person she was.\n\n\"She was resilient and wise beyond her years.\"\n\nHer mother Sinead told the crowd at the vigil in Nottingham that her daughter \"was a treasure, an adored child\".\n\n\"My beautiful baby girl, she wasn't just beautiful on the outside, you must have seen her pictures, she was so beautiful on the inside,\" she said.\n\n\"She wanted very few things in life, she wanted to be a doctor, she wanted to play hockey with her pals, she wanted to have fun.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar was a pupil at Bancroft's School in north-east London before heading to university.\n\nThe school said: \"We are desperately shocked and saddened by Grace's sudden death in these truly terrible circumstances.\n\n\"She left Bancroft's only last year and was a hugely important part of our community.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar was \"an immensely gifted and dedicated scholar and sportswoman\" who excelled in cricket and hockey.\n\nEngland Hockey said it was \"deeply saddened\" by her death, while Southgate Hockey Club described her as a \"huge talent and much-loved member\" of the U18s and W1s.\n\nThe London-based team tweeted: \"We are shocked and devastated by the news, our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Grace's family, friends and teammates.\"\n\nEssex Women said Ms O'Malley-Kumar, picture in the front row with her arm in the air, was \"a massive talent while part of our junior programme\"\n\nWoodford Wells Cricket Club in London described her as \"fun, friendly and brilliant\".\n\nThe club said she was a former Wells Baby Belles captain, adding she was a \"fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player\".\n\nEssex Cricket said Ms O'Malley-Kumar played for the county side between 2015 and 2019.\n\nShe captained the team during her time at the club and was said to be \"highly talented with the bat and ball\".\n\nShe was \"a respected captain and awesome team-mate\", Essex Women added.\n\nA minute's silence was observed by cricketers in Chelmsford earlier ahead of the County Championship match between Essex and Somerset.\n\nThe flag at the ground has been lowered to half mast and players are wearing black armbands in memory of Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar.\n\nShearer West, University of Nottingham Vice-Chancellor, said the university was supporting both families.\n\nShe said: \"It is hard to find the words to express the shock and grief felt across our institution at the senseless loss of two first year students who have had their bright futures brutally curtailed by a seemingly random act of violence.\"\n\nMr Coates was described as a \"much-loved colleague\"\n\nMr Coates's body was found in Magdala Road, close to the school where he worked.\n\nHis sons James and Lee said their father had been four months away from retirement but \"was still grafting\".\n\nLee said his father's death had \"rocked everyone's world.\"\n\nHis brother Phil tweeted: \"I can't sleep trying to understand what's happened, Ian had led a good life but Grace and Barnaby were just starting out, just absolutely numb at the moment.\"\n\nMany of those attending wore red at the request of the sons of Ian Coates, a lifelong fan of Nottingham Forest\n\nAt Thursday's vigil - where many attendees wore red in honour of Mr Coates' beloved Nottingham Forest - James thanked everybody for the \"kind words\" about his father.\n\n\"It feels like he's touched a lot of hearts over the years, more than what we assumed and knew that he had, so it's been really nice and heartwarming to see the messages,\" he said.\n\nHuntingdon's head teacher Ross Middleton said: \"Ian was a much-loved colleague who always went the extra mile for the benefit of our children and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nDiana Owen, CEO of LEAD Academy Trust, added: \"I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear about this tragic news.\n\n\"Ian was a beloved and respected member of the Huntingdon Academy staff.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family and friends during this extremely sad time.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police said a 31-year-old man was Tasered and arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Sainsbury's and Asda have been told to stop using \"unlawful\" land agreements to prevent rivals from opening stores near their own shops.\n\nThe move may have reduced consumer choice of groceries and access to cheaper prices, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said.\n\nAsda and Sainsbury's played down the breaches, saying they had been \"technical\" and not harmed consumers.\n\nThe regulator previously reprimanded Tesco and Waitrose for similar actions.\n\nThe CMA's latest action comes as supermarkets are being investigated by the competition watchdog over high food and fuel prices.\n\nAccording to the CMA, between 2011 and 2019 Sainsbury's and Asda had placed restrictions on land they own to stop it being used by rival supermarkets.\n\nThey also used legal agreements to block landlords from allowing competing stores on land in the same block as existing shops.\n\nThe regulator said Sainsbury's breached the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010 18 times, while Asda did it 14 times.\n\nDavid Stewart, executive director of markets and mergers at the CMA, said: \"Restrictions of this nature are against the law, cause real harm to shoppers and will not be tolerated. This is particularly important at a time when many families are struggling to pay their weekly grocery bills.\n\n\"With families under increasing pressure, it is even more critical that competition between supermarkets is helping people to get the best deal.\"\n\nSainsbury's has agreed to remove the outstanding restrictions the CMA identified from its land agreements. The restrictions identified within Asda's land agreements have been removed.\n\nA Sainsbury's spokesperson said the regulator had found \"minor, unintentional technical breaches\" that did not reduce competition in the grocery market .\n\nIt added that there had only been a \"small number\" of breaches, amounting to less than 1% of its relevant land agreements over more than a decade. \"We have co-operated fully with the CMA throughout this process and we are now resolving these issues, as well as taking steps to make sure this does not happen again.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said: \"We have reviewed details of over 1,600 property related transactions which identified 14 issues. All of these relate to legacy transactions that occurred between 2011 and 2019, when Asda was under different ownership, and involve technical errors in documentation that have all been resolved.\n\n\"We have also taken action to strengthen our CLO-related training and guidance.\"\n\nThe CMA took action against Tesco in 2020 for 23 breaches of the land rules, and and Waitrose in 2022 for seven breaches.\n\nGrocery price inflation has soared in recent months, and some have questioned whether supermarkets are passing on falling wholesale food costs.\n\nHowever, the grocers have denied profiteering, with the British Retail Consortium saying stores are working to keep prices \"as low as possible\".", "Despite global fame, Cormac McCarthy was said to be a very private man\n\nTributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89.\n\nMcCarthy's novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films.\n\nFellow author Stephen King called him \"maybe the greatest American novelist of my time\".\n\nBooker-Prize-winner John Banville, a friend of McCarthy's, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was a \"great loss\" and he was a \"giant figure\".\n\n\"He was unique,\" Banville said. \"He stood out - he jutted out from the literary landscape like a monolith.\"\n\nBlood Meridian, McCarthy's 1985 dark epic set in the American West in the mid-19th Century, was his \"masterpiece\", Banville said.\n\n\"Sometimes, reading Cormac's prose, especially in Blood Meridian, you say to yourself, 'This is just so far over the top that it's unreal',\" he said. \"And yet it was extraordinarily compelling. I mean, nobody wrote the way he did.\"\n\nSamuel L Jackson (left) and Tommy Lee Jones (right) starred in 2011's The Sunset Limited, written by McCarthy\n\nMany of his novels were violent tales describing the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. In real life, he was said to be a very private man.\n\nBanville noted his fellow writer did have \"a very bleak view of life\".\n\n\"You did not have many laughs with Cormac,\" he said. \"He didn't see the world as a particularly comic place, which I do. But we got on well. I liked him enormously.\"\n\nIn his tribute, King added: \"He was full of years and created a fine body of work - but I still mourn his passing.\"\n\nMcCarthy had died of natural causes, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday, Penguin Random House said.\n\nThe publisher's chief executive, Nihar Malaviya, said McCarthy had \"changed the course of literature\".\n\n\"For 60 years he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,\" Mr Malaviya said.\n\n\"Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless for generations to come.\"\n\nHis UK publisher, Picador, described McCarthy as \"one of the world's most influential and renowned writers\".\n\nThe company's boss, Mary Mount, hailed his \"extraordinary body of work\", saying he was \"a writer of great vision and great beauty\".\n\nHis greatest books included The Road, McCarthy's 10th novel, which was published in 2006 and won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. It describes a father and son's arduous journey as they struggle to survive in the US after the apocalypse.\n\nHis 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, a grim story of a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert, was adapted for the screen by Joel and Ethan Coen.\n\nStarring Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, the thriller went on to win four Oscars, including best picture.\n\nThere have been a string of attempts to adapt Blood Meridian for the cinema. In April, Deadline reported The Road director John Hillcoat would become the latest to tackle it.\n\nMcCarthy's \"career spanned nearly six decades and several genres, including fiction and drama\", publisher Pan Macmillan said in its tribute\n\nBorn in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933, in an Irish Catholic family, McCarthy was one of six siblings.\n\nHe spent most of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father worked as a lawyer. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965.\n\nMcCarthy's last two books - The Passenger and Stella Maris - were published at the end of last year. As well as his novels, he also wrote screenplays and short stories.\n\nDuring his long career, his media interviews or appearances on the red carpet were a rarity.\n\nIn 2007, McCarthy told US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey: \"I don't think [interviews] are good for your head.\n\n\"If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to write a book, you probably shouldn't be thinking about it, you probably should be doing it.\"\n• None The chaos and carnage in Cormac McCarthy's novels", "Alexander Lukashenko has been Russia's key ally since the start of Moscow's full-invasion of Ukraine\n\nExiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has warned of the danger of transferring nuclear weapons from Russia into \"the hands of a crazy dictator\" in Belarus, after Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that the first \"missiles and bombs\" had arrived in the country.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya, who was speaking to the BBC in Warsaw, accused Western politicians of \"staying silent\" about the first deployment of tactical nuclear weapons outside of Russia since the collapse of the USSR in 1991.\n\nMr Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus, made his announcement in a staged discussion with a Russian state TV presenter, conducted somewhere in the Belarusian countryside with military trucks and hardware placed carefully in the background.\n\nWhen the presenter asked him to clarify his statement - that Belarus has already received the weapons, sooner than expected - Mr Lukashenko chuckled, like the two were sharing a joke. \"Not all of them. Gradually,\" he said.\n\nMr Lukashenko is seen as Russia's key ally, with Belarus serving as a launchpad for President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nIn comments clearly intended to rattle Ukraine's allies in the West, Mr Lukashenko stressed that the Russian bombs were \"three times more powerful\" than those dropped by the US on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War Two.\n\nHe added that he had not simply asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the nuclear weapons.\n\n\"I demanded them back,\" he said, claiming that he needed them for protection from external aggression - a false threat he also uses to justify his repression of all political opposition.\n\nMr Lukashenko - who has been in power since 1994 - claimed victory in disputed elections in 2020, triggering mass protests and a brutal crackdown by the Belarusian KGB security service and riot police.\n\nSvetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus in 2020 after running against Alexander Lukashenko in presidential elections\n\nBelarus, like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 1990s in return for security guarantees from post-Soviet Russia and the West. That makes this a significant reversal, although there is as yet no proof that the Russian weapons have been delivered.\n\nMr Putin first announced the transfer in March, pointing out that the US has deployed similar weapons in Europe. He later said the move would only take place when storage sites had been prepared, but Alexander Lukashenko now says Belarus has \"more storage sites than village dogs\" and several have already been renovated.\n\nMoscow says it will retain control of the missiles, which are tactical - not longer-range strategic weapons.\n\n\"I am not planning to fight the US… tactical weapons are fine,\" Mr Lukashenko said. \"And the Iskander [rocket] travels 500 kilometres (310 miles) or more.\"\n\n\"This deployment creates no new threat to Nato countries, so they don't take it seriously,\"Ms Tikhanovskaya argued, believing that Western countries see no difference between a missile fired from Russia or from Belarus.\n\nRussia already has nuclear weapons in its western-most Kaliningrad region, putting Poland and the Baltic states well within range.\n\n\"But Belarus is our country and we don't want nuclear weapons,\" Ms Tikhanovskaya said. \"This is like the last step to keeping our independence. And they [in the West] are staying silent about that.\"", "Andrew Tate leaving court in Bucharest in May 2023\n\nRomania's anti-organised crime unit say they have expanded the human trafficking case against controversial influencer Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two associates.\n\nThey are now being investigated for the more serious crime of \"human trafficking in continued form\".\n\nOne more victim was also added to the case, which started out with six women.\n\nThe Tate brothers and their associates have been under house arrest in Bucharest since April.\n\nThey were first arrested in December and are being investigated on allegations of rape, people-trafficking and forming an organised crime group.\n\nThey have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nOn 12 June, all four suspects were called to the headquarters of Romania's organised crime unit to be informed of the new allegations. Under Romanian law, trafficking of adults carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.\n\nProsecutors also said they had opened a separate criminal investigation against a Romanian man named Vlad Obuzic, who they say was close to the Tate brothers.\n\nMr Obuzic is facing allegations of human trafficking and forming a criminal crime group to sexually exploit seven women, who were seduced and coerced to produce pornographic content for social media sites, with the suspects keeping most of the gains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To ensure the victims' loyalty and that they will perform only to the benefit of the members of the group, they were forced to tattoo the name or face of the group member exploiting them,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nRomanian prosecutors are expected to issue an indictment with details of formal charges levelled against the brothers and their associates later this month - which would mark the start of a trial.\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, lawyers representing four women in the UK delivered a letter to Mr Tate at his home in Bucharest.\n\nThey accuse Mr Tate of rape, serious assault and coercive behaviour.\n\nThe claims, which date from 2013 to 2015, were made by three women whose complaints several years ago were investigated by police but never brought to trial - and a fourth woman who came forward more recently.\n\nThe letter gives Mr Tate 14 days to respond to the claims or face civil proceedings at the High Court in London.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Tate's press manager said he \"categorically denied\" the accusations, describing them as \"acts of intimidation\".\n\nMr Tate, 36, has millions of followers online. His content is particularly popular among young men drawn to his hyper-macho image.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News in early June, Mr Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nHe also dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nA few days later, a British woman said Mr Tate choked her until she lost consciousness while they were having sex, and then subjected her to threatening behaviour.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Tate told the BBC that he was \"saddened that a few opportunistic women who he has allegedly spent time with nearly a decade ago have decided to try and take advantage of his current situation\".", "Discrimination is a more pressing concern from advancing artificial intelligence than human extinction, says the EU's competition chief.\n\nMargrethe Vestager told the BBC \"guardrails\" were needed to counter the technology's biggest risks.\n\nShe said this was key where AI is being used to help make decisions that can affect someone's livelihood, such as whether they can apply for a mortgage.\n\nThe MEPs vote in favour of the legislation comes amid warnings over developing the tech - which enables computers to perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence - too quickly.\n\nSome experts have warned that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC, Ms Vestager said AI's potential to amplify bias or discrimination, which can be contained in the vast amounts of data sourced from the internet and used to train models and tools, was a more pressing concern.\n\n\"Probably [the risk of extinction] may exist, but I think the likelihood is quite small. I think the AI risks are more that people will be discriminated [against], they will not be seen as who they are.\n\n\"If it's a bank using it to decide whether I can get a mortgage or not, or if it's social services on your municipality, then you want to make sure that you're not being discriminated [against] because of your gender or your colour or your postal code,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ireland's data protection authority said it had put Google's planned EU roll-out of its AI chatbot Bard on hold.\n\nIt said it had been informed by Google that its ChatGPT competitor would be introduced in the EU this week, but was yet to receive details or information showing how the firm had identified and minimised data protection risks to prospective users.\n\nDeputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said the DPC was seeking the information \"as a matter of urgency\" and had raised further data protection enquiries about it with Google.\n\nMs Vestager, who is the European Commission's executive vice president, said AI regulation needs to be a \"global affair\".\n\nShe insisted a consensus among \"like-minded\" countries should be prioritised before getting more jurisdictions, such as China, on board.\n\n\"Let's start working on a UN approach. But we shouldn't hold our breath,\" she said.\n\n\"We should do what we can here and now.\"\n\nMs Vestager is spearheading EU efforts to create a voluntary code of conduct with the US government, which would see companies using or developing AI sign up to a set of standards that are not legally binding.\n\nThe current draft of the AI Act seeks to categorise applications of AI into levels of risk to consumers, with AI-enabled video games or spam filters falling into the lowest risk category.\n\nHigh-risk AI systems include those that are used to evaluate credit scores or access to loans and housing. This is where the focus of strict controls on the tech will be.\n\nBut as AI continues to develop quickly, Ms Vestager said there was a need to be pragmatic when it comes to fine-tuning rules around this technology.\n\n\"It's better to get, let's say 80% now than 100% never, so let's get started and then return when we learn and then correct with others,\" she said.\n\nMs Vestager said there was \"definitely a risk\" that AI could be used to influence the next elections.\n\nShe said the challenge for police and intelligence services would be to be \"fully on top\" of a criminal sector where there is a risk they get ahead in the race to utilise the tech.\n\n\"If your social feed can be scanned to get a thorough profile of you, the risk of being manipulated is just enormous,\" she said, \"and if we end up in a situation where we believe nothing, then we have undermined our society completely.\"\n\nMany tech leaders and researchers signed a letter in March calling for a pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.\n\nBut Ms Vestager said this was not realistic.\n\n\"No-one can enforce it. No-one can make sure that everyone is on board,\" she said, pointing out that a pause could be used by some as an opportunity to get ahead of competitors.\n\n\"What I think is important is that every developer knows that everyone has signed up for the same guardrails so that no-one takes excessive risks.\"\n\nThe European Parliament's proposals for the AI Act seek to restrict the use of biometric identification systems and indiscriminate collection of user data from social media or CCTV footage for purposes such as facial recognition systems.\n\nHowever, Ms Vestager said: \"We want to put in strict guardrails so that it's not used in real-time, but only in specific circumstances where you're looking for a missing child or there's a terrorist fleeing.\n\nBefore the AI Act can become finalised as the world's first rulebook on the use and development of AI systems, the EU's three branches of power: the Commission, Parliament and Council will all have to agree on its final version.\n\nIt is not expected to come into effect before 2025.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid have completed the signing of England midfielder Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year deal.\n\nThe Spanish giants will pay 103m euros (£88.5m) for the 19-year-old, in addition to various potential add-ons.\n\nIf those add-ons are achieved, the deal could reach 133.9m euros (£115m).\n\nBellingham, who started his career at Birmingham City, will be presented as a Real Madrid player at a ceremony on Thursday.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone at BVB [Dortmund] and to the fans for everything over the past three years,\" Bellingham said.\n\n\"It's been an honour to wear your jersey so many times, in big and small moments.\n\n\"Even though I look forward to my next destination, I will never forget the journey there. Once a Borusse, always a Borusse. All the best for the future.\"\n• None From humble beginnings to shining on football's biggest stages\n• None Can you name football's most expensive teenagers?\n\nOne of England's top performers at last year's World Cup, Bellingham was named the Bundesliga's player of the season as Dortmund missed out on a first league title in 11 years on the final day.\n\nThe initial fee means he becomes the second-most expensive English footballer after Jack Grealish, for whom Manchester City paid Aston Villa £100m in 2021.\n\nBellingham is also Real Madrid's second-most expensive signing, after Eden Hazard's 115m euro move from Chelsea in 2019, and the third-most expensive teenager in history.\n\nParis St-Germain paid Monaco 180m euros for France forward Mbappe in 2018, while it cost Atletico Madrid 126m euros to sign Joao Felix from Benfica in 2019.\n\nBellingham excelled at Dortmund where, in October last year, he made history by becoming the club's youngest captain aged 19.\n\nHe played 42 times for his club in 2022-23 - scoring 14 goals and registering seven assists.\n\n\"We thank Jude for three years of passion for Borussia Dortmund. It was a fantastic time together,\" Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said.\n\n\"We would also like to thank Real Madrid for the always fair and constructive discussions.\"\n\nThe £25m Dortmund paid Birmingham in 2020 made Bellingham the most expensive 17-year-old in the history of football.\n\nFollowing that deal, the Championship side were mocked by some for retiring the teenager's shirt number despite him only playing one full season of professional football.\n\nIt is understood the club are now set to receive a seven-figure sum from a sell-on clause inserted in the deal that took him to Dortmund.\n\nBellingham has been included in Gareth Southgate's latest England squad for the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia, but will not feature in the games.\n\nThe player will instead continue his rehabilitation in the England set-up as he recovers from the injury that kept him out of Dortmund's final game of the season.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Russian war correspondents in Moscow on Tuesday\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin claims that Ukraine's counter-offensive has been unsuccessful, with its army suffering major losses.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of war correspondents, he said that Kyiv's losses were approaching a \"catastrophic\" level.\n\nThat has not been verified, and Ukrainian President Zelensky has denied the counter-offensive is failing.\n\n\"There is movement forward,\" he said in his nightly video address.\n\nHe thanked Ukrainian troops for \"every step and every metre of Ukrainian land that is being liberated from Russian evil\".\n\nThis was echoed by Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, who wrote on Telegram there had been \"some successes, we are implementing our plans, moving forward\".\n\nUkraine's military declared on Wednesday that Russian losses in the past 24 hours had included 680 soldiers, eight tanks and an air defence system. Both sides give daily claims about enemy casualties, which are impossible to verify.\n\nKyiv's counter-offensive is in its early stages, and modest gains have been made in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions. Mr Zelensky has also claimed advances in Bakhmut.\n\nBut the situation is not as clear-cut as the triumphant claims of liberation that came from Kyiv earlier this week.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC was granted access to some of the first settlements in eastern Donetsk where the Ukrainian flag is now flying. Many are deserted, and in some areas Russian forces are pushing back.\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said that while it was still \"early days\", progress was being made in repelling Russian troops.\n\n\"What we do know is that the more land that Ukrainians are able to liberate, the stronger hand they will have at the negotiating table,\" he told US President Joe Biden at a White House meeting.\n\nWithout providing evidence, Mr Putin said the Ukrainians had lost over 160 tanks while Russia had lost 54. He also suggested Ukraine's troop losses were ten times greater than Russia's - insisting Kyiv had not succeeded \"in any of the sectors\".\n\nHis comments were dismissed by a US official, who anonymously told the AP news agency they were \"not accurate\" and warned against taking Moscow's public assessments seriously.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough most of Mr Putin's statements during his meeting with war correspondents were typically self-congratulatory, he did acknowledge that authorities in Moscow could have better anticipated recent cross-border attacks into Russia from Ukraine.\n\nHe said he was considering whether \"to create on Ukrainian territory a kind of sanitary zone at such a distance from which it would be impossible to get our territory\".\n\nMr Putin also suggested that Russia was short of \"high-precision ammunition, communications equipment, aircraft, drones, and so on\" - despite weapon production having increased over the past year.\n\nUkraine has had longstanding concerns about Russia's ability to build weaponry.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Zelensky again called for tougher sanctions to halt the flow of weapon components, some of which he said were being manufactured by Ukraine's partner countries.\n\nHe said that Russia was using such components to build the type of missiles that on Tuesday struck an apartment building and warehouses in Kryvyi Rih, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more.\n\nOn the same day, the US announced it would send a new military aid package to Ukraine worth $325 million.\n\nSeparately, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko suggested his country was receiving nuclear weapons from Russia that were \"three times more powerful\" than the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\n\nHe did not say whether they had already received the weapons or not, but claimed their deployment to Minsk was necessary to deter potential aggression.\n\nEarlier this month, Russia said it would deploy tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil from July - seen as a warning to the West, which was increasing its military support for Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Trump's indictment in Miami court unfolded - in 60 seconds\n\nDonald Trump has pleaded not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida.\n\nMr Trump is the first US president - current or former - to be hit with a federal criminal indictment.\n\nArms crossed, in a dark suit and red tie, he sat in stone-faced silence for his second court appearance this year.\n\nThe Republican later travelled to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he addressed supporters.\n\nAgainst a backdrop of American flags, Mr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, struck a defiant tone and told the assembled crowd he had \"every right\" to hold the classified documents, but \"hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes\".\n\nHe said he followed the law and went on to list series of unsubstantiated claims as well as grievances against President Joe Biden and his former rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nEarlier in the day before leaving Miami, Mr Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, thanked the city for \"such a warm welcome on such a sad day for our country\".\n\nJust hours before, in a 13th-floor room of a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, a sombre, subdued Mr Trump looked on while his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.\n\n\"We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,\" the attorney, Todd Blanche, told the judge.\n\nMr Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nauta - a close aide charged with six criminal counts in the case - was sitting at the same table as the former president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The view from inside the Trump courtroom\n\nOn the opposite side of the room sat the entire prosecution team, including special counsel Jack Smith, who announced the indictment last week.\n\nThe former president, who turned 77 on Wednesday, was allowed to leave court without any restrictions to domestic or international travel. Prosecutors told Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman the defendant was not considered a flight risk.\n\nBut Mr Trump will not be allowed to discuss the case with Mr Nauta.\n\nAfter the hearing, the Republican flashed supporters a thumbs-up as his motorcade left the courthouse. As they drove away, an anti-Trump protester dressed in a prison jumpsuit ran into the street in front of the motorcade before he was pushed away by security - perhaps the most unruly moment of a largely peaceful day.\n\nMr Trump and his security detail travelled directly to Versailles, a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami's Little Havana, where he was greeted by a throng of supporters who lined up for photos with the former president.\n\nHe appeared to take part in a prayer with some patrons, and was treated to a chorus of Happy Birthday to You.\n\nAlina Habba, a lawyer attorney for the former president, repeated the former president's claims that the charges were politically motivated as she addressed media outside court.\n\n\"We are at a turning point in our nation's history, the targeting prosecution of a leading political opponent is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"What is being done to the President Trump should terrify all citizens of this country,\" she added.\n\nBefore the hearing, court officials said Mr Trump would not have a mugshot taken but would be digitally fingerprinted and asked to submit a DNA sample by swab.\n\nA trial date has not yet been set, though the case is still earmarked for Aileen Cannon, a federal district judge in South Florida who was appointed by Mr Trump.\n\nThe charges, which were made public on Friday, came after FBI agents found more than 100 documents with classified markings at Mr Trump's private Florida estate Mar-a-Lago in August.\n\nThey allegedly contained information about the defence and weapons capabilities of both the US and foreign countries, as well as plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.\n\nProsecutors accuse him of hoarding the files, storing some in a ballroom and a bathroom, and of engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the FBI's inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump supporters outside court: 'They're afraid of him'\n\nMr Trump's legal troubles appear not to have diminished his support among Republican voters.\n\nA poll by the BBC's US partner CBS found 76% of likely Republican primary voters were more concerned about the indictment being politically motivated than about the documents posing a national security risk.\n\nProtocol dictates that the Department of Justice, the federal agency that enforces US law, should operate independently from the White House. Mr Biden, who is subject to a separate probe into his own handling of classified files, said last week: \"I have never once - not one single time - suggested to the justice department what they should do.\"\n\nLegal experts say the criminal charges could lead to substantial prison time if Mr Trump is convicted. He has vowed, however, to continue his campaign for president whatever the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's court appearance is his second in less than three months. He was arraigned in April in New York on charges that he falsified business records for a hush-money payment to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.", "Before today, we had already heard from Schofield and many of his former colleagues about his affair with a young male colleague. The only people we hadn't heard from were ITV bosses.\n\nToday, Kevin Lygo, Dame Carolyn McCall and Kyla Mullins have done as much as they can in their attempt to reassure MPs, viewers and advertisers that they had no knowledge of the affair when it was happening, and that their duty of care policies are robust.\n\nSo what happens next?\n\nThe story may have cooled in the last week or so, but it is not over. The independent investigation being carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC is ongoing and many will be reading its findings closely when they are published.\n\nThere are also a few outstanding questions for This Morning - it still has not yet been announced who will replace Schofield as Willoughby's permanent co-host (Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary are the frontrunners).\n\nBut for now, ITV bosses will be hoping that their answers during a two-hour grilling from MPs have done enough to reduce the intense pressure the broadcast network has faced in recent weeks.", "Scientists have \"super-engineered\" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis.\n\nThe oral vaccines contain weakened live polio viruses and the genetic redesign locks them into that weakened state.\n\nThe US and UK teams have now created upgraded vaccines against all three types of polio.\n\nHowever, better vaccines still need to reach every child in order to stop the disease.\n\nPolio can spread into the nervous system, causing paralysis. Cases have fallen by more than 99% since the late 1980s and about 20 million people who would have been paralysed can walk thanks to vaccines.\n\nThe original or \"wild\" poliovirus is now contained to small pockets of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the oral vaccines play a pivotal role in the attempt to rid the world of polio.\n\n\"The issue is they're genetically unstable,\" Dr Andrew Macadam, from the UK's MHRA, told BBC News.\n\nIt takes only one mutation to turn the safe polio vaccine back into a virus that can move out of a child's stomach, invade their nervous system and cause paralysis.\n\nAnd if those viruses spread from an immunised child - through their contaminated faeces - there is a risk of infecting the unvaccinated and triggering an outbreak.\n\nThere are now more cases of \"vaccine-derived polio\" than of the wild poliovirus and the polio detected in London's sewers last year was connected to the oral vaccine.\n\nSo the researchers have genetically altered the weakened virus even further to make it much harder for it to start causing paralysis again.\n\n\"By genetically modifying this part of the virus, we could modify this region so it couldn't revert and this I think has been remarkably successful,\" Dr Macadam said.\n\nProf Raul Andino, from University of California San Francisco, said he was \"super-proud\" of the scientific effort showing the vaccine was \"50 to 100 times more stable\".\n\nA man in an iron lung, to keep him breathing after polio paralyses the chest muscles\n\nIn March 2021, the World Health Organization made the researchers' vaccine against type-two polio available for emergency use. Since then, it has been used more than 650 million times.\n\nNow, in the journal Nature, the researchers have detailed the creation of stable vaccines against polio types one and three.\n\nThe first-stage human trials of the upgraded vaccines have already been conducted - and, the researchers say, the data, which is still being analysed, is \"very promising\".\n\nThe trio represent the first new polio vaccines in 50 years.\n\n\"I don't think there's any question that they're helpful, the new vaccines address the instability question, but it doesn't address the coverage issue,\" Dr Macadam said.\n\nTackling the last 1% of polio cases has proven stubborn. The original goal was to completely eradicate polio by the year 2000 - but delivering vaccines to some of the poorest and most conflict-ridden parts of the world has been a challenge.\n\nProf Alan Barrett, from the Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, at the University of Texas, called the \"super-engineered\" vaccines a feat of \"impressive science\".\n\n\"[But] will it lead the endgame to the finish line? That is a big question,\" he added.\n\nJoseph Swan, from the World Health Organization and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, said more stable vaccines were a \"significant part\" of the plan for a polio-free world.\n\nBut, he said: \"Simply having these new and better tools will not get us over the finish line - vaccination, not just vaccines, is what will end polio.\"\n\nThere was now a \"unique opportunity\" to eradicate wild poliovirus - but vaccine-derived polio outbreaks were causing problems in places facing \"complex humanitarian emergencies\", in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen.\n\nThe oral polio vaccine is no longer used in the UK and other countries with established healthcare systems as they have moved to the polio injection.", "Two university students from Manchester allegedly scammed Tesco stores across Northern Ireland using a cloned Clubcard app purchased on TikTok, the High Court heard on Wednesday.\n\nEmmanuel Moyo and Suleiman Ayaz are accused of targeting branches last week to steal high-value goods.\n\nIt is also alleged they dishonestly obtained money by a cashback system.\n\nThe men, both aged 21, were granted bail but banned from all Tesco outlets in the UK.\n\nMoyo, of Longford Road in Manchester, and Ayaz, from Laceby Avenue in the city, are jointly charged with counts of fraud by false representation, theft and attempted theft.\n\nProsecutors said they were arrested after Tesco reported multiple incidents at stores in Crumlin, Ballymena, Lurgan, Banbridge and Craigavon between 5 and 6 June.\n\nBoth students were allegedly viewed on CCTV footage selecting electronic toothbrushes and other expensive items.\n\n\"They proceeded to the self-service checkouts and scanned multiple Clubcard vouchers on a smartphone, ultimately reducing the price of the goods to zero,\" the prosecution counsel claimed.\n\n\"They also simulated putting physical vouchers into machines using a bank card, and the machines were then overridden to dispense cash.\"\n\nTesco suffered total losses of £1,966.92 in the scam, the court heard.\n\nMoyo made admissions during police interviews, but implied that the retailer was at fault for any money taken through the cashback system.\n\n\"He explained that he bought an app through TikTok for £250 which was a clone of a Tesco Clubcard app,\" the prosecutor disclosed.\n\nTikTok, which is a widely used video platform, has an in-app marketplace where users and brands can sell products.\n\nThe pair allegedly bought the cloned Clubcard app through TikTok\n\n\"He said they came to Northern Ireland when they finished (their university year) as they heard it was cheap to visit.\"\n\nAccording to Moyo's account, the plan was to either sell the items or give them to family and friends.\n\nAny cash obtained through the self-service machines had been an unexpected \"bonus\".\n\nAyaz made no comment when questioned by detectives.\n\nOpposing bail, counsel submitted: \"Police are of the view they have travelled here purely to commit these offences.\"\n\nThe bail application was heard at the High Court in Belfast\n\nMr Justice Rooney was told Moyo is currently studying architecture at the University of Salford.\n\n\"He has a defined career path, assuming he completes his degree,\" his barrister said.\n\nAyaz has also completed the second year of a university course in electrical engineering.\n\nBoth accused were granted bail following assurances that checks will be carried out on them by police in Manchester.\n\nRequesting £1,000 cash sureties as part of the release terms, Mr Justice Rooney confirmed they are to be prohibited from entering any Tesco stores in the UK.", "Junior doctors in Scotland are set to strike after rejecting a pay offer made by the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said three days of strike action would take place between 12 and 15 July unless an improved offer was made.\n\nThe Scottish government had proposed a 14.5% pay rise over a period of two years, which it described as the best offer in the UK.\n\nBut the union said that 71.1% of its members had voted to reject the offer.\n\nIf the action goes ahead it will be the first time junior doctors will have gone on strike in Scotland.\n\nDr Chris Smith, the chair of the BMA's Scottish junior doctor committee, said members had spoken \"decisively and clearly\" - but that strike action would be taken \"reluctantly\".\n\nHe said: \"It is beyond doubt that they do not consider this offer sufficient to begin the process of addressing the pay erosion we have suffered since 2008 - when pay for a junior doctor was some 28.5% higher.\n\n\"That is why our message to the Scottish government today is stark. Come back with an improved offer and we can still avert the need for strikes and the disruption they will cause us all and patients in particular.\n\n\"The ball is now firmly back in the government's court, and I hope they respond urgently and positively.\"\n\nIndustrial actions have already been taken by Junior doctors, ambulance staff and nurses in England\n\nThe union, which has been calling for a 23.5% increase, says it is now seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary Michael Matheson.\n\nHe said he was disappointed in the decision, and that strike action was in \"no-one's interest\".\n\n\"This was the biggest investment in junior doctor pay for the last 20 years and a step forward to modernising pay bargaining, restoring confidence amongst junior doctors and ensuring that their contribution to our healthcare system is appropriately recognised,\" he said.\n\n\"My door remains open, and I will meet with BMA Scotland later this week to discuss how we move forward.\"\n\nHe previously told the BBC he would \"do everything\" to avoid industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs - make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nThey had originally voted to take strike action in May, before a fresh pay offer was made by the government a few weeks later.\n\nThat would have involved a pay rise of 6.5% in 2023/24 and an additional 3% towards an already agreed 4.5% uplift in 2022/23, as well as talks on a change to the system of pay reviews in future.\n\nMichael Matheson said he would meet BMA Scotland this week\n\nBMA Scotland put the offer to its members with no recommendation.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane urged the government to \"get back round the table\" and find a solution to the dispute.\n\n\"Patients who are already suffering will be deeply alarmed at the impact looming strike action will have on waiting times which are already too high on the SNP's watch,\" he said.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said the responsibility for the strikes \"lies solely\" with the health secretary.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said that talks with the BMA should be escalated to bring the dispute to \"a swift conclusion\".\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said the government would continue to engage with junior doctors.\n\nAnd he added: \"In my time as health secretary we didn't lose a single day of winter to NHS strikes - which is very different to every other part of the UK.\"\n\nIn England, Junior doctors who are asking for a 35% pay rise, are set to head to the picket line again on Wednesday as part of a 72-hour walkout. The latest industrial action by members in England follows strikes in March and April, leading to the cancellation of more than 196,000 hospital appointments.\n\nAmbulance staff in England and Wales have also taken action with members belonging to three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - striking in January. Unite members in the south-east walked out in May.", "Environmental activists Just Stop Oil are among those to use tactics such as blocking roads\n\nPolice in England and Wales are to be given clearer powers to stop protests deemed to be seriously disruptive, in a law approved by Parliament.\n\nThe House of Lords voted through the new regulations, despite an attempt to block them by an opposition peer.\n\nThe new law gives officers more leeway to intervene when protesters attempt to block roads with slow marching.\n\nThe tactic has been used by protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain.\n\nThe new law follows last month's passage of the Public Order Act, legislation designed to beef up police powers to clamp down on protests judged to be disruptive.\n\nThe government says the new regulations are needed because the police lack clarity on when their existing powers can be used.\n\nThe regulations lower the threshold for what kind of protest activity is considered \"serious disruption\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said the impact of \"disruptors\" from certain protest groups had been \"huge\" and \"the police must be able to stop this happening\".\n\nBut critics have branded the new measures an attack on the right to protest and argue that the police are already capable of stopping slow-walking demonstrations under current laws.\n\nThe regulations were backed by MPs in a vote on Monday, with 277 in favour and 217 against.\n\nIn the House of Lords on Tuesday, some opposition peers tried some parliamentary manoeuvres to prevent the regulations from becoming law.\n\nMinisters had already tried to ban slow-walking protests by adding measures to the Public Order Act but were narrowly defeated by peers.\n\nGiven this, Baroness Jones, a Green peer, had tabled a \"fatal motion\", which invited members to decline to approve the regulations because Parliament had already rejected them.\n\nUrging peers to back her motion, Baroness Jones said this was an \"authoritarian law that hands power to decide what is a good protest or a bad protest over to the police and the Home Office\".\n\nShe said the law was \"being enacted in an authoritarian manner by ministerial decree\".\n\nHome Office minister Lord Sharpe called the baroness' motion \"highly unusual\", arguing it sought \"to strike down legislation passed by the elected House and undermine sensible changes, which bring clarity and consistency to the law\".\n\nThe baroness' motion was not successful, with peers voting against it by 68 votes to 154, a majority of 86.\n\nWhile peers condemned the government's actions in bringing back regulations that had been previously rejected by peers in primary legislation, Labour did not support the fatal motion, because of a convention to accept the will of the elected House of Commons.\n\nA few minutes earlier, peers had backed a Labour \"regret motion\" - which set out criticisms of the regulations but did not block them - by 177 votes to 141.\n\nPolice have been under a lot of pressure from politicians over how they handle protests with recent actions by Just Stop Oil.\n\nBut the powers given to police in the Public Order Act were criticised as too crude and too broad, following the arrest of anti-monarchy protesters on the day of King Charles's Coronation.\n\nThe 2023 Public Order Act is the government's second major piece of legislation changing protest laws in under two years.\n\nIn 2022, MPs voted to place greater restrictions on public processions if they were too noisy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: Tories arguing over Johnson list while people worry about cost of living\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of being \"too weak\" to block Boris Johnson's honours list.\n\nThe former PM handed out awards to some of his closest aides from the Covid era in a list published last week.\n\n\"That means that those who threw a Downing Street party the night before the late Queen sat alone at her husband's funeral will now receive awards from the King,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nMr Sunak insisted he had acted \"in line with established conventions\".\n\nAnd - in a jibe at Sir Keir's own title - he said: \"I'd expect a knight like him to understand that.\"\n\nThe list of Mr Johnson's nominees included his former head of operations, Shelley Williams-Walker, who was reportedly the DJ at a Downing Street gathering on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral. She was made a dame.\n\nFormer director of communications Jack Doyle and press adviser Rosie Bate-Williams, who issued some of Mr Johnson's denials about Covid rule-breaking, were given CBEs.\n\nMr Johnson has accused Mr Sunak of blocking some of his other nominations, including a peerage for close ally Nadine Dorries, something firmly denied by Downing Street.\n\nMr Sunak said last week that he was not prepared to do what Mr Johnson wanted over peerages, adding: \"If people don't like that, then tough.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir - who was knighted in 2014 for his past role as director of public prosecutions - asked why \"for all his tough talk\" Mr Sunak had signed off on Mr Johnson's list.\n\nHe repeated his call for an immediate general election, accusing the Conservatives of getting their priorities wrong.\n\n\"All across the country, people are worried about their bills, the price of the weekly shop and the spiralling mortgage rates,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"So why has the Tory party spent this last week arguing over which of them gets a peerage?\"\n\nMr Sunak denied interfering in Mr Johnson's nominations for honours, in line with what he said was a \"long-held convention\" that had been followed by prime ministers of both main parties.\n\n\"My predecessors may not have agreed with Labour's choices of Tom Watson or Shami Chakrabarti, but the same precedent stood then as it does now. And I'd expect a knight like him to understand that,\" said the prime minister.\n\nSir Keir responded: \"Honours should be for public service not Tory cronies.\"\n\nRishi Sunak insists he did not interfere in the honours process\n\nHe accused the PM of ensuring \"those who spent their time helping cover up Johnson's lawbreaking are rewarded by becoming lawmakers for the rest of their lives\".\n\nMr Sunak asked why the Labour leader had put former MP Tom Watson, \"who spread vicious conspiracy theories that were totally and utterly untrue\", forward for a seat in the Lords.\n\nHe was referring to the now Lord Watson's previous support for fantasist Carl Beech, who wrongly accused several high-profile politicians and military officers of murder and child sex abuse in 2014.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened to warn Mr Sunak about his comments.\n\n\"Can I just say to the prime minister, you shouldn't criticise other members,\" he told the PM.\n\n\"Also, you're not responsible for the other parties. You are the prime minister that is answering the questions - not asking the questions.\"\n\nLord Watson used his maiden speech in the Lords in December last year to apologise for his role in promoting false sex abuse claims.", "Video caption: Fathers of two students killed in Nottingham address vigil Fathers of two students killed in Nottingham address vigil\n\nWe're closing our live coverage now, thank you for joining us.\n\nIt was a day of tributes and vigils in Nottingham, as the victims from yesterday's attacks were formally identified and friends and relatives began to speak about those who lost their lives.\n\nA vigil at the University of Nottingham - where Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were students - drew thousands, while tributes were also left at the scene where school caretaker Ian Coates was killed.\n\nYou can read more about all three of them in this piece.\n\nMeanwhile, the police investigation into the incident continues. A 31-year-old man is still being questioned on suspicion of murder.\n\nThis article examines everything we have learned so far about the attacks - from what happened to what we know about the suspect.\n\nToday's page was edited by Owen Amos, Emma Owen, Sam Hancock, Dulcie Lee and myself, with reporting by our teams in London and Nottingham. You can continue to follow updates on this story here.", "Georgia Bilham, 21, from Cheshire, was cleared of 16 other sexual offences\n\nA woman accused of posing as a man to prey on a 19-year-old has been found guilty of sexual assault by kissing and cleared of 16 other sexual offences.\n\nGeorgia Bilham, 21, of Cheshire, denied deceiving the short-sighted woman while posing as George Parry, a man from Birmingham.\n\nJurors heard she wore a hood while with the woman, saying she was paranoid because of connections to gangsters.\n\nBilham will be sentenced at Chester Crown Court on 19 July.\n\nGiving evidence during her trial, Bilham admitted getting caught up in a \"web of lies\", but said she thought the teenager believed she really was a woman after they met.\n\nThe court heard Bilham created \"George\" on Snapchat, claiming he always had to wear a hood over his head while with the 19-year-old, even in bed, because of paranoia about his involvement with Albanian gangsters.\n\nThe mother of the woman told jurors her daughter had seemed \"really happy\" and had a \"spark in her eye\" after meeting \"George\" but had found it strange he kept his hood up whenever they met.\n\nBilham's identity was only revealed following a car crash.\n\nThe pair had gone for a drive together on 11 May 2021, but Bilham crashed her mother's car into a hedge and when police asked for her licence it showed her real name.\n\nShe said from that point she believed the teenager knew she was really a woman.\n\nBilham, of Bunbury Road, Alpraham, admitted to the court that she had always been a bit of a tomboy.\n\nShe said she had never wanted to change her gender, but had questioned her sexuality, telling the jury her mother would \"not be happy\" if she was in a same-sex relationship.\n\nBilham was convicted on Wednesday of sexually assaulting the girl by kissing her on the evening of the crash.\n\nAdjourning the case for sentencing, Judge Michael Leeming said: \"You have been convicted of count one, an allegation of sexual assault.\n\n\"I'm going to adjourn sentencing for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.\n\n\"It should not be taken by you as an indication of a non-custodial sentence - all options are open.\"\n\nBilham had denied nine sexual assaults and eight counts of assault by penetration.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has submitted a last-ditch letter to the MPs investigating whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties, as they prepare to publish their findings.\n\nThe privileges committee said it was \"dealing with\" submissions received from the former PM at 23:57 on Monday.\n\nThe committee is set to publish its conclusions this week, but is unlikely to do so on Wednesday, as expected.\n\nMr Johnson quit as an MP last week after seeing the committee's report.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Johnson said the committee should \"publish their report and let the world judge their nonsense\", adding \"they have no excuse for delay\".\n\n\"I have made my views clear to the committee in writing - and will do so more widely when they finally publish,\" he said.\n\nUnder the published process, Mr Johnson was entitled to respond to the committee up to 14 days after receiving its draft findings, which were sent last week.\n\nThe committee said it would deal with the new developments and \"report promptly\".\n\nLast week, the former prime minister branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nMr Johnson accused the committee of mounting a \"witch hunt\" against him, and its chairwoman, Labour's Harriet Harman, of showing \"egregious bias\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures\" at all times and accused Mr Johnson of impugning \"the integrity of the House by his statement\".\n\nFor almost a year, the seven-person committee - a majority of whom are Conservatives - have been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid-19 breaches in Downing Street and what he knew about them.\n\nGiving evidence in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns, but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nThe Partygate scandal dogged Mr Johnson's premiership, with police fining him for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation as an MP, which has triggered a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, came last Friday.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".", "Mystery surrounds the health of top Chechen commander Adam Delimkhanov (pictured in 2020) Image caption: Mystery surrounds the health of top Chechen commander Adam Delimkhanov (pictured in 2020)\n\nAnd it's with that quick recap of some of today's key events that we'll close this live coverage.\n\nThe day started with news of an attack on Odesa, before our focus returned to Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive. As the Nato chief put it a short time ago, it's \"early days\".\n• Make sure your next destination is our report on the mystery surrounding a top Chechen commander fighting for Russia\n• And look back on the relatively rare attack on Odesa by heading here\n\nThanks for following along with us today - you've been reading the words of Nicholas Yong, Ece Goksedef, Dulcie Lee, Emma Owen and me. Until next time.", "Thomas Cato has been jailed for 11 years for the rape of a 17-year-old girl\n\nA man who raped a 17-year-old girl while on licence from prison has been jailed for 11 years.\n\nThe court heard Thomas Cato, 34, of Smithfield Street, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, ignored her \"repeated screams\" to stop.\n\nCaernarfon Crown Court heard that the victim had agreed to be tied up but then began \"begging\" Cato to stop during the attack in November 2022.\n\nThe judge told him he had treated the teen as his \"sexual possession... despite her pleas and obvious trauma\".\n\n\"You have an escalating pattern of violence including strangulation or suffocation as a means of injuring or controlling,\" Judge Timothy Petts added.\n\n\"I can't see any time when the risk you pose to women in particular is going to be reduced.\"\n\nProsecutor Nicholas Williams said Cato had numerous offences of dishonesty and violence on his record.\n\nAnna Price, defending, said despite her client's \"appalling record\", he has had no convictions of a \"sexual nature\".\n\nAfter the sentencing, Det Con Bethany Clarke from North Wales Police, said: \"Cato is a dangerous individual with a history of violent behaviour.\n\n\"The length of his sentence reflects the seriousness of the offence and the impact it has had on not just the victim, but on the local community.\"\n\nFollowing his 11-year jail term Cato will be on licence for a further six years and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.", "The UK has \"no alternative\" but to hike interest rates in a bid to tackle rising prices, the chancellor has said.\n\nJeremy Hunt said inflation - the rate at which prices rise - was the \"number one challenge we face\".\n\nHe said the government would be \"unstinting in our support\" for the Bank of England \"to do what it takes\" to slow inflation.\n\nRising interest rates and mortgage costs weighed on UK economic growth in April.\n\nWhile the economy grew by 0.2%, the Office for National Statistics said that housebuilders and estate agents had a \"poor month\".\n\nBorrowing costs have been steadily rising since December 2021 to a current 4.5% in an attempt to slow consumer price inflation, which stands at 8.7% - well above the Bank of England's 2% inflation target.\n\nIn theory, raising interest rates means it is more expensive for people to borrow and they have less money to spend. Consequently, they will buy fewer things which should slow the rate of rising prices.\n\nAn increase in interest rates means higher monthly mortgage, credit card and loan payments for some people. But higher rates should benefit savers - if banks pass them on to their customers.\n\nAsked if he was following former chancellor John Major's dictum in 1989 that \"if it isn't hurting, it isn't working\", Mr Hunt said: \"In the end there is no alternative to bringing down inflation, if we want to see consumers spending, if we want to see businesses investing, if we want to see long-term growth and prosperity.\"\n\nThe government has no say over interest rates since the Bank of England was granted independence in 1997.\n\nThe UK economy expanded in April after shrinking by 0.3% in the previous month. For the three months to April, it grew marginally by 0.1%.\n\nThe ONS said strong trade in bars and pubs boosted growth, but added the construction sector had faltered as rising interest rates and mortgage costs made house buyers more cautious.\n\nAs interest rates have risen and more people are coming to the end of fixed-rate mortgage deals, some lenders have been withdrawing certain mortgages from the market.\n\nFirst-time buyers are being met with higher rates, leaving some priced out, and renters are also facing higher costs due to landlords selling up.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, HSBC, a major UK mortgage lender, temporarily withdrew new residential mortgages supplied through brokers.\n\n\"Over recent days cost of funds has increased and, like other banks, we have had to reflect that in our mortgage rates,\" an HSBC spokesperson said.\n\nHiking rates is meant to persuade consumers to spend less - as their cost of borrowing rises or rates on savings accounts increase - giving businesses less scope to raise prices.\n\nBut that mechanism may have become less effective over time.\n\nTake mortgages. In the early 2000s, more than seven out of 10 residential mortgages were on variable or tracker rates, immediately impacted by rate hikes. Today, it's 15% of homeowners. Even adding in the 1.8 million who are re-mortgaging this year, means it's still, contrary to a couple of decades ago, the minority of mortgage holders who will be affected.\n\nThe impact of rate hikes is less widespread and may be taking longer to filter through.\n\nEqually, banks and building societies have been particularly reluctant to pass on rate hikes to savers this time, as the Bank of England and outraged customers have noted. This may in part reflect savings institutions rebuilding margins after a period of ultra-low interest rates - but gives customers less of an incentive to stash spare cash.\n\nHigher interest rates also should mean businesses have less scope to give workers inflation-matching pay rises than in the past - but a shortage of workers makes this less likely this time.\n\nEven if, as some economists fear, interest rate rises are less effective this time, they remain the main tool for fighting inflation.\n\nIan Burns, who runs Cameron Homes, a housebuilder in Staffordshire, said people were being \"very cautious\" and were \"taking longer to make decisions\".\n\n\"Over the past three or four weeks, we've seen a slowdown in reservations,\" he told the BBC's Wake up to Money.\n\n\"We can't just continue to build houses if we don't have customers for them.\"\n\nStronger-than-expected wage growth for workers in the three months to April has raised the prospect that the Bank could raise rates close to 6% by the end of the year in its bid to reduce inflation.\n\nOn Monday, two-year government borrowing costs rose to levels higher than during the aftermath of last September's mini-budget.\n\nWhen asked if this showed his plan was not working, Mr Hunt said: \"We are in a very different situation to where we were last autumn. The IMF, the international commentators, think the British economy is on the right track.\"\n\nBut the New Economics Foundation, a think tank promoting social and economic justice, said the Bank should hold off on raising rates further and wait to see the impact of its previous increases.\n\nIts economist Lukasz Krebel said that while UK wages were rising, they were still not keeping up with inflation, meaning people were poorer in real terms.\n\nHe added that rising prices were mainly due to supply side issues, such as worker shortages and Russia's invasion of Ukraine sending energy prices soaring.\n\n\"The UK government and the Bank should look to address underlying weaknesses that expose the UK to such inflation shocks - notably by supporting investment in clean energy and building retrofits to reduce our reliance on volatile fossil gas,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the figures represented \"another day in the dismal low growth record book of this Conservative government\".\n\n\"The facts remain that families are feeling worse off, facing a soaring Tory mortgage penalty and we're lagging behind on the global stage.\"", "Mr Penny was arrested on preliminary charges last month\n\nA New York grand jury has indicted a former US Marine who was filmed placing a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a subway train, reports say.\n\nThe decision comes after prosecutors last month charged Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter for killing street performer Jordan Neely.\n\nThe grand jury decision was necessary for prosecutors to formally charge Mr Penny, who is free on bail.\n\nMr Penny says he was acting in self-defence during the 1 May incident.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Neely's family told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the family had been informed of the grand jury's decision.\n\nThe formal charging document is expected to be revealed at a later date. If found guilty of second-degree manslaughter, he could face up to 15 years in prison.\n\nThe 24-year-old former Marine was arrested on 12 May after initially being allowed by police to leave the scene of Mr Neely's death. He was placed in handcuffs and led into a police station before being released on a $100,000 (£80,000) in-cash bail.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Penny released a video on social media saying he did not intend to kill Mr Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man who was reportedly shouting at subway riders before the struggle began.\n\n\"There's a common misconception that Marines don't get scared,\" he said in the video.\n\n\"We're actually taught one of our core values is courage, and courage is not the absence of fear but how you handle fear,\" he added, saying he felt compelled to confront Mr Neely as he acted erratically towards passengers.\n\n\"I was scared for myself but I looked around there were women and children, he was yelling in their faces saying these threats. I just couldn't sit still.\"\n\nVideo of the incident captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding Mr Neely around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nIn the video released on Sunday, Mr Penny said the whole interaction was less than five minutes.\n\n\"I was listening to music at the time, and he was yelling, so I took my headphones out to hear what he was yelling,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Handcuffed Daniel Penny escorted out of police station last month\n\n\"And the three main threats that he repeated over and over was 'I'm going to kill you,' 'I'm prepared to go to jail for life,' and 'I'm willing to die.'\"\n\nFamily of Mr Neely say that the second-degree manslaughter charge should be upgraded to murder.\n\nThe killing shocked the city and led to questions about the safety of public transit and treatment for mentally ill homeless New Yorkers.", "The 666 bus - as seen in this promotional image from Poland's PKS Gdynia bus company - usually runs during the summer along the Baltic coast\n\nThe popular bus route 666 to Hel in northern Poland is being changed to 669, after long-running complaints by religious conservatives in the country.\n\nRoute 666 - used by those heading for sandy beaches in the resort of Hel - has become a bit of a joke for some, including English-speaking tourists.\n\nBut some religious conservatives claim the route is \"spreading Satanism\".\n\nThe Bible identifies 666 as the \"number of the beast\", and Hel is just one \"l\" short of the English word \"hell\".\n\nFollowing the complaints, bus company PKS Gdynia announced: \"We are turning the last 6 upside down!\"\n\nExplaining the reason for the change, the firm's designer Marcin Szwaczyk told the trojmiasto.pl news website the number 669 was \"less controversial\".\n\nWhile the association between 666 and the word \"hell\" may be lost on some Poles - as the Polish word for it is \"pieklo\" - a number of social media users in the country have condemned the coming change, which the bus company says is set to take place on 24 June.\n\n\"I have often read about route 666 to Hel on foreign websites or Facebook groups. I am convinced there were tourists who would have probably arrived faster by train, but for fun they took bus route 666.\"\n\n\"What is Hel without 666,\" quipped Dawid Jastrzebski, while Kamil Galczynski argued that this was \"a perfect example of how NOT to do marketing\".\n\nAnother social media user, Robert Eryk Wozniak, wrote: \"I think that the next step should be to change the name of the town of Hel to something else because it is against our Christian Polish roots!\"\n\nPoland is a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, where the Church has traditionally been influential.\n\nOver the past few years, religious conservatives from one Polish group have complained that bus company PKS Gdynia is \"spreading Satanism\".\n\nRoute 666 usually runs in the summer along the Baltic Sea coast. The region boasts miles of sandy beaches, and is a popular tourist destination.", "The US president stands at the apex of a huge intelligence community that gathers secrets from around the world.\n\nEvery morning some of the most sensitive material is distilled into documents personally briefed to the nation's leader.\n\nBut what kind of damage could be done by Donald Trump keeping hold of some of the secrets he was given?\n\nHundreds of files were retrieved from his Florida home and he now faces dozens of serious charges accusing him of illegally retaining classified information from his time in the White House. He denies any wrongdoing.\n\nProsecutors claim the unauthorised disclosure of some of the documents he kept could damage US security, relations with other countries and intelligence collection.\n\nIt is hard to say exactly how much damage would be done since the indictment, unsurprisingly, does not provide us with any of the specific, sensitive details.\n\nWe do know that the documents covered highly sensitive areas like military capabilities of other countries, including one on a country's nuclear means. And details about US military contingency planning and intelligence on other countries, including their leaders.\n\n\"Even the brief description of the documents' contents and the classified markings make it clear that these were some of the nation's most sensitive secrets,\" Glenn Gerstell, a former general counsel of the National Security Agency, told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?\n\nSome were more secret than others.\n\nA few were not just Top Secret (which means exposure of the information could cause \"exceptionally grave damage\" to national security) but also subject to other higher clearances or special handling requirements. In fact in some cases, even the marking detailing the level of classification is itself redacted or classified in the indictment of Trump.\n\nThere are lots of ways the material could potentially cause damage if it was revealed to a wider audience.\n\nSome of the markings on the documents indicate they may have derived from human sources of technical intercepts. If this material gets out, it might then allow another country to find the human spy or close down the vulnerability which allows their communications to be intercepted, in turn cutting off that flow of intelligence.\n\nIt could also cause embarrassment or problems for allies by revealing their secrets. And of course, material could reveal secrets about the US's own military or other capabilities that would be useful to adversaries.\n\n\"What battle plans or strategies now might have to be changed if we fear they have been revealed?\" asks Mr Gerstell.\n\nSome of the material could relate to allies of the US - either information about them or collected by them.\n\nOne of the documents is marked SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY - the latter marking means it can be released to the Five Eyes community of the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia rather than being about them and likely means it is not as sensitive as those listed as NOFORN which are for US eyes only.\n\nAmerica's allies know that Washington can be leaky but they also know better than to complain given that they rely on the vastly greater volume of information it produces.\n\nThe real damage would come if the documents were not just retained but disclosed to people. And it is true that plenty of other sensitive documents have been publicly leaking from US intelligence recently - most notably the so-called Discord or Pentagon leaks this year in which documents were distributed widely on a social media platform.\n\nBut it is Donald Trump's behaviour that has led to concern that the risks are not just hypothetical.\n\nIn July 2021, a writer and a publisher came to see the former president regarding an upcoming book. In the meeting, Trump discusses having retained a plan of attack on another country - only named as country A in the document but thought to be Iran. He shows the document to the visitors and says it is \"still a secret\", according to the indictment.\n\nThat incident highlights the twin concerns about Mr Trump - a willingness not just to keep classified material but also to talk about it.\n\nA lot of people dine and socialise at Mar-a-Lago where the files were found\n\nWe don't know his motive but it seems to have been to boast to people he knew rather than to wilfully damage security by giving the material to those who wish the US harm. But that does not prevent the possibility of damage.\n\nHis looseness surrounding highly sensitive intelligence material dated from his earliest time in office.\n\nIn May 2017, he revealed to the visiting Russian foreign minister highly classified details of a counter-terrorist operation apparently carried out by Israel.\n\nIn another case, he apparently tweeted a picture he took of a satellite image of an Iranian missile launch site following a briefing.\n\nAnd even if he had not himself been loose with the documents, the way they were stored at Mar-a-Lago and his Bedminster golf club made them inherently vulnerable to someone, including foreign spies.\n\n\"Any time secret documents aren't stored properly, the government worries that some foreign agent might have been able to see them,\" says Mr Gerstell.\n\n\"So they have to make a 'worse case' assumption and figure out what are the chances that an adversary could discover which mole revealed information to the US or which computer networks need to be plugged up so the US can't keep on intercepting emails or other communications.\"\n\nThe heart of the indictment against Trump is less about the specific sensitivities of documents but rather the pattern of behaviour when asked to return the documents. But it is only because of just how secret the documents are that this behaviour matters so much.", "Mr Heaton-Harris has previously raised the prospect of water and prescription charges\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary has formally asked Stormont civil servants to set out options for raising more public revenue.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris denied that the move was to increase pressure on the DUP to restore power-sharing.\n\nHe had to set a budget for this financial year as there is no functioning government at Stormont.\n\nThe SDLP's Matthew O'Toole said Mr Heaton-Harris was making a \"crude intervention\" to pressure the DUP.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Civil Service believes it may need to find £800m this year given the pressures on its budgets.\n\nIn a letter to permanent secretaries, Mr Heaton Harris said Stormont's future finances should be put on a \"surer footing\".\n\nHe has set a deadline of the end of June for information to be provided.\n\nHe said that he was \"keen to explore super parity measures including water charges, prescription charges and tuition fees\".\n\nThe letter adds that he hopes the relevant departments can provide advice on that \"at pace\".\n\nResponding to the letter, Mr O'Toole said: \"Today's crude intervention from Chris Heaton-Harris is nothing more than a blunt attempt to make working families pay the price of the DUP's boycott of government.\"\n\nMr Heaton Harris dismissed such claims, saying it was \"about making sure the budget is sustainable\".\n\nDUP assembly member Edwin Poots said the proposals were \"tinkering at the edges\" of Northern Ireland's budget.\n\nHe said: \"Unless there is a total recalibration of how Northern Ireland is funded, the situation will only get worse.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary called for a \"robust set of options\" for a future executive to consider\n\nDeputy leader of the Alliance Party Stephen Farry said that that new funding was needed.\n\n\"Transformation needs to be on an invest-to-save basis. It will require new funding. Reform won't happen from a burning platform of cuts,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris told reporters he wanted to ensure NI had future access to \"proper, quality public services\" that are sustainable and affordable.\n\nHe added that this was the \"first step\" in a long decision-making process.\n\n\"It's so anybody who takes decisions in the future on the budget and its sustainability also has an understanding about what revenue can be raised too,\" he said.\n\nHe said while he currently does not have powers to impose introducing water charges and other proposals, he would \"not rule out anything for the future\" if there remains no executive in place.\n\nThe secretary of state added that he had \"tonnes of patience\" with the DUP and was happy to move \"inch by inch\" to get a solution to restore power-sharing in a way that works for all parties.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris has previously raised the prospect of introducing revenue-raising measures like water charges and prescription charges but has, so far, held back from implementing them.\n\nRe-introducing prescription charges are among the suggested revenue raising measures\n\nThe government has also asked civil servants to provide advice and potential revenue generated by other measures including:\n\nMr Heaton-Harris told permanent secretaries that they should seek to provide an initial return of information by 30 June, with a fuller return by the end of July.\n\n\"I am requesting this fuller work be started now to avoid an overly quick turnaround once we have the first batch of information and advice back at the end of June,\" he added.\n\nHe said he hoped this would allow preparation for a \"robust set of options\" for a future executive to consider.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning power-sharing government since February 2022, when the DUP withdrew from the executive due to its protest over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party is facing pressure to return to government but has insisted it will not do so until the government legislates for further changes to the NI Protocol.", "Stephen Phan was with his wife in Hawaii\n\nThieves robbed a man as he received help after drowning while on his honeymoon, according to US news reports and a fundraising page for his family.\n\nSteven Phan, 49, got into trouble while snorkelling with his wife off the coast of Hawaii on 1 June.\n\nWhile some people tried to help, thieves allegedly took the couple's car, phones, wallets, and clothing.\n\nBystanders took Mr Phan to shore and performed CPR until paramedics arrived, but he later died in hospital.\n\nA page on the GoFundMe website has raised more than $36,000 (£28,500) out of a total goal of $40,000 by Thursday for Mr Phan's funeral costs and to support his family. The funeral is to be held next week.\n\n\"We are all shocked, in disbelief, and heartbroken at the loss of such a great man as Steven,\" the fundraising page stated. \"Steven was a true friend and an amazing husband.\"\n\nThe page noted that Mr Phan and his wife had been married for just three months.\n\nThe couple lived in San Jose, California, and Mr Phan worked for Apple in nearby Cupertino, according to his LinkedIn page and a report by a local NBC News affiliate.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Honolulu police, GoFundMe and Apple for comment.", "The men were held without trail in 1971\n\nThe Supreme Court has ruled that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was wrong not to investigate allegations that 14 men were tortured in Northern Ireland in 1971.\n\nThe men, known as the 'Hooded Men', were interned without trial during the Troubles.\n\nThe judges said the decision by the PSNI, made in 2014, was \"irrational\".\n\nThe court also said the men's treatment was \"deplorable\" and was \"deliberate policy\".\n\nHowever, the Supreme Court did not accept that the PSNI was not sufficiently independent to carry out a new investigation into the \"Hooded Men\" case.\n\nLord Hodge said: \"In our view, it has not been established that the LIB (Legacy Investigations Branch) is not capable of carrying out an effective investigation on the basis either of institutional or hierarchical connection or that it is not capable of conducting an investigation with practical independence.\n\n\"There is nothing to suggest that it would not be possible to assign appropriate officers of the PSNI to carry out any further investigations to a proper standard.\"\n\nFrancis McGuigan said their case now needed to be investigated\n\nOne of the men, Francis McGuigan, said it had been a frustrating process to get to this point.\n\n\"It's been rough - we're seven years in and out of court and we seem to win each time we go into court, but we seem to get no further forward,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm hoping now… it can go nowhere else, we've appealed to the highest court in the land and we won there as well.\n\n\"So I'm looking forward now to the investigation into it, the results of the investigation into it and hope that eventually the truth comes out that the British government sanctioned torture against its citizens.\"\n\nHis solicitor Darragh Mackin described the decision as \"a landmark victory\".\n\nMr Mackin added that the government's legacy proposals should not affect a police investigation into what happened to the men.\n\n\"That legislation is not only about an amnesty, it goes much beyond that, it is about removing an individual's access to justice,\" he said.\n\n\"Today is exactly why the British government are bringing about such proposals.\"\n\nHe added: \"Given that we're talking about the crime of torture, no proposal that the British government seeks to advance would any event stymie such an investigation.\"\n\nDeirdre Montgomery, whose late father Michael was one of the \"Hooded Men\", said she was \"absolutely elated\" for her family and for her \"father's memory\".\n\nShe told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme that she received therapy for what happened and her \"children have been affected\" by the legacy of the events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. “I believed they weren’t going to let us out alive”\n\nThe 'Hooded Men' have long called for a new, independent investigation into their treatment, saying there were subjected to \"deep interrogation\" by the Army during their detention.\n\nThe men said they were forced to listen to constant loud static noise; deprived of sleep, food and water; forced to stand in a stress position and beaten if they fell.\n\nThey also said they were hooded and thrown from helicopters a short distance off the ground, having been told they were hundreds of feet in the air.\n\nIn 2014, an RTÉ documentary unearthed fresh evidence, but the PSNI decided there was not enough evidence to warrant an investigation.\n\nIn 2019, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, Northern Ireland's most senior judge, said their treatment \"would, if it occurred today, properly be characterised as torture\".\n\nAnother of the three judges at the Court of Appeal in Belfast dissented with that conclusion.\n\nThe court was ruling on an appeal by police against a ruling that detectives should revisit the decision to end their inquiry.\n\nIn a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said the PSNI acknowledged Wednesday's court judgment and welcomed \"the clarity it brings to some complex legal issues\".\n\n\"We recognise the difficult realities that victims, families, friends and broader society continue to deal with as a result of our troubled past,\" he said.\n\n\"We will now take time to study today's judgment around these complex legacy issues in detail and we will carefully consider its implications for future legacy investigations.\n\n\"If we are to build a safe, confident and peaceful society, then we must find a way of dealing with our past and we are committed to playing our part in that process.\"\n\nThe Supreme Court also looked at a second Troubles-era case - the shooting of Jean Smyth-Campbell.\n\nMs Smyth-Campbell was 24 when she died after being shot as she sat in a car on the Glen Road in west Belfast in 1972.\n\nHer death was initially blamed by police on the IRA, but an undercover Army unit has since been linked to the shooting.\n\nIn March 2019, the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled that the PSNI would not be independent in carrying out a new investigation into the death.\n\nJean’s sisters Margaret McQuillan, Ann Silcock, Pat Smith & Sheila Denvir, seen here in 2020\n\nOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court found that the proposed investigation \"would not have been effective in the particular circumstances of that case because the Chief Constable of the PSNI had failed to explain to her family and the public, and when faced with the judicial review challenge, the court, how he proposed to secure the practical independence of that investigation\".\n\nIn a statement following the ruling, Ms Smyth-Campbell's sister Margaret McQuillan, said: \"Our family has today been vindicated by the ruling of the British Supreme Court.\n\n\"They have confirmed the Police Service of Northern Ireland failings in the case. The PSNI have already apologised for these failings. We believe, however, that the PSNI cannot be trusted, now or ever, in any legacy case, by any family.\"\n\nIn June 2019, the PSNI asked former Bedfordshire chief constable Jon Boutcher to investigate the killing.\n\nReferring to this case, the assistant chief constable said the PSNI welcomed the \"clear legal ruling\" that the PSNI did not have any legal obligations under article two of the European Convention on Human Rights to investigate the case.\n\n\"We will now carefully consider the judgments and their impact on the legacy caseload,\" Jonathan Roberts added.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan said the case of the 'Hooded Men' and other Troubles incidents showed the need to \"find a way forward that allows us to provide that truth, also that justice, and make sure we can move into the future\".\n\n\"Whether it's this case or whether it's other cases that happened within Northern Ireland dealing with the past is something that needs to be resolved. It continues to have implications for the present and for future generations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the PSNI should investigate the case\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she welcomed the ruling and \"it was over to the PSNI to do their job\".\n\n\"They should have investigated this. These men have been tortured, it's been confirmed internationally, everybody recognises that is the case.\"\n\nGrainne Teggart from Amnesty International described the 'Hooded Men' decision as a \"victory for justice\".\n\nShe said police had \"shamefully added to the trauma already inflicted and has delayed the truth, justice, and accountability to which these men are entitled\".", "Last week Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with immediate effect\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has not yet officially resigned as an MP, to the frustration of the Conservative Party.\n\nThe close Boris Johnson ally announced last Friday she would be standing down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire \"with immediate effect\".\n\nBut she is yet to officially tender her resignation - putting a by-election to replace her on hold.\n\nNo 10 said it was important for her constituents to have \"certainty\".\n\n\"It's obviously unusual to have an MP say they will resign with immediate effect and for that not to take place,\" the prime minister's press secretary added.\n\nMs Dorries announced she would be standing down as an MP, shortly before it was confirmed she would not become a member of the House of Lords in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nShe has since accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's political team of removing her name from the list - something No 10 denies.\n\nNigel Adams, another MP close to Boris Johnson who was reported to be in the running for a peerage but whose name was not on the list either, has also announced he is quitting.\n\nAs Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nAnything she says would be covered by parliamentary privilege, allowing her to be outspoken on any issue, without fear of legal consequences.\n\nMr Johnson also announced he was leaving Parliament on Friday, ahead of a Commons report expected to accuse him of misleading MPs over the Partygate scandal, which is due to be published on Thursday.\n\nThe former prime minister has denounced the committee writing the report as a \"kangaroo court\" determined to \"drive me out of Parliament\".\n\nUnlike Ms Dorries, both Mr Johnson and Mr Adams have officially resigned their seats, in Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty respectively.\n\nThe by-elections to replace them were triggered on Wednesday, with 3 July or 20 July the possible polling dates.\n\nIf Ms Dorries's formal resignation is tendered soon, it could still be possible for all three by-elections to be held on 20 July.\n\nBut while she keeps her party waiting, the capacity for mischief exists.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM's press secretary said Rishi Sunak \"believes the people of Mid Bedfordshire deserve proper representation in [the Commons], and he looks forward to campaigning for the Conservative candidate in the by-election\".\n\nA Conservative Party source said: \"We don't know why Nadine hasn't resigned.\n\n\"But we don't want to hang around, we want to get on with those things.\"\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - wanted to conclude swift campaigns before Parliament's summer recess and for any political pain from the by-elections to be short and sharp.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting, she could force them into a potentially divisive by-election later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I would've gone somewhere else if I'd known' - Gatland\n\nThe acting head of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) insists the organisation is remorseful over how it handled allegations of sexism and misogyny.\n\nNigel Walker's comments came after a WRU board member downplayed claims made in a BBC Wales programme.\n\nHenry Engelhardt said some parts of BBC Wales Investigates \"were not accurate\".\n\n\"Henry Engelhardt and everybody else involved with the WRU is still remorseful about what went on in the union,\" Mr Walker said.\n\n\"People are sorry, the union's sorry, I'm sorry that people were put through what we saw in the BBC Investigates programme, absolutely, including Henry,\" he added.\n\nMr Engelhardt is a WRU independent non-executive director and a former chief executive of Admiral Insurance.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Walescast podcast, Mr Engelhardt described the BBC investigation as \"sensationalist\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Henry Engelhardt criticises the BBC's investigation into the WRU\n\nMr Walker said Mr Engelhardt had been one of the biggest advocates for governance change at the WRU.\n\n\"It's for him to say whether he got it wrong or whether he could have been even more positive about the need for changes,\" Mr Walker said, pointing out that he did discuss that need in the podcast too.\n\nMr Walker added that the organisation had been working \"flat out\" for \"probably 12 or 18 months\" to make governance changes.\n\nAsked if he had confidence in Mr Engelhardt, he said he had \"absolute faith\".\n\nNigel Walker said Henry Engelhardt's record speaks for itself\n\nMr Walker, the former Wales international wing, replaced Steve Phillips when the then WRU chief executive stepped down following the BBC investigation.\n\n\"I have absolute confidence in Henry Engelhardt, his record speaks for itself,\" Mr Walker said.\n\n\"I've not seen anything in the two years I've been in the Welsh Rugby Union around that board table with Henry Engelhardt that would make me question his character or his determination for the Welsh Rugby Union to be organisation it needs to be off the back of what we saw four months ago.\"\n\nTonia Antonazzi, MP for Gower and former Wales international said she was \"disappointed\" Henry Engelhardt \"hasn't come back and put more context on what he said\", adding what he said was \"was truly unacceptable\".\n\nShe added while Mr Engelhardt \"rubbished\" the report, the stories were \"backed up by Amanda Blanc's experience\" and she knew of \"others who have experienced it and were unable to go on to the programme because of the pressure put on them as a result\".", "Building work at the site of the proposed community greenway has already begun.\n\nA fresh proposal that would aim to create up to 900 homes at the former Mackies site in west Belfast is to be put to Belfast City Council.\n\nCampaigners have long argued the 25-acre plot on the Springfield Road should be used in part for much-needed housing.\n\nIt comes after a plan for a community greenway through the land was approved by the council.\n\nBuilding work at the site of the new greenway has already begun.\n\nBut a new design would allow for both the greenway and new homes to co-exist.\n\nMatthew Lloyd's design for the site includes a city farm, work spaces and some commercial spaces\n\nLondon-based architect Matthew Lloyd came up with the design as part of an international competition.\n\nHis design, which includes a city farm, work spaces and some commercial spaces, was selected by campaign group Take Back the City from a shortlist of submissions from international architects.\n\n\"Our plans are to, in essence, put a whole lot of housing on this site,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's a really, really big place and the greenway is actually in the distance, nestled in the trees behind.\n\n\"So actually the greenway is going to be beautifully done from the plans I've seen and it's going to be a wonderful public amenity.\n\n\"And then, either side, we can build homes.\"\n\nMarissa McMahon said there are 2,000 children in west Belfast waiting for homes\n\nSome 40,000 people across Northern Ireland are said to be on a waiting list for a home, with residents in west Belfast among those in most acute need.\n\nTake Back the City campaigner Marissa McMahon said: \"In west Belfast we have thousands, and I mean thousands of people, waiting on a home. Some that I've been working with for 15-and-a-half years with not one single offer.\n\n\"You've over 2,000 children in this area alone waiting to be housed in hostels in and around this site.\n\n\"And Matthew's here, ideally, to develop a masterplan and to put alongside the greenway that's already here, homes for people who need them.\"\n\nBelfast City Council is currently developing the greenway, which would form part of a wider £5.1m project seeing the creation of a 12km (7.5 mile) route from Clarendon Playing Fields to the new Transport Hub in Belfast's city centre.\n\nThe project is to be paid through a European Union peace and reconciliation fund.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"As the local planning authority, if council receives a formal planning application for the remainder of the site, our planning committee will consider this as it would any other planning application.\n\n\"As council will also be responsible for managing and maintaining Forth Meadow Community Greenway once it fully opens, we would also expect to be consulted on any future development proposals for land which neighbours the greenway.\"\n\nThey added that the council was in the process of completing work on the Forth Meadow Community Greenway, and that proposals for the remainder of this site would be \"a matter for the landowners\".\n\nThe site, which was once home to the old Mackies factory, is now owned by the Department for Communities.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the department told BBC News NI that it had an agreement in principle to transfer land at the Mackies site to Belfast City Council to assist with its Peace IV-funded Reconnecting Open Spaces project.\n\nIt said this had been \"widely consulted on and has community support to build connections and cohesion across communities\".", "The train line near Estreham Road, south London, where the man was found dead\n\nA man has died after being pursued by police in south London.\n\nThe man, aged 34, had failed to stop for police when he was driving a car in Streatham at about 03:30 BST on Tuesday, the Met Police said.\n\nThe car later crashed in Brunswick Mews and the man ran from the scene. He was later found dead, lying on a railway line near Estreham Road.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), is investigating the incident.\n\nOfficers attempted to stop the man as the car he was in approached Streatham High Street.\n\nThe Met said the man was last seen alive on foot in Potters Lane before officers lost sight of him.\n\nAfter he was spotted on the railway track, officers from the Met requested the power to the lines be turned off so they could be safely accessed.\n\nParamedics later approached the man, who had died.\n\nHis next of kin have been informed, police said.\n\nOfficers from the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards have also been informed.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olivia says bringing up four-year-old Brynn while on benefits was a challenge\n\nLike all parents, 25-year-old Olivia wants to do the best she can for her daughter.\n\n\"You want them to be able to have everything and more,\" she says.\n\nBefore her recent birthday, providing for her family was much more difficult because she received £75 a month less through her Universal Credit benefits payment.\n\nFor all claimants under 25 the standard rate is lower but campaigners say this hits young parents particularly hard.\n\nOlivia, who lives in the east end of Glasgow, says it was a big shock when she first discovered she would get the lower payment.\n\n\"There's this assumption that under 25s are staying with their parents when they've got a child, which is not true,\" she says.\n\n\"It's just bizarre that there's this pay gap.\"\n\nOlivia says bringing up four-year-old Brynn while on benefits and working part-time was a challenge.\n\n\"I was struggling week-to-week to get what I needed for my daughter,\" she says.\n\n\"I was going to food banks and my family nurse was helping me.\"\n\nOlivia is now paid £75 more in Universal Credit because she is 25\n\nShe thinks the higher rate she now gets will help.\n\n\"It's definitely going to make a difference\" she says.\n\n\"Before, it would be a struggle trying to make ends meet. It will help towards something that I couldn't afford before.\"\n\nOlivia says she wants to see equal benefits for all ages.\n\n\"Milk costs the same, nappies cost the same, gas and electricity cost the same, so there shouldn't be a discrimination against young parents to have less money,\" she says.\n\nAccording to Scottish government figures, 55% of children with mothers under the age of 25 in Scotland are living in poverty - more than double the overall rate.\n\nCharity One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is leading a growing campaign to top up Universal Credit payments for young parents.\n\nSeventy other organisations across Scotland have joined forces to call for the change, including the Poverty Alliance, Barnardo's Scotland and Save the Children.\n\nSatwat Rehman, the chief executive of OPFS, says she is calling for action at Scottish government level as well as at Westminster level.\n\nThe charity says the UK government should reverse the current policy and pay under-25s the same rate of benefits as over-25s.\n\nThe group also wants the Scottish government to top up the Scottish Child Payment to balance benefits for all.\n\n\"All the things that we hear people are suffering from in the cost of living crisis is exacerbated for young parents because they're given less to begin with,\" says Satwat.\n\n\"Everything costs the same. Things aren't cheaper simply because you're under 25, and what you need for your child doesn't change depending on your age as a parent.\"\n\nThrough OPFS group sessions, parents also often talk about the levels of stigma and judgement they face.\n\n\"Assumptions are made if you're a young parent,\" says Satwat.\n\n\"People think you've done this in order to be able to get benefits. What they don't understand, is actually it's below the levels anybody else would get.\n\n\"This is not about anything other than the essentials, it's the basics of living that young parents are having to go into debt for.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said: \"Universal Credit entitlement depends on the individual circumstances of the claimant.\n\n\"Parents regardless of their age receive an additional payment for children. Some young parents who are in work will have higher entitlements than on legacy benefits.\"\n\nScotland's Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said: \"Universal Credit is reserved to the UK government, which has deliberately introduced age discrimination within it and we agree that it should be paid at the same amount, as the costs for housing, energy, and bills are the same no matter the age of the person.\n\n\"A report published yesterday estimates 90,000 fewer children will be in relative and absolute poverty in 2023-24 as a result of Scottish government policies. This includes lifting an estimated 50,000 children out of poverty through investment in the Scottish Child Payment.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to tackle poverty and protect people from UK government policies but we do so within a fixed budget and limited powers. That is why we will continue to call for more powers so we can fully support people.\"", "Industrial action at the Amazon depot in Coventry could continue for the rest of the year\n\nAmazon warehouse staff in Coventry have voted for six more months of strikes, the GMB has said.\n\nIt comes as 800 union members walked out on the 19th day of industrial action, with nearly 500 workers taking to the picket line on Wednesday.\n\nMembers are calling for an hourly pay rise from £10.50 to £15 following a 50p per hour pay offer from Amazon.\n\nThe retail giant said it regularly reviewed its pay offer to ensure it offered competitive wages and benefits.\n\nAmazon's minimum starting pay for employees would be between £11 and £12 per hour, depending on location, it said.\n\nWorkers in Coventry first walked out in January - the first ever strike by Amazon employees in the UK.\n\nWarehouse staff first walked out in January and have since taken part in 19 strikes\n\nGMB Union members also paid a visit to Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the matter with MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, the union has withdrawn its bid for recognition at Amazon's Coventry warehouse, accusing the shopping giant of \"dirty tricks\".\n\nIt claimed it had surpassed the number of members needed to secure recognition at the site - but that Amazon had taken on 1,000 extra staff to scupper the bid.\n\nAmanda Gearing, GMB senior organiser, said: \"The vote for six more months of strike action at Amazon Coventry shows these workers are in for the long haul.\n\n\"Hiring extra staff to deny workers their right to a voice in the workplace is an obstacle, but it is not unsurmountable.\n\n\"These workers are angry, they know their rights and they will not go away.\"\n\nNearly 500 people took to the picket line on Wednesday in a dispute over pay and working conditions\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson said its pay was above the national living wage and it had spent more than £125m on pay rises for UK hourly paid workers over the past seven months.\n\nThe firm said: \"Over the past seven months, our minimum pay has risen by 10% and by more than 37% since 2018,\" they said.\n\n\"We also work hard to provide great benefits, a positive work environment and excellent career opportunities.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malcolm Myers says 10-year-old rescue dog Buddy is his hero\n\nA man who was trapped under a fallen tree branch has said his life was saved by his dog.\n\nMalcolm Myers, from Thirsk, was walking his rescue dog Buddy on a footpath when he heard a loud crack.\n\nA branch from a horse chestnut tree hit him on the back and head, burying him - but he said Buddy dug away the foliage to help free him.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council said it had contacted the landowner and had launched an investigation.\n\nMr Myers, 63, was walking on a path near Thirsk and Sowerby Institute on 7 June at around 13:45 BST when he said he heard a sound like a \"clap of thunder\".\n\n\"I was buried with a tree that had fallen on top of me, I was trapped, I couldn't move,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a branch around my leg. It was sheer darkness, I couldn't see anything. I was really fearful for my life at this point.\"\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council has launched an investigation after the branch fell on to a footpath\n\nHe said he could hear people screaming, but his terrier-chihuahua cross Buddy \"frantically started digging\" at the foliage.\n\n\"I remember saying to him, 'keep digging Bud'. I put my hand out to his paw and then he gave me the strength to fight to get out.\"\n\nMr Myers said he suffered a trauma injury and concussion as a result of being hit by the fallen branch, leaving him \"mentally and physically totally wrecked\".\n\n\"All I can say is that he's my little hero, without Buddy by my side I would have died.\"\n\nBuddy helped dig his owner out from underneath the fallen tree\n\nHe is now calling for the council to do more to inspect older trees that could be at risk of falling on passers-by.\n\nThe tree, which is on private property, has a tree protection order on it.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Council's interim head of highway operations, Jayne Charlton, said the authority was investigating the situation.\"A member of the public alerted us to the incident, which we responded to immediately, closing the footpath while the debris was cleared,\" she said.\"We received a further report that a man walking his dog was hit on the back by a large branch, while a smaller one struck him on the head.\"We have made contact with the landowner to inform them of their responsibilities with regard to the tree, which is subject to a tree preservation order.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jo Farrell will replace Sir Iain Livingstone, who is retiring in August\n\nPolice Scotland has announced the appointment of its first female chief constable.\n\nJo Farrell, the current chief constable of Durham Constabulary, will replace Sir Iain Livingstone, who is retiring in August.\n\nLast month Sir Iain admitted the force was institutionally racist and discriminatory.\n\nIt came after a review uncovered first-hand accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers.\n\nSir Iain said prejudice and bad behaviour within Police Scotland was \"rightly of great concern\" but he stressed that his admission did not mean individual officers and staff were racist or sexist.\n\nHe also expressed pride and confidence in their work.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone will retire in the summer\n\nMs Farrell became the Durham Constabulary's first female chief constable in 2019, having previously been assistant chief constable at Northumbria Police.\n\nShe was in charge in Durham during its high-profile \"beergate\" investigation into Labour leader Keir Starmer, who was cleared of any wrongdoing following allegation he breached coronavirus rules.\n\nMs Farrell also led the force during Dominic Cummings' infamous trip to Barnard Castle, County Durham, during the height of the Covid pandemic.\n\nShe was appointed to her new role by the Scottish Police Authority.\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance, who approved the appointment, said Ms Farrell \"has shown she has the skills needed to lead the service\".\n\nMs Farrell described the new role as a \"unique opportunity to take on one of the most exciting and challenging jobs in UK policing\".\n\nShe will have responsibility for 23,000 officers and staff in what is the UK's second largest police force.\n\nBorn on the Wirral, in Merseyside, she joined the police in 1991 as a constable in Cambridge, spending five years in the city before promotion.\n\nShe joined Northumbria Police in 2002, initially as a chief inspector, before being promoted to assistant chief constable.\n\nSir Iain is to step down this summer after five years as chief constable.\n\nHe said: \"Leading our outstanding officers and staff as Scotland's chief constable is an enormous privilege. I have great confidence Jo will continue to develop our service to protect and serve our fellow citizens.\"\n\nMs Constance said Sir Iain \"leaves Police Scotland in great shape after leading it through unprecedented times\".\n\nThe force is currently investigating what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.\n\nFormer first minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and released without charge as part of the probe on Sunday.\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesperson Jamie Greene said that the incoming chief constable has \"an incredibly tough job on her hands\" due to \"SNP underfunding\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur added: \"Jo Farrell's appointment is a chance to inject localism back into the service, boost mental health support and protect policing budgets to keep communities safe.\"\n\nPolice Scotland's new commanding officer is an outsider not an insider, and that will be one of the reasons for her surprise appointment.\n\nJo Farrell's only rival was the force's widely respected Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham.\n\nHe's been a chief constable-in-waiting for years and would have been the continuity candidate.\n\nBut when the outgoing chief declared the force was institutionally racist and discriminatory, Sir Iain Livingstone was asked why he hadn't sorted it out in his five years in charge, and to an extent those same questions would have been levelled at DCC Graham.\n\nInstead, Jo Farrell can be portrayed as a new broom who will accelerate the pace of change at the force.\n\nShe also brings experience of a high-pressure investigation into top level politicians and has made good use of limited resources, both of which will come in handy.\n\nBut Durham Constabulary is one of the smallest forces in Britain. Police Scotland is the second biggest.\n\nIt is a truly spectacular leap up the career ladder that brings with it huge challenges.", "Durham Police has appointed its first female chief constable.\n\nJo Farrell, who is currently the force's deputy chief constable, was confirmed in the post by Police and Crime Commissioner Ron Hogg.\n\nIn March, Mike Barton announced that he would be stepping down after seven years as chief constable.\n\nMs Farrell became Durham's deputy in 2016, when she moved from Northumbria Police where she was the force's assistant chief constable.\n\nLucy Hovvels, chair of the Durham's police and crime panel, said: \"We were impressed with Jo's breadth of experience and therefore pleased to endorse her appointment.\"\n\nMs Farrell is due to take up her post on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chloe Mitchell had been missing since last weekend\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the discovery of suspected human remains during searches for a missing woman in Ballymena.\n\nChloe Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town between the night of 2 June and the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation has been taking place in an attempt to find the 21-year-old.\n\nOn Sunday night, Det Ch Insp Richard Millar said police now had reason to believe she was murdered.\n\n\"Our thoughts this evening are very much with Chloe's family and we have specialist officers providing them with support at this heart-breaking time,\" he said.\n\nHe added the remains had not yet been formally identified.\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 34, who were earlier arrested over her disappearance remain in police custody.\n\nThe 34-year-old was arrested in Ballymena on Saturday, while the 26-year-old was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, police were granted a further 36 hours to question the 26-year-old.\n\nForensic teams have been seen entering a house in James Street\n\nForensic teams were seen entering a house in James Street in Ballymena on Sunday evening.\n\nThe property had been sealed off by police for a number of days.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Mitchell's brother, Phillip Mitchell, said he was broken by her disappearance and appealed for information.\n\nAt that stage, police had described her as a \"high-risk missing person\".\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they were increasingly concerned for the young woman's safety and renewed their appeal for information.\n\nExtensive searches had been carried out to try to find Ms Mitchell.\n\nOn Sunday the Community Rescue Service (CRS) said it had completed all search areas as requested.\n\nIn a statement it added: \"The CRS would like to thank the people of Ballymena, those who live and work in the Harryville area and especially Chloe's family and friends for their exceptional support during our operations.\"\n\nThe MP for the area, Ian Paisley, said he was \"deeply saddened and disturbed\".\n\n\"This is heartbreaking news for Chloe's family and friends and will shadow the town of Ballymena with sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"The family have stated they are broken. No one can understand just how deep that break is.\"\n\nMr Paisley said he understood the police would hold a press conference on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fathers of two university students killed in attacks in Nottingham have paid emotional tributes to them in a vigil attended by thousands of people.\n\nBarnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were killed in the early hours of Tuesday, along with school caretaker Ian Coates, 65.\n\nA 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.\n\nThe vigil was held at the University of Nottingham, where the students studied.\n\nNeither of the fathers were expected to speak, but they took to the podium at the end despite being overcome with grief.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were all killed\n\nSpeaking to the crowds of people, Ms O'Malley-Kumar's father Sanjoy told the students to look after each other.\n\n\"Grace and her friend, they fell together, and you just need to be friends with everyone. You need to love everyone and I wish we had more of it,\" he said.\n\n\"She loved being here and she loved all of you. She really did and you should all feel very blessed.\"\n\nHis said his daughter had been \"so full of her stories and things that she said about all of you, and you've all touched her life. And hence ours\".\n\n\"You'll never be forgotten by us, certainly. We have children who were taken away prematurely from us, that should never happen to any parent,\" he said.\n\nBarnaby Webber's father and Grace O'Malley-Kumar's mother supported each other at the vigil\n\nSpeaking through tears, Mr Webber's father David told the crowd: \"I'm lost for words, I've lost my baby boy. I cannot comprehend how I am going to deal with it.\n\n\"Myself and Emma and Charlie and his family and friends... I know Barney would be super-touched by everyone that's here.\n\n\"He loved it here. He couldn't wait to come back. It drove me mad. His heart will be with you guys forever and thank you so much. I really can't talk much more.\"\n\nAnother vigil is due to be held in Nottingham's Old Market Square on Thursday from 17:30 BST, followed by a minute's silence, the city council has announced.\n\nThe attacks began with the fatal stabbing of Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar in Ilkeston Road, with police receiving a call at 04:04 on Tuesday.\n\nIt is believed the suspect then tried to enter a supported living complex in Mapperley Road, around two miles (3.2km) from the scene of the first attack, but was prevented from getting in.\n\nCCTV footage seen by the BBC shows a figure in a black hoodie being pushed away from a window and then confronted, before walking off.\n\nPolice officers believe Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in nearby Magdala Road - was then attacked, with his van being stolen and used to hit pedestrians in Milton Street, leaving one critically injured.\n\nThe suspect was Tasered by officers before being arrested.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Nottinghamshire Police said the force had not received any calls about the suspect prior to the first attack.\n\nThe families of the students held hands as thousands of people paid their respects\n\nThe vigil here on a sweltering day in the middle of the University of Nottingham campus was filled with raw emotion. Everyone seemed to either be in tears or on the verge of them.\n\nThe most affecting moment was an unplanned one: David Webber and Sanjoy Kumar, the fathers of the two students who were killed just the day before, took to the podium at the end to address the huge crowd of mourning students.\n\nThe university was not expecting them to speak. Despite being stricken with grief, they both talked about their children with eloquence and empathy, in a moment that those who witnessed it are unlikely to forget.\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Barnaby Webber's parents embraced each other during the vigil\n\nFlowers were laid for the students, who were killed as they walked home after a night out.\n\nMr Webber read history at the university and Ms O'Malley-Kumar studied medicine.\n\nIn a moving speech, student union community officer Daisy Forster told the families the city's students would support them, adding \"we will always be here when you need us\".\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton, from the university chaplaincy, described the deaths as \"one of those moments which we hoped we'd never encounter\" while the university's vice-chancellor, Professor Shearer West, said the lives of the victims had been \"curtailed\" by a \"seemingly random\" act of violence.\n\nBoth students were keen and talented sportspeople and their university team-mates, wearing sports kit, were among the crowd assembled to remember them.\n\nMr Webber, of Taunton, Somerset, played hockey, rugby and cricket and Ms O'Malley-Kumar played hockey and cricket.\n\nProf Shearer West told the crowd: \"What should have been a time of celebration and relaxation following the exam period has become a time to mourn tragic loss in the most unimaginable of circumstances.\"\n\nShe said the university was supporting both students' families, adding support was available to any students or colleagues affected by the tragedy.\n\nThe university and communities across Nottingham had come together in \"grief and remembrance of two much-loved students\", she added.\n\nVice-chancellor, Professor Shearer West, said the university was \"in a state of shock\"\n\nMr Coates, whose sons had earlier left tributes at the scene of his death, was also remembered at the event.\n\nWhile visiting the scene where Mr Coates was found fatally stabbed, Lee and James Coates said their dad was due to retire in four months.\n\n\"He used to take under-privileged kids fishing just to get away from crime. You genuinely couldn't find a nicer guy,\" Lee said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fans travelled from around the world to see Beyonce in Stockholm last month\n\nThought the war in Ukraine or supply chain snarls were to blame for rising prices? You must not know 'bout Beyoncé.\n\nThe start of the singer's world tour in Sweden last month sparked such a frenzy of demand for hotels and restaurant meals that it has shown up in the country's economic statistics.\n\nSweden reported higher-than-expected inflation of 9.7% in May.\n\nRising prices for hotels and restaurants were behind the surprise.\n\nMichael Grahn, economist at Danske Bank, said he thought Beyoncé helped drive the jump in hotel rates. She may also have been the force behind the unexpectedly strong uptick in recreation and culture prices, he said.\n\n\"I wouldn't ... blame Beyoncé for [the] high inflation print, but her performance and global demand to see her perform in Sweden apparently added a little to it,\" he wrote in an email to the BBC.\n\nThere is little doubt that the singer's first solo tour in seven years marks a big economic moment. At least one estimate suggests the run could gross almost £2bn by the time it ends in September.\n\nSearches for accommodations in cities on the tour shot up after it was announced, Airbnb reported. Tickets for many concerts sold out within days and prices soared on the resale market.\n\nIn the UK, 60,000 people descended on Cardiff, including fans from Lebanon, the US and Australia. Demand for hotel rooms tied to her concert in London was so strong that in one case, some homeless families being housed in a hotel by the local council were reportedly booted to make way for her fans.\n\nThe Stockholm concerts, where Beyoncé played to a crowd of 46,000 for two nights, reportedly drew fans from around the world - especially the US, where a strong dollar against the krona helped to make tickets in the Nordic country seem a relative steal.\n\nIn an email to the Washington Post last month, Visit Stockholm described the boom in tourism to the city as the \"Beyoncé effect\" .\n\nInflation in Sweden peaked at 12.3% in December. The 9.7% rate last month was down from 10.5% in April, official figures show. Financial markets had expected around 9.4%.\n\nFor one star to have such an impact is \"very rare\", Mr Grahn told the BBC, adding that big soccer tournaments can have a similar effect.\n\nHe wrote on social media that he expected trends to return to normal in June.", "Jocelyn Chia, a lawyer turned comedian, is a prominent performer in New York\n\nA US comedian who offended Malaysian authorities with a joke about missing flight MH370 says the reaction from officials has been \"overblown\".\n\nJocelyn Chia told the BBC she was \"not making fun of tragedy\" and victims, but was trying to find humour in tragedy.\n\nMalaysian police said they would ask Interpol to locate Ms Chia, as they investigate her for incitement and offensive online content.\n\nMs Chia - who grew up in Singapore - called involving Interpol \"ridiculous\".\n\nInterpol told the BBC it had not received a request for assistance in the case from Malaysian police.\n\nMs Chia had joked in a viral video that Malaysian jets \"cannot fly\", referring to the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014 - a sensitive topic in the country.\n\nShe said her joke had been \"taken out of context when consumed on social media\".\n\n\"I have [performed this routine] hundreds of times and even did a shorter version of it in Singapore. It always cracks the audience up. I wouldn't have used it again if it didn't work,\" she said.\n\nMs Chia said \"roasting\" or poking fun at the audience is part of comedy club culture in New York, where she is now based. She said American comics have in the past used the September 11 terror attacks as fodder for their jokes.\n\n\"Americans can appreciate humour that is harsher, edgier and more in-your-face, as compared to in Asia where the stand-up comedy scene is still in its early days. You won't find a lot of edgy comedy in Asia,\" she said.\n\nFlight MH370, a Boeing 777, mysteriously fell off the radar in March 2014 as it was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. A four-year search over the Indian Ocean yielded some debris, but not the main fuselage. All 239 on board are presumed dead.\n\nMs Chia mentioned MH370 in the context of the long-running rivalry between Singapore and Malaysia. The two former British colonies were part of one country until a bitter break-up in 1965.\n\n\"Malaysian Airlines going missing not funny huh? Some jokes don't land. This joke kills in Singapore,\" she said in a 90-second viral clip that was taken from her performance at Manhattan's Comedy Cellar on 7 April.\n\nThe video stirred uproar in Malaysia and was removed by TikTok, which cited a violation of its hate speech guidelines. Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Ms Chia's joke was \"horrendous\".\n\nSome internet users, including Ms Chia's fellow comedians, criticised her for being insensitive. Others thought it was acceptable as satire.\n\nInterpol's main function is to share information about fugitives and bring them back to the country where they committed a crime.\n\n\"I just wish I could have seen the face of the Interpol officer who received this request,\" Ms Chia said.\n\n\"Honestly, if Interpol does do something about this request and things escalate, can you imagine how famous it is going to make me?\"\n\nThe reaction from Malaysia to Ms Chia's act comes as comedians in some parts of Asia endure closer scrutiny from authorities.\n\nIn July 2022, Malaysia arrested comedian Rizal van Geyzel for posting videos that touch on racial and religious sensitivities.\n\nLast month, Chinese stand-up comic Li Haoshi was detained in China and his comedy group fined for a joke perceived as a \"serious insult\" to the \"people's army\".", "Last week Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with immediate effect\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has said she will not resign until she gets more information on why she was denied a peerage.\n\nThe Boris Johnson ally announced last Friday she would be standing down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire \"with immediate effect\".\n\nMs Dorries accused Rishi Sunak's team of removing her name from Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nIn a tweet, she said she had requested all correspondence around her removal.\n\nMs Dorries said she had put in Subject Access Requests to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office.\n\nSubject Access Requests allow an individual to receive a copy of all their personal data held by a government department.\n\nFreedom of Information expert Martin Rosenbaum has pointed out that under the Data Protection Act 2018, the right of access to personal data does not apply to data processed for the honours system.\n\nIn a multi-tweet thread Ms Dorries said she had requested copies of WhatsApp messages, texts, emails and meeting minutes. relating to the process of her nomination for the House of Lords\n\nOnce she receives them she will \"take the time to properly consider the information I am provided\", Ms Dorries added.\n\nShe went on to say it is \"absolutely my intention to resign\" but \"this process is now sadly necessary\".\n\nShe added that her \"office continues to function as normal and will of course continue to serve my constituents\".\n\nBefore Ms Dorries' announcement, No 10 said it was important for her constituents to have \"certainty\".\n\n\"It is obviously unusual to have an MP say they will resign with immediate effect and for that not to take place,\" the prime minister's press secretary added.\n\nMr Johnson also announced he was leaving Parliament on Friday, ahead of a Commons report expected to accuse him of misleading MPs over the Partygate scandal, which is due to be published on Thursday.\n\nNigel Adams, one of Mr Johnson's other close allies, stood down as an MP on Monday, following reports his name was also removed from the list of approved peerages.\n\nThe by-elections to replace them were triggered on Wednesday, with 3 July or 20 July the possible polling dates.\n\nWhile Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nAnything she says would be covered by parliamentary privilege, allowing her to be outspoken on any issue, without fear of legal consequences.\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - wanted to conclude swift campaigns before Parliament's summer recess and for any political pain from the by-elections to be short and sharp.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting, she could force them into a potentially divisive by-election later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.", "Eluned Morgan made her correction to the Welsh Parliament on a remote link\n\nThe Welsh health minister has been forced to correct her comments about a damning report about Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's finances.\n\nEluned Morgan told the Senedd last week that forensic accountants EY were asked to look at the body's accounts \"on advice from the Welsh government\".\n\nBut two former senior officials of the NHS body told BBC Wales that the government was not involved.\n\nMs Morgan has now admitted there was no \"direct conversation\" on the matter.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr's former chair, Mark Polin, had called Ms Morgan's original comments \"misleading and inaccurate\".\n\nEY's report said the health board wrongly accounted for millions of pounds, and that finance officials deliberately made incorrect entries into their own accounts.\n\nThe study has been seen by BBC Wales, but is not in the public domain, and there is pressure on ministers from opposition politicians to publish it in full.\n\nThe EY investigation began in September 2022 after the regulatory body Audit Wales found what it called \"significant errors\" with the health board's 2021-22 accounts.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth wrote to Ms Morgan asking for clarification and any documentation that could shed light on the situation.\n\nHe said that transparency on all matters relating to Betsi Cadwaladr \"is essential if people are to trust the government's efforts to sort out health services in the north\".\n\nMr Polin and Richard Micklewright were among the 11 independent members of the health board who were forced to resign from the board by Ms Morgan in February.\n\nMark Polin is a former chief constable of North Wales Police\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd last week Eluned Morgan said that \"the audit committee of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, on advice from the Welsh government, commissioned Ernst & Young [EY] to undertake a forensic review of accounting management, after Audit Wales qualified the health board's accounts for 2021-22 and identified internal control failures\".\n\nBut Mr Micklewright, former vice chair of the Betsi Cadwaladr Audit Committee, said his committee \"exercised its own professional judgement\" in commissioning the Ernst & Young report.\n\n\"Contrary to the minister's statement in the Senedd, the Welsh government was not involved in the decision in any way nor was its input sought.\"\n\nMr Polin, a former chief constable of North Wales police, said that EY \"was certainly not commissioned on advice of the Welsh government\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales that when the audit committee raised concerns with him about financial irregularities at the board, he sought advice from the Welsh government's interim director general for health and social services, Judith Paget.\n\nAccording to Mr Polin, she told him to get clarification from the board's chief executive, Jo Whitehead.\n\nHe said this \"did not address their concerns\".\n\n\"At no point did she advise me or the audit committee chair to commission EY.\n\n\"The chair of the audit committee, with my agreement, commissioned EY.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr manages NHS services and hospitals in Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham\n\nIn the Senedd on Wednesday afternoon, North Wales Conservative MS Darren Millar asked the health minister to explain herself \"in order to get to the truth\".\n\nMs Morgan said NHS Wales boss Judith Paget \"spoke directly to the then chief executive of Betsi, Jo Whitehead, following the Audit Wales report which found allegations of financial misstatements, and recommended that the health board should undertake a full investigation to understand how the misstatements had occurred\".\n\n\"The Welsh government did not commission the report, and I've never suggested that the Welsh government commissioned the report.\n\n\"But it is probably fair to say that there was not a direct conversation, to my knowledge, between the Welsh government and the Audit committee of the Betsi board, but there was a conversation, as I have noted, which took place between the CEO [chief executive] of the NHS in Wales and the CEO of Betsi, and I'm happy to correct the record on that score.\"\n\nSpeaking later to BBC Wales, Rhun ap Iorwerth said the minister's initial comments \"didn't ring true - and now we know it wasn't\".\n\n\"Welsh government did not advise Betsi's audit committee to commission this report - the independent members in that committee did so because they could see there was something wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"These are the independent members that were later effectively sacked. In correcting the record today, the minister again highlights what an injustice that was.\n\n\"Transparency is crucial, especially so when talking about Betsi Cadwaladr, and whilst I'm glad the minister agreed to set the record straight, faith in that transparency has been undermined again here.\"", "MPs investigating whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Partygate will publish their long-awaited report on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson quit as an MP after receiving an advance copy of the report - which he said had found him guilty \"regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe report follows a year-long inquiry by the Privileges Committee.\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Johnson called for a committee member to resign over claims the MP had breached Covid restrictions.\n\nThe Guido Fawkes website alleged that Sir Bernard Jenkin, a senior Conservative MP on the committee, attended a drinks party for his wife's birthday in the House of Commons in December 2020. At the time social mixing outside of households or support bubbles was banned in London.\n\nHaving contacted several people involved in the allegations, the BBC has not been able to independently verify the claims. Sir Bernard, Lady Jenkin and the alleged host of the gathering have been approached for comment.\n\nSir Bernard originally denied attending any drinks parties during lockdown. When he was asked by a Guido Fawkes reporter whether he had a drink at the celebration of his wife's birthday that evening, Sir Bernard is quoted as saying \"I don't recall\".\n\nDame Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker, who allegedly hosted the party, told the website: \"I took advice on how many could be present in a room, I had the room measured and I kept a two-metre ruler so that I could always verify that nobody who was working here was put at risk.\"\n\nMr Johnson has written to Labour's Harriet Harman, who has chaired the inquiry, demanding she clarify whether she checked that panel members had not attended such events before the inquiry began.\n\nIf the reports were true, Sir Bernard was \"guilty of flagrant and monstrous hypocrisy\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nLast week, the former prime minister branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nMr Johnson accused the committee of mounting a \"witch hunt\" against him, and Ms Harman, of showing \"egregious bias\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures\" at all times and accused Mr Johnson of impugning \"the integrity of the House by his statement\".\n\nAt 23:57 BST on Monday, Mr Johnson sent a last-minute letter to the committee in response to their findings.\n\nUnder the published process, Mr Johnson was entitled to respond to the committee up to 14 days after receiving its draft findings, which were sent last week.\n\nThe committee said it would deal with the new developments and \"report promptly\".\n\nFor almost a year, the seven-person committee - a majority of whom are Conservatives - have been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid-19 breaches in Downing Street and what he knew about them.\n\nGiving evidence in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns, but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nThe Partygate scandal dogged Mr Johnson's premiership, with police fining him for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation as an MP, which has triggered a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, came last Friday.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".", "Christina Quinn had a long career in the NHS\n\nA woman who died along with two other British people in a diving boat fire in the Egyptian Red Sea would be \"missed beyond words\", her family has said.\n\nChristina Quinn, 58, chief executive of St Luke's Hospice in Plymouth, was a \"rock to many\", a statement said.\n\nInitial reports suggest the fire was caused by an electrical fault in the boat's engine room at 06:30 local time on Sunday.\n\nMs Quinn, from Somerset, was one of 15 guests on a week-long stay on the boat.\n\nThe boat, which left Port Ghalib on 6 June, had been due to return from sea on Sunday.\n\nA statement from Ms Quinn's family said she was \"a sister, daughter, wife, aunty, friend, and rock to many\".\n\nLast month she had taken up a new role as CEO at St Luke's Hospice in Plymouth after previously working as director of NHS South West Leadership Academy.\n\nTour operator Scuba Travel said 12 Britons on board had gone to at an early-morning briefing on Sunday but three others, including Ms Quinn, did not as they had \"apparently decided not to dive\" that morning.\n\nIn a statement, the company said the \"severity of the fire\" meant the 12 divers at the briefing were immediately evacuated to another boat nearby.\n\nThey were followed by the 14 crew members, including the captain and two dive guides, after attempts to reach the missing guests were unsuccessful, it said.\n\nThe identity of the two other British victims has not yet been released.", "Prof Yann LeCun is known as one of the three godfathers of AI and works as Facebook-owner Meta's top AI scientist\n\nOne of the three \"godfathers of AI\" has said it won't take over the world or permanently destroy jobs.\n\nProf Yann LeCun said some experts' fears of AI posing a threat to humanity were \"preposterously ridiculous\".\n\nComputers would become more intelligent than humans but that was many years away and \"if you realise it's not safe you just don't built it,\" he said.\n\nA UK government advisor recently told the BBC that some powerful artificial intelligence might need to be banned.\n\nIn 2018 Prof LeCun won the Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their breakthroughs in AI and all three became known as \"the godfathers of AI\".\n\nProf LeCun now works as the chief AI scientist at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. He disagrees with his fellow godfathers that AI is a risk to the human race.\n\n\"Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines\" he said. It would be a huge mistake to keep AI research \"under lock and key\", he added.\n\nPeople who worried that AI might pose a risk to humans did so because they couldn't imagine how it could be made safe, Prof LeCun argued.\n\n\"It's as if you asked in 1930 to someone how are you going to make a turbo-jet safe? Turbo-jets were not invented yet in 1930, same as human level AI has not been invented yet.\"\n\n\"Turbo jets were eventually made incredibly reliable and safe,\" and the same would happen with AI he said.\n\nMeta has a large AI research programme and producing intelligent systems as capable as humans is one of its goals. As well as research, the company uses AI to help identify harmful social media posts.\n\nProf LeCun spoke at an event for invited press, about his own work in so-called Objective Driven AI which aims to produce safe systems that can remember, reason, plan and have common sense - features popular chatbots like ChatGPT lack.\n\nProf LeCun speaking to the press at Meta in Paris\n\nHe said there was \"no question\" that AI would surpass human intelligence. But researchers were still missing essential concepts to reach that level, which would take years if not decades to arrive.\n\nWhen people raise concerns about the human-level or above machines that might exist in the future, they are referring to artificial general intelligence (AGI). These are systems, that like humans, can solve a wide range of problems.\n\nThere was a fear that when AGI existed scientists \"get to turn on a super-intelligent system that is going to take over the world within minutes\", he said. \"That's you know just preposterously ridiculous.\"\n\nIn response to a question from BBC news Prof LeCun said there would be progressive advances - perhaps you might get an AI as powerful as the brain of a rat. That wasn't going take over the world, and he argued \"it's still going to run on a data centre somewhere with an off switch\". He added: \"And if you realise it's not safe you just don't built it\".\n\nIt has been argued that AI has the potential to replace many jobs, and some companies have paused recruiting for certain roles as a result.\n\nProf LeCun told the BBC: \"This is not going to put a lot of people out of work permanently\". But work would change because we have \"no idea\" what the most prominent jobs will be 20 years from now, he said.\n\nIntelligent computers would create \"a new renaissance for humanity\" the way the internet or the printing-press did, he said.\n\nProf LeCun was speaking Tuesday ahead of a vote on Europe's AI Act which is designed to regulate artificial intelligence.\n\nHe said from his conversations with AI start-ups in Europe \"they don't like it at all, they think it's too broad, maybe too restrictive\". But he said he wasn't an expert on the legislation,\n\nProf LeCun said he was not against regulation - but in his view each application would need its own rules, for example different rules would govern AI systems in cars and those scanning medical images.", "Michael Donnelly, pictured in Belfast on Tuesday, said the police apology was 50 years too late\n\nOne of the \"Hooded Men\", Michael Donnelly, has said he does not accept a police apology over his treatment.\n\nMr Donnelly was one of 14 men arrested in 1971 during internment without trial and questioned by the police and Army.\n\nTwo years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the techniques they were subjected to would be characterised as torture by today's standards.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) made a formal apology to the surviving Hooded Men on Tuesday.\n\nThe public apology came a day after the death of one of the men, Joe Clarke, at the age of 71.\n\nThe apology had been hand delivered to Mr Clarke by his solicitor on Thursday, four days before he died.\n\nMr Donnelly, who is from Londonderry, told BBC Radio Foyle's The North West Today programme that the apology is \"50 years too late\" for him and he said that it personally feels \"fairly meaningless\".\n\n\"I do not accept it - not at all,\" Mr Donnelly said.\n\nDuring their detention, the Hooded Men said they were forced to listen to constant loud static noise; deprived of sleep, food and water; forced to stand in stress positions; and beaten if they fell.\n\nThe men also said they were hooded and thrown from helicopters a short distance off the ground, having been told they were hundreds of feet in the air.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Supt Ian Saunders said the police had issued the apology for the \"actions and omissions of police officers involved in their treatment whilst in police custody in 1971\".\n\n\"The police service recognises the significant step taken today in issuing this apology,\" he said.\n\n\"It is our view this was the right thing to do to help give the Hooded Men and their families recognition about how they were treated,\" he added.\n\nSome of the Hooded Men and families gathered after the announcement was made\n\nMr Donnelly described the ordeal of being placed into a helicopter with his hands tied behind his back and being told that he was going to be pushed out from a great height over a body of water.\n\nHe also described at one stage thinking he was going to die during his detention after being severely beaten by his captors.\n\n\"I was trying to survive literally by the second, you could barely breathe at times when you were wearing the hood,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes I thought I was going to survive and then other times I thought I was going to die.\"\n\nMr Donnelly said he does not see why he should forgive anyone for his treatment.\n\nThe Hooded Men case has been the subject of multiple legal actions in the UK and Europe for decades.\n\nIn 1976, the European Commission of Human Rights ruled that the five techniques used on the men amounted to torture.\n\nThis ruling was later referred to by the European Court of Human Rights in 1978, which held that the UK had carried out inhuman and degrading treatment, but fell short of defining it as torture.\n\nIn 2019, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, Northern Ireland's most senior judge, said their treatment \"would, if it occurred today, properly be characterised as torture\".\n\nIn 2021, the Supreme Court issued their ruling that the men's treatment would be characterised as torture by today's standards.\n\nOn Tuesday, a spokesperson for the UK government said it acknowledged \"the pain and suffering felt by so many during the Troubles\".\n\n\"There are several ongoing legal proceedings in relation to this incident, and therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage,\" the spokesperson said.", "The River Niger is a vital mode of transport in many parts of Nigeria\n\nMore than 100 people have drowned and more are missing after a boat carrying them down the River Niger in south-western Nigeria capsized on Monday, authorities say.\n\nThe vessel was carrying around 300 passengers travelling from Kwara state to Niger state after a wedding.\n\nSearch and rescue efforts were continuing, officials said.\n\nThe boat capsized after part of the vessel collapsed, causing water to flood the boat, police said.\n\nThere are differing reports of the exact number of people confirmed dead.\n\nKwara state police said 106 had died, with around 144 rescued from the river. It added that more than half of the dead came from the village of Ebu, while another 38 were from nearby Dzakan village.\n\nEarlier, the Emir of Patigi Ibrahim Umar Bologi II - the traditional ruler of the area where it happened - said more than 150 people were feared to have drowned.\n\nOne survivor, Mohammed Alhassan, told the BBC many women died trying to save their children. He said his sister had survived but her 7-year-old son did not make it.\n\nAnother survivor, Aisha Mohammed, said she lost three adult daughters, who were soon to be married.\n\n\"The incident was very sad, and it shocked the whole community,\" Mohammed Sallihu, a relative of one of the victims, told AFP news agency.\n\nThe cause of the incident is still being established.\n\nLocal police said part of the vessel collapsed, causing it to flood and then capsize.\n\nBut the Emir of Patigi told journalists that river waves overtook the boat and forced it to crash into a tree that had washed into the river, causing the boat to capsize.\n\nKwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq gave his \"heartfelt condolences\" to the victims' loved ones - and said rescuers were continuing to search for survivors.\n\nHe visited the affected villages on Wednesday and promised to provide them with one thousand life jackets to kickstart a safety education initiative.\n\nHe also said he had initiated discussions with the National Inland Waterways Authority on how to better enforce safety regulations.\n\nNigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said he was \"deeply saddened by the news of the tragic boat accident that claimed the lives of our people in Kwara State\".\n\n\"That the victims were guests at a wedding ceremony made the unfortunate accident more painful,\" he added.\n\nRiver accidents in this part of Nigeria are common.\n\nPeople who live in the villages bordering the River Niger - which runs through the centre of the country - often use the river as it can be faster than roads, which are often poorly maintained and dangerous, due to the presence of kidnapping gangs.\n\nHowever boat operators often overload their rickety vessels in a bid to earn more money.\n• None At least 76 killed in Nigeria boat accident", "So what happens next? Some MPs are actually cock-a-hoop despite the colossal mess. One tells me: \"The man-baby has gone - so pleased!\"\n\nBut allies talk up his chances of running for another seat some time. One former senior minister tells me \"the question is does he plan to get another seat or even Mid-Beds?\" - the constituency his close ally and former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has just left.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister says: \"It would be very unwise for him to run again. He has a vociferous 20% in the party who like him but 80% don't. If he ran in a by-election the Lib Dems would murder him.\"\n\nWould party HQ even let that happen? Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has changed the personnel in charge there. One senior figure pours a bucket of freezing water over the idea telling me: \"Boris died today.\"\n\nWhat is not clear yet is whether as that MP suggests the manner of his departure could \"generate so much unrest I fear there will be an election much sooner than thought\".\n\nJohnson has thrown grenades at No 10 - not just the committee that has judged him - suggesting Sunak is not running a \"proper Conservative\" government.\n\nOne former ally says the ex-PM has \"gone full circle, returning to his political home - a hut across the water where he can now lob rocks without any sense of responsibility or accountability - and that is ultimately very dangerous for his party and Sunak\".\n\nRead more from Laura here", "Minister Julie James has said artificial grass \"isn't the short-term solution it looks like\"\n\nFake grass will not be banned in Wales, a minister has said, just days after she said she was exploring the idea.\n\nOn Wednesday, Climate Change Minister Julie James said she wanted to see whether a new law banning some single-use plastics could be used for this.\n\nHer comments sparked a backlash from a business owner who said a ban would put her livelihood at risk.\n\n\"I don't have the power to ban artificial grass tomorrow morning. And even if I did, I wouldn't,\" she said.\n\nInstead, she said she wanted to help people understand the environmental impact of using it in their gardens.She told Politics Wales: \"I think we can help people understand how you can have an environmentally friendly bio diverse small space that is very low.\n\nJulie James said she does not have the power to ban artificial grass\n\n\"And what we'll do is we'll, you know, embark on a journey with the Welsh public as we always do, to get people to understand.\"\n\nBusinesswoman Carol Hustwitt sells artificial grass on Anglesey and previously said a possible ban on the synthetic material would be \"very extreme\".\n\n\"If that were to come into play, I would have no business,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds United chairman Andrea Radrizzani has agreed a £170m deal to sell his stake in the relegated club to co-owners 49ers Enterprises.\n\nThe investment arm of the San Francisco 49ers purchased a 15% stake in Leeds in 2018 and increased that to 44% in 2021.\n\nItalian Radrizzani bought Leeds outright for £45m in 2017, but his stake has dropped to 56% since then.\n\nManagerless Leeds were relegated from the Premier League on the final day and are preparing for the Championship.\n\nThe previous agreement, which depended on their top-flight survival, was worth about £400m - but negotiations restarted following their drop to the second tier.\n\nA club statement read: \"Leeds United can confirm an agreement has been reached between Aser Ventures and 49ers Enterprises for the purchase of the club.\n\n\"Both parties continue to work through the details, and further updates will be provided soon. All of our focus remains on a quick return to the Premier League.\"\n\nAfter relegation was confirmed, the Leeds United Supporters Club released a statement saying Radrizzani was \"no longer an appropriate person to own Leeds United\".\n\n\"His behaviour is appalling and he risks never being welcome at our club again,\" it added.\"The sooner he goes the better and we look forward to the 49ers Enterprises offer being accepted. The only way he can begin to salvage his reputation is through an immediate sale of the club and the stadium.\"\n\nRadrizzani was popular with Leeds fans initially, with manager Marcelo Bielsa taking them back into the Premier League. But the relationship soured after he sacked the Argentine, and he did not attend their final game, a defeat by Tottenham which sealed their relegation while fans chanted for him to leave.\n\nThis deal has to be good for the club - analysis\n\nThis news has been expected since Sampdoria confirmed Radrizzani had taken a stake in the club, which had just been relegated to Serie B.\n\nThe brutal truth is that Radrizzani, charismatic as he is, lacks the funds to really shove Leeds up the Premier League in the way the 49ers have.\n\nIt was hoped they could escape again this term but, ultimately, they just were not good enough and not even interim boss Sam Allardyce could save them.\n\nHowever, while no-one would choose to get relegated because of the uncertainty it brings, under the circumstances it does not need to be a disaster.\n\nAllardyce has gone, just as director of football Victor Orta went before him. Recruitment-wise, Leeds are starting with a clean slate.\n\nWhat they are not starting with in the Championship is a level playing field. Given the parachute payments and their enormous fan base, quite frankly, it would reflect very badly if Leeds did not go straight back up.\n\nThe same could be said about Leicester and Southampton, putting the real pressure on the two clubs who went down in 2021-22 and did not come straight back - Norwich and Watford.\n\nThere are structural issues to address around Elland Road, which will be expensive to modernise but badly needs it. However, on the pitch, this deal has to be good for the club.\n• None Listen to the latest Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast\n• None Our coverage of Leeds United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Leeds - go straight to all the best content", "One boy is in a critical condition after the incident at Blundell's School\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after a violent assault at a boarding school left two students in hospital.\n\nPolice said the accused has also been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent at Blundell's School near Tiverton in Devon.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear before magistrates in Exeter on Monday.\n\nOne of the boys who was injured is in a critical condition, police said.\n\nThe other boy remains in a stable but serious condition, both have their families with them and are being supported by officers.\n\nOne man, a member of staff at the school, also sustained injuries and was discharged from hospital on Friday, Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe school is working with police, said head teacher Bart Wielenga in a letter to parents\n\nSupt Toby Davies said: \"Our thoughts remain with the injured boys and their families in what must be a harrowing time for them.\n\n\"My officers are continuing to support them and the wider school community.\"\n\nThe area has been cordoned off for investigations and was expected to remain there for the rest of the day, he added.\n\nHe also reminded people that by law the suspect could not be identified.\n\n\"These rules are not solely for media organisations to adhere to; they also apply to members of the public and includes information posted via social media,\" he said.\n\n\"This may be seen as interfering with a live investigation and an active criminal trial, and therefore could see those who do not adhere found in contempt of court.\n\n\"We therefore remind the public that it is vital that they do not speculate on the identity of either the victims or the suspect in this case.\"\n\nBlundell's School - which has fees of £41,325 a school year for a boarder - has not commented.\n\nHead teacher Bart Wielenga sent a letter to parents and guardians about the incident, which happened at one of the boarding houses on Friday.\n\nHe added the school was working closely with the police and urged parents and guardians not to engage in speculation or post about the incident on social media.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race pits man against horse over a 22.5-mile course in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys\n\nA runner has become only the fourth man to outrun the horse in the annual man v horse race.\n\nThe 22-mile event in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, began in 1980 after a pub chat discussing whether a man or horse was faster crossing mountainous terrain.\n\nWinner Daniel Connolly came first with a time of two hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds.\n\nThe first horse, DNS Ronaldo, was ridden by Kate Atkinson and took two hours, 34 minutes and 25 seconds.\n\nDaniel Connolly won with a time of two hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds\n\nOrganiser Bob Greenough said: \"It's the first time the event has been won two years in a row by a runner, and only the fourth time overall in 42 years of the race.\n\n\"It was an incredibly hot day today. The event went remarkably well. Everyone is in very good spirits.\"\n\nThe first woman across the line was Suzy Whatmough who did it in three hours, eight minutes and 24 seconds.\n\nThe event began in 1980 after a chat in a pub about which would be fastest crossing mountainous terrain\n\nLast year's winner, Ricky Lightfoot, said he had been awake for 29 hours before the event after flying from Tenerife to claim victory.\n\nOn crossing the line, the 6ft 4in (1.93m) athlete had no idea whether he had won as the people and animals took slightly different routes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Thomas initially received a £60 fine after parking at Lligwy beach, near Moelfre, Anglesey, in August 2021\n\nA parking firm has lost a civil case against a motorist over an unpaid £160 fine after she requested the details in Welsh rather than just in English.\n\nA judge ruled against Simple Intelligent Parking Ltd, which had not provided information bilingually.\n\nElysteg Llwyd Thomas from Dyffryn Nantlle, Gwynedd, had been sent details of an initial £60 fine in English.\n\nThe firm told S4C Newyddion that it was disappointed and intended to appeal against the decision.\n\nMs Thomas sent a reply to say that she would be ready to pay once the company sent all correspondence bilingually, including a copy of the fine, following a stay at Lligwy beach, near Moelfre, Anglesey, in August 2021.\n\nHer request was ignored and she was informed that the penalty had increased to £100, which was later raised again to £160.\n\nMs Thomas was represented in the civil case in Caernarfon by her father, Eifion Lloyd Jones, a member of Welsh language campaign group Dyfodol i'r Iaith.\n\nThe civil case centred on the parking firm sending details in English only\n\nJudge Merfyn Jones-Evans rejected the parking company's application and issued a judicial warning that all signs in car parks in Wales should be bilingual.\n\nReferring to the Protection of Freedom Act 2012, his ruling stated that notices in Welsh or English only were not \"sufficient notices\" in Wales.\n\nAfter the case, Mr Jones from Prion, Denbighshire, said he hoped the judge's warning would lead to the end of Welsh people being penalised for asking for correspondence in Welsh but said he anticipated the \"struggle will continue for a while yet\".\n\nDylan Rhys Jones, head of the School of Law at Wrexham's Glyndwr University, said he believed \"absolutely no precedent\" had been set by the case.\n\n\"There can be another case heard next week and a decision to the contrary made,\" he added.\n\n\"If people continue to challenge fines that are given in English only like this, and that companies realise that it is cheaper for them in a way to provide documentation in Welsh rather than going to court... then it is going to be cheaper for them to provide documents in Welsh.\"\n\nSimple Intelligent Parking Ltd said: \"We are waiting for the written judgment so that we can take the appropriate steps.\n\n\"However, we anticipate that we will appeal against the decision as it is wrong according to the law.\"\n\nWelsh Language Commissioner Efa Gruffudd Jones said she was in \"direct contact with a number of parking companies and... many have already and are adapting their machines, websites and apps to include the Welsh language\".", "Former US President Donald Trump made the comments at a speech in Georgia on Saturday\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has called the federal indictment against him \"ridiculous and baseless\" in his first public appearance since the charges were announced.\n\nA 37-count indictment made public on Friday accuses him of keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago property.\n\nAt two campaign speeches on Saturday, Mr Trump said the indictment amounted to \"election interference\" by the \"corrupt\" FBI and justice department.\n\nHe has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including some about US nuclear secrets and military plans.\n\nThe indictment accused him of keeping the files at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago including in a ballroom and a shower.\n\nHe lied to investigators and tried to obstruct their investigation into his handling of the documents, the indictment alleged.\n\nIt is the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president.\n\nSpeaking at the first Republican Party convention in Georgia, Mr Trump said: \"They're cheating, they're crooked, they're corrupt - these criminals cannot be rewarded, they must be defeated.\"\n\nHe joked that every time he flies over a \"blue state\" - one controlled by the Democrats - he gets subpoenaed.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for the White House again in 2024, called the indictment a \"hoax\" by the \"corrupt political establishment\", also describing it as a \"joke\" and a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nBoth speeches - in Georgia and later in North Carolina - went on for more than an hour.\n\nHe thanked the \"record crowd\" as well as \"patriots\" who had supported his White House bid, and went on to criticise \"sinister forces\" that were running the country.\n\n\"We're going to stand up to the current political establishment … and we're going to finish the job we started, the most successful presidency,\" he said, a line that led to chants of \"USA, USA\" breaking out in the crowd.\n\n\"I will never yield, I will never be deterred,\" he said, before turning his attention to the groups he said were plotting against him.\n\nThis included Marxists, communists, \"environmental extremists\", Rinos - Republicans in Name Only - as well as \"open border fanatics\" and \"radical left democrats\".\n\nReferencing the indictment, he claimed the highly-sensitive documents should have fallen under the Presidential Records Act, rather than the Espionage Act.\n\nUnder the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends. Regulations require such files to be stored securely.\n\nHe also said \"gun-toting FBI agents\" had raided Mar-a-Lago.\n\nSpecial counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation, has denied the charges are politically-motivated, saying: \"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.\"\n\nLaws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced, he has said.\n\nAs momentum starts to build towards the 2024 election, Mr Trump was speaking at a Republican Party convention in Columbus, Georgia, before moving onto another Republican Party event in Greensboro, North Carolina.\n\nHe is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.\n\nHis former vice president Mike Pence - who this week was highly critical of his former boss when announcing his own run for the presidency - spoke earlier at the North Carolina event, although the pair are not expected to cross paths.\n\nGeorgia is likely to be a key battleground in the race for the White House, and is where Mr Trump narrowly lost to current President Joe Biden in 2020 - it could also be the scene of further legal jeopardy for the former president.\n\nOfficials in the state are currently looking into whether Mr Trump broke the law when he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find\" the exact number of votes he needed to flip the vote in his favour.", "The controversial Tavistock Centre was earmarked for closure in 2022\n\nPuberty blockers will only be prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research, NHS England has announced.\n\nThe move comes after an interim report into children's gender services said there were \"gaps in evidence\" around the drugs.\n\nBlockers are used to \"pause puberty\" and work by supressing hormone release.\n\nDr Hilary Cass's report called for a transformation in the model of care for children with gender-related distress.\n\nCurrently, if a child seeks medical help, the drugs are one of the options a doctor could offer to help delay the onset of physical changes that do not match a child's gender identity.\n\nThis change will come into effect when new clinics replacing the Gender Identity and Development Service (Gids) begin to open later this year. No patients being treated by the current Gids service will be affected.\n\nChildren and their families will also be \"strongly discouraged\" from obtaining gender-affirming drugs such as hormones, from \"unregulated sources\" or online providers.\n\nA clinical study, run by the new Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria Research and Oversight Board, will look at the impact of drugs which delay puberty.\n\nFurther details on how the study will run will be released in the coming weeks, but only those signed up to take part in the research will be prescribed puberty blockers, except in exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis.\n\nIt is expected that the study will mostly involve looking at patient data and records.\n\nRecent data from Gids looked at a random selection of 312 patients in one year and found 47 of them accessed hormone suppressants.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"The NHS is today publishing an interim specification for gender services for children and young people in line with advice and recommendations from the Independent Cass Review - this will allow the new centres to finalise their preparation for service provision later this year.\n\n\"The NHS is now engaging on the proposal that puberty blockers will not be made routinely available outside of research. We will develop a study into the impact of puberty blockers on gender dysphoria in children and young people with early-onset gender dysphoria, which aims to be up and running in 2024.\"\n\nMore than 5,000 people responded to a consultation on the new service specification last year, and the new model will be implemented when the first of the new clinics opens in the south of England this autumn in partnerships with children's hospitals.\n\nThe current service, run by the Tavistock and Portman Trust, is to close in March 2024 following an independent review carried out by Dr Cass - the paediatrician found the service is \"unsustainable\" and said a new model of care is needed.\n\nDr Cass said many children referred to Gids have complex needs that can be sometimes overlooked and around a third have autism or other types of neurodiversity.\n\nThe NHS says a \"significant proportion\" of young people with concerns related to their gender can also experience other complexities related to mental health, neuro-development and family or social matters.\n\nThe new service will take a new \"holistic\" approach, focusing on the needs of each child individually with \"careful therapeutic exploration\".\n\nIt will be updated further after the final report by Dr Cass is published.\n\nIn order to be prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS, a patient would currently need to first be assessed by Gids and referred to an endocrinologist.\n\nMore than 7,000 young people under the age of 18 are awaiting their first appointment, with the waiting list thought to be more than three and a half years long.", "Boris Johnson had to leave Downing Street last summer because a majority of his Conservative colleagues thought he was doing more harm than good.\n\nNow a committee of MPs is set to judge he didn't tell the truth. That committee is made up mainly of Tory MPs. The former PM has faced the same procedure as other MPs that get into trouble. And while Mr Johnson claims he has been \"forced out\", remember he has chosen to quit before we even see the black and white of their verdict.\n\nIt is also a fact there are some Conservatives who begrudge him his success. It is also true that during his last few months in No 10 there were internal enemies trying to force him out.\n\nBut to dress that up as a grand conspiracy is, candidly, a stretch. One of those who knows him best told me his resignation announcement was \"1,000 words that tell you everything about Johnson's mindset - it's your fault not mine\".\n\nRather than confront what has happened or try to defend himself from the judgement that is coming, Boris Johnson made a political choice this week not to stay and fight.\n\nAs ever, the line between farce and tragedy is skinny. While most of the headlines screamed of the shock, the former prime minister's exit from Parliament is entirely on brand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe timing on a Friday was unexpected, but no surprise. He never much liked Parliament anyway, even though he managed to find a gong for the Commons' hairdresser.\n\nThe idea he would savour being a humble backbencher asking questions about cash for the local hospital or appearing at school fetes was for the birds. And if the Privileges Committee's findings are as savage as expected he would have faced a by-election.\n\nClues from his track record tell us there is little chance he would have fought if he hadn't been sure he could win. He pulled out of the Tory leadership race in 2016 when Michael Gove's move blew up his status as front-runner.\n\nHe didn't run in 2022 despite a dash back from the Caribbean and fevered claims that he had enough support. One former cabinet ally says he is \"more calculating than people think and this will have been a calculation - if he thought he would win the by-election he would stay\". To win and lose does not match brand Boris. To leave like this absolutely does.\n\nThe power of his personality - frankly his fame - means he leaves behind some devastated colleagues and a strand of the public who believe he has been hard done by.\n\nOne former cabinet minister says: \"The party wounded itself when it defenestrated Boris and continues to bleed.\"\n\nSome of his hard-core supporters left on the backbenches say his exit is a sad day for democracy and - with some justification believe his leadership is what secured their seats, particularly in parts of the country where the Tories could never have dreamt of doing well before.\n\nSome of his loyal backers do feel like he is the great hero in a tragedy, cast aside unfairly in an epic drama, undone by those who envy his talents.\n\nHis exit is arguably a tragedy for those who genuinely believed in and adored him. And there is a political tragedy for the Conservative Party, which many MPs privately believe squandered a once in a generation majority.\n\n2019 gave it one of those rare chances to make radical changes to the country, and while many believe it was thrown away by mismanagement and mistakes, there was of course the unexpected horror of the Covid pandemic too.\n\nFor those who deplore Boris Johnson, there is a different kind of tragedy, the damage they believe he did to the UK's reputation. And several of those who have been close to him over the years identify a fourth element of the mess - the fact they believe it was never going to end well.\n\nIn the Greek tragedies so beloved of Mr Johnson himself, fate, and inevitability plays an important role. One of them says: \"Boris is a genuine tragedy. This was all inevitable. We knew how it would play out, but we are still surprised and shocked about how dreadful it is. All our hard work pissed away.\"\n\nSo what happens next? Some MPs are actually cock-a-hoop despite the colossal mess. One tells me: \"The man-baby has gone - so pleased!\"\n\nBut allies talk up his chances of running for another seat some time. One former senior minister tells me \"the question is does he plan to get another seat or even Mid-Beds?\" - the constituency his close ally and former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has just left.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister says: \"It would be very unwise for him to run again. He has a vociferous 20% in the party who like him but 80% don't. If he ran in a by-election the Lib Dems would murder him.\"\n\nWould party HQ even let that happen? Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has changed the personnel in charge there. One senior figure pours a bucket of freezing water over the idea telling me: \"Boris died today.\"\n\nWhat is not clear yet is whether as that MP suggests the manner of his departure could \"generate so much unrest I fear there will be an election much sooner than thought\".\n\nMr Johnson has thrown grenades at No 10 - not just the committee that has judged him - suggesting Mr Sunak is not running a \"proper Conservative\" government.\n\nOne former ally says the ex-PM has \"gone full circle, returning to his political home - a hut across the water where he can now lob rocks without any sense of responsibility or accountability - and that is ultimately very dangerous for his party and Sunak\".\n\nBut if Boris Johnson is unlikely to run for Parliament again, and is happy to dangle the prospect of a return, what else might he do with his time?\n\nYou'll find plenty of people in Westminster chattering that he'll return to his first love - writing - but might there be something bigger?\n\nBy chance his old newspaper the Telegraph has just come up for sale and - by chance - its former editor Will Lewis has just been made a knight by Mr Johnson. Is there, by chance, the possibility they might be part of a bid to take it over?\n\nIt's been suggested to me that is in fact something that has been discussed. It's no secret that Mr Lewis - now Sir Will - would be keen to take it on.\n\nHe advised Mr Johnson in No 10 sometimes and the two men worked together at the Telegraph when the former PM was its star columnist who attracted extra subscribers each week.\n\nGoing back as a columnist would be one thing for Mr Johnson and not all that surprising. But for him to take a bigger role - as one source whispers, the editor - might be the Conservatives' worst nightmare.\n\nI'm told that conversations are only at the stage of ideas being scribbled down on paper. A formal sale process, let alone any decisions about actual bids, is a long way off.\n\nBut I can't help wondering, what would the consequences be for Downing Street and the Conservatives if their most loyal backer in the press gave a major role to Mr Sunak's bitter rival? Could the next twist in the Boris Johnson story be even wilder than the last? Perhaps.\n\nWhat will be Boris Johnson's next job - running the Telegraph newspapers?\n\nSome of those who have worked alongside him believe it is more likely to be \"terminal Boris\". A former ally says \"he was obviously once someone with exceptional skills, who came so far, and did so much in the face of incredible opposition\".\n\nBut they say, perhaps in sorrow and in anger: \"His career ends with him alone, a victim of his utter inability to tell the truth to anyone, including himself.\"\n\nMaybe he will fade into obscurity. Perhaps he'll be back in Parliament one day. He might make millions speaking and writing or become Rishi Sunak's most powerful opposition.\n\nBut his name is now on the list of those unprovable political \"what ifs' so furiously and perpetually debated by political nerds.\n\nWhat if Mrs Thatcher hadn't been forced out? What if Tony Blair hadn't invaded Iraq? What if Boris Johnson had given a different answer in the Commons when he was first asked what happened under his roof during the Covid lockdowns?\n\nWe will never know. But what we do know this weekend is that one era is over. We know Boris Johnson had huge potential to create, but also to destroy - his extraordinary majority, his reputation, and the party he led too.\n\nHe must now decide what to do with the power that he still retains. And his old party must decide how much attention it wants to pay.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Violations of those laws put our country at risk'\n\nFormer President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including about US nuclear secrets and military plans.\n\nThe 37-count indictment accuses him of keeping the files at his Florida estate, including in a ballroom and a shower, and lying to investigators.\n\nIt alleges he then tried to obstruct the investigation into the handling of the documents.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut legal experts say that the criminal charges against Mr Trump could lead to substantial prison time if he is convicted.\n\nCharges have also been filed against Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Mr Trump. The former White House military valet is accused of moving files to hide them from the FBI.\n\nThe 49-page indictment contains the first-ever federal charges against a former US president. It says the classified documents Mr Trump stored in his boxes contained information about:\n\nProsecutors say that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified files to Mar-a-Lago - his oceanfront home in Palm Beach, which is also an expansive private members' club.\n\nThe charge sheet notes that Mar-a-Lago hosted events for tens of thousands of members and guests, including in a ballroom where documents were found.\n\nProsecutors say Mr Trump tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing documents by suggesting that his lawyer \"hide or destroy\" them, or tell investigators he did not have them.\n\n\"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?\" Mr Trump said to one of his attorneys, according to the indictment.\n\nMr Trump's first court appearance in the case will be in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday - the eve of his 77th birthday.\n\nFiles were allegedly stored in a ballroom at Donald Trump's Florida property, Mar-a-Lago\n\nMar-a-Lago \"was not an authorised location\" for classified documents to be kept or discussed, the indictment says.\n\nSome files were allegedly stored on stage in the ballroom, where events and gatherings took place - and later in a bathroom and a shower, an office space, and in Mr Trump's bedroom.\n\nOn two occasions in 2021, the former president allegedly showed classified documents to people without security clearance, including a writer and two members of staff.\n\nAt his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which was also an \"unauthorised location\", he is said to have displayed and described a \"plan of attack\" that he told others had been prepared for him by the Department of Defense.\n\n\"As president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret,\" Mr Trump allegedly said, according to an audio recording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I did nothing wrong. We'll fight this out.'\n\nProsecutors say Mr Trump then showed off classified documents again in August or September 2021 at the Bedminster club.\n\nThe former US president allegedly \"showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map\".\n\nThis map \"related to a military operation\" and Mr Trump told the person \"he should not be showing it\" to them and they \"should not get too close\", the indictment says.\n\nSpecial Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the investigation, said on Friday that laws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced.\n\n\"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,\" he said in a brief statement in Washington.\n\nThe indictment included images of files allegedly stored in a shower\n\n\"He is a Trump hater - a deranged 'psycho' that shouldn't be involved in any case having to do with 'Justice,'\" he wrote on his Truth Social platform.\n\nMr Trump pointed out that classified files were also found in President Joe Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage.\n\nThe White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, contrasting with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators.\n\nA federal investigation into Mr Biden's handling of classified documents is being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur and is still under way.\n\nShortly before the Department of Justice made the criminal charges public, two of Mr Trump's lawyers suddenly quit the case without much explanation, saying this was a \"logical moment\" to resign.\n\nThis is the second criminal case for Mr Trump, who is due to go on trial in New York next year in a state case involving a hush-money payment to a porn star.", "A massive inquiry to understand the UK's response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic, throws its doors open later. Following a statement from chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett, a film featuring bereaved families will be played. Not one of us was left untouched by the effects of the pandemic, and we all have questions. I asked a range of people who were in the eye of the Covid storm what one question each of them most wants answered.\n\nLobby Akinnola had been due to return to his family home in Royal Leamington Spa, Warkwickshire, to celebrate his 29th birthday when lockdown began in March 2020.\n\nInstead, he stayed at home, in London, apart from his parents and four siblings. A month later, his father, Femi, was dead.\n\n\"It changed my life forever,\" Lobby says. \"He was isolating in the living room of our home and that's where he died. He was 60 and fit and healthy. We never expected him to die.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola wants to ensure the death of his father, Femi, and others were not in vain\n\nFemi is one of nearly 250,000 people killed by Covid in the UK - and Lobby, part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, wants to ensure these deaths were \"not in vain\".\n\nFor him, the key question is: How can we better protect people when there is another pandemic?\n\nA crucial part of that will be looking at why people belonging to ethnic minorities were at such greater risk. There is no \"physiological reason\" why they had worse outcomes, Lobby says. Instead, he believes it is linked to society - the jobs and housing conditions people belonging to ethnic minorities experience.\n\nBut the people who died from Covid - and those still struggling with complications known as long Covid - are not the only victims of the virus. As restrictions were imposed on the UK, at the start of the pandemic, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, warned about the indirect costs. They have been huge.\n\nChildren were unable to attend school, businesses were closed, non-Covid treatment delayed and mixing banned, stopping everything from socialising to seeing dying loved ones in their final days.\n\nThe legacy of that remains, in terms of rising rates of mental-health problems, lost learning and the economic hit. It's also there in the continued high rates of non-Covid deaths and ill health as the impact of missed treatment for conditions such as cancer and heart disease materialises.\n\nSo a crucial element of the inquiry must be to look at why the government imposed restrictions - and whether they were always necessary.\n\nOne senior public health official, who played a key role in the pandemic and is due to give evidence, says it is hard to see how the first lockdown could have been avoided once the virus was here. Put simply: \"We did not know what we were dealing with.\" But after the first wave was over and scientists understood more, the government should not have been so quick to reimpose restrictions.\n\nIn one 80-day period during autumn 2020, England went from few restrictions, to the \"rule of six\" limit to gatherings, tiered levels of restrictions by region, a national lockdown and back to tiers.\n\n\"We had so many rules and regulations people could not keep up,\" the official, who asked not to be named because of rules on what they can say in public ahead of the inquiry, says. \"It was very top down and heavy handed. It goes against all the evidence of what works during disasters.\"\n\nSo they want to know: How did the UK get to have such complex and confusing rules?\n\n\"One of the things Sweden did was rely on the strong social consciousness of their population,\" the official says. \"In the UK, we did not place enough trust in the public - it was damaging.\n\n\"We could have given them good information and guidance and let them act. The public showed throughout they were, on the whole, cautious and responsible.\" And closing schools to all but the most vulnerable children and those of key workers was the \"biggest system failure\" of the pandemic.\n\nUK children spent six months remote learning, with hairdressers and pubs opening before schools in the first lockdown - a decision repeated for hairdressers in Scotland after the second UK-wide lockdown, in early 2021.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, is extremely worried about the impact this has had on children - even now, school attendance is below its pre-pandemic level.\n\nSo her big ask is: How are we going to support children to recover and avoid such harm in future pandemics?\n\n\"Where they need additional support, be that because they are worried about their mental health or because they have fallen behind at school, they want it quickly,\" Dame Rachel says.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza says children must be prioritised\n\n\"Children sacrificed so much to keep adults safe, we need to make sure we give something back - prioritising their wellbeing.\"\n\nFor Association of Directors of Public Health president Prof Jim McManus, it comes down one basic question: How do we avoid lockdowns in future pandemics?\n\n\"We will only do that if we are better prepared, act at the earliest stage and have good testing and contact tracing in place,\" he says.\n\n\"The UK and much of Europe and North America was largely underprepared for a pandemic of this magnitude - and that cost us.\"\n\nThe UK decided to stop community testing in late March. And in England, it took until May to launch a national large-scale contact-tracing system and September for the government to start giving sick pay to people being asked to isolate\n\nThe way care homes were supported is another topic that needs addressing.\n\nAbout 40% of Covid deaths in the first few months were in care homes, as the lack of testing and personal protective equipment (PPE), heavy use of agency staff and decision to transfer, en masse, hospital patients to care homes let the virus rip through the sector.\n\nAnd NHS workers want the role of austerity during the 2010s examined.\n\nAdult nurse Stuart Tuckwood had never worked in intensive care but was deployed there to look after the sickest Covid patients during the first and second waves, working through breaks to start with because he was worried about using up the limited PPE.\n\n\"The fact I had to work in intensive care because we didn't have enough trained nurses says it all really,\" he says. \"But it wasn't a surprise - staffing shortages were terrible in the lead up to the pandemic.\"\n\nAnd the NHS - and other public services - cannot wait until the end of the inquiry to rectify the problems.\n\nThe first time nurse Stuart Tuckwood worked in intensive care was during the pandemic\n\n\"We need action now,\" Stuart says, \"staff are having to strike to get the pay they need.\"\n\nSo his key question is: What should be done to tackle staffing shortages, so we don't face the situation again?\n\nThe wait for the inquiry is something others are worried about.\n\nOne epidemiologist who advised government during the pandemic and will also be giving evidence to the public inquiry so does not want to be named fears another pandemic could hit before the necessary changes have been made.\n\nSome say the inquiry could well last five years.\n\nThe inquiry team says recommendations will begin next year, as it is being broken down into six different modules.\n\nHowever, the epidemiologist says: \"The modular approach makes sense - but some elements are going to get dragged out too long. We can't wait - pandemics happen every 10 years.\"\n\nThey are particularly concerned with how decision-making became skewed.\n\n\"There was no cost-benefit done on the use of restrictions which we would with other policy decisions,\" the epidemiologist says.\n\nSo they want to know: How should the system be changed \"so we can work out the trade-offs\" of the decisions we make?\n\n\"The phrase 'follow the science' became really unhelpful,\" the epidemiologist says. \"There was no acknowledgement of the uncertainty.\n\n\"Instead, we got trapped into looking at it through a narrow lens of Covid. Even now, I am worried the inquiry has not quite got the focus right.\n\n\"If it just looks at Covid deaths in 2020 and 2021 and not what has been happening with other deaths since, the inquiry will come to the wrong conclusions. This is about more than just the virus.\"", "At least one police officer was assaulted every day in the first four months of this year in the north west, a senior officer has said.\n\nEight officers were assaulted in four separate incidents in Londonderry on Wednesday evening.\n\nCh Insp Yvonne McManus said so many assaults in one evening was \"exceptional for our district\".\n\nBut she said officers are increasingly being subjected to attacks.\n\n\"In relation to where we are as a district, and I know Derry City and Strabane is no exception, between January and April we have had 34.5 assaults per month - that is more than one officer assaulted per day,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle's The North West Today programme.\n\n\"Increasingly our officers are subject to attacks and we are here to help deal with extremely complex issues - issues around vulnerability - and regrettably we are forced to try and resolve these and at time officers are exposed to serious risk themselves\".\n\nCh Insp McManus said the eight officers injured on Wednesday had all been able to remain on duty.\n\nThree people have been charged to court and another reported to the Public Prosecution Service in relation to the incidents on Wednesday, she added.\n\nCh Insp McManus urged the public not to take officers for granted.\n\n\"At times they are dealing with very dangerous circumstances and they put themselves in harm's way to protect others and keep the community safe,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this year the PSNI said assaults resulting in injuries to officers are at a five-year high.\n\nAt that time the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents officers, said greater deterrents - including tougher sentencing by the court and the use of Tasers - are needed to prevent assaults on officers.", "In his seven months as prime minister, the most notable characteristic Rishi Sunak has brought to government is - relatively speaking at least - stability.\n\nBut 2022 - or much of it - was defined, politically, by a soap opera of Conservative squabbling.\n\nIt didn't disappear with the arrival of Mr Sunak in Number 10, but it quietened down substantially.\n\nDowning Street was an observer of events on Friday - it only found out about Boris Johnson's resignation as an MP when the rest of us did.\n\nA former prime minister, in Boris Johnson, with a life-long knack for throwing stones and grabbing attention, doing just that.\n\nA current prime minister, in Rishi Sunak, languishing in the opinion polls and now confronting two appointments with a disgruntled electorate, courtesy of two people meant to be on his own side.\n\nAnd so, yet again, the party of government winding and wounding itself in public.\n\nI am going to sound very 2022 now by inviting you into my notebook and my WhatsApps, so you can hear, as I have been doing, a sense of what Conservative MPs are saying.\n\nBoris Johnson provokes adulation and irritation. Or to put it more bluntly, love and hate.\n\nSome within the party tell me he is the best Tory prime minister they have had since Margaret Thatcher.\n\nOthers, as a man who should never have been allowed within a mile of Downing Street.\n\nAnd parallels are being drawn with former US president Donald Trump.\n\nTwo huge characters, with vast charisma and even greater capacity for controversy. Shaking up their parties, never far from the headlines, always leaving people guessing about what they will do next.\n\n\"He is a medieval king, rewarding his gang,\" is how one senior Conservative described Mr Johnson's resignation honours list to me.\n\n\"He has taken unedifying to a whole new level,\" said another figure who has known him closely for years.\n\nAnd yet others are crestfallen, even heartbroken, at his departure - convinced that without him they would have never become MPs in the first place.\n\nThe soap opera of squabbling starts again.\n\nAs you may have guessed, Boris Johnson is not likely to vanish into obscurity.\n\nSome in the party think he is finished. Others, far from it.\n\nAs one former cabinet minister told me: \"The party still doesn't feel Sunak is a winner, even those who dislike Boris. It isn't over…\"\n\nAnd so the plates are spinning again.\n\nBoris Johnson finds himself just where he likes to be: the centre of attention, onlookers asking what on earth will he do next?\n\nIt is the last thing the prime minister needs.", "Search and rescue teams have been assisting in the hunt for 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell\n\nThe brother of a missing 21-year-old woman has appealed for information about her disappearance.\n\nChloe Mitchell, who is described as a \"high-risk missing person\", was last seen in Ballymena last Friday night into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPhillip Mitchell said he was \"broken\" by his sister's disappearance and appealed for privacy for his family.\n\nPolice have said they are continuing their searches but are \"increasingly concerned\" for her safety.\n\nA 26-year-old man who was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh is still being questioned.\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother Phillip said he is \"broken\" after her disappearance\n\nThe Community Rescue Service has conducted searches along the Braid River in the County Antrim town.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Ms Mitchell was seen on CCTV walking in the direction of James Street at the weekend.\n\nPSNI Supt Gillian Kearney says Chloe's family are very worried\n\n\"It's out of character for her not to have contacted her family or friends,\" PSNI Supt Gillian Kearney said on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"Her family are being supported by specialists but it's a very worrying time.\n\n\"I hope she is safe and well and that's why we are appealing for information and for the public to look at her photo and contact us if they have seen her.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up near homes on James Street\n\n\"Chloe was wearing a green and black The North Face-style jacket, a white t-shirt, leggings and Nike trainers,\" said Ch Insp Arnie O'Neill.\n\nThe Harryville Partnership Initiative, a community group for the area, said Ms Mitchell's family \"want left in peace\".\n\n\"It's a very hard time at present,\" the group said.\n\nAs well as searches along the river, there are also other areas involved in this investigation, including a house on James Street.\n\nThe house is cordoned off and forensic enquires were taking place inside it earlier today.\n\nAs we head towards a full week from when Chloe Mitchell was last seen heading towards James Street, the thoughts of this community are with her family.\n\nCommunity Rescue Service searching through dense shrubbery near James Street in Ballymena\n\nOn Thursday night, Community Rescue Service teams gathered along the banks of the Braid River while others searched in the river itself.\n\nSpokesperson Darren Harper said it was a \"pretty significant operation\".\n\nDarren Harper said the search area is significant in size and the terrain is difficult\n\nMr Harper said the river was not the only area being searched by at least 25 people.\n\n\"We do have the water technical team in the water and [on] the river banks and we also have ground teams searching other areas,\" he added.\n\nHe said difficult terrain, with dense shrubbery, brambles and steep river banks made the search difficult.\n\nThe hot weather also added to the challenge faced by personnel wearing waterproof gear, flotation devices and dry suits, he said.\n\nSearches are being carried out along the river Braid and near James Street in Ballymena\n\nAsked if the Community Rescue Service had found anything significant, Mr Harper said: \"We wouldn't be doing our job right if we didn't have some sort of finds. That's then passed on to the police to find out if it's relevant or not.\"\n\nOne of the search sites on Friday evening was close to the ECOS centre near Ballymena\n\nAnother voluntary search and rescue group, K9 Search and Rescue, said in a social media post that its team had assisted in the search for Ms Mitchell in the Harryville area of Ballymena.\n\nThe PSNI appealed for anyone with information to contact them by phoning 101.", "An image provided by one of the migrants shows people on the deck of their fishing boat\n\nDozens of migrants have been stranded for months on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean after being rescued from their struggling fishing boat.\n\nThey are desperate to leave for a safe place, describing conditions as hellish, but the unusual legal status of the island has left them feeling frightened and helpless.\n\nAll names of the migrants have been changed\n\nEarly one morning in October 2021, a fishing boat was spotted struggling near the island of Diego Garcia.\n\nThe vessel immediately attracted the attention of the island's authorities - the territory hosts a secretive UK-US military base, hundreds of miles away from any other population, and unauthorised visitors are forbidden.\n\nIt soon became clear that the 89 people on board - Sri Lankan Tamils who said they were fleeing persecution - weren't actually intending to land on the island.\n\nThey had planned to seek asylum in Canada, a claim backed up by maps, diary entries and GPS data on board, before rough weather and engine problems pulled them off course.\n\nAs the boat ran into trouble, one man on board said they started looking for the nearest place of safety. \"We saw a bit of light and started sailing towards Diego Garcia,\" he told the BBC.\n\nA Royal Navy ship escorted the boat to land, and the group were put into temporary accommodation.\n\nThat was 20 months ago. And communication between officials on the island and London gives clues as to why the migrants - some of whom have since attempted suicide due to their dire situation - are still there.\n\nCommunications in the immediate aftermath of their arrival were obtained through a Freedom of Information request to the Foreign Office by a lawyer representing some of the migrants, and shared with the BBC. They show officials wrestling with what to do about the \"unprecedented development\".\n\nEarly messages spoke of plans to \"investigate repair options to the engine\", but said \"we can't rule out\" that the group will try to launch asylum claims from Diego Garcia.\n\nBy the next day, that scenario had become a reality.\n\nThe Tamils had presented a letter to the commander of the British forces on the island saying they were fleeing persecution, having set sail from Tamil Nadu in India 18 days earlier, and \"expressing a wish to be sent to a safe country\".\n\nMany have since claimed to have links with the former Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, who were defeated in the civil war that ended in 2009, and say they have faced persecution as a result. Some allege they were victims of torture or sexual assault.\n\nAn official \"information note\", approved in London by the director of overseas territories, Paul Candler, said the \"unexpected arrival\" of the group had marked the first time asylum had been sought on British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) - the islands' official name.\n\nIt added that, if approached by the media, the official \"defensive line\" would be that the UK government was \"aware of the incident\" and was \"working urgently to resolve the situation\".\n\nThe group \"currently have no means of communication with the outside world… [but] with time passing there is a high likelihood news will spread,\" it added.\n\nIn the coming months, as messages were going back and forth to London, more boats arrived on Diego Garcia. At one point numbers in the camp swelled to at least 150, lawyers estimate, as others arrived on the island from Sri Lanka.\n\nPacked on their boat, the Marayan, the Tamils intended to voyage to Canada and claim asylum there\n\nMeanwhile, the reality of their current situation was beginning to dawn on the asylum seekers.\n\n\"I was initially happy, thinking: 'I survived, I am getting food, and I am away from torture,'\" Lakshani, one of the migrants, told the BBC last month.\n\nBut she said the tropical island refuge soon \"turned out to be a hell\".\n\nShe says she was sexually assaulted in October last year by a man who travelled in the same boat and was housed in the same tent as her.\n\n\"I started to scream, but no-one came to help,\" she said.\n\nWhen she felt able to make an official complaint, she says she was told it was difficult to gather evidence as she had washed her clothes.\n\nShe says she had to continue staying in the same tent as her alleged attacker for almost a week until authorities finally responded to her demand to have him moved.\n\nThe UK government and BIOT administration did not respond to requests for comment about this allegation.\n\nLakshani and others told the BBC they or people they knew had attempted suicide or had self-harmed in their distress at the suffocating conditions, including by swallowing sharp objects.\n\nLawyers say they are aware of at least 12 suicide attempts and allegations of at least two sexual assaults within the camp.\n\n\"We are mentally and physically exhausted… We are living a lifeless life. I feel like I am living like a dead man,\" said Vithusan, another migrant. He told the BBC he had self-harmed twice.\n\nAnother man, Aadhavan, said that after having his initial claim for protection rejected, he \"lost all hope\" and decided to take his own life.\n\n\"I didn't want to live here like a caged animal forever,\" he said.\n\nHe told another migrant in the camp of his suicide attempt and she alerted the camp authorities, who arranged medical treatment.\n\nAnother woman, Shanthi, said her husband had also attempted suicide.\n\nLakshani said her own attempt to take her life had been provoked by an officer at the camp telling her she would be sent back to Sri Lanka, where she alleges she was raped and tortured by soldiers in 2021.\n\nThe UK government and G4S - the private security company brought in to guard the migrant camp - did not respond to requests for comment on this specific claim.\n\nG4S said its officers treated migrants on the island with \"dignity and respect at all times\", while a UK government spokesperson said the \"welfare and safety\" of migrants on BIOT was \"paramount\" and that \"all allegations of mistreatment are taken seriously and fully investigated\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the BIOT administration was providing \"extensive medical support\".\n\nThere have also been hunger strikes on the island, which lawyers say have involved children.\n\nAnother image sent by a migrant shows the tents, which are each shared by about a dozen people and watched over by security guards\n\nIn response to one earlier this year, lawyers say the BIOT commissioner confiscated migrants' phones, stopped access to the communal telephone and withdrew medical treatment \"unless the individuals were willing to sign a form disclaiming certain liabilities of the BIOT administration\".\n\nThe BIOT administration has dismissed this allegation in court documents, saying that in response to one hunger strike, sharp objects were removed from the camp and other measures taken to prevent self-harm.\n\nAll can agree that the Diego Garcia military base was not a place intended to house asylum seekers.\n\nBritain took control of the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is part, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for the base.\n\nMauritius, which won independence from the UK in 1968, maintains the islands are its own and the United Nations' highest court has ruled that the UK's administration of the territory is \"unlawful\" and must end.\n\nThe UK resisted international pressure to begin talks about the islands - until late last year, when it agreed to open negotiations.\n\nIn recent decades, US planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq - and it has also reportedly been used as a so-called CIA \"black site\" - a facility used to house and interrogate terror suspects.\n\nCourt documents filed in London say tents previously set up as Covid isolation facilities for military personnel are being used as a makeshift migrant camp. Fences surround the camp, and inside there are basic medical facilities and a canteen. G4S guards must accompany the migrants if they leave the area.\n\n\"We are the parrots, we are in a cage,\" said Shanthi, of the lack of freedom.\n\nLawyers representing the migrants say basic education became available about a year ago, but that classes have at times had to be held outside because of a rat infestation.\n\nSome migrants have since returned home, having either given up their claim or had it rejected. Others set sail for the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, a French territory, hoping to claim asylum there, the lawyers say.\n\nCurrently, at least 60 Tamils remain on the island. They are awaiting decisions about their fate or challenging earlier rulings in convoluted legal processes playing out thousands of miles away in the UK.\n\nWhile the UK is signed up to international laws about the treatment of refugees, court papers say this doesn't apply to BIOT, an area described as being \"constitutionally distinct and separate from the UK\".\n\nA separate process, based on the idea that no-one should be returned to a country where they face torture or inhumane treatment, has been established to determine if they should be sent back to Sri Lanka or to a \"safe third country\".\n\nLawyer Tessa Gregory says the London firm she works for, Leigh Day, has launched a judicial review on behalf of a number of asylum seekers on Diego Garcia, challenging the \"lawfulness\" of this process - which she describes as \"fundamentally unfair\".\n\nShe says decisions to return some migrants to Sri Lanka were made based on rushed initial interviews, while later, fuller interviews were marred by translation errors. Others have been left \"in limbo\" as the UK government has not yet identified a suitable safe third country, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government said the BIOT administration was \"considering migrants' protection claims under BIOT law and in line with international legal obligations\".\n\nThe UK office of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) told the BBC it was concerned by reports of the \"deteriorating health situation\" on Diego Garcia and had requested access from UK authorities, but this had not yet been granted.\n\nEmilie McDonnell, UK advocacy and communications co-ordinator at Human Rights Watch, said the British government \"should consider any and all options to ensure the welfare of these asylum seekers who are on British-controlled territory and therefore should be protected by the British government\".\n\nThe UK has said it will not take in any of the Diego Garcia asylum seekers whose claims are approved, according to lawyers.\n\nThree of the Tamils who arrived on Diego Garcia are currently in Rwanda receiving medical treatment after being evacuated from the island following self-harm and suicide attempts. Their transfer is not part of the deal struck by the British and Rwandan governments to send some asylum seekers from the UK to the east African country.\n\nAt one point, five of the migrants were sent to Rwanda for medical treatment - two were later returned to Diego Garcia\n\nIn a letter sent to one of them in May, and seen by the BBC, the BIOT administration said it would find and pay for private accommodation while they received treatment in Rwanda - including therapy.\n\n\"If you are not content with the proposal… we can arrange for your return to Diego Garcia. There is no other option available at this time,\" it said.\n\nFour of the asylum seekers have had their claims to be sent to a \"safe third country\" approved. A letter sent two months ago to one of them, seen by the BBC, said \"every effort will be made to do this expeditiously\".\n\nIn a separate statement to the BBC this week, the UK government said it was \"working tirelessly with the BIOT administration to find a long-term solution to [the migrants'] current situation.\"\n\nBut the situation for everyone could continue to drag on with no clear timeframe for finding a safe third country, and long legal processes for those disputing rejections.\n\nAfter 20 months of waiting, one asylum seeker said everyone seemed to have \"lost their hope\".", "Ukraine has been planning its counter-offensive for months - and it now may finally be under way\n\nWas this the week that Ukraine's long-anticipated counter-offensive finally got under way?\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin seems to think so. \"We can definitely state that this Ukrainian offensive has begun,\" he said in a video interview published on Telegram on Friday.\n\nIn some ways, it's already been under way for weeks, with Ukraine conducting what's known in military jargon as \"shaping operations\": long range artillery and missile attacks on key Russian logistical targets far behind the front lines.\n\nMonday seemed to herald a change, with small detachments of lightly armoured Ukrainian units moving forward across the open fields towards Russian fortifications in southern Ukraine, south-east of Zaporizhzhia.\n\n\"Now the so-called 'fighting reconnaissance stage' is taking place along the entire length of the front,\" Serhii Kuzan, co-founder and chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, told the BBC.\n\n\"That means there's a probing of Russian defences.\"\n\nSome videos and accounts suggested that they quickly ran into trouble.\n\n\"Somewhere this happens more successfully with small losses,\" Mr Kuzan said. \"And somewhere less successfully, where the Russians fight back.\"\n\nMr Kuzan declined to name specific towns, saying only that they were all in the area south of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nBy Tuesday, the world's attention was captured by the destruction of the dam at Nova Kakhovka and the subsequent flooding that soon covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.\n\nFor all the Kremlin's denials, it didn't look like a coincidence. The dam, and the road across it, offered a possible line of attack for Ukrainian forces looking for ways to keep Russian forces off-balance.\n\nIt seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up, taking one of Kyiv's military operations off the table.\n\nKyiv had already signalled its interest in this stretch of the front line more than once.\n\nIn late April, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the river and briefly established a bridgehead at Oleshky. Ukraine also took control of several small islands in the Dnipro delta, close to Kherson.\n\nThe extent of Kyiv's military plans for this area is not known, and is now academic. The catastrophic flooding will have made river crossings impossible for the time being.\n\n\"But the fact that such a direction was an option was seen by the Russians,\" Mr Kuzan said.\n\nThe burst dam has caused catastrophic flooding across southern Ukraine\n\nWhile the authorities in Kyiv suddenly grappled with the flooding, the fighting continued - and seemed to escalate - further east.\n\nBy early Thursday morning, the UK's Ministry of Defence tweeted that \"heavy fighting continues along multiple sectors of the front,\" adding that in most areas \"Ukraine holds the initiative.\"\n\nIn a video the same day, Russia's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that Russian forces had repelled an overnight Ukrainian attack in the area south of Zaporizhzhia, involving 150 armoured vehicles and 1,500 troops.\n\nAccording to the Russian Defence Ministry, Ukraine's 47th Mechanised Brigade \"made an attempt to break through Russian lines.\"\n\nA video circulated on the internet, purporting to show something new: a western-supplied Leopard tank being destroyed. The BBC has not yet verified the video.\n\nUkrainian officials, characteristically tight lipped about current operations, offered tantalising glimpses into what was going on.\n\nHanna Malyar, the Deputy Defence Minister, coyly said that Russian troops were \"actively on the defensive\" in the area around the town of Orikhiv, around 65km south-east of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nIn a statement on Telegram, she also confirmed that battles were continuing around Velyka Novosilka, further east.\n\nThe two towns likely form the western and eastern edges of a heavily fortified stretch of the front line where many analysts believe Ukraine will eventually try and punch through Russian lines.\n\n\"It's not a secret that one of our main goals is to cut the land corridor that feeds the whole southern grouping of enemy forces,\" Mr Kuzan said.\n\nUkrainian forces want to cut the Russian-held land corridor to Crimea\n\nPro-Russian Telegram channels in the Donbas were full of excited chatter about Ukraine's latest moves, much of it laced with scorn.\n\n\"They are going where the Russians are waiting for them,\" one member posted in the I Love Kramatorsk group. \"What stupidity!\"\n\nOthers acknowledged that Ukrainian forces had moved forward, but questioned the price in lost men and armour.\n\n\"I really question the price of this success,\" another member of the same group commented.\n\n\"Do they have enough forces to reach Tokmak [44km south of Orikhiv], let alone Berdyansk and Melitopol?\"\n\nBut it's not the only area where fighting is raging.\n\nFootage from north and south of the city of Bakhmut, scene of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, appeared to show Ukrainian forces moving forward.\n\nMs Malyar said they had advanced \"from 200 to 1,100 metres in various sections,\" in what may eventually be an effort to encircle the city and trap its Russian occupiers.\n\nIt is, as the UK's Ministry of Defence noted, \"a highly complex operational picture\".\n\nBut does it mean that Ukraine's counter-offensive is already entering a dramatic new phase?\n\nOn Wednesday, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, scoffed at the idea.\n\n\"All of this is not true,\" he told Reuters.\n\n\"When we start the counter-offensive, everyone will know about it. They will see it.\"\n\nThe air war - including the use of drones - will be vital for Ukraine's counteroffensive\n\nBut something has definitely changed.\n\n\"The point is that the front is finally moving,\" Serhii Kuzan said, adding that several options were still open to Ukrainian commanders.\n\nBut Ukraine is also operating under a number of significant restraints, the main one being the lack of fighter jets capable of providing support from the air.\n\n\"That's why we move slowly,\" Mr Kuzan said, \"and then move air defence [systems] closer.\"\n\nAnother factor is time. This offensive will probably last no more than five months, after which autumn rain will once again render open ground impassable for heavy armoured vehicles.\n\nWhat will success look like?\n\nIf Ukrainian forces can punch through Russian lines, all the way to the Sea of Azov, then any Russian troops west of that breach will suddenly be much more vulnerable, dependent entirely on supply lines through the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nAll that would then remain, Mr Kuzan says, would be to destroy the Kerch Bridge linking Russia with Crimea (briefly disabled by a huge truck bomb last October) and attack ships and planes being used to ferry supplies to the peninsula.\n\n\"That would be the end,\" he says. \"But don't expect this to happen soon. It'll take months.\"", "Former prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP and announced he is stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nIn a lengthy statement the ex-PM accused a Commons investigation of attempting to \"drive me out\".\n\nMr Johnson first became and MP in 2001, representing the constituency of Henley in Oxfordshire, since then he went on to become the Mayor of London, MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and then the prime minister.\n\nHere's a look back at his political career.", "The four children are at the central military hospital in the capital Bogota\n\nFour children who survived weeks alone in Colombia's Amazon jungle have been reunited with relatives as they recover in hospital.\n\nThe siblings, aged 13, nine, five and one, are \"very weak\" but \"happy to see their family\", said their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia.\n\nThey are speaking a little and two of them have begun playing, officials say.\n\nThe four children were found on Friday after more than a month of searching by the military and local people.\n\nThey went missing after the plane they were in crashed on 1 May. Their mother and two pilots were killed in the crash.\n\nRescuers tracked them down after spotting signs in the jungle, including footprints and fruit that had been bitten into.\n\nTwo of the children, the one-year-old baby and five-year-old, spent their birthdays in the jungle, as the eldest Lesly, 13, guided them through the ordeal.\n\nThey survived by eating flour that they found in the plane's wreckage and then seeds, Mr Valencia said.\n\nColombia's Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez, who visited them in the hospital with President Gustavo Petro on Saturday, praised Lesly for taking care of her younger siblings.\n\n\"It is thanks to her, her value and her leadership, that the three others were able to survive, with her care, her knowledge of the jungle,\" Mr Velasquez said.\n\n\"In general the children, the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state, according to the medical reports they are out of danger.\"\n\nMilitary doctor Carlos Rincon said they have \"nutritional deficiencies\" but had survived with only \"some soft tissue injuries, bites, and skin lesions\".\n\nThey are not yet able to eat, he said, adding: \"We will begin the process of incorporating food when we complete the process of clinical examinations that will be done today. If things go well, we believe they will stay in the hospital for two to three weeks.\"\n\nAstrid Caceres, the general director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the children \"don't talk as much as we would like them to\" and need time to recover.\n\nBut she said two of the children had been playing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. General Pedro Sanchez, who led the search operation, credited Indigenous people who volunteered to help the rescue effort.\n\n\"We found the children: miracle, miracle, miracle!\" he told reporters.\n\nSome rescuers are continuing to search the jungle for a rescue dog, a Belgian Shepherd, that went missing during the hunt for the children.\n\nThe children's grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said after their rescue: \"I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free.\"\n\nShe said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.\n\n\"She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume,\" Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.\n\nThe Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on before the crash was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.\n\nThe bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help.\n\nIn May, rescuers recovered items left behind by the children, including a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and a makeshift shelter.\n\nSmall footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators.\n\nMembers of the children's community hoped that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills would give them a better chance of remaining alive.\n\nIndigenous people joined the search and helicopters broadcast a message from the children's grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate.", "Sun bathes the summit of Yr Wyddfa, but this environment is not as unpolluted as it should be\n\nThe peak of Yr Wyddfa rises 1,085m (3,560ft) above the Welsh landscape.\n\nIt is the highest point in Britain until Scotland's peaks overtake it, with the high point of Ben Nevis 260 miles (418km) away as the crow flies.\n\nThe remoteness of Yr Wyddfa, or Snowdon as it is also known, surely makes it one of the most pristine environments in the land.\n\nBut research shows it is as much under siege as many more populous places from a growing threat to the natural world - plastic.\n\nA survey carried out for Eryri - also called Snowdonia - National Park found microplastics in the soil samples all the way along the Llanberis path to the summit.\n\nSignificant amounts were also found at the peak itself, to say nothing of the volume of visible litter left behind on the slopes.\n\nThe mountain and its protectors are trying to fight back. The park launched the Plastic Free Yr Wyddfa project in April with the aim of making the mountain the world's first to become plastic-free.\n\nFor Alec Young, the Plastic Free Yr Wyddfa officer, this work is personal. Born and bred within the park, he returned after some years away with a background in sustainability, looking to have \"a more local impact on the place that I love\" and \"change it for the better\".\n\nProject officer Alec Young is a native of the area and keen to help restore its environment\n\nThere is no suggestion of environmental police guarding the entrances to Eryri, removing single-use plastic from unwary visitors.\n\nInstead, Alec and the project's partners want to encourage behaviour change in visitors, locals and business owners, some of whom are already on board.\n\nThe aim is to significantly reduce all litter on the mountain, with a focus on single-use plastics.\n\nPreviously headteachers in south east England, they \"wanted to stop being tourists who came to the area\" and contribute to the local economy and environment.\n\nFiona and Rob Nicholson at Plas Coch Guesthouse, which they are making single-plastic use free\n\nWith 95% of their guests coming specifically to climb Yr Wyddfa, the couple have paid close attention to how they can help walkers to eat and drink without having an environmental impact.\n\nFiona said: \"We launched our packed lunch initiative, and called it fuel your mountain day, because we thought it's not just a lunch. It's got to get you up the mountain and back down safely as well.\n\n\"We ask guests what sandwich they would like and we make that, and then we have a brown paper bag to put that in, and then we lay out those other things they can take with them.\n\n\"We've got metal water bottles that they can take. We've got flasks and ask them what hot drink they'd like in there.\n\n\"We have fresh fruit and we do send them up the mountain with a green composting bag and ask them to bring back everything that they take with them.\"\n\nThere is also a recycling station at the guest house where guests can deposit their used paper bags and any food waste - or soft plastics if they have some of their own - for composting or recycling. They also have a water refill station for passing tourists.\n\nRob Nicholson (r) helps out on volunteer litter picks of Yr Wyddfa\n\nThey have stopped offering anything that comes in single-use plastic, such as packs of biscuits or UHT milk pots, and replaced them with fresh home-baked flapjacks, Welsh cakes and jugs of fresh milk which guests can help themselves to.\n\nThe couple said making such changes had saved them about £1,000 a year on waste charges, as they no longer need to pay for commercial refuse collection.\n\n\"Every time we've done something to remove single-use plastics, it feels like we've improved the quality of what we do,\" said Rob.\n\nJohn Harold, director of Cymdeithas Eryri, the Snowdonia Society, said the organisation had been at the \"sharp end\" of clearing litter from the mountain and the wider national park for over 50 years.\n\n\"Over time it's become increasingly dominated by single use plastics,\" he said.\n\nSnowdonia Society director John Harold says prevention is going to be key in reducing plastic waste on Yr Wyddfa\n\nJohn cited a litter collection carried out on just one section of path which yielded several hundred disposable drinks bottles.\n\n\"When you multiply that across the area and across the year, these are phenomenal numbers,\" he said.\n\nCymdeithas Eryri removes around a tonne of litter from Yr Wyddfa and the main tourist hotspots in Eryri every year. As most of it is light plastic waste, it amounts to a huge volume.\n\nHe said the project was about \"respect\", \"pride\" and \"inspiring people\".\n\nHe added: \"This isn't a place where you can police your way to an answer.\"\n\nTrains will run all the way to the top of Yr Wyddfa in June for the first time since 2019\n\nSnowdon Mountain Railway operates the visitor train and Hafod Eryri, the café at the top, as well as a number of outlets at the mountain's base.\n\nIt is preparing to resume journeys all the way up Yr Wyddfa and to reopen the café in June after nearly four years of pandemic-induced closure.\n\nThe railway's commercial manager, Vince Hughes, said his first meeting with Alec had opened his eyes to areas of potential change.\n\n\"I think a lot of people might think it means plastic bottles, drink bottles etc, but as he explained, if you look at our other retail areas, the amount of single-use plastic was going unnoticed,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nOne \"easy fix\" was magnets arriving individually wrapped in plastic which was immediately discarded when they went on display.\n\n\"Why are they putting them into these packets that we don't want and nobody's using?\" he asked.\n\nSupplying a café at the top of a mountain without its own water supply is no mean feat if you hope to avoid plastic use completely.\n\nThe café needs 10,000 litres of water transported up by train every day to cover its own uses and toilet requirements, and cannot suddenly switch to refilling bottles for people.\n\nRevamping supplies in the café will also be a challenging task. Switching to cans has not previously been a success because they are not resealable.\n\nBut solutions are being explored. A water borehole company is to make preliminary investigations on whether it could extract drinking water from the mountain itself, which could be a gamechanger for the café.\n\nAlec said it was important not to \"demonise\" plastic which, when used appropriately, can be fantastically useful.\n\nThe trick instead will be to encourage visitors to reduce usage and remove the single-use plastic they bring with them.\n\n\"A lot of it is around, how do you convince people to prepare better, think differently, 'refill before the hill', reuse and recycle,\" Alec said.\n\nCatherine and Lee Munton agree with the \"positive message\" of the campaign\n\nSo what do visitors to Yr Wyddfa make of the initiative?\n\n\"We're all about sustainability - I think that's a really positive message,\" said Catherine Munton, from Newcastle upon Tyne.\n\nShe and husband Lee were not surprised to hear the amount of rubbish collected. \"It's awful that people don't take it home,\" added Catherine.\n\nMichelle Marshall and Sharon Langton think people should take their rubbish home with them\n\nMichelle Marshall and Sharon Langton, from Middleton, near Manchester, said more bins could help.\n\n\"Why don't people just put [rubbish] in their bag. Everybody has got a back-pack - just take it home,\" added Sharon.\n\nDerek Littlejohn was disappointed with the amount of rubbish he saw\n\nDerek Littlejohn, from Aberdeenshire was disappointed by the amount of plastic rubbish he had seen.\n\n\"Having just walked up there and seen how much plastic is on the actual mountain itself, it's a shame to see it in that sort of state,\" he said.He supported going plastic-free.\n\n\"Anything that stops that from happening would be a fantastic thing to do.\"\n\nAndrew Franco doesn't think people need to use plastic when hiking\n\n\"I feel that as a hiker you probably have a job to appreciate all the nature that you are hiking in,\" said Andrew Franco, from California.\"Reusable water bottles, thermoses - great ideas. You don't need plastic bottles.\"If you've got snacks, wrap them up in kitchen paper or parchment paper - it's easy. You don't need plastic for whatever you are taking with you.\"", "Holland said working on his latest TV series The Crowded Room left him feeling broken\n\nTom Holland has said he will take a year-long break from acting in order to look after his mental health.\n\nThe English Spider-Man star admitted he had a \"tough time\" while working on his latest project, The Crowded Room, and had been left feeling broken by it.\n\nHolland, 27, both stars in and produced the Apple TV+ thriller series.\n\nIt sees him play a character loosely based on \"the campus rapist\" Billy Milligan, a US man who claimed to have 24 alternate personalities.\n\nMilligan was the first person to be found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity - on the basis of dissociative identity disorder - and instead of going to prison he spent a decade in psychiatric hospitals.\n\nHolland, pictured on set during the filming of his new series, The Crowded Room, in New York last year\n\nIn an interview with Extra TV on Wednesday, Holland said the role found him \"exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before\", while the off-camera responsibilities had added an \"extra level of pressure\".\n\n\"I'm no stranger to hard work,\" he said. \"I've lived by the idea that hard work is good work. Then again, the show did break me.\n\n\"There did come a time where I needed a break and disappeared and went to Mexico for a week and had time on a beach and laid low.\n\n\"I'm now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was. I am excited to see how it turns out. I feel like our hard work wasn't in vain.\"\n\n\"It was a tough time, for sure,\" he added.\n\nIn a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly last month, the Bafta-winner revealed he'd had a \"a bit of a meltdown\" after being unable to switch the character off, and wanted to shake his head just to be rid of him.\n\n\"I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life,\" he said \"I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, 'I'm going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.'\n\n\"And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to… It was unlike anything I've ever experienced before.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the London-born actor has addressed such concerns. As last year, he announced he was stepping back from social media, saying he finds it can be \"detrimental\" to his mental health.\n\nThe year before Holland said he was considering giving up acting, which he began aged 11, altogether in order to be able to \"go and do other things\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nIga Swiatek maintained her recent grip on the French Open by fighting past Karolina Muchova to win her third Roland Garros title in four years.\n\nThe top seed was the heavy favourite to beat 43rd-ranked Muchova, but had to dig deep to win 6-2 5-7 6-4.\n\nCzech player Muchova, 26, broke for 4-3 in the decider, but Poland's Swiatek, 22, finished strongly to triumph.\n\nSwiatek, who has now won four Grand Slams, is the first woman to defend the title since Justine Henin in 2007.\n\n\"It wasn't an easy match. It was a pretty intense last few weeks,\" said world number one Swiatek, who dropped the lid off the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen seconds after collecting the trophy.\n\n\"I am just really happy. I never really focus on the records. I just do my best every day.\"\n\nMuchova - told to quit last year by doctors because of injuries - showed remarkable resolve to fight back from a set and 3-0 down, not only making a contest of what had been a one-sided match but moving to within two service holds of a first major title.\n\nHowever, after immediately being unable to back up the break as Swiatek levelled for 4-4, Muchova ended up losing in one of the cruellest possible ways by producing a double fault on her opponent's first match point.\n\nSwiatek instantly dropped her racquet and dropped to her haunches, bursting into tears on the court before hugging Muchova when she came around the net.\n\nAs Swiatek ran up to the stands to celebrate with her team - like she did after winning 12 months ago - Muchova sat in her chair contemplating what might have been.\n\nMuchova received a rapturous standing ovation when she went to collect her runners-up prize, which led to her being overcome with emotion.\n\n\"It was so close yet so far. That's what happens when you play one of the best in Iga,\" she said.\n\nSwiatek, who has won a seventh title in 16 clay-court tournaments, had not dropped a set at Roland Garros this year - nor in any of her three previous major finals - until Muchova took the match into a decider.\n\nShe looked uncharacteristically flustered as Muchova threatened an upset, only to regain her composure when it mattered.\n\nWhen former world number one Ashleigh Barty announced her surprise retirement in March 2022, it opened up the top of the women's game and left a void, with nobody entirely sure who would fill it.\n\nEnter Swiatek. Having already won the French Open as a virtually unknown teenager in 2020, she clearly had the potential to take over from Barty but perhaps not the confidence.\n\nHowever, that all changed in a stunning clay-court season last year which formed the bulk of a 37-match winning streak and led to the Pole becoming the dominant force in the women's game.\n\nThis year, she has come under pressure from Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka and Kazakstan's Elena Rybakina - as the trio formed a new 'big three' - leading to doubts over whether Swiatek could dominate Roland Garros again in the same manner.\n\nA thigh injury in the build-up at Rome also led to further questions, but Swiatek quickly dispelled any notion she was no longer the favourite by storming through the draw on the Paris clay.\n\nRybakina's withdrawal early in the tournament through illness ended the prospect of her facing Swiatek in the last four, while Muchova's shock semi-final win over Sabalenka ensured a final few people had predicted.\n\nInstead Swiatek faced the clever Czech, who reached the 2021 Australian Open semi-finals before an array of physical problems derailed her career.\n\nSwiatek started sharply by winning 12 of the first 15 points in the match, holding serve in a 10-minute game to lead 4-1 and facing no more problems as she broke again to clinch the opening set.\n\nAn identical start to the second set - Swiatek again breaking on the way to a 3-0 lead - left those watching wondering if Muchova was also going to be heavily beaten like the Pole's previous final opponents Sofia Kenin and Coco Gauff were.\n\nBut this time Muchova recovered to turn the match into a compelling contest.\n\nSuddenly Swiatek had problems to solve and, with thoughts of a straightforward victory long gone, became animated as she tried to figure out what was going wrong.\n\nThe fact she did was another sure sign of her quality. Regaining her composure, which in turn increased the pressure on Muchova, enabled Swiatek to join Monica Seles and Naomi Osaka as the only women to win their first four major finals in the Open era.\n\n\"I think Swiatek will win double-digit Slams. Will she get to what Serena Williams achieved [23]? I don't think so but this is what the women's game needs,\" said former British number one Greg Rusedski, who was analysing the final for BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"There's so many great players around her. She is a dominant force but they are all getting better. They are forced to because of how good Swiatek is.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None A true crime drama weaving together the 1973 investigation with the cold case review\n• None A chaotic comedy you can't risk to miss:", "Boris Johnson claimed his \"removal\" was the \"necessary first step\" by some who oppose him, \"to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result\"\n\nThings have gone \"tragically wrong\" for Boris Johnson, according to the leader of the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nBut Andrew RT Davies said he did \"regret that the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left the stage\".\n\nMr Johnson stood down as an MP on Friday after receiving a report on whether he misled parliament over parties held at Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThe former prime minister accused the inquiry of trying to \"drive me out\".\n\nLabour MP for Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi, said she was \"glad\" Mr Johnson had stepped down and described him as a \"waste of space\".\n\nShe added: \"It's been a long time coming. Let's move on and build a better politics.\"\n\nBut Welsh Secretary David TC Davies said he was \"sorry\" to see Mr Johnson go.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, Boris got it right on Ukraine, Boris got it right on the vaccine programme and Boris had it right on Brexit,\" the Conservative Monmouth MP said.\n\nIn evidence given to the Privileges Committee in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at the Downing Street gatherings.\n\nBut he said they were \"essential\" work events which he claimed were allowed.\n\nIn a statement following his resignation, Mr Johnson, who was prime minister between 2019 and 2022, said: \"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.\"\n\nDescribing the report, he said it was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrew RT Davies told Saturday's BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"I do acknowledge that things went tragically wrong towards the end of his tenure as a prime minister.\n\n\"And, obviously, that had to be drawn to a close and events that have happened over the last couple of days have obviously taken many people by surprise.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions programme, David TC Davies said: \"I make no apologies for saying that I really like the guy and I'm sorry he's gone.\"\n\nOther Welsh politicians shared their thoughts, including Leanne Wood, who was Plaid Cymru leader between 2012 and 2018.\n\nResponding to the resignations of Mr Johnson and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries, she said: \"Would love today's [Saturday's] resignations to kickstart a sea-change in the way in which society values integrity and accountability in the political world.\n\n\"It doesn't need to be this way. Always hopeful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Stevens This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther politicians took to social media, including Labour MP for Ogmore, Chris Elmore, who said: \"To the very last, he couldn't be honest. Forced out? More like found out.\"\n\nHywel Williams, Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon, said: \"Dorries and Boris, a shameful and shameless double act leave the stage.\n\n\"Two pantomime villains who revelled in wreaking havoc during our darkest hours.\"\n\nCardiff Cental Labour MP Jo Stevens said Mr Johnson had \"debased our country's reputation, our politics and our democracy. It's entirely his fault and no-one else's.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Selby & Ainsty MP Nigel Adams, a former Under-Secretary of State for Wales, became the third Conservative in Westminster to announce his resignation.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neo-natal ward\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has \"deliberately misled\" the jury on a number of occasions throughout her murder trial, a prosecutor has told a court.\n\nOn the final day of cross-examination, prosecutor Nick Johnson KC said Ms Letby was a \"very calculating woman\" who had lied \"to try and get sympathy\".\n\nThe 33-year-old is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nShe has denied all charges against her.\n\nQuestioning the former nurse for a tenth day at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Johnson focused on the events following Ms Letby's removal from the neonatal unit in July 2016.\n\nJurors have previously heard that Ms Letby was moved to the Countess of Chester Hospital's \"risk and patient safety office\" after doctors raised concerns over her alleged involvement in baby deaths.\n\nSenior doctors at the hospital requested Ms Letby be taken off front-line duties after the deaths of triplet brothers, known to the court as Child O and P for legal reasons, in June 2016.\n\nMs Letby was placed on a three-month \"secondment\" to the office and told she would be placed under \"clinical supervision\".\n\nWhen she was arrested in July 2018, she told police she felt \"panicked\" and \"overwhelmed\" and had suicidal thoughts following the move.\n\nShe also previously told her trial she was only permitted to speak to a select few members of staff at the hospital during the period.\n\nMr Johnson said that claim was not correct and showed the court Facebook and phone records that were \"peppered with [Ms Letby] socialising with lots of different people from that unit\".\n\nShe agreed with his assertion that she had had \"a very active social life\", but denied his subsequent claim that she had \"deliberately misled the jury about this background\".\n\nLucy Letby is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nHe then asked her about her arrest, which he said she had claimed saw her being led away from her home in a nightgown.\n\nHe said Ms Letby was actually wearing a blue Lee Cooper leisure suit at the time.\n\nShe said she did not know why she had lied about that detail.\n\n\"You're a very calculating woman, aren't you, Lucy Letby?\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"You tell lies deliberately and the reason you tell lies is to get sympathy and attention from people.\"\n\nThe prosecutor then asked Ms Letby about various notes which were found in her home when police searched it in 2018 and in particular, about one on which she had written that she would never marry or have children.\n\nHe asked her why she wrote this when she had \"a house, a car [and] a boyfriend\".\n\nShe agreed had those things, but added: \"That's how I felt at the time.\"\n\n\"You felt like this because you knew you had killed and grievously injured these children,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"That is the truth, you have murdered these children.\"\n\n\"I have never murdered a child or harmed any of them,\" she replied.\n\nLucy Letby claimed that hospital bosses had conspired against her to cover up shortcomings on the neonatal unit\n\nHe also asked the former nurse about social media searches which were made to find the parents of the children involved in the case.\n\nShe has previously said searching for people on Facebook was \"a normal pattern of behaviour for me\" and was not confined to those parents.\n\nMr Johnson repeatedly pressed Ms Letby to explain why she had searched for certain parents, adding that she was \"a killer who was looking at your victims\".\n\nShe denied that accusation, adding that the people had been \"on my mind\".\n\nThe former nurse was also asked about her claim that hospital bosses had conspired against her to cover up shortcomings on the neonatal unit.\n\nShe has previously told her trial that a \"gang of four\" doctors apportioned \"blame\" on to her \"to cover up failings at the hospital\".\n\nMr Johnson asked what the conspiracy between the four was.\n\n\"I believe there were shortcomings from the medical team and they put that on me,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sussex Police is investigating deaths over a five-year period at the hospital\n\nPolice are investigating the deaths of patients at a Brighton hospital.\n\nSussex Police has confirmed it was looking into allegations of medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex over a five-year period.\n\nThe claims concern alleged failings in neurosurgery and general surgery between 2015 and 2020.\n\nThe trust said it was co-operating fully with the investigation.\n\nPolice and the hospital trust could not confirm the number of deaths being looked at, but some reports suggested the figure was \"about 40\".\n\nIn May the Care Quality Commission (CQC) downgraded the hospital to \"requires improvement\" after whistleblowers prompted an inspection.\n\nLloyd Russell-Moyle, the Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, said he was \"deeply worried\" about the investigation.\n\nThe force said: \"Sussex Police has received allegations of medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, and is currently assessing these allegations.\n\n\"The concerns raised relate to neurosurgery and general surgery in a period between 2015 and 2020.\n\n\"Inquiries are at an early stage and this does not necessarily mean this will lead to criminal prosecution.\"\n\nMP Lloyd Russell-Moyle says there needs to be full co-operation with the police investigation\n\nA trust spokesman said: \"The trust has been contacted by Sussex Police as part of their inquiries relating to the care of a number of general surgery and neurosurgery patients at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton between 2015 and 2020.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage other than to confirm that we are co-operating fully to ensure the concerns raised are investigated.\"\n\nMr Russell-Moyle added: \"I haven't received a briefing from the hospital, which is extremely disappointing, but they have assured me that they will brief us next week and we will get to the bottom of this.\n\n\"Those families that will have been affected will have be having sleepless nights now and we need full co-operation with the police. We need to find out if there was something criminal.\n\n\"We need to find out what's happening with our hospital trust, it's really struggling at the moment and we need a plan to get out of the mess.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Carlton Queen capsized in the Red Sea during a diving trip\n\nPassengers who narrowly escaped with their lives from a yacht when it capsized are planning legal action in order to hold the owners to account.\n\nThey do not believe the Carlton Queen, which capsized during a diving trip in the Red Sea, was seaworthy.\n\nThe size of the boat had been increased as part of a recent refurbishment, and it was visibly listing to one side after it set off from Egypt.\n\nThe owners told the BBC the matter was being investigated.\n\nThere were 26 passengers - whose nationalities included British, Belgian, Swiss and German - on board the Carlton Queen when it capsized on 24 April.\n\nDavid Taylor, from Treswell in Nottinghamshire, thought he and his son Christian were going to die when they realised they were trapped below deck.\n\n\"I started to lose the plot. I really was panicking we were going to die. There was no way to get out,\" he said.\n\nHe said they and a Spanish passenger, Fernando Suarez Mella, had tried and failed to open an escape hatch.\n\n\"Fernando was desperately trying to find a way to open this escape hatch but all we saw was a decorative wooden façade with no handles,\" he said.\n\nDavid and Christian Taylor had been enjoying their trip to Egypt before the boat capsized\n\nThey were unable to walk up a set of stairs because the boat was on its side.\n\nChristian was only able to escape by climbing up his dad, who then escaped by climbing up Fernando, who potentially sacrificed himself because there was nobody left for him to climb on.\n\n\"This for me was the hardest part of the escape, because Fernando looked up at me and he said 'You've got to go',\" said David.\n\n\"He said 'Go, you've got to save your son'. And I left him. And I didn't know if he was going to survive.\"\n\nDavid, Christian and Fernando could not get up the stairs, because the boat was on its side\n\nDavid said he had decided to speak about what happened in order to raise awareness and warn others.\n\n\"We missed so many indicator signs that things were wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"A few of our group did approach the captain with their concerns and they were told numerous things but not to worry.\n\n\"The question is, why did a brand-new refurbished boat capsize in calm waters? It makes no sense.\"\n\nThe owners, Carlton Fleet, told the BBC: \"The Egyptian authorities are conducting an investigation into the matter.\n\n\"We are awaiting the results of the investigation.\"\n\nSally Nolan, pictured here with her son in Australia, feared she might die\n\nSally Nolan was also among the passengers. She is British but has lived in Altea, Spain, for 20 years.\n\n\"I remember thinking it was like a scene out of a disaster movie and I may not see my children again,\" she said.\n\nShe was thrown off a sofa when the boat started tipping over and had to hang on to a table leg.\n\n\"I had a horrible feeling of dread at this point and instinctively knew that the boat was going to capsize,\" she said.\n\n\"The boat then went totally on its side to 90 degrees and I was left hanging on with all my strength hoping that the table was secure enough to hold me.\n\n\"My friend, Terri, who had been sat to the left of me, was unable to hold on. She fell past me over furniture and railings into the sea and I lost sight of her.\"\n\nThe passengers were rescued with the help of another boat, the VIP Shrouq.\n\n\"Our friend, Fernando, still remained missing for quite a while and his story is still so hard to hear,\" said Sally.\n\nFernando Suarez Mella said he took the biggest breath he had ever taken to escape\n\nFernando, who was still trapped and unable to climb the stairs, waited until the water level inside the boat was higher, which meant he could float up.\n\nHe then reached the saloon, which was flooded, so he had to dive under the water to get out.\n\n\"I took the biggest breath I've ever taken in my life. I filled my lungs, because I didn't know how long I needed to stay under the water,\" he said.\n\nFortunately, another passenger - Christian Hanson - had the foresight to smash the glass doors leading out of the saloon. If he had not done this before the saloon flooded, the water pressure would have prevented Fernando opening the doors, and he would still have been trapped.\n\nAll 26 passengers were rescued, and the captain and crew also survived\n\nA GoFundMe page has been set up by a German passenger called Dominic Schmitt, in order to fund the legal action against Carlton Fleet.\n\nMr Schmitt said he wanted to \"make sure that no one has ever to experience what we have experienced and what could have been easily prevented\".\n\nMichèle Colenso, who lives in Dorset, fears that other people will be killed.\n\n\"As a group we are acutely aware that a number of factors coincided so that we were all rescued, most significantly the fact the incident occurred in daylight and we were a single group with an unusually high degree of survival and rescue training,\" Michèle said.\n\nShe believes there are wider problems with diving boats in Egypt, because they are often refurbished to increase their size, due to a restriction on building new boats.\n\n\"We would like to see significant improvements to how maritime practices are applied to diving services worldwide and especially in Egypt,\" she said.\n\nMichèle Colenso (in the foreground, wearing a grey and green top) fears other people will be killed\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Yacht escape was life and death situation, man says", "An ally of Boris Johnson has resigned, triggering a third by-election for the Tories and creating deepening political problems for Rishi Sunak.\n\nNigel Adams did not say why he was leaving immediately but his decision follows that of Boris Johnson and, earlier on Friday, Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn a statement Mr Johnson lashed out at a Partygate report into whether he deliberately lied to Parliament, describing it as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nMr Adams, a Cabinet Office minister without portfolio under Mr Johnson's government, had previously announced he would not be standing at the next general election - but has now brought that decision forward.\n\nIn a tweet announcing he was going immediately, the MP for Selby and Ainsty said his local Conservative Association had selected a new parliamentary candidate on Friday.\n\nBy-elections sap energy, money and attention that the party would rather use to focus on governing and the general election.\n\nThe BBC has made dozens and dozens of phone calls and exchanged hundreds of WhatsApp messages since Boris Johnson made his shock resignation announcement on Friday evening.\n\nIt is clear there is deep - and wide - anger, if not surprise, at the way Mr Johnson and his allies have criticised the Commons Privileges Committee and the integrity of its members, who are duty bound to put party affiliation to one side, and not speak publicly about their report until it is published.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip late on Friday evening, Mr Johnson issued an eviscerating 1,000-word statement.\n\nThe committee was preparing to recommend a 10-day suspension for Mr Johnson from the Commons, the BBC has been told, which would have resulted in a recall petition among his constituents and a potential by-election.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\".\n\nHe described the committee as a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee is due to meet on Monday to finalise its conclusions and is expected to publish its findings shortly after - likely to be on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nAngela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, said the former prime minister had \"jumped\" and told BBC Radio 5 Live \"to me, he is a coward\".\n\nSir Chris Bryant, the Labour chairman of the Privileges Committee, said it was possible that Mr Johnson's statement could lead to further contempt of Parliament charges as the conclusion of the report is not supposed to be revealed before its publication and Mr Johnson had \"effectively leaked\" it.\n\nSir Chris, who had recused himself from the investigation into Mr Johnson told Radio 4's Today programme, the \"attacks on the committee are in effect an attack on the whole House\".\n\nBoris Johnson was fined for attending a birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in 2020\n\nHowever, former home secretary Priti Patel, who was made a Dame in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list, also announced on Friday, praised the former prime minister, describing him as a \"political titan\".\n\nSir Michael Fabricant - another sitting MP announced in the resignation honours list - criticised the Privileges Committee for what he described as its \"disgraceful treatment\" of the former prime minister.\n\nThere has been no statement as yet from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or any members of the Privileges Committee.\n\nThe BBC has tried to speak to all of those involved, but none would speak on the record.\n\nBut privately, Conservatives are all talking about it, trying to work out what might happen next.\n\nLoads have told the BBC they are just totally fed up with the pantomime.\n\nThere is deep frustration there will now be three by-elections that the party could really do without.\n\nThe surprise exit of Boris Johnson followed that of Nadine Dorries, who announced she was standing down as MP of Mid Bedfordshire shortly before.\n\nThe Conservatives have a current working majority of 64 (before the resignations of Mr Johnson and Ms Dorries).\n\nThis is less than the 80-seat majority held by the Conservatives when Mr Johnson led the Tories to a landslide general election in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, Bill Cash, Conservative MP for Stone in Staffordshire, announced on Saturday evening that he would not be standing at the next general election. He was first elected in 1984.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir John Redwood said Rishi Sunak must make a statement \"urgently reassuring those who were very strong Boris fans and strong Liz [Truss] fans that his party is for all Conservatives.\"\n\nHe told the BBC News channel the party will need \"a bit of Boris magic\" in their offer to voters.\n\nBut Tory grandee Chris Patten said he hoped Mr Johnson's resignation \"is the end of a rather miserable period in British politics and a miserable period for the Conservative Party.\"\n\nLord Patten, who was party chairman under John Major, rejected claims the Privileges Committee's report was \"anti-democratic\".\n\n\"Of course it's not,\" he told the BBC. \"What he means is it's criticised him... he should stop whining about it and get on with what he's plainly going to do best, which is going around making dishevelled speeches and making lots of money from them.\"\n\nA former adviser to Mr Johnson said his decision to quit as an MP ahead of publication of the Partygate report did not mean it was the end of his political career.\n\nWill Walden, who was chief media adviser to the former prime minister when he was foreign secretary, said Mr Johnson \"had seen the writing on the wall\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Walden said he would not have wanted to fight a by-election he was almost certain to lose.\n\n\"There is only one thing driving Boris and that is that he likes to win, or at least not to lose\".\n\nHe added: \"So, by going as he has, all guns blazing, he is able to avoid defeat, he is able to blame pretty much everyone else including it seems anyone that voted Remain in 2016.\"\n\nAsked whether this was the end for Mr Johnson, he said: \"I don't think it's the end. I don't know where we are on the panoply of beginning, middle and end, but this is typical Boris.\"\n\nIt is worth reflecting on what people mean by \"the end\".\n\nIt may well be the end of the road for him in Parliament - although that is not for certain - but it is certainly not the end of the road for him in terms of his influence.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City's long quest to win the Champions League finally ended in triumph against Inter Milan in Istanbul as Pep Guardiola's side completed the Treble.\n\nAfter winning the Premier League and FA Cup, City emulated Manchester United's triple trophy haul in 1999 as they became only the second English club to achieve the feat after Rodri's crisp 68th-minute strike settled an attritional final.\n\nGuardiola's all-conquering side were never at their best against a brilliantly organised Inter and had to cope with the loss of Kevin de Bruyne to injury in the first half.\n\nBut the massed ranks of City fans inside Ataturk Stadium did not care about that as they joyously celebrated the greatest night - and season - in the club's history.\n\nAnd for Guardiola, it seals his status as one of the managerial greats as he added a third Champions League to the two he won at Barcelona, the last coming in 2011.\n\nThis was never the walkover many predicted and City had to survive a few scares when Federico Dimarco's header bounced off the bar and Ederson made a stunning late save to deny Romelu Lukaku but ultimately this was all about the victory.\n\nNow Guardiola and his players can take their place in history.\n• None Have your say on Man City's performance here\n\nThe Champions League has brought suffering to City and Guardiola - especially when they lost to Premier League rivals Chelsea in the 2021 final - but all the pain disappeared just before midnight on a sultry night in Istanbul.\n\nCity survived late anxiety, especially when Inter substitute Lukaku headed straight at Ederson with the goal at his mercy, but there was an explosion of joy on the pitch and in the stands at Ataturk Stadium as they finally secured the giant trophy that has remained so elusively beyond their grasp for so long.\n\nGuardiola said, whether it was fair or not, that his time at Manchester City would be judged on whether he was able to bring the Champions League to the club. Now that judgement can be made.\n\nThe Catalan, who won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, will now be an iconic figure at City as well as Barcelona.\n• None 'Hysterical and hated at times' - but Guardiola is the greatest\n\nIt is a simple fact that many outside the Abu Dhabi-owned club will always view their triumph through the prism of the charges of 115 financial breaches brought against them by the Premier League, charges they fiercely deny.\n\nFor City's owners, with Sheikh Mansour attending only his second game since taking control in 2008, this was the night they have planned for and the one when they finally claimed that holy grail.\n\nThis was an evening when only the result mattered to City, not the manner in which their greatest victory was achieved.\n\nThis was not a win secured with the dazzling style and creation that is usually their hallmark. In fact for long periods it was a scrappy, sloppy performance in the face of a well-drilled Inter side who were right in this Champions League Final until the whistle went.\n\nNone of that will matter now. All that will be recalled forever about this game by City's fans was the moment when Rodri arrived on the end of build-up play from Manuel Akanji and Bernardo Silva to send that precise right-foot finish away from the reach of Inter's outstanding keeper Andre Onana.\n\nAnd of course the triumphant Champions League trophy lift.\n\nCity lived dangerously in the closing minutes and, when it was all over, Guardiola, so agitated in his technical area, was relatively calm as he sought out opposite number Simone Inzaghi for consoling words.\n\nJohn Stones was once again outstanding for City while keeper Ederson made key contributions when required.\n\nThe celebrations at the final whistle reflected a magnificent season as City finally got their hands on the Champions League trophy and prepared to parade it around the streets of Manchester along with the Premier League and FA Cup on Monday.\n• None Attempt saved. Robin Gosens (Inter Milan) header from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Federico Dimarco with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolò Barella (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Erling Haaland (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lautaro Martínez with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robin Gosens with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour children have been found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending weeks fending for themselves in Colombia's Amazon jungle.\n\nColombia's president said the rescue of the siblings, aged 13, nine, four and one, was \"a joy for the whole country\".\n\nThe children's mother and two pilots were killed when their light aircraft crashed in the jungle on 1 May.\n\nThe missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving dozens of soldiers and local people.\n\nPresident Gustavo Petro said finding the group was a \"magical day\", adding: \"They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history.\"\n\nThe children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community caring for the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days.\n\nOne of the rescuers held a bottle up to the mouth of the smallest child, while another fed one of the other children from a mug with a spoon.\n\nA video shared by Colombia's ministry of defence showed the children being lifted into a helicopter in the dark above the tall trees of the jungle. They have been flown to the nation's capital Bogota, where ambulances have taken them to hospital for further medical treatment.\n\nThe children's grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said after their rescue: \"I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free.\"\n\nShe said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.\n\n\"She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume,\" Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.\n\nThe Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on before the crash was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.\n\nThe bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help.\n\nA massive search began and in May, rescuers recovered items left behind by the children, including a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and a makeshift shelter.\n\nSmall footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators.\n\nMembers of the children's community hoped that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills would give them a better chance of remaining alive.\n\nIndigenous people joined the search and helicopters broadcast a message from the children's grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate.\n\nAfter they were found, their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, called on the authorities to allow the children to be moved closer to their family in Villavicencio, roughly 130km (80 miles) from Bogota.\n\n\"I am asking the president as the highest authority, I am sorry to bother him, but it is my right and my duty, it is my blood, it is my family. I want to see the children, here in Villavicencio,\" he said in an interview also obtained by EVN.\n\nEarlier Mr Petro said he had spoken to the children's grandfather.\n\nThe president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.\n\nHe erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed.\n\nThe Colombian military shared a photo of the children in the jungle", "Quebec has put out more than a dozen fires since 1 June. The province is still battling 127 fires as of Friday\n\nQuebec has made progress in its battle to fight wildfires that have contributed to the smoke that blanketed large parts of North America this week.\n\n\"We're really happy with the last 48 hours,\" said Philippe Bergeron, with Quebec's firefighting agency, on Friday.\n\nSome evacuees in the province are hopeful they can soon return home.\n\nCanada is currently battling more than 400 wildfires burning across the country.\n\nMr Bergeron said that firefighters have been successful in putting out a few fires, as well as containing larger ones in the province that have not grown as much in the last few days.\n\nOn Friday, Quebec said it had allocated C$1,500 ($1,120; £890) for every household that had been forced to evacuate in the province because of the fires.\n\nBut despite improvements in that province, on the west coast, officials in British Columbia (BC) are warning of a \"wild\" fire season ahead.\n\nOn Thursday, residents of the town of Tumbler Ridge, in north-eastern BC, were ordered to evacuated due to a rapidly growing fire nearby.\n\nIn Quebec, where about 120 fires are currently burning, residents from Oujé-Bougoumou told the BBC that they are getting regular updates about the fire threatening their Cree community.\n\nOujé-Bougoumou evacuees have been sheltering in local colleges in the city of Saguenay, around 392km (243 miles) southwest of their community.\n\nSeveral fires are also threatening other nearby indigenous communities, like Chibougamau, which has also been evacuated.\n\nLance Cooper, the deputy chief of Oujé-Bougoumou, said his town of some 650 people had to evacuate quickly as thick clouds of smoke and flames encroached on Tuesday.\n\nHe said when evacuation efforts began, the town was focused on getting its most vulnerable people out, like the elderly and people with respiratory issues, due to concerns about air quality.\n\nBut within hours, they received a call from Quebec's firefighting agency warning the situation had grown more dangerous.\n\n\"They had told us that everybody must go,\" Mr Cooper told the BBC.\n\nThey cleared the community very quickly after that, he said.\n\nWildfire smoke filled the skies of Ouje-Bougoumou on Tuesday, hours before the entire community was forced to evacuate.\n\nMr Cooper said that by the time he left, on the only highway out of town, what would have been a two-hour trip turned into a six-hour journey, with cars of evacuees from the region driving bumper-to-bumper .\n\nHe said his community's evacuees have been welcomed in Saguenay, a city of 145,000 people, where they have spent the past few days at makeshift shelters set up in local colleges, sleeping on military beds.\n\nBut they are well taken care of, he said and the Cree community has been organising activities for the evacuated youth, like paintball games and movie nights.\n\n\"It's like we're on a camping trip,\" Mr Cooper joked.\n\nBut he said the situation has been scary for the community, who has never been forced to evacuate due to wildfires before.\n\nPeople are hopeful that their homes will be spared, he said.\n\nSome communities across Canada have already lost homes as a result of this year's devastating wildfire season.\n\nIn Alberta, around 85 structures have been destroyed on the Little Red Cree Nation, a spokesperson told Global News.\n\nAt least another 150 homes were destroyed in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, local authorities had said.\n\nCanada is relying on the help of firefighters from around the world, who have come to battle the unprecedented wildfire season.\n\nJust over 100 arrived from France to Quebec on Thursday and they will be deployed on the ground by Saturday.\n\nThe unusual scale and number of fires this season have raised questions in Canada on whether the country needs to bolster its firefighting ability to grapple what the government has said is the result of climate change.\n\nMr Cooper said his community is already reckoning with a warming climate around them.\n\n\"I think we're gonna probably see more and more of these fires down the road,\" he said.\n\n\"Hopefully many of us will be spared from ever having to experience our homes burning.\"", "Glasgow City Council is having to hire vehicles because some of its own fleet does not meet new rules on emissions.\n\nMore than 600 of its vehicles are not allowed inside the city's Low Emission Zone (LEZ) introduced last week.\n\nThe council said only a small number of the non-compliant vehicles were required to enter the zone but they include all its uplift trucks used for parking enforcement.\n\nThe GMB union said the cost of hiring vehicles was a waste of resources.\n\nOf the 1,615 vehicles owned by Glasgow City council, 616 are non-compliant meaning they are no longer allowed inside the council's new LEZ.\n\nA spokeswoman for Glasgow City Council told the BBC: \"New LEZ compliant vehicles are expected to be delivered to us in the near future and we are also retrofitting existing vehicles to improve emissions standards across our fleet.\n\n\"LEZ compliant vehicles have been hired in the short term to ensure emissions standards are met and this will allow older vehicles to be taken out of service in line with our ongoing fleet replacement programme.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added the LEZ was crucial to improving air quality in the city centre.\n\nThe council's fleet includes a variety of cars, buses, lorries and vans used by to carry out various aspects of council business.\n\nAmong the non-complaint vehicles is a limousine used to by the council's Lord Provost, according to the Scottish Daily Express.\n\nThe LEZ covers an area from the M8 motorway to the north and west of Glasgow, the River Clyde to the south, and the Saltmarket/High Street to the east.\n\nThe restrictions were introduced last week but similar restrictions have been in place for buses and heavy good vehicles since 2018.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Drivetime, Chris Mitchell from the GMB union said the council \"should have thought of this a long time ago\".\n\nMr Mitchell, who works as a refuse collector for the council said: \"The majority of the vehicles I deal with are non-complaint for the LEZ because they are the best part of 15 years old and obviously we still need to provide a service within the city centre.\n\n\"Unfortunately they've had to hire in a number of vehicles at a pretty penny, at a cost to the council - well, at a cost to the taxpayer.\"\n\nMr Mitchell said the types of vehicles being hired were \"small flat-bed\" vehicles, used for collecting rubbish.\n\nThe Glasgow City Council spokeswoman said no new bin lorries had been hired to meet LEZ requirements although some lorries were hired under a pre-existing arrangement.\n\nShe was unable to provide a figure at this time for the cost of hiring replacement vehicles.", "Alpacas from Loch Ness Alpacas near Dores cooling off at the loch earlier this week\n\nConcerns have been raised over water levels on Loch Ness and the River Ness.\n\nThe loch dropped to its lowest level in 32 years last month amid dry conditions, according to Scottish Environment Protection Agency figures.\n\nNess fishery board said levels remained concerningly low and claimed water that could help ease the situation was being stored - unused - for hydro-power.\n\nEnergy company SSE Renewables said it was managing its water use sensitively amid challenging weather conditions.\n\nLoch Ness is Scotland's largest freshwater loch by volume, while the River Ness flows from Loch Dochfour, at top of Loch Ness, and out to sea at Inverness. The loch and river are part of what is called the Ness system, an area of burns, rivers and lochs that extends south-west of Inverness.\n\nOn 24 May, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) recorded a water level of just over 109cm (3.5ft) at Foyers, which is the location of a pumped storage hydro scheme that uses water from Loch Ness. Water is pumped from the loch to an upper reservoir and released back when generating electricity.\n\nThe Sepa figure is the lowest level according to records going back to 1 December 1990. It has risen slightly since, but continues to be classed as \"low\".\n\nSepa said the area had seen low rainfall.\n\nIt said in May the Loch Ness area had been one of the driest in the UK, and Inverness had received just a third of its usual long-term average rainfall.\n\nIt added the Ness region had seen below average rainfall in winter and spring. On Friday, the agency increased its water scarcity warning for the area to \"moderate\".\n\nSepa also upgraded the risk in the Loch Maree area in the Highlands to \"significant\", and placed 37 areas across the Firth of Clyde at \"alert\".\n\nNess fishery board said the River Ness had hit record lows twice this year\n\nThe River Ness, left, and Caledonian Canal at Dochfour\n\nConcerns have been raised about the health of the Ness\n\nNess District Salmon Fishery Board, the statutory body responsible for the protection and enhancement of salmon and sea trout fisheries in the Ness area, has expressed serious concerns about the health of the River Ness.\n\nIt said the river was at levels more usually seen at the end of July and August, with large areas drying out.\n\nDirector Brian Shaw said there were consequences for wild salmon populations, the river's conservation status and its categorisation in terms of angling.\n\nProblems include salmon being unable to travel easily up river from the sea, and increased water temperature.\n\nMr Shaw said climate change was a factor, and the board had noted a trend for drier winters and springs.\n\nBut he said when levels were low, hydro-electric generation had a huge effect. Mr Shaw also said water was drawn at Dochfour for the Caledonian Canal that would otherwise flow into the River Ness.\n\n\"There is a tremendous amount of concern and I think one of the key things is we are so early in the summer and already twice the River Ness has got to its lowest level on record, said Mr Shaw.\n\nHe added: \"Most people wouldn't appreciate just how controlled the Ness system is.\n\n\"When it gets down to these low levels almost every aspect of it is controlled by hydro schemes on the system.\"\n\nHe said releasing water stored further up the system at SSE's Loch Garry and Loch Loyne reservoirs could help alleviate the situation.\n\nNaturalist Adrian Shine said Loch Ness was at the lowest he had seen since 1989\n\nNaturalist Adrian Shine, who has studied Loch Ness for many years, said the loch was at its lowest level he had seen since 1989.\n\nHe said: \"Loch Ness is very deep so you are not going to see an immense difference over its surface and the sides are very steep, except in certain areas.\n\n\"The most noticeable area is Urquhart Bay and there is a bay within that bay that is dry, and I don't remember that happening in '89.\"\n\nFiona Cairns, who has lived by the loch for most of her life and runs Loch Ness Alpacas, also said it was at the lowest she had ever seen it.\n\nShe said her cheeky alpacas were able to sneak into their other field by going around the end of fences usually inaccessible due to the depth of the loch.\n\n\"We've had very little rain over the last few weeks and the burns are dry so not filling the loch,\" she added.\n\nSSE Renewables said the dry weather had affected rivers across the Highlands.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While these dry conditions are challenging, our teams have been working closely with key environmental stakeholders such as Sepa and NatureScot to manage our hydro operations in accordance with our environmental obligations, while continuing to deliver zero carbon electricity from our hydro and pumped storage assets.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that sensitive management of water had helped maintain higher flows in the River Ness than would have been present if hydro-power was not in existence, while at the same time maintaining levels at lochs Loyne and Garry to protect designated nesting sites of protected birds.\n\nScottish Canals said water levels were at an unprecedented low due to the weather.\n\nEnvironment manager Olivia Lassiere said: \"We anticipate more instances like this occurring going forward, due to the likely impacts of climate change.\n\n\"Our water usage and operation of the Caledonian Canal is authorised and regulated by Sepa, and we have robust plans in place to manage extreme situations like this, which include engaging with Sepa for their latest advice.\"", "Some of Boris Johnson's closest allies - including Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg - have been rewarded with peerages and other awards in the former PM's honours list.\n\nIt was published hours before Mr Johnson stepped down as an MP.\n\nFormer secretaries of state Simon Clarke and Mr Rees-Mogg were knighted, while Ms Patel was made a dame.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and London Assembly member Shaun Bailey are among seven new peers.\n\nNo serving MPs were given peerages, avoiding by-elections for the Tories. But there will now be one in Mr Johnson's own constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Nadine Dorries was not put forward for the House of Lords, despite speculation she would be on the published list.\n\nMs Dorries - who served as culture secretary under Mr Johnson - stood down as an MP \"with immediate effect\" just over an hour before the honours list was released.\n\nThe resignation honours list is a tradition that gives outgoing prime ministers the opportunity to nominate people for honours.\n\nThe long-awaited list, approved nine months after Mr Johnson resigned as prime minister, included 38 honours and seven peerages.\n\nKulveer Singh Ranger, a former director of transport while Mr Johnson was London mayor, and former Downing Street chief of staff Dan Rosenfield are also among those who will enter the Lords.\n\nCharlotte Owen, a former adviser to Mr Johnson, will become one of the youngest peers, as will fellow advisers Ben Gascoigne and Ross Kempsell.\n\nHonours were handed out to some of Mr Johnson's closest advisers during his premiership, including former directors of communications Jack Doyle and Guto Harri, who were both made CBEs.\n\nAlso among recipients were aides who served with Mr Johnson during the scandal over lockdown parties in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMartin Reynolds, Mr Johnson's former principal private secretary, was awarded the Order of Bath.\n\nIn May 2020, Mr Reynolds sent an invite to a \"bring your own booze\" party to Downing Street staff when the nation was under lockdown.\n\nBen Elliot, the former co-chair of the Conservative Party, has also been awarded a knighthood, as have Tory MPs Michael Fabricant and Conor Burns, two Mr Johnson loyalists.\n\nThe first name on the list was Tory MP and long-standing Brexit backer Bill Cash, who has become a companion of honour.\n\nMembership is a special award granted to those \"who have made a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government\" and it is only held by up to 65 people at any one time.\n\nRishi Sunak has approved Mr Johnson's resignation honours list and \"forwarded it unamended\" to King Charles, the prime minister's press secretary said.\n\n\"He had no involvement or input into the approved list,\" the press secretary said.\n\nBy convention, a former prime minister's resignation list of new peers is forwarded to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), which vets appointments.\n\nAnother Tory MP who did not feature on the list, despite being widely tipped for a peerage, was Alok Sharma, who was president of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nUsually when sitting MPs are given peerages, they resign their seats, triggering by-elections.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen was among those to be made a peer\n\nFollowing the Partygate scandal and the political turbulence of Mr Johnson's premiership, the former PM's honours list was always expected to be controversial and to provoke fierce criticism.\n\nSome of the reaction to the names published on Friday has met those expectations.\n\nA formerly loyal aide to Mr Johnson branded the honours list \"an utter disgrace\", telling the BBC it was \"rewards for failure all round\".\n\nThey said: \"Boris has slammed the door shut on the prospect of any return to the frontline of British politics and trashed what remained of his legacy.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said it was \"shameful\" that Mr Sunak had \"failed to stand up to his former boss's outrageous demands and agreed to hand out prizes to this carousel of cronies\".\n\n\"He promised integrity, but this weak prime minister is once again showing his appalling judgement by doing Boris Johnson's bidding,\" Ms Rayner said.\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Boris Johnson has been allowed to hand out gongs to his Partygate pals, and Rishi Sunak has just waved it through.\"\n\nThe seven new peers on Mr Johnson's honours list will enter a House of Lords that already has more than 800 members.\n\nThe Electoral Reform Society campaign group said Mr Johnson's resignation list \"demonstrates just how discredited and partisan the honours system has become\".\n\n\"It's time to end this rotten system of patronage and replace the unelected Lords with a smaller elected chamber, where the people of this country - not former prime ministers - choose who shape the laws we all live under,\" its chief executive Darren Hughes said.\n\nBoris Johnson is loyal to those who are loyal to him. And his resignation honours list underlines this - until the ink runs out.\n\nAlmost all of the 45 names know him personally. Many worked for him either at No 10 or when he was London mayor.\n\nEven his current spokesman has been transformed into a legislator, with a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nAnd for anyone who assumed that meritocracy might play a part in the honours system, a long-standing parliamentary hairdresser, Kelly Dodge, gets a gong for doing... Mr Johnson's hair.\n\nYes, you read that correctly. Mr Johnson's mop.\n\nBut just as Mr Johnson rewards loyalty, he has more subtly made clear disloyalty comes at a price.\n\nHe must know that a list strewn with reminders of the Partygate era will make the current PM uncomfortable.\n\nThe list is crammed with dames and knighthoods for some of Mr Johnson's defenders in the parliamentary party.\n\nBut there are plenty of Conservative detractors, those who describe the list as \"ghastly\" or full of \"sycophants\".\n\nFor them, the list has damaged their party specifically and trust in politics more generally.\n\nBut it also allows the opposition to portray Rishi Sunak as weak for not blocking the list.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was a very unconventional occupant of No 10.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crews were sent to tackle the flames on the hottest day of the year for Scotland\n\nFirefighters are tackling a wildfire which broke out south of Inverness.\n\nCrews and six fire engines were sent to the Daviot area, near the Auchnahillin Holiday Park, at about 14:45 on Saturday.\n\nThe blaze is about 30 miles (48km) from Cannich - the site of another recent wildfire, thought to be the largest recorded in the UK.\n\nIt comes on the hottest day of the year for Scotland, after 29.8°C was recorded in Auchincruive, Ayrshire.\n\nThe SFRS had warned of a \"very high\" risk of wildfire this weekend.\n\nA spokesperson told BBC Scotland that information about the latest blaze was limited as the incident was ongoing.\n\nSix fire appliances were at the scene on Saturday evening\n\nLocal residents have been advised to keep windows and doors closed due to smoke.\n\nAnita Gibson is the owner of the nearby Auchnahillin Holiday Park.\n\n\"There's a fire up on the hill across the road,\" she said. \"We've been told we don't have to evacuate or anything. But the fire in Cannich was on our minds.\n\n\"We are just waiting to hear if we have to do anything, but we are not panicking yet.\"\n\nSmoke from the blaze has affected the area stretching for several miles.\n\nSmoke from the hill fire could be seen from all around the area\n\nA spokesperson for the Meallmore care home in Inverness - about seven miles (11km) from the caravan park - said they had not been evacuated, but were \"monitoring the situation closely and following advice\".\n\nThe SFRS alert for wildfire risk covers most of Scotland. Parts of the Highlands, Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders were expected to reach \"extreme\" risk.\n\nThe blaze at Cannich burned for two weeks, causing extensive damage to an RSPB Scotland nature reserve.\n\nPolice Scotland said: \"Emergency services are currently in attendance at a wildfire in the Daviot area south of Inverness.\n\n\"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are currently dealing with the fire and we would ask local residents to keep windows and doors closed due to smoke.\"", "John Finucane is the MP for North Belfast\n\nA relative of one of the victims of an IRA bomb atrocity in Coleraine nearly 50 years ago has criticised a Sinn Féin MP's planned attendance at a \"South Armagh Volunteers commemoration\".\n\nNorth Belfast MP John Finucane is billed as the main speaker at the event in Mullaghbawn on Sunday.\n\nThe move has been condemned by victims and unionist politicians.\n\nSinn Féin has said everyone has the right \"to remember their dead with dignity and respect\".\n\nNan Davis was among six Protestants killed in the Coleraine attack on 12 June 1973.\n\nHer granddaughter Lesley Magee said celebrating terrorism is \"a disgrace\".\n\n\"I don't think we should be commemorating terrorism on any level, whether it be Protestant, whether it be Catholic,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I have equal animosity towards both. I have no issue with anyone's religion, whether it be Protestant, Catholic, Judaism - whatever; I don't care.\n\n\"All I am interested in is the person that I know. But when we are celebrating terrorism, I think it is a disgrace.\"\n\nMs Magee said she did not think Mr Finucane should be at the event on Sunday.\n\n\"I don't think any MP should be at some kind of commemoration to celebrate a terrorist,\" she added.\n\n\"I mean what did that bomb in Coleraine achieve, by killing six pensioners? What did it achieve, other than it robbed families of their loved ones?\"\n\nAn event to remember those killed in the Coleraine atrocity is due to take place on Monday, and a permanent memorial to the victims will be unveiled.\n\nMs Magee was 10 at the time of her grandmother's death and described the impact on the family.\n\n\"I remember vividly my mum being hysterical,\" she added.\n\n\"It was just an awful time for the family.\n\n\"There were three siblings and the youngest one lived in England and he was very, very close to his mother.\n\n\"He's still alive. He's 80-odd now and if you were to speak to him about it now, at 80-odd he would still cry.\"\n\nSix people were killed when the bomb exploded in Coleraine in 1973\n\nMr Finucane's father, solicitor Pat Finucane, was shot dead by loyalist gunmen at his home in Belfast in 1989.\n\nA woman whose husband was shot dead by loyalists in Kennedy Way in west Belfast in January 1973 called BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show on Friday.\n\nMary from Lurgan, County Armagh, said Mr Finucane should \"think strongly\" about what he was planning to do.\n\n\"John should know exactly how I feel. I always thought at the time of his father, when we lose someone like that we have a bond with each other, we all have a bond as a victim,\" she added.\n\n\"So I would love to see what John is going to say to that commemoration.\n\n\"If he has a heart at all, he should know how we feel.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Finucane's plan to go to the IRA commemoration is \"wrong\" and reopens wounds for victims\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said Mr Finucane's plan to go to the IRA commemoration is \"wrong\" and reopens wounds for victims.\n\n\"The scars are still there, the broken homes remain, the broken lives are still there,\" he said.\n\n\"I would simply say to John Finucane, do you believe that your attendance and participation in that event is conducive towards what we are trying to build for Northern Ireland in the future, a shared future?\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has said he thought the commemoration was \"scandalous\", while Tánaiste Micheál Martin urged Mr Finucane not to address the commemoration, saying any attempt to \"celebrate or glorify horrible deeds from the past\" was not the correct way forward.\n\nHowever, earlier this week Sinn Féin assembly member Conor Murphy dismissed the row as a diversionary tactic by the DUP.\n\n\"I think what we are in here is distraction politics,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"The real issue is here is the fact that public services are crashing round our ears.\"\n\nConor Murphy said the row over Mr Finucane's attendance at a republican event in south Armagh was a DUP diversionary tactic\n\nBBC News NI has made a number of attempts to speak to Mr Finucane about Sunday's IRA commemoration event, but to no avail.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI previously, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has the right to remember their dead with dignity and respect.\n\n\"We will continue to stand with families who have lost loved ones in the conflict.\"\n\nLast year in a BBC interview, Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill said \"the only way that we're ever going to build a better future is to understand that it's OK to have a different take on the past\".\n\n\"My narrative is a very different one to someone who has perhaps lost a loved one at the hands of republicans,\" she continued.\n\n\"So I think that we need to be mature enough to say, that's OK, we'll have to agree to differ on that one, but let's make sure the conditions never exist again that we find ourselves in that scenario.\"\n• None Finucane urged to 'step away' from commemoration", "Boris Johnson was fined for attending a birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in 2020\n\nBoris Johnson has stepped down as a Tory MP after claiming he was \"forced out of Parliament\" over Partygate.\n\nThe ex-PM saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating if he misled the Commons over Downing Street lockdown parties.\n\nIn an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures and the mandate\".\n\nThe cross-party committee of MPs - the majority of which are Conservative - added it would conclude its inquiry on Monday and \"publish its report promptly\".\n\nMr Johnson's resignation now triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDelivering his announcement late on Friday evening, Mr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".\n\nHe also accused its chairwoman, Labour's Harriet Harman, of \"egregious bias\", saying he was \"bewildered and appalled\" at how he was being forced out.\n\nThe ex-prime minister previously admitted misleading Parliament when he gave evidence to the committee in a combative hearing in March - but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nMr Johnson also used his letter to attack the direction of the government, saying \"we must not be afraid to be properly Conservative\" and warning the party's majority was at risk.\n\n\"We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda,\" Mr Johnson argued.\n\n\"Why have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?\"\n\nIt was a direct aim at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - hours after he stepped off a plane from Washington where Mr Sunak was not talking about a free trade agreement with the US.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson's statement was an attempt to rally Brexiteers in his party, suggesting his demise was driven by a motivation to \"reverse the 2016 referendum result\".\n\nThe statement contained further criticism of former senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated lockdown gatherings at Number 10.\n\n\"I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence\" that she will soon become \"chief of staff designate\" of the Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer, Mr Johnson wrote.\n\nEnding his 1,000-word letter, Mr Johnson said he was \"very sad to be leaving Parliament\" before adding - \"at least for now\" - for anyone thinking he is about to retreat into obscurity.\n\nMr Johnson's exit will trigger a by-election in his west London seat, which he held with a 7,000 vote majority in the 2019 election.\n\nThe Conservatives will also have to defend the Mid Bedfordshire seat of Nadine Dorries - a close ally of Mr Johnson - after she stepped down as an MP earlier on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson claims his removal is a \"necessary first step\" in attempts by some to reverse the 2016 Brexit result\n\nMr Johnson's dramatic move came after he was given the committee's findings, including details of criticisms it intended to make and evidence to support its conclusion.\n\nHe had faced a potential by-election if MPs recommended a suspension from the Commons as a punishment for misleading Parliament.\n\nResponding to his statement, a Privileges Committee spokesperson said: \"The committee has followed the procedures and the mandate of the House at all times and will continue to do so.\n\n\"Mr Johnson has departed from the processes of the House and has impugned the integrity of the House by his statement. The committee will meet on Monday to conclude the inquiry and to publish its report promptly.\"\n\nElsewhere, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner condemned what she called a \"never-ending Tory soap opera\".\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Good riddance.\"\n\nAnd SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black said Mr Johnson \"jumped before he was pushed\", adding \"no-one in Scotland will be sorry to see the back of him\".\n\nHowever, former home secretary Priti Patel, who was made a Dame in his resignations honours list also announced on Friday, praised Mr Johnson for his work as prime minister on the issues of Ukraine and Brexit, describing him as \"a political titan\".\n\nBoris Johnson's local Conservative association chairman, Richard Mills, said the former PM \"has delivered on his promises to local residents\".\n\nAnother sitting MP announced in the resignation honours list, Sir Michael Fabricant, criticised the Privileges Committee for what he called its \"disgraceful treatment\" of the former prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson was prime minister from July 2019 until September 2022, and has been an MP since 2001 - although not continuously, having served as mayor of London between 2008 and 2016.", "Manchester City fans were jubilant when their team won 1-0 against Inter Milan, in Istanbul's Atatürk Olympic Stadium.\n\nWatching from a fanzone in Manchester, supporters celebrated Man City completing a football treble following their Premier League and FA Cup victories.\n\n\"The blue moon has risen,\" said one ecstatic fan.", "Dr Alena Yap is the only doctor available to Eleuthera Abus on an archipelago of 13,000 people\n\nWhen 99-year-old Eleuthera Abus lifts her right arm, she winces as the broken bones move. It's been six months since her fall.\n\n\"All I can do is manage her pain,\" says Alena Yap, the 28-year-old doctor who is examining her on her porch. \"She really needs to have the bone pinned. But the family is refusing to take her to hospital.\"\n\nEleuthera's daughters are not heartless. They are poor.\n\nThe nearest surgical facility is hundreds of miles away across the sea from the tiny island of Diit where they live. It's one of a cluster of islands that make up the Agutaya archipelago, stranded in the middle of the Philippines' Sulu Sea.\n\nFor the 13,000 or so people who live here, Dr Alena, as they call her, is the only doctor. Petite, with glasses and long hair tied back in a ponytail, she always wears a broad smile that masks quiet determination.\n\nThere is only one island in the archipelago she does not visit - Amanpulo, named after the luxury resort on it, which has reportedly hosted Tom Cruise and Beyoncé. On a clear day, it's visible from the beaches of Diit, just 20km (12 miles) away.\n\nDr Alena arrived just before the coronavirus - and learned to live with the death threats that came when she insisted people isolate. But the pandemic that swallowed the world was far from her only challenge in this oft-forgotten corner of the Philippines. She battled new diseases and old, and came up against her country's biggest challenges. She says she came to Agutaya to make \"real changes\" - but she left deeply disillusioned.\n\nThese remote, volcanic islands are not where you expect to find a graduate of the country's top medical school, who had spent all her life in Manila, the teeming Philippine capital. Unlike so many of her peers who have left to seek careers in Australia, America and Britain, Dr Alena volunteered to join a government programme that sent her here, to one of the poorest municipalities in the country.\n\nThe main island of Agutaya is a two-and-half day journey from Manila. It includes one flight, followed by a sleepless 15-hour night crossing on an open-deck ferry from the port city of Iloilo to a bigger island called Cuyo. Then the only way in and out of Agutaya is a drenching, two-hour roller coaster ride in an outrigger canoe.\n\nThese islands, floating in startlingly clear waters over white sands, look like they are straight out of paradise\n\nAs the skilled boatman guides the outrigger across the reef and into the shallows, Agutaya looks like a piece of paradise. Below the palm-fringed shoreline, a broad swathe of white sand stretches in each direction. Colourful outrigger canoes bob around on water so clear they could be floating in mid-air.\n\nBut geography is both a blessing and a curse. Scattered over hundreds of square kilometres of sea, the dozen or so islands that make up the archipelago are cut off for days, even weeks, when the monsoon comes, winds in tow. Covered with dense forest, the hillsides sit atop large fields of basalt boulders. There is little tillable soil. The islanders rely almost entirely on the ocean.\n\nDr Alena made her first crossing to Agutaya in February 2020. \"When I started here, I was 26 and a lot of people would mistake me for a high school student,\" she says with a chuckle. \"People wouldn't believe I was a doctor.\"\n\nHer first challenge arrived within a month when the coronavirus sent the Philippines into a lockdown. The islands were sealed off.\n\n\"The first year wasn't too bad,\" Dr Alena says. \"There weren't any local cases. But the second year [2021], that is when the government allowed everyone to travel back to their hometowns. Suddenly we had people coming back from as far away as Manila.\"\n\nDr Alena was in charge of enforcing their quarantine. \"When people learned they would be quarantined they reacted violently,\" she says. \"I received death threats. People said they wanted to shoot me.\"\n\nShe understood why. People here live day to day. What they catch in the morning they eat for dinner. If they couldn't leave their homes to fish, they would go hungry.\n\nSo far from being embraced by the local community, Dr Alena, who had left her fiancé in far-away Manila, was now resented as a government enforcer. \"There were days when I couldn't do anything but cry. There were a lot of tears,\" she says.\n\nTo ease the loneliness she began adopting dogs. Bruno is large with a big tail that never stops wagging, while Vigly is small and shy. They follow her everywhere.\n\n\"I spent a lot of time going to the beach with them and watching the sunset. I also started to draw. My pictures aren't any good, but it's a type of art therapy.\"\n\nThe pandemic, and the loneliness it bought, was especially trying for the 28-year-old\n\nThe next challenge emerged when the vaccines started to arrive in the summer of 2021.\n\n\"We had to go house to house to every island barangay [village],\" Dr Alena says. \"The farthest island is nearly three hours away by boat, and many people can't afford the fare [to come to the clinic]. So they wouldn't come.\"\n\nGruelling as it was, the distance wasn't the only problem: \"There was a lot of hesitancy, a lot of fake news about the vaccines being bad or that they can kill people. A lot of people get their news from social media here, and they were not getting the facts.\"\n\nBy autumn 2022, the threat from Covid had begun to abate. Despite the resistance, the vaccine rollout was successful. Only eight islanders across the archipelago had died of the virus.\n\nBut that brought little respite.\n\nA line starts to form on every weekday morning outside the main clinic on Agutaya while the daily meeting between Dr Alena and her team is still under way.\n\nOn that day, first in line is a man in his 50s who has had a suspected stroke.\n\n\"Before I came here, I thought everything would be fresh and organic,\" Dr Alena says, laughing at her own naivete. \"But it's very difficult to get a nutritious diet here.\"\n\nFor one, locals salt and dry their fish, leading to high blood pressure. Diabetes is also common because it's easier to find soft drinks than clean water.\n\nA boy walks to school on the island of Diit\n\nA sign at the entrance to the clinic announces the other major health problem: \"sputum sampling\" for tuberculosis or TB.\n\nDr Alens says they recorded 45 cases in 2022, but many more go undiagnosed.\n\nA bacterial infection, TB is fatal if left untreated. It kills millions yearly, although a combination of vaccines and antibiotics eradicated it from some parts of the world before the middle of the last century.\n\nBut the Philippines is still estimated to have more than a million cases. \"The long-term plan is to eradicate it,\" Dr Alena says, adding it's \"impossible in the near future\". She says because of poor access to healthcare people often relapse, and have even begun to develop drug-resistant strains.\n\nLater that morning, a woman brings her young son to the clinic. Pale and listless, the boy slumps on a chair. Dr Alena suspects he has dengue. A few minutes later, it's confirmed. She prescribes paracetamol, and tells his mother to keep him hydrated.\n\nDengue is new here. The one case in January turned to 10 by March even as Dr Alena and her team sprayed school grounds to kill the mosquitoes that spread it, and handed out treated nets.\n\nBy 11:00 the doctor is extricating herself from the growing line of patients. They will have to be dealt with by her capable nursing staff because she has to get across to Diit, 40 minutes away by boat.\n\nIt is more beautiful than Agutaya, but poorer. It has no electricity or a mobile phone tower, and only one concrete road that runs out after a few hundred metres.\n\nThe arrival of the \"medicine lady\" as Dr Alena is fondly called is greeted with much excitement. Dozens of school children come running down the beach. They've been given the day off so Dr Alena's dengue control team can spray their school grounds with insecticide. As she walks through the village, she's like the pied piper, with a long stream of laughing children following.\n\nShe visits an elderly couple sitting outside their house along the beach in wheelchairs. Both have had strokes and are partially paralysed. She checks his blood pressure - 150 over 90. \"It's high, but acceptable for his age,\" she says.\n\nOn these islands, a hernia, like the one this boy has, can bankrupt a family\n\nA woman in her 40s pushes her way through the crowd that has gathered around. She is carrying a boy, who is perhaps five or six years old. Dr Alena tells her to sit down on a chair and begins to examine the child. He has a hugely enlarged left testicle. The torch reveals a hernia in his lower abdomen. A part of his intestine has penetrated the bowel wall, pushing into his testicles.\n\n\"He will need surgery,\" Dr Alena tells the mother. The hope in the woman's eyes turns to anxiety.\n\nDr Alena asks her if she knows anyone who she can stay with on one of the bigger islands. Yes, the woman says - in Culion, a 12-hour boat ride away.\n\n\"Once I tell them they need to have an operation, you see in their faces the fear and the sadness because they realise there isn't any medicine I can give them to cure this,\" Dr Alena says. \"You see in their minds [the thought] how are they going to afford this? It's hard being the one to deliver the news.\"\n\nIn another part of the world, a hernia is a minor medical procedure. But here it can wipe out a family's savings, leaving them in debt for years.\n\n\"If we could make travel easier that would make a lot of difference,\" she adds. \"But that's hard because it will take a lot of resources.\"\n\nAfter three years on the island, Dr Alena's optimism and ambition have given way to the disheartening realisation that resources - or money - will always be the biggest challenge.\n\nA concrete all-weather road runs along the base of the rocky hills that circle the main island of Agutaya. Construction began alongside campaigning for the local election last year. One lane was finished before election day, but islanders say work stopped after that. There is no second lane yet.\n\n\"We'll have to wait for the next elections to get the road finished,\" quips one local.\n\nAgutaya and the islands around it are too tiny to matter to Manila, locals say\n\nOn the other end of the island, rusting steel bars stick out of an incomplete concrete structure that is gradually being overrun by vegetation.\n\nIt was supposed to be the new rural health unit, Dr Alena says. Work stopped last year because the local government ran out of money. \"But they haven't completed their part of the deal,\" she says, her frustration palpable.\n\nPhilippine politics is not driven by parties, but personalities, and dominated by large, powerful clans whose chiefs promise resources from Manila in return for votes. As one local woman put it, Agutaya is too small a community: \"There aren't enough votes here that make it worth the money.\"\n\nLocal politicians have little incentive to change and come election time, vote-buying is common enough that it now seems to have a well-worn price: 500 pesos, or $9 (£7). Corruption runs deep, and the money pouring in doesn't seem to reach its destination.\n\n\"I came here very idealistic,\" Dr Alena says, sighing. \"I was very aggressive to try and change the way the local health system worked. But then as time goes on you realise that three years is far too short to make any big changes.\"\n\nAs her time on Agutaya - a three-year-contract - drew to an end, many islanders told her they would be sad to see her go. \"Time flies fast,\" said Ricardo, one of the senior nursing assistants, who described her as \"selfless and hardworking\".\n\nAs much as she helped, Dr Alena says she feels deeply frustrated at the end of her stint\n\nBut in the weeks since returning to Manila, Dr Alena says she has felt disappointed and even cynical about her experience working for local government. She was offered a job at the provincial health administration in Palawan but turned it down. Instead she wants to work in a medical charity or NGO.\n\nLast week, she returned to Agutaya as part of an NGO-run programme. For decades, the NGO, with the help of local and international donors, has been regularly sending specialist doctors to the islands to do minor surgeries.\n\nBut this time Dr Alena's journey didn't last two and half days. She, along with other doctors, arrived there three hours after taking off from Manila - they touched down on a runway on the luxury island of Amanpulo.", "Ms Frendo said Saul \"always had the biggest infectious smile and was full of love\"\n\nA teenager who died when his e-bike collided with an ambulance after he was followed by police was \"the most sweetest, kindest boy ever\", his mother has said.\n\nSaul Cookson, 15, was being followed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) traffic officers in Salford on Thursday until bollards blocked their vehicle's path.\n\nHis e-bike then collided with the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) vehicle.\n\nEmma Frendo said her son had been \"loved by all that met him\".\n\n\"He was the sweetest, most kindest boy ever, and always had the biggest infectious smile and was full of love,\" she said.\n\n\"Saul was a much-loved son, brother, grandson, and nephew, loved by all that met him.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun an investigation into Thursday's collision\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said an investigation into the collision.\n\nIt said Saul had been riding a black off-road Sur-Ron e-bike and was followed by officers along Fitzwarren Street and on to Lower Seedley Road at about 14:00 BST before the crash on Langworthy Road.\n\nWhile not on an active call at the time of the crash, NWAS said its vehicle was being driven back to a nearby ambulance station.\n\nIts crew were immediately able to treat the boy before taking him to hospital, where he later died.\n\nPolice and independent investigators have been examining the scene of the crash\n\nWriting on Facebook, Taylor-Jade Cookson paid tribute to her brother and said \"words cannot describe my feelings at the moment\".\n\n\"Rest in peace Saul I love you,\" she added.\n\nDozens of people have been leaving flowers and cards at the scene.\n\nTwo sapphire blue, heart-shaped balloons have been tied at the foot of a lamppost, along with flowers, candles, cards and a large white banner full of handwritten messages.\n\nAnother, circled with red hearts, simply reads \"Gone but not forgotten\".\n\nOne of Saul's relatives who attended the scene to lay flowers said the family was \"a mess\" following their loss.\n\nSaul's friend, 21-year-old Mitchell Murden, said he had been due to meet him on the day he died.\n\nHe described Saul as \"a good lad\" who \"kept himself to himself\".\n\nFamily friend Jacob Bailey said \"no-one had a bad word to say\" about Saul\n\nFamily friend Jacob Bailey, 19, told BBC Newsbeat he came to lay some flowers and pay his respects as he had \"known Saul since I was about five\".\n\n\"He was just one of those proper nice kids,\" he said.\n\n\"He never ever caused anyone any harm.\n\n\"No-one had a bad word to say about Saul.\"\n\nNeighbour Karen Cosgrove said she had passed the scene at about 14:30 BST on Thursday and saw Saul lying on the ground.\n\n\"I walked away, I could barely look at it,\" she said.\n\n\"His mum was there, she was screaming.\n\nHeartfelt messages have been left at the crash scene\n\nSome concerns have been expressed by local people about the availability and use of high-powered e-bikes.\n\nMr Murden said \"the majority\" of young people in the area had them.\n\nMike McCusker, lead member for transport at Salford City Council, said there was \"growing concern\" in the community about e-bikes, particularly \"very young men riding round without helmets on\".\n\n\"The ones we have on our loan schemes are limited to about 15mph, but there are unregulated ones that can go up to speeds of 60mph.\n\n\"We don't think regulation is keeping track with the technological advancements around e-bikes.\"\n\nFlowers and candles have also been left at the scene\n\nIn a statement, GMP said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the boy who tragically died.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had begun gathering evidence, including dashcam footage from the police vehicle, and had taken initial statements from two police officers, who were being treated as witnesses.\n\nA representative said there was \"no indication at this early time... of direct physical contact between the police vehicle and the e-bike\", but examinations of both were \"continuing\".\n\nIOPC regional director Catherine Bates said it was \"important we understand the events leading up to this incident and will be looking at the actions and decision-making of police prior to the collision, including the reason for the decision to follow the bike\".\n\nShe asked anyone who witnessed or had dashcam footage of the collision or \"events leading up to it\" to get in touch.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Teen on e-bike dies after being followed by police", "The publisher of the Mirror newspapers has made a court apology to the former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson after admitting using private investigators to get stories about her.\n\nA barrister for Mirror Group Newspapers said it \"unequivocally apologises\" to her, adding \"it shouldn't have happened and won't again\".\n\nMs Sanderson was giving evidence in her High Court case against the newspapers.\n\nDespite the admissions, MGN denies targeting her more widely.\n\nShe is claiming damages for 37 articles published in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People newspapers between 1999 and 2009.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for the newspapers, said she had lived through \"much press intrusion\" and giving evidence would be \"unpleasant and stressful.\"\n\nIn her witness statement, Ms Sanderson said she had been \"abused\" by MGN and \"attacked\" by people with more power than her.\n\nMs Sanderson joined Coronation Street in 1999, aged 15, playing the role of Candice Stowe and immediately became of interest to the media, the court heard.\n\nCrowds would regularly gather outside the studios and photographers would appear to get pictures of her.\n\nMs Sanderson alleges the newspapers used information from her mobile phone voicemails which were hacked, and paid private investigators to get personal information about her.\n\nMr Green said a small number of records for calls from journalists to her phone numbers had been disclosed, but showed no evidence they were to hack her phone.\n\nHowever, within invoices for payments to private investigators, Mr Green said four were for the firms ELI and Avalon, which have been implicated in unlawful information gathering\n\nMaking the apology, he said MGN admitted on four occasions in 2004 and 2005 journalists used the investigators to target Ms Sanderson.\n\nMr Green is continuing to cross-examine Ms Sanderson about the stories she has put at the centre of her case.\n\nPrince Harry has said he is suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror to stop \"absolute intrusion and hate\" towards him and his wife.\n\nThe case is also due to hear from other claimants including Coronation Street actor Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThey all allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nMGN, which has admitted widespread unlawful information gathering against other celebrities, has argued Ms Sanderson should have brought her legal action years ago, under rules that civil claims must be made within six years.\n\nShe called this \"gaslighting\" in her witness statement.\n\nDescribing herself as a \"young girl\" at the time, Ms Sanderson accused the publisher of \"hiring random men\" to follow her.\n\n\"They could have done anything to me,\" she said, adding that it was \"particularly distressing to learn that these illegal activities continued for a period of many years\".\n\nDescribing her experiences as \"abuse\", she said she did not use the word \"lightly\".\n\n\"The fact is these people were in positions of power and I was a child and a young female, and I was attacked by people who were more powerful than me - I did nothing to deserve this treatment.\"\n\nMs Sanderson also said she was tricked into giving away the name of a hotel she was staying at in Zakynthos, Greece.\n\nShe said someone working for \"Disney or Universal\" contacted her mother saying they were interested in making her part of a film and needed to send a telegram.\n\n\"The next thing I know, the paps [paparazzi] and press had managed to find me, she said, adding she \"was little more than a child and they deceived me\".\n\nMs Sanderson also said she was subjected to \"mental and physical abuse\" as a result of public backlash from articles written in the Mirror.\n\nAs well as being shouted at in the street, she said on one occasion a group of girls set fire to her hair in the toilets of a club.\n\n\"Fortunately, I wasn't wearing any hair product, otherwise, my hair would have gone up in flames,\" she said.\n\nMs Sanderson said she came to think that \"random people\" or others at Coronation Street were selling stories about her.\n\nShe also said she was \"really hurt\" by one article which accused her father of being a \"womaniser\".\n\n\"To have my personal life splashed over the papers for people to indulge in was heart-breaking.\"", "Crispin Odey, who founded Odey Asset Management in 1991, strenuously denies the claims\n\nPartners at a prominent finance firm have said its founder, Crispin Odey, is leaving after sexual assault and harassment allegations.\n\nHis exit follows a Financial Times report that 13 women had accused Mr Odey of misconduct over 25 years.\n\nMr Odey has strenuously denied the claims and hinted that he could resist his ousting from the firm.\n\nOdey Asset Management said that it took allegations of misconduct \"extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Odey had been at the helm of the hedge fund he founded in 1991 which, at its peak, managed more than £10bn worth of investments.\n\nMr Odey, a prominent Brexit backer, claimed to have made hundreds of millions of pounds as sterling plummeted in the aftermath of the referendum vote.\n\nOn Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the allegations dated back to 1998 and the latest alleged incident was in December 2021.\n\nAt the weekend, it emerged that there would now be a separation between Odey Asset Management Group - which Mr Odey had a majority stake in - and Odey Asset Management LLP or the \"partnership\".\n\nThe partnership's executive committee said it has removed Mr Odey as a partner and added: \"He will no longer have any economic or personal involvement in the partnership.\"\n\n\"Odey Asset Management Group Ltd will also cease to be a member and the partnership will now be owned and controlled by the remaining partners and managed as an independent legal entity.\"\n\nIt added that Mr Odey's main hedge fund will be run by co-manager Freddie Neave.\n\nMr Odey said that \"none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation\".\n\nSpeaking to the Financial Times on Saturday, he also suggested he could fight the firm's decision. \"You have to have [a] willing buyer, willing seller,\" he told the paper.\n\nThe executive committee said the firm's policies and procedures \"have been followed at all times\".\n\n\"The firm has been investigating allegations concerning Mr Odey, but the firm cannot comment in detail as it is bound by legal obligations of confidentiality.\"\n\nOdey Asset Management said it had been \"fully transparent\" with the regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and would contact clients over the weekend.\n\nOdey Asset Management LLP will also undergo a \"complete rebrand of the Partnership in the near future\", the firm said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text from 13:00 BST and radio commentary from 13:30 on BBC Radio 5 Live & the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nNovak Djokovic says he is relishing the chance to make tennis history as he aims to become the first man to win 23 Grand Slam titles.\n\nDjokovic, 36, faces Norway's Casper Ruud, 24, in the men's singles final at the French Open on Sunday.\n\nA victory would take the Serb clear of Rafael Nadal's total of 22 wins.\n\n\"I like the feeling, it's an incredible privilege to be able to make history in the sport I truly love and has given me so much,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"The motivation is very high, as you can imagine. There is one more to go to hopefully get my hands on the trophy.\n\n\"I have put myself in another really ideal position to win a Grand Slam.\n\n\"That's basically what still drives me when I wake up in the morning and think about things I want to achieve. The Grand Slams are what drives me the most.\"\n\nAnother victory would give Djokovic his third French Open title and he would also become the first man to win each of the four Grand Slam tournaments at least three times.\n\n\"I've been very fortunate that most of the matches in tournaments I've played in the last few years, there is history on the line,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"As far as all the records that are on the line, again it's flattering, it's great, but I need to win.\n\n\"I'm proud of all my achievements and I try to stay present and in the moment. I know the job is not finished and we have another match.\"\n\nRuud reached the finals of the French Open and the US Open in 2022 but lost on both occasions, against Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz respectively.\n\nAt Roland Garros, Ruud won only six games in three sets as Nadal completed a routine 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory for his 22nd Grand Slam title.\n\n\"Obviously, I would like to try to do better than last year,\" Ruud said. \"Let's see if I have learned something from the two previous ones that I played last year.\n\n\"It's going to be tough, for sure. He's playing for his 23rd, I'm playing for my first. So I'm going to just try to play without pressure and just try to enjoy the moment.\n\n\"That was my mentality last year as well, and it didn't go my way.\n\n\"It just feels great to be back in the final. I didn't think or necessarily believe in the beginning of the tournament I was going to be in the final.\"\n\nDjokovic and Ruud have never played each other in a Grand Slam, but have met four times on the ATP Tour, with the Serb winning all the matches and not even dropping a set.\n\n\"It is going to be the toughest challenge of the year for me to play Novak,\" Ruud added.\n\n\"Novak has played great this tournament and in the Grand Slams he always raises his level.\n\n\"I have never beaten him before, so I'm going to have to try to come up with a better game plan.\n\n\"I know I'm going to have to play my 'A' game, my best level I've ever played if I want to have a chance against him.\"\n\nHow they reached the final\n\nDjokovic did not drop a set in the first four rounds, beating Aleksandar Kovacevic of the United States, Marton Fucsovics of Hungary, 29th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and Juan Pablo Varillas of Peru.\n\nRussia's Karen Khachanov, the 11th seed, became the first player to take a set off Djokovic in their quarter-final before the former world number one took the next three sets.\n\nA match with current world number one Carlos Alcaraz followed in the semi-finals and it was set up to be a classic at one set all in a high quality encounter before the 20-year-old Spaniard struggled physically, with Djokovic winning 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1.\n\nRuud began with wins over Swedish qualifier Elias Ymer and Giulio Zeppieri of Italy in round two then fought back from a set down against Zhizhen Zhang of China in the third round.\n\nHe saw off Chile's Nicolas Jarry in the last 16, with his first win over a seed coming with the four-set victory over Denmark's Holger Rune, the sixth seed, in the quarter-finals.\n\nRuud made it back-to-back French Open final appearances thanks to a convincing 6-3 6-4 6-0 win over 22nd seed Alexander Zverev of Germany.\n\nCan you name all the players Novak Djokovic has beaten in Grand Slam finals? Share your score with your friends!\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None A true crime drama weaving together the 1973 investigation with the cold case review\n• None A chaotic comedy you can't risk to miss:", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started.\n\n\"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage or state the counter-offensive was in.\n\nThe comments come after an escalation of fighting in the south and east of Ukraine and speculation about progress of the widely anticipated push.\n\nUkrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.\n\nBut assessing the reality on the front lines is difficult, with the two warring sides presenting contrasting narratives: Ukraine claiming progress and Russia that it is fighting off attacks.\n\nMeanwhile in Russia's Kaluga region - which borders the southern districts around Moscow - governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a drone crashed near the village of Strelkovk early on Sunday. The BBC has not independently verified the report.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said in a video interview published Friday that Ukrainian forces had certainly begun their offensive but that attempted advances had failed with heavy casualties.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv on Saturday after talks with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Mr Zelensky described the Russian leader's words as \"interesting\".\n\nShrugging his shoulders, raising his eyebrows and pretending not to know who Mr Putin was, Mr Zelensky said it was important that Russia felt \"they do not have long left\".\n\nHe also said that Ukraine's military commanders were in a positive mood, adding: \"Tell that to Putin.\"\n\nMr Trudeau announced 500 million Canadian dollars (£297m) in new military aid for Ukraine during the unannounced visit.\n\nA joint statement issued after the talks said Canada supports Ukraine becoming a Nato member \"as soon as conditions allow for it\", adding that the issue would be discussed at the Nato Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.\n\nMeanwhile, fighting has escalated in recent days in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian officials say. Ukrainian forces are thought to be trying to push south to split Russian forces in two, breaking through the occupied territory which connects Russia to Crimea.\n\nUkraine's hope of advances in the region could be hindered by huge flooding in the south of the country after the Nova Khakovka dam was destroyed last week.\n\nThe flooding has covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.\n\nIn his nightly address on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said 3,000 people have been evacuated from the flooded Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.\n\nAnd Kherson's regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said water levels had dropped by 27cm, but more than 30 settlements on the right bank of the river - which is Ukrainian-held territory - were still flooded and almost 4,000 residential buildings remained underwater.\n\nNato and Ukraine's military have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.\n\nHowever, it seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the river as part of their ongoing counteroffensive, the BBC's Paul Adams says.", "Part of the graveyard in Lewes Road has been cordoned off by police\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of a man and a woman were found at an address in East Sussex.\n\nThe 33-year-old man and 30-year-old woman were discovered in a property in Lewes Road, Newhaven, just after 19:00 BST on Friday.\n\nA 64-year-old man from Brighton is in custody.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nPart of the graveyard on Lewes Road has been cordoned off, which is next to the house at the centre of the investigation.\n\nThe house at the centre of the investigation is next door to a graveyard\n\nDet Ch Insp Kimball Edey said: \"We are in the early stages of this fast-moving investigation, following a tragic incident in which two people have sadly lost their lives.\n\n\"I understand this will be alarming to the community and there will be an increased police presence in the area for some time.\n\n\"I would like to thank the public for their patience and understanding while we establish the full circumstances.\"\n\nPolice said the two victims were discovered in a property in Lewes Road\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "A statue of Cranogwen was unveiled in Llangrannog on Saturday\n\nA statue of the poet Cranogwen has become only the third sculpture in Wales of a real woman.\n\nThe image was unveiled in Llangrannog, Ceredigion, on Saturday as part of a campaign to recognise women's contribution in Wales.\n\nIt is part of Monumental Welsh Women's plan to erect five effigies of Welsh women in five years.\n\nCranogwen - the writer's bardic name - was the first woman to win a poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod.\n\nA pioneer in many fields she challenged expectations of women during the Victorian era.\n\nBorn in Llangrannog 1839 as Sarah Jane Rees, she became one of Wales' most popular poets and also worked as a head teacher, ship's captain, campaigner and journalist.\n\nThe first woman to edit a Welsh-language women's magazine, called 'Y Frythones', she used it to encourage female talent and gave women a platform.\n\nMore than £75,000 was raised to fund the sculpture.\n\nMonumental Welsh Women founder, Helen Molyneux, said: \"This permanent memorial of Cranogwen will stand in the heart of her beloved community of Llangrannog, and will serve as both commemoration of a remarkable, brave and pioneering woman and her many ground-breaking achievements and as inspiration to all of us who came after her.\"\n\nShe was one of Wales' most popular poets and also worked as a head teacher, ship's captain, campaigner and journalist\n\nSculptor Sebastien Boyesen said creating the statue had been \"a long journey\".\n\nHe said he hoped people would like it, adding: \"I looked at it this morning and I am quite happy. It's been an absolute privilege to do this work.\"\n\nA colourful procession was held to mark the unveiling\n\nThe other statues that have been erected are of Wales' first black headteacher, Betty Campbell, in Cardiff, and writer Elaine Morgan in Mountain Ash, in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSculpture steering committee and Senedd member, Elin Jones, said she achieved locally, nationally and internationally \"when it was not acceptable for women to do such things\".\n\nColourful flags were on show depicting the Welsh poet\n\nThe unveiling was marked by a procession from the Gwersyll to the village led by Owerin dancers and songs were performed by the community choir.\n\nA talk about Cranogwen was also held about her life and achievements.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man suspected of stabbing four young children in a playground in the French resort of Annecy is held on attempted murder charges, French prosecutors say.\n\nThe children, aged between one and three, were attacked with a knife in a park in the Alpine region on Thursday.\n\nProsecutors said the actions of Syrian-born Abdelmasih Hanoun, who they referred to as Abdelmasih H, did not appear linked to terrorism.\n\nThe suspect, 31, remained silent in police interviews, prosecutors said.\n\nHe has not been cooperating with investigators - in fact, he has refused to communicate with them and has spent much of the last 48 hours curled up in the corner of his cell.\n\nPolice had to physically carry him to his brief hearing before a judge on Saturday, where he was formally placed under investigation for attempted murder. He will remain in custody.\n\nLocal prosecutor Lise Bonnet-Mathis said during a news conference that the suspect had been assessed by a psychiatrist while in custody, and had been determined fit to appear before a court.\n\nShe added that it was too early to make any kind of conclusion regarding his mental state.\n\nThe brutal attack on victims so young - its horror captured on video - has shocked France.\n\nThis story contains details some readers may find distressing.\n\nFootage uploaded to social media showed people screaming soon after a man holding a knife entered a playground next to a lake in Annecy.\n\nVideo that is too graphic for broadcast showed him attacking a child in a pushchair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe then fled the scene and stabbed an elderly man nearby. Police intervened and the attacker was shot in the legs.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron described it as an \"act of cowardice\" and travelled to the south-eastern region on Friday to visit victims and their families in hospital.\n\nThe attack has also fuelled further fierce debate about immigration policy in France, after it was found that the suspect has refugee status in Sweden and had also unsuccessfully been seeking asylum in France, Italy and Switzerland.\n\nMs Bonnet-Mathis said the four children - including a British girl who was on holiday with her parents in Annecy - were no longer in critical conditions in hospital.\n\nThe British girl was stabbed once by the attacker and was gravely wounded but did not sustain life-threatening injuries, Ms Bonnet-Mathis said.\n\nTwo of the other children were French nationals from the eastern region of Haute-Savoie, she added.\n\nThe other was a Dutch national who has been transferred to a hospital in Geneva for treatment.\n\nTwo adults who were also injured during the attack are also out of danger.\n\nOne of the adults, who was first stabbed by the attacker, was hit by a police bullet while officers were attempting to stop the assailant, the prosecutor confirmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youssouf, 78, says there was no reason for the attack\n\nOfficials are referring to the suspect as Abdelmasih H but his full surname is widely reported.\n\nThe knifeman's motivation remains unclear. Witnesses said that during the incident the attacker invoked the name of Jesus Christ.\n\nAnd in an unsuccessful asylum application last year for refugee status in France, he said he was a Syrian Christian.\n\nHe had recently come to France after leaving behind a wife and three-year-old daughter in Sweden - where he has refugee status.\n\nFrench television broadcast pictures of the suspect being moved from the police station, ahead of his appearance before a judge.\n\nBFM images showed the suspect being carried on a stretcher to a black car at the rear of the police station, and then a convoy of vehicles leaving the area.", "Former Prime Minster Boris Johnson has announced that he is standing down as an MP, with immediate effect.\n\nIt comes after he received a report from the MP-led Privileges Committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nHere is his statement in full:\n\nI have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear - much to my amazement - that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.\n\nThey have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.\n\nThey know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons, I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say, like any other minister. They know that I corrected the record as soon as possible; and they know that I and every other senior official and minister - including the current Prime Minister and then occupant of the same building, Rishi Sunak - believed that we were working lawfully together.\n\nI have been an MP since 2001. I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie, and I believe that in their hearts, the Committee know it. But they have wilfully chosen to ignore the truth, because from the outset, their purpose has not been to discover the truth, or genuinely to understand what was in my mind when I spoke in the Commons.\n\nTheir purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts. This is the very definition of a kangaroo court.\n\nMost members of the Committee - especially the chair - had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence. They should have recused themselves.\n\nIn retrospect, it was naïve and trusting of me to think that these proceedings could be remotely useful or fair. But I was determined to believe in the system, and in justice, and to vindicate what I knew to be the truth.\n\nIt was the same faith in the impartiality of our systems that led me to commission Sue Gray. It is clear that my faith has been misplaced. Of course, it suits the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP to do whatever they can to remove me from Parliament.\n\nSadly, as we saw in July last year, there are currently some Tory MPs who share that view. I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.\n\nMy removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.\n\nNor do I believe that it is any coincidence that her supposedly impartial chief counsel, Daniel Stilitz KC, turned out to be a strong Labour supporter who repeatedly tweeted personal attacks on me and the government.\n\nWhen I left office last year, the government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened.\n\nJust a few years after winning the biggest majority in almost half a century, that majority is now clearly at risk.\n\nOur party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.\n\nWe need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda. We need to cut business and personal taxes - and not just as pre-election gimmicks - rather than endlessly putting them up.\n\nWe must not be afraid to be a properly Conservative government.\n\nWhy have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?\n\nWe need to deliver on the 2019 manifesto, which was endorsed by 14 million people. We should remember that more than 17 million voted for Brexit.\n\nI am now being forced out of Parliament by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without the approval even of Conservative party members, let alone the wider electorate.\n\nI believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set.\n\nThe Conservative Party has the time to recover its mojo and its ambition and to win the next election. I had looked forward to providing enthusiastic support as a backbench MP. Harriet Harman's committee has set out to make that objective completely untenable.\n\nThe Committee's report is riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice, but under their absurd and unjust process, I have no formal ability to challenge anything they say.\n\nThe Privileges Committee is there to protect the privileges of Parliament. That is a very important job. They should not be using their powers - which have only been very recently designed - to mount what is plainly a political hit job on someone they oppose.\n\nIt is in no one's interest, however, that the process the Committee has launched should continue for a single day further.\n\nSo I have today written to my Association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.\n\nI am very sorry to leave my wonderful constituency. It has been a huge honour to serve them, both as Mayor and MP.\n\nBut I am proud that after what is cumulatively a 15-year stint, I have helped to deliver, among other things, a vast new railway in the Elizabeth Line and full funding for a wonderful new state of the art hospital for Hillingdon, where enabling works have already begun.\n\nI also remain hugely proud of all that we achieved in my time in office as prime minister: getting Brexit done, winning the biggest majority for 40 years and delivering the fastest vaccine roll out of any major European country, as well as leading global support for Ukraine.\n\nIt is very sad to be leaving Parliament - at least for now - but above all, I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias.\n• None I've been forced out over Partygate report - Johnson", "The man - known only as Henri - was saluted for his bravery by President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFrench media have lauded a young \"hero with a backpack\" for his attempts to thwart a knife attack in Annecy which left four children seriously injured.\n\nHenri, 24, was filmed chasing the suspect and swinging his bag at him.\n\nThe Catholic pilgrim - who has been touring France's cathedrals - said he had followed his instincts and did what he could to \"protect the weak\".\n\nHe was praised for his bravery by President Emmanuel Macron when the two met in the town on Friday afternoon.\n\nMr Macron told Henri that his actions were a \"source of hope\", but that the young man had \"lived through... a trauma\".\n\nThe French leader travelled to meet the victims of the stabbings and salute the work of first responders.\n\nHe said he had heard \"positive\" news about the condition of the four children wounded in the attack. Two adults were also hurt.\n\nFootage of the incident itself and the immediate aftermath appeared to show Henri swinging one of his backpacks at the attacker, who tried to slash at him in return.\n\nAnother clip showed him chasing the knifeman across a grassy area.\n\nAs the phrase #MerciHenri started to trend online, Henri posted on Instagram to say: \"Pray for the children, I am doing fine.\"\n\nHenri received messages of thanks, not only for his actions but also his apparent modesty.\n\nInterviewed the next morning by CNews, Henri said: \"All I know is, I was not there by chance.\"\n\nHe explained that it was \"unthinkable to do nothing... I followed my instincts and did what I could to protect the weak.\"\n\nThe management graduate, who has declined to provide his surname, later pointed out to BFMTV that that he was not the only civilian who put themselves in harm's way.\n\nHe had \"acted like any French person would\", he said. \"Many other people intervened in whatever way they could. I saw a park employee try to hit the attacker with his big plastic spade.\"\n\nHenri's father believes his son's actions prevented more people from getting wounded by the assailant.\n\nSpeaking to the Associated Press news agency, he said his son had \"prevented carnage by scaring him off. Really very courageous\".\n\nHenri had been interviewed just days before the incident by the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. He was quizzed on his nine-month tour of France's cathedrals, which he planned to complete by walking and hitchhiking.\n\nHe was quoted discussing his trick of knocking on random doors near cathedrals to try and find accommodation. \"It forces you to open up to people,\" he explained.\n\nCommenting on the suggestion that the suspect in Thursday's attacks also identifies as a Christian, Henri said it was \"profoundly unchristian to attack the vulnerable\".\n\nInstead, Henri said, \"something very bad inhabited him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youssouf, 78, says there was no reason for the attack", "Jonathan Buckley (left) and Gavin Robinson are going head to head in a vote for the deputy leadership\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson has said the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is in \"healthy shape\" ahead of the election for its new deputy leader.\n\nPaula Bradley has been the party's second in command since 2021 but is stepping down from the role.\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson and Jonathan Buckley, who represents Upper Bann in the Stormont assembly, are in the running to replace her.\n\nDUP MPs and assembly members are due to vote later at the party headquarters.\n\nAhead of the vote Sir Jeffrey said: \"It's a healthy thing in a democratic political party that people have choice.\n\n\"It's a healthy sign that the DUP has young people like Gavin and Jonathan coming forward, wanting to take up senior positions.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey rejected any suggestion of a split in the party, adding that he had worked hard as leader to build unity over the past two years.\n\nPaula Bradley has served as the DUP's deputy leader since May 2021\n\n\"I don't detect any sense that this is about splits or division and it's not unusual in a political party to have competition for posts such as this,\" he said.\n\n\"It demonstrates that the DUP is in healthy shape.\"\n\nThe result of the vote will be ratified at a later date.\n\nMs Bradley succeeded Lord Dodds as deputy leader and has held the post since May 2021 when Edwin Poots was elected as the DUP's leader.\n\nShe retained her seat in the council election last month.\n\nThe DUP is blocking the normal functioning of Stormont's power-sharing government and its legislative assembly as part of a protest against post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nChanges were made to those trading arrangements in the Windsor Framework, agreed by the UK and the EU in March, but the DUP has said the new deal is not good enough.\n\nAs a result of the 16-month boycott Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has not been able to take up the post of Northern Ireland's first minister.\n\nThe DUP, which is the second biggest party at Stormont and is entitled to the deputy first minister role, must return to power-sharing to allow those posts to be filled.\n\nIt has also meant that civil servants have been left to run Northern Ireland's public services amid a major budget crisis.\n\nOn Thursday Sir Jeffrey said he was hopeful of making progress in his talks with the UK government about what he required in order to agree a return to Stormont.", "The yellow weather warning is in place from 12:00 to 21:00 BST on Sunday\n\nThunderstorms and hail are expected to sweep across Scotland as a result of high temperatures.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning affecting much of the west coast and Highlands from 12:00 until 21:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nForecasters said conditions would include lightning strikes, strong winds and \"torrential\" rain in some parts.\n\nFurther warnings for thunder affecting the north east and Dumfries and Galloway are in place for Monday.\n\nAgain these will last between 12:00 and 21:00 BST.\n\nThe nature of showers on Sunday will be scattered, meaning some parts within the warning area will remain dry.\n\nThe areas experiencing the worst rain could see 30-40mm in an hour.\n\nThere is also a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded quickly, with damage to some buildings from floodwater, the Met Office said.\n\nThe warning extends to Wales and central and southern parts of England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after an extended spell of hot, dry weather across the UK.\n\nTemperatures reached 29.8°C in Auchincruive, Ayrshire, on Saturday - making it the warmest day of the year in Scotland.\n\nA temperature of 30.4°C in Northolt, west London, and Wisley, Surrey made it the UK's hottest day of the year too.\n\nEarlier this week the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service issued a Scotland-wide warning of a \"very high\" wildfire risk, which remains in place until Saturday.\n\nA wildfire near Cannich in the Highlands had been burning for almost two weeks and caused extensive damage to an RSPB Scotland nature reserve.\n\nMeanwhile the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has reiterated warnings on water scarcity.\n\nIts most recent report on Thursday said the issue was most acute around Loch Maree in Wester Ross, increasing the risk in the area to \"significant\".\n\nThe agency also said Loch Ness - Scotland's largest freshwater loch by volume - had dropped to its lowest water level in 32 years last month amid dry conditions.", "Diplomats say they were shocked by Dragos Tigau's racist remark\n\nRomania has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys.\n\nDragos Tigau made the comments during a meeting at a UN building in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on April 26.\n\nAccording to the AFP news agency, Mr Tigau said \"the African group has joined us\" when he saw a monkey outside a window.\n\nMr Tigau's behaviour was first made public on Thursday by Kenyan foreign affairs official Kamau Macharia.\n\nOn Twitter Mr Macharia said he was left \"appalled and disgusted\" by the incident, and claimed that attempts were made to cover up Mr Tigau's behaviour.\n\nAfrican diplomats on Friday demanded a public apology, according to Kenya's Standard newspaper, insisting that a private apology was not enough.\n\nOn Saturday, Romania announced that it had only been informed of the incident this week and had now begun \"a procedure to recall its ambassador\".\n\n\"We deeply regret this situation and offer our apologies to all those who have been affected,\" the statement from Romania's foreign affairs ministry read.\n\n\"Any behaviours or comments of a racist nature are completely unacceptable,\" it added, saying it hoped it would not affect its ties with African countries.\n\nRomania mainly engages with African nations through its membership of the European Union, but it has bilateral trade deals with Egypt among others.\n\nThe Kenyan government has not commented on the decision to recall Mr Tigau.\n\nRomanian media have criticised his behaviour, and say this is not the first time the country has been embarrassed by insults dished out by diplomats.\n\nIn 2014, Romania's ambassador to Armenia was recalled after making anti-Semitic jokes about Jewish bosses and questioning the morality of same-sex relationships.\n\nThe following year, Bucharest apologised after invitations to a reception at its Paris embassy accidentally included unflattering descriptions of some guests - labelling them \"ghastly\" and \"undesirable\" among other things.", "Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been found dead in his prison cell, federal officials confirmed to the BBC.\n\nKaczynski, 81, killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. He later pleaded guilty to his crimes.\n\nHe was sentenced to life without parole in 1996 after evading capture for almost 20 years.\n\nThe Harvard-trained mathematician was eventually caught in a Montana cabin.\n\nHe was a man who fascinated America for decades, and he became the focus of numerous TV documentaries.\n\nKaczynski spent the past three decades held at prisons across the US - most recently at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.\n\nPrison guards at the facility discovered Kaczynski's body on Saturday morning at around 00:25 local time (04:25 GMT), a spokesperson for the US Bureau of Prisons told the BBC.\n\nHis cause of death was not immediately clear.\n\n\"Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures,\" the spokesperson said. Kaczynski was then \"transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel\".\n\nBefore suffering from declining health which prompted his transfer to the facility in December 2021, he had been held at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998.\n\nKaczynski's violent campaign - which shook the US - left a number of his victims permanently maimed and changed the way Americans posted letters.\n\nHis crimes were uncovered after he forced the Washington Post and the New York Times to publish his unhinged and angry manifesto, called Industrial Society and Its Future, in September 1995.\n\nThey agreed to print the manifesto on the recommendation of the FBI and the US attorney general after Kaczynski said he would end his campaign if a national paper published his treatise.\n\nThe 35,000-word anonymised document railed against modern life and claimed that technology was leading to Americans suffering from a sense of alienation and powerlessness.\n\nBut after reading the papers, Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law recognised the tone and alerted the FBI, who had been searching for him for years in the nation's longest manhunt.\n\nIn April 1996 authorities finally caught up with him in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-metre) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana.\n\nThe hut was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosives and two completed bombs.\n\nWhile Kaczynski's manifesto struck many as being overtly political in tone, he never sought to embody the revolutionary mantle some attributed to him.\n\nIn his own journals he wrote that he didn't claim to be \"altruist or to be acting for the 'good' (whatever that is) of the human race\", instead insisting that he acted \"merely from a desire for revenge\".\n\nHis crimes seemed to begin shortly after he was fired from the family business by his brother for posting abusive limericks to a female colleague who had dumped him after two dates.\n\nFrom there he retreated to the Montana wildness and to the cabin he had built by hand, without heating, plumbing or electricity.\n\nHis first attacks targeted Northwestern University in Illinois. The two bombings occurred almost a year apart on 25 May 1978 and 9 May 1979, injuring two people.\n\nThen, in November 1979, an altitude-triggered bomb he had mailed went off aboard an American Airlines flight. Twelve people suffered from smoke inhalation.\n\nThe early attacks earned him the moniker Unabomber from the FBI, as his targets seemed to be universities and airlines.\n\nOn 5 April 1996, FBI agents finally tracked Kaczynski to a remote cabin in Montana\n\nOver the following years he attacked a further 13 times, killing three people - computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray.\n\nAt Kaczynski's trial, Mr Mosser's wife said her husband had been killed on the day he was supposed to be picking up a Christmas tree with his family and recalled the moments after the attack.\n\n\"He was moaning very softly,\" she said of her husband. \"The fingers on his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I told him help was coming. I told him I loved him.\"\n\nSince his capture there has been endless speculation about Kaczynski's motivations.\n\nA test as a boy revealed he possessed an IQ of 167, and he had skipped two grades to attend Harvard University aged just 16.\n\nFBI agents described him as \"a twisted genius who aspires to be the perfect, anonymous killer\" and he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by a psychiatrist who interviewed him in prison.\n\nIn a 47-page report Sally Johnson wrote that the \"central themes\" of his manifesto \"involve his belief that he is being maligned and harassed by family members and modern society\".\n\nBut Kaczynski himself always insisted that he knew exactly what he was doing, and he tried to take his own life in prison after his legal team attempted to introduce an insanity plea.\n\nIn an interview with Time magazine in 1999 he said he didn't suffer from \"delusions and and so on and so forth\".\n\n\"I'm confident that I'm sane, personally,\" he said.\n• None The Unabomber and the Norwegian mass murderer", "Michelle Hodgkinson's family described her as their \"biggest cheerleader\"\n\nThe family of a woman stabbed to death as she walked to meet her mum described their \"utter shock\" adding her final moments would have been \"horrific\".\n\nMichelle Hodgkinson, 51, had been walking in Edge Lane, Droylsden, Greater Manchester, when she was attacked at about noon on Friday.\n\nHer family said she was known for charity work and \"making people smile\".\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder but has since been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nIn a statement released through Greater Manchester Police, Ms Hodgkinson's family said: \"Everyone who knows Michelle is in utter shock at the attack she endured and how horrific her last moments were.\n\n\"Our Shelly B was the most amazing, loving, selfless and funny daughter, mother, mother-in-law, sister, auntie and most recently a nanna.\n\n\"It was a privilege to have been known and loved by her.\"\n\nThey said she had loved helping people in her community, was known for volunteering, carrying out charity work and she \"loved creating hampers to make people smile\".\n\n\"She would be there for anyone and the day she was taken from us, she was doing just that - walking to meet her mum to take her shopping and to go for a coffee,\" the family statement said.\n\n\"Our family and friends are heartbroken. In one moment our world has crumbled and will never be the same.\"\n\nThey added words could not describe \"how much she will be missed\".\n\n\"Our biggest cheerleader, our confidante, our rock - she will never be forgotten,\" her family said.\n\n\"We love you to the moon and back. We'll do everything we can to get justice. Love you forever and always.\"\n\nThe force said Ms Hodgkinson died at the scene of the stabbing in Edge Lane, Droylsden\n\nThe police force said reports came in at about 12:00 BST on Friday that a woman had been stabbed in the street.\n\nOfficers said Ms Hodgkinson died at the scene and they were still investigating the case.\n\nOn Saturday police said they were \"keeping an open mind\" over what had happened and understood the local community had been \"deeply affected\" by the attack.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fountain is now back in operation after a major overhaul\n\nIt has stood at the heart of Dumfries for about 140 years.\n\nThe town centre fountain - described as its \"jewel in the crown\" - had fallen on hard times and looked like its best days were behind it.\n\nHowever, it has now been dismantled, temporarily removed, upgraded and put back in pride of place.\n\nIt has been something of a labour of love for the driving force behind it - local artist Kirsten Scott - and everyone else involved.\n\n\"As somebody that restores furniture - I do interior design - I felt that I could lend my skills to maybe 'tarting up' the fountain - that was my initial thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I quickly realised there is quite a lot more to historic cast iron restoration than meets the eye - it became really involved after that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 140-year-old fountain at the centre of Dumfries is flowing again after a major restoration\n\nShe approached The Stove artists' network in the town and then Dumfries and Galloway Council got behind the idea.\n\n\"It became a bit of an obsession,\" Kirsten admitted.\n\n\"It has taken almost seven years to get to this point, so it has been a lot of hard work but really worth it when you see it the way it is today.\"\n\nHer research found the fountain was one of six similar ones made at the Sun Foundry in Glasgow.\n\nThey went around the world - including Australia, Ireland and the Channel Islands - but the most strikingly similar one to the Dumfries water feature is in Kandy in Sri Lanka.\n\nKirsten Scott said she hoped the project could be a catalyst for wider regeneration of the town centre\n\nThe fountain no longer worked and had fallen into a state of disrepair\n\nKirsten took on board the experience of similar projects to restore cast-iron fountains in Paisley, Stirling and Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens.\n\nThat was where the work of repairs specialists Lost Art was vital to help reinstate all the detailed features on the structure.\n\n\"I am absolutely delighted with it,\" Kirsten said.\n\n\"We were able to build up a really clear picture of how it should be restored - seeing all of that process has been fascinating for me.\n\n\"As a decorative structure it is beautiful, and the detail - you can really see now that all the layers of old paint have been stripped off and we have taken it right the way back to the original cast iron and then recoated it.\"\n\nThe fountain was dismantled, taken away and painstakingly restored\n\nA fountain was originally put up on the spot in 1851 to commemorate the piping of clean water from nearby Lochfoot into the town following cholera epidemics in the 1830s and 1840s.\n\nIt was replaced with the current structure in 1882.\n\nKirsten sees parallels in the restoration scheme which took place around the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"I think it is an important reminder that we should be grateful for what we have now,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it will certainly brighten up that bottom end of the High Street.\n\n\"It will be somewhere you will want to sit and have your photo taken and just to sit and chill out and listen to the sound of the water as well.\"\n\nSix similar fountains were made in the late 19th Century and one ended up in Sri Lanka\n\nThe project has not been without criticism, some questioning the decision to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on the fountain.\n\n\"You can't please everybody at the end of the day,\" said Kirsten.\n\n\"At times it has been really tough, because there has been a lot of really quite vicious comments made on social media and there have been a few times when I have wanted to walk away.\n\n\"I am so glad I didn't now.\"\n\nA fountain was first put on the site more than 170 years ago\n\nThe water feature has become a familiar landmark along with the town's Midsteeple\n\nShe said she hoped it could be the source of civic pride and help to kick-start wider regeneration in the town - which was worth any criticism there might have been.\n\n\"I just saw a problem and wanted to fix it,\" she said.\n\n\"The fountain will outlive us all - so it doesn't really matter what they say now.\"\n\nThe newly restored fountain is already up and running again but it will be officially launched to the public at a ceremonial switch-on, on 23 June between 12:00 and 14:00.\n• None Bid to return fountain to its former glory\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 288 people were killed and more than 800 injured after three trains collided in Odisha state on Friday.\n\nThe sounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside a major hospital in India, where critically injured passengers have been taken.\n\nReporting from outside the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack, BBC correspondent Archana Shukla described the scenes of \"despair, distress and chaos\".", "Boris Johnson has been warned public funding for his legal representation to the Covid inquiry could be withdrawn if he tries to \"undermine\" the government.\n\nExtracts of a Cabinet Office letter published in the Sunday Times tells the former PM to submit witness statements to officials for potential redactions.\n\nIt comes as the Cabinet Office fights the inquiry's demand to see unredacted messages from Mr Johnson and officials.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would give the material to the inquiry directly.\n\nThe Cabinet Office confirmed the letter to Mr Johnson had been sent last week. But it is understood it was not issued in response to any recent event and a government source said it had not been seen by ministers.\n\nIn the letter, the Cabinet Office said: \"The funding offer will cease to be available to you if you knowingly seek to frustrate or undermine, either through your own actions or the actions of others, the government's position in relation to the inquiry unless there is a clear and irreconcilable conflict of interest on a particular point at issue.\"\n\nIt said funding would only be available if Mr Johnson complied with certain conditions.\n\nThese included having to send any witness statement or exhibit which he intended to provide to the inquiry to the Cabinet Office to be security checked, and not submitting evidence until he had \"applied any redactions\" which the Cabinet Office had informed him were \"needed before submission\".\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the government would hand over \"absolutely anything that is related to Covid or the purpose of the inquiry\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme this was \"the right thing to do\" - and that the governmenthad already provided more than 55,000 documents.\n\nBut he added: \"There's no precedence as far as I can see to hand over things that have got absolutely nothing to do with Covid, such as things to do with civil servants' private lives.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said the letter to Mr Johnson in \"no way\" prevented him from providing the inquiry with \"whatever evidence he wants to\".\n\nThe spokesperson said it was a letter from officials which was \"intended to protect public funds\" and \"simply reiterates that taxpayer-funded lawyers must be used to aid the Covid inquiry and for no other purpose\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it made clear Mr Johnson had \"a duty to provide sincere witness to the inquiry independently and without reference to the views of the current government\".\n\nThe legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for Mr Johnson's WhatsApp messages and documents from during the pandemic was launched this week.\n\nThe Cabinet Office refused to disclose some of the material by arguing it was not relevant to the inquiry, it would compromise ministers' right to privacy, and would set a precedent that could prevent ministers discussing policy matters in future.\n\nDespite this, Mr Johnson said he would be more than happy to give the material dating back to May 2021 to the inquiry.", "A new business lobby council has been formed, boasting some of the UK's largest companies as its founding partners.\n\nThe Business Council has been launched by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) in a bid to \"design and drive the future of the British economy\".\n\nHeathrow, BP, IHG Hotels & Resorts and Drax are among its new members.\n\nIt comes as the troubled CBI faces a crunch vote on its future after it was mired in serious sexual allegations.\n\nThe CBI has been canvassing opinion from its existing membership on a series of reforms, the result of which will be revealed at a key meeting on Tuesday.\n\nIt has received the public backing of 13 companies - including manufacturing giant Siemens and the world's largest computer software firm Microsoft ahead of the vote.\n\nBut the new group will be hoping to pick up the support of businesses which cut ties with the CBI - including household names such as John Lewis and BMW.\n\nThe BCC works to support and connect tens of thousands of companies in the UK and internationally and is known for putting out a quarterly economic survey.\n\nBCC director general Shevaun Haviland and president Baroness Martha Lane Fox will join business leaders in London on Monday to discuss the work of its new council to represent the interests of UK firms.\n\n\"Over the past few months we have been talking to the nation's largest corporates and it has become clear to us they are looking for a different kind of representation,\" Ms Haviland said.\n\n\"These businesses want to be part of a framework that's rooted in their local communities, but with the ability to shape the national and international debate,\" she added.\n\nMs Haviland said the Business Council would focus on an initiative directed at the future of the economy targeting:\n\nThe new group will not know until Tuesday how much support its competitor will continue to receive but the CBI's new director general Rain Newton-Smith has described the vote as \"critical\" to its future.\n\nThe BBC's business editor Simon Jack said the timing of the announcement from the BCC was hard to ignore, saying the launch represented a \"tussle for the trust of business and the ear of government\".\n\nA CBI source said \"the timing of this is very opportunistic. Business succeeds through a collaborative approach and we find that more effective\".\n\nOver the weekend the Sunday Times newspaper reported that the CBI's last director general Tony Danker was planning to sue his former employer, after he was forced out over the sexual misconduct allegations.", "Watch as Manchester City players bump into Elton John at the airport and serenade him with a rendition of Your Song after their 2-1 FA Cup final victory over Manchester United at Wembley.\n\nWATCH MORE: All the angles of Gundogan's stunning FA Cup final volley", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City remain on course for the Treble after Ilkay Gundogan scored twice to give them victory over Manchester United in the FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nHaving already won the Premier League title, City now go into next Saturday's Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul with the opportunity to emulate United's feat of 1999.\n\nAnd City captain Gundogan was the big game match-winner again, assuring his place in history with the quickest goal in FA Cup final history, a stunning volley after only 12 seconds eclipsing Louis Saha's strike for Everton after 25 seconds against Chelsea in 2009.\n\nManchester United equalised after 33 minutes when the video assistant referee ruled that Jack Grealish had handled, Bruno Fernandes coolly sending Stefan Ortega the wrong way from the spot.\n\nIt was Gundogan, as he does so often, who made the decisive contribution when he volleyed Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick past United keeper David de Gea six minutes after the break to give City the FA Cup for the seventh time.\n• None Man City have set the standard, how can Man Utd catch up? - Shearer analysis\n• None Gundogan once again the man for the big moments\n\nManchester City stand just 90 minutes away from the greatest season in their history.\n\nWith the league and FA Cup secured, next comes the chance to claim that elusive Champions League against Inter Milan.\n\nShould they succeed, they would become only the second English club to complete the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.\n\nUnited, who did it 24 years ago, did their best to halt City's bid, but the league champions had too much power - and in Gundogan, they had a player who revels in the pressure of the big occasion.\n\nHis two goals, including that stunning early opener, emphasised what a figure of significance he has become, assuring him of a special place when the story of City's glory years is written.\n\nAnd in John Stones, City have a player of the highest class in his latest role defined by Guardiola, one which allows him to advance into midfield and utilise all his composure and quality.\n\nIstanbul and Inter Milan are next on City's agenda and in their current relentless, irresistible mood, it would be more of a surprise if they did not complete the Treble than if they did.\n\nMan Utd progress - now for the next step\n\nManchester United's season ended in the bitter disappointment of a cup-final defeat by their neighbours, but any assessment must regard this as a campaign of progress under Erik ten Hag.\n\nThe Carabao Cup was United's first trophy in six years, and they also returned to the Champions League. They may have settled for that after starting the season by losing at home to Brighton and then being humiliated 4-0 at Brentford.\n\nTen Hag will now demand further reinforcements and improvements to push United forward in his second campaign in charge.\n\nUnited are increasingly confident of signing Chelsea's England midfield man Mason Mount, while a top line striker is a pressing priority, with Tottenham's Harry Kane linked on a regular basis.\n\nTen Hag also needs to decide whether David de Gea should be his first-choice goalkeeper next season after another flawed display here that raised further questions.\n\nDe Gea was rooted to the spot for Gundogan's opener then went down desperately slowly for the second, late to react to a volley that was not cleanly hit and even bounced in front of the Spaniard twice before he belatedly got a hand to it.\n\nCaptain Harry Maguire will surely be on the move as he has been marginalised by Ten Hag, who will regard this season as the platform to move United closer to where he wants them to be.\n\nIt has been a good season - but one that will be followed by a busy summer.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Aymeric Laporte replaces Kyle Walker because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kyle Walker (Manchester City).\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raphaël Varane (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Rodri (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wout Weghorst.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Casemiro tries a through ball, but Wout Weghorst is caught offside.\n• None Phil Foden (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemic\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is giving unredacted WhatsApp messages dating back to May 2021 directly to the Covid inquiry, bypassing the government which has refused to hand them over.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for texts from the former PM and officials.\n\nIt argues that many of the messages are irrelevant to the investigation.\n\nHowever, the head of the inquiry, Baroness Hallett, has said it's her job to decide what is and is not relevant.\n\nIn a letter to Baroness Hallett, Mr Johnson said that he understood why the government was taking legal action, but that he was \"perfectly content\" to release messages he had already sent to the Cabinet Office.\n\nMr Johnson added he would like to send messages pre-dating April 2021, but that he had been told he could no longer access his phone from that period \"safely\".\n\nSecurity concerns were raised over the phone, after it emerged the number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years.\n\nThe messages received before this date would be likely to cover discussions about the coronavirus lockdowns implemented in 2020.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted to \"test\" the advice received from the security services and had asked the Cabinet Office for assistance in turning his old phone on securely.\n\nHe added he no longer had access to his contemporaneous notebooks as he had handed these to the Cabinet Office.\n\n\"I have asked that the Cabinet Office pass these to you. If the government chooses not to do so, I will ask for these to be returned to my office so that I can provide them to you directly.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward said the risk of turning on Mr Johnson's old phone was \"minimal\", adding: \"It is perfectly possible to do that without exposing it to the potential threat.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the inquiry told the government to submit messages sent between Mr Johnson and 40 other ministers and officials during the pandemic by 16:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"more than happy\" to give the unredacted material to the inquiry.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - which supports the prime minister in running the government - also holds communications between ministers and civil servants which do not involve Mr Johnson.\n\nOn Thursday, it missed the deadline and said it would \"with regret\" be launching a judicial review of the demand, but promised to \"continue to co-operate fully with the inquiry\".\n\nDefending its decision not to hand over certain messages, the Cabinet Office argued that many of the communications were \"unambiguously irrelevant\", and that to submit them to the inquiry would compromise ministers' privacy and hamper future decision-making.\n\n\"It represents an unwarranted intrusion into other aspects of the work of government. It also represents an intrusion into their legitimate expectations of privacy and protection of their personal information,\" the Cabinet Office said, in a letter to the inquiry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC One's Question Time on Thursday, science minister George Freeman said he thought the \"courts will probably take the view\" that Baroness Hallett was entitled to decide \"what evidence she deems relevant\".\n\nBut he added \"people's privacy is really important\" and that the question of how private correspondence should be handled was a \"point worth testing\".\n\n\"I would like to see a situation where the inquiry says: 'Listen, we will wholly respect the privacy of anything that's not related to Covid. We will redact it',\" he said.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the government's legal action as a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\". The Liberal Democrats called it a \"kick in the teeth for bereaved families\".\n\nLord Barwell, who worked as chief of staff to former Prime Minister Theresa May, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought the government was making a \"bad mistake\".\n\nHe added: \"We're having the inquiry to give people confidence we're getting to the truth. And if the government is controlling what the inquiry can and can't see, then people are not going to get confidence in the outcome.\"", "If you were given a fiver every time a government minister parroted the slogan that promises to end migrant channel crossings you would be pretty flush by now.\n\nIt's branded on government lecterns, on the backdrop behind the prime minister when he gives speeches, it's all over social media, and the methods the government wants to use are in a big set of new laws making their way through Parliament. You can read about it here.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak's vow to \"stop the boats\" is far from the first time that a government has said it will get a grip on immigration.\n\nMr Sunak is concentrating on curbing illegal immigration and the number of asylum seekers, which rose sharply last year and is close to record levels.\n\nBut the headline figure for net migration - the difference between the numbers entering the country legally and those leaving - hit an all-time high over the past 12 months, despite years of Conservative promises to get it down.\n\nSo, I have spoken to five former home secretaries, Conservative and Labour, about why it is just so hard to manage the numbers of people who want to come to the UK - whether those who make dangerous journeys and arrive here illegally, or to claim asylum, or those who have permission to work or study and move here from other countries.\n\n\"We can't be honest\", says one former occupant of one of the hardest jobs in government.\n\nThe first barrier is a political one. This former home secretary said governments \"want to give the impression that you can do something about it, but it is very, very difficult\".\n\nAnd when it comes to the overall numbers, that include asylum seekers and those who come here with permission to work or study, in 2022 they hit 606,000 - a record level.\n\nThe Conservatives promised the public that they would get the net migration figures under 100,000 but that \"created the fundamental problem\", says another ex-home secretary.\n\nThe government \"said we'll get the numbers down…but the country needs immigrants\", they add.\n\nThis ex-minister told me it was a target \"I never believed in - I never thought that it was sensible\".\n\nOur third former home secretary told me \"it was vainglorious\" to try to cap numbers at 100,000, a figure that now seems totally and utterly out of reach.\n\nAnd repeatedly promising the public that the numbers will fall makes it hard for ministers to admit that the immigration system is now, ironically after Brexit, more liberal than it was before.\n\nOne of the former home secretaries said the numbers are \"sky high because of deliberate Tory policy\".\n\nAnother said: \"We have put in place the most liberal regime ever\" to enable workers the economy needs and students to come to the country legally.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman might want to put her foot on the brake, but half a mile further up Whitehall, the Treasury tends to put its foot on the accelerator if there simply are not enough Brits either willing or able to do jobs that business and public services need to fill.\n\nBeyond the political contradictions, our five former Home Office bosses shared a long list of tricky practical considerations.\n\nThey all agreed, and had tried in various ways, to work more closely with France and the rest of the European Union, on illegal migration, something that inevitably became harder after the UK left the bloc and relationships soured.\n\nRishi Sunak has tried to improve things with Emmanuel Macron, but it's a long way off a so-called \"returns agreement\" where France would take migrants back who have crossed the Channel.\n\nAnd one of our sources said: \"When other countries hear us whingeing they don't have much sympathy.\"\n\nSeveral suggested making a dent in the overall net migration figures by taking students out of the count, and also removing Brits who have returned to live at home. They agreed that reducing the number of family members who could join immigrants in the UK as the government is doing would help.\n\nBut there was a good dose of scepticism among the five Conservatives and Labour former home secretaries I spoke to about whether the government's more controversial plans to tackle illegal immigration will work.\n\nMinisters want to detain and then remove anyone who arrives in the country without legal permission to claim asylum, either to Rwanda or another safe country, so far there are no other names on the list.\n\nOne of them told me they don't disagree with the concept \"but I just don't think it's going to work\".\n\nAnother was more scathing, saying \"it's ridiculous - where are all these thousands of people going to go?\"\n\nOne of their other former colleagues told me it is \"insane\" to imagine that thousands upon thousands of people can be removed or sent back to their original country.\n\nThe current home secretary is deeply committed to the plan, and points to the success it had in Australia.\n\nBut many experts in the sector describe it as a gamble and, as another of Suella Braverman's predecessors said, \"there is absolutely no evidence that it will work\".\n\nThat does not of course mean that it is doomed to fail, but Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman cannot be sure that their plans will indeed \"stop the boats\".\n\nMigrants picked up at sea are a highly visible symbol of the problem\n\nThere's suspicion too, as one of our five ex-ministers says, that the focus on small boats \"is a campaigning tool to drive a wedge between the government and the opposition\", and the policy \"won't work\".\n\nThey suggested that illegal immigration has always, and will always be, a problem - and it is only the visibility of boats on the Channel coast that has increased the pressure to act.\n\nThe government \"smashed\" illegal entries through the Channel tunnel, they claimed, so those desperate to enter the UK turned to small boats.\n\n\"When they came through the tunnel we didn't know\" how many migrants there were, they suggested, but now they are picked up at sea rather than disappearing into the Kent countryside from trucks or containers.\n\n'It is possible that we are getting the same numbers but no one wants to talk about that, no one wants to admit, 'if you shut down one route, what's next'?\" the former minister told me.\n\nAll five of the former home secretaries I spoke to were crystal clear about one thing.\n\nThe UK government can change and improve the immigration system and make a difference to the numbers of people who come to live in the UK.\n\nBut as much as politicians hate to admit it, there are factors that they cannot control that lead people to leave their countries - conflict, climate change, economics.\n\nOne warns that the pressure is only going one way: \"If you think it's bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet,\" they said.\n\nAnother was frustrated that our politics has made it difficult to set out a positive case for immigration - \"there is a problem of a rising population but it's better than the problem of a falling one\".\n\nThis government has made big promises on immigration. But it has big difficulties.\n\nThere are disputes in towns and cities over migrants being put up in hotels, controversy in Parliament over the new laws, and huge backlogs in dealing with asylum cases.\n\nAnd again, at root, there is that contradiction, the government says it wants to bring the numbers down, but also is allowing record numbers of people to come from overseas to work, or seek refuge from Ukraine or move here from Hong Kong.\n\nRepeating a slogan does not solve a problem, especially when a government is in a tug of war with itself.", "Oil prices have risen after Saudi Arabia said it would make cuts of a million barrels per day (bpd) in July.\n\nOther members of Opec+, a group of oil-producing countries, also agreed to continued cuts in production in an attempt to shore up flagging prices.\n\nOpec+ accounts for around 40% of the world's crude oil and its decisions can have a major impact on oil prices.\n\nIn Asia trade on Monday, Brent crude oil rose by as much as 2.4% before settling at around $77 a barrel.\n\nOpec+ said production targets would drop by a further 1.4 million bpd from 2024.\n\nThe seven hour-long meeting on Sunday of the oil-rich nations came against a backdrop of falling energy prices.\n\nOil prices soared when Russia invaded Ukraine last year, but are now back at levels seen before the conflict began.\n\nIn October last year Opec+, a formulation which refers to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, agreed to cut production by two million bpd, about 2% of global demand.\n\nIn April this year the group agreed to a further cuts, which were due to last to the end of this year. But Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Sunday's talks led to \"the extension of the deal until the end of 2024\".\n\nOn Sunday, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that his country's cut of one million bpd could be extended beyond July if needed. \"This is a Saudi lollipop,\" he said, in what is seen as a bid to stabilise the market.\n\nBefore the two-day Opec+ meeting started, it was widely expected the oil cartel would make production cuts to prop up prices. It appears most members were against the idea, as any cuts would impact oil revenues, which are crucial to keep running their economies.\n\nSaudi Arabia's decision to make a voluntary reduction of one-million barrels per day was unexpected but does not come as a huge surprise. As the leader of the pack, and also the largest exporter of oil, it was the only one in a position to be able to lower output.\n\nFrom Riyadh's point of view, it is crucial the price of crude remains over $80 a barrel for it to break even. Saudi officials want elevated prices to keep spending billions of dollars on ambitious projects spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as he tries to diversify the kingdom's economy away from oil.\n\nThe move by the Saudis also underlines the uncertain outlook for demand for fuels in the months to come. Concerns about the global economy, especially recessionary fears in the US and Europe are expected to put further pressure on crude prices.\n\nOil producers are grappling with falling prices and high market volatility amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe West has accused Opec of manipulating prices and undermining the global economy through high energy costs. It has also accused the group of siding with Russia despite sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn response, Opec insiders have said the West's monetary policy over the last decade has driven inflation and forced oil-producing nations to act to maintain the value of their main export.", "A protester was tackled by police and security during the Derby\n\nA man has been charged after a protester ran onto the racecourse during the Epsom Derby on Saturday.\n\nThe horseracing event was targeted by animal rights protesters, who attempted to breach a large security operation in order to disrupt the day's main race.\n\nBen Newman, 32, from Hackney, east London, has been charged with causing public nuisance, Surrey Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA man was seen being bundled to the floor by police and security guards during the opening seconds of the prestigious race.\n\nHe was quickly removed from the course while being jeered by spectators. The race was unaffected.\n\nThe protest went ahead despite the Jockey Club, which runs the event, being granted a court injunction prohibiting the group Animal Rising from disrupting it.\n\nThe group had publicly threatened to stop the main race going ahead, saying it wanted to raise awareness about animal rights.\n\nMr Newman was one of 31 people arrested in connection with the planned protests, including 12 on the racecourse grounds and 19 during a pre-emptive operation in the hours before it began.\n\nSurrey Police said two women were arrested after being \"quickly detained moments before they were able to get on to the track\".\n\nMr Newman is the only protester to face a charge so far. The remaining 30 people have been released on bail pending further inquiries, police said.", "Yoshikazu Higashitani became Japan's first lawmaker to be kicked out of parliament without ever entering it\n\nPolice in Japan have arrested a YouTuber and former MP over threats he allegedly made to celebrities.\n\nYoshikazu Higashitani, known on YouTube as GaaSyy, is famous for his celebrity gossip videos.\n\nLocal media said he returned to Japan from the UAE, two months after Tokyo police issued his arrest warrant.\n\nHe is accused of threatening to defame an actor, an entrepreneur and a designer between February and August last year.\n\nHe is also suspected of obstructing the designer's business activities.\n\nMr Higashitani repeatedly ignored requests to return to Japan and voluntarily submit himself to police questioning.\n\nTokyo police had been sending investigators to the UAE since May, and urging authorities there to extradite him to Japan.\n\nJapan's foreign minister ordered him to return his passport after Tokyo police obtained his arrest warrant in March, but Mr Higashitani said he'd lost it. His passport expired the following month.\n\nEarlier this year, he became the first lawmaker in Japanese history to be kicked out of parliament without ever entering it.\n\nMr Higashitani was one of two members elected from the Seijika-joshi-48 party - a single-issue party calling for reforms to Japan's public broadcaster.\n\nDuring his seven months in office, the social media personality refused to leave his home in Dubai and did not attended a single legislative session.\n\nAt the time, Japanese media reported that he'd refused to attend parliament because he feared being arrested over fraud allegations, and defamation claims from celebrities.\n\nLegislators demanded that Mr Higashitani fly to Tokyo to deliver an in-person apology in the chamber for his absence, but he failed to show up at the plenary session.\n\nInstead, he announced on his YouTube channel that he was going to Turkey - and that he was planning to donate his salary to the Turkish earthquake relief.\n\nHis absence angered the Senate - whose members unanimously voted for his expulsion.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nKarim Benzema won his fifth and final Champions League trophy with Real Madrid in 2022 Karim Benzema is to leave Real Madrid after 14 years at the club. The Ballon d'Or-winning striker, who joined the Spanish giants from Lyon in 2009, will depart on a free transfer when the season ends. Benzema, who had a year left on his contract, is set to move to Saudi Arabia after receiving a \"record offer\" from Al-Ittihad, according to Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague. Benzema, 35, won five Champions Leagues and four La Liga titles with Madrid. Saudi state-run Al Ekhbariya television station reported on Sunday that Benzema will sign a two-year deal with Al-Ittihad.\n• None How do Real Madrid prepare for life after Benzema? Real boss Carlo Ancelotti had said on Saturday that he expected the former French international to stay next season. \"Benzema has been an example of behaviour and professionalism, and has represented the values of our club,\" Madrid said in a statement on Sunday. \"He has earned the right to decide his future.\" He is the third first-team player confirmed to be leaving Madrid in two days, after it was announced on Saturday that both Eden Hazard and Marco Asensio will also depart this summer. The Frenchman won a total of 25 major titles with Real Madrid, a record for the club. Benzema is the Ballon d'Or holder, having guided Madrid to the Champions League title last season with 15 goals in the competition. Also among his titles were five Club World Cups and three Copa del Rey triumphs. Benzema, who has made 647 appearances for Madrid, is the second on their all-time goalscoring list with 353 - only Cristiano Ronaldo has more. He is set to make his final Madrid appearance on Sunday against Athletic Bilbao, their final match of the 2022-23 La Liga season. \"Madridistas and all the fans around the world have enjoyed his magical and unique football, which has made him one of the great legends of our club and one of the great legends of world football,\" the club added. \"Real Madrid is and will always be his home, and we wish him and all his family the best in this new phase of his life.\" Madrid will finish second in La Liga if they win on Sunday - but they are 11 points behind champions Barcelona and have failed to retain their Champions League title after being beaten in the semi-finals by Manchester City. Those disappointments have led to many changes being rumoured at Santiago Bernabeu this summer - with Benzema's departure among the most seismic. Ancelotti had said on Saturday that he had \"no doubts\" Benzema would stay, and Benzema himself claimed \"the internet is not reality\" when asked about his future on Thursday. With a number of key players leaving, Real will need to bring in a new striker. Balague says Spanish striker Joselu could join on loan from Espanyol, while Ancelotti is a fan of Tottenham striker Harry Kane. Real are also planning on a move for Paris St-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe next summer. Speaking on Saturday, Ancelotti said: \"Kane is a great player, he is from Tottenham and we have to respect both the player and the club.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Workers clear the wreckage from the train tracks following the fatal train accident on Friday\n\nIndia's railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a \"change in electronic interlocking\" the likely cause.\n\nAshwini Vaishnaw later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but did not elaborate.\n\nIndia's Railway Board said there had been \"some kind of signalling interference\" rather than failure.\n\nA report into India's worst rail accident this century is due later.\n\nMeanwhile the death toll has been revised down to 275 after some bodies were counted twice, officials said.\n\nOf the 1,175 injured people taken to hospital, 793 have been discharged. Some families are still searching for their loved ones.\n\nIn railway signalling the electronic interlocking system sets routes for each train in a set area, ensuring the safe movement of trains along the track.\n\nThe crash saw a passenger train collide with a stationary goods train and derail, after being wrongly directed onto a loop track by the side of the main line. Derailed carriages then struck the rear carriages of a second passenger train passing in the opposite direction.\n\nAt a press conference on Sunday, Jaya Verma Sinha from India's Railway Board said both passenger trains had approached a Balasore district station under a green signal - indicating it was safe - within seconds of each other at the correct speed of under 130kph (81mph).\n\nShe said the passenger trains had been supposed to pass each other on the main lines but the Coromandel Express rammed into an iron ore-laden freight train on the loop line, causing the engine and some coaches to lift over the top of the heavy goods carriages.\n\nThe passenger train took the entire impact on collision and the freight train was not derailed, or even moved, she told reporters.\n\nThe Howrah Superfast Express had nearly crossed in the opposite direction, but two of its rear coaches were struck by the derailed Coromandel Express.\n\nMs Verma Sinha said there was \"no issue with the electronic interlocking system\" and said investigations indicated \"some kind of a signalling interference\" rather than failure.\n\n\"Whether it was manual, whether it was incidental, whether it was weather related, whether it was because of wear and tear related, whether it was a maintenance failure, all that will come out after the inquiry,\" she added.\n\nInfrastructure expert Partha Mukhopadhyay told the BBC it should not be possible for green signals to display on the main line if the track is set for the loop.\n\n\"Signal interlocking is supposed to be failsafe and this level of failure is quite unprecedented,\" Mr Mukhopadhyay, from the Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research, said.\n\nOn Saturday Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash scene and vowed that anyone found guilty would be \"punished stringently\".\n\nAround 2,000 people are thought to have been on board the two passenger trains - the Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras) and the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - when the crash happened at about at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nOdisha state official Pradeep Jena told the BBC that at least 187 bodies remained unidentified and officials were uploading pictures of the victims on government websites and would carry out DNA testing if needed.\n\nRescue work was completed on Saturday and efforts were underway to clear wreckage and restart train traffic, officials said.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.\n\nTrains in India can get very packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.\n\nThe country's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.", "The Strawberry Moon looked golden over Europe's tallest street art in Leicester\n\nThe Full Moon marking the start of meteorological summer has been seen glowing in the sky above England.\n\nPhotographers captured images of the Strawberry Moon, which was visible from just after 21:00 BST on Saturday until just before 04:30 on Sunday.\n\nThe Strawberry Moon (here in Overseal, Derbyshire) reached peak illumination at 03:42 BST on Sunday\n\nIts name is thought to come from Algonquian tribes in North America, with June being the month when strawberries begin to ripen for picking.\n\nHistorically, names like this would have served a purpose, helping to monitor the changing seasons.\n\nThe Strawberry Moon was glowing above the historic castle on St Michael's Mount, Cornwall\n\nThe Strawberry Moon (here in Flockton in West Yorkshire) marks the start of meteorological summer\n\nPhotographer Michael Wake captured the Strawberry Moon rising over the lighthouse on Roker Pier in Sunderland.\n\n\"I stood on the Seaburn promenade, just under and a mile from the lighthouse,\" he said.\n\n\"At first, the moonrise was hidden behind a blanket of clouds, and I wasn't sure if it would appear.\n\n\"Thankfully it did, and as it rose into the sky, it got brighter and brighter, then turned a beautiful red and orange.\"\n\nMichael Wake said the Strawberry Moon got brighter and brighter as it rose over Roker Pier in Sunderland\n\nAlthough it appeared spectacular, the Strawberry Moon was not considered a supermoon.\n\nThe first supermoon of 2023 - when a Full Moon is also at its closest point to Earth along this orbit - is expected in August.\n\nThe Strawberry Moon seen from Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire\n\nThis close-up of the Strawberry Moon was taken in East Leake, Nottinghamshire\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met said it worked \"proactively\" with officials at Wembley Stadium to identify the man during the FA Cup final\n\nA man has been arrested during the FA Cup final at Wembley after concerns about a football shirt slogan.\n\nA photo of the back of a man wearing the number 97 and the words \"not enough\" on a Manchester United top was widely shared on social media.\n\nThe FA said it \"strongly condemned\" the action, which it said referred to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster when 97 Liverpool fans died as a result of a stadium crush in 1989.\n\nIt said it would not \"tolerate abuse\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police tweeted that a man had been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody.\n\nThe force confirmed to the BBC that the arrest was solely due to the shirt worn by the football fan but would not confirm that it was because of its alleged reference to Hillsborough.\n\nSharing a tweet by a Liverpool FC fan account called the Kop Watch, the Met's events Twitter account said: \"We are aware of this and have worked proactively with officials at @wembleystadium to identify the individual.\n\n\"He has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the English FA issued a statement saying it would \"not tolerate abuse relating to Hillsborough or any football tragedy\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with the authorities to ensure strong action is taken against perpetrators,\" it added.\n\nIt has previously said it was concerned about \"the rise of abhorrent chants\" over the Hillsborough disaster and other football tragedies.\n\nLiverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne, who was in the crowd at Hillsborough in 1989, described any inappropriate reference to the disaster as \"sick\".\n\nMr Byrne, who has been campaigning for the disaster to be taught on the national curriculum, told BBC Radio Merseyside: \"All the efforts we have put in over the last three decades - and certainly myself over the last couple of years and many others about the education element about Hillsborough... - and you see that idiot with that disgusting top on and you just think, how do you get through to these people.\"\n\nOfficers also said they were investigating after an object was thrown towards the pitch during the first half of the game.\n\nThe Met said it was working with stadium officials and reviewing CCTV footage.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe train collision in India's eastern Odisha state on Friday evening - the country's worst this century - involved two passenger trains and a freight train.\n\nAt least 288 people were killed and 1,000 injured.\n\nThe BBC spoke to villagers who witnessed the crash, and an injured passenger.\n\nMy mother and my grandmother were on the train. They were going to the city to buy medicines.\n\nI found my granny a few hours after the accident. She was alive. But my mother was missing. We looked for her everywhere but couldn't find her.\n\nI didn't know what to do, so I forwarded a photo of my mother to all my friends and acquaintances. I shared her number as well and described the colour of the dress she was wearing when I last saw her.\n\nThis morning I heard from one of my friends. They sent me a picture of a body - it was my mother. She was wearing the same dress.\n\nAll I want now is to be able to take her body back home safely so that we can put her to rest. But there is so much chaos here - there are no trains and the roads are all jammed.\n\nThere was chaos. There was a loud sound and there was smoke all around.\n\nPeople were running in all directions. I was close to the tracks and decided to run to the spot. We started pulling out some of the trapped passengers. We managed to get some of the survivors out - and some bodies, too.\n\nThere were so many injured, we did not know how to get them out. It became a bit easier after the rescue workers arrived. This work went on almost throughout the night. I am still in a daze.\n\nWe heard a loud sound. When we came out of the house, we saw that this accident had happened outside. I saw the goods train had climbed over on another train.\n\nWhen I reached the spot, I saw that many people were injured, many people had died. A small child was crying whose parents had probably died. That child also died after a while.\n\nMany people were asking for water here. I gave water to people as much as possible. People from our village came here and helped people as much as they could.\n\nI was in the train when we felt a slight jolt and the train derailed.\n\nThere was a thunderous sound and the train overturned. I was trapped and was rescued after half an hour by local people.\n\nAll our belongings were scattered outside. I couldn't find any of it. I came out and sat on the ground. Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing.\n\nA lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in. Those who were seriously injured were brought to the hospital.\n\nMy brother was sitting on his berth and I was standing next to the door of the coach.\n\nWhen the train overturned, I managed to escape. I thought my brother would've escaped too, but that did not happen. He got stuck under his seat.\n\nI ran back to the wreckage and pulled him out - I pulled out a young girl who was stuck with him as well.\n\nI called the police and the ambulance services but they took half-an-hour to get there.\n\nPhotos by Hemant Behara and additional reporting by Reuters news agency\n\nBBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features.", "Joe Abbess, 17, was pulled from the water near Bournemouth Pier\n\nThe family of a 17-year-old boy who died after being pulled from the sea in Bournemouth say they are \"heartbroken and devastated\" at his death.\n\nJoe Abbess and a 12-year-old girl, named locally as Sunnah Khan, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, died in the incident involving 10 swimmers on Wednesday.\n\nJoe and Sunnah both suffered critical injuries and died in hospital.\n\nJoe's parents said they had been \"privileged to have him in our lives\".\n\nDorset Police said it was continuing to investigate what had happened.\n\nMore than 200 people are understood to have attended Sunnah Khan's funeral on Saturday\n\nIn a statement, Joe's family said they and his friends would \"always love him\" and were \"incredibly proud of the fabulous young man he was\".\n\n\"He was kind and generous, loving and caring, hardworking and funny,\" they said.\n\n\"Joe was a talented trainee chef, with a bright future ahead of him... we are so sorry he will never fulfil his dreams and ambitions.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThey said Joe had been enjoying a day at the beach on Wednesday, adding: \"We would like to thank his friends and all of the emergency services who helped him, when this tragedy unfolded.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene, which was packed with people on half-term holidays, just after 16:30 BST.\n\nEight other swimmers were rescued and treated on the beach.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend following the incident.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend\n\nMore than 200 people are understood to have attended Sunnah's funeral on Saturday, held by High Wycombe Mosques.\n\nAn earlier police statement confirmed there was no physical contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier during the incident.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time of the incident, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Half of the more than 300 patients were evacuated from the hospital for the 48-hour siege\n\nWhen I was handed a telephone to the gunman, all I knew was a doctor had been taken hostage and the gunman was threatening to burn the hospital down.\n\nI'd had no real briefing when police gave me the phone to speak with David Collins, but I knew this was critical.\n\nHalf of the hospital, filled with 300 patients, was evacuated as the Army and 100 police officers descended.\n\nBut negotiating with a gunman was not what I expected after arriving to cover the siege as the local BBC reporter.\n\nIt was a late evening back in October 1999 and as I was the radio journalist who covered west Wales, I headed for Haverfordwest near the very western tip of south Wales as soon as I got word of a possible siege.\n\nI'd been waiting outside Withybush Hospital for a few hours when I was asked to take a call from the police officer in charge of the operation.\n\nI was thrilled as I wanted to find out exactly what was going on inside but I didn't expect what Dyfed-Powys Police Supt John Daniels had in mind for me.\n\nHe wanted me to speak to the hostage-taker.\n\nDavid Collins, who was 38 at the time, wanted to take revenge on the hospital to show how badly he felt he had been treated by them.\n\nI had to explain to my press colleagues where I went and give them some sort of insight into what went on inside the hospital\n\nHe was an alcoholic and claimed that, in the spring of 1999, he was told by a specialist at Withybush that his addiction would kill him.\n\nSo he built up thousands of pounds of debt thinking he'd never have to pay it back.\n\nBut in a further consultation later in the year, after asking the specialist \"when am I going to die?\", the doctor's reply was \"you're not going to die - but your risk of death will increase if you continuing drinking heavily\".\n\nWhen hearing he wasn't facing imminent death, he felt very upset and wanted revenge.\n\nCollins returned to Withybush and grabbed any old doctor - it just happened to be 28-year-old junior doctor Kingsley Paul - took him hostage, tied him to a seat and held him at gunpoint.\n\nHe also told emergency services that he'd filled balloons with petrol and if anyone broke into the room, he'd set them alight.\n\nSo, not really knowing what I was walking into, I was escorted to the basement of the hospital where Supt Daniels just asked: \"Gil, I was wondering could you please give us a helping hand and chat to this bloke and see what you can do?\"\n\nThere were police everywhere as the siege went on for about two whole days\n\n\"Of course,\" was my reply. Although my request to record the conversation for radio was politely declined.\n\nI was quickly ushered up two or three flights of stairs, into a side door, past lots of armed officers and into an clerical office just down the corridor from where the siege was happening.\n\nThe room had two experienced negotiators, a telephone and \"isn't it time we called it a day?\" written on a blackboard - oh, and me.\n\nAs I sat down, the telephone was placed in my hand and as quick as that I was calling the gunman.\n\nI was amazed how fast it happened, it felt like a few minutes. There was no preliminary briefing - just the plea \"chat to him Gil\". It was as simple as that.\n\nMuch of the hospital was able to still operate despite the ongoing siege upstairs\n\nI mean, what do you say to a man who is holding a gun to the head of a doctor a few rooms away?\n\nSo I went into journalist mode and started asking him about his life.\n\nI started by saying hello and asking \"have you heard of me?\"\n\nHe replied \"no\", which was a blow to my ego!\n\nWe chatted about his family, kids, friends, his job and where he lived - occasionally mentioning \"isn't it time we called it a day?\" as requested.\n\nHe was an unemployed scaffolder and as I was having work done on my house, we had this surreal conversation about types of scaffolding as I'd had it up on my house.\n\nI tried not to think about the possible consequences as that would've been too much pressure so I just chatted.\n\nThere was one frightening moment when he just stopped talking, it went silent and the line went dead.\n\nEmergency services were everywhere as they took the hostage's threat extremely seriously\n\nI thought: \"Oh no, what did I say? Is he going to kill that doctor and is this place going to blow up any minute?\"\n\nI held my breath, we all held our breath but nothing happened so I dialled back up and continued our chat.\n\nAfter about four hours of talking, he broke down in tears and confided \"I've really got myself in a mess and I don't know what to do\".\n\nHe explained to me his situation and was clearly unwell.\n\nI tried to sound as sympathetic as I could without suggesting what he was doing was right. It was so tense, my stomach muscles were so tight, I was in pain for days afterwards because of the tension.\n\nThe hospital cancelled 68 operations and 700 outpatient appointments, while 150 patients were removed during an evacuation of the hospital, but I was later told we were directly below the intensive care unit.\n\nSo while they'd emptied the rest of the hospital, they couldn't move the people on life support above us.\n\nI talked to him for more than four hours but the siege went on for 48 hours in total - although Collins did finally release Dr Paul after 28 hours.\n\nI remained in the hospital at the police's request in case they needed me again.\n\nI even did live radio broadcasts from inside but I just couldn't divulge my secret assignment in the operation.\n\nI'm often asked why Supt Daniels chose me. I don't know, but we did know each other from previous cases and maybe he knew me better than the other journalists present.\n\nSome colleagues insist the Steve Coogan's 2013 comedy film Alpha Papa is inspired by my story but I don't know if that's true\n\nSome colleagues reckon I was chosen because they say I have a distinctive, low-pitched, reassuring-sounding voice.\n\nFriends joke and call me \"whispering Gil\" and think my voice is quite soothing, I couldn't possibly comment - but I was never told why police chose me and I never asked.\n\nSome people have also said to me that my story inspired Steve Coogan's 2013 film Alpha Papa but, again, I'm not so sure.\n\nCollins was eventually talked out after 48 hours and it turned out the gun he claimed he had was a fake and the balloons were filled with water.\n\nHe was later jailed for life after admitting to false imprisonment, possessing an imitation firearm with intent and threatening to destroy property.\n\nI've lived and loved my days reporting for the BBC over 50 years from west Wales\n\nTwo years after he was jailed at Swansea Crown Court, I had a call from a prison - it was Collins.\n\nI was very taken aback but he wanted me to help him do a TV programme about him and the hospital siege but I passed on his offer.\n\nSupt Daniels later told me later he had taken the siege recordings to a crime-fighting conference in the United States as, at that stage, a journalist hadn't previously helped negotiate in a hostage situation before.\n\nI must say, I would've welcomed a free holiday to the USA. But, nevertheless, I was rather very grateful to receive a commendation from the chief constable for my work in the siege.\n\nI was just glad to have helped and ultimately no-one was hurt.\n\nI'm now 80 and will retire this summer after 50 years at the BBC where I covered cases including the Clydach Murders, Llandarcy Murders and the Withybush siege.\n\nI found them very emotional stories to cover and often still get dreams about that hostage situation at Withybush.\n\nThings like that do tend to stay with you for life.", "David Fleet stabbed a man to death just 10 days after leaving a psychiatric unit\n\nWhen Sharon Lees' son David left a psychiatric unit, she said she warned staff he was too unwell to come home.\n\nTen days later, he stabbed a man to death who was out walking his dog because of \"the voices in his head\".\n\nSharon is demanding a public apology from Hywel Dda health board for both her son and the family of the man he killed, Lewis Stone, saying it \"could [and] should have been prevented\".\n\nHywel Dda said confidential information prevented it publishing its report.\n\nSharon raised her son David Fleet in the seaside town of Borth, Ceredigion.\n\n\"David loved being on the beach,\" she said.\n\n\"Growing up in Borth was really good for him. He was very quiet, would easily get lost in the crowd.\"\n\nGrowing up, \"tiny little obsessions\" made her suspect he was autistic.\n\nHe was diagnosed at 15, but as he turned 17, other things began to worry Sharon.\n\nSharon Lees says her son has feelings of guilt and remorse\n\n\"He seemed to think that we'd put something on his head to erase his memory. It was like he was seeing things that weren't there,\" said Sharon.\n\nHe started smoking cannabis to \"sort of manage those symptoms\", said Sharon, adding he struggled to sleep.\n\nOne day she walked into his bedroom to find \"quite a lot of blood everywhere... he'd severely self-harmed\".\n\nShe rushed her son to A&E and he was treated with anti-psychotic medication.\n\nWhen he was well enough, he moved away from home to complete a college course, but he later relapsed and had to return home.\n\nSharon says David's art gives an insight into the acute mental health issues and paranoia he was experiencing\n\n\"It was clear that he was in psychosis. He started asking bizarre questions about someone watching us,\" said Sharon.\n\nFleet also began taking knives to bed with him and trying to light small fires in his bedroom.\n\n\"Eventually he said to me that he thought he might have to kill someone because 'people are watching us, there was hidden cameras everywhere and nowhere is safe' - that was when I said he had to come with me to hospital,\" said Sharon.\n\n\"We had to prise the knife off him to get him into the car and get him into hospital.\"\n\nSharon Lees wants the health board to say sorry to her, her son and Lewis Stone's family\n\nIn October 2018, Fleet was detained under the Mental Health Act, but when he was allowed home for visits, Sharon said she warned hospital staff he was still buying cannabis and looking for knives.\n\nAfter four months as an in-patient, staff decided he should be treated at home.\n\n\"I just cried because I just don't know how I'm going to cope... he's over 6ft tall, I can't stop him from going out,\" said Sharon.\n\nEarly on 28 February 2019, 10 days after being sent home, Fleet left the house with a knife.\n\nLewis Stone's family say David Fleet \"took away their beloved hero\"\n\n\"I'm trying to phone him, trying to message him... I looked out of the back window and I could see the air ambulance. I just remember having this really sinking feeling. Like I knew,\" she said.\n\nFleet had never met his victim before that day.\n\nMr Stone, from Staffordshire, was walking his dog Jock along the bank of the River Leri while visiting his nearby holiday home which he and his wife had plans to retire to.\n\nFleet later told psychiatrists if he had not stabbed Mr Stone, the voices in his head \"were going to kill him\".\n\nFamily of Mr Stone - who died in hospital three months after the attack - said their lives changed in the \"most horrific, heart-breaking\" way.\n\nThey said the \"old-fashioned gentleman\", who was \"adored\" by his wife, children and grandchildren, would have been \"defenceless\".\n\nLewis Stone was stabbed when out walking near Borth Wild Animal Kingdom\n\nBBC Wales Investigates has seen a copy of an internal health board report into David's care prior to the attack.\n\nIt reveals that three weeks before the stabbing, a doctor had warned he was not ready to leave hospital because of his \"worsening mental state\" and the risks he posed with knives.\n\nJust days later, he was sent home without anyone updating his risk assessment and staff were meant to contact him the day before the attack, but did not because of their workload.\n\nHe also did not receive a dose of his anti-psychotic medication.\n\nDavid pleaded guilty to Mr Stone's manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely at a secure psychiatric unit on 16 September 2019.\n\nMr Stone's family said there was \"no excuse or forgiveness\" for David and \"nothing could be said or done to help them understand or move on from what's happened\".\n\nThey agreed there were \"huge failings in the mental health sector\" to have \"such a monster released and walking the streets, able to cause such harm\" and want David Fleet to remain locked up.\n\nStudies by the University of Manchester suggest between 2010 and 2020 there were 5,876 homicide offenders in the UK, of which 610 (11%) were under the care of mental health services.\n\nWhile there was a fall in the overall homicide rate in England and Wales since 2008, the percentage of homicides carried out by people with schizophrenia actually increased.\n\nResearchers said drug and alcohol misuse were known to elevate risk.\n\nThe Welsh government has the power to commission independent mental health homicide reviews and share lessons as widely as possible, but BBC Wales Investigates has discovered that since 2016, it has stopped asking for them.\n\nThis mean lessons from this and three other killings involving mentally ill people in Wales in that time have not been shared.\n\nLord Alex Carlile, a former MP and a barrister with decades of experience in homicide cases is critical of the \"failure\" to share information in David's case.\n\n\"It is absolutely dreadful. It is essential that in cases where there is a major safeguarding issue, information should be shared by all the relevant public and private sector organisations,\" he said.\n\nHe also said, the Welsh government should have commissioned independent reviews into other mental health homicides in this time, calling it a \"seven-year scandal\".\n\nLewis Stone died three months after being stabbed while taking his dog for a walk in February 2019\n\nThe Welsh government's decision means that, four years on from the killing, Mr Stone's family have not been able to see information about the missed opportunities to monitor Fleet.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it shared its internal report into Fleet's care with some of its own staff and the Welsh government but could not publish it because it contained confidential medical information.\n\nIn a private letter, Sharon was told it had subsequently made changes to its services, but she believes that, had details and lessons been shared with other health boards, it could potentially have prevented other killings.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"satisfied\" it had not needed to commission independent mental health homicide reviews since 2016 because health boards had been \"thorough\" when investigating their own cases.\n\nHowever, it did admit the wider review system needed to change to ensure better \"communication and coordination\" so it was introducing the Single Unified Safeguarding Review.\n\nA spokesman added: \"This new approach eliminates the need for families to take part in multiple, often onerous and traumatising, reviews and will more quickly identify learning, build a greater understanding of what happened during an incident and why, and provide a clear action plan to improve services.\"\n\nSharon believes her son was let down by mental health services, leaving two families \"devastated\" as a result.\n\n\"The feelings of guilt and remorse that David is feeling are incomprehensible,\" she added.\n\nShe now wants the health board to say sorry to her son and Mr Stone's family.\n\n\"It's really important for just not only us, but for Mr Stone's family to have a public apology because of his illness and the lack of care that he received... it only feels justified that he also receives an apology because the health board failed him, which then in turn failed his victim's family.\"", "A limited service on the Corran Ferry has restarted this weekend following weeks of disruption.\n\nThe ferry service across Loch Linnhe provides residents of the Ardnamurchan and Morvern peninsulas with easier access to the rest of Scotland and is popular with tourists.\n\nThe service, overseen by Highland Council, has been without a useable vessel since 15 April.\n\nAlternative routes to the ferry have added more than an hour onto journeys.", "Belgorod regional chief Vyacheslav Gladkov posted a video saying he had agreed to an offer to meet the fighters\n\nFighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.\n\nBelgorod's top official replied to say he had agreed to meet the men's captors if the soldiers were still alive.\n\nBut later, the fighters said that the governor \"had not found the courage\" to meet them and they would hand over their captives to Ukraine.\n\nRussia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories.\n\nThe Russian army said on Sunday its artillery had hit a \"terrorist\" group near the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, adding that \"the enemy scattered and retreated\".\n\nEarlier, a group of paramilitaries issued a message on the Telegram app, saying they had captured two men but would hand them over if Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov agreed to talks.\n\nThe video purported to show both captives, although the BBC has been unable to independently verify their identities.\n\nThe message was posted by the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL) and described as a joint statement with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nMr Gladkov responded with his own Telegram video, saying he had agreed to the talks if the soldiers were shown to be still alive - adding that he thought they had probably been killed.\n\nLater, the RDK posted a further video - this time appearing to show even more captives, in which they said that Mr Gladkov had failed to turn up for the meeting.\n\n\"Neither the military nor the civilian leadership is interested\" in the fate of the captured men, the RDK said.\n\nMeanwhile, the FRL described the Russian authorities as \"rotten and cowardly\". They said they would now hand over the captives to Ukraine - to be subject to an exchange with Ukrainian prisoners of war.\n\nBoth groups want to topple President Vladimir Putin, and also oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that he launched in February last year.\n\nUkrainian officials say the two paramilitary organisations consist of Russian citizens who want to create a \"security zone\" for Ukrainians.\n\nThe RDK came to prominence in March for a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region. Its leader is a Russian nationalist with alleged links to neo-Nazis.\n\nThe FRL is considered a different sort of organisation that fights alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces.\n\nThe Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) came to prominence in the Bryansk region in March\n\nIn his video, Mr Gladkov labelled the fighters in question \"scoundrels, murderers, fascists\", but promised to \"guarantee safety\" if the talks took place.\n\nAnd though they asked him to go to Novaya Tavolzhanka to meet them, he said this was too dangerous and that he would expect them at a checkpoint in the town of Shebekino.\n\nMr Gladkov has not commented on the events since the video, but posted pictures of a meeting with regional and federal officials.\n\nKyiv has denied having any direct involvement in such attacks.\n\nBut it has painted the growing violence in Russian territory as being the inevitable consequence of Russia's invasion last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: China warship steers near US Navy in Taiwan Strait\n\nChina's defence minister has said war with the US would be an \"unbearable disaster\" for the world in his first major speech since taking on the role.\n\nAt a security summit, General Li Shangfu said \"some countries\" were intensifying an arms race in Asia.\n\nBut he said the world was big enough for both China and the US, and the two superpowers should seek common ground.\n\nEarlier, the US accused a Chinese warship of carrying out \"unsafe\" manoeuvres in the Taiwan strait.\n\nThe US Navy said a Chinese destroyer had sailed near one of its destroyers on Saturday and forced it to slow down to avoid a collision. A Canadian ship was also sailing nearby.\n\nChina criticised both countries for \"deliberately provoking risk\". The US and Canada said they were sailing where international law allows.\n\nIn his speech, Gen Li, who became defence minister in March, accused the US of a \"Cold War mentality\" and said this was \"greatly increasing security risks\".\n\nHe said China would not allow naval patrols by the US and its allies to be \"a pretext to exercise hegemony of navigation\".\n\nAsked about the incident in the Taiwan Strait, he said that countries from outside the region were raising tensions.\n\nHe was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, the Asia-Pacific region's only annual security meeting.\n\nBeijing has rejected a US request for direct military talks in protest at sanctions placed on Gen Li by the US in 2018 over weapons purchases from Russia.\n\nIn Washington, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said that the US hopes to have a \"predictable\" relationship with China and avoid \"any new Cold War\".\n\n\"Our competition must not spill over into conflict,\" he added.\n\nThe Chinese defence minister's \"moderate\" tone signals that talks with his US counterpart are possible, but Washington has to lift sanctions against him, said Zhou Bo, a retired officer of the People's Liberation Army.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGen Li was sanctioned in 2018 over the acquisition of military hardware from Russia. His five-year term as defence minister started earlier this year, but the sanctions prevent him from travelling to the US, and also make it difficult for him to invite Gen Austin to China, Mr Zhou added.\n\n\"If the sanction is there, how can we talk? The sanctions are very much consequential,\" said Mr Zhou, now a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Centre for International Security and Strategy in Beijing.\n\nSenior intelligence officials attended a meeting of spy chiefs at the Singapore summit, according to Reuters.\n\nDespite the diplomatic spat, a top US state department official has arrived in Beijing for a week of wide-ranging talks.\n\nAt the White House on Monday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the US believes it is important to maintain communications channels with China despite its military showing an \"increasing level of aggressiveness\"\n\nRelations between Washington and Beijing have been strained in recent years over several issues, including China's claim over Taiwan, and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.\n\nA senior PLA official, Lt Gen Jing Jianfeng, said there was no room for compromise on Taiwan, as he accused the US of meddling in the region.\n\nWashington's decision to increase the number of troops on rotational deployment in the region could heighten the risk of a confrontation, he told reporters on the sidelines of the summit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA two-year-old girl has been killed and 22 injured after an alleged Russian air strike in a residential area of Ukraine's central city Dnipro.\n\nHer body was pulled from the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community overnight, the region's governor said.\n\nSerhiy Lysak said five of those injured were children, with three boys in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nAn earlier video shared by Ukraine's president showed rescuers searching the remains of a two-storey building.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has blamed Russia for the attack, but the Kremlin has yet to comment on the events.\n\nIn a later post, Mr Lysak said the girl, whose name was Lisa, was \"cheerful and full of life\". She and her mother were buried beneath rubble after a rocket exploded near their home.\n\nHer mother was taken to intensive care, Mr Lysak said, along with three boys aged six, 11 and 15, all of whom have multiple injuries, concussions and fractures. The boys are now said to be \"on the mend\".\n\nExplosions have also been heard over the capital, Kyiv, where air defence systems have again been deployed. The entire country had been placed under air raid alerts earlier.\n\nMr Zelensky described the blast in Dnipro as a deliberate Russian strike, although Russia has previously denied targeting civilians during its invasion of the neighbouring country.\n\nFires broke out following the alleged strike in a northern district of the city, according to the regional governor, who said 17 of those injured in the blast were taken to hospital.\n\nExplosions were reported in other parts of the country. Air defence systems were engaged early Sunday in repelling air attacks near Kyiv, the head of the city's military administration said.\n\nAll missiles targeting the city were shot down, Serhiy Popko wrote on the Telegram messaging channel.\n\nOfficials in Sumy, in the north, recorded 87 blasts as a result of Russian shelling, speaking of injuries and destruction of infrastructure.\n\nAn operational airfield near the central city of Kropyvnytsky was hit by cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yury Ignat said on TV.\n\nHe said air defences were only able to shoot down four of the six missiles, and gave no details about damage at the site.\n\nMore than a dozen explosions were also reported in the Russian-occupied southern cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol, though details were scant.\n\nIn Russia, the governor of the border region of Belgorod said that a market area in the town of Shebekino, about four miles (7 km) from the Ukrainian border had been shelled on Sunday morning.\n\nEarlier Vyacheslav Gladkov said two people had been killed in attacks near the town on Saturday. He urged residents in towns and villages along the border to leave their homes.\n\nLocal authorities said Ukraine was to blame, although Ukraine itself said the deaths were the result of Russia trying to target fighters who oppose the government in Moscow.\n\nKyiv denied having any direct involvement, again saying the attack was mounted by Russian paramilitaries.\n\nIn other developments, a close aide of President Zelensky has said his country is not yet ready to begin its long-promised counter-offensive against occupying Russian soldiers.\n\nSpeaking to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, Dr Ihor Zhovkva blamed a lack of weaponry and ammunition.\n\nHis words appeared at odds with those of Mr Zelensky, who was quoted just a day earlier saying Ukraine was ready to start the manoeuvre.\n\nBut inconsistent comments from Ukrainian officials may be a deliberate effort to confuse Moscow, the Sunday Times noted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: \"We feel so excited, we feel so happy\"\n\nA group of Ugandan children is on the verge of glory after reaching the final of hit UK talent show Britain's Got Talent, where they have won over the judges and the public with their dazzling dance moves and bubbly personalities.\n\nThey have already made history after becoming the first act to be given a \"golden buzzer\" by one of the judges before they had even finished their performance. This sent them straight through to Wednesday's semi-final, where they received most public votes, meaning they are now among the 10 acts taking part in Sunday's final.\n\nThe group of six children aged between six and 13 all come from impoverished backgrounds in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where they were taken in and cared for by their guardian-turned manager Dauda Kavuma.\n\nHe told the BBC that he hopes their success can encourage other children living in similar circumstances.\n\n\"We feel so happy to keep doing this and to bring hope to all the children around the world who are in the ghetto, who are disadvantaged, who are less privileged - that they can make it in life.\"\n\nWhile they are winning over a new audience in the UK, the Ghetto Kids are already a global internet sensation and performed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBut one of the group, Priscilla Zawedde, 13, told the BBC that winning the TV show - and the £250,000 ($313,000) prize money - would mean \"a bigger house for everyone\".\n\nSome 30 children currently share a five-bedroom house in Kampala, where they are looked after by Kavuma.\n\nHe set up the Inspire Ghetto Kids Foundation in 2007 to care for street children in the Kampala neighbourhood of Makindye and told the AFP news agency that having a bigger house would be a \"dream\" as the children would have more space.\n\nThey currently rely on donations from well-wishers, earnings from their social media posts as well as fees for live performances.\n\nKavuma also started life on the street before he was given a chance by a man who spotted him playing football and asked him if he wanted to go to school.\n\n\"He let me join his team and helped me pay my school fees. He was someone who helped me without knowing me. So from that day, I promised myself that when I grow up I'd hope to help a child one day,\" Kavuma told the BBC.\n\nBut he then switched to music, which he is now using to transform the lives of others.\n\n\"Most people thought street kids... have no value in society but I thought otherwise,\" he told AFP.\n\n\"I thought: 'What if I use music, dance and drama to transform the underprivileged in the ghettos?'\" he says.\n\nAkram Muyana, 13, told the BBC that dancing had always been his way of escaping reality after his father died.\n\n\"Whenever I dance, I feel so happy, and my stress goes away. I started going to churches to dance to get money to give my mother for her to buy me clothes and food.\"\n\nThis is the second generation of Kavuma's Ghetto Kids to have found global stardom - the first generation was discovered dancing to Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo's \"Sitya Loss\" and went on to have millions of YouTube views.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA top-flight match in Argentina was abandoned after a fan fell to their death from a grandstand at the stadium.\n\nPrimera Division leaders River Plate were playing against Defensa y Justicia at their Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires when the incident happened.\n\nReferee Fernando Rapallini suspended the match while police and firefighters cordoned off the area.\n\nRiver Plate officials said the supporter \"died on the spot\" and that an investigation was under way.\n\nThey also said the area would remain closed for 24 hours while evidence was gathered.\n\n\"The medical service immediately arrived at the area of ​​the incident, as did the police and various security agencies,\" a club statement said.\n\n\"The Sivori Alta grandstand was at 90% of its capacity. At the time of the fall, there was no intervention by third parties. It was also verified that there was no situation of violence in the stands or around it.\"\n\nThe club later named the fan as Pablo Marcelo Serrano and said it was a \"day of deep sadness\" while the league said it shared in the \"pain and suffering of family and friends\".\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Rishi Sunak has said he made cooperation on combating illegal migration a priority at a meeting of European leaders in Moldova.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"putting tackling illegal migration top of the international agenda\", and the UK was \"taking the lead\".\n\nThe main focus of the European Political Community (EPC) summit was the Ukraine war.\n\nBut Mr Sunak was keen to show progress on one of his five domestic promises.\n\nBefore he arrived for the talks at a castle near the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, he warned that Europe was \"facing unprecedented threats at our border\".\n\nThe UK is beginning talks with Moldova, which has a population of 2.6 million, on an agreement to return migrants who arrive in the UK illegally.\n\nHowever, only three Moldovan nationals arrived in the UK on a small boat last year, according to Home Office statistics.\n\nA similar deal struck with Georgia has now come into force.\n\nAround 300 Georgians arrived in the UK on small boats in 2022, and 31 in the first three months of this year.\n\nThe EPC - championed by French President Emmanuel Macron - was formed in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nIt includes 47 European nations - including European Union (EU) member states, the UK, Turkey, Norway and Balkans countries outside the EU.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also at the summit, which was held less than 15 miles from his country's border.\n\nPresident Zelenksy, who called for Nato to give a clear commitment that Ukraine could join the Western defensive alliance, had talks with Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking at the summit, the prime minister agreed that Ukraine's \"rightful place\" was in Nato, but gave no detail on a path to membership.\n\nHe said the UK was working with its allies to ensure Ukraine had the \"combat air capability needed to repel ongoing Russian aggression\".\n\nThe first EPC meeting, in Prague last October, was attended by then-prime minister Liz Truss. The UK is due to host a summit next year.\n\nTweeting from Moldova, Mr Sunak said: \"We've already made migration agreements with Albania, France and the EU to stop the boats.\n\n\"This global issue requires collaboration and the UK is taking the lead.\"\n\nThe Times has reported that the UK is keen to increase cooperation with Turkey and Bulgaria as part of efforts to tackle small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak said: \"Europe is facing unprecedented threats at our borders. From Putin's utter contempt of other countries' sovereignty to the rise in organised immigration crime across our continent.\n\n\"In every meeting, every summit, every international gathering like this, the security of our borders must be top of the agenda.\n\n\"The UK will be at the heart of this international effort to stop the boats and defend our national security.\"\n\nMoldova, which is wedged between the EU and Ukraine, is a former Soviet state, and while its government looks West, pro-Russian separatists control its Transnistria region.\n\nIt has accepted thousands of Ukrainian refugees, and the EPC has promised it more support.\n\nIn March, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced £10m funding for Moldova's energy sector, as well as economic and governance reforms.\n\nMr Macron has said the new club of nations offers \"a platform for political coordination\" for countries inside and outside the EU.\n\nBut the EPC has no institutions or dedicated staff. That has provoked questions about how any decisions would be implemented.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nA protester was detained by police on the racecourse during the Epsom Derby, but failed to stop the race.\n\nPolice said officers acted \"quickly and decisively\" after a man jumped the fence during the day's main event.\n\nMore than 30 protesters were arrested on Saturday.\n\nProtest group Animal Rising said it wanted to protect horses and accused the police of \"heavy-handedness and intimidation tactics\".\n\nLast week, race organisers the Jockey Club won a High Court injunction to prevent animal rights protesters disrupting the event.\n\nA huge security operation has been under way throughout Saturday, including pre-emptive arrests in the early hours of the morning.\n\nDespite security and police officers being stationed around the racecourse, one man was able to break through the cordon while the race was in progress, and another woman was detained while trying to climb over the fence.\n\nActivist group Animal Rising shared a video on Twitter of the protester who entered the track being bundled to the floor by security and quickly dragged away.\n\nRacegoers could be heard jeering at the protesters and shouting abuse.\n\nJack Cummins, 23, from Cambridge, witnessed the protest. He told the PA news agency: \"The guy started running down the course from the hill side - to be fair to security and police, they grabbed him pretty quickly and dragged him off.\n\n\"Pretty stupid of him to do it, protesters don't understand how well-treated these horses are - they're putting the horses in more danger than they'll have ever been in by jumping into the track.\"\n\nNevin Truesdale, head of the Jockey Club, said the protester's actions were \"reckless and illegal\" and \"threatened the safety of our equine and human athletes\".\n\nAnimal Rising said the race was allowed to start once the protester was already on the course but ITV's on-air correspondent said timecodes showed the race had just begun when he came on to the track.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority (BHA) chief executive Julie Harrington said he ran on to the track after the race had started, calling it \"reckless and dangerous behaviour\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Despite The Jockey Club's claim that the horses safety is paramount, they decided to start the race despite knowing that a protester was on the tracks.\n\n\"Another sickening display of profit (over) care for animals.\"\n\nSurrey Police said it had detained 12 suspected protesters in the grounds of Epsom racecourse, while 19 were arrested before the event began.\n\nA police spokesperson said 11 people were arrested at addresses in nearby Mitcham and Byfleet after detectives received \"intelligence\", and a further eight were arrested after their vehicle was stopped less than three miles from Epsom Downs Racecourse.\n\nAll were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance and remain in police custody.\n\nIn a statement following those initial arrests, Animal Rising accused police of using \"heavy-handedness and intimidation tactics\" and reiterated their \"commitment to protect horses and disrupt the Derby\".\n\nOrganisers spent an extra £150,000 on security measures, and there was noticeably more security along the track, with printed-out copies of the High Court injunction attached to the perimeter of the racecourse with plastic coils.\n\nMen who arrived wearing bowler hats were asked to take them off so security could see if there was anything hidden inside them, and a new six-foot fence was installed around the area where members of the public enter the compound.\n\nTight security included police spotters with binoculars at the top of the Queen Elizabeth stand and other police officers with rifles walking around enclosures and the grounds.\n\nRyan Moore won his third Derby by guiding Auguste Rodin to victory at Epsom as Frankie Dettori finished 10th on Arrest in his last ride in the race.\n\nThe race was moved from its traditional 16:30 time slot to avoid clashing with the FA Cup final at 15:00.\n\nIn April, animal rights activists delayed the start of the Grand National by getting on to the track at Aintree.\n\nProtesters also tried to disrupt the Scottish Grand National the following week.\n\nAnimal Rising spokesperson Nathan McGovern has previously said: \"We are looking to continue the conversation that we started at the Grand National about our broken relationship with animals and nature.\n\n\"On the ground we are looking to cause the cancellation or severe delay of the event so that everyone in the country has this discussion.\"", "A recovery operation is under way in India after hundreds of people were killed or injured in a three-train crash in the eastern Odisha state.\n\nThe crash took place on Friday evening, after the Coromandel Express passenger train heading south derailed after hitting a stationary goods train.\n\nSeveral carriages from the train ended up on the opposite track. Shortly afterwards a second passenger service, the Howrah Superfast Express, travelling in the opposite direction crashed into the derailed train.\n\nA recovery operation is under way after the crash in Balasore district, Odisha, at about 19:00 local time on Friday\n\nHundreds of emergency workers, more than 100 doctors and 200 ambulances, were involved in rescuing trapped passengers\n\nRescuers dug through debris and used electric cutters to slice through the metal exterior of train compartments to reach survivors\n\nDozens of local people gathered at the site of the crash, with many helping with rescue efforts overnight\n\nAround 1,000 injured people have been taken to hospital for treatment, but the nature and extent of their injuries is not yet clear.\n\nThe cause of the crash is not yet clear and an investigation into the circumstances has been launched\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site of the crash on Saturday afternoon, vowing punishment for anyone responsible", "Lilavati Devi broke down as she told the BBC her 22-year-old son was still missing\n\nRelatives of the victims of Friday's deadly three-train crash in India have spoken of their continuing, desperate efforts to find their loved ones.\n\nOne woman looking for her adult son told the BBC she had travelled for 30 hours to the crash site, searching hospitals and morgues on the way.\n\nOfficials said on Saturday that their rescue mission in Odisha had ended - but one eyewitness said he had seen a survivor retrieved the next morning.\n\nA signalling fault is emerging as the likely cause of the disaster - India's worst rail accident for decades.\n\nLilavati Devi broke down as she told the BBC on Sunday that that she was still looking for her son, although other eight members of her family who were on one of the trains had been located.\n\n\"I pray that we find him somewhere - one way or another,\" she said. \"There's nothing more I want. May God keep my son safe.\"\n\nHer son Raja Sahani, 22, was travelling along with relatives from their hometown in the north-eastern state of Bihar to the affluent southern city of Bangalore - where they work odd jobs as daily wagers.\n\nTravel involves changing trains in the city of Howrah, which is where they boarded the ill-fated train. Raja sent a photo of himself there.\n\nRaja Sahani sent his mother a photo of himself from Howrah before getting on the ill-fated train\n\nHours after he departed, Lilavati got a call from another family member saying there had been an accident. She tried Raja's phone repeatedly after that, but it was switched off.\n\nHer search had yielded nothing so far, she said. They spent 45,000 rupees (£438) hiring a car to make the journey - a cost well beyond their means.\n\n\"I have even looked in all hospitals and morgues here, but can't find him\", she said. \"We asked the morgues to show photos of all the dead bodies over and over. But he's not there.\"\n\nOdisha state official Pradeep Jena told the BBC that at least 187 bodies remained unidentified.\n\nOfficials were uploading pictures of the victims on government websites and would carry out DNA testing if needed, he said.\n\n\"It's a real challenge for us,\" he said.\n\nOthers, too, have been shuttling between the different temporary centres, looking at photos and hoping to get some news.\n\nVishwanath Sahni told the AFP news agency that he was still looking for his 26-year-old son, who had been on his way to Chennai when the disaster occurred.\n\n\"I don't know if I'll find my son,\" he said, while waiting at a morgue - having enquired at every hospital he was able to.\n\nDespite railway officials saying on Saturday that all trapped and injured people at the site had been rescued, search efforts appear to have continued at the crash site.\n\nJournalist and author Sandeep Sahu told the BBC of a \"miraculous\" discovery on Sunday morning, when an injured survivor was pulled from the mangled wreckage and then rushed to hospital.\n\nHe said dead bodies, too, were still being found - and that he had seen five of these taken from the scene, 36 hours after the accident.\n\nThese were placed in a nearby school that has been used as a temporary morgue.\n\nThere was a \"horrifying\" moment when one of the victims' mobile phones rang, he said - \"but there was nobody to respond to the call.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Archana Shukla describes \"despair, distress and chaos\" outside the hospital in Cuttack", "Hundreds of thousands of protesters have gathered in Warsaw for one of Poland's largest demonstrations since the fall of communism in 1989.\n\nMost opposition parties have called on supporters to join the march against the nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS), led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski.\n\nAmong those attending are former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and former President Lech Walesa.\n\nThe PiS has condemned the gathering as a \"march of hate\".\n\nThe mayor's office for Warsaw has estimated half a million people attended the event, which fell on the 34th anniversary of Poland's first partially-free elections.\n\nMany travelled from across the country to take part, and simultaneous demonstrations have been held in other Polish cities like Krakow.\n\nA wide variety of issues brought protests together, including frustrations over inflation, costs of living, and rights for women and LGBT.\n\nConcerns have also been raised against new law accused of undermining Poland's democracy.\n\nThe law, criticised by the EU and US, sets up a commission to investigate undue Russian influence in Polish politics, and has the power to ban people from assuming public office for 10 years.\n\nThe government denies it is subverting democracy and President Andrzej Duda has proposed amendments to remove these powers.\n\nBut critics say it could still be used against people, including Mr Tusk - Poland's main opposition leader and head of the centrist Civic Platform (PO) party.\n\nOpponents say it could also bolster the PiS' standing in this year's parliamentary elections.\n\nThe protest was attended by former President Lech Walesa (left) and former Prime Minister Donald Tusk (right)\n\nCrowds of people have been pictured waving Polish and EU flags and holding placards, and participants told the BBC that protesters were chanting \"democracy\" and \"we will win\".\n\n\"I came here to defend democracy because I can't stand how our parliament, the constitutional tribunal are destroyed, the European Union is diminished,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nDonald Tusk, a former head of the European Council, also welcomed supporters during the \"record\" march.\n\n\"Democracy dies in silence but you've raised your voice for democracy today, silence is over, we will shout,\" said Mr Tusk.\n\nAhead of the event, the PiS accused organisers of of hypocrisy, tweeting a video about police brutality and violence against the media while Mr Tusk was in office.\n\nWojciech Przybylski, editor of Visegrad Insight, told the BBC that these protests show Poland's opposition groups can unite over common causes, despite their political differences.\n\nBut PiS is still ahead in opinion polls, he adds, and \"this is going to mobilise them, because they know the opposition is for real\".", "Social media scammers are charging pupils hundreds of pounds for what they claim are leaked GCSE and A-level exam papers, but are likely to be fakes.\n\nA GCSE pupil, who was quoted £500 for a paper by someone on Instagram, said the idea papers might be for sale was \"the most talked about hype\" of exam season.\n\nIt is extremely rare for genuine papers to be leaked, exam boards said.\n\nBut they added the scams were becoming more common, with fraudsters charging between £7.50 and £4,000 per paper.\n\nInstagram, TikTok and Snapchat said fraudulent activity was against their rules and anyone who spotted such accounts should report them.\n\nA spokesperson for the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) said: \"Attempting to obtain any confidential assessment material, whether it turns out to be real or fake, is malpractice.\"\n\nPunishments for those who cheat can vary from disqualification from a single exam to being banned from sitting exams altogether.\n\nJade, not her real name, spoke to BBC News on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe 15-year-old first saw accounts claiming to sell GCSE exam papers on TikTok.\n\nIn a conversation with one of the accounts, she was then told to contact the seller on Instagram.\n\nOne GCSE student was quoted £500 by a scammer claiming to sell GCSE exams\n\n\"I was taken aback because it was ridiculous prices,\" Jade said.\n\n\"Anywhere north of £500 for a paper was the typical offer from multiple accounts for one exam paper.\"\n\nJade did not buy the exam paper but said she knows students who have paid up to £900.\n\nAnother student told BBC News they had paid a social media account £60 last year for a GCSE maths exam.\n\nBut they were left feeling \"hurt and annoyed\" when the account blocked them and failed to send anything.\n\nJade said some students were panicking this year because there is less support for pupils sitting exams in England in 2023 than there has been for other year groups since the pandemic.\n\n\"The people who buy from these accounts are your most desperate students,\" she said.\n\n\"These accounts are actually very clever and sneaky in what they do - preying on this vulnerability.\n\n\"You wouldn't meet a single student across this whole year that has not heard of these accounts. They are everywhere.\"\n\nBBC News posed as a GCSE student and contacted two separate Instagram accounts claiming to sell exam papers.\n\nAn Instagram account quoted BBC News £150 for one exam paper\n\nOne quoted a price of £120 for an AQA geography paper and £150 for an English language paper. Another account also quoted £150 for a single exam paper.\n\nBoth accounts asked to be paid through the payment app, Cash App.\n\nBut our £150 transaction was blocked by Cash App on several occasions - so the scammer asked to be paid with a gift card for a High Street retailer.\n\nAfter paying the agreed fee, our messages were ignored and no paper was sent to us. The scammer's social media account was then deleted before BBC News had the chance to report it to Instagram.\n\nA spokesperson for Meta, the company that owns Instagram, said the sale of future exam papers or answer sheets was not allowed and any such content would be removed from the platform.\n\nBill Hewison, a case analyst at exam board, AQA, said many scammers use doctored images of previous exams, changing the date and text on the front cover to try to dupe students.\n\n\"A few weeks ago, we saw an account claiming to sell one of our exams for £7.50,\" he said.\n\n\"Right at the other end of the scale, you've got thousands of pounds [being quoted] - two, three, four thousand pounds.\"\n\nBBC News was granted exclusive access to see how AQA's malpractice teams try to shut down the fraudulent accounts.\n\nThey do not know who is behind the accounts, but they have scoured social media for anyone claiming to sell papers to students, before and during exam season.\n\nExam boards have no power to shut the accounts down so instead, they report them to social media platforms - often citing copyright as a way to escalate the complaint.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok said any accounts \"promoting fraud or scams\" are removed.\n\nSnapchat said they take fraudulent accounts off the platform and urged users to report suspicious activity.\n\nIn 2019, exam board Edexcel apologised after part of an A-level maths paper was shared on social media the day before the exam.\n\nBut legitimate leaks are rare - and fraudulent accounts on social media are a growing problem.\n\n\"If we do a search on Tuesday, we will see five accounts. If we do the same search on Wednesday, we will see 10 accounts,\" Mr Hewison said.\n\n\"If you get one, they'll just create another account.\"\n\nJCQ chief executive Margaret Farragher said it was like \"digital whack-a-mole\".\n\n\"As soon as they try to close down one of these fake accounts, another one opens up,\" she added.\n\nOfqual chief regulator Jo Saxton told students not to rely on \"fraudsters on the internet\" ahead of their exams.\n\n\"You risk not only losing money but the consequences for you are really serious,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Archana Shukla in Cuttack: ''Distress and chaos'' at the hospital treating the train crash injured\n\nPeople found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be \"punished stringently\", the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.\n\nAt least 288 people were killed and more than 800 injured in Friday's incident in Odisha state, involving two passenger trains and a goods train.\n\nRescue efforts have concluded, with officials saying all trapped and injured passengers have been retrieved.\n\nMr Modi has visited the scene, labelling the incident a \"painful\" one.\n\nHe also met victims of the disaster in hospital, and vowed that his government would leave \"no stone unturned for the treatment of those injured\".\n\nIt is still not clear what caused the multi-train collision in Balasore district, which has been described as India's worst rail accident this century.\n\nA full investigation has been launched, but a preliminary report indicates that the accident was the result of signal failure, said KS Anand, chief public relations officer of the South Eastern Railway.\n\nSome 2,000 passengers are thought to have been on board the two passenger trains involved.\n\nThe exact sequence of events has been the subject of conflicting accounts.\n\nOfficials say several carriages from the Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), derailed at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) after hitting a stationary goods train. It remains unclear how the Express ended up on the same track as the goods train.\n\nSeveral of the Coromandel Express's coaches then ended up on the opposite track. Another train travelling in the opposite direction - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - collided with derailed carriages.\n\n\"The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for the loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there,\" Mr Anand said.\n\n\"Its coaches then fell on to the tracks on either side, also derailing the Howrah Superfast Express,\" he said.\n\nSounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside the trauma centre in the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack - where critically injured passengers have been wheeled in.\n\nSo far, close to 200 passengers from the train accident site have been brought in, and the numbers continue to rise.\n\nThe hospital is the largest in the state of Odisha, but is still three hours' drive from the accident site.\n\nThe hospital staff - from junior doctors to nurses and ward boys - have been lined up and waiting in groups to assist patients as they are brought in. Wards have been expanded to handle the numbers coming in.\n\nThe constant sounds of whistles and announcements by hospital authorities interrupt the chaos.\n\nFamily members of the injured are waiting anxiously outside praying for their relatives' wellbeing. But many are still looking for their loved ones, not knowing their whereabouts.\n\nThere is a counter set up to assist people who cannot locate their family members. It is crowded, and the lists run long.\n\nSome people met by the BBC ran from the accident site to nearby hospitals before coming to the facility in Cuttack - searching for their families who were on board the trains.\n\nPeople check a list at a hospital in Cuttack to see if their relatives have been taken there\n\nAnnouncing the conclusion of rescue efforts on Saturday, the railway ministry said work to restore the crash site had begun.\n\nSurvivors and eyewitnesses earlier described chaotic scenes and the heroic efforts of people from nearby villages to save trapped passengers.\n\nMukesh Pandit, who was trapped for half an hour before being rescued, told the BBC he heard a \"thunderous sound\" shortly before the carriage overturned.\n\n\"Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing. A lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in,\" he added.\n\nResidents of the neighbouring villages were among the first to reach the site of the accident and start the rescue operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.\n\nTrains can get very packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.\n\nBoth passenger trains involved in the crash were full and had many more people on the waiting list, according to passenger lists on the Indian rail ministry website reviewed by the BBC.\n\nIndia's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In an interview on the BBC's The Sunday Show, Mr Jack strongly defended the UK government's position\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack has said the UK government should not change its position on Scotland's deposit return scheme (DRS).\n\nUK ministers have made the exclusion of glass a condition of their support.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has said the scheme is in jeopardy if the UK government does not make the necessary concessions.\n\nMr Yousaf has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking him to include glass, and wants a response by Monday.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland this deadline was \"effectively\" an ultimatum.\n\nThe UK government wrote to the Scottish government last week granting a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act which would exclude glass containers from the DRS - which is due to go live in Scotland in March next year.\n\nGlass has been excluded mainly because the UK government said deposit return schemes should be consistent across the UK.\n\nMr Yousaf has urged a rethink from the UK government, citing concerns from businesses.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Sunak, the first minister said: \"The removal of glass fundamentally threatens the viability of Scotland's DRS with reduced revenue for the scheme administrator.\n\n\"Removing glass will also have a significant impact on business.\"\n\nHe also said that, apart from threatening jobs and investment, excluding glass would also put companies at a competitive disadvantage.\n\nIn an interview on the BBC's The Sunday Show, Mr Jack strongly defended the UK government's position.\n\n\"We've given the exclusion and there are four conditions in that exclusion which allow the schemes to work across the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nThe DRS would see customers given money back by returning empty bottles\n\nHe said there would be a single bar code system and membership of just one scheme would be needed instead of multiple schemes so there would be no extra costs.\n\nHe added that having no glass in the scheme \"makes sense\" as \"that's what industry have asked us to do\".\n\n\"I haven't had a single letter from a business supporting the proposed scheme that Lorna Slater brought forward whereas I have had over 1,000 letters of concern,\" he said. \"And it's those concerns that we've taken into account when we've come to our conclusion because we believe the deposit charge should be the same and reciprocated across the UK.\n\n\"If I get off the train in Carlisle and buy some recyclable material and it's 10p in Carlisle and 20p in Dumfries I double my money. That makes no sense.\"\n\nMr Jack added: \"You have to protect internal markets and not have disruption to the drinks industry. French wine producers have told us they wouldn't be relabelling just for Scotland for glass. It was too small a market so they would sell their wine elsewhere.\"\n\nHe added that the British Glass Industry had written to the UK government saying the glass was not recycling glass and that Circularity Scotland [the administrator of the scheme] was going to crush it and put it into roads, adding that it should instead be melted and recycled into bottles.\n\nHowever, this was later disputed by Circularity Scotland which said the aggregate claims were \"totally inaccurate\".\n\nThe organisation, which represents drinks producers, retailers and trade bodies who are backing the DRS scheme, said it had set a high target for remelting glass so it could be reused to make new drinks containers.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Circularity Scotland has consistently stated that the Scottish Deposit Return Scheme has set a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass from the scheme's launch, rising to 95% post-launch. Any claims to the contrary are totally inaccurate.\n\n\"These claims have seriously jeopardised a £10m investment in glass recycling planned for Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme.\"\n\nThe Scottish government wants to include glass bottles in its plans\n\nThe Scottish secretary also said there were issues with contamination because if a bottle was broken and had a shard of less than 10mm, it would contaminate all the recyclable material in the bin and it would have to go to landfill.\n\nMr Jack said the UK government had listened to the drinks industry, including the Scotch Whisky Association which said having glass in the scheme would cost it jobs.\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Mr Yousaf had cited concerns raised by C&C Group - one of the country's biggest brewers and the company behind Tennent's Lager - but, in correspondence Mr Jack received from the firm, seen by the BBC, the company said it had been \"misrepresented\".\n\nReading a section of the letter, Mr Jack said: \"Please find enclosed the letter we sent to Humza Yousaf, Scotland's first minister, setting out our position following last weekend's UK Internal Market announcement.\n\n\"Regrettably, specific passages of this letter were leaked to the media misrepresenting C&C's position on DRS.\n\n\"C&C Group/Tennent's is actively seeking and supports a UK-wide scheme introduced at the same time across the four UK nations.\"\n\nThe letter went on to say that the removal of glass would leave the company at a \"competitive disadvantage with the rest of the UK\" and the firm \"cannot therefore support a stand-alone Scottish DRS that excludes glass\".\n\nCircularity Scotland previously urged the UK and Scottish governments to \"get round the table\" to deliver the programme.\n\nIt said it had invested about £300m to develop the deposit return scheme.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack's comments can be taken to mean the UK government will not agree to what Humza Yousaf described to the BBC as an \"effective\" ultimatum.\n\nMr Yousaf wants the UK government to allow glass bottles to be part of the Deposit Return Scheme and wants them to agree to this by Monday. He says he struggles to see how it can go ahead otherwise.\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to decide on the future of the scheme this week.\n\nBut as things now stand, it would seem there is very little prospect of it going ahead next March as planned.\n\nSupporters of the Scottish government will present the UK government's position as an attack on devolution and the powers of Holyrood.\n\nThe issue will be less the rights and wrongs of the scheme itself - and more the principle that a scheme backed by a majority of MSPs cannot go ahead.\n\nThe UK government, on the other hand, would also mount a strong argument.\n\nIt would argue it is listening to the concerns of businesses about the scheme and ensuring there are no barriers to trade within Britain.\n\nThis increasingly feels like a story about constitutional politics rather than the rights and wrongs of the Deposit Return Scheme itself.", "The black-veined white butterfly became officially extinct in Britain almost a century ago\n\nBlink and you could miss them - but mysterious sightings of an extremely rare butterfly have set the hearts of enthusiasts fluttering.\n\nThe species, previously described as extinct in Britain for nearly 100 years, has suddenly appeared in countryside on the edge of London.\n\nSmall numbers of black-veined whites have been spotted flying in fields and hedgerows in south-east London.\n\nTo the non-expert, they could easily be mistaken for the common or garden cabbage white butterflies seen in Britain every summer.\n\nBut there's nothing common about the black-veined white on this side of the Channel.\n\nFirst listed as a British species during the reign of King Charles II, they officially became extinct in Britain in 1925.\n\nThis month they have mysteriously appeared among their favourite habitat: hawthorn and blackthorn trees on the edge of London, where I and other naturalists watched them flitting between hedgerows.\n\nAs their name suggests, they are a medium-sized white butterfly with distinctive black vein markings on their wings.\n\nThe charity Butterfly Conservation, which monitors butterfly numbers in Britain, told the BBC the insects will have been released, but they don't know by who or why.\n\nThey added that while it's lovely for people to be able to see them, it probably does not signify a spontaneous recovery of an extinct species.\n\nBut some experts disagree with the charity about the cause of the species' reappearance. They argue a black-veined white could have arrived in the UK from continental Europe, where they're common, and laid her eggs amongst the trees near southeast London.\n\nUpdate 1 September: A line has been added to this article to reflect that some experts believe the butterfly species could have reappeared due to natural causes.", "Cleveland Police said the body of a female was recovered from the sea off Saltburn on Sunday afternoon\n\nA person has been found dead in the sea off Saltburn.\n\nCleveland Police said officers were called to the beach shortly after 13:30 BST by paramedics who had responded to reports a body could be seen in the water.\n\nThe force said the body of a female was recovered shortly after.\n\nOfficers said formal identification had yet to take place, and their thoughts were with the person's family at \"this very difficult time\".\n\nPolice were unable to confirm if the person who died was a child or an adult.\n\nThey were also unable to say if there had been reports of someone getting into difficulty in the water.\n\nThe force said inquiries into the circumstances of the death were ongoing, and no further details have yet been released.\n\nSaltburn is famous for its Victorian pier and attracts surfers all year round.\n\nA North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We received a call to 999 at 13:35 to reports of a body recovered from the water.\n\n\"The coastguard attended the scene and we dispatched two double-crewed ambulances, a specialist paramedic, and the air ambulance.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nA funeral has been held for a 12-year-old girl who died after being pulled from the sea in Bournemouth.\n\nSunnah Khan, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was named locally after she died in the incident involving 10 swimmers on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 200 people are understood to have attended Sunnah's funeral, held by High Wycombe Mosques on Saturday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy, from Southampton, was also pulled from the sea and later died in hospital.\n\nSunnah and the teenage boy, who were not known to each other, sustained critical injuries in the incident near Bournemouth Pier.\n\nDorset Police said it was continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene, which was packed with people on half-term holidays, just after 16:30 BST.\n\nEight other swimmers were rescued and treated on the beach.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend following the incident.\n\nAn earlier police statement confirmed there was no physical contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier during the incident.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time of the incident, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are many unanswered questions on what exactly led to a deadly multiple train collision in India on Friday evening that killed at least 288 people and injured more than 800.\n\nTwo express passenger trains and a freight train were involved in a \"three-way accident\" near a small station in eastern state of Odisha, according to reports. One of them collided with the stationary freight train, and its coaches flipped over to a third track, causing an incoming train to derail. A preliminary report indicates that the accident was the result of signal failure.\n\nOnly a comprehensive inquiry will help uncover the truth behind the incident. Yet it has once again ignited fresh concerns regarding railway safety in India.\n\nIndia's expansive railway system - one of the world's largest - carries some 25 million passengers every day across a countrywide network of tracks spanning more than 100,000km (62,000 miles). Some 5,200km of new tracks were laid last year, according to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Also 8,000km of tracks were being upgraded every year, the minister said.\n\nMr Vaishnaw recently revealed in an interaction that the majority of the tracks were undergoing upgrades to accommodate trains running at speeds of up to 100 km/h, a substantial portion was being enhanced for speeds of up to 130km/h, and a significant segment was being prepared for the high speeds of up to 160km/h.\n\nClearly, this is part of the government's plans to run faster trains across the country - a genuinely high-speed line is separately being built between the financial capital of Mumbai and the city of Ahmedabad.\n\nYet, derailment continues to be a \"bugbear for the railways\", a former Railway Board chairman, Vivek Sahai, told me. A train can derail for a number of reasons - \"a track could be ill-maintained, a coach could be faulty, and there could be an error in driving\".\n\nThe Coromandel Express derailed and flipped over into the adjacent track where it was hit by an oncoming train\n\nA government railway safety report for 2019-20 found derailments were responsible for 70% of the railway accidents, up from 68% the previous year. (Train fires and collisions came next, responsible for 14% and 8% of the total accidents respectively).\n\nThe report counted 40 derailments involving 33 passenger trains and seven freight trains during the year under review. Of these 17 derailments were caused by track \"defects\" - this could include fractures and subsidence of tracks.\n\nOnly nine incidents of derailments were caused because of defects in trains - engines, coaches, wagons - according to the report.\n\nRailway tracks, composed of metal, undergo expansion during the summer months and contraction in winter due to the fluctuations in temperature. They require regular maintenance - tightening loose track components, changing sleepers, and lubricating and adjusting switches, among other things. Such track inspection is done on foot, by trolleys, locomotives and rear vehicles.\n\nIndia's railways recommend that track-recording cars meticulously evaluate the structural and geometrical integrity of tracks designed to sustain speeds ranging from 110km/h to 130km/h at least once every three months.\n\nA report on derailments by federal auditors between April 2017 and March 2021 had some disturbing findings:\n\nThere has been a lot of talk about anti-collision devices to be installed on Indian trains, but the system is now only being installed on two major routes - between Delhi and Kolkata and between Delhi and Mumbai - according to a railway official. It is also not clear how such a system would have helped in the event of a derailment or a \"freak\" collision.\n\nIn 2010 more than 150 people were killed when a passenger train derailed and collided with a an oncoming freight train in West Bengal\n\nIn 2010 more than 150 people were killed when a passenger train derailed and collided with an oncoming freight train in West Bengal. Investigators said Maoist rebels had sabotaged the track causing the Kolkata-Mumbai passenger train to derail, throwing five of its carriages into the path of the oncoming good trains. There has been no hint of sabotage yet in Friday's accident.\n\nAccording to the railways, there were 34 \"consequential rail accidents\" - collisions, derailments, fire or explosion in trains, road vehicles colliding with trains at level crossings - during 2021-22, up from 27 such accidents during the previous year. The Hindu newspaper reported on 31 May that the number of such accidents had risen to 48 in 2022-2023.\n\nPresciently, the report said the railway authorities were worried about the increase in accidents, and had asked their senior manager to \"critically analyse long working hours of crew especially in East Coast Railway and South East Central Railway, and take corrective action urgently\". Friday evening's accident happened in the busy East Coast Railway zone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Archana Shukla describes \"despair, distress and chaos\" outside the hospital in Cuttack\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features.", "The cost of detaining and deporting people arriving in the UK in small boats under planned new legislation could hit £6bn over the next two years, internal government projections say.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill is currently going through Parliament.\n\nThe BBC understands the Home Office estimates it will have to spend between £3bn and £6bn on detention facilities, and ongoing accommodation and removals.\n\nIt gives ministers the power to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally.\n\nThese migrants would be barred from claiming asylum here.\n\nThe government insists it needs to act as record numbers of people are arriving in small boats and the cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels is running at almost £7m a day.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made tackling the issue one of his key priorities - but the bill has encountered opposition from within the Conservative party and has been strongly criticised in the House of Lords, where it is currently being debated.\n\nMinisters have so far not revealed any costs linked to the bill or given any indication of the scale of investment it requires.\n\nBut one senior government source described it as one of the main pressures on public spending.\n\nThe Treasury is backing the policy, but there is concern among insiders that costs associated with the controversial bill are escalating.\n\nHome Office sources acknowledged that the bill's implementation would be expensive and complex, with one admitting that getting the whole process working would be a \"major logistical challenge\".\n\nMore than 45,000 people crossed the English Channel last year on small boats - currently the UK has the capacity to detain around 2,000 people for immigration purposes and work has begun to significantly scale this up.\n\nWhitehall sources stressed there were many variables and the purpose of the bill was also to act as a deterrent.\n\nThe Home Office hopes the number of people being detained, and therefore the costs, will come down over time, but Treasury insiders worry that the deterrent effect has not been reliably modelled.\n\nOne Home Office source close to the legislation admitted the deterrent effect was an \"unknown factor\" that could not be predicted.\n\nJon Featonby, chief policy analyst at the Refugee Council, said: \"The Home Office is clearly aware that so-called deterrence measures simply don't work, and it is preparing to detain thousands of desperate people who will end up on our shores in search of protection. Until refugees fleeing violence and persecution are given a safe pathway to seek asylum in our country, they will continue to risk their lives to get here.\n\n\"Instead of moving forward with this hugely expensive and unworkable crackdown on refugees seeking safety in the UK, the government should be focusing on creating a system that protects the right to claim asylum and that prioritises both compassion and control.\"\n\nRob McNeil, deputy director of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, said costs were already \"very, very high\" and that if asylum claims were processed faster there would be fewer people in the system.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the question is whether the proposed bill would deter people from arriving in the UK in the first place.\n\nResponding to the figures, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"The Conservatives are in total chaos on asylum and their new bill is a sham that will make the soaring costs far worse.\"\n\nThe government says it will publish its economic impact assessment of the bill in due course.\n\nUnder the proposals in the Illegal Migration Bill, anyone who arrives in the UK on an unauthorised boat across the English Channel would be detained before being removed within weeks, either to their home country or another country deemed safe.\n\nA plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda to make their claims is still facing legal challenges in the courts.\n\nIf the Illegal Migration Bill becomes law, it will apply retrospectively to anyone who arrived in the UK illegally after 7 March 2023.\n\nIn the short term, there would still be a legacy system in place in parallel, dealing with the claims of those who arrived on small boats before that date.\n\nThe Home Office says the annual cost of the current asylum system has reached £3bn a year.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our Illegal Migration Bill will help to stop the boats by making sure people smugglers and illegal migrants understand that coming to the UK illegally will result in detention and swift removal - only then will they be deterred from making these dangerous journeys in the first place.\"", "It's time US writers asserted their rights - Cox\n\nLaura is chatting to the panel about what we've just heard - and actor Brian Cox says he \"absolutely\" agrees with Tom Hollander that striking writers in the US should \"go for it\". Cox says: \"They are the prime forces of what we do - we can't do anything without the writers\". He adds: \"Unfortunately producers are the ones who behave rather badly, they are the ones who are the manipulators and sometimes the writers get pushed to the tap end of the bath. \"It's time they asserted their rights,\" he says. The huge successes of The White Lotus and Succession is down to the writers, he says - \"they're the ones who have done it.\" On the wealth and opulence depicted in these shows he says \"everybody loves to hate and these are extremely hateful people\".", "Footage filmed in the daylight has revealed the extent of damage in the wake of a train collision in the Indian state of Odisha.\n\nAt least 260 people have been killed and 650 are injured, with officials saying the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nOne passenger train derailed on to the adjacent track and was struck by an incoming train on Friday, also hitting a nearby stationary freight train.", "Russia says it routed the fighters from both groups - the Liberty of Russia Legion (pictured) and the Russian Volunteer Corps\n\nFighters described by the Kremlin as \"saboteurs\" have crossed the border from Ukraine into the Belgorod region prompting a Russian \"counter-terrorism\" operation.\n\nAfter two days of fighting, Russia says it surrounded the insurgents and killed more than 70 of them, pushing the rest back into Ukraine. It has dismissed them as Ukrainian militants but Kyiv says they come from two anti-Kremlin paramilitaries.\n\nUkrainian officials say they are Russian citizens from the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) seeking to create a \"security zone\" for Ukrainians.\n\nBoth groups have in the past been described as part of an international legion involved in Ukraine's territorial defence.\n\nAndriy Yusov from Kyiv's intelligence directorate said both groups were working \"autonomously on the territory of Russia\" and Ukrainians were not involved, while Ukrainian TV said they were militiamen and \"Russian volunteers\".\n\nThe Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) came to prominence in March 2023, taking part in a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region which it said involved 45 people.\n\nUnconfirmed Russian reports spoke of shooting, casualties and hostages while the RDK said it had crossed the border to call on Russians to rebel against their government. The group said it had taken no hostages and retreated safely on to Ukrainian territory.\n\nMembers of the Russian Volunteer Corps posed in a handout picture at Kozinka\n\nIts leader is known as Denis Kapustin or Denis Nikitin, a Russian nationalist, and the group openly espouses a mono-ethnic Russian state.\n\nIn 2020, a Ukrainian investigative website alleged he had links to neo-Nazi groups and Nikitin has spoken in the past of belonging to a movement of football hooligans.\n\nHis RDK group accuses Russia's mainstream opposition of sitting on the fence in the Ukraine war.\n\nAnother corps member, named Fortuna, told Ukrainian media last November that they numbered 120 people: \"We are a voluntary unit, we are not conscripts or contract servicemen like Ukrainian citizens.\"\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL) is a very different organisation that fights alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces. It uses a white-blue-white flag, seen by part of the Russian opposition as the flag of \"free Russia\".\n\nVolunteer corps leader Denis Nikitin said that while they both sought the \"toppling of the Putin regime\", the legion's fighters were more inclined to call themselves centrists.\n\nHowever, on 22 May the legion announced it had \"liberated\" the Russian village of Kozinka, just across the Ukrainian border and to the south-west of Belgorod. \"The Legion and the RDK continue to liberate the Belgorod region,\" it claimed.\n\n\"Once again, the myth that Russian citizens are safe and the Russian Federation is strong has been destroyed,\" it added.\n\nIt then posted videos of balloons carrying its flag over Moscow.\n\nThe size of the legion is unclear but according to its website, it claims to be \"fighting in full co-operation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and under the leadership of the Ukrainian command\".\n\nA member known as Caesar, who is arguably its best-known soldier, has insisted \"there are no people in the legion who were forced to join it\" and all members were contract soldiers with Ukraine's international legion.\n\nAlthough he said a small number were Russian soldiers who had surrendered to Ukrainian forces, they had done so precisely to switch sides.\n\nReacting to Moscow's decision to label it a \"terrorist organisation\", it pointed out that it had earlier been denounced as non-existent.\n\nThere is some doubt over the military significance of the two groups. Ukrainian pundit Volodymyr Fesenko said there several different units and they appeared more about public relations than real action.\n\nFormer Russian MP Ilya Ponamarev, who is now a Ukrainian citizen, said on Facebook in August 2022 that the legion, the volunteer corps and another group called the National Republican Army had signed a declaration agreeing the common goal of liberating Russia from the rule of Vladimir Putin.\n\nReporting by BBC Monitoring. We have recently launched a podcast: The Global Jigsaw", "EastEnders has won the top prize at the British Soap Awards, while Coronation Street took home the most trophies.\n\nJane McDonald hosted the awards in Salford on Saturday night.\n\nShe replaced former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield after he quit ITV last week.\n\nAccepting the best British Soap Award alongside the EastEnders cast, Perry Fenwick, who plays Billy Mitchell, said: \"From the bottom of our hearts, honestly, we are thrilled to bits.\"\n\nThe drama also clinched the top leading performer award for Danielle Harold's portrayal of Lola Pearce-Brown, a character who recently died following a brain tumour.\n\nHarold dedicated the prize to everyone who had been directly affected by brain tumours, adding: \"Their time has been so precious to them and even more to me and I can't thank all of you enough for helping me.\"\n\nThe soap also won villain of the year and best young performer at the ceremony at the Lowry Theatre in Salford Quays.\n\nLillia Turner won best young performer for her role in EastEnders as Lily Slater\n\nCoronation Street won a total of six prizes including best single episode and scene of the year for the show's depiction of an acid attack.\n\nRyan Prescott, whose character Ryan Connor was injured in the attack, said there had been 330 acid attacks in Manchester in the last year.\n\n\"It was amazing to be part of something that could bring a light to something so sensitive and something that is happening way more than we actually know,\" he said.\n\nCoronation Street star Andrew Still who played Justin Rutherford in the soap's winning scene of the year\n\nHollyoaks won best storyline and the show's head of casting was awarded the Tony Warren Award, previously known as the outstanding achievement award (off screen). The award is named after the creator of Coronation Street, who died in 2016.\n\nDoctors actors Chris Walker and Jan Pearson won the best on-screen partnership award and Emmerdale's Mark Charnock, who plays Marlon Dingle, took the outstanding achievement award.\n\nJane McDonald hosted the British Soap Awards after Phillip Schofield stepped down\n\nSinger and travel presenter McDonald said presenting the awards was her dream job as a \"massive fan of the soaps\".\n\nShe is also known for being a panellist on Loose Women and presenting the Bafta-winning Channel 5 series Cruising With Jane McDonald.\n\nAs the awards came to a close, McDonald said: \"I'm off for a knees-up with all my favourite soap stars, I'm so excited.\"\n\nSchofield left ITV last week after he admitted to having an affair with a younger male colleague and lying about it.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the ex-This Morning presenter said he had \"lost everything\" and did not see a future for his career.", "The computer software giant is one of 13 signatories to the letter supporting the CBI in its battle for survival\n\nThe engineering giant Siemens, Microsoft and oil firm Esso have signed a letter backing the CBI ahead of a crunch vote on its future.\n\nThe firms are among 13 signatories of a letter seen by the BBC giving the business group a \"mandate to continue\".\n\nThe CBI is fighting for its survival after claims of sexual misconduct against staff led to an exodus of members, including John Lewis and BMW.\n\nResults of the \"critical\" vote will be revealed next week.\n\nThe ballot on a \"programme of change\" is likely to be seen as a key moment for the organisation's future.\n\nAsked if the lobby group would shut down in the event it lost support, the CBI's director-general Rain Newton-Smith told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg it was a \"really nerve-racking time\".\n\nBut Ms Newton-Smith, who has described the vote as critical, said she was \"absolutely determined that we lead this programme of change\" so that the CBI could be a \"collective voice for business\".\n\n\"It's been absolutely devastating to read about some of these instances and I think, I hope, we are emerging from what has been a really deep and painful crisis for us,\" she added.\n\nThe CBI - the Confederation of British Industry - is one of the UK's most prominent lobby groups. Its role is speak to the government on behalf of around 190,000 businesses, which employ millions of people, and share best practice.\n\nBut in April, after allegations of harassment and sexual assault emerged - including two claims of rape, one at a summer party held in 2019, and another at an overseas office - some big household names cut ties with the group.\n\nThe City of London Police is currently investigating the rape allegations.\n\nSome members, such as Tesco and Sainsbury's have suspended engagement with the group and the government has also paused its activities with the CBI, with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt stating there was \"no point\" working with it when its own members had deserted it.\n\nFollowing an investigation by law firm Fox Williams, the CBI announced a \"programme of change\" last week, which has been put to remaining members to vote on.\n\nThe reforms are designed to restore trust in the body and include a refresh of the CBI board and the creation of a new committee to focus on people and human resources matters. There will also be staff cuts.\n\nThe letter, signed by the firms backing the troubled lobby group, is expected to be published in Monday's Times newspaper, the BBC understands.\n\n\"We believe that the CBI has recognised its failings and has a robust action plan in place to be delivered by a new leadership,\" the letter says.\n\n\"We're backing the CBI to change and move forward and this group will vote to give the organisation a mandate to continue.\n\n\"This is not a blank cheque and we will hold the CBI to account in delivering on its action plan.\"\n\nCarl Ennis, chief executive of Siemens in Britain and Ireland, said the firm believed the UK needed an \"effective voice for businesses of all sizes and across different sectors\".\n\n\"Their recovery plan, while it is only a start, identifies a path forwards,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe CBI has suspended its own day-to-day operations due to the allegations and will only resume work if members back its plans for change.\n\nThe group announced earlier this week it would have to let staff go as it looked to trim its wage bill by a third after losing revenue from a drop in membership.\n\nAsked if she was taking a pay cut Ms Newton-Smith said: \"We are looking at all the options.\"\n\n\"My pay is already not as high as my predecessors,\" she added. \"What is really important is that we protect as many jobs as we can through this. I don't want to lose any colleagues.\"\n\nFormer director-general of the CBI, Tony Danker, was dismissed after being the subject of separate complaints of workplace misconduct, unrelated to the sexual assault and rape claims, for which he has apologised.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported he was \"preparing\" to sue the group. Mr Danker previously told the BBC he was considering legal action, but did not want to sue.", "Dua Lipa talked about her career and her love of books at the Hay Festival\n\nAward-winning singer Dua Lipa thrilled fans at the Hay Festival on Sunday as she spoke candidly about how \"persistence\" had brought her success.\n\n\"From a young age, I had the dream to be a pop star but it never seemed like something that was actually possible,\" she told the audience.\n\nHaving moved between her parents' native Kosovo and London as a child, she said her adaptability had helped.\n\n\"I've been a new girl all my life,\" she told the renowned literary festival.\n\nHer audience were a mixed bunch, but there was a sizeable number of patient parents queuing up at the humid Baillie Gifford stage with teenage daughters who were scrolling through Dua's Instagram feed as they waited to be seated.\n\nThe One Kiss singer's fondness for reading is no secret. She made a speech at the Booker Prize ceremony last year about the power of literature.\n\nHere she expanded on the books that became markers at pivotal moments in her life, including Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses (\"a first step into understanding racism and classism\" when she was 10) and Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.\n\nBorn in London after her parents moved there to escape the war in former Yugoslavia, she moved back to Kosovo with her parents at the age of 11. When she was 15, she headed back to the UK to take her GCSEs and pursue a music career.\n\n\"There was always the idea of being from two places at once,\" she explained. \"I understood the duality of my heritage from an early age. People would always ask where my name is from.\n\n\"I was really proud of it, but when I was younger I wished my name was, say, Hannah - something 'normal' and English.\"\n\nAs well as \"making up dance routines in the playground at school\", the singer said \"reading was also such a big part of my life\".\n\nWhen she moved to Kosovo, she discovered The Castle/The Siege by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, set amid a conflict in the 15th Century.\n\n\"The memory I have of reading it is that it was really difficult, it's a big book, but it was a gateway into my Albanian roots. It was like another milestone moment in my life that really shifted things for me.\"\n\nWhen she moved back to London at 15, she came on her own and shared a flat with the daughter of family friends from Kosovo. That would be quite daunting for most young teenagers.\n\n\"I was quite determined,\" Dua said. \"I didn't feel I had the same opportunities in music as I had in London. I was driven. My dad says I'm very hard to say no to!\"\n\nAfter finishing her studies, she set about making it in the music industry.\n\n\"I was really persistent. I just started writing a lot, worked with a producer. I was 17. I was offered a publishing deal but [producer] Felix told me to go to a lawyer, who said, 'Don't sign that deal!' They then helped me get into the studio.\"\n\nAlong the way, she found herself in a \"difficult, early relationship in my life\", she said, explaining: \"I guess I was in a relationship with someone who had a very different idea of fidelity than I had.\"\n\nKundera's 1984 classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being helped her through it.\n\n\"[Main character] Tomas has a very unapologetic philosophy on relationships and monogamy. My philosophy never changed... but books help you understand other people's emotions, the human experience,\" she explained.\n\nDua's love of books has led her to interview renowned authors including Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote A Little Life, on her podcast Dua Lipa: At Your Service. She also recorded a special episode in conversation with Shuggie Bain author and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart at Hay on Saturday - the first book of the month pick for her new Service95 book club.\n\n\"I'm still figuring it out sometimes. If there's something that you like, why not try it? You'll never know unless you just dive in,\" she said.\n\n\"That's what happened to me with the podcast. I was absolutely petrified but really excited. Would I be a good interviewer, would I be able to keep the conversation going?\n\n\"But maybe I thrive on being thrown in the deep end. Being out of my comfort zone pushes me to just go for it.\"", "Protests over the sentencing have taken place in Leipzig and other cities\n\nLeft-wing protesters and police have clashed for a second night over a jail term given to a woman convicted of vigilante attacks on neo-Nazis.\n\nDemonstrators in the eastern city of Leipzig set up road blocks, lit fires and threw stones at officers, police said.\n\nLina E was sentenced to five years in jail, but released pending an appeal as she had been detained since 2020.\n\nThe protest in the city, where Lina E had studied, had earlier been banned.\n\nA police spokesman said around 1,500 people turned up anyway, claiming around a third of those were \"prone to violence\", the Reuters news agency reports.\n\nSaturday's violence followed similar scenes the previous night, when several hundred people lit bonfires in the street and thrown stones from buildings onto police vehicles.\n\nOn Sunday police said about 50 officers had been hurt and 30 protesters arrested over the two nights.\n\nLina E was regarded as a leader of a far-left group responsible for carrying out a brutal campaign of violence against the extreme right over several years, including attacks with hammers, iron bars and baseball bats.\n\nAfter Lina E was found guilty, there were far-left protests in several cities and police were targeted with bottles and fireworks and baseball bats.\n\nThree men convicted alongside her were also given jail sentences on Wednesday.\n\nOther Germans were angered by the decision to release Lina E, after two-and-a-half years in custody - believing the decision implies violence against the extreme right is acceptable.\n\nShe is said to be unwell and has had to hand in her identity card and passport while she waits for the result of her appeal.\n• None Row over jail term for woman who attacked neo-Nazis", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf said he was not prepared to put companies at a competitive disadvantage\n\nThe first minister has told the BBC he is struggling to see how Scotland's deposit return scheme can go ahead without the UK government's support.\n\nHumza Yousaf has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him to agree to include glass bottles in the scheme.\n\nHe has set Monday as a deadline for a response and agreed that this was \"effectively\" an ultimatum.\n\nThe UK government said deposit return schemes should be consistent UK-wide.\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Mr Yousaf accused the UK government of placing the deposit return scheme (DRS) in \"grave danger\".\n\nHe said the demands would have a \"significant impact\" on business.\n\nThe administrator of Scotland's DRS, Circularity Scotland, has now urged the UK and Scottish governments to \"get round the table\" to deliver the programme.\n\nThe UK government wrote to the Scottish government last week granting a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act which would exclude glass containers from the DRS - which is due to go live in Scotland in March next year.\n\nMr Yousaf has urged a rethink from the UK government, citing concerns from one of Scotland's biggest brewers.\n\n\"The removal of glass fundamentally threatens the viability of Scotland's DRS with reduced revenue for the scheme administrator,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Removing glass will also have a significant impact on business.\n\n\"For example, C&C Group - owners of the iconic Tennent's brand - has been explicit that the decision by the UK government to remove glass threatens investment and jobs.\n\n\"Other Scottish businesses have raised similar concerns privately with us.\"\n\nThe Scottish government wants to include glass bottles in its plans\n\nMr Yousaf later told BBC Scotland Tennent's had said that, apart from threatening jobs and investment, excluding glass would also put the company at a competitive disadvantage.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to do that,\" he said. \"The Scottish government will not be prepared to do that and now that we've heard from these companies I'm saying to the prime minister it's very simple - you agree to include glass in the scheme or I'm afraid I struggle to see how the scheme can go ahead because I will not put Scottish businesses at that disadvantage.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said he hoped the UK government would listen and agree to provide the Scottish government with the necessary exemption from the Internal Market Act.\n\nThe UK government's move sparked another constitutional row between Edinburgh and London, with the first minister writing in his letter to Mr Sunak: \"There are much wider consequences of the decision.\n\n\"This UK government intervention at such a late stage demonstrates a major erosion of the devolution settlement.\n\n\"I urge you to revoke the conditions set out in your letter and grant a full exclusion for Scotland's DRS, to be implemented as per the regulations agreed by the Scottish Parliament in this area of devolved competence.\n\n\"Without this, the Scottish government is not prepared to put Scottish businesses at a competitive disadvantage due to the last-minute demands the UK government has made.\n\n\"There is little doubt your government's action have put the future of DRS in grave danger, not only in Scotland but also in the rest of the UK due to the damage to consumer and investor confidence.\"\n\nIt is looking increasingly likely that the deposit return scheme will be scrapped.\n\nThe Scottish government wants the scheme to cover glass bottles, plastic bottles and drinks cans.\n\nBut the UK government has an effective veto - it needs to provide the Scottish government with an appropriate exemption from the Internal Market Act which is designed to ensure there are no barriers to trade within Britain.\n\nThe UK government is only prepared to offer an exemption covering plastic bottles and drinks cans.\n\nHumza Yousaf hopes the UK government will listen to Holyrood and provide that wider exemption.\n\nBut there seems to be no chance of that happening by Monday.\n\nIf the scheme is dropped, supporters of the Scottish government will argue it is the result of an attack on devolution itself and the rights of the Scottish parliament,\n\nBut critics will say the problem could have been foreseen.\n\nAnother of the conditions placed on the scheme was the insurance of \"interoperability\" between the Scottish scheme and the anticipated English DRS, which is intended to launch in October 2025.\n\nThe first minister conceded the ability for the schemes to work together where possible would be \"desirable\", but added that the UK government was \"unable to provide the operational details required to allow the schemes to be interoperable\" due to it being at such an early stage.\n\n\"Businesses need certainty and they need it now - not in two years time when the UK government scheme potentially, hopefully launches,\" he added.\n\n\"The UK government has significantly undermined the clarity and certainty that businesses unanimously tell us they need.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also pointed out that the UK government had intended to include glass in the English DRS from 2019 right up until March 2022 - two years after regulations were passed by the Scottish Parliament.\n\n\"We planned our scheme on this basis,\" he said.\n\nThe first minister added that as late as January 2023, the UK government confirmed that it was for devolved governments to decide the scope of their DRS.\n\n\"The Welsh government's stated intention has been to include glass in their DRS, meaning that it is the English scheme which is out of step with the design of other UK schemes,\" Mr Yousaf said.\n\nThe first minister asked for a response from Downing Street by Monday to allow for the issue to be discussed by the Scottish Cabinet the following day and to update Holyrood.\n\nThe DRS would see customers given money back by returning empty bottles\n\nThe Scotland Office said it would respond to the first minister's letter in due course, with a spokeswoman adding: \"The government remains unwavering in its commitment to improving the environment while also upholding the UK's internal market.\n\n\"The drinks industry has raised concerns about the Scottish government's DRS differing from plans in the rest of the UK, resulting in the Scottish government reviewing and pausing their scheme earlier this year.\n\n\"We have listened to these concerns and that is why we have accepted the Scottish government's request for a UK internal market (UKIM) exclusion on a temporary and limited basis to ensure the Scottish government's scheme aligns with planned schemes for the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the UK and this is the best way to provide a simple and effective system.\n\n\"A system with the same rules for the whole UK will increase recycling collection rates and reduce litter - as well as minimise disruption to the drinks industry and ensure simplicity for consumers.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scotland's DRS administrator said: \"Circularity Scotland, our members and business and industry partners have invested around £300m to develop a deposit return scheme and have done so at no cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"This scheme will be ready to launch in March 2024 and will be a platform for a scaled-up and interoperable pan-UK scheme.\n\n\"We urge both governments to urgently get round the table and agree a pathway for integrated and harmonised deposit return schemes across the UK.\n\n\"Without this agreement, investment and public confidence will be seriously damaged, jeopardising credibility for investment in any future major environmental projects.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden said: \"Issuing this ultimatum is a cynical and transparent attempt to create a constitutional spat to divert attention from another unravelling SNP-Green policy.\n\n\"The reality is that DRS has been an utter shambles from the start - and nationalist ministers only applied for an internal market act exemption at the very last minute.\n\n\"Retailers have no confidence that the SNP-Greens can deliver the efficient recycling system that we all want to see.\"", "Viktoria Makarova takes her daughter Eva back to eastern Ukraine, saying \"it's impossible to be a refugee\"\n\nAt the train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, attendants in smart, traditional uniforms help passengers down the steep carriage steps.\n\nDespite Russia's full-scale invasion, the trains here have never stopped running for the millions who rely on them.\n\nWe board and take a journey people are being urged to avoid - to the last stop before the eastern front line.\n\nAs we weave past the protruding feet that line the stuffy sleeper carriage, it becomes clear this isn't just a route to the battlefield.\n\nYes, there are soldiers. Most look out of the window - you wonder what they're thinking about.\n\nBut there are also young families on their way back home.\n\nViktoria is reunited with her husband Serhiy at Pokrovsk train station\n\nViktoria is heading back to the town of Pokrovsk with her baby Eva. The 20-year-old tells us she's had enough of avoiding the war, but isn't without worries.\n\n\"I have to overcome them somehow,\" she says. \"It's impossible to live like this, wandering everywhere. We have to make it work at home.\"\n\nSince February last year, Viktoria has travelled across Ukraine and Slovakia in an attempt to keep her and her daughter safe.\n\nAfter three hours of weaving through the rich green of Ukraine's countryside, we arrive in Pokrovsk and Viktoria is greeted by the husband she left behind.\n\n\"I'm overwhelmed,\" says Serhiy, who was waiting patiently on the platform with a bunch of flowers.\n\n\"I'm very glad to see my beautiful daughter and wife. I just want us to sit, cuddle, chat and that's it.\"\n\nArrivals like this are part of a broader trend in Ukraine. After the devastating scenes of departure of last year, six million Ukrainians have since returned to their country.\n\nOf those, thousands are moving back to their homes across the 600-mile (965km) front line, where the threat of a Russian attack remains.\n\nSerhiy is one of many who stayed in Pokrovsk for his job at the local coal mine - an industry ingrained in the Donetsk region's DNA, and a major employer here.\n\nMany coal miners remained in Pokrovsk after Russia's full-scale invasion began, working in a long network of tunnels\n\nNot only has it led to thousands staying, but it's also enticing people back with the offer of new jobs.\n\nIn the early hours, miners move with urgency to shuttle buses that take them to the mine shaft. Even once they're 800m (2,600ft) underground, it can take them up to an hour to walk to where they need to be.\n\nVolodymyr has worked here for 20 years. Stuffed down the front of his overalls is his packed lunch. They call their food \"tormozok\" in these parts, which means a brake on their work at the mine.\n\nHe and some colleagues are protected from mobilisation because their roles are seen as critical. For Volodymyr, going to work is a balance between personal safety and simple economics. He must earn a living.\n\n\"When you go underground, you don't know what's happening above with the family. I'm often very worried.\"\n\nPokrovsk's population is gradually rising, after dropping by two-thirds last year from 65,000. Svitlana, who works in the station control room, said when the war began in 2022 it was \"like an apocalypse - I had never seen so many people leave\".\n\nNow it's become a destination for those escaping Russian occupation and fighting.\n\nIt's a town very much on a war footing. The streets are filled with an even mix of civilians and soldiers. This area has seen war since the onset of Russia's aggression nine years ago.\n\nAnother attraction is the restoration of power and water by local officials, despite their warnings for people to stay away.\n\nPokrovsk is still comfortably in range of Russian multiple-rocket launcher systems (MRLS). Scars around the town remind you of their indiscriminate threat.\n\nOn the outskirts of Pokrovsk, closer to Russia's occupation, you find the town's last line of defence. Soldiers from the territorial defence keep a watchful eye towards the faint sounds of artillery.\n\nTheir dutiful actions are allowing people to move back into harm's way, and there seems to be sympathy in the trenches.\n\n\"Some are saving their children, some stay because it's their homeland,\" says Vyacheslav.\n\n\"If you have to die, it's better to die in your motherland than somewhere abroad.\"\n\nViktoria (right) with her husband Serhiy and their daughter Eva at their flat in Pokrovsk\n\nA couple of days later we rejoin Serhiy, Viktoria and Eva at their flat. Watching them play with their daughter is a picture of innocence.\n\n\"Who knows when it will become safe here?\" asks Serhiy. \"Maybe a year? Two? Or five?\n\n\"We don't want to wait five years, or even one year.\"\n\nThey've clearly made peace with their decision to stay as a family, despite the obvious risks.\n\nA move not just out of defiance, but from an acceptance, too, that this war won't end soon.", "Geraint Davies has said he does not recognise the allegations\n\nThree female MPs have said they were warned about Geraint Davies in their first weeks in Westminster.\n\nThey were told by other MPs to \"watch out\" for him, they say.\n\nThe Swansea West MP was suspended by the Labour Party following reports by the Politico website of \"completely unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nTwo formal complaints have now been made against the politician but he has said he does not recognise the allegations.\n\nThe three MPs who spoke to BBC Wales included two from the Labour Party and one Conservative.\n\nOne new Labour MP claimed she was subject to lewd comments and inappropriate touching.\n\n\"He was always lewd and yuck in terms of his behaviour, it was just his MO [modus operandi],\" she said.\n\n\"It was never sinister, just inappropriate. He'd make lewd comments or touch your arm when you were next to him in the voting lobby. It just made you feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"If you saw him in the tea room, you would avoid sitting on his table and pray he wouldn't come and sit with you.\"\n\nShe added: \"When I first became an MP, he was one of the ones you'd be warned about. Several people sat me down and told me to watch out for him.\n\n\"It's about time this came to light.\"\n\nThe Swansea West MP has said he does not recognise the allegations\n\nA second female Labour MP told BBC Wales that she was also advised by fellow MPs to avoid Mr Davies.\n\nThe second MP had not experienced or witnessed any inappropriate behaviour herself, and therefore did not raise the issue with the party.\n\nShe believes the party needed to reassess its procedures.\n\n\"The Labour Party have a new complaints process, but we now need to question if it's working. There needs to be a review of that process to see whether it's working and if it's robust enough,\" she said.\n\n\"Why do we need to put the onus on young women to come forward and to make an official complaint before action is taken?\n\n\"There is now a lot of talk amongst female MPs on how we change the culture in Westminster because enough is enough.\"\n\nA Conservative female MP has revealed she was also warned about Mr Davies when she first went to Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"During the day, he is dismissive and rude to you. But when he has a drink - and you go to speak to him - his eyes light up in the creepiest way.\"\n\nAnother Labour MP told BBC Wales they were \"amazed\" it had taken so long for allegations about Geraint Davies' behaviour to become public.\n\n\"Everybody had heard about Geraint,\" they said.\n\nAsked about Labour's procedures for dealing with allegations of inappropriate behaviour, the MP said the party's \"hands were tied\" until somebody had submitted a written complaint.\n\nMr Davies has been approached for comment but has not responded.\n\nHowever, in response to earlier claims, he told Politico he did not recognise the allegations.\n\n\"If I have inadvertently caused offence to anyone, then I am naturally sorry as it is important that we share an environment of mutual and equal respect for all,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said his party has \"acted swiftly\" to suspend Mr Davies.\n\nOn a visit to Edinburgh, Mr Drakeford told the BBC the accusations against Mr Davies are \"very serious\" and \"need to be taken seriously\".\n\nOriginally Labour said it had not received a formal complaint, but the BBC now understands that one has been made.\n\nIt's understood that following an overhaul of its complaints procedures, the Labour Party introduced a new process last year which it believes is robust, and is one that complainants can have confidence in.\n\nA Labour spokesperson has previously said: \"These are incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"We strongly encourage anyone with a complaint to come forward to the Labour Party's investigation.\n\n\"Any complainant will have access to an independent support service who provide confidential and independent guidance and advice from external experts throughout the process.\"\n\nLabour general secretary David Evans said a review has been launched into the complaints process following previous incidents, including an aide receiving a warning after allegedly groping a junior staff member.\n\nIn an email sent on Thursday, he said: \"Since the stories two weeks ago, it has been my urgent focus that we review the formal processes through which our colleagues can report such behaviour, how we work together with independent complaints bodies to ensure rigorous outcomes and protection for staff while investigations are ongoing, and how we can create a culture in which colleagues feel safe and encouraged to make a complaint if they need to.\n\n\"I have been working together with a taskforce of the party's senior leadership team to move this review forward as quickly as possible.\"", "When asked which crowd was more up for it, Glastonbury or Hay, Stormzy shouted: \"You lot!\"\n\nStormzy is used to wowing the crowds at festivals - his 2019 headline Glastonbury appearance was considered an all-round triumph.\n\nHis latest festival appearance, though, was a slightly different prospect.\n\nThe Heavy is the Head singer and rapper was appearing at the famous literary festival at Hay-on-Wye in Wales to talk about his publishing imprint, Merky Books.\n\nThe star's slot changed from Saturday to Sunday and rumours whizzed around the festival site about the late change.\n\nAt various points, I was told it was because he wanted to watch Saturday's FA Cup Final featuring his beloved Manchester United (if he did, he might have wished he'd missed it) or that he was busy partying with Beyoncé, who has been in London on tour.\n\nMore from the Hay Festival:\n\nBut it turned out he was making an appearance at Burna Boy's London Stadium gig.\n\nIn his rescheduled Hay slot, Stormzy spoke to mark five years since the launch of Merky Books, which aims to develop and produce diverse storytellers.\n\n\"With Merky Books... everyone just sees the one man, but there are so many people who allow me to thrive,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm very blessed. I have the most amazing team. So any time I have an idea, like Merky Books, I just have to send a text. One day I said, 'You know, we should do a book company, man!' And lo and behold, here we are.\"\n\nStormzy said he had a revelation about finding his own authentic voice when he started reading a particular novel at school.\n\n\"With literature and writing music, both are about finding your voice... and the way you write. When you're young there's a way you write in school, there's a comma and... you put all these words in and all the fancy moves.\n\n\"But it's not about that. It's about telling a story. There was an amazing book in school called Vernon God Little and I was so amazed by this book. It was written in the style of the character. Two words and then a full-stop. That's when I realised the whole smoke and mirrors of writing being Shakespearean, eloquent.\n\n\"It's not about that. Your truth is enough. Your words are enough. Your voice is enough.\"\n\nThe star said it was important that Merky, which has published works by Derek Owusu and Malorie Blackman, covered all genres.\n\n\"The reason I wanted all these various memoirs, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, is black people are not monolithic, we are multi-faceted. Growing up where I was... people think, OK, you're a young black boy that raps, that's what you do.\n\n\"And it's like, no. There are days when I'm really angry... days when I feel on top of the world... even with literature, we are multi-faceted.\"\n\nMusic stars Stormzy and Dua Lipa both spoke at this year's Hay Festival\n\nMerky will explore another genre this summer when it publishes its first rom-com, author Taylor-Dior Rumble's debut novel, The Situationship.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"Being published by a diverse publisher like Merky Books is important to me because throughout the entire process, I didn't feel like I was explaining my characters or their world to my team, nor did I feel the need or pressure to edit my story for the white gaze.\n\n\"My book touches on impostor syndrome and the microaggressions black women face in the office and it was so cathartic talking through those points with an editor that already gets where I'm coming from.\n\n\"I'm incredibly inspired by how a lot of what Stormzy does, outside of music, centres on giving back to the community and helping others achieve greatness.\"\n\nThe man himself hopes his imprint, a collaboration with Penguin Random House UK, will continue to grow and inspire.\n\n\"My actual dream is being 80 years old, no-one cares about Stormzy any more - he's just chilling with his dogs - and I see someone and they say, 'Yo, I'm a published author, I sold so many books on Merky... and it's nothing to do with me.\n\n\"It's not a vanity thing. It's just this engine that allows black authors to come and grow and thrive.\"", "Manchester City are setting the standards at the moment and it is down to Manchester United - and the rest - to catch up.\n\nAt the moment, the gap between City and Erik ten Hag's side feels pretty big. They did well to hang on at 1-0 down in Saturday's FA Cup final and then to come back into the game and equalise, but the best team definitely won in the end.\n\nCity had more possession, better chances and the superior players. They fully deserved their 2-1 win at Wembley and their margin of victory could and should have been even bigger than that.\n\nYes, United threw everything at them in the final few minutes but, for the vast majority of the game, they simply weren't allowed to do anything because of the way City play.\n\nPep Guardiola's side pass you to death when they have possession, so that when you get the ball back you are exhausted. But then, for the first five or six seconds, they press with such intensity that it's very difficult for teams to use it effectively.\n\nThat happened on Saturday and it meant none of United's big hitters like Marcus Rashford, Casemiro, Christian Eriksen, Jadon Sancho and Bruno Fernandes played well.\n\nInstead, United were dominated - but it's not as if they could have done much differently with the players they have got. When they were chasing the game, they just didn't have the depth or the quality to turn the game, as hard as they tried.\n\nAlejandro Garnacho added a bit of a spark when he came on with half an hour to go but Ten Hag's options felt limited, especially compared to City's substitutes. When United needed a goal at the end, they only really had Wout Weghorst to turn to on the bench.\n\nUnited need to spend big to challenge again\n\nWhether it was some brilliant skill to open up City's defence or the ability to round it off with a great finish, United did not have the magic they required.\n\nIt was a disappointing day for them but this defeat should not take anything away from what they've achieved this season - winning the Carabao Cup and finishing third to qualify for the Champions League definitely qualifies as a success.\n\nThey've made lots of progress after losing their opening two league games of the season but it's also obvious how much work is left to do for them to reach City's level.\n\nUnited finished 14 points behind the champions in the end but the gulf seems larger than that. In terms of the scoreline, they pushed City quite close in a one-off game here but they are miles away from challenging them for the Premier League title.\n\nThey need to spend - and spend big - if they want to be serious contenders again. I think they probably need to bring in three or four big hitters for that to happen.\n\nThey need to spend well too, which hasn't always happened in recent seasons. Ten Hag said after the Cup final that he's got a plan to improve his team but he needs some players who fit into his style of play.\n\nSigning them is not going to be easy. It obviously depends on how much United have got to spend and that is affected by what happens with the ownership situation at Old Trafford, which is pretty confusing at the moment.\n\nWhat do United need?\n\nUnited definitely need a top-class centre-forward, just to take the pressure off Marcus Rashford, who has had a brilliant season, with his 30 goals in all competitions, but needs some help.\n\nBruno Fernandes was their next highest scorer, with 14 goals, but he was their only other player to reach double figures in 2022-23. Weghorst, who arrived in January, found the net just twice.\n\nIt's easy to say they should just break the bank and bring in Harry Kane to solve that particular problem but we just don't know if that is a viable transfer or not.\n\nBut if Tottenham are willing to sell and Kane wants to go there, then yes, he would definitely be one that United should be looking at.\n\nAlong with people like West Ham's Declan Rice.\n\nThose should be the calibre of the signings United are trying to bring in, to take them to the next level.\n\nTen Hag has a lot to think about though, right through his side.\n\nI don't know if a new goalkeeper is a priority but we saw David de Gea make another costly mistake at Wembley - he really should have saved Ilkay Gundogan's winner.\n\nI am no goalkeeping expert but I was sitting next to Peter Schmeichel, who is one of the very best around, and he said De Gea should have kept it out.\n\nDe Gea's form has not been very convincing all season and he is a free agent in the summer but it could be that he gets a new contract because Ten Hag decides he has other positions which need strengthening first.\n\nCity are one game away from immortality\n\nCity, meanwhile, march on. First the Premier League title, now the FA Cup - next up is the Champions League final.\n\nThey are one game away from immortality and they are never going to get a better chance than next Saturday in Istanbul to win the Treble.\n\nThat would give this team legendary status and put them in the same bracket as those Manchester United boys in 1999.\n\nI think they will do it too - I am expecting them to be too good for Inter Milan.\n\nCity have so many special players but at the heart of it all, of course, is Guardiola. While he is there, they are going to be hard to stop.\n\nI have been talking about how United can strengthen but there is speculation City could lose two of their stars this summer, with Gundogan and Bernardo Silva's futures both in doubt.\n\nThey are brilliant players but even if they both go, I can't see it hurting City significantly next season.\n\nThey have already coped with losing the likes of David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Yaya Toure, and the problem for United and everyone else is that we've not just seen this team evolve under Guardiola, they seem to keep getting better and better.\n\nAlan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan at Wembley.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Israeli forces have in the past clashed with drug smugglers near the border with Egypt\n\nThree Israeli soldiers have been killed by an Egyptian security officer in exchanges of fire on the Israeli side of the border.\n\nThe armed forces of both countries say they are jointly investigating the unusual incident.\n\nEgypt says its officer crossed into Israel while chasing drug traffickers.\n\nThe Israeli military has said the shootings were assumed to be connected with a drug smuggling operation it had thwarted overnight.\n\nAccording to the army, two Israeli soldiers - a man and woman - posted in a remote spot along the border were shot dead early on Saturday morning.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered after a senior officer was unable to contact them by radio.\n\nHours later, after a search operation, the alleged attacker was encircled and there was a shootout, the Israeli military says.\n\nA third soldier was killed, along with the gunman, who it said was an Egyptian policeman. Another soldier was wounded in that exchange.\n\nIn a vaguely worded statement, the Egyptian military said that its security officer was pursuing drug smugglers and that a shooting led to the Israeli deaths.\n\nIt also conveyed \"sincere condolences\" to the families of the victims.\n\nThe Israeli military says contraband worth about $400,000 was seized by its forces during the overnight operation against smugglers.\n\nThe attacks reportedly happened near Mount Harif military base in the Negev desert\n\nSoldiers are continuing to search in the area for others that may have been involved, the army says. It is not clear how the policeman managed to enter Israel from Egypt.\n\nIsraeli media say the attacks happened between Mount Harif and Mount Sagi - which lie in the Negev desert, about half-way between the Mediterranean coast and the Red Sea Israeli resort of Eilat.\n\nIsraeli military spokesman Richard Hecht told journalists: \"Co-operation with the Egyptians is ongoing, it's good. This is not geopolitical.\"\n\nThis appears to be one of the most serious border incidents since Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.\n\nAlthough the two states are often described as having \"a cold peace\" in recent years, they have worked together closely on military and intelligence matters, particularly on counter-terrorism.\n\nThe Israeli air force has supported the Egyptian army in its fight against so-called Islamic State militants in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.\n\nThe most serious infiltration attempt in recent times took place in 2012.\n\nBack then, militants attacked an Egyptian checkpoint near to Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip, killing 16 Egyptian policemen and stealing two armoured cars.\n\nThey used these to break through the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel where one of the vehicles exploded. After a firefight, Israel said the bodies of eight attackers were found.\n\nIn the past decade, Israel has built a tall border fence to try to keep out militants and to stop people-smuggling from Egypt - in particular migrants crossing from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nHowever, drug smuggling attempts in the area remain frequent. The border stretches some 255km (160 miles), making it difficult for security patrols.\n\nRecent years have seen several cases of gunfire between smugglers and Israeli soldiers. The Egyptian army has also shot at drug smugglers and jihadists which has occasionally led to accidental cross-border fire.\n\nLast December, Israeli soldiers shot dead a suspect who was apparently trying to smuggle drugs into Israel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's media editor Katie Razzall looks at why Prince Harry is suing the Mirror Group\n\nPrince Harry has been on this collision course for years - and finally he is going to be in a courtroom in person, eyeball to eyeball, in his battle against the tabloid press.\n\nIt promises to be an electrifying moment as he gives his evidence and faces questions from lawyers in London's High Court about his allegations of phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry has said that changing the media landscape is his \"life's work\" - and this gladiatorial courtroom encounter could be one of his own defining moments.\n\nHe has two of the key requirements for this legal battle: First, a single-minded determination to keep going without settling, and second, being rich enough to take the financial hit if he loses.\n\nBut giving evidence in person in this Mirror Group Newspapers hacking trial will have big risks for him. He will face the type of open, public and tough questioning that is a long way from any previous royal interview he has taken part in.\n\n\"This isn't like taking questions from Oprah Winfrey in a celebrity interview,\" says Tim Maltin, managing partner of Maltin PR, which specialises in high-profile reputation management.\n\n\"It is a hostile encounter with a highly-skilled cross-examiner armed with a battery of techniques to undermine your credibility.\n\n\"Giving evidence is daunting… and cross-examination is far more often traumatic than cathartic,\" he says.\n\nPrince Harry is likely to face detailed questioning about highly personal news stories which he claims were obtained through unlawful means - an allegation which the newspaper group disputes.\n\nHe could face gruelling questioning about stories relating to his relationships, his girlfriends, his mother Diana, the treatment of Meghan and his life growing up in the Royal Family.\n\nThere have already been challenges to the allegations of Prince Harry and his co-complainants. Lawyers for Mirror Group have said the evidence of hacking is \"slim\" in some cases and \"utterly non-existent\" in others.\n\nPrince Harry in 2010 with Chelsy Davy, a relationship he says was undermined by press intrusion\n\nPrince Harry's own memoir, Spare, might be turned against him, with its accounts of drug taking and family tensions.\n\nHistorian and author Sir Anthony Seldon thinks Prince Harry is ill-advised to be appearing in court like this.\n\n\"Harry should never be there,\" he says, arguing that the Royal Family should rise above such fights.\n\n\"Harry's standing and trajectory will only be harmed, whatever the outcome. The public is losing sympathy with him and his constant protestations of victimhood,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\n\"Harry and Meghan's continuing hard luck stories only make William and Kate look much better in every way,\" he adds.\n\nBut royal commentator Pauline Maclaran thinks taking a stand like this could boost Prince Harry's popularity, particularly among young people.\n\nRather than being accused of being privileged or entitled, she says in this court case \"he'll be seen as the underdog, and that's a good position to be seen in\".\n\n\"Many young people will see him as quite a heroic figure, fighting the establishment,\" says Prof Maclaran, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"It could be good for Harry in the long run, even though the older generation will be tut-tutting,\" she says.\n\nAs for the rest of the Royal Family, they will be \"watching with an element of horror\", she says.\n\nA previous hacking case this year against News Group Newspapers already produced the bombshell claim that Prince William had reached a private settlement with the newspaper publishers.\n\nAnd Prof Maclaran expects more focus on the Royal Family's dealings with the press in a way that could prove \"uncomfortable\" for Harry's royal relatives.\n\nThe Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew in 2019 only lasted an hour - but it is still providing material for news four years later. So it is not surprising if there is royal anxiety about Prince Harry facing days of giving evidence.\n\nThere is going to be intense global interest in this court case. Harry and his wife Meghan provoke strong reactions among supporters and critics, and the eyes of the world will be watching.\n\nRoyal historian Ed Owens says the public will be fascinated by this combination of \"courtroom drama and royal soap opera\" and the prospect of a royal \"pulling back the curtain\" on the relationship between the tabloid press and the monarchy.\n\nNot only does this case aim to expose evidence of hacking, but the stakes are made even higher by the argument that senior executives must also have known what was going on.\n\nHow will Harry react when his claims are challenged and put under the microscope? Will he start getting irritated? Will it be upsetting for him to talk about the press intrusion which by his own account has dogged him since childhood? How will he handle the pressure?\n\nEdward VII (left) is one of small group of royals who have given evidence in court - in the 1890s as Prince of Wales. He is pictured with Victoria and George V\n\nIt is very unusual to see a royal appearance in a witness box.\n\nThe last senior royal to give evidence in this way was in the 19th Century, when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, appeared in two cases - one in a dispute over card cheating and the other in a divorce case, in which the prince denied any \"improper familiarity\".\n\nIn 2002, Princess Anne appeared in court to plead guilty after her dogs bit two children.\n\nBut those were very brief and different types of court appearances.\n\nPart of the mystique of the monarchy is in saying little and answering less. Prince Harry is breaking the unspoken taboo about a royal going into the witness box to face what could be very embarrassing questions - but it is something that he clearly feels is worth the risk.\n\nHis grievance with the excesses of the press is deeply personal and emotional.\n\nThis is a court confrontation that you could almost trace directly back to the death of his mother Diana, in a car crash in Paris in 1997 when she was being pursued by paparazzi.\n\nHe has repeatedly connected that moment to his battle with the tabloid press.\n\nIt is his day of reckoning. His high noon in the High Court.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Quinten carries EpiPens in case he goes into anaphylactic shock\n\nParents of a six-year-old with food allergies have said they faced an \"uphill battle\" to get a good selection of school meals for him.\n\nQuinten from Powys has a severe allergy to dairy, egg, soya and nuts.\n\nHis dad Kam said he \"always feels like the odd one out\" with his friends as he and wife Ceri try to make progress with Powys council to avoid him having bland or repetitive meals.\n\nThe council said its menus were healthy and balanced.\n\nQuinten is in Year 1 and is entitled to free school meals but his parents said they still faced a challenge to make sure he was happy at lunchtime.\n\nKam said: \"I find it really perplexing because Welsh government have announced that this was a priority... yet they seem to be totally unprepared for this, which I don't quite understand.\n\n\"From the very beginning when we knew he was entitled to a meal, it started off at a very basic level in terms of what they came back with.\n\n\"Lots of roast dinners, jacket potatoes without butter or cheese or anything, bland type options and we've had to spend a lot of time working with them to say 'well no, that's not right'.\"\n\nParents Kam and Ceri say they just want Quinten to have the same choices as his friends\n\nOne lunchtime, Quinten had \"a slice of turkey in some gravy\" when his friends had curry.\n\nQuinten's mother Ceri said she and Kam had been told that a \"single supplier policy\" meant the council could not find similar alternatives which would be safe.\n\n\"Their policy is the bit that discriminates against him... I know a lot of people think that he should be grateful to have something, but actually, most people want to be the same as everybody else.\"\n\nAisling Pigott says, while work has been done, \"it's disappointing to hear that some people are not getting the full access that they need\"\n\nAisling Pigott of the British Dietetic Association said she recognised that catering for allergies took \"a lot of planning\" but said a nutritious meal should be available to all children.\n\n\"I think it's all about equity and just because you've got a medical condition or an allergy it's important that you're not excluded from receiving healthy, nutritious food,\" she added.\n\nJake Berriman of Powys council said: \"When we are informed that a child has a special dietary need, our school catering service will liaise with the family directly to provide a menu that will meet their need.\n\n\"These menus, which follow Welsh government guidance, are checked by dieticians to ensure that they are healthy and nutritionally balanced.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it wanted its free school meals to be \"as inclusive as possible\" and schools were \"expected to make reasonable adjustments to meet any medically prescribed dietary needs\".", "A police investigation is under way and the dog has been seized, police say\n\nA woman in her 70s has died after being attacked by a dog.\n\nThe woman died in Kathleen Avenue, Bedworth, Warwickshire, following the attack at about 15:50 BST on Friday, police say.\n\nA man, 52, and a woman, 49, have been arrested on suspicion of owning a banned breed of dog and having a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe dog has been seized and poses no ongoing risk to the community, Warwickshire Police said.\n\nThe arrested woman was taken to hospital and treated for an injury caused by the dog. Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe man has been released on police bail while inquiries continue.\n\nPolice remain at the scene in Kathleen Avenue following the attack\n\nThe force has warned of a heightened police presence in and around the area while its investigation into the attack is under way.\n\nSupt Sutherland Lane said: \"This was a tragic isolated incident.\n\n\"Thankfully dog attacks of this nature are exceedingly rare, but I recognise this will be deeply upsetting for the local community.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"We don't want to be using hotels [for housing asylum seekers] at all\"\n\nThe UK has to \"reduce its reliance on hotels\" for housing asylum seekers, immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said he had to look after taxpayers and his duty was to the British public over migrants.\n\nHe added it was \"fair and reasonable\" to ask asylum seekers to share rooms in hotels in some circumstances.\n\nIt follows a dispute with asylum seekers over their temporary accommodation in central London.\n\nLast week, about 40 asylum seekers were offered space in a Pimlico hotel, but refused to enter after being asked to sleep four people per room.\n\nHead of Westminster Council Adam Huq expressed his concern in a letter to the home secretary, saying people who \"are likely to have been through significant and traumatic events\" were being asked to share \"an inappropriately sized room with multiple strangers\".\n\nAsked about the case on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Jenrick said the government did not want to use hotels, arguing it was \"taking away valuable assets for the local business community... people's weddings and personal events have had to be cancelled\".\n\n\"But where we are using them, it's right that we get good value for money for the taxpayer,\" he added.\n\n\"And so if single adult males can share a room, and it's legal to do so, which will obviously depend on the size of the accommodation, then we'll ask people to do that,\" he added.\n\nHowever, he denied it was government policy for asylum seekers and migrants to be housed in shared rooms.\n\nHe also suggested people were making illegitimate asylum claims, telling the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the UK's system was \"riddled with abuse\". The country could not be allowed to be \"perceived as a soft touch\", he added.\n\nLabour said in response: \"After 13 years of Tory failure, the asylum system isn't just broken - it's costing tax payers a fortune - only Labour has a proper plan to stop dangerous boat crossings.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made reducing the numbers coming to the UK illegally one of his key priorities. Part of his plan is to implement the Illegal Migration Bill, currently going through Parliament.\n\nIt would give ministers new powers to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally and stop them claiming asylum here.\n\nBut it has attracted fierce criticism including from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said it risked \"great damage\" to the UK's reputation.\n\nThe BBC understands the Home Office estimates the plans in the bill could cost between £3bn and £6bn through spending on detention facilities, as well as ongoing accommodation and removals.\n\nLast year the number of people arriving in the UK in small boats via the English Channel hit over 45,000 - the highest number since figures were first collected in 2018. So far this year, 7,610 people have made the crossing, a fall of more than 2,000 compared with the same time last year.\n\nThe number of people claiming asylum has also risen with figures in 2022 hitting a near 20-year high of 74,751.\n\nThe government has a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers - who are not allowed to work while their claim is being processed - with a basic level of accommodation.\n\nAsylum seekers would typically only be housed in hotels or hostels for a few weeks, before being moved to long-term self-catered homes.\n\nHowever the increase in people claiming asylum -and the backlog of unprocessed claims - has led to a growth in the use of hotels to provide temporary accommodation.\n\nGovernment sources have previously told the BBC it is using 395 hotels to home more than 51,000 asylum seekers.\n\nThe use of hotels has proved to be expensive, costing almost £7m a day. It has also prompted anger among many Conservative MPs, who say the plan puts a strain on local amenities.\n\nPeople believed to be asylum seekers arriving in Kent\n\nMinisters are trying different ways to accommodate the rising numbers of people who are coming to the UK, including housing people in barges or facilities on air bases.\n\nMr Jenrick was keen to repeat his assertion that the government was taking a robust approach, and that by asking migrants to share rooms he wanted to cut the costs to the taxpayer.\n\nBut he was less keen to acknowledge that the backlog for asylum claims is extremely high, and that compared to a few years ago, it takes much longer for cases to be resolved.\n\nThe problems with accommodation at the hundreds of hotels around the country would be far less acute if there were fewer people stuck in the system.\n\nWhen it comes to how ministers handle the issues, there are not many easy answers.\n\nBut while Conservative ministers say they want to bring immigration down, they have presided over the numbers going up and up. There is a serious clash between the rhetoric and the reality.\n\nIn addition to illegal migration, there has also been an increase in people coming to the UK legally - the most recent figures saw net migration rise by 606,000.\n\nIn 2010, the Conservatives promised to reduce net migration to below 100,000.\n\nAsked if that number was still realistic, Mr Jenrick said he didn't think targets were \"particularly helpful\" because \"behaviours are constantly changing\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach has been ruled out of the Ashes series against Australia with a stress fracture in his back.\n\nThe 31-year-old developed symptoms during the Test victory against Ireland at Lord's on Saturday, with a scan confirming the injury.\n\nLeach has played in all 13 of England's Tests since Ben Stokes took over as captain, taking 45 wickets.\n\nA replacement in the squad will be confirmed in due course.\n\nAs well as a significant dent in England's hopes, it is also a cruel personal blow for Leach who has overcome a series of health and injury issues in his England career.\n\nLeach has Crohn's disease, a condition that causes inflammation of the digestive system, and in 2019 contracted gastroenteritis, which developed into sepsis, while on tour with England in New Zealand.\n\nHe also had to be substituted out of a Test last summer with a concussion.\n\nEighteen-year-old Rehan Ahmed was the last spinner other than Leach to play a Test for England, when both he and Leach featured in the third Test against Pakistan in December.\n\nSurrey's off-spinning all-rounder Will Jacks played the first two Tests of the same series and took 6-161 in his first appearance.\n\nThe men's Ashes begins on Friday, 16 June at Edgbaston.\n• None Ashes success can set players up for life - Root\n• None Stokes 'on course' to bowl in first Ashes Test\n• None TMS podcast: Ball of the Century - 30 years on\n\nCould England send an SOS to Moeen?\n\nLeach spent about half an hour off the field as England completed victory over Ireland on Saturday.\n\nHe was in discomfort and at first it was thought to be a possible illness.\n\nWhen the discomfort continued, he was sent for a scan that revealed the worst possible news.\n\nIt is hard to state just how big a blow this is for England. Leach is the only bowler to have played every Test in the Stokes-McCullum era.\n\nHis role in the attack is even more important if Stokes is not fit to bowl - the spinner would have to hold an end.\n\nThere are no obvious alternatives to Leach - Lancashire leg-spinner Matt Parkinson has been discarded, Leicestershire's Rehan Ahmed is inexperienced and Will Jacks not like-for-like.\n\nSlow left-armer Liam Dawson has not been seen in Test cricket for six years.England might opt for an all-seam attack or, just maybe, send an SOS to Moeen Ali.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app, please click here to vote.", "The spectator allegedly wore the offensive shirt at Saturday's FA Cup final\n\nA man has been charged over a football shirt which appeared to refer to the 97 fans who died as a result of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.\n\nJames White, 33, from Warwickshire, was charged with displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nHe was bailed to appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court in London on Monday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 22 other people were arrested at the Wembley FA Cup final on Saturday.\n\nThe force said they were detained during the match between Manchester City and Manchester United for offences including assault, affray, possession of drugs and drunk and disorderly behaviour.\n\nOfficers are also investigating after an item was thrown on to the pitch after the United goal in their 2-1 defeat by City.\n\nPolice said no-one had been arrested yet over the incident.\n\nA crush developed in the stands where Liverpool fans were watching an FA Cup semi-final\n\nDuring Saturday's match, a photo of the back of a man wearing the number 97 and the words \"not enough\" on a Manchester United top was widely shared on social media.\n\nOn Sunday, the English FA issued a statement saying it would \"not tolerate abuse relating to Hillsborough or any football tragedy\".\n\nIt has previously said it was concerned about \"the rise of abhorrent chants\" over the disaster.\n\nLiverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne, who was at Hillsborough in 1989, described any inappropriate reference to the disaster as \"sick\".\n\nThe Met urged people not to share information online which could prejudice the proceedings against Mr White.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police in Hong Kong have detained several pro-democracy activists on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nAuthorities have banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident, which saw China crush peaceful protests in Beijing with tanks and troops.\n\nHowever, candlelight vigils have been taking place in other cities worldwide.\n\nAmong those detained was 67-year-old Alexandra Wong, a prominent campaigner nicknamed \"Grandma Wong\".\n\nAmid a tense evening in Hong Kong, she was arrested while carrying flowers near Victoria Park, where vigils had been held for decades.\n\nThe leader of one of Hong Kong's main opposition parties was among those arrested. Chan Po Ying, a veteran pro-democracy activist who heads the League of Social Democrats party, was holding an LED candle and two flowers.\n\nMak Yin Ting, former head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was also detained and subsequently released. Police later said they had made one arrest and taken 23 people to police stations for investigation.\n\nThe UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Twitter that he was alarmed by the detentions and called for the release of \"anyone detained for exercising freedom of expression and peaceful assembly\".\n\nEvents to mark the 1989 massacre in Beijing are banned in mainland China.\n\nFor decades, Hong Kong was the only Chinese city where these commemorations were allowed, under the city's semi-autonomous economic, political and legal set up - known as \"one country, two systems\" - established when the city handed over to China by the UK in 1997.\n\nBut public events to mark the anniversary have since been outlawed, after the Chinese government imposed a strict national security law outlawing many forms of dissent in 2020.\n\nThe annual commemorations have not been held since 2019, after being initially banned under Hong Kong's Covid regulations.\n\nThis year, a pro-Beijing carnival is being held in Victoria Park instead.\n\nMs Wong was quickly surrounded by police and driven away on Sunday in the city's Causeway Bay area.\n\nNearby Victoria Park has hosted annual candlelit vigils to mark Tiananmen Square since 1990, often drawing tens of thousands of people to mark the day, known as June Fourth in much of China.\n\nPolice detain a man holding a script titled \"May 35th\", a reference to the 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing\n\nHong Kong Police have deployed thousands of officers at key sites in the city, stopping people to search and question them.\n\nOfficers set up booths outside the metro station near Victoria Park to search passers-by, including journalists.\n\nTwo Chinese-made \"Sabre-tooth Tiger\" armoured vehicles have also be stationed in the area in what appears to be a show of force by police.\n\nAhead of anticipated protests, the city's government has also removed books on the Tiananmen crackdown from public libraries.\n\nOne of those detained was a woman who shouted \"Raise candles! Mourn 64!\" while another was a man carrying a book with the title \"May 35th\" - both references to the 4 June date of the killings.\n\nOthers have been detained while holding unlit candles or wearing yellow clothing, the colour of the now-dismantled pro-democracy movement.\n\nOn Saturday, four people were arrested on suspicion of disturbing order in a public place or acting with seditious intent - both new offences under the controversial 2020 law.\n\nDozens of candlelight vigils have been taking place around the world on Sunday to remember those killed by the Chinese military in response to the crackdown.\n\nIn Taiwan, the democratic, self-governing island China claims as its territory and has vowed to take control of by force if necessary, hundreds of people gathered to mark the anniversary.\n\nChants of \"fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong\" were heard from the crowds in the capital, Taipei, who had set up a replica of the \"Pillar of Shame\" - a famous statue at the University of Hong Kong commemorating the dead at Tiananmen Square that was removed in 2021.\n\nThere was also a protest in central London\n\nMany involved also hope the vigils will continue the spirit of Hong Kong's once-vibrant civil society and political community, which has now largely fallen silent because so many have been imprisoned under the national security law, or have left Hong Kong altogether.\n\nThe Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing became the focus for national demonstrations calling for greater political freedoms in 1989.\n\nThousands of people - the majority of which were students - camped for weeks in the iconic Beijing square before the military moved in on 4 June and opened fire.\n\nOne unidentified protester became an international symbol of protest for blocking an advancing column of tanks in footage that was seen around the world.\n\nThe Chinese government says 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to as many as 10,000.\n\nThe actions of the authorities have been seen by activists as part of China's broader agenda to snuff out political dissent in Hong Kong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Teledyne Labtech was targeted by the protesters in December 2022\n\nPro-Palestinian protesters who caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage to an electronics plant they believed was making circuit boards for Israeli drones have been jailed.\n\nTeledyne Labtech, in Presteigne, Powys was targeted in December 2022.\n\nActivists in red suits and balaclavas smashed windows, daubed red paint on walls and drilled holes in the roof.\n\nThey also used crowbars to destroy office equipment and they also covered a memorial to a staff member in paint.\n\nSusan Bagshaw, 55, of Comins Coch, Ceredigion, Morwenna Grey, 42, of Machynlleth, Powys, Tristan Dixon, 34, of Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal damage.\n\nRuth Hogg, 40, of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, was found guilty of the same charge after a trial in Caernarfon in May.\n\nHogg was jailed for 27 months, while the other three were sentenced to 23 months each at Mold Crown Court on Monday.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands told the court the group caused \"wanton damage\" at the factory.\n\nThe factory was put out of action for about three weeks following the protest\n\nIt heard workers were in the canteen on the morning of 9 December when they heard breaking glass, as Bagshaw and Grey broke windows to get in.\n\nOnce inside, the two women, wearing boiler suits and balaclavas, smashed computer screens, sprayed paint on the walls and floors, and set off smoke bombs.\n\nHogg and Dixon were then found drilling and sawing on the roof and smashing skylights.\n\nMorwenna Grey pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 23 months, Ruth Hogg was found guilty and was jailed for 27 months\n\nA banner in support of Palestine was unfurled across the side of the factory.\n\nElen Owen, prosecuting, told the court there was evidence of planning and premeditation by the group.\n\nShe said they caused fear and distress to staff adding that one said he feared for his life.\n\nThe combined cost of the damage and consequential costs such as security measures, totalled about £1.2m she said.\n\nRed paint was daubed across the factory\n\nThe factory, which employed 64 people at the time, was closed for about three weeks for the clean-up and repairs.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the firm's general manager, Adele MacLachlan, said there was anger about \"misinformation\" surrounding what Teledyne Labtech manufactured.\n\nIt made, she said, circuit boards for applications, like inflight entertainment antennae, MRI scanners and radar.\n\nJudge Rowlands said though they believed the company was involved in the manufacture of arms used by Israel against Palestinians, there were no security fences or guards at the factory, which made it \"a very unlikely candidate for ties with arms industry\".\n\nHe said the group carried out \"a sea of vandalism\" and a \"significant\" degree of costly damage.\n\nHe also said: \"There was a high degree of planning and premeditation and intention to cause a high degree of damage.\"\n\nThere were a number of aggravating features to the case, he said, including that it was a group action which posed a risk to others, and workers and the emergency services were inconvenienced.\n\nHe accepted all four had shown a degree of remorse for their actions and had said in letters to the court that they would not carry out such action again.\n\nTristan Dixon and Susan Bagshaw pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal damage\n\nBut he said contrition in Hogg's case was \"hollow\" given that she pleaded not guilty.\n\nHe said the action they took was \"very far from the generality of direct action cases… it involved extreme behaviour and violence.\"\n\n\"Your intention was to put the factory out of action for as long as you could.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Concerns about the 999 service's failures were raised in Parliament\n\nBT took nearly three hours to alert the government about problems with the 999 emergency phone service, a minister has said.\n\nA full investigation will be launched into the delay after the failure meant many calls were not connected, Viscount Camrose told the House of Lords.\n\nConcerns about the resilience of the 999 service were raised in the House of Lords in an urgent question.\n\nBT, which manages the phone system, apologised \"sincerely\" for the issues.\n\nA spokesperson for the company said: \"The primary 999 service was restored on Sunday evening and we are no longer relying on the back-up system. We are monitoring the service, and we continue to work hard to determine the root cause and the impact this has had.\"\n\nThe issues began on Sunday morning and continued well into the evening, even after BT switched to a \"back-up system\", Parliament heard.\n\nPressed over when the government was made aware of the problem, technology minister Lord Camrose said: \"The event that caused caused the platform to go down occurred at 06:30 on Sunday. The government was advised of the event at 09:20, so just under three hours later.\n\n\"I understand that they informed the government as quickly as it was practically possible for them to do so. One of the areas they will look into as part of the inquiry is whether that should have been, could have been, faster.\"\n\nHe said the issue has now been fully resolved, and the service is running as normal.\n\nHe added: \"A full investigation is under way to understand what caused this problem.\"\n\nLabour peer Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, who previously sat in the Commons as Ruth Smeeth, called it \"an incredibly disconcerting event\".\n\n\"Any failure in the system will undermine faith in our emergency provision. We are seemingly very fortunate that there was no major incident.\"\n\nThe technical fault with the network has led to calls from a former Metropolitan Police chief to introduce joint call-handling for the three emergency services and \"remove the cost that BT imposes on the whole system\".\n\nLord Hogan-Howe, who headed the UK's largest police force from 2011 to 2017, said: \"Isn't it time we started having joint call-handling?\"\n\n\"The only reason BT need to take the call is because the ambulance, the fire and police have to take them independently, and you have to make a call to BT to declare which service you require, often at a time you don't actually know which one you need.\n\n\"Why don't we answer them together? Why don't we remove the cost that BT imposes on the whole system that appears has not worked very well on this particular occasion?\"\n\nAt the time of the glitch, BT said its priority was getting the lines \"up and running as soon as possible\", and experts were trying to work out the cause.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin may have boasted he had the loyalty of all 25,000 members of his mercenary army, but it seems that may have shifted as quickly as the Wagner Group's rebellion petered out.\n\nIn online messages analysed by BBC Verify, Wagner troops and their relatives raged against Prigozhin's decision to halt his dramatic march on Moscow and withdraw from the captured city of Rostov.\n\n\"The bald waste of space destroyed Wagner PMC with his own hands. And screwed everyone he could,\" fumed one online poster claiming to be a Wagner fighter on a Telegram channel with 200,000 followers.\n\n\"It's been another senseless revolt,\" they added.\n\nTelegram is the social media platform of choice for Wagner soldiers and pro-war circles in Russia, allowing often anonymous communication with thousands of followers at a time.\n\nIt was where Prigozhin chose to announce his so-called \"March of Justice\" against the Russian regime, but it has now become the place where many have turned against him.\n\nMark Krutov, a journalist with the RFE/RL outlet's Russian Service, has access to the Telegram group chats used by relatives of Wagner fighters. He shared some of their messages with the BBC.\n\n\"They were simply betrayed,\" one woman wrote. \"I trusted Prigozhin, but what he did is dishonourable.\"\n\n\"He shouldn't have done this. This is pure betrayal,\" agreed another user.\n\nPrigozhin long enjoyed highly vocal support from a network of pro-Wagner influencers. For months, they have championed his actions and attacked his opponents in the Ministry of Defence - particularly his sworn enemy, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.\n\nBut when the Wagner mutiny was developing, their reaction was surprisingly muted.\n\nTwo of the largest groups, Grey Zone and Reverse Side of the Medal - with almost 900,000 followers between them - did not rush to endorse his actions, instead aiming for the reasonably neutral middle ground of blaming antagonism by Mr Shoigu and his loyalists for the bloodshed.\n\nFighters of Wagner group stand guard outside the headquarters of the Southern Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia\n\nWagner PMC Briefs is a channel Prigozhin has confirmed as an official page of Wagner and is run by one of his troops. It noted - with eyebrows raised - that when Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the mutiny, he didn't mention anyone by name.\n\n\"[Putin] did not name \"the mutineers and traitors,\" it said. \"Perhaps it was to let Prigozhin restore justice and punish those guilty of real betrayal that resulted in the failure [of Russia's invasion of Ukraine]?\n\nThe theory that Mr Putin and Prigozhin conspired to stage a coup attempt in order to \"test the loyalty of the Russian elites\" quickly gained traction on social media.\"Girls, I thought maybe it was all orchestrated to remove Shoigu, but through Prigozhin, so Putin wouldn't have to do it himself?\" wrote a woman on the Wagner relatives' chat.\n\nVolodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research in Kyiv, disagrees.\n\n\"If it was staged, what for? So everyone could see how weak Putin is?\" he said. \"What happened was a public humiliation of Putin. And Prigozhin? He partially lost his reputation: He used to demonstrate power, and then he simply retreated.\"\n\nBut Prigozhin's last public comment on the day of the mutiny, filmed after he agreed to stand down, continues to fuel speculation online. \"We've had an OK result today,\" he said. \"Cheered everybody up.\"", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis trounced his rivals for a second time in a month and now has a majority\n\nGreek conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has trounced his centre-left rival in the second election in a month and said he has a \"strong mandate\" to move faster on the path of change.\n\nHis New Democracy party (ND) won 40.5% of the national vote, almost 23 points ahead of Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party.\n\nHe beat Syriza in May, but called new elections in a bid to win a majority.\n\n\"ND is today the most powerful centre-right party in Europe,\" he told delighted supporters in Athens.\n\nMr Mitsotakis, who was sworn as prime minister on Monday, is credited with successfully returning the Greek economy to stability and growth after a severe debt crisis and three international bailouts.\n\nAlthough many Greeks are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, voters chose to stick with the party promising lower taxes and improved public health.\n\nThe vote came 11 days after a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which about 500 people are thought to have died.\n\nThree days of mourning were held, however the disaster had little effect on the campaign and Greeks voted to maintain economic stability.\n\n\"The people have given us a safe majority,\" said Mr Mitsotakis as the extent of his victory became clear. \"Major reforms will go ahead quickly.\"\n\nLast month, his party fell just short of a majority in the 300-seat parliament and his decision to call an election in a bid to form a stable, single-party government was vindicated by Sunday's result.\n\nUnder Greek rules for a second election, the biggest party is awarded a bonus of between 20 and 50 seats. With more than 40% of the vote, New Democracy won all 50.\n\nMr Mitsotakis said he could not promise miracles, but that New Democracy had \"high goals\" to transform Greece with a better public health service and education.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's centre-left Syriza had been soundly defeated in the first election and lost further ground in the second, with less than 18% of the vote. He dampened speculation that he would resign, saying that was a decision for his party members.\n\nOne of the big stories of the election was the success of a newly created far-right Spartans party, which won almost 4.7% of the vote, crossing the 3% threshold to enter parliament.\n\nThe Spartans only emerged as a political force this month when the Supreme Court banned another far-right party, the Greeks, and its jailed founder, Ilias Kasidiaris, threw his weight behind the Spartans.\n\nKasidiaris had been the spokesman for neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which was banned as a criminal organisation and its leaders given long prison terms.\n\nTogether with nationalist Greek Solution and ultra-conservative Niki (Victory), the three hard-right parties won close to 13% of the vote and 34 seats.\n\nThe victory secured by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, over Alexis Tsipras's Syriza is a rarity in Greek politics, as few parties increase their share after a first term in office.\n\nHe also succeeded in attracting more young voters than his rival.\n\nAlexis Tsipras said his future as leader was in the hands of party members\n\nHis party was helped by the fragmentation of the left-wing vote; with Socialist PASOK set for more than 11% and the Communist KKE on around 7%.\n\nTurnout slumped eight points from the first vote to less than 53%.\n\nThe conservative leader has formed a reputation as a Teflon-coated leader, fending off a series of damaging crises in the past year, including a rail disaster and a wire-tapping scandal that brought down the intelligence chief and his own nephew, who worked as the prime minister's chief of staff.\n\nGreece was being led by a caretaker government when the migrant boat sank off the south-west coast in the early hours of 14 June.\n\nSince the migrant crisis, the views of most Greek voters have shifted in favour of stricter, more conservative policies, says Panos Koliastasis, assistant professor of politics at the University of Peloponnese.\n\n\"The reason is rooted in the 2020 migration crisis on the Evros [river], when Turkey tried to push thousands of migrants into Greek territory and the Mitsotakis government acted swiftly. So the greater part of the public perceives the migration issue as an external threat to national sovereignty.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nRacism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in English and Welsh cricket, according to a long-awaited independent report.\n\nThe Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) has delivered its findings from a two-year investigation.\n\nThe ICEC has made 44 recommendations, including that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) makes an unreserved public apology for its failings.\n\nECB chair Richard Thompson said: \"We will use this moment to reset cricket.\"\n\nThe ICEC was announced by the ECB in March 2021 in the wake of global movements such as Black Lives Matter and Me Too.\n\nIt opened an online call for evidence in November of that year, receiving 4,156 responses. In March 2022, a call for written evidence resulted in more than 150 responses.\n\nAmong those to give evidence include England men's Test captain Ben Stokes, women's captain Heather Knight, former men's captain Joe Root, World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, and Azeem Rafiq - the former Yorkshire player and racism whistleblower.\n• None Read the full report from the ICEC (warning - contains descriptions of racism and other offensive and discriminatory language and behaviour)\n\nIn a damning 317-page report called Holding Up A Mirror To Cricket, the ICEC concluded that:\n• None \"Structural and institutional racism\" continues to exist within the game.\n• None Women are treated as \"subordinate\" to men at all levels of the sport.\n• None There is a prevalence of \"elitism and class-based discrimination\" in cricket.\n• None Black cricket has been failed and the ECB must develop a plan to revive it.\n• None Many who experience discrimination do not report it because of a distrust in the authorities.\n• None Umpires regularly ignore abuse and dismiss complaints in both the professional and recreational games.\n\n\"There remains a stark reality that cricket is not a 'game for everyone' and it is absolutely essential that the work required to achieve that ambition must begin immediately,\" wrote ICEC chair Cindy Butts.\n\n\"Be in no doubt, what is needed now is leadership. I very much hope that the recommendations we make in this report will be adopted and driven forward by the ECB and all others in leadership positions.\"\n\nThe report praised the ECB for being \"brave\" enough to open itself to independent scrutiny.\n\nThompson, who became ECB chair last September, offered an \"unreserved\" apology.\n\n\"Cricket should be a game for everyone, and we know that this has not always been the case,\" he said. \"Powerful conclusions within the report also highlight that for too long women and black people were neglected. We are truly sorry for this.\n\n\"This report makes clear that historic structures and systems have failed to prevent discrimination, and highlights the pain and exclusion this has caused.\n\n\"I am determined that this wake-up call for cricket in England and Wales should not be wasted. We will use this moment to demonstrate that it is a game for all and we have a duty to put this right for current and future generations.\"\n\nThe recommendations also include the equalisation of match fees between the England women's and men's teams with immediate effect, that the ECB reports on the state of equity in cricket every three years and the removal of annual fixtures between Eton and Harrow schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities from Lord's.\n• None You've got to be lucky or privileged to play men's cricket - Flintoff\n\nIn light of allegations made by former Yorkshire spin bowler Rafiq, the ECB published a plan to tackle racism and all forms of discrimination in November 2021.\n\nThe ICEC said the significant response it received to its call for evidence was propelled by Rafiq's appearance at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee hearing in the same month, when he said English cricket was \"institutionally racist\".\n\nOf the respondents, 50% described experiencing discrimination during the course of the previous five years. The figures were higher for people from ethnically diverse communities: 87% of people with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage, 82% of people with Indian heritage and 75% of all black respondents.\n\n\"The persistence of interpersonal and structural racism in cricket is due, we believe, in part to a failure by the ECB to specifically and unambiguously name racism as a concern, at least until the recent crisis (and only then generally in reference to interpersonal and overt forms of racism),\" said the report.\n\n\"Racism remains a widespread and serious problem in cricket across England and Wales and something that the ECB and the wider game should address with urgency.\"\n\nIn its evidence to the report, the ECB admitted to a \"lost generation\" of black cricketers.\n\n\"Black adults are not playing cricket in sufficient numbers to even be picked up by surveys that measure participation in cricket,\" said the ICEC report.\n\n\"A 2020 report by Sport England found that black participation was so low as to be statistically irrelevant, apparently lower than in golf and tennis.\"\n\nThe ICEC has recommended that the ECB undertakes an \"in-depth examination\" of the decline in cricket among black communities within the next 12 months.\n\nIn a statement, Rafiq said: \"I welcome the report's findings and acknowledge the extraordinary work that has been put into this inquiry.\n\n\"There is no doubt now that the game we all love has suffered from institutionalised discrimination, including racism.\n\n\"This report is an opportunity to fully reflect on what has happened and for the sport's governing structures to work out a way forward to ensure that cricket is a game for everyone and that they feel supported, no matter their background.\"\n\nThough the report recognised \"positive strides\" made in the women's game, it also highlighted a lack of female representation among decision-makers, less media exposure and fewer opportunities to play at premier grounds for elite women, and inequity in terms of kit and equipment available to women and girls.\n\nThe ICEC heard \"evidence of a widespread culture of sexism and misogyny\" and examples of men making unwanted and uninvited advances towards women.\n\nThe report was alarmed that England's women have never played a Test at Lord's, while the \"home of cricket\" continues to host an annual schools fixture between Eton and Harrow.\n\nMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord's, said it was \"committed to playing its part\" in improving inclusivity in cricket and ensuring Lord's is \"a place where everyone feels welcome\".\n\nIn terms of pay and investment, the women's game receives an \"embarrassingly small amount\" when compared to the men's game.\n\nAccording to the report, an England women's white-ball player receives a salary that is 20.6% that of her male equivalent and the allowance given to the women's captain is 31% that of the men's.\n\nDomestically, the average salary of a woman in the regional structure is 45% that of a man at a first-class county, while in The Hundred the highest salary tier for women is £1,250 more than the lowest tier for men.\n\nEven when players are excluded, there is an 18.8% gap in the average salary between female and male employees at the ECB.\n\nThe ICEC has recommended a \"fundamental overhaul of the professional women players' pay structure\".\n\nThis includes immediate parity between men's and women's international match fees, overall equal pay at international level by 2030 and equal pay in The Hundred in 2025.\n\nA lack of cricket in state schools and a talent pathway structurally aligned to private schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\", according to the report.\n\nSome 58% of men to play for England in 2021 were privately educated, significantly higher than the 7% of the general population who went to private school.\n\nTo highlight the overrepresentation of privately educated people in the game, 42% of respondents to the ICEC's own survey went to a private school.\n\nThe report also referenced the costs associated in participating in talent pathways and \"conflicts of interests and biases\" from coaches as further barriers to player progression.\n\n\"The structure and operation of the talent pathway remains a barrier to equity and inclusion across gender, class and race,\" said the report. \"It repeats and reinforces wider structural inequalities that exist across cricket in England and Wales.\"\n\nThe ICEC recommends that inter-county cricket should not begin before the age of 14 and all access to a county talent pathway programme should be free of charge by 2025.\n\n\"We recommend that the entire talent pathway structure should be overhauled to make it more meritocratic, inclusive, accountable, transparent and consistent,\" said the report.\n\nAnti-racism charity Kick It Out \"commended the victims\" and said \"cricket has a mountain to climb\" to \"address the extensive issues that currently exist in the game\".\n\nIt added: \"We look forward to seeing how much resource the ECB dedicates to driving systemic change at international, county and grassroots level. It will require hard work, innovation and courage.\"\n\nYorkshire, which admitted four amended charges stemming from Rafiq's claims of racism at the club, said in a statement: \"Yorkshire County Cricket Club has seen first-hand the damage that can be caused by a failure to tackle discrimination of all kinds, and the vital need to cut it off at source.\n\n\"The creation of an inclusive environment for all can only be achieved through collaboration at all levels of the game. \"\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car?: Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads\n• None Is it a good idea to fix your mortgage and energy bills?:", "Supermarket executives have denied making too much money from soaring prices, telling MPs the industry is the \"most competitive we have ever been\".\n\nBosses from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons were grilled over high food and fuel prices.\n\nThe supermarkets rejected claims of making excess profits and said they were shielding customers from the full impact of rising costs.\n\nThe competition watchdog is looking into the level of food and fuel prices.\n\nIt is examining whether not enough competition has meant customers are overpaying.\n\nSupermarket executives were quizzed by MPs on the Business and Trade Committee on Tuesday on why food prices were still rising, despite some wholesale costs falling.\n\nFood prices rose by 14.6% in the year to June, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents supermarkets. That was down from 15.4% in the year to May, but it does not mean prices are falling, just that they are rising at a slower pace.\n\nHigher grocery prices remain a key reason why the overall rate of inflation in the UK remains stubbornly high.\n\nChairman Darren Jones said that all four supermarkets, with the exception of Morrisons, had made increased profits compared to before the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Jones said he had heard of Asda employees recently \"having to go to the food bank to collect donations of food they had stacked in their own supermarket because they cannot make ends meet\".\n\nBut the supermarkets said they all paid the National Living Wage or above and argued they were doing all they could to protect customers from higher costs resulting from increased energy, labour and commodity prices.\n\nJane Hunt, a Conservative MP, asked executives if they were \"in fact a cartel\" and were colluding to set prices.\n\nIn response, Kris Comerford, chief commercial officer for Asda, said UK retail was \"the most competitive market\", a sentiment echoed by executives from Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nAll four supermarket bosses said they did not support a price cap on essential foods, an idea which had been considered by the government, but was never formally proposed.\n\nPoliticians, trades unionists and the governor of the Bank of England have all questioned why supermarket prices have not fallen as rapidly as the wholesale cost of ingredients such as wheat.\n\nSome have suggested that retailers might be failing to pass on savings and are banking the profit instead.\n\nSupermarkets have previously said they have cut prices when possible and added that falls in wholesale costs take time, typically three to nine months, to filter through to the shelves.\n\nHelen Dickinson, head of the BRC, said the trade body expected food inflation to drop \"to single digits later this year\".\n\nMost of the big chains have recently introduced price cuts to staples, with Sainsbury's on Monday the latest to announce it was investing £15m to reduce the cost of basics such as rice, pasta and chicken.\n\nHowever, some items such as milk and eggs remain relatively expensive compared to pre-Covid prices.\n\nJamie Keeble, co-founder of sausage and burger maker Heck which supplies most of the major supermarkets, told the BBC's Today programme that the price of pork was expected to remain high for the next 18 months.\n\nHe said the only way supermarkets could lower their prices was by asking suppliers to cut costs, but he added: \"We're certainly not in the position to start giving cost decreases on our products.\n\n\"At the end of the day, [the supermarkets] are going to have to take a cut in their margins if they really want to lower the prices on the shelf, that's the only way to do it.\"\n\nSeparately, all four supermarket executives backed calls for more transparency on fuel prices, after MPs highlighted that prices for petrol and diesel were lower in Northern Ireland as a result of data being shared widely with drivers.\n\nA study by academics at the London School of Economics last month found nearly a third of food price inflation since 2019 was due to Brexit.\n\nHow is the price of food changing your diet? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Kyle is the only councillor to have completed all the non-mandatory training that is available\n\nYou won't find many more sharply dressed people in Welsh politics.\n\nThe natty suit, feathered trilby hat and engraved tie-pin reflect just how seriously 26-year-old Kyle Jamie Eldridge takes his job as a town councillor in Abergavenny.\n\nHe believes he has been elected to do an important job and so he should look the part.\n\nAnd Kyle said it is his autism that makes him care about every detail.\n\n\"Having autism gives me critical thinking skills, and skills that I think are excellent for public servants,\" he said.\n\nSince his election last year to represent the town's Park ward, Kyle is the only councillor to have completed all the non-mandatory training that is available.\n\nHe is also meticulous in his preparation for council work, renowned for arriving at every meeting, having read and digested all the relevant documents.\n\nSandra Rosser, the clerk and principal officer for Abergavenny Town Council, said: \"He's made it a point to understand fully the importance of good governance, knowing the rights and wrongs of what we can and can't do as town councillors.\"\n\nAutism is neuro-developmental difference which means people have a different way of experiencing the world, and of processing information.\n\nIn Wales, more than one in 100 people are on the autism spectrum.\n\nEach person will have different strengths and challenges as a result of the way their brain is \"wired\".\n\n\"Quickly I realised that, because of his autism, we would need to change as a council,\" said Sandra.\n\n\"Quite often councils can be accused of waffling around the point,\" she admitted.\n\n\"We can't do that because Kyle won't understand.\n\n\"So we need to make sure we are very clear and concise, very black and white.\"\n\nThe council has rewritten a lot of its procedures and also changed its website, to make them more inclusive.\n\nAnd Kyle also sets a high standard for his fellow councillors.\n\n\"Because of the way his mind works, he will remember something that was discussed three months ago in minute detail.\n\n\"If someone has changed the direction of their thinking, he can bring that back to them and say, 'this is actually what we discussed a few months ago'. He holds us all to account.\"\n\nKyle told the BBC Wales Live programme that some aspects of his autism, like \"sensory overload\", make political life more difficult.\n\n\"It is like I am lifting double the load each day,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of the stuff a councillor has to deal with, like arguing with colleagues or dealing with pressure, for autistic people it is amplified times two.\"\n\nKyle said he is motivated by helping others, rather than money or status.\n\nHe would like to become mayor of Abergavenny before pursuing a career in the civil service, where his ambition is to tackle the employment gap for autistic people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elton John, Lil Nas X and Blondie perform on the final day\n\nThe sun set on one of the greatest careers in British music history, as Elton John played the last UK show of his farewell tour at Glastonbury.\n\nThe 76-year-old legend treated fans to a masterclass in song and stage craft, delivering a two-hour set in which every song was a greatest hit.\n\nHe was watched by a vast crowd, estimated to be over 120,000 people.\n\nMeanwhile, a record 7.3 million people tuned in to watch live on BBC One, according to overnight ratings.\n\nThat was the biggest ever overnight audience for a Glastonbury set, the BBC said. In comparison, last year Diana Ross was the most-watched star with 3.1 million and Paul McCartney's headline set was seen by 2.7 million.\n\nElton told all those watching: \"I'm so happy to be here. I won't ever forget this.\"\n\nThe singer burst onto the stage shortly after 21:00 BST with Pinball Wizard - as promised, a song he hadn't played in over a decade - following it up with a raucous romp through The Bitch Is Back.\n\nPausing to catch his breath, he drank in the crowd and stretched out his arms in gratitude. \"I never thought I'd play Glastonbury - and here I am,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very special and emotional night for me as it may be my last show in England, in Great Britain.\"\n\n\"I'd better play well and I'd better entertain you because you've been standing there so long,\" he added,\n\nIn the audience next to me, a fan hollered their encouragement: \"Go on, you old sausage.\"\n\nMany of the crowd came dressed in replicas of the Rocket Man's most famous outfits\n\nThe show came toward the end of Elton's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour - now officially the highest-grossing tour of all time, with box office receipts of $887m (£697m).\n\nAfter Glastonbury, there are just seven dates left, with the final show in Stockholm on 8 July.\n\nIt puts to rest a touring career that has seen Elton go from a young upstart rocking the Troubador in Los Angeles, to a beloved fixture of the rock establishment.\n\nOver the years, he's gained a reputation for flamboyant excess - feather boas, platform heels, elaborate headdresses and pianos that burst into flames.\n\n\"I don't move around the stage,\" he reasoned. \"I've got to attract attention somehow!\"\n\nBut by Elton's standards, Glastonbury was an understated show that focused purely on his love of music.\n\nHe stayed in the same gold lamé suit all evening, giving off the air of a man who's at his happiest when he's sitting behind a piano, letting rip.\n\nThere were some beautiful, extended flourishes on Your Song and I Guess Why They Call It The Blues. On I'm Still Standing, he pounded the keys so hard, they threatened to fall off.\n\nIt has to be said, however, that his voice isn't what it was. The clipped vowels and marmalade diction have a whiff of Vegas lounge singer - but here at Worthy Farm, his singing was strangely effective, cutting through the air with a clarity that other headliners failed to match this weekend.\n\nThe star, who had a hip injury last year, sat behind the piano for the majority of the show\n\nAhead of the show, rumours of special guests had been bubbling all weekend. Britney Spears was supposedly seen at Bristol airport. A security guard swore they'd seen Dua Lipa. Harry Styles was supposed to be here, then he wasn't, then he was again.\n\nIn the end, however, Elton went against the grain, championing a new generation of musicians over pop stars who could easily headline Glastonbury themselves.\n\nHe invited Jacob Lusk of US soul group Gabriels to sing Are You Ready For Love; while pop newcomer Rina Sawayama took Kiki Dee's place on a rousing Don't Go Breaking My Heart.\n\nNashville's Stephen Sanchez even got to sing a song of his own, Until I Found You.\n\n\"I heard it last year on the radio,\" Elton enthused, \"and I couldn't believe a 19, 20 year old could write a song like this\".\n\nBritish-Japanese star Rina Sawayama has been championed by Elton John on his radio show\n\nThe sole exception was The Killers' Brandon Flowers, who took to the stage in a hot pink suit for a handsome duet of Tiny Dancer.\n\nTheir performance proved so moving that TV cameras picked out a proposal in the audience.\n\nOverall, however, the lack of star power caused a ripple of disappointment. \"Who's that?\" grumbled one fan as Sawayama took the stage.\n\nBut there was something admirable about it, too. Elton stayed true to who he was - a music obsessive, whose hunger for rock and pop has fuelled and sustained his career.\n\nElton said he'd first met Brandon Flowers when the singer came to his Vegas hotel room to play him The Killers' debut album, Hot Fuss\n\nAfter two hours, the set built to an emotional climax.\n\nElton dedicated Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me to George Michael, \"one of Britain's most fantastic singers, songwriters [and] artists\".\n\n\"He was my friend, an inspiration, and today would have been his 60th birthday - I want to dedicate this song to his memory, and all the music he left us with which is so gorgeous,\" he added.\n\nThen he drew the curtain on his UK touring career with an extended, elegiac version of Rocket Man, as fireworks echoed around the site.\n\nAs he took a final bow with his band, the closing lyric, \"I think it's gonna be a long, long time,\" took on a new poignancy.\n\n\"It's been an incredible journey and I've had the best, best time,\" said the star, with a lump in his throat.\n\nIf this really was his last ever UK show, it was the perfect way to bow out.\n\nThe star's set was watched by so many fans that Glastonbury issued a \"standing only\" rule, asking people to fold up their chairs and pack away picnic blankets.\n\nAlso watching were Paul McCartney, actors Matt Smith and Kate Hudson, Jamie Oliver, and Taron Egerton, who played Elton in the hit biopic Rocketman, as well the film's director Dexter Fletcher.\n\n\"That was incredible,\" Fletcher told the BBC after the show.\n\n\"You can't really put it into words how emotional it was, and how engaged he was, and the connection with the crowd. That's what it was all about.\"\n\nThe performance drew the 2023 Glastonbury festival to a close, after high-profile sets from Arctic Monkeys, Guns N' Roses, Lana Del Rey, WizKid, Lizzo, Blondie and Cat Stevens.\n\nOrganiser Emily Eavis has confirmed the event will return next year, with two female headliners already booked.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the leaders of last weekend's Wagner mutiny of wanting \"to see Russia choked in bloody strife\".\n\nIn a short speech full of vitriol, Mr Putin vowed to bring the organisers of the revolt \"to justice\".\n\nBut he called regular Wagner troops \"patriots\" who would be allowed to join the army, go to Belarus or return home.\n\nHe did not directly name Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who earlier denied trying to overthrow Mr Putin's regime.\n\nWagner is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nThe short-lived rebellion, which saw Wagner fighters seize a major Russian city before heading north towards Moscow in a column of military vehicles, was a response to government plans to take direct control of Wagner, Prigozhin claimed in an 11-minute long audio statement published on Telegram on Monday.\n\nIn June, Russia said \"volunteer formations\" would be asked to sign Ministry of Defence contracts in a move widely seen as a threat to Prigozhin's grip on Wagner.\n\nThe mercenary chief said his rebellion was also a protest over mistakes made by defence officials during the war with Ukraine.\n\nBut he insisted that Wagner had acted always and only in Russia's interests.\n\nThese were Prigozhin's first public comments since agreeing a deal to halt the rebellion, which reportedly includes him going to Belarus with all criminal charges against him dropped - though Russian state media, citing officials, has reported he remains under investigation.\n\nHe said that he brought an end to the mutiny to stop \"spilling the blood of Russian soldiers\", adding that some Russian civilians were disappointed the march had stopped.\n\nBut he was at pains to stress that he had no intention of trying to topple Russia's elected authorities.\n\nIt was only audio so it is not clear where Prigozhin is now or what he does next.\n\nIn his own brief address to the Russian people, Mr Putin said organisers of the march on Moscow would be \"brought to justice\" and described his old ally Prigozhin as stabbing Russia in the back.\n\nHe used the speech as an attempt to reassert his authority, and squash the now common view that his response to the Wagner mutiny was weak. His tone in the short, recorded address was furious; his lip curling.\n\nThe president's message was that those who organised an insurrection had betrayed their country and people - and were doing the work of all of Russia's enemies by trying to drag it into bloodshed and division.\n\nHe accused the West of wanting Russians to \"kill each other\", but US President Joe Biden told a press conference on Monday the US and its allies had no involvement in Wagner's aborted rebellion.\n\nMr Putin argued that his own management of the crisis had averted disaster. But that's not what many Russians saw play out over the weekend and it's hard to think they'll be convinced by this performance.\n\nHe also said he would keep his promise to allow Wagner troops who did not \"turn to fratricidal blood\" to leave for Belarus.\n\n\"I thank those soldiers and commanders of the Wagner Group who made the only right decision - they did not turn to fratricidal bloodshed, they stopped at the last line,\" he said.\n\n\"Today, you have the opportunity to continue your service for Russia by signing a contract with the [Ministry of Defence] or other military and law enforcement structures, or to go back to your family and close ones.\n\n\"Those who want can leave for Belarus. The promise that I gave, will be fulfilled.\"\n\nMr Putin said \"steps were taken to avoid a lot of bloodshed\" at the very beginning of the mutiny, and that its organisers \"realised their actions were criminal\".\n\nHe praised the unity of Russian society and thanked the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is said to have brokered the deal to end the mutiny, for his efforts to resolve the situation peacefully.\n\nThe president's talk of a country united behind him contrasts sharply with Saturday's images from the southern city of Rostov, where the Wagner group had taken control and locals applauded fighters in the streets, hugging them and posing for selfies.\n\nThat's probably why Mr Putin offered Wagner members a way out, suggesting they'd been duped and used.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what the consequences are of the failed Wagner mutiny\n\nLast week's rebellion followed months of growing tensions between Wagner and Russia's military leadership.\n\nInfighting came to a head on Friday night when Wagner mercenaries crossed the border from their field camps in Ukraine and entered the southern city of Rostov-on-Don - where Russia's war is being directed from.\n\nThey then reportedly took over the regional military command while a column of military vehicles moved north towards Moscow.\n\nPrigozhin claimed his \"march of justice\" revealed \"serious problems with security all around the country\".\n\nHe also mentioned the role Mr Lukashenko had played in brokering the arrangement to end the mutiny, saying the leader had offered Wagner a way to keep operating in a \"legal jurisdiction\".\n\nThe mercenary boss acknowledged his march had resulted in the deaths of some Russian troops when Wagner troops shot down attacking helicopters.\n\nBut he added that \"not a single soldier was killed on the ground\".\n\n\"We are sorry that we had to strike the aircraft, but they were striking us with bombs and missiles,\" he said.", "Fox News has announced that long-time network personality Jesse Watters will replace ousted star Tucker Carlson.\n\nThe departure of Carlson, the most-watched cable news host in US history, has led to a downturn in the channel's primetime ratings.\n\nWatters, 44, joined the network as a production assistant in 2002 and has anchored the 19:00 EDT (23:00 GMT) timeslot since the start of this year.\n\nFox News said in April that it was parting ways with Carlson.\n\nThe announcement came less than a week after the network settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company Dominion over coverage of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe $787.5m (£619m) settlement narrowly averted a potentially embarrassing trial for Fox, and one at which Carlson was expected to be called to testify.\n\nCarlson, 54, has since launched a new show he presents twice weekly on Twitter. Its first episode, on 6 June, has racked up nearly 120 million views.\n\nTucker Carlson Tonight drew upwards of three million daily viewers, regularly topping its cable competitors in the 20:00 hour.\n\nEarlier this month, Fox sent Carlson a cease-and-desist letter, arguing that his new show was a breach of contract as he is still being paid by the network until the end of 2024.\n\nSince his show was taken off air, a series of rotating hosts - including Watters - have anchored the timeslot, drawing roughly half of Carlson's audience.\n\nEarlier in June, the network briefly lost its 120-week streak at the top of the primetime ratings to liberal rival MSNBC, although it has since reclaimed the spot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWatters, best known for his man-on-the-street interviews in New York City, is co-host of the popular roundtable show The Five.\n\nHis instalment in Carlson's old timeslot comes amid a broader shake-up in the channel's nightly line-up.\n\nLaura Ingraham, who hosts The Ingraham Angle, is moving to the 19:00 hour, while popular late-night host Greg Gutfeld will take over at 22:00, the network announced on Monday.\n\nSean Hannity, a primetime Fox anchor for more than two decades, will see his show remain in the 21:00 slot, the network said.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nElaine Wilson, of Lasswade, took this picture of the Dalkeith Arts Moos by artist M Bitici.\n\nSally Williams said of this shot: \"Here’s a photo taken from our front door today, looking towards Kilmaluag. The rain finally arrives in style after weeks of sunny weather on the Isle of Skye.\"\n\nRichard McKay, of Tornagrain, said heather provided the perfect foreground for her picture overlooking Loch Nevis in Knoydart.\n\nHazel Thomson, of Elgin, said of her picture: \"A warm summer’s evening and a gorgeous sunset over Portmahomack harbour.\"\n\nAllan Masson said he made an early ascent of Sgùrr nan Eag to avoid the heat of the day and to capture morning mist on the hills of Kintail.\n\nBob Smart, of Dunfermline, said his family had a great day out at Thirlistane Castle for a Borders Vintage Automobile Club meeting. Bob said the event's cycle stunt team was \"awesome\".\n\nMorag Cordiner, of Peterhead, said: \"I saw these sheep on the rocks at Fionnphort when I was waiting for the ferry to Iona. It's almost as if the big one is shouting 'Hurry up or we'll miss the ferry' to his pals lower down.\"\n\nGeorge Carson, who lives in Greenock, said of his picture: \"While out on a cruise on an old school friend's boat I took a few photos of the Cloch Lighthouse at Gourock. It is lovely to see the Lighthouse from the Clyde.\"\n\nGraham Paton's image was taken from South Queensferry. He said: \"These long sunny evenings make for some great sunsets.\"\n\nGraham Ferguson took a ramble across the long rickety bridge through Aberlady nature reserve on his way to locating the wrecks of World War Two XT midget submarines on Gullane sands.\n\n\"Anyone for chess by the pond in the grounds of Glenapp Castle?\" asks Helen Baird, of Greenock.\n\nKenny Bray, from Bearsden, said he came across this beautiful display of lupins with Crathes Castle in the background while on a road trip of NTS properties in Aberdeenshire.\n\nLaura Hynes, of Amsterdam, took this picture of a geological feature called a hexagonal basalt wheel at Mull's Ardmeanach Peninsula. Laura said: \"My partner and I visited Mull and were hiking to the fossil tree just further along the peninsula.\"\n\nGavin Blainey, of Oban, sent in this shot. Gavin said: \"This tree sits on the Ganavan Road, near Oban. It's fantastically striking during the right conditions.\"\n\nPat Christie captured this picture of Noctilucent clouds over North Berwick harbour at 02:00 in the morning. Pat said: \"So beautiful.\"\n\nLorna Donaldson's photo of perfect reflections of Dumyat on Airthrey Loch, Stirling.\n\nDerek McEwan took this shot. He said: \"Looking into Sgarasta Mhòr Beach from Harris Golf Club on the Isle of Harris.\"\n\nA picture from Michaela Cunningham, of Ayr, looking down Loch Leven.\n\nGillian Leary took this image while doing steps for a charity fundraising effort. She said: \"I chose to go up Berwick Law as part of my challenge. It was made all the more easier when I caught sight of the ponies.\"\n\nJohnny MacLeod's shot of Summer Solstice dawn at St Abbs Head Lighthouse. Johnny said the view was well worth a 02:00 alarm call and two-hour drive from Kennoway, Fife.\n\nAlex Leddy came across this tree washed up on Blackdog beach, near Aberdeen. Alex said: \"I think It looks like the skeleton of a whale or another large creature.\"\n\nCalum Goodfellow, from Elgin, said of his picture: \"A view of the Torridon Hills from the summit of Maol Chean-Dearg.\"\n\nGraham Christie said of this shot: \"The view over Arrochar Jetty and Loch Long looking north.\"\n\nGemma Brown, from Insch, took this picture on a camping trip to Beauly. She said the level of the River Farrar was really low.\n\nLauren McKinnon's picture of mist rising under the sunset from South Calder Water after the downpour that delayed Tuesday's Scotland vs Georgia game at Hampden.\n\nLooking at Bridgend over the Perth Old Bridge in a picture taken by Brian Johnston while he walked along Tay Street.\n\nDerek Bremner's picture of the Whaligoe Steps, south of Wick.\n\nOllie, a golden retriever from Inverkip, concludes the latest gallery. He was on his holidays in Skipness and was pictured by Lorraine Watters.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Stockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nStockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.\n\nBright, driven, born into wealth, his dream was to be the first person to reach Mars.\n\nWhen he realised that was unlikely to happen in his lifetime, he turned his attentions to the sea.\n\n\"I wanted to be Captain Kirk and in our lifetime, the final frontier is the ocean,\" he told a journalist in 2017.\n\nThe ocean promised adventure, adrenaline and mystery. He also believed it promised profits - if he could make a success of the submersible he helped design, which he directed his company OceanGate to build.\n\nHe had a maverick spirit that seemed to draw people in, earning him the admiration of his employees, passengers and investors.\n\n\"His passion was amazing and I bought into it,\" said Aaron Newman, who travelled on Mr Rush's Titan sub and eventually became an OceanGate investor.\n\nBut Mr Rush's soaring ambition also drew scrutiny from industry experts who warned he was cutting corners, putting innovation ahead of safety and risking potentially catastrophic results.\n\nIt wasn't something he was willing to accept.\n\nLast week, he and four other people on board the Titan lost their lives when it imploded.\n\n\"You're remembered for the rules you break,\" Mr Rush once said, quoting US general Douglas MacArthur.\n\n\"I've broken some rules,\" he said about the Titan. \"I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.\"\n\nStockton Rush III was born in California in 1962 into a family that made its fortune from oil and shipping.\n\nHe was sent to a prestigious boarding school, the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984.\n\nAt 19, he became the youngest pilot in the world to qualify for jet transport rating, the highest pilot rating obtainable. He worked on F-15s and anti-satellite missile programmes, with the hope of eventually joining the US space programme and being an astronaut.\n\nBut eventually that ambition lost its appeal, as a trip to the Red Planet seemed increasingly out of reach.\n\n\"If someone would tell me what the commercial or military reason to go to Mars is, I would believe it's going to happen,\" Mr Rush told Fast Company magazine. \"It's just a dream.\"\n\nSo he shifted his gaze downward and in 2009 founded OceanGate, a private company that offered customers - Mr Rush preferred the term \"adventurers\" - a chance to experience deep sea travel, including to the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nJessica Parker explores how the search for the Titan submersible unfolded and its devastating outcome.\n\nThe company, based in Everett in Washington state, was small and tight-knit. Rush would chair all-staff meetings at its headquarters, while his wife Wendy - another member of Princeton's class of 1984 - was his director of communications.\n\nA junior employee who worked at OceanGate from 2017 to 2018, and asked not to be identified, said the company headquarters felt homey and lived-in, with wiring and equipment seemingly everywhere. \"It was very free-flowing.\"\n\n\"He was just really passionate about what he was doing and very good at instilling that passion into everybody else that worked there,\" the employee told the BBC.\n\nAt one staff meeting, Mr Rush brought virtual reality goggles for everyone to take a digital underwater tour. Mr Rush told them that this is what they were aiming for - to allow more people to have this view. \"This is the world I want,\" he told them.\n\nMr Rush was \"not a leader from the back, telling people what to do - he led from the front\", said Mr Newman, the investor.\n\nMr Newman went on the Titan with Mr Rush to see the wreck of the Titanic in the summer of 2021.\n\nThe first time they met, Mr Rush \"spent hours\" talking with him about the potential of exploring the bottom of the ocean.\n\nMr Rush \"followed his own path\", Mr Newman said.\n\nMr Newman's recollection of OceanGate was of a team that looked out for each other.\n\nAnd Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was \"up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things\", he said.\n\nMr Newman was so taken by Mr Rush that he decided to invest in OceanGate. \"You know, I didn't know if I'd ever see any return or not. That was not the point,\" he said.\n\n\"The point was to be part of something that's experimental and is breaking new ground, and pushing forward our technology, and how the world works, and going places and doing amazing things, that's what this is about.\"\n\nMr Newman described himself as a minor investor. As a private company, OceanGate is not obliged to publish all financial records. US financial records from January 2020 show that Mr Rush and his fellow directors sold a stake in the company worth $18m, thought to have been used to fund the development of Titan.\n\nTo recoup the costs, OceanGate's sub, \"well-lit and comfortable,\" the company said, came with a price tag of $250,000 (£195,600) for an underwater trip.\n\nMr Rush's clients were uber-rich thrill seekers, willing to part with that sum for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.\n\nLas Vegas businessman Jay Bloom had been messaging Mr Rush about joining a dive, before finally turning down a seat for himself and his son on the fatal excursion.\n\nHe said the chance to see the wreck up close would have been a \"bucket-list\" experience. It was about being able to say \"you did something very few people have the opportunity to do\", he said.\n\nDespite the large sums of money involved, OceanGate equipment sometimes had a home-made feel.\n\nThe former junior employee told the BBC he was surprised to find that Titan's electrical design included off-the-shelf development boards, as opposed to using a custom, in-house design like other engineering companies.\n\nDavid Pogue, a CBS News journalist who joined Mr Rush on a trip to the Titanic wreck in 2021, said the chief executive drove the Titan with a game controller and used \"rusty lead pipes from the construction industry as ballast\".\n\nYet Mr Rush assured Mr Pogue that only thing that really mattered was the vessel's hull, built from an unusual and largely untested material for a deep sea vessel: carbon fibre, with titanium end plates.\n\nMr Rush knew carbon fibre was used successfully in yachts and aviation, and believed it would allow for his submersible to made more cheaply than industry-standard steels ones.\n\n\"There's a rule you don't do that,\" said Mr Rush in 2021. \"Well, I did.\"\n\nThe tube shape of the Titan was also unusual. The hull of a deep-diving sub is usually spherical, which means it receives an equal amount of pressure at every point, but the Titan had a cylinder-shaped cabin. OceanGate gave it sensors to analyse the effects of changing pressure as it descended.\n\nThe glass viewport, from which passengers could see out, was only certified down to 1,300m, far short of the depths of the ocean floor where the Titantic wreck lay.\n\nRob McCallum, an explorer who acted as a consultant for OceanGate, became concerned when Mr Rush decided against getting official certification for the submersible.\n\nSubs can be certified or \"classed\" by marine organisations, like the American Bureau of Shipping or Lloyd's Register, meaning the vehicle must meet certain standards on things like stability, strength, safety and performance. But this process is not mandatory.\n\nIn emails to Mr Rush in March 2018, seen by BBC News, Mr McCallum said: \"You are wanting to use a prototype un-classed technology in a very hostile place. As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.\n\n\"4,000m down in the mid-Atlantic is not the kind of place you can cut corners.\"\n\nMr Rush, apparently indignant, responded that he was \"tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation\".\n\nSafety was \"about culture, not paperwork\", he said. He talked of needing \"sensible design, extensive testing, and informed consent of the participants\", but said a piece of paper did not guarantee the safety of a sub.\n\nWhile he admitted deviating from some guidelines, such as \"overly conservative\" viewport limits, he argued the Titan's safety systems were \"way beyond\" anything else in use.\n\nHe wrote: \"I know that our engineering focused, innovative approach (as opposed to an existing standards compliance-focused design process) flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation.\"\n\nThe tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nBut Mr McCallum was not the only person linked to the company to speak out about safety.\n\nJust a few months earlier, former OceanGate employee David Lochridge raised concerns in an inspection report which identified \"numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns\", including how the hull had been tested.\n\nAlso in 2018, the Marine Technology Society sent a letter to OceanGate accusing it of making misleading claims about its design exceeding established industry safety standards, and warned that OceanGate's \"experimental\" approach could result in \"negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)\".\n\nIn a blog post in 2019, Mr Rush insisted that the majority of marine accidents were down to operator error. He said OceanGate took safety requirements very seriously, but that keeping an outside body informed on every modification before it was tested in a real-word setting was \"anathema to rapid innovation\".\n\nThe former employee told the BBC that while he had worked at OceanGate, he had felt confident in Mr Rush's commitment to safety.\n\n\"Rush was very level-headed, he knew what needed to be done,\" he said. \"He went on every sub dive, he was the pilot for every single one, and that's because he trusted the safety of the sub.\"\n\nMr Newman told the BBC the sub might not have been certified, but it was tested extensively. Mr Rush \"introduced new ideas and new pieces that are not conventional, and some people don't like that\", he said.\n\n\"The idea that this is something that's unique and Stockton did something wrong is disingenuous,\" he said.\n\nMr Rush himself told CBS reporter Mr Pogue last year that \"if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed\".\n\n\"Don't get in your car. Don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules,\" he said.\n\nThe question is why despite other successful dives, the sub's final trip ended in tragedy, Mr Newman said.\n\n\"Clearly, the pressure hull gave way, right? And the question is, why would that give way?\"\n\nGuillermo Söhnlein, a co-founder of OceanGate and Rush's former business partner, said he would not have taken a different approach himself.\n\n\"The human submersible community globally is very small, and we all know each other, and I think generally we all respect each other's opinions.\n\n\"The bottom line is that everyone's got different opinions on how subs should be designed,\" said Mr Söhnlein.\n\nAfter his son also raised fears about the sub, Jay Bloom declined Mr Rush's invitation.\n\n\"I am sure he really believed what he was saying,\" Mr Bloom said. \"But he was very wrong.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWomen's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge (day five of five)\n\nAustralia beat England by 89 runs to win the one-off Ashes Test match and take a 4-0 points lead in the multi-format series.\n\nSpinner Ash Gardner starred with 8-66 as England were bowled out for 178 before lunch on day five at Trent Bridge.\n\nGardner's effort gave her an astonishing 12 wickets in the match after her four in England's first innings.\n\nDanni Wyatt top-scored with 54 before she was given out lbw to Gardner for Australia to wrap up the victory inside 21 overs on the final day.\n\nEngland resumed on 116-5 after a late collapse on day four left them requiring another 152 to win.\n\nWyatt and nightwatcher Kate Cross added 25 for the sixth wicket before the latter was caught behind for 13 off Gardner, who took all five remaining wickets.\n\nEngland then slumped from 151-6 to 178 all out as Wyatt struggled for support from England's lower order.\n\nAmy Jones made just four before she was stumped by Alyssa Healy after a fumble, Sophie Ecclestone was pinned lbw for 10 and Lauren Filer was bowled for a duck.\n\nDefeat felt cruel on Tammy Beaumont, who scored 208 in England's first innings, and Ecclestone, who also took a 10-wicket haul in the match but was ultimately eclipsed by Gardner.\n\nThe series continues with three T20s and three one-day internationals, all worth two points each, starting at Edgbaston on Saturday 1 July.\n\nWyatt, unbeaten on 20 overnight, was going to be key to England's hopes with her naturally aggressive style of play, and she stuck to her task efficiently by reaching her half-century from 78 balls.\n\nBut Gardner toiled away unchanged in an incredible effort of consistency with the day five pitch offering some uneven bounce and turn.\n\nThe all-rounder's match figures of 12-165 are the second-best of all-time in women's Test cricket, after Shaiza Khan's 13-226 for Pakistan against West Indies in 2004.\n\nEngland promised an attacking brand of cricket and over four days, proved that they could unsettle Australia, but in a tough morning session, it was the world champions who held their nerve under the pressure.\n\nThe hosts' have much to be proud of - and justified the decision to play the Test over five days - but now have a very difficult task in overturning Australia's four-point lead.\n\nAustralia are world champions in both white-ball formats, their dominance particularly evident in ODIs where they have lost just one match from their last 42.\n\n'England should have won' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight, speaking to BBC Test Match Special: \"Obviously we feel disappointment but a lot of pride about how we approached it by playing entertaining cricket.\n\n\"A couple of evening sessions on day three and four cost us. But I'm proud of the way the girls fought throughout. Should we have won it? I don't know. We made it tough for ourselves on Sunday night.\"\n\nPlayer of the match, Australia's Ashleigh Gardner at post-match presentation: \"I wouldn't have dreamed of it to be honest but it showed having five days in a Test to actually get a result is super important.\n\n\"There are still six matches to go and still a lot that can happen in this Ashes series.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Alex Hartley on TMS: \"Australia are such a strong side, they've come out on top and ridden the pressure much better than England. For me, England should have won that Test match.\n\n\"If Heather Knight is saying we need to fight, then it shows you how positive we are. I don't think England will win the Ashes, but I am feeling more positive.\"", "It could cost an estimated £63,000 more to send a migrant to a \"safe country\" such as Rwanda than to keep them in the UK, the government has said.\n\nAn economic impact assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill, which is going through Parliament, found a gross cost of £169,000 to relocate an individual.\n\nBut the estimated £106,000 spent on housing support if they remained in the UK would be avoided.\n\nThe government said the policy would also have a deterrent effect.\n\nThe Home Office assessment said no cost would be incurred if an individual was deterred from entering the UK illegally.\n\nHowever, it said it was \"uncertain\" what level of deterrence impact the policy would have because the bill was \"novel and untested\".\n\nIt also said the potential savings were \"highly uncertain\" but gave an estimated figure of between £106,000 and £165,000 per individual. The higher figure takes into the account the possibility of housing costs continuing to increase.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the government's \"own assessment\" acknowledges the policy \"is likely to be unworkable\".\n\n\"There was once something called evidence informed policy making,\" Mr Solomon told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. \"This is not happening now,\" he added.\n\nThe Refugee Council wants more safe routes created for refugees to reach the UK, to stop small boat crossings.\n\nConservative MP Craig Mackinlay called the policy an \"imperfect tool\" but argued it would have a deterrent effect - which would lead to savings.\n\nMr Mackinlay told Today: \"This is a spend to save scheme.\n\n\"If you can deter three from coming while paying for two - you're in the exact same position.\"\n\nOther additional savings beyond accommodation costs include those associated with resettling a migrant in the UK, such as benefits, social housing and healthcare.\n\nThe report estimates the policy would need to deter 37% of people from entering the UK illegally for there to be no cost to the taxpayer.\n\nThe bill aims to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats by preventing anyone arriving in the UK illegally from claiming asylum.\n\nInstead they would be detained and removed, either to Rwanda or another \"safe country\".\n\nThe total estimated cost of relocating an individual to Rwanda or another third country includes a payment to that country of around £105,000 per person, as well as £22,000 for flights and escorting the individual.\n\nThe figure assumes a flight can seat 50 individuals being relocated but flights may depart with fewer people on board.\n\nOther costs include detaining individuals while they are processed.\n\nThe costs are theoretical estimates rather than the actual cost of the Rwanda agreement, which is commercially sensitive.\n\nLabour said the impact assessment was \"a complete joke\" and the government was \"totally clueless\" about how much the bill would cost.\n\n\"The few figures the Home Office has produced show how chaotic and unworkable their plans are,\" shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.\n\nShe added that \"the true cost\" may be higher as the government had not costed the possibility of people being held in \"indefinite detention\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"Our impact assessment shows that doing nothing is not an option.\n\n\"We cannot allow a system to continue which incentivises people to risk their lives and pay people smugglers to come to this country illegally, while placing an unacceptable strain on the UK taxpayer.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the Women and Equalities Committee published a report calling for children to be exempted from detention or deportation to Rwanda, under the government immigration plans.\n\nThe committee's chair, Tory MP Caroline Nokes, a former immigration minister, said: \"The risk of harm to children outweighs any perceived damage to the effectiveness of the government's policy agenda.\"\n\nThe UK is spending £6m a day to house asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nLast year more than 45,700 people made the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping the crossings one of his five key priorities, with the bill central to the government's plans to achieve this aim.\n\nRwanda is currently the only country the UK has a deal with to relocate migrants to but no flights have set off yet.\n\nThe High Court ruled in December 2022 that the scheme is legal, but that decision is facing further challenge in the courts, with a judgement due on Thursday.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill still needs to be approved by the House of Lords, where it has faced significant opposition, and could face further legal challenge if it becomes law.\n\nCritics have argued the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "In Washington, US officials have confirmed that Russian and American diplomats spoke directly on Saturday.\n\nThe US emphasised to Moscow that Washington was not involved in stoking up tensions between Wagner and the Kremlin, officials are saying.\n\n\"There were appropriate diplomat discussions that occurred over the weekend,\" said White House spokesman John Kirby without specifying at what level talks occurred.\n\nHe added Washington views the tensions with Wagner \"as internal Russian matters\" and has not taken a side.\n\nBiden remains focused on supporting Ukraine, rather than meddling in Russia, and spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, Kirby continued.\n\n\"We're not involved and have no intention of being involved,\" he said about the current situation in Russia.\n\n\"What we are involved with is supporting Ukraine.\"\n\nAt the Department of State, spokesman Matthew Miller said the communications involved the US ambassador to Russia as well as \"at other levels here in Washington\".\n\nTwo messages were sent, he said. The first was that the US expects Russia to protect US diplomatic personnel in Moscow and the second was to emphasise that \"this is an internal Russian affair, that in which the United States is not involved and will not be involved\".", "Novelist and TV producer Daisy Goodwin has accused a Conservative mayoral hopeful of groping her 10 years ago.\n\nMs Goodwin told the Times that in 2013 Daniel Korski sexually assaulted her by putting his hand on her breast during a meeting at 10 Downing Street.\n\nHe has denied the allegation \"in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says it will not investigate the allegations made by Ms Goodwin, creator of ITV drama Victoria, as no formal complaint has been made.\n\nMs Goodwin said she had met Mr Korski - then a special adviser to David Cameron - to discuss a proposed TV show.\n\nMs Goodwin told the Times she met the government special adviser (spad) at a social event and he suggested they meet again.\n\nShe said Mr Korski arrived late for their meeting, remarked on her sunglasses and said she looked \"like Monica Bellucci, the 50-something Italian actress who had recently made headlines by appearing in a Bond film opposite Daniel Craig as an older woman\".\n\nMs Goodwin said this felt \"awkwardly flirtatious\" and \"odd\".\n\nDaisy Goodwin spoke out about the assault in 2017 but did not name anyone\n\nShe said during the meeting Mr Korski \"put his feet on the edge of my chair, leaning back so that I could get a clear view of his crotch\".\n\n\"When we both stood up at the end of the meeting and went to the door, the spad stepped towards me and suddenly put his hand on my breast.\n\n\"Astonished, I said loudly, 'Are you really touching my breast?'\n\n\"The spad sprang away from me and I left.\"\n\nMr Korski, who left a Conservative Environment Network husting early on Monday evening, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that the accusations were \"baseless\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to take a moment to address the recent allegation that has been levelled against me.\n\n\"I understand that this news may have caused concern, and I want to assure you I categorically deny any wrong-doing.\n\n\"Politics can be a rough and challenging business. Unfortunately, in the midst of this demanding environment, this baseless allegation from the past has resurfaced.\n\n\"It is disheartening to find myself connected to this allegation after so many years, but I want to unequivocally state that I categorically deny any claim of inappropriate behaviour. I denied when it was alluded to seven years ago and I do so now.\n\n\"To be clear - nothing was raised at the time, nothing was raised with me seven years ago when this was alluded to and even now, I'm not aware that there was an official complaint.\"\n\nConservative Campaign Headquarters said: \"The Conservative Party has an established code of conduct and formal processes where complaints can be made in confidence.\n\n\"The party considers all complaints made under the code of conduct but does not conduct investigations where the party would not be considered to have primary jurisdiction over another authority.\"\n\nAlthough Downing Street has refused to be drawn on the individual case, or say whether there will be a Cabinet Office investigation into Mr Korski, the prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Sunak believed No10 was a safe environment for women.\n\nAsked if Mr Sunak thought it was important that allegations of harassment should be investigated, the spokesman said: \"Without wanting to be drawn into specifics, I think in any walk of life I think the prime minister would expect that to be the case.\"\n\nMs Goodwin spoke in 2017 about being groped at 10 Downing Street without naming her alleged assailant, however she said she had chosen to identify him now as Mr Korski was running to be the Conservative candidate for the contest to be mayor of London.\n\nShe told the BBC on Monday: \"I hope that my example will encourage women to come forward - no women should have to put up with this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nMr Korski is one of three candidates shortlisted by the Conservative Party ahead of next year's election, at which Sadiq Khan will be running for a third term as mayor.\n\nMr Korski has centred his campaign on improving public services through technology.\n\nEarlier this month he told the BBC he was \"a businessman who will put digitalisation at the core of how I improve London\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The cross-party All Under One Banner movement holds regular independence marches\n\nThe route to independence used to seem simple for SNP members.\n\nThere was a widespread expectation in the party that election victories would lead to a second referendum.\n\nBut the continued UK government refusal to grant another vote, and last year's Supreme Court confirmation that Holyrood doesn't have the powers to legislate for one, has left the party looking for a new direction.\n\nAnd that's why members will descend on Dundee this weekend.\n\nAt the party's Convention on Independence, they hope to flesh out a new strategy.\n\nSo what are the alternative paths to independence?\n\nThis isn't an exhaustive list, but here are three options the SNP may consider this weekend.\n\nOption one could be called the gradualist approach.\n\nThis involves taking time to drive up support for independence, ultimately reaching a level that means Downing Street can't ignore referendum demands.\n\nIt's rare for anyone in the SNP to publicly put a number on the level of support needed for this, but a sustained period of 60% pro-independence polling is thrown around privately.\n\nThe MSP Ben Macpherson is a former Scottish government minister. He stresses that he's as dedicated to independence as anyone in the SNP, but he believes that patience is required.\n\nHe's urged fellow members to focus on convincing more undecided voters to support independence, which he believes will create \"overwhelming\" pressure on the UK government to grant a second referendum.\n\nBut others feel another referendum won't happen, and that brings us to option two. This involves using elections to secure independence.\n\nIt's a tactic that's gained prominence in SNP circles in recent years.\n\nTowards the end of her leadership, Nicola Sturgeon floated the idea of running an election as a \"de facto\" referendum.\n\nThe concept is fairly simple: the SNP would contest an election (or elections) insisting that a vote for them is a vote for independence. This could be stated in the opening line of a manifesto.\n\nAsh Regan, who ran to replace Nicola Sturgeon earlier this year, backs this approach.\n\nShe believes the SNP could even team up with other pro-independence parties, meaning that more than 50% of the vote combined would lead to independence.\n\nShe thinks it's time to move away from relying on the referendum path, saying \"we've been thinking of it as the gold standard, but in fact it's the ballot box that's the gold standard route\".\n\nBut there are potential weaknesses with this option.\n\nWhy would the UK government agree to this? Would the international community recognise it?\n\nMost advocates of such a Plan B feel that Westminster intransigence on a second referendum means that a radical alternative is needed.\n\nBut others fear it won't deliver independence and would alienate the middle-ground of Scottish politics.\n\nOption three involves taking to the streets - mass demonstrations calling for independence.\n\nPerhaps this option should be seen as complementing others, rather than being a route to independence in itself.\n\nThe cross-party All Under One Banner movement will march from Stirling to Bannockburn at the very same time the SNP gathers in Dundee.\n\nPatrick McCarthy is organising Saturday's All Under One Banner march\n\nAs a party member, Patrick McCarthy could have attended the convention. But he worries the SNP is simply \"talking to themselves\" .\n\nHe'll be \"speaking to the mass movement\" by organising the march instead.\n\nHe says \"the hearts and minds and belief in independence is the thing that's going to get us over the line\".\n\nThe first minister will set out his preferred route to independence at Saturday's convention.\n\nThe first minister must show SNP members that he has an indy plan\n\nHumza Yousaf wants to drive up overall support, but he's also said that elections must be used to advance the cause of independence.\n\nThis convention won't rubber-stamp any strategy. That would have to come at the SNP's autumn conference.\n\nThere are political risks for Humza Yousaf in this weekend's convention.\n\nIt could highlight splits within his party. And it exposes him to accusations that he's prioritising the constitution over day-to-day problems.\n\nBut, given that independence is his party's fundamental aim, it's important for him to show party members that he's formulating a plan to achieve the ultimate goal.\n\nThe SNP may emerge closer to defining their strategy on independence, but making that a reality feels a harder task for the party right now.", "A 15-year-old girl has died after being pulled from the sea at Cleethorpes beach, police have confirmed.\n\nHumberside Police said the girl and a boy, also 15, were airlifted to hospital at about 19:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe boy received treatment but was later discharged, the force said.\n\nBoth children had been reported missing at about 14:00 BST, prompting a search that involved an HM Coastguard helicopter and RNLI lifeboat.\n\nFlowers have been left at the scene of Saturday's tragedy\n\nFlowers and tributes to the girl have been left at the scene.\n\nPolice said the girl would not be officially named, at the request of her family.\n\nDet Insp Nathan Reuben said: \"Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with the family at this incredibly difficult time. We ask that they are given the time and space to process this tragic news. The family is being supported by specially trained officers.\n\n\"We are working together with all the relevant agencies, including Humberside Fire and Rescue and the coastguard, to fully understand the circumstances of the tragic accident.\"\n\nAn HM Coastguard spokesperson said a lifeboat was launched at 16:00 and found the pair \"some way\" to sea.\n\nThey said it had been a very difficult day for everyone involved.\n\nEarlier, police thanked the public for helping with the search.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince William wants his campaign to change attitudes towards homelessness\n\nPrince William has launched a major five-year campaign to end homelessness, which he says should not exist in a \"modern and progressive society\".\n\nOn Monday, he visited housing and training projects in Brixton in London, Bournemouth and Newport in South Wales.\n\nThe Prince of Wales's charitable foundation is putting in £3m of start-up funding to help make homelessness \"rare, brief and unrepeated\".\n\n\"Everyone should have a safe and secure home,\" said Prince William.\n\nAt a project in Bournemouth which is helping provide skills to people who have been homeless, he spoke of the need to change the \"narrative\" around homelessness and to stop the \"prejudice and stigma\".\n\nThe prince heard first-hand from people being helped by the Faithworks project, who told him about the sense of isolation among those facing homelessness and the need to rebuild their confidence and sense of self-belief.\n\n\"We all go through times where we could be self-conscious or lost in life, and it's like a gentle guidance back into learning to socialise and be productive in a positive way,\" said Clayton Jeynes, who was homeless and has received training from the project.\n\nThe prince was invited to use a lathe used to teach carpentry skills\n\nThe project teaches carpentry skills and Prince William tried his hand at using a lathe - approaching it with the comment: \"I had five fingers when I began this.\"\n\nThe launch brought together organisations which will be trying to find ways to reduce homelessness - a problem that has different forms in different places.\n\nIn a seaside town like Bournemouth, there were problems of high rental costs and also people with precarious incomes from low-income seasonal jobs.\n\nAlmost 2,400 local households had experienced homelessness in the past year, according to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council.\n\nThere was also an \"acceleration\" in homelessness from families who had previously been renting privately - with over 100 families staying in hotels, said the council.\n\nGraham Farrant, council chief executive, spoke of the need to improve prevention before people became homeless. \"It's not impossible to solve,\" he said.\n\nPrince William heard first-hand about the pressures on people who have faced homelessness\n\nThis Homewards initiative is likely to be one of the defining projects for the Prince of Wales - a commitment which he will be aware comes with the risk of being accused of straying into politics.\n\nAhead of the launch, Prince William had discussed the project with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and the first ministers of Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt is a cause that is deeply personal to the prince, which he has linked to the influence of his mother, Princess Diana, who brought him to homelessness charities as a child.\n\nThere are more than 300,000 people currently homeless across the UK, which includes those who are stuck in hostels and temporary accommodation, living in cars and sofa-surfing, as well as people who are rough sleeping.\n\nAs well as preventing homelessness, there is an aim to change attitudes and show how many people can be affected. Recently the prince opened an affordable housing project for young people with jobs, but who still needed help with accommodation.\n\nPrince William's plan is to bring together local coalitions of housing experts, charities and private industry to develop housing projects and support services, addressing different ways that homelessness occurs, whether in big cities or coastal towns.\n\nPrince William this month visited an affordable housing project in London for people who are in work or training\n\nHe has begun a two-day whistle-stop tour of the UK for what will be six locations for the initiative, which is backed by charities such as Shelter, Centrepoint, Crisis and The Passage.\n\nA media briefing was told that success would be measured in terms of lowering homelessness in those places - and finding approaches that could be replicated elsewhere.\n\nHe has also drawn international inspiration from Finland, seen as a model for reducing homelessness to very low levels.\n\nThe campaign has published opinion polling from Ipsos of more than 3,000 adults in the UK, which suggests the level of public concern and support for an intervention.\n\nBut Prince William will also face challenges about how someone with such wealth and extensive property holdings can make such calls over homelessness.\n\n\"The last thing we need is for William to get involved in this issue, a man who has three huge homes and a vast estate gifted to him by the state,\" says Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy group, Republic.\n\nHe says homelessness is about government policy and investment and will not be \"resolved by charity or royal patronage\", accusing Prince William of being \"hypocritical\".\n\nPrince William with his mother and brother at The Passage homelessness charity in 1993\n\nBut a Kensington Palace spokesman said it was about the prince using his public platform to make a positive difference.\n\n\"This isn't about a PR stunt. This is about trying to change the way that we as a society think about homelessness,\" said the spokesman.\n\nMatt Downie, chief executive of the charity Crisis, said he had personally spoken to the Prince of Wales about the project and endorsed the authenticity of his commitment.\n\n\"People who are experiencing homelessness can smell when someone's not authentic. I certainly can see the difference between people who want to associate for PR purposes in this issue and people who are genuinely driven by righting one of society's wrongs, and I saw that deeply there,\" said Mr Downie.\n\nRoyal author and academic Prof Pauline Maclaran said such an activist approach was likely to go down well with a younger generation, who were more likely to question the value of the monarchy.\n\nBut she said it would need the prince to be seen to make a personal contribution. His Royal Foundation is providing £500,000 in seed funding at each of the six regional centres for the project, but so far there has been no confirmation of earlier reports of social housing plans for his Duchy of Cornwall estate.\n\nHistorian Sir Anthony Seldon said Prince William's initiative showed how royal interventions could look beyond short-term political cycles at wider issues such as \"the mental health and welfare of the population, the physical and built environment, and the economic condition of the people\".\n\nBut he said it meant the prince was \"squarely in the space normally reserved just for elected politicians\".\n\nPolitical parties are already sparring over the response to rising mortgage and rent costs and a lack of affordable housing.\n\nCllr Darren Rodwell, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association, said councils feared a \"national homelessness crisis\" - and there were 1.2 million people on council waiting lists for housing in England.\n\nHe said there was a perfect storm of \"depleting housing stock and an unaffordable and overly-competitive private rented market\" and renters facing eviction - and he called for councils to be able to build 100,000 new social rent homes each year.\n\nBut Prince William said he was confident about the ambition to fundamentally reduce homelessness.\n\n\"I want to make this a reality and, over the next five years, give people across the UK hope that homelessness can be prevented when we collaborate,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities welcomed the prince's initiative.\n\n\"We are giving councils £2bn over three years, to help them tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, targeted to areas where it is needed most,\" she said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video shows the moment Titanic sub victim Suleman Dawood solved a Rubik's Cube in under 20 seconds.\n\nThe 19-year-old died with his father, Shahzada Dawood, and three others, after a submersible they were travelling in to see the Titanic wreck faced a catastrophic implosion.", "BBC reporter Daniel De Simone asks the Acourt brothers questions about new information in the Stephen Lawrence case.", "Nicola Bulley was last seen during a riverside walk on 27 January\n\nNicola Bulley died as a result of drowning and there was no evidence she had been harmed before she fell into the water, her inquest has heard.\n\nTwo women said they heard a scream where the 45-year-old was last seen in St Michael's on Wyre on 27 January.\n\nHer body was found in the River Wyre, about a mile away from where she went missing, more than three weeks later.\n\nExperts told the hearing that entering cold water can cause a person to gasp and inhale water and drown in seconds.\n\nPreston Coroner's Court also heard from various passers-by who saw Ms Bulley in the Lancashire village on the morning she disappeared.\n\nOne said she looked \"absolutely idyllic\", while another described her as \"not happy\" but \"not sad\".\n\nHome Office pathologist Dr Alison Armour told the hearing there was no evidence of any third-party involvement.\n\nThe pathologist also said Ms Bulley had not been drinking before her death.\n\nCoroner Dr James Adeley asked her: \"At the time of her death she had no alcohol in her bloodstream?\"\n\nNicola Bulley's mobile phone was found on bench near the spot where she was last seen\n\nShe said paracetamol and a prescription beta-blocker called propranolol were found, but in very small amounts and nothing that could be considered an overdose.\n\nNoting Ms Bulley's body had clearly been in the river for some time, she said she had concluded the cause of death was drowning.\n\nShe said Ms Bulley's lungs \"showed classical features we see in drownings\" and it was her opinion that the mortgage advisor \"was alive when she entered the water\".\n\nMs Bulley's partner Paul Ansell and sister Louise Cunningham are among the witnesses set to give evidence at the two-day hearing.\n\nMs Bulley vanished while walking her dog by the river after dropping off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school.\n\nHer dog was found shortly afterwards and her mobile phone was discovered on a bench overlooking the water - still connected to a work conference call.\n\nHer disappearance led to intense public interest, criticism of police and media, and a social media frenzy of conspiracy theories.\n\nLancashire Police came under fire after revealing Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nIn a video shown to the court, PC Matthew Thackray said there was \"a large vertical slope\" from the bench where her phone was found down to the water.\n\nHe said there was a \"steady flow downstream\" on the day and the river was 4C, \"so almost freezing\".\n\n\"If she fell in, the muscles would probably seize, making it difficult to swim properly,\" he said.\n\nHe estimated she would have floated at a \"metre a second\" downstream.\n\nProf Michael Tipton, a University of Portsmouth expert who supports search and rescue operators such as the RNLI, said just two breaths of water would have been a \"lethal dose\".\n\nHe said there \"would be a particularly powerful cold-shock response\", which would have led to a \"fairly rapid incapacitation\".\n\nA mother who bumped into Ms Bulley on the morning of her disappearance told the court she felt there was \"nothing of concern\".\n\nKay Kiernan said she spoke to Ms Bulley about her dog Willow while dropping off her children at school at just after 08:30 GMT.\n\n\"She was not happy, but who is on a Friday-morning school run?\" she said.\n\n\"She wasn't sad, just how I normally knew her.\"\n\nClaire Chesham also described seeing Ms Bulley twice during the route she took and having a brief exchange with their dogs, something they would do on a regular basis.\n\nShe said Ms Bulley was \"absolutely idyllic\" and she had not noticed \"anything unusual\" about either the location or Ms Bulley.\n\nThe court also heard from Penny Fletcher, who found Ms Bulley's phone and dog.\n\nShe said she found the phone and a dog harness and tied Willow to the bench, only later finding out it was Ms Bulley's dog and hearing she had gone missing.\n\nIt was her daughter-in-law who recognised a photograph of Ms Bulley and her family on the phone lock screen.\n\nShe told the court she rang the local school, before speaking to Ms Bulley's partner.\n\nHelen O'Neil, whose garden is near the bench and river path, said she heard a scream, but she did not find it alarming at first.\n\nShe told the court it was only later, upon hearing of Ms Bulley's disappearance, that she decided to report it, adding: \"I vividly remember thinking it's unusual at this time.\"\n\nVeronia Claesen, who had dropped her children at school and had seen Ms Bulley in the car park, also heard a scream.\n\nShe said she initially thought someone was \"mucking about\", adding it was the kind of noise she may make if someone made her jump.\n\n\"It was an inhale scream, a sharp intake of breath,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest heard from various passers-by who saw Ms Bulley before she disappeared\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Smith, who investigated the disappearance, said Ms Bulley's Fitbit watch and Mercedes car keys were recovered along with her body.\n\nPolice digital specialist Det Con Keith Greenhalgh said the Fitbit stopped recording steps beyond 09:30 on the day Ms Bulley vanished and his \"initial thoughts\" had been that the device lost power on 4 February.\n\nHe added that analysis of iPhone and Fitbit watch data suggested Ms Bulley \"very possibly\" entered the water at 09:22 on 27 January.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The joint hottest temperature recorded so far in 2023 was hit on Sunday - but conditions are already on the turn.\n\nConingsby in Lincolnshire reached 32.2C, matching the same heights seen in Chertsey, Surrey, on 10 June.\n\nMeanwhile, thunderstorms lashed areas across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and the week ahead looks much cooler across the UK.\n\nBBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker said Sunday's heat \"marked the end of our current hot spell\".\n\nHe continued: \"The end of the month looks considerably cooler, but we're still on course for one of the warmest Junes in the UK since records began.\n\n\"Some parts of England have been experiencing temperatures akin to the Mediterranean for over two weeks.\n\n\"The weather has been consistently warmer than average across other parts of Europe as well.\"\n\nThe Met Office said Sunday's peak temperature at Coningsby was registered in the same location as the UK's hottest ever day, when 40.3C was recorded on 19 July last year during an extreme heatwave.\n\nYellow weather warnings for thunderstorms were in place across much of the north of the country during the afternoon, with many reporting downpours and hail.\n\nWhile the south sizzled, storm clouds gathered further north\n\nBut while black clouds rumbled their way towards the north east of Scotland and out to sea, temperatures continued to soar in the south.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were sent to tackle a grass blaze which had engulfed two hectares of land at Rammey Marsh in Enfield, in north London.\n\nAnd New Wimbledon Theatre was forced to cancel a performance of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory the Musical due to the \"impact on working conditions on stage\".\n\nIt stayed hot - and mercifully dry - for festivalgoers at Glastonbury, but the picture for the week ahead is more mixed.\n\nMonday is expected to be breezy, with cloud and showers in the north and west of the country, and more unsettled conditions forecast in the days ahead for many.", "An artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nThe most notorious racist murder in British history has never been fully solved, but everyone thinks they know who attacked Stephen Lawrence.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were convicted of murder a decade ago. Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt have been suspects for 30 years. All three have denied being involved. Neil Acourt and Knight were acquitted of murder in 1996.\n\nDuwayne Brooks, who was with Stephen on the night of 22 April 1993, said there were six attackers. His descriptions of the man who led the attack and first struck Stephen - along with other eyewitness accounts - do not match the appearances of the five main suspects.\n\nWho was the mystery figure?\n\nAfter the Met stopped looking into Stephen's murder three years ago, I decided to investigate myself.\n\nThe BBC can now name a sixth suspect - Matthew White.\n\nI traced witnesses, saw police documents, and uncovered new evidence that shows how officers mishandled investigations relating to White.\n\nThe BBC has found that witnesses told detectives White had said he was present during the attack, and has uncovered evidence that shows his alibi was false. For the first time, police surveillance photos from 1993 are published, in which White is depicted bearing a striking resemblance to eyewitness descriptions of the unidentified attacker.\n\nBut at key moments the police failed to pull together all these pieces of evidence on White.\n\nResponding to the BBC's revelations, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother, said it was \"infuriating\" that the man said to have led the attack on her son had evaded justice due to police failings, but not a single officer had faced consequences.\n\nShe said: \"The failure to properly investigate a main suspect in a murder case is so grave that it should be met by serious sanctions. Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen.\"\n\nLike the five original five prime suspects, Matthew White has been in the case since the start. For years he was a witness, not a suspect, and known publicly as Witness K.\n\nAfter the murder, detectives heard White had been in the local area on the night of murder, and had interacted with various people. They were also told he had been at the home of two of the suspects that night, and less than two weeks into their inquiries, officers spoke to him.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said he had visited the home of Neil and Jamie Acourt about an hour after the murder, briefly seeing the brothers and Gary Dobson at the front door.\n\nWhat became the accepted narrative was that White, after hearing about the stabbing from someone who had passed by in the aftermath, brought news of the incident to the suspects and others.\n\nHe stated he had been on Well Hall Road and \"saw a lot of police around\" before going to the Acourts' house.\n\n\"Jamie, Neil and Gary Dobson came to the door and I said, 'Someone's been killed, stabbed up Well Hall', and they said, 'It weren't us'.\"\n\nIn 1999, the five men were interviewed separately on an ITV programme. Dobson and the Acourts gave inconsistent accounts of how they had first heard about the attack.\n\nGary Dobson said he had found out by a conversation at the door that involved a visitor - meaning White - saying a boy had been murdered. Neil Acourt said he had heard about a stabbing, not a murder, from the same visitor.\n\nJamie Acourt said he had first heard \"on the news\" the next day.\n\nBut in 1993, it should have been clear that White had a bigger role in the case than first thought. The Met was later warned about this by another police force.\n\nThe five suspects gave evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1998 - pictured Jamie and Neil Acourt (front), David Norris and Gary Dobson\n\nIn 1997, an independent investigation by Kent Police identified 11 lines of inquiry the Met had failed to follow. The BBC has discovered one of them was Matthew White.\n\nOfficers from the Kent Police operation, conducted on behalf of the police watchdog, asked senior Met detectives if they had checked whether White was there during the murder. Kent Police formally recommended that his role be fully investigated.\n\nBut the BBC has discovered that the recommendation was not properly followed.\n\nThe police failures regarding Matthew White started from the beginning.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that in 1993, a crucial lead was buried, and only discovered 20 years later.\n\nIn 2006 Det Ch Insp Clive Driscoll took over the murder investigation. After a forensic breakthrough, his team secured the convictions of Dobson and Norris in 2012.\n\nGary Dobson (left) and David Norris were jailed in 2012 for the murder of Stephen Lawrence\n\nDriscoll told the BBC that the day after the convictions, his superior officer Cressida Dick suggested he shouldn't bother going after the other suspects, even though the trial judge had urged police to pursue them.\n\nCressida Dick did not respond to the BBC request for comment.\n\n\"There is no doubt that there wasn't the enthusiasm to carry on,\" said Driscoll. The \"Sword of Damocles\" was hanging over the team, he added.\n\nOfficers began systematically reviewing information from the 1993 investigation, looking for new leads.\n\nThey rented a room in a pub, sitting together as they read through early internal police messages and actions, checking to see what had been done about each one.\n\nOne message from 1993 stated that White's stepfather had said his stepson may not have told police all he knew.\n\nThe BBC obtained the message, which corroborates what Driscoll remembers.\n\nThe source of the information was identified in the message as a Met detective, who was said to know the stepfather \"well\". Names were given for both of them. The detective was not part of the murder investigation.\n\nThe lead, however, seemed to have gone cold.\n\nSo, in 2013, officers from Driscoll's team visited the same man. He denied having spoken to an officer about White.\n\nBut Driscoll was not satisfied, so he visited the man himself, and quickly established the person in question was a different stepfather, a man called Jack Severs.\n\nMatthew White's mother had re-married twice after her relationship with White's father had ended.\n\nThe 1993 message had named the second stepfather, meaning later investigation teams were sent in the wrong direction.\n\nThe wrong stepfather's name did not come from the detective who contacted the murder investigation team. Instead, it came from the team itself. The fact that wrong information was entered into the system meant an important lead was buried.\n\nDriscoll located Jack Severs in 2013 and knocked on his door. Severs expressed surprise that it had taken two decades to be visited.\n\n\"You're rushing this job,\" Driscoll recalls him saying.\n\nWhat Severs disclosed was significant. He died in 2020 and to verify what he said, I gained access to a copy of his statement and interview.\n\nHe said that days after the murder, he saw White in the street in Eltham. White admitted being present during the attack and said Stephen deserved it. Severs said White had shown no emotion and had behaved like it was an \"everyday occurrence\".\n\nHe said White knew those involved but did not say their names. Severs had inferred from White that it was the prime suspects.\n\nHe told detectives he had not fallen out with White, whom he regarded as his son, and had no reason to lie about him.\n\nAccording to his statement, Severs said that in 1993 he had spoken to a Met detective he knew through the freemasons. It was the same detective named in the message I've seen.\n\nSevers said that as far as he was aware, the detective had been in touch with the Lawrence investigation team at the time.\n\nI located that detective, who has now retired.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nHe confirmed Jack Severs approached him 30 years ago saying he had a relative with information about the murder, and that the relative had been there that night. The officer said he had passed information on to the homicide investigation.\n\nI have discovered that Det Supt Brian Weeden, who was leading the murder investigation at the time, knew about the lead. He was the senior investigating officer (SIO).\n\nHis own notebook, which the BBC has seen, proves it.\n\nWhen Weeden wrote down lists of leads, his habit was to include the name of the responsible officer at the start of each one. When he wrote down the one involving White's stepfather, he wrote \"SIO\" - a reference to himself.\n\nWeeden's notebook suggests a meeting was planned with White and his stepfather, but that never happened. It was two decades before the lead was followed up.\n\nIn response to our investigation, the Met accepted a \"significant and regrettable error\" had taken place in responding to White's stepfather.\n\nLord Sentamu, the former Archbishop of York who advised the 1998 Macpherson public inquiry into Stephen's murder, says the inquiry was \"misled\" as a result of Met's failure to provide accurate information about the lead on White.\n\nHe said the \"murder would have been resolved\" at the time had the Met done its job.\n\nIn 2013 Driscoll arrested White, who refused to answer questions. The detective was unable to complete the investigation as he was asked to retire weeks later.\n\nJack Severs' wasn't the only witness to have told officers that White had admitted being present during the attack. During a vast re-investigation into Stephen's murder, which began in 1999, there was an opportunity to put together two independent accounts describing admissions by White.\n\nI've seen documents showing one of the investigation's core goals was to pursue lines of inquiry identified in 1997 by Kent Police as having been missed or ignored by the Met. One of them was Matthew White.\n\nI have also seen statements from the time given by a man we are calling Witness Purple. He gave police detailed accounts of White confessing to having been at the scene of the murder and having taken part in the violence.\n\nHe said White had named the others involved as Norris, Dobson, Knight, and the Acourt brothers.\n\nBoth Neil (left) and Jamie Acourt have served time in prison for drug offences\n\nWitness Purple said he had spoken to White soon after the murder and that White had told him, \"We've done some black kids up the road\".\n\nWitness Purple said: \"Matty had shouted something out to them, they'd shouted something back and that Matty run over to give them a dig or something and everyone else run over there and piled in.\n\n\"Matty went to put the boot in and then the others done him up like a kipper.\"\n\nWhite was quoted by Witness Purple saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had \"started getting silly with a knife, stabbing and cutting him [Stephen Lawrence]\".\n\nWitness Purple said White had visited the Acourts' house later that night to warn them Stephen died, after walking back to the scene and seeing the emergency service response.\n\nWitness Purple's description of what White told him tallies with the first account by Duwayne Brooks of the lead attacker, most notably that he had shouted at them, ran ahead of the other attackers, and struck Stephen first.\n\nBrooks said that he and Stephen waited some time for a bus, and then moved away from the bus stop, to see if they could spot a bus coming in the distance.\n\nThey were slightly apart and calling to one another, when a group of young white men emerged on the opposite side of the road. As if in response to those calls, Duwayne Brooks said he heard someone shout \"what, what\" followed by a racial slur. He thought the man who shouted was the one who then led the group across the road.\n\nHe said the man appeared to be holding a long-ish item - such as an iron bar or rounders bat.\n\nWitness Purple said White later described himself as \"the lucky one\" because he started the attack and his name was never mentioned.\n\nThe witness also said White admitted disposing of evidence.\n\nAs Witness Purple was giving his statements, White would be arrested and brought in for questioning. Officers had told White the name of the person who was saying things about him, and they simply read out Witness Purple's statements to him. This happened a number of times, and on each occasion White said nothing beyond denying involvement and was released.\n\nOther witnesses who heard White speak that night did not tell police the same things as Witness Purple. However, their accounts were inconsistent, and one told officers in 1993 that he feared White and the Acourt brothers.\n\nClive Driscoll told the BBC: \"People often said to me, there was a wall of silence. There was never a wall of silence. There was a wall of fear, though. And so if you were going to alert everybody, that this bloke has talked to the old bill, you are effectively, alerting the bad guys… and that cannot be good police work.\"\n\nHad officers interrogated information on White in their own database, they could have been led back to his stepfather - a credible witness who would also have said White admitted to being at the murder scene.\n\nThe BBC investigation has found that, at the time of the murder, White looked similar to the unidentified suspect known as the \"fair-haired attacker\".\n\nNone of the five prime suspects matched the description of that person.\n\nThe artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\" bears a striking resemblance to Matthew White\n\nThe BBC has seen surveillance photographs, taken within a fortnight of the murder, which snapped White coming out of a house that was being watched. With his bushy brown hair, he looks strikingly like the person described by Duwayne Brooks.\n\nThe first account by Stephen's friend - given within 80 minutes of the attack - was recorded in a police officer's notebook. Brooks said he could only really describe one of the six attackers - the person who struck Stephen first, after leading the others across the road. This person had hair that was \"bushy light brown\" and \"stuck out\".\n\nSoon afterwards, Brooks spoke to the first SIO on the case, Det Supt Ian Crampton, who later recalled him having described the attacker's hair as \"bushy\" and \"brown\".\n\nIn Brooks' full statement later that night, it stated that the attacker's hair was \"long, over his ears and it was frizzy and stuck out at the sides\". Brooks said the man was aged 18 to 22.\n\nThe Met failed to include the light brown hair colour in that statement.\n\nThe colour description was not shared with the full team, and it was years before the first notebook description was even known to some senior officers.\n\nWhen Brooks later compiled a digital image of the man, he described the hair as \"very light brown, fairly long, covered ears\". Despite this, the Met created a digital image with peroxide blonde hair.\n\nDuwayne Brooks (L) with Stephen Lawrence's father Neville outside the High Court in London in 2015\n\nOther eyewitnesses to the attack also spoke about the lead attacker's hair.\n\nOne of those at the bus stop said in a statement: \"The white boys who came across the road were running together in a group. Of this group there was a man with fairish hair to the front of the group.\"\n\nAnother eyewitness, also at the bus stop, described one of the attackers as having \"medium length fair hair which was frizzy\".\n\nThe day after the murder, officers involved in house-to-house inquiries appear to have received a briefing that included Brooks' description - as one of them made a note saying \"brown bushy hair\" alongside other relevant information.\n\nWhen Det Supt Brian Weeden took over the case four days after the murder, he received a briefing from the man who had led the investigation until then.\n\nA note by Weeden of the briefing said only the following in relation to planned surveillance on the prime suspects: \"Photos, is there a guy with frizzy hair?\" This was a reference to the lead attacker described by Brooks and others.\n\nBut the description was not shared with the full team.\n\nIn the same week the surveillance images of Matthew White were taken, artists' impressions and e-fits were created bearing a resemblance to him.\n\nAn e-fit image, based on witness descriptions, looks similar to Matthew White photographed a fortnight after the murder\n\nOfficers also came face-to-face with White. He spoke to them as a witness. In a section of White's witness statement, one officer even recorded White's hair as being \"blonde/fair\".\n\nThe 1999 Macpherson inquiry report noted: \"None of the five suspects appear to have had fair or light brown hair.\"\n\nIt concluded: \"There was no co-ordination or analysis of the various descriptions given. The fact that one of the attackers was fair-haired should have been reflected in decisions made as to the elimination of suspects.\"\n\nWhite gave witness statements in 1993 and 1999. He lied in both and - based on my own investigation - it seems the Met have not looked into his alibi for many years.\n\nIn 1993, White told Det Sgt John Davidson that, on the night of the murder, he was with friends in Eltham \"when I was told there had been a stabbing up Well Hall\". That was untrue, as White told those people about the attack.\n\nIn his statement six years later, White told police he had been with a friend that night.\n\nI contacted the friend named on the statement - an alibi witness for White - by phone. He refused to answer, but briefly engaged with me by text. He said that one, Neil Acourt, was his \"childhood friend and family\". He then went quiet.\n\nBut White's account was contradicted by other witnesses who saw him alone minutes after the murder - and close to the scene. It meant the friend, whom he would later say he had been with, could not have been with him all night.\n\nOne witness - referred to by police as Witness B - told officers he spoke to White shortly before 23:00, after getting off a bus. White, he said, was already aware of an incident nearby. The attack took place around 22:40.\n\nAnd then, there were the Kavanagh sisters - Kelly and Louise.\n\nPublic narratives of the Lawrence case have included a version of events stating that White - referred to as Witness K - heard about the stabbing from Louise Kavanagh outside her family home.\n\nLouise was said to have passed the early aftermath of Stephen's murder while driving home with sister Kelly. White was then said to have walked past the Kavanagh home just as the sisters arrived - where Louise had told him about what had happened on Well Hall Road. This was Louise's story when she spoke to the police.\n\nThis brief meeting supposedly was the moment when White learned of the attack for the first time - and how he was then able to spread the word himself.\n\nLouise Kavanagh died in 2016, but I tracked down Kelly to check her version of events. She told me that the public version of the story was untrue.\n\nLouise, she said, had not been in the car with her that night.\n\nKelly told me that, instead, it had been White who told Louise about the stabbing - a few yards down the road from where Witness B had seen him, and at roughly the same time. White had stopped to talk to Louise - and had been moving away from the direction of the attack.\n\nWhen Kelly had pulled up in the car, White - she said - had then moved off leaving Louise to explain how a \"black boy\" had been stabbed up the road. Kelly says that when she asked Louise how she knew, her sister said that White had told her.\n\nAt that point in time, White could only have known it was a stabbing if he had been present or spoken to one of those responsible within minutes of the late night attack. At that time, the fact it was a stabbing was not even known to Duwayne Brooks and the officer who had got there first.\n\nKelly told me she had not previously told the correct version of events in order to protect her sister.\n\nOne of the major controversies at the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998 was the Met's early handling of a key informant in the case.\n\nThat informant's source was Matthew White, whom he was friends with.\n\nI have re-investigated the issue in light of the new evidence about White.\n\nThe day after the murder, a man walked into a south-east London police station and provided significant information about the crime. Police gave him an alias - James Grant.\n\nHe seemed to know much about what had happened on Well Hall Road.\n\nThe bus stop where Stephen Lawrence and Duwayne Brooks waited on 22 April 1993 (photo from 2012)\n\nThe information Grant told police in 1993 implicated the Acourt brothers, Norris and Dobson. One officer, Det Sgt Davidson, recorded Grant as saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had stabbed Stephen - and even gave details about the location of the wounds.\n\nGrant was also recorded saying a \"fifth blonde unknown kid\" had been involved. Was this the fair-haired attacker?\n\nDet Sgt Davidson said he registered Grant as a police informant with a senior officer. That officer later denied this ever happened.\n\nAll records relating to Grant - except for three brief internal messages - vanished without explanation.\n\nDuring the Macpherson inquiry, Davidson and other officers denied knowing the identity of James Grant's original source. Davidson said Grant had refused to reveal it, and the inquiry concluded he had not been told.\n\nBut Grant told other police teams that his source was Matthew White.\n\nIn 1995, officers from the Met's second Lawrence investigation ran into James Grant and Matthew White together.\n\nWhen the officers visited Grant alone, he was recorded saying the source of \"all he knew about the murder\" was White, but he did not place White at the scene.\n\nBut in 1997, the Kent Police investigation also spoke to Grant. He told Kent officers he had revealed to Det Sgt Davidson the identity of his source at an early stage.\n\nKent Police asked senior members of the original murder team - including SIO Brian Weeden - what they had done to \"reassure\" themselves that White had not been present during the murder.\n\nWeeden's deputy replied: \"I can't really answer that. I didn't think after those lines.\"\n\nIt was those interviews with senior officers, and the lack of answers, that prompted Kent Police to formally recommend the Met investigate White.\n\nThe Macpherson inquiry's final report said that Grant's information \"might have provided the key to the solution of the case in quick time. This was because James Grant's source was close to the suspects, if he was not involved with them himself.\"\n\nI have established that in 1993 James Grant had a reason to dislike the Acourts and Norris, details of which cannot be disclosed, but he had no such animus against Matthew White.\n\nWhen I located Grant and asked him about White, he became agitated, denied knowing him, and walked away.\n\nMatthew White, who could have helped solve the case, died in 2021.\n\nHe was a drug user at the time of Stephen's murder in 1993 and later became a heroin addict. Over the years, White had brief periods of employment as a scaffolder and gardener. He also had a history of theft and spent time in prison.\n\nWhite threatened to \"Stephen Lawrence\" a black shop worker during an assault in 2020, on Well Hall Road in Eltham\n\nI found his last criminal conviction was an assault in summer 2020 in a shop on Well Hall Road, Eltham - the same street where Stephen Lawrence was murdered.\n\nI located the victim, a black man who had not previously known about White's connection to the Lawrence case.\n\nHe described challenging White - a shoplifter - after he entered the premises, leading to a confrontation.\n\nWhite then assaulted the victim, made threatening and knowing references to Stephen Lawrence, and referred to his associations with other violent people.\n\nWhite threatened him, saying, \"Remember you're in Eltham, remember where you are, remember what happened to Stephen Lawrence. I can call my boys, they can come down and they can deal with you.\"\n\nHe says White mentioned Stephen Lawrence \"in almost in every threat\" - at least eight or nine times - and referenced that it happened at the nearby bus stop.\n\nWhite said the victim would be \"Stephen Lawrenced\" and then attacked him.\n\nPolice were called and White was arrested. He pleaded guilty in court to assault. The victim first heard about the conviction from me.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Met apologised for not informing the victim that charges had been brought.\n\nA month after the assault, Scotland Yard stopped investigating Stephen's murder, with the Commissioner Cressida Dick saying there were no viable lines of inquiry.\n\nHis inquest heard his body was not found for several days and the cause of death could not be established. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. White had been suicidal, overdosed by accident in the recent past, and had health problems linked to his drug use.\n\nA statement about his life was read by the coroner. It was written by a relative of White.\n\nDuring the inquest there was no overt mention of White's status in the Stephen Lawrence investigation, but the relative's statement included a cryptic one-sentence summary of his life: \"Matthew was a lovely lad that happened to go to the wrong place at the wrong time\".\n\nThe BBC put its evidence to the Met Police. In response, the force has taken the almost unprecedented step of naming Matthew White as a suspect, and setting out details about its investigations into him.\n\nThe force said White was arrested and interviewed in 2000 and 2013, with files submitted to prosecutors in 2005 and 2014.\n\nOn both occasions the Crown Prosecution Service advised there was no realistic prospect of conviction of White for any offence, the Met said.\n\nThe force said Matthew White was seen again in 2020, but there was insufficient witness or forensic evidence to progress further.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: \"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.\n\n\"On the 30th anniversary of Stephen's murder, Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for our failings and I repeat that apology today.\"\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin's brief rebellion was motivated as much by personal rivalries as any real political differences with the Kremlin\n\nIn the end, the Wagner mutiny lasted less than 24 hours. But the toxic cocktail of jealousy, rivalry and ambition that gave rise to it has been months, if not years, in the making.\n\nThe main characters of this drama were Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, and the heads of Russia's enormous military - Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov.\n\nPrigozhin - a former criminal who was associated with organised crime in the 1980s and for which he spent several years in prison - is a creation of the Kremlin who owes his enormous wealth to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nSince he formed the Wagner mercenary group in 2014, he has become a key tool of Mr Putin's desire to reimpose Russian influence across the globe. From the shadows, his forces - made up of hardened former Russian special forces - have propped up Mr Putin's ally Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and helped roll back and replace French influence in Mali.\n\nUntil last year Prigozhin consistently denied mounting evidence that he controlled the group, launching lawsuits in British courts against Bellingcat journalist Elliot Higgins who accused him of running the private militia.\n\nThe deniable nature of his group's operations have made him popular with Mr Putin and allowed him to build up his own power base, over the last year coming to rival that of the military and security elite that rule Russia.\n\nA man at ease with violence, corruption and ambition - his rise is emblematic of the modern state built by President Vladimir Putin over the past 24 years.\n\nBut despite his increasing power, he has remained an outsider among Mr Putin's small inner circle of advisers, unafraid to criticise officials in Moscow he sees as corrupt, lazy or both.\n\nAnd he has reserved a particular hatred for the head of the military, Valery Gerasimov, and the Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu - a fellow outsider - for years.\n\nSergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov have run Russia's enormous military together for more than a decade\n\nUnlike most of Mr Putin's key advisers, who tend to hail from the president's home city of St Petersburg, Mr Shoigu was born in a small village on the Russian-Mongolian border.\n\nDespite leading the Russian military for more than a decade, Mr Shoigu never served in uniform, rising through the ranks of the Communist Party before becoming the head of Russia's emergency ministry in the 1990s.\n\nMr Gerasimov, the third figure in this rivalry, is the ultimate army insider. He cut his teeth putting down a bloody rebellion in Chechnya in the 1990s, and is now the longest serving post-Soviet military chief.\n\nPrigozhin's growing importance in projecting Russian power - and his group's ability to poach top special forces operators from the military by offering higher wages - are believed to have created tensions between the men for several years.\n\nBut it's really after the Russian invasion of Ukraine - and in particular post the bloody fighting in the meat grinder of Bakhmut, the battle where thousands of Wagner troops are believed to have been killed - that Prigozhin's hatred for the military elites has come to the fore.\n\nThe attempt to seize Bakhmut - a small city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 people - is puzzling. Most observers believe that it has limited military significance and some say the campaign was designed by Prigozhin to allow him to claim credit for a victory amid the military's faltering campaign.\n\nHe regularly accused Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov of \"constantly trying to steal [credit for] Wagner's victory\" in cities like Soledar, where thousands of paramilitary troops - often recruited from prisons - met their deaths.\n\nAnd by contrast to his more bureaucratic rivals, Prigozhin's often foul-mouthed rants made him a personality that often caught the attention of the world's media. Leaked documents suggested that the Russian defence ministry was unsure of how to combat his messaging and increasing popularity.\n\nBut in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin was content to let it continue.\n\nAllowing rivalries to simmer is very much President Putin's style. He has long permitted competing power centres to fight among each other for influence, believing that it would prevent one faction from gaining enough prominence to challenge him directly.\n\nDaniel Triestman, a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote last year that the system created by Mr Putin contains \"tripwires\" to prevent a coup, noting that officials \"with armed men at their command lack the mutual trust to organise a conspiracy\".\n\nIn this regime, Mr Shoigu is kept in check by Wagner, while the mercenaries remain cowed by the military. At the top of the pyramid sits Mr Putin, the chess master moving pieces around the board and maintaining balance in the system.\n\nMeanwhile, Prigozhin has always been careful to avoid criticising the president directly, instead suggesting that Russia's litany of failures since the invasion in February 2022 were due to Mr Putin being misled by his commanders.\n\nFor Mr Putin, it was useful to allow the mercenary boss to pin the blame for the failing military campaign on underlings. The Russian president is believed to have privately criticised Shoigu and Gerasimov for the slow pace of the invasion.\n\nBut in recent months, Mr Putin's long held strategy has appeared to fray.\n\nPrigozhin - increasingly irate over his suspicion that the military was withholding ammunition from his forces as they attempted to complete the capture of Bakhmut - began posting more and more unhinged Telegram rants.\n\nIn one video - with the remains of dozens of dead Wagner fighters visibly surrounding him in the background - he raged: \"You [expletive] who aren't giving us ammunition, you scum, you will eat their guts in Hell!\"\n\n\"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices,\" he yelled in another video, seemingly attempting to blackmail Moscow by threatening to pull his forces off the front lines and abandon the fight for Bakhmut.\n\nAccording to US intelligence documents leaked by American airman Jack Teixera, Prigozhin was summoned to a meeting with Mr Putin and Mr Shoigu on 22 February - the same day he posted the video among the Wagner corpses.\n\n\"The meeting almost certainly concerned, at least in part, Prigozhin's public accusations and resulting tension with Shoygu,\" one document read, using a different spelling of the defence chief's surname.\n\nBut the summit appears not to have had the desired effect.\n\nQuestions will be asked about the ease with which Wagner troops moved through Russian and took key sites\n\nMeanwhile, in Moscow, Mr Shoigu was putting the finishing touches to a plan he hoped would reduce his adversary's influence for good.\n\nThe defence chief has sometimes faced criticism over his lack of uniformed service, but his knowledge of how to bend the Russian political system to his will is second to none.\n\nHe has remained in the Kremlin in one capacity or another since 1991, and few of President Putin's advisers have spent longer at his side.\n\nOn 10 June he unveiled his plan, announcing that \"volunteer formations\" would be asked to sign contracts directly with the ministry of defence, integrating them with the military and giving them a new legal status.\n\nThe bill gave PMCs - or Volunteer Formations - until 1 July to comply and sign the contracts.\n\nWhile the announcement didn't mention Wagner directly, it was widely viewed as a move to reduce Prigozhin's influence, immediately invoking the mercenary boss's fury.\n\n\"Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu,\" Prigozhin raged. \"Shoigu cannot properly manage military formation.\"\n\nNonetheless, the move will have set off alarm bells in Prigozhin's head. As a veteran political operator, Mr Shoigu would not have moved to take control of Wagner without knowing he had the approval of President Putin.\n\nPrigozhin may have recognised that after months of indulging his attention-seeking rants and criticism of the \"special military operation\", the president had finally decided to back his defence chiefs and marginalise his old ally.\n\nDays later, Mr Putin delivered his personal seal to the move, telling reporters in Moscow it was \"in line with common sense\" and had to \"done as quickly as possible\".\n\nSome have suggested that this was the moment Prigozhin started to plan his mutiny, with the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) saying he \"likely gambled that his only avenue to retain Wagner Group as an independent force was to march against the Russian Ministry of Defence\".\n\nHis troops soon escalated their campaign against the regular military, kidnapping a Russian field commander they accused of opening fire on Wagner troops.\n\nUS media reports that intelligence officials, having analysed Wagner movements for several days, briefed the Biden administration that Prigozhin was planning some sort of action.\n\nAnd on Friday the mercenary boss unleashed his most damning criticism of the defence minister yet.\n\nDeparting from the false Russian line long promoted by President Putin himself that Russia invaded Ukraine to ward off Nato and Nazis, Prigozhin raged that the conflict was nothing more than an excuse for Mr Shoigu to win more medals and obtain the ultimate military honour of being promoted to the rank of Marshal.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president,\" he raged in a Telegram video.\n\nThat evening, less than two weeks after the defence ministry announced their plan to seize control of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin and his troops left Ukraine and took the Russian city of Rostov.\n\nSome have speculated that Prigozhin agreed to end his rebellion after winning concessions from Mr Putin, which could include changes at the top of the defence ministry, but whether this is true remains unclear.\n\nWho would replace Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov is equally unclear.\n\nGen Sergei Surovikin, once an ally of Prigozhin's but who spoke out against his mutiny, could be in line for a promotion. Known as General Armageddon, he commanded the invasion force briefly last year and was behind the largely ineffectual bombing campaign against civilian targets.\n\nWhat happens to Prigozhin himself is another matter. His decision to halt his march on Moscow will likely anger many hard-line pro-war elements in Russia, while the ISW observed that \"many Wagner personnel will likely be displeased with the potential of signing contracts\" with the defence ministry.\n\nAnd it is unclear whether he will be permitted to retain his enormous wealth. Reports in Russian media said some £38m ($48m) in cash was found during a raid on Wagner headquarters in St Petersburg, which Prigozhin said was used to compensate the families of dead troopers.\n\nWhile this rebellion was largely strangled in its crib, and the military duo of Mr Shoigu and Mr Gerasimov have removed a major threat to their power, the conditions that gave rise to the mutiny remain.\n\nAround 10 private military companies now operate in Russia, with their allegiance belonging to a collection of security officials, oil giants and oligarchs.\n\nMr Shoigu is said to control his own company called Patriot PMC which operates in Ukraine and is in direct competition with Wagner, according to the US state department.\n\nThe loyalty of these groups to the regime must now be questionable at best, and may weaken the assumption that Mr Putin's government is more capable of withstanding a long conflict in Ukraine than President Volodymyr Zelensky's government in Kyiv.\n\n\"The hopes of a part of the Russian elite, including, apparently, the president himself, that a long war is beneficial for Russia…are a dangerous illusion,\" said Ruslan Pukhov, an analyst with the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (Cast).\n\n\"Prolongation of the war carries huge domestic political risks for the Russian Federation.\"", "Dame Jenny Harries was seen by ministers as a safe pair of hands during the pandemic and was never likely to be the most outspoken of witnesses in this inquiry.\n\nToday she kept coming back to what she described as \"wicked\" issues - those questions that are particularly hard to grapple with and no obvious right answer.\n\nWhether to put in place mandatory quarantine for travellers arriving in the country or voluntary self-isolation was, she said, a \"very difficult\" decision where the \"evidence base is often in the opposite direction to political will.\"\n\nUnlike other witnesses, she said basing pandemic planning on an outbreak of a new flu virus was \"a pretty good\" strategy.\n\nShe did though suggest a better idea would be to have a plan which could \"flex\" and adapt quickly to the specific attributes of a future virus if and when it emerges.\n\nHarries said she would agree with the overall conclusions of a report finding that Covid hit the most vulnerable in society the hardest.\n\nBut she was very careful not to criticise the economic policies of the government since 2010, saying there was \"no evidence\" of a direct link between austerity and the impact of the pandemic.\n\nFinally she appeared to support calls for a new senior minister to be appointed to be in charge of resilience and emergency planning in the future (another of her \"wicked\" issues).", "Quavo and Offset performed Migos' 2017 US number one hit Bad and Boujee\n\nUS rappers Offset and Quavo reunited at Sunday's BET Awards for a surprise tribute to their late bandmate Takeoff.\n\nThe two remaining members of Migos performed the group's hit Bad and Boujee in an unannounced appearance.\n\nIt was the pair's first performance together since Takeoff was shot dead last November at the age of 28.\n\nAlso at Sunday's BET ceremony in Los Angeles, Beyoncé and SZA were joint winners of the award for best album and picked up two more prizes each.\n\nA giant photo of Takeoff was shown on a screen during the performance\n\nIn their tribute, Offest shouted \"Doing this for Take!\" while pointing at a screen showing a picture of a rocket, which morphed into a large image of their late bandmate.\n\nOffset's wife Cardi B tweeted after the performance: \"I can't take it right now... proud of the boys.\"\n\nThe set was the highlight for Migos fans, with one commenting on Twitter: \"The hip-hop community needed to see this reconciliation.\"\n\nIn the award categories, SZA's hit SOS tied with Beyoncé's Renaissance for album of the year.\n\nSZA beat Beyoncé to win best female R&B/pop artist for the first time, and won video of the year for Kill Bill.\n\nBeyoncé's Break My Soul took the viewer's choice award, but the star wasn't there to accept it because she is in the middle of her Renaissance tour.\n\nLatto won the BET Award for best female hip-hop artist\n\nOnly six awards were presented during the televised ceremony, with performances stretching the event to nearly four hours. Only two winners - Latto and Coco Jones - were there to accept their awards in person.\n\nPatti LaBelle performed a tribute to Tina Turner, but had an issue with the teleprompter so the the crowd had to help her out by singing along. She struggled to keep up with the lyrics during The Best, calling out to the crowd: \"I can't see the words and I don't know - I'm tryin', y'all!\"\n\nShe persevered in honour of the late Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, who died last month at the age of 83. \"God bless you, Tina Turner!\" LaBelle exclaimed.\n\nThis year's BET Awards paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and awarded rapper Busta Rhymes a lifetime achievement award for the third year in a row. During an emotional speech, Rhymes said: \"I'm [going to] wear it on my sleeve. I do want to cry.\"\n\nThe Black Entertainment Awards celebrate excellence in music, film and sport.", "An eyewitness has captured the moment a large funnel cloud tore through a neighbourhood in the city of Greenwood, Indiana. Destructive weather has killed one person and injured another, and caused extensive damage to homes in counties south of the capital Indianapolis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak pledges to make the \"right and responsible decisions\" on public sector pay\n\nRishi Sunak has said he would make the \"responsible\" decision on pay increases for public sector workers, in order to control inflation.\n\nMinisters have confirmed they are now considering next year's pay deal, after several independent pay review bodies reported their findings.\n\nMr Sunak said he was going to make the \"right\" decisions \"for the country\".\n\nBut government sources warn ministers would not be prepared to increase borrowing to fund generous awards.\n\nJunior doctors in England will hold a five-day strike, over a below-inflation offer of a 5% pay increase this year.\n\nThe prime minister called planned walkouts by junior doctors \"very disappointing\" and claimed this would \"make it harder\" to bring down NHS waiting lists - one of his key priorities for government.\n\n\"I think people should recognise the economic context we're in and I'm going to make the decisions that are the right ones for the country,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking during a trip to Nottinghamshire, he said: \"I think everyone can see the economic context that we're in with inflation higher than we'd like it and it's important that in that context the government makes the right and responsible decisions on things like public sector pay.\n\n\"That's not always easy, people may not like that, but those are the right things for everybody that we get a grip of inflation.\"\n\nAlmost half of public sector workers are covered by pay review bodies - including police and prison officers, the armed forces, doctors, dentists and teachers.\n\nPay review body recommendations are not legally binding on the government and ministers can choose to reject or partially ignore the advice.\n\nThe BBC understands that at least two pay review bodies are recommending increases below the rate of inflation - but higher than last year's awards. It is unclear whether the government would see these as unaffordable.\n\nKate Bell, assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), said any decision to ignore pay review body advice would be \"driven by politics, not economics\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that public sector wages had fallen \"well behind inflation\" and that there had been a \"15-year wage squeeze where wages haven't kept up with inflation\".\n\n\"It is a bit rich to hear them [the government] now saying, 'Well, we're going to overturn those independent recommendations' when we haven't even seen them be published yet.\"\n\nThe Telegraph has reported junior doctors in England will be offered an additional £1,000 a year plus a 6% salary increase in a bid to bring an end to upcoming strikes.\n\nOver half a million appointments have been postponed due to strikes by NHS workers over the last six months, according to official figures.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) union, which represents doctors, has been asking for a 35% increase, saying it was to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.\n\nThe Treasury has previously suggested pay awards over 5% could fuel inflation. But the BMA claimed the offer was not \"credible\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting called for the government to resolve the dispute but would not put a figure on how much more doctors should be paid.\n\nHe added that calls from unions for pay restoration could not be delivered \"overnight\".\n\nDoctors represented by the BMA voted to strike between 07:00 on Thursday 13 July and 07:00 on Tuesday 18 July - their longest ever junior doctor strike. The union represents over 46,000 junior doctors in the UK.\n\nJunior doctors make up around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all doctors working in GP surgeries.\n\nAround 6% of all doctor posts in the NHS are unfilled - for nurses it is nearly twice that level.\n\nMany argue there is still a shortage - with not enough training places or funded doctor posts in the NHS in the first place.\n\nThe government is due to release plans for the \"largest expansion in training and workforce\" in the NHS's history, Mr Sunak announced on Sunday.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the prime minister said the plans would reduce \"reliance on foreign-trained healthcare professionals\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe attacker who killed five people at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado last year has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder.\n\nVictims called Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, a \"coward\" and a \"monster\" for the rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs on 19 November 2022.\n\nThe shooting was stopped by club-goers, who subdued the attacker until police arrived.\n\nThe victims who were killed were Daniel Aston, 28; Derrick Rump, 38; Kelly Loving, 40; Ashley Paugh, 34; and, Raymond Vance, 22.\n\nAs part of a plea deal, the attacker was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, and 46 consecutive 48-year sentences for the attempted murders, in addition to pleading \"no contest\" to charges of bias-motivated crimes.\n\n\"When you commit a hate crime, you are targeting a group of people for their simple existence,\" Judge Michael McHenry said. \"The sentence in this court is that such hate will not be tolerated.\"\n\nJudge McHenry added that he believes Aldrich's actions \"reflect the deepest malice of the human heart\".\n\n\"And malice is almost always born of ignorance and fear,\" Judge McHenry added.\n\nFamily members of some of the victims addressed the court after the plea.\n\n\"This thing sitting in this court room is not a human, it is a monster,\" said Jessica Fierro, whose daughter Kassandra was injured and her daughter's boyfriend Raymond killed that night.\n\nSabrina Aston, whose late son Daniel was one of Club Q's bartenders, said: \"I will never forgive you for this heinous crime.\"\n\nDaniel's partner Wyatt Kent said he chose to forgive Aldrich, who he said was \"a symbol of a broken system, of hate and vitriol pushed against us as a community\".\n\n\"What brings joy to me is that this hurt individual will never be able to see the joy and the light that has been wrought into our community as an outcome,\" he added.\n\nAdriana Vance, the mother of Raymond Vance, said Aldrich \"doesn't deserve to go on. What matters now is that he never sees the sunrise or the sunset.\"\n\nAldrich declined to address the court ahead of the sentencing and showed no emotion as the families made statements.\n\nThe attacker, whose lawyers say identifies as non-binary, asked the court on Monday to use the gender-neutral honorific Mx.\n\nTheir defence attorney said Aldrich is \"deeply remorseful and deeply sorry\" and \"know they can't do anything to make it better\".\n\nIn a recent interview with the Associated Press news agency, Aldrich said they felt a need to \"take responsibility for what happened\". They also claimed they were \"on a very large plethora of drugs\" at the time.\n\nWhen asked by the judge on Monday, Aldrich said they remain on a variety of medication, including mood stabilisers and anti-psychotic drugs.\n\nAldrich's version of the event was disputed by District Attorney Michael Allen, who called Aldrich's comments \"self-serving in nature\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nHe added that the evidence suggests months of planning and premeditation by Aldrich, including intentionally evading background checks to purchase weapons and communicating \"a hatred for minorities and those in the LGBTQ+ community\".\n\n\"These victims were targeted for who they were and are,\" Mr Allen said. \"The targeting of groups will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe shooting - which lasted six minutes - was ended when Richard Fierro, a 15-year US Army veteran, tackled the attacker.\n\nAs Mr Fierro and Aldrich wrestled on the ground, another club-goer pummelled Aldrich with a high-heel shoe.\n\nIn court on Monday, Mr Fierro referred to Mr Aldrich as a \"terrorist\" who \"brought combat\" to innocent people at Club Q.\n\n\"I had more respect for the adversaries I fought overseas than I do for this individual,\" he said. \"I hope the words I yelled into the back of your head that night echo for the rest of your life.\"\n\nAldrich had previously been arrested in Colorado Springs in June 2021 after threatening to detonate a bomb and harm their mother, court documents show.\n\nThe charges were dropped despite relatives warning the judge in that case that Aldrich remained a danger to the public.", "Most police forces and other emergency services have confirmed they are able to receive 999 calls again, following a fault on Sunday morning.\n\nEarlier, a nationwide technical issue meant calls were not being connected.\n\nSome said they were still experiencing a \"residual impact\" so people should only use 999 in a genuine emergency.\n\nBT confirmed the issue was caused by a technical fault, and said a back-up system was being used while it worked to restore the primary 999 lines.\n\nIt said its priority was getting the lines \"up and running as soon as possible\" and experts were trying to work out the cause.\n\nThe telecoms company has already ruled out a third-party issue, the hot weather and an Android handset 999 problem from earlier this week.\n\nBut it said it would not be able to share technical information on the system nor how the back-up works because the 999 call service is part of the critical national infrastructure.\n\nBT also warned that call handling times might be \"slightly longer than normal\", but urged people to call 999 as usual.\n\nProblems with the service were first reported at about 08:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nBy about 10:00 some emergency services were saying services had been restored and by midday most emergency services said call services had been restored.\n\nForces who were still experiencing issues around lunchtime included Essex Fire Service, South Wales Police, the PSNI, and Police Scotland.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 999 lines were \"very busy following the technical fault that impacted all emergency services earlier\".\n\nIt said the back-up system was \"not as effective at telling us where you are calling from\", and for people to have the address or street information available when they call.\n\nCheshire Fire and Rescue Service warned of a 30-second delay to connect to 999, while Suffolk Police said its system may not be working to full capacity and urged people to use 999 only in a genuine emergency.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) said if a 999 call was not successful, people should call 111 for urgent medical help instead.\n\nRichard Lyne, strategic commander at EMAS, said: \"We urge people to seriously consider the alternative services available and if it's possible to make your own way to a treatment centre.\n\n\"For example, if a relative or friend can take you by car.\"", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nCraig Brown, the last man to take Scotland to a World Cup finals, has died at the age of 82.\n\nThe national team's longest-serving manager, he was in charge for 71 games from 1993 to 2001, qualifying for Euro 96 and the 1998 World Cup.\n\nHe was also on the staff for the 1986 and 1990 finals.\n\nBrown managed Preston North End and Motherwell before ending his career at Aberdeen in 2013 and moving into a board position at Pittodrie.\n\n\"Since 2010 Craig performed the roles of manager, director and ambassador,\" said Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack.\n\n\"Craig was a friend to all of us at the club, and a mentor and confidante to many.\n\n\"He was one of those rare individuals who was not only effective at what he did but universally loved by all who got to know him. A gentleman who loved his family, friends, and football.\"\n• None 'Brown was charmer who never got due appreciation'\n• None Listen: Craig Brown on Sacked in the Morning\n\nAwarded a CBE in 1999 for services to football, the former Dundee and Falkirk player spent nine years as manager of Clyde, starting out in 1977 while working as a primary school headteacher.\n\nHaving impressed with Scotland as a youth-level coach, he was asked to join Alex Ferguson's backroom team for the 1986 World Cup and would go on to serve as Andy Roxburgh's assistant, reaching the 1990 World Cup and Euro 92 finals.\n\nFerguson described Brown as a \"thoroughly wonderful man\" in a statement released by the League Managers Association.\n\nFormer Aberdeen and Manchester United manager Ferguson added: \"Craig and I had been friends since Scotland schools team in 1957/58, with Craig as captain.\n\n\"When I was given the honour of managing Scotland at the World Cup finals in Mexico there was one man I had to take, for all his attributes and knowledge, that was Craig.\n\n\"He had a great career as a manager of several clubs but his service for his country stands out.\n\n\"In an industry that questions a man's capabilities, Craig never wavered in that situation, he always kept his head and his composure. Well done Broon!\"\n\nBrown replaced Roxburgh when the chain of qualifying for five successive World Cups was broken, firstly overseeing a 3-1 loss away to Italy as interim boss.\n\nThereafter, his overall record with Scotland was 32 wins, 18 draws and 20 defeats.\n\nThere were away wins in Germany and England, while on the road to France 98, Scotland famously kicked off against no opposition in Tallinn as Estonia protested against a late change in kick-off time. After qualifying, Brown's team opened the tournament against Brazil in Paris, losing 2-1.\n\n\"Craig led the way in bringing sustained qualification to the men's national team, first as assistant to Andy Roxburgh and then in his own right,\" current Scotland boss Steve Clarke said on the Scottish Football Association website.\n\n\"He was a student of the game and I am proud to say that I followed in his footsteps by taking a Scotland team back to a major tournament.\n\n\"The thoughts of the players and my backroom staff go to Craig's family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nA statement from Brown's former club Motherwell said: \"An icon and influential figure of Scottish football, Brown will forever be remembered for his astonishing achievements within the game and as a likeable character on and off the pitch. He will be missed by everyone.\"", "Jamie was diagnosed with myeloma in 2016\n\nWhen Jamie Hart was sent for an X-ray on his painful neck he was not expecting to be diagnosed with incurable blood cancer and told he was one wrong move away from paralysis.\n\nJamie is one of about 24,000 people in the UK living with myeloma.\n\nFor months he continued coaching football and going to work, with no idea he had a collapsed vertebra.\n\n\"I'd been running around like a nutter playing football, heading the ball,\" said Jamie, from Newport.\n\n\"My spinal cord could have snapped at any time, worst-case scenario I could have been paralysed.\"\n\nBack in August 2016, Jamie, who was then 49, started feeling lethargic and had a pain in the back of his neck.\n\nJamie had no idea he had been walking around with a collapsed vertebra in his lower neck\n\n\"To describe it really, all I can say is that I thought my head was going to fall off,\" he said.\n\n\"It felt like my neck wasn't attached.\"\n\nHe went to his GP in the August and was referred for an X-ray.\n\nWhile he waited he continued working his very physical job at Bettws leisure centre and coaching a football team.\n\nAt the end of October he went for his X-ray.\n\nThe radiographer asked him to wait \"a moment\" and left the room. She was gone for 20 minutes.\n\n\"I thought she'd forgotten about me but the next thing you know there's a doctor there who said, 'stay there, don't move, we've seen some abnormal images on your neck',\" said Jamie.\n\nThe doctor explained he had a collapsed vertebra in his lower neck and had to be placed in a spinal collar to avoid paralysis.\n\nHe also had to have a cage inserted in his neck.\n\nJamie needed an operation to stabilise his neck\n\nHe was immediately admitted to the ward where he had to remain still in his neck collar.\n\nAn operation to stabilise his neck followed.\n\nAfter the operation he was told the damage to his neck had been caused by blood cancer - myeloma.\n\n\"I didn't know anything about that whatsoever,\" he said.\n\nMyeloma is an incurable blood cancer that occurs in the bone marrow.\n\nCharity Myeloma UK says while it is incurable, it is treatable in the majority of cases.\n\nTreatment generally leads to periods of remission but patients inevitably relapse, requiring further treatment.\n\nJamie said he thanked the doctor after receiving the life-changing news and has tried to remain positive ever since.\n\n\"I've been dealt a blow but I can't do anything about it,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's say I've got 10 to 15 years, maybe less, to live - why am I going to worry about things I can't change?\n\n\"I want to live my life to the fullest for how long that might be.\"\n\nHe believes the news was harder on his family - he has been with his wife for 20 years and has an 18-year-old son, 23 year-old step daughter and three-year-old grandson.\n\nAfter the diagnosis Jamie spent a month in hospital, 25 rounds of radiotherapy followed and had to retire from his job.\n\nHe had a stem cell transplant in June 2019, after which he went into remission\n\nJamie has been on chemotherapy since breaking his arm in 2022\n\nBut while on holiday in Sardinia in June 2022 he was on a sightseeing bus when he broke his arm.\n\n\"As I stood up and turned to change seats to the other side I felt my arm click and snap,\" he said.\n\nIt was broken in three places. Tests showed the break was due to a weakness from the myeloma - his cancer had come back.\n\nHe has been back on chemotherapy ever since.\n\nJamie says his diagnosis has given him a new perspective on life\n\nJamie said living with myeloma had completely changed his outlook on life.\n\n\"We look forward to doing things as a family,\" he said.\n\n\"I value friends more... and I try to help more people... I've had help and I want to give something back.\"\n\nNow he wants to raise awareness of the condition and help Myeloma UK track down the estimated 851 people it believes are living with undiagnosed myeloma because of a drop in diagnoses during the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"These people need to be found, they need to go to the doctors,\" said Jamie.\n\nSophie Castell, the charity's chief executive, said: \"The most important thing people can do is rule themselves out by checking their symptoms and, if anything isn't right, go see their GP.\n\n\"It might take more than one appointment for your doctor to put the pieces of the puzzle together so please keep pushing or ask for a second opinion.\"\n\nThe charity's figures show one in four people wait more than 10 months for a diagnosis, some of the longest delays out of any cancer in the UK.\n\nJamie says despite his diagnosis he feels lucky\n\nJamie also wants greater awareness of myeloma from GPs and the general public.\n\n\"If I ask 10 people [if] they know what myeloma is I'll have 10 people who say they don't know,\" he said.\n\nDespite his diagnosis, when Jamie looks back over the past few years he feels grateful.\n\n\"With treatment myeloma is manageable,\" he said.\n\n\"I've got to look back and say I was lucky - my spinal cord could have gone at any time.\"", "Matthew White was caught on a police surveillance camera during the first failed investigation of the murder\n\nA major suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder is publicly named today for the first time, after a BBC investigation.\n\nHe is Matthew White, who died in 2021, aged 50. The BBC has found the Met Police seriously mishandled key inquiries related to him.\n\nIn response, the Met has taken the almost unprecedented step of naming White as a suspect.\n\n\"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation,\" says Scotland Yard.\n\n\"The impact of them continues to be seen,\" reads the statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward.\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother, said there should be \"serious sanctions\" against the police officers who failed to investigate White, following the BBC's revelations.\n\n\"Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen,\" she said.\n\nThe murder of Stephen Lawrence 30 years ago is the UK's most notorious racist killing. The failure of the first police investigation prompted a landmark public inquiry which concluded the Met was institutionally racist.\n\nAged 18, Stephen was stabbed to death by a gang of young white men in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993. He had been waiting for a bus with his friend Duwayne Brooks.\n\nThe evidence against White gathered by the BBC raises questions about Scotland Yard's 2020 decision to stop investigating the case and implicates other suspects who remain free.\n\nFive prime suspects became widely known after the murder, but the public inquiry said there were \"five or six\" attackers.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were given life sentences for the murder in 2012. The other three - Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt - have not been convicted of the crime.\n\nThe Met Police has consistently said there were six attackers, as Duwayne Brooks said on the night.\n\nIn 2020, Commissioner Cressida Dick declared the case \"inactive\", saying that all identified lines of inquiry had been followed. The commissioner said she had assured Stephen's family that police would investigate any new information.\n\nThe BBC decided to re-examine the case itself, tracing witnesses, getting sight of police documents, and piecing together 30 years of evidence.\n\nOur investigation revealed evidence of White's central role in the case. He was initially known publicly as Witness K, granted this alias despite never really co-operating with police. In 2011, he was named publicly for the first time at the trial of Norris and Dobson, but only as a witness.\n\nBut we found that witnesses had said White told them he had been present during the attack, that evidence showed his alibi was false, and that police surveillance photos of White showed a resemblance to eyewitness accounts of an unidentified fair-haired attacker.\n\nResponding to the BBC, the Met Police said White was arrested twice, in 2000 and 2013, and that files were sent to the Crown Prosecution Service in 2005 and 2014. But on both occasions prosecutors said there was no realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nThe force said the handling of the approach by White's relative in 1993 was \"a significant and regrettable error\".\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nLord Sentamu, the former Archbishop of York and an adviser to the 1998 Macpherson Inquiry into Stephen's murder, told the BBC that \"we were misled\" because of the wrong information on the police database about White's relative. It is \"absolutely shocking\", he said.\n\nHe said the \"murder would have been resolved\" in the 1990s had the Met followed leads on White properly.\n\nHe also revealed Sir William Macpherson, head of the inquiry, privately asked the Met what was being done to investigate White, but the inquiry did not receive an answer.\n\nFormer Det Ch Insp Driscoll told the BBC that the evidence showed that White had to be considered as the fair-haired attacker described by witnesses. \"Short of a signed confession, I don't know what else you'd want,\" he said.\n\nHe said the Met should complete the investigation \"for its own dignity and sanity\".\n\nBut Dr Neville Lawrence, Stephen's father, said any further police inquiry should be conducted by another force. \"They must be able to find a decent police force who could investigate,\" he told the BBC.\n\nWhite's appearance at the time of the murder resembled witness descriptions of an unidentified attacker\n\nAlthough Matthew White, a drug user, died the year after the Met stopped investigating, the evidence further implicates the three prime suspects who are still alive.\n\nThe witness in 2000 told police White had admitted to being involved in the attack, and that he had named the Acourt brothers among others who also took part. The witness said White had told him Neil Acourt had \"started getting silly with a knife, stabbing and cutting\" Stephen, along with David Norris, who was eventually convicted of murder.\n\nThe BBC found Neil Acourt near his home in south-east England and challenged him over White's account of the killing. He gave no answer and fled.\n\nJamie Acourt also gave no response to the BBC's questions when we confronted him about the case outside City of London Magistrates' Court. He was attending a hearing related to his failure to pay back £90,000, which he made from conspiring to supply cannabis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC also wrote to both brothers and Luke Knight about the evidence relating to Matthew White, but none of them responded. All have previously denied any involvement.\n\nThe year before his death, White pleaded guilty to an attack on a black shop worker just a few hundred metres from where Stephen was stabbed to death.\n\nAccording to the victim, White had repeatedly mentioned the murder case as he carried out the assault. The victim told the BBC that White had said he would be \"Stephen Lawrenced\".\n\nThe Met said it was sorry for not telling the victim that White had been charged with assaulting him. He first heard about the conviction from the BBC.\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. Email SLInvestigation@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWARNING: This article contains descriptions of racism and other offensive and discriminatory language and behaviour.\n\nAn obscene joke about a Muslim cricketer's prayer mat and \"predatory behaviour\" towards women were some of the \"absolutely horrific\" stories revealed in a damning report into discrimination in cricket.\n\nThe long-awaited Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) report was published on Tuesday and said racism, sexism, classism and elitism were \"widespread\" in the English and Welsh game.\n\nChair Cindy Butts said stories told to the commission showed the sport's culture was \"rotten\".\n\n\"We heard of women being constantly stereotyped, demeaned, facing predatory behaviour,\" Butts told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\n\"We heard from women who are having to walk into score boxes and face signs that say 'no bras allowed'. This is 2023, not 1923.\"\n\nButts described \"routine\" use of racial slurs, including one 13-year-old on a talent pathway being racially abused and told to \"go back home\".\n\n\"We heard from a Muslim former player who had to endure the indignity of his team-mates laughing and joking about one of the players using the prayer mat to clean up after sex,\" Butts added.\n\n\"The stories were absolutely horrific and it goes to show that the culture in cricket is rotten.\"\n\nThe report looked into recreational and professional cricket and the evidence gathered came from more than 4,000 respondents.\n\nAmong those to give evidence were England men's Test captain Ben Stokes, women's captain Heather Knight, former men's captain Joe Root, World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, and Azeem Rafiq - the former Yorkshire player and racism whistleblower.\n\n\"We heard that there are problems throughout cricket, including the England dressing room, at the recreational level, at the board level, including for young pupils as well, and people on the talent pathway throughout cricket,\" Butts said.\n\nAs well as racism, the report was particularly damning when highlighting sexism - saying women are treated as \"subordinate\" to men at all levels of the sport.\n\n\"What we've seen is that women are vulnerable when around a drinking culture - they are subjected to sexual harassment, lots of sexting,\" Butts said.\n\n\"We've heard from a number of women who talk about being vulnerable and being exposed and having unwanted advances made on them by men.\"\n\nThe report also found \"significant\" disparities in the amounts invested in men's and women's cricket, with England men receiving 13 times the overall amount paid to England women for all formats.\n• None In white-ball cricket, the average salary for England women is 20.6% of that for England men, while the England women's captain's allowance is 31% of that awarded to the men's captain.\n• None Regarding England international match fees, women's fees are 25% of men's for shorter-format matches, and 15% for Test matches.\n• None In domestic cricket, the average salary for a player in a women's regional team is equivalent to 45.5% of the average salary of a men's player at a first-class county.\n• None In the Hundred, the highest salary tier for the women is just £1,250 more than the lowest tier for the men.\n• None Excluding the Hundred, the total prize money for women is just 10% of the total prize money for men.\n\nThe report made 44 recommendations, including that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) makes an unreserved public apology for its failings.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, ECB chair Richard Thompson offered a \"heartfelt apology\" to those who have been \"discriminated against and excluded\".\n\nHe said making improvements on the back of the findings was the game's \"single biggest priority\" and reiterated his desire, stated last September, to make cricket the country's \"most inclusive sport\".\n\n\"I think this report will accelerate that process now,\" said Thompson, who was appointed last year.\n\n\"At the time I said it will probably take us five years to achieve that. And I think now we've probably got a bigger hill to climb based on what we've read in this report in terms of achieving that level.\n\n\"But cricket does reach communities that no other sport does.\"\n\nThe report acknowledged \"the problems we identify are not, sadly, unique to cricket\", adding: \"In many instances they are indicative of equally deeply rooted societal problems.\"\n\nWhat else did the report say?\n\nThe report found racism in cricket is \"not confined to pockets or a few bad apples\" but is \"widespread and a serious problem\".\n\nIt said there is \"a culture in which overt discrimination often goes without serious challenge\", which includes \"racist, misogynistic, homophobic and ableist comments and actions, and a 'laddish' drinking culture that can sometimes make women vulnerable and at risk of unwanted or unwelcome behaviour, as well as alienating others due to religious and/or cultural beliefs\".\n\nA total of 50% of respondents had experienced discrimination in the past five years.\n\nOne Asian recreational player told how he and a team-mate had been \"called terrorists\", and after complaining, was accused of \"attempting to defame\" the club in question.\n\nA former professional player said \"as a black cricketer, I had to be three times better than my white counterparts\".\n\nThe commission also said it was \"alarmed\" by repeated references to \"the bank of mum and dad\", with respondents stressing the importance of financial support from parents in determining whether they made it as a cricketer or not.\n\nThe report recommended the historic Eton versus Harrow and Oxford against Cambridge fixtures should not be played at Lord's from 2023 onwards, in order to stop the message of elitism, and questioned why the England women's team has not played a Test at the venue.\n\n\"It's absolutely shocking that women haven't had the opportunity to play a Test match at the so-called home of cricket,\" Butts said. \"I think that's awful.\n\n\"And when you know that Eton and Harrow have an automatic right to play at Lord's, I think that is absolutely disgraceful. I think it speaks to the elitism in cricket.\"\n\nCriticism of the fixtures was part of what the report called a prevalence of \"elitism and class-based discrimination\".\n\nA lack of cricket in state schools and a talent pathway structurally aligned to private schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\", it said.\n\nButts said: \"We have concluded that it is and it's not just institutionally racist, we say that it's institutionally and structurally sexist and has class-based discrimination.\n\n\"We have thought long and hard about using that term, but we believe it's a term that applies when you look at the evidence that exists.\"\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car?: Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads\n• None Is it a good idea to fix your mortgage and energy bills?:", "HSBC is among several banks inhabiting towers in the Canary Wharf district, east London\n\nHSBC is to move its world headquarters from its 45-storey Canary Wharf tower, possibly back to the City of London.\n\nThe banking giant is to move out of 8 Canada Square by 2027 when its current lease expires, after two decades.\n\nThe move is part of plans to downsize its office space following the Covid-19 pandemic, as the bank says it is now committed to flexible working.\n\nHSBC has told the BBC it is negotiating a new lease on BT's former headquarters near St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nThe proposed new office, in the Panorama St Paul's development, will be much smaller than the bank's current headquarters, which houses about 8,000 staff.\n\nHSBC Chief Executive Noel Quinn previously said he thought going to the office five days a week was \"unnecessary\"\n\nHSBC said the new development \"is being designed to promote wellbeing and constructed to best-in-class sustainability standards, using predominantly repurposed materials\".\n\nHSBC moved to Canary Wharf in 2002, having previously been based at sites in the City of London.\n\nHSBC's decision to return to London's historic financial district within the Square mile is a \"huge vote of confidence for the City\", said the City of London Corporation policy chairman, Chris Hayward.\n\n\"This move further solidifies the City's reputation as a prime destination for financial services firms, offering them unparalleled opportunities.\n\nAfter the pandemic, HSBC told staff it was going to reduce office space globally by about 40% to reduce costs and energy and allow more employees to work from home.\n\nChief executive Noel Quinn said he thought going to the office five days a week was \"unnecessary\" and its managers were often travelling to locations around the world during the week.\n\nHSBC told the BBC that talks began into a move to this site after a review into its future location last year. It said the new office would \"support digital innovation\" and help it meet net zero carbon commitments.\n\nHSBC says the move to new offices will help it meet net zero carbon commitments\n\nIt is not known what HSBC's tower, owned by Qatari investors, will be used for when the bank moves out.\n\nThe Canary Wharf Group, which owns and runs the estate, has not commented on HSBC's move but said the area had become more diverse in recent years.\n\nHaving started life as a financial district, it is now home to a growing number of health and life science firms.\n\nIt also has 3,500 residents living in build-to-rent flats on the site, the Canary Wharf Group said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish SPCA said the animals are not used to human interaction and can become highly distressed\n\nAn animal charity has warned the public not to take home wild fawns as it is a \"death sentence\" for the creatures.\n\nIt comes after a number of the animals were taken home by members of the public, who believed they had been abandoned.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said one of the people refused to reveal their location and said they knew how to care for the animal after reading online advice.\n\nFawns are often left hidden by their mothers while they forage for food.\n\nThe charity said the anonymous caller kept the fawn outside with their family dog, which would have added to its distress.\n\nLast month a fawn arrived at the charity's rescue centre in Alloa with aspiration pneumonia after a member of the public took it home for a few days after its mother was killed on a road.\n\nThe condition is caused when milk enters the fawn's lungs after being fed unsuitable food and milk.\n\nThe animal died, despite the best efforts of staff to save it.\n\nApril Dodds from the Scottish SPCA said it was \"incredibly upsetting\" for staff to watch the animals die needlessly.\n\nShe said: \"Fawns are possibly the most complex and challenging animal we deal with at the National Wildlife Rescue Centre.\n\n\"In many cases removing that young animal from the wild is effectively a death sentence.\n\n\"These are wild animals, not domesticated pets who are used to human interaction, so trying to pet or comfort them only causes more stress.\"\n\nThe charity said fawns which are walking about and calling out may need help.\n\nIt said the fawn should be monitored from a distance for a few hours to allow the mother to return.\n\nIf no mother returns to feed the fawn, then the public should call the charity's animal helpline on 03000 999 999.\n• None Why are large numbers of red deer being killed?", "Prince William's homelessness campaign comes as families face rising mortgage and rent costs\n\nThere are some big challenges facing Prince William's ambitious plans to help cut homelessness.\n\nIt is not just the practical questions of raising funds and building thousands of extra housing units and support services.\n\nLet's be honest, there will be some cynicism about a wealthy landowner, with several properties, calling on others to tackle homelessness.\n\nGraham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchy group Republic, called it \"crass and hypocritical of William to get involved in this issue, given the excessive wealth we gift him\".\n\nPrince William's team is fully aware of such criticism.\n\nBut their argument is that the Prince of Wales is putting his privileged position to good purposes, using his high profile to energise this campaign.\n\nHomelessness has been an issue in which the prince has been personally engaged for many years. His mother Princess Diana brought him on visits to meet those in need of help and he has been an active patron of charities such as Centrepoint and The Passage.\n\nLaunching the initiative at a project in Bournemouth, the prince had an easy rapport with people talking about their experiences of homelessness - in a way that seemed to surprise them.\n\nThey spoke afterwards about how unexpectedly relaxed and down to earth he had seemed - talking with them about homelessness in terms of the human impact on self-esteem and isolation.\n\nPrince William photographed by tourists when he tried his hand as a Big Issue seller last year\n\nNow Prince William wants to take his campaigning a step further, to turn words into action, with a much more interventionist plan to create extra housing and measurably cut homelessness over the next five years.\n\nThis Homewards project is also part of a wider, behind-the-scenes modernising shift for Prince William and Catherine, where the emphasis will be on making a real impact.\n\nThey want to leave a long-lasting legacy, not just stories about what fashion outfits they were wearing. They want to focus on public service as well as being public spectacles.\n\nIn terms of the scale of the ambition, historian Sir Anthony Seldon says: \"This is as significant an intervention as any single intervention made by his father when Prince of Wales.\"\n\nBut Sir Anthony says it means getting involved in areas \"normally reserved just for elected politicians\".\n\nPrince William could face questions about getting involved in political issues\n\nBeing accused of meddling in politics is an occupational hazard for any Prince of Wales.\n\nAnd any involvement in addressing a shortage of affordable housing is inescapably political, not least when there is so much anxiety about rising rents and mortgage costs.\n\nBut being accused of being a bit too political might not actually be a bad thing, according to royal author Prof Pauline Maclaran, particularly for a younger generation.\n\n\"The real risk is being irrelevant,\" says Prof Maclaran.\n\n\"Prince William needs to resonate with young people. He has to do more than cut ribbons and smile and wave. He needs to give back to the public,\" she says.\n\nIn that respect, being seen as pushing the boundaries and fighting a cause will be seen as a positive benefit, says Prof Maclaran of Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\nPrince Harry has his own public cause in taking on the tabloid press, so now Prince William will be out there fighting homelessness.\n\nBut Prof Maclaran says a key to its credibility will be showing that he has made a personal contribution.\n\nThe Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales is initially providing £3m - with £500,000 seed funding for initiatives in six locations.\n\nFor building projects, that would not go very far. The restoration project at Buckingham Palace alone has a budget of £369m.\n\nThere were also reports of plans for social housing on Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall land, but nothing has been confirmed.\n\nThe rising cost of rents has made it even harder to find affordable places to live\n\nIn terms of the demand, there are 300,000 homeless according to the prince's project, and councils in England say they have 1.2 million people on housing waiting lists.\n\nBut if much more money will have to be raised to make an impact, that means more deals will have to be struck, and with that comes reputational risks.\n\nWhen the royal world collides with the real world, it can get complicated. People donating money, or wanting to buy into the project, will have their own agenda.\n\nOpening housing developments will also mean more accountability if there are problems. And it will invite more scrutiny. People might contrast calls for more social housing with the Duchy of Cornwall advertising luxury holiday cottages, sometimes for more than £3,000 per week.\n\nTaking a long-term view, historian Prof Heather Jones says previous Princes of Wales have faced similar pressures about getting too political - and in practice the public tends to be sympathetic.\n\n\"The British public historically have taken well to royals pushing the boundaries when it comes to the charitable causes they promote,\" says Prof Jones, from University College London.\n\nKing Charles III was once seen as overstepping his role with his campaigns for the environment, but his arguments now seem quite mainstream.\n\nProf Jones says there is a long history of royal involvement in improving housing going back to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.\n\nRecent opinion polling by Ipsos also found people are much less bothered about the convention of royal neutrality than might be expected.\n\nPrince William's project is only just starting. But a much tougher longer-term question will be to see if it has really worked. Has homelessness been reduced?\n\nLigia Teixeira, chief executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact, welcomes the prince's support but highlights \"deep-rooted problems such as longstanding shortfalls in the supply of affordable housing, economic inequality and migration trends\".\n\n\"Ending homelessness for good is not rocket science. The evidence shows it's harder than that,\" she says.\n\nRead the latest in this free newsletter from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "An artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nThe most notorious racist murder in British history has never been fully solved, but everyone thinks they know who attacked Stephen Lawrence.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were convicted of murder a decade ago. Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt have been suspects for 30 years. All three have denied being involved. Neil Acourt and Knight were acquitted of murder in 1996.\n\nDuwayne Brooks, who was with Stephen on the night of 22 April 1993, said there were six attackers. His descriptions of the man who led the attack and first struck Stephen - along with other eyewitness accounts - do not match the appearances of the five main suspects.\n\nWho was the mystery figure?\n\nAfter the Met stopped looking into Stephen's murder three years ago, I decided to investigate myself.\n\nThe BBC can now name a sixth suspect - Matthew White.\n\nI traced witnesses, saw police documents, and uncovered new evidence that shows how officers mishandled investigations relating to White.\n\nThe BBC has found that witnesses told detectives White had said he was present during the attack, and has uncovered evidence that shows his alibi was false. For the first time, police surveillance photos from 1993 are published, in which White is depicted bearing a striking resemblance to eyewitness descriptions of the unidentified attacker.\n\nBut at key moments the police failed to pull together all these pieces of evidence on White.\n\nResponding to the BBC's revelations, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother, said it was \"infuriating\" that the man said to have led the attack on her son had evaded justice due to police failings, but not a single officer had faced consequences.\n\nShe said: \"The failure to properly investigate a main suspect in a murder case is so grave that it should be met by serious sanctions. Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen.\"\n\nLike the five original five prime suspects, Matthew White has been in the case since the start. For years he was a witness, not a suspect, and known publicly as Witness K.\n\nAfter the murder, detectives heard White had been in the local area on the night of murder, and had interacted with various people. They were also told he had been at the home of two of the suspects that night, and less than two weeks into their inquiries, officers spoke to him.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said he had visited the home of Neil and Jamie Acourt about an hour after the murder, briefly seeing the brothers and Gary Dobson at the front door.\n\nWhat became the accepted narrative was that White, after hearing about the stabbing from someone who had passed by in the aftermath, brought news of the incident to the suspects and others.\n\nHe stated he had been on Well Hall Road and \"saw a lot of police around\" before going to the Acourts' house.\n\n\"Jamie, Neil and Gary Dobson came to the door and I said, 'Someone's been killed, stabbed up Well Hall', and they said, 'It weren't us'.\"\n\nIn 1999, the five men were interviewed separately on an ITV programme. Dobson and the Acourts gave inconsistent accounts of how they had first heard about the attack.\n\nGary Dobson said he had found out by a conversation at the door that involved a visitor - meaning White - saying a boy had been murdered. Neil Acourt said he had heard about a stabbing, not a murder, from the same visitor.\n\nJamie Acourt said he had first heard \"on the news\" the next day.\n\nBut in 1993, it should have been clear that White had a bigger role in the case than first thought. The Met was later warned about this by another police force.\n\nThe five suspects gave evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1998 - pictured Jamie and Neil Acourt (front), David Norris and Gary Dobson\n\nIn 1997, an independent investigation by Kent Police identified 11 lines of inquiry the Met had failed to follow. The BBC has discovered one of them was Matthew White.\n\nOfficers from the Kent Police operation, conducted on behalf of the police watchdog, asked senior Met detectives if they had checked whether White was there during the murder. Kent Police formally recommended that his role be fully investigated.\n\nBut the BBC has discovered that the recommendation was not properly followed.\n\nThe police failures regarding Matthew White started from the beginning.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that in 1993, a crucial lead was buried, and only discovered 20 years later.\n\nIn 2006 Det Ch Insp Clive Driscoll took over the murder investigation. After a forensic breakthrough, his team secured the convictions of Dobson and Norris in 2012.\n\nGary Dobson (left) and David Norris were jailed in 2012 for the murder of Stephen Lawrence\n\nDriscoll told the BBC that the day after the convictions, his superior officer Cressida Dick suggested he shouldn't bother going after the other suspects, even though the trial judge had urged police to pursue them.\n\nCressida Dick did not respond to the BBC request for comment.\n\n\"There is no doubt that there wasn't the enthusiasm to carry on,\" said Driscoll. The \"Sword of Damocles\" was hanging over the team, he added.\n\nOfficers began systematically reviewing information from the 1993 investigation, looking for new leads.\n\nThey rented a room in a pub, sitting together as they read through early internal police messages and actions, checking to see what had been done about each one.\n\nOne message from 1993 stated that White's stepfather had said his stepson may not have told police all he knew.\n\nThe BBC obtained the message, which corroborates what Driscoll remembers.\n\nThe source of the information was identified in the message as a Met detective, who was said to know the stepfather \"well\". Names were given for both of them. The detective was not part of the murder investigation.\n\nThe lead, however, seemed to have gone cold.\n\nSo, in 2013, officers from Driscoll's team visited the same man. He denied having spoken to an officer about White.\n\nBut Driscoll was not satisfied, so he visited the man himself, and quickly established the person in question was a different stepfather, a man called Jack Severs.\n\nMatthew White's mother had re-married twice after her relationship with White's father had ended.\n\nThe 1993 message had named the second stepfather, meaning later investigation teams were sent in the wrong direction.\n\nThe wrong stepfather's name did not come from the detective who contacted the murder investigation team. Instead, it came from the team itself. The fact that wrong information was entered into the system meant an important lead was buried.\n\nDriscoll located Jack Severs in 2013 and knocked on his door. Severs expressed surprise that it had taken two decades to be visited.\n\n\"You're rushing this job,\" Driscoll recalls him saying.\n\nWhat Severs disclosed was significant. He died in 2020 and to verify what he said, I gained access to a copy of his statement and interview.\n\nHe said that days after the murder, he saw White in the street in Eltham. White admitted being present during the attack and said Stephen deserved it. Severs said White had shown no emotion and had behaved like it was an \"everyday occurrence\".\n\nHe said White knew those involved but did not say their names. Severs had inferred from White that it was the prime suspects.\n\nHe told detectives he had not fallen out with White, whom he regarded as his son, and had no reason to lie about him.\n\nAccording to his statement, Severs said that in 1993 he had spoken to a Met detective he knew through the freemasons. It was the same detective named in the message I've seen.\n\nSevers said that as far as he was aware, the detective had been in touch with the Lawrence investigation team at the time.\n\nI located that detective, who has now retired.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nHe confirmed Jack Severs approached him 30 years ago saying he had a relative with information about the murder, and that the relative had been there that night. The officer said he had passed information on to the homicide investigation.\n\nI have discovered that Det Supt Brian Weeden, who was leading the murder investigation at the time, knew about the lead. He was the senior investigating officer (SIO).\n\nHis own notebook, which the BBC has seen, proves it.\n\nWhen Weeden wrote down lists of leads, his habit was to include the name of the responsible officer at the start of each one. When he wrote down the one involving White's stepfather, he wrote \"SIO\" - a reference to himself.\n\nWeeden's notebook suggests a meeting was planned with White and his stepfather, but that never happened. It was two decades before the lead was followed up.\n\nIn response to our investigation, the Met accepted a \"significant and regrettable error\" had taken place in responding to White's stepfather.\n\nLord Sentamu, the former Archbishop of York who advised the 1998 Macpherson public inquiry into Stephen's murder, says the inquiry was \"misled\" as a result of Met's failure to provide accurate information about the lead on White.\n\nHe said the \"murder would have been resolved\" at the time had the Met done its job.\n\nIn 2013 Driscoll arrested White, who refused to answer questions. The detective was unable to complete the investigation as he was asked to retire weeks later.\n\nJack Severs' wasn't the only witness to have told officers that White had admitted being present during the attack. During a vast re-investigation into Stephen's murder, which began in 1999, there was an opportunity to put together two independent accounts describing admissions by White.\n\nI've seen documents showing one of the investigation's core goals was to pursue lines of inquiry identified in 1997 by Kent Police as having been missed or ignored by the Met. One of them was Matthew White.\n\nI have also seen statements from the time given by a man we are calling Witness Purple. He gave police detailed accounts of White confessing to having been at the scene of the murder and having taken part in the violence.\n\nHe said White had named the others involved as Norris, Dobson, Knight, and the Acourt brothers.\n\nBoth Neil (left) and Jamie Acourt have served time in prison for drug offences\n\nWitness Purple said he had spoken to White soon after the murder and that White had told him, \"We've done some black kids up the road\".\n\nWitness Purple said: \"Matty had shouted something out to them, they'd shouted something back and that Matty run over to give them a dig or something and everyone else run over there and piled in.\n\n\"Matty went to put the boot in and then the others done him up like a kipper.\"\n\nWhite was quoted by Witness Purple saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had \"started getting silly with a knife, stabbing and cutting him [Stephen Lawrence]\".\n\nWitness Purple said White had visited the Acourts' house later that night to warn them Stephen died, after walking back to the scene and seeing the emergency service response.\n\nWitness Purple's description of what White told him tallies with the first account by Duwayne Brooks of the lead attacker, most notably that he had shouted at them, ran ahead of the other attackers, and struck Stephen first.\n\nBrooks said that he and Stephen waited some time for a bus, and then moved away from the bus stop, to see if they could spot a bus coming in the distance.\n\nThey were slightly apart and calling to one another, when a group of young white men emerged on the opposite side of the road. As if in response to those calls, Duwayne Brooks said he heard someone shout \"what, what\" followed by a racial slur. He thought the man who shouted was the one who then led the group across the road.\n\nHe said the man appeared to be holding a long-ish item - such as an iron bar or rounders bat.\n\nWitness Purple said White later described himself as \"the lucky one\" because he started the attack and his name was never mentioned.\n\nThe witness also said White admitted disposing of evidence.\n\nAs Witness Purple was giving his statements, White would be arrested and brought in for questioning. Officers had told White the name of the person who was saying things about him, and they simply read out Witness Purple's statements to him. This happened a number of times, and on each occasion White said nothing beyond denying involvement and was released.\n\nOther witnesses who heard White speak that night did not tell police the same things as Witness Purple. However, their accounts were inconsistent, and one told officers in 1993 that he feared White and the Acourt brothers.\n\nClive Driscoll told the BBC: \"People often said to me, there was a wall of silence. There was never a wall of silence. There was a wall of fear, though. And so if you were going to alert everybody, that this bloke has talked to the old bill, you are effectively, alerting the bad guys… and that cannot be good police work.\"\n\nHad officers interrogated information on White in their own database, they could have been led back to his stepfather - a credible witness who would also have said White admitted to being at the murder scene.\n\nThe BBC investigation has found that, at the time of the murder, White looked similar to the unidentified suspect known as the \"fair-haired attacker\".\n\nNone of the five prime suspects matched the description of that person.\n\nThe artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\" bears a striking resemblance to Matthew White\n\nThe BBC has seen surveillance photographs, taken within a fortnight of the murder, which snapped White coming out of a house that was being watched. With his bushy brown hair, he looks strikingly like the person described by Duwayne Brooks.\n\nThe first account by Stephen's friend - given within 80 minutes of the attack - was recorded in a police officer's notebook. Brooks said he could only really describe one of the six attackers - the person who struck Stephen first, after leading the others across the road. This person had hair that was \"bushy light brown\" and \"stuck out\".\n\nSoon afterwards, Brooks spoke to the first SIO on the case, Det Supt Ian Crampton, who later recalled him having described the attacker's hair as \"bushy\" and \"brown\".\n\nIn Brooks' full statement later that night, it stated that the attacker's hair was \"long, over his ears and it was frizzy and stuck out at the sides\". Brooks said the man was aged 18 to 22.\n\nThe Met failed to include the light brown hair colour in that statement.\n\nThe colour description was not shared with the full team, and it was years before the first notebook description was even known to some senior officers.\n\nWhen Brooks later compiled a digital image of the man, he described the hair as \"very light brown, fairly long, covered ears\". Despite this, the Met created a digital image with peroxide blonde hair.\n\nDuwayne Brooks (L) with Stephen Lawrence's father Neville outside the High Court in London in 2015\n\nOther eyewitnesses to the attack also spoke about the lead attacker's hair.\n\nOne of those at the bus stop said in a statement: \"The white boys who came across the road were running together in a group. Of this group there was a man with fairish hair to the front of the group.\"\n\nAnother eyewitness, also at the bus stop, described one of the attackers as having \"medium length fair hair which was frizzy\".\n\nThe day after the murder, officers involved in house-to-house inquiries appear to have received a briefing that included Brooks' description - as one of them made a note saying \"brown bushy hair\" alongside other relevant information.\n\nWhen Det Supt Brian Weeden took over the case four days after the murder, he received a briefing from the man who had led the investigation until then.\n\nA note by Weeden of the briefing said only the following in relation to planned surveillance on the prime suspects: \"Photos, is there a guy with frizzy hair?\" This was a reference to the lead attacker described by Brooks and others.\n\nBut the description was not shared with the full team.\n\nIn the same week the surveillance images of Matthew White were taken, artists' impressions and e-fits were created bearing a resemblance to him.\n\nAn e-fit image, based on witness descriptions, looks similar to Matthew White photographed a fortnight after the murder\n\nOfficers also came face-to-face with White. He spoke to them as a witness. In a section of White's witness statement, one officer even recorded White's hair as being \"blonde/fair\".\n\nThe 1999 Macpherson inquiry report noted: \"None of the five suspects appear to have had fair or light brown hair.\"\n\nIt concluded: \"There was no co-ordination or analysis of the various descriptions given. The fact that one of the attackers was fair-haired should have been reflected in decisions made as to the elimination of suspects.\"\n\nWhite gave witness statements in 1993 and 1999. He lied in both and - based on my own investigation - it seems the Met have not looked into his alibi for many years.\n\nIn 1993, White told Det Sgt John Davidson that, on the night of the murder, he was with friends in Eltham \"when I was told there had been a stabbing up Well Hall\". That was untrue, as White told those people about the attack.\n\nIn his statement six years later, White told police he had been with a friend that night.\n\nI contacted the friend named on the statement - an alibi witness for White - by phone. He refused to answer, but briefly engaged with me by text. He said that one, Neil Acourt, was his \"childhood friend and family\". He then went quiet.\n\nBut White's account was contradicted by other witnesses who saw him alone minutes after the murder - and close to the scene. It meant the friend, whom he would later say he had been with, could not have been with him all night.\n\nOne witness - referred to by police as Witness B - told officers he spoke to White shortly before 23:00, after getting off a bus. White, he said, was already aware of an incident nearby. The attack took place around 22:40.\n\nAnd then, there were the Kavanagh sisters - Kelly and Louise.\n\nPublic narratives of the Lawrence case have included a version of events stating that White - referred to as Witness K - heard about the stabbing from Louise Kavanagh outside her family home.\n\nLouise was said to have passed the early aftermath of Stephen's murder while driving home with sister Kelly. White was then said to have walked past the Kavanagh home just as the sisters arrived - where Louise had told him about what had happened on Well Hall Road. This was Louise's story when she spoke to the police.\n\nThis brief meeting supposedly was the moment when White learned of the attack for the first time - and how he was then able to spread the word himself.\n\nLouise Kavanagh died in 2016, but I tracked down Kelly to check her version of events. She told me that the public version of the story was untrue.\n\nLouise, she said, had not been in the car with her that night.\n\nKelly told me that, instead, it had been White who told Louise about the stabbing - a few yards down the road from where Witness B had seen him, and at roughly the same time. White had stopped to talk to Louise - and had been moving away from the direction of the attack.\n\nWhen Kelly had pulled up in the car, White - she said - had then moved off leaving Louise to explain how a \"black boy\" had been stabbed up the road. Kelly says that when she asked Louise how she knew, her sister said that White had told her.\n\nAt that point in time, White could only have known it was a stabbing if he had been present or spoken to one of those responsible within minutes of the late night attack. At that time, the fact it was a stabbing was not even known to Duwayne Brooks and the officer who had got there first.\n\nKelly told me she had not previously told the correct version of events in order to protect her sister.\n\nOne of the major controversies at the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998 was the Met's early handling of a key informant in the case.\n\nThat informant's source was Matthew White, whom he was friends with.\n\nI have re-investigated the issue in light of the new evidence about White.\n\nThe day after the murder, a man walked into a south-east London police station and provided significant information about the crime. Police gave him an alias - James Grant.\n\nHe seemed to know much about what had happened on Well Hall Road.\n\nThe bus stop where Stephen Lawrence and Duwayne Brooks waited on 22 April 1993 (photo from 2012)\n\nThe information Grant told police in 1993 implicated the Acourt brothers, Norris and Dobson. One officer, Det Sgt Davidson, recorded Grant as saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had stabbed Stephen - and even gave details about the location of the wounds.\n\nGrant was also recorded saying a \"fifth blonde unknown kid\" had been involved. Was this the fair-haired attacker?\n\nDet Sgt Davidson said he registered Grant as a police informant with a senior officer. That officer later denied this ever happened.\n\nAll records relating to Grant - except for three brief internal messages - vanished without explanation.\n\nDuring the Macpherson inquiry, Davidson and other officers denied knowing the identity of James Grant's original source. Davidson said Grant had refused to reveal it, and the inquiry concluded he had not been told.\n\nBut Grant told other police teams that his source was Matthew White.\n\nIn 1995, officers from the Met's second Lawrence investigation ran into James Grant and Matthew White together.\n\nWhen the officers visited Grant alone, he was recorded saying the source of \"all he knew about the murder\" was White, but he did not place White at the scene.\n\nBut in 1997, the Kent Police investigation also spoke to Grant. He told Kent officers he had revealed to Det Sgt Davidson the identity of his source at an early stage.\n\nKent Police asked senior members of the original murder team - including SIO Brian Weeden - what they had done to \"reassure\" themselves that White had not been present during the murder.\n\nWeeden's deputy replied: \"I can't really answer that. I didn't think after those lines.\"\n\nIt was those interviews with senior officers, and the lack of answers, that prompted Kent Police to formally recommend the Met investigate White.\n\nThe Macpherson inquiry's final report said that Grant's information \"might have provided the key to the solution of the case in quick time. This was because James Grant's source was close to the suspects, if he was not involved with them himself.\"\n\nI have established that in 1993 James Grant had a reason to dislike the Acourts and Norris, details of which cannot be disclosed, but he had no such animus against Matthew White.\n\nWhen I located Grant and asked him about White, he became agitated, denied knowing him, and walked away.\n\nMatthew White, who could have helped solve the case, died in 2021.\n\nHe was a drug user at the time of Stephen's murder in 1993 and later became a heroin addict. Over the years, White had brief periods of employment as a scaffolder and gardener. He also had a history of theft and spent time in prison.\n\nWhite threatened to \"Stephen Lawrence\" a black shop worker during an assault in 2020, on Well Hall Road in Eltham\n\nI found his last criminal conviction was an assault in summer 2020 in a shop on Well Hall Road, Eltham - the same street where Stephen Lawrence was murdered.\n\nI located the victim, a black man who had not previously known about White's connection to the Lawrence case.\n\nHe described challenging White - a shoplifter - after he entered the premises, leading to a confrontation.\n\nWhite then assaulted the victim, made threatening and knowing references to Stephen Lawrence, and referred to his associations with other violent people.\n\nWhite threatened him, saying, \"Remember you're in Eltham, remember where you are, remember what happened to Stephen Lawrence. I can call my boys, they can come down and they can deal with you.\"\n\nHe says White mentioned Stephen Lawrence \"in almost in every threat\" - at least eight or nine times - and referenced that it happened at the nearby bus stop.\n\nWhite said the victim would be \"Stephen Lawrenced\" and then attacked him.\n\nPolice were called and White was arrested. He pleaded guilty in court to assault. The victim first heard about the conviction from me.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Met apologised for not informing the victim that charges had been brought.\n\nA month after the assault, Scotland Yard stopped investigating Stephen's murder, with the Commissioner Cressida Dick saying there were no viable lines of inquiry.\n\nHis inquest heard his body was not found for several days and the cause of death could not be established. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. White had been suicidal, overdosed by accident in the recent past, and had health problems linked to his drug use.\n\nA statement about his life was read by the coroner. It was written by a relative of White.\n\nDuring the inquest there was no overt mention of White's status in the Stephen Lawrence investigation, but the relative's statement included a cryptic one-sentence summary of his life: \"Matthew was a lovely lad that happened to go to the wrong place at the wrong time\".\n\nThe BBC put its evidence to the Met Police. In response, the force has taken the almost unprecedented step of naming Matthew White as a suspect, and setting out details about its investigations into him.\n\nThe force said White was arrested and interviewed in 2000 and 2013, with files submitted to prosecutors in 2005 and 2014.\n\nOn both occasions the Crown Prosecution Service advised there was no realistic prospect of conviction of White for any offence, the Met said.\n\nThe force said Matthew White was seen again in 2020, but there was insufficient witness or forensic evidence to progress further.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: \"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.\n\n\"On the 30th anniversary of Stephen's murder, Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for our failings and I repeat that apology today.\"\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Drone pilot Jason Iggleden captured footage of a humpback whale following a kayaker near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.\n\nA record 5,092 whales were spotted from various points along the New South Wales coast on Sunday, as part of an annual census conducted during the migration season.", "Gilad Myerson says if companies like Ithaca are to invest in big projects they need a stable environment\n\nThe UK is at risk of being \"starved\" of North Sea energy leaving it reliant on imports, a major oil and gas producer has told the BBC.\n\nIthaca Energy said Labour's pledge to ban new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea and current taxation policy was \"spooking\" investors.\n\nIthaca is almost entirely invested in North Sea oil and gas.\n\nEnvironmental groups and scientists say new oil and gas fields would take the UK over its carbon budget limits.\n\nLast week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said a Labour government would not grant licences to explore new fields in the North Sea, saying it would be an \"historic mistake\" to wait until UK oil and gas runs out.\n\nBut Gilad Myerson, executive chairman of Ithaca, said the move would threaten the UK's energy security.\n\n\"By a new government imagining they'll be able to stop licences and oil development in the UK, ultimately what that means is that they'll be starving the UK of energy, and it will become very dependent on energy from abroad,\" he said.\n\nNorth Sea oil and gas is traded on international markets and the prices are set globally, but Mr Myerson insists much of it is used domestically, and it therefore has a lower carbon footprint than energy imported from abroad.\n\n\"Most of the hydrocarbons in the UK are developed and are produced for the UK market. Some of the oil will go to refineries abroad, but will ultimately make its way back to the UK,\" he said.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said that while the party would not issue any new licences, it would \"continue to use existing fields in the North Sea for decades to come\".\n\n\"The best way to bring down bills, increase our security and sovereignty, and create good jobs is to get on with a sprint for clean energy and we welcome all businesses being part of that.\"\n\nIthaca, which has stakes in six of the 10 largest oil and gas fields in the North Sea, is also worried about the current government's approach to taxation.\n\nLast May, the government introduced a windfall tax on energy company profits, known as the Energy Profits Levy. It was set at 25%, but was later increased to 35% in the Autumn Statement, taking the overall tax rate on companies in the sector to 75%.\n\nEarlier this month, the Treasury announced the windfall tax would stay in place until 2028 but would be scrapped if oil and gas prices fell closer to historical levels for a sustained period.\n\nBut Mr Myerson said the chances of oil and gas prices falling sufficiently to trigger the elimination of the tax were \"extremely low\" as supply and demand had changed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIthaca's Alba oil platform, located 130 miles off the coast of Aberdeen\n\n\"At the moment, the taxation regime is changing constantly and it's very difficult to invest huge amounts of capital when you don't know what type of return you'll be getting,\" Mr Myerson said, adding that Ithaca was considering investing elsewhere in Europe and the US, whom he said were \"more supportive\" to oil and gas.\n\nHe said the company was still committed to investing in two of the biggest undeveloped oil fields in the North Sea, the controversial Cambo and Rosebank fields. Rosebank has the potential to produce 500 million barrels of oil, and could be approved by the government within weeks.\n\nBut he said they would only be developed if it made financial sense, and said political announcements from all sides had been unhelpful.\n\n\"They are saying they do want hydrocarbons, then they say that they don't want hydrocarbons. When it comes to a project like Cambo and Rosebank, you need to make sure that the environment is stable because this is a project that will last for 10 years.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said it was \"right that we recover excess profits resulting from Putin's war\" and that the money raised from the windfall tax had been used to help people with their energy bills.\n\n\"But we also want the oil and gas sector to invest in British jobs and our energy security. That's why our new Energy Security Investment Mechanism is designed to give investors the confidence to keep investing in domestic oil and gas production, based on historic prices.\"\n\nLast year, the Climate Change Committee - the government's own environmental advisers - wrote to the business secretary saying it would support a \"tighter limit\" on North Sea production, and that \"an end to UK exploration would send a clear signal to investors and consumers that the UK is committed to the 1.5C global temperature goal\".\n\nIt also said an increase in UK oil and gas would have \"a marginal effect\" on prices faced by consumers.\n\nEnvironmental groups say that claims the industry would shut down overnight with the end of new North Sea licences are scare stories and that even one new oil and gas field in the region would push the UK over its carbon budget limits.\n\nFormer petroleum engineer Erik Dalhuijsen is looking to retrain to retrofit buildings to make them more energy-efficient\n\nErik Dalhuijsen, the founder of Aberdeen Climate Action, is critical of both the government and Labour policies on the future of the North Sea.\n\n\"There is only one decision that can be made and that is that new exploration needs to be stopped immediately,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no room in our carbon budget for additional hydrocarbons. There is already enough hydrocarbons in the proven reserves to blow the climate change carbon budget several times over.\n\n\"The real answer to energy security is to generate your own homegrown energy, which is renewables. The Ukraine situation is evidence that fossil fuels are not the secure energy source that you need.\"\n\nThe oil and gas sector supports 200,000 UK jobs, according to trade body Offshore Energies UK.\n\nOne of Mr Myerson's biggest concerns is around job losses if the North Sea sees no further investment.\n\nHe believes it is unrealistic to expect someone working on an oil platform to be able to install a windfarm as they would not have the technical expertise.\n\nHowever, Friends of the Earth and others argue that with the right support and investment, the renewable energy sector could support three times as many jobs as oil and gas.\n\nMr Dalhuijsen, who previously worked as a petroleum engineer in the oil and gas sector, is himself looking to retrain to retrofit buildings to make them more energy-efficient.\n\nMy Myerson agrees that wind and solar are important technologies and Ithaca is looking to invest in them as well, but says: \"It's impossible to just turn off a switch and imagine we can live in a world without hydrocarbons.\"", "It is understood those targeted are Bulgarian and Portugese\n\nWindows at a number of houses have been smashed in a racially-motivated hate crime in Ballymena, County Antrim, police have said.\n\nIt is understood the homes of four Bulgarian families and one Portuguese family were attacked.\n\nOfficers were called to Larne Street at about 02:15 BST on Monday.\n\nThe suspect is described as being a man of stocky build, wearing dark shorts and an orange top.\n\nWindows were smashed at a number of properties in the street\n\nPolice said they will be increasing patrols in the area following the attack and urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\n\"Everyone has the right to feel safe in their home,\" added Insp Reid.", "After a weekend of mayhem, I'm beginning to understand why Russia's national symbol is the double-headed eagle: two heads staring in opposite directions.\n\nFirst, Yevgeny Prigozhin declares he's ready to \"go all the way\" in his mutiny against the Russian military. Then he makes a sudden U-turn and orders his Wagner fighters back to base.\n\nIn a TV address, President Vladimir Putin declares the rebellion \"a criminal adventure… a grievous crime… treason… blackmail and terrorism.\" Yet just a few hours later, as part of an agreement with Prigozhin, it's revealed that all criminal charges against the Wagner leader are being dropped.\n\nSo much for \"grievous crime\".\n\nThe Kremlin leader's mixed messages have been raising eyebrows here and changing perceptions of President Putin.\n\n\"He definitely looks weaker,\" says Konstantin Remchukov, owner and editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which is privately owned and one of Russia's main national dailies.\n\n\"You can't make a public statement declaring people are criminals and then, on the same day, at the end of the day, let your press secretary disagree with you and say 'No, those people haven't broken the criminal code.'\"\n\nIn a post on social media, Mr Nechaev argues: \"The law has lost all power. Even grievous crimes won't be punished due to political expediency. In the morning, you might be declared a traitor. In the evening, you can be forgiven and the criminal case against you dropped.\n\n\"The country is so clearly on the threshold of big change.\"\n\nBig change? Bold prediction. But if change is coming, might the Wagner rebellion be the trigger? A deal may have been done and the mutiny called off. But the fact the uprising happened on Mr Putin's watch is embarrassing for the president, who is also commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces.\n\nAnd keep in mind: Mr Putin's current presidential term runs out next year.\n\n\"All elite groups will now begin to think about the 2024 presidential election,\" predicts Mr Remchukov. \"They will ask themselves whether they should rely on Vladimir Putin, as they have been doing until this military coup.\n\n\"Or should they think about someone new, who is capable of dealing with problems in a more contemporary manner?\"\n\n\"Someone new\" for the presidency is not something you normally hear the Russian elite discussing openly. That doesn't mean a change of guard in the Kremlin is imminent. If there's one thing Vladimir Putin has perfected after 23 years in power, it is the art of political survival.\n\nBut his decision last year to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered widespread instability within his own country: everything from economic problems to drone attacks on Russian regions, from shelling of Russian border areas near Ukraine to cross-border incursions into Russia by saboteur groups, and now an armed uprising by Wagner.\n\nAll of this ratchets up the pressure on the Kremlin leader.\n\nDon't expect President Putin to concede that he got things wrong, though. Admitting mistakes and miscalculations is not his style.\n\nSo what will be the Russian president's next move? A clue, perhaps, came in the latest edition of Russian State TV's flagship Sunday night news show. Reporting on the Wagner uprising, the presenter played an extract from an old Putin interview.\n\n\"Are you able to forgive?\"\n\n\"Yes. But not everything.\"\n\n\"What can't you forgive?\"\n\nI wonder if Yevgeny Prigozhin was watching.", "New evidence of China's spy balloon programme - including flights over Japan and Taiwan - has been uncovered by BBC Panorama.\n\nJapan has confirmed balloons have flown over its territory and said it's prepared to shoot them down in future.\n\nChina has not directly addressed the evidence presented by the BBC.\n\nUS-China relations were thrown into turmoil earlier this year, when an alleged Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the US coast.\n\nChina claimed the balloon seen over north-western US in late January was a civilian airship, used for scientific research such as meteorology - and that it was an unintended and isolated event.\n\nJohn Culver - a former East Asia analyst for the CIA - told Panorama that this \"had been not just a one-off, but a continuing effort dating back at least five years.\" He said the Chinese balloons were \"specially designed for these long-range missions\" and some had \"apparently circumnavigated the globe\".\n\nFebruary 2023: US Navy personnel recover the debris from a suspected spy balloon in the North Atlantic\n\nWorking with Synthetaic, an artificial intelligence company which sifted through huge amounts of data captured by satellites, the BBC has found multiple images of balloons crossing East Asia.\n\nThe company's founder, Corey Jaskolski, found evidence of one balloon crossing northern Japan in early September 2021. These images have not been published before.\n\nMr Jaskolski also believes the evidence points to this balloon having been launched from deep inside China, south of Mongolia. The BBC has been unable to confirm this.\n\nJapan is a close ally of the US and more American forces are stationed there than in any other foreign country.\n\nYuko Murakami, from the Japanese ministry of defence, told the BBC that the government was \"taking all precautions to monitor the situation on a daily basis\" and would even be willing to shoot down balloons to protect the \"lives and property of people in the territory of Japan\".\n\nThe US State Department says it believes the Chinese balloons are equipped to gather signals intelligence. It says the aircraft it discovered over the US had \"multiple antennas, likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications\".\n\nTo investigate whether China had launched other balloons, the Panorama team first searched social media and press reports across the region for sightings of UFOs in the sky.\n\nThey found two photographs taken by Taiwan's weather service, appearing to show a balloon over the capital, Taipei, in late September 2021.\n\nMr Jaskolski then cross-referenced them with satellite imagery. \"Within 90 seconds, we found the balloon off the coast of Taiwan,\" he says.\n\nFrom spy balloons to secret police stations and dissidents on the run, Panorama investigates China's global surveillance operation. We reveal new details about Beijing's fleet of spy balloons - and hack a Chinese-made security camera to show how similar devices that line our streets could be exploited.\n\nWatch on BBC One at 20:00 (20:30 in Wales) on Monday 26 June - and afterwards on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nThe Taiwanese government told Panorama that it believed it was a weather balloon but Mr Jakolski disagrees.\n\n\"Just based on the diameter of the balloon and the fact that the operating altitudes look similar… that looks an awful lot like the balloon that flew over the United States, over Japan,\" he says.\n\nDemocratically-governed Taiwan has long been in China's sights.\n\nLast year the Chinese military launched a rehearsal of a full-scale attack.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has previously said the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked.\n\nCorey Jaskolski started with a sketch of what he thought the balloon would look like from space. He then fed this outline into his AI software, together with rough coordinates of where it was last seen.\n\nHe also analysed wind models to trace the balloon's path and find its origin.\n\nWorking with satellite images provided by the company Planet Labs, Corey fed all the information into his software, known as RAIC (rapid automatic image categorization), to locate the balloons.\n\nSurveillance balloons are huge - the size of several buses - and carry sophisticated equipment capable of collecting large amounts of data on targets below.\n\nBut photographed by a satellite from space, they appear to be just small white blobs.\n\nMr Jaskolski's research shows that the balloon which flew over the US in February was at one point about 80 miles (130 km) from a nuclear air force base in the state of Montana.\n\nHe also plotted the flight path of the balloon back to its most likely launch site - Hainan Island in the South China Sea.\n\n\"It looks like on the… launch there was cloud cover,\" he says. \"And if I were going to launch a balloon, I would have chosen a cloudy day in order to minimise that chance of detection.\"\n\nCorey Jaskolski traced the path of the balloon through satellite images such as this one\n\nIn a statement, the Chinese Embassy in London accused the US of itself releasing a large number of high-altitude balloons, which have continuously circled the globe and illegally flown over China's airspace.\n\nIt said that \"China is a responsible country\" which always acts \"in strict compliance with international law and respects all countries' sovereignty and territorial integrity\". It added that it rejects \"unfounded allegations to denigrate and attack China\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Old Train House lay empty for 10 years before being renovated\n\nThe Old Train House in Edinburgh has been crowned Scotland's Home of the Year 2023.\n\nIt was one of six regional finalists in the popular BBC Scotland TV series.\n\nThis year's search showcased a variety of home styles including quirky conversions, grand designs, period renovations and bijou pads.\n\nThe Old Train House was empty for 10 years before Christina Blundell and husband Ben transformed it into a family home.\n\nInside, their eclectic tastes can be seen, as well as their desire to be sustainable with second-hand furnishing.\n\nThere are nods to the building's past including graffiti on the garden walls, giving it a unique style.\n\nThe judges described the winning house as a unique family home\n\nThe building was transformed from an abandoned train station into a \"very real home\"\n\nOwner Christina said: \"Winning was a genuine shock and we're bursting with pride.\n\n\"Ben and I entered with no expectations other than going along for the ride - we did not anticipate in any way that we'd be taking the trophy home that day, particularly when we got to see all the other fabulous finalists' homes.\"\n\nThe other finalists were:\n\nThe show's judges - interior designers Anna Campbell-Jones and Banjo Beale and architect and lecturer Michael Angus - described The Old Train House as a unique and welcoming family home.\n\nChristina Blundell and husband Ben are congratulated by the show's judges\n\nAnna Campbell Jones said: \"The Old Train House expresses the ultimate in adaptation and reuse, themes that are so important these days - the whole building was upcycled, transformed from a sad ruined train station to a very real home.\n\n\"I loved the balance of respect for the history of the building, clever use of bargain vintage finds and appropriate materials both for the age of the building and for its function as warm, fun family home.\"\n\nBanjo Beale said: \"It's hard to pick one thing about Old Train House which made it unique because it had that elusive, hard to define and harder to create feeling of home.\"\n\nFellow judge Michael Angus added: \"It was that indefinable thing, that lifted the Old Train up above the rest. Some curious blend of components, of building, fabric, place, time, that come together somehow, to imbue a home with a certain overall quality that is truly, home.\"", "Stroke damage can be limited or avoided with the right treatment\n\nPeople in the UK are less likely to survive treatable conditions, such as breast cancer and stroke, than those in other rich nations, a study has found.\n\nThe review, by the King's Fund think tank, said the problem may be directly linked to the performance of the NHS.\n\nIt said below-average spending on the UK health service led to fewer staff and equipment than systems elsewhere.\n\nBut the study showed the NHS was very efficient within its budget, with less cash spent on admin than other nations.\n\nThe government says the NHS is one of the most efficiently run healthcare systems, and that investment is happening to further improve services.\n\nAhead of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS next month, the think tank compared the UK's health service with the performance of 18 other health systems, including those in Europe as well as Japan, the US and Australia.\n\nBut the think tank also found the UK had low levels of people avoiding medical care due to cost fears - just one in 10 of those questioned maintain there are major difficulties accessing NHS treatment.\n\nThe NHS also had the sixth-lowest spend on administration, with an outlay of less than 2% of the budget.\n\nThe review noted waiting lists for routine treatments, such as knee and hip replacements, were rising in many countries - with waiting times in the NHS around average.\n\nFor these reasons, it concluded the UK health service was neither a \"leader nor a laggard\".\n\nBut report author Siva Anandaciva said it was clear the the NHS had \"sadly seen better days\".\n\n\"While the UK stands out in removing most financial barriers to accessing healthcare and the NHS is run relatively efficiently, it trails behind its international cousins on some key markers of a good healthcare system.\n\n\"The pressures of the pandemic on our health service compounded the consequences of more than a decade of squeezed investment,\" he said\n\n\"This leaves the NHS delivering performance that is middling, at best, and the UK must do much more to reduce the number of people dying early from diseases such as heart disease and cancer.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Anandaciva said the findings were not an argument for moving to a different funding model, adding there was little evidence any one particular approach to health funding was inherently better than another.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"This report recognises the NHS is one of the most efficiently run healthcare systems and we are investing up to £14.1 billion to improve services and cut waiting lists, one of the government's top five priorities.\"\n\nHe said this was paying for new community diagnostic centres, while the number of staff working in the NHS was increasing.\n\nThe government is due to publish a workforce plan soon, which is expected to set out a big increase in training places for doctors and nurses.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Struggling cinema chain Cineworld has said its screens will remain open despite its plans to file for administration to cut its huge debts.\n\nCineworld, which is the world's second-largest cinema chain, was hit hard by the Covid pandemic when many of its theatres were forced to close.\n\nBut it has now announced plans to slash its $5bn (£3.9bn) debt pile.\n\nThe firm, which owns the Picturehouse chain in the UK, said it was still business as usual for its cinemas.\n\nBig films currently showing in the UK include Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse and The Little Mermaid.\n\n\"Cineworld continues to operate its global business and cinemas as usual without interruption and this will not be affected by the entry of Cineworld Group plc into administration,\" it said.\n\n\"The group and its brands around the world - including Regal, Cinema City, Picturehouse and Planet - are continuing to welcome customers to cinemas as usual.\"\n\nCineworld has more than 28,000 staff across 751 sites globally, with 128 locations in the UK and Ireland.\n\nLast year, it filed for bankruptcy protection in the US but it hopes to emerge from this next month following the restructuring of its finances.\n\nCineworld will apply for administration in July, which will see shares in the firm suspended and existing shareholders wiped out.\n\nThe restructuring of the company's finances will see its debts cut by about $4.5bn. A sale of rights in the business has raised $800m and it will also have access to a further $1.46bn in funds if required.\n\nAs well as the hit to trading during the pandemic, cinemas are also facing tough competition from streaming services.\n\nEarlier this year, Cineworld had to drop its plans to sell its businesses in the US, UK and Ireland after it failed to find a buyer.\n\nSusannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said she expected Cineworld to emerge from its restructuring as \"a dramatically slimmed down player in the movie world\".\n\nShe noted that Regal movie theatres began closing in the US earlier this year, adding that it seemed unlikely that its UK cinemas would \"escape restructure indefinitely\".\n\n\"Given the shakeup of the movie industry and the might of the streaming giants, ticket sales will never fully recover to the heady days of the past, so focusing on the improving experience for die hard movie fans in a smaller number of more theatres is likely to the focus, to boost margins and increase ancillary spend,\" she said.\n\nIn 2019, the last full year before the pandemic hit, Cineworld reported sales of $4.4bn.\n\nWhile cinema audiences have been returning, Cineworld said last year that it expected admissions in both 2023 and 2024 to remain below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Strangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland can now charge people with non-fatal strangulation.\n\nIt became a stand-alone offence in Northern Ireland under the Justice, Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims Act 2022, and has now come into effect.\n\nStrangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK.\n\nWomen's Aid NI said the legal change would give prosecutors vital tools to deal with perpetrators.\n\nOver the last 10 years seven people (six women and one man) in Northern Ireland were strangled to death.\n\nNon-fatal strangulation is seen as a red flag for escalating violence in intimate partner relationships and a possible indicator for future risk of murder or attempted murder.\n\nOne victim of non-fatal strangulation spoke to the BBC anonymously about her experiences:\n\n\"There were several occasions of violence and a couple of strangulation, the reason I reported it to the police I suppose, was the the increase in the severity and the velocity of when I was strangled,\" she said.\n\n\"I totally blacked out, I lost consciousness, I lost control of my bowel and my bladder.\"\n\nShe said when she came to in the bed she had \"a fight or flight instinct\".\n\n\"That that was the final time, that was enough.\n\n\"While I was being strangled, the only thing that was really running through my head was my children finding me the next day and the panic of total loss of any oxygen.\n\n\"The realisation that you were slipping away and your last final thoughts are just your children finding you dead on the bed.\"\n\nShe said she then phoned the police.\n\n\"It doesn't take long for somebody to slip into unconsciousness and ultimately pass away.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that the legislation has come in here and the sentencing guidelines, you know, the impact of it, it takes into account the extent, the absolute terror, the fear that somebody that's experiencing that feels, and also takes into account the impact that it can leave on your life.\n\n\"It was a demonstration of control. It wasn't a lack of control, it's not an involuntary reaction, you make the decision to do something like that.\n\n\"It still feels like a story that's been told by somebody else, but the more that people talk about it, the more that people are aware of the dangers of it.\"\n\nOne victim of non-fatal strangulation spoke anonymously to the BBC\n\nSonya McMullan, Women's Aid NI, said non-fatal strangulation was \"the ultimate act of control\"\n\n\"Somebody literally can take life with in a few seconds - in three to five minutes death may occur,\" she told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"It's a red flag, a significant risk factor for serious injury and homicide.\"\n\nShe added: \"It (the new legislation) will give the police more tools and our public prosecution more tools to be able take this forward.\"\n\nDr Catherine White, the medical director at the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, successfully campaigned for the change in the law in England and Wales.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"One of the reasons we were keen to have a stand-alone law was that too often strangulation was being treated the same as a slap, punch or kick and yet in term of the danger of it - it's very different.\n\n\"The neck is very vulnerable - there's the airway and on either side of the airway are blood vessels, so any significant pressure can stop blood returning from the brain and lead to a stroke.\"\n\nShe said her research showed more than a third of victims thought they were about to die.\n\n\"In terms of psychological terror this is extreme,\" she said.\n\nJoanne Barnes, the chief executive of Nexus, a charity which supports people suffering from abusive relationships and sexual abuse, welcomed the reform.\n\n\"This is not a 'fun', sexual or 'consensual' act and 'rough sex' can no longer be used as a defence. Non-fatal can turn fatal in an instant and can take less pressure than shaking someone's hand,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Justice said the new offence provided greater protection for victims.\n\n\"This crime can affect anyone and can occur in a number of circumstances.\n\n\"However, there are those who use strangulation and asphyxiation to exert control and fear in others, including in cases of domestic abuse.\n\n\"Research shows that this type of abuse is eight times more likely to result in domestic homicide.\n\n\"In recognition of the serious harm it causes, this new offence carries greater penalties than were previously available and today marks another step forward in making our community safer.\"\n\nDet Supt Lindsay Fisher welcomed the introduction of the new law\n\nThe PSNI said the new legislation \"means that if you do anything that does or could restrict someone's breathing in any way you should be prepared to face a prison sentence for this offence alone\".\n\n\"This new legislation will take into consideration the emotional impact, trauma and fear that the victim experiences.\"\n\nSenior police described the legislation as a \"step forward in helping officers tackle the magnitude of the threat\".\n\nDet Supt Lindsay Fisher said: \"On average, between 10-12% of reporting domestic abuse victims have experienced non-fatal strangulation, placing them at the highest risk.\n\nIf you are affected by domestic abuse, there is a range of support services available via the BBC's Action Line page.\n• None 'I could feel an enormous crushing around my neck'", "The Duchess of York is recuperating with family after having a single mastectomy following a diagnosis for breast cancer.\n\nSarah Ferguson, 63, who was formerly married to Prince Andrew, was given the news after a routine mammogram screening.\n\nHer spokesman said: \"She was advised she needed to undergo surgery which has taken place successfully.\"\n\nHer doctors have told her that the prognosis is good, he added.\n\nThe spokesman said she was \"receiving the best medical care and... is now recuperating with her family\".\n\nShe underwent the procedure earlier this week at King Edward VII hospital, a private clinic in central London which previously treated the late Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.\n\nThe duchess is said to have returned home to Windsor this weekend, where she is now recovering.\n\nShe revealed details of the procedure in an interview for her new podcast, Tea Talk, recorded ahead of the operation.\n\nSarah discussed her recent diagnosis, urging others to take advantage of cancer screening programmes.\n\n\"I want every single person that is listening to this podcast to go and get checked,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm taking this as a real gift to me to change my life, to nurture myself,\" said the duchess, adding she would \"stop trying to fix everyone else\" and start \"taking myself seriously\".\n\n\"Now is my chance,\" she said. \"This extraordinary position I'm in right now - it means there's no choice.\n\n\"I can't make another excuse. I have to go through this operation and I have to be well and strong. And therefore no choice is the best choice.\"\n\nIn a statement, her spokesman expressed the duchess's \"immense gratitude to all the medical staff who have supported her in recent days\".\n\nShe had been \"symptom free\" before the screening and the statement said she \"believes her experience underlines the importance of regular screening\".\n\nThe duchess and Prince Andrew were divorced in 1996 after 10 years of marriage, but remain close.\n\nThey continue to live together at Royal Lodge, a property owned by the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park.\n\nThey have two daughters - Princess Beatrice, 34, and Princess Eugenie, 33 - and three grandchildren.\n\nThe duchess has had something of a revitalised career, reinventing herself as a successful author and now podcast host, and cheerfully riding out such disappointments as not being invited to the Coronation.\n\nHer style has become relaxed and approachable, chatting to fans recently at the London Book Fair and posing for selfies.\n\nThe Tea Talks podcast, which has been running for several weeks, is an often self-deprecating look at life, with a recent episode talking about her friendship with Princess Diana, and the loneliness and sense of being ostracised that they both felt.\n\nShe said Diana had told her: \"I know what it's like to be left in the corner of a room.\"\n\nAnd the duchess said in the podcast: \"I know that feeling too, when people don't wish to talk to you because 'Bad Fergie' sells papers. They've already judged you and you're left alone.\"\n\nThe Duchess and Duke of York - pictured in 2019 - are no longer married but remain close\n\nThe majority of women whose breast cancer is detected early now beat the disease because of progress in treatments, analysis by the British Medical Journal found earlier this year.\n\nSurgery cures most breast cancers, while chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy can reduce the long-term risk of dying in cases where some disease remains.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line.", "A stranded horse stuck down a four metre-deep pit in Lazio, central Italy, had to be pulled to safety by helicopter on Sunday.\n\nFootage released by the Italian fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco shows the dramatic moment the horse is hauled free and taken out of danger.", "Mabli Cariad Hall was \"beautiful, smiley and happy\", a family friend said in a tribute\n\nAn eight-month-old baby has died four days after being hit by a car at a hospital.\n\nMabli Cariad Hall was airlifted from Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire to Cardiff after being struck, along with another pedestrian, on Wednesday.\n\nThe driver of the white BMW involved in the crash suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is still in hospital.\n\nMabli was \"beautiful, smiley and happy\", a family friend said in a tribute.\n\nShe was taken to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children but died from her injuries on Sunday.\n\nThe passenger in the BMW and the other pedestrian also involved in the crash have already been discharged from hospital.\n\nFlowers were left outside in tribute to her\n\nFamily friend Sinéad Morris said on social media that it was \"with a heavy heart\" that she had to announce Mabli's \"injuries were too severe to be reversed\".\n\n\"Despite days of immense strength from Mabli, she peacefully crossed over the rainbow bridge in the loving arms of Gwen and Rob in the early hours of Sunday, June 25, 2023.\"\n\nMs Morris added that the family wanted to \"express their deepest gratitude to the dedicated healthcare professionals who have been involved in Mabli's care\".\n\nAn online fundraiser has raised about £20,000 for the family.\n\nA damaged BMW was removed from Withybush Hospital on 21 June\n\nHywel Dda health board, which runs Withybush Hospital, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of the infant.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the family and everyone affected.\"", "During the trial, jurors heard Paris Mayo was used to being around children and had trained in childcare\n\nA 19-year-old who murdered her newborn son hours after giving birth has been jailed for at least 12 years.\n\nA trial heard Paris Mayo, then 15, suffocated the boy, Stanley, by stuffing cotton wool into his throat.\n\nMayo delivered him alone at her family home in Ross-on-Wye, in March 2019, while her parents were upstairs.\n\n\"Killing your baby son was a truly dreadful thing to do,\" said the judge, Mr Justice Garnham, passing a life sentence.\n\nThe trial heard she had assaulted Stanley, leaving him with injuries comparable to those seen in a car crash.\n\n\"How you did this is not clear, but I suspect you crushed his head, probably beneath your foot,\" the judge told Mayo.\n\nHer initial assault caused him \"serious damage\", but did not kill him, the judge added.\n\n\"He remained alive and continued to breathe for at least an hour. You decided you had to finish Stanley off by stuffing cotton wool balls into his throat.\"\n\nThe newborn was found by Mayo's mother the day after his birth, dumped in a bin bag left on the doorstep.\n\nIt was she who alerted emergency services in an emotional 999 call played to the jury.\n\nMayo gave birth alone at the family home on 23 March 2019, leaving her frightened and traumatised, the judge said\n\nMayo had claimed she did not know she was pregnant, also telling the court of her difficult family life and her father who had made her feel \"worthless\".\n\nIn her testimony, she described how she started having sex at 13 and used it as a way to get people to like her, because she was \"insecure\" due to her family situation.\n\nThe court heard her father Patrick Mayo - who died 10 days after Stanley - had been upstairs on dialysis treatment with Mayo's mother at the time of the birth.\n\n\"You went through the process of giving birth without the assistance of a midwife, a doctor, a friend or a relative. I find as a fact that you were frightened and traumatised by those events.,\" Mr Justice Garnham said during sentencing.\n\n\"Astonishingly, despite the pain you must have endured, it seems you did not cry out, so anxious were you not to disturb your parents sleeping upstairs.\"\n\nDefence barrister Bernard Richmond KC described Mayo as a \"pathetic and vulnerable individual\" who had not been supported by people around her.\n\n\"When faced with a decision she had to make, she did not face up to it. By the time she had to, the decision she made was woefully, woefully wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"This will, in every sense of the word, be a life sentence. It will be a lonely, isolating and frightening time for her.\"\n\nThe jury were given the option to consider an alternative verdict of infanticide if they believed she killed Stanley while the balance of her mind was disturbed.\n\nHowever, Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, cried in the dock on Friday as jurors delivered a majority guilty verdict on the charge of murder.\n\nMayo's trial was told she had a difficult family life and started having sex at 13 so people would like her\n\nDuring summing up Mr Justice Garnham rejected the suggestion the murder was committed \"with significant pre-planning\".\n\nHe added that Mayo had not spent her time covering up her pregnancy, but in March 2019 had found herself \"facing a reality you had spent nine months telling yourself could not be true\".\n\nHowever, he said the combination of a two-stone weight gain and the lack of periods for eight months meant she \"must have known\" she was pregnant and \"rapidly approaching your time for giving birth\".\n\nDespite that, the judge said Mayo \"told no one, and sought no help\".\n\n\"You did not even tell your mother who you accepted in court would, at least after the initial shock, have been supportive,\" he said.\n\n\"I find as a fact that almost as soon as Stanley was born, you had decided you could not allow him to live.\"\n\nThe judge also used his sentencing remarks to criticise a prosecution expert witness, describing forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding's \"inflexibility of thinking\" while giving evidence as \"unhelpful\".\n\n\"He had told the police that you ought to be prosecuted, a surprising opinion for an expert called to give evidence on a defendant's mental state to express,\" Mr justice Garnham said.\n\nIt was apparent he had a \"clear and unshakeable view on your culpability from the time of his very first meeting with you.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said the case had been both \"tragic and complex\".\n\nStanley's \"short life was filled with pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved\".\n\n\"[Mayo] chose to hide her pregnancy, give birth alone and kill her baby, then hide his body, despite accepting that she had a family who would have supported her.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 27-year-old airport employee has died after being sucked into a passenger plane engine in San Antonio, Texas.\n\nThe worker was \"ingested\" into the engine of a Delta plane that had just landed on Friday night, officials say.\n\nThe death sparked concerns about safety procedures, but an investigation was called off after a medical examiner ruled he took his own life.\n\n\"There were no operational safety issues with either the airplane or the airport,\" officials ruled on Monday.\n\nThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) had initially opened an investigation into the cause of death, but closed it on Monday after the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office ruling on cause of death.\n\n\"From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi's operational processes, safety procedures and policies,\" said Unifi Aviation, the ground crew operations company where the employee worked.\n\nA Delta spokesperson said the airline was \"heartbroken\" to grieve the loss of an \"aviation family member's life\".\n\n\"Our hearts and full support are with their family, friends and loved ones during this difficult time.\"\n\nGrief counselors are being offered for airport employees, officials told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nFrom Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911\n\nYou can contact the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 or the Crisis Test Line by texting HOME to 741741\n\nYoung people in need of help can call Kids Help Phone on 1-800-668-6868\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can call the Samaritans on 116123", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nAn investigation into the causes of the Titan submersible disaster has been opened by the US Coast Guard.\n\nChief investigator Cpt Jason Neubauer said its priority would be recovering debris, and precautions would be taken in case human remains are found.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, he also said the investigation would be able to recommend civil or criminal charges.\n\nThe Titan was on a dive to the Titanic wreck on 18 June when it imploded, killing all five people on board.\n\nCpt Neubauer told reporters in Boston that the US Coast Guard had convened its highest level of investigation.\n\nHe said it would would try to establish what caused the disaster, and make recommendations to prevent future tragedies. He added that it would be run jointly with Canadian, UK and French authorities.\n\nThe investigation is currently in its initial phase and efforts to recover the wreckage of the sub are ongoing. So far, five major pieces have been found 3,800m (12,467ft) below the surface in a large debris field near the bow of the Titanic.\n\nCpt Neubauer said investigators would be taking \"all precautions\" if they discover human remains.\n\nHe said the investigation could lead to tougher regulations and safety recommendations for submersibles, but could not confirm how long it would take to complete.\n\nOnce all evidence has been collected, Cpt Neubauer said investigators would likely hold a formal hearing to get witness testimony.\n\nHe added that interviews were already being conducted in the Canadian city of St John's, where the Titan's support vessel, the Polar Prince launched and towed the submersible into the North Atlantic Ocean.\n\nCanadian investigators boarded the support ship on Saturday as part of their own investigation into the disaster.\n\nUS Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger, who also spoke to reporters, was asked about the cost of the search and rescue operation but declined to answer.\n\nHe said it was not policy to charge for search and rescue and the service does not put a cost on human life or rescuing people in the \"dangerous environment\" of the ocean, adding \"we always answer the call\".\n\n\"We conduct disciplined operations with warranted risk to put our resources and lives at risk to save others. That's who we are.\"", "A man in his 40s has died at Glastonbury Festival following a \"medical incident\", police have said.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said they were called to part of the site known as the old railway line at 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe man died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services. His next of kin have been informed.\n\nThe death is not being treated as suspicious but officers are carrying out inquiries on behalf of the coroner.\n\nDeaths at the festival - which is attended by more than 200,000 people - are uncommon.\n\nIn 2019, a 60-year-old security guard working at the event was found dead in his tent. His death was not treated as suspicious.\n\nThe site has the fourth-largest population in the south-west of England - and covers an area roughly the size of 500 football pitches.", "Watch as Elton John brings Glastonbury 2023 to a close on the Pyramid Stage - the final UK show of his farewell tour.\n\nLil Nas X, Blondie and Phoenix were among the stars to have performed on the final day.", "Baroness Doreen Lawrence said it was \"infuriating\" police had not faced sanctions for the failed investigation into her son's murder\n\nThere have been calls to reopen police inquiries into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence after a BBC investigation uncovered new evidence.\n\nBarrister Michael Mansfield, who has represented the family, said it was still possible to put remaining suspects on trial.\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother, said it was \"infuriating\" no officers had suffered consequences.\n\nThere should be \"serious sanctions\" for the failed investigation, she said.\n\nA BBC investigation for the first time named Matthew White as a suspect in the 1993 murder in Eltham, south-east London. Five prime suspects were previously known, and two were convicted in 2012. White died in 2021.\n\nThe BBC found that witnesses had said White told them he had been present during the attack, that evidence showed his alibi was false, and that police surveillance photos of White showed a resemblance to eyewitness accounts of an unidentified fair-haired attacker.\n\nEvidence also revealed more mistakes by police, raised questions over the Metropolitan Police's decision to stop investigating in 2020, and further implicated suspects who are still alive.\n\nMr Mansfield told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that White \"should have been and could have been charged\" before his death.\n\nEvidence implicating other suspects - including one witness who said White had admitted he was present and had named others in the attack - could still be used against them, the barrister said. \"It's possible to put them on trial in this matter,\" he said.\n\nTory MP Sir Peter Bottomley, who represented Eltham at the time of the murder, told Radio 4's the World At One the BBC investigation showed the crime \"would have been solved within hours\" if the police had given proper attention to the eyewitness evidence from Duwayne Brooks, Stephen's friend who was with him at the time of the attack.\n\nHe said the police also needed to explain the \"unjustified decision\" to remove Clive Driscoll, the senior detective who had convicted two of the suspects, from the case.\n\nAn artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", a surveillance photo of Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nMr Brooks, who gave police a description of the lead attacker which resembled White, said: \"I never received the basics of support because of my skin colour. Police forces and other criminal justice agencies need to know that their treatment of victims and witnesses must be at minimum what is set out in the victims code.\"\n\nBaroness Lawrence said in a statement that the BBC's revelations of new failings by the Met Police were \"shocking but unsurprising\" after 30 years in which mistakes in the investigation have been laid bare.\n\n\"What is infuriating about this latest revelation is that the man who is said to have led the murderous attack on my son has evaded justice because of police failures and yet not a single police officer has faced or will ever face action,\" she said.\n\n\"It should not have taken a journalist to do the job that a huge, highly resourced institution should have done.\"\n\nShe said only when police officers lose their jobs for such failings can the public be reassured that incompetence will not be tolerated.\n\n\"The failure to properly investigate a main suspect in a murder case is so grave that it should be met by serious sanctions,\" she said.\n\nDuwayne Brooks (L) with Stephen Lawrence's father Neville outside the High Court in London in 2015\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which investigates serious allegations against the police, said it is still waiting after more than two years for prosecutors to decide whether four former officers should face charges of misconduct in a public office over their handling of the case.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said more material has been provided since the file was handed over.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan told broadcasters: \"If there's evidence of failings, of misconduct, it's really important action is taken.\"\n\nHe said he welcomed the police's assurance that they would investigate any new information, following the BBC's revelations.\n\nMr Khan said: \"This investigation wasn't done by police officers, it was done by journalists. This stuff should have been known by police officers 30 years ago, not journalists 30 years later.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it was \"concerning\" that prosecutors had been examining the file on possible police misconduct for years and said decisions on this and any further necessary investigations should be made urgently.\n\n\"The Lawrence family have already endured so much injustice, they should not have to keep waiting for answers and action,\" she said.\n\nJack Straw, who as home secretary ordered a landmark public inquiry into the case, said he was \"frankly astonished\" that evidence uncovered by the BBC was available at the time but was never brought to him or to the head of the inquiry, Sir William Macpherson.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that it was clear to him some \"corrupt officers\" had been withholding information.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, said there was \"certainly a case\" to reopen the investigation into the murder.\n\n\"I don't think it should have ever been closed and I think it's a stain on the Metropolitan Police that it was,\" he told LBC News.\n\n\"I think it needs to be taken on by an external force and it needs to be looked at by them. Somebody else needs to come in now, and not only review it but follow on with those investigative lines.\"\n\nIn response to the BBC investigation, the Met took the almost unprecedented step of naming White as a suspect. The force apologised again for its handling of the case.\n\nIt said the failure to trace one key witness, a relative of White, for 20 years was a \"significant and regrettable error\".\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Titanic sub victim Suleman Dawood solves a Rubik's Cube in under 20 seconds\n\nTeenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, took his Rubik's Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record, his mother has told the BBC.\n\nThe 19-year-old applied to the Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.\n\nChristine Dawood and her daughter were on board the Polar Prince, the sub's support vessel, when word came through that communications with the Titan had been lost.\n\n\"I didn't comprehend at that moment what it meant - and then it just went downhill from there,\" she said.\n\nIn her first interview, Mrs Dawood said she had planned to go with her husband to view the wreck of the Titanic, but the trip was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,\" she said.\n\nAs well as Suleman and his father Shahzada Dawood, three other people died on board: Stockton Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of OceanGate which owned the Titan, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver and renowned explorer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Suleman did not go anywhere without his Rubik's Cube' - Christine Dawood\n\nSpeaking of her son, Mrs Dawood said Suleman loved the Rubik's Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds.\n\n\"He said, 'I'm going to solve the Rubik's Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic'.\"\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in the UK. Businessman Shahzada Dawood, who was British, was from one of Pakistan's richest families.\n\nThe family, including daughter Alina, 17, boarded the Polar Prince on Father's Day.\n\nMrs Dawood said they hugged and made jokes in the moments before her husband and son boarded the Titan submersible.\n\n\"I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,\" she said.\n\nMrs Dawood described her husband as infectiously curious about the world around him - the kind of person who made the family watch documentaries after dinner.\n\nJessica Parker explores how the search for the Titan submersible unfolded and its devastating outcome.\n\n\"He had this ability of childlike excitement,\" she said.\n\nMrs Dawood and her daughter stayed on board the Polar Prince as the search and rescue mission shifted from hopeful to desperate.\n\nSuleman Dawood wearing a Rubik's Cube costume in a photograph shared by his family\n\n\"I think I lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark,\" Mrs Dawood said.\n\nShe said that's when she sent a message to her family. \"I said: 'I'm preparing for the worst.' That's when I lost hope.\"\n\nAlina held out a bit longer, she said. \"She didn't lose hope until the call with Coast Guard. When they basically informed us that they found debris.\"\n\nThe family returned to St John's on Saturday, and on Sunday held a funeral prayer for Shahzada and Suleman. Mrs Dawood said she was touched that the Imam said a prayer for all five of the men killed.\n\nMrs Dawood said she and her daughter will try to learn to finish the Rubik's Cube in Suleman's honour, and she intends to continue her husband's work.\n\n\"He was involved in so many things, he helped so many people and I think I really want to continue that legacy and give him that platform... it's quite important for my daughter as well.\"\n\nMrs Dawood declined to discuss the ongoing investigations into the tragedy. But when asked how she and her daughter would find closure she said: \"Is there such a thing? I don't know.\"\n\n\"I miss them,\" she said, taking a deep breath. \"I really, really miss them.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Dead' woman breathing in coffin is taken to hospital\n\nAn Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.\n\nBella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week.\n\nBut when mourners attending her wake heard her knocking on her coffin, she was immediately rushed back to the same hospital for treatment.\n\nAfter seven days in intensive care, Ecuador's health ministry confirmed she died on Friday from an ischemic stroke.\n\nThe ministry's statement added that she had remained under \"permanent surveillance\" while at the hospital.\n\nSpeaking to a local newspaper, her son, Gilbert Barbera, said, \"This time my mother really did die. My life will not be the same.\"\n\nFollowing her death on 16 June, Ms Montoya was taken back to the same funeral home ahead of her burial at a public cemetery, local media is reporting.\n\nLocal media reported Ms Montaya had a condition called catalepsy - where a person experiences seizure, loss of consciousness, and the body becomes rigid.\n\nA commission of experts has been assembled by the Ecuadorean health ministry to review her case.\n\nMs Montoya was placed in a coffin and taken to the funeral parlour in Babahoyo, south-west of the capital. Quito, after being declared dead on 9 June.\n\nBut after almost five hours inside, the woman gasped for air after her relatives opened the coffin to change her clothes for the funeral.\n\nMinutes later, she was stretchered out by fire fighters and transferred back to the same hospital.\n\nBella Montoya is not the only person to \"come alive\" after being officially declared dead.\n\nIn February, an 82-year-old woman was found to be breathing while lying in a funeral home in New York State. She had been pronounced dead three hours earlier at a nursing home.", "The Philippine Coast Guard has used a water cannon to extinguish a fire that broke out on a passenger ferry.\n\nThe Esperanza Star was travelling between provinces when the blaze started off the island of Bohol.\n\nOfficials said all 120 passengers and crew on board have been accounted for and no casualties were reported.\n\nThe cause of the incident is still being investigated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands take to the streets for Warsaw LGBTQ+ Pride\n\nTens of thousands of people marched in Warsaw's Pride parade on Saturday to demand equality for LGBT people ahead of Polish elections.\n\nThe country's right-wing government, which is seeking re-election, has focused on opposing what it calls \"LGBT ideology\" in previous campaigns.\n\nBut Warsaw's mayor vowed that the LGBTQ community would \"always be safe\".\n\n\"And I hope that you all will be safe in Poland,\" Rafal Trzaskowski, from the liberal opposition party, told crowds.\n\n\"We want to show that today diversity, minority rights means Europe that is open, Europe that is tolerant,\" he said at a press conference before the march.\n\nSame-sex relationships are not legally recognised in Poland, and the country already bans same-sex couples from adopting children.\n\nThere are also obstacles facing transgender people who seek to formalise their transition.\n\nPoland's ruling conservative nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) says that extending marriage and adoption to gay couples threatens traditional family structures and is harmful for children.\n\nActivists expect that these issues will be used by the party to mobilise conservative voters in the predominantly Catholic country during this year's elections in October or November.\n\n\"I am almost a hundred percent sure that it will be happening again this year,\" Alicja Herda, one of the organisers of Warsaw's Equality March, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"But I am not very worried because we are a very strong community, and we will not be easy to stop from doing our prides (marches) because it's okay to be who we are.\"\n\nJoining the large crowds on the march was US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski and the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.\n\n\"We will not let ourselves be influenced by those who want to extinguish women's rights, minority rights, LGBT rights, and today, I want to say to you that in Paris just as in Warsaw, we are also totally in solidarity and engaged with you for the rights of transgender people,\" Ms Hidalgo said.", "Teachers in the National Education Union have held five national and three regional strike days already this year\n\nTeachers in England will strike over pay again on two dates in July, the National Education Union (NEU) has announced.\n\nNational strikes are scheduled for 5 and 7 July. Many schools are likely to fully or partially close.\n\nThe NEU is calling for negotiations with the government to start again and says strike action is a \"last resort\".\n\nThe Department for Education said further strike action would cause \"real damage\" to pupil learning.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan has previously said strike action was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nThere have already been five national and three regional strike days since February by members of the NEU, which is UK's largest education union.\n\nThe most recent one, on 2 May, affected more schools than ever - with fewer than half of schools (45.3%) fully open.\n\nDr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, the NEU's joint general secretaries, said the education secretary had \"turned her back\" on teachers in England.\n\nThey called for Ms Keegan to get round the negotiation table, saying their calls have time and again \"fallen on stony ground\".\n\nIt is within her power to halt these strikes, added Dr Bousted and Mr Courtney in a joint statement.\n\nMost state school teachers in England had a 5% pay rise for the year 2022-23. The government also offered a £1,000 one-off cash payment which was lost when talks failed.\n\nUnions want the offer to be higher to match inflation, and for any pay rise to be funded by extra money from the government rather than from schools' existing budgets.\n\nThe government has offered a 4.3% pay rise for most teachers for 2023-24 with starting salaries reaching £30,000.\n\nThe Department for Education described it as a \"fair and reasonable offer\" and said that schools would receive an extra £2.3bn over the next two years.\n\nIt said on average across England, the offer is fully funded. This refers to the national picture and each school will be affected differently.\n\nHowever, talks stalled after all four unions rejected the government's offer, saying most schools would have to make cuts elsewhere to afford it.\n\nThey are calling on the government to publish the recommendations of the independent pay review body, which advises what pay rise teachers should be offered for next year.\n\nOldfield Primary School in Chester has partially closed on previous strike days, and will do the same for the July strikes.\n\nHead teacher Alan Brown says the last thing teachers want to do is strike as their students have already missed education because of the pandemic.\n\nBut he says the dispute is about \"the future of these children\" and \"not just about teachers' pay\".\n\n\"This is about funding for schools,\" he says.\n\n\"We have seen a decrease in the amount of funding available for us. We do get more money in our budget, don't get me wrong, but to run a school, it costs a lot more money and something needs to happen to actually get us back in sync.\"\n\nIn Leeds, business owner Virginia Nnomo has three children who all had to stay at home on previous strike days. She is weighing up the cost of childcare and whether it is worth opening her salon for the upcoming strikes.\n\nVirginia Nnomo from Chandos Beauty has had to cancel appointments on previous strike days\n\n\"The cost of a babysitter is a lot of money and she charges me per child, so when I weigh it up, maybe it is better to stay home - but I will lose money, that's for sure,\" Virginia says.\n\nKate, a doctor at the local hospital, had to take time off work when her seven-year-old daughter's primary school closed on previous strike days. But she says she is fully supportive of the teachers.\n\n\"They don't get paid enough money in my opinion so I am quite happy to jiggle things around so we can support them,\" she says, adding that she hopes the dispute is resolved soon.\n\nThree other teaching unions, the NAHT, the NASUWT, and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), are also balloting members on strike action for the autumn term.\n\nThe four unions say they would co-ordinate that action to maximise disruption - which the government has said is \"unreasonable\".\n\nElsewhere in the UK, teachers in Northern Ireland, and NAHT members in Wales, are continuing to take action short of a strike. In Scotland, the pay dispute has ended following a revised pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said the strike would cause disruption for parents across the country.\n\n\"Thousands of schools are receiving significant additional funding as part of the extra £2bn of investment we are providing for both 2023/24 and 2024/25, which will take school funding to its highest level in history next year, as measured by the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank).\"\n\nAs is normal process the School Teachers' Review Body has submitted its recommendations to the government on pay for 2023/24, said the spokesman, adding it would consider the recommendations and publish \"in the usual way\".", "For Dads By Dads runs a 10-week programme to educate new and expectant dads\n\nA dad who suffered a breakdown after witnessing the traumatic birth of his son says the impact a new baby can have on fathers is often overlooked.\n\nMark Williams, 48, said both the birth and supporting his wife through postnatal depression had a \"massive impact\" on his mental health.\n\n\"The first time I had a panic attack was in the labour ward thinking my wife and baby were going to die,\" he said.\n\nMark, from Bridgend, said he suffered in silence with depression for years.\n\nMark was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and later ADHD after the birth of his son\n\nThen in 2004 when his wife went into labour he witnessed her in prolonged pain and had to stand by helpless when she was rushed to theatre.\n\nWhen their baby was still small his wife was diagnosed with post-natal depression.\n\n\"Obviously I witnessed my wife go through those things as well,\" he said.\n\n\"I was really unwell, I was drinking, avoiding situations.\"\n\nHe began looking for support but struggled, and found a lack of conversation around new dads and mental health.\n\nHe was eventually diagnosed with anxiety and depression and later Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).\n\nHe said therapy, medication and learning coping skills through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy all played a part in improving his mental health.\n\nToday he is an advocate for fathers' mental health and wants to see more support for new and expectant dads.\n\n\"If dad is suffering with mental health or confidence, whatever that looks like, that can have an impact on the relationship and obviously on the child as well,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's really important that all parents should have our support.\"\n\nMark has been supporting the For Dads By Dads group in Torfaen, educating new and expecting men on the challenges of the early years of fatherhood.\n\nThe group was set up by another dad, Jacob Guy, who said: \"There were times where I did feel a little bit isolated and needed more information to be the best dad that I could be.\n\nJacob Guy found a lack of support for new dads when he became a father so set up a group\n\nWhen Jacob, 41, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, became a dad he felt that he did not have a network of people who were going through the same thing and would understand how he was feeling.\n\nHe looked around for dad groups but was unable to find the support he was looking for.\n\nIn 2022 he decided to set up a 10-week programme aimed to give dads a safe space and to educate new and expectant dads by running workshops covering a wide range of subjects.\n\nFor Dads, By Dads aims to build confidence in new fathers\n\nThe group gives opportunities to fathers to share experiences, build a network of support and tackle the challenges that come with fatherhood.\n\nAnd that support is vital: According to the British Journal of Midwifery, one in 10 fathers are affected by post-natal depression, which is about the same rate as mothers.\n\nUp to 38% of new dads are worried about their mental health and want more support, according social enterprise DadPad, which was developed with the NHS and real-life dads.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was investing in the development of perinatal mental health teams and networks.\n\n\"We remain committed to improving perinatal mental health services and will consider what further action can be taken,\" it said.\n\nJacob said he had seen the positive impact being around other dads had had on new fathers.\n\n\"It's built their confidence to know we're not going to get it right all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"If we make mistakes, we dust ourselves down and we start again.\"", "Iraqi authorities have vowed to try to repatriate all stolen artefacts\n\nA 2,800-year-old stone tablet has gone on display in Iraq after being returned by Italy following nearly four decades.\n\nThe artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet.\n\nItalian authorities handed it over to Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid in the city of Bologna last week.\n\nIt is not clear how the tablet was found - or how it made its way to Italy where it was seized by police in the 1980s.\n\nIraqi Culture Minister Ahmed Badrani said that it might have been found during archaeological excavations of the Mosul Dam, which was built around that time.\n\nIraq, often described as the \"cradle of civilisation\", is known, among others, for the world's first writing.\n\nIn the late 8th Century, the country's Bayt al-Hikmah (House of Wisdom) was home to the largest library of books on science, art, maths, medicine and philosophy.\n\nLooting of the country's antiquities intensified following the US-led invasion 20 years ago.\n\nIraq's president praised the co-operation shown by Italy and said he would work to recover all the archaeological pieces of Iraqi history from abroad.", "Katie Boulter won her first WTA title with a dominant victory in Nottingham over Jodie Burrage in the first all-British tour-level final in 46 years.\n\nThe British women's number one ranking was also on the line as Boulter outplayed her good friend 6-3 6-3.\n\n\"I'm definitely going to be sleeping with this trophy tonight,\" Boulter said in her on-court interview.\n\nEarlier, Andy Murray won the men's event as Britons find form on grass before next month's Wimbledon.\n\nBoulter and Burrage were contesting the first all-British WTA final since Sue Barker beat Virginia Wade in San Francisco on 28 February 1977.\n\nBoth players were also appearing in their first WTA finals after excellent performances in Nottingham this week but it was Boulter who took control from the start.\n\nThe day's order of play had been changed because of the forecast of rain, and with dark clouds hanging heavy, Boulter stormed into a 5-1 lead with a double break in the opening set.\n\nBut she then failed to serve it out at the first opportunity as Burrage's forehand clicked. That was the only blip for the 26-year-old though as she immediately broke back to seal the set.\n\nShe barely paused for breath at the start of the second, taking the first two games to love and faced her only real challenge at 3-1 when she had to fend off break point with a stunning backhand winner.\n\nBoulter delivered her first ace of the match when she was serving for victory but she missed her first match point when she sent a backhand narrowly wide - Burrage's puff of the cheeks a big indication of just how close that had been. But she was soon celebrating victory when 24-year-old Burrage sent a forehand long.\n\nThe pair shared a warm hug at the net and then sat next to each other chatting and laughing while they waited for the trophy presentation at the end of a memorable week for both of them.\n\n\"I dreamed of this moment, to win this tournament, as a little girl when I was four years old,\" said an emotional Boulter, who considers this her home tournament after growing up in Leicester.\n\n\"Having come here as a fan and now as a player and somehow finding a way to win it means more than everything to me.\"\n\nBoulter, who took over as British number one from the injured Emma Raducanu last week, is now set to rise into the world's top 80 on Monday for the first time in a career that has been disrupted by injuries over the years.\n\nThe home success at the British grass-court tournaments this year has come just a few weeks after criticism of the state of tennis in the country when no British women appeared in the main draw of the singles at the French Open and only three men did.\n\nBritish player Dan Evans had suggested that Raducanu's 2021 US Open victory had \"papered over the cracks\" in British tennis.\n\nLess than four weeks after those comments, Murray has won back-to-back tournaments here and at Surbiton last week, while three of the women's semi-finalists at Nottingham were British.\n\nThere were also Britons in the women's doubles final, where Heather Watson and Harriet Dart lost to Norway's Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia's Ingrid Neel, while on Saturday Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday won an all-British men's doubles final against Liam Broady and Jonny O'Mara.\n\nThere are far stronger fields at some of the next grass-court tournaments before Wimbledon at Eastbourne, Queen's and Birmingham but there will also be a new sense of confidence among some of the Britons who have enjoyed their best tournaments, including Boulter and Burrage.\n\nBurrage said it had been \"such a positive week\" and that she had proven \"a lot of things\" to herself, while Boulter added: \"I've played so many British players, we appreciate an all-British final and what an incredible achievement it is.\n\n\"I don't doubt we [Burrage and I] will be back here playing more finals.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Greek authorities say a boat carrying hundreds of migrants was on a steady course for Italy right up until the moment it capsized off southern Greece, leaving least 78 people dead and many more missing.\n\nHowever, tracking data seen by the BBC's Europe correspondent Nick Beake suggests the boat was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 500 people are still missing from a migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN human rights office says.\n\nLarge numbers of women and children were among those missing in the \"horrific tragedy\" that left 78 people dead, said spokesman Jeremy Laurence.\n\nThe appalling loss of life underscored the need to bring people smugglers to justice, he added.\n\nBut it also made clear that search and rescue at sea was a \"legal and humanitarian imperative\".\n\nIn a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration, the refugee agency said any search and rescue action had to be conducted to prevent loss of life..\n\nSince the fishing boat carrying up to 750 people went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, the role of the coastguard has come under increasing scrutiny.\n\nGreece's caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, said a \"thorough investigation of the real facts and technical judgements\" would take place to determine what had caused the boat to sink.\n\nGreek officials have denied a series of reports that suggest it went down after 02:00 on Wednesday because a rope was attached by coastguards. Two of the 104 survivors of the wreck have described how the highly crowded boat had veered from side to side.\n\nInitially the coastguard said it had kept a \"discreet distance\" from the boat. But then Greek newspaper Kathimerini quoted a source saying members of the coastguard had tied a rope to the boat so its crew could check on conditions, and those on board had then untied it to continue heading for Italy.\n\nThat incident is understood to have taken place at around 23:00, three hours before the boat went down.\n\nGovernment spokesman Ilias Siakantaris confirmed on Friday that the coastguard had \"used a rope to steady themselves, to approach, to see if they wanted any help\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"There was no mooring rope,\" suggesting that there was no attempt to tow the boat or tether it for any length of time.\n\n\"They refused it, they said 'no help, we go to Italy' and continued on their way.\"\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nThe question of whether a rope had been tied to the migrant boat was first raised by a refugee activist who said people on board had told her they feared it could prompt their highly crowded boat to turn over.\n\nThe coastguard emphasised that its patrol boat had for a few minutes \"dropped a small rope on to the fishing vessel to find out the current condition of the boat and passengers\".\n\nSome of those on board then untied it in order to continue their route northwards to Italy and the patrol \"moved away to watch from a close distance\".\n\nBut since the tragedy unfolded, its timeline and account have been challenged. The coastguard has stressed that from the first moment it was in contact with the crew no request for assistance was made and further repeated offers of help were turned down.\n\nOne organisation which provides support for migrants at sea, Alarm Phone, sent an email on Tuesday afternoon warning the coastguard and others that as many as 750 people were on board and that they were urgently asking for help.\n\nTwo accounts from survivors have suggested that tying a rope to the fishing boat may have led to it going down.\n\nOne has come from a local councillor in the port city of Kalamata who had earlier spoken to a 24-year-old Syrian.\n\n\"The coastguard boat tied them with some rope and tried to tow them to the left. For an unknown reason the boat veered to the right and suddenly sank,\" said Tasos Polychronopoulos.\n\nNew footage from the search and rescue operation has been shared by the Greek military\n\nAnother survivor gave a similar version to former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a visit to Kalamata on Thursday.\n\n\"The Greek coastguard asked the vessel to follow them, but they couldn't,\" a translator told Mr Tsipras. \"The coastguard then threw a rope but because they didn't know how to pull the rope, the vessel started dangling right and left.\"\n\n\"The coastguard boat was going too fast but the vessel was already dangling to the left, and that's how it sank.\"\n\nNine people, including several Egyptians, have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, Greek TV is reporting.\n\nPolice officers escort a man as they arrest several Egyptians as part of their investigation\n\nGeorgios Vasilakos, a volunteer rescue doctor for the Hellenic Red Cross, told the BBC that no women and children were among the survivors.\n\nHe said survivors reported that \"all women and children were isolated below deck\".\n\n\"This is why, because of the rapid unfolding of events and the rapid capsizing of the boat, they were unable to get out in time,\" he said.\n\nPeople on the boat had been drinking sea water for at least two days before it sank, he said.\n\nFamilies of some of the missing have arrived in Kalamata in search of their loved ones.\n\n\"My relatives were on the boat,\" said Aftab, who had travelled from the UK and said at least four of his relatives from Pakistan were unaccounted for.\n\nA Syrian man from the Netherlands broke down as he revealed his wife and brother-in-law were missing.\n\n\"The authorities are looking for their bodies in the sea... They're looking in hospitals, they're looking among dead bodies, and among the survivors,\" Kassam Abozeed said.\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video reportedly showed the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Michael Gove says he will not vote for a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate.\n\nThe housing secretary told the BBC there were areas where the ex-PM \"falls short\" of expectations.\n\nBut he said he disagreed with the report's recommendation that Mr Johnson should have been suspended for 90 days if he had remained an MP.\n\nMr Gove said he would abstain in a vote scheduled for Monday on the report.\n\nDowning Street has yet to say how Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intends to vote, or even if he would take part.\n\nOn Friday, his spokesman told reporters he was still taking the time to \"consider the report fully\".\n\nIt will be a free vote for Conservative MPs, meaning party managers - known as whips - will not instruct them which way to vote.\n\nIn the damning 106-page report, the seven-member Commons privileges committee, which has a Tory majority, said Mr Johnson had deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nHe had \"personal knowledge\" of rule-breaking, and had \"closed his mind\" by not seeking assurances about compliance, it found.\n\nIt said it would have recommended a 90-day Commons suspension for Mr Johnson, partly because of his furious reaction to an advance copy of the report's findings, including him calling the committee a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe suspension will not apply given the former prime minister quit as an MP before the report was published.\n\nThe committee said his calling the committee a \"kangaroo court\" in his resignation statement had \"impugned the integrity\" of Parliament.\n\nBut speaking to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Gove said a ban of such length - rare in recent years - was \"not merited by the evidence the committee have put forward\".\n\nThe housing secretary, who initially backed Mr Johnson for Tory leadership in 2016 before dramatically withdrawing his support, added there were \"complexities\" in the report.\n\n\"Reducing it to a single badge to pin on Boris Johnson I think isn't right,\" he added.\n\nOpposition parties are expected to vote on Monday to endorse the report, which also calls for Mr Johnson to be stripped of the parliamentary pass he would normally be entitled to as a former MP.\n\nHowever, it is not yet clear whether a division - where MPs go through the voting lobbies to indicate their support - will even take place, with Mr Johnson asking his supporters not to vote against the report.\n\nIf no one in the chamber shouts \"no\" to oppose a motion approving the report, it will be passed without a division, meaning the votes of individual MPs will not be recorded.\n\nSeveral of Mr Johnson's allies criticised the report's findings last week.\n\nNadine Dorries, who was culture secretary in Mr Johnson's cabinet, said the committee had \"overreached,\" warning that any Tory MP voting to endorse it would be \"held to account\" by party members.\n\nEsther McVey, who was a housing minister in his government, said the demands for the former prime minister to be denied a parliamentary pass were \"absolutely absurd and utterly unnecessary\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anas Sarwar says Labour has been transformed under Sir Keir Starmer but still has work to do\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader has said he believes momentum is with his party - but he is \"not getting complacent\".\n\nAnas Sarwar said \"we've still got a hell of a lot of work to do\" to defeat the SNP in Scotland.\n\nHe was responding to a new poll which suggested Labour is on course to win in Scotland at the next general election for the first time since 2010.\n\nThe SNP has insisted its support remains strong despite \"a tough few weeks for the party\".\n\nMr Sarwar was speaking during his first interview on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nThe Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times suggests that Scottish Labour would win 26 seats at Westminster, up from the single seat it currently holds. This would put the party ahead of the SNP, which is predicted to take 21 seats, down from 45.\n\nThe Conservatives are projected to take seven and the Liberal Democrats five, adding one extra seat each.\n\nMr Sarwar said it was \"positive news\" but he was keeping his feet \"firmly on the ground\".\n\nHe said: \"Two years ago when I became the leader, we were 32 points behind the SNP.\n\n\"If you'd told me then that we'd now be neck and neck in the opinion polls, I wouldn't have believed you.\n\n\"But I think something different is happening in Scotland. I think the momentum is with the Scottish Labour party. I think there is a mood for change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf has said the SNP could make life \"very difficult\" for Labour in a hung parliament.\n\nOn last week's Laura Kuenssberg programme, SNP leader Humza Yousaf said his party could make life \"very difficult\" for Labour in a hung parliament if it refused to give Scotland the power to call a referendum.\n\nHollywod actor and Scottish independence supporter Alan Cumming also accused Labour of being \"Conservative-lite\" and said the SNP was now the only left-wing party in UK politics.\n\nBut Mr Sarwar said Labour's transformation under three years of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership showed the party was \"ready to serve and ready to deliver a transformative government\".\n\nHe said: \"Of course ardent SNP supporters are going to want to tarnish the Labour party because they know that the Tories winning again is perhaps the only way they can resuscitate their own party here in Scotland.\n\n\"Humza Yousaf has already said it doesn't matter if the Tories win again across the UK - actually it really matters and that's why Labour is determined to get rid of this rotten Tory government.\"\n\nThe SNP deputy leader Keith Brown insisted his party \"remain the political powerhouse to deliver change\".\n\nHe said: \"Only the full powers of independence can protect Scotland from the damage of Brexit and the mismanagement of Tory governments Scotland doesn't vote for.\"\n\nMr Sarwar was speaking a day ahead of Sir Keir Starmer visiting Scotland to launch Labour's new green energy strategy.\n\nLabour has announced it will block all new domestic oil and gas developments if it wins power.\n\nThe UK government and some unions have criticised the plans, saying they risk an economic \"cliff edge\".\n\nBut Mr Sarwar denied Labour's plans to move away from North Sea oil and gas would result in massive job losses.\n\nHe said a Labour government was committed to working with oil and gas companies to make the transition to net zero.\n\n\"There will be no cliff edge - there will be no turning off of the tap,\" he said.\n\n\"We are clear that oil and gas will play a significant role in our energy industry for decades to come.\n\n\"What we're talking about is building the strategic partnerships in order to deliver the green revolution.\n\n\"I want to be really up front about this - we need the oil and gas industry.\"\n\nThe Panelbase poll sampled 1,007 people aged 16 and over, between 12 and 15 June.", "Mary Masika, who lives opposite the school says she would often hear the students singing before bedtime\n\nPupils in Uganda were singing gospel songs before an attack by suspected Islamist militants on Friday, a woman who lives opposite the school says.\n\n\"Then I heard screaming,\" Mary Masika told the BBC. The vicious attack in Mpondwe left about 40 people dead.\n\nIslamic State-linked militants have been blamed for the attack.\n\nThe Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was created in the 1990s and took up arms against President Yoweri Museveni, alleging persecution of Muslims.\n\nThey are now largely based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School attacked on Friday is close to the border.\n\nMs Masika says she and other residents have been left terrified by the attack which lasted about 90 minutes.\n\n\"I have been unable to eat or sleep since then,\" she told the BBC in Swahili.\n\nThe students usually sing before bedtime - and at first she and her daughter thought the noise that interrupted their songs at around 22:00 (20:00 GMT) suggested that they were having a bit of fun.\n\nBut it soon became clear that something horrific was under way at the school, which had around 60 boarders living in a small compound.\n\nADF rebels had entered dormitories, setting fire to them and using machetes to kill and maim students.\n\nOne family in Mpondwe held the funerals on Sunday for a father and son killed in the attack - 47-year-old security guard Elphanas Mbusa and 17-year-old Masereka Elton.\n\nHurubana Kimadi Onesmus lost his son, a school watchman, and at least one of his grandsons - it is not clear if the other has been kidnapped\n\nTheir other son, 15-year-old Brian Muhindo who was also attending the school, is missing. They do not know if he is among the six boys kidnapped or one of those whose bodies cannot be identified because they have been so badly burned.\n\nHurubana Kimadi Onesmus told the BBC he found it difficult to understand how the attackers were able to infiltrate the school where his son, the security guard, worked and where his grandsons were studying.\n\n\"There is a very heavy military presence in the area,\" the 69-year-old said.\n\nThe BBC team were given a few minutes to photograph the scene at school in Mpondwe\n\nNow there is a lot of security at the school - and the BBC team was given only a few minutes to take some photos of the burnt buildings.\n\nIt was a devastating and upsetting scene.\n\nLots of dried blood is still on the ground outside the girls' dormitory - they had been attacked with machetes and others shot dead as they ran away.\n\nThe boys' dormitory had been locked - they had either refused to open it to the rebels or they were locked inside by them. The militants poured fuel on the building and set it alight.\n\nInside, the smell of death is unmistakeable - beds have been reduced to wire mesh with pieces of flesh still stuck to them.\n\nIt is not clear if the doors of the boys' dormitory was locked by those inside or the rebels\n\nMs Masika said towards the end of the attack, at around 23:30, she heard one of the assailants talking at her gate and asking a fellow fighter if \"the job was done\".\n\nThey were talking in Swahili - the lingua franca in the region - and afterwards began shouting \"Allahu Akbar\", meaning \"God is greatest\".\n\nShe said after these chants one of them added: \"We have succeeded in destabilising Museveni's country.\"\n\nSeveral funerals were held on Sunday for those killed in the attack\n\nIn response, President Museveni vowed to send more troops to Rwenzori Mountains, which are along the border between Uganda and the DR Congo, saying: \"Their action... the desperate, cowardly, terrorist action... will not save them.\"\n\nThe area around Mpondwe seems to be a mix of Christians and Muslims. Some of those attending the funerals on Sunday were dressed in traditional Muslim attire.\n\nOther funerals for the pupils killed in the attack were held in villages across the region, with most people dumbfounded and pained by the brutality of the assault.", "PC Dave Bridge and his wife Samantha helped rescue the elderly couple from the York Avenue fire\n\nA police couple have been praised for rescuing their elderly neighbours whose home had been struck by lightning.\n\nPC Dave Bridge and his wife Samantha, who work for Essex Police, were woken by \"an explosion that shook the house\" in Corringham, at 03:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe pair \"braved thick smoke and a collapsing ceiling\" to rescue their neighbours, plus six dogs and a cat, the force said.\n\n\"We didn't hesitate,\" PC Bridge said. \"It's just what you do, isn't it?\"\n\nPC Bridge, a police dog handler, went to check on his own family's five dogs - including police dogs Leo and Ralph - before his stepson alerted him to the fire next door.\n\nHe said they feared for neighbours Barry and Margaret, who had mobility issues.\n\nNeighbours helped get residents and their pets out of the bungalow before fire crews arrived\n\n\"There was smoke billowing between the two bungalows and the side of the house was ablaze,\" he said.\n\n\"I ran around to the front and another neighbour was banging on one of the windows.\n\n\"Barry opened the inner door and me and Samantha rushed in. I shouted 'It's time to get out now, come on'. Margaret was through the back - she didn't hear the explosion.\n\n\"Samantha set about getting hold of Barry and Margaret and taking them outside, and I took all the dogs, one by one, under my arm and put them in the back of their car.\"\n\nThe neighbours were taken safely to another house and an ambulance was called.\n\nThe roof of the bungalow ignited after a lightning strike, the fire service said\n\nCrews from Corringham, Orsett, Basildon and Grays fought the blaze for two hours.\n\nThe roof and loft bedrooms suffered extensive damage but crews managed to save the property, the fire service said.\n\nPC Bridge and his wife - who works in the force's Criminal Justice Unit - played down their bravery, saying they \"only did what comes naturally\".\n\n\"Our other neighbours in the street were really good as well, bringing cups of tea and looking after Barry and Margaret,\" he said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The news from the mortgage market is grim. Spend any time in the office of a mortgage broker over the past week and you hear words like \"shocking\" and \"terrible\" as they join multi-thousand digital queues to try to snaffle the last few bargain fixed-rates deals available on their systems.\n\nBanks have been pulling entire rosters of mortgage deals without notice at weekends on multiple occasions within a week. Some describe customers who failed to get organised six months ago as \"feeling sick\".\n\nOur news teams have been deluged with examples of families in utter shock at hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month. It is regularly coming up in interviews on entirely separate stories, such as the jobs market, energy prices or long Covid.\n\nThe past week seems like a tipping point. Even a month ago there was a consensus that a soft landing for the economy was coming, that recession would be avoided, that light was appearing at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe government celebrated some upgrades to International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other independent forecasts. Others pointed out that Germany and the eurozone had entered a technical recession, which the UK had swerved.\n\nBut there is unexploded ordnance in the UK economy, and there are fears that it will start to ignite, especially in the coming week.\n\nThe jitters started with the last inflation figure for April, meant to be a turning point after three years of relentless shocks, showing the end of double-digit inflation.\n\nIt did fall, but significantly less than expected, and core inflation - a measure that strips out the most volatile components such as food and energy - went up. The latest jobs data this week gave more evidence for the notion that UK inflation could stay higher for longer.\n\nWhat emerged this week was the markets are now convinced that the UK is more inflation-prone than other similar economies, and that interest rates will also now be higher over the next year or two.\n\nThe interest rate for the UK government to borrow money over two years rose rather abruptly and higher compared to the US government.\n\nThe cost of borrowing for the UK is now higher than it was during the post mini-budget panic over the fiscal credibility of the Truss and Kwarteng administration. Markets believe base rates will go above 5% and stay close to that level into next year.\n\nSpeaking to the chancellor this week, Jeremy Hunt said that \"we are in a very different situation to where we were last autumn\". It is true that there is no generalised market credibility panic. Sterling is reaching one-year highs against the dollar not, as it was last autumn, falling to record lows.\n\nBut there is a slow widespread squeeze on the economy.\n\nSome insiders, such as the former top civil servant in the Treasury, Lord Nick Macpherson, have expressed concern that stubborn inflation will now require the Bank of England to raise rates enough to cause a pre-election recession.\n\nI asked the chancellor if he was following his predecessor Sir John Major's famous maxim on interest rates/high inflation that \"if it isn't hurting it isn't working\".\n\nMr Hunt said: \"In the end, there is no alternative to bringing down inflation... that's why we will be unstinting in our support for the Bank of England.\"\n\nEconomists now unanimously expect a further rate rise on Thursday. Inflation is expected to have fallen only modestly when the new figure is released on Wednesday, staying above 8%.\n\nBut there may be a more fundamental challenge for the Bank of England in asserting control over longer-term rates. The markets are making assumptions about sticky inflation, and therefore pre-emptively pushing fixed mortgage rates higher. As the National Institute of Economic and Social Research economist Jagjit Chadha puts it, the Bank's miscommunication of its rate rise strategy risks \"needlessly increasing the probability of recession\".\n\nBut there are also factors in government policy contributing to lingering inflation, from less competition in supply chains from Europe after Brexit, to worker shortages. Food inflation is already at its highest level since the 1970s, and yet that is where a much-delayed entirely new system of post-Brexit border controls on European food imports is due to be imposed at the end of the year.\n\nBut the impact of the already considerable series of rises is now starting to hit the mortgage market as a rump of homeowners roll off super-low fixed mortgage deals, many of which were signed two years ago in the mid-pandemic stamp duty holiday property boom. Measures of adjusted mortgage affordability are flashing red. Other pressures on disposable income are not going away.\n\nThe Sunak administration may have hoped that the economic pain of dealing with an inflation shock could be concentrated this year, well before a possible election. That is now very much in the balance.\n• None Five reasons why mortgages are getting us down", "About 170 people were relocated from the western French town of La Laigne after an earthquake on Friday evening.\n\nThe quake, believed to have been between magnitude 5.2 and 5.8 was felt from Rennes in the north-west to Bordeaux in the south-west.\n\nHomes, schools and churches were damaged, with hundreds of buildings declared uninhabitable.\n\nEarthquakes above magnitude five are unusual in France, with the last affecting the country in November 2019.\n\nTwo people were injured in Deux-Sevres following Friday's tremor.\n\nThe Charente-Maritime region just north of Bordeaux was particularly affected.\n\nIn La Laigne, the local fire service chief Didier Marcaillou warned the church had become \"completely unusable\" and a top government regional official said that most of the houses in the town centre were affected.\n\n\"The school will have to be closed as a precaution,\" Nicolas Basselier said.\n\nOne woman cried as she told local station BFMTV that she had could no longer live in her home. \"I wouldn't wish this on anyone,\" the woman, named Christine said. \"In my son's room you can fit your entire hand through the crack in the wall.\"\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne described the earthquake as \"unusual\" and expressed her solidarity with those \"who may have been worried\".\n\n\"We will obviously ensure that everyone has access to rehousing,\" Ms Borne said.\n\nInterior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the government would initiate an accelerated natural disaster recognition procedure to help quickly assess the structural damage to buildings.", "The bodies of Dawid Wlodarczyk, 3, Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11, and Michal Wlodarczyk, 39 were found on Friday\n\nPolice have named four people, including two children, found dead at a flat in Hounslow.\n\nMichal Wlodarczyk, 39, Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11, and Dawid Wlodarczyk, aged three, have been named by police.\n\nAll four were found at the property on Staines Road, Bedfont, and thought to be from the same family, police said.\n\nOfficers said they were called at 15:12 BST on Friday by a person \"concerned about the welfare of the occupants\".\n\nAfter officers carried out a \"forced entry\" they discovered all four bodies.\n\nTheir next of kin have been informed and are being supported by family liaison officers. The Metropolitan Police's investigation is being led by homicide detectives.\n\nThe force described it as \"a terrible incident\" and revealed that no other parties were currently being sought.\n\nPolice officers were at the property on Staines Road on Saturday\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being arranged to establish their cause of death.\n\nIt is understood that the property where the bodies were found comprises two flats and they were discovered in the upstairs flat.\n\nAccording to neighbours, they were a Polish family. Mr Wlodarczyk worked as a builder, while Mrs Wlodarczyk was a cleaner at a hotel, they told PA Media.\n\nNaura Hooper, 46, who attended the scene, said she used to take 11-year-old Maja out with her daughters.\n\nShe said: \"Maja was a nice girl, very intelligent and well-liked. The family were nice whenever I met them.\"\n\nA man who lives next door, who did not wish to be named, said: \"They were just normal neighbours - we just had greetings here and there, that kind of stuff.\"\n\nA female neighbour - who also did not wish to be named - said she exchanged pleasantries with the family and revealed the woman was a \"lovely mother with two young children\".\n\nShe told the BBC the family were \"absolutely gorgeous\".\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson told reporters officers were keeping an open mind about the circumstances\n\nFeltham resident Michael Oban, 56, who lives about half a mile from the property, said he was \"disturbed\" by the discoveries.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, the death of four people inside a property really is quite shocking,\" he added.\n\n\"You have two children in there. It's always distressing when you hear children lose their life.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ch Supt Sean Wilson explained that the police's \"investigation is at a very early stage, and based on our initial inquiries, we are not currently seeking anybody else in connection with the incident\".\n\n\"I know the shock and distress that this terrible incident will cause among the community in Hounslow and beyond,\" he added.\n\n\"I can assure local people that specialist officers are working to establish exactly what happened and I will provide further information as soon as I can.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am also aware that this incident will be particularly upsetting for children, and I ask people to please be responsible about what they post on social media, including not naming or speculating as to the names of those who've died.\"\n\nHounslow council leader Shantanu Rajawat said the deaths had sent \"shockwaves\" through the community and he expressed his \"heartfelt sympathies\" to the family and friends of the deceased.\n\nFloral tributes were laid at the scene\n\nIt's clear that the incident has left Hounslow's community incredibly distressed.\n\nSome neighbours, parents of young children, were too upset to speak.\n\nOthers said they simply couldn't believe it, and never expected to wake up to this news on a Saturday morning.\n\nLocals have been stopping near the property, and comforting each other, as they come to terms with four deaths in the London suburb.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Charles's first Trooping the Colour as King... in 60 seconds\n\nKing Charles III has taken part in his first Trooping the Colour since becoming monarch.\n\nPrinces Louis and George and Princess Charlotte joined other royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony to watch a flypast in honour of their grandfather's official birthday.\n\nIn a surprise tribute, aeroplanes were used to spell out the King's initials, CR.\n\nThousands watched the event at Horse Guard's Parade and the Mall in London.\n\nThe royals watched an extended military flypast after the display on coronation day had to be scaled down due to bad weather.\n\nAround 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force took part - including aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the C-130 Hercules on its final ceremonial flight, modern Typhoon fighter jets with a red, white and blue finale from the Red Arrows.\n\nA sea of mobile phones were spotted among the crowds, with many holding them up in the air to capture the moment.\n\nThe Trooping the Colour is part of the annual calendar of big royal events and for the first time, it was with King Charles in the leading role.\n\nThere may have been a moment of poignancy for the King too. Just a year ago, at the Platinum Jubilee, it had been his mother on the same balcony, appearing before the crowds.\n\nIt is the first time a monarch has ridden on horseback at the event since 1986, when the late queen rode her horse, Burmese.\n\nHe was joined by the other royal colonels on horseback - the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal.\n\nThe King's horse appeared to be a little skittish at the start, but calmed down as the event went on.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh also rode during the ceremony in his role as Colonel of the 1st Battalion London Guards.\n\nThe ceremony started at Buckingham Palace, with the King and senior royals travelling down The Mall towards Horse Guards Parade.\n\nThe colour - or regimental flag - was then trooped in front of hundreds of Guardsmen and officers from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.\n\nThere was music and marching while the King carried out an inspection of the soldiers - moving slowly along the line as they stand in formation.\n\nAfter he coursed through the Mall, the King received the royal salute as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Division's regiments.\n\nThe senior royals on horseback were joined by the Queen, the Princess of Wales and her children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, who travelled in a carriage to support their grandfather.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands gathered to watch King Charles at the birthday parade\n\nPrince George of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales rode along in the carriage\n\nThe Duchess of Edinburgh and Vice Adm Sir Timothy Laurence, during Trooping the Colour\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak was spotted in the crowd, as well as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, along with prime ministers of Commonwealth states and realms.\n\nOne royal fan said they were \"so happy\" to be at Trooping the Colour after missing out on the King's Coronation.\n\nThey said: \"We're so happy about coming today. We've been bringing our kids to see all of the pomp and ceremony for years.\n\n\"We've been exchanging photos, and we've got plans for birthday cocktails later.\"\n\nBefore the ceremony began, the Prince of Wales paid tribute to those took part in last week's rehearsal in soaring temperatures, which reached 30°C (86F) in London.\n\nAn aerial view of the parade captured the scale of the event\n\nLeader of the Opposition Sir Keir Starmer is spotted in the crowd\n\nQueen Camilla and the Princess of Wales ride along in a carriage\n\nRishi Sunak was also in attendance\n\nA view of the crowd at the event\n\nThe last time a monarch was on horseback was when chart toppers included Wham! and Doctor and the Medics.\n\nFollowing the parade, troops fired a 41-gun salute in Green Park to mark the King's official birthday - while from the Tower of London the Honourable Artillery Company fired 62 volleys.\n• None The King's birthday parade... in 57 seconds. Video, 00:00:57The King's birthday parade... in 57 seconds", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nKatie Boulter will play Jodie Burrage in the Nottingham Open final - the first all-British WTA final since 1977.\n\nBoulter beat fellow Briton Heather Watson 6-4 7-5 in a rain-affected first semi-final, before Burrage then defeated France's Alize Cornet 7-5 7-5.\n\nIt will be a maiden WTA final for both players, with the position of British number one also on the line.\n\nIn the men's competition, Andy Murray beat Portugal's Nuno Borges to set up a final against France's Arthur Cazaux.\n\n\"I was not expecting this coming into this week but I'm very, very happy with my performance,\" said 24-year-old Burrage.\n\n\"Alize is not an easy opponent to put away, as it showed at the end.\n\n\"It's going to be an amazing day on Sunday and I'm really looking forward to it - what an amazing tournament for us.\"\n\nCornet, 33, is a former world number 11 and beat top seed and current world number eight Maria Sakkari of Greece in the last 16 on Wednesday.\n\nThe Frenchwoman led 2-0 against Burrage but the Briton recovered and then broke Cornet's serve in the 11th game before holding her serve to take the first set.\n\nThere were six breaks of serve in the opening eight games of the second set before Burrage again gained the crucial break late on to secure the win.\n\nBoulter and Burrage met in the final on the lower-ranked ITF Tour in Canberra, Australia, in January, with Boulter coming from a set down to gain a 3-6 6-3 6-2 victory.\n\nHowever, Sunday's match will be the first all-British WTA final since Sue Barker beat Virginia Wade in San Francisco, USA on 28 February, 1977.\n\nBoulter became British number one for the first time earlier this week, replacing the injured Emma Raducanu.\n\nIf Boulter wins on Sunday she will stay the top-ranked British player when the rankings are released on Monday, but she will lose that position to Burrage if her fellow Briton wins the Nottingham tournament.\n\nWatson, 31, has won four WTA titles in her career but none of them on grass and none of them in the United Kingdom, with her last WTA title being at the Mexican Open in February 2020.\n\nBoulter could not take a break-point chance in the opening game of the match, but did then break Watson's serve in the fifth game in the last point before a 90-minute rain delay.\n\nWhen play resumed, Watson immediately got the first set back on serve, only for Boulter, impressing with her powerful forehand shots, to regain the advantage in the ninth game before serving out the set.\n\nWatson led 3-0 in the second set, but Boulter fought back to win seven of the next nine games to move into the final.\n\n\"I've worked so hard for this and I'm just going to keep plugging away,\" said 26-year-old Boulter. \"Even if it's not my time, it's been a great week for me and I will keep working hard.\n\n\"It means so much to me, especially here. It was a really tough match and I just tried to put my heart on the line and managed to get through in the end.\n\n\"She [Watson] is an incredible player and I knew it would be a battle. I have so much time for her, she is an amazing girl.\"\n\nWatson still has a chance of picking up a trophy though as she and Harriet Dart, who lost to Boulter in the quarter-finals of the singles event on Friday, have reached the women's doubles final.\n\nDart and Boulter beat fellow Britons Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls 6-4 6-4 to set up a final on Sunday against the pairing of Ulrikke Eikeri of Norway and Ingrid Neel of Estonia.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden smiled for the cameras at the G20 summit in November\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken's first visit to China comes nearly five months after a major rupture in relations over a Chinese spy balloon.\n\nHis original trip was abruptly cancelled because the balloon, which China says was monitoring weather, drifted across the continental US before being destroyed by American military aircraft.\n\nMr Blinken's visit includes meetings with China's top foreign policy officials but there is no word yet on whether he will also meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, who appeared with Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Beijing on Friday.\n\nThe two global superpowers have a long list of issues that concern them, including high-profile disagreements as well as potential areas of co-operation.\n\nHere are three key areas that could be at the top of the agenda.\n\nFirst and foremost, Mr Blinken's visit is about re-establishing diplomatic interactions of any kind.\n\nLast month there was an initial breaking of the ice when senior US officials met in Vienna, Austria.\n\nBut Mr Blinken is the most senior Biden administration official to travel to China, and it marks the first visit by a US secretary of state to Beijing since October 2018.\n\nNow is a good time to be talking again because that in itself reduces the risk of conflict, said Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, in a pre-trip briefing.\n\n\"We can't let the disagreements that might divide us stand in the way of moving forward on the global priorities that require us all to work together.\"\n\nThe Chinese response to the Blinken visit has been somewhat frosty, however.\n\nIn the official Chinese account of a call with Mr Blinken on Wednesday night, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is reported to have told him that \"it is very clear who is to blame\" for the recent deterioration in relations.\n\n\"The United States should respect China's concerns, stop interfering in China's internal affairs, and stop undermining China's sovereignty, security and development interests in the name of competition,\" Mr Qin reportedly said.\n\nThe US has downplayed any significant announcements coming out of this visit. It seems the only \"deliverable\" from the meetings, in diplomatic parlance, will be that the meetings have happened at all.\n\nDon't expect some sort of breakthrough or transformation in the way that the two deal with one another, said Daniel J Kritenbrink, the State Department's senior East Asia diplomat.\n\nIf the meeting leads to further interaction between US and Chinese officials, that would be something both sides could build on.\n\nPresident Biden's relations with China started off on a rocky note, in part because he has been unwilling to cancel trade measures enacted by his predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\nThat includes billions of dollars in import tariffs on Chinese-made products.\n\nIn some areas, Mr Biden has squeezed even harder, with restrictions on US computer-chip exports to China in an effort to maintain US superiority in the most advanced electronics technologies.\n\nChina responded by enacting its own ban on computer memory chips sold by Micron, the largest US manufacturer.\n\nMr Campbell acknowledged China's concerns but said the US would defend and explain what it's done so far and what could lie ahead.\n\nIf computer technology is an area destined for fierce competition between the two superpowers, the illicit drug trade may provide more room for co-operation.\n\nThe US wants to limit the export of Chinese-produced chemical components used to make fentanyl, a synthetic opioid many times more powerful than heroin.\n\nThe rate of US drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl has more than tripled in the last seven years.\n\n\"This is an absolutely critical and urgent issue for the United States,\" said Mr Kritenbrink - but it is one that presents its own challenges.\n\nAfter the balloon incident, there were reports that China was considering sending weapons to Russia, where they would be immediately used in the war against Ukraine.\n\nUS government officials have backed away from those accusations of late, removing what could have been a particularly contentious issue for the two nations that risked turning the Ukraine-Russia conflict into a proxy war between the US and China.\n\nRemote Philippine islands are on the frontlines of US-China tensions\n\nBut expect Mr Blinken to echo warnings given to the Chinese in Vienna that there would be serious consequences if China gives military and financial assistance to Russia.\n\nUS and Chinese warships have been facing off in a high-stakes game of chicken over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. China claims the area as their own, while the US insists they are international waters.\n\nMr Blinken and his diplomatic team have said that his goal in this trip is to \"de-risk\" the tensions, and renewed communication is the place to start.\n\nAchieving more may be a tall task for now - and more extensive co-operation could become more difficult for Mr Biden as anti-China rhetoric in Washington is sure to heat up when the 2024 presidential elections approach.\n\nA satisfactory outcome from this trip for both sides might be simply the opening of communication channels that prevent an incident leading to military conflict.", "Partygate is the last thing that anyone in Rishi Sunak’s government wants to talk about. It might be the last thing that you want to read about too.\n\nBut a video of an event at the Conservative party’s headquarters has put the the story firmly back in the news, just when Number 10 might have hoped the whole furore might have been dying down.\n\nRather than trying to squirm out of it, the cabinet minister Michael Gove said it was terrible, and apologised for what had happened. But he said the honours for two of those who were attended the party would not be taken away because the process was complete.\n\nHe tried to maintain that Boris Johnson had genuinely believed that he had had assurances that no rules were broken in Downing Street, while also praising the work of the Privileges Committee. You might think, having your cake and eating it, perhaps. Mr Gove said he’ll abstain if there is a vote, but was coy about what the prime minister will do.\n\nOur inbox however is overflowing with messages from our viewers about interest rate rises on the way. Costs are racking up and up, and there is another rise likely next week. Is the government prepared to step in and help like it did with energy bills last year?\n\nGove didn’t quite rule it out, but didn’t quite rule it in. He used the standard phrase, ‘it’s under review’ – in other words, the government has no desire to write another enormous cheque for householders who can’t pay the bills, but it is still possible that the political pressure might, in time, become too great for them not to act.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of Wednesday's migrant shipwreck in which hundreds are feared to have died.\n\nAnalysis of the movement of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.\n\nThe coastguard still claims that during these hours the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.\n\nGreek authorities have not yet responded to the BBC's findings.\n\nAt least 78 people are known to have died, but the UN says up to 500 are still missing.\n\nThe UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.\n\nGreek officials maintain those on board said they did not want help and were not in danger until just before their boat sank.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a computer animation of tracking data provided by MarineTraffic, a maritime analytics platform.\n\nTheir data shows hours of activity focused on a small, specific area where the migrant boat later sank, casting doubt on the official claim it had no problems with its navigation.\n\nThe fishing boat had no tracker so is not shown on the map. Neither are coastguard and military vessels which do not have to share their location.\n\nThe overcrowded vessel was pictured a number of times before tragedy struck\n\nFrontex, the EU's border force, says it first spotted the migrant boat at around 08:00 GMT on Tuesday and informed the Greek authorities.\n\nAlarm Phone, an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea, say they received a call at 12:17 GMT saying the boat was in distress.\n\nWe have used video and photographs authenticated by BBC Verify, as well as court records and shipping logs, to analyse the movement of vessels in the area in the following hours.\n\nThe Marine Traffic animation shows a ship called the Lucky Sailor abruptly turning north at 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe owner of the Lucky Sailor gave the BBC their timeline of events and confirmed it had been asked by the Coastguard to approach the migrant boat and give food and water.\n\nAbout half-an-hour later at 15:35 GMT, the coastguard helicopter found the migrant boat. Authorities have continued to claim it was on a steady course at the time.\n\nThe movement of ships in the area where the vessel eventually sank (in yellow) suggests it was stationary hours before the shipwreck\n\nBut two-and-a-half hours later at around 18:00 GMT, another vessel, the Faithful Warrior, travelled to the same area and also gave supplies to the boat.\n\nThe owners of Faithful Warrior referred us to the investigating authorities.\n\nVideo has emerged - reportedly shot from the Faithful Warrior - claiming to show supplies being delivered to the migrant ship via a rope in the water. No other ships can be seen.\n\nBBC Verify checked it and found the vessel - which is not moving in the footage - matched the shape of the migrant ship seen in photos and the weather conditions were a match for those reported at the time. It's not known exactly when this video was filmed.\n\nBetween 19:40 until 22:40, Greek officials originally claimed the boat was keeping a \"steady course and speed\".\n\nTheir initial statement claimed they observed from a discreet distance, but a close-up image they later published - from this time-period - suggests the migrant boat is not going anywhere.\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nA government spokesperson later said the coastguard had attempted to board the boat to assess the danger but that those on board removed a rope that had been attached and did not want help.\n\nAll of the shipping activity of the previous seven hours was focused around one specific spot, suggesting the migrant boat had hardly moved.\n\nThe scale of the animated map suggests it travelled less than a few nautical miles, which may be expected of a stricken vessel buffeted by the wind and the waves in the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nThe actions of people in distress, rocking the vessel, would also have contributed any movement.\n\nDuring this time period, Greek officials have insisted it was not in trouble and was instead safely on its way to Italy and so the coastguard didn't attempt a rescue.\n\nAt 23:00, the boat sank with hundreds on board and the tracking animation shows a frenzy of ships coming to help.\n\nThis included the Celebrity Beyond from which footage of the aftermath of the disaster was filmed and later sent to the BBC.\n\nA luxury yacht, the Mayan Queen, is then instructed to help take some of the 104 survivors ashore.\n\nThose rescued reached the safety at the port of Kalamata but left behind a series of troubling questions about the whole Greek response.\n\nRead more about BBC Verify: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify", "Take That member Howard Donald has apologised for his \"huge error\" in liking social media posts that he said were \"derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community\".\n\nThe singer, 55, has since been dropped from appearing at a Pride festival.\n\nDonald said he was sorry and had \"let everyone down\" by \"my uneducated actions\".\n\nThe performer had been due to play a solo show at Groovebox's Nottingham Pride Festival event in July.\n\nGroovebox thanked the public for \"alerting us to the situation\".\n\nAccording to Pink News, Donald \"liked\" Tweets that included criticism of a campaign promoting period product inclusivity featuring trans men, and a tweet calling for Disney to be \"defunded\" for holding a Pride in Concert event in June.\n\nHe had also reportedly liked posts by controversial influencer Andrew Tate.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to substantiate activity on Mr Donald's Twitter account which has been deleted.\n\nIn an Instagram story on Saturday, the singer wrote: \"I have made a huge error in my judgement (by) liking social media posts that are derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community and for that, I am deeply sorry and I know I have let everyone down.\n\n\"I am really disappointed in myself and I am sorry for any hurt that I have caused by my uneducated actions.\n\n\"I clearly have a lot to learn and it's a priority for me that I do this.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, Groovebox Festival said: \"In light of recent events, Howard Donald will no longer be playing at our Nottingham Pride Festival on Saturday 29 July at Binks Yard.\n\n\"We would like to offer our thanks to the public for alerting us to the situation this morning and also appreciate your patience while we spoke to the relevant parties.\"\n\nThe statement added organisers were working on finding a replacement act.\n\nTake That are due to headline the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park, London, on 1 July.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Mark said acting used to be more accepting of \"oddballs\" like him.\n\nTheatre directors would not accept someone like me now, Sir Mark Rylance has said.\n\nReflecting on how he would be received in today's industry, Sir Mark said acting used to be more accepting of \"oddballs\" like him.\n\nWhile directors \"understandably\" want actors who are \"easy to work with\", it can \"also be a loss\", he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nSir Mark was knighted for his services to theatre in 2017.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not a doctor, I'm an artist, but I remember when I first came into the theatre in 1980, I feel like there were a lot more kind of oddballs and difficult people in the theatre. And I think on film sets too.\n\n\"Now I regularly, understandably, meet directors who only want people who are easy to work with, they don't want anyone difficult, they don't want anything like that.\n\n\"And I think that also can be a loss.\"\n\nAsked what he was like as a younger actor, Sir Mark said he was \"temperamental, moody and difficult to understand\".\n\n\"I think today I might have got a bad reputation and not been welcomed into work,\" he added.\n\nSir Mark Rylance after he was knighted by the Duke of Cambridge\n\nSir Mark, who won his third Tony award for his performance as Olivia in the Globe Theatre's all-male performance of Twelfth Night in 2013, also said he \"doubts\" he will play a woman again.\n\n\"It's not where society is at the moment,\" he added.\n\nHe said he was pleased to see that \"things have improved\" for actors from underrepresented backgrounds.\n\nRecalling when he first joined RADA and the RSC in the late 70s and early 80s, he said there were not any actors from the African diaspora in the company.\n\n\"Things have improved. Now it's unthinkable that anyone other than someone from the African diaspora would play Othello for example,\" he added.\n\nSir Mark's acting career has spanned four decades, winning him an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootball legend Graeme Souness has completed a swim across the English Channel to raise £1m for charity.\n\nThe ex-Liverpool player was inspired to take on the challenge after meeting Isla Grist, 14, who suffers from rare skin disease Epidermolysis bullosa.\n\nThe 70-year-old broke down in tears during a BBC interview as he called it \"the cruellest disease out there\".\n\nSouness completed the 21-mile swim as part of a six-person relay team in 12 hours and 17 minutes.\n\nHe took part in the team challenge, which included Isla's father, to raise money for Debra UK, which supports people with the disease, also known as butterfly skin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Souness explained why he decided to swim the English Channel\n\nPosting on Twitter, the charity offered its \"huge congratulations\" to Souness and his fellow swimmers.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast ahead of taking on the gruelling test of endurance, the former Rangers and Scotland player, who lives in Dorset, described meeting Isla from the Scottish Highlands.\n\nHe choked back tears as he described her as \"the most unique person I've ever met\".\n\n\"She does this to me every time. She's an inspiration to me - even at my age,\" he said.\n\nThe former Scotland international said he and Isla have become firm friends over the years he has known her\n\nIsla, from Black Isle, near Inverness, has had her condition since birth and has to be wrapped head to toe in bandages. These are changed three times a week in a procedure that is extremely painful.\n\nSouness said he first became aware of the disease about five years ago. He said he had now become \"mates\" with Isla, whose courage was an inspiration to him.\n\n\"This disease... it's the cruellest, nastiest disease. For someone so young to be so brave... and Isla's aware of the impact this has on her mum and dad and she helps them,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a very special young lady you're in the company of, she really is, and I am… she gets me in tears every time I'm in her company.\"\n\nSpecial coverage of Graeme Souness' Channel swim will feature on BBC Breakfast on Monday 19 June\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Antony Blinken, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday, is the highest-ranking member of President Joe Biden's administration to visit China\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken held \"candid\" talks with his Chinese counterpart at the start of two days of meetings with officials in China, the US state department says.\n\nMr Blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping \"open channels of communication\", a statement added.\n\nHis trip is the first by a top US diplomat to China in almost five years.\n\nA planned Blinken visit in February was called off after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew in US airspace.\n\nUS officials say the main goal of the Beijing talks is to stabilise a relationship that has become extremely tense.\n\nChina's Foreign Minister Qin Gang told Mr Blinken that Beijing was committed to building a stable, predictable and constructive relationship with the US, state media said. US officials said he had agreed to a visit to Washington at the talks.\n\nMr Qin said Taiwan was the \"most prominent risk\" for China-US relations and described the Taiwan issue as one of \"China's core interests\", state media said.\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control, but Taiwan sees itself as distinct from the Chinese mainland with its own constitution and leaders. US President Joe Biden said last year that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack from China, a move condemned by Beijing.\n\nMr Qin greeted Mr Blinken on Sunday morning at the Diaoyutai State Guest House, a lavish estate that typically hosts visiting dignitaries.\n\nThe two shook hands as they stood before their respective flags, then sat down with their delegations at long tables to begin their meetings.\n\nThe greeting was business-like, underscoring the chilly relations that have developed between the two superpowers in recent years.\n\nThe US had been lowering expectations for the trip and both sides have made clear they do not expect any major breakthrough.\n\nThe war in Ukraine, trade disputes over advanced computer technologies, the fentanyl drug epidemic in the US and Chinese human rights conduct are all topics the Americans were expecting to be discussed.\n\nChinese officials have reacted coolly to Mr Blinken's visit, questioning whether the US is sincere in its efforts to mend relations.\n\nIt is not clear whether he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMr Blinken is the highest-ranking US government official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.\n\n\"If we want to make sure, as we do, that the competition that we have with China doesn't veer into conflict, the place you start is with communicating,\" Mr Blinken told reporters on Friday.\n\nLater he said he hoped to meet President Xi in the next few months.\n\nA meeting between President Biden and Xi Jinping in Bali in November briefly eased fears of a new Cold War, but since the balloon incident high-level communication between the two leaders has been rare.", "David Warburton has resigned after a newspaper published allegations of sexual misconduct\n\nAn MP who was suspended from the Conservative Party over allegations of sexual misconduct has resigned.\n\nDavid Warburton, who represents Somerton and Frome in Somerset, is the fourth MP in eight days to announce their resignation.\n\nMr Warburton said the past 14 months since allegations were published in a national newspaper had been \"extraordinarily difficult\".\n\nHe added that the allegations about him had been \"malicious\".\n\nThe MP had been accused of taking drugs and making unwanted advances towards two women, after they and another woman spoke to the Sunday Times about his conduct. That led to his suspension from the Conservative Party in April last year.\n\nHe announced his resignation in an interview with the Mail On Sunday in which the paper reports him as admitting to taking cocaine after drinking \"incredibly potent\" Japanese whisky.\n\nHe added in the interview: \"I was set up, but I have been naive and incredibly stupid.\" He went on to deny the harassment claims he is accused of.\n\nHis immediate departure means the Conservatives will now face a fourth by-election.\n\nMr Warburton has represented his constituency as an independent since losing the Tory whip. A writ for a new election is usually issued with three months of the resignation, according to Parliament's website.\n\nMr Warburton, who had taken the constituency from the Liberal Democrats in 2015, was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. He won with a majority of 19,213 in that last poll.\n\n\"My constituents in Somerton and Frome who elected me three times with overwhelming majorities have for a year been deprived of the voice they need,\" said Mr Warburton.\n\n\"I am so grateful for their many messages of support, and it is with sorrow that I have no choice but to provoke the upheaval of a by-election.\"\n\nHe also said in his three-page resignation letter he had been denied a fair hearing by the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) and prevented from \"speaking out\" while it investigated the accusations.\n\nThe House of Commons rejected the claim saying ICGS was \"there to ensure all complaints are dealt with in a manner that is fair, thorough, independent and efficient\".\n\nIn a statement, a Commons spokesman said: \"We remain committed to ensuring that lasting cultural change can be delivered for all of those in Parliament.\"\n\nMr Warburton joins Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams who resigned last week triggering by-elections in their constituencies.\n\nNadine Dorries also announced her resignation, but said her departure would not be immediate as she wanted to stay while she seeks to investigate how she was denied a seat in the Lords on Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nLabour's national campaign co-ordinator Shabana Mahmood accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of being \"too weak to act himself\" after Mr Warburton resigned \"in disgrace\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Time after time the Conservatives have mired themselves in sleaze and scandal neglecting the issues that really matter to people. Then they decided it was OK to leave local people in this seat without any proper representation at all.\"", "Mr Webber's parents spoke at a vigil held at his home cricket club in Somerset\n\nThe parents of student Barnaby Webber who was stabbed to death in Nottingham on Tuesday have described him as \"a lovely soul\" during a vigil near his Somerset home.\n\nMr Webber, 19, died in attacks in which fellow student Grace O'Malley-Kumar, also 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were killed.\n\nSupport from \"his tribe\" there was a source of strength, his parents said.\n\n\"It's overwhelming the outpouring of love and support,\" Mr Webber's mother Emma Webber explained. \"This is his true home, his people.\n\n\"Today we wanted to come and see what this wonderful club has done for him. It's been healing.\"\n\nThe teenager, from Taunton - a first-year history student at University of Nottingham - was a keen cricketer.\n\nThe vigil was held as prayers were said at faith services across Nottingham for the victims.\n\nOn Friday, the England and Australia men's cricket team paid tribute to the victims ahead of the first Ashes test.\n\nMrs Webber said she had been overwhelmed by the \"outpouring of support\"\n\nDescribing last week's tributes in the city where her son died as \"wonderful\", Mrs Webber said on Sunday it was \"hugely important\" to remember all three of the victims.\n\n\"We are in touch with Grace's family a lot and I hope we'll be able to with Ian's family as well because we are intrinsically linked now,\" she explained.\n\nMr Webber (left) said: \"We always knew he was special\"\n\nMrs Webber's husband David Webber said everything that everyone had been doing to show support across the UK had been \"amazing\".\n\n\"It gives us strength and I'm sure it gives Grace and Ian's family strength,\" he said.\n\n\"We always knew [Barnaby] was special, we always knew he was a beautiful human being and a lovely soul.\n\n\"People were coming up to me and saying 'I don't know you Mr Webber, but your son was lovely, so much fun, he really helped me'.\n\n\"I found he was like a glue to all these different groups of friends,\" he added.\n\nThe family said the Somerset vigil was a \"reflection and celebration of a wonderful young man so cruelly taken away at the very prime of his life\".\n\nFamily and friends visited the vigil in Somerset\n\nMrs Webber said her son's body was \"coming home\" on Monday.\n\n\"That will be the next really big step for us, to know he's here,\" she said.\n\n\"We're still a family of four, it's just that one of us is not here right now.\"\n\nDavid Webber said his son was like \"a glue\" for lots of different friendship groups\n\nValdo Calocane, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with three counts of murder over the killings.\n\nHe appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Saturday and spoke only to confirm his name, giving an alias of Adam Mendes.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to face a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on 20 June.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of the victims died as attackers burnt a dormitory\n\nNearly 40 pupils have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nFive militants attacked the Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe at around 23:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThey entered dormitories, setting fire and using machetes to kill and maim the pupils, officials said.\n\nThe Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - based in the Democratic Republic of Congo - have been blamed and a manhunt is under way.\n\nMore than 60 people are educated at the school, most of whom live there.\n\nUganda's information minister said 37 students were confirmed to have been killed, but did not give their ages.\n\nTwenty of them were attacked with machetes and 17 of them burned to death, Chris Baryomunsi told the BBC.\n\nThe Ugandan army said the rebels had also killed a school guard and three members of the local community.\n\nSurvivors said the rebels threw a bomb into the dormitory after the machete attack. It is not clear if this resulted in a fire in the building which was reported earlier.\n\nSix students were also abducted to carry food that the rebels stole from the school's stores, he added. The militants then returned across the border into the DR Congo.\n\nSome of the bodies are said to have been badly burnt and DNA tests will need to be carried out to identify them.\n\nEight people remain in a critical condition after the attack.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the \"appalling act\" and called for those behind it to be brought to justice.\n\nSoldiers are pursuing ADF insurgents towards the DR Congo's Virunga national park - which is home to rare species, including mountain gorillas.\n\nMilitias including the ADF also use the vast expanse, which borders Uganda and Rwanda, as a hideout.\n\n\"Our forces are pursuing the enemy to rescue those abducted and destroy this group,\" defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said on Twitter.\n\nThe Ugandan army has also deployed helicopters to help track the rebel group over mountainous terrain.\n\nThe two neighbours have held joint military operations in the east of DR Congo to prevent attacks by the ADF.\n\nSecurity forces had intelligence that rebels were in the border area on Congolese side for at least two days before Friday night's attack, Maj Gen Olum said.\n\nBut local residents have criticised the authorities for not being prepared for an attack.\n\n\"If they are telling us the borders are secure and security is tight, I want the security to tell us where they were when these killers came to kill our people,\" one resident told reporters.\n\nThe deadly episode follows last week's attack by suspected ADF fighters in a village in DR Congo near to the Ugandan border. More than 100 villagers fled to Uganda but have since returned.\n\nThe attack on the school, located less than 2km (1.25 miles) from Congolese border, is the first such attack on a Ugandan school in 25 years.\n\nIn June 1998, 80 students were burnt to death in their dormitories in an ADF attack on Kichwamba Technical Institute near the border of DR Congo. More than 100 students were abducted.\n\nThe group may target schools as a way of recruiting children, according to Richard Moncrieff, an expert in the region at the International Crisis Group. But they also do it for the shock value, he told the BBC.\n\n\"These are terrorist groups who want to make and impact through violence, they want to show that they are there, show that they are active to their colleagues and allies in Isis in other parts of the world,\" Mr Moncrieff said, using another acronym for IS.\n\nThe ADF was created in western Uganda in the 1990s and took up arms against long-serving President, Yoweri Museveni, alleging government persecution of Muslims.\n\nMuslims make up almost 14% of the Ugandan population, according to official government figures, though the Ugandan Muslim Supreme Council estimates the figure is closer to 35%.\n\nSome members of the Ugandan Muslim community say they face discrimination in public life, including in education and the workplace.\n\nAfter defeat by the Ugandan army in 2001, the ADF relocated to North Kivu province in DR Congo.\n\nThe group's principal founder, Jamil Makulu, was arrested in Tanzania in 2015 and is in custody in a Ugandan prison.\n\nADF rebels have been operating from inside DR Congo for the past two decades.\n\nMakulu's successor, Musa Seka Baluku, reportedly first pledged allegiance to IS in 2016, but it was not until April 2019 that the group first acknowledged its activity in the area.\n\nIS is a group has been mostly defeated, though there are significant numbers of IS-affiliated militant groups across the Middle East and Africa.\n\nAfter years of not operating openly in Uganda, the ADF was blamed for a series of attacks in late 2021 including suicide bombings in Uganda's capital Kampala.\n\nDR Congo allowed Uganda to cross the border to assist in efforts against the ADF in 2021", "Judged a liar. Chucked out of the building. Condemned by colleagues.\n\nYou would think you'd want to crawl under the duvet and stay there for a good while after a massive public disgrace. Perhaps not Boris Johnson.\n\n\"He loves oxygen and he doesn't care about Parliament. Everyone is talking about him and he'll be delighted,\" suggests a former ally who knows him well.\n\nAnd his remaining die-hard backers claim the verdict of the privileges committee, which investigated whether he deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties at No 10, is a vindictive strike against a politician loved by party members and much of the public.\n\nWhen it comes to the public, the polls have suggested for many months that claim is tripe - to use Boris Johnson's terminology for the report into his conduct.\n\nHe did have an unusual ability to connect with voters. But he long ago fell out of favour with the public.\n\nAnd what about inside the Conservative Party, that is again indulging in what seems like its favourite hobby, arguing with itself?\n\nI've been talking to activists and MPs from around the country to test that out. Like in any big organisation there are differing views, but repeatedly, different sources describe three distinct groups.\n\nOne experienced party member describes the different tribes as Boris Johnson's \"super fans, never fans, and only fans while he was an asset\".\n\nThe reference to the Only Fans website - known for its adult content - may be a mischievous hint that perhaps there was a transactional element all along.\n\nThis is the group for whom Boris Johnson is a political rock star.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has made her views plain - warning that Conservatives who endorse the privileges committee's findings could be chucked out of their seats.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister told me there was such unhappiness the party might even split over how Mr Johnson has been treated.\n\nA different senior backer told me their colleagues were totally underestimating the anger among members and Mr Johnson's magic ability to win, warning that \"people are making a terrible mistake\" which could undermine democracy.\n\nThe howls of rage from the super fans are matched by massive sighs of relief from the \"never fans\".\n\nOne former president of the Conservative National Convention, the top brass of the voluntary party, told me: \"I am so relieved he is gone - and really gone. Boris was never suited to the top job.\"\n\nOne Scottish activist said: \"For goodness sake man, just go. If you really care about our party and our country then go quickly and quietly. You made your bed and you were caught lying in it.\"\n\nEven if members do still have affection for Mr Johnson, this activist argues they \"aren't who we need to appeal to\" to win elections, saying the super fans are \"delusional idiots\".\n\nThe biggest group by far however is those who were content to back Boris Johnson for as long as he was useful.\n\nThis is summed up by one activist who backed him as PM: \"It was a transaction. At the time I absolutely realised and knew what his flaws were.\n\n\"But I took the view that you have to decide what is the bigger issue and it was keeping Corbyn out.\"\n\nAnother association chair in south-east England said his members absolutely do not want Mr Johnson back, apart from a few die-hards, telling me: \"It's like when someone has had a really exciting but disastrous boyfriend, afterwards, you have a pang occasionally and you miss the excitement but you don't really want them back.\"\n\nAn activist in the Midlands who once backed him said: \"Everyone liked him to start with and were willing to take a punt. He has smashed his credibility and his likeability.\"\n\nOne MP, in a constituency with one of the highest Brexit Leave votes, told me: \"Practically nobody has got in contact. He's so popular he appears to have rendered my constituents incapable of using their fingers to tap out an email or pick up a phone - it's been staggering.\n\n\"It's like all those X Factor winners, one of their songs comes on and you think, 'oh yeah people actually used to love that'. Then you think 'but why?'.\"\n\nNot so much the rock star any more.\n\nIt is impossible to be scientific about the size of each group, but in each of my conversations it is clear the super fans are very definitely a minority.\n\nOne source calculates \"you have gone from 70% being supportive of him to only around 20%\", adding: \"The sensible middle ground of members has definitely gone away.\"\n\nAnother party chair says only \"10% of the grassroots are pro - who would actually want him back\". There is a desire to move on, not just from the political melodrama, but also the era that Boris Johnson defined.\n\nAs one activist says: \"What we need is Boris Johnson to go away. And most people want Covid and Brexit to go away. He represents both of those.\"\n\nA regular peep at the Telegraph letters page would suggest its readers gave up on him months ago. If Boris Johnson is no longer tickling the tummies of the party's most traditional media backer then the notion he's still the Tory darling just does not hold.\n\nThere still is the possibility of a vote on the report into his conduct in the Commons on Monday.\n\nHaving promised to uphold integrity and accountability it is tricky for the prime minister to sit it out, but that does seem the most likely outcome. One minister joked: \"He is likely to be many miles away.\"\n\nAnd it's worth noting that Boris Johnson's camp has backed away from turning the vote into another bout of a fight it has already lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis remaining supporters are not going to vote against the committee's findings, which would have been a way of protesting against what they saw as its vicious judgement.\n\nIt seems, realising the support might have looked embarrassingly paltry - maybe \"20 votes on a good day\" as one minister said - they now won't turn up at all.\n\nThere is evidence of some campaigning to make the vote count at the margins. Tory website the Conservative Post is encouraging MPs to vote against the report, along with circulating some wild claims that the committee ignored the rule of law.\n\nSeparately, the Liberal Democrats have been making hay in local media, demanding their Conservative rivals vote to endorse the verdict that Johnson lied. If they don't, you can imagine they'll use that to try and embarrass their opponents.\n\nBut neither Labour nor the Lib Dems are at the moment planning to force a vote to endorse the report. It may therefore go through \"on the nod\", where MPs do not have to vote, sparing Tory blushes.\n\nThere is a small irony in MPs not even bothering to vote on the departure of the most prominent politician of his generation. Alternatively, it tells you all you need to know.\n\nBut however messy his exit, the end of the Johnson era is prompting questions about what he leaves behind.\n\nSome Conservatives - including the never fans and the only fans - just want to see the back of Boris Johnson\n\nRishi Sunak is yet to sketch out a bold, new canvas. His brand - and it very much is a brand - is designed to create an impression of quiet competence rather than create fireworks.\n\nThe risk - or maybe the reality - is that's created a sense of quiet drift.\n\nOne of the activists I spoke to said this \"is the beginning of whatever will be the story after the election\" - assuming Rishi Sunak will lose - and \"it is going to be brutal and nasty - you can see the various wings in the party already beginning to manoeuvre themselves\".\n\nOne of the other members just wants the Conservatives to concentrate on what the public needs: \"I just feel what people want to talk about on the doors is health and the cost of living.\"\n\nAs the pressures of rising mortgage costs in particular become horrifyingly clear, the Conservative Party - already well behind in the polls - can ill-afford another week like this.\n\nIt is not clear yet how much trouble Boris Johnson wants to cause. Will he use his new newspaper column to sledge Rishi Sunak at every opportunity? Or actually, as he did yesterday, confine himself to writing about battles with his weight?!\n\nThat seems vanishingly unlikely. Whatever he chooses to do there is a sense that the Conservative Party is exhausted by it all. Years of drama. Years of fighting. Years of its majority being spent on arguments with each other.\n\nOne of the activists I spoke to warned of a spreading sentiment: \"More than half the grassroots are just disillusioned - too apathetic to campaign, too apathetic to vote, some talking about spoiling ballot papers.\"\n\nWhether super fans, never fans, or only fans, Conservatives have to deal with the legacy of Boris Johnson.\n\nBut after all the drama, all the political pain and adrenalin mixed in, they may have to confront the horror of apathy too.", "After winning the Nottingham Open, Andy Murray is surprised to discover his children are in the crowd to support him on Father's Day.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Elton John - who has long been fashion first - promises to go out with a Rocket Man bang, as he headlines Glastonbury at his last ever UK show\n\nTent: check. Sun cream: check. The next thing: what am I going to wear?\n\nWith Glastonbury 2023 ready to start, festival season is well under way.\n\nThe festival prides itself on being eco-conscious, but how do fans plan their outfits sustainably?\n\nFestival and concert fashion has become a huge part of event planning: a quick scroll on TikTok and you'll see cowboy hats and feather boas as the uniform for Beyoncé and Harry Styles concerts.\n\nJess Potter, 36, from Cardiff, will be going to Glastonbury with her online second-hand clothing business.\n\nAt the festival she will be hosting the second-hand style awards, where festival-goers will be judged on their best sustainable looks from the weekend.\n\nJess confesses she has not always been sustainable. During her first Glastonbury in 2014 she bought everything new, she used to be a \"retail addict\". That's where she met her now husband and business partner Davey, and they are now \"on a journey to sustainability together\".\n\nThe idea for UsedandLoved.com - a search engine tool that allows you to search for second-hand items all under one roof - came from a sleepless night idea, said Jess.\n\nJess Potter working on her stall, which will be in the Green Futures area of the festival\n\nShe said second-hand shopping was \"all about finding your own style\", and seeing content creators styling the outfits was key to changing people's attitudes on buying them.\n\nIn her spare time, Jess goes around Cardiff picking up bags of clothes that are left on the side of the road, which she sifts through and gives a new lease of life.\n\n\"I've found stuff from Ralph Lauren and Zara in them, all in really good condition,\" she said.\n\nShe plans to put the clothes found on the streets of Cardiff on display at Glastonbury with the idea that \"they are free again and their destiny has been changed because they are going to get another life, and that clothes can live on for so long if you let them\".\n\nBethany Lewis, from Swansea, planned her whole festival wardrobe via second hand shops and went on online clothes site Vinted for the In It Together festival in Margam, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nWhen she booked for In It Together, she was adamant she would not buy anything new.\n\nBethany Lewis didn't buy anything new for the In It Together festival she attended last month\n\n\"I've never done a festival in that kind of heat before so I kind of took all the basics out of my wardrobe, so I mostly managed to use things I already owned,\" she said.\n\n\"But then, if I was looking for something specific, like I wanted like a mesh top to wear under an outfit so I went on Vinted, looking for stuff specifically.\n\n\"Rather than buying it new, I knew that I got it cheaper. I was also reducing my impact on the environment by buying it.\"\n\nCost plays a part too, with tickets for festivals not cheap.\n\nA ticket to Glastonbury would set you back £335 this year - and that's without buying your camping essentials like tent, wellies and booze (if that's your thing) - so many people try to use second-hand sites to get their outfits.\n\nCaitlin Smith, a fashion blogger from Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, who's based in London, said: \"I don't tend to buy anything that doesn't work with at least five pieces in my wardrobe. So, if I'm looking for a festival 'fit, I'll only buy items that I know I'll wear again.\n\n\"I blame being a Capricorn for my frugality, so I don't like feeling like I've wasted money on something I'll wear once.\"\n\nCaitlin Smith says Vinted is her \"one true love\"\n\n\"I also tend to look for accessories or builder pieces that I can layer over things I already own. Accessorising and layering are such fun and easy ways to change up your look without having to buy a completely 'new' outfit.\"\n\nRachel Cosgrove-Pearce, the head of retail operations for Oxfam, said shopping second-hand was a great way to express individuality.\n\n\"For the festival season, a lot of the (Oxfam) shops will pull together festival-style windows to help people choose their outfits for going. They'll have festival displays inside and the beauty of shopping second-hand with Oxfam is that you can be your own stylist.\"\n\n\"You can go in, you shop in a variety of brands, you're not being influenced around the latest trends, and you can literally go and choose the pieces and create your own look unique for you.\n\n\"Everyone is more conscious than ever now about sustainability and by shopping with Oxfam not only are you going to look fabulous, and you know you're going to feel fabulous.\"\n\nSo that's the fashion advice. But what to do about the weather?\n\nWith Glastonbury predicted to be a scorcher, the advice is to try and pack for the heat - and if it does rain, trusty wellies and a raincoat will always be in style.", "Ukraine has recently launched an offensive to reclaim territory seized by Russia\n\nThe war in Ukraine must end, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told Russia's leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nMr Ramaphosa's remarks came as he met Mr Putin in St Petersburg on Saturday as part of a peace mission with six other African countries.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the delegation on Friday that he would not enter talks with Russia while they occupied Ukrainian land.\n\nMr Putin told the African leaders Ukraine had always refused talks.\n\nAt the meeting in St Petersburg, Mr Ramaphosa also called for both parties to return their prisoners of war, and said children removed by Russia should be returned home.\n\nMr Putin has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court over the forced removal of hundreds of Ukrainian children from their families during Russia's occupation of Ukraine.\n\nAs the African delegation called for the return of children to their families, Mr Putin interrupted their speech and claimed Russia was protecting them.\n\n\"Children are sacred. We moved them out of the conflict zone, saving their lives and health\", he said. The UN said they have evidence of the illegal transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia.\n\nMr Ramaphosa also warned Mr Putin of the impacts of the war on Africa, and said it should be settled by diplomacy.\n\n\"The war cannot go on forever. All wars have to be settled and come to an end at some stage,\" he said. \"And we are here to communicate a very clear message that we would like this war to be ended.\"\n\nThe war has severely restricted the export of grain from Ukraine and fertiliser from Russia, which has affected African countries in particular and intensified global food insecurity.\n\nBut Mr Putin blamed the West for the grain crisis - not the war in Ukraine - as he said only 3% of the grain exports permitted under a UN-sponsored deal to ensure its safe passage through the Black Sea had gone to the world's poorest countries.\n\nRussia has repeatedly complained that Western sanctions are restricting its own agricultural exports. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were \"no grounds for extending\" the grain deal, because \"so far what we were promised has not been done\".\n\nMr Putin praised what he described as Africa's balanced position on the war, which Russia continues to call a \"special military operation\".\n\nThe African delegation, made up of representatives from South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Congo-Brazzaville, Comoros, Zambia, and Uganda has been specifically designed for breadth and balance, with members from different parts of Africa with different views on the conflict.\n\nSouth Africa and Uganda are seen as leaning towards Russia, while Zambia and Comoros are closer to the West. Egypt, Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville have remained largely neutral.\n\nAfrican countries have primarily seen the conflict a confrontation between Russia and the West.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The road to peace is not an easy one,' said President Cyril Ramaphosa in Ukraine\n\nThe delegation also met with Ukrainian leaders on Friday, where Mr Ramaphosa warned the war in Europe was affecting between 1.2 and 1.3 billion people in Africa.\n\nAfter the leaders landed, air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, which Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said demonstrated that Mr Putin wanted \"more war\".\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Zelensky told the delegation that \"an important result of your mission\" would be to intercede to bring about the release political prisoners held by Russia.\n\nThe meeting comes amid heightened tensions between both Russia and Ukraine, as Ukraine launches its counteroffensive near the region of Bakhmut.\n\nRussia has claimed the counteroffensive has failed, but Kyiv said it has retaken about 100 sq km of territory on its southern front.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the thunderstorms forecast for the weekend\n\nThunderstorms, winds and hail are sweeping across the UK and could cause flash flooding, the Met Office has warned.\n\nWarm, humid air this week has caused the storms to develop, the forecaster said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for England, Wales and Scotland is in place until Monday in some places.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said some of the worst storms could produce a month's worth of rain in a few hours.\n\nThe hot weather will continue, with temperatures reaching highs of 29C (84F) in some areas.\n\nHowever, seven flood warnings have been issued on Sunday evening in places including Bagley Dike at Grimesthorpe and Hunsworth Beck at Oakenshaw.\n\nThere are also 35 flood alerts, including for the River Maun in Nottinghamshire and the River Blythe in Warwickshire.\n\nThe entrance to the A&E department of Rotherham General Hospital was flooded on Sunday evening, as footage showed water seeping into the waiting area while a member of staff put down large paper towels on the floor to try to mop the water up.\n\nA person tries to mop up the flooding at Rotherham General Hospital\n\nFlash flooding also left roads \"impassable\" in Wrexham, North Wales Police said on Sunday evening, while Wrexham AFC said the 1864 Suite restaurant inside its Racecourse ground had to be evacuated due to structural damage caused by the heavy rain.\n\nOn Sunday, yellow weather warnings were in place for thunderstorms across Wales and most of England for most of the day.\n\nWeather warnings for rain were also in place until the evening of Sunday across northern England and the south of Scotland, due to a risk of spray and flooding.\n\nThe Met Office have issued further yellow warnings for heavy rain and the risk of flooding in the north of England a large part of Scotland for Sunday night and Monday morning.\n\nFlooding is expected across parts of England due to the heavy rainfall on Sunday, the Met Office said, adding that Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield, saw 35.6mm of rain between 18:00 and 19:00 BST.\n\nMr Taylor warned more rain was on the way, as he said: \"Some parts of the UK could see over a months worth of rain fall in just a few hours today and tonight, leading to flash flooding and disruption in places.\n\n\"Due to the nature of thunderstorms, there could be huge variations in weather conditions over a short distance. Whilst some areas stay dry and humid, others close-by could experience the severe storms with torrential rain, hail and frequent lightning.\n\n\"Thundery rain will develop more widely this evening across northern and eastern England, before heading into Scotland.\"\n\nHowever, he said that not everyone will see the storms, with conditions \"highly variable over just short distances, and many areas remaining dry\".\n\nLate on Sunday, and into the night, the thundery rain could affect more of northern and eastern England, as well as eastern Scotland, he added.\n\nA couple and their seven pets had to be rescued by neighbours after a lightning strike set fire to the roof of their bungalow on York Avenue, in Corringham, Essex, at about 03:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThunder and lightning was spotted overnight in Penmon, Anglesey\n\nThe stormy forecast follows a week of high temperatures, where many parts of the UK officially experienced a heatwave.\n\nThe heatwave has caused some to experience heavy hay fever and worsened asthma attacks.\n\nPeople have complained on social media that their hay fever symptoms are worse than usual this year.\n\nGrahame Madge, a spokesperson for the Met Office, said this was a result of the hot, dry weather over the last few weeks.\n\n\"Pollen season is certainly with us,\" he said. \"The fact we've had very dry conditions means that grasses can release pollenen masseinto the air column.\"\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures are expected to keep rising.\n\nDespite the storms, the heat is set to continue. The highest temperature of the year so far was at Chertsey Water Works in Surrey on Saturday where highs of 32.2C were recorded.\n\nA hosepipe ban was issued in Kent and Sussex on Friday after South East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water reached \"record levels\" in June.\n\nThousands of South East Water customers were left without water or experienced low pressure over the last week due to supply issues - however the water company says people in Kent and Sussex should have now seen full supplies return.\n\nHow have the thunderstorms and rain affected your area? Share your experiences, pictures and videos by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray won the Nottingham Open for back-to-back grass-court titles to maintain a perfect Wimbledon build-up. A week after victory in the Surbiton Trophy, the 36-year-old hoisted more silverware with a 6-4 6-4 win over France's Arthur Cazaux. He was then left stunned when his four children and wife delivered an even more perfect Father's Day present - surprising him by being in the crowd. More British success later followed as Katie Boulter won the women's singles. But in the women's doubles final, Britons Heather Watson and Harriet Dart lost 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 10-8 to Norway's Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia's Ingrid Neel. Before last week, it had been seven years since Murray had won a singles title on grass, but the Scot now has claimed two in seven days. And he has achieved this one without dropping a set. The former world number one got off to a fast start against Cazaux in a final that had been brought forward because of bad weather forecast for later in the day, going a double break ahead against the 20-year-old world number 181. The top seed was broken to love by the qualifier while serving for the first set, although then served it out to love at the second time of asking, sealing it with an ace after a series of winners that wrongfooted his opponent. The Frenchman made it more of a contest in the second set but Murray made the key breakthrough at 4-4 when Cazaux netted twice in succession to hand the Briton a break that left him serving for the match. A stunning backhand down the line put him two points from victory before Cazaux netted a service return and Murray wrapped up victory on his first match point when the Frenchman hit long. Murray is enjoying good form at just the right time, with Wimbledon - where he is a two-time champion - beginning on 3 July. But these Nottingham and Surbiton titles have come at Challenger events - the second tier of men's tennis - and he will face a notable step up in the quality of the field at his next event at Queen's, which starts on Monday. There, he will be unseeded and has been handed a tricky first-round draw against Australian seventh seed and world number 18 Alex de Minaur. But he can take a lot of confidence into the London event with a winning streak of 10 matches on grass, with just one set dropped, and looking physically fit on the court - the importance of which, four years after hip surgery nearly ended his career, cannot be overstated. He will return to the world's top 40 on Monday - for what will be his highest ranking for more than five years - and will seek more wins at Queen's to amass enough ranking points to be one of 32 seeds at Wimbledon. After his triumph, Murray had been telling the on-court interviewer about how he was planning to get home quickly so that he could see his children before bedtime on Father's Day. It turned out he did not have to! The Scot was left somewhat surprised when he saw his family in the stands. \"I didn't know they were here,\" he said, looking a little emotional. \"I had no idea they were coming. \"They came last week for the final at Surbiton, they turned up and it started raining then they had to go home for the kids' bedtime and they missed the end of the match so it's great they could come today.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can Mobeen resist being dragged back into the madness? Guz Khan stars in the brand new series of Man Like Mobeen\n• None Will they fight to keep their daughter alive? A haunting new drama from Jack Thorne, starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen", "Prince William beams, accompanied by his children, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and Prince George, in a portrait released for Father's Day\n\nThe Prince of Wales has said his children \"will definitely be exposed\" to homelessness as he prepares to launch a new project on the issue.\n\nIn a Sunday Times interview, Prince William revealed he wanted them to know \"some of us need a helping hand\".\n\nThe prince said he has been thinking about the right time to take them to a homeless shelter, like his mother Princess Diana did with him aged 11.\n\nHe is set to launch a new five-year project tackling the issue this month.\n\nThe interview comes as a new portrait of the Prince pictured smiling with his three children has been released by Kensington Palace to mark Father's Day.\n\nIn his first newspaper interview as Prince of Wales, he told the Sunday Times he had spoken to his children, Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte, during the school run about people they could see sitting outside supermarkets.\n\nHe said: \"When I left this morning, one of the things I was thinking was when is the right time to bring George or Charlotte or Louis to a homeless organisation?'\n\n\"I think when I can balance it with their schooling, they will definitely be exposed to it. On the school run, we talk about what we see.\n\n\"When we were in London, driving backwards and forwards, we regularly used to see people sitting outside supermarkets and we'd talk about it.\n\n\"I'd say to the children, 'Why are they there? What's going on?' I think it's in all our interests, it's the right thing to do, to expose the children, at the right stage in the right dialogue, so they have an understanding,\" he explained.\n\n\"They [will] grow up knowing that actually, do you know what, some of us are very fortunate, some of us need a little bit of a helping hand, some of us need to do a bit more where we can to help others improve their lives.\"\n\nThe prince visited a homeless shelter run by The Passage with his mother and brother in 1993\n\nThe prince would be following in the footsteps of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who took him and his brother in 1993 to visit a London homeless shelter run by The Passage, an organisation of which he is now the patron.\n\nEarlier this year he recalled the experience and said: \"My mother introduced me to the cause of homelessness from quite a young age, and I'm really glad she did.\n\n\"I think she would be disappointed that we are still no further on, in terms of tackling homelessness and preventing it, than when she was interested and involved in it.\"\n\nLater this month the prince will launch \"a really big project\" from his and his wife's charity, the Royal Foundation. He is hoping it will provide \"living conditions up and down the country that improve people's lives who need that first rung of the ladder\".\n\nIt will be a new advocacy for the prince, who has primarily campaigned on the issue of mental health in recent years.\n\nHe says he is particularly concerned about youth homelessness, and part of his project will be about preventing that. The number of 16 to 24-year-olds homeless or at risk of homelessness was 122,000, according to Centrepoint's freedom of information requests to councils.\n\n\"For me, 122,000 is a figure that's way too high,\" he said. \"We need to get ahead of the curve to stop this becoming more and more fixed.\"\n\nThe prince also revealed when asked there are \"absolutely\" plans for social housing on the Duchy of Cornwall - the estate given to the heir of the throne, which provides him with an income.\n\nThe royal spoke to the newspaper after opening a homelessness-charity project for young people in work or apprenticeships who need help finding affordable housing.\n\nPrince William, who is also patron of homeless charity Centrepoint, previously made headlines sleeping rough in Blackfriars, London, for one night to highlight the plight of homelessness.\n\nHe has also donned the red tabard worn by Big Issue vendors to sell the magazines in the capital.\n\nPrince William donned a Big Issue tabard to sell the magazine which gives homeless people the chance to earn an income on the streets", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I have done nothing wrong' - Nicola Sturgeon\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong after appearing in public for the first time since her arrest last Sunday.\n\nScotland's former first minister told journalists she intended to be back in the Scottish Parliament this week.\n\nMs Sturgeon was questioned for more than seven hours as part of a police investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nShe temporarily moved out of her Glasgow home after being released without charge.\n\nReturning there a week after her arrest, the former first minister said: \"For now, I intend to go home and catch up with family.\n\n\"I know I am a public figure - I accept what comes with that. But I'm also a human being that is entitled to a bit of privacy.\"\n\nWhen asked if she had considered stepping back from the SNP, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I have done nothing wrong and that is the only thing I am going to assert today.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell did not return to the house at the same time.\n\nPolice Scotland has been investigating for the past two years what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.\n\nAs part of Operation Branchform, officers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh on 5 April.\n\nEx-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was arrested before later being released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nA luxury motorhome which costs about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts and the arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nShe announced on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has since denied the timing was influenced by the police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA boa constrictor spotted by police in the middle of a busy road in Birmingham gave officers an \"off-the-scale\" shock, the West Midlands force has said.\n\nThe officers were driving down Park Lane on Saturday afternoon when they saw the \"slippery customer\" moving across the road, according to police.\n\nThey managed to manoeuvre the snake into a pillow case and took it to Birmingham Reptile Centre for checks.\n\nStaff said the boa, which is non-venomous, was believed to be a pet.\n\nMohammed Shikdar, who filmed the capture, said he went closer after he saw police officers and on-lookers \"crowding around something\".\n\n\"That's when I saw the snake and the police were trying to pick the snake up using the broom and a walking stick,\" he said.\n\n\"The snake felt threatened and tried to attack the broom.\"\n\nChloe Clarke, team supervisor at the Reptile Centre in Erdington, said as boa constrictors were not native to the UK, the reptile must have been in captivity.\n\nThe snake was spotted by officers from the force's operational support unit, West Midlands Police said\n\nShe said she believed it had escaped, rather than having been left somewhere.\n\nThe snake was well-fed, but had a couple of marks and some scale damage from the dry climate, Ms Clarke added.\n\n\"It's just a shame that a lot of people think snakes are dangerous, but they are just an animal,\" she said.\n\n\"They [boa constrictors] are not venomous and are not capable of harming a human.\"\n\nShe said the snake might give a small bite \"like a pin-prick\" if it was scared.\n\nStaff at the centre would look after the creature for a month in the hope the owner would get in touch, but after that it would be re-homed, she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rory McIlroy heads into Sunday's final round of the US Open one shot behind joint leaders Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark at the Los Angeles Country Club.\n\nThe Northern Irishman, who won the last of his four major titles in 2014, shot a one-under 69 to move to nine under.\n\nFowler, who is chasing his first major, bogeyed the last to shoot a 70 and join fellow American Clark on 10 under.\n\nWorld number one Scottie Scheffler is three shots back after holing from 196 yards for an eagle on the 17th.\n\nScheffler also birdied the last to send out an ominous warning as he attempts to become only the second player after Tiger Woods to win the US Open while sitting at the top of the world rankings, which were introduced in 1986.\n\nHis two-under 68 also came despite another relatively mediocre round on the greens, with Scheffler only 27th out of the 65-man field on strokes gained putting.\n\nMcIlroy was also lukewarm on the greens but once again showed himself capable of routinely serving up outstanding golf shots and he also displayed great resolve as he recorded a third consecutive round in the 60s.\n\nHe came through the statistically tougher back nine unscathed at level par and if his putting improves on Sunday a nine-year wait for a fifth major championship could well be at an end.\n\nHe was 49th on strokes gained on the green and while that undermined his razor sharp short game, he goes into the final round in confident mood.\n\n\"I feel pretty good,\" McIlroy said. \"The golf course definitely got a little trickier than the first couple of days.\n\n\"I felt like I played smart solid golf. It felt somewhat stress-free, if you can ever call golf at a US Open stress-free, but overall I'm pretty pleased. I feel like I'm in a good spot.\n\n\"I'm going out there to try to execute a game plan. I feel like the past three days I've done that really well. I just need to do that for one more day.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday Tom Kim's birdie blitz to surge up the leaderboard gave an indication of what could be possible, particularly on the more favourable front nine holes of the north course.\n\nThe South Korean equalled the lowest nine-hole score in US Open history, taking 29 strokes to the turn and a birdie on the 10th saw him move to seven under for the round before he eventually signed for a 66 after dropping shots at the 13th, 15th and 16th.\n\nAnd that was a precursor to a day of fluctuating fortunes at the top of the leaderboard, with a late twist ensuring that Fowler and Clark would again be paired together in the final group out on Sunday at 22:30 BST.\n\nWhile Fowler, who had led by two heading up the 18th went close with a long birdie putt, he saw the return lip out as Clark made amends for a wild approach that cost him a shot on the 17th, by hitting a pin-seeker on the last and rolling in the birdie putt to sign for a one-under 69.\n\nAlong with McIlroy, both Fowler and Clark made birdies on the first hole but Fowler's bogey on the second and a birdie from the Northern Irishman on the third briefly ensured a three-way tie for the lead.\n\nClark, who missed the cut in his two previous US Open appearances and has never finished better than in a tie for 75th in six previous majors, also hit the front before stumbling with successive bogeys on the 11th and 12th.\n\nAnd until the late drama, Fowler's sensational 70-foot birdie putt on the 13th looked as though it would ensure he had the upper hand heading into Sunday.\n\n\"I hit a good putt on 18 so really can't go back on it,\" said Fowler, who failed to qualify for the last two editions of the US Open after tumbling to 173rd in the world rankings.\n\n\"It would be nice for that one to go in but it really doesn't matter, having the lead, being one back, two back. You're going to have to play good golf.\n\n\"After going through the last few years, I'm not scared to fail. I've dealt with that. We're just going to go have fun, continue to try to execute, leave it all out there, see where we stand on 18.\"\n\nHarris English is four shots back while his fellow American Dustin Johnson, who won the title at Oakmont in 2016, is on five under alongside Xander Schauffele.\n\nOlympic champion Schauffele, who started two shots adrift of the lead, endured a dreadful start to his round, needing three attempts to get out of a fairway bunker as he bogeyed the first and then went on to drop shots on the third and fifth holes.\n\nHe wiped those out with three birdies in four holes from the sixth, but three more bogeys on the back nine saw him drop away.\n\nEngland's defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick carded a two-under 68 to improve to one under, the same score as Ireland's Padraig Harrington, who shot a 67.", "UK firms could gain access to US green funding as part of plans to boost UK and US ties announced by Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden.\n\nThe pair unveiled the Atlantic Declaration, to strengthen economic ties between the two countries, at a White House press conference.\n\nThe PM said the agreement, which falls short of a full trade deal would bring benefits \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nUK electric car firms may get access to US green tax credits and subsidies.\n\nAs the pair unveiled their partnership to bolster economic security, Mr Sunak said the UK-US relationship was an \"indispensable alliance\".\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration, includes commitments on easing trade barriers, closer defence industry ties and a data protection deal and steps up co-operation on AI.\n\nAsked by BBC Political Editor Chris Mason whether the new deal was an \"acknowledgement of the failure\" to strike a broader trade agreement between the UK and US, Mr Sunak said today's deal \"responds to particular challenges and opportunities we face right now\".\n\nA UK-US free trade agreement was a key pledge in the Conservative Party's 2019 general election manifesto.\n\nMr Sunak insisted the more targeted approach of the declaration was about \"what can do the most benefit to our citizens as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"Be in no doubt, the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nPlans for a full free trade agreement were abandoned months ago. On the plane ride over to Washington Mr Sunak said: \"For a while now, that has not been a priority for either the US or UK.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy criticised Mr Sunak, saying the government has left \"Britain's cupboards bare\" by not securing a trade deal.\n\n\"This statement shows the government has failed to deliver the comprehensive trade deal they promised in the 2019 manifesto, or to secure the ally status under the Inflation Reduction Act that is so important for the automotive sector and for the green transition,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nMr Biden said the special relationship with the UK was in \"real good shape\", referring to their co-operation on Ukraine.\n\n\"Together we are providing economic and humanitarian aid and security systems to Ukraine in their fight against a brutal invasion from Russia,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration includes plans to mitigate some of the impact of the US flagship Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on the UK economy, with proposals to remove barriers which affected trade in electric vehicle batteries.\n\nUnder current policy, the IRA provides tax credit worth $3,750 (£3,000) for each electric vehicle (EV) manufactured in the US, or which use components mined, processed or manufactured in the country.\n\nThe UK is already a net exporter of raw materials for EV batteries to the US. But nations without a US trade deal are barred from accessing IRA subsidies.\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration commits the UK and US to working on a new critical minerals agreement - which would give buyers of vehicles made using critical minerals processed, recycled or mined by UK companies access to tax credits.\n\nThe declaration says the agreement would be launched after consultation with US Congress.\n\nJapan already has a similar deal, which allows Japanese firms to also swerve export duties on minerals used in producing EV batteries.\n\nThe declaration also includes a commitment to a \"new UK-US Data Bridge\" which would allow UK firms to transfer data freely to certified US organisations without paying a levy.\n\nDowning Street estimate the change will affect around 55,000 UK businesses - translating into £92.4m in direct savings per year.\n\nMr Biden also supported Mr Sunak's plans to set up an international summit on AI safety which will be hosted in the UK later this year.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The UK and US have always pushed the boundaries of what two countries can achieve together.\n\n\"So it is natural that, when faced with the greatest transformation in our economies since the industrial revolution, we would look to each other to build a stronger economic future together.\n\n\"The Atlantic Declaration sets a new standard for economic cooperation, propelling our economies into the future so we can protect our people, create jobs and grow our economies together.\"\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Mr Sunak agreed to carry out work to improve the resilience of supply chains and efforts will be stepped up to shut Vladimir Putin's Russia out of the global civil nuclear market.", "Nia Phillips said she felt \"angry and frustrated\" at what happened to her\n\nA woman who had a stroke at 20 is calling for more support for younger people like her, saying there was \"next to nothing\" in her case.\n\nNia Phillips, 24, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, said strokes were traumatic for anyone, but having one in your 20s \"is something else entirely\".\n\nShe said she was left feeling as if she was alone in the aftermath.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"committed to improving support for stroke survivors of all ages\".\n\nIn 2019, Ms Phillips was studying for a Psychology degree in London.\n\nOne Saturday morning, just two weeks before celebrating her 21st birthday, she was struck down with a crippling headache.\n\n\"The pain was horrendous it was unlike anything I'd experienced before\" she said.\n\n\"My vision was blurred, I could barely lift my head from the pillow, and I kept being sick.\"\n\nShe said the out-of-hours GP sent her home with painkillers, saying it was a hangover.\n\nAfter starting university in London, Nia Phillips completed another degree and graduated from Cardiff University\n\nAfter little improvement, Ms Phillips returned home to Ammanford, where her mother insisted she went to hospital.\n\nA scan revealed she had suffered a blood clot on her brain and faced the possibility of months, if not years, of recovery.\n\nWith her university life at an end and her social life on hold, she found herself in a dark place.\n\n\"I felt angry and frustrated at what had happened to me. My friends of the same age were still able to go out and do the things people in their 20s do but, suddenly, I couldn't.\"\n\nNia Phillips was a university student in London at the time of her stroke\n\nMs Phillips said she felt a lack of support: \"There were no flyers or leaflets offering information on how to meet up groups of other young stroke survivors, it felt as if I was alone.\n\n\"I can't help but feel that if this had happened to me in my 70s there would have been a lot more help available. Regarding support for young people, it feels like there is next to nothing.\"\n\nAustin Willets, CEO of Different Strokes, a charity which works specifically with young stroke survivors described Ms Phillips' story as \"disheartening\" but \"not as uncommon as you would think\".\n\n\"There are many urgent and unique challenges faced by younger stroke survivors and isolation is often overlooked.\"\n\n\"It would have helped to receive a little information about support groups specifically for younger people,\" said Nia Phillips\n\nAccording to the Stroke Association, there are about 1.3 million stroke survivors in the UK, with almost 70,000 in Wales and about 25% of strokes happen to someone of working age or younger.\n\nKatie Chappelle, the charity's associate director for Wales, said: \"We need funding to support young stroke survivors with their treatment and recovery, particularly in areas that most impact them, such as returning to education or work.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said its quality statement for stroke outlined its \"commitment for improving outcomes and we will continue to work closely with the Stroke Association, the stroke programme board and programme team to maximise opportunities to do this\".\n\nA spokesman also said funding was provided for speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and others who could provide the rehabilitation needed to maximise people's recovery.", "Alistair Wilson with his wife Veronica and their two children\n\nA potential suspect over the unsolved murder of a banker who was shot on his doorstep 19 years ago has been jailed for an unrelated offence.\n\nThe killing of father-of-two Alistair Wilson in Nairn is one of Scotland's biggest crime mysteries.\n\nPolice Scotland have not named a suspect - but the BBC revealed last year that officers are now interested in a specific man.\n\nHe has now been jailed in connection with the supply of drugs.\n\nMr Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his family home in Nairn on the evening of 28 November 2004. He later died in hospital.\n\nHe and his wife Veronica had been bathing their two young sons and getting ready to read them a bedtime story when the killer came to the door.\n\nA blue envelope, which had the name Paul on it, was handed to Mr Wilson on the doorstep.\n\nHe went inside and showed it to his wife, but the envelope had nothing inside. When Mr Wilson returned to the door he was shot dead.\n\nNo-one has been charged with the murder of Alistair Wilson despite cold case reviews and police carrying out thousands of interviews.\n\nLast year, Police Scotland said a dispute over decking at the Havelock Hotel, which sits across the road from the Wilsons' home, was the most likely motive for the shooting.\n\nThe Havelock Hotel, with the Wilsons' house in the background\n\nLocals have told the BBC that the person who police are now interested in kept guns in a locked cupboard at the time of the murder.\n\nThe man was in his early twenties at the time of the murder and some local people said he drank in the Havelock.\n\nIn a statement, Det Ch Insp Graham Smith said: \"The investigation into the murder of Alistair Wilson is active and we continue to investigate any new information we receive.\n\n\"It cannot be stressed often enough that this crime has left a family devastated and Police Scotland is committed to finding the answers for them and bringing the offender to justice.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information to contact the inquiry team.\n\nThe Doorstep Murder: A behind the scenes look at the investigation into the Alistair Wilson murder, one of Scotland's most baffling unsolved cases.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shelby Lynn, 24, from Ballymena, went to see Rammstein in Vilnius\n\nA woman from Northern Ireland has told the BBC she was recruited and \"groomed\" for sex with the lead singer of the German heavy metal band Rammstein.\n\nShelby Lynn, who also claims her drink was spiked at a concert in Vilnius in May, first made the claims on social media.\n\nHer allegations triggered a wave of other sexual misconduct allegations against the band's frontman Till Lindemann.\n\nThe band have denied the claims.\n\nA spokesman for Rammstein told the BBC an internal investigation was under way with the first results expected early next week.\n\nThe band, well known for its flamboyant shows and controversial lyrics, has been engulfed by scandal in recent weeks as a growing number of women claim that they were recruited for sex during concerts.\n\nLike Ms Lynn, some suspect they were pre-selected on social media by a Russian woman, believed to have been a \"recruiter\" for Mr Lindemann, who invited them to parties before and after the show.\n\nShe also gave them access to a restricted area directly in front of the stage, known as \"Row Zero\".\n\nMs Lynn, who is 24 and from Ballymena in County Antrim, told the BBC that when she arrived at the venue a man named Joe asked her and other young women to line up.\n\nShe said: \"He started filming... about four girls, including myself. He got very close to our faces.\"\n\nMs Lynn says singer Till Lindemann reacted angrily when she told him she would not have sex with him\n\nShe claimed that shortly afterwards he picked her and several other girls to attend a pre-concert party, where she was given alcohol and told Till Lindemann would like to meet her during a brief intermission once the concert began.\n\n\"I said: 'Why? Why me? Is this some sort of a sex thing?' [He replied:] 'No, no, no, nothing like that, nothing like that at all. Till's the perfect gentleman.'\"\n\nMs Lynn said she was ushered into a small room underneath the stage.\n\n\"As soon as Joe opens the curtains my stomach drops - this is bad, this is a sex thing absolutely.\n\n\"This room was no bigger than a Primark dressing room - like teeny tiny, dark black - you could maybe fit four or five people in it.\n\n\"Till comes in and I immediately say: 'Till, if you're here for sex. I'm not doing that.'\"\n\nThe singer, she said, reacted angrily and left.\n\nMs Lynn, who has emphasised on social media she wasn't sexually assaulted, said her memory of the evening was \"blurry\" and she recalls feeling nauseous and vomiting at a party after the concert.\n\nShe believes her drink was spiked and that she was the victim of an \"organised system of funnelling girls\".\n\n\"I was groomed, 100 percent, no doubt in my mind. I was groomed for sex,\" she said.\n\nRammstein initially reacted to her claims last month by releasing a statement online in which the band fully denied them.\n\nOn Saturday, after other women came forward with allegations, the band published another statement, saying that they took the accusations extremely seriously.\n\nThey condemned any kind of assault but asked their fans not to \"pre-judge\" them.\n\nA spokesman for the band has subsequently told the BBC that it is now investigating the claims and interviewing staff and crew as part of the enquiry.\n\nRammstein is currently performing several concerts in Germany.\n\nAfter demands from several politicians, including the German families minister, Wednesday's show in Munich went ahead with no \"Row Zero\".\n\nThere were specialist \"awareness teams\" on hand to assist anyone in a vulnerable position.\n\nThe spokesman added that the band had severed contact with the Russian woman accused of helping to select women for \"Row Zero\".\n\nThey said private after-show parties with Till Lindemann had been cancelled.", "The Duke of Sussex has told a court he is suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror to stop \"absolute intrusion and hate\" towards him and his wife.\n\nPrince Harry was giving evidence against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over illegal newsgathering claims, including phone hacking.\n\nHe was choked-up as he finished giving evidence for a second day, and said it had been \"a lot\".\n\nMGN denies it used illegal methods to gather stories about the prince.\n\nAt London's High Court, the prince explained he started discussions about possible legal action after a chance-meeting in France in 2018 with David Sherborne, now his barrister.\n\nThe prince said before then he had no concerns over any particular newspaper stories due to unlawful activity because it \"was all contained in the Palace\".\n\nWhen asked about his discussions with lawyers after that chance meeting with Mr Sherborne, Prince Harry said he had wanted to put a stop to the \"absolute intrusion and hate that was coming towards\" him and the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nHe said he also wanted to \"see if there was any way to find a different course of action, rather than relying on the Institution's way\".\n\nBut in cross-examination, Andrew Green KC, the lawyer representing the publisher of the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, suggested Harry had not found a single story that came from phone hacking.\n\nHarry replied \"there is hard evidence to suggest an incredible amount of suspiciousness\" over how stories were sourced and he believed burner phones were used \"extensively\", referring to phones that can be disposed of so no records are kept.\n\nPrince Harry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 - from his childhood into early adulthood - contained information gathered using unlawful methods, with a sample of 33 stories written about him being considered by the civil court.\n\nMany of the stories the prince claimed were obtained illegally concerned his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.\n\nIn a 2006 Sunday People article Ms Davy was said to have been \"screaming for half an hour\" at him on the phone and \"blew her top\" over his visit to a Spearmint Rhino lap dancing club in Berkshire.\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nAsked where he thought the information on her screaming had come from, the prince said: \"At this point, knowing that my girlfriend's number was bizarrely in the hands of Mirror journalists, that they probably looked through her call data and saw missed calls, late calls… and managed to put together a story based on that.\"\n\n\"It was very suspicious that they had her number,\" he added, and he did not believe she would have given the Mirror Group or any journalists her phone number.\n\nThe prince told the court he once found a tracking device on Ms Davy's car at a time when the press were reporting on what was described as a \"make-or-break\" holiday for the couple.\n\nHe also highlighted another article in The People in 2007 which reported a \"Palace source\" saying the couple had been having \"monumental\" rows and their relationship was \"in crisis after a string of bitter bust-ups\". Again he said it was \"incredibly suspicious\" as he had never discussed his relationship with the Palace.\n\nMr Green responded by saying we are in the \"land of total speculation about where this information might have come from\".\n\nThe couple broke up in 2010 after a six-year on-off relationship. She attended the prince's wedding to Meghan in Windsor in 2018.\n\nThe prince was also asked about The People publishing photographs of the prince, a friend Mark Dyer and the late TV presenter Caroline Flack meeting up.\n\nAt the time he suspected one of his friends had leaked the details after they were confronted by photographers. In turn this led him and his brother William to stop talking to Mr Dyer for some time afterwards.\n\nHowever he said: \"I now believe the information came from our voicemails… Even those I trusted the most, I ended up doubting.\"\n\nAsked how he would react if the court concluded that he had never been hacked by any MGN journalist, Harry said that he had been hacked on an \"industrial scale\" and he would \"feel some injustice\" if he did not win the trial.\n\nAfter Prince Harry's evidence concluded, he stayed to see the Daily Mirror's former royal correspondent Jane Kerr give her evidence.\n\nShe had been a royal reporter for the newspaper and later royal correspondent for a decade up to 2007 and wrote a number of the articles under scrutiny in the case.\n\nIn her written witness statement, she denied voicemail hacking or using private investigators to carry out unlawful information gathering.\n\nAsked about her use of private investigators, Ms Kerr told the court she had \"no reason to believe\" details for stories had been obtained unlawfully.\n\n\"These were people who were well known to the news desk, I did not think there was anything wrong with using them,\" she said.\n\nThree other people are also bringing claims against MGN in this case - Coronation Street actors Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nThe publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late.", "Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson, who ran for president as a Republican, has died at the age of 93.\n\nHe was one of the driving forces of a movement to increase the influence of the religious right in US politics.\n\nHe founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in 1960 and helped grow it into a cable media empire.\n\nFor decades, Robertson hosted a CBN talk show called the 700 Club that combined religious news and political commentary with light entertainment.\n\nCBN announced the news of his death on Thursday. No cause was given.\n\nRobertson also founded the Christian Coalition, the organisation that grew to be a pivotal player in Republican politics starting in the 1980s.\n\nIt provided endorsements and financial and organisational support to candidates who echoed their views on hot-button social issues like abortion, religious liberty and \"traditional\" values.\n\nIn 1988, Robertson campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nHe finished second in the Iowa caucuses behind Kansas Senator Robert Dole, with the the support of the state's large evangelical community.\n\nRobertson's White House run faltered after eventual nominee and president George HW Bush won the New Hampshire primary.\n\nDespite the defeat, Robertson's campaign - he came top in four state-nominating contests - demonstrated that evangelical Christians were a growing force in Republican politics.\n\nThe evangelical leader would go on to become a kingmaker in Republican politics for decades.\n\nHe was sharply criticised for appearing to blame American cultural liberalism - including the gay rights movement and abortion - for the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.\n\nIn 2010, he claimed a devastating earthquake in Haiti was because its people made a \"pact with the devil\" during their fight for independence from France.\n\nAfter Donald Trump was elected president, Robertson said those who opposed him were \"revolting against what God's plan is for America\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood would like to see a woman as the party's new head\n\nThe next leader of Plaid Cymru should be a woman, according to the party's former leader Leanne Wood.\n\nPlaid Cymru is looking for a new leader after Adam Price stepped down following Nerys Evans' report which said there was bullying and misogyny within the party.\n\nSo far only Rhun ap Iorwerth has put himself forward as a possible leader ahead of the deadline next week.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it had acted on several recommendations in the report.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales Live, Ms Wood said the work that was needed to be done within the party \"would be easier made by a woman politician who really understands the issues of misogyny\".\n\n\"Mainly because she probably would have experienced them at some point through her life,\" she continued.\n\nFive women are eligible to stand as Plaid Cymru's next leader, but three have already ruled themselves out of the race.\n\nThe remaining two, Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams, have not yet given an indication of whether they intend to enter the contest.\n\nAdam Price stepped down as Plaid leader in May after a report found a \"toxic culture\" within the party\n\nMs Wood said she would back a female candidate over Mr ap Iorwerth.\n\n\"If there was a woman challenging him I would vote for a woman for all those political reasons that I've outlined,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean, if he's elected as leader I will be loyal to him and I will work with him.\n\n\"But, he will be aware that there's areas of policy where he takes positions when the party might not have the same position as him, like nuclear.\n\n\"That's going to be a challenge and I very much hope that he will take a broad view and different people's views into account rather than be single minded about some of these issues.\"\n\nLeanne Wood (left) was interviewed by Bethan Rhys Roberts for BBC Wales Live\n\nMr ap Iorwerth said: \"It's good to see colleagues and members engaging in a discussion about what they see as the priorities for Wales.\n\n\"I'm standing on a platform of bringing the party together so we can focus positively on the challenges we face, and on providing a compelling vision of what Wales can be.\"\n\nMs Wood said she believed the leadership race should involve more than one candidate.\n\n\"I don't think it's healthy to have a coronation,\" she said.\n\n\"A contest ensures that issues where there are differences of opinions, and there are issues where there are differences of opinion in Plaid Cymru, get properly aired and people get to take a view and a vote.\"\n\nMs Wood was ousted as leader of Plaid Cymru in 2018 and lost her seat as Member of the Senedd for Rhondda in 2021.\n\nShe admitted there were issues when she was leader.\n\n''There were historic issues and incidences especially on the sexual harassment side of things,\" she said.\n\nBut Ms Wood claimed there \"wasn't this toxic culture amongst the staff\".\n\n\"That is a new development,\" she added.\n\nOne of the key recommendations from the recent report into the party was the importance of establishing human resources (HR) provision.\n\nMs Wood said during her leadership the party \"never had a HR department\".\n\n\"We're not a big political party,\" she said.\n\n\"We've got a small number of head-office staff. The chief executive is responsible for HR so there is a HR function but it isn't a department.\n\n\"There has been some issues around this definitely but these things are issues the party are looking at now.\"\n\nMs Wood says the party has big job to do to rebuild trust\n\nRefusing to rule out a return to frontline politics, Ms Wood said Plaid Cymru needed to understand what had gone wrong in recent years.\n\n\"It means really looking at and accepting that some of the behaviours that have happened in the past really can't continue,\" she said.\n\n\"From small things like shouting in meetings, to being hostile to each other online, to the many more serious issues like domestic abuse that we've experienced with one of our MPs and other issues that are pending in the pipeline.\n\n\"We've got a big job of building trust again and creating a party where everyone feels safe and welcome to participate in.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said: \"Many of the issues highlighted have been foregrounded in the Project Pawb report.\n\n\"Work was under way prior to its publication on strengthening the party's HR processes, and structures that give staff an active voice have been formalised.\n\n\"Several of the recommendations in Nerys Evans' report have already been implemented and Plaid Cymru reaffirms its commitment to prioritising this work to ensure that the party is a safe, inclusive and respectful space for all.\"\n\nFor more on this story watch Wales Live on BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We've been looking at how people in the Russian-occupied areas of Kherson are coping with the vast floods that have affected it.\n\nArkady is from the town of Oleshky in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson region.\n\nIn November 2022 he and his mother left the town for Russia but his 73 year old father stayed. On the day the dam was breached, Arkady phoned his father and told him to pack and leave immediately.\n\n“I said 'just grab your documents and jump in the car'. This was at 08:00 am. Two hours later, electricity was gone and so was mobile connection. I couldn’t reach him,\" he says.\n\n“Only a few hours later I heard from neighbours and friends that he hadn’t had time to leave and was waiting for rescue on the roof of his house.”\n\nArkady says his father wanted to stay to look after the family’s two dogs and make sure the house didn’t get looted.\n\n“Now everything is under water - most of the house and the car.”\n\nDnipro’s left bank, occupied by Russia in the Kherson region, is lower than the right and it is estimated that the damage caused by the dam breach could be even more severe than to the Ukraine-controlled area.", "The NHS is struggling to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients, say senior doctors.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists is warning that all four UK nations are facing \"chronic staff shortages\", with patients waiting too long for vital tests and treatments.\n\nHalf of all cancer units are now reporting frequent delays for both radiotherapy and chemotherapy.\n\nMinisters say a workforce strategy for the NHS in England is due shortly.\n\nThe plan, which is meant to spell out how the government will plug staffing gaps over the next 15 years, has been repeatedly delayed, to the frustration of some in the health service.\n\nIt comes as new figures show 22,533 patients in England were waiting more than two months for either cancer diagnosis or treatment at the end of April, up from 19,023 at the end of March.\n\nThe wider NHS waiting list, which includes cancer and non-cancer treatment, also increased further to 7.4 million people, the highest number since records began in 2007.\n\nCarol Fletcher, 57, from Usk in South Wales, says she has faced multiple delays for cancer treatment since being diagnosed last summer.\n\nIn June 2022, Carol Fletcher, from South Wales, finally had her routine screening appointment for breast cancer, which was itself overdue.\n\n\"It took another eight weeks after my mammogram before I was told there might be something wrong,\" she said.\n\nSince her cancer diagnosis, there have been more waits - for scans, tests, surgery and then chemo.\n\n\"I was told that I might not get results back [quickly] after my mastectomy because they haven't got enough pathologists, so there was another eight-week delay for chemotherapy,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't plan for the future and it's had a huge impact on my family.\"\n\nNHS services across the whole UK have been struggling to meet cancer targets since well before Covid.\n\nThe pandemic increased the backlog, with scans and treatment disrupted by lockdowns.\n\nAcross England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, one key target is to start treatment within two months of an urgent referral by a GP.\n\nIn Wales the measure is slightly different as it includes all urgent and non-urgent referrals.\n\nAll four nations are operating well below those levels. In England just 61% of patients start treatment in that time against a target of 85%.\n\nGrowing delays are, in part, the flip side of a medical success story.\n\nScientific progress in cancer care has been remarkable, with cutting-edge drugs offering hope where previously there was little that could be done.\n\nNew techniques are more effective but often far more complex for doctors to deliver.\n\nAt the same time the UK population is getting older - and as cancer risk is strongly linked to age it means more more demand for expensive scanners, along with more staff to analyse those scans, and more specialist doctors and nurses.\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) describes the situation as a perfect storm - and says the workforce is struggling to keep up.\n\nAcross the four UK nations, it calculates there is now a 15% shortfall of specialist cancer doctors - or clinical oncologists - who deliver chemotherapy and radiotherapy.\n\nWithout action, it says this gap will grow to 25% - or a shortage of 368 full-time consultants - by 2027.\n\nJust as concerning is an even larger shortage of consultant radiologists - highly trained doctors who interpret scans to diagnose cancer or monitor its progression.\n\nThe RCR says for each month a patient waits to start cancer treatment, the risk of death is increased by about 10%.\n\nIn its annual survey, 44% of cancer service managers say they are now \"highly concerned\" about patient delays, up from 29% in the previous year.\n\n\"There are examples in almost every cancer centre where parts of the service just aren't running as well as we would like,\" said Dr Tom Roques, a consultant oncologist and vice-president of the RCR.\n\n\"We're having to tell patients all the time that we can't quite treat them as quickly as we would like, or in the way that we'd like, and that's a stressful thing to have to do.\"\n\nKevin O'Hara was diagnosed with kidney cancer after a motorbike accident.\n\nKevin O'Hara, 60, from County Durham, broke five ribs in a motorbike accident last November.\n\nA scan of his upper body also picked up a shadow near one of his kidneys that was later diagnosed as cancer.\n\nHe was offered drug treatment meant to slow the growth of the tumour and - in early February - was told the waiting list for surgery would be three to four months.\n\nThat period has now been and gone but he is still waiting for a date for his operation.\n\n\"Every day you are waiting and waiting and nothing changes,\" he said.\n\n\"I come home from work and go to the door and, when there's no envelope that says NHS on the top, I just get so depressed.\"\n\nThere is another trend in cancer care which is often overlooked.\n\nThe last decade has seen a dramatic increase in people coming forward to get checked after spotting a possible symptom such as an unusual lump, strange mole or unexplained weight loss.\n\nThe reasons for that are complex and include a bounceback in demand since Covid, stronger guidance for GPs to refer to cancer specialists, major NHS publicity drives and the work of campaigners such as \"Bowelbabe\" Deborah James.\n\nCancer doctors view the spike in demand as a \"very good thing\", as a growing proportion of patients are now diagnosed earlier when cancer is easier to treat.\n\nBut it also puts more pressure on NHS services, with waiting times for diagnosis and other scans one of the key bottlenecks in the system.\n\nSince Christmas there have been some signs of progress, with the NHS in England reducing the backlog of long waits for treatment and hitting one of its other standards - for faster diagnosis - for the first time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Blackpool, the NHS has hit its skin cancer targets by changing the way patients are diagnosed, in an approach which is now being rolled out across England.\n\nThe RCR also says there is a \"chink of light\" - with recruitment of oncologists rising over the last three years, particularly in parts of the country with the worst staff shortages.\n\nIt wants each UK nation to increase medical school places and training posts, and says more also needs to be done to stop experienced staff cutting their hours or leaving the profession early.\n\nThe Department of Health said that the total number of full-time staff in the cancer workforce in England had risen by 51% to 33,093 since 2010.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We want to build on this progress and will publish a workforce plan shortly to ensure we have the right numbers of staff, with the right number of skills.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is also expected to publish its new 10-year cancer strategy within weeks, setting out ways to attract and retain more staff.\n\nThe Welsh government recently published a cancer improvement plan and says it is now investing heavily to train more staff and build more diagnostic and treatment centres.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the health department said it is \"extremely disappointing\" that cancer targets are being missed. It has recently opened two new rapid diagnostic centres and started a \"cancer strategy workforce review\".\n\nHas your treatment been affected by the junior doctor strikes? Are you a doctor with a view on the strikes? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "HSBC reopened channels for new mortgage deals temporarily on Friday after swiftly pulling down the shutters a day earlier.\n\nThe bank had said it would remove its \"new business\" residential and buy-to-let products on Thursday, with deals available again on Monday.\n\nHowever, it temporarily allowed applications via brokers again for a short period on Friday.\n\nThe mortgage market has been in a state of some turbulence.\n\nMortgage rates have been rising since recent data showed that inflation was not coming down as quickly as expected.\n\nThere have been predictions that the Bank of England will raise rates higher than previously thought, from their current 4.5% to as high as 5.5%.\n\nIt has prompted many lenders to raise mortgage rates and also to remove deals.\n\nHSBC said on Thursday that it was withdrawing new deals \"to ensure that we can stay within our operational capacity and meet our customer service commitments\".\n\nBrokers had expressed surprise at the speed of the withdrawal, which came initially with about four hours' notice, only for them to be pulled after less than three hours.\n\nHowever, on Friday, it opened the channel again.\n\n\"We remain open to new mortgage business, however to help ensure that new customers get the best possible service, we occasionally need to limit the amount of new business we can take each day via broker services,\" an HSBC spokesman said.\n\nProducts and rates for existing customers were still available.\n\nHow have mortgage rate rises been affecting you? You can share your experiences via:\n\nMohamed El-Erian, former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and president of Queens' College at Cambridge University, said HSBC had made the \"very dramatic move\" on Thursday because it judged its sustainability was threatened.\n\n\"People expect that the cost of mortgages will go up and you will accelerate your demand for getting that mortgage. Why pay more tomorrow when you can pay less today?\n\n\"If you're HSBC, you see lots of people turn up wanting mortgages and you worry about two things. One is: will I make money on those mortgages? Two is: can I operationally handle these?\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nNationwide, Britain's biggest building society, also said it would raise some of its fixed mortgage rates for new borrowing from Friday, which it said would ensure they \"remain sustainable.\"\n\nFinancial data firm Moneyfacts said it has seen several mortgage providers hiking rates on deals over the past week.\n\nOn Thursday, the average two-year-fixed-rate mortgage rate on the market was 5.82%, according to Moneyfacts, up from 5.49% at the start of June.\n\nMeanwhile, the average five-year deal was 5.49%, up from 5.17% since the start of the month.\n\nSome brokers criticised the change by HSBC, with one saying lenders should give notice of a \"minimum of 24 hours\".\n\nRiz Malik, founder and director at R3 Mortgages in Southend-on-Sea, said the move \"really underscored the turbulent times we're currently facing in the mortgage market\".\n\nMr El-Erian said as a result \"people are getting more anxious\", which would probably contribute to a slowdown in economic activity.\n\nHe said the only way to deal with the growing unease was for the government to tackle underlying inflationary pressures in the economy.\n\n\"Most central banks made the mistake in 2021 of calling inflation transitory, and transitory is a very dangerous word. If I tell you something is transitory, I'm telling you it's temporary, reversible, don't worry about it, don't change your behaviour.\n\n\"But it turned out inflation was persistent and therefore central banks were late and society as a whole was late to adjust to higher inflation,\" he told the BBC.", "The charges include conspiracy, false statements and illegally retaining classified documents, says Mr Trump's attorney\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.\n\nMr Trump, 76, faces seven counts, including mishandling classified documents and obstructing efforts to investigate the storage of the files at his Florida home, his lawyer said.\n\nBoth are federal crimes which can carry a prison sentence on conviction.\n\nMr Trump is campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024.\n\nLegal experts say the indictment does not prevent him running for the presidency again.\n\nIt is the second time Mr Trump has been charged with a crime, but now he is facing a federal case. These typically carry harsher sentences.\n\nHe is the first former president ever to be criminally prosecuted by the government he once headed.\n\nIn a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Mr Trump said he had been summoned to appear on Tuesday afternoon at a federal court in Miami, Florida, where the charges against him will be read.\n\n\"I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nHe added: \"This is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. We are a country in serious and rapid decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!\"\n\nThe charges have not yet been made public, but the details were laid out by his lawyer Jim Trusty. He told CNN they include conspiracy, false statements, obstruction of justice, and illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act.\n\nMr Trump was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday when news of the indictment broke.\n\nOn Friday, the US Secret Service will meet Mr Trump's staff and security officers to plan his journey to the Miami court next week.\n\nProsecutors had also presented evidence in court in Washington DC, but a decision to file the indictment in southern Florida instead may offer some consolation for the Trump team.\n\nLegal experts say the state - where the former Republican president is popular - is likely to produce a less Democratic-leaning jury pool than if the case had been prosecuted in the US capital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?\n\nThe investigation into Mr Trump's handling of classified documents has been overseen by special prosecutor Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November.\n\nMr Smith, a former war crimes investigator, is also overseeing a separate probe into Mr Trump's role in the storming of the US Capitol.\n\nIn the documents case, prosecutors have said that Mr Trump took about 300 classified files to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving the White House.\n\nAbout 100 of those - some labelled top secret - were seized when the FBI searched the Palm Beach mansion last August.\n\nReports surfaced last week that prosecutors had obtained an audio recording of Mr Trump acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the White House in January 2021. Transcripts of that tape circulated in US media on Friday.\n\nIt is against US law for federal officials - including a president - to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorised location.\n\nLegal experts say Mr Trump will still be able to enter the White House race.\n\n\"He can be indicted any number of times and it won't stop his ability to stand for office,\" says David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Centre.\n\nOpinion polls show Mr Trump is currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. He could continue running even if convicted in the documents case.\n\nAs Mr Trump issued a fundraising email with the subject line \"BREAKING: INDICTED\" on Thursday, several leading Republicans voiced their support for him.\n\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said it was \"unconscionable for a president to indict the leading candidate opposing him\".\n\n\"House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponisation of power accountable,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAn itemised list of property seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago\n\nMr Trump's rival for the 2024 nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, said: \"We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation.\n\n\"The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponisation once and for all.\"\n\nMr Trump became the first former president to be charged with a crime in April, after he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records over a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nHe faces a trial in that case in New York next year.\n\nAdding to his legal jeopardy, a prosecutor in Georgia is expected to announce this summer whether Mr Trump will be charged over alleged efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in that state.", "Companies in the future may use brain-monitoring technology to watch or hire workers, the data watchdog says.\n\nBut there is a real danger of discrimination if \"neurotech\" is not developed and used properly, the Information Commissioner's Office says.\n\nTech Futures: Neurotechnology is the first ICO report on \"neurodata\", data from the brain and nervous system.\n\nWorkplace monitoring is one of a number of hypothetical future uses of neurotech explored in the report.\n\nIt comes as companies such as Elon Musk's Neuralink explore new ways to let computers connect to human brains.\n\n\"Based on all the indicators that we're looking at, we're seeing quite rapid growth, both in investments and in patents being developed in this area,\" the ICO's Stephen Almond told BBC News.\n\nNeurotech is already used in the healthcare sector, where there are strict regulations, the ICO says.\n\nElectronic implants in the brain of Gert-Jan Oskam, paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago, enabled him to walk again.\n\nAnd commercial interest in the technology is growing.\n\nNeuralink has won permission for human trials of its implantable brain-computer interface and is reportedly now worth $5bn (£4bn) though a long way from a commercial product.\n\nArtificial Intelligence is also opening up new possibilities, with research projects now able to decipher sentences and words just from brain scans. This might eventually help patients with locked-in syndrome, who are conscious but cannot move or speak.\n\nBut the report focuses on technologies that might emerge in the future, which it uses as hypothetical examples to explore the issues raised by neurodata.\n\nIn four to five years, the ICO suggests, \"as employee tracking expands, the workplace may routinely deploy neurotechnology for safety, productivity and recruitment\".\n\nHelmets or safety equipment might measure the attention and focus of an employee in high risk environments.\n\nAnd bosses might use it to assess how individuals reacted to workplace stress, Mr Almond said.\n\nIn the longer term in education wearable brain monitoring devices might be used to measure students' concentration levels and stress levels.\n\n\"Neuromarketing\" is already in limited use in small, controlled research settings - with consumers' responses to products assessed using medical devices that measure brain activity - although, there is significant debate about its merits\n\nIn the future, \"non-invasive devices capable of reading responses may be used at home to tailor consumer preferences\", the ICO says.\n\nIn one admittedly far-fetched example the report imagines in the future neurotechnology-enabled headphones might gather data used to target advertising.\n\nIt also sees growth in gaming and entertainment - some games and drones are already controlled by devices that take readings of the brain.\n\nBut the ICO is worried the technology could cause discrimination, unless developed carefully.\n\nThe technology itself could be biased, giving incorrect answers when analysing certain groups, Mr Almond said.\n\nBut there was also the risk bosses could use it to discriminate against \"certain types of more neurodivergent characteristics\".\n\nIt might reveal conditions of which the subject themselves was unaware.\n\nAnd it raised tricky questions around consent. Neurodata is subconsciously generated, the report says, and people have no direct control over the specific information which is disclosed.\n\n\"If you don't know what the technology is going to reveal about you, can you really consent in advance to the processing of that personal data about you?\" Mr Almond said. \"Because once it's released into the open, you then have relatively lower control over it.\"\n\nThe ICO hopes to complete new neurodata guidance by 2025.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to keep safe from wildfire smoke\n\nWashington DC and Philadelphia experienced their worst air quality in years as intense wildfires in Canada continue to impact millions.\n\nThe poor conditions have forced event cancellations and grounded flights across the US.\n\nNearly 100 million people are experiencing very poor air quality in North America.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described the fires as a \"stark reminder of the impacts of climate change\".\n\nData from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index (AQI) shows that cities in North America had the worst air quality in the world on Thursday morning.\n\nCities including Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York had significantly worse air quality than cities abroad such as Lahore, Dhaka and Hanoi.\n\nThe smoke has caused the cancellation of school outings and sporting events, and, in the capitol, the White House's planned pride celebrations.\n\nThe National Zoo was also closed, with its animals, including three giant pandas, taken indoors to shelter.\n\nIn nearby Baltimore, residents were wearing masks as they went about their day-to-day activities. One local, Sean Montague, said people \"have to put your health first and be cautious\".\n\nAt the city's Inner Harbour, friends Sharifah and Sheila disembarked from a water taxi, eager to hurry indoors.\n\nThey said they originally planned to spend the day in Baltimore's Fells Point, a waterside neighbourhood known for its galleries, shops and outdoor seafood restaurants.\n\nBut once on the water, their eyes stung and the smoke was so thick, so they agreed the ride was \"miserable\" and decided to return home.\n\nMuch of the smoke is coming from Quebec, where 150 fires are burning. It is already Quebec's worst fire season on record.\n\nSome areas of Canada continued to experience very high levels of contamination on Thursday. The city of Janvier in Alberta, for example, had an AQI of 338, far above Washington DC's 293.\n\nMr Biden said he spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday and deployed more than 600 firefighters to help battle the blazes in Canada.\n\nOn a typical Thursday, Washington DC's Union Market would usually be packed with customers, dining al fresco in the afternoon sun.\n\nBut with smoke thick in the air, dozens of tables and chairs sat empty. A nearby rooftop bar was completely deserted except for a small group of Canadian tourists, who jokingly apologised for the disruption.\n\nOne customer, Tori, sat back in a lone Adirondack chair, with a mask tied around her wrist having just travelled from West Virginia.\n\n\"As I was driving, I noticed it was more hazy, and I just feel a little bit different too. I had a headache,\" she said. \"It's very scary, if you think about it.\"\n\nEnvironment Canada said conditions were worsening in Toronto on Thursday, as more smoke poured in. The agency has recommended that anyone outdoors wear a mask.\n\n\"These fine particles generally pose the greatest risk to health. However, respirators do not reduce exposure to the gases in wildfire smoke,\" the Environment Canada statement said.\n\nIn New York, an orange haze blanketed the city's skyline and shrouded landmarks including the Statue of Liberty.\n\nPublic health officials have cautioned people not to exercise outside and to minimise their exposure to the smoke as much as possible, as the air poses immediate and long-term health risks.\n\nCanadian officials say the country is shaping up for its worst wildfire season on record.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason behind the trend. These conditions are projected to continue throughout the summer.\n\nFires across Canada have already burned an area that's 12 times the 10-year average for this time of year.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nExperts say exposure to wildfire smoke can cause a litany of health issues, such as an elevated pulse, chest pain, and inflammation in the eyes, nose and throat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather forecaster Chris Fawkes looks at when the wildfire smoke might clear\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires or air quality? What precautions are you taking? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Northern says birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens area have declined year-on-year\n\nBirths will no longer take place at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry, following a decision by the Department of Health (DoH).\n\nThe DoH permanent secretary approved the move to consolidate maternity services at Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nThe Northern Trust had recommended that all births in the area should permanently move to the Antrim site.\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital, the department said.\n\nPermanent Secretary Peter May said the decision was made to ensure safe, consistent and sustainable care for mothers and babies in the trust area.\n\nThe recommendation was made by the Northern Trust board following a 14-week public consultation.\n\nThe changes will come into effect from 17 July 2023.\n\nAny women who are due to give birth at Causeway Hospital will be contacted directly by the trust and there is also a helpline to answer any queries from women who are due to give birth at the hospital.\n\nA trust spokeswoman said the decision for all hospital births to go to Antrim Area Hospital was a welcome one.\n\n\"We strongly believe this is the best outcome for women and babies in our care,\" she said.\n\n\"It will allow us to continue providing the highest standard of inpatient maternity care and births at one, dedicated site, with a safer, more sustainable staffing model.\"\n\nThe trust said it recognised it had been an uncertain time for the \"dedicated team of maternity staff at Causeway Hospital and we will be supporting them through this period of transition.\"\n\nThe trust has said birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area have declined year-on-year.\n\nIt expect birth rates to fall in the area by 11% within the next 20 years.\n\nThe trust had said maternity services in the area were \"vulnerable and unsustainable\".\n\nThe Department of Health said: \"[The] unsustainability of the current Causeway maternity unit relates to falling birth numbers at the hospital and associated difficulties of recruiting and retaining consultants and other staff.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary said: \"An overriding priority for our health service must be the provision of safe care for our population.\n\n\"This decision is in the best interests of mothers and babies in the Northern Trust area.\"\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital\n\nHe said maintaining the current service across the Causeway and Antrim sites \"would not be sustainable\".\n\n\"Avoiding planned change would simply lead to unplanned and forced change,\" Mr May added.\n\nCauseway maternity unit has become reliant on locum and temporary staff, making the provision of consistent care more difficult.\n\nDr Dave Watkins, medical director of the Northern Health & Social Care Trust and a consultant paediatrician, said: \"Trying to run two services on two sites clearly dilutes the expertise available and the number of staff available.\n\n\"We feel that this is the safest proposal and it allows us to plan forwards for a safe, sustainable and high quality service for our women here in Antrim Hospital.\"\n\nAnne Wilson from the Royal College of Midwives said: \"We are always disappointed whenever there is a reduction in choice for mothers birthing in maternity services - so it is disappointing.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Wilson said she understood the reason behind the decision.\n\n\"I think ultimately safety of mothers and babies especially giving birth is the main goal and priority here,\" she added.\n\nThe Department of Health said: \"Conditions of the approval include making planned capacity changes at Antrim Hospital as outlined in the public consultation.\"\n\nThe trust will also be required to prioritise the development of an interim three-bedded alongside midwife-led unit at Antrim.\n\nA protest was held in Coleraine in May against the cuts to Causeway Hospital maternity services\n\nThe department said this will offer additional capacity in advance of longer-term plans for a new-build women and children's unit.\n\nSetting out the department's decision-making process, Mr May said he had reviewed the trust's consultation outcome in line with its policy and guidance on change or withdrawal of service.\n\n\"It is also consistent with the wider health transformation agenda which acknowledges that changes need to be made to ensure sustainability of services,\" he said.\n\nThe trust said it was committed to maintaining acute services and an Emergency Department at the site.\n\n\"We recognise that the hospital and its staff play a vital role in serving the local community, and we want to enhance rather than diminish that role.\"\n\nThe trust added: \"Causeway Hospital will retain its high quality antenatal and postnatal care which we recognise are critical local services for women.\n\n\"We will also be enhancing these services so that pregnant women will have access to complex antenatal care and clinics at Causeway Hospital.\"\n\nGregory Campbell, the MP for East Londonderry, said he was \"disturbed\" by the trust's explanation for the move.\n\nHe said: \"The inability to staff hospital wards and in this case a maternity unit, points to a planning and management failure more than lack of need in the community.\"\n\nMr Campbell said the Northern Trust and DoH must spell out the sustainability of the Causeway Hospital.\n\nThe proposals had been met with some opposition over the last number of months.\n\nAbout 100 people gathered in Coleraine town centre after the Northern Trust approved the recommendation to remove births from the hospital in May.\n\nIn June Mother-of-three, Heidi Wright from Portrush, said she was concerned about the length of time it would take to travel to Antrim.\n\nIn less than a year, the Northern Trust has managed to deliver a major permanent change to how one of its core services will be delivered with little fuss or opposition.\n\nIn Northern Ireland that is remarkable.\n\nWhile for decades transforming health care has been much talked about, in practice little has happened.\n\nMost recently, and in 2016, Prof Rafael Bengoa said Northern Ireland faced \"a stark choice\".\n\nThe man who chaired the last local healthcare review said people could \"either resist change and see services deteriorate to the point of collapse over time, or embrace transformation and work to create a modern sustainable service\".\n\nAt present, these two contrasting viewpoints are being played out across three different health trusts.\n\nIn the Southern and Western Trusts, resisting change over many years at Daisy Hill and the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) has now triggered a rush to transform how some services are being delivered, a move likened by the BMA to \"falling off the cliff edge\".\n\nSome have said that the change feels \"unplanned and out of control\".\n\nPoliticians have led rallies and debates in protest.\n\nBut in the Northern Trust the picture is different.\n\nOfficials have said that before maternity services get to to the point of \"collapse\" they are implementing change that is planned, deliberate and intentional.\n\nWhile all the health trusts conducted consultations, it seems that Causeway will be able to consolidate all births at Antrim Area Hospital while maintaining an antenatal and post-natal assessment hub at Causeway.\n\nIt hasn't been without some public protest - but nowhere near the extent of that seen in Enniskillen and Newry.\n\nAll other health trusts must be looking to the Northern Trust in wonder.\n\nHow did it do what the Southern and Western trusts couldn't?\n\nThe big difference, it seems, is the lack of political interference at Causeway.\n\nIn 2016, the then health minister - the DUP's Simon Hamilton - said political consensus was key to the future of NI's health service.\n\nIt seems that is much easier said than done.", "DUP Leader says his party is happy to be involved in talks with all political parties\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he is hopeful of progress in the next few weeks in his talks with the government about restoring Stormont.\n\nHe was speaking after parties met the head of the civil service Jayne Brady.\n\nSir Jeffrey said discussions have reached an \"important stage\".\n\nHe added what happens then will determine of the government will be able to meet his party's demands on the protocol and \"be able to deliver what is required\" to restore the Executive.\n\nHe said his party's priority remained getting the solutions it needed on the Northern Ireland protocol which he said was continuing to cause harm.\n\nThe DUP collapsed power-sharing in February 2022 in protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nHe added that his party was happy to be involved in conversations around how to ease the budgetary pressures \"if and when\" the Executive was restored.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy says there was \"consensus\" within the Stormont parties that they need support with the ongoing financial pressures.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy says there is an elephant in the room around the DUP getting back to work\n\nBut Mr Murphy questioned \"the elephant in the room\" around when the DUP would get back to work.\n\nHe said: \"We are doing preparation work for negotiations that might not happen.\"\n\nHe added that the financial situation in regards to public funding was getting worse not better.\n\nThis is the first hint of a timeline in the DUP's talks with the government.\n\nAccording to the party leader we are reaching an \"important stage\" in the next few weeks and he is hopeful of progress.\n\nThat will coincide with a meeting of the UK and Irish governments in London hosted by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nCould that be the moment when the government sets out its legislative plan to deal with the DUPs protocol concerns?\n\nThe government will be keen to pass any legislation before Westminster breaks for the summer recess on 20 July.\n\nBut don't expect a quick decision from the DUP.\n\nThe party may want assurances around a financial package to help plug Stormont's £1.1bn black hole.\n\nThey may also decide to reserve judgement until the new arrangements agreed in Windsor Framework are put into operation in October.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie says the pace of executive restoration is ramping up\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the pace towards the return of a Stormont executive is being \"ramped up\".\n\nHe said the all-party talks with the head of the civil service were positive.\n\nMr Beattie said those around the table talked about \"when\" the Executive is restored.\n\nHe said talks focused on the financial ask of the treasury to plug the £1.1bn black hole in Stormont's finances.\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry says serious work is being done to move forward\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry said that the talks and the progress being made should not be seen as a barrier to getting the Executive back up and running again.\n\nBut he added the talks on Thursday were a positive sign and that \"serious work\" was being done to put together a plan from the parties for the UK government on moving forward.\n\nMr Farry said: \"There is some degree of momentum building in this process but it's still early days.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey also criticised Sinn Féin MP John Finucane over his planned attendance at an IRA commemoration at the weekend in Armagh.\n\nHe said his \"attendance was wrong on so many levels\".\n\nHe added they were \"building a fun day around celebrating volunteers who were one of the most feared killing machines in Northern Ireland during the troubles\"\n\nHe urged Sinn Féin to think again about its involvement this weekend and to think of the impact on the victims families who still carry the hurt and pain.\n\nSinn Féin has previously said that \"everyone has the right to remember their dead\".", "Police Scotland said they were trying to establish the full circumstances of the death at St Kentigern's Academy\n\nA 14-year-old boy who died following an incident at a school in West Lothian has been named locally as Hamdan Aslam.\n\nEmergency services were called to St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe teenager was taken to hospital but died shortly afterwards.\n\nIt is understood another 14-year-old boy was involved in the incident which the school has described as isolated. Police Scotland said inquiries were ongoing.\n\nThere has been widespread rumour and speculation about the cause of Hamdan's death online and in the media, but police have said they will not comment until after a post-mortem examination is carried out on Thursday.\n\nWest Lothian Council said further information would be shared in due course.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Head teacher Andrew Sharkey said \"thoughts and prayers\" are with the pupil's family and friends\n\nHead teacher Andrew Sharkey said the school was \"devastated to learn of the tragic death of one of our pupils\".\n\nHe added: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with their family and friends and we extend our deepest condolences and offers of support.\"\n\nThe school - where singers Lewis Capaldi and Susan Boyle are former pupils - remains open and pupils were being supported.\n\nPupils gather to look at floral tributes at St Kentigern's Academy\n\nLocal people and pupils left floral tributes and messages to the pupil outside the school building on Thursday.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf responded to a question about the tragedy during First Minister's Questions at Holyrood on Thursday, calling for an end to rumour and speculation around the incident.\n\nHe said: \"This is the worst tragedy. Anybody who is a parent will know there cannot be a worse fear or nightmare that a parent has than losing a child.\n\n\"I cannot think what the family are going through and I know the whole community including the school community has been deeply affected.\"\n\nHe said an appropriate investigation would take place and if appropriate, lessons should be learned by educational institutions and government.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the school\n\nBathgate Mosque paid tribute to the dead schoolboy in a statement, which said: \"The recent passing of Hamdan of Greenrigg/Harthill, son of Aslam and Robiena, has left the community devastated, especially with the loss of a young life.\n\n\"During these difficult moments, the family needs our support and prayers.\"\n\nIt went on to say: \"It is crucial that we refrain from making assumptions and speculations regarding this tragedy.\n\n\"We will notify the community once the Janaza has been confirmed, and we request everyone to show respect and compassion towards the family in this challenging time.\"", "A proper free trade deal still not on the agenda\n\nRishi Sunak and Joe Biden are keen to stress the economic special relationship. The announcements in the “Atlantic Declaration” indicate a closer relationship on technology, defence and green industries. The UK car industry wanted a “critical minerals agreement” to be signed with the US - opening up British car exports to be treated in the US like domestic-produced vehicles in terms of significant green subsidies. The declaration confirms that negotiations will now begin - though Japan signed an equivalent deal with the US three months ago, and the equivalent US-EU deal has already been drafted. The US and UK will now co-operate on critical supply chains, and economic resilience in the face of shocks. But what the friendly language of the declaration omits, though, is that the UK is not planning to follow the US on its path of massive tax subsidies for green investment. The White House believes this is creating hundreds of thousands of highly-paid manufacturing jobs, in left behind areas, helping with net zero ambitions and reducing economic reliance on China. Sunak is trying to keep in tune with this revolution in US economic policy without following it. The same Bidenomics policies also mean that what was thought of as one of the great prizes of Brexit - the ability to do a proper free trade deal with the US - is not on the US agenda.", "Officers in England and Wales have met a target to attend every domestic burglary scene, police chiefs have said.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) made the pledge in a new set of standards announced last year.\n\nThe NPCC's Deputy Chief Constable Alex Franklin-Smith said they wanted to end the \"postcode lottery\" on policing.\n\nBut he said the policy had only had a modest impact so far on how many burglaries were being solved.\n\nA report in August 2022 by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found most victims of burglary, robbery and theft were not getting the justice they deserved.\n\nAnnouncing the target, the NPCC cited College of Policing evidence suggesting higher rates of attendance after a burglary would make victims feel safer and help with investigations.\n\nNow the NPCC has announced that all 43 forces in England and Wales had successfully implemented the new policy by March this year.\n\nDCC Franklin-Smith told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the target being met was a positive step and would help remove regional discrepancies in the quality of policing.\n\nHe explained: \"Police chiefs up and down the country want to make sure that there isn't a postcode lottery when it comes to reporting and being a victim of such crime.\n\n\"It's great that we're able to make sure that there is this consistency in response - if you do phone your local force, you will get a response, and we will do everything we can do to identify those responsible.\"\n\nThere were more than 271,000 incidents of burglary recorded by police in 2022, data from the Office for National Statistics shows.\n\nBut according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which is carried out by Kantar Public on behalf of the ONS, actual rates are much higher because of the number of crimes which go unreported.\n\nThe figures from both show the number of burglaries has been gradually coming down over the last 10 years.\n\nDCC Franklin-Smith said the number recorded by the police had fallen by 50% and levels were now back to pre-Covid levels after rising during the pandemic.\n\nBut according to the NPCC, the number of people brought to justice for the crime remains low. Less than 5% of burglaries across England and Wales were solved in 2021/22.\n\nAsked if the policy was leading to a rise in the number of burglaries being solved, DCC Franklin-Smith said: \"We're seeing a slight increase,\" but he cautioned: \"I think it would be wrong at this stage... to try and claim that we're seeing significant increases.\"\n\nThe Home Office has also created a new way of recording burglaries to make it clearer when a home has been entered by the perpetrator.\n\nThe NPCC said that previously a thief entering a home \"was treated the same as the loss of a spade from a shed\" in the data.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"delighted\" to see the commitment fulfilled, adding: \"This will help increase public confidence and see more criminals caught.\"", "The policy is aimed at cutting the number of flats in the city that are used as short-term holiday lets\n\nA plan to regulate Airbnb-style lets in Edinburgh has been ruled unlawful by a judge less than four months before it was due to come into force.\n\nOperators and landlords opposed to the scheme took the city council to court last month.\n\nAfter a two-day hearing at the Court of Session, Lord Braid agreed that part of the proposal was unlawful.\n\nThe decision was hailed as a \"victory for law and common sense\" by the group that brought the case.\n\nThe council wants to introduce the licensing scheme in response to concerns about the high number of short-term lets in the capital - particularly in the city centre.\n\nIt argues that the lettings have exacerbated housing shortages and fuelled anti-social behaviour.\n\nHosts have until 1 October to apply for a licence, with people who list whole properties on sites such as Airbnb also needing to apply for planning permission.\n\nRenting out a room in your own home, or letting your home while on holiday, would still be allowed.\n\nOpponents of the scheme raised £300,000 through crowdfunding for a judicial review at the Court of Session, which was said to be largest amount raised for a case in the UK.\n\nThe case centred on a presumption against allowing entire flats within tenement blocks to be used as holiday lets unless their owners could demonstrate why they should be exempt.\n\nLord Braid ruled that the presumption was unlawful and that the lack of provision for temporary licences and requirement for some hosts to supply floor coverings went beyond the council's powers.\n\nHe said the policy was unlawful because it breached existing laws on what licensing authorities could do under the law.\n\nThe judge wrote: \"It is not the function of the respondent's licensing authority to decide that a licence should not be granted because a property is of a particular type or is in a particular area.\n\n\"For the respondent to adopt a normal practice of not granting an short term licence for premises in a tenement, even where planning permission had been granted, is irrational and contrary to the purposes of the overall statutory scheme.\n\n\"It would be perverse and oppressive for the respondent, upon receipt of a licensing application, to require an applicant to obtain planning permission for a tenement property; and thereafter, planning permission having been obtained, to refuse the licence for no other reason than that the property was in a tenement.\"\n\nThe Scottish government says that in certain areas - particularly tourist hot spots - high numbers of lets can cause problems for neighbours and make it harder for people to find homes to live in.\n\nSupporters of the licensing scheme say short-term lets are causing a housing shortage and increasing anti-social behaviour in the capital\n\nCouncil leader Cammy Day said he made \"absolutely no apology for seeking to protect our residents\" despite the ruling.\n\nHe added: \"It is no secret that we face unique housing pressures here in Edinburgh, with a small but densely populated city centre and fast growing population, and it's crucial for us to strike the right balance between promoting our visitor economy while looking after the people that live here all year round.\n\n\"Our residents have told us that, in many cases, short-term lets are hollowing out their communities, reducing housing supply and increasing housing costs.\n\n\"We can't forget that many have endured years of disturbance and anti-social behaviour and we will continue to work hard to get this right.\"\n\nMr Day said the court had \"acknowledged our intention to find a solution to this and agreed that it was legitimate to use both planning and licensing policy\", with the council now considering its next steps.\n\nA statement issued by the petitioners in response to the judgement said they hoped it would lead the council and government to \"seek a fresh approach that aims to collaborate and work with local operators of self-catering accommodation, recognising the many good things it brings to the economy and people of Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"As the largest crowdfunded case in the history of the UK, the petitioner team are deeply grateful to the many small, local businesses that supported the campaign financially in such uncertain times.\n\n\"That grass roots support made it possible for us to take this action, challenging both licensing and planning surrounding short-term lets in Edinburgh and the potential wider impact across urban and rural Scotland.\"\n\nFiona Campbell, chief executive of the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers, welcomed the ruling, which she said would also have ramifications for other licensing schemes across Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government need to go back to the drawing board on short-term let regulation and engage constructively with industry to provide a regulatory framework that works for all stakeholders.\"\n\nThe proposals were approved by the council's planning committee last year after 88% of the 5,600 people who responded to a consultation on the proposals supported the introduction of the licensing scheme.\n\nEilidh Keay from tenants' union Living Rent Edinburgh said the decision \"demonstrates how a small group of people can use their money and power to weaponise the legal system to their advantage\".\n\nShe said: \"This flies completely in the face of democracy and the will of the people.\n\n\"Edinburgh needs homes, not holiday lets. In coming down in support of short-term let operators, this decision seems to have forgotten that Edinburgh is in the midst of a housing crisis.\n\n\"It is disgusting that the profit of short-term let operators should be put before the needs of tenants, residents and communities for homes.\"", "As things stand Rhun ap Iorwerth will become leader next Friday\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth is set to become the new Plaid Cymru leader.\n\nThe last two members of Plaid's Senedd group who had not ruled out standing against him have now confirmed they will not be entering the contest.\n\nDeputy leader Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams made the announcement in a joint statement on Friday morning.\n\nOnly Senedd members (MSs) can lead Plaid Cymru and, unless there is a U-turn from a Plaid MS, Mr ap Iorwerth will become leader next week.\n\nNominations are due to close on 16 June.\n\nPlaid Cymru has been looking for a new leader since Adam Price stood down in May.\n\nIt followed reports that a toxic culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny had become worse under his leadership.\n\nIn their joint statement, Ms Gwenllian and Ms Williams said: \"We are not putting our names forward as candidates for the leadership of Plaid Cymru, although we agree with comments made by former leader Leanne Wood in an interview this week that a woman would have been the best choice to lead Plaid Cymru at this time.\n\n\"We will campaign to introduce a new model of joint leadership in the future which would be more inclusive and ensure equality.\"\n\nThe Green Party of England and Wales has a joint leadership structure, meaning a man and a woman share the responsibility of leading the party.\n\nThe other Plaid Senedd members who were eligible to run for Plaid Cymru leader were Mabon ap Gwynfor, Cefin Campbell, Luke Fletcher, Heledd Fychan, Llŷr Huws Gruffydd, Delyth Jewell, Elin Jones, and Peredur Owen Griffiths.\n\nBut they have all ruled themselves out of the race.\n\nAdam Price quit as leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in Plaid Cymru\n\nYnys Môn Senedd member Mr ap Iorwerth announced he would be standing in a video published on Twitter.\n\nIn the video he said he was looking forward to playing his part in uniting the party.\n\nHe said previously it must offer a vision of Wales as \"confident, fair, green, prosperous\", and on a \"journey to independence\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth is currently the party's joint deputy leader, alongside Ms Gwenllian, and has been Plaid health spokesman in recent years.\n\nHe has been a vocal critic of the Welsh government's record on the troubled Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales.\n\nHe also ran for the leadership in 2018, when Mr Price replaced Leanne Wood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood would like to see a woman as the party's new head\n\nOn Friday, former Plaid Cymru chairman Alun Ffred Jones told BBC Radio Cymru he believed \"a contest within a party is a good thing in almost all circumstances, but if the more experienced people didn't want to stand for various reasons, there we are\".\n\n\"And if there is to be only one candidate, it's important that the party unites behind Rhun,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I don't see much of an argument in just putting your name forward, it's not the same as applying for a job just to get an interview and seeing how it goes.\n\n\"Anyone who stands for the leadership has to be in a position where they're confident they can deliver in the role.\"\n\nHe said Rhun ap Iorwerth needed to \"put his own stamp on things\" and \"turn our attention back to things that matter to the majority of people, and not on internal matters and things that are of marginal concern to most people.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said there were \"no plans\" to change the closing date for nominations.\n\nIt added: \"Plaid Cymru members will have the opportunity over the next week to nominate candidates for the party leadership through their local constituencies.\"\n\n\"The next leader of Plaid Cymru will be announced on Friday 16 June.\"\n\nFor a leadership contest with only one candidate, this has been a far from straightforward process for Plaid Cymru.\n\nAdam Price stepped down as leader in the wake of a report identifying a culture of misogyny within the party, so it isn't surprising that calls for a woman to take charge have gained a lot of support.\n\nBut the final two MSs to declare their intentions, Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams, have decided the leadership isn't for them - leaving the way clear for Ynys Môn MS Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe suggestion by Ms Williams for a \"co-leader\" muddies the waters further. A co-leader needs someone else to get involved - but who?\n\nPlaid Cymru say the official timetable, with nominations closing in a week, hasn't changed - so Mr ap Iorwerth still has seven days to wait - unless someone changes their mind at the last minute.", "Prince Harry seemed to grow in confidence during the second day of his court appearance\n\nIt might have been the sense of relief, but there was an emotion-packed pause before Prince Harry answered one of his final questions in the witness box.\n\n\"You have had to go through these articles and answer questions knowing this is a very public courtroom and the world's media are watching. How has that made you feel?\" Prince Harry was asked by his barrister at the end of his court appearance in the case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nAfter a day and a half of giving evidence at London's High Court, he looked exhausted and the pause got longer.\n\n\"It's a lot,\" was all he said in the end, sounding distinctly choked up.\n\nIn the witness box over the course of two days he had spoken quietly, often in terse, quickfire answers, interspersed with some nervous quips - \"if you say so\", he said a few times ironically to some details being presented to him.\n\nHe has accused the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People of hacking and illegal information-gathering.\n\nThe great majority of his time in court has been facing questions from the Mirror Group's barrister, Andrew Green, an interrogator with a reputation fearsome enough for him to be known as a \"beast in court\".\n\nBut in the end, it was quite possibly Prince Harry who will have left the court feeling better about the last couple of days. He'd finished his high-wire act without falling off.\n\nHe hadn't crumbled or got wound up or tetchy, he hadn't been dragged into too many awkward questions, he'd stuck to his own lines. You couldn't exactly say he'd been an eloquent witness, but he'd not walked into any traps.\n\n\"For my whole life the press has misled me and covered up the wrongdoing,\" he claimed.\n\nHe talked of how paranoid it had made him. In evidence he said he'd never walk down a London street. But he wouldn't even walk around this court building with its airport-style scanning checks, going everywhere within a bubble of security guards. A guard had stood across the doorway as he went into the toilet.\n\nBut when the hearing was over, Prince Harry looked relieved and relaxed, chatting to his lawyers and those backing him in his battle against the tabloids, before heading downstairs to his waiting car.\n\nThe Mirror's barrister had aimed to punch some big holes in the prince's claims - saying that just because Harry had faced a lifetime of press intrusion, that didn't mean that this specific newspaper group had hacked his phones or done anything unlawful to him.\n\nHe argued that a number of these disputed news stories hadn't even originated with the Mirror's papers, they'd already been published elsewhere or had been based on press releases, rather than by unlawful surveillance.\n\nBut as the hearing progressed it felt like Prince Harry was growing in confidence, his wrist bands on show as he looked at the computer screens on his desk with the evidence under discussion.\n\nFor such an historic event, the first senior royal in the witness box for over a century, it was a low-key setting, a modern open-plan court that was more budget airport departure lounge than mahogany-filled courtroom.\n\nThere was also a sense of history about some of the pun-tastic tabloid articles under discussion.\n\nFor younger audiences it must have seemed like journalistic archaeology, these inky front pages and half-forgotten celebrities. You couldn't search for some of these stories now, because they were published before Google was even invented.\n\nWhile Prince Harry has talked about his \"life's work\" being to change the media landscape, technology has already done much of the work for him.\n\nWhen some of these stories were being published 20 years ago, the Daily Mirror was selling 2 million copies a day, while the most recent ABC circulation figures show sales of about 280,000.\n\nSince the era of these phone hacking claims, mobile phones and digital news have chipped away at the world of the tabloids.\n\nThere was also a sense from his emotional testimony that Prince Harry is still slightly trapped in these tabloid years, making him seem younger than he really is. He's only five years younger than the prime minister, but Harry in the public eye is still somehow remembered as the younger brother mourning the loss of his mother.\n\nThis unprecedented appearance in the High Court also showed how for the prince the blurring between private and public life must be a very strange experience.\n\nWe've spent two days looking at stories chronicling his life in headlines. And when he entered the court building he'd have walked past a photo and a video of his late grandmother, who opened this building. The Dieu et Mon Droit symbol in the courtroom is the motto of the monarch, his father.\n\nBut during this court appearance he also explained precisely why he was really here - why he was bringing this legal action, when previous royals had fought shy of facing questions in court.\n\nIt was a deliberate attempt to find a different course of action \"to stop the abuse, intrusion and hate that was coming towards me and my wife\".\n\nRather than the longstanding royal policy of \"don't complain, don't explain\", he has taken the higher-risk strategy of going into battle in the courtroom.\n\nIt's also an unexpected journey that has seen him making comments a long way from the usual royal political neutrality. In his written statement he seemed to be wading into the culture war with a swipe at a \"rock-bottom\" government.\n\nIt will be up to the judge to decide on balance who seems to be more convincing, the Mirror Group or Prince Harry and other claimants - and it's quite possible that the result won't be known until the autumn.\n\nIf he FaceTimes his family in California, as he said yesterday, it might be more relaxed this evening.\n\nBut given the number of other legal claims involving Prince Harry, this could be the first of a number of courtroom appearances. From the royal court to the law court.", "Crowds have lined the streets to celebrate West Ham football club's Europa Conference League final victory over Fiorentina.\n\nThe win meant that West Ham achieved the club's first major trophy for 43 years.\n\nFans of David Moyes' team gathered to watch the trophy parade through the streets of London.", "The grass is already parched in London's Hyde Park\n\nA weekend heat-health alert has been raised from yellow to a more severe amber warning in eastern and southern England, and the Midlands.\n\nThe amber alert - in place from 09:00 BST on Friday - indicates high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nThe alert, issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), continues until 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to hit 30C and some thunderstorms are expected.\n\nParts of the country are predicted to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife in the coming days as a plume of warm air moves in from the south, the Met office says.\n\nA less severe yellow alert, which advises people to check on vulnerable family and friends, is in place for the north of England and London.\n\nThe UKHSA first issued a heat alert on Wednesday, but raised it saying the temperatures would rise rapidly in affected areas with temperatures high overnight.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunder is also in place for all of Wales and large parts of southern England from 14:00 BST until 21:00 on Saturday.\n\nThis means there is a chance of disruption to travel, power cuts and some localised flooding from the heaviest showers.\n\nDuring the period of hot weather, the UKHSA advises people to:\n\nA spokesman for the UKHSA said it was difficult to predict the exact impact of higher temperatures on the health service but additional pressure would come from vulnerable groups suffering in the heat.\n\nThat includes people over 65, those with respiratory or cardiovascular conditions and children.\n\nAhead of the hot weather, the UKHSA has been in touch with groups which work with older people, such as care homes, to offer guidance.\n\nAndy Cole, the assistant chief fire officer from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service, urged people to be \"vigilant\" this weekend and avoid using disposable barbecues or starting campfires.\n\nThere was a \"record number\" of wildfires last year, he said, adding that Dorset and Wiltshire saw a \"roughly 400% increase\" compared to the year before, with 911 recorded.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cole said wildfires were \"extremely dangerous\" and can take a lot of resources from the fire service.\n\nClimate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme.\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest ever - Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, reached a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nThe UKHSA expects heatwaves are \"likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead\".\n\nThe new colour-coded alert system, launched last week, is run by the UKHSA and the Met Office and is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nThere is one further alert, not yet issued, representing the most serious risk. The red alert means there is a significant risk to life even for healthy people and a severe impact likely across all sectors.\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.", "Rishi Sunak spoke to reporters on the plane trip to Washington DC\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he expects to discuss Joe Biden's flagship package of investment in green industries when he meets the president during his trip to the United States.\n\nTravelling to Washington DC, Mr Sunak said \"subsidy races\" were not a solution to hitting climate goals.\n\nSome British ministers have criticised Mr Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as harmful to world trade.\n\nThe law includes $370bn (£297bn) to boost green technology in the US.\n\nIn a drive to cut carbon emissions, billions in tax credits and subsidies has been allocated to speed up the production of solar panels and wind turbines, and encourage the up-take of electric cars.\n\nThe European Union has described the law as anti-competitive, while earlier this year, Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said the package was \"dangerous because it could slip into protectionism\".\n\nIt is expected to be one subject of discussion when Mr Sunak meets Mr Biden for the fourth time this year, for talks at the White House on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman suggested Mr Sunak would also talk about boosting green tech, the war in Ukraine, and the regulation of artificial intelligence.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister would seek to boost economic security, bringing it into line with the level of UK-US co-operation on defence.\n\nMr Sunak began the formal events of the US trip on Wednesday by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.\n\nPersonnel from the US army, navy, marines, air force and coastguard formed a guard of honour.\n\nThe ceremony comes ahead of meetings with senior US politicians and business leaders, as well as the president.\n\nTensions over the global implications of Mr Biden's economic package have been building ahead of the visit, Mr Sunak's first official trip to Washington DC as prime minister.\n\nThe UK government has said it had no plans to emulate the scale of the US plans, prompting accusations from Labour that the UK could fall behind in a global race to attract future industries.\n\nMr Sunak's visit was made the day after the 79th anniversary of D-Day\n\nDuring his flight to Washington, reporters asked Mr Sunak if there was anything Mr Biden could do to ease the economic impacts of his package on the UK.\n\n\"It's something that he [President Biden] and I have discussed in the past and you'd expect us to continue discussing it,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nWhen asked whether Mr Sunak accepted President Biden's argument that a resilient economy sometimes required a protectionist approach to key sectors, the prime minister referenced a joint statement issued by the G7 at the end of its latest summit in Japan.\n\nThe statement, he said, \"makes it very clear that G7 countries don't believe in protectionism as the answer to this challenge and also don't believe in in subsidy races that are zero sum\".\n\nThere have been reports his trip could see the two sides unveil a critical minerals pact that would allow British carmakers that export electric vehicles to the US to benefit from some of the tax credits offered to American firms.\n\nThe US signed such a deal with Japan earlier this year, and has entered into talks with the EU.\n\nHowever, one area where progress has stalled is over a wider UK-US free trade deal, where President Biden has put talks on ice, leaving the UK to deepen trade ties through less comprehensive mini-deals with around 20 states.\n\nAnother area where Mr Sunak hopes to hold discussions is the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), where Mr Sunak is seeking to carve out a role for the UK as a global player.\n\nThe prime minister is hosting a global summit on AI regulation in the autumn, and has reportedly expressed an interest in the UK hosting any new international regulator for the emerging technology.\n\nHowever, the extent to which the UK will be able to shape new global rules outside the EU is unclear, with the UK now shut out of key gatherings between European and American regulators such as the Tech and Trade Council (TTC).\n\nThe two leaders will also discuss the war in Ukraine, which is expected to enter a decisive period soon, with signs a long-awaited counter-offensive from Ukrainian forces may have begun.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine blamed Russia for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-held Ukraine, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people. Moscow has denied destroying the dam, instead blaming Ukrainian shelling.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on the plane to the US, Mr Sunak said it was \"too soon\" to make a \"definitive judgement\" on whether Russia was behind the attack.\n\nBut he said if Russia were found to be responsible, it would \"demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from Russian aggression.\"", "Donald Trump has been told he is a target of a criminal investigation over the potential mishandling of classified files after he left the White House.\n\nA move by federal prosecutors to notify the ex-president of a criminal probe suggests he could soon faces charges.\n\nIf that happened, it would be the second indictment of Mr Trump, who is campaigning once again to be president.\n\nProsecutors have been looking into the transfer of files to Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago Florida estate since last year.\n\nThe beachside property was searched last August and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified. Some of these were labelled top secret.\n\nOn Wednesday, three sources familiar with the matter told the BBC's US partner CBS News that Mr Trump had been informed he was being investigated.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated.\n\nWhen asked by the New York Times if he had been told he is a target of a federal investigation on Wednesday, he said \"you have to understand\" that he was not in direct touch with prosecutors.\n\nCNN, ABC News, and Politico all reported on Wednesday night that Mr Trump had been notified by letter that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.\n\nAll the outlets said the move signalled charges could happen soon, but that it was possible a person would not go on to be charged.\n\nThe New York Times cited two people familiar with the matter as saying the notification came from the office of Jack Smith, a former war crimes attorney turned special prosecutor who is considering evidence.\n\nIt comes after prosecutors obtained an audio recording of Mr Trump in which he acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House.\n\nThe details of documents that may have been in Mr Trump's possession remain unclear. Classified material usually contains information that officials feel could damage national security if made public.\n\nIt is against US law for federal officials, up to and including a president, to remove or retain classified documents at an unauthorised location.\n\nGrand juries, set up by a prosecutor to determine whether there is enough evidence to pursue a prosecution, are believed to have met in both Miami and Washington to hear evidence.\n\nOn Wednesday, the jury in Miami heard evidence from Taylor Budowich, a former aide and spokesman to Mr Trump.\n\nIt raises the possibility that any criminal charges could be filed in Florida for procedural reasons, CBS reported.\n\nEarlier this week, members of Mr Trump's legal team met with investigators at the Department of Justice in Washington.\n\nMr Trump, who is leading in opinion polls to be the Republican Party's 2024 candidate for president, has consistently denied wrongdoing and has criticised the justice department's investigation as \"politically motivated\" and a \"witch-hunt\".\n\nAny indictment over his handling of classified documents would come after Mr Trump became the first former president to be charged with a crime, after he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records over a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nHe faces a trial in that case in New York next year.", "Glastonbury will happen from 21 June to 26 June this year\n\nGlastonbury festival has asked fans not to bring disposable vapes.\n\nIts organisers have added the items to its official \"do not bring\" list - which also includes gazebos and knives.\n\nThe updated message says disposable vapes - which contain lithium batteries - \"pollute the environment and can be hazardous at waste centres\".\n\nThere's no suggestion the devices will be confiscated - but BBC Newsbeat has approached the festival for more information.\n\nGlastonbury has also urged festivalgoers to \"reduce, reuse and recycle\" and avoid other single-use items like body glitter and body wipes.\n\nIt's banned the sale of plastic bottles on-site since 2019 - fans are encouraged to bring reusable bottles instead.\n\nVapes have become a common sight at festivals\n\nArctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses will top the bill at this year's Glastonbury, which takes place from 21 June to 26 June.\n\nOther acts on the line-up include Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X and Flo.\n\nWhen the line-up was announced, there was criticism on social media that all the main stage headliners were male - though there is almost a 50:50 split between male and female acts elsewhere.\n\n\"We try our best and we obviously aim for 50:50,\" Emily Eavis previously told the BBC. \"Some years, it's more, some years, it's less.\n\n\"This year, we did have a female headliner, and she unfortunately had to pull out... It changes all the time.\n\n\"But next year it's looking like we've got two female headliners, so fingers crossed.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Peter Tatchell has received an apology from the Met Police\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has apologised to LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell for the force's homophobic failings.\n\nIn what Mr Tatchell said was a \"ground-breaking step forward\", Sir Mark's letter said he was \"sorry to all of the communities we have let down\".\n\nA damning report by Baroness Casey in March found there was racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met Police.\n\nMr Tatchell said the apology \"draws a line under past Met persecution\".\n\nIt came on the day the Peter Tatchell Foundation launched a campaign calling on all UK police chiefs to apologise for \"decades-long victimisation\" of the LGBT+ community.\n\nIn his letter, Sir Mark admitted he accepted it \"had systems and processes in place which have led to bias and discrimination in the way we have policed London's communities, and in the way we have treated our officers and staff, over many decades.\n\n\"Recent cases of appalling behaviour by some officers have revealed that there are still racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes in the organisation, and we have already doubled down on rooting out those who corrupt and abuse their position.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am clear that there is much for us to do. I am sorry to all of the communities we have let down for the failings of the past and look forward to building a new Met for London, one all Londoners can be proud of and in which they can have confidence.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Tatchell thanked Sir Mark for \"being the first UK police chief to say sorry\" adding he hoped his apology would spur other police forces to follow suit.\n\n\"This will help strengthen LGBT+ trust and confidence in the police; encouraging more LGBTs to report hate crime, domestic violence and sexual assault,\" he added.\n\nHis foundation's #ApologiseNow campaign was supported by the late television star Paul O'Grady before his death in March.\n\nThe launch event on Wednesday featured a video from O'Grady, where he urged the police to say sorry for the often abusive, and sometimes illegal, way they treated LGBT people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activist Peter Tatchell on his life-long fight for gay rights\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Tatchell said the \"ground-breaking\" apology recognised the \"abusive, insulting, violent and sometimes illegal\" treatment LGBT+ communities have experienced at the hands of police.\n\nHe said \"gay bars were often scenes of harassment\" by police, adding that the apology would help to build trust between the community and police forces, increasing safety as a result.\n\nAustralian-born Mr Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights since he was a teenager, including supporting Australia's Aboriginal people.\n\nHe continued to campaign for human rights after moving to London in the 1970s, protesting against the likes of boxer Mike Tyson, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey over the years.\n\nIn 1999, he tried to perform a citizen's arrest on former prime minister of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe over his human rights abuses - but was severely beaten by Mr Mugabe's bodyguards.\n\nSince 2011, he has been the director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.", "A heat-health alert has been issued for parts of England as temperatures are predicted to hit 30C (86F) over the weekend.\n\nThe alert is in place from 09:00 BST on Friday 9 June to 09:00 on Monday 12 June in London, the Midlands, eastern and southern England.\n\nPeople are being asked to check on vulnerable friends and family.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says the health and social care sector could be impacted.\n\nThis first alert - graded yellow - means this weekend, predicted to be hotter than Ibiza and Madrid, could affect the vulnerable including the over-65s and those with an underlying health condition.\n\nDr Agostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at UKHSA, said: \"In the coming days we are likely to experience our first sustained period of hot weather of the year so far, so it's important that everyone ensures they keep hydrated and cool while enjoying the sun.\n\n\"Forecasted temperatures this week will primarily impact those over the age of 65 or those with pre-existing health conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.\n\n\"If you have friends, family or neighbours who you know are more vulnerable to the effects of hot weather, it is important you check in on them.\"\n\nThe UKHSA also advises people to:\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker said some parts of the UK official heatwave threshold might be met in parts ofcentral and southern England this weekend.\n\nIn order for a heatwave to be declared, temperatures must be above the official heatwave threshold for at least three consecutive days.\n\nHe said: \"Typically highs will reach the mid to high 20s widely across the country, but there is an outside chance of 30C in England. This is dependent on sunshine.\n\n\"The forecasts point to increasing amounts of cloud and the chance of thunderstorms which will have a bearing on the highest temperatures.\n\n\"Due to the increasing humidity the nights will also become uncomfortable over the weekend.\"\n\nLarge parts of the country have seen little rain recently, with some areas in England not experiencing any rain since 11 May.\n\nTemperatures will be in the high 20s across the UK this weekend\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest ever - Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, reached a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nThe UKHSA expects heatwaves are \"likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead\".\n\nThe new colour-coded alert system, launched last week, is run by the UKHSA and the Met Office. It is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nThere are two further alerts, not yet issued, representing more of a risk:\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.", "The Iron Shiek squared off against other wrestling greats including Hulk Hogan\n\nThe Iron Sheik, a heavyweight champion WWE wrestler and hall-of-famer, has died aged 81, his family announced.\n\nHe was a \"true legend, a force of nature and an iconic figure who left an incredible mark\" on the wrestling world, they said in a statement on Wednesday. \"It is with great sadness that we share the news.\"\n\nBorn in Iran, the wrestling icon's real name was Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri.\n\nHis cause of death has not been given.\n\nAt the peak of his wrestling career, in the 1980s, Vaziri faced off against other greats in the ring including Bob Backlund, Sgt Slaughter and Hulk Hogan.\n\nHe defeated Backlund for the WWF World Heavyweight title in December 1983.\n\nOne month later, in front of an electric crowd of over 20,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden, Hogan took down Vaziri and won the championship belt for the first time. The upset launched Hogan's career.\n\nThe WWE called the event \"one of the most famous wrestling matches of all time\".\n\nVaziri was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\n\"He was a trailblazer, breaking barriers and paving the way for a diverse range of wrestlers who followed in his footsteps,\" the family said.\n\nWith his iconic shaved head, handlebar moustache and curled-toe shoes, Vaziri paid tribute to his Iranian heritage with his persona.\n\nAccording to ESPN, before wrestling he was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran.\n\nHe almost made his country's Olympic wrestling team in 1968.\n\nVaziri eventually moved to the US, became an assistant coach for the American wrestling team, and joined the WWE (then under the name WWF) in 1979.\n\nHe is survived by his wife of 47 years, Caryl Vaziri, and his children Tanya, Nikki and Marisa.\n\n\"He was a loving and dedicated father,\" his family said.\n\n\"He instilled in them the values of perseverance, determination, and the importance of following their dreams. The Iron Sheik's guidance and unwavering belief in their potential served as a driving force for his children, empowering them to become the best versions of themselves.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has been given the findings of an MP-led investigation into whether he misled parliament over Partygate.\n\nThe Privileges Committee is examining whether the former PM purposefully misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.\n\nIn evidence given in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe now has two weeks to respond to a \"warning letter\" sent by the committee.\n\nThe letter details the criticisms it intends to make of Mr Johnson, along with any evidence which supports them, the BBC understands.\n\nIf the committee finds that Mr Johnson did mislead Parliament, it could recommend his suspension from the House of Commons for 10 days or more, triggering a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe letter will also inform Mr Johnson of any proposed penalties that the committee will suggest for MPs to approve.\n\nMPs would be asked to endorse the findings, via a vote in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Johnson now has two weeks to reply. His response will be considered by the committee before it finalises its report - this is expected to happen by the end of June.\n\nA spokesperson for the committee said it was \"proceeding in accordance with its previously published procedure. Under that procedure, if the committee decides to criticise Mr Johnson, it will not come to a final conclusion until it has taken into account any further submissions from Mr Johnson.\"\n\nMr Johnson has been approached for comment.", "A natural weather event known as El Niño has begun in the Pacific Ocean, likely adding heat to a planet already warming under climate change.\n\nUS scientists confirmed that El Niño had started. Experts say it will likely make 2024 the world's hottest year.\n\nThey fear it will help push the world past a key 1.5C warming milestone.\n\nIt will also affect world weather, potentially bringing drought to Australia, more rain to the southern US, and weakening India's monsoon.\n\nThe event will likely last until next spring, after which its impacts will recede.\n\nFor months, researchers have been increasingly confident that an El Niño event was set to emerge in the Pacific Ocean.\n\n\"It's ramping up now, there have been signs in our predictions for several months, but it's really looking like it will peak at the end of this year in terms of its intensity,\" said Adam Scaife, head of long-range predictions at the UK Met Office.\n\n\"A new record for global temperature next year is definitely plausible. It depends how big the El Niño turns out to be - a big El Niño at the end of this year, gives a high chance that we will have a new record, global temperature in 2024.\"\n\nThis natural phenomenon is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth.\n\nThe El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, as it is properly called, has three different phases: Hot, cold or neutral.\n\nWorkers in Peru clean up after a storm as a coastal El Niño impacted the coast\n\nThe hot phase, called El Niño, occurs every two to seven years and sees warm waters come to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean pushing significant amounts of heat up into the atmosphere.\n\nRecord warm years, including 2016, the world's hottest on record, usually happen the year after a powerful El Niño event.\n\nWeather agencies around the world use different criteria to decide when this hot phase is upon us.\n\nFor scientists in the US, their definition requires the ocean to be 0.5C hotter than normal for a month, the atmosphere must be seen to be responding to this heat and there must be evidence the event is persisting.\n\nThese conditions were met in the month of May. In a statement, US National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that \"El Niño conditions are present\".\n\n\"This is a very weak signal. But we believe that we're starting to see these conditions and that they will continue to intensify,\" said Michelle L'Heureux, a scientist with NOAA.\n\n\"Our weekly value is actually 0.8C this past week, which is even stronger.\"\n\nHeat and drought will likely hit parts of Asia as a result of El Niño\n\nThe researchers believe this event has an 84% chance of exceeding moderate strength by the end of this year.\n\nThey also say there's a one in four chance of this event exceeding 2C at its peak, which is getting into the territory of a \"super El Niño\".\n\nThe impacts of the onset of El Niño will likely lag behind by a few months but will be felt all over the world.\n\nResearchers expect these will include drier weather conditions in Australia and parts of Asia, with potential weakening of the monsoon in India. Southern US states will likely be wetter in the coming winter. El Niño normally strengthens drought conditions in Africa.\n\nIf experience is anything to go by, there will be a large human and economic cost to this oncoming weather event.\n\nThe strong El Niño in 1997-98 cost over $5 trillion with around 23,000 deaths from storms and floods.\n\nThere's also a strong likelihood that this year's version will push 2024 past 2016 as the world's hottest year.\n\nSmoke from forest fires is having a dramatic impact on New York\n\nGlobal temperatures are currently hovering around 1.1C above the average in the period from 1850-1900.\n\nBut an El Niño event could add up to 0.2C to that figure, pushing the world into uncharted temperature territory, and close to breaking the symbolic 1.5C guard rail, a key element of the Paris climate agreement.\n\nResearchers recently said that breaking this limit temporarily was more likely than not in the next few years.\n\n\"We're actually likely to see global mean temperatures that might become more of a regular thing in five to ten year's time, so it does give us that sort of portal on the future.\" said Michelle L'Heureux.\n\n\"And I think that's why it's alarming to some people, because these are our new thresholds. And El Niño is providing an accelerant on that.\"", "We're going to pause our live coverage now - but you can keep up to date on this story in our main article here.\n\nThis is a distressing story - if you need support you can find organisations which can help using BBC Action Line.\n\nToday's page was brought to you by Sam Hancock, James FitzGerald, Adam Durbin, Samuel Horti, Jennifer McKiernan, Alex Therrien, Owen Amos, Nathan Williams and Dulcie Lee.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Caroline Lucas became the first ever Green Party MP after being elected in 2010\n\nCaroline Lucas, the Green Party's former leader and only MP, has announced she will stand down at the next general election.\n\nMs Lucas said the pressures of her role meant she had not been able to focus on \"the challenges that drive me - the nature and climate emergencies\".\n\nShe thanked her supporters, who she said had \"put the politics of hope above the politics of fear\".\n\nShe was elected for Brighton Pavilion in 2010, becoming the first Green MP.\n\nMs Lucas, who had two stints as Green leader, has increased her majority at every election since, winning by a margin of almost 20,000 votes in 2019.\n\nThe MP's decision comes a month after her party lost control of Brighton and Hove council, despite making record gains in May's local elections in England.\n\nIn an open letter, Ms Lucas said it had been the \"privilege of my life to serve this extraordinary constituency and community\".\n\nShe said: \"I have always been a different kind of politician - as those who witnessed my arrest, court case and acquittal over peaceful protest at the fracking site in Balcombe nearly 10 years ago will recall.\n\n\"And the truth is, as these threats to our precious planet become ever more urgent, I have struggled to spend the time I want on these accelerating crises.\n\n\"I have therefore decided not to stand again as your MP at the next election.\"\n\nThe Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denyer described Ms Lucas as a \"force of nature\" and said the party was \"so proud of her achievements\".\n\nMs Denyer - her party's candidate for the Bristol West constituency - said Ms Lucas's record \"demonstrates how essential it is to have Green voices in UK politics\".\n\nThe party's joint leader, Adrian Ramsay, said the Greens would be \"striving to get more Green MPs elected at the next general election so that we can build on Caroline's achievements\".\n\nThe party won its highest ever vote share of 3.8% in 2015's general election but Ms Lucas was the only Green candidate to win a seat.\n\nAlthough Ms Lucas remains the only Green MP, the party has enjoyed success in recent local elections.\n\nIn England's local elections in May, the Green Party won more than 240 seats and made history in Mid-Suffolk, taking control of the council for the first time.\n\nThe Greens have traditionally performed best in urban areas, such as Brighton and Bristol, but the party concentrated its campaigning firepower on rural, traditional Tory areas.\n\nLabour is now expected to focus efforts on trying to win the seat after taking control of Brighton and Hove Council from the Greens in May.\n\nLabour sources point to the Greens facing anger locally over their management of the council and to their gains at the expense of the Greens in wards that map onto the parliamentary constituency.\n\nOne local party source said: \"In May's local elections residents in Brighton delivered a damning and decisive verdict on the Green Party - with Labour winning nearly twice as many councillors as the Greens in Caroline Lucas' seat.\n\n\"Labour will continue to make the case to voters in Brighton Pavilion that we are the only party with the answers to the serious challenges facing the country.\"\n\nMs Lucas's first period as Green leader was between 2008 and 2012, before her second as co-leader with Jonathan Bartley for two years from September 2016.\n\nThe Brighton Pavilion MP said she came into politics \"to change things\".\n\nShe said she had put a universal basic income on the political agenda, secured the first parliamentary debate in a generation on drug law reform, and been involved in the addition of a natural history GCSE to the syllabus.\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"definitely not quitting\" politics, or \"retiring with my knitting\".\n\n\"I think right now, the Greens are at such as exciting stage,\" she said. \"Working to get more Greens elected is my priority.\"\n\nMs Lucas is the latest senior MP to announce her departure from Parliament at the next election, which is expected to be held in 2024.\n\nDozens of MPs have stated their intention leave the Commons, including former health secretary Matt Hancock, the former deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, and former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford.", "The hedge fund firm founded by multi-millionaire hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is understood to be being investigated by the City watchdog.\n\nThe news comes as a Financial Times investigation accused Mr Odey of sexually harassing or assaulting 13 women over 25 years.\n\nConservative donor Mr Odey is one of the City's most well-known figures who backed the Brexit campaign.\n\nThe allegations made by some of the women are of a very serious sexual nature.\n\nIt is understood the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been investigating Odey Asset Management for two years, although the details of the investigation are not clear and the FCA has declined to comment.\n\nJP Morgan, one of the banks providing services to Odey Asset Management, is thought to be reviewing its relationship with the company.\n\nIn 2020, Mr Odey was accused of assaulting a female investment banker at his London home in 1998, but he was later cleared.\n\nAccording to Electoral Commission figures, Crispin Odey made political donations valued at a total of £1.7m between 2007 and 2019.\n\nMost of them were from him personally but a few were from his company, Odey Asset Management. In some cases he's listed as Robin Odey or Robin C Odey in Electoral Commission filings.\n\nThe biggest donations, £1.3m in total, were made to groups campaigning for Brexit around the time of the EU referendum.\n\n£355,000 of the total was given to the Conservatives plus a donation of £10,000 directly to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in June 2019. He's also given smaller amounts to UKIP and the Christian Party.", "Images of the Statue of Liberty in New York - obscured by a thick haze of smoke caused by wildfires in Canada - have shocked the United States.\n\nBut in the Indian capital Delhi, the iconic India Gate hidden behind a layer of smog is a reality every winter.\n\nThe air gets hazardous, with pollution reaching levels nearly five times what the World Health Organization considers safe.\n\nResidents are asked to stay inside, keep the windows and doors closed and wear masks when stepping out.\n\nIt is like a scene from a dystopian novel or an apocalyptic film, except that it is real.\n\nThose who can afford it rush to buy expensive air purifiers. But these only work in closed rooms.\n\nExperts say exposure to such high levels of pollution make people more prone to all kinds of infections. They can elevate the risk of heart attacks and damage vital organs like the liver and brain.\n\nExperts say cleaning up the air requires drastic measures - but they are not a top priority for the country's leaders.\n\nYou can read more about how Delhi deals with pollution here.", "Flowers have been left at the scene on Langworthy Road in Salford\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after he was followed by police on his electric bike and was then in collision with an ambulance.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said traffic officers had followed the teenager in Salford until their vehicle's path was blocked by bollards.\n\nThe boy then rode on and was in collision with the ambulance, said North West Ambulance Service.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating.\n\nThe boy was followed by police officers along Fitzwarren Street and on to Lower Seedley Road at about 14:00 BST before bollards blocked their vehicle's way.\n\nInitial reports said the ambulance was stationary at the time but the North West Ambulance Service said that while its vehicle was not on an active call it was being driven back to a nearby ambulance station.\n\nThe crew inside were able to treat the boy immediately before taking him to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe mood near to the scene of the crash was sombre on Thursday evening, with the family of the boy understood to live nearby.\n\nFlowers, candles and cards have been left at the scene beside a framed picture of the young boy.\n\nOne tribute attached to a bunch of roses read: \"Doesn't feel real writing this card. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAnother said: \"You will always have a special place in my heart, I love you loads my dude.\"\n\nLangworthy Road is a busy main road and would have had a lot of traffic on it at the time of the collision.\n\nA police cordon in place there for much of the evening has now been lifted.\n\nIn a statement, GMP said the IOPC was now leading the investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the boy who tragically died,\" it said.\n\nThe IOPC, which oversees police conduct, said it was \"independently investigating the circumstances of a serious collision involving an e-bike and an ambulance in Salford\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones, as well as all those affected by this tragedy,\" its spokesman said.\n\n\"We were notified by Greater Manchester Police due to the fact a police vehicle had been following the e-bike shortly before the collision.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene of the collision, at the junction of Langworthy Road and Lower Seedley Road, as well as to the police post-incident procedures, to begin gathering evidence.\"\n\nHe added the IOPC would provide \"further details once we are in a position to do so\".\n\nLast month, 15-year-old Harvey Evans and 16-year-old Kyrees Sullivan were killed in an e-bike collision in Cardiff after being followed by a police van. Their deaths sparked a riot in the area.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: View from a boat on what used to be a street\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of attacking evacuation points for those affected by the Kakhovka dam breach, after a person was killed by shelling in Kherson.\n\nThe Kherson prosecutor's office said two others were also injured, while the interior ministry said eight more were hurt by shelling in Korabelna Square.\n\nThe attacks came as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the city, where he met with locals affected by the flooding.\n\n2,000 people have been evacuated from the area, Kherson's governor says.\n\nSpeaking in a video statement posted to Telegram, Oleksandr Prokudin said the \"evacuation from zones of flooding is continuing\" despite the \"immense danger and constant Russian shelling\".\n\nBut he said that 68% of the flooded territory in the Kherson region was on Russian-held territory on the east bank of the Dnipro River.\n\nThe river has slowly swelled since the Kakhovka dam collapsed on Tuesday, causing thousands to flee their homes. The World Food Programme told the BBC on Thursday that the situation was a \"public health crisis in the making\" due to pollution including sewage, heavy oil and pesticides mixed into floodwater.\n\nUkraine says the flooding has affected an area of around 600 km sq (230 sq miles), and hundreds of thousands of people have been left without drinking water. The Ukrainian army has used drones to drop water bottles and food to some residents.\n\nWhile the water level seems to have stabilised in Kherson itself, it still flows through streets at a daunting height, and flies now fill the air along with a pungent smell.\n\nRescue teams and volunteers are continuing to head out on boats to salvage anyone, or anything they can. Their efforts are punctuated by outgoing artillery fire.\n\nBoth Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of targeting evacuation points in the Kherson region. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, accused Russia of bombarding the city and of \"preventing rescuers from evacuating the population\".\n\nThe Kremlin-installed head of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said on Telegram that two people died after Ukraine shelled a civilian evacuation point which was flooded after the dam breach.\n\nAnd Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that Russian rescue workers are \"forced to work in conditions of ongoing shelling from Ukraine, and this complicates their work\". He did not provide evidence to back up these claims.\n\nSpeaking in Kherson, where he met with rescue workers, President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his criticism of the international community, including the UN and the Red Cross, for their slow response to the dam collapse.\n\nAnd he vowed to local residents that his government would be available to help them rebuild their lives.\n\n\"You are going through this difficult ordeal now,\" Mr Zelensky said. \"We will help you and rebuild everything that needs to be restored. I thank you and wish you good health.\"\n\nThe Kremlin said there were no plans for President Vladimir Putin to visit the affected zones.\n\nCommunities on small islands close to Russian occupied territory are said to be experiencing the worst of these floods. Whole homes there have been submerged.\n\nAnd a local Russian-installed official said five people have died and 41 have been hospitalised by flooding in the region.\n\nElsewhere, fighting has continued in some areas, as analysts watch to see how Ukraine's long-anticipated advance takes shape.\n\nRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday that his forces had withstood fierce attempts by Ukrainian troops to break through the frontline in Zaporizhzhia province overnight.\n\nAnd footage posted to social media by pro-war Russian bloggers and geolocated by the BBC appeared to show units of Ukrainian armour coming under artillery fire as they advanced towards Russian held areas in Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nThe column appeared to be advancing towards fortifications at Tokmak, around 5-10km back from the limit of Russian control. The BBC cannot verify when the advance occurred.\n\nIn the east, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Kyiv's forces were continuing to advance around the city of Bakhmut.\n\nIn a daily intelligence update, the UK's ministry of defence said \"heavy fighting continues along multiple sectors of the front,\" noting that Ukraine \"holds the initiative\" in most areas.\n\nOn Wednesday Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's national security council, denied reports of the new offensive and said that when Kyiv does launch an offensive \"everyone will know about it\".\n\nSenior US officials have previously told the BBC's US partner CBS News that it is accurate to say that the Ukraine counteroffensive is in its opening phases, but that the main thrust has not yet begun.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham will celebrate their Europa Conference League triumph with an open-top bus parade around east London on Thursday evening.\n\nJarrod Bowen scored a 90th-minute winner to secure a dramatic 2-1 win over Fiorentina in Prague on Wednesday.\n\nIt is West Ham's first major trophy since 1980 and their first in Europe since 1965.\n\n\"It will be fantastic to see fans from across London fill the streets,\" said West Ham chairman David Sullivan.\n\n\"This trophy belongs to you, and it will be fantastic to all share in the moment. It is time to celebrate.\"\n\nA specially commissioned bus will carry players and staff from the junction of Green Street and Barking Road, adjacent to the Boleyn Pub, to the Old Town Hall in Stratford on West Ham Lane.\n\nThe parade will start at 19:00 BST and is expected to reach the Old Town Hall at 20:00.\n\nThe journey resembles that taken by the legendary 1965 squad containing Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters, who were met by tens of thousands of supporters to celebrate their Cup Winners' Cup triumph.\n\nSullivan said: \"I could not be more proud of this magnificent football club. Proud of how far we have come over the last decade. Proud of the manager, the backroom team, and all the staff, who have done a fantastic job.\n\n\"And proud of all the players, from our amazing homegrown talent to our brilliant international stars, who have given us a night and a triumph that will live forever.\n\n\"But most of all, I want to pay tribute to the Hammers fans, the Claret and Blue Army, who have once again shown they are the best in the world.\"\n• None We promised Rice he could leave West Ham - Sullivan\n• None 'Moments Moyes and West Ham will never forget'\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say.\n\nThe test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptoms, in England or Wales.\n\nIn 85% of those positive cases, it also pinpointed the original site of cancer.\n\nThe Galleri test looks for distinct changes in bits of genetic code that leak from different cancers. Spotting treatable cancer early can save lives.\n\nThe test remains very much a \"work in progress\", the researchers, from Oxford University, say, but could increase the number of cancers identified.\n\nOften, patients have symptoms, such as weight loss, with a range of possible causes and require multiple tests and hospital visits.\n\nMore than 350 of those in the study - the biggest of its kind in patients with suspected cancer symptoms - were subsequently diagnosed with cancer, using traditional methods such as scans and biopsies. About:\n\nAlthough not accurate enough to \"rule in or rule out cancer\", the test was really useful for patients lead researcher Prof Mark Middleton told BBC News.\n\n\"The test was 85% accurate in detecting the source of the cancer - and that can be really helpful because so many times it is not immediately obvious when you have got the patient in front of you what test is needed to see whether their symptoms are down to cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"With that prediction from the test, we can decide whether to order a scope or a scan and make sure we are giving the right test the first time.\"\n\nThe findings will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, in Chicago.\n\nThe NHS has also been using the Galleri test, developed by Californian company Grail, in thousands of people without symptoms, to see if it can detect hidden cancers.\n\nInitial results are expected next year - and, if successful, the NHS in England plans to extend the rollout to a further one million people in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe test is particularly good at finding hard-to-spot cancers such as head and neck, bowel, lung, pancreatic, and throat cancers.\n\nDr David Crosby, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"The findings from the study suggest this test could be used to support GPs to make clinical assessments - but much more research is needed, in a larger trial, to see if it could improve GP assessment and ultimately patient outcomes.\"\n\nNHS national director for cancer Prof Peter Johnson said: \"This study is the first step in testing a new way to identify cancer as quickly as possible, being pioneered by the NHS - earlier detection of cancer is vital and this test could help us to catch more cancers at an earlier stage and help save thousands of lives.\"", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward\n\nTwo babies died and a third collapsed within 72 hours of Lucy Letby telling a colleague she would be \"back in with a bang\" after her holiday, a court heard.\n\nThe neonatal nurse, 33, is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Child O and P, two brothers in a set of triplets, died in June 2016.\n\nMs Letby, from Hereford, denies all of the allegations against her.\n\nJurors were told the accused was on holiday in Ibiza with friends when the triplets were born.\n\nIn a text message to a fellow nurse ahead of her return to work, Ms Letby said she would \"probably be back in with a bang\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said \"within 72 hours of that text\" Child O and P had both died and Child Q - who was unrelated to them - had collapsed.\n\nMs Letby accepted there were no health concerns about the triplets, who cannot be named for legal reasons, when they were born.\n\nShe agreed their birth was \"big news\" on the neonatal unit and that it was the first time she had ever come across naturally conceived triplets in her career.\n\nLucy Letby was on holiday with friends in Ibiza when the triplets were born\n\nMs Letby denied attacking Child O on her first day back at work in order to gain the attention of a doctor who prosecutors have suggested she \"had a crush on\".\n\nShe has previously told jurors she was not in love with the registrar - who cannot be named for legal reasons - and they were just friends.\n\nJurors were told Ms Letby texted him that morning: \"Bit rubbish that you couldn't stay on nnu (neonatal unit).\n\n\"You may get time for lunch though if on clinic.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked her: \"Were you disappointed he was not there?\"\n\nShe said: \"Yes, I enjoyed working with [the doctor].\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Were you missing him?\"\n\nMs Letby said: \"No, this was my first day back at work.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did you want to get his attention?\"\n\nMr Johnson asked: \"Is that the reason you sabotaged [Child O]?\"\n\nLucy Letby has been giving evidence for a 13th day at Manchester Crown Court\n\nJurors were told that up to 90 minutes later, Ms Letby called for help from the registrar, who was working in a neighbouring nursery.\n\nThe prosecutor asked her: \"Were you trying to get his attention?\"\n\nMs Letby said: \"Yes, I wanted him to be with (Child O).\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Personal attention as well?\"\n\nLetby said: \"No, he was the registrar on the unit that day.\"\n\nMs Letby, who was Child O's designated nurse, called for the doctor's assistance at about 13:15 BST after the infant vomited following a milk feed 45 minutes earlier.\n\nMedical entries showed the accused signed for the feed but, giving her 13th day of evidence, Ms Letby told the court that the child was actually fed by a student nurse she was mentoring.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"You deliberately overfed [Child O], didn't you?\"\n\nMs Letby replied: \"No I didn't. I was not feeding this baby.\"\n\nThe court was told Ms Letby had noted Child O's appearance was \"mottled\" and his abdomen was \"red and distended\".\n\nMr Johnson reminded the nurse the unit's head consultant Dr Stephen Brearey had recalled an \"unusual rash\" on the right side of Child O's chest wall, which later disappeared.\n\nThe prosecutor asked her: \"Is that what you saw as well?\"\n\nMr Johnson told the court that Child O's mother had noticed \"changing\" skin discolouration and \"prominent veins\", while Child O's father observed \"something oozing through his veins\".\n\nHe asked the accused: \"Do you agree with the descriptions?\"\n\nMs Letby replied: \"I didn't see anything like that.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"You saw a sort of blotchy, purply/red rash?\"\n\nThe defendant agreed a liver injury sustained by Child O - discovered after his death - must have been inflicted during the shift.\n\nShe told the court: \"I don't know how that has happened.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"You injected [Child O's] stomach with gas down the [nasogastric tube], didn't you?\"\n\nThe nurse said: \"No, I didn't.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"You injected air into his circulation.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"And through some violent mechanism, you inflicted that liver injury on him.\"\n\nChild O continued to decline throughout the afternoon and died at 17:47.\n\nMr Johnson accused Ms Letby of then turning her attention to Child O's brother, Child P, who was also in her care.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"You had already put your plan into motion by pumping [Child P] before you left, hadn't you?\"\n\nMr Johnson went on: \"You overfed [Child P] some time between 6pm and handing him over at 8pm, didn't you?\"\n\nThe defendant is alleged to have murdered Child P the following day with more injections of air.\n\nChild P suffered an acute deterioration five minutes after a doctor examined him on the morning ward round, the court heard.\n\nAgain, Ms Letby's alleged love interest was among medics to respond to an emergency crash call, the court heard.\n\nMr Johnson asked the defendant: \"Were you trying to attract [the doctor's] attention?\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did you enjoy being in these crisis situations with [the doctor]?\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did it give you something to talk about and message about?\"\n\nThe nurse said: \"No, [the doctor] and I were friends.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The reason you crash called was because you had injected air down his [nasogastric tube]?\"\n\nA further deterioration happened just before 12:30 when the registrar and another doctor were in a tea room and they heard a call for help from the accused.\n\nThe second doctor - who also cannot be identified for legal reasons - has previously told the jury that Ms Letby went on to say to her: \"He's not leaving alive is he?\"\n\nThe accused said she could not recall the conversation.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did you enjoy making predictions when you knew what was going to happen?\"\n\n\"No,\" said the defendant.\n\nChild P continued to decline and was pronounced dead at 16:00.\n\nMr Johnson put it to the defendant that she was \"falling over yourself\" to message a colleague about the boy's death later that evening.\n\nMs Letby said: \"No, I told her out of respect.\"\n\nShe added it was \"common practice\" to try and make nursing staff aware of such outcomes before they walked on to the unit and found out.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"She was at the races. Why didn't you just leave her alone?\"\n\nThe accused said: \"She was asking me.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did you enjoy the drama?\"\n\nThe nurse also denied she attempted to murder Child Q, a baby boy, the following day by \"pumping him with a clear fluid\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Comer plays a barrister who defends people who have been accused of sexual assault in Prima Facie\n\nActress Jodie Comer abruptly walked off stage during a Broadway performance on Wednesday after saying she had trouble breathing due to wildfire smoke.\n\nComer's one-woman show, Prima Facie, continued after her understudy stepped in to complete the matinee performance.\n\nCanada wildfire smoke has blanketed New York City in recent days.\n\nA performance of Hamilton and several sports matches were postponed on Wednesday as residents were advised to stay indoors or wear N95 masks outside.\n\n\"Today's matinee of Prima Facie was halted approximately 10 minutes into the performance after Jodie Comer had difficulty breathing due to the poor air quality in New York City because of smoke from the Canadian wildfires,\" a spokesperson for the production told The Hollywood Reporter.\n\nUnderstudy Dani Arlington replaced the Killing Eve star in the role of Tessa, completing the roughly 100-minute performance and earning an enthusiastic applause, a witness told Deadline.\n\nThe audience member told Deadline that after about three minutes into her performance, Comer coughed and called out to a stage manager: \"I can't breathe this air\".\n\nReports on social media and in Variety indicated Comer was helped off the stage by a member of the production team.\n\nBy the time the announcement was made that the actress would not return to the stage that afternoon, some members of the audience had reportedly left their seats, with many requesting new tickets for a future performance or for refunds.\n\nOn Twitter, one audience member wrote: \"We came to see Jodie Comer. She started [the] show. Had to stop for air quality. Now want us to see understudy. What is refund policy? Exchange? We came and paid high price to see Jodie.\"\n\nComer pictured signing autographs for fans in New York after a recent appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\n\nComer, who hails from Liverpool in the UK, has received rave reviews for the show since its debut in April.\n\nIn Prima Facie she plays a barrister who defends people who have been accused of sexual assault, but is then herself attacked by a colleague.\n\nComer has been widely acclaimed for her performance in the play - she is nominated for best actress at this Sunday's Tony Awards and has already won an Olivier.\n\nThe British star, who has also appeared in The Last Duel and Free Guy, is due to continue playing the role on Broadway until 2 July.\n\nSmoke from Canada has tinged the sky orange in New York and led to health warnings in parts of Canada and the US northeast.\n\nThe Environment Protection Agency has said the air quality in New York was \"unhealthy\", and citizens were warned to limit outdoor activity.\n\nWednesday evening's performances of Hamilton, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, and and Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet, were among the shows cancelled due to the poor air quality in New York.\n\nOther venues to be affected included the Vineyard Theatre, which cancelled Wednesday night's performance of This Land Was Made.\n\nThe off-Broadway theatre said the cancellation was \"in the interest of prioritising the health and safety of our audience members, performers, and staff\".\n\nSome parts of Canada have been evacuated. About 7,500 people have left Chibougamau, the largest town in northern Quebec and roughly 4,000 residents have fled the Cree town, Mistissini.\n\nZach Taylor, a US National Weather Service meteorologist, said the weather pattern meant smoke was being funnelled into the US.\n\nHe said the air should begin to clear after rain this weekend and early next week, adding further relief would come from containing or extinguishing the fires.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to keep safe from wildfire smoke", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAirports across the US east coast have been experiencing delays as smoke from Canada's wildfires continues to limit visibility on Thursday.\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) paused all flights inbound for New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.\n\nThe FAA also grounded flights headed to New York's LaGuardia Airport and Philadelphia International Airport.\n\nOver 1,000 flights were delayed by mid-morning, according to Flight Aware.\n\n\"Reduced visibility from wildfire smoke will continue to impact air travel today,\" the FAA announced on Twitter.\n\nThe FAA said they will likely need to take steps throughout the day to manage the flow of traffic and will keep real-time flight information at fly.faa.gov.\n\nAfter pausing flights headed toward Philadelphia from the north east, mid-Atlantic and Ohio early Thursday morning, the FAA said flights there have resumed.\n\nFlights from the north east, Ohio and mid-Atlantic headed to LaGuardia airport remain paused.\n\nAmerican Airlines announced it is waving the change fee for passengers at airports with Thursday and Friday flights through 25 airports because of wildfire smoke delays.\n\nMillions of people are under air quality alerts in the US and Canada.\n\nAs Canadian firefighters struggle to control the 400 wildfires raging across the country, smoke blanketed much of the eastern part of the country and the East Coast. The haze blotted out New York City's famed skyline and drew comparisons to Mars and a post-apocalyptic scene.\n\nHealth officials in both countries have issued warnings about potentially dangerous air quality and pollution.\n\nThere are more than 150 fires burning in Quebec alone, but according to the province's premiere, Francois Legault, there are only enough firefighters to tackle 40 of the infernos.\n\nAt a news conference Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said more than 230 fires are raging out of control and more than 20,000 people have evacuated their homes.\n\n\"Firefighters are stepping up. First responders are stepping up in harrowing situations to save their fellow citizens,\" Mr Trudeau said.\n\nIf fires continue to burn at this rate, Canada could be facing its worse wildfire season on record. So far this season, approximately 3.8 million hectares (9.39 million acres) of land has burned.\n\nThe White House has said it will send support to Canada to help battle the fires.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to keep safe from wildfire smoke\n\nSmoke from the infernos has travelled south, enveloping New York City in a haze so thick that tourists could barely see the iconic Statue of Liberty.\n\nOfficials have said residents should expect poor air quality and the smoky haze to linger until Thursday evening in Toronto and much of Ontario.\n\nAir quality in New York is projected to remain \"unhealthy\" until Thursday, while Washington, DC also braces for poor air levels as the smoke moves south.\n\nExperts have warned those in the areas impacted by the smoke to take warnings about low air quality seriously.\n\nThe low air quality can cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat. As air conditions worsen, it can become harder to breathe and cause stress on the lungs and heart, especially for those with pre-existing conditions.", "Alexander Kareem was killed in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity\n\nThe family of an aspiring computer scientist killed in a suspected case of mistaken identity have pleaded for people to come forward with information.\n\nAlexander Kareem, 20, was shot dead in Shepherds Bush on 8 June 2020.\n\nOn the third anniversary of his death, his siblings urged people to speak up.\n\nHis siblings Khafi, 33 and Kabir, 29 called for those responsible to hand themselves in or risk living with a \"heavy conscience\".\n\nAlexander was shot on Askew Road in the early hours as he was travelling to a friend's house on a scooter. He was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIt is believed the assailants drove past him in a white Range Rover and shot him in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nA white Range Rover was later found burnt out three miles away in Ealing\n\nNine people arrested in connection with the investigation have been released without further action.\n\nA £20,000 Crimestoppers reward is available for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of his killers.\n\nKhafi, who has served as a Met Police officer since 2010 but is not involved in the investigation, said: \"I never thought we'd still be here doing appeals three years on.\n\n\"You can't kill people and get away with it - what kind of society is that?\n\n\"No day goes by where I still don't think about Alex\".\n\nAddressing his killers, she added: \"You will not get away with this. We cannot rest.\n\n\"He's not going to die in vain.\"\n\nKabir, who has created a music video on YouTube in tribute to his late brother, said: \"From the entire family there's sorrow (and) high levels of frustration.\n\n\"It's been so long since it's happened and there's still been no closure in terms of anyone being caught or actually held accountable for Alex's killing.\n\n\"That's put a lot of us in quite a dark space, and we want to move forward from the incident.\n\nDet Insp Rebecca Woodsford said: \"Three years have now passed but our determination to achieve justice for Alexander and his family is undiminished.\"Over time people change and allegiances change. Those who know something that could help us may now feel like they want to talk to us, and my officers are ready to listen.\"If you're reading this and you know anything - anything at all - please come forward.\n\n\"It is not too late to do the right thing.\n\n\"Nothing will ever heal the pain of losing him, but you can help bring them some small comfort by helping us catch those responsible.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kerri-Anne Donaldson (front row, second left) was a member of dance supergroup Kings and Queens\n\nFormer Britain's Got Talent contestant Kerri-Anne Donaldson has died aged 38, her family has confirmed.\n\nShe performed on the ITV talent show in 2014 as part of the super-group Kings and Queens.\n\nHer death was confirmed by her sister, Cara Donaldson, who said: \"My beautiful baby sister is no longer with us and I don't know how to process it.\"\n\nStrictly professional Neil Jones, who was also part of the group, said Donaldson had a \"heart of gold\".\n\nCara Donaldson added: \"I love you Kerri, you're my best friend, we were inseparable and right now I don't know how to fill the void. Be peaceful and hold Nan tight.\"\n\nKerri-Anne Donaldson's cause of death has not been confirmed.\n\nKings and Queens reached the semi-final of Britain's Got Talent's eighth series.\n\nOther members of the group included Kai Widdrington and Neil and Katya Jones, all three of whom later became professional dancers on Strictly.\n\nNeil Jones called Donaldson his \"friend\" and \"like a big sister\" on Twitter, writing: \"Kerri Anne Donaldson - remember that name and please never forget it because it belongs to a woman who loved to dance, create and perform, she had the cheekiest laugh and a heart of gold.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by keviclifton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow Strictly pro Amy Dowden said she was \"so shocked and sad\" following Donaldson's death.\n\n\"Such a beautiful dancer and kind soul. Sending love to all your family and friends. Heaven has certainly gained an angel. Keep dancing up there lovely,\" Dowden said.\n\nFormer Strictly pro Joanne Clifton said Donaldson's death was \"truly devastating\", while her brother and fellow ex-Strictly dancer Kevin Clifton described her as the \"loveliest girl.\"\n\n\"We've known you and shared the dance floor with you basically all our lives... dance up there with the angels Kerri... you beautiful dancer, you beautiful soul.\"\n\nIt Takes Two host and former Strictly pro Janette Manrara commented: \"How sad to see this news. She was a such a lovely person. My hearts goes out to all her friends and family during this time.\"", "Taurine - a nutrient found in meat, fish and sold as a supplement - extends life and boosts health in a range of animal species, scientists say.\n\nLevels of taurine decline with age in different species, including people.\n\nExperiments on middle-aged animals showed boosting taurine to youthful levels extended life by over 10% and improved physical and brain health.\n\nThe researchers say taurine may be an \"elixir of life\" - but topping up levels in people has not been tested.\n\nSo the team, at Columbia University, in New York, recommend against people buying taurine pills or energy drinks packed with taurine in an attempt to live longer.\n\nThe animal research is, however, the latest development in the hunt for ways of slowing ageing.\n\nDr Vijay Yadav holding a model of the chemical structure of taurine\n\nThis study started by analysing molecules in the blood of different species - to explore the differences between young and old.\n\n\"One of the most dramatically downgraded [molecules] was taurine,\" researcher Dr Vijay Yadav said. In elderly people, levels were 80% lower than in the young.\n\nTaurine is virtually non-existent in plants. So the nutrient either comes from animal protein in diet or is manufactured by the body.\n\nAnd for the past 11 years, the research team have been trying to flesh out its role in ageing.\n\nA daily dose was given to 14-month-old mice, which is equivalent to about age 45 for humans.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Science, showed male mice lived 10% longer, females 12%, and both appeared to be in better health.\n\n\"Whatever we checked, taurine-supplemented mice were healthier and appeared younger,\" Dr Yadav said.\n\n\"They were leaner, had an increased energy expenditure, increased bone density, improved memory and a younger-looking immune system.\"\n\nIncreases in lifespan of 10-23% were also recorded in worms.\n\nThen, 15-year-old rhesus monkeys were given a six-month course of taurine - too short to notice a difference in life expectancy but, again, the researchers found improvements in body weight, bone, blood-sugar levels and the immune system.\n\n\"I thought this is almost too good to be true,\" said Prof Henning Wackerhage, who was involved in the research at the Technical University of Munich. \"Taurine somehow hits the engine room of ageing.\"\n\nBut many of the big questions remain unanswered:\n\nThe researchers performed an analysis of 12,000 people and showed those with more taurine in their blood were generally in better health.\n\nIf the data from mice applied to people, it would be the equivalent of an extra seven to eight years of life, they say.\n\nBut it will take proper clinical trials - where some people are given the nutrient and others a placebo pill - to see if any benefit can be detected.\n\nDifferences in human biology may stop taurine from working or there may be some evolutionary reason why levels are meant to fall with age. Current evidence - including energy drinks being on the market for decades - suggests taurine is safe.\n\nWhile taurine is in our diet, it would be hard to eat the quantities used in the experiments. The equivalent dose from the animal experiments, scaled up to people would be 3-6g (0.2oz) per day.\n\nDr Yadav refused to say whether he chose to take taurine supplements himself, for fear of unduly influencing people.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Let us wait for the clinical trials to be completed before recommending to the wider population that they go to the shelf in a grocery store and buy taurine.\"\n\nProf Wackerhage said rather than rushing for supplements, there were already proven ways of living longer.\n\n\"If you want to live a long, healthy and happy life, then you need a healthy diet - that's one of the most important things - and of course, you should exercise,\" he said.\n\nThe scientific report suggests taurine plays a role in reducing cellular senescence - where cells in the body stop dividing - a hallmark of ageing.\n\nThe nutrient also appeared to keep mitochondria - the power stations in the body's cells - functioning.\n\nBut how it does any of this remains unexplored.\n\nProf Ilaria Bellantuono, from the University of Sheffield, said the findings \"fits well with the existing evidence\" on ageing, but the implications for people would remain \"limited\" until potentially very expensive human trials were conducted.\n\n\"If there is a demonstrable clinical impact it could be used to prevent multiple long-term chronic conditions such as osteoporosis, muscle weakness, diabetes and potentially neurodegenerative diseases.\"\n\nCommenting on the findings, Joseph McGaunn and Joseph Baur, both from the University of Pennsylvania, said: \"A singular focus on increasing dietary taurine risks driving poor nutritional choices, because plant-rich diets are associated with human health and longevity.\n\n\"Thus like any intervention, taurine supplementation with the aim of improving human health and longevity should be approached with caution.\"", "The dancer says she is thankful for \"all the support\" as she starts treatment\n\nStrictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has given fans a positive update after she underwent surgery for breast cancer.\n\nThe 32-year-old spoke of her surgery success in an Instagram post on Thursday after the start of her treatment for the disease.\n\nThe dancer, from Caerphilly, revealed last month that she had been diagnosed with grade three breast cancer.\n\nCo-stars and fans were among those wishing her well on social media.\n\n\"Step one to beating cancer! Rrrrrrready for this fight and more determined than ever to get back on the dancefloor,\" Amy wrote in an Instagram post shared on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by amy_dowden This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, comments began appearing from friends, fans and fellow Strictly stars.\n\nTom Fletcher, one of her former partners on the show, said: \"Sending you all the love today. Us Fletchers are right behind you.\"\n\nCo-star Gorka Márquez replied \"you got this\", while Dianne Buswell said she was \"sending all that energy your way my love\".\n\nStacey Dooley, Zoe Ball and Helen Skelton all also commented in support.\n\nOn Thursday Amy added an update to her Instagram story saying her surgery had gone well, thanking the surgeons and nurses who she said were \"utterly amazing\".\n\nAmy thanks the hospital staff who looked after her in a recent Instagram story\n\n\"Very sore but focusing on the positives they said the surgery went well! Thanks for all the support and messages,\" she added.\n\nThe star, who became a Strictly Come Dancing professional in 2017, revealed that she had breast cancer in May.\n\nAmy, seen here on Strictly come dancing with contestant JJ Chalmers, has said she wants to get back on the dancefloor\n\nAlready a campaigner for awareness for Crohn's disease, Amy said she hoped sharing her diagnosis would help others and herself in her recovery.\n\n\"If I can try and turn this negative into a positive, it's going to help me get through this,\" she said at the time.\n\nThe dancer discovered the lump in April, a day before she was due to fly on her honeymoon to the Maldives with husband Ben.\n\n\"I was in the shower and I felt this hard lump in my right breast,\" said Amy.\n\n\"I was in shock. I checked again. I thought: 'Right, it could just be period-related, or so many things. I decided I was going to keep an eye on it for a few weeks.\"\n\nShe said one of her first thoughts was how long it would take her to get back on the dancefloor.\n\nThe star did not reveal the full details of her treatment plan, but thanked people for their support in her most recent post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn antique revolver alleged to have been used to kill a Metropolitan Police sergeant has been shown to a jury.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25, denies murdering Matiu Ratana, 54, with a gun concealed in an underarm holster at Croydon Custody Centre in September 2020.\n\nBallistics expert Anthony Miller told jurors the gun did not go off by accident when Sgt Ratana was shot.\n\nJury members were allowed to hold the gun, loaded with dummy bullets, and fire it at the court ceiling.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Ratana, who was also known as Matthew and was the on-duty custody sergeant, was killed when Mr De Zoysa \"pulled the trigger on purpose four times\", while he was handcuffed in a holding cell.\n\nThe first and second shots hit Sgt Ratana, the third hit the wall during a struggle with officers and a fourth hit Mr De Zoysa in the neck, causing brain damage, the court has heard.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Matiu Ratana was shot twice by the antique revolver\n\nHe is being assisted by an intermediary during his trial as a result of his injuries and uses a whiteboard because of communication difficulties, jurors have heard.\n\nSpeaking in short and simple sentences so Mr De Zoysa could follow proceedings, Mr Miller told Northampton Crown Court about \"rigorous testing\" he had carried out on the revolver: \"I dropped it on the ground, I struck it with a cloth-faced hammer and I generally treated it roughly.\"\n\nAsked by prosecutor Duncan Penny KC if the gun had gone off \"by accident\" during this rigorous testing, Mr Miller said it had not.\n\nMr Miller explained the gun was completely safe to be used in the court room and had been loaded with dummy bullets, although it was aimed at the ceiling while being fired as an extra precaution.\n\nHe told the court he had examined both the revolver as well as the ammunition that was recovered after the incident.\n\nMr De Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020, the court heard\n\nImran Khan KC, defending Mr De Zoysa, told the jury on Wednesday the defendant had been suffering an autistic meltdown at the time of the shooting and \"did not mean to or want to kill Sergeant Ratana, or to cause him really serious harm\".\n\nThe court has previously been told Mr De Zoysa has an autistic spectrum condition.\n\nMr De Zoysa, of Banstead, Surrey, has pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured in the Broadway production) is best known for playing Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City\n\nSarah Jessica Parker will make her West End debut next year as she stars opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite.\n\nThe adaptation of Neil Simon's 1968 play will open at the Savoy Theatre in January.\n\nParker and Broderick have already starred in the Broadway production, which enjoyed a successful 19-week run.\n\nThe show sees the two actors play three different couples who stay in one famous hotel room.\n\nThe first couple, Karen and Sam Nash are a long-married pair whose relationship is under strain as they approach their anniversary.\n\nThe second, Muriel Tate and Jesse Kiplinger, are former high school sweethearts whose adult lives have taken them in different directions.\n\nThe third couple, Norma and Roy Hubley, are the mother and father of a bride who is refusing to leave the suite's bathroom to attend her own wedding.\n\nAll three acts of the play are set in Suite 719 of the Plaza hotel in New York.\n\nParker and Broderick will play three different married couples who stay in the same hotel room at different times\n\nPlaza Suite enjoyed a successful 19-week run on Broadway before announcing its West End transfer\n\nIn a three-star review of the Broadway production, the Guardian's Alexis Soloski said the real-life couple \"have a flagrant enjoyment in playing opposite each other, which is the best and maybe the only reason to book in\".\n\nVariety's Daniel D'Addario wrote: \"The show itself is somewhat lost in time. But Parker and Broderick's chemistry, expertly honed, makes it feel timeless.\"\n\nParker won two Emmy Awards for playing Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, a role she has since reprised in spin-off series And Just Like That.\n\nShe has also appeared in films such as Hocus Pocus, Failure to Launch and I Don't Know How She Does It.\n\nBroderick, who last starred in the West End in 2019 in the Starry Messenger, has appeared in Inspector Gadget, The Cable Guy and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.\n\nHe has won two Tony Awards for is performances in Brighton Beach Memoirs and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.\n\nJohn Benjamin Hickey, who directed the new adaptation of Plaza Suite on Broadway, will also direct its West End transfer.\n\nIt will play at the Savoy Theatre from 15 January until 31 March 2024.\n• None Kim Cattrall to appear in Sex and the City revival", "Maureen Hamblin has spoken out on the racism she experiences in Northern Ireland\n\n\"If every person of colour reported racism, people would be shocked at the horrific stuff that happens.\"\n\nMaureen Hamblin, a mother-of-three living outside Belfast, has spoken out about her experiences of racism, which she says occurs on a regular basis.\n\nShe said she had witnessed a change in attitudes in Northern Ireland since the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\n\"What Brexit did for me was to show me the closet racists, because they couldn't hide anymore.\"\n\nWarning: Contains language some people may find offensive\n\nBorn in Kenya, Ms Hamblin moved to Dublin when she was 12 and then to Belfast in 2014.\n\nIn the latest incident, she said a crowd of young men followed her and her sons, shouting racial slurs and making monkey noises.\n\nShe posted a video online following the incident in Hazelbank Park in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, last week.\n\nPolice have confirmed they are investigating a report of a race-motivated hate incident in the area, adding that there was \"no place for hate and we take reports of this nature incredibly seriously\".\n\nMs Hamblin said the incident was not a new occurrence.\n\n\"The last time something like that happened to me was three years ago, when I was pregnant with my youngest,\" she said.\n\n\"I was walking in Orangefield Park. They called me the 'N-word' and cycled really close to me and I almost fell in the stream.\"\n\nLiving in Northern Ireland, Ms Hamblin said she encountered \"microaggressions\" on a daily basis.\n\nShe explained that it is the smaller acts of racism that \"feel like a blade\".\n\n\"It's the little things, it's the not being welcome, it's the little comments - especially about my hair and just people saying really insensitive things,\" she said.\n\nMrs Hamblin was once asked if she \"had been electrocuted\" due to her hair\n\nShe said she had experienced people pointing and laughing at her natural afro hairstyle, strangers gripping their purses when they see her and others \"just straight up talking about me, as if I wasn't there\".\n\nShe feels there is a misperception of black women moving to Ireland to have children and receiving government support - which Mrs Hamblin believes is the reason she experiences higher levels of racism when she is in public with her sons.\n\nDuring her second pregnancy, an estate agent challenged Mrs Hamblin's income when she told him she did not receive any state benefits.\n\n\"He told me 'I don't believe that,'\" she said.\n\nMrs Hamblin's story comes as the Equality Commission publishes new research that suggests racism is a part of tolerated life for many living in Northern Ireland.\n\nResearchers surveyed 55 people from ethnic minority and migrant backgrounds who found attitudes to them in Northern Ireland were perceived to have worsened after Brexit.\n\nThe participants of the study also found their rights and entitlements had become more complicated since the referendum and they didn't feel like they were a priority for the government of Northern Ireland.\n\nChief commissioner Geraldine McGahey said racism is having a devastating impact in Northern Ireland\n\n\"It is disturbing that the most striking findings of this recent research are that people from minority ethnic and migrant groups said that racism was a normal part of their daily life in Northern Ireland and that women are particularly exposed to racism,\" said chief commissioner Geraldine McGahey.\n\n\"We know racism is not new to Northern Ireland, and its impact is devastating,\" she said.\n\n\"The findings of this research report and our ongoing work with the sector make for uncomfortable truths.\"\n\nMrs Hamblin said Brexit showed what she called \"the closet racists\" coming out.\n\n\"It was almost as if they were like 'we're going to go crazy', and the rise of political leaders who were not scared to really make that a thing,\" she said.\n\nShe explained that she would have previously experienced racism from groups of teenagers and people from lower socio-economic areas, \"but now you're literally not safe anywhere\".\n\n\"There's an emboldening of people to just do and say whatever they like,\" she added.\n\nThe incident at Hazelbank Park was her first logged complaint with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, but she said she felt it necessary to speak up and raise awareness.\n\n\"I'm scared to go to places now,\" she said.\n\n\"I just want a better life for my kids and for myself because I have made the island of Ireland my home.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "A former Daily Mirror royal editor said her former boss Piers Morgan would \"inject\" information into her stories without explaining where it was from.\n\nJane Kerr was giving evidence in Prince Harry's hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nHe claims the papers unlawfully obtained private information about him, which MGN denies.\n\nMr Morgan has consistently said no illegal newsgathering happened on his watch.\n\nMs Kerr, who worked for the Daily Mirror's royal team from 1996 to 2007, told the High Court that Mr Morgan would add snippets of information into stories she had authored.\n\nShe said he might have been speaking to \"someone at the palace\" but she would not know who.\n\nMs Kerr added that Mr Morgan, who was editor of the paper from 1995 to 2004, took a \"really genuine interest\" in the coverage.\n\nIn her written witness statement, Ms Kerr said he \"engaged with the Palace press offices and would occasionally direct or inject information into a story\".\n\nPrince Harry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 by MGN - the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People - contained information gathered using unlawful methods.\n\nA sample of 33 stories are being scrutinised during this case, a number of which were written by Ms Kerr.\n\nShe was asked about a story reporting that a young Prince Harry had taken drugs at parties, which included reports that Prince Charles had been \"hugely relieved\" to have been told his son had only used cannabis \"spliffs\".\n\nPrince Harry's barrister, David Sherborne, put it to her that this was private information which could have been obtained from listening to voicemail messages, asking: \"Where did you get the quotes from Ms Kerr?\"\n\nShe replied: \"I can't say for sure where I got them from, I can't remember - it's possible Piers gave them to me, it's possible the Palace. I don't remember.\"\n\nMr Sherborne responded: \"You're saying the Palace would have given you what Prince Charles said in highly sensitive meetings with his son?\"\n\nShe repeatedly said that she could not remember the sources of stories published decades ago.\n\nThe questioning has focused on additional details added by Ms Kerr while following up on stories already in other papers.\n\nIn March 2002, she wrote about Prince Harry catching glandular fever, reporting that \"Harry's friends and William have teased him about the illness because it is spread through saliva, usually by kissing\".\n\nThe prince told the court during his evidence that these suggestions were upsetting and embarrassing at the time as he was still at school.\n\nMs Kerr told the court she could have got the information from the Palace, despite the media having been told during this period that Prince Harry and Prince William were \"off-limits\" to reporters in the wake of the death of Princess Diana.\n\n\"You're suggesting some Palace spokesperson would have casually tossed it to you as a little morsel to add colour to your story?\" Mr Sherborne asked.\n\nWhen she said she did not know where it had come from and could easily have been a \"throwaway line\", Mr Sherborne said: \"That's total speculation, isn't it?\"\n\nMs Kerr said she could not remember the details but would not have got it through any illegal means.\n\nThe claims, including Prince Harry's, are being represented by David Sherborne (right)\n\nMr Sherborne asked: \"Or was this something Mr Morgan injected into the article?\"\n\n\"Possibly but I just don't know,\" Ms Kerr replied.\n\nSpeaking to othe BBC ahead of the trial, Mr Morgan said: \"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone.\"\n\nHe has poured scorn on Prince Harry's decision to go to court, telling reporters: \"I wish him luck with his privacy campaign and look forward to reading about it in his next book.\"\n\nMs Kerr's evidence follows a day-and-a-half of Prince Harry's stint on the stand, the first time a senior royal has given evidence in court for more than 130 years.\n\nHe claims that phone hacking was happening on an \"industrial scale\" at MGN papers, and says illegal methods were used to gather information on him, including on highly private matters.\n\nThe case is due to hear from the other claimants involved alongside the prince - Coronation Street actors Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, Nikki Sanderson and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThey all allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nThe publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late.", "This is the fourth time in as many months that the prime minister has met President Biden.\n\nI have been in tow each time, and it's been fascinating to get a glimpse of their growing relationship.\n\nAnd quite some growing it's had to do.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak became prime minister, President Biden, in congratulating him, managed to call him Rashee Sanook.\n\nNot long after that, Mr Sunak acknowledged to me that the UK's reputation had \"taken a bit of a knock,\" courtesy of the rolling political chaos of much of 2022.\n\nCore to his brand as prime minister is attempting to personify the opposite: hoping to be seen as dependable, believable, credible, trustworthy.\n\nLittle wonder, then, he ducked a question on the way here about what he made of Prince Harry's remarks that the UK is judged globally by the state of the press and the government - both of which the prince reckons are at \"rock bottom.\"\n\nBut, having tried to prove he can be the gentle jazz of politics rather than the heavy metal that came before, the challenge for Rishi Sunak now is delivery, and quickly, with a general election expected next year.\n\nUkraine will be a recurring theme on this trip.\n\nMr Sunak has told us the UK is looking into who was to blame for the destruction of the huge dam there.\n\nHe said it was too soon to make \"a definitive judgement.\"\n\nBut, he added, if it was intentional, it would represent \"the largest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine since the start of the war.\"\n\nThe UK and US's ongoing support for Kyiv will be central to the discussions between the leaders at the White House on Thursday.\n\nRishi Sunak and Joe Biden met in Japan, last month\n\nAlso on the agenda, the regulation of artificial intelligence and economic cooperation.\n\nOn AI, the prime minister is expected to make the case that the UK can be a global leader on its development and regulation.\n\nAnd on the economy, Rishi Sunak has said he will \"continue discussing\" America's Inflation Reduction Act - which has seen billions in new subsidies targeted at green industries in the US - with some fretting the UK is being left behind.\n\nYou can read more about it here from my colleague Faisal Islam.\n\nThe gulf between the president and the prime minister's instincts on this is wide, if not surprising: a Democratic president opting for massive state intervention, in the hope of greening his economy, reviving left behind areas and bringing manufacturing back to the US.\n\nAnd a Conservative prime minister not naturally drawn towards huge interventions like this - and suggesting \"subsidy races,\" as he put it, were a \"zero sum\" game.\n\nBut even if there is a philosophical opposition from some to what the president is doing, what are the political responses to it?\n\nRishi Sunak said \"we've created lots of jobs\" in green industries and \"reduced carbon faster\" than comparable countries.\n\nHe doesn't believe attempting the same plan as Washington would be wise.\n\nMeanwhile, Rachel Reeves - who hopes to become the UK's first ever female chancellor if Labour win the next election - was in the US capital just a few weeks ago, and openly embracing a strategy very similar to Joe Biden's.\n\nIs her plan affordable, and achievable? They are big and, as yet, unanswered questions.\n\nWhat is much clearer is President Biden's attempts to rewire the global economy has implications all over the place - not least on our own domestic economy - and politics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You cash in on sexual violence against women\" - Tang Zhuoran questioned by BBC reporter Zhaoyin Feng\n\nWomen who are groped on trains in East Asia face the further threat of their assault being filmed and uploaded for sale online. In a year-long investigation, the BBC World Service's investigative unit, BBC Eye, has gone undercover to unmask the men cashing in on sexual violence.\n\nIt was the morning rush hour in Tokyo. The train was packed and rocky.\n\nTakako (not her real name) was on her way to school. The 15-year-old tried to hold on to a grab bar.\n\nSuddenly, she felt a hand pressing on her behind. She thought someone had accidentally bumped into her.\n\nBut the hand started to grope her.\n\n\"That's when I finally realised - it was molestation,\" Takako recalls.\n\nThe hand quickly disappeared in the crowd. \"I couldn't do anything about it.\" She arrived at school in tears that day.\n\nThat was her first time being sexually assaulted on public transport, but Takako was molested almost daily for more than a year on her commute. On countless nights, she went to bed crying. \"I felt like there was no hope in my life,\" she says.\n\nTakako. who was sexually assaulted many times as a teenager, wears a badge that warns off potential attackers\n\nMany women like Takako are targeted in public by sexual predators. In some cases, they face another violation - the attack is filmed and the videos are sold online.\n\nMost videos follow the same pattern - a man secretly films a woman from behind and follows her on to a train. Seconds later, he sexually abuses her. The men act discreetly, and their victims can seem totally unaware. These graphic videos are then listed on the websites for sale.\n\nIn a year-long investigation, we traced the men behind three websites which sell and produce thousands of these sexual assault videos.\n\nEncountering sexual abuse almost daily, Takako found herself unable to speak up during the act due to fear and shame. But every night, she covered her mouth with a towel and repeatedly practised in front of the mirror how to call out a harasser: \"This person is a 'Chikan'!\"\n\n\"Chikan\" is a Japanese term describing sexual assault in public, especially groping on public transport. It also describes the offenders themselves.\n\nChikan perpetrators typically take advantage of crowds, and the victims' fear of causing a scene. In Japan, speaking too directly and openly may be seen as rude.\n\nThousands of arrests are made every year for Chikan offences, but many more go undetected and unpunished. Saito Akiyoshi, mental health professional and author of a book about Chikan, says that only about 10% of victims report the crime.\n\nThe Japanese police encourage victims and eyewitnesses to speak up, but the crime is far from being eradicated. The problem is so widespread that even the UK and Canadian governments warn travellers to Japan about it.\n\nChikan has been normalised by its prominence in Japan's adult entertainment industry. One of the most popular types of pornography in the country - the Chikan genre - has spread to other Asian countries.\n\nThe metro trains in Tokyo become incredibly crowded at certain points of the day\n\nOne Chinese-language website called DingBuZhu (which means \"I can't hold it\" in Chinese) immediately caught our attention.\n\nIt's a marketplace for Chikan videos, filmed secretly on mobile phones in crowded public places, such as trains and buses. They are shot across East Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.\n\nSome videos cost less than a dollar. The site even once allowed users to order tailor-made abuse videos.\n\nWe also found links on DingBuZhu to two other websites - Chihan and Jieshe - with the same type of content.\n\nThere is a Telegram group with 4,000 members who share tips on how to sexually abuse women.\n\nOne name kept coming up on the Chikan websites - \"Uncle Qi\".\n\nHe was hailed as the guru in this community. Dozens of abuse videos were labelled as his work. On Twitter, he put up teasers of the websites' videos to his 80,000 followers. But who was he?\n\nThe Telegram group we had been monitoring revealed a clue. One day, an admin claimed in a series of messages that he had abused a woman with Uncle Qi.\n\nThe messages were accompanied by photos of a woman standing on what appeared to be a metro platform.\n\nWithin hours, we found a match for the location - Ikebukuro station in Tokyo.\n\nBBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.\n\nWatch on BBC iPlayer now (UK only), or on BBC Three at 22:50 BST on Thursday 8 June\n\nAnd there were more leads pointing us to Japan.\n\nThe websites listed a Paypal account receiving Japanese yen which was linked to a Gmail address. When we put the address through Google Contacts, the profile picture that came up was a young man with an elaborate hairstyle and theatrical makeup.\n\nA reverse image search put a name to the face - Noctis Zang, a 30-year-old Chinese-born singer living in Tokyo. He was the frontman of a metal band called The Versus.\n\nAn internet search revealed the name of Noctis Zang, a Chinese rock singer\n\nNoctis had a glamorous public image, but we soon found something hidden behind it.\n\nIn early 2022, The Versus' photographer had alleged on Chinese social media platform Weibo that Noctis built \"porn websites\" alongside another band member, Lupus Fu.\n\nHe had posted pictures of a notebook, which showed some accounting and video categories similar to those on the websites. The photographer had also posted a video which appeared to show Noctis's browsing history, with links to Chihan, Jieshe and the admin pages of DingBuZhu.\n\nCould this rock singer be Uncle Qi?\n\nPosing as a music talent scout called Ian, our undercover journalist met Noctis at a fancy rooftop bar in Tokyo.\n\nThey first talked about music, but the chat soon moved on to the subject of sex. When Ian said his company used to make porn films, Noctis's eyes lit up.\n\nThe two met several more times, and they even celebrated Noctis's birthday together.\n\nNoctis introduced Ian to his fellow band member Lupus Fu, whose name had been mentioned by The Versus' photographer. Lupus, also from China, was studying sociology in Japan.\n\nIan said his company planned to invest in porn sites and asked if they knew anything about this business.\n\nOur undercover reporter, Ian, met key figures linked to one of the abuse video sites in a Tokyo bar\n\nNoctis confessed he had \"some exposure\" through a friend, \"Maomi\", who had created his own porn sites with \"metro\" content.\n\nLupus and Noctis both laughed: \"That's Maomi's website!\"\n\nThey revealed that the person behind the Chikan websites was a Chinese man in Tokyo nicknamed Maomi. They said Maomi was reclusive and paranoid.\n\nNoctis and Lupus also admitted that they played admin roles for the websites.\n\nThey spelled out their business model.\n\n\"In China, sex is the most suppressed,\" Noctis said, \"Some men are very perverted, they just want to see women getting…\" Lupus finished the sentence: \"screwed over.\"\n\nLupus said he was in charge of promoting abuse videos on Twitter. Noctis revealed that he had uploaded more than 5,000 videos on the websites, received payments for the business and taken 30% of revenue. The rest he had transferred to Maomi.\n\nLupus also said he could help connect Ian to Maomi.\n\nOn a quiet back street in the red-light district of Yokohama, a storefront decorated like a metro station catches your eyes. A sign spells out its concept: \"legal Chikan trains\".\n\nIn this sex club, called Rush Hour, customers can pay to enjoy the Chikan experience legally.\n\nIts manager Hasuda Shuhei welcomes us on board. \"We let people do things that can't be done outside. That's why people come here.\"\n\nInside, a sickly-sweet smell of cleaning products permeates the air. Private rooms are decorated like train carriages and equipped with a sound system that plays train announcements. Even the club's membership cards look exactly like Japan's transportation cards.\n\nDecorated like a train carriage, the Rush Hour sex club offers customers the chance to act out fantasies of public groping\n\n\"I think it's important for men to be able to pay to vent in place like this, so they don't commit rape and other forms of sexual assault,\" says Hasuda.\n\nMental health professional Saito says that the matter is not as straightforward as Hasuda claims. He says that most Chikan perpetrators are aroused by the idea of domination over and humiliation of their victims.\n\n\"They do not treat their victims as equals, but as objects.\"\n\nIt's an opinion that rings true with Takako.\n\nAfter months of assaults, she fought back one day. As she felt a hand reach for her skirt in a packed train carriage, Takako shouted at the top of her lungs and grabbed the assaulter by his wrist.\n\nTakako took the man to court, where he only got a suspended sentence, even though he had previously been caught for Chikan offences.\n\nDisappointed by the outcome of her case, Takako went on to start an anti-Chikan campaign, producing colourful badges reading \"Chikan is a crime!\" People can wear them to show they will not keep silent.\n\n\"It's a deterrent for criminals,\" says Takako, who is now 24. There is now an annual anti-Chikan badge design contest among Japanese high school students.\n\nCampaigners make anti-Chikan badges to raise awareness of sexual assaults on public transport\n\nMaomi means \"kitty cat\" in Chinese. However, Lupus said his personality was more like a hamster. \"He's harmless, but cautious of everything and he sometimes overreacts.\"\n\nLupus was right. Maomi repeatedly refused to meet Ian.\n\nBut on Chinese New Year's Eve, Ian's luck changed. Maomi agreed to a meeting at a karaoke bar.\n\nThe air was thick with cigarette smoke, the sound of clinking glasses and Chinese pop songs.\n\nThe person who turned up was not who we expected. A skinny young man wearing half-rim glasses and a dark trench coat, Maomi looked like he could be a college student. He said he was 27.\n\nShowing an interest in investing in his business, Ian asked how much he made.\n\n\"Our daily turnover is around 5,000-10,000 Chinese Yuan (US$700-$1,400; £565-£1,130),\" Maomi said proudly, showing the transactions on his phone. \"Very stable income, right?\"\n\nIan acted impressed, and mentioned the name Uncle Qi.\n\nBut to our surprise, he revealed Uncle Qi was not just one person.\n\nHe managed a team of 15 people, including 10 in China who made videos under the same name. Maomi received 30 to 100 videos from them each month.\n\nThe videos were then sold on the three websites which Maomi confirmed he owned. They had more than 10,000 paying members, mostly Chinese men.\n\n\"The key is to be authentic. It has to be real,\" Maomi said. He later told us his websites even sold videos of drug-facilitated rape.\n\nMaomi talked about his business as though it were any other budding start-up. He described his team as \"passionate\" and \"brave\". He even casually mentioned he had been training others to carry out and film sexual assaults.\n\nBut there was one thing he never mentioned - the women in his videos. It was as if they didn't matter to him at all.\n\nWe wanted to know Maomi's real identity. At another meeting with Ian, he opened up about how he got into this business.\n\nLike many boys, Maomi liked Superman, anime and video games growing up. But when he was 14, he started watching sexual assault videos like the ones he sold now.\n\nHe knew his business was not risk-free.\n\n\"I am so cautious,\" Maomi said. \"Safety first.\" To avoid scrutiny from the Chinese authorities, he planned to naturalise as a Japanese citizen.\n\nHowever, as careful as Maomi was, he made a mistake.\n\nWhen Ian asked where to send the investment funds, Maomi pulled out his bank card and handed it to Ian.\n\nThe card revealed his real name - Tang Zhuoran.\n\nLater, we confronted Maomi with our allegations.\n\nAs we approached, he tried to cover his face and walked away. And all of a sudden, he snapped, hitting out at our camera and crew.\n\nThe next day, by coincidence, we spotted Maomi at the airport. He was leaving Japan.\n\nUncle Qi's Twitter account, where he openly promotes the abuse videos, is still active.\n\nTwitter did not respond to our request for comment. Instead, they sent us a poo emoji, which has been an automatic reply to any inquiry directed to their press email since March.\n\nWe also put our allegations to Noctis and Lupus. They did not respond. We have since learned they no longer work with Maomi.\n\nOn a spring day, we meet up with Takako to tell her about our investigation. Appalled, she says: \"We women are just content in their videos. They see us as objects. They don't think we have a heart.\"\n\nTakako advocates for tougher laws against these crimes.\n\nJapan is set to reform its sexual assault laws. However, campaigners say these changes don't go far enough.\n\nBut Takako will not give up. \"We will not cry ourselves to sleep.\"\n\nYou can watch the full film in English on the BBC World Service YouTube channel.\n\nIf you are affected by the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham finished 14th in the Premier League this season, the lowest position any team has finished in the table in the same season they won a major European trophy. West Ham ended their 43-year wait for a major trophy as Jarrod Bowen scored a last-minute goal to beat Fiorentina and win the Europa Conference League in Prague. The final seemed to be heading for extra time after Said Benrahma's second-half penalty was cancelled out just seven minutes later by a well-taken effort from Giacomo Bonaventura. It was a testy and sometimes bad tempered game - and at one point it got downright ugly as Fiorentina captain Cristiano Biraghi was struck by a plastic bottle thrown from the West Ham section. The match was settled in the most dramatic manner. Bowen timed his run to perfection as Lucas Paqueta slid a superb pass through the Fiorentina defence. The England man ran free, steadied himself, then beat Pietro Terracciano with a calm finish to thrill the Hammers fans - who were far greater in number than the 5,000 tickets they were allotted - and send manager David Moyes running down the touchline to celebrate the first major silverware of his career. It means captain Declan Rice, in probably his final game for the club, emulated club greats Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds by leading the club to glory. Moore captained West Ham to the 1965 European Cup Winners' Cup and Bonds led them to the FA Cup in 1975 and 1980. The victory also seals a place in next season's Europa League and means European football for the third year running for the first time in the club's history.\n• None What did you make of West Ham's Europa Conference League win? Send us your views here Said Benrahma opened the scoring for West Ham in the 62nd minute The manner of victory could not have been any sweeter for West Ham. Whilst Nayef Aguerd took time out to console Morocco team-mates Sofyan Amrabat at the final whistle, the celebrations of the Premier League team were something to behold. From 18-year-old forward Divin Mubama, who played no part, to Moyes himself, finally a trophy-winner after such a long career in management, all joined in joy, leaping around trying to take it all in. There will be an unwanted post-script as Uefa is bound to come down hard on the Hammers for the unwanted first-half scenes that left Biraghi playing with a bandage round his head for the last hour of the contest and forced the club to condemn those responsible. Fiorentina's Biraghi was hit in the head by an object thrown from the West Ham end However, that is for another day. The reaction from the pitch and the stands at the final whistle give a lie to anyone who feels this tournament is beneath them and should give hope to Aston Villa, England's entrants next season. At the centre of it all was Rice. There was no thought of his future as he lapped up the adulation of the fans who have followed his journey from rising academy star to full England honours. David Moyes on goal celebration and West Ham's 'super season' in Europe Some West Ham fans must have thought they had won it when Benrahma coolly drove home his spot-kick after the video assistant referee intervened to rule Biraghi had handled Bowen's header. But the loss of Kurt Zouma to injury just before Benrahma scored disrupted West Ham's rhythm and after Nicolas Gonzalez had provided the knockback, Bonaventura's excellent control and shot was too good for Alphonse Areola, preferred in goal to first-choice Lukasz Fabianski and maintaining his 100% appearance record in the competition. Areola had been fortunate to escape conceding the opener in the final minute of the opening period when he failed to get down to a Christian Kouame header, which bounced off a post and fell kindly for Luka Jovic. Areola should have kept out Jovic's header, which was straight at him. Instead, he fumbled it over the line. The Frenchman was hugely relieved to see the offside flag raised, a decision confirmed by VAR. Jovic got an accidental boot in the face from Tomas Soucek instead and had to be replaced at the break. The game didn't really develop any momentum as too many players exaggerated non-existent fouls, which made it a tough evening for Spanish referee Carlos Del Cerro Grande, much as it was for Anthony Taylor in the Europa League final seven days earlier. Grande did keep command of the contest, rightly booking Benrahma for diving at one point. In the end though, all this was a footnote. Bowen scored. West Ham got their trophy and Rice got to lift it.\n• None Sofyan Amrabat (Fiorentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lucas Paquetá (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Fiorentina 1, West Ham United 2. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Paquetá with a through ball following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Ukraine's army has released footage appearing to show drones delivering water bottles to people stranded by floodwaters in Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson region.\n\nWater from the destroyed Kakhovka dam has engulfed the area, causing thousands to flee and sparking a humanitarian disaster.\n\nRead the latest on the dam disaster here.", "A protester calling for the AI race to be stopped\n\nA major tech company, which has just announced extra UK investment, has rejected calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nFears about the technology have led to demands for new regulation, with the UK calling a global summit this autumn.\n\nBut the boss of software firm Palantir, Alex Karp, said it was only those with \"no products\" who wanted a pause.\n\n\"The race is on - the question is do we stay ahead or do we cede the lead?\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Karp told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the West currently held key commercial and military advantages in AI - and should not relinquish them.\n\n\"It's not like if we slow down, the AI race will stop. Every country in the world - especially our adversaries - cannot afford for us to have this advantage,\" he said.\n\n\"Studying this and allowing other people to win both on commercial areas and on the battlefield is a really bad strategy.\"\n\nMr Karp's comments strike a very different tone to the recent glut of dire warnings about the potentially existential threat AI poses to humanity - and accompanying calls for its development to be slowed or even halted.\n\nRegulators worldwide are scrambling to devise new rules to contain its risk.\n\nThe government says the UK will host a global AI summit this autumn, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying he wanted the UK to lead efforts to ensure the benefits of AI were \"harnessed for the good of humanity\".\n\nIt is not yet known who will attend the summit but the government said it would \"bring together key countries, leading tech companies and researchers to agree safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI\".\n\nMr Sunak, currently meeting US President Joe Biden in Washington DC, said the UK was the \"natural place\" to lead the conversation on AI.\n\nDowning Street cited the prime minister's recent meetings with the bosses of leading AI firms as evidence of this. It also pointed to the 50,000 people employed in the sector, which it said was worth £3.7bn to the UK.\n\nHowever, some have questioned the UK's leadership credentials in the field.\n\nYasmin Afina, research fellow at Chatham House's Digital Society Initiative, said she did not think that the UK \"could realistically be too ambitious\".\n\nShe said there were \"stark differences in governance and regulatory approaches\" between the EU and US which the UK would struggle to reconcile, and a number of existing global initiatives, including the UN's Global Digital Compact, which had \"stronger foundational bases already\".\n\nMs Afina added that none of the world's most pioneering AI firms was based in the UK.\n\n\"Instead of trying to play a role that would be too ambitious for the UK and risks alienating it, the UK should perhaps focus on promoting responsible behaviour in the research, development and deployment of these technologies,\" she told the BBC.\n\nInterest in AI has mushroomed since chatbot ChatGPT burst on to the scene last November, amazing people with its ability to answer complex questions in a human-sounding way.\n\nIt can do that because of the incredible computational power AI systems possess, which has caused deep unease.\n\nTwo of the three so-called godfathers of AI - Geoffrey Hinton and Prof Yoshua Bengio - have been among those to sound warnings about how the technology they have helped create has a huge potential for causing harm.\n\nIn May, AI industry leaders - including the heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind - warned AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.\n\nThey gave examples, including AI potentially being used to develop a new generation of chemical weapons.\n\nThose warnings have accelerated demands for effective regulation of AI, although many questions remain over what that would look like and how it would be enforced.\n\nThe European Union is formulating an Artificial Intelligence Act, but has acknowledged that even in a best-case scenario it will take two-and-a-half years to come into effect.\n\nEU tech chief Margrethe Vestager said last month that would be \"way too late\" and said it was working on a voluntary code for the sector with the US, which they hoped could be drawn up within weeks.\n\nChina has also taken a leading role in drawing up AI regulations, including proposals that companies must notify users whenever an AI algorithm is being used.\n\nThe UK government set out its thoughts in March in a White Paper, which was criticised for having \"significant gaps.\"\n\nMarc Warner, a member of the government's AI Council, has pointed to a tougher approach, however, telling the BBC some of the most advanced forms of AI may eventually have to be banned.\n\nMatt O'Shaughnessy, visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said there was little the UK could do about the fact that others were leading the charge on AI regulation - but said it could still have an important role.\n\n\"The EU and China are both large markets that have proposed consequential regulatory schemes for AI - without either of those factors, the UK will struggle to be as influential,\" he said.\n\nBut he added the UK was an \"academic and commercial hub\", with institutions that were \"well-known for their work on responsible AI\".\n\n\"Those all make it a serious player in the global discussion about AI,\" he told the BBC.", "The scale of the floods caused by the destruction of a huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine on Tuesday is starting to become clear.\n\nSatellite images show how much water has already spread downriver from the Kakhovka dam to the city of Kherson about 75km (45 miles) to the west.\n\nIn closer images the water levels can be seen reaching the roofs of most buildings in the town of Oleshky, on the Russian-controlled side of the river just a few miles from Kherson, with many completely submerged.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe dam is next to the city of Nova Kakhovka, in the Kherson region, and holds back a reservoir that is so huge locals call it the Kakhovka Sea - because you cannot see the opposite bank in certain places.\n\nImages from Nova Kakhovka on Tuesday showed buildings surrounded by floodwaters hours after the dam was destroyed.\n\nIt is unclear when exactly the dam was first damaged or how it happened, but satellite images suggest its condition had deteriorated over a number of days.\n\nA road across the dam can be seen to to be badly damaged from 2 June, but there did not seem to be a change to the flow of the water until 6 June when the breach of the wall and collapse of nearby buildings can be clearly seen.\n\nThe entire south bank of the Dnipro River as far as the eastern end of the vast Kakhovka reservoir has been occupied by Russian forces since the invasion last year.\n\nApart from the flooding, the dam's destruction has raised concern about the state of the Zaporizhzia nuclear power station, about 130km upstream.\n\nThe reservoir provided cooling water to the plant, which is also under Russian control, but the reservoir is now emptying rapidly.\n\nHowever, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says there are alternative water sources to keep the plant cool.\n\nSome reports suggest that water levels may be dropping in the town of Nova Kakhovka, closest to the dam, as the vast reservoir behind it empties.\n\nBut the city's Russian-appointed mayor Vladimir Leontyev said the village of Korsunka - about 15km west of the dam - was completely under water, with flooding up to roof level in three other villages.\n\nUkraine and Russia both say they have evacuated more than 1,000 people each.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian officials say more than 40,000 people - 17,000 in Ukraine-held territory west of the Dnipro River and 25,000 in the Russian-occupied east - need to leave.\n\nThe Ukrainian authorities have released a list of settlements they want people to leave and details of some where rescue teams have been working on the west side of the river, while Russian-installed authorities have given details of places they say are flooded on the side of the river they control.\n\nAnd Kherson itself had already seen heavy flooding on Wednesday morning - even though Ukrainian authorities were not expecting water levels to peak until the end of the day.\n\nOnce again the true scale becomes clearer from satellite images that show just how much of the city has been hit by the deluge.\n\nIt is just the latest tragedy to hit the city since Russia's invasion - occupation, liberation after heavy fighting and shelling most days.\n\nAnd the BBC's James Waterhouse, who is in the city, says it has changed the atmosphere there, with morale lower. People have had enough, he says.", "Loyal bank customers are being offered \"measly\" rates of interest on their savings, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nThe trend, which particularly affects older and more vulnerable customers, are the result of banks chasing higher profit margins, MPs on the Treasury Committee claimed.\n\nRates on instant access savings products are much lower than the Bank of England base rate.\n\nBanks said they had to balance the needs of savers and borrowers.\n\nIn the past few months MPs on the committee have been challenging major banking bosses on the returns offered to their savings customers.\n\nIn February, the chief executives of the four biggest banks in the UK - Lloyds, NatWest, HSBC and Barclays - were given a grilling in Parliament.\n\nDescribed as the highest-paid panel which had sat before the committee for some time - collectively earning more than £10m a year - the quartet of bank bosses argued that the debate incorrectly centred on the interest rate offered on easy access savings accounts.\n\nThey argued that regular saver deals offered market-leading rates of interest, and that instant access products were often a \"gateway\" to higher interest deals.\n\nThe hearing was followed by a string of letters to those banks, and the next tier of providers. Their responses have just been published.\n\nAmong them was a letter from Debbie Crosbie, chief executive of the Nationwide, who said that the building society needed to be prudent, it tried to help customers to get a better deal, and balance was required.\n\nShe said that included weighing up \"the interests of savers with our mortgage borrowers, particularly with cost-of-living pressures\".\n\nThe committee appears to be unimpressed with the providers' defence. It pointed out that the the big four High Street banks offered instant access savings rates of between 0.7% and 1.35%, compared with a Bank of England base rate of 4.5%.\n\n\"It is clearer than ever that the nation's biggest banks need to up their game and encourage saving,\" said Harriett Baldwin, who chairs the committee.\n\n\"While other products are available to those who shop around, the measly easy access rates on offer lead us to conclude that loyal customers are being squeezed to bolster bank profit margins.\n\n\"We remain concerned that the loyalty penalty is especially prominent for elderly and vulnerable customers who may still rely on High Street bank branches.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, UK Finance - the trade body for the banking sector - published data that showed total household savings shrunk year-on-year for the first time in at least 15 years.\n\nThe value of deposits in instant access accounts fell by 4% to £867bn in March compared with £905bn a year earlier, as people dipped into savings pots to cover larger bills and food shopping.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales visited St Thomas Church in 2022\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have offered to help replace items stolen from a food bank.\n\nSt Thomas Church in Swansea had food, drink, baby toys and even bikes stolen on Saturday evening.\n\nThe Reverend Steve Bunting said he received the unexpected call from Kensington Palace on Wednesday.\n\n\"They were keen to make sure we could replace the items taken from the food bank,\" he said.\n\n\"I've no idea how they got wind of the story, but I got a phone call early today expressing that the Prince and Princess of Wales were concerned about what happened.\"\n\nThe royal couple visited the church in 2022 in their first visit to Wales since they were given the Prince and Princess of Wales titles.\n\nWhile at the church the prince revealed for the first time that he had begun learning Welsh, like his father had before him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited St Thomas Church last year\n\n\"I couldn't really believe it to be honest,\" added Mr Bunting.\n\n\"It's been a crazy 48 hours and we have been overwhelmed by kindness, from people dropping in £5 to the phone call this morning.\n\n\"They all wanted to do something about it and it's testament to the people of this area and city.\"\n\nFollowing the royal visit in September Mr Bunting was not surprised that the prince and princess wanted to help, describing them as \"a part of our team here, although a very distant part\".\n\nThe Reverend Steve Bunting says he is not surprised the Prince and Princess were willing to help\n\nMr Bunting and the team at the church are also extending the hand of forgiveness to the thieves responsible.\n\n\"There are always people who react to these type of incidents either by saying we should lock them up or by saying these people must be desperate.\n\n\"I am of the last type and we would like to help change people's lives and this is why we are running a food bank and we would like to be part of the redemption of these people.\"", "Millions across North America are breathing the hazardous air from the wildfires in Canada. The country is facing its worst wildfire season in history.\n\nNew York City, which is hundreds of miles south of the blazes, has been shrouded with orange haze because of the air quality.", "Matt Hancock told the court he felt \"unsafe going about my place of work\"\n\nFormer health secretary Matt Hancock said he had never felt as intimidated when an anti-vaccination protester accused him of murdering people during the Covid pandemic, a court has heard.\n\nGeza Tarjanyi, 62, is accused of shoulder-barging the MP and shouting \"ridiculous conspiracy theories\".\n\nHe has denied causing harassment without violence.\n\nAppearing as a witness, Mr Hancock said he feared being pushed down an escalator by the protester.\n\n\"As a public figure, I can't recall a time when I felt as intimidated as this,\" he told Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nOn the first occasion on 19 January, Mr Hancock was passing an anti-vaccination protest, along with a member of his staff, near Parliament where Mr Tarjanyi filmed him.\n\nDuring the five-minute interaction, Mr Tarjanyi asked the MP for West Suffolk why he had \"killed so many people\" and shoulder-barged him, the court heard.\n\nThe ex-minister said he felt \"physically intimidated\" and described Mr Tarjanyi, from Leyland, Lancashire, as being \"completely unreasonable\".\n\nHe continued: \"It made me feel unsafe going about my place of work, it made me feel frustrated that instead of engaging in a normal debate, someone was trying to intimidate me, I thought that was unacceptable.\n\n\"I had a pretty good impression he had been taken over by these ridiculous conspiracy theories.\"\n\nMr Hancock said one of the reasons he did not report the incident on 19 January was because he did not want \"these people with these untrue beliefs to get further publicity from harassing me\".\n\nA few days later on 24 January, after Mr Hancock had breakfast with the prime minister, Mr Tarjanyi followed him through Westminster underground station and on to a train for about 10 minutes.\n\nHe again accused the MP of murdering people, the court heard.\n\nMr Hancock said he recognised the defendant and felt \"more intimidated\" because he was on his own and tried to get Transport for London (TfL) staff to intervene.\n\nBut Mr Tarjanyi began harassing \"anybody who was going to come to my aid\", he told the court.\n\nThe 44-year-old said he stopped at the top of the escalator to \"resolve the situation\" but felt the defendant pushing him towards it.\n\n\"Obviously I was extremely worried at this time. If I had lost my balance at that point, I would have tumbled down the escalator,\" he said.\n\n\"I was being pushed from behind,\" said Mr Hancock, adding: \"I had to work to maintain my balance and stop myself falling down the escalator.\"\n\nBoth men then got on to a Jubilee Line train where Mr Tarjanyi accused the former health secretary of \"murdering millions of people\" before they were separated at Bond Street station, the court heard.\n\nFootage of the second incident from the defendant's phone showed him calling Mr Hancock a \"murderous scumbag\" and saying lockdown amounted to harassment of the country due to his \"lies and deceit\".\n\nParveen Mansoor, defending, said Mr Tarjanyi denies any physical contact and believes it was Mr Hancock who \"barged into him\".\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutor Nutan Fatania said Mr Hancock was \"left shaken up by both incidents\" and was concerned for his own safety.\n\nMr Hancock became a household name during the Covid pandemic when he regularly spoke for the government as health secretary under the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson.\n\nThe following year he was forced to resign after images were published showing him kissing one of his advisers, Gina Coladangelo, who has since become his partner.\n\nHe remains suspended as a Tory MP for taking time off from his parliamentary duties to appear on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! in November 2022.\n\nThe trial has been adjourned until 4 July.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said \"eco-zealots\" from Just Stop Oil are \"writing Keir Starmer's energy policy\".\n\nLabour has pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK. Some unions have warned this risks creating a \"cliff-edge\" for jobs.\n\nDale Vince, a major donor to campaign group Just Stop Oil, has also given Labour more than £1.4m.\n\nLabour dismissed the idea Just Stop Oil influence policy, saying Sir Keir has condemned its protests.\n\nMr Vince's green energy firm Ecotricity, has donated more than £1.4m to Labour since 2014, according to filings to the Electoral Commission. He has also donated to the Green Party as well as given money to environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil.\n\nThere is no suggestion Just Stop Oil have funded Labour directly. But Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands has called for Labour to return donations, arguing it legitimises Just Stop Oil's tactics.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Washington DC, where he is due to meet President Biden, Mr Sunak said \"it does appear that these kind of eco-zealots at Just Stop Oil are writing Keir Starmer's energy policy\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"Not content with disrupting our summer and cherished sporting events, they are essentially leading us into an energy surrender.\n\n\"My view is we should focus on energy security, not weakness and dependency which seems to be the Labour Party's policy.\n\n\"They are putting ideology ahead of jobs, ahead of investment, and ahead of our energy security. I think that is wrong.\n\n\"It is a completely bizarre policy which says, 'we won't ban oil and gas; we will just ban British oil and gas'.\n\n\"The only people that benefit from Keir Starmer's energy policy are dictators and autocrats like Vladimir Putin.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is currently in Washington DC ahead of a meeting with US President Joe Biden\n\nLabour said that Sir Keir had been \"outspoken in his condemnation\" of Just Stop Oil, \"who he believes have put lives and livelihoods at risk\".\n\n\"The idea that they have influenced our policy is for the birds,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\n\"The modern Labour Party doesn't bow to fringe lobbies or extremists.\n\n\"Every position we take and everything we do is firmly focused on providing security and opportunity for hard working Brits.\"", "Footage shows a man with a knife attacking people at a playground in Annecy, France, this morning and also shows the man being chased through a park.\n\nFour children were injured in a knife attack in a playground and two adults were also hurt, French authorities have said.\n\nPolice have said the man who carried out the attack was shot in the legs, overpowered, and arrested.", "A 10m humpback whale has been rescued after becoming entangled in a shark net off Australia’s Gold Coast. Workers used delicate equipment to cut the whale free during the early morning operation. Environmental groups have pushed for the removal of nets during the whale migration season, which sees tens of thousands of the mammals pass Australia’s east coast.", "The NHS is set to miss a key cancer treatment target laid out in the Covid recovery plan, the national cancer director for England has said.\n\nThe NHS had committed to cutting the backlog of people waiting more than two months to be diagnosed and begin cancer treatment to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nBut Dame Cally Palmer told MPs a spike in demand meant NHS England would miss the March 2023 target.\n\nShe said a new target of March 2024 was now being discussed with ministers.\n\nIn its Covid recovery plan published in February 2022, NHS England committed to tackling the substantial backlog of people with suspected cancer who are facing long waits to either start treatment, or be tested and receive the all-clear.\n\nIt set a target to cut the total number of patients having to wait more than two months - or 62 days - to the pre-pandemic level of 14,000 by the end of March 2023.\n\n\"We've made very significant progress, the backlog was at an all-time high of around 34,000 last summer,\" Dame Cally told the Health and Social Care Committee.\n\n\"Last week it was 23,500, so we've dropped by about 10,000 but there's still further to go.\"\n\nMost of the patients on that waiting list will ultimately be told they do not have cancer but, giving evidence to the committee, NHS officials said that long waits for a diagnosis create \"a lot of anxiety for people\".\n\nProfessor Peter Johnson, national clinical director for cancer at NHS England, told MPs: \"I don't think anybody is comfortable with the fact that we have a large number of people who are waiting too long to get their diagnosis and start their treatment.\n\n\"What we need to do is contend with a very large number of referrals - between 200,000 to 260,000 people every month are referred for investigation of possible cancer, [of] whom only about 6% will have cancer.\"\n\nDame Deborah James raised millions for cancer research before she died aged 40\n\nDame Cally said the spike in referrals from GPs has been linked to a number of factors including a rise in cancer rates in the population; more people putting off care during the pandemic who are now coming forward; and a wider increase in awareness attributed to publicity campaigns and high-profile cancer cases.\n\nShe said there was a \"big surge\" in people coming forward with possible bowel cancer after the death of Dame Deborah James in June 2022.\n\nThe NHS in England has been struggling to meet every one of its nine cancer care targets since the the start of the Covid pandemic in February 2020.\n\nUnder the NHS constitution, 85% of patients diagnosed with cancer should start treatment within two months of an urgent referral, although that level of performance has not been achieved since 2015.\n\nThe latest figures show that, in December 2022, 61.8% of patients started treatment within 62-days, up slightly from 61% the previous month.\n\nOther parts of the UK have been under similar pressure:\n\n\"What we're seeing across cancer services right now is devastating,\" said Minesh Patel, head of policy at the cancer support charity Macmillan.\n\n\"While we welcome recent efforts to improve the numbers of people referred and diagnosed early, waiting times in England still reached record highs in 2022.\n\n\"Behind these unacceptable figures are real people who are having to put their lives on hold whilst they face anxious waits.\"", "Julie Goodyear, known for playing Bet Lynch in Coronation Street, has received a \"heartbreaking diagnosis\" of dementia, her husband has said.\n\nThe actress had sought medical advice after \"suffering forgetfulness\" but there was now \"no hope of a reversal in the situation\", Scott Brand said.\n\nGoodyear, 81, played the leopard-skin-loving barmaid from 1966 to 2003.\n\n\"My darling wife and I have had to come to terms with this heartbreaking diagnosis,\" Mr Brand said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Julie has been suffering forgetfulness for some time and we have been seeking medical advice and assistance - but we now know that there is no hope of a reversal in the situation and that her condition will get progressively, and perhaps speedily, worse.\n\n\"We have taken the decision to publicly announce the diagnosis as Julie still loves visiting friends and eating out. Inevitably, she is recognised and fans love to meet her - and she them - but she can get confused, particularly if she is tired. I hope people will understand.\"\n\nThanks to Goodyear, Bet Lynch became one of the ITV soap opera's longest-serving and best-loved characters.\n\nThe actress has also appeared on reality shows such as Celebrity Big Brother and Celebrity Fit Club.\n\nHilary Evans, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"Our hearts go out to Julie Goodyear and her family, following the announcement that she is living with dementia.\n\n\"So many of us have such fond memories of watching Julie on screen, playing the iconic role of Bet Lynch.\n\n\"It is incredibly brave of Julie's husband to share this news and help raise much-needed awareness of dementia, a condition affecting almost one million people in the UK today.\n\n\"With no treatments to slow or stop the diseases that cause dementia, a diagnosis is truly heartbreaking.\"", "An escalator carrying dozens of people at a train station in South Korea suddenly changed its direction, resulting in three people going to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nA number of other passengers at Sunae station in the Budang-gu, south of Seoul, suffered minor injuries in the incident, according to Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Department.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nCzech player Karolina Muchova became one of the lowest ranked players to reach the French Open women's final as she edged a thriller against Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka.\n\nRanked 43rd in the world, Muchova won 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 after saving a match point at 5-2 in the decider.\n\nDefending champion Swiatek, 22, won 6-2 7-6 (9-7) against Brazilian 14th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia later on Thursday.\n\nSabalenka's exit means Swiatek will remain world number one, a position she has held for 62 consecutive weeks, after she beat 27-year-old Haddad Maia.\n\nSabalenka, 25, served for the match in the decider but was overcome with tension as Muchova kept her composure to win an epic in three hours 13 minutes.\n\n\"I don't really know what happened,\" said Muchova, who is the fourth lowest-ranked woman to reach the final after Swiatek, Jelena Ostapenko and Renata Tomanova.\n\n\"It is unbelievable. I tried to keep fighting and it worked. I'm so happy.\"\n\nMuchova covered her face with a towel as she sat and contemplated the magnitude of her achievement, a stark contrast to when she sobbed on her chair at Roland Garros last year after having to retire injured from her third-round match.\n\nSwiatek will be the overwhelming favourite to lift the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen for a third time, having reached the final without losing a set and only dropping 23 games in her six matches.\n\nAgainst 27-year-old Haddad Maia, the 2020 and 2022 champion faced moments of uncertainty but ultimately had enough quality to come through her toughest test yet.\n\nAfter losing serve to love in the opening game, Swiatek quickly recovered to break back and won the final four games to wrap up the first set.\n\nHaddad Maia, playing in her first major semi-final after never previously going past the third round, moved 3-1 ahead in the second set and pushed Swiatek with her consistent returning.\n\nWhile Swiatek broke back for 3-3, Haddad Maia's level remained high and it needed a tie-break to separate them.\n\nHaddad Maia saved a match point with a winner down the line, but was powerless to stop the second which sparked a manic celebration from the relieved Swiatek.\n\nOn reaching a third final in four years, she said: \"It's really amazing.\"\n\nMuchova keeps nerve as Sabalenka loses hers\n\nBefore play started on women's semi-finals day, many expected Swiatek would be trying to set up another final against Sabalenka when she walked out on Court Philippe Chatrier.\n\nThe pair have been the two dominant players in the world this year, already contested the Stuttgart and Madrid finals on clay, and both moved serenely through the draw to the last four.\n\nBut, in an unexpected twist, Australian Open champion Sabalenka came unstuck against the unheralded Muchova, who fell down the rankings after being ravaged by injuries.\n\nMuchova reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 2021 before the physical problems stalled her progress, but has reminded everyone at Roland Garros of her undoubted talent.\n\nPlaying with her usual nous and variety, Muchova posed questions for Sabalenka throughout and showed her resilience to hang in when it looked as though she was heading towards defeat.\n\nSabalenka had started stronger in the decider, Muchova fighting off four break points for 1-1 before the Czech lost serve to trail 4-2.\n\nKnowing two holds of serve would be enough to see her through, Sabalenka moved 5-2 ahead but was unable to close out victory when Muchova saved a match point with a crunching forehand.\n\nBut, serving for the set, Sabalenka became tight - an old failing that resurfaced at the worst possible time as she aimed to reach back-to-back Grand Slam finals.\n\nA poor game allowed Muchova to restore parity, more nerves creeping in for Sabalenka when she served for a 6-5 lead.\n\nLast year, Sabalenka used a psychologist in a bid to rectify the issue of producing costly double faults and, after stopping working with a specialist in pre-season because she wanted to \"take responsibility\" herself, had stemmed the flow in a successful year.\n\nHowever, the problem returned against Muchova and heavily contributed to ending her participation in a tournament where she had skipped open news conferences to protect her mental health and faced questions about her stance on Belarus' involvement in Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nFrom a commanding position of 40-15, the Belarusian produced back-to-back double faults, hit a heavy backhand long and then made another error to hand momentum to her opponent.\n\nMuchova, with the crowd now behind her, retained her composure and served out to love before taking the warm acclaim of the Chatrier crowd.\n\n\"I was serving for the match, after that game she stepped in and started playing a little bit more aggressive,\" said Sabalenka, who also confirmed she has received a UK visa to play at Wimbledon after saying last month that she was still waiting for it.\n\n\"I lost my rhythm. I wasn't there. It's a very tough match for me to lose.\n\n\"It's been great couple of weeks with some challenges, emotional challenges, but I think I get through it. I think I'll be stronger.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can The Night Manager outmanoeuvre the criminal world?\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Michelle Hodgkinson's family described her as their \"biggest cheerleader\"\n\nThe family of a woman stabbed to death as she walked to meet her mum described their \"utter shock\" adding her final moments would have been \"horrific\".\n\nMichelle Hodgkinson, 51, had been walking in Edge Lane, Droylsden, Greater Manchester, when she was attacked at about noon on Friday.\n\nHer family said she was known for charity work and \"making people smile\".\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder but has since been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nIn a statement released through Greater Manchester Police, Ms Hodgkinson's family said: \"Everyone who knows Michelle is in utter shock at the attack she endured and how horrific her last moments were.\n\n\"Our Shelly B was the most amazing, loving, selfless and funny daughter, mother, mother-in-law, sister, auntie and most recently a nanna.\n\n\"It was a privilege to have been known and loved by her.\"\n\nThey said she had loved helping people in her community, was known for volunteering, carrying out charity work and she \"loved creating hampers to make people smile\".\n\n\"She would be there for anyone and the day she was taken from us, she was doing just that - walking to meet her mum to take her shopping and to go for a coffee,\" the family statement said.\n\n\"Our family and friends are heartbroken. In one moment our world has crumbled and will never be the same.\"\n\nThey added words could not describe \"how much she will be missed\".\n\n\"Our biggest cheerleader, our confidante, our rock - she will never be forgotten,\" her family said.\n\n\"We love you to the moon and back. We'll do everything we can to get justice. Love you forever and always.\"\n\nThe force said Ms Hodgkinson died at the scene of the stabbing in Edge Lane, Droylsden\n\nThe police force said reports came in at about 12:00 BST on Friday that a woman had been stabbed in the street.\n\nOfficers said Ms Hodgkinson died at the scene and they were still investigating the case.\n\nOn Saturday police said they were \"keeping an open mind\" over what had happened and understood the local community had been \"deeply affected\" by the attack.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ernest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie has given birth to a boy, she has announced on Instagram.\n\nThe King's niece gave birth to her second child, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, with husband Jack Brooksbank on 30 May, she said. He weighed 7lb 1oz (3.2kg), she said.\n\nEugenie said the new baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\n\"Augie is loving being a big brother already,\" she added.\n\nShe shared a picture of her new son wearing a knitted blue-and-white hat, asleep in a Moses basket.\n\nEugenie, 32, is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, and is the late Queen's granddaughter.\n\nPrincess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank in October 2018 at St George's Chapel in Windsor\n\nThe newest member of the Royal Family is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nIn a second picture posted on Instagram Eugenie's first child two-year-old August rests his hand on his new brother's head.\n\nErnest's middle name is inspired by his great-great-great grandfather King George V, who also had Ernest as a middle name.\n\nThe middle name is also a tribute to Mr Brooksbank's father George, who died in 2021 after being ill for some time.\n\nRonnie is a nod to the Duchess of York's father, Maj Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003.\n\nEugenie gave birth to August at the exclusive Portland Hospital in central London in 2021.\n\nMost recently the princess was at Westminster Abbey with her husband at the start of May to witness the King's Coronation.\n\nAugust Brooksbank rests his hand on new brother's head", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM on migrants crossing the Channel: \"The plan is working, numbers are down for the first ever time.\"\n\nTwo new barges have been purchased to house up to 1,000 migrants, the prime minister has announced, as he said plans to tackle small boats crossing the Channel are working.\n\nRishi Sunak said the location of the new barges will be announced soon.\n\nIt comes as the PM said the numbers making the crossing by small boats were down by a fifth since last year.\n\nHe said a returns deal with Albania had led to 1,800 people being sent back to the country.\n\nThe first barge to hold asylum seekers is due to dock in Portland Port this month, and will house 500 adult males claiming asylum in the UK.\n\nMr Sunak said the barges \"will relieve pressure on local communities\" and spaces in hotels being used to house migrants.\n\nBefore the barges arrive, the government will do \"extensive engagement with local communities\" Mr Sunak added.\n\nOn Sunday, dozens of protesters gathered around Portland port to ahead of the arrival the Bibby Stockolm barge, claiming the location was chosen without consulting locals.\n\nNearly 3,000 asylum seekers will also be housed on two military sites in Wethersfield and Scampton by the autumn, Mr Sunak said.\n\nSpeaking in Kent, Mr Sunak said his plan to stop small boat crossings \"is starting to work\".\n\nMr Sunak said crossings were down 20% between January and May this year, compared to the same period last year.\n\nEarlier, the Home Office told the BBC Mr Sunak had been speaking about January to March this year, when in fact crossings fell only fell by 17% compared to the same period in 2022.\n\nHowever, the department has now said he was referring to the figures for January to May after all. These show 7,610 arrivals, compared to 9,607 in the same period last year, a fall of almost 21%.\n\nThis is compared to a 30% increase in the number of migrants entering the rest of Europe illegally over the same period, according to Mr Sunak.\n\nHowever, the biggest increase in the numbers arriving by small boats in 2022 happened during the summer months. This is typically when the weather is best for crossing the Channel.\n\nA revised deal with the French authorities to stop migrant crossings prevented 33,000 illegal crossings last year, Mr Sunak added.\n\nUnder the new agreement, signed by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in November, the UK paid France £63m this year to invest in CCTV, policing and detention centres in French ports to try to prevent crossings.\n\nThe prime minister added: \"With grit and determination, the government can fix this and we are using every tool at our disposal.\"\n\nAn estimated 500 male migrants will be housed on the Bibby Stockholm\n\nAnd Mr Sunak said the UK had gone from accepting about one in five Albanian asylum cases to just one in 50.\n\n\"So far this year, the number of Albanian small boat arrivals has fallen by almost 90%\" year-on-year, he said.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the government promoting a \"policy that doesn't work\" which is \"costing a fortune for the taxpayer\".\n\nSir Keir said the promise of further measures to tackle the crisis was \"like Groundhog Day\" as crossings continue this year.\n\nHome Office figures show about 7,600 people had been detected crossing the Channel so far this year.\n\nIn total, 45,755 migrants crossed the Channel in 2022, the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018.\n\nCrossings are heavily influenced by the weather and the summer months typically see higher numbers making the journey.\n\nThe government's Illegal Migration Bill is currently being debated in the House of Lords. The bill, which will place a legal duty on the home secretary to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, has been heavily criticised by peers.\n\nThe measures, unveiled in March, are a key part of prime ministers plan to stop small boats crossing the English Channel - which he has made a priority ahead of the next general election.", "Unpaid carers in Northern Ireland are having to \"beg for help\" from the health service, according to an umbrella group which represents carers.\n\nIn their report the Coalition of Carers Organisations called on Stormont departments, health trusts and public services to deliver a new deal.\n\nThe group wants increased support and respite opportunities for carers.\n\nAbout 20 charities said people were not being offered help until they were in crisis.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, the Department of Health said: \"While the current budgetary position remains extremely challenging, the department is continuing to find ways to provide support to carers, where we can.\"\n\nThere are more than 220,000 people providing unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend across Northern Ireland - that represents one in eight people, according to Carers NI.\n\nThe report heard testimonies from more than 240 unpaid carers and it said that many of those looking after sick loved ones were reaching \"breaking point due to a postcode lottery of support\".\n\nIt said that services were either \"failing\" or \"aren't meeting\" the needs of carers.\n\nBarbara Morrow told BBC News NI that caring for her two children, who are both autistic, is being made \"unnecessarily difficult\" by those who are meant to offer support.\n\n\"There is a distinct lack of medical care, financial support or any form of government or public recognition for the position that I have found myself in,\" she said.\n\nMs Morrow, who lives in County Down, added that every single aspect of her children's care has been a \"fight\" and is an \"exhausting way to live\".\n\nShe added that life as a carer could be a \"lonely one\".\n\nCraig Harrison, the chair of the coalition group, said the all-too-common experience among carers from all backgrounds and ages was of \"being badly let down\" by Stormont and public services.\n\nMore than 220,000 people provide unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend in Northern Ireland\n\nHe said that carers, who save the public purse billions of pounds a year, are being expected to \"quietly prop up the health and social care system with little to no support\".\n\nMr Harrison, who wrote the report, said carers \"give so much and shouldn't be asked to sacrifice their own wellbeing, live in poverty and forgo any sort of quality of life in return\".\n\nHe added: \"Our unpaid carers need a new deal from Stormont to get to grips with the challenges they face and deliver the support they desperately need, not just in the realm of health and social care but in welfare, housing, employment and beyond.\"\n\nThe report said it was essential to get community care packages right and that carers were treated as expert partners.\n\nIt highlights that a carer's health and wellbeing also needs to be protected and any financial hardship met.\n\nThe Department of Health said it \"acknowledges the vital role played by carers in our society and is committed to raising awareness of the role and ensuring carers continue to be supported and valued\".\n\nHowever it added that due to \"significant budgetary challenges\" it has \"not yet been able to allocate the necessary resources to review and update the Carers Strategy\".\n\nIt pointed out that the former Health Minister Robin Swann launched a Support for Carers Fund in March 2021 in \"recognition of the challenges facing carers\".\n\n\"Over the lifespan of the fund, about £4m has been awarded to more than 100 projects to help and support unpaid carers in our community,\" said the department.\n\nThe most recent round of applications for funding closed on 13 March, which was described by the department as the \"fourth and final round\" from the £4m fund.", "A new business lobby council has been formed, boasting some of the UK's largest companies as its founding partners.\n\nThe Business Council has been launched by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) in a bid to \"design and drive the future of the British economy\".\n\nHeathrow, BP, IHG Hotels & Resorts and Drax are among its new members.\n\nIt comes as the troubled CBI faces a crunch vote on its future after it was mired in serious sexual allegations.\n\nThe CBI has been canvassing opinion from its existing membership on a series of reforms, the result of which will be revealed at a key meeting on Tuesday.\n\nIt has received the public backing of 13 companies - including manufacturing giant Siemens and the world's largest computer software firm Microsoft ahead of the vote.\n\nBut the new group will be hoping to pick up the support of businesses which cut ties with the CBI - including household names such as John Lewis and BMW.\n\nThe BCC works to support and connect tens of thousands of companies in the UK and internationally and is known for putting out a quarterly economic survey.\n\nBCC director general Shevaun Haviland and president Baroness Martha Lane Fox will join business leaders in London on Monday to discuss the work of its new council to represent the interests of UK firms.\n\n\"Over the past few months we have been talking to the nation's largest corporates and it has become clear to us they are looking for a different kind of representation,\" Ms Haviland said.\n\n\"These businesses want to be part of a framework that's rooted in their local communities, but with the ability to shape the national and international debate,\" she added.\n\nMs Haviland said the Business Council would focus on an initiative directed at the future of the economy targeting:\n\nThe new group will not know until Tuesday how much support its competitor will continue to receive but the CBI's new director general Rain Newton-Smith has described the vote as \"critical\" to its future.\n\nThe BBC's business editor Simon Jack said the timing of the announcement from the BCC was hard to ignore, saying the launch represented a \"tussle for the trust of business and the ear of government\".\n\nA CBI source said \"the timing of this is very opportunistic. Business succeeds through a collaborative approach and we find that more effective\".\n\nOver the weekend the Sunday Times newspaper reported that the CBI's last director general Tony Danker was planning to sue his former employer, after he was forced out over the sexual misconduct allegations.", "An FBI agent-turned-Russian mole who is notorious as one of the most damaging spies in US history has been found dead in prison.\n\nRobert Hanssen was discovered at a maximum-security facility in Florence, Colorado, on Monday morning.\n\nHanssen, 79, received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds, and money paid into Russian accounts. Three hundred agents worked on his case.\n\nHe was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison for espionage.\n\nA cause of death has yet to be confirmed.\n\nHanssen lived in a modest four-bedroom house in suburban Virginia with his wife and six children prior to his arrest.\n\nBecause of his counterintelligence role, he had access to classified information and in 1985 he started his criminal activity, sending material to Russia and the former Soviet Union.\n\nHanssen, who became an FBI officer on 12 January 1976, used the alias \"Ramon Garcia\" when corresponding with his handlers.\n\nAccording to the FBI's website, he \"compromised numerous human sources, counterintelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified US government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value\".\n\nWhile there was some suspicion around his unusual activities occasionally, he was not caught for years.\n\nAfter the spy Aldrich Hazen Ames was arrested by the FBI in 1994, the bureau realised classified information was still being leaked, which is what instigated the investigation into Hanssen.\n\nHe had been due to retire so the FBI acted quickly in an effort to catch him \"red handed\".\n\n\"What we wanted to do was get enough evidence to convict him, and the ultimate aim was to catch him in the act,\" said Debra Evans Smith, former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division.\n\nTo lure him back to FBI headquarters for closer monitoring, he was given a fake assignment.\n\nHanssen began working in his new office - complete with hidden cameras and microphones - at FBI headquarters in January 2001.\n\nA month later, investigators learned he was scheduled to make a dead drop at a park.\n\nA dead drop is when one person leaves material for another person to later pick up at a pre-determined location, according to the Central Intelligence Agency.\n\nOn 18 February 2001, Hanssen went to Foxstone Park, located in Virginia, with a plastic bag filled with classified materials.\n\nThe FBI had seen him frequent the park before and as he returned to his vehicle, he was arrested and taken into custody.\n\nDuring his arrest, he asked FBI agents, \"What took you so long?\"\n\nHe told interrogators that the FBI security was pathetic, but he cooperated to avoid the death penalty.\n\nFriends and neighbours said they were shocked by his arrest and described him as quiet and unassuming.\n\nHis family drove to mass every Sunday in a 10-year-old van, and was said to be a strict father, who limited television for his children.\n\nBut behind this façade lay a sexual obsession. Hanssen secretly filmed pornographic videos of his wife and showed them to a friend.\n\nDuring the time of his arrest, CBS News, BBC's US partner, reported that he would frequent strip clubs where he tried to convert strippers to Catholicism.\n\nAdditionally, he would post sexually explicit stories about him and his wife online and share nude photos of her.\n\nAfter growing up in Chicago, he said in a letter contained in an FBI affidavit that he was inspired by the British spy, Kim Philby.\n\n\"I decided on this course when I was 14 years old,\" he wrote to his Russian handlers, according to the affidavit.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and in May 2002 was sentenced to life without parole.\n\nThe prison, ADX Florence, is one of the most secure federal prisons in the nation, which hosts other high profile inmates like al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThey said I was too old, I made the Premier League look old - Ibrahimovic AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic has retired from football at the age of 41, bringing to an end one of the modern era's most glittering careers. \"I say goodbye to football but not to you,\" the Swede told the San Siro crowd after Sunday's last game of the season. Ibrahimovic had already announced he would leave the Italian club. He scored 511 goals for clubs including Paris St-Germain, Manchester United and both AC and Inter Milan, winning league titles in four countries.\n• None How well do you know Ibrahimovic? Ibrahimovic began his second spell with AC Milan in early 2020, having won the Scudetto with them in 2011, and helped them win the title again last season. But he played only four times and started one match for the Serie A side this term - and scored one goal - following a series of injuries, and his contract was set to expire this month. \"There are too many emotions for me right now. Forza Milan and goodbye,\" an emotional Ibrahimovic said, holding back tears. \"The first time I came here you gave me happiness, the second time you gave me love. \"You welcomed me with open arms, you made me feel at home, I will be a Milanista for the rest of my life.\" Ibrahimovic won 34 trophies - including 14 league titles - in a career that began in the last century, and was nominated for the Ballon d'Or 11 times. The one major club trophy that eluded him was the Champions League, with his only European title coming with Manchester United in the shape of the 2017 Europa League. The striker also retires as Sweden's all-time top scorer with 62 international goals in 122 matches. He quit the national side after Euro 2016 but returned in 2021 for their unsuccessful World Cup qualifying campaign. \"I used to be scared when journalists asked by about my future, but now I can accept it, I'm ready,\" he told reporters after his announcement. \"I've been doing this all my life. Football made me a man. It allowed me to know people I otherwise would never have known. I've travelled the world thanks to football. It's all thanks to football.\" The Swedish great was given a guard of honour by his AC Milan team-mates as he left the pitch Ibrahimovic started his professional career with hometown side Malmo FF in 1999 before moving to Ajax in 2001 for a three-year spell in which he won three league titles. A move to Italy followed in 2004 with Juventus, where he won two league titles, both of which were later stripped from the club as a result of the Calciopoli scandal. However, the Swede won three more Serie A titles with his next club, Inter Milan, before a move to Barcelona in 2009. Ibrahimovic spent only one season at the Catalan club, winning a La Liga title before being loaned to AC Milan, a move which was made permanent in 2011. A year later, however, and Ibrahimovic was on the move again, signing for Paris St-Germain, where he scored 113 goals in 122 league appearances and won four Ligue 1 trophies. In July 2016, he signed for Manchester United for a two-year spell with the Premier League club that saw him win the League Cup and the Europa League. Ibrahimovic signed for MLS side LA Galaxy in 2018, spending two seasons in California before making his return to AC Milan.\n• None No small talk, no messages, just one kiss:\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health", "Ukraine has been planning a counter-offensive for months\n\nRussia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a major Ukrainian attack in Donetsk, in the latest sign that a wider counter-offensive may have begun.\n\nVideo of what Russia says is the battle shows military vehicles under heavy fire in fields. Russia claims it killed 300 troops and destroyed 16 tanks.\n\nHowever Moscow's claims have not been independently verified.\n\nAnd on Monday, Ukraine's military said it had no information about a major attack in the region.\n\n\"We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake,\" a Ukrainian army spokesperson told Reuters.\n\nA major Ukrainian counter-offensive has been long awaited but Kyiv has already said it would not give advance warning of its start.\n\nHowever with Ukraine claiming to have made marginal gains elsewhere on the front line, there has been a notable increase in military activity.\n\nThe latest reports are therefore being seen as a fresh sign that the expected Ukrainian push may have begun.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said Ukraine had launched the \"large-scale offensive\" in the Donetsk region on Sunday using six mechanised and two tank battalions.\n\nIt claimed the Ukrainians tried to break through Russian defences in what Kyiv saw as the most vulnerable part of the front line - but that it \"did not achieve its tasks, it had no success\".\n\nIf the footage of armoured vehicles coming under heavy fire is authentic, then it reflects the stiff resistance Ukrainian forces will face as they try to liberate more territory.\n\nAnd if it is not what it seems, it is still an attempt by Moscow to take control of the narrative.\n\nThere has been a significant increase in Ukrainian messaging on when and how their counter-offensive could take shape.\n\nUkraine has been planning such a move for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv have warned against public speculation over the offensive, saying it could help the enemy.\n\n\"Plans love silence. There will be no announcement of the start,\" the defence ministry said in a video posted to Telegram on Sunday. Its footage featured masked and well-armed troops holding their fingers against their lips.\n\nIt will take Ukraine time to achieve its goal of liberating territory taken by Russia as far back as nine years ago.\n\nAnd Moscow has had time to prepare. It means if Ukraine is able to mount a counter-offensive, it is going to take a while.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nThe commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said troops were \"moving forward\" towards Bakhmut and had destroyed a Russian position near the city.\n\nA video released by the Ukrainian army which they claim shows a military vehicle in the direction of Bakhmut\n\nElsewhere, fighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.\n\nThe claim was made by the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL), which described the announcement as a joint statement with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nBoth groups want to topple President Vladimir Putin. They oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that he launched in February last year.\n\nBelgorod's top official, Vyacheslav Gladkov, replied to say he had agreed to meet the men's captors if the soldiers were still alive. But the fighters later said that the governor \"had not found the courage\" to meet them and they would hand over their captives to Ukraine.\n\nRussia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories, but Kyiv denies being directly involved.\n\nAuthorities in Belgorod said an energy plant was ablaze following a drone attack on Monday morning.\n\nAnd in Russia's Kaluga region - which borders the southern districts around Moscow - governor Vladislav Shapsha said two drones fell onto a main road. Mr Shapsha said there had not been an explosion and the area was now cordoned off.\n\nThere has been no independent confirmation of either attack, but Moscow says the Belgorod region has been the regular target of drone attacks from Ukraine.", "Oil prices have risen after Saudi Arabia said it would make cuts of a million barrels per day (bpd) in July.\n\nOther members of Opec+, a group of oil-producing countries, also agreed to continued cuts in production in an attempt to shore up flagging prices.\n\nOpec+ accounts for around 40% of the world's crude oil and its decisions can have a major impact on oil prices.\n\nIn Asia trade on Monday, Brent crude oil rose by as much as 2.4% before settling at around $77 a barrel.\n\nOpec+ said production targets would drop by a further 1.4 million bpd from 2024.\n\nThe seven hour-long meeting on Sunday of the oil-rich nations came against a backdrop of falling energy prices.\n\nOil prices soared when Russia invaded Ukraine last year, but are now back at levels seen before the conflict began.\n\nIn October last year Opec+, a formulation which refers to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, agreed to cut production by two million bpd, about 2% of global demand.\n\nIn April this year the group agreed to a further cuts, which were due to last to the end of this year. But Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Sunday's talks led to \"the extension of the deal until the end of 2024\".\n\nOn Sunday, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that his country's cut of one million bpd could be extended beyond July if needed. \"This is a Saudi lollipop,\" he said, in what is seen as a bid to stabilise the market.\n\nBefore the two-day Opec+ meeting started, it was widely expected the oil cartel would make production cuts to prop up prices. It appears most members were against the idea, as any cuts would impact oil revenues, which are crucial to keep running their economies.\n\nSaudi Arabia's decision to make a voluntary reduction of one-million barrels per day was unexpected but does not come as a huge surprise. As the leader of the pack, and also the largest exporter of oil, it was the only one in a position to be able to lower output.\n\nFrom Riyadh's point of view, it is crucial the price of crude remains over $80 a barrel for it to break even. Saudi officials want elevated prices to keep spending billions of dollars on ambitious projects spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as he tries to diversify the kingdom's economy away from oil.\n\nThe move by the Saudis also underlines the uncertain outlook for demand for fuels in the months to come. Concerns about the global economy, especially recessionary fears in the US and Europe are expected to put further pressure on crude prices.\n\nOil producers are grappling with falling prices and high market volatility amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe West has accused Opec of manipulating prices and undermining the global economy through high energy costs. It has also accused the group of siding with Russia despite sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn response, Opec insiders have said the West's monetary policy over the last decade has driven inflation and forced oil-producing nations to act to maintain the value of their main export.", "A protester was tackled by police and security during the Derby\n\nA man has been charged after a protester ran onto the racecourse during the Epsom Derby on Saturday.\n\nThe horseracing event was targeted by animal rights protesters, who attempted to breach a large security operation in order to disrupt the day's main race.\n\nBen Newman, 32, from Hackney, east London, has been charged with causing public nuisance, Surrey Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA man was seen being bundled to the floor by police and security guards during the opening seconds of the prestigious race.\n\nHe was quickly removed from the course while being jeered by spectators. The race was unaffected.\n\nThe protest went ahead despite the Jockey Club, which runs the event, being granted a court injunction prohibiting the group Animal Rising from disrupting it.\n\nThe group had publicly threatened to stop the main race going ahead, saying it wanted to raise awareness about animal rights.\n\nMr Newman was one of 31 people arrested in connection with the planned protests, including 12 on the racecourse grounds and 19 during a pre-emptive operation in the hours before it began.\n\nSurrey Police said two women were arrested after being \"quickly detained moments before they were able to get on to the track\".\n\nMr Newman is the only protester to face a charge so far. The remaining 30 people have been released on bail pending further inquiries, police said.", "For months, Bakhmut in the Donetsk region has been at the heart of intense fighting (file photo)\n\nUkrainian forces have advanced around Bakhmut, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has said, describing the eastern city as the \"epicentre of hostilities\".\n\nShe did not say whether a long awaited counter-offensive had begun.\n\nSeparately, Russia's military said it had repelled a new attack in the eastern Donetsk region on Monday.\n\nBakhmut has for months been at the heart of fierce fighting. It has little strategic value - but is important symbolically both for Kyiv and Moscow.\n\nMonday's claims by Ukraine and Russia have not been independently verified.\n\nIn the early hours of Tuesday, air raid sirens were activated for several hours all over Ukraine. In the capital Kyiv, all missiles - more than 20 - were shot down, city officials said citing preliminary information.\n\nIn a post on social media on Monday, Ms Maliar said that \"despite stiff resistance and the enemy's attempts to hold the their positions, our military units advanced in several directions during the fighting\".\n\nShe said in Orikhovo-Vasulivka and Paraskoviivka, Ukrainian troops gained from 200m to 1,600m (656-5,250ft), while in Ivanivske and Klishchiivka they advanced between 100m and 700m (330-2,300).\n\nAll four villages are located within several kilometres of Bakhmut. The battle for the city in the Donetsk region has been the longest and bloodiest of the war.\n\nIn a video address late on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukrainian fighters for delivering \"the news we are expecting\" on the Bakhmut direction.\n\n\"The enemy knows that Ukraine will win,\" he said.\n\nThe Russian paramilitary group Wagner had claimed to have captured the city in late May. In recent weeks, some analysts have suggested Kyiv's forces are attempting to encircle Bakhmut and trap Russian units.\n\nA major Ukrainian counter-offensive has been long expected but Kyiv has already said it would not give advance warning of its start.\n\nThere has been a notable increase in military activity, with Ukraine claiming to have made marginal gains elsewhere on the front line.\n\nThe latest reports are being seen as a fresh sign that the expected Ukrainian push may have begun.\n\nA video released by the Ukrainian army claims to show a military vehicle near Bakhmut. The BBC has not verified the date of the image\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a new attack by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk had been repelled.\n\nIn a statement quoted by state-run media, It said the attacking side suffered heavy casualties, and that 28 tanks - including eight German-made Leopards - were destroyed. This has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nWagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin publicly mocked the Russian defence ministry, describing its statement as \"wild fantasy\".\n\nThis comes a day after Moscow said a Ukrainian \"large-scale offensive\" in the Donetsk region had begun on Sunday - but was unsuccessful. Ukraine's military said it had no information about such a major attack in the region.\n\nVideo of what Russia said was the battle in Donetsk showed military vehicles under heavy fire in fields. Russia claims it killed 300 troops and destroyed 16 tanks.\n\n\"We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake,\" a Ukrainian army spokesperson told Reuters.\n\nThere has been a significant increase in Ukrainian messaging on when and how their counter-offensive could take shape.\n\nUkraine has been planning such a move for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said his country now had enough weapons for a counter-offensive but would not comment on whether it had begun, Reuters reported.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv have warned against public speculation over the offensive, saying it could help the enemy.\n\n\"Plans love silence. There will be no announcement of the start,\" the defence ministry said in a recently posted video. It featured masked and well-armed troops holding their fingers against their lips.\n\nIt will take Ukraine time to achieve its goal of liberating territory taken by Russia as far back as nine years ago.\n\nAnd Moscow has had time to prepare. It means if Ukraine is able to mount a counter-offensive, it is going to take a while.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nElsewhere, fighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.\n\nThe claim was made by the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL), which described the announcement as a joint statement with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nBoth groups want to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin and oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that he launched in February last year.\n\nRussia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories, but Kyiv denies being directly involved.\n\nMeanwhile, President Zelensky met UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in Kyiv on Monday.\n\nMr Zelensky said the pair discussed expectations from the upcoming Nato summit in Vilnius in July and Ukraine's peace proposals.", "\"It's a bit scary isn't it after only two weeks to see those results.\"\n\nAimee, 24, has spent two weeks on an ultra-processed diet as part of a test carried out by scientists from King's College London for BBC Panorama.\n\nHer identical twin, Nancy, was also on a diet containing exactly the same amount of calories, nutrients, fat, sugar and fibre - but she was consuming raw or low-processed foods.\n\nAimee gained nearly a kilo in weight - Nancy lost weight. Aimee's blood sugar levels also worsened and her blood fat levels - lipids - went up.\n\nThis was a short-term study on just one set of twins, but the results highlight growing fears among some scientists about the possible impact of so-called ultra-processed foods on our health, which BBC Panorama has been investigating.\n\nProf Tim Spector, is a professor of epidemiology at King's College London, who studies trends in disease and oversaw the test.\n\nHe told BBC Panorama: \"In the last decade, the evidence has been slowly growing that ultra-processed food is harmful for us in ways we hadn't thought.\n\n\"We're talking about a whole variety of cancers, heart disease, strokes, dementia.\"\n\nThe term ultra-processed foods - or UPF - was only coined 15 years ago but it makes up about half the things we now eat in the UK.\n\nFrom sliced brown bread to ready meals and ice cream, it is a group of foods made with varying - but often substantial - levels of industrial processing. Ingredients used, such as preservatives, artificial sweeteners and emulsifiers, do not typically feature in home cooking.\n\n\"Ultra-processed foods are among the most profitable foods companies can make,\" says Prof Marion Nestle, a food politics expert and professor of nutrition at New York University.\n\nSome academics think the link is not coincidental.\n\nUltra-processed convenience foods contain chemicals that UK regulators say are safe, but Panorama investigates emerging scientific evidence of a link between some of these chemicals and cancer, diabetes and strokes.\n\nWatch on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC One at 20:00 BST on Monday 5 June (20:30 in Northern Ireland and 23:10 in Wales)\n\nIn January, one of the most comprehensive studies on ultra-processed food - by Imperial College's School of Public Health - was published in The Lancet medical journal.\n\nThe study of 200,000 UK adults found that higher consumption of ultra-processed foods may be linked to an increased risk of developing cancer overall, and specifically ovarian and brain cancers.\n\nAnd, as of last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now cautioning against the long-term use of artificial sweeteners - citing potential health risks.\n\nIt follows dozens of studies linking increasing consumption of UPF to increased risk of developing serious illnesses.\n\nBut proving that specific ingredients cause human harm can be challenging - there are a range of other factors in our lifestyles that can cause these diseases. For example: lack of exercise, smoking or sugary diets.\n\nThe first investigations into mortality and consumption of ultra-processed food started in France at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, as part of the ongoing study into the eating habits of 174,000 people.\n\n\"We have 24-hour dietary records during which they tell us all the foods, the beverages and so on, that they are eating,\" explains Dr Mathilde Touvier who heads up the study.\n\nThe ongoing research has already published results showing UPF may drive an increased burden of cancer.\n\nNancy (l) and Aimee (r) took part in the two-week long test\n\nMore recently, they have been looking into the impact of one specific ingredient - emulsifiers - which act as a glue in ultra-processed foods to hold everything together.\n\nEmulsifiers are the Holy Grail for the food industry - they improve the appearance and texture of food, and help to extend the shelf life far beyond that of less-processed food.\n\nThey're everywhere, in mayonnaise, chocolate, peanut butter, meat products. If you eat, you're likely to be consuming emulsifiers as part of your diet.\n\nBBC's Panorama was given exclusive access to Dr Touvier's early results.\n\nThey are yet to be peer reviewed - a crucial verification step for scientific studies - but she said they are still concerning.\n\n\"We observed significant associations between emulsifier intake and increased risk of cancer overall - and breast cancer notably - but also with cardiovascular diseases,\" she says.\n\nThis means that a pattern has been observed between consuming ultra-processed food and disease risk, but further research is needed.\n\nDespite the growing body of evidence, the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) - which regulates the food industry in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - has yet to issue any regulation restricting emulsifiers.\n\nWhen Panorama asked the FSA about the growing body of evidence that these additives could cause harm it said: \"We have not been presented with any evidence - by this programme or otherwise - of any specific emulsifiers which are believed to pose a risk to health.\"\n\nBut the FSA said it planned to hold a public consultation.\n\nCould the food industry itself be playing a role in pushing back on regulation?\n\nThe BBC Panorama team spent the past eight months investigating.\n\n\"Food companies are not public health agencies... their job is to sell products,\" food politics expert Prof Nestle told the BBC.\n\nShe said the food industry has been known to fund research, sponsor experts and disparage existing studies to prevent regulation.\n\nThe International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a body that receives funding from some of the world's largest food companies.\n\nIt says its mission is to \"provide science that improves human health\" - but it has previously published studies globally undermining regulation and public guidance on healthy diets. In 2012, the European Food Safety Agency was so worried about potential conflicts of interest, it insisted anyone associated with ILSI either had to resign from the institute or leave the agency.\n\nProf Alan Boobis, emeritus professor at Imperial College London, is an unpaid director of ILSI Europe and a former vice president of its board of directors. But he also heads up a group of UK scientists, known as the Committee on Toxicity which provides advice on the risk of chemicals in food to the FSA.\n\nMore than half the members of the committee have recent links to the food or chemicals industries. And over the past 10 years, the committee hasn't supported a single restriction on the use of any chemical additive in our food.\n\nProf Boobis told Panorama his advice wasn't slanted to favour industry, and he had always been \"totally committed to conducting and identifying the very best scientific research... whoever is funding it.\"\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it had a \"clear code of conduct… for declarations of interest\" and that it had \"no evidence\" bias has affected its decisions.\n\nILSI said: \"[We] operate within a framework of the highest principles of scientific integrity.\"\n\nOne of the most controversial additives in UPF is the sweetener aspartame.\n\nTwo-hundred times sweeter than sugar, it has been heralded as a great low-calorie alternative - turning once unhealthy sugary drinks, ice cream and mousses into products marketed as \"healthy\".\n\nThere have been questions about its potential harm over the past two decades.\n\nThen, last month, the World Health Organization said, although the evidence is not conclusive, it was concerned that long-term use of sweeteners like aspartame may increase the risk of \"type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, and mortality\".\n\nAspartame is sometimes used to sweeten ice cream\n\nIn 2013, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) decided - after looking at all the available evidence - that aspartame was safe. The UK's Food Standards Agency accepted this position.\n\nThe Committee on Toxicity looked at a study into aspartame in 2013 and concluded that the results \"did not indicate any need for action to protect the health of the public\".\n\nSix years later, Prof Erik Millstone, emeritus professor of science policy at the University of Sussex, decided to review the same evidence considered by EFSA - to see who had funded the different studies.\n\nHe discovered that 90% of the studies defending the sweetener were funded by large chemical corporations that manufacture and sell aspartame.\n\nAnd that all the studies suggesting that aspartame may cause harm were funded by non-commercial, independent sources.\n\nA spokesperson for the Food and Drink Federation, a membership body for manufacturers, told the BBC that companies took \"the health of consumers, and safety of the food they produce, seriously - and adhere to the strict regulations\".\n\nA spokesperson for the International Sweeteners Association said: \"Low/no calorie sweeteners are safe to use, are amongst the most thoroughly researched ingredients in the world and have been approved by all major food safety bodies, including the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.\"\n\nThe FSA says it will look into WHO's ongoing assessment of aspartame. And the government says it is aware of the growing concerns around UPF and has ordered a review into the evidence on ultra-processed foods.\n\nWatch Panorama - Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe For Ill-Health? - on BBC iPlayer and listen to 5Live listeners have their say with Nicky Campbell, Is ultra processed food okay?", "The coordinators are teachers who have overall responsibility for pupils with special educational needs in a school\n\nFunding for dedicated school staff to support pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland has been cut in half.\n\nEach school has to appoint a teacher as a special educational needs coordinator.\n\nBut the overall funding to schools for that role has been reduced from £22m last year to £11m in 2023-24.\n\nIt is the latest cut to be made by Stormont's Department of Education in an attempt to make savings.\n\nThe department has already stopped a number of schemes to save money, including the school holiday food grant for children entitled to free school meals.\n\nThat came after funding for education was reduced in the 2023-24 Stormont budget.\n\nBut potential cuts in funding to a range of early years and pre-school programmes did not go ahead.\n\nThe special needs coordinator is a teacher who has overall responsibility for pupils with special educational needs in a school.\n\nThey support and help SEN children with their learning and monitor their progress, and that can involve extra pastoral and administrative responsibilities.\n\nMore than 66,000 pupils in Northern Ireland have some form of SEN - just under one in five of the school population.\n\nMore than 24,000 have a statement of SEN, a legal document which details the level and type of support they should receive in school.\n\nThe way pupils with SEN are supported in Northern Ireland is changing and that could mean extra responsibility for special needs coordinators in schools.\n\nFor instance, they will be expected to complete and regularly review a personal learning plan for each child with SEN in conjunction with class teachers and parents.\n\nThe department gives each school some money to enable the coordinator to take time out from teaching a class in order to do the other duties their role requires.\n\nHowever the cut in money in the next year will mean schools have less money to provide substitute cover for their coordinator to give them time of class for their role.\n\nIn an email to schools about the funding the Education Authority said that \"£11m represents a reduction in the funding that has been made available in previous years\".\n\nBut it also said that \"given the challenging financial situation\" they were pleased that some funding had continued.\n\nA recently published major review into support for children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland identified a number of shortcomings in how that support was provided.\n\nThe system is \"not perceived to be an efficient way of supporting children\", said the review commissioned by the Department of Education.\n\nThe Education Authority, which is responsible for running education services in Northern Ireland, said it was facing a funding shortfall of £382m in this financial year.\n\nIt said it was concerned that the shortfall would have \"an enduring and detrimental impact... on our children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable\".", "Lidl's new mince vac packs will be in stores from early next year\n\nLidl is the latest supermarket to announce it will start vac-packing mince to use less plastic and double its shelf life.\n\nSainsbury's hit the headlines when it made the same switch, and some shoppers complained it turned the meat to mush.\n\nAn anti-plastic group criticised the move from hard plastic trays to soft film, saying this would not go in most household recycling collections.\n\nLidl said its new vac packs could be taken to recycling collection points.\n\nIt said the packaging would use 63% less plastic and extend the mince's shelf life from eight to 16 days. The \"easy peel film\" also meant customers \"don't have to touch the raw meat\", it said.\n\nSian Sutherland, co-founder of campaign group A Plastic Planet, said meat-soiled soft plastics were \"never going to be recycled into anything useful.\" She said she thought most people would put them into general waste rather than taking them to recycling points.\n\nMs Sutherland added: \"When so many other natural materials exist, it is inexcusable to keep pushing plastic and retailers need to seriously consider the reputational risks.\"\n\nEnvironmental campaign group Wrap said plastic bags and wrapping could be recycled at more than 6,000 places across the UK. It has a recycling locator to find your nearest one.\n\nRetailers are increasingly looking for ways to make their products more environmentally-friendly and sustainable.\n\nFruit drink brand Robinsons this week announced it was trialling selling a carton in Tesco made of 89% plant-based materials. It said its 500ml super strength squash made 60 drinks with 85% less plastic per serve than its one litre double concentrate bottle. Meanwhile, John Lewis has said all the leather used in its own label sofas and chairs will come from British farms that exclusively supply Waitrose beef.\n\nSome Sainsbury's shoppers complained vac-packing squashed the mince into a mush\n\nIn February, Sainsbury's announced it was the first UK retailer to vacuum pack all beef mince saving 450 tonnes of plastic each year\".\n\nBut when the packs appeared in the supermarket's fridges some shoppers expressed their distaste on social media.\n\nOne said the meat now resembled \"a rectangle of mushed off cuts\" and another described it as looking like \"someone's kidney\".\n\nOthers complained that sucking the air out of the mince packaging squashed it together and made it difficult to cook with.\n\nSainsbury's shopper Vicki Cole said the mince stuck together during cooking\n\nSainsbury's head of fresh food, Richard Crampton, told the BBC in April: \"It's exactly the same mince...but more compressed...so we do need customers to cook it slightly differently.\"\n\nHe said vacuum packed meat was common in the EU and US as well as recipe boxes in the UK, and he would not be surprised if other supermarkets followed suit.\n\nShyam Unarket, Lidl GB's head of responsible sourcing and ethical trade, said the change was part of Lidl's plan to reduce its own-label plastic packaging by 40% by 2025, he said.\n\nHe said switching to vac packed mince would cut more than 250 tonnes of plastic from packaging a year.\n\n\"However, we also recognise the important role that plastic plays in our daily lives,\" he said. \"By ensuring that any new packaging is recyclable, we'll be able to help prevent plastic pollution in our environment.\"", "Sunnah Khan, a 12-year-old girl from Buckinghamshire, and 17-year-old Joe Abbess from Southampton both died in hospital on Wednesday\n\nA riptide may have led to the deaths of a girl and a teenage boy off Bournemouth beach, an inquest heard.\n\nJoe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan, from Buckinghamshire, both died in hospital after the incident on Wednesday.\n\nAn inquest opening at Dorset Coroner's Court heard there was a \"suggestion\" a riptide had led to the pair drowning.\n\nDorset Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about the circumstances that led to the deaths.\n\nThe force said it was considering causes including the impact of weather conditions and the state of the water.\n\nIt has dismissed speculation the pair had jumped from the pier.\n\nStephanie Williams (pictured with Sunnah) said she had lost her \"beautiful girl\"\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.\n\nThey can be difficult to spot and are a major cause of accidental drowning on beaches all across the world, according to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).\n\nRip currents are often harmless, but around large headlands or piers - like Bournemouth Pier - they can be powerful.\n\nThey tend to flow at 1-2mph but can reach 4-5mph, which is faster than an Olympic swimmer, the RNLI explained.\n\nIn a hearing to open the inquest proceedings at Bournemouth Town Hall, Dorset coroner's officer Nicola Muller said post-mortem examinations identified drowning as the cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The brief circumstances are that emergency services were contacted by members of the public... following suggestion they had been caught in a riptide,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest in Bournemouth was opened and adjourned for a pre-inquest review hearing on 18 September.\n\nJoe's family described him as \"a fabulous young man\", while Sunnah's mother Stephanie Williams has posted on Twitter to pay tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\".\n\nMs Williams tweeted: \"No parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through. We love you so much baby girl.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThe incident involved 10 swimmers on a day when the beach was packed during half-term.\n\nThe Dorset Belle sightseeing boat was impounded by Dorset Police in the immediate aftermath, but the force said this was \"just one of several lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Neil Corrigan said: \"We are working with experts from partner agencies to understand all of the factors and this will take time to establish.\n\n\"We continue to support the families of Joe and Sunnah and they are being kept updated by specially trained family liaison officers about our investigation.\n\n\"I would ask that the police investigation is allowed to continue without further unhelpful speculation around circumstances of the incident, and that there is respect for the families of those who have died so tragically.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene of sightseeing boat the Dorset Belle on Friday\n\nTobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, said he believed police should have released more information that would have helped \"place into context the scale of this major incident\".\n\n\"The absence of clarity led to really wild speculation on social media,\" he added. \"Provide clarity early on - just so people can have an assurance of mind on what roughly happened.\"\n\nDavid Sidwick, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said: \"It is the family of Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess who have to be first in our thoughts both with our condolences and also from the point of view of whatever information comes forth.\n\n\"This is a complex investigation - it includes a number of agencies.\"\n\nMr Sidwick added: \"They are working together as fast as they can to find out what happened on that day and I truly believe that they need to be given the time and space to do that fully, thoroughly, professionally without hindrance.\n\n\"At this moment in time we have to understand that this is an immensely complex situation - the police moved to rule out those things which they could rule out when they had enough evidence to be able to do that.\n\n\"What they can't do is say what exactly happened. What is the point of saying to the family it's 'X' or it's not 'Y' if that isn't fully understood - we've got to let all these investigations work through.\"\n\nFriends of Joe Abbess (L-R) - Jack, Ben, Leo and Jack - paid tribute to the \"much-loved\" student\n\nThe force said none of the swimmers were involved in any collision or contact with any vessel in the water.\n\nIt has appealed for witnesses and urged people to send it any photographic footage.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was \"on the water\" at the time, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nCity College Southampton, where Mr Abbess was studying catering, said teachers were \"in tears\" over his death.\n\nCurriculum manager Joanne Pengelly said the teenager was a \"rare gem... totally reliable, always happy [and] really supportive in the department\".\n\nHis friend and fellow student Ben said: \"Joe was kind of an inspiration to me. He was obviously very passionate about cooking. Head chef one day, for sure.\"\n\nAnother student Jack said: \"He was definitely the life of the kitchen. Bubbly, happy, trying to spread the cheeriness throughout the kitchen.\n\n\"Now I'm heartbroken. We all loved him so much.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joe Abbess, 17, was pulled from the water near Bournemouth Pier\n\nThe family of a 17-year-old boy who died after being pulled from the sea in Bournemouth say they are \"heartbroken and devastated\" at his death.\n\nJoe Abbess and a 12-year-old girl, named locally as Sunnah Khan, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, died in the incident involving 10 swimmers on Wednesday.\n\nJoe and Sunnah both suffered critical injuries and died in hospital.\n\nJoe's parents said they had been \"privileged to have him in our lives\".\n\nDorset Police said it was continuing to investigate what had happened.\n\nMore than 200 people are understood to have attended Sunnah Khan's funeral on Saturday\n\nIn a statement, Joe's family said they and his friends would \"always love him\" and were \"incredibly proud of the fabulous young man he was\".\n\n\"He was kind and generous, loving and caring, hardworking and funny,\" they said.\n\n\"Joe was a talented trainee chef, with a bright future ahead of him... we are so sorry he will never fulfil his dreams and ambitions.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThey said Joe had been enjoying a day at the beach on Wednesday, adding: \"We would like to thank his friends and all of the emergency services who helped him, when this tragedy unfolded.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene, which was packed with people on half-term holidays, just after 16:30 BST.\n\nEight other swimmers were rescued and treated on the beach.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend following the incident.\n\nRNLI and Dorset Police have had an \"increased presence\" along the seafront over the weekend\n\nMore than 200 people are understood to have attended Sunnah's funeral on Saturday, held by High Wycombe Mosques.\n\nAn earlier police statement confirmed there was no physical contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier during the incident.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time of the incident, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It would be strange for me to name dates but we are ready for counter-offensive, says Mr Danilov\n\nUkraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC.\n\nOleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin's occupying forces could begin \"tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week\".\n\nHe warned that Ukraine's government had \"no right to make a mistake\" on the decision because this was an \"historic opportunity\" that \"we cannot lose\".\n\nAs secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Mr Danilov is at the heart of President Volodymyr Zelensky's de facto war cabinet.\n\nHis rare interview with the BBC was interrupted by a phone message from President Zelensky summoning him to a meeting to discuss the counter-offensive.\n\nDuring the interview, he also confirmed that some Wagner mercenary forces were withdrawing from the city of Bakhmut, the site of the bloodiest battle of the war so far - but he added they were \"regrouping to another three locations\" and \"it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us\".\n\nMr Danilov also said he was \"absolutely calm\" about Russia beginning to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, saying: \"To us, it's not some kind of news.\"\n\nUkraine has been planning a counter-offensive for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nIn the meantime, Russian forces have been preparing their defences.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nMr Danilov said the armed forces would begin the assault when commanders calculated \"we can have the best result at that point of the war\".\n\nAsked if Ukrainian armed forces were ready for the offensive, he replied: \"We are always ready. The same as we were ready to defend our country at any time. And it is not a question of time.\n\n\"We have to understand that that historic opportunity that is given to us - by God - to our country we cannot lose, so we can truly become an independent, big European country.\"\n\nHe added: \"It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week.\n\n\"It would be weird if I were to name dates of the start of that or those events. That cannot be done…. We have a very responsible task before our country. And we understand that we have no right to make a mistake.\"\n\nUkrainian troops have spent months training on Western equipment ahead of the expected attack\n\nMr Danilov dismissed suggestions the counter-offensive had already begun, saying that \"demolishing Russian control centres and Russian military equipment\" had been the task of Ukrainian armed forces since 24 February last year - the date Russia launched the invasion.\n\n\"We have no days off during this war,\" he said.\n\nHe defended the decision by Ukraine's army to fight in Bakhmut for so many months, a battle that has cost the lives of many of its soldiers.\n\n\"Bakhmut is our land, our territory, and we must defend it,\" he said. \"If we start leaving every settlement, that could get us to our western border as Putin wanted from the first days of the war.\"\n\nHe said that \"we control only a small part of the city, and we admit to that. But you have to keep in mind that Bakhmut has played a big role in this war.\"\n\nAsked if Wagner mercenaries were leaving, he replied: \"Yes, that is happening. But it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us. They are going to concentrate more on other fronts… they are regrouping to other three locations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "David Fleet stabbed a man to death just 10 days after leaving a psychiatric unit\n\nWhen Sharon Lees' son David left a psychiatric unit, she said she warned staff he was too unwell to come home.\n\nTen days later, he stabbed a man to death who was out walking his dog because of \"the voices in his head\".\n\nSharon is demanding a public apology from Hywel Dda health board for both her son and the family of the man he killed, Lewis Stone, saying it \"could [and] should have been prevented\".\n\nHywel Dda said confidential information prevented it publishing its report.\n\nSharon raised her son David Fleet in the seaside town of Borth, Ceredigion.\n\n\"David loved being on the beach,\" she said.\n\n\"Growing up in Borth was really good for him. He was very quiet, would easily get lost in the crowd.\"\n\nGrowing up, \"tiny little obsessions\" made her suspect he was autistic.\n\nHe was diagnosed at 15, but as he turned 17, other things began to worry Sharon.\n\nSharon Lees says her son has feelings of guilt and remorse\n\n\"He seemed to think that we'd put something on his head to erase his memory. It was like he was seeing things that weren't there,\" said Sharon.\n\nHe started smoking cannabis to \"sort of manage those symptoms\", said Sharon, adding he struggled to sleep.\n\nOne day she walked into his bedroom to find \"quite a lot of blood everywhere... he'd severely self-harmed\".\n\nShe rushed her son to A&E and he was treated with anti-psychotic medication.\n\nWhen he was well enough, he moved away from home to complete a college course, but he later relapsed and had to return home.\n\nSharon says David's art gives an insight into the acute mental health issues and paranoia he was experiencing\n\n\"It was clear that he was in psychosis. He started asking bizarre questions about someone watching us,\" said Sharon.\n\nFleet also began taking knives to bed with him and trying to light small fires in his bedroom.\n\n\"Eventually he said to me that he thought he might have to kill someone because 'people are watching us, there was hidden cameras everywhere and nowhere is safe' - that was when I said he had to come with me to hospital,\" said Sharon.\n\n\"We had to prise the knife off him to get him into the car and get him into hospital.\"\n\nSharon Lees wants the health board to say sorry to her, her son and Lewis Stone's family\n\nIn October 2018, Fleet was detained under the Mental Health Act, but when he was allowed home for visits, Sharon said she warned hospital staff he was still buying cannabis and looking for knives.\n\nAfter four months as an in-patient, staff decided he should be treated at home.\n\n\"I just cried because I just don't know how I'm going to cope... he's over 6ft tall, I can't stop him from going out,\" said Sharon.\n\nEarly on 28 February 2019, 10 days after being sent home, Fleet left the house with a knife.\n\nLewis Stone's family say David Fleet \"took away their beloved hero\"\n\n\"I'm trying to phone him, trying to message him... I looked out of the back window and I could see the air ambulance. I just remember having this really sinking feeling. Like I knew,\" she said.\n\nFleet had never met his victim before that day.\n\nMr Stone, from Staffordshire, was walking his dog Jock along the bank of the River Leri while visiting his nearby holiday home which he and his wife had plans to retire to.\n\nFleet later told psychiatrists if he had not stabbed Mr Stone, the voices in his head \"were going to kill him\".\n\nFamily of Mr Stone - who died in hospital three months after the attack - said their lives changed in the \"most horrific, heart-breaking\" way.\n\nThey said the \"old-fashioned gentleman\", who was \"adored\" by his wife, children and grandchildren, would have been \"defenceless\".\n\nLewis Stone was stabbed when out walking near Borth Wild Animal Kingdom\n\nBBC Wales Investigates has seen a copy of an internal health board report into David's care prior to the attack.\n\nIt reveals that three weeks before the stabbing, a doctor had warned he was not ready to leave hospital because of his \"worsening mental state\" and the risks he posed with knives.\n\nJust days later, he was sent home without anyone updating his risk assessment and staff were meant to contact him the day before the attack, but did not because of their workload.\n\nHe also did not receive a dose of his anti-psychotic medication.\n\nDavid pleaded guilty to Mr Stone's manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely at a secure psychiatric unit on 16 September 2019.\n\nMr Stone's family said there was \"no excuse or forgiveness\" for David and \"nothing could be said or done to help them understand or move on from what's happened\".\n\nThey agreed there were \"huge failings in the mental health sector\" to have \"such a monster released and walking the streets, able to cause such harm\" and want David Fleet to remain locked up.\n\nStudies by the University of Manchester suggest between 2010 and 2020 there were 5,876 homicide offenders in the UK, of which 610 (11%) were under the care of mental health services.\n\nWhile there was a fall in the overall homicide rate in England and Wales since 2008, the percentage of homicides carried out by people with schizophrenia actually increased.\n\nResearchers said drug and alcohol misuse were known to elevate risk.\n\nThe Welsh government has the power to commission independent mental health homicide reviews and share lessons as widely as possible, but BBC Wales Investigates has discovered that since 2016, it has stopped asking for them.\n\nThis mean lessons from this and three other killings involving mentally ill people in Wales in that time have not been shared.\n\nLord Alex Carlile, a former MP and a barrister with decades of experience in homicide cases is critical of the \"failure\" to share information in David's case.\n\n\"It is absolutely dreadful. It is essential that in cases where there is a major safeguarding issue, information should be shared by all the relevant public and private sector organisations,\" he said.\n\nHe also said, the Welsh government should have commissioned independent reviews into other mental health homicides in this time, calling it a \"seven-year scandal\".\n\nLewis Stone died three months after being stabbed while taking his dog for a walk in February 2019\n\nThe Welsh government's decision means that, four years on from the killing, Mr Stone's family have not been able to see information about the missed opportunities to monitor Fleet.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it shared its internal report into Fleet's care with some of its own staff and the Welsh government but could not publish it because it contained confidential medical information.\n\nIn a private letter, Sharon was told it had subsequently made changes to its services, but she believes that, had details and lessons been shared with other health boards, it could potentially have prevented other killings.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"satisfied\" it had not needed to commission independent mental health homicide reviews since 2016 because health boards had been \"thorough\" when investigating their own cases.\n\nHowever, it did admit the wider review system needed to change to ensure better \"communication and coordination\" so it was introducing the Single Unified Safeguarding Review.\n\nA spokesman added: \"This new approach eliminates the need for families to take part in multiple, often onerous and traumatising, reviews and will more quickly identify learning, build a greater understanding of what happened during an incident and why, and provide a clear action plan to improve services.\"\n\nSharon believes her son was let down by mental health services, leaving two families \"devastated\" as a result.\n\n\"The feelings of guilt and remorse that David is feeling are incomprehensible,\" she added.\n\nShe now wants the health board to say sorry to her son and Mr Stone's family.\n\n\"It's really important for just not only us, but for Mr Stone's family to have a public apology because of his illness and the lack of care that he received... it only feels justified that he also receives an apology because the health board failed him, which then in turn failed his victim's family.\"", "Belgorod regional chief Vyacheslav Gladkov posted a video saying he had agreed to an offer to meet the fighters\n\nFighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.\n\nBelgorod's top official replied to say he had agreed to meet the men's captors if the soldiers were still alive.\n\nBut later, the fighters said that the governor \"had not found the courage\" to meet them and they would hand over their captives to Ukraine.\n\nRussia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories.\n\nThe Russian army said on Sunday its artillery had hit a \"terrorist\" group near the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, adding that \"the enemy scattered and retreated\".\n\nEarlier, a group of paramilitaries issued a message on the Telegram app, saying they had captured two men but would hand them over if Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov agreed to talks.\n\nThe video purported to show both captives, although the BBC has been unable to independently verify their identities.\n\nThe message was posted by the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL) and described as a joint statement with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nMr Gladkov responded with his own Telegram video, saying he had agreed to the talks if the soldiers were shown to be still alive - adding that he thought they had probably been killed.\n\nLater, the RDK posted a further video - this time appearing to show even more captives, in which they said that Mr Gladkov had failed to turn up for the meeting.\n\n\"Neither the military nor the civilian leadership is interested\" in the fate of the captured men, the RDK said.\n\nMeanwhile, the FRL described the Russian authorities as \"rotten and cowardly\". They said they would now hand over the captives to Ukraine - to be subject to an exchange with Ukrainian prisoners of war.\n\nBoth groups want to topple President Vladimir Putin, and also oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that he launched in February last year.\n\nUkrainian officials say the two paramilitary organisations consist of Russian citizens who want to create a \"security zone\" for Ukrainians.\n\nThe RDK came to prominence in March for a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region. Its leader is a Russian nationalist with alleged links to neo-Nazis.\n\nThe FRL is considered a different sort of organisation that fights alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces.\n\nThe Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) came to prominence in the Bryansk region in March\n\nIn his video, Mr Gladkov labelled the fighters in question \"scoundrels, murderers, fascists\", but promised to \"guarantee safety\" if the talks took place.\n\nAnd though they asked him to go to Novaya Tavolzhanka to meet them, he said this was too dangerous and that he would expect them at a checkpoint in the town of Shebekino.\n\nMr Gladkov has not commented on the events since the video, but posted pictures of a meeting with regional and federal officials.\n\nKyiv has denied having any direct involvement in such attacks.\n\nBut it has painted the growing violence in Russian territory as being the inevitable consequence of Russia's invasion last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA two-year-old girl has been killed and 22 injured after an alleged Russian air strike in a residential area of Ukraine's central city Dnipro.\n\nHer body was pulled from the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community overnight, the region's governor said.\n\nSerhiy Lysak said five of those injured were children, with three boys in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nAn earlier video shared by Ukraine's president showed rescuers searching the remains of a two-storey building.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has blamed Russia for the attack, but the Kremlin has yet to comment on the events.\n\nIn a later post, Mr Lysak said the girl, whose name was Lisa, was \"cheerful and full of life\". She and her mother were buried beneath rubble after a rocket exploded near their home.\n\nHer mother was taken to intensive care, Mr Lysak said, along with three boys aged six, 11 and 15, all of whom have multiple injuries, concussions and fractures. The boys are now said to be \"on the mend\".\n\nExplosions have also been heard over the capital, Kyiv, where air defence systems have again been deployed. The entire country had been placed under air raid alerts earlier.\n\nMr Zelensky described the blast in Dnipro as a deliberate Russian strike, although Russia has previously denied targeting civilians during its invasion of the neighbouring country.\n\nFires broke out following the alleged strike in a northern district of the city, according to the regional governor, who said 17 of those injured in the blast were taken to hospital.\n\nExplosions were reported in other parts of the country. Air defence systems were engaged early Sunday in repelling air attacks near Kyiv, the head of the city's military administration said.\n\nAll missiles targeting the city were shot down, Serhiy Popko wrote on the Telegram messaging channel.\n\nOfficials in Sumy, in the north, recorded 87 blasts as a result of Russian shelling, speaking of injuries and destruction of infrastructure.\n\nAn operational airfield near the central city of Kropyvnytsky was hit by cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yury Ignat said on TV.\n\nHe said air defences were only able to shoot down four of the six missiles, and gave no details about damage at the site.\n\nMore than a dozen explosions were also reported in the Russian-occupied southern cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol, though details were scant.\n\nIn Russia, the governor of the border region of Belgorod said that a market area in the town of Shebekino, about four miles (7 km) from the Ukrainian border had been shelled on Sunday morning.\n\nEarlier Vyacheslav Gladkov said two people had been killed in attacks near the town on Saturday. He urged residents in towns and villages along the border to leave their homes.\n\nLocal authorities said Ukraine was to blame, although Ukraine itself said the deaths were the result of Russia trying to target fighters who oppose the government in Moscow.\n\nKyiv denied having any direct involvement, again saying the attack was mounted by Russian paramilitaries.\n\nIn other developments, a close aide of President Zelensky has said his country is not yet ready to begin its long-promised counter-offensive against occupying Russian soldiers.\n\nSpeaking to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, Dr Ihor Zhovkva blamed a lack of weaponry and ammunition.\n\nHis words appeared at odds with those of Mr Zelensky, who was quoted just a day earlier saying Ukraine was ready to start the manoeuvre.\n\nBut inconsistent comments from Ukrainian officials may be a deliberate effort to confuse Moscow, the Sunday Times noted.", "Katherine [L] and Nat Sciver-Brunt said they were delighted to take part during Pride month\n\nEngland cricketers Nat and Katherine Sciver-Brunt will become the first LGBT couple to feature on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, as part of Pride month.\n\nThe couple, who married last year, will read Emily Coxhead's Find Your Happy, about a sloth learning to navigate their emotions.\n\nAbtaha Maqsood, Britain's first Hijab-wearing cricketer, will read a story to mark July's South Asian Heritage Month.\n\nThe stories are being filmed from Trent Bridge Cricket Ground.\n\nThe Sciver-Brunts, who will read two stories, both played for England and have held the title of women's cricketer of the year.\n\nNat captained England in September 2022, but decided to withdraw \"to focus on her mental health and well being\".\n\n\"It's really important to know that it is okay to feel different things or not fit in and to know that you will find your comfort zone,\" she said.\n\nKatherine, who announced her retirement from Test cricket in June last year, added they were delighted to be part of it \"especially as a couple and representing the cricket family\".\n\nAbtaha Maqsood, who plays for the Hundred's Birmingham Phoenix team, says you can be whoever you want to be\n\nMaqsood, who plays for teams including Scotland, will read Not Now, Noor! by Farhana Islam and Nabila Adani, which explores Noor's curiosity about why the women in her family wear headscarves.\n\nShe is known for being a talented bowler, but she is also a black belt in taekwondo, was Scotland's flag-bearer at Glasgow' 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and was part of the Scotland side during the 2017 Women's World Cup qualifier.\n\n\"I absolutely loved reading a CBeebies Bedtime Story, it's like nothing I've ever done before,\" she said, adding that the stories she reads \"are a great reminder that you can be whoever you want to be, no matter who you are, what religion you follow or what you choose to wear\".\n\nThe three women join the ranks of other sports stars reading bedtime stories including Rob Burrow, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Anthony Joshua, Harry Kane and Leah Williamson, while celebrities who have appeared on the show include Rose Ayling Ellis, Tom Hardy, Dolly Parton, Harry Styles and Kate Winslet.\n\nThe Sciver-Brunts' story is broadcast on Friday 9 June and Abtaha's can be seen on Friday 14 July, at 18:50 BST and on BBC iPlayer.", "UK ministers have rejected Humza Yousaf's request for them to rethink their decision to exclude glass from Scotland's deposit return scheme.\n\nThe first minister wrote to Rishi Sunak warning that the scheme would be in \"grave danger\" without glass included.\n\nThe UK government has replied saying it had given the Scottish government a \"practical solution to proceed\" with cans and plastic bottles only.\n\nA Scottish cabinet decision on whether to go ahead is expected on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, the UK government approved a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act for the deposit scheme, but stipulated glass could not be part of it.\n\nThe firm set up to run deposit return, Circularity Scotland, said the scheme is still viable without glass.\n\nEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland originally consulted on a scheme that would include glass.\n\nThe Welsh government still wants to do that but the UK government has changed its mind.\n\nMr Yousaf said he \"would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead if it doesn't include glass\" and formally asked the UK government for a rethink.\n\nReplying for the prime minister, cabinet ministers Michael Gove, Alister Jack and Therese Coffey said they want to make sure that any Scottish scheme works in the same way as what's being planned for the rest of the UK.\n\nIn their letter to Mr Yousaf, the UK ministers said: \"Interoperability of schemes across the whole UK ensures all manufacturers, whether in Clydebank, Carlisle, Cardiff, or Carrickfergus, have the same access to sell their products across the UK internal market.\n\n\"The exclusion of glass also ensures consumer choice is not restricted in Scotland, given the risk that differences in scope would have led to some producers choosing not to supply Scotland through online or physical sales.\n\n\"There is nothing to prevent you from proceeding with your own scheme next March, on the basis that it would form part of a UK-wide solution to protect our shared market and increase recycling from 2025.\"\n\nMr Yousaf has already said he would not put Scottish businesses at a competitive disadvantage.\n\nThat's what the brewer behind Tennent's lager, C&C group has warned would happen to their canned product if deposit charges are not also applied to glass bottles.\n\nC&C has expressed a preference for a UK-wide approach to deposit return.\n\nIf it goes live as planned in March 2024, the deposit return scheme would see a 20p charge placed on drinks containers which would be refunded to consumers upon their return in a bid to increase recycling levels.\n\nCircularity Scotland said a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass would rise to 95% once the scheme was launched.\n\nCircularity Scotland's programme director, Donald McCalman told the BBC \"we absolutely believe the scheme is viable to launch\" with aluminium and plastic containers only.\n\nMr McCalman said that if it was not delivered in Scotland it could make drinks producers think twice about backing a later UK-wide scheme.", "Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with racially abusing a man he allegedly told to \"go back to Bahrain\".\n\nThe Beckenham MP faces two public order charges relating to an incident outside an event hosted by the Bahraini embassy.\n\nIt occurred after a campaigner pressed him on his links to the country outside the event in December last year.\n\nMr Stewart will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 July.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Mr Stewart faced one charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, where the offence was racially aggravated.\n\nHe also faces an alternative charge of threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, the force added.\n\nThe force said the alternative charge related to the same incident, and would \"allow the court discretion on the racial element\".\n\nIn the December incident, Mr Stewart was confronted by a human rights activist who says he is living in exile after being tortured in the Gulf state of Bahrain.\n\nAfter the activist pressed him on his links to the country, Mr Stewart is alleged to have said: \"Get stuffed. Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nHe is then accused of telling the man to: \"Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it opened an investigation after receiving a complaint from a man alleging he had been verbally racially abused.\n\nIt is understood Mr Stewart will continue to sit as a Conservative MP, with a source in the party's whips saying he would contest the charges.\n\nMr Stewart, 73, is a former Army officer and has represented the south London constituency of Beckenham since 2010.", "Lilavati Devi broke down as she told the BBC her 22-year-old son was still missing\n\nRelatives of the victims of Friday's deadly three-train crash in India have spoken of their continuing, desperate efforts to find their loved ones.\n\nOne woman looking for her adult son told the BBC she had travelled for 30 hours to the crash site, searching hospitals and morgues on the way.\n\nOfficials said on Saturday that their rescue mission in Odisha had ended - but one eyewitness said he had seen a survivor retrieved the next morning.\n\nA signalling fault is emerging as the likely cause of the disaster - India's worst rail accident for decades.\n\nLilavati Devi broke down as she told the BBC on Sunday that that she was still looking for her son, although other eight members of her family who were on one of the trains had been located.\n\n\"I pray that we find him somewhere - one way or another,\" she said. \"There's nothing more I want. May God keep my son safe.\"\n\nHer son Raja Sahani, 22, was travelling along with relatives from their hometown in the north-eastern state of Bihar to the affluent southern city of Bangalore - where they work odd jobs as daily wagers.\n\nTravel involves changing trains in the city of Howrah, which is where they boarded the ill-fated train. Raja sent a photo of himself there.\n\nRaja Sahani sent his mother a photo of himself from Howrah before getting on the ill-fated train\n\nHours after he departed, Lilavati got a call from another family member saying there had been an accident. She tried Raja's phone repeatedly after that, but it was switched off.\n\nHer search had yielded nothing so far, she said. They spent 45,000 rupees (£438) hiring a car to make the journey - a cost well beyond their means.\n\n\"I have even looked in all hospitals and morgues here, but can't find him\", she said. \"We asked the morgues to show photos of all the dead bodies over and over. But he's not there.\"\n\nOdisha state official Pradeep Jena told the BBC that at least 187 bodies remained unidentified.\n\nOfficials were uploading pictures of the victims on government websites and would carry out DNA testing if needed, he said.\n\n\"It's a real challenge for us,\" he said.\n\nOthers, too, have been shuttling between the different temporary centres, looking at photos and hoping to get some news.\n\nVishwanath Sahni told the AFP news agency that he was still looking for his 26-year-old son, who had been on his way to Chennai when the disaster occurred.\n\n\"I don't know if I'll find my son,\" he said, while waiting at a morgue - having enquired at every hospital he was able to.\n\nDespite railway officials saying on Saturday that all trapped and injured people at the site had been rescued, search efforts appear to have continued at the crash site.\n\nJournalist and author Sandeep Sahu told the BBC of a \"miraculous\" discovery on Sunday morning, when an injured survivor was pulled from the mangled wreckage and then rushed to hospital.\n\nHe said dead bodies, too, were still being found - and that he had seen five of these taken from the scene, 36 hours after the accident.\n\nThese were placed in a nearby school that has been used as a temporary morgue.\n\nThere was a \"horrifying\" moment when one of the victims' mobile phones rang, he said - \"but there was nobody to respond to the call.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Archana Shukla describes \"despair, distress and chaos\" outside the hospital in Cuttack", "\"Hi there, good morning, Josie, thank you for being here. Right, deep breath. Firstly, are you OK? I hope so.\n\n\"Feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil. I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have - shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the well-being of people on all sides of what's been going on, and full of questions.\n\n\"You, me, and all of those at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved.\n\n\"That is a lot to process, and it is equally hard to see the toll that it's taken on their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and well-being of everyone.\n\n\"I hope that as we start this new chapter, and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other. And from my heart, can I just say thank you for all of your kind messages and thank you for being here this morning?\n\n\"Myself, Josie, Dermot, Alison and Craig, and every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every single day to bring you the show that we love.\"", "Natasha Abrahart killed herself on the day she was due to give a presentation at university\n\nEnglish universities should commit to prioritising mental health by September 2024, the higher education minister has said.\n\nIf they do not, Robert Halfon said regulators would consider making such a commitment necessary for university status.\n\nMPs were debating a petition which says universities and colleges should have a legal duty of care towards students.\n\nIt was started by families whose children killed themselves as students.\n\nMore than 100,000 people signed the petition, calling for the existing duty of care for staff to also cover adult students.\n\nBut both the government and the higher education sector say further legislation would be disproportionate.\n\nDuring the debate, MPs cited instances of students being told to leave universities via email, and of parents not being informed about mental health concerns. One MP said students faced a \"lottery\" when it came to quality of mental health provision across the sector.\n\nMr Halfon said a statutory duty of care \"may not be the most effective intervention\" but that he was \"not closing the door on future legislation\".\n\nHe said he had written to universities asking them to sign up to the University Mental Health Charter - a set of principles developed by the charity Student Minds to help institutions prioritise mental health.\n\nMr Halfon said 61 universities had already signed up, but Universities UK (UUK) has 140 members and \"it's time the rest got on board\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm confident that higher education can meet this challenge, but I have made absolutely clear that if this response is not satisfactory I will go further and ask the Office for Students to look at the merits of a new registration condition on mental health.\"\n\nInstitutions in England need to register with the OfS in order to call themselves \"universities\", award their own degrees, access different types of funding, and recruit international students.\n\nMr Halfon also said a new taskforce would propose targets for universities and a plan to help them better identify students at risk by the end of this year, with a final report due by May 2024.\n\nAnd he said there would be a national review of university student deaths.\n\nAmong those who travelled to London for the debate were Bob and Maggie Abrahart, whose daughter Natasha took her own life at the University of Bristol, in 2018, on the day she was due to give a presentation in a large lecture theatre.\n\nNatasha had a social anxiety-disorder that made public speaking hard - and after her death, her parents sued the university over its failure to make adjustments.\n\nThey partly won their case, under the Equality Act, but the judge was not satisfied the university had owed Natasha a duty of care, saying there was \"no statute or precedent which establishes the existence of such a duty of care owed by a university to a student\".\n\nThe couple, from Nottinghamshire, said Natasha had been a \"very sweet caring person\" who really wanted to study physics at university. And they were pleased the issue, all about \"providing education safely\", was \"finally on the agenda\".\n\nBob and Maggie Abrahart, pictured with their daughter Natasha, are pleased the debate is finally on the agenda\n\nThe petition calls for the extension to all students of the existing duty of care to protect those under the age of 18, and staff, from \"reasonably foreseeable harm\" caused by direct injury or a failure to act.\n\nBut UUK says this would not be practical, proportionate or the best way to support students.\n\nSome providers may have 50,000 registered students, with most living outside the university, it said.\n\nUUK president and University of the West of England vice-chancellor Prof Steve West said he welcomed the measures set out, and that higher education providers should continue to demonstrate progress on student mental health and suicide prevention.\n\n\"University leaders recognise the profound impact that suicide has upon families, and the university community, as well as the petitioners' personal experience of loss,\" he said.\n\nBefore the debate, the Department for Education said higher education providers had a general duty of care \"to deliver educational and pastoral services\" and further legislation \"would be a disproportionate response\".\n\nUniversities are now advised to contact key family members or friends if they have serious concerns about a student's mental health - even without their permission.\n\nOfficial estimates suggest 64 students killed themselves in England and Wales in the 2019-20 academic year, a significantly lower proportion than among the general population of similar ages.\n\nBut the families say universities do not report the annual number of student suicides - and the number is higher.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues, you can visit the BBC's Action Line or contact the Samaritans.", "Social media scammers are charging pupils hundreds of pounds for what they claim are leaked GCSE and A-level exam papers, but are likely to be fakes.\n\nA GCSE pupil, who was quoted £500 for a paper by someone on Instagram, said the idea papers might be for sale was \"the most talked about hype\" of exam season.\n\nIt is extremely rare for genuine papers to be leaked, exam boards said.\n\nBut they added the scams were becoming more common, with fraudsters charging between £7.50 and £4,000 per paper.\n\nInstagram, TikTok and Snapchat said fraudulent activity was against their rules and anyone who spotted such accounts should report them.\n\nA spokesperson for the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) said: \"Attempting to obtain any confidential assessment material, whether it turns out to be real or fake, is malpractice.\"\n\nPunishments for those who cheat can vary from disqualification from a single exam to being banned from sitting exams altogether.\n\nJade, not her real name, spoke to BBC News on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe 15-year-old first saw accounts claiming to sell GCSE exam papers on TikTok.\n\nIn a conversation with one of the accounts, she was then told to contact the seller on Instagram.\n\nOne GCSE student was quoted £500 by a scammer claiming to sell GCSE exams\n\n\"I was taken aback because it was ridiculous prices,\" Jade said.\n\n\"Anywhere north of £500 for a paper was the typical offer from multiple accounts for one exam paper.\"\n\nJade did not buy the exam paper but said she knows students who have paid up to £900.\n\nAnother student told BBC News they had paid a social media account £60 last year for a GCSE maths exam.\n\nBut they were left feeling \"hurt and annoyed\" when the account blocked them and failed to send anything.\n\nJade said some students were panicking this year because there is less support for pupils sitting exams in England in 2023 than there has been for other year groups since the pandemic.\n\n\"The people who buy from these accounts are your most desperate students,\" she said.\n\n\"These accounts are actually very clever and sneaky in what they do - preying on this vulnerability.\n\n\"You wouldn't meet a single student across this whole year that has not heard of these accounts. They are everywhere.\"\n\nBBC News posed as a GCSE student and contacted two separate Instagram accounts claiming to sell exam papers.\n\nAn Instagram account quoted BBC News £150 for one exam paper\n\nOne quoted a price of £120 for an AQA geography paper and £150 for an English language paper. Another account also quoted £150 for a single exam paper.\n\nBoth accounts asked to be paid through the payment app, Cash App.\n\nBut our £150 transaction was blocked by Cash App on several occasions - so the scammer asked to be paid with a gift card for a High Street retailer.\n\nAfter paying the agreed fee, our messages were ignored and no paper was sent to us. The scammer's social media account was then deleted before BBC News had the chance to report it to Instagram.\n\nA spokesperson for Meta, the company that owns Instagram, said the sale of future exam papers or answer sheets was not allowed and any such content would be removed from the platform.\n\nBill Hewison, a case analyst at exam board, AQA, said many scammers use doctored images of previous exams, changing the date and text on the front cover to try to dupe students.\n\n\"A few weeks ago, we saw an account claiming to sell one of our exams for £7.50,\" he said.\n\n\"Right at the other end of the scale, you've got thousands of pounds [being quoted] - two, three, four thousand pounds.\"\n\nBBC News was granted exclusive access to see how AQA's malpractice teams try to shut down the fraudulent accounts.\n\nThey do not know who is behind the accounts, but they have scoured social media for anyone claiming to sell papers to students, before and during exam season.\n\nExam boards have no power to shut the accounts down so instead, they report them to social media platforms - often citing copyright as a way to escalate the complaint.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok said any accounts \"promoting fraud or scams\" are removed.\n\nSnapchat said they take fraudulent accounts off the platform and urged users to report suspicious activity.\n\nIn 2019, exam board Edexcel apologised after part of an A-level maths paper was shared on social media the day before the exam.\n\nBut legitimate leaks are rare - and fraudulent accounts on social media are a growing problem.\n\n\"If we do a search on Tuesday, we will see five accounts. If we do the same search on Wednesday, we will see 10 accounts,\" Mr Hewison said.\n\n\"If you get one, they'll just create another account.\"\n\nJCQ chief executive Margaret Farragher said it was like \"digital whack-a-mole\".\n\n\"As soon as they try to close down one of these fake accounts, another one opens up,\" she added.\n\nOfqual chief regulator Jo Saxton told students not to rely on \"fraudsters on the internet\" ahead of their exams.\n\n\"You risk not only losing money but the consequences for you are really serious,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Capaldi was scheduled to play concerts in Glasgow, Dublin, London and Norway\n\nLewis Capaldi has cancelled a series of upcoming gigs to \"rest and recover\" over concerns about his health.\n\nThe Scottish singer said he was struggling \"mentally and physically\" and wanted to be at his best and return to the stage at Glastonbury on 24 June.\n\nCapaldi, 26, had been scheduled to play concerts in Glasgow, Dublin, London and Norway over the coming weeks.\n\nIn an Instagram post, he said he needed a break from touring in order to be \"Lewis from Glasgow for a bit\".\n\nCapaldi's recent second album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, became the fastest-selling of the year, with more than 95,000 sales in the seven days after its release.\n\nCapaldi said: \"It's been such an incredible time leading into this new album, and seeing all the support from everyone has been beyond I could have ever dreamed of.\n\n\"That said, the last few months have been full on both mentally and physically, I haven't been home properly since Christmas and at the moment I am struggling to get to grips with it all.\n\n\"I need to take a moment to rest and recover, to be at my best and ready for Glastonbury, and all of the other incredible shows coming up so that I'm able to continue doing what I love for a long time to come.\"\n\nCapaldi said he was \"extremely sorry for the impact\" of the cancellations on fans who had booked travel and accommodation for the gigs.\n\nAppearing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee last month, Capaldi told crowds he was living his childhood dream.\n\nHe said: \"Its an honour to get to be up here and do this for and to headline a festival still is mental to me.\"\n\nCapaldi's first album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, sold more than any other in the UK in 2019 and also went on to be the biggest seller of 2020.", "The black-veined white butterfly became officially extinct in Britain almost a century ago\n\nBlink and you could miss them - but mysterious sightings of an extremely rare butterfly have set the hearts of enthusiasts fluttering.\n\nThe species, previously described as extinct in Britain for nearly 100 years, has suddenly appeared in countryside on the edge of London.\n\nSmall numbers of black-veined whites have been spotted flying in fields and hedgerows in south-east London.\n\nTo the non-expert, they could easily be mistaken for the common or garden cabbage white butterflies seen in Britain every summer.\n\nBut there's nothing common about the black-veined white on this side of the Channel.\n\nFirst listed as a British species during the reign of King Charles II, they officially became extinct in Britain in 1925.\n\nThis month they have mysteriously appeared among their favourite habitat: hawthorn and blackthorn trees on the edge of London, where I and other naturalists watched them flitting between hedgerows.\n\nAs their name suggests, they are a medium-sized white butterfly with distinctive black vein markings on their wings.\n\nThe charity Butterfly Conservation, which monitors butterfly numbers in Britain, told the BBC the insects will have been released, but they don't know by who or why.\n\nThey added that while it's lovely for people to be able to see them, it probably does not signify a spontaneous recovery of an extinct species.\n\nBut some experts disagree with the charity about the cause of the species' reappearance. They argue a black-veined white could have arrived in the UK from continental Europe, where they're common, and laid her eggs amongst the trees near southeast London.\n\nUpdate 1 September: A line has been added to this article to reflect that some experts believe the butterfly species could have reappeared due to natural causes.", "Thirty people could be paid £1,600 a month without any obligation under proposals for the first trial of a universal basic income in England.\n\nResearchers from think tank Autonomy are seeking financial backing for a two-year pilot programme to see how it would change the lives of the group.\n\nSupporters say schemes can simplify the welfare system and tackle poverty.\n\nParticipants will be drawn from central Jarrow, in north-east England, and East Finchley, in north London.\n\nThe concept of a universal basic income sees government pays all individuals a set salary regardless of their means.\n\nCritics of universal basic income say it would be extremely costly, would divert funding away from public services, and not necessarily help to alleviate poverty.\n\nAutonomy said it hopes its proposed pilot will \"make the case for a national basic income and more comprehensive trials to fully understand the potential of a basic income in the UK\".\n\n\"No one should ever be facing poverty, having to choose between heating and eating, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world,\" said Cleo Goodman, co-founder of Basic Income Conversation, a programme run by the work-focused think tank.\n\nWill Stronge, director of research at Autonomy, said: \"All the evidence shows that [a UBI] would directly alleviate poverty and boost millions of people's wellbeing: the potential benefits are just too large to ignore.\"\n\nAutonomy's trial is being supported by charity Big Local and Northumbria University.\n\nTwo years of community consultation has taken place in central Jarrow and East Finchley.\n\nAnyone from the areas is able to put themselves forward to take part and can remain anonymous. While participants will be drawn randomly, the organisers plan for it to be a representative group and to be made up of 20% of people with disabilities.\n\nOn top of the £1.15m budget for the basic income payments over two years, there would be further costs of about £500,000 for the project's evaluation activities, admin, and community support teams.\n\nAutonomy says if funding for income payments was secured, it would most likely come from private philanthropic sources, or local or combined authorities.\n\nThere have been previous calls for a universal basic income to be used to alleviate financial hardships experienced in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAnd last year, the Welsh Labour government announced a £20m experiment offering a universal basic income to young people leaving care.\n\nThe plan would give £1,600 a month before tax to 500 care leavers, a sum roughly in line with the living wage. The scheme is ongoing, and the Welsh government said the results would be \"thoroughly evaluated\".", "Mohammed Tamimi is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict this year\n\nA two-year-old Palestinian boy has died four days after being shot in the head by Israeli forces.\n\nMohammed Tamimi and his father were shot while leaving their home in Nabi Saleh, in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israel military said its soldiers opened fire while in pursuit of two gunmen who had earlier shot at a nearby Jewish settlement.\n\nIn a statement after the incident, the military added that it regretted harm to \"non-combatants\".\n\nPalestinian activist and journalist Bilal Tamimi - who was also injured - said that the Israeli army was waiting to ambush a car at the entrance to Nabi Saleh and opened fire as it approached.\n\nThe toddler was taken by an Israeli military helicopter to Safra Children's Hospital in Israel to be treated for head injuries, but did not recover.\n\nHis father, Haitham, has now been discharged from a Palestinian hospital. It is understood he was able to visit his son in Israel before he died.\n\nThe Israeli military, which has a post just outside Nabi Saleh, previously released grainy video which apparently shows two figures shooting guns. It said the shooting towards the settlement of Halamish - also known as Neveh Tzuf - lasted \"several minutes\".\n\nIt said that its soldiers responded with live fire, causing two Palestinians to be injured.\n\n\"The [Israeli military] regrets harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything in its power to prevent such incidents. The incident is under review,\" it stated.\n\nThe settlement of Halamish was set up in the 1970s and has long been a source of friction with Palestinian villagers living close by.\n\nFor several years, Friday demonstrations took place in Nabi Saleh, with local activists protesting against the confiscation of the village's lands and the takeover of its spring.\n\nThese would often lead to violent confrontations with Israeli soldiers using tear gas and rubber bullets to block their path.\n\nSince the start of the year, some 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The figures include militants as well as civilians.\n\nIn addition, 23 people on the Israeli side have been killed - including two foreigners and a Palestinian worker - in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces.\n\nOn both sides, there are children among the dead. Mohammed Tamimi was the youngest Palestinian to have been killed in the West Bank.\n\nSome 700,000 settlers currently live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements are considered illegal under international law although Israel disputes that.\n\nUpdate 7 June 2023: This story has been updated to say that Mohammed Tamimi was two years old and not three, as official sources initially reported, as well as to clarify that attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians have killed 23 people this year.", "An unexpected feline guest surprised royal historian Marlene Koenig as she was being asked questions about the Duke of Sussex's hacking court case.\n\nFleur the cat was eager to make her TV appearance and jumped up on to her owner's lap mid-interview, much to presenter Sally Bundock's surprise.\n\nMs Koenig tells the BBC her two-and-a-half-year-old rescue cat is \"the queen of the house\".\n\n\"Going viral was not on my bingo card today,\" she adds.", "The decorative planter urn has gone missing\n\nPolice are investigating the theft of a decorative planter urn and flowers that were stolen from the grave of Dame Vivienne Westwood.\n\nThe iconic fashion designer, who was born in the village of Tintwistle, Derbyshire, before moving to London, died in December.\n\nShe was laid to rest in the village, where a florist - who had been tending to the grave at Westwood's family's request - was told of the theft.\n\nDame Vivienne was born in the village in 1941 before moving to London in 1958.\n\nShe went on to be one of Britain's most recognised fashion exports and took on a series of causes, campaigning on issues such as fracking, climate change and nuclear weapon disarmament.\n\nA memorial at Southwark Cathedral in London in February was attended by dozens of celebrities, many donning her pieces in tribute.\n\nShe was then laid to rest at a private family funeral in the Derbyshire village.\n\nDame Vivienne Westwood was born in Tintwistle in 1941 before moving to London in 1958\n\nFlorist Anja Norris - who runs a business in nearby Glossop - was chosen to design and make the floral attachments to the grave.\n\nOf the theft, Ms Norris said she was shocked the \"very heavy\" urn had been taken, adding a car would have been needed to move it.\n\n\"It's just so disrespectful, I hope they bring it back,\" Ms Norris told the BBC.\n\nMaster florist Anja Norris said she was shocked at the theft\n\nDerbyshire Police said officers were called to a report of the theft, in Chapel Brow, just after 18:20 BST on 28 May.\n\nAnyone who saw anything suspicious in the area between midnight on 21 May and midday on 28 May has been asked to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Madcap Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn, known for his high-energy routines and high-vis yellow jackets, has won the latest series of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nAlesha Dixon said he \"captivated the nation\" and fellow judge Bruno Tonioli said he had \"created one of the most memorable characters since Mr Bean\".\n\nVenn beat bookmakers' favourite Musa Motha, a dancer from South Africa who had one leg amputated when he was 11.\n\nTeenagers Lilliana Clifton and Cillian O'Connor came second and third.\n\nVenn's prize for triumphing was £250,000 and a slot at the Royal Variety Performance.\n\n\"I feel extremely visible right now,\" he joked after winning the ITV talent show. \"Thank you so much.\"\n\nThe Telegraph's critic Michael Hogan said it was \"the best result in years\", describing Venn as \"a cross between Billy Connolly, Mr Bean and Vic Reeves\".\n\nThe other finalists included 14-year-old opera singer Malakai Bayoh and Ugandan child dancers Ghetto Kids.\n\nSunday's final also saw a surprise appearance from former contestant Susan Boyle, who performed her 2009 audition song I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables with the musical's current West End cast.\n\nAfter the performance, she said it felt \"great\" to be back on the TV show. \"It's extra special for me,\" she said. \"Last April I suffered a minor stroke and I fought like crazy to get back on stage and I have done it.\"", "Willoughby said it felt \"very strange indeed sitting here without Phil\"\n\nHolly Willoughby has said she feels \"shaken, troubled and let down\" as she returned to ITV's This Morning.\n\nThe presenter's appearance on Monday's show was her first since the departure of her co-host Phillip Schofield.\n\nWilloughby addressed viewers directly and said it felt \"very strange indeed sitting here without Phil\".\n\nShe added recent events had been \"a lot to process\" and thanked viewers for their messages of support.\n\nHer statement received a mixed response on social media, with some viewers questioning her authenticity.\n\nSchofield left his role on This Morning last month following reports of a rift with Willoughby.\n\nThe 61-year-old later exited ITV altogether after he admitted lying about an affair he had with a young male colleague while he was still married.\n\nJosie Gibson is currently standing in as Willoughby's co-presenter\n\nOn Monday, Willoughby asked viewers: \"Are you OK? I hope so, it feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil. I imagine you might be feeling a lot like I have, shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what's going on, and full of questions.\n\n\"You, me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved.\n\n\"That is a lot to process, and it's equally hard to see the toll that it's taken on their own mental health.\"\n\nWilloughby presented Monday's episode of This Morning alongside Josie Gibson, a former Big Brother winner who regularly guest presents the ITV daytime show.\n\nWilloughby continued: \"I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal, for the health and wellbeing of everyone. I hope that as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.\n\n\"And from my heart, can I just say thank you for all of your kind messages, and thank you for being here this morning. Every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every single day to bring you the show that we love.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC News last week, Schofield said he had accepted his career was over following the affair, describing it as a \"grave error\".\n\nA source close to Schofield told the Sun he would not be watching Willoughby's return on Monday, commenting: \"He physically could not watch - he's not there yet. Even listening to the opening credits would be hugely triggering.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nWilloughby's statement at the start of Monday's This Morning seemed heartfelt and difficult for her to deliver - she was seen holding Gibson's hand for emotional support.\n\nPerhaps one of the most striking things was that Willoughby only used Schofield's name once, right at the beginning.\n\nAfter that, she did not even refer to his gender when discussing recent events. \"They themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved,\" she said in reference to Schofield.\n\nWilloughby's continued presence on the programme will depend on her authenticity, and some viewers on social media were sceptical about her statement.\n\nSome users drew comparisons with the speech Jennifer Aniston's character gave in Apple TV's The Morning Show - which also had a storyline about a disgraced former presenter. Others compared Willoughby's tears to former health secretary Matt Hancock's on Good Morning Britain in 2021.\n\nOne viewer recalled guest presenter Alison Hammond becoming emotional about Schofield last week, writing: \"On Friday, I believed Alison and you could tell she was truly upset. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the same listening to Holly Willoughby this morning.\"\n\nAnother viewer referred to Willoughby's almost angelic on-screen look: \"If I was a cynical person, I'd say they've made a very conscious decision to dress Holly Willoughby in white for her big speech.\"\n\nWilloughby's emotional opening speech did not overshadow the rest of the programme. She and Gibson cleanly and skilfully segued into the show's regular tone and content\n\nAny viewers who happened to tune in at 10:05 would never have known from watching the subsequent items about hay fever, holiday scams and BBQ king prawns that the episode had opened in such an unusually serious way.\n\nThe next few weeks will be crucial for Willoughby in proving she can still connect with viewers\n\nThis will have been exactly what bosses wanted, sending the message to viewers - and advertisers - that it's very much business as usual and the programme is not going anywhere.\n\nBut will the audience be convinced? Those watching on Twitter, admittedly an unrepresentative platform, were sceptical of Willoughby and the sincerity of her statement.\n\nIf the TV star wants to survive on the show, she will have to use the next few weeks to prove that she can still connect with viewers and build an authentic chemistry with the various guest hosts.", "Russia says it routed the fighters from both groups - the Liberty of Russia Legion (pictured) and the Russian Volunteer Corps\n\nFighters described by the Kremlin as \"saboteurs\" have crossed the border from Ukraine into the Belgorod region prompting a Russian \"counter-terrorism\" operation.\n\nAfter two days of fighting, Russia says it surrounded the insurgents and killed more than 70 of them, pushing the rest back into Ukraine. It has dismissed them as Ukrainian militants but Kyiv says they come from two anti-Kremlin paramilitaries.\n\nUkrainian officials say they are Russian citizens from the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) seeking to create a \"security zone\" for Ukrainians.\n\nBoth groups have in the past been described as part of an international legion involved in Ukraine's territorial defence.\n\nAndriy Yusov from Kyiv's intelligence directorate said both groups were working \"autonomously on the territory of Russia\" and Ukrainians were not involved, while Ukrainian TV said they were militiamen and \"Russian volunteers\".\n\nThe Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) came to prominence in March 2023, taking part in a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region which it said involved 45 people.\n\nUnconfirmed Russian reports spoke of shooting, casualties and hostages while the RDK said it had crossed the border to call on Russians to rebel against their government. The group said it had taken no hostages and retreated safely on to Ukrainian territory.\n\nMembers of the Russian Volunteer Corps posed in a handout picture at Kozinka\n\nIts leader is known as Denis Kapustin or Denis Nikitin, a Russian nationalist, and the group openly espouses a mono-ethnic Russian state.\n\nIn 2020, a Ukrainian investigative website alleged he had links to neo-Nazi groups and Nikitin has spoken in the past of belonging to a movement of football hooligans.\n\nHis RDK group accuses Russia's mainstream opposition of sitting on the fence in the Ukraine war.\n\nAnother corps member, named Fortuna, told Ukrainian media last November that they numbered 120 people: \"We are a voluntary unit, we are not conscripts or contract servicemen like Ukrainian citizens.\"\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL) is a very different organisation that fights alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces. It uses a white-blue-white flag, seen by part of the Russian opposition as the flag of \"free Russia\".\n\nVolunteer corps leader Denis Nikitin said that while they both sought the \"toppling of the Putin regime\", the legion's fighters were more inclined to call themselves centrists.\n\nHowever, on 22 May the legion announced it had \"liberated\" the Russian village of Kozinka, just across the Ukrainian border and to the south-west of Belgorod. \"The Legion and the RDK continue to liberate the Belgorod region,\" it claimed.\n\n\"Once again, the myth that Russian citizens are safe and the Russian Federation is strong has been destroyed,\" it added.\n\nIt then posted videos of balloons carrying its flag over Moscow.\n\nThe size of the legion is unclear but according to its website, it claims to be \"fighting in full co-operation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and under the leadership of the Ukrainian command\".\n\nA member known as Caesar, who is arguably its best-known soldier, has insisted \"there are no people in the legion who were forced to join it\" and all members were contract soldiers with Ukraine's international legion.\n\nAlthough he said a small number were Russian soldiers who had surrendered to Ukrainian forces, they had done so precisely to switch sides.\n\nReacting to Moscow's decision to label it a \"terrorist organisation\", it pointed out that it had earlier been denounced as non-existent.\n\nThere is some doubt over the military significance of the two groups. Ukrainian pundit Volodymyr Fesenko said there several different units and they appeared more about public relations than real action.\n\nFormer Russian MP Ilya Ponamarev, who is now a Ukrainian citizen, said on Facebook in August 2022 that the legion, the volunteer corps and another group called the National Republican Army had signed a declaration agreeing the common goal of liberating Russia from the rule of Vladimir Putin.\n\nReporting by BBC Monitoring. We have recently launched a podcast: The Global Jigsaw", "Mr Yousaf said he would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead without glass\n\nHumza Yousaf has said it is \"very difficult\" to see a future for Scotland's deposit return scheme if glass is not allowed to be included.\n\nThe first minister's deadline for UK ministers to remove the condition on its scheme for recycling cans and bottles is due to expire later.\n\nHe set the deadline in a letter to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday.\n\nBut Circularity Scotland, the firm set up to run the scheme, has said it should still go ahead without glass.\n\nLast week, the UK government approved a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act for the deposit scheme, but stipulated glass could not be part of it.\n\nCircularity Scotland's programme director, Donald McCalman told the BBC \"we absolutely believe the scheme is viable to launch\" with aluminium and plastic containers only.\n\nMr McCalman said that if it was not delivered in Scotland it could make drinks producers think twice about backing a later UK-wide scheme.\n\nThe first minister said no final decision would be made until his cabinet met on Tuesday.\n\nMr Yousaf said he \"would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead if it doesn't include glass\".\n\nSpeaking to a Scottish business forum event, he said he was \"annoyed as well as upset\" that the scheme had become a point of disagreement between the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nAnd he told BBC Scotland he had yet to receive \"even an acknowledgement\" of his letter to Mr Sunak.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to include glass bottles in its plans\n\nOn Sunday, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack insisted the exclusion of glass remained a condition of their support.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the scheme had been \"sabotaged by the UK government.\"\n\nHe said: \"The first minister will be hoping Rishi Sunak can bring some pressure to bear on Alister Jack to see some sense.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think people are bemused at why the UK government is taking this approach.\n\n\"We know action has to be taken. It reduces by around a third the effectiveness of the scheme if you take out glass, so let's just get some common sense on the table.\"\n\nMr Brown accused the Scottish secretary of \"scandalous\" mis-representation for stating that the scheme would not be recycling glass, but crushing it and using it as aggregate for filling roads.\n\nCircularity Scotland said a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass would rise to 95% once the scheme was launched.\n\nIf it goes live as planned in March 2024, the deposit return scheme would see a 20p charge placed on drinks containers which would be refunded to consumers upon their return in a bid to increase recycling levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In an interview on the BBC's The Sunday Show, Mr Jack strongly defended the UK government's position\n\nThe UK government has said deposit return schemes should be consistent across the UK.\n\nMr Jack said he had received more than 1,000 letters of concern from businesses about the Scottish DRS.\n\nHe said: \"It's those concerns that we've taken into account when we've come to our conclusion because we believe the deposit charge should be the same and reciprocated across the UK.\n\n\"If I get off the train in Carlisle and buy some recyclable material and it's 10p in Carlisle and 20p in Dumfries, I double my money. That makes no sense.\"\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Mr Yousaf cited concerns raised by C&C Group - one of the country's biggest brewers and the company behind Tennent's Lager.\n\nIn correspondence Mr Jack received from the firm, seen by the BBC, the company said it had been \"misrepresented\" in passages from the letter that appeared in the media.\n\nC&C added it was \"actively seeking and supports a UK-wide scheme introduced at the same time across the four UK nations\".\n\nKeith Brown denied any knowledge of C&C's letter being leaked to the media.\n\nScottish Greens environment spokesman Mark Ruskell said on Monday that the DRS was now \"on the brink\" and there needed to be negotiation around the detail of the conditions set down by the UK government.\n\nHe said: \"If the UK government continues to require the exclusion of glass, then clearly that will have an economic impact on the viability of the scheme.\n\n\"It will also have a very damaging impact on the environmental benefits of the scheme as well.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden said the Scottish government had \"made a dog's dinner of DRS from day one by refusing to heed the warnings of businesses and recklessly ploughing ahead with an unworkable scheme\".", "Viktoria Makarova takes her daughter Eva back to eastern Ukraine, saying \"it's impossible to be a refugee\"\n\nAt the train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, attendants in smart, traditional uniforms help passengers down the steep carriage steps.\n\nDespite Russia's full-scale invasion, the trains here have never stopped running for the millions who rely on them.\n\nWe board and take a journey people are being urged to avoid - to the last stop before the eastern front line.\n\nAs we weave past the protruding feet that line the stuffy sleeper carriage, it becomes clear this isn't just a route to the battlefield.\n\nYes, there are soldiers. Most look out of the window - you wonder what they're thinking about.\n\nBut there are also young families on their way back home.\n\nViktoria is reunited with her husband Serhiy at Pokrovsk train station\n\nViktoria is heading back to the town of Pokrovsk with her baby Eva. The 20-year-old tells us she's had enough of avoiding the war, but isn't without worries.\n\n\"I have to overcome them somehow,\" she says. \"It's impossible to live like this, wandering everywhere. We have to make it work at home.\"\n\nSince February last year, Viktoria has travelled across Ukraine and Slovakia in an attempt to keep her and her daughter safe.\n\nAfter three hours of weaving through the rich green of Ukraine's countryside, we arrive in Pokrovsk and Viktoria is greeted by the husband she left behind.\n\n\"I'm overwhelmed,\" says Serhiy, who was waiting patiently on the platform with a bunch of flowers.\n\n\"I'm very glad to see my beautiful daughter and wife. I just want us to sit, cuddle, chat and that's it.\"\n\nArrivals like this are part of a broader trend in Ukraine. After the devastating scenes of departure of last year, six million Ukrainians have since returned to their country.\n\nOf those, thousands are moving back to their homes across the 600-mile (965km) front line, where the threat of a Russian attack remains.\n\nSerhiy is one of many who stayed in Pokrovsk for his job at the local coal mine - an industry ingrained in the Donetsk region's DNA, and a major employer here.\n\nMany coal miners remained in Pokrovsk after Russia's full-scale invasion began, working in a long network of tunnels\n\nNot only has it led to thousands staying, but it's also enticing people back with the offer of new jobs.\n\nIn the early hours, miners move with urgency to shuttle buses that take them to the mine shaft. Even once they're 800m (2,600ft) underground, it can take them up to an hour to walk to where they need to be.\n\nVolodymyr has worked here for 20 years. Stuffed down the front of his overalls is his packed lunch. They call their food \"tormozok\" in these parts, which means a brake on their work at the mine.\n\nHe and some colleagues are protected from mobilisation because their roles are seen as critical. For Volodymyr, going to work is a balance between personal safety and simple economics. He must earn a living.\n\n\"When you go underground, you don't know what's happening above with the family. I'm often very worried.\"\n\nPokrovsk's population is gradually rising, after dropping by two-thirds last year from 65,000. Svitlana, who works in the station control room, said when the war began in 2022 it was \"like an apocalypse - I had never seen so many people leave\".\n\nNow it's become a destination for those escaping Russian occupation and fighting.\n\nIt's a town very much on a war footing. The streets are filled with an even mix of civilians and soldiers. This area has seen war since the onset of Russia's aggression nine years ago.\n\nAnother attraction is the restoration of power and water by local officials, despite their warnings for people to stay away.\n\nPokrovsk is still comfortably in range of Russian multiple-rocket launcher systems (MRLS). Scars around the town remind you of their indiscriminate threat.\n\nOn the outskirts of Pokrovsk, closer to Russia's occupation, you find the town's last line of defence. Soldiers from the territorial defence keep a watchful eye towards the faint sounds of artillery.\n\nTheir dutiful actions are allowing people to move back into harm's way, and there seems to be sympathy in the trenches.\n\n\"Some are saving their children, some stay because it's their homeland,\" says Vyacheslav.\n\n\"If you have to die, it's better to die in your motherland than somewhere abroad.\"\n\nViktoria (right) with her husband Serhiy and their daughter Eva at their flat in Pokrovsk\n\nA couple of days later we rejoin Serhiy, Viktoria and Eva at their flat. Watching them play with their daughter is a picture of innocence.\n\n\"Who knows when it will become safe here?\" asks Serhiy. \"Maybe a year? Two? Or five?\n\n\"We don't want to wait five years, or even one year.\"\n\nThey've clearly made peace with their decision to stay as a family, despite the obvious risks.\n\nA move not just out of defiance, but from an acceptance, too, that this war won't end soon.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nCeltic boss Ange Postecoglou has agreed to become Tottenham's new manager on a two-year contract.\n\nThe Australian, 57, has just finished his second season at Celtic, leading them to the Scottish title both years and the domestic treble this term.\n\nSpurs have been looking for a new manager since Antonio Conte's exit in March, with Cristian Stellini and then Ryan Mason taking interim charge.\n\nThe final elements of the deal are being finalised before an announcement.\n\nAthens-born Postecoglou's only experience in Europe before joining Celtic in 2021 had been a spell in charge of Greek lower league side Panachaiki in 2008.\n\nHe has won the Australian title with South Melbourne and Brisbane Roar, Japan's top flight with Yokohama F Marinos and also led the Australian national team to victory at the 2015 Asian Cup.\n\nPostecoglou takes over a Tottenham side who finished eighth in the Premier League and face a first season without European football since 2009-10.\n• None Reaction as Postecoglou agrees to become new Spurs boss\n• None The Greek kid who could become Tottenham's main man\n• None What next for Celtic?\n\nHe becomes the London side's fourth permanent boss, after Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Conte, since the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino in 2019.\n\nHe will also become the first Australian to take charge of a Premier League side.\n\nPostecoglou has won five trophies from a possible six since arriving in Scotland in the summer of 2021, re-establishing Celtic as the dominant force in the country.\n\nHe admitted he was seen as a \"joke\" when he took over, with Celtic having just finished 25 points behind Rangers.\n\nBut he becomes one of only five managers - along with Jock Stein, Martin O'Neill, Brendan Rodgers and Neil Lennon - to secure a domestic clean sweep for Celtic.\n\nPostecoglou became a hugely popular figure with the Celtic fans, with his recruitment and attacking football catching the eye.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "A man has been caught on CCTV stealing 144 bars of chocolate from a shop.\n\nJordan Thomson, 30, was also found taking coffee, washing detergent, vodka and meat from stores in Worthing, West Sussex, not long after he was released from prison for similar offences.\n\nThomson pleaded guilty to all offences and was jailed for a total of 22 weeks.", "The footage shows young people fighting on the platform after the man (centre, in white t-shirt) was kicked on the head\n\nPolice are appealing for information about social media footage showing a man being kicked repeatedly in the head by a gang at Ballymoney train station.\n\nUp to 20 people were reported to have been fighting on a train. It spilled out on to a platform on Saturday.\n\nA glass bottle was smashed and a 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital. Several others were treated for their injuries at the station.\n\nPolice are still working to establish a motive for the attack.\n\nOfficers were sent to the station to bring the disturbance, which happened on Saturday evening, under control. They cautioned three people.\n\nSgt Jamie Halligan said: \"We are aware of the concern surrounding this incident and the footage circulating on social media.\n\n\"Our inquiries are ongoing and we would appeal for the public's assistance.\"\n\nPublic transport provider Translink said CCTV footage had been provided to the police to help them with the investigation.\n\n\"The safety of our passengers and staff is our top priority and we strongly condemn this serious incident,\" said Translink.\n\n\"We would appeal to anyone with further information to contact the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We operate a reward scheme of up to £1,000 for anyone who provides evidence which leads to a successful conviction.\"\n\nTranslink has given CCTV footage of the incident to the police\n\nPoliticians on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council also condemned the violence.\n\nAlliance Party councillor Lee Kane said he was aware of videos and photographs circulating that show \"horrific scenes\" at the train station.\n\n\"This behaviour has absolutely no place in our town, our community or our society,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the victim of the attack, Translink staff who had to deal with a very difficult situation and others on the train who were witness to this violent act.\"\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Darryl Wilson described it as \"gruesome assault\" and said he was \"beyond horrified at the footage\".\n\n\"Those responsible must be brought to justice and feel the full force of the law,\" he said.", "Tetyana Kraynyuk's son Sasha was one of 13 children taken by Russian troops from his special educational needs school last September\n\nWhen 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately.\n\nThe teenager sitting at a school desk has the Z-mark of Russia's war emblazoned on his right sleeve, coloured in the red, white and blue of the Russian flag.\n\nBut the boy's name is Artem, and he's Ukrainian.\n\nSasha and Artem were among 13 children taken from their own school in Kupyansk, north-eastern Ukraine last September by armed Russian soldiers in balaclavas. Ushered onto a bus with shouts of \"Quickly!\", they then disappeared for weeks without trace.\n\nWhen the children, who all have special educational needs, were finally allowed to call home, it was from much deeper inside Russian-occupied territory.\n\nTo get them back, their relatives were forced to make gruelling journeys across thousands of miles into the country that has declared war on them. Only eight of the children have been returned from Perevalsk so far and Artem was one of the last, collected by his mother just this spring.\n\nWhen I reached the school's director by phone, she saw no problem with dressing Ukrainian children in the uniform of an invading army.\n\n\"So what?\" Tatyana Semyonova retorted. \"What can I do? What's it to do with me?\"\n\nI countered that the Z symbolised the war against the children's own country. \"So what?\" the director demanded again. \"What kind of a question is that? No-one is forcing them.\"\n\nSarah Rainsford explores allegations of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and meets some of the relatives who have been fighting to get them back\n\nScrolling through the website of Perevalsk Special School, I found the photograph of Artem on public display. It was taken in February 2023, a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a class to mark Defenders of the Fatherland Day.\n\nThe lesson was dedicated to learning \"gratitude and respect\" for Russian soldiers.\n\nI tried to question the director some more, but the phone line abruptly cut out.\n\nUkrainian children were taken from their homes, dressed in Russian military uniforms, and taught the Russian curriculum\n\nFor Ukraine, the story of Kupyansk Special School is part of a growing body of evidence against Vladimir Putin as a suspected war criminal.\n\nThe International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russia's president in March, accusing him and his children's ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova, of the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.\n\nRussia insists that its motives are purely humanitarian, evacuating children to protect them from danger. Senior officials scorn the ICC indictment, even threatening retaliatory arrests against its representatives.\n\nThe ICC hasn't made the details of its case public and nor has Ukraine, but officials in Kyiv maintain that more than 19,000 children have been taken from occupied areas since the full-scale invasion. We understand that many have come from care homes and residential schools.\n\nWe investigated several cases, including another Special School in Oleshki, southern Ukraine, and found that each time Russian officials made minimal or zero effort to locate any relatives. Ukrainian children were frequently told there was nothing in their country to return to and were subjected, to varying degrees, to a \"patriotic\" Russian education.\n\nThe details and the nuance vary, as there is chaos in war as well as ill intention.\n\nBut there is also a clear, overriding ideology: Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, openly proclaims everything in occupied areas of Ukraine as its own, including the children.\n\nSasha (right) told the BBC it was too distressing to talk about his separation from his mother\n\nSasha is a tall, shy boy with a long fringe that he likes to smooth into place like any self-conscious teenager.\n\nForced separation from family would be upsetting for any child. For someone vulnerable, like Sasha, it was deeply unsettling. His mother, Tetyana Kraynyuk, tells me he's still withdrawn, months after they were reunited. The 15-year-old even has grey hairs from all the stress.\n\nThey're now living in the western German town of Dinklage as refugees where, after school, Sasha mainly lies on his bed playing on his phone. But he remembers very clearly the moment when Russian soldiers took him away.\n\n\"If I'm honest, it was scary,\" Sasha admits in his quiet voice, rubbing his hands back and forth on his thighs. \"I didn't know where they would take us.\"\n\nWhen I ask about missing his mum he pauses for a long time, says it's too distressing for him to remember and asks if he can change the subject.\n\nBefore the war, Sasha went to Kupyansk Special School in north-eastern Ukraine. He would board during the week, returning home at weekends, but when Russia invaded in February 2022, much of the Kharkiv region was overrun immediately and Tetyana kept her son home for safety.\n\nAs September approached, the occupying administration began insisting that all children return to school, now with the Russian curriculum. There was the same push in all occupied areas, often using teachers from Russia to replace those locals who refused to collaborate.\n\nTetyana was reluctant to send Sasha back, but the teenager was bored stiff after seven months in their village, so on 3 September she dropped him off in Kupyansk.\n\nDays later, Ukrainian forces launched their lightning operation to re-take the region.\n\n\"We heard the noise from miles away. The booms. Then the helicopters and the firing. It was a terrible din. Then I saw the tanks and the Ukrainian flag,\" Tetyana remembers of the counter-offensive.\n\nUnable to contact her son, she was frantic.\n\n\"When we reached the school only the caretaker was left. He said the kids had been taken and no-one knew where,\" Tetyana says.\n\nTetyana went weeks not knowing what had become of her son\n\nA teacher saw what happened that day, when as many as 10 heavily armed Russian soldiers \"swooped into\" the school.\n\n\"They didn't care about taking any documents or contacting parents,\" Mykola Sezonov told me, when we met in Kyiv. \"They just shoved the kids in a bus with some refugees and left.\"\n\nI put to him Russia's defence in such cases: that it was removing children from danger.\n\n\"I lived under Russian occupation, and I know the difference between what they say and what I see for myself through the window,\" was the teacher's response.\n\nFor six weeks, there was no word of the children.\n\n\"I cried every day, called the hotline and told them I'd lost my son and wrote to the police. We tried to find him through volunteers,\" Tetyana says.\n\nIt was a full month before a friend spotted a video on social media, dated early September 2022. It reported that 13 children from Kupyansk Special School had been moved east to a similar facility in Svatove, still under Russian control.\n\nAnother fortnight after that, Tetyana's phone beeped with a message: Sasha was at a Special School in Perevalsk, she read, and his mum could call to talk to him.\n\n\"He was happy to hear me, of course. But he really cried,\" Tetyana recalls of the moment they spoke. \"They'd told him his home was destroyed and he'd been afraid we were gone too.\"\n\nCommunication with areas of heavy fighting is not easy, but the Kupyansk children passed through three institutions before anyone tried to reach any relatives.\n\n\"There was nothing. Only from Perevalsk, and even then not immediately. I think they did it on purpose,\" says Tetyana.\n\nShe would have to return Sasha home in person, but the direct route crossed the frontline. Instead, Tetyana travelled from Ukraine through Poland and the Baltics before crossing on foot into Russia, where the FSB Security Service then interrogated her about Ukrainian troop movements.\n\n\"It was pitch dark, there were checkpoints, men in balaclavas with guns. I was so scared I took pills to calm me,\" Tetyana remembers of the rest of the trip into occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nShe had another reason to be frightened. By then, Russia was openly taking children from care homes in occupied areas and placing them with Russian families.\n\nRussia has changed its laws to make it easier to adopt Ukrainian children\n\nThe Telegram channel of the children's ombudswoman is full of videos showing her escorting groups of Ukrainian children across the border, where bewildered youngsters are greeted by Russian foster parents with gifts and hugs as the cameras roll.\n\nWe sent two requests for an interview with Maria Lvova-Belova and got no reply. But the message from all her posts is clear: Russia is the good guy in what it still refuses to call a war. Russia claims it's saving Ukrainian children.\n\nBy the time Sasha disappeared from Kupyansk, Vladimir Putin had already amended the law to make it easier for Ukrainian children to get Russian citizenship and be adopted. In late September he announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Luhansk where Sasha was then located.\n\nIn public and online, Maria Lvova-Belova referred repeatedly to children in those regions as \"ours\". She adopted a teenager from Mariupol herself, posting pictures with his new Russian passport.\n\n\"I was afraid that if they took Sasha into Russia, I would never find him. I was afraid he'd be put in a foster family, just like that,\" Tetyana tells me.\n\n\"What have our children got to do with anything? Why did they do this to us? Maybe it's just to cause us pain, like with everything else.\"\n\nSo when she finally reached Perevalsk, after an exhausting five days on the road, Tetyana hugged her son to her tightly. Sasha didn't say a word. He was crying from happiness.\n\nThe BBC joined Alla Yatsenyuk and a group of other mothers as they made their way to Russia to save their children\n\nFor six months, Alla Yatsenyuk felt like part of herself was missing.\n\nWhen she packed her 13-year-old son off to camp in Crimea, she thought Danylo was heading for two weeks by the sea. It was meant to be a break from the stress of war: other kids from Kherson had been to camp and come back, so Alla wasn't worried.\n\nBesides, their city had been occupied since the very start of the invasion and by October 2022, she'd begun to think Russia would control Kherson for good, though she didn't want that.\n\nBut days after Alla waved Danylo off, the officials responsible for him announced that the children would not return. The Russians had begun retreating from Kherson. If the children's parents wanted them back, they were told they should come for them.\n\nAlla pleaded with the regional administration but was told they would only return the children \"when Kherson is Russian again.\" She called the Prosecutor's Office in Crimea, but they insisted she had to get Danylo herself.\n\nAnd so for weeks, Alla reassured her son that she was coming for him even as she tried to work out how.\n\nThe distance from Kherson to Yevpatoria is short but the direct route was closed by the Russian military and a far longer route through Zaporizhzhia was too dangerous. \"There was a less than 5% chance of getting there and back safely,\" Alla was told.\n\nShe would also need around $1,500 (£1,200) for a driver, as well as her first ever passport and all the paperwork the Russians were demanding to prove her link to her son.\n\nAlla was already starting to despair when Danylo said officials at his camp were threatening to place the children in care if their parents didn't hurry.\n\n\"The kids have been calling us in panic, saying that they don't want to end up in homes,\" Alla fretted. \"And Russia is huge! Where would we look for them then?\"\n\nWe met as she finally set off in a train carriage full of other mums and grandmothers on the most anxious journey of their lives.\n\nThe women were being helped by a group called Save Ukraine, which stepped in when it emerged that hundreds of Ukrainian children might be stranded. Some were from broken homes or less well-off families, struggling with the logistics and funding for the trip. Other parents had been hesitant about returning their children to cities under heavy Russian fire.\n\n\"I still have this gnawing worry something will go wrong. It will be there until I have my son next to me. Then I can breathe again.\"\n\nOver a week later, Alla was one of the last to cross the border back from Belarus, dragging a big suitcase into Ukraine past concrete boulders and anti-tank defences. Danylo, with his dimpled grin, was finally safe beside her.\n\nDanylo (centre) as he crossed the border from Belarus into Ukraine after months away from home\n\nThere had been moments when she thought she wouldn't make it.\n\nSave Ukraine had instructed the women to turn off their phones when they entered Russia, so the details of their traumatic journey only began spilling out between welcome hugs.\n\n\"They kept us like cattle, separate from anyone else. Fourteen hours with no water, no food, nothing,\" Alla described being held by Russia's FSB security service at a Moscow airport. \"They kept asking us what military equipment we had seen, they checked our phones a million times and asked about all our relatives.\"\n\nThe women continued the 24-hour drive south to Crimea. As they drew close, they stopped for a break and 64-year-old Olha Kutova took a couple of steps, collapsed, and died by the side of the road. After days cramped-up in a minibus, in a state of stress, her heart had given out. Now Save Ukraine is trying to return Olha's ashes, as well as her granddaughter.\n\nEventually, Alla made it to the camp.\n\n\"The moment I saw my child running towards me in tears, it made up for everything we'd been through,\" Alla described her reunion, at last, with Danylo.\n\nHer son tells me it was \"just brilliant!\"\n\nSave Ukraine returned 31 children that day and several confirmed that camp staff had threatened to place them in care, which had scared them.\n\nThey talked of being taken on excursions at the start, and being reasonably fed and clothed. But on Russian-controlled territory they were treated and taught as Russians. When inspectors visited from Moscow, the Ukrainians had to line up beside the Russian flag and sing the Russian anthem.\n\nIn October, the occupying administration of Kherson posted a video on Telegram of such a moment. Russia's anthem booms through loudspeakers and the tricolour flag is unfurled. But look a little closer and it's clear that none of the children's lips are moving.\n\nThe camera operator suddenly realises that one girl has her hands over her ears to block out the sound. Too late, they zoom away from her.\n\nA few weeks after her return, I call Alla in Kherson.\n\n\"Everything was finally over, once we made it here,\" she tells me cheerfully down the line.\n\nDanylo has finally been reunited with his mother Alla\n\nShe admits there was some bad feeling towards the summer-camp mums at the start, seen as \"collaborators\" for sending their children to Russian-run facilities in the first place. But Alla feels that has faded.\n\nIn her own family, Danylo is back to bickering with his younger brother and studying online, in Ukrainian. But with no internet at home, she has to dash into the city centre to hunt for wi-fi to download his schoolwork, and that's risky.\n\nSince the Russians were forced into retreat, abandoning Kherson, they've been taking their revenge on the city from across the river.\n\n\"They're shelling from morning to night,\" Alla confirms, though she says their house is relatively far from Russian positions. They have no plans to leave.\n\nDanylo is still in a group chat with the other children from camp and most who remained have now been collected. But he says five were transferred to a care home somewhere in Russia.\n\nAlla forwards me a photograph of their room with rows of single beds, a cheap rug and a spider plant. Where the left-behind children go from there isn't clear.\n\nIn rural Germany, Sasha has had time to settle into life and another new school, but Tetyana is finding the adjustment a little harder.\n\nIn their flat, over a pile of sprat sandwiches, she explains that her eldest son is still in Ukraine expecting to be called up to fight any day. Tetyana wants nothing more than to go home to her husband, too, but Kupyansk is under heavy fire again.\n\nIn late April, Russian missiles destroyed the local history museum, killing two women. Before that, Sasha's old school in the city was badly damaged when missiles landed nearby.\n\nEight months after he and the other children were taken from there, five still remain in Russian-controlled territory. The director of the school where they ended up, Tatyana Semyonova, confirmed that when I called.\n\nThe BBC's Sarah Rainsford managed to speak to the director of the school over the phone\n\nI was surprised she agreed to talk at all, but the Russian number I used must have confused her. So did my questions.\n\nThe director claimed no-one had been in touch about the five, which we know isn't true, and insisted she would hand them \"straight back\" as soon as their legal guardians come to collect them.\n\nBut that's unlikely: various sources tell me the children are treated as \"social orphans\", whose parents are alive but who are not allowed or able to care for them.\n\nWhen I asked why Russia could take children without permission from Ukraine, but demanded a pile of paperwork to return them, Tatyana Semyonova was short.\n\n\"What's that got to do with me? I didn't bring them here.\"\n\nOn the website of her school in Perevalsk, I see a large picture of the director staring out, bleached hair sitting on a strip of dark brown like she's wearing a helmet. The photographs of Artem, Sasha's classmate, with a Z mark, are publicly displayed on the same site.\n\nSasha has identified two more of the missing children from Kupyansk among the school pictures: 12-year-olds Sofiya and Mikita are dressed up and standing in line to celebrate the Russian military.\n\nI ask Sasha's mother what she makes of the arrest warrant issued for Russia's president.\n\n\"Not only Putin, but all his main people - all the commanders - should be on trial for what they did to the kids,\" Tetyana Kraynyuk answers, without hesitating.\n\n\"What right did they have [to take the children]? How were we supposed to get them back? They just didn't care.\"", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed as they were travelling down a river in the Amazon last year\n\nPolice in Brazil have charged two more men over the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nPhillips and Pereira were shot dead a year ago as they were returning by boat from a reporting trip in the Amazon.\n\nPolice have accused one of the suspects, Rubén Villar, of being the mastermind behind the killing.\n\nThe man, who is also known as Côlombia, denied any links to the murder when he was first arrested last year.\n\nBrazilian broadcaster TV Globo reported on Sunday that Rubén Villar and Jânio Freitas de Souza had been charged with murder and hiding the bodies of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.\n\nBruno Pereira, 41, who had denounced illegal fishing in the region, was helping veteran journalist Dom Phillips, 57, with his research for a book on conservation efforts in the Amazon region.\n\nAccording to the report by TV Globo's Fantástico programme, Colombian national Rubén Villar ran an illegal fishing racket in the Javari Valley, a remote area near Brazil's border with Peru and Colombia.\n\nThe other suspect charged last week, Jânio Freitas de Souza, is suspected of having worked for Rubén Villar's criminal organisation. Both men are already in custody.\n\nRubén Villar was first arrested in July 2022 for allegedly giving false evidence to the police.\n\nHe shared a cell with Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, an illegal fisherman who police say has since confessed to killing Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.\n\nAccording to police documents seen by Fantástico reporters, police have audio recordings from inside the cell.\n\nPolice say that in the recordings, Rubén Villar can be heard warning his cell mate not to tell officers that it had been he, Rubén Villar, who had provided the ammunition used to kill the two men.\n\nProsecutors think that phone conversations held between Rubén Villar and Jânio Freitas de Souza on the day of the murder indicate that the crime was premeditated.\n\nOne of the last photographs taken of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips shows them talking to Jânio Freitas de Souza in the riverside village of São Rafael.\n\nPereira, who tried to convince residents to stop illegal hunting and fishing, was well-known in these riverside communities and police think Rubén Villar's illegal fishing racket was monitoring his activities.\n\nInvestigators suspect that on 5 June 2022, Jânio Freitas de Souza called Rubén Villar to alert him that Pereira and Phillip were setting off by boat from São Rafael.\n\nInvestigators believe that the two men were ambushed later that day by Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima, who police say have both admitted killing them.\n\nAmarildo da Costa de Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima are awaiting trial, as is Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira's brother Oseney, who denies any links to the crime.\n\nThe remains of Phillips and Pereira were found 10 days after their disappearance. They had been shot dead, their bodies cut up and buried in the forest.\n\nThe crime caused outrage in Brazil and abroad, drawing attention to the criminal practices and lawlessness in remote areas such as the Javari Valley.\n\nCommemorations to mark the first anniversary since their disappearance are being held on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's media editor Katie Razzall looks at why Prince Harry is suing the Mirror Group\n\nPrince Harry has been on this collision course for years - and finally he is going to be in a courtroom in person, eyeball to eyeball, in his battle against the tabloid press.\n\nIt promises to be an electrifying moment as he gives his evidence and faces questions from lawyers in London's High Court about his allegations of phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry has said that changing the media landscape is his \"life's work\" - and this gladiatorial courtroom encounter could be one of his own defining moments.\n\nHe has two of the key requirements for this legal battle: First, a single-minded determination to keep going without settling, and second, being rich enough to take the financial hit if he loses.\n\nBut giving evidence in person in this Mirror Group Newspapers hacking trial will have big risks for him. He will face the type of open, public and tough questioning that is a long way from any previous royal interview he has taken part in.\n\n\"This isn't like taking questions from Oprah Winfrey in a celebrity interview,\" says Tim Maltin, managing partner of Maltin PR, which specialises in high-profile reputation management.\n\n\"It is a hostile encounter with a highly-skilled cross-examiner armed with a battery of techniques to undermine your credibility.\n\n\"Giving evidence is daunting… and cross-examination is far more often traumatic than cathartic,\" he says.\n\nPrince Harry is likely to face detailed questioning about highly personal news stories which he claims were obtained through unlawful means - an allegation which the newspaper group disputes.\n\nHe could face gruelling questioning about stories relating to his relationships, his girlfriends, his mother Diana, the treatment of Meghan and his life growing up in the Royal Family.\n\nThere have already been challenges to the allegations of Prince Harry and his co-complainants. Lawyers for Mirror Group have said the evidence of hacking is \"slim\" in some cases and \"utterly non-existent\" in others.\n\nPrince Harry in 2010 with Chelsy Davy, a relationship he says was undermined by press intrusion\n\nPrince Harry's own memoir, Spare, might be turned against him, with its accounts of drug taking and family tensions.\n\nHistorian and author Sir Anthony Seldon thinks Prince Harry is ill-advised to be appearing in court like this.\n\n\"Harry should never be there,\" he says, arguing that the Royal Family should rise above such fights.\n\n\"Harry's standing and trajectory will only be harmed, whatever the outcome. The public is losing sympathy with him and his constant protestations of victimhood,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\n\"Harry and Meghan's continuing hard luck stories only make William and Kate look much better in every way,\" he adds.\n\nBut royal commentator Pauline Maclaran thinks taking a stand like this could boost Prince Harry's popularity, particularly among young people.\n\nRather than being accused of being privileged or entitled, she says in this court case \"he'll be seen as the underdog, and that's a good position to be seen in\".\n\n\"Many young people will see him as quite a heroic figure, fighting the establishment,\" says Prof Maclaran, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"It could be good for Harry in the long run, even though the older generation will be tut-tutting,\" she says.\n\nAs for the rest of the Royal Family, they will be \"watching with an element of horror\", she says.\n\nA previous hacking case this year against News Group Newspapers already produced the bombshell claim that Prince William had reached a private settlement with the newspaper publishers.\n\nAnd Prof Maclaran expects more focus on the Royal Family's dealings with the press in a way that could prove \"uncomfortable\" for Harry's royal relatives.\n\nThe Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew in 2019 only lasted an hour - but it is still providing material for news four years later. So it is not surprising if there is royal anxiety about Prince Harry facing days of giving evidence.\n\nThere is going to be intense global interest in this court case. Harry and his wife Meghan provoke strong reactions among supporters and critics, and the eyes of the world will be watching.\n\nRoyal historian Ed Owens says the public will be fascinated by this combination of \"courtroom drama and royal soap opera\" and the prospect of a royal \"pulling back the curtain\" on the relationship between the tabloid press and the monarchy.\n\nNot only does this case aim to expose evidence of hacking, but the stakes are made even higher by the argument that senior executives must also have known what was going on.\n\nHow will Harry react when his claims are challenged and put under the microscope? Will he start getting irritated? Will it be upsetting for him to talk about the press intrusion which by his own account has dogged him since childhood? How will he handle the pressure?\n\nEdward VII (left) is one of small group of royals who have given evidence in court - in the 1890s as Prince of Wales. He is pictured with Victoria and George V\n\nIt is very unusual to see a royal appearance in a witness box.\n\nThe last senior royal to give evidence in this way was in the 19th Century, when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, appeared in two cases - one in a dispute over card cheating and the other in a divorce case, in which the prince denied any \"improper familiarity\".\n\nIn 2002, Princess Anne appeared in court to plead guilty after her dogs bit two children.\n\nBut those were very brief and different types of court appearances.\n\nPart of the mystique of the monarchy is in saying little and answering less. Prince Harry is breaking the unspoken taboo about a royal going into the witness box to face what could be very embarrassing questions - but it is something that he clearly feels is worth the risk.\n\nHis grievance with the excesses of the press is deeply personal and emotional.\n\nThis is a court confrontation that you could almost trace directly back to the death of his mother Diana, in a car crash in Paris in 1997 when she was being pursued by paparazzi.\n\nHe has repeatedly connected that moment to his battle with the tabloid press.\n\nIt is his day of reckoning. His high noon in the High Court.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "The hacking trial on Monday turned out to be the warm-up for the headline act tomorrow – Prince Harry’s much-anticipated appearance in the witness box.\n\nAlthough if today is anything to go by, when he faces questions he’ll be sitting down behind a computer screen, glass of water at hand, rather than anything more theatrical.\n\nIt seemed to have annoyed MGN's lawyers that Prince Harry wasn’t here for the first day specifically relating to his claims of hacking.\n\nThey clearly want to keep him in the witness box asking questions for as long as possible – and that will now stretch through Tuesday and into Wednesday.\n\nBut, Prince Harry’s claims were presented by his lawyers – depicting him as someone whose entire life, private and public, has been “invaded” by a tabloid press which resorted to hacking and unlawful means of finding information.\n\nThe prince’s relationship with his family, his girlfriends, even his health, had been caught up in this “web”, according to his lawyers.\n\nBut the Mirror Group's lawyers hit back strongly – arguing that despite all the broad allegations, there was no unambiguous evidence of phone hacking of Prince Harry.\n\nAlthough they put it more colourfully, saying there was: “Zilch. Zero. Nil. De Nada. Niente. Nothing.”\n\nThe two sides have set the scene for a royal battle in the morning.", "Apple has unveiled a much-anticipated augmented reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, in its first major hardware launch for almost a decade.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said the new headset \"seamlessly blends the real world and the virtual world\".\n\nThe tech firm also announced its latest iPhone operating system, as well as updates to MacBook Air.\n\nThe headset has a two-hour battery life, costs $3,499 (£2,849) and will be released early next year in the US.\n\nThe cost is considerably higher than virtual reality headsets currently on the market. Last week Meta announced its Quest 3 - which costs $499.\n\nApple said little about generative artificial intelligence - the buzzy technology that is the talk of Silicon Valley.\n\nThe company's share price fell slightly during the announcement, made at a developer's conference at Apple Park, the company's headquarters, in Cupertino, California.\n\nThe BBC was among the media outlets at the event, and technology editor Zoe Kleinman was one of the first people in the world to try out the headset.\n\n\"Since current boss Tim Cook took over in 2011, with the possible exception of the Watch, Apple has been unable to come up with the kind of world-changing product of the past,\" she said.\n\n\"Have they done it here?\"\n\nApple Vision Pro looks different to similar headsets on the market - and is more reminiscent of a pair of ski goggles than a virtual reality headset.\n\nApple used the phrase \"augmented reality\" to describe what the new device does.\n\nAugmented reality, also known as mixed reality, superimposes virtual objects in the world around us - enabling us to mix reality with virtual reality by looking through a screen.\n\n\"It's like your phone but right in front of you - big, bright and bold, wherever you are,\" Ms Kleinman said.\n\nIn letting you do things like watch videos of your family blowing out birthday candles or immerse yourself in your photography by making your panoramic photos life-size, she says it is pitched as a device which is \"very much about being part of your daily life\", unlike many other headsets on the market geared primarily towards immersive gaming.\n\nHow the Vision Pro's new app store will appear for headset users\n\nUsers can access apps, watch movies, and write documents in a virtual world. But so far, there is little evidence of a big market for this kind of wearable tech.\n\n\"It's still at the end of the day a VR headset,\" said Ms Kleinman. \"Apple is going to have to have an awful lot of content to throw at this when it ships early next year.\n\n\"And of course the other thing is the price point - $3,499 is a lot of money.\"\n\nHartley Charlton, senior editor of MacRumors, was unsure how much the headset would appeal to the general public.\n\n\"It won't appeal to mainstream consumers at first on account of its extremely high price point and immediate shortcomings as a first-generation device, such as its separate wired battery pack,\" he said.\n\nBut he said Apple has a track record of \"overcoming scepticism\" about new devices, and has historically encouraged people to \"part with their cash to add a new gadget to their repertoire\".\n\nJournalists and developers at Monday's conference saw a glimpse of the headset\n\nIn his sales pitch, Mr Cook said the headset allows users to \"see, hear and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space\".\n\nIt is controlled by using a combination of your hands, eyes and voice - such as tapping your fingers together to select, and flicking them to scroll.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Meta and Lenovo announced new iterations of their pre-existing virtual reality headsets, that do not superimpose objects on to a view of the real world.\n\nMeta has also invested heavily in mixed reality - but right now the sector is struggling.\n\nThe headset market saw a 54% drop in global sales last year, according to the International Data Corporation.\n\nApple's last major hardware release was for the Apple Watch device in 2015.\n\nThomas Husson, of Forrester Research, told BBC News it may take time for Apple's new headset to take off.\n\n\"The overall AR/VR space has been a bit overhyped over the past few years with the metaverse and that kind of experience,\" he said. \"That's the reason why I think it will take a bit more time.\n\n\"Having said that, if I told you 10 to 15 years ago that people would be ready to pay almost $2,000 for a mobile phone, I don't think many people would have said they would be willing to pay that.\"\n\nAside from the Vision Pro announcement, Apple also unveiled iOS17, the latest version of its iPhone operating system.\n\nUpdates include \"contact posters\" - a picture or image of yourself that will appear on a person's phone when you call them - and \"live voicemail\" - which provides a real-time transcription of an answerphone message being left to you.\n\nThis transcription will also apply to audio messages left using Apple Messages.\n\nAnd Apple has introduced a system called Check-In - which will automatically tell a friend or family member when you have arrived home.\n\nIf your journey is substantially delayed, it has the power to tell others that you have not made it home safely yet.\n\nThe new operating system will be available this autumn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlawful information-gathering \"acted like a web\" around the Duke of Sussex, a court has heard during his trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nPrince Harry's barrister told London's High Court no aspect of his youth was safe from press intrusion - citing stories about his relationship with Chelsy Davy appearing in the Mirror.\n\nThe duke is claiming MGN journalists used unlawful methods to gather information, including phone hacking.\n\nEarlier, the judge in the case, Mr Justice Fancourt, said he was a \"little surprised\" to hear Prince Harry would not be attending court on Monday.\n\nHe had given an earlier direction that witnesses should be available on the first day of their individual case in case there was time to give evidence.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for MGN, accused the prince's side of \"wasting time\", saying it was \"absolutely extraordinary we were told just last week that he is not available for day one of his own trial\".\n\nBarrister David Sherborne, for Prince Harry, said the duke had flown in from Los Angeles after his daughter's birthday, and added: \"He is in a different category from the three other claimants due to his travel and security arrangements.\"\n\nThe duke is likely to begin giving evidence on Tuesday, his lawyers said, making him the first senior royal in 130 years to testify in court.\n\nMaking his opening speech for the duke, Mr Sherborne, who is also representing three other people, said: \"These methods acted like a web around the prince in the hope it would catch the valuable information that they sought through these unlawful means, some of which made it in stories.\"\n\nHe said Prince Harry did not have a \"vendetta against the press\" but he wanted to hold them to account.\n\nAmong the articles complained about that are being considered by the judge are stories concerning the prince and his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy.\n\n\"The ups and downs and ins and outs of their relationship; the beginning, the break-ups and finally the split between them were all revealed and picked apart by the three Mirror Group titles,\" Mr Sherborne continued, saying this was \"clearly driven by unlawful activity\".\n\nHe told the court a story published by the People in April 2005 detailed the prince's phone calls to her.\n\n\"It was as if they were never alone,\" he added.\n\nMr Sherborne suggested the stories led to the couple's circle of friends becoming \"smaller and smaller\" due to them suspecting friends of leaking to newspapers, but he accepted that there was little direct evidence of unlawful methods being used to get stories like this.\n\nEventually the couple's relationship ended. In a witness statement previously reported, the prince claimed Ms Davy decided that \"a royal life was not for her\" following repeated acts of harassment.\n\nThe court was also told about a 2003 article detailing an alleged row between the duke and his brother Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, over their mother's ex-butler Paul Burrell.\n\n\"Brothers can sometimes disagree,\" Mr Sherborne said.\n\n\"But once it is made public in this way and their inside feelings revealed in the way that they are, trust begins to be eroded.\"\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nThe prince alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered at the trial.\n\nAt the start of the High Court hearing last month, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People admitted a private investigator had been instructed to unlawfully gather information relating to Harry's conduct in a nightclub in February 2004.\n\nThis incident does not form part of the duke's claim for breach of privacy.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court on Monday the suggestion that there was only one instance of unlawful information-gathering was \"plainly implausible\", arguing it would have happened on \"multiple occasions\".\n\nHe said \"every facet\" of the prince's life had been splashed across the papers and it would have been \"obvious\" stories about his private life were driving sales for MGN.\n\nBut Mr Green said there was no evidence to support claims by the prince.\n\nSummarising MGN's defence, Mr Green said there was no data showing that Harry had been hacked, \"still less on a habitual basis\".\n\nMr Green said none of the whistle-blowing journalists who have come forward admitting phone hacking said they had hacked the prince's phone.\n\n\"There's no evidence to support a finding that any mobile phone owned or used by the Duke of Sussex was hacked. Zilch, Zero, Nil, De Nada, Niente, Nothing,\" he said.\n\nAlongside Prince Harry, Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse, have also brought claims against the publisher.\n\nThe claimants argue senior executives must have known about unlawful information gathering behind these stories and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nPrince Harry's legal team argue MGN covered up and destroyed potential evidence of unlawful information gathering about Prince Harry but there remains enough of a trail for the court to follow.\n\nThey want the judge to take MGN's existing admissions of hacking, look at the alleged gaps in the defence case - and then make inferences about how some stories about Prince Harry must surely have been unlawfully gathered.\n\nThe judge only has to rule for or against the duke on the balance of probabilities.\n\nNo-one who has admitted phone hacking has said Prince Harry was among the victims.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"We don't want to be using hotels [for housing asylum seekers] at all\"\n\nThe UK has to \"reduce its reliance on hotels\" for housing asylum seekers, immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said he had to look after taxpayers and his duty was to the British public over migrants.\n\nHe added it was \"fair and reasonable\" to ask asylum seekers to share rooms in hotels in some circumstances.\n\nIt follows a dispute with asylum seekers over their temporary accommodation in central London.\n\nLast week, about 40 asylum seekers were offered space in a Pimlico hotel, but refused to enter after being asked to sleep four people per room.\n\nHead of Westminster Council Adam Huq expressed his concern in a letter to the home secretary, saying people who \"are likely to have been through significant and traumatic events\" were being asked to share \"an inappropriately sized room with multiple strangers\".\n\nAsked about the case on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Jenrick said the government did not want to use hotels, arguing it was \"taking away valuable assets for the local business community... people's weddings and personal events have had to be cancelled\".\n\n\"But where we are using them, it's right that we get good value for money for the taxpayer,\" he added.\n\n\"And so if single adult males can share a room, and it's legal to do so, which will obviously depend on the size of the accommodation, then we'll ask people to do that,\" he added.\n\nHowever, he denied it was government policy for asylum seekers and migrants to be housed in shared rooms.\n\nHe also suggested people were making illegitimate asylum claims, telling the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the UK's system was \"riddled with abuse\". The country could not be allowed to be \"perceived as a soft touch\", he added.\n\nLabour said in response: \"After 13 years of Tory failure, the asylum system isn't just broken - it's costing tax payers a fortune - only Labour has a proper plan to stop dangerous boat crossings.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made reducing the numbers coming to the UK illegally one of his key priorities. Part of his plan is to implement the Illegal Migration Bill, currently going through Parliament.\n\nIt would give ministers new powers to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally and stop them claiming asylum here.\n\nBut it has attracted fierce criticism including from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said it risked \"great damage\" to the UK's reputation.\n\nThe BBC understands the Home Office estimates the plans in the bill could cost between £3bn and £6bn through spending on detention facilities, as well as ongoing accommodation and removals.\n\nLast year the number of people arriving in the UK in small boats via the English Channel hit over 45,000 - the highest number since figures were first collected in 2018. So far this year, 7,610 people have made the crossing, a fall of more than 2,000 compared with the same time last year.\n\nThe number of people claiming asylum has also risen with figures in 2022 hitting a near 20-year high of 74,751.\n\nThe government has a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers - who are not allowed to work while their claim is being processed - with a basic level of accommodation.\n\nAsylum seekers would typically only be housed in hotels or hostels for a few weeks, before being moved to long-term self-catered homes.\n\nHowever the increase in people claiming asylum -and the backlog of unprocessed claims - has led to a growth in the use of hotels to provide temporary accommodation.\n\nGovernment sources have previously told the BBC it is using 395 hotels to home more than 51,000 asylum seekers.\n\nThe use of hotels has proved to be expensive, costing almost £7m a day. It has also prompted anger among many Conservative MPs, who say the plan puts a strain on local amenities.\n\nPeople believed to be asylum seekers arriving in Kent\n\nMinisters are trying different ways to accommodate the rising numbers of people who are coming to the UK, including housing people in barges or facilities on air bases.\n\nMr Jenrick was keen to repeat his assertion that the government was taking a robust approach, and that by asking migrants to share rooms he wanted to cut the costs to the taxpayer.\n\nBut he was less keen to acknowledge that the backlog for asylum claims is extremely high, and that compared to a few years ago, it takes much longer for cases to be resolved.\n\nThe problems with accommodation at the hundreds of hotels around the country would be far less acute if there were fewer people stuck in the system.\n\nWhen it comes to how ministers handle the issues, there are not many easy answers.\n\nBut while Conservative ministers say they want to bring immigration down, they have presided over the numbers going up and up. There is a serious clash between the rhetoric and the reality.\n\nIn addition to illegal migration, there has also been an increase in people coming to the UK legally - the most recent figures saw net migration rise by 606,000.\n\nIn 2010, the Conservatives promised to reduce net migration to below 100,000.\n\nAsked if that number was still realistic, Mr Jenrick said he didn't think targets were \"particularly helpful\" because \"behaviours are constantly changing\".", "School desks replaced cars on the Champs-Élysées for a few hours\n\nParis's most famous avenue was turned into an open-air classroom on Sunday, as almost 1,400 people took part into a record-breaking spelling exercise.\n\nAbout 1,700 desks were laid out on the Champs-Élysées for an event billed as the \"largest dictation in the world\".\n\nIt consisted of three rounds. In each, a text was read out and contestants tried to transcribe it without error.\n\nIn the first, 1,397 people wrestled with an excerpt from a short story by 19th Century author Alphonse Daudet.\n\nThat session was recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest such competition ever, French media say.\n\nFrench spelling is notoriously tricky and dictations have inspired dread in generations of pupils from Dunkerque to Perpignan.\n\nHowever some 50,000 people applied for Sunday's \"Grande Dictée des Champs\" and about 5,000 people - many of them schoolchildren - took part.\n\nThe second and third rounds were based on a modern short story and a text about rugby respectively.\n\nAfter the first, a 10-year-old described as a \"star pupil\" told AFP news agency: \"It was impossible!\"\n\nHis 42-year-old father Adrien Blind, who took the same test, said it had left him \"in a state of stress and worry\".\n\nBut 65-year-old Touria Zerhouni was more relaxed. \"I only made two mistakes. I expected it to be much harder,\" she told AFP.", "The BBC, British Airways, Boots and Aer Lingus are among a growing number of organisations affected by a mass hack.\n\nStaff have been warned personal data including national insurance numbers and in some cases bank details may have been stolen.\n\nThe cyber criminals broke into a prominent piece of software to gain access to multiple companies in one go.\n\nThere are no reports of ransom demands being sought or money stolen.\n\nIn the UK, the payroll services provider Zellis is one of the companies affected and it said data from eight of its client firms had been stolen.\n\nIt would not reveal names, but organisations are independently issuing warnings to staff.\n\nIn an email to employees, the BBC said data stolen included staff ID numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and national insurance numbers.\n\nStaff at British Airways have been warned that some may have had bank details stolen.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said it was monitoring the situation and urged organisations using the compromised software to carry out security updates.\n\nThe hack was first disclosed last week when US company Progress Software said hackers had found a way to break into its MOVEit Transfer tool. MOVEit is software designed to move sensitive files securely and is popular around the world with most of its customers in the US.\n\nProgress Software said it alerted its customers as soon as the hack was discovered and quickly released a downloadable security update.\n\nA spokesperson said the firm is working with police to \"combat increasingly sophisticated and persistent cybercriminals intent on maliciously exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used software products\".\n\nThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning on Thursday to firms that use MOVEit, instructing them to download a security patch to stop further breaches.\n\nBut security researcher Kevin Beaumont said internet scans revealed thousands of company databases could still be vulnerable as many affected firms are yet to install the fix.\n\n\"Early indications are there are a large number of prominent organisations impacted,\" he said.\n\nExperts said it is likely the cyber criminals will attempt to extort money from organisations rather than individuals.\n\nNo ransom demands have been made public yet but it is expected cyber criminals will begin emailing affected organisations to demand payment.\n\nThey will likely threaten to publish the stolen data online for other hackers to pick through.\n\nVictim organisations are reminding staff to be vigilant of any suspicious emails that could lead to further cyber attacks.\n\nAlthough no official attribution has been made, Microsoft said it believed the criminals responsible are linked to the notorious Cl0p ransomware group, thought to be based in Russia.\n\nIn a blog post the US tech giant said it was attributing attacks to Lace Tempest, known for ransomware operations and running the Cl0p extortion website where victim data is published. The company said the hackers responsible have used similar techniques in the past to steal data and extort victims.\n\n\"This latest round of attacks is another reminder of the importance of supply chain security,\" said John Shier, from cyber security company Sophos.\n\n\"While Cl0p has been linked to this active exploitation it is probable that other threat groups are prepared to use this vulnerability as well,\" he added.\n\nThe National Crime Agency told the BBC that it was aware that a number of UK-based organisations had been \"impacted by a cyber incident\", as a result of a previously unknown security flaw relating to MOVEit Transfer.\n\nThe NCA added it was \"working with partners to support those organisations and understand the full impact on the UK\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents have mixed views about 20mph speed limit zones in residential areas\n\nA petition to scrap plans to introduce a 20mph speed limit in residential areas in Wales has gained more than 21,000 signatures.\n\nMinisters intend to reduce the default speed limit in cities and towns from 30mph to 20mph from 17 September.\n\nThey said the speed limit would cut road accidents and noise and encourage people to walk or cycle.\n\nBut a petition to the Senedd expressed concerns the changes would increase commuting times.\n\nThe petition looks set to be debated in the Senedd later this year following a meeting of the petitions committee on Monday.\n\nThe Welsh government's plan has divided opinion. Nearly 300 people have complained to one council about moves to reduce speed limits to 20mph, but others said it would make schoolchildren safer on the roads.\n\nMeanwhile a Welsh government-commissioned survey of 1,000 people last September suggested 60% backed the plan versus 39% against.\n\nFiona Andrews, member of the \"20's Plenty\" campaign group, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the speed limit was \"more human, friendlier\" and better for the environment.\n\nMs Andrews, who lives in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, which has been trialling the speed limit for two years, said it had made a big difference.\n\nThere had been four near-misses recently because people were able to stop their cars within 12 metres (40ft), rather than the 27 metres (89ft) it would take at 30mph, she said.\n\n\"I hope the petitions committee will think about how two thirds of us are in support of this,\" she said.\n\nShe said the 20mph speed limit gave parents with children aged nine or ten the confidence to give them the freedom to walk to school independently.\n\nCalais Smith (left) does not think the 20mph speed limit makes sense\n\nBut Calais Smith from Buckley, Flintshire, which has also been part of the 20mph trials, said she wanted the speed limit to be raised back to 30mph on most roads.\n\n\"No one sticks to it anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"Outside schools it makes sense, but everywhere else it's ridiculous.\"\n\nAngie Hargreaves said the speed limits were not making roads safer.\n\nAngie Hargreaves says she does not think the speed limit makes roads safer\n\n\"I think it's awful. I understand on housing estates and schools but not main roads.\n\n\"I feel sorry for the older people trying to stick to it and people getting annoyed - it's like road rage.\"\n\nIn Ceredigion, nearly 300 people have formally objected to the reduction to 20mph on many of the area's roads in a collection of petitions, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nBecause of the way roads in the predominantly rural authority are organised, the councils had to formally consult on the change.\n\nBut Buckley resident John Douglas said he supported the 20mph limit.\n\nJohn Douglas, who is partially sighted, thinks the limit should stay and 20mph\n\nMr Douglas, who is partially sighted, said it should be better enforced and that he did not believe it was being observed by many.\n\n\"With my eyesight problems, I still hear them accelerating when I am halfway across a pedestrian crossing,\" he said.\n\n\"None of them pay attention to it.\"\n\nHe added the safety of children had to be paramount.\n\nOn Monday the chair of the petitions committee, Jack Sargeant, said \"given the scale of the signatures… and the interest of the topic\", the closing date of the petition should be brought forward \"so that we can request a debate\" before the new speed limit becomes law.\n\nThe debate would be unlikely to bring about a change to the new speed limit, which is already in law and will come into effect on 17 September.\n\nBut it would be an opportunity for Senedd members to reflect the views of their constituents.\n\nThe move would need to be approved by the Senedd's business committee, which oversees proceedings in the 60-member debating chamber.\n\nThe decision to switch built up roads to 20mph will be one of the biggest the Welsh government has taken since the pandemic - arguably even since 1999, when the old National Assembly was set up.\n\nIt will have an impact on anybody who uses the road in built up areas, with the aim of encouraging more pedestrians and cyclists.\n\nIt is one of a bunch of transport initiatives being undertaken by Wales' transport minister in a short period of time - something a bit unusual in a country where the governing Welsh Labour party has been reluctant to make rapid changes to policy in the past.\n\nLee Waters has already reshaped Cardiff's road building plans. He is also tackling the future of the bus network, and hopes to fine pavement parkers too.\n\nThe latter got delayed, though, under pressure from councils worried about the workload his department is generating.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSeven people have been punished for acts of racism towards Real Madrid's Brazil forward Vinicius Jr.\n\nFour men were fined 60,001 euros (£51,700) and given a two-year stadium ban for hanging an effigy of Vinicius near Real's training ground in January.\n\nThe four men were arrested 11 days ago and released on bail by a Madrid court.\n\nThree other people were fined 5,000 euros (£4,300) and banned for one year for making racist gestures during Real's game at Valencia on 21 May.\n\nThose three are aged between 18 and 21, the police said, and were detained two days after the game.\n\nThe sanctions were given by Spain's State Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport, said the country's Sports Commission on Monday.\n• None La Liga racism allegations - what happens next?\n• None Listen: Can Vinicius episode be a turning point in racism battle?\n\nVinicius, whose red card for violent conduct late in the Valencia match was rescinded, later said the Spanish league \"belongs to racists\".\n\nLa Liga president Javier Tebas and the league's handling of the incident was widely condemned after he told Vinicius on social media that \"you need to inform yourself properly\".\n\nTebas later apologised to Vinicius, saying he did not mean to \"attack\" the 22-year-old.\n\nThe Brazilian government called for severe sanctions against those responsible for the racial slurs and La Liga said it will seek \"more sanctioning powers\" to ensure it can punish such incidents.\n\nBrazil will play friendlies against Guinea in Barcelona on 17 June and Senegal in Lisbon three days later, as part of an anti-racism campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a personal statement, Matt Hancock apologies to MPs for his \"minor breach\" of Commons rules.\n\nThe former health secretary, Matt Hancock, has been found to have breached Parliament's rules for attempting to influence an inquiry into a Conservative MP.\n\nA standards watchdog ordered Mr Hancock to apologise for the \"minor breach\".\n\nMr Hancock wrote a letter defending Tory MP Steve Brine, who was investigated over lobbying allegations.\n\nMr Hancock denied trying to influence the investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Hancock apologised to the House of Commons, in line with the findings of the report by the Commons Committee on Standards.\n\nHe told MPs that the committee had \"found that I did not seek to break the rules, had no prospect of personal gain and acted without malice\".\n\nMr Hancock said: \"However they recommended I apologise to the House and the Commissioner for this minor breach and underline that respect for the Code and processes of investigating potential breaches of the Code is an important and necessary part of the Code. I am happy to do so.\"\n\nThe the Commons Committee on Standards found Mr Hancock had made \"a clear attempt to influence the commissioner's investigation\".\n\nThe committee said Mr Hancock had breached a rule that prevents MPs from lobbying the commissioner in a way that is \"calculated or intended to influence his consideration\".\n\n\"Mr Hancock is a former cabinet minister and has been an MP for over 10 years,\" the committee's report said. \"It is concerning that a member with this experience has not taken account of these provisions of the code.\"\n\nThe committee recommended that Mr Hancock should make a personal statement to apologise to the House of Commons and the standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg.\n\nHe should also attend a \"briefing on his obligations under the code with the commissioner\", the committee's report said.\n\nMPs are expected to behave within rules set out in a code of conduct approved by the Commons, and any alleged breaches can be investigated by the standards commissioner.\n\nThe report said Mr Hancock had sent the commissioner an unsolicited letter while he was investigating Mr Brine - the chair of the Commons health committee - over claims he lobbied the NHS on behalf of a recruitment firm.\n\nLeaked messages from 2021 showed Mr Brine had been trying contact health bosses while acting as a paid consultant for Remedium Partners, a recruitment firm offering doctors for free to the NHS.\n\nMr Brine, a former health minister, said he was responding to a call from ministers to help the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe texts were some of the more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages involving Mr Hancock that were leaked to the Telegraph newspaper by journalist Isabel Oakeshott.\n\nLast month, Mr Brine was found to have breached the rules twice by failing to declare in his approaches to cabinet ministers in 2021.\n\nBut the commissioner, Mr Greenberg, cleared Mr Brine of paid advocacy.\n\nDuring the investigation, Mr Hancock wrote a letter to the commissioner, arguing \"that what Mr Brine did was acting overwhelmingly in the national interest\".\n\nThe rulebook for MPs says they should not try to influence the decision of the commissioner during an investigation into an alleged breach.\n\nMr Hancock, who became one of the best-known politicians in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, remains suspended as a Tory MP for for taking time off from his parliamentary duties to appear on I'm A Celebrity last year.", "Teledyne Labtech was targeted by the protesters in December 2022\n\nPro-Palestinian protesters who caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage to an electronics plant they believed was making circuit boards for Israeli drones have been jailed.\n\nTeledyne Labtech, in Presteigne, Powys was targeted in December 2022.\n\nActivists in red suits and balaclavas smashed windows, daubed red paint on walls and drilled holes in the roof.\n\nThey also used crowbars to destroy office equipment and they also covered a memorial to a staff member in paint.\n\nSusan Bagshaw, 55, of Comins Coch, Ceredigion, Morwenna Grey, 42, of Machynlleth, Powys, Tristan Dixon, 34, of Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal damage.\n\nRuth Hogg, 40, of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, was found guilty of the same charge after a trial in Caernarfon in May.\n\nHogg was jailed for 27 months, while the other three were sentenced to 23 months each at Mold Crown Court on Monday.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands told the court the group caused \"wanton damage\" at the factory.\n\nThe factory was put out of action for about three weeks following the protest\n\nIt heard workers were in the canteen on the morning of 9 December when they heard breaking glass, as Bagshaw and Grey broke windows to get in.\n\nOnce inside, the two women, wearing boiler suits and balaclavas, smashed computer screens, sprayed paint on the walls and floors, and set off smoke bombs.\n\nHogg and Dixon were then found drilling and sawing on the roof and smashing skylights.\n\nMorwenna Grey pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 23 months, Ruth Hogg was found guilty and was jailed for 27 months\n\nA banner in support of Palestine was unfurled across the side of the factory.\n\nElen Owen, prosecuting, told the court there was evidence of planning and premeditation by the group.\n\nShe said they caused fear and distress to staff adding that one said he feared for his life.\n\nThe combined cost of the damage and consequential costs such as security measures, totalled about £1.2m she said.\n\nRed paint was daubed across the factory\n\nThe factory, which employed 64 people at the time, was closed for about three weeks for the clean-up and repairs.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the firm's general manager, Adele MacLachlan, said there was anger about \"misinformation\" surrounding what Teledyne Labtech manufactured.\n\nIt made, she said, circuit boards for applications, like inflight entertainment antennae, MRI scanners and radar.\n\nJudge Rowlands said though they believed the company was involved in the manufacture of arms used by Israel against Palestinians, there were no security fences or guards at the factory, which made it \"a very unlikely candidate for ties with arms industry\".\n\nHe said the group carried out \"a sea of vandalism\" and a \"significant\" degree of costly damage.\n\nHe also said: \"There was a high degree of planning and premeditation and intention to cause a high degree of damage.\"\n\nThere were a number of aggravating features to the case, he said, including that it was a group action which posed a risk to others, and workers and the emergency services were inconvenienced.\n\nHe accepted all four had shown a degree of remorse for their actions and had said in letters to the court that they would not carry out such action again.\n\nTristan Dixon and Susan Bagshaw pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal damage\n\nBut he said contrition in Hogg's case was \"hollow\" given that she pleaded not guilty.\n\nHe said the action they took was \"very far from the generality of direct action cases… it involved extreme behaviour and violence.\"\n\n\"Your intention was to put the factory out of action for as long as you could.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Henshaw was found dead in a layby near the M1 motorway\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was found in layby near the M1 motorway.\n\nMother-of-two Sarah Henshaw was found just after midnight on Monday by the A617 near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.\n\nPolice had opened a murder investigation after the 31-year-old was reported missing from her home in Ilkeston on Friday.\n\nDerbyshire Police say Darren Hall, 36, of Rodney Way, Ilkeston, has now been charged with her murder.\n\nHe is due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nMs Henshaw's family have paid tribute, saying they have been left \"devastated\" by her death.\n\nHer mother, Lorraine, described her daughter as \"a fantastic mum to her two girls, who she loved so much\".\n\n\"Sarah would always put others first and was always incredibly kind,\" she said.\n\n\"As a family we are all devastated by her death. We miss her so much and will love her forever.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia's president has said members of the Wagner mercenary group were fully funded by the state.\n\nAccording to Vladimir Putin, Wagner was given 86.262bn roubles ($1bn) from May 2022 to May 2023 alone for salaries and bonuses, which came from the defence ministry and state budget.\n\nIts leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, arrived in Belarus on Tuesday after agreeing to leave Russia.\n\nHis arrival was confirmed by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Earlier, a private jet linked to Prigozhin was tracked landing in Minsk, the Belarusian capital.\n\nOn Saturday, mercenary troops led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin took over the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, marched on Moscow and shot down Russian military helicopters and a plane on their way.\n\nTheir mutiny was later aborted after a deal was struck with the help of Mr Lukashenko.\n\nThe Russian authorities said Wagner will be disarmed but its members will escape prosecution over its short-lived rebellion.\n\n\"We always treated fighters and commanders from this group with great respect, because they really showed bravery and heroism,\" said Mr Putin.\n\nHe said authorities would look into how the money paid to Wagner and its leader was spent.\n\nPreparations are under way for the group to hand over its heavy weapons and equipment to the Russian army, the defence ministry said.\n\nCriminal charges have also been dropped against those who took part in the mutiny, according to the FSB security service.\n\nWagner members were facing prosecution for armed insurrection, but the case has been closed because the mutineers had stopped short of actually committing a crime, the FSB said.\n\nIts fighters can either join the regular army, go home or head for Belarus, Mr Putin said on Monday, adding that the fighters were mostly \"patriots\" who had been misled into a criminal adventure.\n\nMr Lukashenko said Belarus has not started building any camps for members of the group, but will accommodate them if they want.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Putin told Russian troops in Moscow their actions during the mutiny had prevented a \"civil war\" and held a minute's silence for those killed.\n\nHe insisted that the Wagner forces never had the support of the army or the people, although crowds cheered and applauded Wagner troops as they left Rostov-on-Don.\n\nThe treatment of the mercenaries stands in marked contrast to the treatment of opposition politicians and activists, many of whom are in prison simply for speaking out against the war in Ukraine.\n\nOpposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, for example, is serving 25 years for treason.\n\nBy contrast, Wagner chief Prigozhin and the armed men who took part in the rebellion are seemingly being allowed to go free.\n\nPrigozhin has defended his actions, insisting the revolt was not meant to be a challenge to the leadership of Mr Putin.\n\nRather, he described it as a bid to save his mercenary group from being absorbed into the Russian army, and to expose the failures of the country's military leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds", "Concerns about the 999 service's failures were raised in Parliament\n\nBT took nearly three hours to alert the government about problems with the 999 emergency phone service, a minister has said.\n\nA full investigation will be launched into the delay after the failure meant many calls were not connected, Viscount Camrose told the House of Lords.\n\nConcerns about the resilience of the 999 service were raised in the House of Lords in an urgent question.\n\nBT, which manages the phone system, apologised \"sincerely\" for the issues.\n\nA spokesperson for the company said: \"The primary 999 service was restored on Sunday evening and we are no longer relying on the back-up system. We are monitoring the service, and we continue to work hard to determine the root cause and the impact this has had.\"\n\nThe issues began on Sunday morning and continued well into the evening, even after BT switched to a \"back-up system\", Parliament heard.\n\nPressed over when the government was made aware of the problem, technology minister Lord Camrose said: \"The event that caused caused the platform to go down occurred at 06:30 on Sunday. The government was advised of the event at 09:20, so just under three hours later.\n\n\"I understand that they informed the government as quickly as it was practically possible for them to do so. One of the areas they will look into as part of the inquiry is whether that should have been, could have been, faster.\"\n\nHe said the issue has now been fully resolved, and the service is running as normal.\n\nHe added: \"A full investigation is under way to understand what caused this problem.\"\n\nLabour peer Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, who previously sat in the Commons as Ruth Smeeth, called it \"an incredibly disconcerting event\".\n\n\"Any failure in the system will undermine faith in our emergency provision. We are seemingly very fortunate that there was no major incident.\"\n\nThe technical fault with the network has led to calls from a former Metropolitan Police chief to introduce joint call-handling for the three emergency services and \"remove the cost that BT imposes on the whole system\".\n\nLord Hogan-Howe, who headed the UK's largest police force from 2011 to 2017, said: \"Isn't it time we started having joint call-handling?\"\n\n\"The only reason BT need to take the call is because the ambulance, the fire and police have to take them independently, and you have to make a call to BT to declare which service you require, often at a time you don't actually know which one you need.\n\n\"Why don't we answer them together? Why don't we remove the cost that BT imposes on the whole system that appears has not worked very well on this particular occasion?\"\n\nAt the time of the glitch, BT said its priority was getting the lines \"up and running as soon as possible\", and experts were trying to work out the cause.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nRacism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in English and Welsh cricket, according to a long-awaited independent report.\n\nThe Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) has delivered its findings from a two-year investigation.\n\nThe ICEC has made 44 recommendations, including that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) makes an unreserved public apology for its failings.\n\nECB chair Richard Thompson said: \"We will use this moment to reset cricket.\"\n\nThe ICEC was announced by the ECB in March 2021 in the wake of global movements such as Black Lives Matter and Me Too.\n\nIt opened an online call for evidence in November of that year, receiving 4,156 responses. In March 2022, a call for written evidence resulted in more than 150 responses.\n\nAmong those to give evidence include England men's Test captain Ben Stokes, women's captain Heather Knight, former men's captain Joe Root, World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, and Azeem Rafiq - the former Yorkshire player and racism whistleblower.\n• None Read the full report from the ICEC (warning - contains descriptions of racism and other offensive and discriminatory language and behaviour)\n\nIn a damning 317-page report called Holding Up A Mirror To Cricket, the ICEC concluded that:\n• None \"Structural and institutional racism\" continues to exist within the game.\n• None Women are treated as \"subordinate\" to men at all levels of the sport.\n• None There is a prevalence of \"elitism and class-based discrimination\" in cricket.\n• None Black cricket has been failed and the ECB must develop a plan to revive it.\n• None Many who experience discrimination do not report it because of a distrust in the authorities.\n• None Umpires regularly ignore abuse and dismiss complaints in both the professional and recreational games.\n\n\"There remains a stark reality that cricket is not a 'game for everyone' and it is absolutely essential that the work required to achieve that ambition must begin immediately,\" wrote ICEC chair Cindy Butts.\n\n\"Be in no doubt, what is needed now is leadership. I very much hope that the recommendations we make in this report will be adopted and driven forward by the ECB and all others in leadership positions.\"\n\nThe report praised the ECB for being \"brave\" enough to open itself to independent scrutiny.\n\nThompson, who became ECB chair last September, offered an \"unreserved\" apology.\n\n\"Cricket should be a game for everyone, and we know that this has not always been the case,\" he said. \"Powerful conclusions within the report also highlight that for too long women and black people were neglected. We are truly sorry for this.\n\n\"This report makes clear that historic structures and systems have failed to prevent discrimination, and highlights the pain and exclusion this has caused.\n\n\"I am determined that this wake-up call for cricket in England and Wales should not be wasted. We will use this moment to demonstrate that it is a game for all and we have a duty to put this right for current and future generations.\"\n\nThe recommendations also include the equalisation of match fees between the England women's and men's teams with immediate effect, that the ECB reports on the state of equity in cricket every three years and the removal of annual fixtures between Eton and Harrow schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities from Lord's.\n• None You've got to be lucky or privileged to play men's cricket - Flintoff\n\nIn light of allegations made by former Yorkshire spin bowler Rafiq, the ECB published a plan to tackle racism and all forms of discrimination in November 2021.\n\nThe ICEC said the significant response it received to its call for evidence was propelled by Rafiq's appearance at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee hearing in the same month, when he said English cricket was \"institutionally racist\".\n\nOf the respondents, 50% described experiencing discrimination during the course of the previous five years. The figures were higher for people from ethnically diverse communities: 87% of people with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage, 82% of people with Indian heritage and 75% of all black respondents.\n\n\"The persistence of interpersonal and structural racism in cricket is due, we believe, in part to a failure by the ECB to specifically and unambiguously name racism as a concern, at least until the recent crisis (and only then generally in reference to interpersonal and overt forms of racism),\" said the report.\n\n\"Racism remains a widespread and serious problem in cricket across England and Wales and something that the ECB and the wider game should address with urgency.\"\n\nIn its evidence to the report, the ECB admitted to a \"lost generation\" of black cricketers.\n\n\"Black adults are not playing cricket in sufficient numbers to even be picked up by surveys that measure participation in cricket,\" said the ICEC report.\n\n\"A 2020 report by Sport England found that black participation was so low as to be statistically irrelevant, apparently lower than in golf and tennis.\"\n\nThe ICEC has recommended that the ECB undertakes an \"in-depth examination\" of the decline in cricket among black communities within the next 12 months.\n\nIn a statement, Rafiq said: \"I welcome the report's findings and acknowledge the extraordinary work that has been put into this inquiry.\n\n\"There is no doubt now that the game we all love has suffered from institutionalised discrimination, including racism.\n\n\"This report is an opportunity to fully reflect on what has happened and for the sport's governing structures to work out a way forward to ensure that cricket is a game for everyone and that they feel supported, no matter their background.\"\n\nThough the report recognised \"positive strides\" made in the women's game, it also highlighted a lack of female representation among decision-makers, less media exposure and fewer opportunities to play at premier grounds for elite women, and inequity in terms of kit and equipment available to women and girls.\n\nThe ICEC heard \"evidence of a widespread culture of sexism and misogyny\" and examples of men making unwanted and uninvited advances towards women.\n\nThe report was alarmed that England's women have never played a Test at Lord's, while the \"home of cricket\" continues to host an annual schools fixture between Eton and Harrow.\n\nMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord's, said it was \"committed to playing its part\" in improving inclusivity in cricket and ensuring Lord's is \"a place where everyone feels welcome\".\n\nIn terms of pay and investment, the women's game receives an \"embarrassingly small amount\" when compared to the men's game.\n\nAccording to the report, an England women's white-ball player receives a salary that is 20.6% that of her male equivalent and the allowance given to the women's captain is 31% that of the men's.\n\nDomestically, the average salary of a woman in the regional structure is 45% that of a man at a first-class county, while in The Hundred the highest salary tier for women is £1,250 more than the lowest tier for men.\n\nEven when players are excluded, there is an 18.8% gap in the average salary between female and male employees at the ECB.\n\nThe ICEC has recommended a \"fundamental overhaul of the professional women players' pay structure\".\n\nThis includes immediate parity between men's and women's international match fees, overall equal pay at international level by 2030 and equal pay in The Hundred in 2025.\n\nA lack of cricket in state schools and a talent pathway structurally aligned to private schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\", according to the report.\n\nSome 58% of men to play for England in 2021 were privately educated, significantly higher than the 7% of the general population who went to private school.\n\nTo highlight the overrepresentation of privately educated people in the game, 42% of respondents to the ICEC's own survey went to a private school.\n\nThe report also referenced the costs associated in participating in talent pathways and \"conflicts of interests and biases\" from coaches as further barriers to player progression.\n\n\"The structure and operation of the talent pathway remains a barrier to equity and inclusion across gender, class and race,\" said the report. \"It repeats and reinforces wider structural inequalities that exist across cricket in England and Wales.\"\n\nThe ICEC recommends that inter-county cricket should not begin before the age of 14 and all access to a county talent pathway programme should be free of charge by 2025.\n\n\"We recommend that the entire talent pathway structure should be overhauled to make it more meritocratic, inclusive, accountable, transparent and consistent,\" said the report.\n\nAnti-racism charity Kick It Out \"commended the victims\" and said \"cricket has a mountain to climb\" to \"address the extensive issues that currently exist in the game\".\n\nIt added: \"We look forward to seeing how much resource the ECB dedicates to driving systemic change at international, county and grassroots level. It will require hard work, innovation and courage.\"\n\nYorkshire, which admitted four amended charges stemming from Rafiq's claims of racism at the club, said in a statement: \"Yorkshire County Cricket Club has seen first-hand the damage that can be caused by a failure to tackle discrimination of all kinds, and the vital need to cut it off at source.\n\n\"The creation of an inclusive environment for all can only be achieved through collaboration at all levels of the game. \"\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car?: Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads\n• None Is it a good idea to fix your mortgage and energy bills?:", "Supermarket executives have denied making too much money from soaring prices, telling MPs the industry is the \"most competitive we have ever been\".\n\nBosses from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons were grilled over high food and fuel prices.\n\nThe supermarkets rejected claims of making excess profits and said they were shielding customers from the full impact of rising costs.\n\nThe competition watchdog is looking into the level of food and fuel prices.\n\nIt is examining whether not enough competition has meant customers are overpaying.\n\nSupermarket executives were quizzed by MPs on the Business and Trade Committee on Tuesday on why food prices were still rising, despite some wholesale costs falling.\n\nFood prices rose by 14.6% in the year to June, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents supermarkets. That was down from 15.4% in the year to May, but it does not mean prices are falling, just that they are rising at a slower pace.\n\nHigher grocery prices remain a key reason why the overall rate of inflation in the UK remains stubbornly high.\n\nChairman Darren Jones said that all four supermarkets, with the exception of Morrisons, had made increased profits compared to before the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Jones said he had heard of Asda employees recently \"having to go to the food bank to collect donations of food they had stacked in their own supermarket because they cannot make ends meet\".\n\nBut the supermarkets said they all paid the National Living Wage or above and argued they were doing all they could to protect customers from higher costs resulting from increased energy, labour and commodity prices.\n\nJane Hunt, a Conservative MP, asked executives if they were \"in fact a cartel\" and were colluding to set prices.\n\nIn response, Kris Comerford, chief commercial officer for Asda, said UK retail was \"the most competitive market\", a sentiment echoed by executives from Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nAll four supermarket bosses said they did not support a price cap on essential foods, an idea which had been considered by the government, but was never formally proposed.\n\nPoliticians, trades unionists and the governor of the Bank of England have all questioned why supermarket prices have not fallen as rapidly as the wholesale cost of ingredients such as wheat.\n\nSome have suggested that retailers might be failing to pass on savings and are banking the profit instead.\n\nSupermarkets have previously said they have cut prices when possible and added that falls in wholesale costs take time, typically three to nine months, to filter through to the shelves.\n\nHelen Dickinson, head of the BRC, said the trade body expected food inflation to drop \"to single digits later this year\".\n\nMost of the big chains have recently introduced price cuts to staples, with Sainsbury's on Monday the latest to announce it was investing £15m to reduce the cost of basics such as rice, pasta and chicken.\n\nHowever, some items such as milk and eggs remain relatively expensive compared to pre-Covid prices.\n\nJamie Keeble, co-founder of sausage and burger maker Heck which supplies most of the major supermarkets, told the BBC's Today programme that the price of pork was expected to remain high for the next 18 months.\n\nHe said the only way supermarkets could lower their prices was by asking suppliers to cut costs, but he added: \"We're certainly not in the position to start giving cost decreases on our products.\n\n\"At the end of the day, [the supermarkets] are going to have to take a cut in their margins if they really want to lower the prices on the shelf, that's the only way to do it.\"\n\nSeparately, all four supermarket executives backed calls for more transparency on fuel prices, after MPs highlighted that prices for petrol and diesel were lower in Northern Ireland as a result of data being shared widely with drivers.\n\nA study by academics at the London School of Economics last month found nearly a third of food price inflation since 2019 was due to Brexit.\n\nHow is the price of food changing your diet? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. My strategy included one-minute power naps, which some of my support crew were shocked to find\n\nA woman has set a new time record for scaling all the mountains in Scotland higher than 3,000 feet (914m).\n\nUltra-runner Jamie Aarons finished the challenge in 31 days 10 hours and 27 minutes, breaking the previous record by more than 12 hours.\n\nThere are 282 mountains that meet the benchmark and they are known collectively as the Munros.\n\nThe challenge saw Aarons ascend 459,000 ft, the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest 16 times.\n\nShe also ran, cycled and kayaked between each of the Munros, covering a total of around 932 miles (1,500km) on foot and about the same distance by bike.\n\nAarons, who works as a social work adviser for the Scottish government, is originally from California but moved to Scotland in 2005.\n\nShe began the attempt at Ben More on the Isle of Mull on 26 May and finished at Ben Klibreck in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands at 16:57 BST on Monday.\n\nThe previous record for a self-propelled Munro challenge was held by former marine Donnie Campbell, from Skye. He completed the feat in 31 days, 23 hours, and two minutes.\n\nThe time taken by Aarons was also less than half the previous record for the fastest woman, set in 2017 by Libby Kerr and Lisa Trollope, who completed the challenge jointly in 76 days and 10 hours.\n\nShe has climbed all the Munros on two occasions before, the first time alongside partner Andy Taylor and the second time with Mr Taylor and the couple's two dogs.\n\nAs well as breaking the record, Aarons has raised £14,000 for World Bicycle Relief, a charity which provides bikes to children in poorer nations to increase their mobility and improve access to essential services such as schools, markets and health clinics.\n\nSpeaking at the start, she said: \"My journey will take me across the length and breadth of Scotland, across sea and lochs, from remote glens to the highest point in the United Kingdom; and across more miles of bog than I care to think about.\"\n\nShe added that raising money for the good cause would help to \"motivate me through the tough miles\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An enforcement notice telling the firm to end operations came into effect on Tuesday\n\nLetting a huge mine keep digging months after planning permission ran out is potentially unlawful and sets a terrible precedent, lawyers have said.\n\nAn enforcement notice giving Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil 28 days to stop extracting coal came into effect on Tuesday.\n\nBarristers for climate activists argued the Welsh government and Merthyr council could have stepped in sooner.\n\nBut the council said it had a \"contrary legal view of the situation\".\n\nIt said it would not comment further due to \"potential litigation\", while the Welsh government said it wanted to bring \"a managed end to the extraction and use of coal\".\n\nMine operator Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd has been asked to comment.\n\nThe UK's largest - and now last - opencast coal mine at Ffos-y-Fran has a long and controversial history, and its closure is also turning into a drawn-out saga.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An animated map showing Ffos-y-Fran opencast site near Merthyr Tydfil and villages at the top of the Rhymney valley\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd has until the end of July to stop all coal extraction, after its application for more time was refused in April on climate grounds.\n\nIt means the mine - the size of about 400 football pitches - will have been able to continue operating for at least 10 months past the expiry of its planning permission in September 2022.\n\nFigures show that between 7 September 2022 and 31 March 2023, 199,307 tonnes of coal were dug up at the site.\n\nIn an open letter of legal advice, barristers working with the campaign group Coal Action Network said the situation brought the planning system \"into disrepute\".\n\nMatthew McFeeley of environmental law firm Richard Buxton Solicitors said: \"It certainly sends a signal to other operators who may be considering whether to shut down their coal mine or oil well - do they need to do that?\n\n\"They may get away with a significant period of extraction without planning control.\"\n\nResidents and campaigners have been protesting against the situation for months, sending in photos, video and drone footage of alleged mining.\n\nChris Austin, 67, who lives near the site, said it had been \"incredibly frustrating\".\n\n\"The local authority could have acted almost immediately but they've dragged their heels on this,\" he added.\n\nPeople living near the site complained that their lives were being blighted by coal dust and noise\n\nDr Neil Harris, senior lecturer in statutory planning at Cardiff University, said the fact an application to extend the mine's life was received just days before planning permission ran out was crucial to the \"elongated process\" that has followed.\n\nWhile the council could be seen as being \"a little cautious\" this was down to wanting to get the decision right in a \"really complicated case\" and not leaving itself open to legal challenge, he suggested.\n\nMerthyr (South Wales) Ltd, previously said it was in \"active discussion\" with the council about ensuring \"a safe cessation of coaling\" and ongoing restoration.\n\nThe site employs about 180 staff, and supplies the steelworks in nearby Port Talbot, as well as the UK's heritage steam railways.\n\nA Merthyr council spokeswoman said: \"We have a contrary legal view of the situation. It is not appropriate to comment any further in light of potential litigation.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said: \"Our position is clear - we want to bring a managed end to the extraction and use of coal.\n\n\"We are in a climate and nature emergency and the response must be swift and serious, so we can pass on a Wales we are proud of to future generations.\"", "Nicola Bulley went missing on a dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27 January\n\nNicola Bulley's death was accidental and she did not have \"any desire\" to take her own life, a coroner concluded.\n\nThe 45-year-old drowned after falling into cold water, Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire ruled.\n\nExperts told the hearing entering cold water can cause a person to gasp and inhale water and drown in seconds.\n\nAfter the verdict, Ms Bulley's family hit out at \"wildly inaccurate speculation\" on social media that followed her death\n\nMs Bulley's family still receive \"negative targeted messages\" on social media, as well as seeing \"wildly inaccurate speculation\" on a number of platforms months after her death, they said in a statement read by their lawyer, Terry Wilcox.\n\nThe family urged the public \"to look at the facts the evidence that has been heard during the inquest, and the conclusion reached by the coroner and to ignore any amateur views and opinions and be mindful of the impact words bring\".\n\nHe added: \"The last few months have been extremely tough to process for our family.\n\n\"The emotional impact will stay long in our hearts and whilst we will never forget the loss of our Nikki, we will forever remember her as a brilliant mum, partner, daughter and sister that we all knew and loved so very much.\"\n\nBut he said the \"help and support we have received over these past few months has meant more than words can say\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Be mindful of the impact words bring - Nicola Bulley's family\n\nMs Bulley went missing on a dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27 January, prompting a major search, which led to intense public interest and a social media frenzy of conspiracy theories.\n\nHer body was found in the River Wyre more than three weeks later on 19 February.\n\nDuring the huge search after she vanished, police urged against people fuelling damaging rumours making their job harder and attracting sightseers to the village where she disappeared.\n\nLancashire Police came under fire after revealing Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nThe coroner said one purpose of the inquest was to \"allay rumour and suspicion\" and he would rely only on \"reliable sources\" and not explore the \"theories advanced by those who contribute to social media fora\".\n\nMs Bulley's phone was found on a bench close to River Wyre and was still connected to a work conference call\n\nEarlier the inquest heard Ms Bulley, a mother-of-two, had been \"looking forward to the future\" before she went missing.\n\nHer partner of 12 years, Paul Ansell, said there had been concerns about her drinking and she had a \"blip\" over Christmas but she was back to herself by January.\n\nHe said: \"She had a good day the day before [she went missing], came home full of beans, excited with work, with the meetings she had and plans for the year.\"\n\nThe inquest heard the family had called 999 with worries about her welfare earlier in January.\n\nOn the call-out Dr Theresa Leevy said the call followed Ms Bulley telling her sister she did not want to engage with her children and was \"not wishing to be here\".\n\nMs Bulley's former GP told the hearing there was \"nothing\" in her medical records to suggest she wanted to self-harm.\n\nPaul Ansell said his partner was planning for the future the day before she went missing\n\nDr Rebecca Gray said she had been receiving treatment for \"low mood and anxiety\" since December 2018, later telling of headaches, fatigue and lack of sleep.\n\nMs Bulley had been receiving HRT for the menopause since summer 2021, the inquest heard.\n\nIn his verdict Dr Adeley said there was \"no evidence\" to suggest Ms Bulley intended to take her own life.\n\nHe said: \"Excluding a couple of comments over the Christmas period when she was acting out of character and were treated as throw away comments, there was no indication of any intention to take her own life.\n\n\"Her behaviour in the week before her death was back to normal, she had restarted her HRT therapy, stopped drinking some time before, was making plans for play dates and spa days with several people.\"\n\nDr Adeley said she was \"becoming increasingly successful at her new career as a mortgage broker\" and her behaviour during a parents visit the night before she went missing was \"entirely normally\".\n\nHe added: \"The circumstances found after her death would also be extremely unusual for suicide where Nikki left Willow, a dog to who she was devoted and was described as a third child, alone on the river bank.\"\n\nHe said Ms Bulley would have had to have had \"sufficient knowledge of cold water shock to realise as to how rapidly a death may occur as otherwise she may be spotted and saved\".\n\n\"For these and many other reasons I discount a conclusion of suicide as there is no evidence to support this conclusion.\n\n\"There was also no natural disease that contributed to Nikki's death. The remaining conclusion is that of accidental death.\"\n\nNicola Bulley drowned after falling into cold water, Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire ruled\n\nSpeaking outside Preston's County Hall, Lancashire Constabulary's head of crime Det Ch Supt Pauline Stables said: \"I want to start by saying that first and foremost my thoughts today are with Nikki's family and loved ones.\n\n\"They have been through the most unimaginable ordeal over the last six months and I can only hope that this inquest will help in some small way by answering some of the questions they had about what happened to Nikki on 27 January and will allow them to start the process of rebuilding their lives as best as they can.\"\n\nShe said she hoped the coroner's conclusion would put an end to \"ill-informed speculation and conspiracy theories\" surrounding Ms Bulley's death.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lady with a Fan is the last portrait Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted before he died\n\nGustav Klimt's final painting has sold for £85.3m ($108.4m), making it the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe.\n\nLady with a Fan (Dame mit Fächer) was sold to a Hong Kong collector who triumphed in a four-way bidding war at Sotheby's.\n\nThe portrait of the unnamed woman was still on an easel in Klimt's studio when the painter died in 1918.\n\nIt soared past its £65m estimate in an auction that lasted 10 minutes.\n\nThe painting, described as \"a masterpiece by an artist at the height of his powers\", has strong Asian influences and is part of the Japonisme trend, which refers to the influence of Japanese art and design among Western European artists.\n\nIt also features several Chinese motifs including the phoenix, a symbol of immortality and rebirth, and lotus blossoms that signify love.\n\nHelena Newman, the chair of Sotheby's Europe and worldwide head of impressionist and modern art, said: \"Dame mit Fächer is the last portrait Gustav Klimt created before his untimely death, when still in his artistic prime and producing some of his most accomplished and experimental works.\n\n\"Many of those works, certainly the portraits for which he is best known, were commissions. This, though, is something completely different - a technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation, as well as a heartfelt ode to absolute beauty.\"\n\nLady with a Fan is among the very few portraits by Klimt, a leading figure of the Vienna Secession art movement, to be owned privately. It was last sold in 1994, when it fetched $11.6m (£9m).\n\nThe Austrian Symbolist painter is best-known for his work on gold-leaf-encrusted canvases such as The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907.", "The singer started his Glastonbury set in full voice, but was largely unable to sing by the time he left the stage\n\nLewis Capaldi has said he will take a break from touring for the \"foreseeable future\", days after he struggled to finish his Glastonbury set.\n\nThe Scottish singer, who has Tourette's Syndrome, asked fans to help him by singing along at the festival.\n\nGlastonbury was the 26-year-old's first live performance since taking a previous three-week break.\n\nBut he said it \"became obvious that I need to spend much more time getting my mental and physical health in order\".\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, he said he was \"still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette's\" and that the decision to call off his tour had been \"the most difficult decision of my life\".\n\nHe had 26 dates around the world in the calendar between now and October.\n\nThey included a show at Chepstow Racecourse in south Wales this weekend, as well as concerts in Manchester, Belfast, Edinburgh and at the Reading and Leeds festivals.\n\n\"First of all, thank you to Glastonbury for having me, for singing along when I needed it and for all the amazing messages afterwards. It really does mean the world,\" he posted.\n\n\"The fact that this probably won't come as a surprise doesn't make it any easier to write, but I'm very sorry to let you know I'm going to be taking a break from touring for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"I used to be able to enjoy every second of shows like this and I'd hoped three weeks away would sort me out.\n\n\"But the truth is I'm still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette's and on Saturday it became obvious that I need to spend much more time getting my mental and physical health in order, so I can keep doing everything I love for a long time to come.\"\n\nCapaldi asked the Glastonbury crowd \"to sing with me as loud as you can\"\n\nHe continued: \"I know I'm incredibly fortunate to be able to take some time out when others can't and I'd like to thank my amazing family, friends, team, medical professionals and all of you who've been so supportive every step of the way through the good times and even more so during this past year when I've needed it more than ever.\n\n\"I'm so incredibly sorry to everyone who had planned to come to a show before the end of the year but I need to feel well to perform at the standard you all deserve. Playing for you every night is all I've ever dreamed of so this has been the most difficult decision of my life.\n\n\"I'll be back as soon as I possibly can.\"\n\nDuring his set on Glastonbury's main Pyramid Stage, Capaldi suffered vocal problems that left him almost unable to sing his final songs.\n\nBy the end of the set, the star suggested he would need to take more time away from public life to recuperate.\n\n\"I feel like I'll be taking another wee break over the next couple of weeks. So you probably won't see much of me for the rest of the year, maybe even,\" he told the crowd.\n\n\"But when I do come back and when I do see you, I hope you're still up for watching us.\"\n\nThe festival was supposed to be a comeback, after he had cancelled three weeks of shows to \"rest and recover\" amid concerns for his health.\n\nBut despite a warm reception from the crowd, his voice quickly faltered. \"Glastonbury, I'm really sorry,\" he said. \"I'm a bit annoyed with myself.\"\n\nThe audience lent him their vocal support on hits like Someone You Loved, willing him along and belting out the words with him.\n\nBBC Music correspondent Mark Savage described it as \"a wonderful, communal display of both the Glastonbury spirit, and the genuine public affection for Capaldi, who walked around the stage, singing when he could manage, and taking in the view\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapaldi's health problems date back to the pandemic, when he went back to his home town for the Covid lockdown, expecting to start work on his second album.\n\nHis first, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, sold more than any other in the UK in 2019 and it would go on to be the biggest seller in 2020 as well.\n\nIt meant expectations were high for album number two. He was feeling the pressure, and it would take its toll physically and mentally.\n\n\"Making the first album was as close to dreams coming true as you could possibly get,\" the Scottish singer-songwriter told the makers of a Netflix documentary about his life.\n\n\"But as soon as the first album does well, it's like can he do it again though?\"\n\nThe follow-up, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, became the fastest-selling album of the year in the UK when it was released last month.\n\nBefore the release of his second album, the Scottish singer spoke about his family, forming a supergroup and living with Tourette's.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCrystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha and rapper Stormzy have agreed a deal to buy non-league club AFC Croydon.\n\nThe pair, who both grew up in the South London borough, are part of a three-man consortium alongside former Palace head of player care Danny Young.\n\nAFC Croydon compete in the ninth tier of English football.\n\nAnnouncing the agreement, the club said: \"The consortium will own, operate and develop their childhood hometown football club.\"\n\nThey added: \"Whilst completion is subject to legislative and governance procedures, the three consortium members are excited about developing a community asset in the borough that gave them their own opportunities.\n\n\"They hope to take the entire community on this exciting journey with them.\"\n\nAFC Croydon were founded in 2012 after Croydon Athletic folded.\n\nZaha, 30, who was born in the Ivory Coast, is heavily involved in community projects and also runs the WZ Academy.\n\nHe began his career at Crystal Palace, before joining Manchester United in 2013.\n\nAfter a spell on loan at Cardiff, he rejoined Palace on a season-long loan in August 2014, which was made permanent in February 2015.\n\nZaha won two England caps before switching his footballing allegiance to the Ivory Coast and going on to win 31 caps for his country of birth.\n\nHe has been linked with a move away from Selhurst Park when his contract expires at the end of the month, amid interest from Saudi Arabia.\n\nFollowing the announcement by the non-league club, he tweeted: \"May the journey begin.\"\n\nStormzy - whose real name is Michael Owuo Jr - has had three number one albums and won three Brit awards.\n\nThe 29-year-old musician, who is a Manchester United fan, was England manager at Soccer Aid 2023.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "We're going to leave our live coverage of Nicola Bulley now - thanks for joining us.\n\nAfter the mother-of-two first went missing on 27 January - and her body was eventually found less than a month later in the River Wyre - a coroner has found that she died by drowning and her death was accidental.\n\nIf you want to keep reading about what happened today, and what we learnt, head to our main news story here.\n\nOtherwise, this page was written by Emily Atkinson, Charley Adams and Andre Rhoden-Paul. It was edited by me.", "A minke whale has been spotted leaping from the water off Scarborough, amazing those lucky enough to see it.\n\nWildlife photographer Steve Shipley headed out to sea last Thursday in the hope of spotting dolphins.\n\nWhile the dolphins evaded him, he managed to get a rare glimpse of a minke whale breaching the waves.\n\nMr Shipley captured the whale with almost its whole body out of the water, saying it was a \"fantastic\" sight only 10 minutes into the trip.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ellie has autism and ADHD, and Lisa says teachers struggled to cope with her behaviour\n\nEllie is one of thousands of children in Scotland who needs extra help when they are at school.\n\nThe 14-year-old has autism and ADHD, but her mother Lisa says her primary school teachers did not know how to cope with her behaviour.\n\nIt led to a series of exclusions, a part-time timetable and at one point she was getting just an hour of schooling a day.\n\nFor five years from primary five, when she was about nine, Ellie did not receive a full-time education.\n\nNow the only place she can go to school is an hour-and-a-half from her home, and she has had to enrol as a weekly boarder.\n\nIt means that in term time Ellie can only spend time with her family at weekends.\n\n\"From primary five right up until third year we've literally had little, tiny, tiny bits of education and I wouldn't even say it's education, it's more welfare checks, how are you getting on?\" Lisa said.\n\n\"All through Ellie's life it's been, we don't have the teaching staff, we don't have the staff, we don't have the staff.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society Scotland says children who have autism and ADHD often face exclusions for behaviour perceived as naughty or disruptive.\n\nBut it can be caused by a lack of support or the school environment.\n\nMany have sensory issues - where sounds can feel louder and classrooms hotter and more crowded - leading to them feeling overwhelmed.\n\nOften children are taken out of class, sent home or even put on a part-time timetable, like Ellie.\n\nA reduced timetable can work for some children but for many it is detrimental to their mental health.\n\nLisa said Ellie blamed herself for the problems.\n\n\"Mental health-wise [it was] really bad, with all the exclusions we actually got referred to child and adolescent mental health services,\" Lisa said.\n\n\"It was heart-breaking knowing, I don't want to cry, but knowing that you have a 12/13 year old who wants to kill herself, it's not a nice thing to know.\"\n\nEllie has what schools call \"additional support needs\" or ASN - a wide definition that includes any child or young person who needs a bit of extra help.\n\nIt could be a pupil with a disability, dyslexia, someone in the care system, or has mental health problems.\n\nIn 2022, more than a third (34.2%) of pupils in Scotland were identified as having additional support needs of some kind.\n\nThe National Autistic Society Scotland says children like Ellie are being forced to fail because there are not enough resources in the education system to help them.\n\nRob Holland wants the education committee at Holyrood to hold an inquiry\n\nIts director Rob Holland says he has heard anecdotal evidence of an increasing number of informal exclusions, where a child could be sent home for the day or put on a part-time timetable.\n\nBut there is no way of knowing exactly how often this is happening because there are no statistics.\n\n\"We urgently need an inquiry to look closely at this issue and look at the levels of resource in the system, look at the levels of specialist teaching, look at the levels of training and awareness that teachers themselves have and look at the sensory environment that schools have,\" he said.\n\nOfficial statistics on formal exclusions show that for ASN pupils there were 25.5 exclusions per 1,000 pupils in 2020/21. For children without additional needs, the rate was 5.3 per 1,000 pupils.\n\nA recent survey of members of the Educational Institute of Scotland found that the struggle to respond to ASN needs was the most significant cause of stress in teachers' working lives.\n\nAndrea Bradley of EIS says more resource is needed to help ASN children\n\nIts general secretary Andrea Bradley blamed a chronic under-resourcing of ASN provision, large class sizes and excessive workload.\n\nShe said: \"60% of our members say the single most important factor in reducing workload for them would be additional support needs provision to the scale that's really required now in classrooms in Scotland, given that 34% of children now have a recognised additional support need.\n\n\"Teachers increasingly feel low morale because they don't feel they are able to meet the needs of all of those children - neither are they meeting the needs of the children in the class who don't happen to have additional support needs.\"\n\nA recent independent report on education for the Scottish government highlighted the problem, saying: \"The need for timely attention to, and resourcing for, appropriate ASN provision is now urgent\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it spent a record high £830m on additional support for learning in 2021/22.\n\n\"We have also invested an additional £60m since 2019-20 (£15m per year) and provide over £11m of funding to directly support pupils with complex additional support needs and services to children and families,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"The Scottish government is working to develop the support available to autistic learners. However, it is for local councils to determine the most appropriate educational provision, taking account of their legal responsibilities and the individual circumstances of the children and young people in their care.\n\n\"This guidance is clear that the wellbeing of a child must take priority and that exclusion should only be used as a last resort, where there is no appropriate alternative.\"\n\nYou can find information and support for issues raised in this story at BBC Action Line.", "An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year as tree losses surged, according to new research.\n\nIt means that a political pledge to end deforestation made at COP26 by world leaders is well off track.\n\nSome 11 football pitches of forest were lost every minute in 2022, with Brazil dominating the destruction.\n\nBut a sharp reduction in forest loss in Indonesia shows that reversing this trend is achievable.\n\nOne of the key moments at the COP26 climate meeting in 2021 saw over 100 world leaders sign the Glasgow Declaration on forests, where they committed to work collectively to \"halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030\".\n\nIn total, leaders from countries covering around 85% of global forests signed up. This included former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who had relaxed the enforcement of environmental laws to allow development in the Amazon rainforest.\n\nThe Glasgow pact was agreed after a previous agreement signed in 2014 failed to stem the relentless loss of trees.\n\nNow a new analysis carried out by Global Forest Watch shows that the new promise made in Glasgow is not being kept.\n\nLosses of tropical primary (old-growth) forest are seen as particularly critical for global warming and biodiversity.\n\nRainforests in Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia absorb huge amounts of greenhouse gases.\n\nClearing or burning these older forests sees that stored carbon released to the atmosphere, driving up temperatures around the world.\n\nThese forests are also critical for maintaining biodiversity and the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\nScientists warn that these functions - or \"ecosystem services\" - can't easily be replaced by planting trees elsewhere, because these forests have developed over such a long period of time.\n\nAccording to the new data, gathered by the University of Maryland, the tropics lost 10% more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021, with just over 4m hectares (nearly 16,000 sq miles) felled or burned in total.\n\nThis released an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of India.\n\n\"The question is, are we on track to halt deforestation by 2030? And the short answer is a simple no,\" said Rod Taylor from the World Resources Institute (WRI) which runs the Global Forest Watch.\n\nPresident Lula and his environment minister have promised to end deforestation in Brazil\n\n\"Globally, we are far off track and trending in the wrong direction. Our analysis shows that global deforestation in 2022 was over 1 million hectares above the level needed to be on track to zero deforestation by 2030.\"\n\nBrazil dominates the losses of primary tropical forest and in 2022 this increased by over 14%.\n\nIn Amazonas state, which is home to over half of Brazil's intact forests, the rate of deforestation has almost doubled over the past three years.\n\nWhile the overall picture is not good, there are some positive developments that show that it is possible to rein in deforestation.\n\nIndonesia has reduced its primary tropical forest loss more than any other country in recent years since recording an all-time high in 2016.\n\nAnalysis suggests this is down to both government and corporate actions.\n\nA moratorium on logging in new palm oil plantations was made permanent in 2019, while efforts to monitor and limit fires have been stepped up.\n\nIndonesia has stepped up fire monitoring and restricted new palm plantations\n\nIt's a similar story in Malaysia. In both countries, oil palm corporations also appear to be taking action, with some 83% of palm oil refining capacity now operating under no deforestation, no peatland and no exploitation commitments.\n\nBolivia, one of the few countries not to sign the Glasgow Declaration, also saw a rapid acceleration of forest losses in 2022, up almost a third in a year.\n\nCommodity agriculture is the main driver, according to researchers. Soybean expansion has resulted in nearly a million hectares of deforestation in Bolivia since the turn of the century.\n\nAlthough Ghana in West Africa has only a small amount of primary forest remaining, it saw a massive 71% increase in losses in 2022, mostly in protected areas. Some of these losses are close to existing cocoa farms.\n\nWith a new president in Brazil committing to end deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, there is renewed hope that the promises made in Glasgow in 2021 might fare better in the coming years.\n\nBut if the world wants to keep global temperatures under the critical 1.5C threshold, the time for action on forests is very short indeed, say the researchers.\n\n\"There's an urgency to get a peak and decline in deforestation, even more urgent than the peak and decline in carbon emissions,\" said Rod Taylor from WRI.\n\n\"Because once you lose forests, they're just so much harder to recover. They're kind of irrecoverable assets.\"\n\nThe loss of tree cover can be monitored relatively easily by analysing satellite images - although there's sometimes uncertainty about the precise year in which trees have been lost.\n\nMeasuring deforestation - which typically refers to human-caused, permanent removal of natural forest cover - is more complicated, because not all tree-cover loss counts as deforestation.\n\nFor example, losses from fire, disease or storms, as well as losses within sustainable production forests, would not usually count as deforestation. There are difficulties with this - for instance, some fires may have been started deliberately to clear a forest, rather than being natural.\n\nScientists try to take all of these factors into account to come up with an estimate for deforestation.\n\nThe latest figures suggests a rise in (human-caused) global deforestation of about 3.6% in 2022 compared with 2021 - the opposite direction to what was pledged in Glasgow.\n\nInterestingly, whilst losses of the particularly important primary tropical forests rose by nearly 10% in 2022, overall global tree cover loss from all causes actually fell by nearly 10%.\n\nBut researchers say this was because losses from forest fires were down in 2022, particularly in Russia. This is not thought to be part of a long-term trend.\n\nIn fact, tree cover losses from fires have generally increased in the last two decades, and fires are expected to become more common in future due to climate change and alterations to the way land is used.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the leaders of last weekend's Wagner mutiny of wanting \"to see Russia choked in bloody strife\".\n\nIn a short speech full of vitriol, Mr Putin vowed to bring the organisers of the revolt \"to justice\".\n\nBut he called regular Wagner troops \"patriots\" who would be allowed to join the army, go to Belarus or return home.\n\nHe did not directly name Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who earlier denied trying to overthrow Mr Putin's regime.\n\nWagner is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nThe short-lived rebellion, which saw Wagner fighters seize a major Russian city before heading north towards Moscow in a column of military vehicles, was a response to government plans to take direct control of Wagner, Prigozhin claimed in an 11-minute long audio statement published on Telegram on Monday.\n\nIn June, Russia said \"volunteer formations\" would be asked to sign Ministry of Defence contracts in a move widely seen as a threat to Prigozhin's grip on Wagner.\n\nThe mercenary chief said his rebellion was also a protest over mistakes made by defence officials during the war with Ukraine.\n\nBut he insisted that Wagner had acted always and only in Russia's interests.\n\nThese were Prigozhin's first public comments since agreeing a deal to halt the rebellion, which reportedly includes him going to Belarus with all criminal charges against him dropped - though Russian state media, citing officials, has reported he remains under investigation.\n\nHe said that he brought an end to the mutiny to stop \"spilling the blood of Russian soldiers\", adding that some Russian civilians were disappointed the march had stopped.\n\nBut he was at pains to stress that he had no intention of trying to topple Russia's elected authorities.\n\nIt was only audio so it is not clear where Prigozhin is now or what he does next.\n\nIn his own brief address to the Russian people, Mr Putin said organisers of the march on Moscow would be \"brought to justice\" and described his old ally Prigozhin as stabbing Russia in the back.\n\nHe used the speech as an attempt to reassert his authority, and squash the now common view that his response to the Wagner mutiny was weak. His tone in the short, recorded address was furious; his lip curling.\n\nThe president's message was that those who organised an insurrection had betrayed their country and people - and were doing the work of all of Russia's enemies by trying to drag it into bloodshed and division.\n\nHe accused the West of wanting Russians to \"kill each other\", but US President Joe Biden told a press conference on Monday the US and its allies had no involvement in Wagner's aborted rebellion.\n\nMr Putin argued that his own management of the crisis had averted disaster. But that's not what many Russians saw play out over the weekend and it's hard to think they'll be convinced by this performance.\n\nHe also said he would keep his promise to allow Wagner troops who did not \"turn to fratricidal blood\" to leave for Belarus.\n\n\"I thank those soldiers and commanders of the Wagner Group who made the only right decision - they did not turn to fratricidal bloodshed, they stopped at the last line,\" he said.\n\n\"Today, you have the opportunity to continue your service for Russia by signing a contract with the [Ministry of Defence] or other military and law enforcement structures, or to go back to your family and close ones.\n\n\"Those who want can leave for Belarus. The promise that I gave, will be fulfilled.\"\n\nMr Putin said \"steps were taken to avoid a lot of bloodshed\" at the very beginning of the mutiny, and that its organisers \"realised their actions were criminal\".\n\nHe praised the unity of Russian society and thanked the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is said to have brokered the deal to end the mutiny, for his efforts to resolve the situation peacefully.\n\nThe president's talk of a country united behind him contrasts sharply with Saturday's images from the southern city of Rostov, where the Wagner group had taken control and locals applauded fighters in the streets, hugging them and posing for selfies.\n\nThat's probably why Mr Putin offered Wagner members a way out, suggesting they'd been duped and used.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at what the consequences are of the failed Wagner mutiny\n\nLast week's rebellion followed months of growing tensions between Wagner and Russia's military leadership.\n\nInfighting came to a head on Friday night when Wagner mercenaries crossed the border from their field camps in Ukraine and entered the southern city of Rostov-on-Don - where Russia's war is being directed from.\n\nThey then reportedly took over the regional military command while a column of military vehicles moved north towards Moscow.\n\nPrigozhin claimed his \"march of justice\" revealed \"serious problems with security all around the country\".\n\nHe also mentioned the role Mr Lukashenko had played in brokering the arrangement to end the mutiny, saying the leader had offered Wagner a way to keep operating in a \"legal jurisdiction\".\n\nThe mercenary boss acknowledged his march had resulted in the deaths of some Russian troops when Wagner troops shot down attacking helicopters.\n\nBut he added that \"not a single soldier was killed on the ground\".\n\n\"We are sorry that we had to strike the aircraft, but they were striking us with bombs and missiles,\" he said.", "Sands appeared in films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Benediction and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo\n\nHuman remains found in mountains in California have been confirmed to be those of British actor Julian Sands, who went missing on a hike in January.\n\nWalkers found the remains on Saturday, police said, and they have now been formally identified.\n\nSands, 65, was best known for his roles in the Oscar-winning film A Room With A View and TV dramas 24 and Smallville.\n\nHis other credits included 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in which he appeared opposite Daniel Craig.\n\nSands disappeared on 13 January during bad weather in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains.\n\nAir and ground searches were hampered as California was battered by deadly storms, as well as icy conditions and a threat of avalanches.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said the remains found in the Mount Baldy area at the weekend had been positively identified as the missing actor.\n\n\"The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results.\n\n\"We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr Sands,\" they said in a statement.\n\nLast week, the star's family thanked the Californian authorities for their efforts in trying to locate him.\n\n\"We are deeply grateful to the search teams and coordinators who have worked tirelessly to find Julian,\" they said.\n\n\"We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer.\"\n\nAt the end of January, brother Nick Sands, who lives in North Yorkshire, where he, Julian and their three other brothers grew up, said he had already said his \"goodbyes\".\n\n\"I have come to terms with the fact he's gone and for me that's how I've dealt with it,\" he said.\n\nSands was a keen hiker. His friend and hiking partner Kevin Ryan has previously said that it was a true passion of his, and that \"he was the most advanced hiker I know\".\n\nSands' breakthrough role came playing the romantic lead in A Room With a View\n\nBorn in Otley, Yorkshire, and educated at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, Sands started his acting career with roles in such films as the The Killing Fields.\n\nThat brought him to the attention of director James Ivory, who cast him, ahead of the likes of Rupert Everett, in the 1985 film adaptation of EM Forster's novel A Room With A View.\n\nSet in Edwardian-era England and Italy, the film centred around Helena Bonham Carter's character Lucy Honeychurch and her ever-growing love for Sands' free-spirited George Emerson.\n\nThe film, which also featured Dame Maggie Smith, Daniel Day-Lewis and Dame Judi Dench, was a box office hit and won Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe awards. The British Film Institute has named it one of its top 100 British films.\n\nLater, Sands played the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Ken Russell's psychological thriller Gothic, before moving to Hollywood.\n\nHe played the title role in the 1989 horror film Warlock and its sequel, and his other big screen credits included prominent parts in Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena and Leaving Las Vegas, as well as starring opposite Jackie Chan in the action-comedy film The Medallion in 2003.\n\nHis TV roles included a Russian terrorist in Kiefer Sutherland's TV drama 24 in 2006, and Superman's biological father Jor-El in Smallville in 2009.\n\nFriend and fellow actor John Malkovich introduced Sands to his wife, the writer Evgenia Citkowitz. The couple, who had two children, lived in North Hollywood.\n\nSands was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he also had a son.\n\nSearch teams were back in the area on Saturday, after hikers made their discovery", "I am walking the same route that Nicola Bulley, 45, followed before she disappeared, along the river in the small Lancashire village of Saint Michael's on Wyre. It's also the same route that amateur social media sleuths take when they come to look into the case themselves.\n\nThey have been turning up in their numbers, prompted by rumours, speculation and conspiracy on social media viewed and shared by millions of people who have never been anywhere near this village.\n\nThe previous day, my TikTok feed had been recommended a clip of one of Nicola's friends appealing for her safe return. But the words \"crisis actor\" - a term used to describe someone who has been paid to act out a tragedy or scenario - had been added by someone else in large font.\n\nMy TikTok \"For You Page\" had been awash with videos speculating about Nicola's disappearance, recommended by TikTok's algorithm because I've shown an interest in them. But in recent days, these have escalated, and had widened out to include conspiracy theories suggesting the disappearance has been staged by the government or other sinister forces. Hence the video about friends \"acting\" I had been recommended.\n\nI have previously covered how conspiracy theorists and trolls target survivors of terror attacks - like the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 - with some going far as to track them down offline to find out if they were lying about their injuries.\n\nThis case is very different, but there has been drastic spiralling of speculation and conspiracy theories, which has triggered statements from Nicola's family, and police who issued a dispersal order.\n\nThis story has been a huge focus for the media, splashed on front pages daily. But I want to understand the scale of the social media frenzy.\n\nVideos on Tik Tok have prompted people to come down to the river bank themselves\n\nMetres from the bench where Nicola's phone was found, I bump into Jack and Stevie. The 20-year-old builders from Darlington have been putting up fencing in the area. But, having finished early for the day, they tell me the social media frenzy has led them down to the river bank.\n\n\"It's all through TikTok,\" Jack tells me. \"[I saw] one video about it and thought I want to look deeper and deeper into it. So you get caught in that loop of looking and looking, and it interests you more and more as you go on.\"\n\nStevie agrees. He wants to know about \"different scenarios and what people think\". In his view interest in the case is still picking up steam on social media, rather than waning.\n\nThey head off, phones at the ready, to poke around the outside of a derelict out-house along the river bank. Neither post their own videos, and they don't agree with the more extreme conspiracies. Nonetheless, they say they find the social media posts compelling.\n\nIn the hours I spend near the bench, I meet others who have come here for the same reason. There's a dad and son who are visiting the scene during the school holidays - filming while they explore. Another pair arrive with two husky dogs, and tell me they've bought them to search the fields near the river.\n\nTourists travelling to scenes of disappearances are nothing new - nor are true crime sleuths online. But the frenzy on social media - and TikTok in particular - seems to be sucking in a huge number of people.\n\nLocal families have left flowers and notes expressing their hope that Nicola returns soon\n\nAs of Friday 17 February, when I checked TikTok, videos discussing Nicola Bulley's case since she first disappeared and using her name as a hashtag have accumulated more than 270 million views. In comparison, posts and videos using these same phrases on other major social media sites have had less traction.\n\nOver the same period, I discovered that Instagram \"reels\" using Nicola Bulley's name have had more than 158 million views, and posts have had around 115,000 interactions - likes, follows and comments. On YouTube, videos I found using the same term have racked up 3.3 million views in total, while on Twitter my analysis of mentions and their potential reach estimates just under 21 million views.\n\nOn Facebook, where it's not possible to assess views easily, I found around 8,500 publicly-available posts on the term with over two million interactions on posts. Facebook groups dedicated to Nicola Bulley have more than 81,000 members, many sharing speculation about the case.\n\nAt a news conference this week, Lancashire police singled out \"TikTok-ers\" whom they said had \"been playing their own private detectives\". They said social media speculation has been a hindrance to their investigation, with Det Supt Becky Smith saying she had \"never seen anything like it\" in 29 years of working for the police.\n\nTikTok videos I found suggesting Nicola Bulley's friends and family could be \"crisis actors\" staging events, questioning whether Nicola is real and alleging the case has been created as a \"distraction\" by the government have accumulated more than 1.5 million views.\n\nThese same conspiracies haven't accumulated as much attention on the other major social media sites. On Twitter, I found eight publicly available tweets that mention \"crisis actors\" and government distractions, with more than 65,500 views according to the site's own data.\n\nOn Facebook, I found two public posts pushing them with only about 150 interactions - and on Instagram and YouTube, I found no relevant posts when I searched using the same terms.\n\nCaroline, who lives in a town nearby, says she has seen hundreds of TikTok videos pushing these false suggestions, some which have been recommended to her.\n\n\"Some of the things they point out in the videos make you think maybe they are onto something,\" she says.\n\n\"Then I give myself a wake-up and think why would they actually be doing that? What would they be acting for? What are we being distracted from?\"\n\nShe was first recommended TikTok videos three days after Nicola disappeared. Since then, she's been hooked - and her own output, once dedicated to dancing with her kids, is now punctuated with clips of her speculating about Nicola. She wants to take part.\n\nIn one, Caroline calls out a false rumour about arrests in the case. But in another, she shares a clip that shows a TikTok influencer called Dan Duffy live-streaming on the app as he tries to enter a house on the other side of the river to where Bulley was last spotted.\n\n\"Being a mum myself I think it's nice to see people sharing hoping it might just trigger someone to come forward,\" she tells me.\n\n\"I also think that people trying to help search for anything that may locate Nicola's whereabouts is great also.\"\n\nThe house in Duffy's video has been at the centre of many rumours on social media, so much so that police stated that they had searched it three times.\n\nComments on Duffy's live stream encouraged him to carry on, and even call out Nicola's name.\n\nDuffy was later arrested and fined by the police for a public order offence. TikTok also removed his account.\n\nA statement from TikTok said that its \"thoughts are with Ms Bulley's family and friends at this difficult time\" .\n\nIt says it \"does not tolerate bullying or harassment on TikTok and we remove content that violates our policies\". It also revealed it is \"deploying additional resources to reduce the potential spread of conspiratorial content about unfolding events by making it ineligible for recommendation to the For You feed\".\n\nNicola Bulley disappeared while out walking her dog\n\nA local dog walker, who doesn't want to be named over fears of backlash online, says he was outraged when he watched Duffy's livestream. He says he's seen people coming to the site, driven by social media.\n\nHe describes crowds of people and TikTokers filming the scene of the disappearance, including bringing children along and trying to climb fences.\n\n\"It's really difficult to hear [these conspiracy theories]. It's down to the police to investigate, not TikTokers,\" he says.\n\nFrustrated locals have resorted to hiring local security to try to keep people away from their property.\n\nThis isn't just about social media. An absence of information, news that leaves us frightened or shocked and distrust are essential ingredients for rumour and conspiracy to thrive. Police have been criticised in recent days for their handling of the case.\n\nThere's also a huge amount of media interest, too. Rumours circulating online find their way into newspapers and new sites.\n\nThen there's the legacy left by the boom of pandemic disinformation.\n\nResearch for the BBC by King's College London suggests that the pandemic has created a \"gateway\" for conspiracy theories denying that tragic events have happened, and calling people \"crisis actors\".\n\nA significant number of people hyper-engaged on social media - with its powerful algorithms - and well-versed in this conspiracy lexicon are being presented with a disappearance at a time when trust in institutions, and the police, is low - providing a perfect storm.", "Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp and Signal to scan messages for child abuse material.\n\nIts intervention comes as 80 organisations and tech experts have written to Technology Minister Chloe Smith urging a rethink on the powers.\n\nApple told the BBC the bill should be amended to protect encryption.\n\nThe government says companies must prevent child abuse on their platforms.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption (E2EE) stops anyone but the sender and recipient reading the message.\n\nPolice, the government and some high-profile child protection charities maintain the tech - used in apps such as WhatsApp and Apple's iMessage - prevents law enforcement and the firms themselves from identifying the sharing of child sexual abuse material.\n\nBut in a statement Apple said: \"End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats.\n\n\"It also helps everyday citizens defend themselves from surveillance, identity theft, fraud, and data breaches. The Online Safety Bill poses a serious threat to this protection, and could put UK citizens at greater risk.\n\n\"Apple urges the government to amend the bill to protect strong end-to-end encryption for the benefit of all.\"\n\nBut the government told the BBC that \"companies should only implement end-to-end encryption if they can simultaneously prevent abhorrent child sexual abuse on their platforms.\n\n\"We will continue to work with them to seek solutions to combat the spread of child sexual abuse material while maintaining user privacy.\"\n\nThe Online Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament, contains powers that could enable communications regulator Ofcom to direct platforms to use accredited technology to scan the contents of messages.\n\nThe government said these powers would only be used as \"a last resort, and only when stringent privacy safeguards have been met\".\n\nRecently Home Office ministers have also been highly critical of Facebook's roll-out of the tech for messaging.\n\nWhatsApp also opposes weakening the privacy of its encrypted app\n\nSeveral messaging platforms, including Signal and WhatsApp, have previously told the BBC they will refuse to weaken the privacy of their encrypted messaging systems if directed to do so.\n\nSignal said in February that it would \"walk\" from the UK if forced to weaken the privacy of its encrypted messaging app.\n\nApple's statement now means that some of the most widely used encrypted apps oppose this part of the bill.\n\nThe government argues it is possible to provide technological solutions that mean the contents of encrypted messages can be scanned for child abuse material.\n\nThe only way of doing that, many tech experts argue, would be to install software that would scan messages on the phone or computer before they are sent, called client-side scanning.\n\nThis, critics say, would fundamentally undermine the privacy of messages.\n\nIn 2021 Apple announced plans to scan photographs on people's iPhones for abusive content before they were uploaded to iCloud but these were abandoned after a backlash. It has now clearly signalled its opposition to any measure that weakens the privacy of end-to-end encryption.\n\nIts announcement comes as the digital civil liberties campaigners The Open Rights Group sent an open letter to minister Chloe Smith.\n\nThe letter, signed by more than 80 national and international civil society organisations, academics and cyber-experts, says: \"The UK could become the first liberal democracy to require the routine scanning of people's private chat messages, including chats that are secured by end-to-end encryption.\n\n\"As over 40 million UK citizens and 2 billion people worldwide rely on these services, this poses a significant risk to the security of digital communication services not only in the UK, but also internationally.\"\n\nElement, a British tech company whose products using E2EE are used by government and military clients, has previously told the BBC measures in the bill that are seen to weaken the privacy of encrypted messages would make customers less trustful of security products produced by UK firms.\n\nThere is a growing expectation, the BBC has learned, that changes may be made to part of the bill which critics say could be used to mandate scanning. These could be included in a package of amendments to be revealed in the coming days.\n\nBut it is not clear what the detail of those changes might be, or if they will satisfy the concerns of campaigners.", "Fraudsters who offer to help people illegally pass their UK driving tests are advertising their services widely across social media, the BBC has found.\n\nMore than 600 pages, groups and accounts exist on Facebook and TikTok promising licences without taking tests - with thousands of followers.\n\nSome suggest lookalikes to take the practical test - others offer theory test help via a Bluetooth earpiece.\n\nMeta and TikTok said such content violates their guidelines.\n\nBBC Verify analysed data from Facebook and TikTok and found as of 16 June there were at least 669 pages, groups and accounts with 138,900 followers which advertised driving licence services without taking a test. Adverts also appear on Instagram.\n\nReports of driving test fraud through impersonations have more than trebled in the past five years - from 654 in 2018 to 2,015 in 2023 - exclusive figures given to the BBC by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) reveal.\n\nIt says the number of people who are being caught - and having their licences revoked - is increasing, although it remains a largely hidden problem.\n\nBetween April 2021 to March 2022, more than four million theory and practical car tests were taken in the UK, with a pass rate of about half.\n\nStill from a TikTok story advertising a full UK driving licence without taking a test\n\nOur investigation found social media platforms littered with posts in different languages. Many use genuine pictures of pass certificates and driving licences which have been taken from promotional images posted on real driving school social media accounts.\n\nThe posts provide limited information about how these licences are provided without taking a test, most posts just provide a mobile number or ask people to contact them for more information via a direct message.\n\nThe BBC contacted several people advertising these services on social media, posing as someone without any driving experience who was looking for a licence.\n\nOne man advertising on Facebook claimed he could provide a UK driving licence for £720, with the pass certificate delivered to the reporter's home in five days - without anyone actually sitting a test.\n\nA theory test costs £23 and the practical test £62, but the RAC estimates the total cost of learning to drive is £1,551 including tests and lessons - assuming the person passes first time. In Northern Ireland the tests cost £23 for the theory and £45.50 for the practical test.\n\nOne woman who advertised on Facebook in Vietnamese told our reporter she charged £1,600 for help with cheating the theory test and £2,600 for the practical driving test - a total of £4,200.\n\nShe said first she needed to see what the reporter looked like to ensure she had a suitable lookalike to take the tests.\n\nThe BBC also tracked down a woman who paid for a fraudulent service. She had found someone via a Facebook post to take the practical test for her son who had been struggling to pass.\n\nThe mother paid the fraudster about £1,000 after he had passed the test on her son's behalf.\n\nIf the woman's son is ever caught he would have his licence revoked and face prosecution for fraud, potentially resulting in a prison sentence and/or a fine.\n\nTikTok and Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, told the BBC that the solicitation of driving licence fraud is not allowed on their platforms and any content found that violates their guidelines will be removed.\n\nTikTok also says it has taken action against a number of accounts following the BBC Investigation.\n\nDriving instructors have told the BBC that the rise in practical test fraud could be due to the length of time it is taking to get a practical test slot.\n\nIn some parts of the UK there are waiting times of up to six months due to a backlog following the Covid pandemic. Some of the fraudsters the BBC spoke to were willing to travel to parts of the UK where waiting times are shorter to take the test for others.\n\nCarly Brookfield, chief executive of the Driving Instructors Association, said the backlog was causing \"a desperation for test slots\".\n\n\"If you're facing the fact that if you don't pass the test you have to wait for up to six months [to try again], then you're going to think about cheating the system,\" she said.\n\nShe added that some of the instructors in her association had been approached by people running criminal services, asking them to refer pupils struggling to pass their test.\n\nThe high demand for tests has led to operators bulk-buying slots using automated software and reselling them at an inflated price.\n\nThe DVSA says it is actively removing accounts which do this as it breaks the terms and conditions of the booking platform.\n\nThe man, who called himself Erdal, told the reporter he could feed them the answers to the theory test via a Bluetooth earpiece\n\nDuring the investigation, the BBC found a flyer in a London cafe written in Turkish offering a \"100% guarantee\" method to pass the theory test.\n\nOur undercover reporter, posing as someone with little experience of driving, met the man behind the advert, who called himself Erdal.\n\nHe told the reporter he could help them cheat by feeding them the answers to the test's multiple choice questions using a \"microscopic\" Bluetooth earpiece, connected to a mobile phone.\n\nHe told them by clicking on the questions they would be \"read out loud\" by the computer which would allow him to whisper the correct answers.\n\nHe said: \"It's £1,500 and you will pay me right after taking the test. You will be wearing a device in your ear. The test administrators will not look in your ear.\n\n\"We have done this for a long time. We do this for a minimum of two people every day.\"\n\nAfter the meeting, the BBC called the number we had for the man to confront him about the scam. The person that answered had the same name but denied knowing anything about test fraud.\n\nThese scam online adverts can also cause identity fraud problems for the people who have photos of their test pass certificates or driving licence lifted from legitimate sites.\n\nWe spoke to Ian Jones, who had a photo of his driving licence stolen from a logistics company he was registered with. He later discovered it was being used on Instagram by someone advertising a service for \"theory/practical certificate without exams\".\n\nMr Jones says in the past year he has had to dispute hundreds of French speeding and parking tickets he has received because his licence details are being used fraudulently abroad.\n\nHe said: \"It makes you paranoid, it gives you a horrible feeling, it's like being burgled - you feel violated.\"\n\nThe DVSA's head of law enforcement said it had revoked hundreds of illegally-obtained licenses in 2022\n\nThe Driving Standards Agency, (DVSA), which promotes road safety and sets standards for training, warns many online adverts promising full licences quickly are money-making scams which may only provide a fake licence. It adds only the Driving and Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) can issue a genuine driving licence.\n\nThe number of people being prosecuted for test fraud via impersonations are increasing, the DVSA says. If convicted, they face prison sentences and fines. Last year, a woman was jailed for eight months for taking approximately 150 theory and practical tests for other drivers.\n\nThe DVSA warns if people do not meet the necessary driving standards before taking control of a vehicle, it could cause serious injuries or even fatalities.\n\nIts head of law enforcement, Marian Kitson, said its investigation team was catching more people committing fraud and had revoked hundreds of illegally-obtained licences in 2022.\n\nIn the year from April 2022, it sent 30 cases - involving 497 offences - of fraud by false representation for prosecution and there were 53 arrests.\n\nHowever, Ms Kitson said it was clear from their investigations that there was even more occurring, adding that they did not know the true scale of the problem.\n\n\"The internet is so huge; the social media platforms are vast and these people are very clever, they move the adverts around; they change them frequently,\" she said.\n\n\"So actually, spotting them and taking action quickly is a real challenge.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland captain Ben Stokes says he is \"deeply sorry\" to hear of experiences of discrimination in a report into cricket in England and Wales.\n\nThe Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) says racism, sexism, classism and elitism are \"widespread\" in English and Welsh cricket.\n\nGiving a statement before Wednesday's start of the second men's Ashes Test at Lord's, Stokes said cricket \"must go further and be more inclusive and diverse\".\n\n\"It is clear there is so much more the game has to do and as players we really want to be a part of that to ensure this is truly a sport for everyone,\" Stokes said.\n\nThe damning report, released earlier on Tuesday, looked into recreational and professional cricket, and the evidence gathered came from more than 4,000 respondents.\n\nAmong other things, it said \"structural and institutional racism\" continues to exist within the game, women are treated as \"subordinate\" to men at all levels of the sport and there is a prevalence of \"elitism and class-based discrimination\" in cricket.\n\n\"As a sport, we need to learn from past mistakes and do all we can to make people feel safe and be themselves at every level,\" Stokes said.\n\n\"The game should be enjoyed without fear of discrimination.\"\n\nStokes, England women's captain Heather Knight and former men's skipper Joe Root were among those to give evidence to the commission.\n\nThe report's chair Cindy Butts said it heard of problems \"throughout cricket, including the England dressing room\".\n• None Racism, sexism, classism and elitism 'widespread' in cricket, says damning report\n\n\"To the people involved within the game who have been made to feel unwelcome, I am deeply sorry to hear of your experiences,\" Stokes said in his statement.\n\n\"Cricket needs to celebrate diversity on all fronts, as without diversity it would not be the game it is today.\n\n\"We must go further and be more inclusive and diverse because the game I love and millions worldwide love should be enjoyed without fear of discrimination or judgement whether due to upbringing, race or gender.\"\n\nThe report says the influence of private schools in developing cricketers and the lack of cricket in state schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\".\n\nSome 58% of men to play for England in 2021 were privately educated, significantly higher than the 7% of the general population who went to private school.\n\n\"Everyone has a different story to tell,\" Stokes said.\n\n\"I am Ben Stokes, born in New Zealand, a state educated pupil who dropped out of school at 16 with one GCSE in PE.\n\n\"I needed help with the spelling and grammar in this speech and am currently sitting here as the England men's Test captain.\"\n\nThe report was particularly critical when highlighting sexism, saying there was a \"widespread culture of sexism and misogyny\" in the game.\n\nIt was alarmed there has never been a women's Test at Lord's - the so-called home of cricket.\n\nECB chair Richard Thompson said the lack of a women's Test at the venue was \"unacceptable\", adding that one would be played there in 2026.\n\nTests are seldom played in the women's game and there are currently none in the schedule before 2027.\n\nLord's hosted a women's one-day international against India last year, but that was the first time England had played at the venue since the 2017 World Cup final.\n\nThis year's Ashes contest at Trent Bridge, which finished on Monday, was the first at one of the major venues which hosts men's Tests.\n\n\"We're going to ensure there will be a women's Test match played [at Lord's] in 2026,\" Thompson said. \"That should have happened sooner.\n\n\"That has been addressed and will happen in 2026 when we also host the Women's World Cup and T20 World Cup.\n\n\"We need to pull these pathways together and from a women's perspective they need to feel they're both included and welcome to play anywhere.\"\n\nAustralian cricket has been asked its own questions about discrimination in recent years, including from opener Usman Khawaja, who described ongoing racism issues in the sport.\n\nWhile admitting he had not read the ICEC report, Australia captain Pat Cummins said: \"I have been playing for 12 years now, we are all a little bit better than we were.\n\n\"We think more about how we act than we did 12 years ago.\n\n\"It is just a continuing learning process and something we try to be really minded about.\n\n\"I love that we have some real diversity in our team. It is a real strength of ours - celebrating everyone's individuality.\n\n\"I hope anyone that walks into our dressing room, or Australian cricket, whether playing or at a ground, feels welcome, appreciated and respected.\"", "Captagon, dubbed \"the poor man's cocaine\", is produced in huge quantities in Syria\n\nNew direct links between the multi-billion dollar Captagon drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family have been revealed in a joint investigation by BBC News Arabic and the investigative journalism network OCCRP.\n\nCaptagon is a highly addictive amphetamine-like drug that has plagued the Middle East in recent years. Over the past year, the BBC has filmed with the Jordanian and Lebanese armies, observing their campaigns to stop Captagon being smuggled across the borders into their countries from Syria.\n\nNow the drug is being found in Europe, Africa and Asia.\n\nIn March, Britain, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on a list of people - including two cousins of President Assad - suspected of involvement in the Captagon trade. But the BBC's investigation, deep inside Syria's narco-state, has found evidence indicating the involvement of other senior Syrian officials in addition to those already included in that list.\n\nSyria's government has not responded to the BBC's request for comment. However, it has previously denied any involvement in the drugs trade.\n\nIn July 2022, in the city of Suweida in southern Syria, the headquarters of Raji Falhout, the leader of a regime-allied militia, was overrun by a rival group. They found bags of what appeared to be Captagon pills prepared for distribution and a machine which could be used to press pills, as well as Mr Falhout's Syrian military ID card and an unlocked mobile phone.\n\nGaining exclusive access to the phone, the BBC found a series of messages between Mr Falhout and a Lebanese contact he called \"Abu Hamza\", in which they discussed the purchase of the pill-pressing machine. There is a chat on the mobile from August 2021, in which Mr Falhout and Abu Hamza talked about moving the machinery from Lebanon to Syria.\n\nUsing the phone number, the BBC established Abu Hamza's real identity - Hussein Riad al-Faytrouni. We have been told by local journalists that he is linked to Hezbollah, the Lebanese political party and militant group closely affiliated with the Syrian government.\n\nRaji Falhout with Abu Hamza and a screenshot (R) of their WhatsApp conversation\n\nHezbollah's fighters have played a key role in helping the Syrian government turn the tide in the civil war and are reported to have a presence throughout Syria. They have long been accused of involvement in drug trafficking, but have always denied it.\n\nSpeaking to us from exile, a Syrian journalist from the Suweida area explained: \"Hezbollah is involved but is very careful not to have its members playing key roles in transporting and smuggling the merchandise.\"\n\nHezbollah did not respond to the BBC's request for comment about Mr Faytrouni. They have previously denied any role in the production and smuggling of Captagon. We were unable to reach Mr Falhout or Mr Faytrouni for comment.\n\nThat was not the only time Hezbollah appeared in our investigation.\n\nAfter months of security preparation the BBC was able to get rare access to the Syrian Armed Forces in government-controlled Aleppo.\n\nOne soldier, who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, told us his fellow soldiers' monthly pay was less than 150,000 Syrian pounds (£47; $60).\n\nHe said many of them had become drug dealers locally to supplement their incomes, and that this had become routine for them.\n\nWe asked him to describe his unit's role in the local Captagon trade.\n\n\"We were not allowed to go to the factory,\" he said. \"They would pick a meeting place and we would buy from Hezbollah. We would receive the goods and co-ordinate with the Fourth Division to facilitate our movement.\"\n\nThe Fourth Division is an elite Syrian army unit tasked with protecting the government from internal and external threats. Since 2018 it has been formally led by Maher al-Assad, the younger brother of President Assad.\n\nMaher al-Assad is subject to Western sanctions for carrying out brutal crackdowns on demonstrators during Syria's civil war and has also been linked with the alleged use of chemical weapons.\n\nHe is also said to have overseen the transformation of the Fourth Division into a major economic player.\n\nWe spoke to a former officer who had defected from the Syrian army. He told us: \"Because of the tough financial conditions which the officers and ranks are going through during the Syrian war, many members of the Fourth Division have resorted to smuggling.\n\n\"So the cars of the Fourth Division's officers started to be used to carry extremists, weapons, drugs, since it was the only body able to move across checkpoints in Syria.\"\n\nSyria's economy, crippled by sanctions and war, is now close to collapse. Analysts have told us it has become increasingly reliant on the lucrative little Captagon pill.\n\n\"The scale of the revenues... dwarfs the Syrian state budget,\" Joel Rayburn, a former US special envoy to Syria, told the BBC. \"If the Captagon revenues were stopped or seriously disrupted, I don't think the Assad regime could survive that.\"\n\nThe BBC has found further evidence of Assad family involvement in the business.\n\nIn 2021, a trial began in Lebanon against a notorious Lebanese-Syrian businessman called Hassan Daqqou, dubbed the \"King of Captagon\" by the Lebanese press. He was found guilty of Captagon trafficking after a huge shipment of the drug was seized in Malaysia.\n\nThe haul, containing nearly 100m pills, was destined for Saudi Arabia where its street value was estimated at between $1bn-$2bn (£790m-£1.6bn), making it one of the biggest drug busts in history.\n\nThe case was heard behind closed doors, but our team met with the judge who told us that most of the evidence came from the surveillance of phone communications between Daqqou and a number of drug smugglers.\n\nIn the trial, Daqqou said he was collaborating with the Syrian army's Fourth Division to fight Captagon traffickers and presented a Fourth Division ID card as evidence.\n\nDaqqou told the BBC that he maintained his innocence and that no evidence was found by the court to involve him in a Captagon shipment.\n\nWhile Daqqou was found guilty of trafficking, the judge told the BBC that no evidence was found of Syrian officials' involvement in his Captagon business.\n\nBut our investigation found something in the 600-page court document that tells a different story - a series of screenshots of WhatsApp messages that Daqqou sent to someone he called \"The Boss\". Their phone number mostly consisted of the same digit repeated many times, making it a prized so-called \"golden number\".\n\nThe BBC spoke to various high-level sources in Syria who confirmed that the number belonged to Major General Ghassan Bilal. We called the number repeatedly but failed to get a response.\n\nGen Bilal is Maher al-Assad's number two in the Fourth Division, and is understood to run its powerful Security Bureau.\n\nIn the WhatsApp messages, Daqqou discussed with The Boss the movement of \"goods\" - which we believe to be Captagon - to a Syrian town called Saboora, where the Fourth Division has a large base, as well the renewal of security clearances.\n\nIf The Boss really is Gen Bilal, the conversation suggests that one of Syria's most senior army officers is linked to the illegal Captagon trade, worth billions of dollars. Gen Bilal did not return our attempt to reach him for comment.\n\nIn May, Syria was welcomed back into the Arab League and President Assad attended a meeting of the regional grouping for the first time in more than a decade. He has also been invited to the United Arab Emirates to attend COP28 this coming November.\n\nThe question remains as to what extent the international community will seek to pressure the regime to give up Syria's addiction to Captagon.", "It could cost an estimated £63,000 more to send a migrant to a \"safe country\" such as Rwanda than to keep them in the UK, the government has said.\n\nAn economic impact assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill, which is going through Parliament, found a gross cost of £169,000 to relocate an individual.\n\nBut the estimated £106,000 spent on housing support if they remained in the UK would be avoided.\n\nThe government said the policy would also have a deterrent effect.\n\nThe Home Office assessment said no cost would be incurred if an individual was deterred from entering the UK illegally.\n\nHowever, it said it was \"uncertain\" what level of deterrence impact the policy would have because the bill was \"novel and untested\".\n\nIt also said the potential savings were \"highly uncertain\" but gave an estimated figure of between £106,000 and £165,000 per individual. The higher figure takes into the account the possibility of housing costs continuing to increase.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the government's \"own assessment\" acknowledges the policy \"is likely to be unworkable\".\n\n\"There was once something called evidence informed policy making,\" Mr Solomon told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. \"This is not happening now,\" he added.\n\nThe Refugee Council wants more safe routes created for refugees to reach the UK, to stop small boat crossings.\n\nConservative MP Craig Mackinlay called the policy an \"imperfect tool\" but argued it would have a deterrent effect - which would lead to savings.\n\nMr Mackinlay told Today: \"This is a spend to save scheme.\n\n\"If you can deter three from coming while paying for two - you're in the exact same position.\"\n\nOther additional savings beyond accommodation costs include those associated with resettling a migrant in the UK, such as benefits, social housing and healthcare.\n\nThe report estimates the policy would need to deter 37% of people from entering the UK illegally for there to be no cost to the taxpayer.\n\nThe bill aims to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats by preventing anyone arriving in the UK illegally from claiming asylum.\n\nInstead they would be detained and removed, either to Rwanda or another \"safe country\".\n\nThe total estimated cost of relocating an individual to Rwanda or another third country includes a payment to that country of around £105,000 per person, as well as £22,000 for flights and escorting the individual.\n\nThe figure assumes a flight can seat 50 individuals being relocated but flights may depart with fewer people on board.\n\nOther costs include detaining individuals while they are processed.\n\nThe costs are theoretical estimates rather than the actual cost of the Rwanda agreement, which is commercially sensitive.\n\nLabour said the impact assessment was \"a complete joke\" and the government was \"totally clueless\" about how much the bill would cost.\n\n\"The few figures the Home Office has produced show how chaotic and unworkable their plans are,\" shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.\n\nShe added that \"the true cost\" may be higher as the government had not costed the possibility of people being held in \"indefinite detention\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"Our impact assessment shows that doing nothing is not an option.\n\n\"We cannot allow a system to continue which incentivises people to risk their lives and pay people smugglers to come to this country illegally, while placing an unacceptable strain on the UK taxpayer.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the Women and Equalities Committee published a report calling for children to be exempted from detention or deportation to Rwanda, under the government immigration plans.\n\nThe committee's chair, Tory MP Caroline Nokes, a former immigration minister, said: \"The risk of harm to children outweighs any perceived damage to the effectiveness of the government's policy agenda.\"\n\nThe UK is spending £6m a day to house asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nLast year more than 45,700 people made the dangerous journey across the Channel in small boats.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping the crossings one of his five key priorities, with the bill central to the government's plans to achieve this aim.\n\nRwanda is currently the only country the UK has a deal with to relocate migrants to but no flights have set off yet.\n\nThe High Court ruled in December 2022 that the scheme is legal, but that decision is facing further challenge in the courts, with a judgement due on Thursday.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill still needs to be approved by the House of Lords, where it has faced significant opposition, and could face further legal challenge if it becomes law.\n\nCritics have argued the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Virginia Crosbie was allegedly the co-host of a drinks event when Covid restrictions were in place\n\nA Conservative MP has apologised for attending an event in Parliament while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe Guido Fawkes website reported that Virginia Crosbie, MP for Ynys Mon, was the co-host of a drinks event on December 8 2020.\n\nThe site quoted a WhatsApp message from Baroness Jenkin describing the event as \"joint birthday drinks\".\n\nMs Crosbie confirmed the event took place but said she had not sent out any invitations.\n\n\"Regarding reports of an event held on 8 December 2020 I would like to set out the facts,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"The invitation for this event was not sent out by me. I attended the event briefly, I did not drink and I did not celebrate my birthday. I went home shortly after to be with my family.\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly for a momentary error of judgment in attending the event.\"\n\nThe event came under the spotlight when Boris Johnson criticised the Privileges Committee ahead of its damning report into his conduct and accused Sir Bernard Jenkin of \"monstrous hypocrisy\" for allegedly attending the event with his wife.\n\nMs Crosbie is a former parliamentary private secretary to ex-health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nAt the time of the event, London was still under restrictions banning indoor mixing of people from different households.\n\nThe leader of Anglesey council leader, Plaid Cymru's, Llinos Medi, accused Ms Crosbie of showing \"complete contempt towards the people she represents and for the laws she was partly responsible in creating\".\n\n\"Under the circumstances, I would hope Ms Crosbie refers herself to the Metropolitan Police and to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner so that they can investigate if the party was illegal and if any further action is necessary,\" she said.\n\nThe police force says it is assessing a report it received on 15 June \"regarding media reporting of alleged breaches in Parliament on December 8 2020 in the Houses of Parliament\".", "Novelist and TV producer Daisy Goodwin has accused a Conservative mayoral hopeful of groping her 10 years ago.\n\nMs Goodwin told the Times that in 2013 Daniel Korski sexually assaulted her by putting his hand on her breast during a meeting at 10 Downing Street.\n\nHe has denied the allegation \"in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says it will not investigate the allegations made by Ms Goodwin, creator of ITV drama Victoria, as no formal complaint has been made.\n\nMs Goodwin said she had met Mr Korski - then a special adviser to David Cameron - to discuss a proposed TV show.\n\nMs Goodwin told the Times she met the government special adviser (spad) at a social event and he suggested they meet again.\n\nShe said Mr Korski arrived late for their meeting, remarked on her sunglasses and said she looked \"like Monica Bellucci, the 50-something Italian actress who had recently made headlines by appearing in a Bond film opposite Daniel Craig as an older woman\".\n\nMs Goodwin said this felt \"awkwardly flirtatious\" and \"odd\".\n\nDaisy Goodwin spoke out about the assault in 2017 but did not name anyone\n\nShe said during the meeting Mr Korski \"put his feet on the edge of my chair, leaning back so that I could get a clear view of his crotch\".\n\n\"When we both stood up at the end of the meeting and went to the door, the spad stepped towards me and suddenly put his hand on my breast.\n\n\"Astonished, I said loudly, 'Are you really touching my breast?'\n\n\"The spad sprang away from me and I left.\"\n\nMr Korski, who left a Conservative Environment Network husting early on Monday evening, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that the accusations were \"baseless\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to take a moment to address the recent allegation that has been levelled against me.\n\n\"I understand that this news may have caused concern, and I want to assure you I categorically deny any wrong-doing.\n\n\"Politics can be a rough and challenging business. Unfortunately, in the midst of this demanding environment, this baseless allegation from the past has resurfaced.\n\n\"It is disheartening to find myself connected to this allegation after so many years, but I want to unequivocally state that I categorically deny any claim of inappropriate behaviour. I denied when it was alluded to seven years ago and I do so now.\n\n\"To be clear - nothing was raised at the time, nothing was raised with me seven years ago when this was alluded to and even now, I'm not aware that there was an official complaint.\"\n\nConservative Campaign Headquarters said: \"The Conservative Party has an established code of conduct and formal processes where complaints can be made in confidence.\n\n\"The party considers all complaints made under the code of conduct but does not conduct investigations where the party would not be considered to have primary jurisdiction over another authority.\"\n\nAlthough Downing Street has refused to be drawn on the individual case, or say whether there will be a Cabinet Office investigation into Mr Korski, the prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Sunak believed No10 was a safe environment for women.\n\nAsked if Mr Sunak thought it was important that allegations of harassment should be investigated, the spokesman said: \"Without wanting to be drawn into specifics, I think in any walk of life I think the prime minister would expect that to be the case.\"\n\nMs Goodwin spoke in 2017 about being groped at 10 Downing Street without naming her alleged assailant, however she said she had chosen to identify him now as Mr Korski was running to be the Conservative candidate for the contest to be mayor of London.\n\nShe told the BBC on Monday: \"I hope that my example will encourage women to come forward - no women should have to put up with this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nMr Korski is one of three candidates shortlisted by the Conservative Party ahead of next year's election, at which Sadiq Khan will be running for a third term as mayor.\n\nMr Korski has centred his campaign on improving public services through technology.\n\nEarlier this month he told the BBC he was \"a businessman who will put digitalisation at the core of how I improve London\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The Scottish government's plans would make it easier for people to obtain a gender recognition certificate\n\nThe Scottish government will go to court in September to challenge Westminster's decision to block controversial gender reforms.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which aimed to make it easier to legally change gender, was passed by MSPs in December.\n\nBut it was blocked over the potential impact on UK-wide equality laws.\n\nThe Scottish government will make its case against the decision in a three-day hearing from 19 to 21 September.\n\nIt will take place at the Court of Session in Edinburgh and be heard by judge Lady Haldane.\n\nIn 2022, she ruled that the definition of sex was \"not limited to biological or birth sex\".\n\nIn what became know as \"the Haldane decision\", she judged that in the context of the 2010 Equality Act, sex referred to a person's sex recognised by law, and not simply their biological sex.\n\nThe judicial review was sought after Scottish Secretary Alister Jack utilised never-before-used powers under Section 35 of the Scotland Act - the legislation which established the devolved Scottish Parliament - to prevent the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from gaining royal assent.\n\nOpponents of the gender reforms are concerned about their potential impact on single-sex spaces and other protections for women and girls\n\nAs it stands the legislation would allow people to self-identify and to obtain a gender recognition certificate without having to first obtain a medical diagnosis.\n\nMr Yousaf previously insisted that if the Scottish government had failed to challenge the use of Section 35 it would send a \"signal that the UK government can veto any legislation they disagree with at a whim\".\n\nThe SNP leader added that legal action was the \"only means of defending our Parliament's democracy from the Westminster veto\".\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the UK government had taken \"very careful and considered advice\" on the issue.\n\nHe added that UK ministers had concerns about \"how Scotland's gender recognition act would interact with reserved powers, about the operation of the Equalities Act\" as well as over the \"protection of women elsewhere in the UK\".", "British drinks giant Diageo has ended its partnership with Sean Combs, known as Diddy, after the rapper sued the firm, accusing it of neglecting his tequila brand due to his race.\n\nThe company announced the move while responding formally to the lawsuit, which it asked to be dismissed.\n\nIt said Mr Combs' complaints were false and defamatory and made in an effort to extract money from the company.\n\nAn attorney for Mr Combs said Diageo was trying to distract from his claims.\n\nDiageo, owner of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray, said the relationship had been on the rocks since Mr Combs had failed to meet his promises to fund DeLeon Tequila, which they bought together in 2013.\n\nDiageo said it had invested more than $100m (£78m) in DeLeon Tequila and \"tried for years to salvage the broken relationship with Mr Combs\".\n\n\"Despite having made nearly a billion dollars over the course of our 15-year relationship, Mr Combs contributed a total of $1,000 and refused to honor his commitments,\" the company said.\n\n\"Mr. Combs' bad-faith actions have clearly breached his contracts and left us no choice but to move to dismiss his baseless complaint and end our business relationship\".\n\nMr Combs rose to fame as a music executive and rapper in the 1990s before branching out into acting and other business ventures.\n\nHe had worked with Diageo since 2007, when the company asked him to help promote the company's Ciroc vodka.\n\nThe complaint from his company - Combs Wines & Spirits - against Diageo accused the firm of falling short of its commitments for distribution, investment and brand positioning for DeLeon. It accused the firm of \"racial typecasting\" and limiting DeLeon's distribution to \"urban\" neighbourhoods.\n\nAn attorney for Mr Combs said he had \"repeatedly raised concerns as senior executives uttered racially insensitive comments and made biased decisions based on that point of view\".\n\n\"Diageo attempting to end its deals with Mr Combs is like firing a whistleblower who calls out racism. It's a cynical and transparent attempt to distract from multiple allegations of discrimination,\" said his attorney John C Hueston.\n\nHe added: \"This lawsuit and Mr. Combs are not going away.\"\n\nIn its response, Diageo blamed the problems on Mr Combs' \"failure to fund the JV [joint venture]\", which it said had \"created a contentious relationship, severely damaged the DeLeon brand at a critical juncture, and stalled its promise and potential for growth for several years\".\n\nDiageo said it had agreed to forgive Mr Combs' debts during negotiations in 2020. Following a reset, sales volumes had doubled, it said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Combs has proven himself once and for all to be an unreliable and untrustworthy business partner,\" the company said in its response.\n\n\"Despite DeLeon's recent growth and progress, and in disregard of multiple provisions of the DeLeon Agreement, earlier this year Combs again began to threaten Diageo with contrived racism allegations to force Diageo to accede to several outrageous and extra-contractual demands, including for supposed billions of dollars of damages.\"\n\nDiageo said it remained committed to the success of the DeLeon and Ciroc brands but planned to sever ties.\n\n\"We have exhausted every reasonable remedy and see no other path forward,\" it said.\n• None Diddy says Diageo neglected his tequila due to race", "President Zelensky followed into a press conference by Poland's President Duda and Lithuania's President Nauseda Image caption: President Zelensky followed into a press conference by Poland's President Duda and Lithuania's President Nauseda\n\nAway from the scene in Kramatorsk, the Polish and Lithuanian presidents are in Kyiv to meet their Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. We're starting to receive a few remarks from them via the news agencies now - we'll keep you posted.\n\nIt's expected that the leaders are today preparing some of the groundwork ahead of a meeting on 11-12 July in Lithuania of Nato members.\n\nThe hopes of Ukraine and Sweden to join the Western military alliance are expected to be a key theme. In April, Zelensky accepted an invitation to attend the summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. However, he recently told the Wall Street Journal that unless Ukraine is “acknowledged and given a signal in Vilnius\" he did not believe there was any \"point\" in attending.\n\nSweden had hoped to join by the time of the July summit, but Turkey and Hungary have yet to agree.\n\nIt's thought that the deployment to Belarus of troops from the Russian mercenary group Wagner will also be high on Nato's agenda next month.", "Nicola Bulley was last seen during a riverside walk on 27 January\n\nNicola Bulley died as a result of drowning and there was no evidence she had been harmed before she fell into the water, her inquest has heard.\n\nTwo women said they heard a scream where the 45-year-old was last seen in St Michael's on Wyre on 27 January.\n\nHer body was found in the River Wyre, about a mile away from where she went missing, more than three weeks later.\n\nExperts told the hearing that entering cold water can cause a person to gasp and inhale water and drown in seconds.\n\nPreston Coroner's Court also heard from various passers-by who saw Ms Bulley in the Lancashire village on the morning she disappeared.\n\nOne said she looked \"absolutely idyllic\", while another described her as \"not happy\" but \"not sad\".\n\nHome Office pathologist Dr Alison Armour told the hearing there was no evidence of any third-party involvement.\n\nThe pathologist also said Ms Bulley had not been drinking before her death.\n\nCoroner Dr James Adeley asked her: \"At the time of her death she had no alcohol in her bloodstream?\"\n\nNicola Bulley's mobile phone was found on bench near the spot where she was last seen\n\nShe said paracetamol and a prescription beta-blocker called propranolol were found, but in very small amounts and nothing that could be considered an overdose.\n\nNoting Ms Bulley's body had clearly been in the river for some time, she said she had concluded the cause of death was drowning.\n\nShe said Ms Bulley's lungs \"showed classical features we see in drownings\" and it was her opinion that the mortgage advisor \"was alive when she entered the water\".\n\nMs Bulley's partner Paul Ansell and sister Louise Cunningham are among the witnesses set to give evidence at the two-day hearing.\n\nMs Bulley vanished while walking her dog by the river after dropping off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school.\n\nHer dog was found shortly afterwards and her mobile phone was discovered on a bench overlooking the water - still connected to a work conference call.\n\nHer disappearance led to intense public interest, criticism of police and media, and a social media frenzy of conspiracy theories.\n\nLancashire Police came under fire after revealing Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nIn a video shown to the court, PC Matthew Thackray said there was \"a large vertical slope\" from the bench where her phone was found down to the water.\n\nHe said there was a \"steady flow downstream\" on the day and the river was 4C, \"so almost freezing\".\n\n\"If she fell in, the muscles would probably seize, making it difficult to swim properly,\" he said.\n\nHe estimated she would have floated at a \"metre a second\" downstream.\n\nProf Michael Tipton, a University of Portsmouth expert who supports search and rescue operators such as the RNLI, said just two breaths of water would have been a \"lethal dose\".\n\nHe said there \"would be a particularly powerful cold-shock response\", which would have led to a \"fairly rapid incapacitation\".\n\nA mother who bumped into Ms Bulley on the morning of her disappearance told the court she felt there was \"nothing of concern\".\n\nKay Kiernan said she spoke to Ms Bulley about her dog Willow while dropping off her children at school at just after 08:30 GMT.\n\n\"She was not happy, but who is on a Friday-morning school run?\" she said.\n\n\"She wasn't sad, just how I normally knew her.\"\n\nClaire Chesham also described seeing Ms Bulley twice during the route she took and having a brief exchange with their dogs, something they would do on a regular basis.\n\nShe said Ms Bulley was \"absolutely idyllic\" and she had not noticed \"anything unusual\" about either the location or Ms Bulley.\n\nThe court also heard from Penny Fletcher, who found Ms Bulley's phone and dog.\n\nShe said she found the phone and a dog harness and tied Willow to the bench, only later finding out it was Ms Bulley's dog and hearing she had gone missing.\n\nIt was her daughter-in-law who recognised a photograph of Ms Bulley and her family on the phone lock screen.\n\nShe told the court she rang the local school, before speaking to Ms Bulley's partner.\n\nHelen O'Neil, whose garden is near the bench and river path, said she heard a scream, but she did not find it alarming at first.\n\nShe told the court it was only later, upon hearing of Ms Bulley's disappearance, that she decided to report it, adding: \"I vividly remember thinking it's unusual at this time.\"\n\nVeronia Claesen, who had dropped her children at school and had seen Ms Bulley in the car park, also heard a scream.\n\nShe said she initially thought someone was \"mucking about\", adding it was the kind of noise she may make if someone made her jump.\n\n\"It was an inhale scream, a sharp intake of breath,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest heard from various passers-by who saw Ms Bulley before she disappeared\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Smith, who investigated the disappearance, said Ms Bulley's Fitbit watch and Mercedes car keys were recovered along with her body.\n\nPolice digital specialist Det Con Keith Greenhalgh said the Fitbit stopped recording steps beyond 09:30 on the day Ms Bulley vanished and his \"initial thoughts\" had been that the device lost power on 4 February.\n\nHe added that analysis of iPhone and Fitbit watch data suggested Ms Bulley \"very possibly\" entered the water at 09:22 on 27 January.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Head and neck cancers require bespoke masks to help target treatment\n\nA new type of artificial-intelligence technology that cuts the time cancer patients must wait before starting radiotherapy is to be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England.\n\nIt helps doctors calculate where to direct the therapeutic radiation beams, to kill cancerous cells while sparing as many healthy ones as possible.\n\nResearchers at Addenbrooke's Hospital trained the AI program with Microsoft.\n\nIt has been a decade in the making, they say.\n\nFor each patient, doctors typically spend between 25 minutes and two hours working through about 100 scan cross-sections, carefully \"contouring\" or outlining bones and organs. But the AI program works two and a half times quicker, the researchers say.\n\nWhen treating the prostate gland, for example, medics want to avoid damage to the nearby bladder or rectum, which could leave patients with lifelong continence issues.\n\n\"That can get so bad that a patient's life becomes dominated by that,\" Dr Raj Jena, at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, who has been leading the work for treating patients with head, neck and prostate cancers told BBC's Two's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"I know patients where they've got a map of the cities that they're going to, so they know where all the loos are.\"\n\nDr Jena worked with Microsoft to train a program called InnerEye on data from previous patients.\n\nThe NHS Artificial Intelligence Laboratory then gave Addenbrooke's £500,000 to fund the necessary safety checks and evaluations.\n\nAnd the program is now being given to a manufacturer that has agreed to allow other NHS trusts to access the cloud-based technology at cost price.\n\nThe government has been investing in AI projects across the NHS - but this is the first NHS-developed AI program released as a medical-imaging device.\n\nDoctors still check each of the contours drawn by the AI program.\n\nBut the researchers say it is about 90% accurate, with clinicians approving its work without any corrections about two-thirds of the time.\n\n\"Our consultant colleagues preferred to start with the work of the AI than even the work of their consulting colleagues,\" Dr Jena said.\n\nRoyal College of Radiologists president Dr Katharine Halliday said: \"We are very excited about the potential of AI in replacing some processes and procedures, including within diagnostics and cancer therapy.\n\n\"AI has the capability of speeding up the diagnostic process, helping doctors catch disease earlier and giving patients the best possible chance of recovery.\n\n\"Clinical radiologists interpret complex scans and guide treatment or surgery - there is no question that real-life clinical radiologists are essential and irreplaceable.\n\n\"However, a clinical radiologist with the data, insight and accuracy of AI is, and will increasingly be, a formidable force in patient care.\n\n\"While AI shows great promise and will certainly help free up time for a workforce under strain, it cannot replace highly trained and skilled professionals.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils will need more staff and funding to enforce the ban on no-fault evictions in England effectively, local authorities have warned.\n\nLegislation going through Parliament would ban tenants from being evicted without justification, with councils responsible for enforcement.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) welcomed the changes but said councils would struggle to police them properly.\n\nThe government said it would fully fund any additional costs for councils.\n\nUnder the Renters (Reform) Bill, which was introduced to Parliament last month, landlords would only be able to evict tenants in England under certain circumstances, including when they wish to sell the property or when they or a close family member want to move in.\n\nIf they do so, they would not be allowed to re-let their property for three months.\n\nBreaching the new rules would carry a fine of up to £30,000.\n\nDarren Rodwell, the LGA's housing spokesman, said \"every council I'm aware of\" had a shortage of environmental health officers and tenancy relations officers, who investigate potential offences related to private rented housing.\n\n\"New regulation is important, and we welcome it, but we need to make sure we have the right financial package to be able to enforce and deliver it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Rodwell, who is also the Labour leader of Barking and Dagenham Council in London, said there were \"still some unknowns\" about how councils would fund enforcement \"with the limited resources we have currently\".\n\nCouncils can keep any revenue from civil penalties, with this ring-fenced for further enforcement activity.\n\nHowever, Mr Rodwell said fines did not always cover the cost of investigating breaches.\n\nJo Smith, a private sector housing manager at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, said councils were already stretched and did not have the resources to enforce their current housing duties, even before they took on new enforcement responsibilities in the bill.\n\nShe is the only environmental health officer at her council responsible for housing, supported by a team of seven other staff.\n\nMs Smith said most councils did not have the resources to proactively find landlords breaching rules and relied on tenants to report concerns.\n\nShe added that allowing councils to keep the fines imposed on landlords would help fund enforcement but that this should not be relied upon and seen as a form of income generation because enforcement was a \"last resort\".\n\nJo Smith says council staff are already stretched\n\nThe Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, which represents the sector, also said more funding was needed to ensure the new legislation was effective.\n\nHenry Dawson, a member of the organisation's housing advisory panel, said there was a \"desperate shortage\" of environmental health officers and tenancy relations officers.\n\n\"At the moment it's very much about firefighting in major cases,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"If we're about to bring in a whole raft of new responsibilities for local authorities, we need to bring in more staffing to support that and also a sustainable model for funding of new staff.\"\n\nThe bill would also introduce a new database, which landlords would be legally required to sign up to.\n\nMr Dawson said the database would make it easier for councils to enforce the legislation by saving time and allowing them to identify who was letting out properties and flag any breaches.\n\nA Department for Housing, Levelling Up and Communities spokesman said: \"We will continue to support councils financially so they have the right resources to put tenants first, that includes fully funding any additional costs that may fall on councils as a result of our proposed reforms.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Trump discusses secret documents in an audio recording first obtained by CNN\n\nAn audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media.\n\nIn the recording, the former president is heard riffling through papers and saying: \"This is highly confidential.\"\n\nIt was first obtained by CNN, but the BBC's US partner CBS also has the clip.\n\nMr Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling sensitive documents.\n\nCNN was the first to publish the roughly two-minute recording, which it said came from a July 2021 meeting at Mr Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey golf club between him and several people working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.\n\nMr Trump is heard saying \"these are the papers\" and referring to a document about Iran, which he calls \"highly confidential\".\n\n\"This was done by the military and given to me,\" he says. \"See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret.\"\n\nIt appears to be the same audio recording cited by federal prosecutors in their indictment of Mr Trump.\n\nIt is not clear from the indictment, however, if the documents referenced in the recording were ever recovered by investigators.\n\nProsecutors allege the former president showed classified documents to people without security clearance on two occasions, including a writer and two members of staff.\n\nMr Trump is facing 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.\n\nHe has said all the documents he took with him from the White House were declassified, but the published audio recording appears to contradict this.\n\nFiles were allegedly stored in a ballroom at Donald Trump's Florida property Mar-a-Lago\n\nIn an interview last week with Fox News, the former president denied that he showed secret documents to people unauthorised to view them in the Bedminster meeting.\n\n\"There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things,\" Mr Trump said, adding that he was presenting \"newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles\".\n\nThe recording, however, appears to suggest that Mr Trump was referencing specific files.\n\nA source familiar with the investigation told CBS News on Tuesday that the Iran memo referenced by Mr Trump in the recording is not among the confidential memos he is accused of keeping after leaving the White House.\n\nHe was indicted alongside an aide, Walt Nauta, who had been expected to plead not guilty at a hearing on Tuesday. That hearing, however, was postponed until 6 July after his flight was cancelled due to bad weather.\n\nThe former president's trial is scheduled for 14 August but that is likely to be delayed. A judge is yet to rule on a motion from prosecutors seeking to delay it until 11 December.\n\nOn Monday, the federal judge overseeing the case denied a request from government prosecutors to keep the list of potential witnesses secret.", "NHS consultants in England have voted in favour of strike action in their fight for more pay.\n\nSome 86% of British Medical Association members backed walkouts over what the union described as repeated pay cuts.\n\nThe union had already announced that a 48-hour walkout on 20 and 21 July would take place if doctors backed action.\n\nIt will follow a five-day strike by junior doctors - the combination is likely to lead to huge disruption to services, and cancelled treatments.\n\nThe walkout by junior doctors across all services will end on 18 July.\n\nConsultants will be providing what is being described as Christmas Day cover during their own strike - so emergency care will be provided, along with a very limited amount of routine work.\n\nBritish Medical Association (BMA) consultants committee chair, Dr Vishal Sharma, said the vote showed how \"furious\" they were at being repeatedly devalued by the government.\n\n\"Consultants don't want to have to take industrial action, but have been left with no option in the face of a government that continues to cut our pay year after year.\"\n\nHe said current pay and conditions had caused large numbers of people to leave the NHS and strikes were a \"last resort\".\n\n\"We're incredibly sorry for the anxiety and disruption that will happen,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It is a sad indictment of government really as we've had such a long period of pay cuts and this has driven both consultants and doctors to this point, but we will do everything we can to make sure patients are kept safe,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHe added that it was not too late to avert the strikes, and urged the government to come forward with a credible offer.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said the \"double-whammy\" of strikes by doctors next month was a \"huge risk\" for the NHS to manage.\n\nConsultant pay has fallen by 27% since 2008 once RPI inflation is taken into account, but the BMA said once changes to tax and pension contributions were factored in, the cut to take-home pay was 35%.\n\nA major factor in this is the fact that income tax thresholds have been frozen, and the introduction of the additional 45% tax rate for the highest earners.\n\nDuring 2022, average NHS earnings exceeded £126,000 for consultants - this includes extra pay for additional hours and performance.\n\nUnlike junior doctors at the start of their dispute, consultants are not asking for full pay restoration in one go. Instead, they want to see the government to start at least giving pay rises that match inflation.\n\nLast year they received a 4.5% pay increase - less than half the rate of RPI inflation in the 12 months to March. No formal pay offer has been made for this year yet.\n\nJunior doctors were offered a 5% rise this year in their talks with government. They rejected this, but have since said they would be willing to phase in pay restoration over a number of years.\n\nMeanwhile, a ballot by the Royal College of Nursing failed to achieve a high enough turnout to give the union a mandate to continue its strike action.\n\nThat result - also announced on Tuesday - means the long-running dispute with nurses now comes to an end.\n\nLabour shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: \"This is an unmitigated disaster of the government's making and the risk to patients and the NHS is intolerable.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak cannot continue to sit back like a passive observer and let this go ahead. He must now get the doctors in for immediate negotiations to bring these strikes to an end.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it was disappointed with the vote.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Strikes are hugely disruptive for patients and put pressure on other NHS staff.\n\n\"We urge the BMA to carefully consider the likely impact of any action on patients.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Florida and Texas are seeing some locally acquired cases of malaria - the first spread of the mosquito-transmitted disease inside the US in 20 years, officials warn in a health alert.\n\nActive surveillance for more cases is continuing, the Centres for Disease Control says.\n\nThe risk of catching malaria in the US remains extremely low, it says.\n\nAll five patients - four in Florida, one in Texas - have now had treatment.\n\nMalaria is caused by being bitten by an infected mosquito. People cannot catch it from each other. But the insects catch it from infected people - and the cycle continues.\n\nIt is common in large areas of Africa, Asia and Central and South America but not the US.\n\nHowever, Anopheles mosquitoes, found throughout many parts of the US, can transmit malaria, if they have fed on an infected person.\n\nThe risk is higher in areas where:\n\nInfected people can suffer fever, sweats and chills. Malaria is an emergency and must be treated quickly with drugs to kill the parasite that causes the infection.\n\nUsing insect repellent and covering up can help protect against mosquito bites.\n\nThe CDC says it is working with the Florida and Texas health departments and those recently diagnosed and treated \"are improving\".\n\nUS doctors are being advised to consider malaria in any person with an unexplained fever, regardless of international travel history, particularly if they have visited or live in the affected areas of Florida or Texas.\n\nFlorida has issued a mosquito-borne illness alert after cases were discovered in Sarasota County and Manatee County, warning residents to drain standing water where mosquitoes can breed and wear long-sleeved shirts and pants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff at homeless charity St Mungo's are to begin an indefinite strike from Tuesday in a dispute over pay.\n\nAn initial month-long strike ended on Monday, but union members voted to extend it earlier this month.\n\nTrade union Unite said the \"momentous\" decision had been taken because the charity had refused to improve a \"pitiful\" offer of a 2.25% rise.\n\nSt Mungo's has said it could not meet Unite's demands and remain \"financially viable as an organisation\".\n\nThe dispute relates to pay for the last financial year, 2021/22.\n\nThe charity says it has already applied a rise of 1.75% to salaries in that year, but that Unite has asked for a backdated and consolidated rise of 10%.\n\nIt says meeting the request for the last and current financial year would cost a total of £9.7m and that its cash reserves have already been depleted over the last 12 months, in part by additional payments already made to staff.\n\nAll eligible employees have already received an average rise of 5.5% for the financial year 2022/23 and some have received a £700 one-off payment to help with the cost of living, the charity says.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"St Mungo's workers are taking indefinite strike action because management and the trustees are displaying astonishing callousness.\n\n\"This attitude is corporate Britain meets the charity sector. The workers know St Mungo's can afford to improve frontline workers' pay. That's why the blame for this indefinite strike lies with Mungo's management and board.\"\n\nFigures released last week showed the UK's inflation rate in the 12 months to May was 8.7%, although price rises for some goods that make up a significant portion of household costs - such as food and energy - have been considerably higher.\n\nEmma Haddad, chief executive of St Mungo's, said: \"It was unexpected to hear that Unite has extended its period of strike action indefinitely.\n\n\"We are in the middle of discussions aimed at finding a solution and had a constructive meeting with Unite representatives on 12 June.\n\n\"Bringing an end to this unprecedented period of industrial action remains our key priority, so we can all focus on working together to support people at risk of, or recovering from, homelessness.\"\n\nThe dispute comes after Prince William launched a five-year campaign to end homelessness in the UK, saying the phenomenon should not exist in a \"modern and progressive society\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtests and unrest erupted in the Paris region overnight after police shot dead a 17-year-old who failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows a police officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car, before a gunshot is heard. The car then crashes to a stop.\n\nThe teenager, named as Nahel, died of bullet wounds in the chest despite help from emergency services.\n\nThe officer accused of shooting him has been detained on homicide charges.\n\nThe shooting triggered a series of protests on Tuesday night in Nanterre, the area just west of Paris where the teenager was killed. Some 31 people were arrested following the disorder.\n\nNahel is the second person this year in France to have been killed in a police shooting during a traffic stop. Last year, a record 13 people died in this way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to French media, police initially suggested the teen drove his car towards them with the intention of hurting them.\n\nBut footage posted online and verified by the AFP news agency tells a different story.\n\nIt shows two officers at the vehicle. One points his weapon at the driver through the window and appears to fire at point-blank range as he tries to drive off.\n\nThe agency also reports that a person in the video can be heard saying \"you're going to be shot in the head\" - but it is unclear who says it.\n\nTwo others were in the car at the time of the shooting - one fled while another, also a minor, was arrested and held by police.\n\nThe incident sparked anger and disorder overnight, with cars and rubbish bins set alight and bus shelters destroyed. Fireworks were also set off near the police station. Riot police used tear gas to break up protesters, some of whom created barricades throughout the night.\n\nSeveral incidents of unrest were also recorded in the towns of Asnières, Colombes, Suresnes, Aubervilliers, Clichy-sous-Bois and Mantes-la-Jolie.\n\nThe Nanterre shooting is set to be one of those symbolic moments that define the troubled relations between police and disaffected populations in the suburban cités, or estates.\n\nThe government can see this as well as anyone, which is why they will be treading very carefully over the next days. Gérald Darmanin, interior minister, set the tone when he said that the police action was - from the look of it - unacceptable.\n\nThe danger is that the rioting of Tuesday extends over the coming nights. Hot weather, long evenings, and the end of school term could easily combine with a sense of righteous indignation to push more youth onto the street.\n\nThe long nights of suburban rioting in 2005 have not been forgotten.\n\nOne gesture that could well be under consideration is a review of rules on gun use by police at checkpoints.\n\nNo-one disputes that refusing to stop at a traffic control is a serious offence, and that it happens too frequently. But on 13 occasions last year occupants of cars in such situations were shot dead by French police. That strongly suggests something is wrong.\n\nAuthorities have opened two separate investigations following the teen's death - one into a possible killing by a public official, and another into the driver's failure to stop his vehicle and the alleged attempt to kill a police officer.\n\nParis police chief Laurent Nuñez told French television station BFMTV that the policeman's actions \"raises questions\", though he suggested the officer may have felt threatened.\n\nThe 17-year-old's family lawyer Yassine Bouzrou insisted that was an illegitimate defence, telling the same channel the video \"clearly showed a policeman killing a young man in cold blood\".\n\nHe added that the family had filed a complaint against police for \"lying\" - after initially claiming the car had tried to run down the officers.\n\nAnother lawyer representing the victim's family, Jennifer Cambla, told local media that nothing could justify what had happened, and described the death as an \"execution\".\n\nIn a video posted on TikTok, Nahel's mother Mounia urged people to join her on a march for her son.\n\n\"Come all, I beg you\", she said. \"We will all be there.\"\n\n\"I'm hurting for my France. An unacceptable situation. All my thoughts go out to Nahel's family and loved ones, this little angel gone far too soon,\" France and Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappé wrote on Twitter.\n\nLupin actor Omar Sy tweeted that his \"thoughts and prayers go out to the family and loved ones\" of Nahel.\n\n\"May justice worthy of the name honour the memory of this child.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Omar Sy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron called Nahel's killing \"inexplicable\" and \"inexcusable\", adding that the case had \"moved the entire nation.\"\n\n\"Nothing justifies the death of a young person,\" he said, calling for \"calm for justice to be done\".\n\n\"I want to say that in no case is an act like the one we have seen justified - if the inquiry should confirm the videos we have seen,\" Mr Darmanin told French media on Wednesday.\n\n\"We hope to have the whole truth of what happened,\" he said.\n\nLeft-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed his \"heartfelt condolences\" to the family of the teen. \"No officer has the right to kill unless in self-defence,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\n\"This uncontrolled police force discredits the authority of the state. It needs to be completely overhauled,\" he added.\n\nTwo weeks ago, a 19-year-old driver was shot dead by police in the western France town of Angouleme, after allegedly hitting an officer in the legs during a traffic stop.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEight people have been killed, including three children, by Russian missiles that hit the centre of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nA restaurant and shopping area were hit in Tuesday's strike on the city, which is under Ukrainian control but close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.\n\nRescuers are continuing to search for people trapped under the debris.\n\nAt least 56 others were injured in the strike, according to Ukrainian emergency services.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC he saw \"dead people, people screaming, people crying, huge chaos\".\n\nA 17-year-old girl was reported to be among those who were killed in the attack, which happened at around 19:30 local time (16:30 GMT).\n\nThere were also apartment buildings at the epicentre of the explosion, officials said.\n\nSocial media and drone footage from the scene show significant damage to the buildings, some of which have been reduced to rubble.\n\nBelgian freelance journalist Arnaud De Decker told BBC Newshour he was at the popular Ria Lounge restaurant just minutes before it was hit.\n\n\"There's still people underneath the rubble because it's a big restaurant,\" he said.\n\n\"Now I can hear people screaming underneath the rubble as rescuers are trying to save them.\"\n\nHe estimated up to 80 staff members and customers were on the restaurant premises at the time of the strike, so feared the casualty number could be \"severe\".\n\nOfficials say at least 40 people were injured, including an eight-month-old baby and three foreigners.\n\nA rescue operation is currently under way in the city centre, with security agencies assisting emergency services at the scene and evacuating victims.\n\nLocal authorities say the area had a high concentration of civilians when the missiles hit.\n\n\"This is the city centre. These were public eating places crowded with civilians,\" regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television.\n\nMr De Decker described the restaurant as a local \"gathering hub\" that was also popular with soldiers, journalists and volunteers.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack proved to Ukraine and the world that Russia deserved \"only defeat and a tribunal, just and lawful courts against all Russian murderers and terrorists\".\n\nThe White House condemned Russia for its \"brutal strikes\" on Ukraine.\n\nKramatorsk has often been targeted by missiles since the start of the invasion in February 2022.\n\nThe city of 150,000 people is one of the largest still under Ukrainian control in the besieged east. It lies about 30km (18 miles) from the frontline.\n\nIn April of last year more than 60 people died in Kramatorsk following a missile strike on the city's railway station.\n\nIt is also exactly a year to the day since a shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk was hit by Russian shelling, killing at least 18 people.\n\nThis latest attack comes as Mr Zelensky said Ukraine's counter-offensive was advancing on all fronts.", "The Welsh government says it will not be banning foods, but will work with retailers on offers\n\nMeal deals with a high fat, sugar or salt content will be restricted in Wales under plans to tackle obesity and diabetes.\n\nPrice drops and multi-buy offers on unhealthy foods will be banned in the Welsh government's proposals.\n\nRetailers have raised concerns as food prices remain high and an eating disorder charity says it could be detrimental to those in recovery.\n\nThe legislation will be introduced next year and rolled out by 2025.\n\nA number of retailers offer lunch deals which combine a sandwich, drink and a snack for a set price.\n\nRestrictions will be placed on certain combinations that have a high fat, sugar or salt content above the recommended daily amount.\n\n\"If I want to buy something with more sugar or salt in it then it's my choice,\" says Bethan Walker\n\nThe new law will also prevent retailers from temporarily lowering prices and offering promotions such as two-for-one on the unhealthiest foods.\n\nThe new rules will also try to curb junk food impulse buys by asking retailers not to promote certain items at the end of aisles or next to checkouts.\n\nThe legislation will apply to all businesses which employ more than 50 people.\n• None 33% buy meal deals once per week or more\n• None 6lb/2.8kg weight gain a year if you ate an average meal deal five days a week for lunch\n• None 47lb/21kg weight gain a year if you ate a high calorie meal deal five days a week for lunch\n\nSimilar changes in England have been delayed by the UK government, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying it would be unfair to restrict options when food prices remain high.\n\nIn June 2020, Scotland \"paused\" a new bill to place restrictions on the promotion of junk food due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nShoppers at a supermarket in the Vale of Glamorgan had mixed views on the proposed legislation.\n\n\"I think it's a great idea,\" said June Milne. \"I think the government should put restrictions on it. It's about time we put health before profits.\"\n\nMohamed Gomaa believed putting health warnings on food packaging would be more effective, like the health warnings on cigarette packets.\n\nBethan Walker said: \"I understand what is going on, but personally, my view is that if I want to buy something with more sugar or salt in it then it's my choice.\"\n\nFilco supermarkets director Matthew Hunt described the timing as \"ludicrous\".\n\n\"It is notable Rishi Sunak has recently been talking about relaxing this legislation, that it in itself is inflationary and not the right time to be taking this approach especially when food inflation in particular is as high as it is.\n\n\"What should be avoided at all costs is the creation of confusion caused by different governments not being aligned with what is included and excluded.\n\n\"It's about time we put health before profits,\" says June Milne\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Drive on Tuesday, Claire Reynolds from Eating disorder charity, Beat said: \"There's a huge risk by putting these sorts of restrictions and red flags it can be a real sort of detriment for someone who is trying to recover from an eating disorder.\n\n\"They may be on a prescribed meal plan which says they need to eat these particular things and then they are being told actually that's not right and they shouldn't.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said there was strong public support for action to help people make healthier food choices.\n\nAccording to Public Health Wales data, 60% of people in Wales are overweight and one in four children are obese by the age of five.\n\nThe number of people with type 2 diabetes in Wales is also at a record level.\n\nDeputy minister for mental health and wellbeing Lynne Neagle said: \"This legislation will take forward our commitment to improve diets and help prevent obesity in Wales.\n\n\"Our aim is to rebalance our food environments towards healthier products, so that the healthy choice becomes the easy choice.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it would not be banning any products, but it will continue to work with retailers to find a nutritional balance in all offers available to customers.\n\nFilco supermarkets director Matthew Hunt is concerned about \"the creation of confusion\"\n\nDr Ilona Johnson, consultant in Public Health for Public Health Wales (PHW) said: \"We know that from the evidence that policies targeting the food environment are effective and a strong legislative framework is an important step in helping us to shift the balance towards healthier choices and healthier people.\"\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium said: \"We are particularly concerned over possible plans to restrict price promotions and to restrict products in meal deals.\n\n\"Promotions within categories allow retailers and brands to compete to attract customers, improving competition and keeping prices down.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative spokesman for mental health, James Evans said: \"Obesity is a pressing issue across the western world that is a costly drain on the limited resources of our precious Welsh NHS and it is a shame that is has taken the Welsh government this long to address the problem.\n\n\"However, during the cost of living pressures we are all facing, we need cast-iron assurances from the Welsh Labour government that they do not intend to ban meal deals and that any new regulations will not increase the average weekly cost for shoppers.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said it \"supports measures that focus on making it easier to choose healthy lifestyle options\".\n\n\"It's so important to find the balance between taking steps that could prevent poor future health rather than measures that involve the government restricting what we can do when too many households are already facing unreasonable squeeze on their budgets.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian servicemen ride atop of a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system near a front line in Donetsk region on 21 June\n\nUkrainian forces are \"highly likely\" to have recaptured land in the country's eastern Donbas region occupied by Russia since 2014, the UK says.\n\nOn Saturday, a Ukrainian commander said land had been retaken near the Russian-occupied village of Krasnohorivka.\n\nAirborne forces have since made \"small advances\" east from that village, in Donetsk, the UK's MoD says.\n\nIt comes as Ukraine's leader said his country's counter-offensive was making advances on all fronts.\n\nSpeaking during his overnight address, Volodymyr Zelensky said it was a \"happy day\" for Ukraine but did not give details or talk about any areas specifically.\n\nIn 2014 Russia illegally annexed the southern Crimean peninsula and Russia-backed forces took control of parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts bordering Russia in the east.\n\nIn its daily intelligence briefing, the UK defence ministry said Ukraine's advances east of Krasnohorivka constituted \"one of the first instances since Russia's February 2022 invasion that Ukrainian forces have highly likely recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014\".\n\nUkraine's simultaneous attacks across the Donbas front line - part of its counter-offensive efforts - are likely to have overstretched forces from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic and Chechen forces operating in this area, the UK defence ministry said.\n\nThe BBC has not verified the assessment. The Russian authorities have not mentioned Krasnohorivka in their updates.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Zelensky confirmed Ukraine's long-awaited counter-offensive to recapture areas occupied by Russia had begun. Last week, he acknowledged to the BBC that battlefield progress has been \"slower than desired\".\n\nOn Monday, the commander of Ukraine's forces on the southern front line, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, said Ukrainian forces were \"moving forward\" in the southern direction.\n\n\"There are already liberated territories and our movement continues,\" he said, without giving further details of which specific areas he was talking about.\n\nUkrainian forces have also reportedly made gains in the southern Kherson region, crossing the Dnipro river and establishing a foothold on its left bank, according to pro-Russian war bloggers.\n\nWriting on Telegram, military blogger Sasha Kots said in the last week, Ukrainian activity on the Dnipro in the area of the Antonivskiy Bridge by Kherson city had increased.\n\nThe left side of the Dnipro has been under the control of Russian-occupying forces, while the right side has been under Ukrainian control. The Antonivskiy Bridge did link the two sides - though it has been significantly damaged during the course of the conflict.\n\nMr Kots said Ukrainian troops had now \"entrenched\" themselves on the left bank and are trying to expand the foothold further south.\n\nThe BBC has not verified this and Ukraine has not made any official mention of its movements there.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGary Neville is to join Dragons' Den as a guest Dragon for the 2024 series.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United and England right-back has a business portfolio that spans property, hospitality, education, media and sport.\n\nNeville, 48, will join regular Dragons Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, Sara Davies and Steven Bartlett for episodes of series 21.\n\n\"I am excited to join the Dragons, and to meet the entrepreneurs brave enough to face us in the Den,\" said Neville.\n\n\"I hope my personal journey shows that you can take the experiences you've had in one part of your career and use them to do something entirely different and make it a success.\n\n\"Business is all about managing people and managing yourself and I'm looking forward to sharing my experience to help the entrepreneurs we'll meet in the Den reach their potential.\"\n\nUS-based fashion mogul Emma Grede will also enter the Den as a guest judge, with filming currently taking place in Manchester.\n\nAlso a football pundit and commentator, Neville is a co-owner of Salford City, two Manchester hotels and a production company, and along with other members of United's Class of '92, co-founded University Academy 92 (UA92).\n\nHe has also been a property developer since he was 21, and his latest projects include the £200m St Michael's development in Manchester.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The newly-uncovered fresco was found on a half-crumbled wall in what was the hallway of a house in Pompeii\n\nArchaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which depicts what might be the precursor to the Italian pizza.\n\nThe flatbread depicted in the 2,000-year-old fresco \"may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish\", Italy's culture ministry said.\n\nBut it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza.\n\nThe fresco was found in the hall of a house next to a bakery during recent digs at the site in southern Italy.\n\nThe discovery was made this year during new excavations of Regio IX in the centre of Pompeii, one of the nine districts that the ancient site is divided into.\n\nThe building was partially excavated in the 19th Century before digging recommenced in January this year - nearly 2,000 years on from the volcanic eruption which engulfed the city.\n\nArchaeologists at the Unesco World Heritage park say the newly-uncovered fresco depicting the flatbread, painted next to a wine goblet, may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce.\n\nPompeii director Gabriel Zuchtriegel said it shows the contrast between a \"frugal and simple meal\" and the \"luxury of silver trays\".\n\n\"How can we fail to think, in this regard, of pizza, also born as a 'poor' dish in southern Italy, which has now conquered the world and is also served in starred restaurants,\" he said.\n\nThe skeletons of three people were also found near the oven in the working areas of the home in recent weeks, a culture ministry statement added.\n\nThe eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried Pompeii in ash, freezing the city and its residents in time. The site has been a rich source for archaeologists since its discovery in the 16th Century.\n\nThe site is only about 23km (14 miles) from the city of Naples - the modern day home of the Unesco-protected Italian pizza.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Bodies of rich man and slave discovered in Pompeii", "One of the singer's final wishes was to find new ways of spotting breast cancer early\n\nA major cancer research project in memory of singer Sarah Harding will look for early signs of breast cancer in young women.\n\nGirls Aloud singer Harding died from the disease aged 39 in 2021.\n\nOne of her final wishes was to find new ways of spotting breast cancer early when it is more treatable.\n\nThe new Greater Manchester project will become one of the first in the world to identify which women are at risk of getting the disease in their 30s.\n\nAbout 2,300 women aged 39 and under are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK each year.\n\nThe Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Young Women (Bcan-Ray) is being funded by Christie Charity and Cancer Research UK.\n\nFunds are also being provided by the Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal which is supported by Harding's family and her former bandmates Cheryl, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts.\n\nSarah Harding (far-right) was part of the girl group Girls Aloud\n\nSpeaking about the study before her death, Harding said: \"Research is incredibly important in the fight against cancer.\n\n\"Although this research may not be in time to help me, this project is incredibly close to my heart as it may help women like me in the future.\"\n\nResearchers hope their findings will enable all women to have a risk assessment for breast cancer when they reach the age of 30.\n\nThose deemed high risk would be given access to early screening.\n\nCatherine Craven-Howe, 33, from Hale in south Manchester, was the first person to take part in the trial.\n\nHer first appointment included a low dose mammogram to assess her breast density and a saliva sample for genetic testing.\n\nShe said: \"Although I don't have breast cancer myself and I don't have a history of it in my family, I know just how important clinical trials and research are.\n\n\"I hope my participation will help devise a simple test to detect the likelihood of breast cancer for young women like me in the future.\"\n\nEight to 10 weeks after her appointment, Ms Craven-Howe will receive feedback about her risk of breast cancer.\n\nThe study will recruit 1,000 women aged between 30 and 39, including 250 with breast cancer but no family history of the disease.\n\nHarding's consultant, Dr Sacha Howell, who is leading the study, said: \"Sarah spoke to me many times about breast cancer research and was really keen for more to be done to find out why young women are being diagnosed without any other family members having been affected by the disease.\"\n\nMichelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, added: \"Even in the darkest days of her cancer journey, Sarah Harding was a fearless advocate for research.\n\n\"She bravely faced up to the pain the cancer caused her, undergoing treatment whilst thinking of ways to help other women in a similar position.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents were evacuated after a fire spread through a residential building in the city of Ajman. Police said teams were able to extinguish the blaze and nobody was injured.\n\nA large fire tore through two apartment towers in the same complex in 2016.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWARNING: This article contains descriptions of racism and other offensive and discriminatory language and behaviour.\n\nAn obscene joke about a Muslim cricketer's prayer mat and \"predatory behaviour\" towards women were some of the \"absolutely horrific\" stories revealed in a damning report into discrimination in cricket.\n\nThe long-awaited Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) report was published on Tuesday and said racism, sexism, classism and elitism were \"widespread\" in the English and Welsh game.\n\nChair Cindy Butts said stories told to the commission showed the sport's culture was \"rotten\".\n\n\"We heard of women being constantly stereotyped, demeaned, facing predatory behaviour,\" Butts told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\n\"We heard from women who are having to walk into score boxes and face signs that say 'no bras allowed'. This is 2023, not 1923.\"\n\nButts described \"routine\" use of racial slurs, including one 13-year-old on a talent pathway being racially abused and told to \"go back home\".\n\n\"We heard from a Muslim former player who had to endure the indignity of his team-mates laughing and joking about one of the players using the prayer mat to clean up after sex,\" Butts added.\n\n\"The stories were absolutely horrific and it goes to show that the culture in cricket is rotten.\"\n\nThe report looked into recreational and professional cricket and the evidence gathered came from more than 4,000 respondents.\n\nAmong those to give evidence were England men's Test captain Ben Stokes, women's captain Heather Knight, former men's captain Joe Root, World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, and Azeem Rafiq - the former Yorkshire player and racism whistleblower.\n\n\"We heard that there are problems throughout cricket, including the England dressing room, at the recreational level, at the board level, including for young pupils as well, and people on the talent pathway throughout cricket,\" Butts said.\n\nAs well as racism, the report was particularly damning when highlighting sexism - saying women are treated as \"subordinate\" to men at all levels of the sport.\n\n\"What we've seen is that women are vulnerable when around a drinking culture - they are subjected to sexual harassment, lots of sexting,\" Butts said.\n\n\"We've heard from a number of women who talk about being vulnerable and being exposed and having unwanted advances made on them by men.\"\n\nThe report also found \"significant\" disparities in the amounts invested in men's and women's cricket, with England men receiving 13 times the overall amount paid to England women for all formats.\n• None In white-ball cricket, the average salary for England women is 20.6% of that for England men, while the England women's captain's allowance is 31% of that awarded to the men's captain.\n• None Regarding England international match fees, women's fees are 25% of men's for shorter-format matches, and 15% for Test matches.\n• None In domestic cricket, the average salary for a player in a women's regional team is equivalent to 45.5% of the average salary of a men's player at a first-class county.\n• None In the Hundred, the highest salary tier for the women is just £1,250 more than the lowest tier for the men.\n• None Excluding the Hundred, the total prize money for women is just 10% of the total prize money for men.\n\nThe report made 44 recommendations, including that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) makes an unreserved public apology for its failings.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, ECB chair Richard Thompson offered a \"heartfelt apology\" to those who have been \"discriminated against and excluded\".\n\nHe said making improvements on the back of the findings was the game's \"single biggest priority\" and reiterated his desire, stated last September, to make cricket the country's \"most inclusive sport\".\n\n\"I think this report will accelerate that process now,\" said Thompson, who was appointed last year.\n\n\"At the time I said it will probably take us five years to achieve that. And I think now we've probably got a bigger hill to climb based on what we've read in this report in terms of achieving that level.\n\n\"But cricket does reach communities that no other sport does.\"\n\nThe report acknowledged \"the problems we identify are not, sadly, unique to cricket\", adding: \"In many instances they are indicative of equally deeply rooted societal problems.\"\n\nWhat else did the report say?\n\nThe report found racism in cricket is \"not confined to pockets or a few bad apples\" but is \"widespread and a serious problem\".\n\nIt said there is \"a culture in which overt discrimination often goes without serious challenge\", which includes \"racist, misogynistic, homophobic and ableist comments and actions, and a 'laddish' drinking culture that can sometimes make women vulnerable and at risk of unwanted or unwelcome behaviour, as well as alienating others due to religious and/or cultural beliefs\".\n\nA total of 50% of respondents had experienced discrimination in the past five years.\n\nOne Asian recreational player told how he and a team-mate had been \"called terrorists\", and after complaining, was accused of \"attempting to defame\" the club in question.\n\nA former professional player said \"as a black cricketer, I had to be three times better than my white counterparts\".\n\nThe commission also said it was \"alarmed\" by repeated references to \"the bank of mum and dad\", with respondents stressing the importance of financial support from parents in determining whether they made it as a cricketer or not.\n\nThe report recommended the historic Eton versus Harrow and Oxford against Cambridge fixtures should not be played at Lord's from 2023 onwards, in order to stop the message of elitism, and questioned why the England women's team has not played a Test at the venue.\n\n\"It's absolutely shocking that women haven't had the opportunity to play a Test match at the so-called home of cricket,\" Butts said. \"I think that's awful.\n\n\"And when you know that Eton and Harrow have an automatic right to play at Lord's, I think that is absolutely disgraceful. I think it speaks to the elitism in cricket.\"\n\nCriticism of the fixtures was part of what the report called a prevalence of \"elitism and class-based discrimination\".\n\nA lack of cricket in state schools and a talent pathway structurally aligned to private schools is partly to blame for \"elitism and class-based discrimination\", it said.\n\nButts said: \"We have concluded that it is and it's not just institutionally racist, we say that it's institutionally and structurally sexist and has class-based discrimination.\n\n\"We have thought long and hard about using that term, but we believe it's a term that applies when you look at the evidence that exists.\"\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car?: Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads\n• None Is it a good idea to fix your mortgage and energy bills?:", "The company behind Boots the Chemist is to close 300 of its branches throughout the UK over the next 12 months.\n\nThe US-owners of the pharmacy chain said they will shut down stores in close proximity to each other as part of plans to \"consolidate\" the business.\n\nThe BBC understands there will be no redundancies and staff will be offered work at nearby stores.\n\nThere will be 1,900 branches left across the UK from a base of 2,200.\n\nIt is not yet known which locations will be affected.\n\nWalgreens Boots Alliance said on Tuesday, as it delivered its quarterly results statement, that the move was part of a \"transformation plan\".\n\nThe company said it had seen a surge in people shopping online and choosing own-brand labels as customers looked to save money.\n\nRetail sales went up by 13.4% in the three months to the end of May, compared with the same period last year. Its \"Everyday\" essentials label saw volume growth of 40%.\n\nEarlier this year the retailer courted controversy after it changed the way its loyalty card worked by offering discounts on more of its own-brand products, but reducing the points earned per pound.\n\nIn 2020, Walgreens cut 4,000 jobs at the health and beauty chain and closed some of its shops as the Covid-19 pandemic hit sales.\n\nThe company was recently a victim of cyber-crime when it was targeted, along with a host of other organisations including the BBC and BA, in a world-wide hack.", "Strike action by nurses at the Royal College of Nursing will not continue after the union's ballot of its members in England failed to achieve a mandate.\n\nWhile most of those members who cast a ballot voted to continue industrial action, the proportion taking part in the vote was too low for it to count.\n\nJust over 43% took part - below the 50% threshold required by trade union laws.\n\nThe RCN balloted its members after the previous six-month mandate for strike action had expired.\n\nIts members were among a minority of health staff who rejected the government's pay deal of a 5% rise this year and a lump sum of at least £1,655.\n\nMembers of Unison - the biggest NHS union - and those belonging to the bodies representing physios and midwives also backed the deal, which has now started to be paid.\n\nIt means only Unite in England has a mandate for strike action - and that is only for local strikes among some ambulance staff and support workers.\n\nThe Society of Radiographers is still balloting its members.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said she was 'proud' of her members\n\nThis pay deal and dispute is separate to the one involving members of the British Medical Association as doctors are on a different contract.\n\nJunior doctors are due to take part in five-day strike next month, while the results of the strike ballot of consultants closed on Tuesday. An announcement on that is due soon.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said she was \"proud\" of her members and said while many will be disappointed with the outcome the fight for fair pay and safe staffing would continue.\n\nShe said she was meeting ministers this week over the NHS workforce plan which is due to be published soon and she would continue to make the case for the profession.\n\n\"I know staff morale is low and the staffing crisis is set to worsen without immediate action.\n\n\"We have started something special - the voice of nursing has never been stronger and we're going to keep using it.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said it welcomed the end of the dispute and \"hugely valued\" the work of nurses.\n\n\"We hope other unions who remain in dispute with the government recognise it is time to stop industrial action and move forward together,\" she added.\n\nMembers of the RCN have taken part in eight days of strikes since the start of December.\n\nThey have involved around half of front-line services.\n\nMeanwhile, strike action in Wales has been paused by the RCN as they have entered formal pay talks with ministers there.\n\nAn offer by ministers in Scotland was accepted by RCN members earlier in the year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Bulley was a \"busy mum\" who juggled a career and family life\n\nNicola Bulley had been \"looking forward to the future\" before her disappearance, her partner has told her inquest.\n\nPaul Ansell said there had been concerns about her drinking and she had a \"blip\" over Christmas but was back to herself by January.\n\nThe inquest heard the family called 999 with worries about her welfare.\n\nOn the call-out Dr Theresa Leevy said the 45-year-old appeared to be intoxicated but did not wish to engage.\n\nMs Bulley went missing on a dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27 January, prompting a major search.\n\nHer body was found in the River Wyre more than three weeks later.\n\nDr Leevy said she worked alongside a mental health crisis service, who were called on 10 January to the mother-of-two's home address.\n\nThe doctor confirmed to the coroner this was following Ms Bulley telling her sister about not wishing to engage with her children and \"not wishing to be here\".\n\nDescribing the encounter as \"brief\", Dr Leevy said in a review of the service provided to the Bulley family, it was found she had been in receipt of the crisis service even though she \"did not wholly meet the criteria\".\n\nMr Ansell, giving evidence, said she had a \"blip\" over the Christmas period but in January she was back to herself.\n\nHe said: \"She had a good day the day before [she went missing], came home full of beans, excited with work, with the meetings she had and plans for the year.\"\n\nPaul Ansell said his partner was planning for the future the day before she went missing\n\nDr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire, asked Mr Ansell if Ms Bulley had any suicidal thoughts.\n\nMr Ansell, Ms Bulley's partner of 12 years, replied: \"There were a couple of throwaway comments during the blip period but nothing that gave me any concern.\"\n\nHe broke down in tears during his evidence and had to leave the room.\n\nMr Ansell said: \"She was an incredible mum.\"\n\n\"Nikki was a quiet person who enjoyed the simple side of life. She was a very private person and kept herself to herself,\" he said.\n\nMs Bulley's younger sister Louise Cunningham told Preston Coroner's Court she \"always had things under her control\".\n\nShe said her sister was \"very much a planner\" as the \"busy mum\" and juggled a career and family life.\n\nMs Cunningham also said there was a \"blip\" in her sister's mental state in the month before her death but \"she was back on the HRT medication in January and back to work and back to the normal Nikki\".\n\nMs Cunningham said her sister was drinking more heavily over that period.\n\nHowever, she added: \"She's never confided in me about any suicidal thoughts.\"\n\nMs Bulley's mother said \"everything was normal\" the day before her daughter went missing.\n\nDorothy Bulley said she picked up her granddaughters from school on 26 January and looked after them that evening.\n\nShe said: \"We sorted the girls out and everything was normal.\"\n\nShe fought back tears after she described giving her daughter a kiss and cuddle goodbye.\n\nNicola Bulley's parents cried as they described saying goodbye to their daughter the day before she went missing\n\nMs Bulley's father, Ernest, also cried as he talked about saying goodbye to his daughter.\n\nHe said: \"She was a great daughter, sister and mother, we couldn't ask for any more from her.\"\n\nSophie Cartwright KC, representing Ms Bulley's family, said they believed her death was \"a tragic accident\".\n\nMs Cartwright said: \"There has been much rumour and suspicion and speculation around Nikki's death but the family are very clearly of the view and submit to you that that rumour and speculation is allayed completely when looking at all the evidence.\"\n\nShe added the family believed \"Nikki's death would have occurred very shortly after she entered the water\".\n\nMs Bulley vanished while walking her dog by the river after dropping off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school.\n\nHer dog was found shortly afterwards and her mobile phone was discovered on a bench overlooking the water - still connected to a work conference call.\n\nHer disappearance led to intense public interest, criticism of the police and media and a social media frenzy of conspiracy theories.\n\nLancashire Police came under fire after revealing Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nMs Bulley's phone was found on a bench close to River Wyre and was still connected to a work conference call\n\nMs Bulley's former GP told the hearing there was \"nothing\" in her medical records to suggest she wanted to self-harm.\n\nDr Rebecca Gray said she had been receiving treatment for \"low mood and anxiety\" since December 2018, later telling of headaches, fatigue and lack of sleep.\n\nMs Bulley had been receiving HRT for the menopause since summer 2021, the inquest heard.\n\nShe had revisited the surgery, for symptoms including increased anxiety and headaches, and by late 2022 was reporting trouble with sleep.\n\nThe GP said Ms Bulley attended a walk-in centre on 11 January after a fall, complaining of increased drowsiness and vomiting.\n\nShe was sent to Accident & Emergency where a CT scan came back normal.\n\nOn Monday the inquest heard from Home Office pathologist Dr Alison Armour who conducted the post-mortem examination on Ms Bulley.\n\nShe said she concluded she died of drowning and there was no evidence she had been harmed before she fell into the water.\n\nDr Armour also told senior coroner Dr Adeley Ms Bulley had not been drinking before her death.\n\nThe inquest also heard from various passers-by who saw Ms Bulley in the village on the morning she disappeared.\n\nOne said she looked \"absolutely idyllic\", while another described her as \"not happy\" but \"not sad\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gilad Myerson says if companies like Ithaca are to invest in big projects they need a stable environment\n\nThe UK is at risk of being \"starved\" of North Sea energy leaving it reliant on imports, a major oil and gas producer has told the BBC.\n\nIthaca Energy said Labour's pledge to ban new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea and current taxation policy was \"spooking\" investors.\n\nIthaca is almost entirely invested in North Sea oil and gas.\n\nEnvironmental groups and scientists say new oil and gas fields would take the UK over its carbon budget limits.\n\nLast week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said a Labour government would not grant licences to explore new fields in the North Sea, saying it would be an \"historic mistake\" to wait until UK oil and gas runs out.\n\nBut Gilad Myerson, executive chairman of Ithaca, said the move would threaten the UK's energy security.\n\n\"By a new government imagining they'll be able to stop licences and oil development in the UK, ultimately what that means is that they'll be starving the UK of energy, and it will become very dependent on energy from abroad,\" he said.\n\nNorth Sea oil and gas is traded on international markets and the prices are set globally, but Mr Myerson insists much of it is used domestically, and it therefore has a lower carbon footprint than energy imported from abroad.\n\n\"Most of the hydrocarbons in the UK are developed and are produced for the UK market. Some of the oil will go to refineries abroad, but will ultimately make its way back to the UK,\" he said.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said that while the party would not issue any new licences, it would \"continue to use existing fields in the North Sea for decades to come\".\n\n\"The best way to bring down bills, increase our security and sovereignty, and create good jobs is to get on with a sprint for clean energy and we welcome all businesses being part of that.\"\n\nIthaca, which has stakes in six of the 10 largest oil and gas fields in the North Sea, is also worried about the current government's approach to taxation.\n\nLast May, the government introduced a windfall tax on energy company profits, known as the Energy Profits Levy. It was set at 25%, but was later increased to 35% in the Autumn Statement, taking the overall tax rate on companies in the sector to 75%.\n\nEarlier this month, the Treasury announced the windfall tax would stay in place until 2028 but would be scrapped if oil and gas prices fell closer to historical levels for a sustained period.\n\nBut Mr Myerson said the chances of oil and gas prices falling sufficiently to trigger the elimination of the tax were \"extremely low\" as supply and demand had changed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIthaca's Alba oil platform, located 130 miles off the coast of Aberdeen\n\n\"At the moment, the taxation regime is changing constantly and it's very difficult to invest huge amounts of capital when you don't know what type of return you'll be getting,\" Mr Myerson said, adding that Ithaca was considering investing elsewhere in Europe and the US, whom he said were \"more supportive\" to oil and gas.\n\nHe said the company was still committed to investing in two of the biggest undeveloped oil fields in the North Sea, the controversial Cambo and Rosebank fields. Rosebank has the potential to produce 500 million barrels of oil, and could be approved by the government within weeks.\n\nBut he said they would only be developed if it made financial sense, and said political announcements from all sides had been unhelpful.\n\n\"They are saying they do want hydrocarbons, then they say that they don't want hydrocarbons. When it comes to a project like Cambo and Rosebank, you need to make sure that the environment is stable because this is a project that will last for 10 years.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said it was \"right that we recover excess profits resulting from Putin's war\" and that the money raised from the windfall tax had been used to help people with their energy bills.\n\n\"But we also want the oil and gas sector to invest in British jobs and our energy security. That's why our new Energy Security Investment Mechanism is designed to give investors the confidence to keep investing in domestic oil and gas production, based on historic prices.\"\n\nLast year, the Climate Change Committee - the government's own environmental advisers - wrote to the business secretary saying it would support a \"tighter limit\" on North Sea production, and that \"an end to UK exploration would send a clear signal to investors and consumers that the UK is committed to the 1.5C global temperature goal\".\n\nIt also said an increase in UK oil and gas would have \"a marginal effect\" on prices faced by consumers.\n\nEnvironmental groups say that claims the industry would shut down overnight with the end of new North Sea licences are scare stories and that even one new oil and gas field in the region would push the UK over its carbon budget limits.\n\nFormer petroleum engineer Erik Dalhuijsen is looking to retrain to retrofit buildings to make them more energy-efficient\n\nErik Dalhuijsen, the founder of Aberdeen Climate Action, is critical of both the government and Labour policies on the future of the North Sea.\n\n\"There is only one decision that can be made and that is that new exploration needs to be stopped immediately,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no room in our carbon budget for additional hydrocarbons. There is already enough hydrocarbons in the proven reserves to blow the climate change carbon budget several times over.\n\n\"The real answer to energy security is to generate your own homegrown energy, which is renewables. The Ukraine situation is evidence that fossil fuels are not the secure energy source that you need.\"\n\nThe oil and gas sector supports 200,000 UK jobs, according to trade body Offshore Energies UK.\n\nOne of Mr Myerson's biggest concerns is around job losses if the North Sea sees no further investment.\n\nHe believes it is unrealistic to expect someone working on an oil platform to be able to install a windfarm as they would not have the technical expertise.\n\nHowever, Friends of the Earth and others argue that with the right support and investment, the renewable energy sector could support three times as many jobs as oil and gas.\n\nMr Dalhuijsen, who previously worked as a petroleum engineer in the oil and gas sector, is himself looking to retrain to retrofit buildings to make them more energy-efficient.\n\nMy Myerson agrees that wind and solar are important technologies and Ithaca is looking to invest in them as well, but says: \"It's impossible to just turn off a switch and imagine we can live in a world without hydrocarbons.\"", "That was a fascinating few hours.\n\nIt's fair to say Hugo Keith KC, counsel for the Inquiry, didn't pull his punches.\n\n\"You bear ministerial responsibility for that calamitous state of affairs, do you not?\" Hancock was asked at one point.\n\nBy the end of the session, Hancock looked frustrated at having to constantly repeat his key message: that the UK and other western countries made a \"colossal\" mistake by treating Covid as something that would inevitably spread and couldn't be stopped or contained.\n\nWe were far too focused on body bags and where to bury the dead, he memorably said.\n\nWhen he became health secretary in 2018, Hancock was told that the UK was one of, if not the, best prepared countries in the world for a pandemic.\n\nIn reality, planning for the impact on social care was \"terrible\", partly because the sector was so fractured across different private care companies, he said.\n\nThe government didn't even know how many care home residents there were at the start of the pandemic.\n\nWhen Covid hit, Hancock said the public never realised how close the NHS came to running out of intensive care drugs.\n\nTaken as a whole, the inquiry's counsel, asked if there was a \"complete systemic failure\" to prevent the \"catastrophic consequences\" of the pandemic.\n\n\"I couldn't agree more and it's an absolute tragedy,\" he replied.", "Mr Bayoh had a partner, and was father to two boys\n\nA public inquiry into the death of a black man in police custody has been told he was the author of his own misfortune.\n\nLawyers acting for officers involved in the incident said Sheku Bayoh's death in Kirkcaldy in 2015 was a tragedy.\n\nBut they added that criticism of the officers' actions was wholly unwarranted.\n\nRoddy Dunlop KC said that before Mr Bayoh was restrained, he had taken drugs and placed the public in danger.\n\nMr Dunlop told the inquiry: \"Mr Bayoh, doubtless as a result of self-intoxication, acted in a seriously criminal manner, creating a plain danger to members of the public that absolutely had to be addressed by the police.\n\n\"He created the situation that led to his death. He wasn't killed by the police.\n\n\"The anger of the family is understandable but it's misplaced.\"\n\nMr Bayoh, a trainee gas engineer, died after being restrained by around six police officers.\n\nThey were called to Hayfield Road in Kirkcaldy in May 2015 following reports of him acting erratically.\n\nHe had been seen with a knife in the town on the day of his death but was not in possession of it when police went to arrest him.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the circumstances of the 31-year-old's death and whether race was a factor.\n\nThe sister of Sheku Bayoh said his family had been left \"angry\" by the lawyers representing police officers who arrested him.\n\nStanding alongside other members of Mr Bayoh's family, Kadi Johnson spoke to the media following the morning's submissions.\n\nAsked about the arguments put forward by Mr Dunlop, who is representing the Scottish Police Federation, and whether the family's anger was misplaced, she said: \"We're very angry to hear that.\n\n\"Because when they met Sheku he had no knife on him. They are blaming Sheku for his own death, but where was their duty to care?\n\n\"They did not care for Sheku when they met him in a state where he was experiencing a mental breakdown. They did not help him there.\"\n\nBrian McConnachie KC is representing PC Alan Paton, who was one of the first officers at the scene.\n\nHe said there was \"not a shred of evidence\" that Mr Bayoh's race had anything to do with the incident.\n\nMr McConnachie said: \"The death of Sheku Bayoh was an unforeseen tragedy.\n\n\"But the reality is that, on the evidence put before this inquiry, he was to a very significant extent the author of his own misfortune.\"\n\nThe inquiry had earlier been told that when Mr Bayoh died he had the drugs MDMA and alpha-PVP in his system.\n\nClaire Mitchell KC, who is representing Mr Bayoh's family, said racial stereotypes were used in relation to the father-of-two soon after his death.\n\nShe said that through the media \"police sources painted an image of a large black man with stereotypical characteristics of extraordinary strength and dangerousness\".\n\nMs Mitchell continued: \"In relation to the incident itself, Sheku was experiencing a mental health crisis and should have been dealt with as a medical emergency.\"\n\nReferring to previous evidence, she said Mr Bayoh was sprayed with incapacitants three times, struck with a baton and forced to the ground within 50 seconds of the first police car arriving at the scene on Hayfield Road.\n\nShe continued: \"Sheku was brought to the ground in less than 45 seconds of the first police contact, never to get up again.\"\n\nShe said none of the officers involved had been seriously injured.\n\nMs Mitchell added: \"The process and procedures put in place to allow for assessment of a person and a mental health crisis were ignored. His safety was not considered.\"\n\nShe added that the issue of race \"flows as a river through this inquiry\", referring to Chief Constable Sir Iain Livingstone's recent admission that Police Scotland is institutionally racist, and said the family was not given the truth in the aftermath of Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMaria Maguire KC addressed the inquiry on behalf of the chief constable.\n\nShe said the chief constable expressed \"regret\" over the way the family were informed.", "Angela Bassett at the 2023 Oscars, where she lost out on the best supporting actress award to Jamie Lee Curtis\n\nBlack Panther star Angela Bassett will receive an honorary Oscar, 30 years after she was first nominated.\n\nThe actress was nominated for best actress for playing Tina Turner in 1993's What's Love Got to Do with It.\n\nThen this year, she was up for best supporting actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - but looked unimpressed when she lost.\n\nAcademy President Janet Yang said she had given \"transcendent performances that set new standards in acting\".\n\nBassett played Queen Ramonda in the Black Panther films, and is also known for her appearances in films like Boyz N the Hood, Malcolm X, Music of the Heart and Mission: Impossible - Fallout.\n\nHowever, some fans pointed out that she deserved to have won a competitive Oscar. Writing in The Root, Shanelle Genai questioned whether the honorary award was \"some sort of consolation prize\".\n\n\"Angela Bassett has quite literally been out-acting and acting circles around nearly everyone for the last few decades,\" she said.\n\n\"She's your favorite actor's favorite actor, for crying out loud... She deserves more than an honorary anything. She deserves the real thing. She's earned the real thing.\"\n\nJournalist Jerome Trammel said the honorary Oscar was \"insulting\". He wrote on Twitter: \"They're trying to clean up the fact that racism runs deep in that show's process. Calling it honorary leaves a stain that she didn't get it by 'their' standards.\"\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says honorary awards are given for lifetime achievements, exceptional contributions to film, and outstanding service to the Academy.\n\nThe Producers writer and director Mel Brooks will also receive an honorary award\n\nAlso receiving honorary Oscars will be comedy legend Mel Brooks and ET film editor Carol Littleton.\n\nActor, writer and director Brooks, 96, earned his only competitive Oscar to date for best original screenplay for The Producers in 1969. His other hit comedies include Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.\n\n\"Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humour, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment,\" Ms Yang said.\n\nLittleton's editing credits include Body Heat, The Big Chill, Places in the Heart and The Manchurian Candidate.\n\nThe recipients will be presented with their statuettes at the Governors Awards in November.\n\nThe Sundance Institute's Michelle Satter will also receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for fostering the careers of many film-makers from underrepresented communities.\n\nThe Academy said all four were \"trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of film-makers and movie fans\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It is understood those targeted are Bulgarian and Portugese\n\nWindows at a number of houses have been smashed in a racially-motivated hate crime in Ballymena, County Antrim, police have said.\n\nIt is understood the homes of four Bulgarian families and one Portuguese family were attacked.\n\nOfficers were called to Larne Street at about 02:15 BST on Monday.\n\nThe suspect is described as being a man of stocky build, wearing dark shorts and an orange top.\n\nWindows were smashed at a number of properties in the street\n\nPolice said they will be increasing patrols in the area following the attack and urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\n\"Everyone has the right to feel safe in their home,\" added Insp Reid.", "The Old Train House lay empty for 10 years before being renovated\n\nThe Old Train House in Edinburgh has been crowned Scotland's Home of the Year 2023.\n\nIt was one of six regional finalists in the popular BBC Scotland TV series.\n\nThis year's search showcased a variety of home styles including quirky conversions, grand designs, period renovations and bijou pads.\n\nThe Old Train House was empty for 10 years before Christina Blundell and husband Ben transformed it into a family home.\n\nInside, their eclectic tastes can be seen, as well as their desire to be sustainable with second-hand furnishing.\n\nThere are nods to the building's past including graffiti on the garden walls, giving it a unique style.\n\nThe judges described the winning house as a unique family home\n\nThe building was transformed from an abandoned train station into a \"very real home\"\n\nOwner Christina said: \"Winning was a genuine shock and we're bursting with pride.\n\n\"Ben and I entered with no expectations other than going along for the ride - we did not anticipate in any way that we'd be taking the trophy home that day, particularly when we got to see all the other fabulous finalists' homes.\"\n\nThe other finalists were:\n\nThe show's judges - interior designers Anna Campbell-Jones and Banjo Beale and architect and lecturer Michael Angus - described The Old Train House as a unique and welcoming family home.\n\nChristina Blundell and husband Ben are congratulated by the show's judges\n\nAnna Campbell Jones said: \"The Old Train House expresses the ultimate in adaptation and reuse, themes that are so important these days - the whole building was upcycled, transformed from a sad ruined train station to a very real home.\n\n\"I loved the balance of respect for the history of the building, clever use of bargain vintage finds and appropriate materials both for the age of the building and for its function as warm, fun family home.\"\n\nBanjo Beale said: \"It's hard to pick one thing about Old Train House which made it unique because it had that elusive, hard to define and harder to create feeling of home.\"\n\nFellow judge Michael Angus added: \"It was that indefinable thing, that lifted the Old Train up above the rest. Some curious blend of components, of building, fabric, place, time, that come together somehow, to imbue a home with a certain overall quality that is truly, home.\"", "The chief executive of Thames Water has stepped down after two years in the role, weeks after giving up her bonus over sewage spills.\n\nThames Water said Sarah Bentley would leave with immediate effect, but would continue to support the firm until her replacement was found.\n\nLast month Ms Bentley said she would forgo her bonus due to the company's poor performance.\n\nRaw sewage discharges into rivers had become a problem for the firm.\n\nThames Water is the country's largest water company with around 15 million customers.\n\nIt plans to invest £1.6bn in its sewage treatment works over the next two years, and has a target of reducing the total duration of discharges across London and the Thames Valley by 2030.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Bentley said it had been \"an honour to take on such a significant challenge\".\n\n\"The foundations of the turnaround that we have laid position the company for future success to improve service for customers and environmental performance. I wish everyone involved in the turnaround the very best.\"\n\nSewage was discharged into Earlswood brook from a pipe run by Thames Water in April\n\nChief finance officer Alastair Cochran will now take over as interim co-chief executive, and will run the company along with Cathryn Ross, the former Ofwat chief executive who joined the business in 2021.\n\nMr Cochran also gave up his bonus at the same time as Ms Bentley over the firm's poor environmental performance and customer service.\n\nMs Bentley previously received £496,000 in performance-related bonuses in 2022, while Mr Cochran was paid £298,000 in bonuses.\n\nIn a statement in May, Thames Water said \"extraordinary energy costs\" and \"two severe weather events\" had affected customer service and environmental performance in 2022-23.\n\nEarlier this month, school children were forced to abandon a day trip to study river ecosystems after heavy rain left a Wiltshire waterway flooded with sewage. Thames Water said it was investing in works to reduce the need for untreated discharges, including an upgrade in Marlborough.\n\nMeanwhile, the company said in March that a sewage pipe in north Swindon which has burst four times in the past two years could take years to replace. Thames Water was forced to deploy 30 tankers to pump away waste water to prevent flooding to nearby properties.\n\nThe company also apologised in January after sewage spilled over a footpath and onto a school carpark in Tadley, Hampshire, forcing people to walk through raw sewage, toilet paper and faeces. Thames Water said the spillage was \"most likely\" caused by heavy rain making the system underneath overflow.", "Italian police are investigating after a tourist was filmed carving names into a wall at Rome's Colosseum.\n\nThe incident was filmed by another visitor who verbally reprimanded the man before handing the recording to security officials.\n\nThe amphitheatre is nearly 2,000 years old and is Italy's most popular tourist site.", "Strangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland can now charge people with non-fatal strangulation.\n\nIt became a stand-alone offence in Northern Ireland under the Justice, Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims Act 2022, and has now come into effect.\n\nStrangulation is the second most common method of female murder in the UK.\n\nWomen's Aid NI said the legal change would give prosecutors vital tools to deal with perpetrators.\n\nOver the last 10 years seven people (six women and one man) in Northern Ireland were strangled to death.\n\nNon-fatal strangulation is seen as a red flag for escalating violence in intimate partner relationships and a possible indicator for future risk of murder or attempted murder.\n\nOne victim of non-fatal strangulation spoke to the BBC anonymously about her experiences:\n\n\"There were several occasions of violence and a couple of strangulation, the reason I reported it to the police I suppose, was the the increase in the severity and the velocity of when I was strangled,\" she said.\n\n\"I totally blacked out, I lost consciousness, I lost control of my bowel and my bladder.\"\n\nShe said when she came to in the bed she had \"a fight or flight instinct\".\n\n\"That that was the final time, that was enough.\n\n\"While I was being strangled, the only thing that was really running through my head was my children finding me the next day and the panic of total loss of any oxygen.\n\n\"The realisation that you were slipping away and your last final thoughts are just your children finding you dead on the bed.\"\n\nShe said she then phoned the police.\n\n\"It doesn't take long for somebody to slip into unconsciousness and ultimately pass away.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that the legislation has come in here and the sentencing guidelines, you know, the impact of it, it takes into account the extent, the absolute terror, the fear that somebody that's experiencing that feels, and also takes into account the impact that it can leave on your life.\n\n\"It was a demonstration of control. It wasn't a lack of control, it's not an involuntary reaction, you make the decision to do something like that.\n\n\"It still feels like a story that's been told by somebody else, but the more that people talk about it, the more that people are aware of the dangers of it.\"\n\nOne victim of non-fatal strangulation spoke anonymously to the BBC\n\nSonya McMullan, Women's Aid NI, said non-fatal strangulation was \"the ultimate act of control\"\n\n\"Somebody literally can take life with in a few seconds - in three to five minutes death may occur,\" she told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"It's a red flag, a significant risk factor for serious injury and homicide.\"\n\nShe added: \"It (the new legislation) will give the police more tools and our public prosecution more tools to be able take this forward.\"\n\nDr Catherine White, the medical director at the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, successfully campaigned for the change in the law in England and Wales.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"One of the reasons we were keen to have a stand-alone law was that too often strangulation was being treated the same as a slap, punch or kick and yet in term of the danger of it - it's very different.\n\n\"The neck is very vulnerable - there's the airway and on either side of the airway are blood vessels, so any significant pressure can stop blood returning from the brain and lead to a stroke.\"\n\nShe said her research showed more than a third of victims thought they were about to die.\n\n\"In terms of psychological terror this is extreme,\" she said.\n\nJoanne Barnes, the chief executive of Nexus, a charity which supports people suffering from abusive relationships and sexual abuse, welcomed the reform.\n\n\"This is not a 'fun', sexual or 'consensual' act and 'rough sex' can no longer be used as a defence. Non-fatal can turn fatal in an instant and can take less pressure than shaking someone's hand,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Justice said the new offence provided greater protection for victims.\n\n\"This crime can affect anyone and can occur in a number of circumstances.\n\n\"However, there are those who use strangulation and asphyxiation to exert control and fear in others, including in cases of domestic abuse.\n\n\"Research shows that this type of abuse is eight times more likely to result in domestic homicide.\n\n\"In recognition of the serious harm it causes, this new offence carries greater penalties than were previously available and today marks another step forward in making our community safer.\"\n\nDet Supt Lindsay Fisher welcomed the introduction of the new law\n\nThe PSNI said the new legislation \"means that if you do anything that does or could restrict someone's breathing in any way you should be prepared to face a prison sentence for this offence alone\".\n\n\"This new legislation will take into consideration the emotional impact, trauma and fear that the victim experiences.\"\n\nSenior police described the legislation as a \"step forward in helping officers tackle the magnitude of the threat\".\n\nDet Supt Lindsay Fisher said: \"On average, between 10-12% of reporting domestic abuse victims have experienced non-fatal strangulation, placing them at the highest risk.\n\nIf you are affected by domestic abuse, there is a range of support services available via the BBC's Action Line page.\n• None 'I could feel an enormous crushing around my neck'", "It will be easier to prosecute people for sharing so-called revenge porn after a change in the law in England and Wales.\n\nAmendments to the Online Safety Bill being tabled on Tuesday will remove the requirement for prosecutors to prove perpetrators intended to cause distress to secure a conviction.\n\nSharing deepfake porn is also being criminalised for the first time.\n\nBoth offences will be punishable by up to six months in prison.\n\nThis would rise to two years if intent to cause distress, alarm or humiliation, or to obtain sexual gratification could be proved.\n\nThose who share an image for sexual gratification could also be placed on the sex offenders' register.\n\n\"Revenge porn\" is sharing an intimate image without consent. \"Deepfake porn\" involves creating a fake explicit image or video of a person.\n\nRevenge porn was criminalised in 2015 but up until now prosecutors had to prove there was an intention to cause humiliation or distress.\n\nTV personality Georgia Harrison, whose ex-partner Stephen Bear was jailed earlier this year for posting intimate footage of her on his OnlyFans account, was among those to call for a change to the legislation.\n\nThe Love Island star said she was grateful for the support she had been given.\n\n\"The reforms to the law that have been passed today are going to go down in history as a turning point for generations to come and will bring peace of mind to so many victims who have reached out to me whilst also giving future victims the justice they deserve,\" she said.\n\nGeorgia Harrison said she felt \"vindicated\" when her ex-partner was jailed earlier this year for sharing a private video of them having sex\n\nThe government announced its intention to legislate last year, and the amendments are part of the Online Safety Bill, which is due to be voted on by MPs later this month before it becomes law.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said: \"We are cracking down on abusers who share or manipulate intimate photos in order to hound or humiliate women and girls.\n\n\"Our changes will give police and prosecutors the powers they need to bring these cowards to justice, safeguarding women and girls from such vile abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes have been increasing in recent years with a website that virtually strips women naked receiving 38 million hits in the first eight months of 2021.\n\nResearch shows one in seven women and one in nine men aged between 18 and 34 have experienced threats to share intimate images,.\n\nMore than 28,000 reports of disclosing private sexual images without consent were recorded by police between April 2015 and December 2021.\n\nThe overhaul of intimate image law builds on previous amendments.\n\nA detailed review by the Law Commission recommended reforming measures protecting against intimate image abuse.\n\nDomestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs welcomed the news and said the changes would \"hold perpetrators to account for this insidious form of abuse\".\n\nShe said: \"Intimate image abuse causes significant distress to victims and survivors and often exists as part of a wider pattern of abuse that continues offline.\"\n\nRuth Davison, chief executive of the domestic abuse charity Refuge, pointed to the \"woefully low\" conviction rates for intimate image abuse.\n\n\"The amendments to the Online Safety Bill will make it easier to prosecute perpetrators of intimate image abuse, ensuring justice and better protections for survivors,\" she said.\n\nHowever, others have highlighted that more needs to be done to fully address image-based abuse.\n\nHonza Červenka, a lawyer at McAllister Olivarius, said the changes were welcome but pointed out there were likely to be \"jurisdictional issues\".\n\n\"Some of these websites may not be easily traceable, others may be hosted in countries specifically chosen for their lax laws when it comes to online harm and harassment,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Very often, victims become aware of images resurfacing months or even years after their apparent takedown.\"\n\nRani Govender, senior child safety online policy officer at the NSPCC, said it was a positive move but big tech firms needed to be held more accountable for what was posted on their platforms.\n\n\"More needs to be done if the Online Safety Bill is to tackle the creation and sharing of child sexual abuse material which takes place on industrial levels,\" she said.\n\n\"The government should act today by closing a loophole in the legislation that will let tech bosses off the hook if they fail to address the way their products contribute to child sexual abuse.\"", "Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found.\n\nSome are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon.\n\nPatreon said it had a \"zero tolerance\" policy about such imagery on its site.\n\nThe National Police Chief's Council said it was \"outrageous\" that some platforms were making \"huge profits\" but not taking \"moral responsibility\".\n\nAnd GCHQ, the government's intelligence, security and cyber agency, has responded to the report, saying: \"Child sexual abuse offenders adopt all technologies and some believe the future of child sexual abuse material lies in AI-generated content.\"\n\nThe makers of the abuse images are using AI software called Stable Diffusion, which was intended to generate images for use in art or graphic design.\n\nThe Stable Diffusion software allows users to describe, using word prompts, any image they want - and the program then creates the image.\n\nBut the BBC has found it is being used to create life-like images of child sexual abuse, including of the rape of babies and toddlers.\n\nUK police online child abuse investigation teams say they are already encountering such content.\n\nJournalist Octavia Sheepshanks says there has been a \"huge flood\" of AI-generated images\n\nFreelance researcher and journalist Octavia Sheepshanks has been investigating this issue for several months. She contacted the BBC via children's charity the NSPCC in order to highlight her findings.\n\n\"Since AI-generated images became possible, there has been this huge flood… it's not just very young girls, they're [paedophiles] talking about toddlers,\" she said.\n\nA \"pseudo image\" generated by a computer which depicts child sexual abuse is treated the same as a real image and is illegal to possess, publish or transfer in the UK.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead on child safeguarding, Ian Critchley, said it would be wrong to argue that because no real children were depicted in such \"synthetic\" images - that no-one was harmed.\n\nHe warned that a paedophile could, \"move along that scale of offending from thought, to synthetic, to actually the abuse of a live child\".\n\nAbuse images are being shared via a three-stage process:\n\nSome of the image creators are posting on a popular Japanese social media platform called Pixiv, which is mainly used by artists sharing manga and anime.\n\nBut because the site is hosted in Japan, where sharing sexualised cartoons and drawings of children is not illegal, the creators use it to promote their work in groups and via hashtags - which indexes topics using key words.\n\nA spokesman for Pixiv said it placed immense emphasis on addressing this issue. It said on 31 May it had banned all photo-realistic depictions of sexual content involving minors.\n\nThe company said it had proactively strengthened its monitoring systems and was allocating substantial resources to counteract problems related to developments in AI.\n\nMs Sheepshanks told the BBC her research suggested users appeared to be making child abuse images on an industrial scale.\n\n\"The volume is just huge, so people [creators] will say 'we aim to do at least 1,000 images a month,'\" she said.\n\nComments by users on individual images in Pixiv make it clear they have a sexual interest in children, with some users even offering to provide images and videos of abuse that were not AI-generated.\n\nMs Sheepshanks has been monitoring some of the groups on the platform.\n\n\"Within those groups, which will have 100 members, people will be sharing, 'Oh here's a link to real stuff,'\" she says.\n\nMany of the accounts on Pixiv include links in their biographies directing people to what they call their \"uncensored content\" on the US-based content sharing site Patreon.\n\nPatreon is valued at approximately $4bn (£3.1bn) and claims to have more than 250,000 creators - most of them legitimate accounts belonging to well-known celebrities, journalists and writers.\n\nFans can support creators by taking out monthly subscriptions to access blogs, podcasts, videos and images - paying as little as $3.85 (£3) per month.\n\nBut our investigation with Octavia Sheepshanks found Patreon accounts offering AI-generated, photo-realistic obscene images of children for sale, with different levels of pricing depending on the type of material requested.\n\nOne wrote on his account: \"I train my girls on my PC,\" adding that they show \"submission\". For $8.30 (£6.50) per month, another user offered \"exclusive uncensored art\".\n\nThe BBC sent Patreon one example, which the platform confirmed was \"semi realistic and violates our policies\". It said the account was immediately removed.\n\nPatreon said it had a \"zero-tolerance\" policy, insisting: \"Creators cannot fund content dedicated to sexual themes involving minors.\"\n\nThe company said the increase in AI-generated harmful content on the internet was \"real and distressing\", adding that it had \"identified and removed increasing amounts\" of this material.\n\n\"We already ban AI-generated synthetic child exploitation material,\" it said, describing itself as \"very proactive\", with dedicated teams, technology and partnerships to \"keep teens safe\".\n\nThe NPCC's Ian Critchley said it was a \"pivotal moment\" for society\n\nAI image generator Stable Diffusion was created as a global collaboration between academics and a number of companies, led by UK company Stability AI.\n\nSeveral versions have been released, with restrictions written into the code that control the kind of content that can be made.\n\nBut last year, an earlier \"open source\" version was released to the public which allowed users to remove any filters and train it to produce any image - including illegal ones.\n\nStability AI told the BBC it \"prohibits any misuse for illegal or immoral purposes across our platforms, and our policies are clear that this includes CSAM (child sexual abuse material).\n\n\"We strongly support law enforcement efforts against those who misuse our products for illegal or nefarious purposes\".\n\nAs AI continues developing rapidly, questions have been raised about the future risks it could pose to people's privacy, their human rights or their safety.\n\nJo [full name withheld for security reasons], GCHQ's Counter Child Sexual Abuse (CCSA) Mission Lead, told the BBC: \"GCHQ supports law enforcement to stay ahead of emerging threats such as AI-generated content and ensure there is no safe space for offenders.\"\n\nThe NPCC's Ian Critchley said he was also concerned that the flood of realistic AI or \"synthetic\" images could slow down the process of identifying real victims of abuse.\n\nHe explains: \"It creates additional demand, in terms of policing and law enforcement to identify where an actual child, wherever it is in the world, is being abused as opposed to an artificial or synthetic child.\"\n\nMr Critchley said he believed it was a pivotal moment for society.\n\n\"We can ensure that the internet and tech allows the fantastic opportunities it creates for young people - or it can become a much more harmful place,\" he said.\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC called on Wednesday for tech companies to take notice.\n\n\"The speed with which these emerging technologies have been co-opted by abusers is breath-taking but not surprising, as companies who were warned of the dangers have sat on their hands while mouthing empty platitudes about safety,\" said Anna Edmundson, the charity's head of policy and public affairs.\n\n\"Tech companies now know how their products are being used to facilitate child sexual abuse and there can be no more excuses for inaction.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government responded: \"The Online Safety Bill will require companies to take proactive action in tackling all forms of online child sexual abuse including grooming, live-streaming, child sexual abuse material and prohibited images of children - or face huge fines.\"", "A stranded horse stuck down a four metre-deep pit in Lazio, central Italy, had to be pulled to safety by helicopter on Sunday.\n\nFootage released by the Italian fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco shows the dramatic moment the horse is hauled free and taken out of danger.", "A cleaner destroyed decades of \"groundbreaking\" work by shutting off a lab freezer containing key samples over an \"annoying\" alarm sound, US lawyers have claimed.\n\nA sign explained how to mute the beep, but a breaker was reportedly switched off after a reading error.\n\nSamples stored at -80C (-112F) were left \"unsalvageable\", causing $1m in damages, lawyers said.\n\nThe lab's school is suing the cleaner's employer for improper training.\n\nThe company held a $1.4m (£1.1m) contract to clean the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York back in 2020 which is when the alleged incident happened, paper Times Union reported.\n\nResearch on photosynthesis, headed by Prof KV Lakshmi, had the potential to be \"ground-breaking\" in furthering solar panel development, a lawyer for the institute wrote.\n\nA few days before the freezer was turned off, an alarm went off to alert a 3C temperature rise. Though the fluctuation could have been catastrophic, Prof Lakshmi \"determined that the cell cultures, samples and research were not being harmed,\" the legal case read.\n\nDue to Covid restrictions at the time, it would take a week before any repairs could begin.\n\nIn the meantime, a sign on the freezer's door read: \"This freezer is beeping as it is under repair. Please do not move or unplug it. No cleaning required in this area.\n\n\"You can press the alarm/test mute button for 5-10 seconds if you would like to mute the sound.\"\n\nBut days after the alarm started sounding, the cleaner turned off the circuit breaker providing electricity to the freezer.\n\nThe majority of specimens that were meant to be kept at -80C were \"compromised, destroyed and rendered unsalvageable, demolishing more than 20 years of research\", according to the legal case.\n\nA report filed by public safety staff at the institute said the cleaner thought they were flipping the breaker on when they actually turned it off, the New York Post reported.\n\nThe temperature had allegedly risen by 50 degrees to about -30C by the time researchers discovered the error.\n\nLawyer Michael Ginsberg told NBC News that the cleaning employee heard \"annoying alarms\", and lawyers that interviewed him reported \"he still did not appear to believe he had done anything wrong, but was just trying to help.\"\n\nThe institute's legal team says the company that employed the cleaner failed to adequately train their employee. The company has not yet commented.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Dame Sally Davies tells the Covid inquiry that \"it wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died\".\n\nEngland's former chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies was close to tears at the Covid Inquiry as she apologised to families bereaved by the pandemic.\n\n\"It wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died... it was harrowing and it remains horrible,\" she said.\n\nShe also said the UK did not have enough resilience to cope with the pandemic, with fewer doctors, nurses or hospital beds than similar countries.\n\nThe inquiry is currently examining the UK's preparedness ahead of Covid.\n\nIn her evidence, Dame Sally also expressed concern about the impact of the lockdowns on children and students.\n\n\"We have damaged a generation, and it is awful... watching these people struggle,\" she said.\n\nThe former chief medical officer told the inquiry the UK did not have plans in place to cope with a Covid pandemic, but she added \"it didn't have resilience either\".\n\nCompared with similar countries, the UK was at the bottom of the table for numbers of doctors, nurses, beds, IT units and ventilators per 100,000, she said.\n\nDuring questions about preparation exercises for pandemics, Dame Sally broke off to say: \"Maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families.\"\n\n\"I heard a lot about it from my daughter who was on the front line as a doctor in Scotland,\" she added.\n\nDame Sally Davies became chief medical officer in 2010 and left in 2019 to be replaced by Sir Chris Whitty. He is due to give evidence on Thursday along with Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic.\n\nAt the same hearing, George Osborne said his spending cuts meant the UK was better able to cope with the pandemic.\n\nThe former chancellor argued that without austerity Britain would have been \"more exposed\" and rejected claims his approach left the health and social care \"depleted\" ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nLast week Sir Michael Marmot, a professor of epidemiology at University College London told the inquiry that the UK had entered the pandemic with \"depleted\" public services.\n\nAsked by inquiry lawyer Kate Blackwell KC if he agreed with the statement, Mr Osborne said: \"Most certainly not, I completely reject that.\"\n\nHe accepted more money could have been spent on the NHS, but said as chancellor he had to balance demands for resources from other public services.\n\n\"You can't just say we like public spending to be higher without explaining where you get money from,\" he told the inquiry.\n\nHe said the public had elected the Conservatives to government in 2010 and 2015 knowing the party was planning to cut public spending.\n\nDuring the period, cuts were introduced in welfare spending, school building programs, local government, police, courts and prisons. There was also an overall squeeze on health spending.\n\nGeorge Osborne was quizzed on the impact of spending cuts\n\nMr Osborne - who was chancellor from 2010 to 2016 - said: \"If we had not done that Britain would have been more exposed, not just to future things like the coronavirus pandemic, but indeed to the fiscal crisis which very rapidly followed in countries across Europe.\n\n\"If we had not had a clear plan to put the public finances on a sustainable path then Britain might have experienced a fiscal crisis, we would not have had the fiscal space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic when it hit.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association said Mr Osborne's \"denial\" of a connection between austerity and the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable was \"staggering\".\n\nOn Monday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) produced a report which said austerity had led to unsafe staffing in public services leaving the UK \"hugely unprepared\" for Covid.\n\nDuring the one hour 20 minute question session, Mr Osborne was also asked about the Treasury's planning for potential national lockdown.\n\nHe said the department had plans for an outbreak of influenza but added \"given what subsequently happened that was very small scale\".\n\n\"There was no planning done by Treasury - or any western Treasury - for asking the entire population to stay at home for months and months on end.\n\n\"If someone had said to you the UK government should be preparing for a lockdown that might last for months, then I have no doubt the Treasury would have developed schemes it did subsequently develop around the furlough and the Covid loans.\n\n\"Planning could have been done for a furlough scheme in advance - I'm not clear that would have made a better furlough scheme than the one we as a country actually saw.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Sir Oliver Letwin, a senior minister in David Cameron's government, told the inquiry a rapid turnover of civil service staff hindered the government's ability to plan for pandemics.\n\nHe also warned that the UK was \"wildly under-resilient\" and said there should be a minister \"solely devoted\" to the subject.\n\nLabour said the admissions were \"too little, too late\", adding the Conservatives \"cannot be trusted to protect the public from the emergencies of tomorrow\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Gracie Nuttall said Laura's impact went \"beyond any of our knowledge\"\n\nLaura Nuttall \"will never be gone until the ripples she made in the world disappear\", her sister has told an event celebrating the fundraiser.\n\nThe 23-year-old, from Barrowford in Lancashire, died in May, five years after being diagnosed with brain cancer and given a prognosis of 12 months.\n\nShe became known for fulfilling a bucket list, which included meeting Michelle Obama and commanding a ship.\n\nGracie Nuttall said Laura's impact went \"beyond any of our knowledge\".\n\nThe event at Thornton Hall Farm, near Barnoldswick, was streamed online so that people who had followed Laura's story from all over the world could celebrate her life.\n\nIt saw performances by Barrowford Community Choir and Barnoldswick Brass Band, alongside tributes from Laura's family, including Gracie and her mother Nicola.\n\nGracie Nuttall said she would \"forever be grateful for the privilege of being Laura's little sister\"\n\nGracie said her sister had been her \"biggest cheerleader\" and she missed her \"every single day\".\n\nThe 21-year-old also read a poem she wrote after her sister's diagnosis, before speaking about how \"brilliant\" she was, despite once sending her a \"fabulously forged\" speeding ticket after she passed her driving test.\n\nShe said Laura had been \"the kindest human, but only on the sly, [as] she didn't want anyone to know how big her heart was.\"\n\n\"Laura's impact goes beyond any of our knowledge,\" she said.\n\n\"I will forever be grateful for the privilege of being Laura's little sister.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaura's mother Nicola said her daughter had not wanted a funeral or \"anything in a church\" and had specified that whatever happened should not be \"too sad or too serious\", so the celebration of her life was a chance to \"look at all the positive things\" in her life.\n\nShe said the event had been livestreamed so \"followers around the world\" could \"feel involved and connected\", just as they had been during Laura's life.\n\nShe added that the family was setting up a foundation in Laura's name to carry on her work raising funds for research into brain tumours and community projects.\n\n\"We want to keep things going in her memory,\" she said.\n\nLaura was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme following a routine eye test and, in 2018, was given just a year to live.\n\nIn 2021, comedian Peter Kay played his first gigs in four years to raise money for her treatment and in October 2022, she underwent her fourth major operation to remove a tumour.\n\nThe tumour returned within days and in March Laura went to Germany for further treatment, before she died in May.\n\nDays after her death, her mother revealed that Laura had donated her brain for research.\n\n\"She raised a lot of awareness but the ultimate gift is giving your own brain to help scientists research and hopefully use that for many years to come,\" she said at the time.\n\n\"Who knows what her legacy will be as a result of that.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "During the trial, jurors heard Paris Mayo was used to being around children and had trained in childcare\n\nA 19-year-old who murdered her newborn son hours after giving birth has been jailed for at least 12 years.\n\nA trial heard Paris Mayo, then 15, suffocated the boy, Stanley, by stuffing cotton wool into his throat.\n\nMayo delivered him alone at her family home in Ross-on-Wye, in March 2019, while her parents were upstairs.\n\n\"Killing your baby son was a truly dreadful thing to do,\" said the judge, Mr Justice Garnham, passing a life sentence.\n\nThe trial heard she had assaulted Stanley, leaving him with injuries comparable to those seen in a car crash.\n\n\"How you did this is not clear, but I suspect you crushed his head, probably beneath your foot,\" the judge told Mayo.\n\nHer initial assault caused him \"serious damage\", but did not kill him, the judge added.\n\n\"He remained alive and continued to breathe for at least an hour. You decided you had to finish Stanley off by stuffing cotton wool balls into his throat.\"\n\nThe newborn was found by Mayo's mother the day after his birth, dumped in a bin bag left on the doorstep.\n\nIt was she who alerted emergency services in an emotional 999 call played to the jury.\n\nMayo gave birth alone at the family home on 23 March 2019, leaving her frightened and traumatised, the judge said\n\nMayo had claimed she did not know she was pregnant, also telling the court of her difficult family life and her father who had made her feel \"worthless\".\n\nIn her testimony, she described how she started having sex at 13 and used it as a way to get people to like her, because she was \"insecure\" due to her family situation.\n\nThe court heard her father Patrick Mayo - who died 10 days after Stanley - had been upstairs on dialysis treatment with Mayo's mother at the time of the birth.\n\n\"You went through the process of giving birth without the assistance of a midwife, a doctor, a friend or a relative. I find as a fact that you were frightened and traumatised by those events.,\" Mr Justice Garnham said during sentencing.\n\n\"Astonishingly, despite the pain you must have endured, it seems you did not cry out, so anxious were you not to disturb your parents sleeping upstairs.\"\n\nDefence barrister Bernard Richmond KC described Mayo as a \"pathetic and vulnerable individual\" who had not been supported by people around her.\n\n\"When faced with a decision she had to make, she did not face up to it. By the time she had to, the decision she made was woefully, woefully wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"This will, in every sense of the word, be a life sentence. It will be a lonely, isolating and frightening time for her.\"\n\nThe jury were given the option to consider an alternative verdict of infanticide if they believed she killed Stanley while the balance of her mind was disturbed.\n\nHowever, Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, cried in the dock on Friday as jurors delivered a majority guilty verdict on the charge of murder.\n\nMayo's trial was told she had a difficult family life and started having sex at 13 so people would like her\n\nDuring summing up Mr Justice Garnham rejected the suggestion the murder was committed \"with significant pre-planning\".\n\nHe added that Mayo had not spent her time covering up her pregnancy, but in March 2019 had found herself \"facing a reality you had spent nine months telling yourself could not be true\".\n\nHowever, he said the combination of a two-stone weight gain and the lack of periods for eight months meant she \"must have known\" she was pregnant and \"rapidly approaching your time for giving birth\".\n\nDespite that, the judge said Mayo \"told no one, and sought no help\".\n\n\"You did not even tell your mother who you accepted in court would, at least after the initial shock, have been supportive,\" he said.\n\n\"I find as a fact that almost as soon as Stanley was born, you had decided you could not allow him to live.\"\n\nThe judge also used his sentencing remarks to criticise a prosecution expert witness, describing forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding's \"inflexibility of thinking\" while giving evidence as \"unhelpful\".\n\n\"He had told the police that you ought to be prosecuted, a surprising opinion for an expert called to give evidence on a defendant's mental state to express,\" Mr justice Garnham said.\n\nIt was apparent he had a \"clear and unshakeable view on your culpability from the time of his very first meeting with you.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said the case had been both \"tragic and complex\".\n\nStanley's \"short life was filled with pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved\".\n\n\"[Mayo] chose to hide her pregnancy, give birth alone and kill her baby, then hide his body, despite accepting that she had a family who would have supported her.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June 2023\n\nThe Israeli government has advanced plans for some 5,700 new homes in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe announcement comes despite US pressure to stop settlement expansion, which it sees as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.\n\nA US spokesperson said Washington was \"deeply troubled\" by the development.\n\nFour Israeli settlers were shot dead by Palestinians last week, prompting days of settler violence.\n\nViolence between Palestinians and Israelis has flared since Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected last year.\n\nHis nationalist-religious coalition has vowed to extend its presence in the West Bank.\n\nAccording to the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, the last six months have seen more than 13,000 settlement homes advanced in the territory - about three times as many as in the whole of last year.\n\n\"The Israeli government is pushing us at an unprecedented pace towards the full annexation of the West Bank,\" the organisation said in a statement.\n\nMost countries deem the settlements, which are built on land captured by Israel in 1967 in the Middle East War, to be illegal under international law, although Israel disagrees.\n\nA US national security spokesperson denounced the expansion of the settlements, saying it \"undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution, exacerbates tensions, and further harms trust between the two parties\".\n\nThe new plans include an extra thousand homes in the settlement of Eli, announced by the government after last week's deadly shooting of four Israelis by Palestinian gunmen there.\n\nPalestinian militant group Hamas said the gunmen were its members.\n\nMobs of settlers went on the rampage in Palestinian villages after that attack - homes were set on fire and one Palestinian was killed.\n\nOver the weekend, Israel's military, police and Shin Bet security service chiefs issued an unusual joint statement condemning the settler actions.\n\nTheir move provoked an angry response from far-right members of the Israeli governing coalition.", "Plant more trees - one of the report's recommendations\n\nGovernment backing for new oil and coal, airport expansion plans and slow progress on heat pumps show that the UK has lost its leadership on climate issues, a government watchdog warns.\n\nThe Climate Change Committee (CCC) described government efforts to scale up climate action as \"worryingly slow\".\n\nIt was \"markedly\" less confident than a year ago that the UK would reach its targets for cutting carbon emissions.\n\nThe government said it was committed to its climate targets.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Deben, a former Conservative environment minister, was particularly critical of the government's policy on new coal and oil projects.\n\nThe decision to approve the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years in Cumbria last December was \"total nonsense\", he told the BBC.\n\nLord Deben was also damning about plans for a major new oilfield off the coast of Scotland. Approval for Rosebank, which could produce an estimated 300 million barrels of oil in its lifetime, is expected soon.\n\n\"How can we ask countries in Africa not to develop oil?\" Lord Deben said. \"How can we ask other nations not to expand the fossil fuel production if we start doing it ourselves?\"\n\nThe government proposed the first new coal mine in 30 years in Whitehaven, Cumbria\n\nThe UK has set legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, meaning the country will no longer contribute any additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.\n\nAt the COP26 UN climate conference in Glasgow in 2021 then prime minister Boris Johnson vowed to cut emissions by 68% on 1990 levels by the end of the decade.\n\nThe CCC report warned \"continued delays in policy development and implementation\" meant reaching them was \"increasingly challenging\".\n\nThe Committee highlighted a \"lack of urgency\" across government and a \"worrying hesitancy\" by ministers to lead on the climate issue.\n\nMinister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Graham Stuart said in response to the report that the government had met all its carbon targets to date and was confident of doing so in the future.\n\nResponding to criticism for continued support for oil and gas projects, he stressed that despite an unprecedented role for renewables, the UK would remain dependent on these sources for power generation for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"There is no button I can press tomorrow, and as we will be dependent on oil and gas for decades to come, even as we move to net zero, it makes sense that we should produce it here,\" he told journalists.\n\nRegarding the new coal mine in Cumbria, he stressed that it would produce coking coal for making steel, not for energy production and that there was currently no alternative.\n\nRebecca Newsom, head of politics for Greenpeace UK called the report \"a pitiful catalogue of Rishi Sunak's climate failures\".\n\n\"This report exposes the catastrophic negligence shown by this government which has left Britain with higher bills, fewer good jobs, our energy security weakened, and the climate emergency unaddressed,\" said Labour's Shadow Climate and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband.\n\nThe chair of the COP26 summit, Alok Sharma, agreed the UK was at risk of losing what he called its \"international reputation and influence on climate\".\n\nHe said the country risked falling behind without a response to initiatives like the US's vast subsidies for green industries.\n\n\"Resting on our laurels is definitely not the answer industry is seeking,\" he said, one of the sharpest criticisms the Conservative MP has made of the government's climate policy.\n\nMore needs to be done to encourage us all to install heat pumps, insulate our homes, reduce how much meat we eat and fly less, the Committee said.\n\nAt the same time, it said, the switch to renewable power needs to be ramped up, industry needs more help to decarbonise and there needs to be a huge increase in the numbers of trees planted and the speed of peatland restoration.\n\nThe report acknowledged that glimmers of the Net Zero transition can be seen in growing sales of electric cars and the growing renewable power sector.\n\nBut it warned the government continues to rely on unproven technological solutions rather than \"more straightforward\" encouragement of people to reduce high-carbon activities.\n\nThe report criticised plans for new airport expansion, saying we should be encouraged to fly less\n\nThe Committee says the government should be doing more to encourage us to fly less rather than relying on the development of sustainable fuels to reduce the carbon emissions from aviation, for example.\n\nIt pointed out that lots of UK airports are planning to expand capacity despite a CCC recommendation that there should be no net airport expansion. Seven out of the 10 major UK airports have plans to expand, according to BBC research.\n\nLord Deben, whose second and final term as chair of the CCC ends this month, said that one of the government's biggest failures was not putting net zero at the heart of the UK's planning system.\n\n\"If you pass laws in order to do something and then don't provide the means, then you're failing,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he was sad his final report \"does not show satisfactory progress\".\n\nUK greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 46% from 1990 levels, the CCC says, largely thanks to a massive reduction in the use of coal for electricity and the growth of the renewable power sector.", "A new diabetes medicine dubbed the \"King Kong\" of weight loss jabs cannot be recommended on the NHS yet because the cost for benefit may not be justified, a spending watchdog says.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says it needs more evidence on Mounjaro, even though it recently approved a similar weekly injection called Wegovy.\n\nBoth drugs blunt appetite, so users feel full and eat less.\n\nThey also help manage blood glucose.\n\nSocial media posts about people, often celebrities, shedding large amounts of weight has led to big demand for these types of treatment.\n\nThere have been ongoing global shortages of another injection for type 2 diabetes, called Ozempic, that some people have been buying off-label as a weight loss aid. The pre-filled pens contain a lower dose of the same medicine - semaglutide - that is in Wegovy.\n\nThe draft guidelines from NICE say it is yet to be established if Mounjaro, also known as tirzepatide, represents good value for money, alongside diet and exercise, for adults with type 2 diabetes and a high body mass index.\n\nThe NHS price of the pre-filled pens has not been made public because of commercial sensitivities.\n\nHelen Knight, from NICE, said: \"Type 2 diabetes is becoming more prevalent in society, so new treatment options are needed to help people with it to control their blood-glucose levels.\n\n\"Our committee can see the promise in tirzepatide, but it requires more evidence to be able to evaluate both its clinical, and cost, effectiveness.\"\n\nManufacturer Eli Lilly has been asked to submit more data for the committee to look at ahead of its next meeting.\n\nThis recommendation in England is not intended to affect treatment with tirzepatide that was started in the NHS before this guidance was published, says NICE.\n\nPeople having treatment outside this recommendation may continue without change, until they and their NHS clinician consider it appropriate to stop.\n\nWegovy (semaglutide), meanwhile, has been approved for use by the NHS in England for adults with at least one obesity-related health problem, which can include type 2 diabetes.\n\nStocks are not yet available, but the prime minister has said GPs in England may soon start offering it to some patients, as well as specialist weight management clinics.\n\nRishi Sunak said it could be a \"game-changer\", as he announced a £40m pilot scheme to increase access to the drug.", "Alexander Lukashenko gave his own version of how the mutiny came to an end on Saturday\n\nThe leader of Russia's 24-hour mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has arrived in Belarus, three days after his Wagner mercenary group's mutiny came to an end 200km (125 miles) south of Moscow.\n\n\"Yes, indeed, he's in Belarus today,\" leader Alexander Lukashenko announced, claiming credit in arranging his exile.\n\nPrigozhin's whereabouts had been a mystery since he was filmed driving off in southern Russia on Saturday night.\n\nHis private jet was tracked flying into the Belarus capital Minsk on Tuesday.\n\nMr Lukashenko said Wagner mercenaries had been offered an abandoned military base if they wanted to join their leader: \"There is a fence, everything is available, erect your tents.\"\n\nUnder the deal that brought an end to the mutiny, Prigozhin has been promised security and the Russian criminal case against Wagner has been dropped.\n\nMoscow is preparing to transfer the mercenaries' heavy weapons into the regular military and the fighters have been told they can either sign regular army contracts, go home or head to Belarus.\n\nNato members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have warned that Wagner's arrival in Belarus could spell trouble for them as neighbours. A Lithuanian presidential adviser said the mercenaries were dangerous as they could take part in sabotage and infiltration operations.\n\nLithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told a press conference that if Wagner were to deploy its \"serial killers\" in Belarus, then neighbouring countries would face \"even greater danger of instability\".\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance was ready to defend itself against any threat from \"Moscow or Minsk\" and would agree to strengthen its defences at a meeting in Lithuania next week - focusing particularly on nations bordering Belarus.\n\n\"We have sent a clear message to Moscow and to Minsk that Nato is there to protect every ally and every inch of Nato territory,\" he said.\n\nRussia moved tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus in recent weeks, with President Putin saying they would only be used if Russian territory was threatened.\n\nBelarusian public opinion is also very disturbed, according to Katia Glod of the European Leadership Network. \"Obviously they don't want to have a criminal like Prigozhin in Belarus,\" she said.\n\nMr Lukashenko said merely that the Wagnerites could help the Belarusian military, sharing their experience with tactics and weapons.\n\nThe mutineers' ease in seizing control of the city of Rostov-on-Don and then driving so far north with little opposition has exposed major weaknesses in the Kremlin's control of security in Russia after 23 years of Putin rule.\n\nWagner fighters were able to take control of Rostov without a shot being fired\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected as \"hysteria\" suggestions that the events of Friday and Saturday had dented his hold on power.\n\nBut then President Putin himself told an array of Russian security forces assembled in a Kremlin square that they had defended their motherland, \"de facto stopping a civil war in its tracks\".\n\nThe insurrection was even more alarming as Mr Putin revealed that Prigozhin's private army had been fully funded by the state, with $1bn spent on salaries and bonuses in 12 months. A further $1bn went to Prigozhin's Concord catering firm for feeding the military.\n\nThe Russian leader admitted that pilots had lost their lives \"confronting the mutineers\" in the latest attempt to take hold of the narrative of a turbulent few days that shook the Kremlin.\n\nSix military helicopters and an Ilyushin 22-M command-and-control plane were shot down by the mutineers, according to unconfirmed reports. Some wreckage has been seen but the number of casualties is unclear.\n\nPrigozhin also accused the Russian military of a missile strike on his men on Friday, killing 30 people. However, no evidence of that has been seen.\n\n\"In a day we covered 780 km,\" he said on Monday. \"Not a single soldier was killed on the ground. We are sorry that we had to strike aircraft, but they were hitting us with bombs and missiles.\"\n\nVideos have shown the Wagner convoy being bombed from the air as they headed north among civilian traffic in the southern Voronezh region on Saturday.\n\nWhatever the truth of how 24 hours of mayhem did come to an end, one elaborate version was presented on Tuesday by Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994 and is widely thought to have rigged 2020 elections to maintain power.\n\n\"I said to Putin: We could waste [Prigozhin], no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second. I told him: don't do this,\" he told security officials.\n\nHe said he had offered to phone Prigozhin, to which Mr Putin reportedly said: \"Look, Sasha [Alexander], it's useless, he won't even pick up the phone and doesn't want to speak to anyone.\"\n\n\"Give me his number,\" he went on. \"[Putin] said, 'most probably, the FSB [Russian Federal Security Service] have his number'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The day Wagner chief went rogue... in 96 seconds\n\nDescribing his conversation with Prigozhin, Mr Lukashenko said the mercenary boss was in a state of euphoria because of Wagner's success until that point.\n\nAccording to the Belarusian leader, Prigozhin told him: \"We want justice, they want to strangle us, we will go to Moscow.\"\n\n\"I tell him that half way you will be crushed like a bug.\"\n\nRussia academic Mark Galeotti said the Belarus leader had acted as a useful intermediary for President Putin, who could now seek to keep Mr Prigozhin on side to manage his mercenary forces in Africa.\n\nKatia Glod said that Belarusians were focused on how far the crisis had weakened Vladimir Putin, as it would also mean a weakened Alexander Lukashenko.\n\n\"The twin pillars of Lukashenko are the Kremlin and the violence of [Belarus] security services that fulfil Lukashenko's orders,\" she said. \"In the short term it could mean more repression as Lukashenko feels more weakened. If the Kremlin looks less reliable as a pillar it could mean good news in the long term.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday, in the dead of night at the heart of the Colombian jungle, army radios crackled to life with the message the nation had been praying for: \"Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.\"\n\nThe military code revealed that four children missing in the jungle for 40 days had all been found - alive.\n\nThe youngsters, all members of the indigenous Huitoto people, had been missing since the light plane they were travelling in crashed into the Amazon in the early hours of 1 May.\n\nThe tragedy killed their mother and left the children - aged 13, nine, four and one - stranded alone in an area teeming with snakes, jaguars and mosquitos.\n\nRescuers initially feared the worst, but footprints, partially eaten wild fruit and other clues soon gave them hope that the children might be alive after they left the crash site looking for help.\n\nOver the next six weeks, the children battled the elements - and the odds - in what Colombia's President Gustavo Petro called \"an example of total survival which will remain in history\".\n\nIf there were ever children well-prepared to tackle such an ordeal, the Mucutuy family were the ones.\n\nHuitoto people learn hunting, fishing and gathering from an early age, and their grandfather Fidencio Valencia told reporters that the eldest children, Lesly and Soleiny, were well acquainted with the jungle.\n\nSpeaking to Colombian media, the children's aunt, Damarys Mucutuy, said the family would regularly play a \"survival game\" together growing up.\n\n\"When we played, we set up like little camps,\" she recalled. Thirteen-year-old Lesly, she added, \"knew what fruits she can't eat, because there are many poisonous fruits in the forest. And she knew how to take care of a baby\".\n\nFidencio Valencia told reporters that the children had grown up learning to take care of themselves in the jungle\n\nAfter the crash, Lesly built makeshift shelters from branches held together with her hair ties.\n\nShe also recovered fariña, a type of cassava flour, from the wreckage of the Cessna 206 plane they had been travelling in.\n\nThe children survived on the flour until it ran out and then they ate seeds, Edwin Paki, one of the indigenous leaders who took part in the search effort, told reporters.\n\n\"There's a fruit, similar to passion fruit, called avichure,\" he said. \"They were looking for seeds to eat from an avichure tree about a kilometre and a half from the site of the plane crash.\"\n\nThe fruit from the avichure tree, also known as milk tree, is rich in sugar and its seeds can be chewed like chewing gum.\n\nHenry Guerrero, one of the indigenous people who was part of the search team that finally located the children, said they had also been eating fruits from the Bacaba palm tree known locally as \"milpesos\", which are rich in oil and taste similar to avocados.\n\nHe said one of the young children had a seed from the tree in his mouth when they found him.\n\nAstrid Cáceres, head of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the timing of their ordeal meant \"the jungle was in harvest\" and they could eat fruit that was in bloom.\n\nBut they still faced significant challenges surviving in the inhospitable environment.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Mundo on Saturday, indigenous expert Alex Rufino said the children were in \"a very dark, very dense jungle, where the largest trees in the region are\".\n\nAnd while there are leaves with which the children could purify water, he warned that \"others are poisonous\".\n\n\"It is an area that has not been explored. The towns are small, and they are next to the river, not in the jungle,\" he added.\n\nIn addition to avoiding predators, the children also endured intense rainstorms and may have had to evade armed groups said to be active in the jungle.\n\nBut Mr Rufino noted that a 13-year-old raised in an indigenous community would already possess many of the skills needed to thrive in such an environment.\n\nJohn Moreno, leader of the Guanano group in Vaupés, in the south-eastern part of Colombia where the children were brought up, said they had been \"raised by their grandmother\", a widely respected indigenous elder.\n\n\"They used what they learned in the community, relied on their ancestral knowledge in order to survive,\" he said.\n\nAs the search continued, officials in Bogota came under pressure over its slowness. President Petro faced criticism after his office falsely published a tweet saying the children had been found.\n\nAuthorities dropped 10,000 leaflets with survival tips written in Spanish and the indigenous Huitoto language, and helicopters blared messages from their grandmother from speakers to reassure the children they were being looked for.\n\nBut unbeknownst to the media, the army was coming increasingly close to finding the family. On several occasions rescue teams passed within 20 to 50 metres (66 to 164ft) of where the children were found, search commander Gen Pedro Sánchez said.\n\nBy the time the children were discovered, about 150 troops and 200 volunteers from local indigenous groups were involved in the operation, which was combing an area of more than 300 sq km (124 sq miles).\n\n\"This isn't a search for a needle in a haystack, it's a tiny flea in a vast carpet, because they keep moving,\" Gen Sanchez told reporters during the hunt.\n\nBut on Friday, after a month-long search, specialist rescue dogs found the children.\n\nThe first words from eldest daughter Lesly, who was holding the baby in her arms, was \"I'm hungry,\" one of the rescuers told Colombia's RTVC. One of the boys, who had been lying down, got up and said: \"My mum is dead.\"\n\nIt later emerged that the children's mother had survived in the jungle for four days after the plane crash. \"Before she died, their mum told them something like, 'You guys get out of here'\" said the children's father, Manuel Ranoque.\n\nA video shared by Colombia's ministry of defence showed the children being lifted into a helicopter in the dark, above the tall trees. They have been flown to the nation's capital, Bogota, where ambulances have taken them to hospital for further medical treatment.\n\nThe children's family thanked the army for continuing their search despite the low odds of survival, and they urged the government to bring the children home as soon as possible.\n\n\"I never lost hope, I was always supporting the search. I feel very happy, I thank President Petro and my 'countrymen' who went through so many difficulties,\" their grandmother told state media.\n\nPresident Petro also hailed the efforts of the army and the volunteers, praising \"the meeting of knowledge: indigenous and military\", adding that \"this is the true path of peace\".\n\nBut he reserved special praise for the children and their relationship with the environment.\n\n\"They are children of the jungle, and now they are also children of Colombia,\" he said.\n\nWhile many in deeply Catholic Colombia have referred to the children's rescue as a \"miracle\", Mr Rufino, the indigenous expert, said the real story lay in their \"spiritual connection with nature\".\n\n\"The jungle is not only green, but there are ancient energies with which the populations relate, learn and help each other,\" he said.\n\n\"It is difficult to understand this, I know, but this is a good opportunity for society, human beings, to learn about the different worldviews that exist in the territories.\n\n\"The same mother, who became a spirit after the accident, protected them,\" he said. \"And only now is she going to start resting.\"", "One boy is in a critical condition after the incident at Blundell's School\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after a violent assault at a boarding school left two students in hospital.\n\nPolice said the accused has also been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent at Blundell's School near Tiverton in Devon.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear before magistrates in Exeter on Monday.\n\nOne of the boys who was injured is in a critical condition, police said.\n\nThe other boy remains in a stable but serious condition, both have their families with them and are being supported by officers.\n\nOne man, a member of staff at the school, also sustained injuries and was discharged from hospital on Friday, Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe school is working with police, said head teacher Bart Wielenga in a letter to parents\n\nSupt Toby Davies said: \"Our thoughts remain with the injured boys and their families in what must be a harrowing time for them.\n\n\"My officers are continuing to support them and the wider school community.\"\n\nThe area has been cordoned off for investigations and was expected to remain there for the rest of the day, he added.\n\nHe also reminded people that by law the suspect could not be identified.\n\n\"These rules are not solely for media organisations to adhere to; they also apply to members of the public and includes information posted via social media,\" he said.\n\n\"This may be seen as interfering with a live investigation and an active criminal trial, and therefore could see those who do not adhere found in contempt of court.\n\n\"We therefore remind the public that it is vital that they do not speculate on the identity of either the victims or the suspect in this case.\"\n\nBlundell's School - which has fees of £41,325 a school year for a boarder - has not commented.\n\nHead teacher Bart Wielenga sent a letter to parents and guardians about the incident, which happened at one of the boarding houses on Friday.\n\nHe added the school was working closely with the police and urged parents and guardians not to engage in speculation or post about the incident on social media.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An 11-year-old girl from a British family who was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden in France has been named as Solaine Thornton.\n\nThe family were having a barbecue on Saturday evening when the shooting happened in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany.\n\nHer parents, Adrian and Rachel Thornton, were also hurt and are in hospital.\n\nThe family were named by the mayor of the commune where the family lived, Marguerite Bleuzen.\n\nThe UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was providing assistance to a British family.\n\nThe girl and her eight-year-old sister were playing on a swing as their parents tended the barbecue, when a neighbour began firing at them with a shotgun through a hedge.\n\nThe younger girl ran to another neighbour's house to raise the alarm and is now said to be in shock.\n\nA local resident told French media that the younger child ran to neighbours shouting: \"My sister is dead, my sister is dead\".\n\nThe suspect, described as a 71-year-old Dutch national, reportedly shut himself in his house following the incident but eventually surrendered to police and was arrested along with his wife.\n\nLocals said the man was something of a recluse who was in dispute with the British family over a plot of land adjoining the two properties.\n\nLocal media reported that the family had lived in the village for several years.\n\nA forensic officer was one of the staff spotted gathering evidence at the family home\n\nProsecutor Carine Halley said the circumstances around the incident were not yet known.\n\nMs Bleuzen, the mayor of Plonévez-du-Faou commune, said: \"We knew the family well. There is a village fête every year and they always came.\n\n\"It is incomprehensible to have shot a child. No one can understand how that could have happened.\"\n\nRegine Guillot, the secretary of the Plonevez-du-Faou town hall, said the village \"is in shock\".\n\n\"There were neighbourhood issues, yes, a hedge, a field, but nothing more than that, not that we were aware of,\" Guillot told Reuters.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We are providing consular assistance to a British family following a shooting in France and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Police searched the Glasgow home on Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell on on 5 and 6 April\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police investigating the SNP's finances.\n\nIt was the latest remarkable twist in Police Scotland's ongoing Operation Branchform inquiry.\n\nThe former first minister was taken into custody and questioned by detectives at a police station after she attended voluntarily shortly after 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nOfficers had up to 12 hours from the time Ms Sturgeon was arrested before they had to decide whether to charge her with a crime or release her while their inquiries continue.\n\nIn the end, she was released from custody at about 17:25 on the same day - well before the deadline expired and just over seven hours since her arrest.\n\nShorty afterwards, she published a statement on Twitter saying that she knew \"beyond doubt that I am innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\nShe also said she would \"never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country\" and that the situation she had found herself in earlier in the day was \"both a shock and deeply distressing\".\n\nDespite her release, police have said the case remains active for the purposes of the Contempt of Court Act 1981.\n\nIt means everyone has to be careful about what they say to avoid potentially prejudicing any future trial.\n\nThis applies to politicians and members of the public on social media as well as broadcasters and newspapers and the rules around what can and cannot be said about this - or any other - case are interpreted much more strictly in Scotland than in some other parts of the world.\n\nScotland is not the United States, for example, where pundits merrily speculate about the guilt or innocence of a suspect long before the case goes anywhere near a jury.\n\nConvictions for contempt of court can be punishable by up to two years in prison and/or an unlimited fine.\n\nThe police investigation into this case began almost two years ago when complaints were made relating to more than £660,000 that was donated to the SNP by activists.\n\nThe money was raised after the party sought funds for a future referendum campaign, and Police Scotland launched Operation Branchform to examine what happened to it.\n\nEarlier this year, officers sent an initial report seeking advice and guidance from the body which prosecutes crimes in Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).\n\nThat advice was provided and the investigation continued.\n\nOn 5 April, officers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the party's headquarters in Edinburgh and arrested her husband Peter Murrell, who was until recently the party's chief executive.\n\nA luxury motorhome was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested.\n\nMr Murrell and Mr Beattie were both treated as suspects and were taken into custody for the legally defined period of up to 12 hours of questioning before also being released pending further inquiries.\n\nUnder the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, police can release a suspect for further investigation, but they can be re-arrested at a later date.\n\nOver the coming days and weeks, the force is likely to continue to investigate and gather more evidence. They can also ask for more guidance from COPFS.\n\nIf a suspect is charged with a crime, they generally cannot be questioned again by the police although they can make a statement.\n\nPeter Murrell was questioned for almost 12 hours after his arrest before being released pending further inquiries\n\nUltimately, the detectives will send what is called a standard prosecution report to COPFS.\n\nProsecutors will then consider whether there is sufficient evidence to suggest a crime was committed and the suspect was responsible.\n\nThey will take the public interest into account. That can be influenced by the particular circumstances of the case - for example, whether the person involved was in a position of trust or authority.\n\nIf they feel the evidence meets the necessary tests, the case will go to court.\n\nAlternatively, COPFS can instruct the police to carry out further inquiries if they decide there is insufficient evidence.\n\nIf they are still not satisfied there is enough to justify a prosecution, the case would go no further.\n\nThe law officers at the top of the Crown Office will not be involved in this lengthy process.\n\nThe Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC and Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC have dual roles as public prosecutors and principal legal advisors to the Scottish government, which has been run by the SNP since 2007.\n\nFor that reason, they will not be consulted when a decision is made about what should happen to Ms Sturgeon, Mr Murrell or Mr Beattie, with that task falling to others.\n\nAnd for anyone wondering why the inquiry is called Operation Branchform, the titles for Police Scotland investigations are picked at random and the name does not actually mean anything.", "Diplomats say they were shocked by Dragos Tigau's racist remark\n\nRomania has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys.\n\nDragos Tigau made the comments during a meeting at a UN building in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on April 26.\n\nAccording to the AFP news agency, Mr Tigau said \"the African group has joined us\" when he saw a monkey outside a window.\n\nMr Tigau's behaviour was first made public on Thursday by Kenyan foreign affairs official Kamau Macharia.\n\nOn Twitter Mr Macharia said he was left \"appalled and disgusted\" by the incident, and claimed that attempts were made to cover up Mr Tigau's behaviour.\n\nAfrican diplomats on Friday demanded a public apology, according to Kenya's Standard newspaper, insisting that a private apology was not enough.\n\nOn Saturday, Romania announced that it had only been informed of the incident this week and had now begun \"a procedure to recall its ambassador\".\n\n\"We deeply regret this situation and offer our apologies to all those who have been affected,\" the statement from Romania's foreign affairs ministry read.\n\n\"Any behaviours or comments of a racist nature are completely unacceptable,\" it added, saying it hoped it would not affect its ties with African countries.\n\nRomania mainly engages with African nations through its membership of the European Union, but it has bilateral trade deals with Egypt among others.\n\nThe Kenyan government has not commented on the decision to recall Mr Tigau.\n\nRomanian media have criticised his behaviour, and say this is not the first time the country has been embarrassed by insults dished out by diplomats.\n\nIn 2014, Romania's ambassador to Armenia was recalled after making anti-Semitic jokes about Jewish bosses and questioning the morality of same-sex relationships.\n\nThe following year, Bucharest apologised after invitations to a reception at its Paris embassy accidentally included unflattering descriptions of some guests - labelling them \"ghastly\" and \"undesirable\" among other things.", "Sage Todz posted on social media he would not be performing at the festival\n\nA Welsh government minister has urged the National Eisteddfod to rethink its rules after a rapper was told he could not play using English.\n\nSage Todz said on social media he would not be performing at the festival because of its Welsh language policy.\n\nVaughan Gething said the national event could instead be more flexible in order to bring in a bigger audience.\n\nThe National Eisteddfod says the rule about the Welsh language was \"fundamental\" to the festival.\n\nMr Gething said Sage Todz brought the language to \"a wider, more diverse audience\" and performers like him helped grow the language.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"@eisteddfod could take this opportunity to reconsider their approach - this is the major showcase event for the future of the language.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the comments, Eisteddfod president Ashok Ahir said the festival continued to work \"to make Cymraeg accessible to a wider range of individuals and groups\".\n\nThis, he said, included those in the creative sector who were not confident in Welsh.\n\nMr Ahir added: \"Performance, competition, and discussion in Cymraeg - and in no other languages - is the primary purpose of the National Eisteddfod for the single week of the year during which the festival is held.\n\n\"We respect Sage Todz's passion and commitment to the languages he chooses to use in his music.\n\n\"It was his decision that he wished only to perform in English and bilingually.\n\nVaughan Gething urged the Eisteddfod to rethink its rules\n\n\"We wish Sage Todz could have performed at the festival but respect his decision not to perform solely in Cymraeg.\"\n\nThis year's festival takes place in Boduan, Gwynedd, the home county of Sage Todz, who is from Penygroes.\n\nOn Friday Children's Poet of Wales 2023, Nia Morais, questioned the National Eisteddfod's position.\n\n\"If that's the way he expresses himself I don't believe we have the right to limit that,\" she said.\n\nWelsh learner of the year 2022, Joe Healy, said it was disappointing the audience would miss out on seeing him.\n\n\"On the other hand, you can't expect the National Eisteddfod to change its language rule for anyone,\" he said.\n\nThe National Eisteddfod's rules say: \"All compositions and competing must be in Welsh unless specified to the contrary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US President Donald Trump made the comments at a speech in Georgia on Saturday\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has called the federal indictment against him \"ridiculous and baseless\" in his first public appearance since the charges were announced.\n\nA 37-count indictment made public on Friday accuses him of keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago property.\n\nAt two campaign speeches on Saturday, Mr Trump said the indictment amounted to \"election interference\" by the \"corrupt\" FBI and justice department.\n\nHe has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including some about US nuclear secrets and military plans.\n\nThe indictment accused him of keeping the files at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago including in a ballroom and a shower.\n\nHe lied to investigators and tried to obstruct their investigation into his handling of the documents, the indictment alleged.\n\nIt is the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president.\n\nSpeaking at the first Republican Party convention in Georgia, Mr Trump said: \"They're cheating, they're crooked, they're corrupt - these criminals cannot be rewarded, they must be defeated.\"\n\nHe joked that every time he flies over a \"blue state\" - one controlled by the Democrats - he gets subpoenaed.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for the White House again in 2024, called the indictment a \"hoax\" by the \"corrupt political establishment\", also describing it as a \"joke\" and a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nBoth speeches - in Georgia and later in North Carolina - went on for more than an hour.\n\nHe thanked the \"record crowd\" as well as \"patriots\" who had supported his White House bid, and went on to criticise \"sinister forces\" that were running the country.\n\n\"We're going to stand up to the current political establishment … and we're going to finish the job we started, the most successful presidency,\" he said, a line that led to chants of \"USA, USA\" breaking out in the crowd.\n\n\"I will never yield, I will never be deterred,\" he said, before turning his attention to the groups he said were plotting against him.\n\nThis included Marxists, communists, \"environmental extremists\", Rinos - Republicans in Name Only - as well as \"open border fanatics\" and \"radical left democrats\".\n\nReferencing the indictment, he claimed the highly-sensitive documents should have fallen under the Presidential Records Act, rather than the Espionage Act.\n\nUnder the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends. Regulations require such files to be stored securely.\n\nHe also said \"gun-toting FBI agents\" had raided Mar-a-Lago.\n\nSpecial counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation, has denied the charges are politically-motivated, saying: \"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.\"\n\nLaws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced, he has said.\n\nAs momentum starts to build towards the 2024 election, Mr Trump was speaking at a Republican Party convention in Columbus, Georgia, before moving onto another Republican Party event in Greensboro, North Carolina.\n\nHe is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.\n\nHis former vice president Mike Pence - who this week was highly critical of his former boss when announcing his own run for the presidency - spoke earlier at the North Carolina event, although the pair are not expected to cross paths.\n\nGeorgia is likely to be a key battleground in the race for the White House, and is where Mr Trump narrowly lost to current President Joe Biden in 2020 - it could also be the scene of further legal jeopardy for the former president.\n\nOfficials in the state are currently looking into whether Mr Trump broke the law when he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find\" the exact number of votes he needed to flip the vote in his favour.", "Aerial images show damage caused by a fire underneath the I-95 highway in Philadelphia in the US.\n\nThe blaze was caused by an oil tanker on fire under the bridge according to local officials.\n\nThe partial collapse of the busy elevated freeway affected four lanes. Local media reported the fire started at 07:00 local time (11:00 GMT) when traffic was light. No injures have been reported so far.\n\nThe north-south highway is one of the busiest in the United States, connecting Maine to Florida and major cities along the East Coast. It remains closed in both directions in the Philadelphia area, officials said.", "People sheltering from the rain under umbrellas at Bournemouth beach\n\nThe Met Office has issued a new yellow warning for thunderstorms across parts of the UK after the hottest days of the year so far.\n\nThe new warning was put in place at noon on Sunday. It will run until 21:00 BST on Monday, the Met Office said.\n\nForecasters have warned torrential downpours may cause challenging conditions in parts of the UK.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon the Parklife festival in Manchester had to be briefly halted as one thunderstorm hit.\n\nIn Wales, one weather warning for heavy rain covers a large section of the country apart from the six council areas in the north. It will be in place for Sunday evening into Monday morning.\n\nA yellow thunderstorm warning means there is a small chance homes and businesses could flood quickly and damage buildings.\n\nThe Met Office said delays and some cancellations to train and bus services could happen as a result of any flooding or lightning strikes.\n\nDifficult driving conditions could also be expected as a result of spray and sudden flooding and there is a slight chance of power cuts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has an amber hot weather alert in place until 09:00 BST on Tuesday for much of south England and the Midlands.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nA temperature of 32.2°C in Chertsey, Surrey, made it the UK's hottest day of the year too.\n\nTemperatures reached 29.8 C in Auchincruive, Ayrshire, on Saturday - making it the warmest day of the year in Scotland.\n\nThe Met Office forecasts that next week the risk of thundery downpours will continue in some areas and temperatures are likely to remain above average.\n\nHave you been affected by storms or flooding where you are? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A massive inquiry to understand the UK's response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic, throws its doors open later. Following a statement from chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett, a film featuring bereaved families will be played. Not one of us was left untouched by the effects of the pandemic, and we all have questions. I asked a range of people who were in the eye of the Covid storm what one question each of them most wants answered.\n\nLobby Akinnola had been due to return to his family home in Royal Leamington Spa, Warkwickshire, to celebrate his 29th birthday when lockdown began in March 2020.\n\nInstead, he stayed at home, in London, apart from his parents and four siblings. A month later, his father, Femi, was dead.\n\n\"It changed my life forever,\" Lobby says. \"He was isolating in the living room of our home and that's where he died. He was 60 and fit and healthy. We never expected him to die.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola wants to ensure the death of his father, Femi, and others were not in vain\n\nFemi is one of nearly 250,000 people killed by Covid in the UK - and Lobby, part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, wants to ensure these deaths were \"not in vain\".\n\nFor him, the key question is: How can we better protect people when there is another pandemic?\n\nA crucial part of that will be looking at why people belonging to ethnic minorities were at such greater risk. There is no \"physiological reason\" why they had worse outcomes, Lobby says. Instead, he believes it is linked to society - the jobs and housing conditions people belonging to ethnic minorities experience.\n\nBut the people who died from Covid - and those still struggling with complications known as long Covid - are not the only victims of the virus. As restrictions were imposed on the UK, at the start of the pandemic, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, warned about the indirect costs. They have been huge.\n\nChildren were unable to attend school, businesses were closed, non-Covid treatment delayed and mixing banned, stopping everything from socialising to seeing dying loved ones in their final days.\n\nThe legacy of that remains, in terms of rising rates of mental-health problems, lost learning and the economic hit. It's also there in the continued high rates of non-Covid deaths and ill health as the impact of missed treatment for conditions such as cancer and heart disease materialises.\n\nSo a crucial element of the inquiry must be to look at why the government imposed restrictions - and whether they were always necessary.\n\nOne senior public health official, who played a key role in the pandemic and is due to give evidence, says it is hard to see how the first lockdown could have been avoided once the virus was here. Put simply: \"We did not know what we were dealing with.\" But after the first wave was over and scientists understood more, the government should not have been so quick to reimpose restrictions.\n\nIn one 80-day period during autumn 2020, England went from few restrictions, to the \"rule of six\" limit to gatherings, tiered levels of restrictions by region, a national lockdown and back to tiers.\n\n\"We had so many rules and regulations people could not keep up,\" the official, who asked not to be named because of rules on what they can say in public ahead of the inquiry, says. \"It was very top down and heavy handed. It goes against all the evidence of what works during disasters.\"\n\nSo they want to know: How did the UK get to have such complex and confusing rules?\n\n\"One of the things Sweden did was rely on the strong social consciousness of their population,\" the official says. \"In the UK, we did not place enough trust in the public - it was damaging.\n\n\"We could have given them good information and guidance and let them act. The public showed throughout they were, on the whole, cautious and responsible.\" And closing schools to all but the most vulnerable children and those of key workers was the \"biggest system failure\" of the pandemic.\n\nUK children spent six months remote learning, with hairdressers and pubs opening before schools in the first lockdown - a decision repeated for hairdressers in Scotland after the second UK-wide lockdown, in early 2021.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, is extremely worried about the impact this has had on children - even now, school attendance is below its pre-pandemic level.\n\nSo her big ask is: How are we going to support children to recover and avoid such harm in future pandemics?\n\n\"Where they need additional support, be that because they are worried about their mental health or because they have fallen behind at school, they want it quickly,\" Dame Rachel says.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza says children must be prioritised\n\n\"Children sacrificed so much to keep adults safe, we need to make sure we give something back - prioritising their wellbeing.\"\n\nFor Association of Directors of Public Health president Prof Jim McManus, it comes down one basic question: How do we avoid lockdowns in future pandemics?\n\n\"We will only do that if we are better prepared, act at the earliest stage and have good testing and contact tracing in place,\" he says.\n\n\"The UK and much of Europe and North America was largely underprepared for a pandemic of this magnitude - and that cost us.\"\n\nThe UK decided to stop community testing in late March. And in England, it took until May to launch a national large-scale contact-tracing system and September for the government to start giving sick pay to people being asked to isolate\n\nThe way care homes were supported is another topic that needs addressing.\n\nAbout 40% of Covid deaths in the first few months were in care homes, as the lack of testing and personal protective equipment (PPE), heavy use of agency staff and decision to transfer, en masse, hospital patients to care homes let the virus rip through the sector.\n\nAnd NHS workers want the role of austerity during the 2010s examined.\n\nAdult nurse Stuart Tuckwood had never worked in intensive care but was deployed there to look after the sickest Covid patients during the first and second waves, working through breaks to start with because he was worried about using up the limited PPE.\n\n\"The fact I had to work in intensive care because we didn't have enough trained nurses says it all really,\" he says. \"But it wasn't a surprise - staffing shortages were terrible in the lead up to the pandemic.\"\n\nAnd the NHS - and other public services - cannot wait until the end of the inquiry to rectify the problems.\n\nThe first time nurse Stuart Tuckwood worked in intensive care was during the pandemic\n\n\"We need action now,\" Stuart says, \"staff are having to strike to get the pay they need.\"\n\nSo his key question is: What should be done to tackle staffing shortages, so we don't face the situation again?\n\nThe wait for the inquiry is something others are worried about.\n\nOne epidemiologist who advised government during the pandemic and will also be giving evidence to the public inquiry so does not want to be named fears another pandemic could hit before the necessary changes have been made.\n\nSome say the inquiry could well last five years.\n\nThe inquiry team says recommendations will begin next year, as it is being broken down into six different modules.\n\nHowever, the epidemiologist says: \"The modular approach makes sense - but some elements are going to get dragged out too long. We can't wait - pandemics happen every 10 years.\"\n\nThey are particularly concerned with how decision-making became skewed.\n\n\"There was no cost-benefit done on the use of restrictions which we would with other policy decisions,\" the epidemiologist says.\n\nSo they want to know: How should the system be changed \"so we can work out the trade-offs\" of the decisions we make?\n\n\"The phrase 'follow the science' became really unhelpful,\" the epidemiologist says. \"There was no acknowledgement of the uncertainty.\n\n\"Instead, we got trapped into looking at it through a narrow lens of Covid. Even now, I am worried the inquiry has not quite got the focus right.\n\n\"If it just looks at Covid deaths in 2020 and 2021 and not what has been happening with other deaths since, the inquiry will come to the wrong conclusions. This is about more than just the virus.\"", "The bus overturned while making a turn at a roundabout late on Sunday night\n\nAt least 10 people have died and 15 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crashed in an Australian wine region north of Sydney, officials say.\n\nThe passengers were returning from a wedding at a winery on Sunday night in the Hunter Valley when their coach overturned near the town of Greta.\n\nPolice have charged the 58-year-old bus driver with 10 counts of dangerous driving which resulted in death.\n\nThey said they were still in the process of identifying the dead.\n\nThe newlyweds were not reported to be on the bus, which crashed in the state of New South Wales.\n\nThe driver, who is from the town of Maitland, north of Sydney, has been refused bail and will appear in court in Cessnock on Tuesday.\n\nPolice commissioner Karen Webb said the site of the crash is \"still an active crime scene\". \"We've got forensics officers processing the crime scene, we've got crash investigation unit officers, we've got rescue officers [on scene],\" she added.\n\nThe accident occurred about 23:30 local time [13:30 GMT] on Sunday when, according to police, there had been heavy fog in the area. The bus had rolled over while making a turn at a roundabout off a highway. Authorities say the vehicle has now been pulled upright.\n\nNew South Wales Police acting assistant commissioner Tracy Chapman said the guests were travelling to Singleton \"presumably for their accommodation\". Two of the survivors were airlifted from the crash, she added. Local media report that at least one of them is still in a critical condition.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it is \"so cruel, so sad and so unfair\" for a \"joyous day in a beautiful place like that to end with such terrible loss of life\".\n\n\"People hire a bus for weddings in order to keep their guests safe, and that just adds to the unimaginable nature of this tragedy,\" he said at a press conference in Canberra.\n\nMr Albanese said some of the injured passengers are at John Hunter Hospital, but many had been flown to Sydney.\n\nNSW Premier Chris Minns said the loss of so many lives was \"nothing short of heartbreaking\", adding: \"For this horrific crash to have occurred on a day that should have been filled with love and happiness only adds to the heartbreak.\"\n\n\"For a day of joy to end in such devastating loss is cruel indeed. Our thoughts are also with those who have been injured,\" he said.\n\nHunter Valley in New South Wales is known for its vineyards and native bushland, making it a popular spot for wine lovers and group outings or celebrations.\n\nA guest at the wedding said the day had been a \"fairy tale\" until news of the accident broke.\n\n\"We all started panicking,\" he told 7 News.\n\nPolice said they are still working to identify the crash victims and contact their next of kin.\n\n\"Family and friends of a person who may have been on board the bus are urged to contact Cessnock Police Station,\" they said in a statement.", "The original Gladiator was nominated for 12 Oscars and won five\n\nSeveral crew members filming the Gladiator sequel in Morocco have been injured in a stunt accident on set.\n\nThe film's production company Paramount Pictures said the injuries were non life-threatening and happened while shooting a planned stunt sequence.\n\nThe crew members were \"all in stable condition and continue to receive treatment\", the statement said.\n\nEarlier this week, the Sun reported there had been an explosion and six people went to hospital.\n\n\"It was terrifying - a huge ball of fire flew up and caught several crew members in its path. In years of filming I've never seen an accident so scary,\" a source told the newspaper.\n\n\"Everyone involved, from the lowliest runners to the star names, has been shaken up by this,\" they added.\n\nIn a statement, a Paramount Pictures spokesperson said: \"The safety and full medical services teams on-site were able to act quickly so that those who were impacted immediately received necessary care.\"\n\nThey said it has \"strict health and safety procedures in place on all our productions\" and would take \"all necessary precautions as we resume production\".\n\nAccording to Variety, no cast members were injured but six people received treatment for burn injuries and four remain in hospital.\n\nSir Ridley Scott, who directed the original 2000 historical drama film, is returning to direct the second instalment, which is scheduled to be released in November 2024.\n\nNo title has yet been announced for the sequel, which stars Normal People actor Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Connie Nielsen.\n\nThe original film won five Oscars, including best actor for Russell Crowe, who played Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius alongside Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus.\n\nThe movie, set during the height of the Roman Empire, sees Maximus start out as a war hero before before being forced to become a gladiator.\n\nGladiator made $457m (£355m) at the box office and revived the historical epic drama genre, which had been out of fashion for decades.", "Blues fans across Manchester have been celebrating their club's first Champions League title.\n\nThousands gathered at live screenings, where they watched Manchester City secure the Treble after beating Inter Milan 1-0 in Istanbul.\n\nOthers continued celebrations late into the night outside the Etihad Stadium.\n\nEcstatic fans told the BBC they were \"over the moon\".\n\nOne woman said: \"It was honestly the best moment - it's never over until the 90 minutes are over.\"\n\nAnother fan said: \"I couldn't have ever dreamt this but over the last 10 years, I suppose it's been coming.\"\n\nCity captain Ilkay Gundogan paid for 120 local people involved with the Community Integrated Care charity to have a Turkish meal while watching the game.\n\nThe German midfielder, who was born to Turkish parents, has supported the group since the coronavirus pandemic and wrote a letter, saying: \"The challenges you face on a daily basis require immense courage, and your ability to overcome them is remarkable.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the night \"passed without any significant trouble\" locally but one man was arrested on suspicion of damaging a police vehicle.\n\nA man was detained after a police vehicle's window was smashed\n\nOfficers added they made \"several arrests\" on suspicion of public order offences following \"minor incidents\" in Piccadilly Gardens.\n\nIn Istanbul, players celebrated with their families.\n\nAt least 20,000 City fans travelled to watch the final in Turkey.\n\nThe triumphant squad are due to land at Manchester Airport later and will hold a trophy parade on Monday.\n\nSections of Oxford Street and Hall Street will close in Manchester city centre on Sunday in preparation.\n\nThousands are expected along the route, which starts at Tonman Street, Deansgate, at 18:30 BST on Monday, before travelling through St Mary's Gate, Cross Street, King Street and then finishing on the corner of Princess Street and Portland Street.\n\nA stage show will be held in Oxford Street, where entertainment starts at 17:30 BST with the squad expected to arrive at about 19:30.\n\nTransport officials urged fans to travel by tram to St Peter's Square and Victoria but to avoid alighting at Deansgate.\n\nWorkers in the area were also advised to expect a longer journey time.\n\nSupt Gareth Parkin, from Greater Manchester Police, said: \"The parade will be a joyous occasion... and while we expect the vast majority of people coming together to be genuine fans, we urge you not to drink in excess or be involved in anti-social behaviour.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We're ending our live coverage now. Thanks for following along as Laura Kuenssberg and her guests have dug into the detail of Boris Johnson's resignation and its aftermath - as well as her interview with Scotland's new First Minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nWe've loads more for you to read:\n• Country wants to move on from Boris Johnson, says Shapps\n• Boris Johnson: Laura Kuenssberg on the facts, farce and his future\n\nAnd of course we'll be back in a week for next Sunday's programme - by which time we expect there will have been plenty of time for everyone to trawl through that Privileges Committee report on Johnson.\n\nToday's coverage was written by Ece Goksedef, Alexandra Binley and Heather Sharp. It was edited by Jamie Whitehead.", "An image provided by one of the migrants shows people on the deck of their fishing boat\n\nDozens of migrants have been stranded for months on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean after being rescued from their struggling fishing boat.\n\nThey are desperate to leave for a safe place, describing conditions as hellish, but the unusual legal status of the island has left them feeling frightened and helpless.\n\nAll names of the migrants have been changed\n\nEarly one morning in October 2021, a fishing boat was spotted struggling near the island of Diego Garcia.\n\nThe vessel immediately attracted the attention of the island's authorities - the territory hosts a secretive UK-US military base, hundreds of miles away from any other population, and unauthorised visitors are forbidden.\n\nIt soon became clear that the 89 people on board - Sri Lankan Tamils who said they were fleeing persecution - weren't actually intending to land on the island.\n\nThey had planned to seek asylum in Canada, a claim backed up by maps, diary entries and GPS data on board, before rough weather and engine problems pulled them off course.\n\nAs the boat ran into trouble, one man on board said they started looking for the nearest place of safety. \"We saw a bit of light and started sailing towards Diego Garcia,\" he told the BBC.\n\nA Royal Navy ship escorted the boat to land, and the group were put into temporary accommodation.\n\nThat was 20 months ago. And communication between officials on the island and London gives clues as to why the migrants - some of whom have since attempted suicide due to their dire situation - are still there.\n\nCommunications in the immediate aftermath of their arrival were obtained through a Freedom of Information request to the Foreign Office by a lawyer representing some of the migrants, and shared with the BBC. They show officials wrestling with what to do about the \"unprecedented development\".\n\nEarly messages spoke of plans to \"investigate repair options to the engine\", but said \"we can't rule out\" that the group will try to launch asylum claims from Diego Garcia.\n\nBy the next day, that scenario had become a reality.\n\nThe Tamils had presented a letter to the commander of the British forces on the island saying they were fleeing persecution, having set sail from Tamil Nadu in India 18 days earlier, and \"expressing a wish to be sent to a safe country\".\n\nMany have since claimed to have links with the former Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, who were defeated in the civil war that ended in 2009, and say they have faced persecution as a result. Some allege they were victims of torture or sexual assault.\n\nAn official \"information note\", approved in London by the director of overseas territories, Paul Candler, said the \"unexpected arrival\" of the group had marked the first time asylum had been sought on British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) - the islands' official name.\n\nIt added that, if approached by the media, the official \"defensive line\" would be that the UK government was \"aware of the incident\" and was \"working urgently to resolve the situation\".\n\nThe group \"currently have no means of communication with the outside world… [but] with time passing there is a high likelihood news will spread,\" it added.\n\nIn the coming months, as messages were going back and forth to London, more boats arrived on Diego Garcia. At one point numbers in the camp swelled to at least 150, lawyers estimate, as others arrived on the island from Sri Lanka.\n\nPacked on their boat, the Marayan, the Tamils intended to voyage to Canada and claim asylum there\n\nMeanwhile, the reality of their current situation was beginning to dawn on the asylum seekers.\n\n\"I was initially happy, thinking: 'I survived, I am getting food, and I am away from torture,'\" Lakshani, one of the migrants, told the BBC last month.\n\nBut she said the tropical island refuge soon \"turned out to be a hell\".\n\nShe says she was sexually assaulted in October last year by a man who travelled in the same boat and was housed in the same tent as her.\n\n\"I started to scream, but no-one came to help,\" she said.\n\nWhen she felt able to make an official complaint, she says she was told it was difficult to gather evidence as she had washed her clothes.\n\nShe says she had to continue staying in the same tent as her alleged attacker for almost a week until authorities finally responded to her demand to have him moved.\n\nThe UK government and BIOT administration did not respond to requests for comment about this allegation.\n\nLakshani and others told the BBC they or people they knew had attempted suicide or had self-harmed in their distress at the suffocating conditions, including by swallowing sharp objects.\n\nLawyers say they are aware of at least 12 suicide attempts and allegations of at least two sexual assaults within the camp.\n\n\"We are mentally and physically exhausted… We are living a lifeless life. I feel like I am living like a dead man,\" said Vithusan, another migrant. He told the BBC he had self-harmed twice.\n\nAnother man, Aadhavan, said that after having his initial claim for protection rejected, he \"lost all hope\" and decided to take his own life.\n\n\"I didn't want to live here like a caged animal forever,\" he said.\n\nHe told another migrant in the camp of his suicide attempt and she alerted the camp authorities, who arranged medical treatment.\n\nAnother woman, Shanthi, said her husband had also attempted suicide.\n\nLakshani said her own attempt to take her life had been provoked by an officer at the camp telling her she would be sent back to Sri Lanka, where she alleges she was raped and tortured by soldiers in 2021.\n\nThe UK government and G4S - the private security company brought in to guard the migrant camp - did not respond to requests for comment on this specific claim.\n\nG4S said its officers treated migrants on the island with \"dignity and respect at all times\", while a UK government spokesperson said the \"welfare and safety\" of migrants on BIOT was \"paramount\" and that \"all allegations of mistreatment are taken seriously and fully investigated\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the BIOT administration was providing \"extensive medical support\".\n\nThere have also been hunger strikes on the island, which lawyers say have involved children.\n\nAnother image sent by a migrant shows the tents, which are each shared by about a dozen people and watched over by security guards\n\nIn response to one earlier this year, lawyers say the BIOT commissioner confiscated migrants' phones, stopped access to the communal telephone and withdrew medical treatment \"unless the individuals were willing to sign a form disclaiming certain liabilities of the BIOT administration\".\n\nThe BIOT administration has dismissed this allegation in court documents, saying that in response to one hunger strike, sharp objects were removed from the camp and other measures taken to prevent self-harm.\n\nAll can agree that the Diego Garcia military base was not a place intended to house asylum seekers.\n\nBritain took control of the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is part, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for the base.\n\nMauritius, which won independence from the UK in 1968, maintains the islands are its own and the United Nations' highest court has ruled that the UK's administration of the territory is \"unlawful\" and must end.\n\nThe UK resisted international pressure to begin talks about the islands - until late last year, when it agreed to open negotiations.\n\nIn recent decades, US planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq - and it has also reportedly been used as a so-called CIA \"black site\" - a facility used to house and interrogate terror suspects.\n\nCourt documents filed in London say tents previously set up as Covid isolation facilities for military personnel are being used as a makeshift migrant camp. Fences surround the camp, and inside there are basic medical facilities and a canteen. G4S guards must accompany the migrants if they leave the area.\n\n\"We are the parrots, we are in a cage,\" said Shanthi, of the lack of freedom.\n\nLawyers representing the migrants say basic education became available about a year ago, but that classes have at times had to be held outside because of a rat infestation.\n\nSome migrants have since returned home, having either given up their claim or had it rejected. Others set sail for the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, a French territory, hoping to claim asylum there, the lawyers say.\n\nCurrently, at least 60 Tamils remain on the island. They are awaiting decisions about their fate or challenging earlier rulings in convoluted legal processes playing out thousands of miles away in the UK.\n\nWhile the UK is signed up to international laws about the treatment of refugees, court papers say this doesn't apply to BIOT, an area described as being \"constitutionally distinct and separate from the UK\".\n\nA separate process, based on the idea that no-one should be returned to a country where they face torture or inhumane treatment, has been established to determine if they should be sent back to Sri Lanka or to a \"safe third country\".\n\nLawyer Tessa Gregory says the London firm she works for, Leigh Day, has launched a judicial review on behalf of a number of asylum seekers on Diego Garcia, challenging the \"lawfulness\" of this process - which she describes as \"fundamentally unfair\".\n\nShe says decisions to return some migrants to Sri Lanka were made based on rushed initial interviews, while later, fuller interviews were marred by translation errors. Others have been left \"in limbo\" as the UK government has not yet identified a suitable safe third country, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government said the BIOT administration was \"considering migrants' protection claims under BIOT law and in line with international legal obligations\".\n\nThe UK office of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) told the BBC it was concerned by reports of the \"deteriorating health situation\" on Diego Garcia and had requested access from UK authorities, but this had not yet been granted.\n\nEmilie McDonnell, UK advocacy and communications co-ordinator at Human Rights Watch, said the British government \"should consider any and all options to ensure the welfare of these asylum seekers who are on British-controlled territory and therefore should be protected by the British government\".\n\nThe UK has said it will not take in any of the Diego Garcia asylum seekers whose claims are approved, according to lawyers.\n\nThree of the Tamils who arrived on Diego Garcia are currently in Rwanda receiving medical treatment after being evacuated from the island following self-harm and suicide attempts. Their transfer is not part of the deal struck by the British and Rwandan governments to send some asylum seekers from the UK to the east African country.\n\nAt one point, five of the migrants were sent to Rwanda for medical treatment - two were later returned to Diego Garcia\n\nIn a letter sent to one of them in May, and seen by the BBC, the BIOT administration said it would find and pay for private accommodation while they received treatment in Rwanda - including therapy.\n\n\"If you are not content with the proposal… we can arrange for your return to Diego Garcia. There is no other option available at this time,\" it said.\n\nFour of the asylum seekers have had their claims to be sent to a \"safe third country\" approved. A letter sent two months ago to one of them, seen by the BBC, said \"every effort will be made to do this expeditiously\".\n\nIn a separate statement to the BBC this week, the UK government said it was \"working tirelessly with the BIOT administration to find a long-term solution to [the migrants'] current situation.\"\n\nBut the situation for everyone could continue to drag on with no clear timeframe for finding a safe third country, and long legal processes for those disputing rejections.\n\nAfter 20 months of waiting, one asylum seeker said everyone seemed to have \"lost their hope\".", "The four children are at the central military hospital in the capital Bogota\n\nFour children who survived weeks alone in Colombia's Amazon jungle have been reunited with relatives as they recover in hospital.\n\nThe siblings, aged 13, nine, five and one, are \"very weak\" but \"happy to see their family\", said their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia.\n\nThey are speaking a little and two of them have begun playing, officials say.\n\nThe four children were found on Friday after more than a month of searching by the military and local people.\n\nThey went missing after the plane they were in crashed on 1 May. Their mother and two pilots were killed in the crash.\n\nRescuers tracked them down after spotting signs in the jungle, including footprints and fruit that had been bitten into.\n\nTwo of the children, the one-year-old baby and five-year-old, spent their birthdays in the jungle, as the eldest Lesly, 13, guided them through the ordeal.\n\nThey survived by eating flour that they found in the plane's wreckage and then seeds, Mr Valencia said.\n\nColombia's Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez, who visited them in the hospital with President Gustavo Petro on Saturday, praised Lesly for taking care of her younger siblings.\n\n\"It is thanks to her, her value and her leadership, that the three others were able to survive, with her care, her knowledge of the jungle,\" Mr Velasquez said.\n\n\"In general the children, the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state, according to the medical reports they are out of danger.\"\n\nMilitary doctor Carlos Rincon said they have \"nutritional deficiencies\" but had survived with only \"some soft tissue injuries, bites, and skin lesions\".\n\nThey are not yet able to eat, he said, adding: \"We will begin the process of incorporating food when we complete the process of clinical examinations that will be done today. If things go well, we believe they will stay in the hospital for two to three weeks.\"\n\nAstrid Caceres, the general director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the children \"don't talk as much as we would like them to\" and need time to recover.\n\nBut she said two of the children had been playing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. General Pedro Sanchez, who led the search operation, credited Indigenous people who volunteered to help the rescue effort.\n\n\"We found the children: miracle, miracle, miracle!\" he told reporters.\n\nSome rescuers are continuing to search the jungle for a rescue dog, a Belgian Shepherd, that went missing during the hunt for the children.\n\nThe children's grandmother, Fatima Valencia, said after their rescue: \"I am very grateful, and to mother earth as well, that they were set free.\"\n\nShe said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.\n\n\"She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume,\" Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.\n\nThe Cessna 206 aircraft the children and their mother had been travelling on before the crash was flying from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure.\n\nThe bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help.\n\nIn May, rescuers recovered items left behind by the children, including a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and a makeshift shelter.\n\nSmall footprints were also discovered, which led search teams to believe the children were still alive in the rainforest, which is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators.\n\nMembers of the children's community hoped that their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills would give them a better chance of remaining alive.\n\nIndigenous people joined the search and helicopters broadcast a message from the children's grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate.", "Eleven teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy at a party in Somerset.\n\nEmergency services were called to an address on Eastfield Avenue, in Bath, just after 23:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nSix boys and two girls, aged between 15 and 17, were initially arrested on board a bus half an hour after the stabbing was reported, police said.\n\nThree more teenage boys were arrested on Sunday, detectives added.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said all teenagers - including the eight arrested on the bus travelling on Lansdown Lane at 23:30 - remain in police custody.\n\nA 35-year-old woman was also stabbed but has been discharged from hospital, the force added.\n\nMembers of the public provided the boy with first aid before paramedics arrived but he died at the scene.\n\nEmergency services were called to Eastfield Avenue on Saturday evening\n\nIn an updated statement on Sunday, Ch Insp Ronald Lungu, of the Bath Neighbourhood Team, said: \"Understanding what happened last night and why is the utmost priority of officers working on this investigation, as they look to provide answers to the boy's family.\n\n\"Specialist liaison officers are now in place and have informed the boy's parents of this latest development. Our thoughts continue to be with them at this sad time.\"\n\nHe added: \"Detectives continue to appeal for anyone who witnessed what happened, as well as anyone who has relevant phone, dashcam or CCTV footage, to contact them.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination to determine the cause of the boy's death will take place in due course, police said.\n\nThe six boys and two girls being held are aged between 15 and 17\n\nA large cordon was put in place on Eastfield Avenue throughout Sunday while police carried out their investigation.\n\n\"We've identified a number of witnesses and we'll be taking formal statements from them in due course,\" Ch Insp Lungu said earlier on Sunday.\n\n\"The community can expect to see a significant police presence in the area for the next few days, while officers and police staff carry out a number of actions including forensic examinations, a review of CCTV footage and house-to-house inquiries.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darren Nesbit, editor of the Light, defended calls in his paper to use force against \"aggressors\"\n\nA UK conspiracy theory newspaper sharing calls for trials and executions of politicians and doctors has links with the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe Light, which prints at least 100,000 copies a month and has more than 18,000 followers on the social media site Telegram, grew to be a focal point of the UK conspiracy theory movement with its anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown stance during the pandemic.\n\nIn its pages and on its corresponding Telegram channels, the Light has shared hateful and violent rhetoric towards journalists, medics and MPs, as well as platforming far-right figures accused of antisemitism.\n\nThe paper is handed out free by volunteers in dozens of towns across the country, where local leaders have accused it of inflaming division and harassment with false and misleading claims about vaccines, the financial system and climate change, amid other more mundane articles on local politics, health and wellness.\n\nArticles and content shared by the Light have called for the government, doctors, nurses and journalists to be punished for \"crimes against humanity\" in war crime-style trials sometimes called \"Nuremberg 2.0\" - referring to the execution of Nazi Party members after World War Two.\n\nRecent articles declare \"It's just a matter of time before these worst perpetrators of war crimes are facing trial\" like in \"November 1945\" and \"MPs, doctors and nurses can be hanged\".\n\nOther posts shared by the Light on Telegram have featured cartoons of gallows and included work addresses of \"liable people to be held to account\" for taking part in sinister plots to harm people with vaccines - plots for which there is no evidence.\n\nOn Telegram, the paper has also shared and endorsed content from UK far-right groups including Patriotic Alternative, promoting rallies and posts talking about the \"replacement\" of white people and asking people to \"#GetInvolved\".\n\nIt has also shared posts from an extreme group called Alpha Men Assemble offering military-style training to anti-vaccine activists. They say \"it's time we show them who rules this country\".\n\nDarren Nesbit, editor of the Light, defended calls in his paper to use force against \"aggressors\" in power, telling the BBC it would be a matter of \"self-defence\" in circumstances such as the government ordering another lockdown or what he described as forced evacuations.\n\nBundles of copies of the Light were piled up at the protest in Totnes, Devon\n\nHe says he isn't in charge of the Light's Telegram channels, although acknowledges they are directly linked to the paper. Posts are sometimes signed off by the \"Light Paper Team\" and sometimes with his name.\n\nMr Nesbit says he speaks to the editor of the conspiracy theory newspaper in Germany, Demokratischer Widerstand (Democratic Resistance) - which is connected to a failed coup attempt in the country - \"two or three times a year\". He has published content endorsing the publication.\n\nThe German paper refers to the Light as its \"partner\" paper and its \"colleagues\" at the British publication, describing how they're \"internationally connected\".\n\nReferring to concerns about the wider conspiracy theory movement more generally, the UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Matt Jukes has told the BBC they are currently \"seeing evidence of conspiracy theories being interwoven with extremism\" and that this \"connection is very much on our radar and in our sights as investigators\".\n\nSet up in 2020 as a print publication, the Light is distributed in about 30 places across the UK such as Brighton, Thetford, Stroud, Plymouth, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and Glastonbury. Local conspiracy theory groups place bulk orders and distribute them on the streets for free.\n\nIn the Devon town of Totnes, a motivated minority have been distributing the Light for the past two years. Its former town Mayor Ben Piper says he first became a key target of the conspiracy theory movement there because of his role enforcing coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFormer mayor of Totnes Ben Piper says \"aggression\" in articles about him inflamed harassment over Covid restrictions\n\nHe fears an article about him in the Light exacerbated the harassment he experienced - from abuse in the street, to sinister phone calls, to someone driving a car at him.\n\n\"There was an aggression that bled through the editorial that was not as innocent as it was making out to be,\" he says.\n\nThe Light's editor, Darren Nesbit, is based near Manchester. He agreed to speak to me, only on the condition that he can ask me questions and record the interview too.\n\nFor him, everything from financial turmoil to climate change and 9/11 terror attacks in the US are part of a plan by governments to control and harm our lives. He thinks the pandemic was just one step towards doing that.\n\nThe paper has featured an article by a blogger called Lasha Darkmoon, saying that people should be able to question the Holocaust. And another article recommended a book by white supremacist Eustace Mullins - author of The Biological Jew and Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation. Mullins is referred to in the Light as a \"renowned\" author.\n\n\"If they write good articles on topics that are useful topics that are interesting to people, then we should [feature them] at the end of the day,\" Mr Nesbit says. He reiterates again and again that \"people should be adults and make their own decisions\".\n\n\"My aim is not to do anything else apart from get to the truth and then obviously let other people have a bash at seeing that information as well.\"\n\nThe Light directly defended a UK-based radio host called Graham Hart over antisemitic remarks he made on his show referring to Jewish people as \"filth\" and like \"rats\", suggesting \"they deserve to be wiped out\". He was sentenced to 32 months in prison for making the remarks.\n\nDarren Nesbit defends the paper's right to publish opinions associated with the far right\n\nWhile Mr Nesbit says those comments were \"pretty harsh\", he maintains that the paper defends the radio host's \"right to say it\".\n\nI ask him whether he thinks calls for action in the paper could result in action that's not peaceful.\n\nHe replies, \"Of course, people can make their own decisions, and they need to be responsible for their own actions.\"\n\nHe tells me that the paper doesn't \"actually necessarily call for action\". But, Mr Nesbit also says, \"People should not be passive and just let the world change around them because there is, you know, an agenda and a purpose behind it.\"\n\nI directly ask him, \"Why don't you say there's no place for violence in our movement?\"\n\nHe replies, \"Because I might be wrong.\"\n\nThroughout the interview, Mr Nesbit condemns violent action - and then gives cryptic answers, which seem to contradict that.\n\nTelegram has not responded to the BBC's request for comment about why it has allowed the Light and other conspiracy theory papers to share violent and hateful rhetoric.\n\nResearch carried out by King's College London backs up the idea that calls to action endorsed by conspiracy theory media like the Light could be affecting attitudes.\n\nA survey, commissioned by the BBC, suggested that an average of 61.5% of people - who said they would have attended rallies linked to common conspiracy theories, such as anti-vaccine beliefs - think violence could be justified at protests. They were more likely to think this if they read conspiracy theory media including the Light.\n\n\"Built within these theories [are] inherent demands to do something, to take direct action,\" says research team member Dr Rod Dacombe, who has studied the Light.\n\n\"We shouldn't get away from [how] this occasionally moves into either violence or some sort of violent right action. Not everybody who goes to a protest is going to be brought in by this. Most people won't, right? But some people will.\"\n\nMarkus Haintz, who used to write for the German paper linked to the Light, says its editor is an \"extremist\"\n\nAs well as links with the German paper Demokratischer Widerstand, The Light has related papers in Ireland, Canada and Australia.\n\nTwo whistleblowers spoke to the BBC over concerns about how radical they say the German paper has become.\n\nThey say some of the Demokratischer Widerstand's writers and a key donor to the paper met the Reichsburger group behind a failed coup attempt in Germany in December 2022.\n\nOne of the whistleblowers, lawyer Markus Haintz, who stopped writing for the paper in 2022, says the editor, Anselm Lenz, is an \"extremist\" which he defines as someone who \"brings people in a position where they at least could think about getting violent\".\n\nMr Haintz also says members of the wider conspiracy theory movement in Germany have been offered money by Kremlin-linked figures to push disinformation.\n\nThe other, Martin Le Jeune, who stopped writing for the paper in 2021 says it is creating a \"hateful and divided\" atmosphere, where \"somebody who could be emotional or psychologically unstable could be triggered to do something terrible\".\n\nThe editor of the German conspiracy paper, Mr Lenz, did not reply directly to any of the points raised by the BBC. He called me \"a highly paid Nato and BBC Propagandist'' and said I was a threat to him and his family. He also accused me of slander of \"our friends of the great English democratic movement\".\n\n\"If needed, we are willing to take the fight by all means,\" he wrote.\n\nWhat happened to the people who fell down the rabbit hole into a world of conspiracy theories during the pandemic?\n\nListen to the podcast Marianna in Conspiracyland on BBC Sounds and on BBC Radio 4.\n\nAnd click to watch Conspiracyland: UK? on iPlayer (UK only)", "A Sinn Féin MP has told an IRA commemoration that everyone has \"the right to remember, and the right to commemorate\".\n\nJohn Finucane was the main speaker at what has been billed a \"South Armagh Volunteers commemoration\".\n\nHe said there was \"nothing to celebrate in conflict\", but commemoration was \"a right which everyone is entitled to\".\n\nHis involvement in the event was condemned by IRA victims, unionists and the Irish government.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said Mr Finucane was \"a hypocrite\" for taking part.\n\nMr Finucane told the event that truth and justice were \"something which every person who has been impacted by our conflict deserves.\"\n\n\"For just as truth and justice applies equally to everyone, so too does the right to remember, and the right to commemorate,\" he said.\n\nMr Finucane's father, solicitor Pat Finucane, was shot dead by loyalist gunmen at his home in Belfast in 1989.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP said he would defend commemorations by other groups - including loyalists - \"without hesitation\".\n\n\"There is nothing to celebrate in conflict, or in our difficult and painful past, but to commemorate those we have loved and lost is a right which everyone, including every single one of us gathered here today, is entitled to, and we do so with dignity and with pride,\" he said.\n\nThe event was held earlier in south Armagh\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event, Belfast East MP Mr Robinson said Mr Finucane had a few hours to decide if he wanted to \"proceed with being a hypocrite on these issues or withdraw\".\n\n\"You cannot burnish your credentials as a victim one day and then tarnish the memory of victims and their loved ones the next,\" he told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme.\n\nBut Mr Robinson, the newly-elected deputy leader of the DUP said victims were \"hurt\" by the prospect of Mr Finucane's attendance at the event in Mullaghbawn.\n\n\"This should not be happening,\" he said.\n\n\"When we consider the need to reconcile our communities that anybody, let alone a member of Parliament and a victim, would go to a family fun day to show respect for terrorists, shows just how shallow some of the commitments about an Ireland for all are, that have been shared with us over the previous number of weeks.\"\n\nGavin Robinson said victims of terrorism were \"hurt\" at the move\n\nOn Friday, a relative of one of the victims of an IRA bomb atrocity in Coleraine nearly 50 years ago criticised Mr Finucane's planned appearance.\n\nLesley Magee's grandmother, Nan Davis, was among six Protestants killed in the Coleraine attack on 12 June 1973.\n\n\"I don't think we should be commemorating terrorism on any level, whether it be Protestant, whether it be Catholic,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I have equal animosity towards both. I have no issue with anyone's religion, whether it be Protestant, Catholic, Judaism - whatever; I don't care.\n\n\"I don't think any MP should be at some kind of commemoration to celebrate a terrorist,\" she added.\n\nAlliance Party assembly member Sorcha Eastwood said she was disappointed Mr Finucane took part in the event.\n\n\"There is a difference between remembering and paying tribute to individuals, and commemorating terrorist organisations, including the IRA and its South Armagh 'brigade', particularly without reference to its many victims,\" she said.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said he thought the commemoration was \"scandalous\".\n\nTánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Micheál Martin had urged Mr Finucane not to address the commemoration, saying any attempt to \"celebrate or glorify horrible deeds from the past\" was not the correct way forward.\n\nBut earlier in the week, Sinn Féin assembly member Conor Murphy dismissed the row as a diversionary tactic by the DUP.\n\n\"I think what we are in here is distraction politics,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"The real issue is here is the fact that public services are crashing round our ears.\"", "Russia appears to have moved to take direct control of Wagner, after months of infighting between defence officials and the private military group.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Saturday \"volunteer formations\" will be asked to sign contracts directly with the ministry of defence.\n\nThe vaguely worded statement is widely believed to target the group.\n\nBut in a furious statement on Sunday, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces would boycott the contracts.\n\nThe private military group has played a major role in the war in Ukraine, fighting on the side of Russian forces.\n\nBut Prigozhin, who is said to hold political ambitions of his own, has been embroiled in a public dispute with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and military chief Valery Gerasimov for months.\n\nHe has repeatedly accused the pair of incompetence and of deliberately undersupplying Wagner units fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\"Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu,\" Prigozhin said in response to a request for comment on the defence ministry's announcement. \"Shoigu cannot properly manage military formation.\"\n\nHe insisted that his group was well integrated with the Russian military, but said that its effectiveness would be damaged by having to report to the defence minister.\n\nWhile Saturday's announcement did not directly reference Wagner or any other paramilitary groups, Russian media suggested that the new contracts were a move to bring Prigozhin and his forces under control.\n\nBut the defence ministry said the move was designed to \"increase the effectiveness\" of Russian units fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\"This will give volunteer formations the necessary legal status, create common approaches to the organization of comprehensive support and the fulfilment of their tasks,\" the ministry said in a statement, adding that the contracts must be signed by 1 July.\n\nThe long-running tensions between the Wagner Group and the army have threatened to boil over in recent weeks.\n\nLast week the group kidnapped a senior frontline army commander, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, after accusing him of opening fire on a Wagner vehicle near Bakhmut.\n\nLt Col Venevitin was later released, and in a video shared by Russian military bloggers he accused the group of stoking \"anarchy\" on Russia's frontlines by stealing arms, forcing mobilised soldiers to sign contracts with the group and attempting to extort weapons from the defence ministry.\n\nPrigozhin called the comments - which appeared to be read from a script - \"absolutely total nonsense\".\n\nHe has also suggested that he is ready to deploy his troops on Russian soil, saying on Telegram that Wagner was ready to fight against insurrectionist forces in the Belgorod region.\n\nIn December, the US estimated that Wagner had around 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine.\n\nAnd the mercenary group has increasingly become a tool of Russian state power around the world. Its troops are currently believed to have been deployed in Mali, the Central African Republic,Sudan and Libya.", "Nicola Sturgeon had been taken into police custody on Sunday morning\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police.\n\nScotland's former first minister was arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the SNP's funding and finances at 10:09 on Sunday.\n\nAfter being questioned by detectives she was released from custody at 17:24.\n\nShe has since released a statement saying \"I know beyond doubt that I am innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\nPolice said a report will be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n\nThe force has been investigating for the past two years what happened to £660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists for use in a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nOfficers had been able to question Ms Sturgeon for a maximum of 12 hours before deciding whether to charge her with a crime or release her while they carry out further inquiries.\n\nA suspect released pending further investigations can be re-arrested at a later date.\n\nMs Sturgeon published a statement on Twitter shortly after police confirmed her release.\n\nShe said: \"To find myself in the situation I did today when I am certain I have committed no offence is both a shock and deeply distressing.\n\n\"I know that this ongoing investigation is difficult for people, and I am grateful that so many continue to show faith in me and appreciate that I would never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe went on: \"Innocence is not just a presumption I am entitled to in law. I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing.\"\n\nShe thanked people for messages of support and also her family for \"much-needed strength at this time\".\n\nHer statement ended: \"While I will take a day or two to process this latest development, I intend to be back in Parliament soon where I will continue to represent my Glasgow Southside constituents to the very best of my ability.\"\n\nA police patrol at the home of Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell on Sunday - it is not known where the police questioning took place\n\nMs Sturgeon was succeeded as first minister and SNP leader in March by Humza Yousaf, who is now facing calls from opposition politicians and at least one of his own MPs - Angus MacNeil - to suspend her from the party.\n\nMr MacNeil tweeted: \"This soap-opera has gone far enough, Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less!\"\n\nScottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy also called on Mr Yousaf to \"show some leadership and suspend his predecessor from the SNP\", in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nMs Sturgeon had attended a pre-arranged police interview and was arrested and questioned after she arrived.\n\nIt follows the arrest of her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, on 5 April by officers who searched the couple's home in Glasgow as part of their Operation Branchform probe.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh were searched on the same day and a luxury motorhome valued at about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, the party's treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested.\n\nBoth men were released pending further investigations, with Mr Beattie resigning as treasurer a short time later.\n\nThe arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected as she was one of the three signatories on the SNP's accounts alongside Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nPolice Scotland officers carried out a search of the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh in April\n\nThe Branchform investigation began after complaints were made about what happened to £666,954 that was donated to the SNP by activists for a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nThe party's accounts later accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe SNP had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year, but still owes money to Mr Murrell - although it has not said how much.\n\nMs Sturgeon made a shock announcement on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her in March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has denied the timing was influenced by the ongoing police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.\n\nThree things immediately jump out from Nicola Sturgeon's statement.\n\nThe most obvious is her vehement denial of any wrongdoing, expressed in emphatic terms.\n\nAnother is her pledge to return to Holyrood in short order - something which will no doubt have the parliamentary press pack sharpening their pencils and doorstep questions.\n\nThe third highlight is something that isn't mentioned at all - the question of Ms Sturgeon's continued membership of the SNP, which some, including one of the party's own MPs, have been questioning.\n\nWhen her predecessor Alex Salmond was accused of sexual assault in 2018, he swiftly resigned from the party with a pledge to clear his name. He was subsequently cleared of charges, but never did return to the SNP, instead setting up his own Alba Party.\n\nMs Sturgeon may well prefer the approach of Colin Beattie, who quit as SNP treasurer but remained within the party after his own arrest and release.\n\nThere is a recent precedent there - but this will doubtless still spark questions to Humza Yousaf about how he intends to handle the latest developments.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City's Champions League success was \"written in the stars\", said manager Pep Guardiola after his side sealed the Treble in Istanbul.\n\nCity beat Inter Milan 1-0 to win a first Champions League title, adding to the Premier League and FA Cup trophies they had already clinched this season.\n\n\"I'm tired, calm and satisfied. It's so difficult to win,\" said Guardiola, who also won the Treble with Barcelona.\n\n\"It was written in the stars. It belongs to us.\"\n\nMidfielder Rodri's 68th-minute strike - just his second Champions League goal in 48 appearances - was enough to see off Inter Milan at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\n\"It's emotional. A dream come true. All these guys around here waited I don't know how many years,\" Rodri told BT Sport.\n\n\"They deserve it, we deserve it. The last years we were so close. I just want to thank everyone. It wasn't easy. What a team we faced, the way they defend and counter-attack.\n\n\"We gave everything. Finals are like this. You can't expect to play as well as always. Emotions and nerves are there. We competed like animals. It's a dream. This moment will never happen again.\"\n\nManchester City were appearing in their second Champions League final in three seasons, having lost to Chelsea in 2021.\n\nThey become just the second English men's team to win the Treble, following in the footsteps of city rivals Manchester United who achieved the feat in 1999.\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content\n\n'An honour to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson'\n\nGuardiola won the European Cup as a player for Barcelona in 1992 but said he did not realise what he had achieved until the day afterwards - and it will be a similar feeling after City's success.\n\n\"Our chairman said 'oh London is where next season's final of the Champions League is' and I won't tell you my answer to him,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"Now is time to celebrate. I am looking forward to Monday afternoon in Manchester on our coach and three trophies [as part of a victory parade].\"\n\nGuardiola joins United legend Sir Alex Ferguson as the only managers to win the Treble with an English side.\n\n\"It is an honour for me to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson. I got a message from him this morning and it is an honour,\" added Guardiola.\n\n\"People say I have to win trebles every season. I am a good manager, but no. I like this competition for the fact we won it, it is part of history and players will be remembered for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"But now give credit for the five Premier Leagues won in six years. It is important now that people don't forget what we have done. Maybe they can create a museum so the fans can look at the trophies.\"\n\nCity are still waiting for the result of the 115 Premier League financial charges against the club. They have denied financial wrongdoing and Guardiola said last month he wants the charges dealt with \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter their Champions League triumph the manager praised the influence of owner Sheikh Mansour, who was watching on in the stands in Istanbul.\n\n\"One of the main reasons why this club became where we are is people from Abu Dhabi - Sheikh Mansour taking over the club. Without that we wouldn't be here. They are the most important people,\" he said.\n\n\"They support me unconditionally in the defeats in this competition. In many clubs you are sacked so I give incredible credit to my hierarchy and to my CEO.\"\n\n'Guardiola is the best coach in the world'\n\nStriker Erling Haaland joined City last summer and netted 12 goals in this season's Champions League - the joint-most in one campaign for an English club alongside Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United in 2002-03.\n\nThe 22-year-old Norwegian also broke the Premier League record for most goals in a season with 36, scoring 52 times in all competitions.\n\n\"In my wildest dreams I would never think of this,\" Haaland told BT Sport.\n\n\"It shows it's possible for a guy from a small hometown in Norway. It gives hope to younger people in my hometown. It's unbelievable.\n\n\"After a couple of days when this settles a bit and this feeling of winning this trophy, I will want to do it again for sure. I know myself and I know this is how I will think.\n\n\"We have to defend what we have achieved this season. That's how it works. In a month everything is forgotten and we have to start again.\"\n\nHaaland said it was \"really special\" to work with Guardiola, who won two Champions League trophies with Barcelona before guiding City to their first.\n\n\"We have a good relationship and I look forward to next season to develop even more,\" he added. \"To be getting trained by him every single day, the best coach in the world, is a good place to be.\"\n\nMidfielder Kevin de Bruyne was consoled by Haaland when he was forced off with a hamstring injury in the first half, just two years after his appearance was cut short in the European final defeat by Chelsea.\n\n\"It has been a hard two months,\" said De Bruyne. \"I had a lot of problems with my hamstring and it snapped.\n\n\"The team was good enough though and we won. We have been working so long for this, it is amazing.\"\n\n'My dream is in your hands'\n\nGuardiola's biggest decision before the match was to leave England defender Kyle Walker out of the starting XI.\n\nWalker had started City's past seven matches, including the FA Cup final victory over Manchester United and both legs of the Champions League semi-final win over Real Madrid.\n\n\"I'm always going to be disappointed when I'm not playing but I'm 33. My example [is important for] the younger lads,\" Walker told BT Sport.\n\n\"I made a speech before they went out. I said 'my dream is in your hands, no pressure'. This club means so much to me. To experience what I've experienced, I'm forever in debt.\n\n\"I'm over the moon. I'm rarely speechless. My dream has come true, to achieve this with this club. To achieve a Treble is unbelievable.\n\n\"My mum and dad are in the stands. From where I come from in Sheffield it's not easy. I remember when my mum didn't have a pound for the ice cream van. To have this with them, I'm so thankful.\"\n\nEngland international Jack Grealish, who joined City from Aston Villa for a British record £100m in 2021, was in tears at full-time.\n\n\"This is what you work your whole life for. I'm so happy. I was awful [in the final] but I don't care. To win the Treble with this group of players is so special,\" Grealish told BT Sport.\n\n\"Everyone who knows me knows how much I love football and this is what I have worked for my whole life. Seeing my family in the crowd makes me so emotional.\n\n\"I just said to the manager 'I want to thank you'. He has put so much faith in me. He is a genius.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Chloe Mitchell had been missing since last weekend\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the discovery of suspected human remains during searches for a missing woman in Ballymena.\n\nChloe Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town between the night of 2 June and the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation has been taking place in an attempt to find the 21-year-old.\n\nOn Sunday night, Det Ch Insp Richard Millar said police now had reason to believe she was murdered.\n\n\"Our thoughts this evening are very much with Chloe's family and we have specialist officers providing them with support at this heart-breaking time,\" he said.\n\nHe added the remains had not yet been formally identified.\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 34, who were earlier arrested over her disappearance remain in police custody.\n\nThe 34-year-old was arrested in Ballymena on Saturday, while the 26-year-old was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, police were granted a further 36 hours to question the 26-year-old.\n\nForensic teams have been seen entering a house in James Street\n\nForensic teams were seen entering a house in James Street in Ballymena on Sunday evening.\n\nThe property had been sealed off by police for a number of days.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Mitchell's brother, Phillip Mitchell, said he was broken by her disappearance and appealed for information.\n\nAt that stage, police had described her as a \"high-risk missing person\".\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they were increasingly concerned for the young woman's safety and renewed their appeal for information.\n\nExtensive searches had been carried out to try to find Ms Mitchell.\n\nOn Sunday the Community Rescue Service (CRS) said it had completed all search areas as requested.\n\nIn a statement it added: \"The CRS would like to thank the people of Ballymena, those who live and work in the Harryville area and especially Chloe's family and friends for their exceptional support during our operations.\"\n\nThe MP for the area, Ian Paisley, said he was \"deeply saddened and disturbed\".\n\n\"This is heartbreaking news for Chloe's family and friends and will shadow the town of Ballymena with sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"The family have stated they are broken. No one can understand just how deep that break is.\"\n\nMr Paisley said he understood the police would hold a press conference on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City's long quest to win the Champions League finally ended in triumph against Inter Milan in Istanbul as Pep Guardiola's side completed the Treble.\n\nAfter winning the Premier League and FA Cup, City emulated Manchester United's triple trophy haul in 1999 as they became only the second English club to achieve the feat after Rodri's crisp 68th-minute strike settled an attritional final.\n\nGuardiola's all-conquering side were never at their best against a brilliantly organised Inter and had to cope with the loss of Kevin de Bruyne to injury in the first half.\n\nBut the massed ranks of City fans inside Ataturk Stadium did not care about that as they joyously celebrated the greatest night - and season - in the club's history.\n\nAnd for Guardiola, it seals his status as one of the managerial greats as he added a third Champions League to the two he won at Barcelona, the last coming in 2011.\n\nThis was never the walkover many predicted and City had to survive a few scares when Federico Dimarco's header bounced off the bar and Ederson made a stunning late save to deny Romelu Lukaku but ultimately this was all about the victory.\n\nNow Guardiola and his players can take their place in history.\n• None Have your say on Man City's performance here\n\nThe Champions League has brought suffering to City and Guardiola - especially when they lost to Premier League rivals Chelsea in the 2021 final - but all the pain disappeared just before midnight on a sultry night in Istanbul.\n\nCity survived late anxiety, especially when Inter substitute Lukaku headed straight at Ederson with the goal at his mercy, but there was an explosion of joy on the pitch and in the stands at Ataturk Stadium as they finally secured the giant trophy that has remained so elusively beyond their grasp for so long.\n\nGuardiola said, whether it was fair or not, that his time at Manchester City would be judged on whether he was able to bring the Champions League to the club. Now that judgement can be made.\n\nThe Catalan, who won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, will now be an iconic figure at City as well as Barcelona.\n• None 'Hysterical and hated at times' - but Guardiola is the greatest\n\nIt is a simple fact that many outside the Abu Dhabi-owned club will always view their triumph through the prism of the charges of 115 financial breaches brought against them by the Premier League, charges they fiercely deny.\n\nFor City's owners, with Sheikh Mansour attending only his second game since taking control in 2008, this was the night they have planned for and the one when they finally claimed that holy grail.\n\nThis was an evening when only the result mattered to City, not the manner in which their greatest victory was achieved.\n\nThis was not a win secured with the dazzling style and creation that is usually their hallmark. In fact for long periods it was a scrappy, sloppy performance in the face of a well-drilled Inter side who were right in this Champions League Final until the whistle went.\n\nNone of that will matter now. All that will be recalled forever about this game by City's fans was the moment when Rodri arrived on the end of build-up play from Manuel Akanji and Bernardo Silva to send that precise right-foot finish away from the reach of Inter's outstanding keeper Andre Onana.\n\nAnd of course the triumphant Champions League trophy lift.\n\nCity lived dangerously in the closing minutes and, when it was all over, Guardiola, so agitated in his technical area, was relatively calm as he sought out opposite number Simone Inzaghi for consoling words.\n\nJohn Stones was once again outstanding for City while keeper Ederson made key contributions when required.\n\nThe celebrations at the final whistle reflected a magnificent season as City finally got their hands on the Champions League trophy and prepared to parade it around the streets of Manchester along with the Premier League and FA Cup on Monday.\n• None Attempt saved. Robin Gosens (Inter Milan) header from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Federico Dimarco with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolò Barella (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Erling Haaland (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lautaro Martínez with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robin Gosens with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "An ally of Boris Johnson has resigned, triggering a third by-election for the Tories and creating deepening political problems for Rishi Sunak.\n\nNigel Adams did not say why he was leaving immediately but his decision follows that of Boris Johnson and, earlier on Friday, Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn a statement Mr Johnson lashed out at a Partygate report into whether he deliberately lied to Parliament, describing it as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nMr Adams, a Cabinet Office minister without portfolio under Mr Johnson's government, had previously announced he would not be standing at the next general election - but has now brought that decision forward.\n\nIn a tweet announcing he was going immediately, the MP for Selby and Ainsty said his local Conservative Association had selected a new parliamentary candidate on Friday.\n\nBy-elections sap energy, money and attention that the party would rather use to focus on governing and the general election.\n\nThe BBC has made dozens and dozens of phone calls and exchanged hundreds of WhatsApp messages since Boris Johnson made his shock resignation announcement on Friday evening.\n\nIt is clear there is deep - and wide - anger, if not surprise, at the way Mr Johnson and his allies have criticised the Commons Privileges Committee and the integrity of its members, who are duty bound to put party affiliation to one side, and not speak publicly about their report until it is published.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip late on Friday evening, Mr Johnson issued an eviscerating 1,000-word statement.\n\nThe committee was preparing to recommend a 10-day suspension for Mr Johnson from the Commons, the BBC has been told, which would have resulted in a recall petition among his constituents and a potential by-election.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\".\n\nHe described the committee as a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee is due to meet on Monday to finalise its conclusions and is expected to publish its findings shortly after - likely to be on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nAngela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, said the former prime minister had \"jumped\" and told BBC Radio 5 Live \"to me, he is a coward\".\n\nSir Chris Bryant, the Labour chairman of the Privileges Committee, said it was possible that Mr Johnson's statement could lead to further contempt of Parliament charges as the conclusion of the report is not supposed to be revealed before its publication and Mr Johnson had \"effectively leaked\" it.\n\nSir Chris, who had recused himself from the investigation into Mr Johnson told Radio 4's Today programme, the \"attacks on the committee are in effect an attack on the whole House\".\n\nBoris Johnson was fined for attending a birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in 2020\n\nHowever, former home secretary Priti Patel, who was made a Dame in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list, also announced on Friday, praised the former prime minister, describing him as a \"political titan\".\n\nSir Michael Fabricant - another sitting MP announced in the resignation honours list - criticised the Privileges Committee for what he described as its \"disgraceful treatment\" of the former prime minister.\n\nThere has been no statement as yet from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or any members of the Privileges Committee.\n\nThe BBC has tried to speak to all of those involved, but none would speak on the record.\n\nBut privately, Conservatives are all talking about it, trying to work out what might happen next.\n\nLoads have told the BBC they are just totally fed up with the pantomime.\n\nThere is deep frustration there will now be three by-elections that the party could really do without.\n\nThe surprise exit of Boris Johnson followed that of Nadine Dorries, who announced she was standing down as MP of Mid Bedfordshire shortly before.\n\nThe Conservatives have a current working majority of 64 (before the resignations of Mr Johnson and Ms Dorries).\n\nThis is less than the 80-seat majority held by the Conservatives when Mr Johnson led the Tories to a landslide general election in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, Bill Cash, Conservative MP for Stone in Staffordshire, announced on Saturday evening that he would not be standing at the next general election. He was first elected in 1984.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir John Redwood said Rishi Sunak must make a statement \"urgently reassuring those who were very strong Boris fans and strong Liz [Truss] fans that his party is for all Conservatives.\"\n\nHe told the BBC News channel the party will need \"a bit of Boris magic\" in their offer to voters.\n\nBut Tory grandee Chris Patten said he hoped Mr Johnson's resignation \"is the end of a rather miserable period in British politics and a miserable period for the Conservative Party.\"\n\nLord Patten, who was party chairman under John Major, rejected claims the Privileges Committee's report was \"anti-democratic\".\n\n\"Of course it's not,\" he told the BBC. \"What he means is it's criticised him... he should stop whining about it and get on with what he's plainly going to do best, which is going around making dishevelled speeches and making lots of money from them.\"\n\nA former adviser to Mr Johnson said his decision to quit as an MP ahead of publication of the Partygate report did not mean it was the end of his political career.\n\nWill Walden, who was chief media adviser to the former prime minister when he was foreign secretary, said Mr Johnson \"had seen the writing on the wall\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Walden said he would not have wanted to fight a by-election he was almost certain to lose.\n\n\"There is only one thing driving Boris and that is that he likes to win, or at least not to lose\".\n\nHe added: \"So, by going as he has, all guns blazing, he is able to avoid defeat, he is able to blame pretty much everyone else including it seems anyone that voted Remain in 2016.\"\n\nAsked whether this was the end for Mr Johnson, he said: \"I don't think it's the end. I don't know where we are on the panoply of beginning, middle and end, but this is typical Boris.\"\n\nIt is worth reflecting on what people mean by \"the end\".\n\nIt may well be the end of the road for him in Parliament - although that is not for certain - but it is certainly not the end of the road for him in terms of his influence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf has said the SNP could make life \"very difficult\" for Labour in a hung parliament.\n\nHumza Yousaf has said the SNP could make life \"very difficult\" for Labour in a hung parliament if it refused to give Scotland the power to call a referendum.\n\nScotland's first minister reiterated devolving this power would be the price for SNP support on Labour's agenda.\n\nHowever he said it was \"obvious\" that independence was not the \"consistent settled will of the Scottish people\".\n\nLabour have repeatedly said they would not do a referendum deal with the SNP.\n\nUK leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a snap general election following Boris Johnson's shock resignation as an MP.\n\nLast month senior figures in the SNP said they could hold the balance of power in the next parliament - the most explicit statement yet of their strategy ahead of the next general election.\n\nThey told the BBC they would make the demand for a referendum a central part of their general election campaign.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Yousaf said having an independence referendum would be \"top of the list\" if Labour wanted SNP cooperation.\n\nHe said: \"We would never prop up a Conservative government, ever. And underline that and put that in bold. But of course if Labour do not want to cooperate with us then we would make life very difficult for them.\"\n\nAsked what he meant by this, Mr Yousaf pointed to budgets and the \"legislative process\".\n\n\"There were some tricky times when we were a minority government,\" he said. \"What you want is a government, particularly if you're coming in fresh as a new government, you want stability.\n\n\"You want to be able to get your budget through, you want to be able to get your legislative agenda through, you don't want frustrated at every single corner and every single turn.\"\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Mr Yousaf's comments were an admission that he would \"usher in a Tory government\".\n\nShe said: \"That threat is a betrayal to the people of Scotland, who are dealing with soaring living costs and falling wages.\"\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said Mr Yousaf appeared confident he could \"hold a minority Labour government to ransom\" - and that Keir Starmer would \"cave to demands\" for an independence vote.\n\nMr Yousaf was sworn in as first minister in March after he defeated rivals Kate Forbes and Ash Regan in a leadership contest that exposed deep divisions within the party.\n\nThe 37-year-old became the first Muslim to lead a major UK party.\n\nHe was widely assumed to be Nicola Sturgeon's preferred successor, although she did not explicitly back any of the candidates in the contest.\n\nMs Sturgeon wanted to use the next general election in Scotland as a de facto referendum, though this would have no effect in law.\n\nBut in a rethink of strategy, Mr Yousaf has said he wanted to focus on making the case for independence because he knows pushing for a vote immediately will be rejected.\n\nIn opinion polls, support for Scottish independence consistently sits in the mid to high forties.\n\nHe said: \"We're there or thereabouts in relation to support for independence. I don't want to be there or thereabouts, I want to make sure that independence is a consistent settled will.\n\n\"So at the moment for example it's pretty obvious that independence is not the consistent settled will of the Scottish people.\"\n\nMr Yousaf later added that support for independence is \"still rock solid\".\n\nHe said: \"I've got no doubt at all, that I will be the leader that will ensure that Scotland becomes an independent nation.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf's interview comes as the SNP prepares for a special convention to discuss the way towards independence.\n\nHis comments will be looked at closely by both supporters and opponents.\n\nIn many respects, he merely restated his position.\n\nHis preferred option would be a referendum. He did not describe the next general election as a \"defacto referendum\" but believes each vote for the SNP demonstrates support for independence.\n\nHe hopes the right to hold a referendum could be extracted from Labour if it is the biggest party in a hung parliament.\n\nBut Labour is clear this will not happen: It believes any deal with the SNP could harm its recovery in England and fears it could drive away Scots who do not support another referendum.\n\nIt was, perhaps, surprising to hear Mr Yousaf explicitly say that independence is \"not the consistent settled will of the Scottish people\".\n\nThis may seem like a simple statement of fact given recent polling. But they are not words you would expect to hear from a first minister committed to independence as they could be seized on by opponents.\n\nOf course, Mr Yousaf wants that to change and wants support for independence to increase.\n\nHe also confirmed that there needs to be a consistent majority for independence before a referendum should be held.\n\nSo is the first minister making a distinction between wanting Holyrood to have the right to hold a referendum and actually holding one?\n\nClearly the consequences of losing a second referendum are something Mr Yousaf is well aware of and he may be playing the longer and more subtle game. He only wants a vote to take place if it will secure independence.\n\nBut will more impatient supporters of independence be content?\n\nMr Yousaf's early days as first minister have proved to be challenging, with the arrest and release of the SNP's chief executive - and Nicola Sturgeon's husband - Peter Murrell over a police investigation into the party's finances.\n\nThere is also a looming legal row over Scotland's gender reform legislation and a row with the UK government over Scotland's deposit return scheme.\n\nThe DRS was last week postponed until October 2025 when, despite an ultimatum from the first minister, the UK government excluded glass from the Scottish scheme.\n\nMr Yousaf has already warned that devolution is \"becoming unworkable\" and criticised the \"interfering\" Conservative government at Westminster.\n\nIt comes after the Scottish government's independence minister Jamie Hepburn told the Daily Record that the SNP should consider a \"multi-option referendum\", including a devo-max option.", "People want to move on from the \"drama\" of Boris Johnson, Grant Shapps has said, dismissing the ex-PM's claim that he was the victim of a witch hunt.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as an MP, saying he had been forced out by a \"kangaroo court\" of MPs investigating Partygate.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Shapps said it was Mr Johnson's \"own decision\" to stand down.\n\nThe energy secretary denied reports Rishi Sunak's team prevented Mr Johnson handing out honours to key allies.\n\nMr Johnson dramatically stood down from Parliament, just hours after Downing Street published his resignation honours list without the names of key allies including Nadine Dorries, Sir Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams.\n\nAll three had been expecting to be appointed to the House of Lords, the BBC has been told.\n\nCompeting claims about how and why the names were removed are now at the heart of a rift within the Tory party following the former PM's resignation.\n\nA source familiar with the process has told the BBC that Mr Sunak's political team removed some of Mr Johnson's suggestions months ago.\n\nAsked if rumours were true that Mr Sunak's team had removed the names, Mr Shapps said: \"No.\"\n\n\"The prime minster has exactly followed the very longstanding conventions\" over honours, Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) - the official body for checking and vetting new peers - has confirmed it rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations on the grounds of propriety.\n\nPressed on whether Mr Sunak's team had taken names off the list months before the nominations were sent to HOLAC, Mr Shapps said: \"As far as I'm aware that is not true.\"\n\nThe spat might look grubby from the outside - but some of Mr Johnson's allies have no desire to let this lie.\n\nWithin 24-hours of the list being published both Ms Dorries and Mr Adams resigned as MPs - triggering by-elections in their constituencies, both of which are considered safe seats for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation also triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nThis hat-trick of by-elections have the potential to create major problems for Mr Sunak at a time when the Conservatives are trailing Labour by an average of 15 points in national polls.\n\nPressed on whether Mr Johnson had been the victim of a witch hunt, Mr Shapps said: \"I don't think that's true.\"\n\n\"Boris himself has decided to step down - that is his own decision.\"\n\n\"People don't miss the drama\" of Mr Johnson's time in office, Mr Shapps added.\n\nMr Johnson announced he was leaving parliament a day after seeing advance a report of the findings of the Commons Privileges Committee investigating into whether he misled the Commons over Partygate.\n\nIn an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nIn a written statement, Mr Johnson said the draft report from the committee was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\".\n\nHe said the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's comments, Mr Shapps said: \"I haven't seen what they've written, but I have no particular reason to think that is the case.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the fallout from Mr Johnson's resignation shows \"there should be a general election\".\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Lammy said: \"We have a former prime minister crafting a letter undermining the sitting prime minister.\n\n\"And we've got three by-elections brought about, not in the usual way because an MP has passed away, or there has been wrongdoing, but simply because these MPs want to put pressure on the current government.\n\n\"I don't say this with any glee, I say it because I genuinely believe, in the interests of this country, we need certainty.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic says it is not down to him to decide if he is the greatest player of all time after he won a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic won the French Open on Sunday, moving him one clear of Rafael Nadal in terms of men's majors.\n\nHe is level with Serena Williams on 23 and could equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I don't want to enter in these discussions. I'm writing my own history,\" Djokovic, 36, said.\n\n\"I don't want to say I am the greatest. I leave those discussions to someone else.\"\n\nIn the past several years Djokovic has been locked in an engaging battle with Nadal and Roger Federer, who retired last year with 20 major titles, to finish with the most men's Grand Slams.\n\nBy beating Norway's Casper Ruud at Roland Garros, Djokovic has moved clear of his long-time rivals for the first time.\n\nOn this evidence Djokovic looks a good bet to extend the gap further, especially with the injured Nadal planning to retire in 2024 and 41-year-old Federer already retired.\n\n\"It's amazing to know that I'm ahead of both of them in Grand Slams, but at the same time everyone writes their own history,\" said Djokovic, who also regained the world number one ranking in Paris.\n\n\"I feel like each great champion of his own generation has left a huge mark and a legacy.\n\n\"I have huge faith, confidence and belief in myself and everything that I am, who I am and what I am capable of doing.\n\n\"This trophy is another confirmation of the quality of tennis that I'm still able to produce.\"\n\nHow many more Slams can Djokovic win?\n\nDjokovic will attempt to tie Court's record at Wimbledon - a place where he has already won seven times and will be the favourite to equal Federer's record tally of men's titles.\n\n\"Grand Slams are the biggest priorities on the checklist, not just this season but any season, especially at this stage of my career,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"The journey is still not over. If I'm winning Slams, why even think about ending the career that already has been going for 20 years?\n\n\"I still feel motivated and inspired to play the best tennis in these tournaments.\n\n\"These are the ones that count the most in the history of our sport.\"\n\nDjokovic has cut back his schedule at tour level in recent years in a bid to peak at the right time for the four majors.\n\nThat strategy is clearly working, with Djokovic now having won six of the past eight majors he has played.\n\n\"He has this software in his head that he can switch when a Grand Slam comes,\" Goran Ivanisevic, Djokovic's long-time coach, said.\n\n\"The day we arrived here [in Paris], he was better, he was more motivated, he was more hungry.\n\n\"It's fascinating to see, because sometimes you think 'OK, now you have 23'.\n\n\"But he's going to find some kind of motivation to win 24, maybe 25 - who knows where is the end?\"\n\nDoes he still have the physical strength to win more?\n\nDjokovic came into Roland Garros without a great deal of preparation having been hampered by an elbow injury in the European clay-court swing.\n\nAfter needing treatment in his third-round win over Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Djokovic said he had a list of injuries \"too long to name\" and added the only way to deal with physical issues was to \"accept it\".\n\n\"I don't like to think about age and, it sounds like a cliché, but I really feel age is just a number in my case,\" said Djokovic, who surpassed 2022 winner Nadal as the oldest Roland Garros men's singles champion.\n\n\"My body is responding differently. I have to deal with more things physically than I have had maybe in the past.\n\n\"Maybe five to 10 years ago I was recovering much quicker or just didn't feel as much pain in the body.\"\n\nIvanisevic said he was never worried about Djokovic's condition and believes he still has \"a lot more\" in his body to win majors.\n\n\"He's keeping his body great - there's little ones [injuries] here and there but not major,\" said the Croat, who won Wimbledon in 2001.\n\n\"He's unbelievable and he's still moving like a cat on the court. He's there like a ninja, he's everywhere.\"\n\n'No sign his powers are on the wane' - analysis\n\nDjokovic's daughter Tara completed a few laps of honour on Court Philippe Chatrier on behalf of her father, as he conducted some final television interviews.\n\nAt 36, Djokovic is the oldest male champion in Roland Garros history, but he does not sound, look or play like it - even if he admits the aches and pains are gradually increasing.\n\nRoger Federer had two Wimbledon championship points against Djokovic a month shy of his 38th birthday, so the Serb knows exactly what might still be possible as he begins a 388th week as the world number one.\n\nHe could lose top spot over the grass court season, but it's likely to be just temporary. Having skipped last year's US Open - and all its preceding events - Djokovic has no ranking points to defend until October.\n\nHe has won the last three Grand Slams he has contested, and even in his 37th year, there is no sign his powers are on the wane.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One Daviot resident filmed the wildfire as it reached his garden.\n\nFirefighters are battling a wildfire that broke out in the Highlands for a second day.\n\nThe flames burned through the night after taking hold near the village of Daviot, south of Inverness, at about 14:45 on Saturday.\n\nSome homes and businesses close to the fire area have been without power since Saturday as a result.\n\nThe fire service said helicopter water bombing was still in operation on Sunday afternoon.\n\nHowever it said crews were also dampening down hot spots.\n\nPeople have been urged to stay indoors and close all windows to prevent smoke inhalation.\n\nCrews are still battling a wildfire which took hold near Daviot in the Highlands\n\nThe blaze is about 30 miles (48km) from Cannich - the site of another recent wildfire, thought be the largest recorded in the UK.\n\nLocals in Daviot have praised crews who protected properties from the flames.\n\nOne resident, whose back garden was feet away from the blaze, told BBC Scotland that he chose to take his family away from the area for the night.\n\nHe said the power was still out on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Thankfully it has started to rain now. The fire fighters were brilliant, if they had been five minutes later I think it could have been a different story,\" he said.\n\nPower was also out at the nearby Auchnahillin Holiday Park on Sunday, where owner Anita Gibson had been monitoring the situation and taking advice from the fire service overnight.\n\nAnita Gibson from Auchnahillin Holiday Park praised the emergency services for their efforts\n\n\"We are so close, just underneath the hill, so the flames were not so visible for us but there was a lot of smoke.\n\n\"The helicopter was going overhead and dropping water up until about 23:00 so it was fairly noisy. I moved some of our tent campers into caravans for the night as I was worried about the smoke.\"\n\nShe said the fire seemed like it was under control on her side of the hill but was still burning into the moors.\n\nShe added: \"The power is still off but there was no damage to property and we were glad to see a bit of rain this morning.\n\n\"We know wildfires do occur but it's not something we thought would happen on our doorstep. We are very grateful to the emergency services.\"\n\nA spokesman for SSE told the BBC around 12 homes were cut off.\n\nHe said: \"Following discussion with the SFRS, we were asked to isolate power supplies in the immediate area yesterday evening.\n\n\"We now await instruction to reconnect supplies when it is safe to do so and would like to thank customers for their patience.\"\n\nSFRS had extended an alert for a \"very high\" risk of wildfire until Monday.\n\nSaturday was the hottest day of the year for Scotland, after 29.8°C was recorded in Auchincruive, Ayrshire.\n\nDuncan Macpherson, a Highland councillor for Inverness South, said firefighters were facing an \"almighty challenge\" on Saturday night.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The wildfire at Daviot south of Inverness stretches over a mile long between Craggie and Moy and presents an almighty challenge for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to try and contain as the wind blows the flames further across the landscape.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crews were sent to tackle the flames at Daviot on the hottest day of the year\n\nScientist Dr Gail Millin-Chalabi told BBC One's The Sunday Show wildfires have become more common in recent years.\n\n\"One of the things to bear in mind is we are seeing hotter, drier, longer summers in the UK and this was predicted back in 2013 when wildfire was first identified as a risk in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"We are seeing larger, more severe wildfires here. We had the largest number of burnt areas of 30 hectares or larger in 2022, with 151 in total for the wildfire season.\"\n\nShe also said that most of the UK's wildfires were caused by accidental or deliberate ignition.\n\n\"We have evidence of that. And there is definitely a requirement to increase awareness of wildfire risk in peatland, moorland and heathlands.\"\n\nMeanwhile thunderstorms are expected to sweep across much of the Highlands and west coast on Sunday.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow alert lasting between 12:00 and 21:00 BST.\n\nForecasters said conditions would include lightning strikes, strong winds and \"torrential\" rain in some parts.", "The bodies of Josh Bashford, 33, and Chloe Bashford, 30, were found by police at a house in Newhaven\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a married couple in East Sussex, police have confirmed.\n\nThe bodies of Josh Bashford, 33, and Chloe Bashford, 30, were found by police at a house in Lewes Road, Newhaven, on Friday night.\n\nDerek Martin, 64, also known as Derek Glenn, of Moulsecoomb Way, Brighton, has been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nHe is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPolice said the two victims were discovered in a property in Lewes Road\n\nDet Ch Insp Kimball Edey, of the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, said: \"Our thoughts remain with the families of the two victims at this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"While our work to establish the exact circumstances of what happened are ongoing, we are not seeking anyone else in connection with the matter.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the public for their understanding and remind them not to speculate or comment on anything which could jeopardise our investigation in the meantime.\"\n\nThe victims' next of kin have been informed and are being supported by police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place next week.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crews were sent to tackle the flames on the hottest day of the year for Scotland\n\nFirefighters are tackling a wildfire which broke out south of Inverness.\n\nCrews and six fire engines were sent to the Daviot area, near the Auchnahillin Holiday Park, at about 14:45 on Saturday.\n\nThe blaze is about 30 miles (48km) from Cannich - the site of another recent wildfire, thought to be the largest recorded in the UK.\n\nIt comes on the hottest day of the year for Scotland, after 29.8°C was recorded in Auchincruive, Ayrshire.\n\nThe SFRS had warned of a \"very high\" risk of wildfire this weekend.\n\nA spokesperson told BBC Scotland that information about the latest blaze was limited as the incident was ongoing.\n\nSix fire appliances were at the scene on Saturday evening\n\nLocal residents have been advised to keep windows and doors closed due to smoke.\n\nAnita Gibson is the owner of the nearby Auchnahillin Holiday Park.\n\n\"There's a fire up on the hill across the road,\" she said. \"We've been told we don't have to evacuate or anything. But the fire in Cannich was on our minds.\n\n\"We are just waiting to hear if we have to do anything, but we are not panicking yet.\"\n\nSmoke from the blaze has affected the area stretching for several miles.\n\nSmoke from the hill fire could be seen from all around the area\n\nA spokesperson for the Meallmore care home in Inverness - about seven miles (11km) from the caravan park - said they had not been evacuated, but were \"monitoring the situation closely and following advice\".\n\nThe SFRS alert for wildfire risk covers most of Scotland. Parts of the Highlands, Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders were expected to reach \"extreme\" risk.\n\nThe blaze at Cannich burned for two weeks, causing extensive damage to an RSPB Scotland nature reserve.\n\nPolice Scotland said: \"Emergency services are currently in attendance at a wildfire in the Daviot area south of Inverness.\n\n\"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are currently dealing with the fire and we would ask local residents to keep windows and doors closed due to smoke.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic showed his greatness once again by overcoming a sticky start to win a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title with victory over Norway's Casper Ruud in the French Open final.\n\nDjokovic, 36, was far from his best in the initial stages but his quality in a first-set tie-break laid the platform for a 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 7-5 victory.\n\nThe Serb moves into the outright lead of men's majors ahead of Rafael Nadal.\n\nHe also becomes the first man to win all four majors at least three times.\n\nVictory on the Paris clay moves Djokovic alongside Serena Williams in terms of Grand Slam titles, with only Margaret Court standing in front of him with 24 majors.\n\n\"I'm beyond fortunate to win 23 Grand Slams in my life, it is incredible,\" said Djokovic, who also won the French Open in 2016 and 2021.\n\n\"I was a seven-year-old dreaming I could win Wimbledon one day and become number one in the world. I'm beyond grateful and and blessed to be standing here.\n\n\"I feel I had the power to create my own destiny. I want to say to every young person if you want a better future, you can create it.\"\n\nMinutes after Djokovic won, Nadal paid tribute to his long-time rival.\n\n\"Many congratulations on this amazing achievement, 23 is a number that just a few years back was impossible to think about and you made it,\" the Spaniard wrote.\n• None I don't want to say I'm the greatest - Djokovic\n\nDjokovic will have the opportunity to tie Court's record at Wimbledon next month - a place where he has already won seven times and will be the favourite to equal Roger Federer's record tally of men's titles.\n\nDjokovic instantly fell flat on his back in celebration as Ruud pulled a forehand wide on the second championship point.\n\nAfter a commiserating hug with his opponent, Djokovic ran up to his support box where he celebrated with coach Goran Ivanisevic, wife Jelena, his two children, parents Dijana and Srdjan and NFL superstar Tom Brady.\n\nThe victory will also see Djokovic return to the top of the world rankings.\n\nFourth seed Ruud, who has lost all three of his major finals, congratulated Djokovic on \"another day, another record\".\n\nAddressing his opponent, he added: \"It is another day where you rewrite tennis history. It is tough to explain how great you are and what an inspiration you are.\"\n\nDjokovic delivers on his date with destiny\n\nHaving made no secret of his ambition to win more major titles than fellow greats Nadal and Federer, this was Djokovic's date with destiny.\n\nHe pulled level with the pair on 20 triumphs at Wimbledon in 2021, but fell behind Nadal after missing the 2022 Australian Open following a row over his Covid-19 vaccination status that led to him being deported.\n\nNadal extended the advantage when he won last year's French Open but Djokovic has surged ahead after winning three of the past four Grand Slams.\n\nEven before 14-time French Open champion Nadal pulled out of this year's tournament with injury, Djokovic was considered by many as the favourite, even though his own build-up had been hampered by physical problems.\n\nSpanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz was the other main contender, but Djokovic beat him in the semi-finals after the 20-year-old suffered body cramps caused by the tension of facing one of the all-time greats.\n\nIt was Djokovic who looked more nervous in the early part of Sunday's final against 24-year-old Ruud.\n\nTight and tense, the third seed made a number of unforced errors as Ruud pushed him deep in the court and trailed 4-2 in the first set.\n\nBut Djokovic grew in stature as a long opening set wore on.\n\nWith a star-studded crowd including French footballer Kylian Mbappe and British actor Hugh Grant watching on, Djokovic used all of his vast experience to dominate the tie-break as Ruud wilted - and from that point on it felt there was only likely to be one outcome.\n\nAfter Djokovic used his momentum to win a comparatively quick 48-minute second set, the third remained delicately poised until the Serb cranked up the pressure at another crucial juncture.\n\nAt 5-5, a blistering backhand winner instantly put Ruud on the back foot, with the Norwegian making an error before two more superb winners from the Serb set him up to serve for the title.\n\nDjokovic raced into a 40-0 lead and, while pulling a forehand wide on the first championship point was slightly anti-climatic, he secured more history at the next time of asking.\n\n'Close but no cigar' for Ruud\n\nRuud was aiming for his first major at the third attempt, following a chastening defeat by Nadal at Roland Garros and a four-set loss to Alcaraz in New York last year.\n\nThe world number four said reaching a second successive French Open final was important to show he was \"not a one-time case\".\n\n\"Probably that is going to plant some respect in my opponents' eyes and hopefully I can build on that,\" the Norwegian said.\n\n\"That [a Slam title] is my biggest goal, my biggest dream in my career and my life.\n\n\"It's been close but no cigar, so I'm going to keep working and try to get it one day.\"\n\n'Nobody looks like stopping him' - reaction\n\nSpain's Carlos Alcaraz, who Djokovic has replaced as world number one, on Twitter: \"Many congrats for the trophy and for the new record!\"\n\nAmerican 12-time major singles champion Billie Jean King on Twitter: \"Congratulations to Novak on winning the Roland Garros men's singles title for the third time. He now has a record 23 Grand Slam tournament singles titles.\"\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He's just won the first two majors of the year. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on for the calendar Slam this year. Wimbledon is usually the easiest one for him to win.\n\n\"His health is still there, his mindset, his drive. It is incredible what this man has achieved.\n\n\"There is nothing and nobody out there who looks like they are going to stop him at the moment.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Mr Murrell has been married to Nicola Sturgeon since 2010\n\nThe husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with an investigation into Scottish National Party finances.\n\nPeter Murrell, 58, is being questioned after being taken into police custody on Wednesday morning.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were carrying out searches at a number of addresses as part of the investigation.\n\nMr Murrell resigned as the party's chief executive last month, a post he had held since 1999.\n\nHe has been married to Ms Sturgeon since 2010.\n\nA spokesperson for the former first minister said she had \"no prior knowledge\" of Police Scotland's action or intentions.\n\nThey added: \"Ms Sturgeon will fully cooperate with Police Scotland if required, however at this time no such request has been made.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers from Police Scotland have left the head quarters of the Scottish National Party with boxes\n\nMs Sturgeon stood down as first minister last month and was last week succeeded by Humza Yousaf.\n\nThe new first minister said it was \"a difficult day\" for the SNP.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"I obviously can't comment on a live police investigation.\n\n\"But what I will say is that the SNP has fully cooperated with the investigation and it will continue to do so.\"\n\nHe added that the party had agreed to carry out a review on governance and transparency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police activity has been seen outside Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon's home in Glasgow.\n\nThere has been police activity at Mr Murrell and Ms Sturgeon's home in Glasgow and at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice Scotland said Ms Sturgeon was at the house when officers arrived at 07:35 to arrest her husband.\n\nBy 10:00 there were 10 uniformed officers stationed outside the couple's detached property, along with three police vehicles.\n\nThe house was sealed off with blue and white tape, while a tent was erected on the driveway. Items were brought from the house to the tent, where the BBC understands a vehicle was parked.\n\nPolice officers could be seen searching a small shed and storage box in the back garden, a police photographer took pictures and officers looked at a laptop.\n\nThe curtains and blinds remained drawn and there was no sign of anyone in the property.\n\nMeanwhile, at least six marked police vehicles were parked outside SNP HQ and officers carrying green crates and other equipment were seen going inside.\n\nIn the afternoon, two vans left the city centre building, while police officers remained stationed outside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf: \"This is a difficult day for the party.\"\n\nIn July 2021 Police Scotland launched a formal investigation into the SNP's finances after receiving complaints about how donations were used.\n\nQuestions had been raised about funds given to the party for use in a fresh independence referendum campaign.\n\nSeven people made complaints and a probe was set up following talks with prosecutors.\n\nMs Sturgeon, then first minister and SNP leader, had insisted that she was \"not concerned\" about the party's finances.\n\nShe said \"every penny\" of cash raised in online crowdfunding campaigns would be spent on the independence drive.\n\nNicola Sturgeon gave multiple reasons for her resignation - but the police investigation into her party's finances was not one of them.\n\nWhen I asked her about it on the day she stood down she declined to comment, but would later insist it had not been a factor.\n\nI still wonder if it may have influenced the timing of her departure because her husband's arrest would be much more awkward for her if she was still in office as SNP leader and first minister.\n\nPolice inquiries have been under way for about 18 months and were triggered when questions were raised about how more than £600,000 raised for independence campaigning had been spent, when there had not been an independence referendum for it to be spent on.\n\nThe SNP has previously said that it always intended to spend an equivalent sum in that way.\n\nSome weeks ago, the investigation reached a crucial stage when officers consulted the Crown Office on how to proceed. It is now much clearer what direction they received from those who oversee criminal investigations in Scotland.\n\nAccording to a statement, the SNP raised a total of £666,953 through referendum-related appeals between 2017 and 2020. The party pledged to spend these funds on the independence campaign.\n\nQuestions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe then SNP's chief executive loaned the party £107,620 in June 2021. The SNP had repaid about half of the money by October of that year.\n\nAt the time an SNP spokesman said the loan was a \"personal contribution made by the chief executive to assist with cash flow after the Holyrood election\".\n\nHe said it had been reported in the party's 2021 accounts, which were published by the Electoral Commission in August last year.\n\nWeeks earlier, MP Douglas Chapman had resigned as party treasurer saying he had not been given the \"financial information\" to do the job.\n\nMr Murrell resigned last month after taking responsibility for misleading statements about a fall in party membership.\n\nThe number of members had fallen from the 104,000 it had two years ago to just over 72,000.\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said: \"Clearly it would not be appropriate to comment on any live police investigation but the SNP have been cooperating fully with this investigation and will continue to do so.\n\n\"At its meeting on Saturday, the governing body of the SNP, the NEC, agreed to a review of governance and transparency - that will be taken forward in the coming weeks.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar told BBC Scotland it was \"an extremely serious situation\" and that the police investigation must be allowed to proceed without interference.\n\nHe added: \"But there are huge questions I think to answer for both Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon about what they knew and when.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"This is clearly a very serious case and it's absolutely crucial now that those at the top of the SNP, including Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon, co-operate fully with this ongoing police investigation.\"\n\nAlba leader Alex Salmond, who preceded Ms Sturgeon as first minister and SNP leader, told BBC Scotland: \"I led the SNP for a long time. I'm very sad about what's happening to it and indeed about what it has become.\"\n\nThe scene on the outskirts of Glasgow is surreal. A quiet residential area with a very famous resident is witnessing a major police investigation.\n\nSwitch on the news most nights and you'll see images of houses being searched by police, tents in front gardens, fluttering blue and white tape.\n\nBut this happening at the home of the power couple at the centre of an election winning machine - the woman who was Scotland's longest serving first minister and her husband, the man who ran the SNP for nearly 24 years.\n\nIt's very hard to get your head around that.\n\nIn the steady drizzle, news crews are waiting for something to happen.\n\nAn ice cream van can be heard in the distance. People walking bedraggled dogs pass the scene of a huge news story. A woman pushing a pram films it all with her mobile phone.\n\nIt is a mind-boggling sight and who knows where it's going to lead.", "Former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary constituency.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg told the Mail on Sunday that to do so could plunge the party \"into civil war\".\n\nMr Johnson resigned as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip on Friday over the investigation into Partygate.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg was knighted in his resignation honours earlier that day.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said all potential constituency candidates, former MPs or otherwise, went through the same process.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had \"failed to end\" what he called \"the Tory chaos\", and called for a snap election.\n\nMr Johnson stepped down as an MP after he saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating whether he deliberately misled the Commons over lockdown breaches in Downing Street.\n\nIn an explosive 1,000-word statement on Friday evening, Mr Johnson said: \"I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear - much to my amazement - that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.\"\n\nHe argued the draft was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", calling the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee will not confirm the sanction recommended until it publishes its report into Mr Johnson, likely this week.\n\nBut two sources have told the BBC that the sanction the committee recommended in the documents sent to Mr Johnson was a suspension from the Commons lasting more than 10 days.\n\nThe 10-day period is significant because if the House of Commons approves the suspension of an MP for 10 sitting days or more, that MP then faces a recall petition in their constituency, which can lead to a by-election.\n\nMr Johnson also suggested Mr Sunak was not running a \"proper Conservative\" government\n\nIn his resignation letter, the former prime minister left open the possibility of a return, saying he was \"very sad to be leaving Parliament\" before adding - \"at least for now\".\n\nHours earlier, one of his biggest allies, former Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries, unexpectedly stepped down from her Mid Bedfordshire seat.\n\nAnd on Saturday, another supporter Nigel Adams resigned, triggering a third by-election for the Tories.\n\nSpeculation about Mr Johnson's future in politics has subsequently included the suggestion he could stand in another seat, although there is no indication this is likely.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Rees-Mogg said Mr Johnson could \"easily get back into Parliament at the next election\" - and he was \"in pole position to return as Conservative leader if a vacancy should arise\".\n\nBut the former business secretary went on: \"I would most strongly warn Conservative Party managers against any attempt to block Boris if he seeks the party nomination in another seat.\n\n\"Any attempt to do so would shatter our fragile party unity and plunge the Conservatives into civil war.\"\n\nIn contrast, former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine has said Mr Johnson should not be allowed to run to be a Tory MP again.\n\nWriting in the Observer, he says: \"To me it is inconceivable that in these circumstances he could stand as a Conservative member of parliament again.\"\n\nAddressing the former PM's resignation letter, Mr Heseltine writes: \"Words are designed to make his audience believe whatever they want to believe. There is no anchor to any discernible truth or sense of integrity.\"\n\nHe adds that Mr Johnson will leave Parliament and \"have little to do with the reality of the mess he left behind\".\n\nElsewhere in the Sunday Mirror, Sir Keir accused Mr Sunak of failing to stand up to Mr Johnson and agreeing \"to hand gongs to a cast list of cronies\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure,\" he added.\n\nA government source rejected that and said Mr Sunak was focussed on delivering \"what the British people want.\"", "Elyse Waddy said energy bills were \"quick to go up and very slow to come down\"\n\nHotel bosses have accused energy firms of failing to pass on lower prices, warning businesses could be at risk.\n\nHotel boss Glenn Evans from Betws-y-Coed, Conwy county, pays 90p a unit on his 12-month contract although prices have fallen to 30p a unit.\n\nHotel owner Elyse Waddy, in Llandudno, faces paying £200,000 more when her three-year fixed tariff ends in July.\n\nThe industry body said energy was bought in advance and changes took time to reach customers.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said it had written to suppliers to ask them to \"show flexibility\" with businesses locked into fixed-price contracts signed when prices were at their peak last year.\n\nMr Evans, operations director at the Royal Oak Hotel, said the fixed price electricity tariffs offered in October were a \"shock to the system\".\n\nBill increases were about 400%, but the out-of-contract rate was even higher, so Mr Evans felt he had to sign up for 12 months as the six-month contracts had \"disappeared\".\n\nMr Evans wants UK ministers to order energy suppliers to allow firms locked into fixed peak tariffs from last year to renegotiate their contracts.\n\nHe added: \"We're looking for the government to recognise that there was a dysfunctional market, and that between them and Ofgem, they allow us access to today's prices.\"\n\nIn April, the UK government scaled back its energy support for businesses.\n\nMr Evans said having already put up prices and introduced energy saving measures, there was not much more he could do to help pay the bills.\n\n\"We need hot water for our guests, we need the fridges on, we need the kitchen ventilation, we just can't cut back on parts of the operation.\"\n\nHotel boss Glenn Evans pays 90p a unit on his 12-month contract although prices have since fallen to 30p a unit\n\nMs Waddy, who owns the Empire Hotel, said her gas bill was going to triple and her electricity would double when her contract ends in July.\n\nShe likened her experience to \"playing poker\" with utility companies that \"have the power\".\n\nConservative MP for Aberconwy Robin Millar has launched a campaign in Parliament on the issue along with other MPs and hospitality trade bodies.\n\nEnergy UK, which represents energy companies, said: \"It is important to bear in mind that, when contracts have been agreed and signed, energy is purchased at market rates on behalf of the customer.\"\n\nOfgem acknowledged that the costs faced by businesses locked in fixed-term deals were \"an enormous challenge\".\n\nIt added: \"While as a regulator, we can't unpick private contracts, we want to see commercially sensible solutions that help non-domestic customers, and we recently wrote to suppliers to ask them to show flexibility, and we will continue to press suppliers on this, while we review the regulation of the non-domestic market more broadly.\"\n\nThe UK government said it had given businesses \"unprecedented support\" and was in regular discussions with them and Ofgem to ensure customers got a fair deal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manchester City fans were jubilant when their team won 1-0 against Inter Milan, in Istanbul's Atatürk Olympic Stadium.\n\nWatching from a fanzone in Manchester, supporters celebrated Man City completing a football treble following their Premier League and FA Cup victories.\n\n\"The blue moon has risen,\" said one ecstatic fan.", "Colin Beattie said he would co-operate fully with the police inquiry\n\nColin Beattie has resigned as SNP treasurer after his arrest as part of a police investigation into the party's finances.\n\nHe said he would also be stepping back from his role on the public audit committee until the police investigation had concluded.\n\nThe 71-year-old was taken into custody and released without charge on Tuesday.\n\nIt came hours before First Minister Humza Yousaf set out his government's priorities for the next three years.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Beattie said he had resigned as treasurer with \"immediate effect\".\n\nHe said: \"On a personal level, this decision has not been easy, but it is the right decision to avoid further distraction to the important work being led by Humza Yousaf to improve the SNP's governance and transparency.\n\n\"I will continue to co-operate fully with Police Scotland's inquiries and it would be inappropriate for me to comment any further on a live case.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said the resignation was \"the right thing to do\" and that a new treasurer would be appointed as soon as possible.\n\nPolice Scotland launched its Operation Branchform investigation into the SNP's finances in July 2021 after receiving complaints about how donations were used.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Humza Yousaf said the resignation of SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was the ‘right thing to do’.\n\nFormer SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, who is married to former SNP leader and first minister Nicola Sturgeon, was arrested two weeks ago at the couple's home in Glasgow before also being released without charge pending further inquiries.\n\nOfficers spent two days searching the house, and also searched the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh.\n\nThere have been newspaper reports that some people within the party are concerned that Ms Sturgeon could be the next person to be arrested in the inquiry.\n\nDeputy First Minister Shona Robison, a close friend of Ms Sturgeon, said earlier on Wednesday that it would not be helpful to comment on the speculation and that she did not know if Ms Sturgeon had spoken to detectives.\n\nAsked if she had been in contact with Ms Sturgeon, Ms Robison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Right at the beginning of the process I sent her a very short message asking after her welfare really and I got a very short reply.\n\n\"We have had no discussion whatsoever about the police investigation. It would not be appropriate for me to do so.\"\n\nMr Yousaf has dismissed calls for Ms Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie to be suspended from the party while the police investigation is ongoing, saying he believes in people being innocent until proven guilty.\n\nThe party raised £666,953 through referendum-related appeals between 2017 and 2020 with a pledge to spend these funds on the independence campaign.\n\nQuestions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nOfficers involved in the investigation spent two days searching the couple's Glasgow home and the party's headquarters in Edinburgh earlier this month.\n\nThere was an inevitability about this announcement. It was hard to imagine Colin Beattie continuing as SNP treasurer while under police investigation.\n\nHe announced the decision to quit after a conversation with Humza Yousaf who says it was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, opposition parties say Mr Yousaf should have removed Colin Beattie as treasurer and gone further in suspending him from the SNP.\n\nIt means that Humza Yousaf is in temporary charge of the SNP's finances but he told me he's got enough on his plate and wants someone else appointed to the role as soon as possible.\n\nThe party faces major challenges as the police investigation into its finances continues, including trying to find new auditors to replace those that quit seven months ago.\n\nA luxury motorhome was seized by officers from outside a property in Dunfermline on the same morning Mr Murrell was arrested.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday reported that the vehicle had been parked outside the home of Mr Murrell's 92-year-old mother since January 2021. It has since been moved to a police compound in Glasgow.\n\nLeaked video footage published by the Sunday Mail at the weekend showed Ms Sturgeon playing down fears about the party's finances in a virtual meeting of the party's ruling body in March 2021.\n\nThe SNP's former Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has insisted that there was \"nothing untoward\" in the clip and claimed that the party's finances are in \"robust health\".\n\nThe motorhome was transferred to a police compound in Govan on Tuesday\n\nBut the Sunday Times has reported that Mr Beattie told the NEC at the weekend that the SNP was struggling to balance its books due to a drop in member numbers and donors.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Mr Beattie's resignation was the \"right decision made by the wrong man\".\n\nShe said there had been a \"culture of secrecy\" within the SNP and criticised Humza Yousaf's decision not to suspend those subject to police inquiries.\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said Mr Yousaf is being \"consumed by the chaos wracking his party\".\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy added the priorities of Scotland were being ignored as a result of SNP \"chaos\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text from 13:00 BST and radio commentary from 13:30 on BBC Radio 5 Live & the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nNovak Djokovic says he is relishing the chance to make tennis history as he aims to become the first man to win 23 Grand Slam titles.\n\nDjokovic, 36, faces Norway's Casper Ruud, 24, in the men's singles final at the French Open on Sunday.\n\nA victory would take the Serb clear of Rafael Nadal's total of 22 wins.\n\n\"I like the feeling, it's an incredible privilege to be able to make history in the sport I truly love and has given me so much,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"The motivation is very high, as you can imagine. There is one more to go to hopefully get my hands on the trophy.\n\n\"I have put myself in another really ideal position to win a Grand Slam.\n\n\"That's basically what still drives me when I wake up in the morning and think about things I want to achieve. The Grand Slams are what drives me the most.\"\n\nAnother victory would give Djokovic his third French Open title and he would also become the first man to win each of the four Grand Slam tournaments at least three times.\n\n\"I've been very fortunate that most of the matches in tournaments I've played in the last few years, there is history on the line,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"As far as all the records that are on the line, again it's flattering, it's great, but I need to win.\n\n\"I'm proud of all my achievements and I try to stay present and in the moment. I know the job is not finished and we have another match.\"\n\nRuud reached the finals of the French Open and the US Open in 2022 but lost on both occasions, against Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz respectively.\n\nAt Roland Garros, Ruud won only six games in three sets as Nadal completed a routine 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory for his 22nd Grand Slam title.\n\n\"Obviously, I would like to try to do better than last year,\" Ruud said. \"Let's see if I have learned something from the two previous ones that I played last year.\n\n\"It's going to be tough, for sure. He's playing for his 23rd, I'm playing for my first. So I'm going to just try to play without pressure and just try to enjoy the moment.\n\n\"That was my mentality last year as well, and it didn't go my way.\n\n\"It just feels great to be back in the final. I didn't think or necessarily believe in the beginning of the tournament I was going to be in the final.\"\n\nDjokovic and Ruud have never played each other in a Grand Slam, but have met four times on the ATP Tour, with the Serb winning all the matches and not even dropping a set.\n\n\"It is going to be the toughest challenge of the year for me to play Novak,\" Ruud added.\n\n\"Novak has played great this tournament and in the Grand Slams he always raises his level.\n\n\"I have never beaten him before, so I'm going to have to try to come up with a better game plan.\n\n\"I know I'm going to have to play my 'A' game, my best level I've ever played if I want to have a chance against him.\"\n\nHow they reached the final\n\nDjokovic did not drop a set in the first four rounds, beating Aleksandar Kovacevic of the United States, Marton Fucsovics of Hungary, 29th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and Juan Pablo Varillas of Peru.\n\nRussia's Karen Khachanov, the 11th seed, became the first player to take a set off Djokovic in their quarter-final before the former world number one took the next three sets.\n\nA match with current world number one Carlos Alcaraz followed in the semi-finals and it was set up to be a classic at one set all in a high quality encounter before the 20-year-old Spaniard struggled physically, with Djokovic winning 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1.\n\nRuud began with wins over Swedish qualifier Elias Ymer and Giulio Zeppieri of Italy in round two then fought back from a set down against Zhizhen Zhang of China in the third round.\n\nHe saw off Chile's Nicolas Jarry in the last 16, with his first win over a seed coming with the four-set victory over Denmark's Holger Rune, the sixth seed, in the quarter-finals.\n\nRuud made it back-to-back French Open final appearances thanks to a convincing 6-3 6-4 6-0 win over 22nd seed Alexander Zverev of Germany.\n\nCan you name all the players Novak Djokovic has beaten in Grand Slam finals? Share your score with your friends!\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None A true crime drama weaving together the 1973 investigation with the cold case review\n• None A chaotic comedy you can't risk to miss:", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started.\n\n\"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage or state the counter-offensive was in.\n\nThe comments come after an escalation of fighting in the south and east of Ukraine and speculation about progress of the widely anticipated push.\n\nUkrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.\n\nBut assessing the reality on the front lines is difficult, with the two warring sides presenting contrasting narratives: Ukraine claiming progress and Russia that it is fighting off attacks.\n\nMeanwhile in Russia's Kaluga region - which borders the southern districts around Moscow - governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a drone crashed near the village of Strelkovk early on Sunday. The BBC has not independently verified the report.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said in a video interview published Friday that Ukrainian forces had certainly begun their offensive but that attempted advances had failed with heavy casualties.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv on Saturday after talks with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Mr Zelensky described the Russian leader's words as \"interesting\".\n\nShrugging his shoulders, raising his eyebrows and pretending not to know who Mr Putin was, Mr Zelensky said it was important that Russia felt \"they do not have long left\".\n\nHe also said that Ukraine's military commanders were in a positive mood, adding: \"Tell that to Putin.\"\n\nMr Trudeau announced 500 million Canadian dollars (£297m) in new military aid for Ukraine during the unannounced visit.\n\nA joint statement issued after the talks said Canada supports Ukraine becoming a Nato member \"as soon as conditions allow for it\", adding that the issue would be discussed at the Nato Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.\n\nMeanwhile, fighting has escalated in recent days in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian officials say. Ukrainian forces are thought to be trying to push south to split Russian forces in two, breaking through the occupied territory which connects Russia to Crimea.\n\nUkraine's hope of advances in the region could be hindered by huge flooding in the south of the country after the Nova Khakovka dam was destroyed last week.\n\nThe flooding has covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.\n\nIn his nightly address on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said 3,000 people have been evacuated from the flooded Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.\n\nAnd Kherson's regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said water levels had dropped by 27cm, but more than 30 settlements on the right bank of the river - which is Ukrainian-held territory - were still flooded and almost 4,000 residential buildings remained underwater.\n\nNato and Ukraine's military have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.\n\nHowever, it seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the river as part of their ongoing counteroffensive, the BBC's Paul Adams says.", "Who would be a prime minister or a first minister with predecessors keeping as… busy… as this?\n\nThere are many, many differences between the story of Boris Johnson and the story of Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nBut, politically what unites them is what has happened makes the business of being prime minister - or First Minister of Scotland - considerably harder.\n\nThe magnetism of the drama swirling around Mr Johnson should not distract from the two central points at its core.\n\nFirstly, those implications for Rishi Sunak attempting to get on with the job right now giving the impression of running a calm, considered administration shorn of the turbulence of recent years.\n\nMr Johnson has made Mr Sunak's job harder - and that matters in the here and now.\n\nSecondly, that a committee of his peers - containing a majority of Conservative MPs - has concluded in the strongest terms that Mr Johnson's integrity, or the perceived lack of it, was deserving of a sanction which would almost certainly have prompted a by-election.\n\nIn that case Mr Johnson would have had to win over his constituents in west London in order to carry on as an MP.\n\nThe man who was prime minister this time last year not just driven out of Downing Street, but driven out of parliament, by his fellow MPs. Even his fellow Conservatives.\n\nIts members have been offered extra security, such has been the profile and anger this inquiry into Boris Johnson has provoked.\n\nSome MPs are livid that Mr Johnson and his supporters have been, in their view, so cavalier in impugning the reputation of those on the committee, who have no capacity to respond publicly while they are compiling their report.\n\nMr Sunak and Mr Johnson met a week last Friday and discussed his honours list.\n\nNo 10 insist they have acted honourably - and have gone to considerable lengths to try to prove it.\n\nThey declassified a document to point out they had not tinkered with the list of nominees for peerages in recent weeks.\n\nBut critics are still not convinced - asking instead what did or did not happen much earlier.\n\nMr Johnson's allies claim they've been misled - even lied to.\n\nDowning Street sources say this is \"nonsense\".\n\nThis week at Westminster will be dominated by Boris Johnson and the report into his conduct expected in the next few days.\n\nBut what gives this row a much longer tail is the three by-elections that will follow.\n\nFrom what I am hearing, there is a desire within the Conservative Party to get on with them as quickly as possible, within the next month or so.\n\nThe parties are already out campaigning.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are upbeat about their prospects in Mid Bedfordshire. Labour are upbeat about Uxbridge and South Ruislip, which is a marginal.\n\nBut it's entirely possible the Conservatives win at least some of the contests - especially given Mid Bedfordshire and Selby and Ainsty had big Conservative majorities at the last election.\n\nBut as one senior Tory put it to me, it'll be the swing that matters - if there's a big swing against the Conservatives it'll set off the jitters again for many, many Tory MPs who fear oblivion at the general election.\n\nThere is nothing good about these by elections for Rishi Sunak.\n\nMeanwhile, at Holyrood, one of the defeated contenders to replace Nicola Sturgeon in spring's leadership race has called for her to stop sitting - for now - as an SNP MSP.\n\nAsh Regan told BBC Radio Scotland Ms Sturgeon should resign - or the first minister should consider suspending her.\n\nIt is amid this noise and the headlines that both the prime minister and the new First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, have to find the time and the space to get on with the very business of governing.\n\nBut this is made vastly more difficult by their predecessors' capacities to generate attention.", "Ms Sturgeon attended a police interview by arrangement before being arrested\n\nFormer First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP.\n\nPolice confirmed a 52-year-old woman was taken into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by detectives.\n\nIt follows the arrest and subsequent release of her husband, ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, in April.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ms Sturgeon confirmed she had attended a police interview by arrangement on Sunday.\n\nThe former SNP leader, who stood down in March, was then arrested and questioned by officers who have been investigating for the past two years what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the party by independence activists.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has today, Sunday 11 June, by arrangement with Police Scotland, attended an interview where she was to be arrested and questioned in relation to Operation Branchform.\n\n\"Nicola has consistently said she would cooperate with the investigation if asked and continues to do so.\"\n\nSNP MP Angus MacNeil has joined opposition parties in calling for Ms Sturgeon to be suspended from the party - arguing that \"this soap-opera has gone far enough\".\n\nOfficers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh on 5 April, with Mr Murrell being arrested before later being released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nA luxury motorhome which sells for about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts and the arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nA forensic tent outside Nicola Sturgeon's house when it was searched in April\n\nUnder the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, police can release a suspect for further investigation, but they can be re-arrested at a later date.\n\nA spokesman for the SNP said the party would not comment on Ms Sturgeon's arrest, adding: \"These issues are subject to a live police investigation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon served as Scotland's first minister for more than eight years after succeeding Alex Salmond in the wake of the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's arrest follows that of her husband Peter Murrell earlier this year\n\nShe announced on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has denied the timing was influenced by the ongoing police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said the SNP was \"engulfed in murkiness and chaos\" and called on Mr Yousaf to suspend his predecessor from the party.\n\nThe SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, also called for Ms Sturgeon to be suspended, writing on Twitter: \"This soap-opera has gone far enough, Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less.\n\n\"Time for political distance until the investigation ends either way.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish Secretary, Ian Murray, described the developments as \"deeply concerning\" and said the police inquiry must be allowed to proceed without interference.\n\nPolice Scotland launched their Operation Branchform investigation two years ago after complaints were made about what happened to £666,954 that was donated to the SNP by activists for a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nThe party's later accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe SNP had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year, but still owes money to Mr Murrell - although it has not said how much.\n\nPolice Scotland has been looking into SNP funding for some time.\n\nMs Sturgeon is the third high-profile arrest. Her husband - Peter Murrell - was previously arrested and released without charge. So was the party's former treasury Colin Beattie.\n\nThis is a live case, so there's a limit to what journalists can report.\n\nBut politically, there's no doubt this is a big blow to Scotland's governing party.\n\nThe new leader - Humza Yousaf - had been trying to move on from arrests and police probes, to talk about policy and his vision for government.\n\nIt's inevitable he'll now face days of questions about this arrest and what it means for the party.", "A Russian court has detained US citizen Michael Travis Leake, a musician and former paratrooper, on drug charges.\n\nMoscow's Khamovnichesky court claimed that Mr Leake had \"organised the sale of drugs to young people\", AFP reported. He denies the charges.\n\nRussian state television broadcast footage from Mr Leake's trial that showed him locked in a metal cage.\n\nIn a separate video shared online, he said he \"didn't know\" why he was detained.\n\nAppearing confused, he said he did not believe he had done what he was accused of, because he did not know what the charges were.\n\nA spokesperson for the US State Department said embassy staff had attended Mr Leake's court hearing on Saturday, 10 June.\n\nThe department was closely monitoring the case, the spokesperson added.\n\nHe will be held in custody until 6 August, pending a possible trial, AFP reported.\n\nMr Leake is at least the third American detained in Russia in recent years amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow.\n\nA musician and music producer reported to have lived in Russia for many years, Mr Leake was a member of Lovi Noch, an \"American fronted rock band\" based in Moscow.\n\nUS media outlet CNN reported that he appeared on the travel show Parts Unknown - hosted by the late chef Anthony Bourdain - for an episode in 2014 that was filmed in Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nDarya Tarasova, who produced the episode, told CNN that Mr Leake was a \"showman\" who was \"very articulate\" and who \"loved Russia\". He often worked with local rock bands, Ms Tarasova said.\n\nRussian local media had earlier reported his arrest at his flat in Moscow.\n\nUS officials have previously accused Russia of deliberately targeting American citizens for arrest.\n\nIn March, Russian authorities arrested US journalist Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, on espionage charges. He remains in pre-trial detention.\n\nLate last year, American basketball player Brittney Griner, who was jailed in Russia on drugs charges, was released in a prisoner swap for the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.\n\nUS marine Paul Whelan is serving a 16-year prison sentence on \"spying\" charges - he was sentenced before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has weakened relations between US and Russia.", "Migrants wait to be processed after arriving by small boat off the Kent coast.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Bill breaches a \"number of the UK's human rights obligations\", MPs and peers have said.\n\nThe bill, which aims to deport those arriving in the UK without permission, would deny the majority of refugees any access to the asylum system, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.\n\nChildren and victims of trafficking and modern slavery would be impacted, chairwoman Joanna Cherry added.\n\nThe government said it took its international obligations seriously.\n\nHowever, it has faced criticism from opposition parties and charities, who argue the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.\n\nThe legislation, intended to try to stop people crossing the English Channel in small boats, has already passed the Commons but has run into strong opposition in the House of Lords.\n\nIt would give ministers the power to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally, and migrants would then be barred from claiming asylum.\n\nInstead they would be detained and removed, either to Rwanda - with which the UK has an agreement - or another \"safe country\".\n\nThe bill would enshrine in law broad detention and search powers, and deny protections to modern slavery victims, as well as removing the right of appeals following age assessments.\n\nMost asylum seekers arriving in the UK irregularly and indirectly after the legislation is passed would have their claim \"declared inadmissible\", the committee's report, Legislative Scrutiny: Illegal Migration Bill, says.\n\nMs Cherry, an SNP MP and a barrister, said the most vulnerable would be disproportionately affected.\n\n\"They will also be subject to detention without time limit and removal from the UK irrespective of the merits of their claims,\" she said.\n\n\"By treating victims of modern slavery as 'illegal migrants' subject to detention and removal, this bill would breach our legal obligations to such victims and would risk increasing trafficking of vulnerable people.\"\n\nShe added that most people fleeing persecution or conflict currently have \"no safe and legal way of getting here\".\n\nThe committee chairwoman also highlighted that Home Secretary Suella Braverman had taken the \"unusual step of making a statutory declaration under the Human Rights Act that she was unable to state that the bill was compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)\" when she introduced the bill to Parliament.\n\n\"However, she has stated elsewhere that the bill is compatible with international law. We disagree.\n\n\"Having carried out legislative scrutiny of the bill, it is overwhelmingly clear that it breaches a number of the UK's international human rights obligations including the ECHR, and risks breaching others.\"\n\nThe government has said the plans are central to achieving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boat crossings - one of his five key priorities.\n\nThe Home Office also argued that excluding children and modern slavery victims from the scope of the bill could provide \"incentives\" to human traffickers.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"It is not compassionate to allow people to die in the Channel.\n\n\"We cannot allow a system to continue where people are incentivised to make dangerous, illegal and unnecessary journeys to the UK, which is why the Illegal Migration Bill will see people who enter the country swiftly returned home if it is safe or removed to a safe third country.\"\n\nThey continued, saying the legislation would send \"a clear message that the exploitation of people ferried across the Channel must end\", adding: \"We remain committed to ensuring the bill passes through Parliament as soon as possible so we can stop the boats.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The boat, called Hurricane, caught fire off the coast of Marsa Alam\n\nThree British tourists are missing after a fire on board a dive boat on the Egyptian Red Sea.\n\nTwenty-six other people, including 12 Britons, were rescued from the boat, called Hurricane, which was off the coast of Marsa Alam, authorities said.\n\nThey added that initial reports suggested the fire, at 06:30 local time, was down to an electrical fault.\n\nThe boat had been on a dive cruise and had left Port Ghalib on 6 June and been due to return on Sunday.\n\nThe boat's operator, Tornado Marine Fleet, said 15 British passengers had been on board along with 12 crew members and two guides - a different figure to that given earlier by the local authority, the Red Sea Governorate.\n\nThe local authority said initial examinations had found an electrical short circuit in the engine room, while the public prosecution office had begun an investigation.\n\nAll of those who had been rescued were said to be well.\n\nThe Hurricane is one of several operated by Tornado Marine Fleet.\n\nA spokesman said the fire happened while crew were doing the diving briefing at Elphinstone Reef - a diving destination known for its wealth of marine life including colourful corals and sharks.\n\nScuba Travel, which chartered the boat, said the group on board had been on a seven-day tour and the company was working with the local authorities and specialist advisers.\n\n\"Our first priority is the safety of our guests,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Red Sea is a popular resort for diving trips.\n\n\"This is really bad news for the tourism industry,\" said BBC News correspondent Sally Nabil. \"They depend on tourism, particularly British tourism.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting British nationals involved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are in contact with local authorities following an incident aboard a dive boat near Marsa Alam, and are supporting British nationals involved.\"", "Rescuers react to Russian shelling during evacuation efforts of those trapped by flooding in Kherson region\n\nThree people were killed after Russia attacked a boat carrying evacuees from a flooded area in Kherson, the regional governor said.\n\nUkraine has been trying to rescue people trapped on the Russia-held eastern bank of the Dnipro River since the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed.\n\nOleksandr Prokudin said Russian troops shelled the evacuation boat and shot a 74-year-old man dead.\n\nThe man was trying to rescue a woman from gunfire, Mr Produkin said.\n\nTwo police officers were also injured.\n\nThe Nova Kakhovka dam burst on Tuesday, releasing a huge torrent of water which quickly flooded vast areas of land on both sides of the Dnipro river.\n\nUkraine has blamed Russia for \"blowing up\" the dam, located in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine. Russia has denied this and has accused Ukraine of being responsible for its destruction.\n\nThe BBC has not verified either claim, although it appears likely that Russian forces, who controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to complicate Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive.\n\nThe eastern bank of the Dnipro River has been one of the areas worst hit by the flooding, with hundreds of people there posting on the Telegram app asking to be rescued.\n\nUkraine's military says it has been co-ordinating rescues from the eastern bank, but claimed \"fearless volunteers\" were carrying out some of the evacuations.\n\nOne of those involved in the rescue effort, Viktor, told the BBC he came under Russian fire while attempting a trip, saying Russian soldiers were \"waiting for volunteers or soldiers to arrive so they can shoot them\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nMeanwhile, the size of the flooded area in Kherson region has receded, officials said, but experts and officials fear infectious diseases may spread in polluted waters.\n\nThousands of Ukrainian homes remain flooded, and tens of thousands of people have lost access to drinking water.\n\nBehind the dam, the huge Kakhovka reservoir - a vital source of water for the region - has drained of water.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO)'s Ukraine representative, Dr Jarno Habicht, told the BBC the situation was \"devastating\" and providing safe, clean water was a priority. He said it was important to keep an eye on water-borne illnesses and that precautionary sample testing was ongoing.\n\nThe UK's defence ministry said people were facing a \"sanitation crisis\" with limited access to safe water and an increased risk of water-borne diseases.\n\nWhile Ukrainian officials said no cases of infectious illnesses have been reported so far, the city of Kherson - around 100km (62 miles) from the Kakhovka dam and badly affected by the floods - has introduced restrictions on the use of river water in order to prevent their spread.\n\nThe flooding of houses and sewage facilities means the water is now highly polluted, the city military administration said, meaning that bathing, fishing and drinking the water, or giving it to animals, is prohibited.\n\nUkraine's interior ministry said 32 settlements had been flooded in Ukrainian-controlled Kherson, while another 14 were flooded in the Russian-controlled part. Another 31 settlements were flooded in the Mykolayiv region.\n\nThe destruction of the Kakhovka dam has also likely led to the disruption of water supplies to Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nThe North Crimean Canal draws its water supply from the Kakhovka reservoir, located behind the now-destroyed dam.\n\nUkrainian hydro energy company Ukrhydroenergo said the water level in the reservoir had fallen by more than 7m (23ft) and on Sunday the UK defence ministry warned that \"water will soon stop flowing\" to the peninsula.\n\nDrone footage filmed after the dam breach appears to show significantly reduced water levels near the entrance to the canal.\n\nDrone footage appears to show water drying up at the mouth of the North Crimean Canal\n\nWhoever was responsible for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam will have done so knowing that it would deprive Crimea of badly needed fresh water.\n\nThe canal was blocked by Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but Russia quickly unblocked it after it invaded southern Ukraine last year.\n\nRussian commanders may have concluded that rendering the waterway useless again by blowing up the dam might have seemed like a necessary, if extreme, price to pay for complicating Ukraine's military plans.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia had started.\n\n\"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,\" he said on Saturday.\n\nUkrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.\n\nUkraine said on Sunday that it had captured three villages in the south-east of the country, and that these were the first liberations of the counter-offensive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: View from a boat on what used to be a street", "Police searched the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh in April Image caption: Police searched the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh in April\n\nOver the coming days and weeks, Police Scotland is likely to continue to investigate and gather more evidence. They can also ask for guidance from the body which prosecutes crimes in Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).\n\nIf a suspect is charged with a crime, they generally cannot be questioned again by the police, although they can make a statement.\n\nUltimately, the detectives will send what is called a standard prosecution report to COPFS.\n\nProsecutors will then consider whether there is sufficient evidence to suggest a crime was committed and that the suspect was responsible.\n\nThey will take the public interest into account. That can be influenced by the particular circumstances of the case - for example, whether the person involved was in a position of trust or authority.\n\nIf they feel the evidence meets the necessary tests, the case will go to court.\n\nAlternatively, COPFS can instruct the police to carry out further inquiries if they decide there is insufficient evidence.\n\nIf they are still not satisfied there is enough to justify a prosecution, the case would go no further.\n\nRead more: Why was Nicola Sturgeon arrested and what happens next?", "Former Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds United defender Gordon McQueen has died at the age of 70 after suffering from dementia.\n\nAfter starting his career with St Mirren, McQueen was sold to Leeds and would go on to help win the English league title in 1974, the FA Cup with Manchester Utd in 1983.\n\nHe played 30 times for Scotland and was chosen for the 1978 World Cup but missed out because of injury. He later became a pundit before being treated for cancer of the larynx in 2011.\n\nMcQueen was diagnosed with dementia in 2021, with his family saying at the time that he wanted \"footballers of today's generation to know there may be risks with persistent heading of the ball\".\n• None 'The big man with the huge personality'\n\nA statement from his family read: \"It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of Gordon, who died at home in the early morning today, leaving behind his wife Yvonne, daughters Hayley and Anna, son Eddie and his beloved grandchildren Rudi, Etta and Ayla.\n\n\"We hope that as well as creating many great football memories he'll be remembered most for his character.\n\n\"Our house was always full of friends, family and football just as it was in his last few months as he fought so bravely in what became a very cruel battle against dementia.\n\n\"The disease may have taken him too soon but he definitely lived life to the full, the ultimate entertainer, the absolute heart and soul of every occasion, the most fun dad anyone could wish for.\n\n\"Huge thanks goes to the wonderful staff at Herriot Hospice Homecare for their outstanding care, the utterly incredible Marie Curie team who were there at the end with Gordon's wife and daughters and Head for Change for the emotional support and respite care.\n\n\"Also to our wonderful friends and family who rallied around at the worst of times, going above and beyond, for that we are so very grateful.\"\n\nA regular for Scotland after making his debut against Belgium in 1974, McQueen scored five goals for his country, two of which came in the nation's British Home Championship triumph during the 1976-77 campaign.\n\nHis most famous goal came at Wembley, when his header helped Scotland to a 2-1 win over England which sparked a famous pitch invasion by the Tartan Army.\n\nMcQueen also scored three times on Leeds' run to the 1975 European Cup final, but was suspended for the final defeat by Bayern Munich.\n\nAnd he was in the Manchester Utd side that lost the 1979 FA Cup final to Arsenal, scoring in the 3-2 loss at Wembley.\n\nBorn in Kilbirnie, he made 77 appearances for St Mirren, 172 in six years with Leeds and 229 in seven with Man Utd.\n\nMcQueen left Old Trafford after missing out on the side that beat Everton in the 1985 FA Cup final, and had a spell with Seiko in Hong Kong before turning to coaching.\n\nAfter a year as Airdrieonians manager, McQueen joined former Man Utd team-mate Bryan Robson as Middlesbrough's reserve-team coach and later was first-team coach and scout. He also worked as a TV pundit.\n\nRobson was one of the first to play tribute, calling his friend \"strong and brave, and ahead of his times in being a defender who could contribute as much in attack as he did in defence\".\n\n\"He was a perfect fit for Manchester United with his flair, courage and big personality, and that's why the fans loved him.\n\n\"Most importantly, though, he was a brilliant person with a huge heart. He lit up any room he walked into, and that's how he should be remembered.\"\n\nLou Macari, who played with McQueen for Scotland and Man Utd, added: \"RIP Gordon, friend and team-mate. Biggest character in football, large as life, funny, full of desire. Took to Utd like a natural and loved the roar after one of his runs.\n\n\"That awful illness robbed us of the real Gordon, heart goes out to family, wife Yvonne was a 24/7 warrior for him.\"\n\nLeeds, Man Utd, St Mirren and Airdrieonians paid their own tributes and said they were \"saddened\" by the news.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenariff gorse fire: 'It was pretty scary here at midnight'\n\nA farmer whose family land is alongside the path of a large gorse fire in County Antrim has described it as her \"worst nightmare\".\n\nAbout 35 firefighters, six appliances and one high-volume pump remain at the scene of the blaze at Ballyeamon Road, Glenariff, on Thursday night.\n\nIt is expected that additional resources will be sent to the scene at first light on Friday.\n\nThe fire was first reported just before 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier on Thursday more than 80 firefighters and 14 appliances tackled the blaze which had a fire front of 1km.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the Irish Air Corps joined the effort supporting the fire service.\n\nAt the scene, farmer Catherine Crawford told BBC News NI: \"I have never known a fire here in Glenariff and I'm here 30 odd years.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters were at the scene on Thursday evening\n\n\"I never want to see another one, the way it has done damage here at the minute.\n\n\"It's just anybody's worst nightmare to be involved with a gorse fire.\n\n\"If it spreads out onto the mountain, there's livestock, sheep on each side of the fire.\"\n\nShe added: \"With so much smoke last night we were all told to close our windows, keep doors closed and make sure all the elderly people stayed in and were safe.\n\n\"It was pretty scary here last night.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) Deputy Chief Officer Paul Harper welcomed the support of the Irish Air Corps as firefighters continue to work in \"punishing conditions\".\n\n\"Deploying water directly onto the fire from the air will greatly enhance our firefighting operations,\" he said.\n\nSupport from the Irish Air Corps has been welcomed\n\n\"We have implemented several contingencies to ensure we can maintain a response to all types of emergencies today. We continue to do all we can to support our firefighters on the front line during this challenging time.\"\n\nMr Harper added that he expected the gorse fire to continue for a further 24 to 48 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA major incident was declared on Wednesday evening as the NIFRS dealt with a number of gorse fires.\n\nOn Thursday night NIFRS Chief Officer Aidan Jennings said that from early Wednesday morning until 11pm on Thursday, the fire service received 650 emergency calls and mobilised to 266 incidents, with 80 of these being wildfire incidents.\n\nHe said the fire service had mobilised 496 firefighting pumps and specialist appliances to deal with the incidents.\n\nTiarnan Donnelly, John Crawford and Catherine Crawford watch as an Irish Air Corps brings water to the scene.\n\n\"Our firefighters have been working in extremely challenging and exhausting conditions whilst battling to bring these wildfires under control,\" Mr Jennings said.\n\n\"I would like to pay credit to our firefighters, control room operators, supervisory officers and support staff, all of whom have responded and in many cases come on duty or remained on duty to support our operational response and enhanced resilience arrangements.\"\n\nOvernight 50 firefighters dealt with a gorse fire in Clogher, County Tyrone, which has now been extinguished.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, firefighters were called to a gorse fire at Slievenaman Road, Newcastle, which was declared fully extinguished shortly after 16:00.\n\n14 pumping appliances and a specialist wildfire team are still at the blaze in Glenariff\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Chief Officer Jennings said it was too early to suggest a cause of the gorse fires but in his experience \"they need an ignition source and it is usually deliberate\".\n\nHe called on the public to be vigilant when enjoying the good weather, use dedicated safe spots to barbeque and dispose of cigarettes safely.\n\nHe also advised the public to avoid the areas where fires are ongoing and to drive carefully if they find themselves nearby.\n\nThe gorse fires follow a prolonged period of warm and dry weather across Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, parts of Northern Ireland were officially under heatwave conditions according to the Met Office.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a heatwave is when temperatures exceed 25C for at least three consecutive days.\n\nAccording to the Met Office this has happened in the north-west, in counties Antrim and Londonderry.\n\nTuesday also marked the highest June temperature in five years.", "Claire says her son, Ryan, will never be able to work because of his disabilities - so his savings and benefits are crucial\n\nThousands of disabled young people who have money stuck in Child Trust Funds could also have their benefits cut.\n\nAbout 80,000 young people have savings in trust funds and are unable to unlock their money without going to court.\n\nAnalysis by BBC News suggests about 4,000 of those are eligible for universal credit, but will receive lower payments because they have more than £6,000 in their accounts.\n\nThe government says it is speeding up the court process for families.\n\nIn April, a report suggested 80,000 young people who lack mental capacity to manage their finances were unable to access their Child Trust Funds without their families going through the Court of Protection.\n\nThe process can take months and cost hundreds of pounds, leaving many unable to access their money.\n\nUsing data from two trust fund providers, BBC News has now calculated that around 9% - about 7,000 - of those disabled young people have more than £6,000 in their accounts.\n\nOf those, more than half will be eligible for universal credit, according to government figures on the population as a whole - and will see reductions to their monthly payments.\n\nOne charity, Contact, said this was a \"double whammy\" for disabled people and their families.\n\nClaire Catherall feels her 16-year-old son Ryan, who is autistic and has learning disabilities, is getting \"penalised\" for having savings.\n\nShe has paid in £25 a month into his account since he was born, so there is now £8,500 in the pot.\n\nWhen Ryan turns 18 he will be eligible for universal credit, which is a benefit for people who are unable to work. But he will receive about £43 less a month as a result of having more than £6,000 in savings.\n\nMost universal credit claimants would stop getting payments if their savings or capital reached £16,000.\n\nClaire, who has three other children, says she cannot face taking legal action to get access to Ryan's savings because she has a full-time job and is already fighting on many fronts to make sure Ryan gets the right education and support.\n\nShe stopped topping up his trust fund a few months ago, when she realised she would have to go through the Court of Protection to access it.\n\n\"I actually cried when I stopped the direct debit,\" she said.\n\nThe park is one of Ryan's favourite places to spend time\n\nSitting hand-in-hand on their sofa at home in north-east England, Ryan gives Claire a big kiss on the cheek.\n\n\"He is so loving, so caring, but because of his autism he can also find the world very difficult and have challenging behaviours,\" she said.\n\n\"He will never be able to work and will always rely on benefits... so the importance of having those savings is massive.\"\n\nMillions of children born between 2002 and 2011 received between £250 and £500 through the then-Labour government's Child Trust Fund scheme.\n\nBut it did not realise how the Mental Capacity Act - designed to protect people who lack capacity - would affect some families trying to access savings.\n\nThe CEO of Child Trust Fund provider, One Family, believes making families go to court to access their child's savings infringes on his duty to the consumer.\n\nTeddy Nyahasha's company has chosen to release £3.6m from 1,000 accounts, without involving the Court of Protection. Around 92 of those will have savings of £6,000 or more.\n\nHe is adamant that doing so is not in breach of the Mental Capacity Act.\n\nHe says if a parent is trusted by the government to handle their child's benefits, then they can be trusted to access their child's savings account.\n\n\"In most of these cases, these families are already receiving benefits from the government,\" he said.\n\n\"If you just follow that paper trail, you can establish the link between the parent who is looking after the young adult, and the owner of the money.\"\n\nTeddy Nyahasha says not helping disabled people's families to access the Child Trust Funds would be \"discriminating on the grounds of disability\"\n\nAlex Ruck Keene, a barrister who specialises in mental capacity law, warns One Family's stance sets a \"dangerous precedent\" which risks \"infantilising\" disabled people and leaves them open to financial abuse.\n\n\"The Court of Protection is a vital process in ensuring that people around those who cannot make decisions for themselves are always acting in their best interests,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said the Court of Protection was a vital legal process and that it had worked to reduce court waiting times.", "Boris Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, after an inquiry found he had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties.\n\nIn a damning report, the Privileges Committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.\n\nThe suspension would have potentially triggered a by-election to replace him, had Mr Johnson not already stood down last week after seeing the findings.\n\nIn a blistering statement, he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and claimed its year-long inquiry had delivered \"what is intended to be the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination\".\n\nMr Johnson - who helped the Conservative Party win a landslide election victory under his leadership only three years ago - is the first former prime minister to have been found to have deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nIt has been confirmed a by-election to replace him in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency will take place on 20 July.\n\nOn the same day, voters will also elect a replacement for Johnson ally Nigel Adams, who also stood down as MP for Selby and Ainsty in the wake of the former PM's resignation.\n\nThe seven-person committee, chaired by Labour's Harriet Harman but with a Tory majority, has been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid breaches in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nWhen giving evidence to the committee in March, Mr Johnson staunchly denied misleading Parliament on purpose, in a stormy session.\n\nBut in its lengthy report, which runs to 106 pages, the committee concluded that Mr Johnson's \"personal knowledge of breaches\", combined with \"his repeated failures pro-actively to investigate\" them, amounted to \"a deliberate closing of his mind\" to the facts.\n\nThe committee focused on six gatherings between May 2020 and January 2021, and statements Mr Johnson made to Parliament about them.\n\nThe committee concluded that officials did not advise Mr Johnson that social-distancing guidelines had been followed at all times, despite him making the claim in the House of Commons.\n\nIn key evidence, one of Mr Johnson's most senior officials, Martin Reynolds, said he advised the former prime minister against making the claim, questioning whether it was \"realistic\".\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's denials, the committee added, were \"so disingenuous that they were by their very nature deliberate attempts to mislead\".\n\nThey amounted to a \"contempt\" of Parliament, the MPs added, because they stopped Parliament carrying out its \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nExplaining their recommendation for a 90-day suspension, they found that he had also committed a repeated contempts by:\n\nThe committee has also recommended that Mr Johnson should be stripped of the pass given to former MPs allowing them access to Parliament.\n\nTwo of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to go further and expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted by the committee's four Tory MPs.\n\nThe report will be debated by MPs, with a vote held on whether to approve the findings on Monday.\n\nMPs are expected to approve the report, after Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said Tory MPs would not be ordered to vote against it.\n\nSo far, only a handful of Conservative MPs have openly criticised the report, including Johnson loyalist and former culture secretary, Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn a tweet, Ms Dorries claimed the report had \"overreached\" and said any Tory MP who voted to approve it was \"fundamentally not a Conservative\".\n\nOther Tory MPs supportive of Mr Johnson hit out at the findings, with Jacob Rees Mogg saying the committee looked \"foolish\" and Simon Clarke adding the report was \"absolutely extraordinary to the point of sheer vindictiveness\".\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the committee had \"gone off the evidence\" to reach \"a very damning conclusion\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson was a \"disgraced prime minister\" who \"shouldn't be anywhere near Parliament\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for Mr Johnson to be stripped of the £115,000 annual allowance available to former prime ministers to run their office.\n\n\"This damning report should be the final nail in the coffin for Boris Johnson's political career,\" the party's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, said.\n\nA campaign group representing families bereaved by Covid said he should \"never be allowed to stand for any form of public office again\".\n\nThe committee's report was met with disdain by Mr Johnson, who repeated his defence at length in a bitter parting shot.\n\nHe said he had been warned the committee was driven by \"the sole political objective of finding me guilty and expelling me from Parliament\".\n\nHe echoed many of the assertions he made in front of the committee in March, including his claim that he believed all of the events he attended were \"lawful\" and \"required by my job\".\n\nOn the charge he deliberately misled Parliament, Mr Johnson said this was \"rubbish\" and based on \"a series of things that are patently absurd\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe compared the committee to late TV astrologer Mystic Meg for concluding he was \"unlikely to have been unaware\" of a gathering attended by dozens of staff in No 10 Downing Street's press office in December 2020.\n\n\"How do they know what I saw?\" Mr Johnson said. \"What retinal impressions have they somehow discovered, that are completely unavailable to me?\"\n\nThe lockdown parties at the heart of the committee's report first came to public attention in newspaper reports at the end of 2021.\n\nThe reports exploded into a long-running scandal that dogged Mr Johnson's premiership and stoked discontent among his ministers, who forced him to resign as prime minister last year.\n\nAn internal inquiry into the parties was led by senior civil servant Sue Gray, and a Metropolitan Police investigation resulted in multiples fines for breaches of Covid rules.\n\nMr Johnson was fined by police for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first sitting prime minister to be sanctioned in such a way.", "Adam Delimkhanov led Chechen forces during the invasion of Ukraine last year\n\nA senior Chechen commander and member of Russia's parliament has been reported wounded in Ukraine, although colleagues have been quick to say he is alive and well.\n\nAdam Delimkhanov is a close ally of notorious Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who initially described him as \"incommunicado\".\n\nHe appealed to Ukrainian intelligence to help \"find my dear brother\".\n\nChechen paramilitaries have joined Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe missing MP had commanded Chechen forces in 2022, as Russia fought for months to seize the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.\n\nEarlier this week, the missing MP said he had met the head of Russia's Belgorod border region and promised to help protect the area from attack. Belgorod has been targeted in recent weeks by a series of cross-border raids from Ukraine.\n\nHis whereabouts on Wednesday, however, were a mystery.\n\nRussia's official military TV channel Zvezda reported that he was \"alive but wounded\", citing information from the lower house of the Russian parliament.\n\nZvezda said the report rebuffed some social media reports that he had been killed. Ukrainian sources have referred to an unconfirmed attack on the Chechen Akhmat paramilitary in the coastal city of Prymorsk, a long way from the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nRamzan Kadyrov then offered a big reward for help in finding his \"dear brother\", even going so far as to call for help from Ukrainian intelligence.\n\nHowever, Russian officials have since sought to quell reports of such a high-ranking commander being wounded.\n\nFellow MP Dmitry Kuznetsov quoted Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin as saying that he had just talked to Adam Delimkhanov and that he was \"alive and well\".\n\nHours later, the Chechen leader backtracked on his earlier comments, claiming that his close ally was \"not even wounded\" and accusing Ukrainians of lying.\n\n\"I knew this from the very beginning of the injection of fake news, but I decided to show everyone, primarily Ukrainians, to what degree their media have sunk,\" he said.\n\nHe published a video along with his comments that showed the two men with several aides in front of map, but BBC Verify has found a number of inconsistencies in the clip that indicate it may have been manipulated.\n\nSome of the audio of the Chechen leader was out of sync with his lip movements and some military analysts have suggested the map dates back to last year.\n\nDelimkhanov put out a message debunking rumours surrounding his health to his half-a-million followers on social media, and then on Thursday he reposted the Chechen leader's video.\n\nNevertheless, the MP's reported injuries did prompt Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to say it was following events with great concern and awaiting clarification of what had happened.\n\nThe Kremlin has so far refrained from commenting on the fate of another leading military figure, Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev, who was reportedly killed in a missile strike on Monday.\n\nThe incident was widely reported in Russian media, citing popular military blogger Yuri Kotenok, but with no official confirmation.\n\nRussian-installed official Vladimir Rogov appeared to validate the report by offering his condolences to the general's family and friends.\n\nA number of Russian generals have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion, but if confirmed, Goryachev is thought to be the first such fatality for a year.", "A 21-year-old woman has died after she was attacked and thrown from a hill at the historic Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors said the woman - who has not been named but is believed to be a US tourist - died overnight after she was shoved 50 metres into a gorge.\n\nHer friend, a 22-year old woman, remains in hospital with serious injuries after she was also pushed when she attempted to stop the assailant.\n\nA US man was detained over the attack.\n\nThe 30-year-old tourist, who has not been named by police, initially fled the scene, officers said.\n\nHe was later detained on Wednesday after a massive police manhunt involving more than 25 vehicles and was taken to a police station in nearby Fuessen in Bavaria state.\n\nIn a statement, police said they believed the man met the women - who German media reported were both American citizens - on a trail near the Marienbrücke bridge. The spot is a popular viewpoint used by tourists to view the castle.\n\nThe Marienbrücke bridge where police say the man met the two women\n\nThe spot is a popular viewpoint used by tourists to view the castle\n\nHe then led them to a hidden trail, on the pretext that the way to the bridge was difficult to navigate, before attacking the 21-year old woman.\n\n\"When the 22-year-old wanted to intervene, he choked her and then pushed her down a steep slope,\" Bavarian police said in a statement.\n\nOfficers said that \"an attempted sexual offence to the detriment of the 21-year-old must be assumed\".\n\n\"He then pushed her down the slope, where she came to rest about 50 meters next to her friend,\" they added.\n\nThe 21-year-old woman was taken to hospital by helicopter, but later died from her injuries. Her friend, who is said to be in a serious condition, was responsive when found by police.\n\nAnother American tourist, who witnessed the rescue and arrest, told the Associated Press that the man had scratches across his face as he walked with police.\n\n\"I'm honestly absolutely stunned someone is still alive from this,\" Eric Abneri added. \"It is like falling from the top of an absolute cliff.\"\n\nHe said rescue services had done \"an unbelievable job\" performing \"a very, very difficult rescue\".\n\nThe man appeared at the Kempten District Court on Thursday, where the investigating judge issued an arrest warrant and the man was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is under investigation for murder, attempted murder and attempted sexual assault.\n\nSenior public prosecutor Thomas Hormann told reporters that the investigation into the incident was just beginning.\n\nNeuschwanstein is one of Germany's most popular tourist attractions. More than 1.3 million people visit the site annually, according to the Bavarian finance ministry.\n\nSitting around 126km (78 miles) from Munich, it was built in the 19th century and intended to serve as a residence for the rulers of the region, but was never occupied.", "Shaheen Sheikh Ali shared photos with the BBC of his four male relatives feared drowned in the Mediterranean\n\nShaheen Sheikh Ali knew something bad had happened when he saw frantic activity in a family WhatsApp group.\n\nFour male relatives, all under the age of 30, are suspected of being on board the fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean, 80km off the Greek coast.\n\n\"People are waiting for any piece of good news,\" he told the BBC. But they're all fearing the worst.\n\nThe 31-year-old now lives in Germany but he's Syrian and from the majority Kurdish city of Kobane. He knows of 12 people who are believed to have been on the boat.\n\nIt's one of the worst migrant tragedies in recent years with nearly 80 people dead and at least 100 rescued. But it's suggested that as many as 750 people may have packed onto the boat, including 100 children.\n\n\"We hadn't heard from them for days and didn't even know if they were on the boat,\" said Mr Ali, adding that the group's last contact with relatives back in Syria took place almost a week ago.\n\nSince 14 June, he and his family have received conflicting news about whether the group is dead or alive.\n\n\"In incidents like this, you can't know for certain whether someone is dead or alive. One word can destroy the morale of the whole family,\" he said.\n\nShaheen Sheikh Ali, a Syrian refugee living in Germany, fears four of his relatives were on the migrant boat that sank\n\nFor British Pakistani journalist Raja Faryad Khan, it's good news - his 22-year-old nephew Adnan Bashir is one of the few survivors,\n\nBut his relief is tinged with sadness as up to 16 people from his village in Pakistan-administered Kashmir could have been on the boat.\n\nMr Khan travelled from the UK to the Greek port city of Kalamata to meet his nephew but was only allowed a few moments with him by the security guard.\n\n\"(My nephew) said the boat was shaking and it became one sided, and then the boat was just gone into the sea,\" said Mr Khan.\n\nBack in Germany, Mr Ali is living with the agony of uncertainty as he describes the journey his relatives took.\n\nThey were smuggled from Syria to Lebanon before flying to Libya where they stayed for 40 days waiting for a chance to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Italy.\n\nAccording to Mr Ali, the group paid at least $5,000 each to the smugglers, but this didn't save them from harsh treatment by their hosts.\n\n\"The smugglers picked them up from the airport and chucked them anywhere they could,\" he said.\n\nHe says his relatives were placed in a \"block of concrete\" with no furniture and had to sleep on blankets laid out on the hard floor.\n\nThe last time he spoke to anyone from the group was early June, when some of his relatives hinted that a crossing could be imminent.\n\n\"They told me they would leave soon because the weather was hot and the sea was calm enough,\" Mr Ali recalled.\n\nHis relatives shared photos that raised alarm bells. \"I saw expressions of sadness in their eyes but it could also have been fatigue.\"\n\nWhat makes his pain deeper is that he himself risked his life to escape the war in Syria in 2016.\n\nBut he said that at that time, it was much easier for people to reach Europe, as more migration routes were available.\n\nIt is believed that most of the people on board the fishing boat were young men\n\nMr Ali crossed the Turkish border before setting off on a much shorter boat journey to Greece.\n\n\"I took a dingy to get to Greece but it was a 4km journey,\" he said. \"When we left, we could see the lights from some of the Greek islands.\"\n\nThe distance from Libya to Italy is at least 725km. Another difference pointed out by Mr Ali is that the passengers on his dinghy all had life jackets.\n\nThe Greek coastguard has said none of the people on board the capsized fishing boat were wearing them.\n\nMr Ali can easily place himself in his relatives' shoes though, imagining what they \"must have been thinking\" before getting on the fishing boat.\n\n\"You don't know what will happen. You worry someone might die, someone might fall off,\" he said. \"No matter how I try, I can't describe how I feel in relation to this tragedy.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old is disgusted at the role played by smugglers, whom he accuses of \"treating people like meat\".\n\n\"I imagine those smugglers do not even count how many people they are putting on a boat. They don't care about the consequences.\"\n\nAnd then an appeal for more understanding and solidarity.\n\n\"People need safer routes. No one will ever stop migration, neither European countries or anyone,\" he said.\n\n\"My relatives were only dreaming of coming to Europe to work and help their families.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "More than 60 women have made allegations of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment against Bill Cosby\n\nNine women have sued disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, accusing him of using his \"enormous power, fame and prestige\" to target them for sexual assaults.\n\nThe women say the former actor and comedian drugged and assaulted them in homes, dressing rooms and hotels in Nevada between 1979 and 92.\n\nThe state has recently scrapped its time limit for filing such claims.\n\nMr Cosby's spokesman said they were motivated by an \"addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed\".\n\nIt is the latest in a string of civil and criminal cases against the 85-year-old former star, who enjoyed huge fame in the 1980s and 90s thanks to his sitcom The Cosby Show.\n\nIn 2018, he was jailed for drugging and molesting a woman, but that conviction was overturned on a technicality in 2021.\n\nLast June, a jury in a civil trial decided he sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, and awarded her $500,000 (£407,000) in damages.\n\nEarlier this month, former Playboy model Victoria Valentino sued him, alleging that he raped her in 1969 after she had dinner with him. In total, more than 60 women have made allegations against him.\n\nSome of those involved in the latest lawsuit have previously made public accusations against him. They include Lili Bernard, a former Cosby Show guest star, and model and personality Janice Dickinson, who both say he drugged and raped them.\n\nNevada has recently lifted its statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases involving adults, which previously meant accusers had to file civil cases within two years.\n\n\"From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr Cosby any more without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,\" he said.", "CCTV appears to show the suspect trying to get into a homeless shelter\n\nCCTV footage has emerged that shows a man said to be the suspect in the fatal Nottingham attacks.\n\nStudents Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and school caretaker Ian Coates, were stabbed to death in the city in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nThree others were injured when a stolen van was driven into pedestrians.\n\nInquiries revealed a man matching the suspect's description tried to get into a homeless hostel - an incident not reported to police at the time.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were attacked with a knife in Ilkeston Road, with police receiving a call at 04:04 BST.\n\nIn an update on the sequence of events, Nottinghamshire Police said investigations had found a man matching the suspect's description had attempted to get into a supporting living complex in Mapperley Road, but had been denied entry.\n\nCCTV footage seen by the BBC shows a figure in a black hoodie being pushed away from a window and then confronted, before walking off.\n\nThe force believes the suspect then attacked 65-year-old Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in Magdala Road - and stole his van, which was then used to hit pedestrians in Milton Street, leaving one critically injured.\n\nA 31-year-old man was Tasered by officers before being arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEast Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) has given more details of its involvement in the emergency.\n\nA spokesman said it received an initial call to Ilkeston Road at 04:05, then a second call at 05:25 to Milton Street.\n\nIt did not get a call to Magdala Road until 05:39, where CPR was being performed on a victim by police.\n\nPolice have now formally identified the three victims.\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a history student at Nottingham, with a particular interest in US and China geopolitics.\n\nHe was a \"key member\" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for the university team. He also played hockey and rugby.\n\nHis family said: \"Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.\n\n\"Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.\"\n\nThe family of Ms O'Malley-Kumar - a first-year medical student who excelled in hockey and cricket - issued a statement saying: \"Grace was an adored daughter and sister; she was truly wonderful and a beautiful young lady.\n\n\"We were so incredibly proud of Grace's achievements and what a truly lovely person she was.\"\n\nA banner saying \"One City #NottinghamTogether\" has been placed on the city's Council House\n\nMr Coates, who police had previously said was in his 50s, was described by LEAD Academy Trust as a \"much-loved colleague who always went the extra mile\".\n\nVisiting the scene where Mr Coates was found fatally stabbed, his sons Lee and James Coates said their dad was due to retire in four months.\n\n\"We know as much as everybody else,\" Lee said. \"He was a die-hard [Nottingham] Forest fan and an avid fisherman.\n\n\"He used to take under-privileged kids fishing just to get away from crime. You genuinely couldn't find a nicer guy.\n\n\"If we had to think about it, he'd be lying in a bed with us holding his hand, him dying naturally in 20 to 30 years' time.\"\n\n\"Not dying on a street because some guy decided it's not his day today,\" James added.\n\nKaleigh Wylie, 35, said she attended the River Leen School in Bulwell - where Mr Coates used to work - in the early 2000s.\n\n\"Ian worked alongside Jimmy, another caretaker in the school, both very well-loved, and in his spare time Ian used to take all the lads on fishing tournaments for the school,\" she said.\n\n\"He never shouted, never got angry with any of us children, and we all know us children are a handful as teenagers, but he never did.\"\n\nThousands of people have attended a vigil at the University of Nottingham\n\nA vigil at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday afternoon has been attended by thousands of people, including relatives of Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber.\n\nCandles were lit and flowers laid for the pair.\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton, from the university chaplaincy team, told mourners: \"This is one of those moments which we hoped we'd never encounter.\n\n\"Students and staff of the university, community members and, most importantly, family and friends of precious Grace and Barnaby, some travelling many miles to be with us.\"\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor Professor Shearer West said the lives of the two 19-year-olds had been \"curtailed\" by a \"seemingly random\" act of violence.\n\nShe said: \"What should have been a time of celebration and relaxation following the exam period has become a time to mourn tragic loss in the most unimaginable of circumstances.\"\n\nAnother vigil is planned in the Old Market Square at 17:30 on Thursday, during which the Council House lights will be switched off and a minute's silence held.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The fathers of Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar have addressed a vigil for their children who were killed on Tuesday.\n\nBoth parents said their children loved life at Nottingham University and expressed their shock at their deaths.\n\nStudents Barnaby and Grace, and school caretaker Ian Coates, were stabbed to death in the city in the early hours of Tuesday.", "Fiona Wightman claims she was targeted by Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s\n\nThe ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse has told the High Court that being targeted by the tabloids while suffering from ovarian cancer made it harder to recover.\n\nFiona Wightman claims she was \"door-stepped\" and had her phone hacked by Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s.\n\nThe publisher apologised unreservedly for using a private investigator to try to access her medical records.\n\nMGN is disputing much of the privacy claim she's brought with Prince Harry.\n\nThe company's barrister Andrew Green KC said on Wednesday there was no witness evidence, documents, call data or numbers in journalists' contacts books to suggest they had used phone hacking against Mr Whitehouse and his then wife.\n\nHer voice sometimes cracking with emotion, Ms Wightman told the court that after her diagnosis in 1997, she was repeatedly visited by journalists desperate for her to tell \"her story\" about her cancer.\n\nThey included, she said, Dominic Mohan from the Sun newspaper, who introduced himself as the showbiz editor. \"It didn't seem very showbiz to me,\" she said.\n\nIn a witness statement made public on Wednesday, she said \"to think it is acceptable to look at a woman's gynaecological cancer and try to find a way to make it public is utterly beyond the pale\".\n\nWhile Mr Mohan worked for Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, Fiona Wightman alleges Mirror Group Newspapers also targeted her.\n\nEarlier the barrister David Sherborne, representing Ms Wightman, spent several hours detailing her claims that Mirror group journalists with a record of phone hacking and commissioning private investigators, tried to get information about her and Paul Whitehouse, a comedian known in the 1990s for his comedy sketches in The Fast Show.\n\nMGN has admitted paying a \"blagger\", Christine Hart, to try to obtain details of her medical condition.\n\nMs Wightman described in her statement receiving a call from her surgeon's secretary who had been asked for information about her treatment by someone purporting to be from Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital.\n\n\"I haven't told them because one, I wanted to call you to check you're OK, and two, because it seemed fishy,\" she said the secretary told her.\n\nThe \"blagging\" attempt was unsuccessful but Andrew Green KC, for MGN, apologised on Wednesday in court saying \"it shouldn't have happened, it did and it won't happen again\".\n\nMs Wightman said the press attention on her began as she was starting to try to recover from cancer.\n\n\"I felt under huge pressure at the point I was being asked to discuss something so personal,\" she told the court.\n\n\"I truly believed it prolonged the time I took to recover. I was anxious, I was on edge, my confidence was at an all-time low.\"\n\nMs Wightman became a subject of tabloid stories again in 2000 when she broke up with Mr Whitehouse, who had an affair with a costume designer he had been working with.\n\nPaul Whitehouse was a famous figure in the 1990s for his comedy sketches in The Fast Show\n\nShe alleged that her mobile voicemail messages to and from Mr Whitehouse were listened to by journalists and private investigators.\n\nThey remained friends with shared children despite the break-up and continued to leave each other voicemail messages, to which she alleges journalists and private investigators listened.\n\nIn her witness statement, she said: \"I was young, I had ovarian cancer, and the prognosis for ovarian cancer then was awful. I was dealing with infertility.\n\n\"My husband had an affair. It sounds like a tragedy. I am not a tragedy, but I was dealing with such incredibly difficult, painful things.\"\n\n\"For someone to have listened to my messages and thought 'there is a great story here' is just awful.\"\n\nThe Mirror papers never published a story about Ms Wightman's cancer, but they did write about Paul Whitehouse's affair.\n\nConcluding her evidence, Ms Wightman said she had been \"really anxious\" about giving evidence.\n\nShe said: \"I've had to discuss some of the most personal things I have had to go through. Most difficult times in my life. The most challenging times. Ironically, it can now be reported. At the time, I chose not to discuss any of it.\"\n\nIn his statement, Mr Whitehouse, who currently stars in BBC Two series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, said: \"It is called a private life for a reason.\"\n\n\"MGN's journalists overstepped the mark. And it was not just my life they were investigating, it was Fiona's, our daughters' and her parents' lives.\n\n\"It makes us both feel very angry and there was zero reason for them to get involved,\" he added.\n\nMs Wightman's claims have been chosen as one of three test cases in this legal action, with many other well-known people also preparing to sue MGM.\n\nPrince Harry has refused to settle his claim against the newspapers, and gave evidence last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMGN apologised in 2015 for using \"unlawful information gathering\" techniques but denies the majority of Ms Wightman's claims.\n\nIt said her allegation that private investigators were accessing credit agencies to get her personal information were false, arguing that journalists were paying for searches on the Electoral Roll.\n\nThe publisher also says her case should be rejected because she failed to take legal action at the time. Victims of privacy breaches usually have a six-year time limit to sue.", "The US's largest Baptist denomination has voted to expel two churches for having female pastors.\n\nA vote by Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) members found Southern Californian megachurch Saddleback and Kentucky's Fern Creek Baptist Church were \"not in friendly cooperation\" with SBC, the Baptist Press reported.\n\nSBC's mission statement says the office of pastor should be \"limited to men.\"\n\nFern Creek's pastor told CBS News it was a \"sad day for Southern Baptists\".\n\nSBC is an association of more than 47,000 Baptist churches with a membership of more than 13 million, the group's website says.\n\nThe church is a protestant denomination of Christianity, with congregations led by pastors.\n\nIn total, five churches have been expelled from SBC for being led by women.\n\nTwo were overwhelmingly voted out at SBC's annual convention in New Orleans after they had tried to appeal their expulsions, the Baptist Press - which describes itself as SBC's official news service - said. The other three did not appeal.\n\n\"This is a sad day for Southern Baptists because they are losing gifted and talented and called women of God, as we continue to proclaim the gospel. Why they want to get rid of folks like us, makes no sense,\" Fern Creek Pastor Linda Barnes Popham said after the vote.\n\nShe said the message the expulsion sends to millions of female members of SBC churches is \"you are not valued.\"\n\n\"Messengers voted for conformity and uniformity rather than unity,\" added Rick Warren, retired founding pastor of Saddleback - which was SBC's second-largest congregation.\n\n\"The only way you will have unity is to love diversity. We made this effort knowing we were not going to win.\"\n\nFollowing the two churches' expulsion, a constitutional amendment was also passed at SBC's annual convention stating that SBC-affiliated churches should employ \"only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture\" - though that is subject to approval at next year's convention.\n\nMike Law, a pastor at Arlington Baptist Church in Texas, said the amendment \"puts us all on the same page about what a pastor is, and who a pastor is: a biblically qualified man.\"\n\nBut Bob Bender, a pastor at Bross Fellowship Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, opposed the motion. \"Should not title and function be synonymous?\" he asked in quotes cited by the Baptist Press.\n\n\"Let's not give women responsibilities to shepherd other women, children or youth and not have their title line up with their responsibilities.\"\n\nIn recent years the SBC has come under increasingly scrutiny from officials.\n\nIn 2022, it was found to have covered up decades of abuse within the church.\n\nA report found that survivors who reported child and sexual abuse within the SBC were met with \"resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility from some within\" the church.", "Videos of migrants being abused are sent to their families demanding ransoms\n\nAfghans fleeing the Taliban are being kidnapped and tortured by gangs as they try to cross the border between Iran and Turkey on their way to Europe, a BBC investigation has found. The gangs then send videos of the abuse to the families of migrants being held hostage, demanding a ransom for their release.\n\nWarning: this article contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing\n\nShackled together on a mountain-top with padlocks around their necks, a group of Afghan migrants beg for their release.\n\n\"Whoever watches this video, I was kidnapped yesterday, they are demanding $4,000 (£3,200) for each one of us. They beat us day and night non-stop,\" says one man, with a bloodied lip, his face caked in dust.\n\nAnother video shows a group of men fully naked, crawling in the snow as someone whips them from behind.\n\n\"I have family, don't do this to me; I have a wife and children, have mercy, please,\" one man cries in another, shortly before he is filmed being sexually abused at knifepoint by one of the gangs.\n\nThese disturbing videos are evidence of a growing criminal enterprise, in which gangs in Iran kidnap mainly Afghan migrants trying to make their way to Europe.\n\nThe migration route from Afghanistan to Iran, then across the border into Turkey and onto the rest of Europe, has been used for decades. In fact, I took part of the same journey myself 12 years ago when fleeing Iran for the UK, where I was granted asylum.\n\nBut the route is now more dangerous than ever.\n\nThose trying to cross from Iran into Turkey walk for hours over dry, mountainous terrain with no trees to provide shade, making it harder to avoid security forces who patrol the area.\n\nAs hundreds of thousands have fled Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, gangs have seen an opportunity to profit from the huge increase in the number of people making the journey.\n\nOften in collaboration with the smugglers, they are kidnapping people on the Iranian side of the border, extorting money from vulnerable groups who have often already paid large sums in order to ensure safe passage.\n\nHundreds of thousands have fled Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021\n\nThe BBC team heard stories of torture from at least 10 locations along the border. One activist who has been documenting the abuse for the past three years told us he received as many as two or three videos of torture a day at its peak.\n\nIn an apartment in Turkey's commercial capital Istanbul, we meet Amina.\n\nShe had a successful career as a police officer in Afghanistan, but fled the country when she realised the Taliban were going to retake power, having received threats before from the group.\n\nSoftly-spoken and wearing a purple headscarf, she told me about her experience on the border when she and her family were taken hostage by a gang.\n\n\"I was very scared, I was terrified, because I was pregnant and there was no doctor. We had heard many stories of young boys being raped.\"\n\nHer father Haji told us the gang sent him a video showing the torture of an unknown Afghan man after they had kidnapped Amina and other members of his family.\n\n\"This was the situation I was in. By sending these videos they were warning me. If you don't pay the ransom we will kill your daughters and your son-in-law,\" he says.\n\nHaji sold his house in Afghanistan to pay the gang and get his family released. They then tried again to get into Turkey, this time successfully.\n\nBut the eight-day ordeal on the border was too much for Amina.\n\nAside from the gangs, Amina and others face another major obstacle along their route: The wall.\n\nSnaking more than half the length of the Turkish-Iranian border, it stands three metres high and is fortified with barbed wire and electronic sensors, as well as watch-towers funded by the European Union (EU).\n\nA fortified concrete wall now stretches more than half the length of Turkey's border with Iran\n\nTurkey began building the wall in 2017 in order to stop migrants crossing into the country, but they are still coming.\n\nAmina and several others told us they fell into the hands of violent gangs on the Iranian side after Turkish authorities had pushed them back over the border at night, allegations which have also been documented by international rights groups.\n\nMahmut Kagan, a Turkish human rights lawyer who represents asylum seekers, insists this practice, which is illegal under international law, is helping the gangs to exploit people.\n\n\"It's very much related to the pushbacks - those violations - because it creates a fragile group open to all forms of abuses,\" he says.\n\nTurkish authorities did not respond to the BBC's request for comment about these allegations. But in the face of similar accusations from human rights groups the government has denied pushbacks, saying any activities to prevent illegal entry into Turkey are carried out within the scope of border management.\n\nBefore the wall was built, many locals used to make a living by smuggling goods across the border. That trade has largely vanished now, meaning some have switched to kidnapping or trafficking migrants instead.\n\nIn Van, the closest Turkish city to the Iranian border and a hub for migrant trafficking, we met a young Afghan man called Ahmed in a stable repurposed as a safehouse, as he negotiated the next leg of his journey with smugglers.\n\nAhmed's brother was kidnapped on the Iranian side of the border with his extended family when they tried to flee the Taliban last year.\n\nIt was Ahmed, then still in Afghanistan, who received the calls from the gang demanding a ransom.\n\n\"I said we don't have money, the kidnapper was beating my brother. We could hear it down the line,\" he says.\n\nAhmed made the journey six months after his own family were kidnapped\n\nAhmed sold his family's belongings to pay for their release. But the experience wasn't enough to stop him trying the same journey himself six months later, desperate to make a living after the economic crisis that followed the Taliban takeover.\n\nIn the Afghan capital Kabul, we met Said, back where he started after six failed attempts to escape Afghanistan and make it to Turkey.\n\nHe had been promised a fake document that would allow him to cross to Turkey. Instead he says he was betrayed by his contact and sold to a gang, who tortured him and demanded a $10,000 (£7,990) ransom.\n\n\"I was very scared. They could do anything to me. Take out my eyes, sell my kidneys, take out my heart,\" he says.\n\nBut he told us it was his dignity that he feared losing the most, after he overheard the gang discussing how they could rape him and send the video to his family back home.\n\nWe asked the Iranian government what was being done to crack down on the gangs' activities along the border, but we did not receive a response.\n\nThe BBC is banned from reporting inside Iran, so we were not able to cross the border to investigate further.\n\nWeeks after our interview, Said contacted us to tell us that he was back on the move and had reached Tehran again. That was eight months ago - and we have not heard from him since.\n\nOthers we met who did make it to Turkey, like Amina, are trying to look to the future with optimism.\n\n\"I won't give up. I know I'll become a mother,\" she says. \"I know I'll be strong.\"\n\nWe have changed the names of some interviewees in this report for their security.", "That's it then for the third day of witness hearings in the Covid inquiry. More evidence will be taken tomorrow before the first senior politicians, including former Prime Minister David Cameron, appear in front of Baroness Hallett next week.\n\nA quick recap of what was said today:\n\nBruce Mann, a former civil servant in the cabinet officer and Professor David Alexander from University College London, presented their joint report on the structures and systems which should have been in place in a national emergency like Covid.\n\nThey found that planning for a “novel diseases pandemic” like coronavirus was \"wholly inadequate\" and said it was clear that both the health and social care sectors in England were liable to be overwhelmed.\n\nBoth men would like to see a radical rewrite of the UK’s emergency plans going forwards saying a future pandemic is \"inevitable\".\n\nThis morning we heard from Prof David Heymann, now at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, but one of the top officials in the World Health Organisation in 2003 when the first Sars outbreak hit countries in Asia.\n\nProf Heymann said that Sars and another related disease, Mers, had a \"profound effect\" on countries like Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. He believes those countries were more successful than the UK and other European countries in containing the early spread of Covid in 2020 as a result, noting \"much, much lower\" mortality rates.", "Blimey. This is a report - in breadth and depth - that demolishes Boris Johnson's character and conduct.\n\nLet's be blunt: it says he lied.\n\nThe spine of the biography of Boris Johnson has his relationship with the truth running straight down it.\n\nSacked from The Times for making up a quote, when he was a young reporter. Sacked from the Conservative front bench for lying about an affair.\n\nJust 40 weeks ago, Mr Johnson was prime minister, the figurehead of a government with a big majority.\n\nCatapulted first to the backbenches and now out of Parliament too, the demolition of Mr Johnson's career by his own peers has been brutally quick.\n\nIt is about the fundamental pillars upon which public life - and society at large - is constructed.\n\nThe sanctity of truth. The contempt for lies.\n\nA committee of MPs, four Conservatives and three others, tasked with delivering their verdict. Those committee members could never have imagined finding themselves at the centre of an inquiry of such gravity.\n\nMany are not widely known names.\n\nI don't say that to deprecate or belittle them for a second, but to emphasise the power of Parliament.\n\nA power Boris Johnson is feeling today like never before.\n\nThe crux of Mr Johnson's defence is this was cock up, not conspiracy.\n\nThat however forensic and conscientious this committee, how could it crawl into the mind of Mr Johnson to understand his intent?\n\nIt tried to do the former and claims to have managed to have done the latter.\n\n\"The committee now says that I deliberately misled the House, and at the moment I spoke I was consciously concealing from the House my knowledge of illicit events. This is rubbish. It is a lie,\" he claims.\n\nOne former cabinet minister I was talking to said - hoped - that \"ex MPs become very ex very quickly\".\n\nThey added, from reading the Tory MP WhatsApp groups and public statements in recent days, that Boris Johnson has only a shrivelled rump of parliamentary support.\n\nBut others will wonder if this report - as punishingly brutal as it is - may motivate a martyrdom, may rally support.\n\n\"Spiteful, vindictive and overreaching\" is the verdict of one Boris Johnson supporter on the Tory backbenches, Brendan Clarke-Smith.\n\nOne minister said to me: \"Boris is the sort of bloke who could fall down a manhole head first and still land on his feet.\"\n\nBut this is one heck of a manhole.", "Colin Pitchfork was jailed in 1988 but released in 2021 before his recall to prison two months later\n\nDouble child killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork has been granted parole and will be released from prison.\n\nPitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two 15-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986.\n\nThe 63-year-old was released in 2021, before being arrested and sent back to prison two months later.\n\nFollowing a hearing held in private in April, the Parole Board has decided Pitchfork can be released.\n\nPitchfork was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence.\n\nIn its decision, the Parole Board \"determined that it was no longer necessary for the protection of the public for Mr Pitchfork to remain confined and thereby directed his release\".\n\n\"The prisoner had committed shocking, serious offences, causing immeasurable harm to his victims,\" it said.\n\n\"The panel noted that Mr Pitchfork has been in prison for a very long time. His behaviour for almost all of that time has not caused any concern... and the evidence before the panel demonstrated that he had learnt the lessons that he had been taught and had worked out how to apply them in practice.\"\n\nDawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann were raped and murdered by Pitchfork\n\nLin Garner, a friend of Dawn's mother Barbara, told the BBC \"it's hard to put into words how we feel\".\n\n\"I know the torture they have gone through and now they are going through it over and over again. It makes you feel so despairing,\" she said.\n\n\"Both families must be going through hell again. Barbara is devastated, each time it happens it's another knife, it's like a torture.\n\n\"We know there are rules but following the rules doesn't make it right. There isn't a rulebook for this, it's about people and about getting real justice.\"\n\nPitchfork, jailed for a minimum of 30 years in 1988, was originally deemed suitable for release in 2021 - after serving 33 years - a decision that sparked a public outcry and saw the government challenge it.\n\nSince then the government has announced proposed changes to the parole system, which would include giving ministers powers to block the release of serious offenders.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the reforms were part of the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which is currently in committee stage.\n\nPitchfork was recalled to prison shortly after his release, after he was understood to have approached young women on multiple occasions while out on walks from the bail hostel where he was living.\n\nBut the Parole Board panel found Pitchfork's recall to custody was \"flawed and not supported by the evidence\".\n\nThe Parole Board said while on licence, Pitchfork was warned over his attitude towards probation and for speaking to a lone female, who he said he had \"spoken to, and gave directions to\" in a car park outside a Probation Service office.\n\nIn November, it was also suggested Pitchfork had taken \"counter measures\" to affect the result of a polygraph test.\n\nFour days later, Pitchfork was recalled to custody by the secretary of state, which was the then justice secretary Dominic Raab.\n\nPitchfork was told this was because \"he had disclosed approaching a lone female, which caused concern that he was approaching young females and frequenting places young females were likely to go\".\n\nThe secretary of state also advised Pitchfork that he \"had spent time walking in forest/park areas, on occasion wearing a high-visibility jacket and claiming to litter pick, had been confrontational and aggressive towards his probation officer, and had been suspected of using 'counter-measures' in his polygraph test\".\n\nWhen the Parole Board reviewed the recall decision, \"the secretary of state accepted that there was no evidence to support the allegation that Mr Pitchfork had gone out purporting to pick litter wearing a high-visibility jacket\".\n\n\"He had been allowed to undertake litter picking and this was something that he had previously done in prison. He had not worn a high-visibility jacket when doing so in the community,\" the Parole Board said.\n\n\"The secretary of state accepted that he had been in receipt of inaccurate information at the time the recall decision was made.\n\n\"Aside from Mr Pitchfork's contact with a lone female of unknown age, in the probation car park, which was only known about because of his own admission, it was confirmed that there was no evidence that Mr Pitchfork had approached any young females.\"\n\nFormer justice secretary Dominic Raab previously said he understood the public's frustration at the Pitchfork case\n\nPitchfork's probation officer had also not been consulted on the decision to send him back to prison, the panel added.\n\n\"The panel considered this to be concerning because it was not an emergency recall decision and the probation officer would have been most aware of any increasing risk in the case,\" it said.\n\nThe panel concluded the decision to send Pitchfork back to custody was \"made on the basis of some of the allegations not being proved and upon some incorrect information\".\n\nThe new licence conditions on Pitchfork include surrendering his passport, to disclose developing relationships and an \"exclusion zone to avoid contact with victims, women and children\".\n\nAlberto Costa, MP for South Leicestershire where the teenagers were killed, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the board's decision.\n\n\"I would like to reassure constituents that I will be writing to the justice secretary to ask that he seek an immediate and urgent review,\" he said.\n\n\"It is simply unthinkable that a man who committed such egregious crimes should ever be released, and I will be asking the government to challenge this decision in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nAn MoJ spokesperson added: \"This will be a very upsetting decision for the families of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth and our heartfelt sympathies remain with them.\n\n\"Pitchfork will remain in prison while the Lord Chancellor looks extremely carefully at whether to ask the Parole Board to reconsider its decision.\"\n\nFollowing its decision, a Parole Board spokesperson said: \"Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority, however our sole focus in law is risk, not punishment, and must be based on evidence.\n\n\"This case is eligible for reconsideration if any party thinks the decision is irrational or unfair.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NASUWT teaching union believes the level of violence against school staff is increasing\n\nThousands of cases of classroom violence recorded in Wales are \"the tip of the iceberg\", a union has said.\n\nOne special school teacher, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he had been assaulted numerous times: \"Spat at, punched, headbutted, kicked, bitten.\"\n\nThe NASUWT said systems for reporting aggression were \"a mess\" and staff who were targeted felt unsupported.\n\nData obtained by Welsh Tories suggests at least 5,000 recorded violence cases against school staff from 2018 to 2022.\n\nConservatives have called for a national helpline for staff and new guidance on collecting data.\n\nThe Welsh government said any abuse of staff was \"completely unacceptable\", while the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said councils were supportive of all school staff.\n\nWales' education minister Jeremy Miles told BBC Radio Wales on Thursday that every single school should be a welcoming environment to go to work and a safe environment for staff and for pupils.\n\nThe anonymous teacher said: \"Colleagues have had hair set on fire.\n\n\"Pupils have violently attacked staff. Not just a single punch, but have continually gone at them.\n\n\"Not all management will admit what is going on in their school.\"\n\nHe said the impact was even worse \"when you don't feel supported by your managers.\"\n\nAcknowledging that the reasons for violent behaviour were complex, he said delays for mental health assessments and treatment for young people played a part.\n\nThe teacher believed the influence of pranks on social media and tiredness after staying up all night on phones can be factors too.\n\n\"Not all management will admit what is going on in their school,\" a teacher tells Bethan Lewis\n\nHe said some colleagues in primary and secondary schools had experienced similar incidents.\n\nWorking with children with behavioural challenges in a special school should not mean assaults come with the territory, he said.\n\n\"I'm a teacher just like anybody else. I work in this environment because they're the most vulnerable.\"\n\nIt should be \"the most rewarding\", supporting the pupils \"we can help the most,\" he added.\n\nAnother teacher from Swansea who spoke of receiving abuse told BBC Radio Wales a pupil swore at him repeatedly after he asked him to remove his Airpods in a lesson.\n\n\"Why has this become an everyday occurrence in Wales where teachers have zero powers to do anything about it?\" he asked. \"In the health service they have a zero tolerance policy for abuse. But not in education.\"\n\nResponses to Freedom of Information requests by Welsh Conservatives showed at least 5,000 incidents of violence against staff were recorded by local authorities between 2018 and 2022.\n\nSome councils included data for incidents in special schools and pupil referral units as well as mainstream settings, while others did not specify.\n\nSeveral local authorities said they had provided data only for physical assaults, but it was not clear whether others had included verbal assaults too.\n\nOf the councils that responded, three - Flintshire, Torfaen and Pembrokeshire - said they did not hold data on aggression towards staff, but schools would or might have the information.\n\nViolence has \"been bad for a good few years, but it's getting worse,\" says Neil Butler of the NASUWT\n\nSome councils, including Carmarthenshire, provided more detailed information about the type of violence and aggression experienced by staff and the settings where it had occurred.\n\nThe Conservatives' education spokesperson Laura Anne Jones called the figures \"highly concerning\" and claimed it was \"a hidden crisis with the Welsh government failing to ever mention this crisis or bring these figures to light\".\n\nShe said: \"The Welsh government have allowed this to turn into a full-blown crisis and it's taken my office and I digging up these statistics for the issue to even be acknowledged.\n\n\"To make this situation worse in Wales we have no reporting standard and no requirement to report abuse or violence in the classroom. So, the thousands of incidents we already know about are just the tip of the iceberg and the actual picture is probably far far worse in reality.\"\n\nThe NASUWT said it believed the level of violence against education staff was accelerating, and the impact of the pandemic on young people could be a reason.\n\n\"It's been bad for a good few years, but it's getting worse,\" said Neil Butler, the union's national official for Wales.\n\n\"Part of the problem there is that lack of recognition. So our members are fending off this violence every day in schools across Wales and feeling particularly unsupported.\"\n\nHe said the situation was \"increasing the numbers who want to leave\" the profession, and there was a need for more staff to offer one-to-one support for learners who are struggling and reacting with aggression.\n\n\"Before even that though you've got to get the figures right,\" he added.\n\n\"At the moment it's a mess in terms of how the figures are reported - different employers seem to take it more seriously than others, some are recording it, some are not.\n\n\"We need to know what the extent of the problem is, where the problem is so they can focus those resources down on the schools that need the help.\"\n\nEarlier this year the Senedd's children, young people and education committee wrote to Education Minister Jeremy Miles, raising concerns about evidence it heard from councils and unions.\n\nThe WLGA had told the committee that local authorities have seen a rise in exclusions over the last academic year and \"a large proportion of these have been related to incidents of verbal and physical aggression to staff from pupils\".\n\nThe Welsh government said in a statement any form of violence or abuse against staff in our schools was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"Schools must be safe and welcoming environments where teachers can get on with their jobs, helping pupils achieve the best they can.\n\n\"There is a duty on local authorities and schools to ensure schools are a safe environment for all,\" it said.\n\n\"If at any point the environment within a school becomes unsafe, the school should ensure that the relevant authorities are informed so that appropriate support can be made available,\" the statement added.\n\nMr Miles said it was important to understand the scale of the problem and the underlying issues in order to tackle it properly.", "Boris Johnson could be denied a parliamentary pass, after a report found he deliberately misled Parliament over the Partygate scandal.\n\nHe would normally be offered one as a former MP, having stood down from Parliament in fury last week after seeing an advance copy of the report.\n\nIn any case, he will still be entitled to a number of perks - most of them related to his role as a former prime minister.\n\nHere's a breakdown of what he can expect in his life outside the House of Commons.\n\nHe will lose his annual MP salary of £86,584 - but he's unlikely to be short of a bob or two, having earned around £6m since standing down as PM last September, mainly from speaking engagements.\n\nHe's entitled to both an MP and ministerial pension at some point, which are administered under different schemes.\n\nHe would also have been automatically entitled to a severance payment of around £19,000 when he left Downing Street.\n\nAs a former MP, he will be able to claim for costs incurred in leaving Parliament, including closing down constituency offices.\n\nBut he won't be able to claim the separate payment available to MPs leaving at a general election, equal to two months' net pay, or around £9,800.\n\nAnd he won't be able to claim the loss-of-office payment for those who lose their seat at an election, which averaged £5,250 after the 2019 poll.\n\nFormer prime ministers continue to receive publicly-funded security from specialist police protection officers.\n\nThey are also entitled to an official chauffeur-driven government car.\n\nBoris Johnson has been hitting the speaking circuit since leaving Downing Street\n\nFormer ministers are entitled to public funding for legal support if they are sued over decisions they took whilst in government. This does not apply for \"personal\" actions against them, for example if they are sued for libel.\n\nAs a former minister, he would normally be expected to receive taxpayer-funded legal help for his evidence to the ongoing Covid inquiry.\n\nDocuments submitted to the inquiry show that he was receiving support from the government's in-house legal department, but he cut ties with them in May after being referred to police for potential rule breaches during the pandemic.\n\nShortly afterwards, he said he was \"instructing new solicitors\" but this was dependent on funding being agreed with the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe department, however, has since said he won't get funding if he tries to \"undermine\" the government's position in relation to the inquiry, amid a row over the submission of his unredacted WhatsApps.\n\nAll former prime ministers since John Major have been entitled to a yearly £115,000 allowance to support their \"special position in public life\".\n\nThey can claim from it to fund things like running an office, paying for staff, and travel to events where they are appearing as an ex-PM. The money can't be used to support private or parliamentary duties.\n\nIt is not yet known whether Mr Johnson has claimed it since leaving No 10, as the most recent annual figures are yet to be published.\n\nFormer premiers have not always claimed the full amount. It is not paid automatically, and they have to provide receipts.\n\nIn addition, they can claim up to 10% of the yearly allowance to put towards the pensions of their staff.\n\nEx-MPs are entitled to a parliamentary pass, the so-called former member's pass, which was known as an \"X\" pass.\n\nIt gives access to certain parts of Parliament and some of the catering facilities.\n\nFormer MPs are not allowed to use the pass to help with \"lobbying\" - or trying to influence - government ministers.\n\nBut the committee has recommended that Mr Johnson shouldn't be given one. All MPs will vote on the suggested sanction next week.\n\nHe will also remain a member of the Privy Council, the body that meets around once a month to get the monarch's formal approval for government orders approved by ministers.\n\nThere are several hundred privy councillors, although only current members of the government are involved in day-to-day business.\n\nAll cabinet ministers, including prime ministers, are appointed for life.\n\nThe only prime minister to have been removed from the list of privy councillors was short-lived premier William Cavendish, who was struck off by King George III when he suspected him of plotting against him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Take a look inside Banksy's first solo exhibition in 14 years\n\nThe graffiti artist Banksy has announced his first official solo exhibition for 14 years.\n\nIt will run at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art from Sunday.\n\nThe show, which will feature work from right across his career, is called CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour.\n\nBanksy has used original stencils to create new versions of many of his famous works, including Kissing Coppers which first appeared on a wall of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton in 2004.\n\nAlso featured will be Mobile Lovers, from Bristol in 2014, which features a hugging couple who are both looking at their screen over the other's shoulder.\n\nA new version of Kissing Coppers, which first appeared in 2004, will be among the works on show in Glasgow\n\nGallery steward Louisa Mcgeachie takes a closer look the stencil piece Girl with Balloon\n\nBanksy has created a new version of Mobile Lovers\n\nBanksy previously organised the temporary art project Dismaland in a Somerset resort which closed in 2015 - this was a collaboration of more than 50 artists including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and Jimmy Cauty.\n\nThe latest show aims to reveal the whole behind-the-scenes process of how his works are made, with original sketches on display as well as the stencils, which have been painted on to give them a new lease of life.\n\nThis was not a decision made lightly by Banksy, who has not given a face-to-face interview since 2003 and has never revealed his true identity, but is believed to be around 50 and from the Bristol area.\n\nIn a typically self-deprecating statement, he explained: \"I've kept these stencils hidden away for years, mindful they could be used as evidence in a charge of criminal damage.\n\n\"But that moment seems to have passed, so now I'm exhibiting them in a gallery as works of art. I'm not sure which is the greater crime.\"\n\nThe large exhibition also includes a detailed model explaining exactly how Banksy managed to shred his Girl With Balloon painting during an auction at Sotheby's in London in 2018.\n\nA model explains how Banksy managed to shred his Girl With Balloon\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The anonymous artist uploaded a video of the destruction onto Instagram but soon deleted the post\n\nThe work had just been auctioned for £1m, when an alarm went off inside the frame and the picture dropped into a hidden shredder. A malfunction meant that the destruction stopped just over halfway.\n\nBanksy declared that it was now a new piece of work titled Love Is In The Bin and three years later the original buyer sold it for more than 20 times what they had paid for it.\n\nOther exhibits include the Union Flag stab vest worn by Stormzy when he headlined Glastonbury in 2019 and pieces previously only seen in Bethlehem in the West Bank, including a pillow fight between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian citizen.\n\nThe artist's most recent solo show was 2009's Banksy versus Bristol Museum, which included a burnt-out ice cream van in the main entrance hall, playing out spooky sounds as a giant ice cream melted on its roof.\n\nBanksy has held an exhibition in Glasgow before. He was a relative unknown when in 2001 he jointly put on Peace Is Tough at The Arches venue, with Jamie Reid, famous for his design work with The Sex Pistols.\n\nThe event is described as having been poorly attended but did feature early works including Monkey Queen.\n\nHe also created a number of stencil-based works around the city, none of which still exist.\n\nThe announcement for Banksy's new show says that \"the artist has been plagued by a number of unsanctioned global exhibitions in recent years\", a reference to events such as The Art of Banksy, which are completely unauthorised.\n\nThe Art of Banksy, which returns to London in September, describes itself as \"the world's largest collection of original and authenticated Banksy artworks\" and states that is has had 1.5 million visitors around the globe.\n\nIn a statement Banksy jokes: \"While the unauthorised Banksy shows might look like sweepings from my studio floor, CUT & RUN really is the actual sweepings from my studio floor.\"\n\nThere is a reason why the exhibition is being held at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art.\n\nIn a sign welcoming people to the venue, Banksy explains that he brought the show here because his \"favourite work of art in the UK\" is right outside.\n\nHe writes: \"For anyone who isn't aware - the statue out the front has had a cone on its head continuously for the past 40 odd years. Despite the best efforts of the council and the police, every time one is removed another takes its place.\"\n\nThe exhibition will be staged at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art\n\nBanksy is referring to the 1844 statue of the first Duke of Wellington sitting on a horse.\n\nMembers of the public have been placing road cones on the statue's head for more than four decades, making it a Glasgow institution, one which featured in the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony when Glasgow hosted the event in 2014.\n\nThe Lonely Planet travel guide once included it in a list of the Top 10 most bizarre monuments on earth.\n\nNow that road cone has brought Banksy back to Glasgow.\n\nCUT & RUN is on until 28th August and at weekends will stay open all night. There are plans for the exhibition to tour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Wander with Mac YouTube channel now has more than 400,000 subscribers\n\nFor two years Scottish pensioner Pat McErlean has been posting videos about his camping trips on YouTube - with limited success.\n\nBut the 74-year-old's Wander with Mac channel has gone viral overnight after catching the attention of an influential TikTok account.\n\nIn his whimsical films, he takes viewers on tours of the countryside near his home in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nOne TikTok promoting his videos has been viewed 12 million times.\n\nPat told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that he enjoys his new nickname of \"grandad\" from the \"young yins\" who watch his videos on TikTok.\n\n\"I got a message from one of the guys that has a holiday home in my village saying 'Pat get on to your YouTube channel, something's happening',\" he said.\n\n\"I think they like the way I put things. Instead of being called an old git or something they say 'that's my grandad'.\"\n\nPat and Morag have documented their travels around Scotland on the channel since 2021\n\nPat's lifelong passion for camping was inspired by the gift of an Ordnance Survey map when he was 10 years old.\n\nHe created his channel two years ago to document his camping trips with his dog, Morag, with a storytelling style inspired by Scottish film maker John Grierson and presenter Tom Weir.\n\n\"I've been in camping off and on since I was a laddie,\" he said.\n\n\"When I was 10 years old I lived near Edinburgh and I used to disappear up the Pentlands at night and go for long walks.\"\n\nNow retired and living in Garlieston, he said: \"I wanted to do something - something different, something that I'd enjoy - something that was a bit of an adventure so I thought well let's do some camping and I've enjoyed every minute of it.\"\n\nPat has camped since he was young, starting out with long walks at the Pentland Hills in Edinburgh\n\nHis channel has found greater success after it was promoted by musician Kristian Keenan on TikTok.\n\nKeenan wanted to promote a channel with \"little to no views\" on YouTube. His video about Pat has now been viewed more than 12 million times.\n\nThe number of subscribers to Pat's YouTube channel has jumped to more than 400,000 as a result of the endorsement.\n\nPat has now set up his own TikTok account, also called Wander with Mac. It already has more subscribers than the creator who promoted him.\n\nWith help from donations, Pat can continue travelling in his campervan\n\nPat has since been in touch with Kristian Keenan who was equally surprised by the success of the video.\n\n\"I'm not that tech savvy but I managed to get on TikTok and find out who the guy was, he said.\n\n\"I contacted him and we've exchanged messages and he was gobsmacked as well.\n\n\"He thought 'I might get this old guy 500 or maybe a couple of thousand extra subscriptions and get his channel monetized'. He couldn't believe it either.\"\n\nPat has had to put his camping hobby on hold recently due to health problems, so Keenan has helped raise more than £1,000 to help with the cost of running a campervan.", "Songmi Park, now 21, is among the most recent North Korean escapees to make it to Seoul\n\nSongmi Park dug her toes into the edge of the riverbank as she prepared to cross.\n\nShe knew she was supposed to be afraid. The river was deep, and the current looked strong. If she was caught she would certainly be punished, perhaps even shot. But she felt a pull far stronger than her fear. She was leaving North Korea to find her mother, who had left her behind as a child.\n\nAs Songmi waded through the icy water at dusk, she felt as if she was flying.\n\nIt was 31 May 2019. \"How can I forget the best and worst day of my life?\" she says.\n\nEscaping North Korea is a dangerous and difficult feat. In recent years Kim Jong Un has clamped down harder on those trying to flee. Then, at the outset of the pandemic, he sealed the country's borders, making Songmi, then 17, one of the last known people to make it out.\n\nThis was the second time Songmi had crossed the Yalu River, which separates North Korea from China, providing escapees with their easiest route out.\n\nThe first time she left she was strapped to her mother's back as a child. Those memories are still as piercing as if they were yesterday .\n\nShe remembers hiding at a relative's pig farm in China, when the state police came looking for them. She remembers her mother and father pleading not to be sent back. \"Send me instead,\" the relative had cried. The police beat him until his face bled.\n\nBack in North Korea, she remembers her father with his hands cuffed behind his back. And she remembers standing on the train station platform, watching both her parents be transported to one of North Korea's infamous prison camps. She was four years old.\n\nSongmi was sent to live with her father's parents on their farm in Musan, a North Korean town half-an-hour from the Chinese border. Going to school was not an option, they told her. Education is free in Communist North Korea, but families are often expected to bribe teachers, and Songmi's grandparents could not afford to.\n\nInstead she spent her childhood roaming the countryside, hunting for clovers to feed the rabbits on the farm. She was often sick, even during summer. \"I didn't eat much and so my immunity was low,\" she says. \"But when I woke up from my sickness my grandmother would always have left me a snack on the windowsill.\"\n\nSongmi with her mother as a toddler\n\nOne evening, five years after the train rolled out of the station bound for the prison camp, her father slipped softly into bed behind her, wrapping her in his arms. She buzzed with excitement. Life could begin again. But three days later, he died. His time in prison had chipped away at his health.\n\nWhen Songmi's mother, Myung-hui, arrived home the following week to find her husband dead, she was distraught. She made an unthinkable decision. She would try to escape North Korea again. Alone.\n\nOn the morning her mother left, Songmi says she could sense something was different. Her mother had dressed strangely, in her grandmother's clothes. \"I didn't know what she was planning but I knew that if she left, I wouldn't see her for a long time,\" she says. As her mother walked out of the house, Songmi curled under her bedsheet and cried.\n\nThe next 10 years were to be her toughest.\n\nWithin two years her grandfather had died. Now she was alone at the age of 10, caring for her bed-ridden grandmother, with no source of income: \"One by one my family were disappearing. It was so scary.\"\n\nIn times of desperation, if you know what to look for, the dense mountains of North Korea can provide meagre sustenance. Every morning Songmi began the two-hour walk up into the mountains, hunting for plants to eat and sell. Certain herbs could be sold as medicine at her local market, but first they needed to be washed, trimmed, and dried by hand, meaning she worked late into the night.\n\n\"I couldn't work or plan for tomorrow. Every day I was trying not to starve, to survive the day.\"\n\nJust 300 miles away, as the crow flies, Myung-hui had arrived in South Korea.\n\nHaving journeyed for a year through China and then into neighbouring Laos, then Thailand, she reached a South Korean embassy.\n\nThe South Korean government, which has an agreement to resettle North Korean escapees, flew her to Seoul. She settled in the industrial town of Ulsan on the south coast. Desperate to earn money that could pay for her daughter's escape, she cleaned the inside of ships at a ship-building factory every day without rest. Escaping from North Korea is expensive. It requires a middleman who can help to navigate the hurdles, and money to bribe anyone who gets in the way.\n\nAt night Myung-hui would sit alone in the dark and think about her daughter, about what she was doing, and what she looked like. Songmi's birthdays were the hardest. She would take a doll from the cupboard and talk to it, pretending it was her daughter, looking for some way to keep their connection alive.\n\nAs Songmi's mother recounts their time apart, from the safety of her kitchen table, she starts to cry. Her daughter strokes her arm. \"Stop crying, all your pretty make-up is getting ruined,\" she says.\n\nAfter paying a broker £17,000 ($20,400), Myung-hui was finally able to arrange her daughter's escape. Suddenly, Songmi's decade of waiting, with dwindling hope, was over.\n\nAfter crossing the Yalu River into China, she kept herself hidden, stealthily moving between locations at night, afraid of being caught once more. She rode a bus over the mountains and into Laos, where she took shelter in a church, before making it to the South Korean embassy. She slept at the embassy for another three months, before being flown to South Korea. When she arrived, she spent months in a resettlement facility, which is typical for North Korean escapees. The whole journey took one year but, to Songmi, it felt like 10.\n\nFinally reunited, she and her mother sit eating bowls of Myung-hui's homemade noodles in a spicy, cold broth.\n\nThe classic North Korean dish is Songmi's favourite. In contrast to her mother's guilt, Songmi radiates an infectious energy. She laughs and jokes as she comforts her mother, concealing any sign of her childhood trauma.\n\n\"The day before I was released from the resettlement centre, I was so nervous. I wasn't sure what I would say to my mother,\" she says. \"I wanted to look pretty in front of her, but I'd gained so much weight during my defection and my hair was a mess.\"\n\n\"I was really nervous too,\" Myung-hui admits.\n\nIn fact Myung-hui didn't recognise her daughter, whom she had last seen when she was eight. Now she was meeting an 18-year-old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why did you leave me behind?' Songmi asks her mother\n\n\"Here she was in front of me, so I just accepted this must be her,\" Myung-hui says. \"There was so much I wanted to say, but the words wouldn't come out. I just hugged her and said, 'Well done, you've gone through so much to get here'\".\n\nSongmi says her mind went blank. \"We just cried and hugged for 15 minutes. The whole process felt like a dream\".\n\nAs Songmi and her mother work to build their relationship from scratch, there is one question Songmi has never mustered the courage to ask. It is a question she has asked herself every day since she was eight years old.\n\nNow, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.\n\nNervously, Myung-hui starts to explain. Their first escape had been her idea. How could she then return home from prison to live with her in-laws, reminding them every day that she had survived, when their son had died? She had no money, and could not see a way for her and Songmi to survive alone.\n\n\"I wanted to bring you, but the broker said no children,\" she says. \"And, if we got caught again, we would both suffer. So I asked your grandmother to watch you for a year.\"\n\n\"I see,\" Songmi says, her eyes cast down. \"Only one year became 10.\"\n\n\"That morning I left, my feet wouldn't move, but your grandfather hurried me along. He told me to get out. I want you to know, I didn't abandon you. I wanted to provide you with a better life. This seemed like the right choice.\"\n\nThis choice might seem unthinkable to anyone living outside North Korea. But these are the gut-wrenching decisions and risks people must take in order to escape - and it is getting tougher. The government, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, has increased security along the border and imposed harsher punishments on those who are caught trying to escape.\n\nBefore 2020 more than 1,000 North Koreans would make it to South Korea every year. In 2020, the year Songmi arrived, the number had fallen to 229.\n\nWhen the pandemic broke out early that year, North Korea sealed its borders and banned people from travelling around the country. Soldiers along the border were ordered to shoot and kill anyone they spotted trying to escape. Last year just 67 North Koreans arrived in the South, most of whom had left the North before the pandemic.\n\nSongmi was one of the last to make it out before the borders closed. Her memories are therefore valuable, as they offer a recent and an increasingly rare insight into life inside the world's most secretive state.\n\nShe recalls how the summers were getting hotter. By 2017, the crops started to dry out and die, leaving nothing to eat between autumn and spring. But farmers were still expected to hand over the same crop yield to the government each year, which meant being left with less, sometimes nothing, to eat. They began to forage in the mountains for food. Some eventually chose to give up farming.\n\nThose who worked in the mine, the other main source of employment in her hometown of Musan, fared worse, she says. The international sanctions imposed on North Korea in 2017, after it tested nuclear weapons, meant no-one could buy the mine's iron ore. The mine almost ceased to operate, and workers stopped receiving their wages. They would sneak into the mine at night, she says, to steal parts, which they could flog. They didn't know how to find food in the wild, like those working the land did.\n\nSongmi spent much of her life in North Korea in Musan\n\nBut by 2019, the biggest fear, other than finding enough food to survive was being caught watching foreign films and TV programmes. These have long been smuggled into the North, and provide citizens with a glimpse of the enticing world that exists beyond their borders. Images of glamourous modern-day South Korea, portrayed in K-dramas, pose the biggest threat to the government.\n\n\"Watching a South Korean film would have got you a fine or perhaps sent to a regular prison for two or three years, but by 2019 watching the same movie would get you sent to a political prison camp,\" Songmi says.\n\nShe was found with an Indian film on a USB stick, but managed to convince the security officer that she hadn't known the film was on there, and escaped with a fine. Her friend was not so fortunate. One day, in June 2022, after arriving in South Korea, Songmi received a call from her friend's mother.\n\n\"She told me my friend had been caught with a copy of Squid Game, and because she was the one who had been distributing it, she had been executed,\" Songmi says.\n\nSongmi's account tallies with recent reports from North Korea of people being executed for distributing foreign shows.\n\n\"It seems the situation is even scarier than when I was there. People are being shot or sent to camps for having South Korean media, regardless of their age,\" she says.\n\nAdjusting to life in capitalist, free-wheeling South Korea is often a struggle for North Koreans. It is alienatingly different to anything they have experienced. But Songmi is taking it remarkably in her stride.\n\nShe misses her friends, who she could not tell she was leaving. She misses dancing with them, and the games they used to play with rocks in the dirt.\n\n\"When you meet friends in South Korea you just go shopping or drink coffee,\" she says, a little disparagingly.\n\nWhat has helped Songmi to integrate is her steadfast belief that she is no different to her South Korean peers.\n\n\"After travelling for months through China and Laos, I felt as though I was an orphan, being sent off to live in a foreign country,\" she says. But when she landed at the airport in Seoul the ground staff greeted her with a familiar \"an-nyeong-ha-say-yo\".\n\nThe word for hello, used in both North and South Korea, blew her away: \"I realised we are the same people in the same land. I hadn't come to a different country. I had just travelled south.\"\n\nShe sat in the airport and cried for 10 minutes.\n\nSongmi says she has now found her purpose - to advocate for the two Koreas to be reunited. This is the future that South Koreans are told to dream of, but many do not buy into the dream. The more time passes since the country was divided, the fewer people, particularly the young, see the need for it to come back together.\n\nSongmi visits schools to teach students about the North. She asks who among them has thought about reunification, and typically only a few hands go up. But when she asks them to draw a map of Korea, most sketch the outline of the entire peninsula, including the North and South. This gives her hope.\n\nAs Songmi settles into her relationship with her mother, there are only small glimpses of strain. The pair frequently laugh and hug, and Songmi dries her mother's tears as they explore the painful details of each other's past.\n\nHer mother's choice was the right one, Songmi says, because they are both now living happily in South Korea.\n\nMyung-hui may not have been able to recognise her daughter initially, but the pair look strikingly alike. Now she can see her 19-year-old self in her daughter.\n\nTheir relationship is more like a friendship or one of sisters. Songmi enjoys telling Myung-hui all the details of her dates.\n\nIt is only when they argue that it hits her.\n\n\"Then I'm like, wow, I really am living with my mother,\" she says, laughing.", "The long-anticipated report by MPs into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid lockdown parties in No 10 is finally out.\n\nThe report by the seven-member privileges committee followed a year-long investigation and runs to 106 pages.\n\nThe former prime minister stood down as an MP last week after receiving an advance copy, angrily accusing the committee of bias.\n\nHere are the key findings.\n\nThe main finding is that he deliberately misled the House of Commons by repeatedly telling it, after the Partygate scandal emerged, that Covid rules had been followed at all times in Downing Street.\n\nHe has already admitted MPs were misled by his original statements, but he says he believed them to be true at the time, and they were based on assurances he had received from officials.\n\nHowever, the report found he had \"personal knowledge\" of breaches of the rules and guidance in No 10.\n\nAnd it added he failed to proactively seek out \"authoritative\" assurances about compliance, which it said amounted to a \"deliberate closing of his mind\".\n\nIt concluded it was \"highly unlikely\" he had really believed the assurances he gave at the time, \"still less that he could continue to believe them to this day\".\n\nThe report therefore concluded he had committed a \"contempt\" of Parliament through his original reassurances, because they stopped MPs from carrying out their \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nThey found that he had also committed a contempt by:\n\nThe committee found that the contempt was \"all the more serious\" because he was the most senior member of the government.\n\nOne key bit of evidence came from Martin Reynolds, his former principal private secretary, a civil servant.\n\nHe told the inquiry that, while preparing for a session of Prime Minister's Questions in December 2021, he had questioned whether it was \"realistic\" for Mr Johnson to say rules had always been followed.\n\nMr Johnson also said he'd been given assurances by his media advisers that rules were followed.\n\nBut the committee said this advice, given in response to press stories, should not have been used to make broad statements about rules being followed at all times.\n\nThe report said he should have obtained an \"authoritative assessment\" before saying this, for example by consulting government lawyers.\n\nThe committee also published new evidence, including a statement from an unnamed No 10 official that there was a \"wider culture of not adhering to any rules\" in the building.\n\nThe official added that birthday parties, leaving parties and end of week gatherings \"all continued as normal\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe committee said before Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, it had wanted to recommend suspending him from for more than 10 days.\n\nThis would have meant he would potentially have faced a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe report also revealed two of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted.\n\nExpulsion is extremely rare in Parliament's history, having occurred only three times in the last hundred years or so.\n\nBut suspending him is no longer an option, given that he's already stood down as an MP in his blistering resignation statement last week.\n\nHowever, the report says that now, given what he's said about the committee, they would have recommended a ban of 90 days - an extremely long ban by the standards of recent years.\n\nAnd it says he should not get a parliamentary pass, which former MPs would normally be able to apply for.\n\nPerhaps the greatest punishment in the report, ultimately, will be the damage it does to his reputation among Conservative MPs - and what it means for his prospects of any future political comeback.", "Glory to Hong Kong has vanished from streaming as authorities prepare to have it banned.\n\nThe unofficial anthem of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2019 has been removed from streaming platforms ahead of a court order that may ban the song.\n\nGlory to Hong Kong had topped the city's iTunes chart last week after the government announced its intention to blacklist the song on security grounds.\n\nOn Wednesday recordings disappeared from Spotify and iTunes.\n\nThe tune has been targeted by authorities after being played in place of the Chinese anthem at some events.\n\nCritics say the anticipated ban is another sign of Beijing's crackdown and efforts to stamp out dissent in Hong Kong against the central Chinese government.\n\nIf Glory to Hong Kong is banned, anyone involved in the broadcast, performance, sale or distribution of the song, including on the internet, could be charged under the city's National Security Law.\n\nHong Kong, a former British colony, is a Special Administrative Region of China and its residents are supposed to enjoy wider freedoms compared to the Chinese mainland. However, advocates say democratic freedoms have been eroded in recent years.\n\nOn Thursday, in response to reports, Spotify clarified the song had been removed by the distributor - the middleman company which handled the song's licensing to music platforms.\n\nThe composer of the song had earlier told the BBC he had not asked for the song to be taken down.\n\nThe protest tune was written in Cantonese during the 2019 demonstrations. It includes the lyrics: \"Revolution of our times. May people reign, proud and free, now and evermore. Glory be to thee Hong Kong\".\n\nMany locals in Hong Kong had rushed to download the song in recent days as a court ban loomed.\n\nA court was due to issue a ruling on Monday, but this was postponed after the judge asked the Hong Kong government to be more specific in the scope of its request.\n\nFor months, authorities have tried to erase or mask all traces of the tune online. Glory to Hong Kong has been banned in schools since 2020.\n\nThe Hong Kong government has also petitioned Google unsuccessfully to have the song removed or ranked lower in search results.\n\nWeb searches for Hong Kong's national anthem continue to regularly display Glory to Hong Kong instead of China's official anthem, March of the Volunteers.\n\nOn Tuesday, Hong Kong's leader John Lee described the song as \"not compatible with the national interest\".\n\n\"Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has a duty and obligation to safeguard national security, and we should do it proactively and also preventively,\" he said.\n\nBut rights groups say the song is not a threat to national security.\n\n\"National security may not be used as an excuse to deny people the right to express different political views,\" said the head of Amnesty International's China team, Sarah Brooks.\n\nLast year, a harmonica player was arrested for playing the song outside the British consulate in Hong Kong to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nIn response to the 2019 mass protests, China passed a sweeping national security law to restore stability back to the city. However, critics said it was designed to suppress dissent and reduce Hong Kong's autonomy.", "Sir Michael Caine has described actress and former MP Glenda Jackson as \"one of our greatest movie actresses\" following her death aged 87.\n\nJackson won two Oscars, three Emmys, two Baftas and a Tony in an acting career which spanned six decades.\n\nSir Jonathan Pryce said he believed she was \"the greatest actor that this country has ever produced\".\n\nJackson gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015.\n\nThat included two years as a junior transport minister in Tony Blair's New Labour government from 1997.\n\nShe later returned to acting, playing King Lear on stage in 2016, then winning a Bafta for her screen comeback in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, her agent Lionel Larner said: \"Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.\n\n\"She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.\"\n\nSir Michael first acted with Jackson in 1975. Following their recent reunion, he said: \"It was as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I shall miss her.\"\n\nOther tributes were paid from across the worlds of the arts and politics.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq, who now sits in Jackson's former seat, tweeted: \"Devastated to hear that my predecessor Glenda Jackson has died.\n\n\"A formidable politician, an amazing actress and a very supportive mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you Glenda.\"\n\nGlenda Jackson, pictured in 1999 with then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, was a Labour MP for 23 years\n\nShadow culture secretary Lucy Powell, who worked for Jackson before becoming an MP herself, recalled the \"incredibly kind\" politician's \"cutting humour\" and \"general disdain at most things\".\n\n\"She was the definition of an icon, successfully spanning the world of acting and politics with great aplomb,\" Powell wrote.\n\nBroadcaster and former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth said she was \"a wonderful actress, a committed politician [and] a remarkable human being\".\n\n\"We became MPs on the same day in 1992 & I treasure our unlikely friendship,\" he wrote. \"She was such a gifted, caring & special person who came into the world to make a difference - and did.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was \"extremely sad news\", adding: \"His thoughts will be with her friends and family at this time.\"\n\nTV presenter Carol Vorderman said: \"To see this unique woman turn into a firebrand in politics was deeply impressive for young girls like me. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nJackson won a string of prizes for her acting, including Oscars, Baftas, and a Tony Award (pictured, in 2018)\n\nJackson began acting after joining an amateur dramatics group as a teen while working in Boots near her tome town of Birkenhead in Merseyside.\n\nShe won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Rada) in London, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1963.\n\nAfter making her name on stage, she won her first Oscar for playing a headstrong artist in director Ken Russell's film of DH Lawrence's novel Women in Love.\n\nHer second Academy Award came three years later for A Touch of Class, a romantic comedy in which she played a fashion designer caught up in a catastrophic love affair with a US businessman.\n\nShe did not attend either ceremony, though, saying she was busy.\n\n\"All awards are very nice to have,\" she told BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life last year. \"But they don't make you any better.\"\n\nJackson (centre) in 1967 with Marianne Faithfull (left) and Avril Elgar, her co-stars in a stage production of The Three Sisters\n\nThe role in A Touch of Class came about after she famously showed off her comedy skills in a guest appearance as Cleopatra on Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's hit Saturday night TV show.\n\n\"I've always said, and I mean it, they were the apotheosis of my career, working with them,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nShe also played the Egyptian queen - more seriously - on stage in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for the RSC.\n\nSir Jonathan, who was also in that production, told BBC Radio Wales: \"Everyone will talk about her tremendous strength and courage and intelligence, [and] her wit.\n\n\"I worked with her twice in the 70s, and she was always direct, always honest. And, like the greatest art, her work was simple and uncluttered.\"\n\nIn its tribute, the RSC described her as \"a tour de force in acting and politics, dedicating her life to both\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're proud her extraordinary talent was seen on RSC stages early in her career in ground-breaking productions.\"\n\nJackson played Elizabeth I in BBC drama Elizabeth R - another role she famously revisited - winning Emmys for both Elizabeth R and also playing the queen opposite Dame Vanessa Redgrave in 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots.\n\nFurther Oscar nominations came her way for portraying a frustrated office worker in a love triangle in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday, and for taking the title role in 1975's Hedda, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant, who wrote a biography of Jackson in 1999, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: \"She had such versatility.\n\n\"It's the quality of the work, and the variety. Her voice could go to gravel to caramel in three seconds.\"\n\nFormer Labour MP Baroness Hoey told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When she came into Parliament, she was so modest. She never wanted to be reminded that she was an actress.\"\n\nGlenda Jackson was transport minister for London when she visited Hugh Grant on the set of Notting Hill in 1998\n\nOther credits included playing English poet Stevie Smith in Stevie, and as Hollywood icon Patricia Neal in The Patricia Neal Story.\n\nA staunch Labour supporter, she was approached to stand for Parliament - and said she agreed because she disliked former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the \"destruction that her policies has had on human beings\".\n\nThere was a link between acting and politics, she said.\n\n\"The best theatre is about trying to find and tell the truth,\" she told Desert Island Discs. \"It's not about covering up. It's not about playing games. It's not about hiding. It's not about pretending you're something you're not.\n\n\"It's trying to find what it is to be a human being and why we behave towards each other in the ways that we do. And I think that the best politics is trying to find the truth as well.\"", "The Greek coastguard released images of the crowded boat before it went down\n\nAt least 78 people have died and more than 100 have been rescued after their fishing boat sank off southern Greece.\n\nBut survivors have suggested as many as 750 people may have been packed on to the boat, with reports of 100 children in the hold.\n\nGreece says it is one of its biggest ever migrant tragedies, and has declared three days of mourning.\n\nAuthorities say their offers of aid were refused but they are facing claims of not doing enough to help.\n\nThe boat went down about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Pylos after 02:04 on Wednesday morning local time, according to the Greek coastguard, which lowered an earlier confirmed death toll of 79 to 78.\n\nThe EU's border agency Frontex said it had spotted the boat early on Tuesday afternoon and immediately told Greek and Italian authorities. The coastguard said later that no-one on board was wearing life jackets.\n\nIn a timeline provided by the coastguard, it said that initial contact was made with the fishing boat at 14:00 (11:00 GMT) and no request for help had been made.\n\nIt said the Greek shipping ministry had made repeated contact with the boat and was told repeatedly it simply wanted to sail on to Italy. A Maltese-flagged ship provided food and water at around 18:00, and another boat provided water three hours after that, it added.\n\nThen at around 01:40 on Wednesday someone on the boat is said to have notified the Greek coastguard that the vessel's engine had malfunctioned.\n\nShortly afterwards, the boat capsized, taking only ten to fifteen minutes to sink completely. A search and rescue operation was triggered but complicated by strong winds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlarm Phone, an emergency helpline for migrants in trouble at sea, complained that the coastguard was \"aware of the ship being in distress for hours before any help was sent\", adding that authorities \"had been informed by different sources\" that the boat was in trouble.\n\nIt added that people may have been scared to encounter Greek authorities because they were aware of the country's \"horrible and systematic pushback practices\".\n\nJérôme Tubiana of Médecins Sans Frontières told French radio: \"It's really shocking to hear that Frontex flew over the boat and no-one intervened because the boat refused all offers of help... an overloaded boat is a boat in distress.\"\n\nThe boat is thought to have been going from Libya to Italy, with most of those on board believed to be men in their 20s.\n\nThey had been travelling for days, according to local media reports, which added that the boat had been approached by a Maltese cargo ship on Tuesday afternoon that supplied food and water.\n\nSurvivors spoke of as many as 500 to 750 people on board and regional health director Yiannis Karvelis warned of an unprecedented tragedy: \"The number of the people on board was much higher than the capacity that should be allowed for this boat.\"\n\nOne survivor told a hospital doctor in Kalamata that he had seen 100 children in the hold.\n\nCoastguard Cpt Nikolaos Alexiou told public TV that the boat had sunk in one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean.\n\nThe nationalities of the victims have not yet been announced.\n\nSurvivors have been taken to Kalamata, and many were treated in hospital for hypothermia or minor injuries.\n\nPublic broadcaster ERT said that three people suspected of being the traffickers had been taken to the central port authority in Kalamata and were being interrogated.\n\nGreek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited some of those rescued and expressed her sorrow for those who had drowned.\n\nEach year, hundreds of people die trying to cross the Mediterranean. In February, a boat carrying migrants capsized near Cutro, in the region of Calabria in southern Italy, killing at least 94 people - one of the deadliest incidents recorded.\n\nGreek migration ministry official Yiorgos Michaelidis said Greece had repeatedly called for a \"solid\" EU migration policy \"in order to accept people who are really in need and not just the people who have the money to pay the smugglers\".\n\n\"Right now, the smugglers are the ones who decide who comes to Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The case is for the EU to provide asylum, help and safety for those who are really in need. It's not a problem of Greece, Italy or Cyprus… The EU is the one that must conclude on a solid migration policy.\"\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video footage reportedly showing the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nMore than 70,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe's front-line countries this year, with the majority landing in Italy, according to UN data.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Archaeology students discovered the mummy during a dig in Lima\n\nArchaeologists in Peru conducting a dig at the site of a rubbish dump in the capital Lima have found a mummy they think is around 3,000 years old.\n\nStudents from San Marcos University, who are helping with the dig, first spotted the mummy's hair and skull.\n\nArchaeologist Miguel Aguilar said they had removed eight tonnes of rubbish from the location before their careful search for historic remains began.\n\nThe mummy is thought to date back to the times of the Manchay culture.\n\nThe Manchay lived in the area around modern-day Lima from around 1500BC to 1000BC.\n\nThe body had been laid out flat inside a U-shaped temple\n\nThey are known for building U-shaped temples oriented towards the rising sun.\n\nMr Aguilar explained that the mummy had been placed in a tomb in the centre of such a U-shaped temple. He said the body had been laid out flat, which is characteristic for the Manchay culture of the \"formative era\", around 3,000 years ago.\n\nThe body was wrapped in cloth made from cotton and vegetable fibre.\n\nThe archaeological site was underneath a rubbish dump in the Rímac neighbourhood in the capital, Lima\n\nThe archaeologist said that the person \"had been left or offered [as a sacrifice] during the last phase of construction of this temple\".\n\nMummification was practised by a variety of cultures in what is now Peru before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors - people who travelled to the Americas as part of the Spanish conquest.\n\nSome mummies were buried, many in a foetal position, while others were brought out and paraded during key festivals.", "A woman has been pulled from rubble in Kramatorsk after an hours-long mission to free her, Ukraine's police service has said.\n\nThe authority released this footage, and said the woman and a man were freed from buildings destroyed by Russian air strikes.\n\nOn Wednesday night Russian missile strikes killed three people in the Black Sea city of Odesa and three more in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are fears more than 100 people, including children, have died after their boat sank off southern Italy.\n\nAt least 63 migrants are confirmed to have died, with 12 children including a baby said to be among the victims.\n\nThe vessel, thought to have carried some 200 people, broke apart while trying to land near Crotone on Sunday.\n\nItaly's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has urged EU institutions to take action to stop clandestine migrant boat journeys.\n\nOn board the boat, which had set out from Turkey a few days earlier, were said to be people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Iran.\n\nAccording to the Pakistani foreign ministry 16 of its citizens had survived the disaster, with four more missing.\n\nThe coastguard said 80 people had been found alive, \"including some who managed to reach the shore after the sinking\", meaning many more remained unaccounted for.\n\nOne survivor was arrested on migrant trafficking charges, customs police said.\n\nAs bodies were recovered from the beach and assistance and relocation operations continued, a group of survivors of the deadly shipwreck struggled to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones.\n\nAt a temporary reception centre in the town of Isola di Capo Rizzuto, some of them were crying without speaking, some were just staring into the void, wrapped in blankets.\n\n\"They are heavily traumatised,\" said Sergio Di Dato, from charity Médecins Sans Frontières. \"Some children have lost their whole family. We are offering them all the support we can.\"\n\nA 16-year-old boy from Afghanistan lost his 28-year-old sister, who died on the beach next to him. He could not find the strength to tell his parents.\n\nA 43-year-old man from Afghanistan survived with his 14-year-old son, but his wife and his three other children, who were 13, nine, and five, did not make it. Another Afghan woman in tears would not move from the beach after losing her husband.\n\n\"This is yet another tragedy happening near our shores. It reminds us all that the Mediterranean is a giant mass grave, with tens of thousands of souls in it, and it continues to widen,\" said Francesco Creazzo, from SOS Méditerranée, an non-governmental organisation engaged in rescue operations in the central Mediterranean.\n\n\"There is no end in sight; in 2013, people said 'never again' to the little white coffins of Lampedusa, in 2015, they said 'never again' in front of the lifeless body of a two-year-old Syrian child on a beach.\n\n\"Now the words 'never again' are not even pronounced any more. We only hear 'no more departures', but unfortunately people keep venturing on this journey and they keep dying,\" he added.\n\nCrotone: Muslims said prayers for the victims as a sea search continued\n\nSpeaking at the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday morning, Secretary General António Guterres called on countries to do more to help refugees and migrants, and called for safer travel routes and strengthened rescue operations.\n\nPrime Minister Meloni - elected last year partly on a pledge to stem the flow of migrants into Italy - on Monday said the only way to tackle the issue of migrant departures \"seriously\" and \"with humanity\" was to stop migrant boat journeys.\n\nSpeaking to Italian public broadcaster Rai 1, she said she had written to the European Council and European Commission calling for immediate action to stop migrant boat departures in order to prevent more deaths.\n\n\"The more people depart, the more risk dying,\" she said.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, she expressed \"deep sorrow\" after the incident and blamed the deaths on people smugglers.\n\n\"It is inhumane to exchange the lives of men, women and children for the price of the 'ticket' they paid in the false perspective of a safe journey,\" she said.\n\n\"The government is committed to preventing departures, and with them the unfolding of these tragedies, and will continue to do so.\"\n\nMs Meloni's right-wing government has vowed to stop migrants reaching Italy's shores and in the last few days pushed through a tough new law tightening the rules on rescues.\n\nThe vessel is reported to have sunk after it crashed against rocks during rough weather.\n\nVideo footage shows timber from the wreckage washing up on the beach, along with parts of the hull.\n\nAccording to monitoring groups, more than 20,000 people have died or gone missing at sea in the central Mediterranean since 2014.", "Search and rescue teams have been assisting in the hunt for 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell\n\nThe brother of a missing 21-year-old woman has appealed for information about her disappearance.\n\nChloe Mitchell, who is described as a \"high-risk missing person\", was last seen in Ballymena last Friday night into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPhillip Mitchell said he was \"broken\" by his sister's disappearance and appealed for privacy for his family.\n\nPolice have said they are continuing their searches but are \"increasingly concerned\" for her safety.\n\nA 26-year-old man who was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh is still being questioned.\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother Phillip said he is \"broken\" after her disappearance\n\nThe Community Rescue Service has conducted searches along the Braid River in the County Antrim town.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Ms Mitchell was seen on CCTV walking in the direction of James Street at the weekend.\n\nPSNI Supt Gillian Kearney says Chloe's family are very worried\n\n\"It's out of character for her not to have contacted her family or friends,\" PSNI Supt Gillian Kearney said on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"Her family are being supported by specialists but it's a very worrying time.\n\n\"I hope she is safe and well and that's why we are appealing for information and for the public to look at her photo and contact us if they have seen her.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up near homes on James Street\n\n\"Chloe was wearing a green and black The North Face-style jacket, a white t-shirt, leggings and Nike trainers,\" said Ch Insp Arnie O'Neill.\n\nThe Harryville Partnership Initiative, a community group for the area, said Ms Mitchell's family \"want left in peace\".\n\n\"It's a very hard time at present,\" the group said.\n\nAs well as searches along the river, there are also other areas involved in this investigation, including a house on James Street.\n\nThe house is cordoned off and forensic enquires were taking place inside it earlier today.\n\nAs we head towards a full week from when Chloe Mitchell was last seen heading towards James Street, the thoughts of this community are with her family.\n\nCommunity Rescue Service searching through dense shrubbery near James Street in Ballymena\n\nOn Thursday night, Community Rescue Service teams gathered along the banks of the Braid River while others searched in the river itself.\n\nSpokesperson Darren Harper said it was a \"pretty significant operation\".\n\nDarren Harper said the search area is significant in size and the terrain is difficult\n\nMr Harper said the river was not the only area being searched by at least 25 people.\n\n\"We do have the water technical team in the water and [on] the river banks and we also have ground teams searching other areas,\" he added.\n\nHe said difficult terrain, with dense shrubbery, brambles and steep river banks made the search difficult.\n\nThe hot weather also added to the challenge faced by personnel wearing waterproof gear, flotation devices and dry suits, he said.\n\nSearches are being carried out along the river Braid and near James Street in Ballymena\n\nAsked if the Community Rescue Service had found anything significant, Mr Harper said: \"We wouldn't be doing our job right if we didn't have some sort of finds. That's then passed on to the police to find out if it's relevant or not.\"\n\nOne of the search sites on Friday evening was close to the ECOS centre near Ballymena\n\nAnother voluntary search and rescue group, K9 Search and Rescue, said in a social media post that its team had assisted in the search for Ms Mitchell in the Harryville area of Ballymena.\n\nThe PSNI appealed for anyone with information to contact them by phoning 101.", "Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports.\n\nThe synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss.\n\nNobody is currently suggesting growing them into a baby.\n\nBut the rapid progress has outpaced discussions on how they should be dealt with ethically and legally.\n\nProf James Briscoe, from the Francis Crick Institute, said the field needed to \"proceed cautiously, carefully and transparently\" to avoid a \"chilling effect\" on the public.\n\nThe development of human synthetic embryos was announced at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.\n\nSynthetic embryos are also known as \"embryo models\", as they resemble embryos, for the purposes of research, rather than being identical to them.\n\nThe work comes from the laboratories of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThe full details have yet to be published and made available for scientific scrutiny, leading many researchers to feel unable to comment on the significance of the reports.\n\nBut the principle is the synthetic embryos are made from a stem cell rather than a fusion of egg and sperm.\n\nStem cells have the capacity to become any cell-type in the body and if coaxed in just the right way can be persuaded to form embryos.\n\nThis is the first time that has been achieved using human material. Although, they are not truly \"synthetic\", as the starting material was cells cultured from a traditional embryo in the laboratory.\n\n\"It's beautiful and created entirely from embryonic stem cells,\" Prof Zernicka-Goetz told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nShe has already developed synthetic mouse embryos with evidence of a developing brain and beating heart.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists in China have implanted synthetic monkey embryos into female monkeys - although, all the pregnancies failed.\n\nSide by side, the natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days\n\nThe synthetic embryos do not behave in exactly the same way as normal embryos. And it is unclear how their use in research should be governed.\n\nProf Briscoe said: \"On the one hand, models of human embryos made of stem cells might offer an ethical and more readily available alternative to the use of IVF-derived [in-vitro fertilisation] human embryos.\n\n\"On the other hand, the closer stem-cell-derived models of human embryos mirror human embryos, the more important it is to have clear regulations and guidelines for how they are used.\"\n\nMost countries use the 14-day rule in human-embryo research. This allows an embryo created by fertilising a human egg to be grown for 14 days.\n\nHowever, these \"embryo models\" are not legally \"embryos\" and are not governed by the same laws.\n\nDr Ildem Akerman, from the University of Birmingham, said: \"These findings suggest that we would soon develop the technology to grow these cells beyond the 14-day limit, with potentially more insights to gain into human development.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the ability to do something does not justify doing it.\"\n\nLegal and ethical experts in the UK are drawing up a voluntary set of guidelines for how to proceed.\n\nResearchers hope these synthetic embryos will further understanding of the earliest stages of human's lives.\n\nProf Roger Sturmey, from the University of Manchester, said: \"We know remarkably little about this step in human development but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost.\n\n\"So models that can enable us to study this period are urgently needed to help to understand infertility and early pregnancy loss.\"", "The film stars (left to right) Alice Lowe, Jayde Adams, Aisling Bea and Amaka Okafor\n\nCritics have broadly welcomed a new big-screen musical featuring the songs of boyband Take That.\n\nGreatest Days, named after one of the group's biggest hits, is the film adaptation of the stage musical which opened in 2017.\n\nAisling Bea and Jayde Adams star in the big-screen version, which has received mostly three and four-star reviews.\n\nDigital Spy described it as \"a joyous crowdpleaser - whether you like Take That or not\".\n\n\"We know what you're thinking,\" wrote Ian Sandwell, awarding the film four stars. \"A jukebox musical using Take That songs? Sounds a bit naff and likely very cheesy, one strictly for the fans.\n\n\"Dismiss Greatest Days though and you'll be missing out on one of 2023's biggest movie surprises... It's a wholesome celebration of friendship, tinged with heartbreak, that ultimately proves to be a crowdpleaser.\"\n\nGreatest Days is directed by Coky Giedroyc and written by Tim Firth, who has adapted his own stage musical, originally titled The Band.\n\nBea plays Rachel, a hardworking NHS nurse who was a huge fan of Take That in her teens, along with her four best friends from school.\n\nHoward Donald, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen of Take That attended the film's premiere in Cannes last month\n\nWhen she wins tickets to see the group on their reunion tour in Athens, she reunites her old group, some of whom have not seen each other for 25 years.\n\nThe Guardian's Peter Bradshaw said: \"A jukebox musical featuring the works of Take That might not ever be one for the cool kids; undoubtedly this is a bit broad.\n\n\"But it's a splurge of feelgood from director Coky Giedroyc and screenwriter Tim Firth, adapting his own stage show, and it's at least as enjoyable as the much-hyped Mamma Mia! movies.\"\n\nThe film features many of Take That's biggest hits, including Shine, Never Forget, Patience, Back For Good and Rule the World.\n\nHowever, the group are only referred to as \"The Boys\" in the film, rather than their real-life name.\n\nIn a three-star review, Terry Staunton of the Radio Times said: \"At its root, director Coky Giedroyc's feel-good fare is a tale of everyday, ordinary women taking stock of their lives and pondering what the future holds.\n\n\"This being a film with the music of Take That at its foundation, viewers are guaranteed a succession of bangers; familiar and enduring hits whose anthemic qualities made them shoo-ins for a fresh lease of life on the West End stage in the first place.\"\n\nThe film is released in UK cinemas this weekend\n\nTotal Film's Tom Dawson wrote: \"Giedroyc doesn't ignore life's inevitable sadnesses - along the way there are unexpected bereavements, family rifts, unfulfilled youthful dreams… It's the uplift that sticks, though.\"\n\nThere was praise for the cast from Smooth Radio's Tom Eames, who said: \"Aisling Bea proves she can lead a film with charm and relatability, while there are standout 'watch this space' performances from up-and-comers Eliza Dobson and Jessie Mae Alonzo.\"\n\nGreatest Days is released in the UK on Friday, following its London premiere on Thursday evening. It received its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival last month.\n\n\"It may be fuelled by the schmaltzy lyrics of a boy band, but this is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of female friendship,\" said Screen Daily's Nikki Baughan.\n\n\"Aisling Bea brings a sharp wit (and essential levity) to the central character of Rachel; now a mid-40s no-nonsense children's ward nurse but, back in 1993, a 16-year-old school girl (played, in excellent casting, by Bea lookalike Lara McDonnell) and diehard fan of a boyband only ever referred to as 'The Boys'.\n\n\"Underneath the '90s vibes, colourful production design and occasionally cringey boyband lyrics, that's a deep-rooted sentiment that we can all take to heart.\"\n\nNot everybody was a fan, however. The Telegraph's Robbie Collin awarded only two stars and said: This jukebox musical is unlikely to relight your fire.\n\n\"Far too much of it still feels scaled to the stage,\" he said. \"Comic material that in a theatre might have simply played as broad comes across as forehead-smashingly crass.\"\n\nEmpire's Olly Richards also gave the film two stars, writing: \"The film can't find its rhythm... it's tonally all over the place.\n\n\"It does at least finish on a high, with a big shouty Never Forget. But you probably will forget quite quickly, regardless.\"\n\nThe film's cast attended its London premiere on Thursday evening\n\nThere was a more positive review from The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey, who said: \"It's well-performed and efficiently emotive. Just like the music of Take That, I guess.\"\n\nBut, she added: \"Much like a classic Take That track, this is a film that cares much more for the display of emotion than it does its root cause - the second it dares get specific, it risks losing that wide-scale relatability.\"\n\nYahoo's Roxy Simons said: \"As far as musicals go, Greatest Days is an enjoyable caper thanks to its fun reinterpretations of Take That's songs, like the airport-based rendition of Shine that features stylish choreography and elaborate costumes\n\n\"Some songs feel perfectly suited for the scene they're used in, but there are others that feel as if they were added on just as a way to make sure fan favourites weren't missed off the list. When this happens it can be quite jarring: the placement of Patience is a prime example of this.\"\n\nShe concluded: \"It might not have the longevity of musicals like Mamma Mia! in the long run, but Greatest Days is sure to delight fans of Take That in a new and inventive way.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She had half my heart and I had half of hers\" - Chloe Mitchell's sister pays tribute to her\n\nThe family of Chloe Mitchell have been going through a \"living hell\" following the murder of the 21-year-old Ballymena woman, her older brother has said.\n\nPhilip Mitchell told BBC News NI his family was \"devastated,\" but he also thanked people in the County Antrim town for the support they have shown.\n\nMs Mitchell went missing in Ballymena on 2 June and just over a week later a man was charged with her murder.\n\nHundreds of people attended vigils in Ballymena and Belfast on Wednesday.\n\n\"I think its amazing the way the community - not just the Ballymena and Harryville community - but every community and further afield has come together in memory of my wee sister Chloe,\" Philip Mitchell said.\n\n\"And the flowers and respect they've had is absolutely outstanding. It's completely respected by our family and will always be remembered.\"\n\nThere were emotional scenes at a vigil near where Chloe grew up\n\nAsked how the family was coping, Mr Mitchell said: \"I wouldn't want any family to go through this, it's just a living hell really and there's no words.\"\n\nSpeaking beside her brother, Nadine Mitchell said: \"I've not only lost my sister but I've lost my best friend.\"\n\nDescribing Chloe, she said she \"was special because she touched so many hearts\".\n\n\"My sister will always be living, while I am, because she had half of my heart and I currently have half of hers.\"\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother and uncle viewing floral tributes ahead of the vigil in Ballymena\n\nChloe Mitchell was the youngest of her family and is survived by her parents, two older sisters and two older brothers.\n\nChloe's uncle Billy McDowell said the family's grief was \"unbearable\".\n\n\"It's so hard for them to cope with at the minute,\" he added, explaining that the immediate Mitchell family had asked for privacy when in their own home.\n\nBut he said they appreciated the public's help during the searches and their support at the vigils.\n\nMourners released balloons into the air in Chloe's memory\n\nHundreds of people attended a vigil in King George V park in Ballymena, organised by a mental health charity, Turning Point NI.\n\nSpeaking at the event Philip Mitchell thanked the charity for hosting the vigil and paid tribute to police for \"every thing they had done for my wee sister\".\n\nIt feels like all of Harryville has turned out to this vigil, within sight of where Chloe Mitchell grew up.\n\nMany were in tears as they hugged and comforted each other.\n\nThere is a growing pile of floral tributes in the park, many bearing the words: \"Forever 21\".\n\nThis is a tight knit community and people are gathering tonight to remember Chloe and comfort her family.\n\nThere was a round of applause for members of the Community Search and Rescue team who searched for her.\n\nA vigil in Belfast was also held at City Hall, organised by the socialist feminist movement Rosa NI.\n\nThe father of Natalie McNally, who was murdered in Lurgan in December, attended the Belfast event to show solidarity with the Mitchell family.\n\n\"Our family knows exactly what [they're] going through, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy,\" Noel McNally said.\n\n\"Everyone has to stick together to stop this violence against women…stop treating women like second-class citizens, everybody has to be treated equally.\"\n\nAnn Orr from Rosa said she organised the vigil to give people an opportunity to express their grief and sorrow as well as a show of support for Chloe's family and friends.\n\nShe said there was a \"collective grief\" over Ms Mitchell's death, highlighting she is the 18th woman to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020.\n\nCrowds gathered in front of Belfast city hall this evening holding banners with different words but the same message - to end violence against women and girls.\n\nAmong the banners were posters featuring the face of 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell as well as other women murdered in Northern Ireland including Natalie McNally and Hollie Thomson.\n\nSome of those posters were held by members of those women's families who were there to show solidarity with the Mitchell family.\n\nA one minute silence was held in honour of Chloe - a stark contrast to the chants lead by organisers before that silence.\n\nOn Monday, police investigating the murder appealed for people to stop sharing and commenting on graphic videos and texts circulating on social media platforms.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the material contained inaccuracies and was \"also causing significant distress to Chloe's family and friends\".\n\nFlowers have been spread across King George's Park, Harryville, Ballymena\n\nDet Ch Insp Millar added: \"I am also aware of commentary in the media speculating about the recovery of human remains at specific locations.\n\n\"We would ask people not to comment and share such matters as they are likely to be incorrect, inaccurate and very hurtful to Chloe's family.\"", "The Greek Air Force has released footage of a helicopter crew winching survivors to safety after a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of southern Greece. At least 79 people have died and more than 100 have been rescued, but survivors say many more are unaccounted for.", "The bus driver was off-duty when he had to step in\n\nA man helped save a speeding bus full of passengers from disaster after the driver fell ill at the wheel.\n\nThe coach was doing about 70mph on the M74, taking 50 people to a concert by Pink in Sunderland, when it started swerving towards an embankment.\n\nAlex Brewer, from South Lanarkshire, who is also a bus driver, sprung into action and brought it safely to a halt.\n\nAn air ambulance attended the scene near Moffat last Saturday, and the driver is said to be recovering.\n\nThe Caledonian Travel coach was heading south when the passengers noticed something was wrong.\n\nMr Brewer, 40, from Larkhall, told the BBC: \"I was on my mobile phone when I heard the passenger next to me saying very loudly 'where is he going?' He swerved across the two lanes and the hard shoulder, onto the grass verge towards an embankment.\n\n\"I jumped up and got the bus to a stop using the handbrake gently so not to lock the coach up, while moving it to the hard shoulder.\"\n\nTwo nurses who were on board the coach tended to the driver, while Mr Brewer made sure the bus was moved safely off the road.\n\nAlex Brewer and his wife Siobhan made it to the concert despite the ordeal\n\nPolice and an air ambulance met the passengers on the hard shoulder. The driver was taken to hospital.\n\n\"Caledonian Travel and the coach company arranged a new driver and we went on to have a great night at Pink,\" Mr Brewer added. \"[I am] thankful the driver is home and getting the medical treatment he needs.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Caledonian Travel said they were \"grateful\" for Mr Brewer's \"precautionary assistance\".\n\n\"The driver of the coach has confirmed that he unexpectedly felt unwell whilst driving and in the interests of safety pulled over to the hard shoulder of the motorway.\" said the spokesperson.\n\n\"The coach was brought safely to a standstill and we do understand that a qualified coach driver who was seated at the front of the coach quickly moved to ensure that the driver was able to bring the coach safely to a stop.\"\n\nThey added that the driver was \"recovering well\", while undergoing medical examination.", "Boris Johnson resigned as MP of Uxbridge and South Ruislip before the report was published\n\nAt first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking it was an ordinary lunchtime in Uxbridge - the high street is bustling and people are making the most of the sunny weather.\n\nBut underneath this seemingly normal day, emotions are running high.\n\nThe Privileges Committee has published its report and found former prime minister, Boris Johnson, deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties at No 10. It has recommended he should face a 90-day suspension if he was still an MP.\n\nYet in spite of the damning report, many residents in Mr Johnson's former constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip are standing by him.\n\nLaura Cooper, a local resident who owns a shop on the high street, says she is \"absolutely furious that he has been hounded out of Parliament\".\n\n\"I am appalled at what the Conservatives are doing to their own former prime minister.\n\n\"It's like a witch hunt,\" she adds.\n\nLaura Cooper has been a keen supporter of Boris Johnson since he was elected in 2015\n\nFellow resident Lesley Thompson believes Mr Johnson has \"been a very good MP\" and as a patron of the charity shop she works in, he's \"been very involved and supportive\".\n\nAsked about her thoughts on the report, she says: \"It doesn't surprise me but I can imagine it was a difficult time. Lots of people in government made mistakes then - it's not right just to target him.\"\n\nMr Johnson has called the committee's findings \"deranged\" and even some who did not vote for him as their local MP express sympathy.\n\nPatricia Toole echoes the former PM's own words when asked about her thoughts on the Privileges Committee report.\n\nPatricia Toole didn't vote for Mr Johnson in the last election\n\n\"Maybe he did do all those things he's been accused of, but it could also be a kangaroo court,\" she says.\n\n\"I hate to think he's being picked on and it seems like people are determined to get rid of the man.\"\n\nSpeaking to some residents, particularly younger ones, the feeling of apathy is strong.\n\nMany say they are fed up with the constant drama surrounding the former prime minister and are looking forward to a by-election, set for 20 July.\n\n\"There's been such a fuss. We know he did wrong and we all probably knew he lied about it,\" says Vicky Atkins.\n\n\"He's resigned and now let's move on. I am sick of hearing about it to be honest.\"\n\nUxbridge student Mirza Beig wants the new MP to take a proper interest in the local area\n\nMirza Beig, a student in Uxbridge, agrees with Vicky's sentiment, saying he just \"does not care about it anymore\".\n\n\"He's misled people and he's not reliable,\" he adds. \"We need someone who will focus on helping constituents with real problems.\"\n\nCertainly, there are some who are glad that Boris Johnson has stepped down.\n\nNick Johnson almost shakes with anger as he reels off all the problems in the constituency that he says Mr Johnson did not acknowledge during his time as MP.\n\nNick Johnson says he's \"very upset\" by how the former prime minister treated Uxbridge\n\n\"I'm very upset with the way he has treated Uxbridge,\" he says.\n\n\"The Privileges Committee report is entirely true and if he had not jumped he would have been pushed.\n\n\"It's a load of rubbish to say he works hard for this constituency.\"\n\nHaving spent half a day speaking to residents in Uxbridge, it's clear that everyone has an opinion about their former MP.\n\nWhether Mr Johnson will return to politics in the future is unknown, but most residents are keen to look ahead to the upcoming by-election.\n\nWhether the Conservatives can maintain their 7,000 vote majority, only time will tell.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Police in Durham released video showing the moment a robber was trapped underneath a shop's shutters as he was trying to flee.\n\nMalcolm Trimble can be seen drinking from a can of lager before the police arrive.\n\nThe 30-year-old was given three years and four months after admitting attempted robbery and possession of a knife.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChampions Manchester City will kick off the Premier League season on Friday, 11 August at promoted Burnley - managed by their former captain Vincent Kompany.\n\nLuton Town's first top-flight match since 1992 is at Brighton a day later, when fellow promoted club Sheffield United host Crystal Palace.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's reign as Chelsea manager begins at home to Liverpool on Sunday, 13 August.\n\nNew Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou takes his side to Brentford that day.\n• None Check out your team's fixtures in our club-by-club guide\n\nManchester United start the season against Wolves at Old Trafford on Monday, 14 August.\n\nManchester City, who are celebrating a Treble after winning the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2022-23, are now looking to become the first English team to win four successive titles.\n\nPep Guardiola's side have won the Premier League in five of the past six seasons.\n\nThe 2023-24 Premier League season concludes on Sunday, 19 May 2024.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, the Premier League said it was \"committed to giving supporters a minimum of six weeks' notice on broadcasting selections until December 2023, and five weeks' from 24 January 2024\".\n\nFirst round of fixtures in full\n\nThe season schedule returns to normal, having been affected first by the Covid-19 pandemic and its knock-on impact, and then by last year's World Cup break.\n\nAnd the mid-season break returns, with teams given a clear weekend in January. That break is set to be staggered, with some teams given the second weekend of the new year off, and others the third.\n\nLuton's return to the top flight completes a remarkable resurgence; in 2013, they opened their season in the Conference Premier - now the National League - with a defeat at Southport. Ten years on, the Hatters - who defeated Coventry in the Championship play-off final - will welcome Burnley to Kenilworth Road for their first Premier League home game on 19 August.\n\nWork is taking place on the ground, which has a capacity of 10,356, to meet Premier League requirements.\n\nManchester City finished 2022-23 five points ahead of nearest rivals Arsenal, who start next season at home to Nottingham Forest.\n\nMikel Arteta's side will host the first north London derby of the season against Tottenham on 23 September, with the return fixture on 27 April.\n\nLiverpool's opener at Chelsea follows a request to the Premier League to start the season away from home, because of ongoing works to expand the Anfield Road Stand.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side host Bournemouth in their first home match on 19 August. Everton visit Anfield for the first Merseyside derby on 21 October, then host the Reds on 16 March.\n\nNew Liverpool signing Alexis Mac Allister returns to Brighton, who have agreed to sign Reds player James Milner, on 7 October.\n\nThe first Manchester derby of the season is at Old Trafford on 28 October, with City hosting United at Etihad Stadium on 2 March.\n• None Luton's game at Brighton will be their first in the top flight since a 2-1 loss at Notts County in May 1992. They're the 51st team to play in the Premier League, with two of the last three clubs making their debut in the competition winning their opening match (Huddersfield in 2017, Brentford in 2021).\n• None Nottingham Forest go to Arsenal, having defeated them 1-0 in their most recent league meeting in May - they have not won consecutive games against the Gunners since September 1978 under Brian Clough.\n• None This is just the second time Chelsea and Liverpool will face one another in their opening game of a Premier League season, with the Blues winning 2-1 at Anfield in 2003-04.\n• None No team has won their opening Premier League game more often than Manchester United (20).\n• None Burnley have won just one of their past 23 league matches against Manchester City (drawing six and losing 16) and have lost the past eight in a row by an aggregate score of 26-1.\n• None The last time Tottenham began a Premier League campaign with a London derby was in 2014-15 - they won 1-0 at West Ham in Mauricio Pochettino's first game in charge.\n• None West Ham, who visit Bournemouth, have lost their opening Premier League game 15 times - more often than anyone else. David Moyes has lost 10 Premier League openers - more than any other manager.\n• None Fulham have faced Everton in their opening game of a top-flight season twice previously and lost both games, losing 3-0 in 1963-64 and 1-0 in 1966-67.\n• None Sheffield United have won their opening league game in just one of the past nine seasons (D1 L7), beating Brentford 1-0 in 2017-18. They've lost their last three in a row, only once having a longer such run (four between 1928-29 and 1931-32).\n• None Newcastle are unbeaten in their past 14 Premier League home games against Aston Villa (winning eight and drawing six) since a 3-0 loss in April 2005 - a match in which team-mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer were sent off for fighting each other.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The River Etherow runs close to Hodge Lane, where the rescue operation was launched\n\nA teenager has died after getting into difficulty in water in Greater Manchester.\n\nPolice say the 15-year-old girl died despite the best efforts of medical teams after they were called to the village of Broadbottom in Tameside.\n\nA large rescue operation was launched near Hodge Lane, a small road which runs close to the River Etherow.\n\nDetective Superintendent Rebecca Boyce said the death was \"nothing short of devastating\".\n\nPolice were called to the scene at around 19:50 BST on Wednesday night, and were assisted by ambulance crews and the fire and rescue service.\n\nA statement from Greater Manchester Police said enquiries are ongoing but investigators were \"confident there aren't any suspicious circumstances\".\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Boyce said: \"Yesterday evening's events are nothing short of devastating and my deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the girl who lost her life in such awful circumstances.\n\n\"Officers will continue to support the family during this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nIt comes amid warnings from the RNLI and other safety groups about the dangers of open water during the summer months.\n\nOf the 226 accidental drowning deaths in 2022, almost half happened in June, July and August, according to the National Fire Chiefs Council.\n\nThe statistics reveal that people are almost twice as likely to lose their lives in inland bodies of water like lakes and rivers than they are at sea.\n\nThe RNLI has come under pressure in some areas in recent days during the heatwave which has hit parts of the UK.\n\nRescue crews were called out to Blackpool nine time in four days during last weekend's hot weather, while seven people had to be rescued off Devon in a single day on 30 May.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monday's vote on whether or not to back the Privileges Committee's report on Boris Johnson is causing some Tory MPs a dilemma.\n\nEndorse it and some could anger Conservative Party members who liked Johnson. Vote against it - and you risk alienating those who want him gone.\n\nWhy do party members and local Tory associations matter? Well, they have a say in who stands to be a Tory MP at the next election – and know the people MPs need to vote for them.\n\nA few are telling me they might choose not to vote at all to keep their name out of it.\n\nOne former minister said: \"I think I’m hovering between voting for the report and abstaining, the latter solely because voting for it will rile members.\"\n\nAnother former cabinet minister said that while they were “not a fan of his”, they thought the recommendation to not let him have a parliamentary pass again seemed to be “kicking him when he’s down\".\n\nThey thought some colleagues’ approach to the vote on Monday was “why bother?” when they could instead go and campaign in Johnson’s old seat of Uxbridge ahead of the upcoming by-election.\n\nDowning Street is yet to give any indication of where the prime minister plans to be.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister tells me they are planning to vote for the report on Monday, but in a sign of the febrile mood does not want to say so publicly yet in case \"something happens\" over the weekend.\n\nIt is a \"one-line whip\" on Monday, meaning Conservative MPs will not even be required to be in Parliament all day.\n\nThis gives a lot of them an excuse to abstain.\n\nThere are a handful of Conservative MPs who have publicly said they will vote against the report on Monday - in support of Johnson - but they are a minority.", "Alexander Lukashenko has been Russia's key ally since the start of Moscow's full-invasion of Ukraine\n\nExiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has warned of the danger of transferring nuclear weapons from Russia into \"the hands of a crazy dictator\" in Belarus, after Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that the first \"missiles and bombs\" had arrived in the country.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya, who was speaking to the BBC in Warsaw, accused Western politicians of \"staying silent\" about the first deployment of tactical nuclear weapons outside of Russia since the collapse of the USSR in 1991.\n\nMr Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus, made his announcement in a staged discussion with a Russian state TV presenter, conducted somewhere in the Belarusian countryside with military trucks and hardware placed carefully in the background.\n\nWhen the presenter asked him to clarify his statement - that Belarus has already received the weapons, sooner than expected - Mr Lukashenko chuckled, like the two were sharing a joke. \"Not all of them. Gradually,\" he said.\n\nMr Lukashenko is seen as Russia's key ally, with Belarus serving as a launchpad for President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nIn comments clearly intended to rattle Ukraine's allies in the West, Mr Lukashenko stressed that the Russian bombs were \"three times more powerful\" than those dropped by the US on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War Two.\n\nHe added that he had not simply asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the nuclear weapons.\n\n\"I demanded them back,\" he said, claiming that he needed them for protection from external aggression - a false threat he also uses to justify his repression of all political opposition.\n\nMr Lukashenko - who has been in power since 1994 - claimed victory in disputed elections in 2020, triggering mass protests and a brutal crackdown by the Belarusian KGB security service and riot police.\n\nSvetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus in 2020 after running against Alexander Lukashenko in presidential elections\n\nBelarus, like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 1990s in return for security guarantees from post-Soviet Russia and the West. That makes this a significant reversal, although there is as yet no proof that the Russian weapons have been delivered.\n\nMr Putin first announced the transfer in March, pointing out that the US has deployed similar weapons in Europe. He later said the move would only take place when storage sites had been prepared, but Alexander Lukashenko now says Belarus has \"more storage sites than village dogs\" and several have already been renovated.\n\nMoscow says it will retain control of the missiles, which are tactical - not longer-range strategic weapons.\n\n\"I am not planning to fight the US… tactical weapons are fine,\" Mr Lukashenko said. \"And the Iskander [rocket] travels 500 kilometres (310 miles) or more.\"\n\n\"This deployment creates no new threat to Nato countries, so they don't take it seriously,\"Ms Tikhanovskaya argued, believing that Western countries see no difference between a missile fired from Russia or from Belarus.\n\nRussia already has nuclear weapons in its western-most Kaliningrad region, putting Poland and the Baltic states well within range.\n\n\"But Belarus is our country and we don't want nuclear weapons,\" Ms Tikhanovskaya said. \"This is like the last step to keeping our independence. And they [in the West] are staying silent about that.\"", "Crispin Odey has been ousted from the hedge fund he founded\n\nHedge fund giant Odey Asset Management (OAM) will be broken up, days after allegations of sexual harassment against its founder emerged.\n\nThe business said it would be dismantled and its activities will be transferred to other firms.\n\n\"Acting in the best interest of our investors and our staff has continued to be our primary concern over the past few days,\" said OAM.\n\nCrispin Odey, who set up the firm in 1991, denies the claims against him.\n\nHe was ousted from the fund management business at the weekend.\n\nLast week, the Financial Times reported that multiple women had accused Mr Odey of misconduct over 25 years, with the latest alleged incident taking place in December 2021.\n\nThe prominent financier, who was a major Brexit supporter and Conservative party donor, told the Guardian newspaper that the allegations against him were either untrue or involved consensual relations.\n\nHe also said that \"none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation\".\n\nSince the reports, OAM has struggled to rebuild trust with investors and a number of major banks are understood to have cut ties with the firm.\n\nOn Thursday, OAM said it was now \"in advanced discussions for rehousing funds and transferring certain fund management activities and individuals to other asset managers\".\n\nThe break-up will affect the majority of the $4.4bn (£3.5bn) in assets managed by OAM.\n\nAnother $600m of investor money is still held in funds formerly run by Mr Odey. It is unclear what will happen to those investments. Mr Odey also has around $600m of his own money invested in the firm.\n\nOne of those funds, the Odey Swan Fund, is already being liquidated after investors began to withdraw money.\n\nThe financier is well known in the City for having made large sums of money betting against the UK pound and British government bonds in recent years.\n\nIn 2020, Mr Odey was accused of assaulting a female investment banker at his London home in 1998, but was cleared of indecent assault after a trial.\n\nFollowing the case, his company reportedly undertook an internal investigation into the financier's behaviour and handed its findings to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the City watchdog.\n\nOAM told the regulator at the time that it had decided to keep Mr Odey on as chief executive after giving him a \"final written warning\" for inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday, MPs on the Treasury Committee wrote to the FCA asking whether it had been proactive enough in its oversight of the fund.\n\nIt followed reports that the watchdog had been investigating the company since 2021.\n\nThe FCA has been asked to reveal what it knew about the claims against Mr Odey and what action it took, going back five years.\n\nThe MPs have given it until 5 July to respond.\n\nA spokesperson for the FCA said: \"We understand the Treasury Committee's interest in this and we'll of course reply shortly.\"", "A new Russian embassy located quarter of a mile from Parliament House was deemed a security risk\n\nAustralia has blocked Russia from building a new embassy near its parliament, citing a spying risk.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said intelligence agencies had given \"very clear security advice\" on the move.\n\nLaws specifically drafted to halt construction were rapidly passed on Thursday after legal attempts to block the Canberra development failed.\n\nThe Kremlin said it was \"yet another unfriendly action\" which Russia would \"take into account\" in the future.\n\nAustralia was following the \"Russophobic hysteria that is now going on in the countries of the collective West\", said spokesman Dmitry Peskov.\n\nA Russian diplomat earlier told AFP that the embassy was seeking legal advice.\n\nThe new legislation acknowledges that Russia may be eligible for financial compensation.\n\nThe current embassy will not be affected by the new laws, which have bipartisan support.\n\nMoscow currently holds the lease for a patch of land, acquired in 2008, some 400 metres (0.25 miles) from Canberra's Parliament House.\n\nIt has been laying the foundations for a new embassy building, but construction has proceeded slowly.\n\nAs relations between Australia and Russia soured in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the former moved to rescind permission for the new building.\n\nA previous attempt to cancel the lease was thrown out by the federal court last month, prompting the new legislation.\n\nThe laws took less than five minutes to be introduced, and passed through the House of Representatives.\n\n\"We don't expect Russia is in a position to talk about international law, given their rejection of it so consistently and so brazenly with their invasion of Ukraine,\" said Mr Albanese, who condemned Russia's \"illegal and immoral\" invasion of Ukraine.\n\nFormer UK diplomat Alex Bristow of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told AFP that Russia has some of the \"largest, most capable, most aggressive, and least constrained intelligence services\" in the world.\n\n\"Given the proximity, it could be a form of electronic surveillance operating out of the embassy,\" he added.", "Alfie had more than 50 injuries on his body when he died, the court heard\n\nA mother and her partner who killed her nine-year-old son in the bath following months of abuse have been jailed.\n\nAlfie Steele died after being held under the water as punishment at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021.\n\nHe had been subjected to a cruel regime and his body had more than 50 injuries.\n\nDirk Howell was found guilty of Alfie's murder. His mother, Carla Scott, was convicted of manslaughter but cleared of murder.\n\nAt their sentencing at Coventry Crown Court, Howell was jailed for life with a minimum of 32 years, while Scott was given 27 with a minimum 17-year term.\n\nMr Justice Mark Wall said the suffering they inflicted on Alfie could \"only properly be described as sadistic\".\n\nHe told 41-year-old Howell: \"I am sure that you got pleasure from inflicting pain and discomfort. The risks of killing him by your conduct were real and obvious.\"\n\nIn a victim statement read to the court, Alfie's grandfather Paul Scott said he was haunted by the fact \"Alfie's last words were him shouting for me\".\n\n\"I saw Alfie's lifeless body being carried [to hospital] in the helicopter. Since then it has felt like a nightmare,\" he said.\n\n\"It hurts that he will never be able to make his own decisions. He has been taken from me. I will never get to see that cheeky smile again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 999 calls from neighbours over fears for little boy\n\nScott, of Vashon Drive, Droitwich, and Howell, of Princip Street, Birmingham, both denied murder.\n\nJurors took 10 hours and 13 minutes to convict them over the killing and Scott was also found guilty of four counts of child cruelty, a charge Howell had already admitted.\n\nDuring the six-week trial, jurors heard how Alfie's final months were punctuated by being repeatedly beaten, forced to stand outside and dunked head first into cold baths.\n\nProsecutor Michelle Heeley KC said the defendants thought it was acceptable to hit him with \"belts, or a slider, like a heavy-duty flip flop, and use other more sinister forms of punishment\".\n\nJurors were told the pair, on 18 February 2021, tried to cover up the killing by delaying calling 999 after Alfie was either drowned, asphyxiated or went into cardiac arrest.\n\nScott, 35, claimed Alfie had fallen asleep while enjoying a warm bath, but his many injuries and low body temperature - 23C (73F) - indicated he had been dead for some time.\n\nProsecutors said he might have been put back in the bath to pass the murder off as accidental drowning.\n\nAlfie was subjected to a regime of punishments and had these rules stuck on his bedroom door\n\nDuring the trial, it emerged a neighbour had called 999 six months before Alfie's death, warning police the couple were \"doing something bad to their kid in the bath\".\n\nThe caller said it sounded like Alfie was \"being hit and held under the water or something\" and there was \"loads of thrashing around\".\n\nIt was one of a number of calls made to emergency services by residents concerned about the boy's welfare.\n\nOthers said they had seen Alfie being forced to \"stand like a statue\" outside his home and had filmed him crying \"let me in\".\n\nThe court heard Scott struck up a relationship with Howell in 2019 and his regime of punishments quickly escalated during 2020 when the country went into lockdown during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAt the time of Alfie's death, Scott was the subject of a social services plan designed to protect him, with one of the rules being career-criminal Howell was not allowed to stay overnight at her house.\n\nBut the pair \"continuously\" flouted this requirement, Howell would stay over, assault Alfie and throw cold water at him.\n\nA safeguarding review will now explore what more could have been done.\n\nAlfie weighed barely 4.2st (27kg) when he died and had defensive injuries on his body\n\nScott had Alfie during a previous relationship which ended in 2017, in which children's services also had involvement.\n\nDuring his evidence, Howell estimated he had spent 22 years in prison for various offences including battery, theft, burglary and drugs charges.\n\nHe had claimed he had tried to revive Alfie by performing CPR, but CCTV showed him leaving the house before paramedics arrived and later attempting to board a train before he was arrested at Droitwich railway station.\n\nMr Justice Wall said 18 February had been another day on which the couple had decided Alfie was \"to be tortured\".\n\nAddressing the couple, he told them: \"You have both refused to tell the truth about the day of Alfie's death, preferring to lie, to pretend that it was no more than a tragic accident and to cover up for one another.\n\n\"What is clear is that Alfie did not have the quiet death you tried to portray: a death in which he had an epileptic fit and gently fell asleep in the bath.\n\n\"His death was violent and brutal.\"\n\nAlfie was described by his family as a charming, funny and inquisitive young boy whose kindness and cheeky smile \"was enough to melt your heart\".\n\nMr Scott's wife Alaina said when she had met him at 18 months old, he had wrapped his arms around her in a \"lovely hug\".\n\nDescribing him as gentle and loving, she added: \"He was also the life and soul of our family. He was a considerate, warm, polite little boy who would help people of all ages.\"\n\nIn a statement from the NSPCC, the charity said concerns had been raised about Alfie's safety before his death.\n\n\"The child safeguarding practice review must establish whether more could have been done to safeguard him, so that in future the most vulnerable members of our society can be better protected.\"\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Ch Insp Leighton Harding said the force was \"aware that the family were known to West Mercia Police and other agencies prior to Alfie's death\".\n\n\"The jury heard evidence of 999 calls from neighbours and reports from other people regarding concerns over Scott and Howell's conduct and treatment of Alfie, which led to police and other agencies having contact and involvement with the family in the months before Alfie's death,\" he said.\n\n\"I recognise the concerns and questions this raises. We are committed to learning the lessons from Alfie's tragic death and will fully engage with the review.\"\n\nWest Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner John Campion said he welcomed the independent review led by Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership, \"rightly set up to establish whether all agencies involved could have done more to protect Alfie\".\n\n\"I am committed to using my role as commissioner to ensure any potential lessons that can be learnt from this tragic incident, are learnt.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Digby can see Dargavel Primary School from her house but is now unsure if two-year-old son Noah will get a place in the new facility\n\nFamilies have said they face splitting their children between different schools or moving home after a council miscalculated the number of places needed for pupils.\n\nDargavel Primary in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, opened last year with a capacity of 548.\n\nRenfrewshire Council then admitted as many as 1,500 primary school places might be needed after a planning error.\n\nThe council has apologised but parents say they have been left \"devastated\".\n\nPeople living in the newbuild village of Dargavel say they warned Renfrewshire Council for years that the delayed primary school was going to be too small.\n\nA report commissioned by the local authority in 2017 suggests that plans to add 1,400 homes to the development on the site of a former munitions factory would result in 854 primary school places being needed.\n\nLast year, council officials admitted \"significant errors\" had been made with its forecasts and between 1,100 and 1,500 primary school age places would now be needed in this area over the next decade.\n\nThe saga has left Laura Digby, who lives less than 500 yards (457m) from the school, worrying about the future for her two-year-old son Noah.\n\nHis sister Orla, 10, attends Dargavel Primary and is due to leave the school in 2026, when Noah is meant to start there, but the increased demand on places means the family faces years of worry.\n\nLaura said: \"The news was pretty devastating, I'd only just had a baby so I knew as soon as they came out with that there was going to be problems with Noah potentially getting a place in the school.\n\n\"I can see the school from my front door, when he's old enough to walk on his own I'll be able to watch him go from the window - it's one of these reasons I moved here.\"\n\nDargavel Primary is at the heart of a newbuild development with more than 4,000 homes planned\n\nThe 39-year-old said she would start \"looking at alternatives\" if Noah does not get into Dargavel Primary and Orla does not a get a place in the catchment high school.\n\nShe added: \"I wouldn't want to move from here, I've really enjoyed it, it is a great community - it has just been seriously let down by the council.\"\n\nDavid McLaren is another parent worried about the situation and whether his four-year-old son Blair will be able to join his brothers, Rory and Finlay, at Dargavel Primary.\n\nHe said: \"There's a lot of concerns; going from the primary school - do we get our youngest in the same school as his siblings - then in a couple of years' time when oldest Rory is going to high school, is there going to be space in that school, is the quality of education going to be there because of its size.\n\nDavid is worried that his son Blair, left, might have to go to a different school to his brother Rory, centre, and Finlay on the right\n\n\"We've got friends who are already talking about moving away, purely from an education perspective.\n\n\"It is a difficult task for them [the council] in terms of being able to predict the future but I think the fact they were being advised by the parent council that their calculations are incorrect, and the fact they didn't listen to that is very disappointing.\n\n\"And now the cost to the taxpayer is going to be significant too to rectify that.\"\n\nA recent report by Renfrewshire Council at options to address the problem said the cost of a new primary school in Dargavel, capable of accommodating 800 pupils, would be up to £45m.\n\nIn addition, an expansion of Park Mains High School in Erskine, to accommodate 400 extra pupils, would also be required with an estimated cost of up to £30m.\n\nAlan Kelly, chairman of the Dargavel Primary Parent Council, said many parents were now worried that Park Mains will not have enough capacity and said the situation is \"causing people a lot of stress and anguish\".\n\nHe added: \"There is not suitable school provision for all the children who are going to be here - the council has massively let the community down.\n\n\"Going back to at least 2018 there were community groups voicing strong concerns that the school is not big enough, the number of houses significantly increased from about 2,500 to 4,000 and Renfrewshire Council kept the plans the same - that is where it has gone wrong.\"\n\nMr Kelly says \"some people are considering leaving and people are starting to leave\" from the new village as a result of the schooling situation\n\nAn independent review into the circumstances of how that roll-projection error was made is due to be published later.\n\nA spokesman for Renfrewshire Council said: \"We apologise sincerely to the Dargavel community and fully acknowledge their frustration over the issues with school capacity in the area, due to significant errors previously made when calculating projected pupil numbers.\n\n\"Our focus is on working with the community to put in place the best possible solutions for primary and secondary school provision.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An American tourist has been filmed helping a woman fend off an aggressive kangaroo in Western Australia’s Cohunu Koala Park.\n\nCourtney Carter told the BBC she had been screaming for help for several minutes before the man stepped in, his son later also joining in.\n\nThe situation de-escalated after a staff member arrived to take the animal away.", "Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were stabbed on Tuesday\n\nA city centre vigil is due to take place to honour the victims of a series of attacks in Nottingham, as police continue to question the suspect.\n\nFamilies of the two students who died on Tuesday were joined by thousands at a University of Nottingham campus vigil on Wednesday.\n\nBarnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were fatally stabbed as well as 65-year-old Ian Coates.\n\nA second vigil will be held in Old Market Square from 17:30 BST.\n\nA 31-year-old man remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the attacks, which saw three other people injured - one critically - when they were hit by a van.\n\nCustody rules state police can hold people for up to 96 hours if they are accused of a more serious offence, such as murder, before they must be charged or released.\n\nPeople arrested under the Terrorism Act can be held without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said they were keeping an \"open mind\" about the motives for the attacks, and were working alongside counter-terrorism police, as would normally be the case for an incident like this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThursday's vigil will see a minute's silence observed at 18:00 from the steps of the Council House, Nottingham City Council said.\n\nLeader David Mellen said the vigil would provide a chance \"to show the world Nottingham takes a stand against violence\".\n\n\"Our city remains in shock after the tragic death of three people,\" he said.\n\n\"We know the impact of these awful events will be felt not only by the victims' families and friends but by the wider Nottingham community and so it is important that we take time to join together to share our grief and to remember the people we have lost.\n\n\"The vigil will be a chance for people to come together to mourn and to show the world how Nottingham takes a stand against violence.\"\n\nThe families of the students held hands as thousands of people paid their respects at a vigil on Wednesday\n\nThe attacks started with the fatal stabbing of history student Mr Webber and medicine student Ms O'Malley-Kumar in Ilkeston Road shortly before 04:04.\n\nThe force believes the suspect then attacked 65-year-old Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in Magdala Road - and stole his van, which was then used to hit pedestrians in Milton Street, leaving one critically injured.\n\nThe university campus vigil on Wednesday saw the fathers of Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar give speeches paying tribute to their children.\n\nSanjoy Kumar thanked everyone for coming and said: \"The love that we have out here, I just wish we had it everywhere. So, look after each other is the big thing.\"\n\nThe parents of Barnaby Webber viewed tributes left at the university campus\n\nBarnaby Webber's parents returned to the campus on Thursday morning to view tributes left for their son and the other victims.\n\nDavid and Emma Webber spent time looking through messages attached to hundreds of flowers that had been laid in their memory.\n\nBarnaby's university cricket captain, Chris Howen has also paid tribute, describing his former team-mate as \"one of the friendliest blokes\" in the team.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Four: \"[Barnaby] always put himself into everything - whether it was training or a game, the bloke loved it. No-one at the club had a bad word to say about him.\n\n\"He made a big impression on both the team in terms of ability, but also in terms of friendliness. The way he was able to throw himself into anything was fantastic.\n\n\"The thought of not seeing Barney or Grace again hurts - that's the honest truth really.\"\n\nHave you been affected by this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elle Edwards was caught in the crossfire of a gangland feud, the court has heard\n\nA woman has described how a gunman looked her \"dead in the eyes\" before opening fire outside a pub on Christmas Eve, killing a 26-year-old beautician.\n\nElle Edwards was shot at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Merseyside, on 24 December 2022.\n\nConnor Chapman, 23, of no fixed address, is on trial accused of her murder.\n\nThe court has previously heard the shooting was the culmination of a feud between people on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates in Wirral - and Ms Edwards was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.\n\nThe intended victims were Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, who were injured along with three others, the jury was told.\n\nCCTV footage shown to the court showed a man parking a stolen Mercedes near the pub at 20:57 GMT and spending nearly three hours in the area before launching the attack.\n\nConnor Chapman, 23, denies murder and seven other charges\n\nIn footage filmed on police body-worn cameras, the jury heard Ms Stanton tell an officer: \"It was a targeted attack because he looked round the corner to see who was there and he turned round.\n\n\"He turned round and he looked at me dead in the eyes.\n\n\"I wanted to say to the people that were there, 'Watch out', but I couldn't because he would have just shot me.\n\n\"It all happened so quick. He just went 'bang, bang, bang'.\"\n\nShe added: \"I thought he was just going to batter them. I didn't think he had a gun.\"\n\nThe witness sobbed as she spoke to the officer.\n\nShe described the gunman wearing a balaclava, but said she had seen brown hair sticking out of it.\n\nShe said: \"I saw two people just drop to the floor and everyone else just ran inside. Everyone was screaming, 'Get inside, get inside'.\"\n\nIn a statement, Harry Loughran said he had been outside the pub when he saw someone walk around the corner.\n\nHe said: \"They raised a gun and pointed it in the direction where I was.\"\n\nHe said he was spun around by the force of his left arm being hit.\n\n\"I managed to run inside the pub. When I saw blood on my arm I think I fainted,\" he added.\n\nThe shooting happened at The Lighthouse pub in Wirral\n\nOff-duty nurse Rachael Kelly described giving CPR to Ms Edwards as she lay on the ground outside the pub.\n\nShe said: \"I remember being shocked at how much blood was on her.\"\n\nThe trial also heard that, after being arrested in Wales, Mr Chapman told a police custody officer there was too much gun crime.\n\nPC Sean Gates told the court he had been on duty outside the accused's cell door when he was held following his arrest.\n\nIn his notes, he recorded Mr Chapman saying: \"Gun crime is at an all-time high. Some people are ruthless.\"\n\nAt one point, Mr Chapman talked about having a panic attack but then said he \"doesn't care about the murder, they haven't got anything on me\", PC Gates told the jury.\n\nThe officer said Mr Chapman told him he had seen footage on the news of the shooting and it sounded like an automatic gun firing 13 shots, rather than six or seven as had been reported in the newspapers.\n\nMr Chapman said he had been in the area since the day before to celebrate his \"baby's birthday\" before handing himself in, PC Gates said.\n\nThe court has heard he was staying at Penllwyn Lodges, where a four-night stay had been booked for him with a \"prosecco and petals\" package.\n\nThe defendant was also said to have told the officer he was a \"changed person\".\n\nMr Chapman denies the murder, two counts of attempted murder and three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nHe also denies possession of a Skorpion sub-machine gun with intent to endanger life and possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life.\n\nCo-defendant Thomas Waring, 20, of Private Drive, Barnston, Wirral, denies possessing a prohibited weapon and assisting an offender by helping Chapman to dispose of the car.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Penny was arrested on preliminary charges last month\n\nA New York grand jury has indicted a former US Marine who was filmed placing a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a subway train, reports say.\n\nThe decision comes after prosecutors last month charged Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter for killing street performer Jordan Neely.\n\nThe grand jury decision was necessary for prosecutors to formally charge Mr Penny, who is free on bail.\n\nMr Penny says he was acting in self-defence during the 1 May incident.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Neely's family told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the family had been informed of the grand jury's decision.\n\nThe formal charging document is expected to be revealed at a later date. If found guilty of second-degree manslaughter, he could face up to 15 years in prison.\n\nThe 24-year-old former Marine was arrested on 12 May after initially being allowed by police to leave the scene of Mr Neely's death. He was placed in handcuffs and led into a police station before being released on a $100,000 (£80,000) in-cash bail.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Penny released a video on social media saying he did not intend to kill Mr Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man who was reportedly shouting at subway riders before the struggle began.\n\n\"There's a common misconception that Marines don't get scared,\" he said in the video.\n\n\"We're actually taught one of our core values is courage, and courage is not the absence of fear but how you handle fear,\" he added, saying he felt compelled to confront Mr Neely as he acted erratically towards passengers.\n\n\"I was scared for myself but I looked around there were women and children, he was yelling in their faces saying these threats. I just couldn't sit still.\"\n\nVideo of the incident captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding Mr Neely around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nIn the video released on Sunday, Mr Penny said the whole interaction was less than five minutes.\n\n\"I was listening to music at the time, and he was yelling, so I took my headphones out to hear what he was yelling,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Handcuffed Daniel Penny escorted out of police station last month\n\n\"And the three main threats that he repeated over and over was 'I'm going to kill you,' 'I'm prepared to go to jail for life,' and 'I'm willing to die.'\"\n\nFamily of Mr Neely say that the second-degree manslaughter charge should be upgraded to murder.\n\nThe killing shocked the city and led to questions about the safety of public transit and treatment for mentally ill homeless New Yorkers.", "Mr Heaton-Harris has previously raised the prospect of water and prescription charges\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary has formally asked Stormont civil servants to set out options for raising more public revenue.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris denied that the move was to increase pressure on the DUP to restore power-sharing.\n\nHe had to set a budget for this financial year as there is no functioning government at Stormont.\n\nThe SDLP's Matthew O'Toole said Mr Heaton-Harris was making a \"crude intervention\" to pressure the DUP.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Civil Service believes it may need to find £800m this year given the pressures on its budgets.\n\nIn a letter to permanent secretaries, Mr Heaton Harris said Stormont's future finances should be put on a \"surer footing\".\n\nHe has set a deadline of the end of June for information to be provided.\n\nHe said that he was \"keen to explore super parity measures including water charges, prescription charges and tuition fees\".\n\nThe letter adds that he hopes the relevant departments can provide advice on that \"at pace\".\n\nResponding to the letter, Mr O'Toole said: \"Today's crude intervention from Chris Heaton-Harris is nothing more than a blunt attempt to make working families pay the price of the DUP's boycott of government.\"\n\nMr Heaton Harris dismissed such claims, saying it was \"about making sure the budget is sustainable\".\n\nDUP assembly member Edwin Poots said the proposals were \"tinkering at the edges\" of Northern Ireland's budget.\n\nHe said: \"Unless there is a total recalibration of how Northern Ireland is funded, the situation will only get worse.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary called for a \"robust set of options\" for a future executive to consider\n\nDeputy leader of the Alliance Party Stephen Farry said that that new funding was needed.\n\n\"Transformation needs to be on an invest-to-save basis. It will require new funding. Reform won't happen from a burning platform of cuts,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris told reporters he wanted to ensure NI had future access to \"proper, quality public services\" that are sustainable and affordable.\n\nHe added that this was the \"first step\" in a long decision-making process.\n\n\"It's so anybody who takes decisions in the future on the budget and its sustainability also has an understanding about what revenue can be raised too,\" he said.\n\nHe said while he currently does not have powers to impose introducing water charges and other proposals, he would \"not rule out anything for the future\" if there remains no executive in place.\n\nThe secretary of state added that he had \"tonnes of patience\" with the DUP and was happy to move \"inch by inch\" to get a solution to restore power-sharing in a way that works for all parties.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris has previously raised the prospect of introducing revenue-raising measures like water charges and prescription charges but has, so far, held back from implementing them.\n\nRe-introducing prescription charges are among the suggested revenue raising measures\n\nThe government has also asked civil servants to provide advice and potential revenue generated by other measures including:\n\nMr Heaton-Harris told permanent secretaries that they should seek to provide an initial return of information by 30 June, with a fuller return by the end of July.\n\n\"I am requesting this fuller work be started now to avoid an overly quick turnaround once we have the first batch of information and advice back at the end of June,\" he added.\n\nHe said he hoped this would allow preparation for a \"robust set of options\" for a future executive to consider.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning power-sharing government since February 2022, when the DUP withdrew from the executive due to its protest over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party is facing pressure to return to government but has insisted it will not do so until the government legislates for further changes to the NI Protocol.", "Charles Ndhlovu's mother said he \"loved his family\"\n\nAn NHS trust has been accused of adding to the records of a man the day after he took his own life to \"correct their mistakes\".\n\nCharles Ndhlovu, 33, died under the care of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) in 2017.\n\nHis mother, Angelina Pattison, said the way her son's case had been handled had \"upset me so much\".\n\nThe trust did not respond to the claim about the records being added to but said learning from deaths was \"vital\".\n\nA former CPFT employee has said he raised with the trust his concerns of \"possible criminal activity\".\n\nMr Ndhlovu, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and substance misuse, had been under CPFT's care two months when he died.\n\nHe had been transferred from a neighbouring trust after moving to Ely and then been taken off a community treatment order.\n\nHis mother, Angelina Pattison, told the BBC that despite being heavily involved in her son's care, she was \"shocked that they transferred him without even telling me\".\n\nMs Pattison said she only found out about a new care coordinator the day before she was due to travel to Africa.\n\nHer son died while she was out of the UK.\n\nA trust serious untoward incident (SUI) review acknowledged that when he was transferred no-one from CPFT had asked about whether his family had been involved in his care.\n\nCharles Ndhlovu took his own life in October 2017\n\nMs Pattison said: \"They didn't have any address of [my home] in his care plan and the care plan was done when he died - when they were running around to correct their mistakes, which they have done.\n\n\"So it was really something which has upset me so much.\"\n\nMs Pattison, who worked for CPFT as a health care assistant at the time, made a formal complaint to the trust.\n\nThe BBC has separately spoken to consultant nurse and psychotherapist Des McVey, who was asked by the trust to investigate a complaint in July 2021, understood to be the one from Ms Pattison.\n\nMr McVey said: \"I noticed that the deceased did have care plans, but they were written the day after his death and they were also evaluated the day after his death and I was concerned that this wasn't picked up by the SUI.\"\n\nHe said this \"really alarmed me\", adding: \"Surprisingly, there was no care plan to address his suicidal ideation and he had... an extensive history of trying to kill himself.\"\n\nHe was also concerned about the methodology used to investigate possible racism by comparing the death to two Caucasian suicides, which he said \"demonstrated a poor understanding of the complexities of institutional racism\".\n\nMr McVey said he told a manager he believed the SUI \"was not credible\" and said he could not complete the complaint investigation.\n\nHe said he made them aware of his view \"that the risk assessment was so remarkably wrong, that they hadn't answered to why they'd taken him off the [community treatment order] against the advice of his current team\".\n\nHe said they \"had made so many speculative conclusions without any evidence, in fact sometimes evidence to the contrary\".\n\nBut Mr McVey said no-one contacted him for six or seven weeks, before finding out the investigation had been given to someone else.\n\nMr McVey left the trust in early 2022 but said in June he contacted the new chief executive, Anna Hills, to raise his concerns \"that there was possibly criminal activity going on, falsification of documentation and that the SUI was un-credible\".\n\nMs Hills said an investigation would be completed but he has not heard back, he claimed.\n\nMr Ndhlovu's mother, from Newmarket, Suffolk, said: \"I believe that if everything worked well Charles' death was going to be preventable, because there were so many things... to avoid his death.\"\n\nCPFT has previously been criticised by a coroner over a serious untoward incident concerning the death of James Nowshadi, that it was \"not credible\" and had taken matters on \"face value\".\n\nJames Nowshadi was described as an \"exceptional young man\" by the coroner\n\nThe co-author told the inquest that a reference to the method of Mr Nowshadi's suicide was removed after the review was \"touched up\" by others.\n\nMr McVey said CPFT needed have an external audit into their serious untoward incidents, stating: \"How many un-credible SUIs have been done by the trust?\"\n\nIn response to the allegations, a spokesman for CPFT said: \"The death of Mr Ndhlovu was tragic, and our continued condolences are extended to his family.\n\n\"Patient safety and the learnings from all deaths are vital to us to enable improvements in care.\n\n\"While there was a delay in investigating a complaint made by Mr Ndhlovu's mother - for which we sincerely apologised - those concerns were rigorously investigated in 2022, and a further review was conducted by our director of nursing following concerns raised to the new CEO.\n\n\"Over the past year, we have strengthened our processes around complaints and incidents, and the learnings from the review have played an important role in that.\n\n\"While there was no evidence of any racial discrimination towards Mr Ndhlovu during his treatment, we take any accusation of prejudice in our practices extremely seriously and will always fully investigate concerns raised.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n• None Review into death of man, 23, was 'not credible'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New Zealand's economy has fallen into recession after the country's central bank aggressively raised interest rates to a 14-year high.\n\nIts gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.1% in the first three months of the year, official figures show.\n\nThat followed a 0.7% contraction in the previous quarter, which means the economy is in a \"technical recession\".\n\nThe Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has increased the cost of borrowing sharply since October 2021.\n\nNew Zealand was one of the first countries to start raising rates in the wake of the pandemic and has outpaced the US Federal Reserve. Last month, the RBNZ increased its main interest rate to 5.5%.\n\nPeople in New Zealand, who were already facing rising prices, are now feeling the impact of higher rates as mortgage repayments and the cost of other loans jump.\n\n\"Interest rates are crippling,\" David Jordan, an Auckland-based web engineer told the BBC.\n\n\"I have seen many job losses in my industry as start-ups try to save money, though consultancies working with big global firms seem to be faring better,\" he added.\n\nCentral banks around the world increased the cost of borrowing as they tried to curb price rises that were triggered as economies opened up after the Covid lockdowns.\n\nInflation was also driven higher by the rising cost of everything from fuel to food, due to the Ukraine war.\n\nIn the first three months of this year, New Zealand's economy was also impacted by Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle and teachers' strikes.\n\n\"The adverse weather events caused by the cyclones contributed to falls in horticulture and transport support services, as well as disrupted education services,\" Jason Attewell, economic and environmental insights general manager at Statistics New Zealand said in a statement.\n\nA technical recession is defined by an economy shrinking for three-month periods, or quarters, in a row.\n\nEarlier, the RBNZ signalled that it had no further plans for further hikes. The contraction adds to expectations that the central bank will not raise rates again in the foreseeable future.", "Boris Johnson should pay back the public money used to cover a £245,000 bill for his lawyers during the Partygate inquiry, opposition MPs say.\n\nAn inquiry by MPs found the former prime minister had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties.\n\nThe top lawyers defending Mr Johnson were paid for with taxpayer funds.\n\nLabour says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should demand Mr Johnson \"pays back every penny\" of public money used to fund his legal defence.\n\nThe government has sought to justify the decision by claiming there is a precedent for supporting former ministers with legal representation.\n\nBut the government has not been able to name a single example of a former minister receiving taxpayer-funded legal support for a parliamentary inquiry.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said Conservative ministers had \"utterly failed\" to produce evidence to back up their assertion that funding Mr Johnson's legal defence followed convention.\n\n\"This murky arrangement that has seen the public left to pick up the tab for Boris Johnson's Partygate legal bills is not only without precedent but without justification,\" Ms Rayner said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged Mr Sunak to \"do the decent thing and force Johnson to pay the bill himself\".\n\n\"It's frankly unbelievable that hardworking taxpayers are being left to foot the bill for Boris Johnson's shameful antics,\" the party's Cabinet Office spokesperson, Christine Jardine, said.\n\nThe SNP's leader in Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said: \"The legal costs, which the public have paid for, need to be recouped from Mr Johnson.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesperson referred to the government's response, explaining there is a long-standing position on legal support, justified by precedent.\n\nThe inquiry by the Privileges Committee was launched last April, after opposition parties accused Mr Johnson of misleading MPs about gatherings in government buildings during Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nIn an unprecedented decision, the committee found Mr Johnson had committed repeated contempts of Parliament with his Partygate denials.\n\nIn its conclusions, the committee said criticisms of the inquiry in opinions submitted by Mr Johnson's legal advisers were \"without merit\".\n\nMr Johnson said the inquiry amounted to a \"political assassination\", and branded the committee's findings \"deranged\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office made the decision to cover Mr Johnson's legal costs for the inquiry last year, when he was still prime minister.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to two former ministers who were investigated by MPs for misleading Parliament and were not given legal support.\n\nThe former Labour MP and transport secretary, Stephen Byers, was not offered legal support when he faced a four-month inquiry in 2005.\n\nNor was the former Labour MP and paymaster general, Geoffrey Robinson, who was found to have \"inadvertently\" misled MPs in 2001.\n\nIn a response to a parliamentary question this week, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin defended the decision to pay Mr Johnson's legal costs.\n\nHe said the principle \"can also be applied to parliamentary inquiries, where it relates to one's conduct as minister of the Crown\".\n\nBut Mr Quin provided no examples of former ministers having their legal bills covered for parliamentary inquiries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe MP who submitted the question, Labour's Karl Turner, said that the Cabinet Office had \"created a precedent\" with the decision to fund Mr Johnson's legal defence.\n\nThis meant there was now a two-tier system whereby ministers and former ministers receive legal support to fight parliamentary inquiries, and backbench MPs do not, he added.\n\n\"We cannot have a system that unfairly advantages one member as against another member, in terms of having their excessively large legal bills covered by the taxpayer,\" Mr Turner said.\n\n\"Mr Johnson is a multi-millionaire if he wants to instruct the country's leading public lawyers and solicitors then let him pay for it.\"\n\nLast month, the contract to hire Mr Johnson's legal team was extended for the third time and increased in value, from £222,000 to £245,000.\n\nThe Treasury did not sign off the decision to use public money to pay the bill, but has insisted its approval was not required for all spending decisions.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO), which scrutinises government spending, has been examining the decision to cover Mr Johnson's legal costs during the inquiry.", "A man accused of murdering Metropolitan Police sergeant Matiu Ratana has denied he meant to pull the trigger.\n\nLouis De Zoysa shot Sgt Ratana, 54, the on-duty custody sergeant, at Croydon custody centre on 25 September 2020.\n\nThe defendant, who denies murder, told Northampton Crown Court he had hypermobility, a condition that means it is easier to bend and stretch.\n\nHe admitted he pointed a gun, while he was handcuffed, at Sgt Ratana's chest but denied he meant to shoot him.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Mr De Zoysa, from Banstead in Surrey, \"pulled the trigger on purpose four times\" in a holding room.\n\nLouis De Zoysa used a whiteboard and pen to help him communicate in court\n\nThe jury has heard Mr De Zoysa was hit in the neck by one of the bullets. He was left with brain damage and has difficulty communicating, sometimes using a whiteboard to answer questions.\n\nDuring the hearing, Mr De Zoysa was cross-examined by the prosecution barrister Jocelyn Ledward, who showed him the video of his journey in a police van to the custody suite that night.\n\n\"At this time where was the gun?\" Ms Ledward asked, and he pointed to the area under his left armpit.\n\nShe questioned where the gun was at various stages in the journey and when he got to the police station. Each time Mr De Zoysa said \"I don't know\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows arrest and detention of Louis De Zoysa and moment before Sgt Ratana was shot (warning: contains some violence)\n\nMs Ledward asked Mr De Zoysa why he was moving around in the footage shot in the van, to which he replied \"hyperventilating,\" as well as later adding there were \"no seatbelts\".\n\nAsked whether he had been \"moving the gun out of the holster?\", Mr De Zoysa responded: \"I don't know. Hypermobility.\"\n\n\"You have hypermobility?\" she followed up. He replied: \"Yeah. Easier.\"\n\nAsking him to clarify whether that meant it was \"easier to bend and stretch\", he responded: \"Yeah.\"\n\nMs Ledward questioned whether he had \"put the gun in your hand so that you could fire it?\", to which Mr De Zoysa said: \"I don't know.\"\n\nThe defendant was also shown CCTV footage of him walking to the holding cell, and slow-motion footage of the moment he brought the gun out from behind his back in the cell.\n\nMr De Zoysa confirmed, when asked by Ms Ledward, that he pointed the gun at Sgt Ratana's chest and then pulled the trigger.\n\nShe then asked: \"Did you mean to pull the trigger at that point?\"\n\nWhen asked about what he had been saying in the minute before the gun went off, the defendant replied: \"Sick...Throw up.\"\n\nAsked whether he had been \"feeling sick\" by defence lawyer Imran Khan KC, Mr De Zoysa said: \"Yeah. Something happening in the mind... Like puking... Butterflies.\"\n\nMr Khan also asked if Mr De Zoysa had wanted to kill himself with the gun that day, and he replied \"no\".\n\nConsultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Dinesh Maganty also appeared as an expert witness.\n\nMr Khan asked Dr Maganty: \"Is it your considered opinion that Louis De Zoysa suffered an autistic meltdown at the time?\"\n\nDr Maganty said: \"If the account given by him to me is accepted, and the prosecution narrative is not, then yes.\n\n\"But if the prosecution narrative is accepted in its entirety, then no.\"\n\nAsked by Mr Khan if a person being \"overwhelmed by autistic meltdown\" was \"not in control of their actions\", Dr Maganty said \"you can't be in control if you're completely overwhelmed\".\n\nHowever, Dr Maganty said that \"if, as the prosecution case is, he brought the gun out, he was planning it, he intended to do it, that's entirely not consistent with an autistic meltdown\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, chairman and boss Young Liu told the BBC what the future may hold for the Taiwanese firm.\n\nHe said even as Foxconn shifts some supply chains away from China, electric vehicles (EVs) are what will drive its growth in the coming decades.\n\nAs US-China tensions soar, Mr Liu said, Foxconn must prepare for the worst.\n\n\"We hope peace and stability will be something the leaders of these two countries will keep in mind,\" 67-year-old Mr Liu told us, in his offices in Taipei, Taiwan's capital.\n\n\"But as a business, as a CEO, I have to think about what if the worst case happens?\"\n\nThe scenarios could include attempts by Beijing to blockade Taiwan, which it claims as part of China, or worse, to invade the self-ruled island.\n\nMr Liu said \"business continuity planning\" was already under way, and pointed out that some production lines, particularly those linked to \"national security products\" were already being moved from China to Mexico and Vietnam.\n\nHe was likely to be referring to servers Foxconn makes that are used in data centres, and can contain sensitive information.\n\nFoxconn, or Hon Hai Technology Group as it is officially known, started off in 1974, making knobs for TVs. Now it is one of the world's most powerful technology companies, with an annual revenue of $200bn (£158.2bn).\n\nIt is best known for making more than half of Apple's products - from iPhones to iMacs - but it also counts Microsoft, Sony, Dell and Amazon among its clients.\n\nFor decades, it has thrived on a playbook perfected by multinational corporations - they design products in the US, manufacture them in China and then sell them to the world. That is how it grew from a small component-making business to the consumer electronics giant it is today.\n\nBut as global supply chains adjust to souring ties between Washington and Beijing, Foxconn finds itself in an unenviable spot - caught between the world's two biggest economies, the very nations that have powered its growth until now.\n\nThe US and China are at loggerheads over many things, from trade to the war in Ukraine. But one of the biggest potential flashpoints is Taiwan, where Foxconn is headquartered.\n\nTaiwan has been a thorny issue for a long time but Chinese leader Xi Jinping's repeated pledges of \"reunification\" have upset the uneasy status quo. Meanwhile, the US, under President Joe Biden, has been more vocal in its support for Taiwan in case of an attack.\n\nSome US voices have crossed China's red line, calling for independence, although the White House has reaffirmed its position that it maintains diplomatic relations with Beijing and not Taipei.\n\nThere are hopes of a thaw with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visiting China this weekend. But there are also fears of a conflict - one US general has estimated it could happen as soon as the next few years.\n\n\"The United States and China are engaged in what we see as strategic competition,\" said Shihoko Goto, the deputy director for the Asia programme at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.\n\n\"Foxconn wants to do business with both, but there can only be one winner.\"\n\nBut Mr Liu does not think it is that simple. For one, he said, Foxconn's business model, which relies on US designs and Chinese manufacturing, is far from over.\n\n\"We hire a lot of workers and most countries, including China, want to support their workers,\" Mr Liu said, adding that the Chinese government wants companies like Foxconn to keep going because of the huge number of jobs they create.\n\nFoxconn's manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou, China, was hit hard by Covid restrictions\n\nAre rising tensions putting pressure on the model? \"So far? We haven't seen it,\" he told us.\n\nBut the West and its allies have called for countries and companies to \"de-risk\" from China - a long-term shift to curb global reliance on China that is yet to play out.\n\nWhen asked if that was impacting business, Mr Liu responded cautiously.\n\nSome overseas clients had pushed to move production out of China, he said, but this was their decision to make, not Foxconn's.\n\n\"They get the push from their government about de-risking, and then they will let us know.\"\n\nGeopolitics aside, Covid-19 is another reason companies might consider \"de-risking\" from China.\n\nA mix of harsh Covid policies, a lack of space for quarantine and the infectiousness of the Omicron variant led to protests and riots at Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou - the world's biggest iPhone plant - in late 2022. Hundreds of workers, who feared the spread of the virus, fled the campus on foot.\n\nMr Liu said the scenes that played out for the world to see were caused by a lack of transportation due to Beijing's unyielding zero-Covid policy.\n\nBut when pressed further, he admitted that he should have handled things differently.\n\n\"If the same situation occurs again, I would stop production altogether,\" he said, reiterating that he would have made that decision even at the risk of irking clients like Apple.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe company's success certainly rests on its impressive client base, but Foxconn is just as indispensable to those clients.\n\nTo understand how essential it is to Apple, for instance, you just need to look at how much of the iPhone is made by Foxconn - around 60%, by some estimates. The factories in China make some of the most essential parts of the device - camera modules, connectors, even the back of the phone casing.\n\nThat expertise is also what Mr Liu is hoping will fuel Foxconn's next big bet: electric cars.\n\n\"Look at this - this is a big iPhone, so we're very familiar with this,\" he said, pointing to a panel that controlled the car he had taken us for a drive in.\n\nBuilt for families and priced for an aspiring global middle class, the shiny white SUV is one of several models manufactured by Foxconn.\n\n\"The reason why we think this is a great opportunity for us is that with the traditional gas engine, you have engines which are mostly mechanical. But with EVs, it's batteries and motors,\" he explains.\n\nFoxconn chairman Young Liu with one of the firm's electric cars\n\nThat is a familiar language for a technology company like Foxconn, he added.\n\nFoxconn's hopes to capture about 5% of the global electric vehicle market in the next few years - an ambitious target given the firm has only made a handful of models so far. But it is a gamble that Mr Liu is confident will pay off.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense for you to make [EVs] in one place, so regionalised production for cars is very natural,\" he added. Foxconn car factories will be based in Ohio in the US, in Thailand, Indonesia and perhaps even in India, he said.\n\nFor now, the company will keep focusing on what it does best - making electronic products for clients. But perhaps not too far in the future, Foxconn will do the same for clients with electric cars.\n\nEither way, with the foray into electric cars, Foxconn is diversifying not just production but also supply lines - both of which, Mr Liu believes, hold the key to the company's future.", "Tory MPs are torn about whether or not to back the former prime minister\n\nSome of Boris Johnson's closest allies are rallying behind the former PM before a vote on a damning report which found he had misled MPs over Partygate.\n\nNadine Dorries is among a small group of Johnson loyalists planning to oppose the Privileges Committee's report in a Commons vote on Monday.\n\nMany other Tory MPs have yet to decide how to vote - or whether to abstain.\n\nThe motion - which would see Mr Johnson stripped of his right to a parliament pass - is likely to pass comfortably.\n\nThe committee's main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already stood down as an MP.\n\nThe report, which was published on Thursday morning, said the former PM had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties and had committed repeated offences with his denials.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak - who was Mr Johnson's chancellor - has not said whether he will vote on the report.\n\nJohnson loyalists - including former ministers Sir Simon Clarke, Nadine Dorries and Sir Jake Berry - have said they will vote against the report's findings.\n\nIt is likely that many more Conservative MPs could abstain, or simply not turn up to the vote, while Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all expected to support the committee's findings.\n\nBut Conservative MPs still face a dilemma over Monday's vote.\n\nVoting against the recommendations risks alienating local party activists who want Mr Johnson gone, voting for it risks angering his fans, who believe he has been hounded out of Parliament.\n\nAllies of Mr Johnson warned Tory MPs they could face battles with their local parties to remain as candidates at the next election if they back the motion.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Damian Green told the BBC that \"deliberately abstaining is not really rising to the importance of the occasion\".\n\nThe former cabinet minister under Theresa May said he intended to vote to approve the report with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nSir Jake - an ally of Mr Johnson - said he was \"almost certain that Parliament will vote in favour\" of the report on Monday.\n\nBut Sir Jake said he would \"certainly be one of those in the no lobby opposing this report, whose conclusions he called \"wrong\".\n\nSo far, 15 Conservatives have publicly criticised the committee:\n\nLiberal Democrats say the report \"speaks for itself\" and should be approved without a debate.\n\nSir Ed Davey criticised the amount of time the government is spending debating Mr Johnson's conduct, and said the Conservative party is operating \"in absolute chaos\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing a year-long investigation, the seven-person Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson had had \"personal knowledge\" of Covid-rule breaches in Downing Street but had repeatedly failed to \"pro-actively investigate\" the facts.\n\nThe committee said officials had not advised Mr Johnson that social distancing guidelines were followed at all times, contrary to what he said in the House of Commons at the time.\n\nIn key evidence, Martin Reynolds - one of Mr Johnson's most senior officials - said he had advised the PM against making the claim, questioning whether it was \"realistic\".\n\nMr Johnson announced last Friday that he was standing down as an MP with immediate effect after being shown a draft of the report.\n\nA by-election will be held on 20 July in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nIn an eviscerating statement he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and its findings \"deranged\", accusing Harriet Harman, the Labour chairwoman of the committee, of bias.\n\nThe committee said the initial proposed sanction was increased \"in light of Mr Johnson's conduct\" in recent days - including breaching confidentiality rules and \"being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee\".\n\nMr Johnson's statement was \"completely unacceptable\", they said.\n\nResponding to the report, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson had \"disgraced himself\", and the Liberal Democrats' Daisy Cooper said he had treated Parliament with \"total disdain\". SNP leader Humza Yousaf called it a \"dark day\" for Westminster.", "Discount offers for households to use less electricity at peak times will return this winter as part of plans to minimise the risk of power cuts.\n\nNational Grid ESO said it expected to have sufficient capacity to meet demand but added it would be \"prudent\" to maintain the energy-saving scheme.\n\nThe network operator said the Ukraine war posed \"risks and uncertainties\" to gas supplies across Europe and Britain.\n\n\"Tight days\" on the energy grid were likely be in January, it said.\n\n\"There will be cold snaps in the winter and therefore we do expect to use our normal operational tools,\" said a spokesman for National Grid ESO, which is the electricity system operator for England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has a separate electricity operator..\n\nThe so-called Demand Flexibility Service was launched in last November after Russia's gas supplies to Europe were disrupted following its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn a report looking ahead to the colder months, National Grid said it would have an average margin - which is the difference between the supply of electricity and demand for it - of 4.8 gigawatts. It said this was \"slightly higher than last winter\" and \"broadly in line with those of recent winters\".\n\nHowever, its \"base case\" scenario assumes normal energy market conditions with no disruptions to supplies.\n\nNational Grid said it was taking steps to \"minimise the potential impact to electricity customers\" in Britain if supplies were disrupted again.\n\nAlongside maintaining its energy-saving scheme for households to get discounts on bills, it said it was holding discussions about having two coal power stations on standby. The amount available to the grid if required has fallen from five in 2022 to two, with two now closed down and one other unable to be called upon.\n\nThe UK is heavily reliant on gas to produce electricity, with gas-fired power stations generating more than 40% of the country's electricity. It also imports electricity from continental Europe.\n\nThe squeeze on supplies led to household energy bills soaring as gas prices rocketed.\n\nThe government stepped in late last year to limit bills to £2,500 a year for a typical household. But, despite gas prices falling back, energy bills remain elevated.\n\nA typical property will pay £2,074 a year for gas and electricity from July, far above winter 2021 when bills were around £1,277.\n\nThe Demand Flexibility Service offered people the chance to be paid to use less electricity during peak times when capacity on the grid was tight, but only homes with smart meters were able to take part.\n\nOnly 14 million households in England, Scotland and Wales, where the scheme was on offer, have a smart electricity meter installed.\n\nNational Grid said 1.6 million households and businesses who were customers of 31 energy suppliers participated in the scheme across 22 \"events\" last winter.\n\nPeople were asked to avoid high-power activities, such as cooking or using washing machines for a one-hour period.\n\nIt said the amount of energy saved was enough to power almost 10 million homes, but it is not yet known how much money, on average, each household earned.\n\nIndividual suppliers decided how much customers received and whether the money was taken off bills, credited to accounts, or if it could be withdrawn as cash.\n\nNational Grid said consumers in the south, east and east midlands of England reduced their demand the most.\n\nThe operator is consulting energy suppliers to improve the service ahead of the winter.\n\nThis story has been updated to clarify that National Grid ESO only operates in Great Britain and that Northern Ireland has a separate electricity operator.", "The train line near Estreham Road, south London, where the man was found dead\n\nA man has died after being pursued by police in south London.\n\nThe man, aged 34, had failed to stop for police when he was driving a car in Streatham at about 03:30 BST on Tuesday, the Met Police said.\n\nThe car later crashed in Brunswick Mews and the man ran from the scene. He was later found dead, lying on a railway line near Estreham Road.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), is investigating the incident.\n\nOfficers attempted to stop the man as the car he was in approached Streatham High Street.\n\nThe Met said the man was last seen alive on foot in Potters Lane before officers lost sight of him.\n\nAfter he was spotted on the railway track, officers from the Met requested the power to the lines be turned off so they could be safely accessed.\n\nParamedics later approached the man, who had died.\n\nHis next of kin have been informed, police said.\n\nOfficers from the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards have also been informed.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The northern UK tends to be much wetter than the south, but this summer that pattern is being flipped on its head.\n\nWater levels in much of Scotland are very low with some rivers breaking records, while southern England is mostly healthy after a very wet spring.\n\nThe UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology warns of increased risk of drought affecting farmers and nature.\n\nOne North Wales farmer told BBC News he has already almost lost a crop.\n\nMeanwhile, experts at the Wildlife Trusts say they are seeing signs of stressed nature.\n\nBut current forecasts suggest the UK is unlikely to face drinking water shortages or hosepipe bans this summer.\n\nHowever, \"vigilance is still required\" in the southeast after demand for water in the recent heatwave may have depleted supplies, explains Jamie Hannaford, UKCEH Group Leader for Hydrological Status and Outlooks.\n\nClimate change is driving up global temperatures but there are currently no studies that clearly link human-induced climate change with altered risk of drought in the UK, according to the Met Office.\n\nUKCEH is an environmental research institute that analyses data from the Environment Agency and other public bodies.\n\nA map of UK river flows in May shows a clear divide between southern England and Wales, compared to Scotland, north-west England and north Wales.\n\nThe river Nevis in western Scotland registered its lowest May flow since records began in 1983, while the Ewe had its second lowest since 1971.\n\nThe Highlands had its eight driest May since 1890.\n\nLast week the Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued water scarcity alerts for the majority of the country, with Loch Maree in the northwest highlands facing significant shortages.\n\nBy contrast, most southern regions received over 140% of their average rainfall. Wessex had its fifth wettest spring since records began there in 1890.\n\nOne exception is in Devon and Cornwall where hosepipe bans remain in place after drought last year affected reservoir levels.\n\nThe effects of dry weather are already being felt in parts of Scotland and Wales. A large wildfire burned overnight on Wednesday in the Rhondda valley, South Wales.\n\nLast week firefighters in the Scottish Highlands fought to control what could be the UK's largest fire to date.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLlŷr Jones, a farmer in Corwen, North Wales, has already noticed the effects of heat on his farm this year.\n\nTemperatures in the sheds for his flock of 32,000 hens have consistently reached 28C for the past 10 days.\n\n\"We put in extra fans and encourage them to drink more water. They don't like anything higher than 25C so we're constantly checking to make sure they're happy,\" he says.\n\nA field of spring barley planted in April was close to failure until thunderstorms on Monday rescued the crop, he explains.\n\n\"Last year, on this mountain in Wales, it reached 32C. You get to a point where there's nothing else you can do but desperately hope for rain to save the crops,\" he says.\n\nHe lives on the family farm with his wife and three young children, and says it's clear they will have to change how they farm.\n\n\"We are fully aware of the weather changing and we're doing everything we can to adapt,\" he explains.\n\nThe environment is already showing signs of drought, explains Ali Morse at The Wildlife Trusts.\n\n\"Vegetation is starting to look a bit drier, flowers aren't as healthy. If you look out at the countryside, it doesn't look as green,\" she explains.\n\nBut the \"hidden impacts\" of drought on wildlife are really concerning, she says, adding that there is some evidence that insect numbers are lower this year after the 2022 drought.\n\nButterflies and moths can be affected if they lay their eggs on plants that are dried out, or young fish may have stunted growth in rivers with low flows, affecting their ability to mate as adults.\n\n\"If we do avoid drought this year it was by chance, not because the UK did the right things to avoid it,\" she adds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGale force winds and heavy rains are lashing coastal parts of north-west India and southern Pakistan as a powerful cyclone makes landfall.\n\nMore than 170,000 people in the two countries were evacuated to safety before the arrival of Cyclone Biparjoy.\n\nForecasters say it could be the area's worst storm in 25 years and warned it threatens homes and crops in its path.\n\nThe cyclone is due to barrel through parts of India's Gujarat state and Sindh province in Pakistan.\n\nCyclone Biparjoy - meaning \"disaster\" in Bengali - is forecast to hit the coast near Jakhau port, between Mandvi in Gujarat and Keti Bandar in Sindh.\n\nPakistan's disaster management agency warned of storm surges as high as 3-4m (10-13ft) along the coastline from Karachi to Gujarat.\n\nAlok Pandey, the official in charge of relief operations in Gujarat, said earlier that the cyclone's intensity had reduced but that wind speeds were still expected to be at \"very dangerous\" levels of around 110-125 km/h (68-78mph) at the time of landfall.\n\nThe Indian armed forces and coast guard have kept ships, helicopters and aircraft on standby for rescue and relief operations.\n\nGujarat's health minister, Rushikesh Patel, asked people to avoid travelling. \"Our aim is to ensure zero casualties,\" he said.\n\nAt least seven deaths were reported amid heavy rains in India earlier this week. The victims included two children crushed by a collapsing wall, and a woman hit by a falling tree while on a motorbike, AFP news agency reported.\n\nMore than 170,000 people in India and Pakistan have been evacuated to shelters and temporary camps\n\nIn Pakistan, the storm is expected to strike the coast of Sindh province. Authorities have evacuated 81,000 people from the south-eastern coast and set up 75 relief camps at schools.\n\nMs Rehman said that Karachi, Pakistan's largest city with a population of more than 20 million, was not under immediate threat but emergency measures were being taken.\n\nMeteorologists warned that high tides could inundate low-lying areas along the coasts.\n\nMandvi and other parts of coastal Gujarat have witnessed heavy rains and high winds since Wednesday. Local media outlets shared videos that showed debris flying amid heavy rain.\n\nGujarat state officials said that 94,000 people had been evacuated from coastal areas.\n\nThe cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday evening local time\n\nA number of train services have been suspended in Gujarat, while the ports of Kandla and Mundra - two of India's largest - have stopped operations, authorities said.\n\nFishing has been suspended along the Gujarat coast, while fishermen in Pakistan's coastal region have also been warned to stay ashore.\n\nThe Gujarat government has also set up control rooms to monitor the safety of Asiatic lions in the Gir forest and coastal areas, BBC Gujarati reported. The Gir forest is the only natural habitat of the Asiatic lion.\n\nEighteen national disaster relief teams and 12 state disaster relief teams have been deployed in key areas of Gujarat for relief work. They will focus on ensuring that essential services remain unaffected or at least restored soon, depending on how strong the cyclone is.\n\nThe India Meteorological Department expects Biparjoy to \"fall in intensity\" as it moves inland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben Rich looks at Cyclone Biparjoy's expected impact as it makes landfall\n\nCyclones, also known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic and typhoons in the north-west Pacific, are a regular and deadly phenomenon in the Indian Ocean. Rising surface temperatures across the Arabian Sea in recent years due to climate change have made the surrounding regions even more vulnerable to devastating storms.\n\nCyclone Tauktae in May 2021 was the last severe cyclone that struck in the same region. It killed 174 people.\n\nThe evacuations for Biparjoy brought back grim memories from 25 years ago when another cyclone hit the Gujarat coast, leaving a trail of death and destruction. Official figures put the death toll at around 4,000 but unofficially, locals say the number was much higher.\n\n\"We have seen cyclones in the past, but this time it looks very bad,\" said 40-year old Abbas Yakub, a fisherman sheltering at a primary school in Mandvi. He was among 150 people at the temporary shelter.\n\n\"Our home is right at the coast, waves already touched our house yesterday morning. We don't know what we will go back to,\" he said.\n\nAt another shelter - a school shielding around 300 people - the youngest inhabitant, Ishaad, was just three days old. His mother Shehnaz, said she was anxious about their future.\n\n\"If anything happens to my house, how will I manage with my baby? What will I go back to?\"\n\nAre you in India or Pakistan? Have you been affected by the cyclone? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, died in hospital after the crush\n\nExactly six months ago, a crush brought a concert at the Brixton Academy to an abrupt halt. Two of those who went to the south London venue that night never came home, and their families are still waiting for answers about what happened.\n\nSocial media footage showed long queues of people, many thought to be ticketless, trying to gain entry to the sold-out gig by Afrobeats artist Asake on 15 December.\n\nNursing graduate Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham in east London, and security dog-handler Gaby Hutchinson, 23, from Gravesend in Kent, both died from the injuries they sustained in the crush. A third person, a 21-year-old woman, remains in a serious condition in hospital.\n\n\"She was stunning, so, so beautiful,\" says Rebecca's aunt Mary Ikumelo. \"Such a beautiful individual, not only on the outside but also inside.\"\n\n\"Rebecca was a bubbly person,\" says her mother Yetunde Olodo, 59. \"She was very outgoing, caring, loving. She was an amazing mother.\"\n\nHer children, aged seven and five, face growing up without her. \"She's got two young kids, they're missing their mom,\" says Yetunde.\n\n\"They don't really know what actually happened to their mom. We really want justice.\"\n\nSpeaking to Rebecca's family, their pride at the work she did to support parents of autistic children shines through.\n\n\"A lot of women that reached out said the most amazing things about her, how she selflessly always had time for them,\" Mary adds.\n\n\"She would give them routines, she would just give them little gems on how to help their children with the autism.\n\n\"That's strangers reaching out to say how amazing an individual was so you can imagine how blessed the people to have her in their lives constantly were.\"\n\nLike Rebecca's family, Gaby's relatives have photographs and memories on social media to help remember Gaby.\n\n\"I feel that if you ever met Gaby while she was alive, you would never forget her,\" her mum Christine told the BBC. \"She would make a really big impression on you, hopefully a good one.\n\n\"My heart feels like it's broken. It's never going to mend again. I wish it had been me rather than her because she had a life to live and at least I've lived 60 years.\"\n\nChristine says she cannot believe Gaby is gone\n\nGaby's sister Nina described her sibling as \"a great soul\". The 32-year-old said: \"She had a lot of passion in there. She was a real laugh. She was just so loving and caring.\"\n\nHalf a year on, Christine and Nina say it still does not \"feel real\". They both paid tribute to Gaby's selflessness.\n\n\"She never would have walked out there knowing someone else was in danger or needed help,\" Nina adds. \"She would have stayed and that's what she did. She's a hero, she really is.\n\n\"Maybe a stupid one, but she's our hero and we're grateful that we did get the time that we had with her.\"\n\nNina says Gaby was \"one of a kind\"\n\nBoth families want anyone with any information or footage to share it with police, who say they have spoken to hundreds of people who were there.\n\n\"We're angry that there are things that haven't gone right that has led to people dying or being seriously injured and we just want those people to have justice,\" Nina says.\n\n\"We want to know how it happened, we want to know why it happened,\" adds Mary, \"and then we just want to know how are we moving forward going to prevent this from happening to somebody else's daughter, mum, sister, niece.\n\n\"All we want is justice, for people to come forward and help us. Whatever they know, they should come and tell the police.\n\n\"It's really, really important for all of us as a community to stand together and to just make sure that this type of thing doesn't happen again.\"\n\nThe scene outside the O2 Brixton Academy the morning after the gig\n\nBrixton Academy's operator the Academy Music Group, which hopes the venue can reopen despite the Met's opposition, previously said it was \"devastated\" about the deaths and that it had \"engaged collaboratively\" with both Lambeth Council and the Metropolitan Police since the crush.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney, the senior investigating officer, said a criminal investigation is being conducted involving a range of potential offences such as \"corporate manslaughter, criminal negligence manslaughter, unlawful act manslaughter and health and safety at work offences, along with violent disorder and offences against the person or assaults\".\n\nHe said he was \"extremely confident\" police would get to the bottom of what happened - but explained that he needed more witnesses to \"help me piece together the puzzle as to how that crush ever happened in the first place\".\n\nHe told the BBC hundreds of statements had already been taken but \"there were thousands of people there, so there's still a lot to do\".\n\nThe detective said his message was a simple one: \"Come forward with anything you know, even if it's something you've heard. Come forward if you have material on your phone. Come forward.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'My beautiful boy' - families pay tribute at the vigil\n\nThousands of people at a vigil for those killed in the Nottingham attacks have been urged to hold no \"hate in your hearts\".\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death in Tuesday's attacks.\n\nTheir families joined a vigil in the city's Old Market Square, where a minute's silence was held.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead urged the crowd to be \"kind to one another\".\n\n\"Look after each other, don't have hate in your hearts. Say prayers for my baby girl,\" she said.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Mr Webber's mother Emma, who said: \"Please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion.\"\n\nJames Coates, whose father was an avid Nottingham Forest fan, roused the crowd with a shout of \"you Reds!\".\n\nMany of those attending the vigil had arrived wearing red in response to a request from him and brother Lee.\n\nBarnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates died at the scene of the attacks\n\nAddressing the crowd, James said: \"I want to thank everybody that has given us a kind word.\n\n\"It feels like he touched a lot of hearts over the years - more than we thought he had, so it's heartening to see the messages and see people come out and talk about how it helped them, some beautiful comments.\n\n\"We're still dealing with what's happened. We still haven't taken it all in so we just want to say - my dad was an avid fisherman and he loved his family he also loved his Forest - go you Reds!\"\n\nBarnaby Webber's mother Emma joked they \"couldn't get him home\" from Nottingham\n\nMrs Webber told the vigil her son had \"really loved\" Nottingham.\n\n\"Like Grace's dad said yesterday, we couldn't get him bloody home,\" she said.\n\nShe referred to an anonymous letter left during Wednesday's tributes at the university, and offered her support to everyone affected.\n\n\"We stand here and we feel your love and we are united in grief and shock and disbelief, and one day we will smile again, but it will take time,\" she said.\n\nShe called for a roar of support from the crowd, who responded with emotion and enthusiasm.\n\nThe \"monstrous individual\" responsible for the deaths in the city on Tuesday \"will not define us\", she continued.\n\n\"I know he will receive the retribution that he deserves,\" she said.\n\n\"However, this evil person is just that. He is just a person.\"\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead said her daughter was \"a treasure\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead said the magnitude of the grief for her daughter reflects the magnitude of the love everyone had for her.\n\n\"My beautiful baby girl, she wasn't just beautiful on the outside, you must have seen her pictures, she was so beautiful on the inside. She was a treasure, an adored child,\" she said.\n\n\"She wanted very few things in life, she wanted to be a doctor, she wanted to play hockey with her pals, she wanted to have fun.\"\n\nShe added: \"All they were doing was walking home, were just walking home after a night-out and, like Emma Webber says, this person must face justice. It just is truly so unfair.\"\n\nPaying tribute to the caretaker, Ross Middleton, head teacher of Huntingdon Academy where Mr Coates worked, said he was \"full of fun with a mischievous glint in his eye\" and put huge effort into students' welfare.\n\n\"My abiding memory, then, will be the time he spent with his grandson and how he looked at his grandson with such love and pride he and he did a great job,\" he said.\n\n\"We will all remember him with great affection. Rest in peace Ian, and, of course, I'll keep an eye on Forest results for you.\"\n\nCommunity, religious and political figures, including council leader David Mellen are speaking at the vigil\n\nCity council leader David Mellen told the families: \"The attack on you is an attack on us all.\"\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton from the University of Nottingham, where Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar studied, described the three deaths in the city's attacks as a \"traumatic, violent and needless loss\".\n\nHe was followed by Prof Shearer West, the university's vice-chancellor who said they were still \"trying to process the information\" that the suspect was a former student.\n\n\"All three of these lives were cut short in the most unimaginable way on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Their well-earned retirement plans and bright futures brutally curtailed by a seemingly random act of violence.\n\n\"At the university, we held our own vigil yesterday with Barney and Grace's families to remember them and mourn their loss.\n\n\"I was overwhelmed by the love and support that was offered to the families by more than 2,000 students and staff who gathered together as a community.\n\n\"Although seemingly unconnected to these dreadful acts, we are still in the university trying to process the information that the suspect in custody was a former student,\" she said.\n\nNottingham North Labour MP Alex Norris said \"we must all be there\" for the families of the victims as he spoke on behalf of Nottingham's other MPs, Nadia Whittome and Lilian Greenwood.\n\nNottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry said: \"There is no place for hate in the healing process.\n\n\"It's important that we remain united and come back stronger from this tragedy as Nottingham together.\"\n\nDuring a short pause before the minute's silence at 18:00 BST, the crowd were asked to talk to each other to emphasise Nottingham's sense of community.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons with the words \"Choose Love\" were held by one woman near the stage.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Suella Braverman added a wreath to flowers laid outside the Council House.\n\nShe also met with police chiefs for an update on the investigation and visit emergency services personnel to thank them for their response to the attacks.\n\nWriting in the Nottingham Post, she spoke of her \"profound sorrow\" at Tuesday's attacks.\n\n\"As I pay my respects today, I am touched by the words of tribute from family and friends and join them to remember Barnaby, a talented student and respected sportsman, and Grace, an accomplished hockey player and promising medical student,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Both with so much promise and who had already achieved so much in their young lives. And to Ian, a kind, dedicated and much-loved family man and pillar of the school community.\"\n\nPolice were earlier granted more time to question the 31-year-old suspect.\n\nThey said he was a former student of the university but did not believe this to be behind the attack.\n\nNottinghamshire Police also confirmed it had referred part of the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), as a marked police car followed the suspect's van before it collided with two pedestrians.\n\nCCTV pictured a man matching the suspect's description trying to get into a supporting living complex\n\nMr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were attacked with a knife in Ilkeston Road, shortly after 04:00.\n\nAfter this a man matching the suspect's description attempted to get into a supporting living complex in Mapperley Road, but was unable to gain entry.\n\nPolice believe that shortly afterwards, he attacked Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in Magdala Road - and stole his van, which was then used to hit pedestrians.\n\nOfficers have given more details of three other people injured in this part of the attacks.\n\nA man was run over in the Milton Street area and left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nThe suspect was Tasered and arrested after a van was used to run over pedestrians\n\nAn attempt was then made to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area. They are believed to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nIt was this part of the attacks that prompted the referral to the IOPC, police confirmed.\n\nThe IOPC confirmed the move and said: \"We are assessing the referral to decide what further action may be required of the IOPC.\"\n\nLarge parts of the city centre were sealed off after the attacks\n\nThe suspect was Tasered and arrested after leaving a van and approaching officers with a knife, police said.\n\nThe force said it was still working alongside counter-terrorism policing and keeping an \"open mind\" on the motives behind these attacks.\n\nA statement added: \"A team of dedicated detectives is continuing to question the suspect and building up a strong picture of what happened that morning.\n\n\"This has included CCTV gathering, forensics, eyewitness accounts and searching a number of properties in the city.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Could this really be the end?\n\nBoris Johnson's latest departure from Parliament has a feeling of finality about it.\n\nThe last time he stood down as an MP, in 2008, it was in triumph. He had just been elected mayor of London, a job that would launch him on the path to Downing Street.\n\nNow he is heading for the exit with all guns blazing, with a scathing attack on the MPs who sought to punish him for misleading Parliament over Covid rule-breaking.\n\nHis reaction to the Privileges Committee report is vintage Johnson - colourful, amusing in parts - the references to \"Mystic Meg\" and nudist colonies - but with an unfamiliar edge of bitterness and anger.\n\nWhether it turns out to be the final raging testament of a man destined for the political wilderness remains to be seen.\n\nHe has bounced back from many, mainly self-inflicted, disasters before.\n\nAnd he is clearly in no mood to settle for comfortable semi-retirement.\n\nHe has already earned more than £5m for giving speeches around the world since he quit as prime minister.\n\nHe is also about to become a father again, at 58, with wife Carrie expecting their third child. The family have just moved into a £3.8m Grade II listed manor house in Oxfordshire, complete with its own moat.\n\nThere are books to write - his memoir of his time in Downing Street is well under way apparently, and talk of business opportunities.\n\nBut this may be thin gruel for someone with Boris Johnson's outsize personality.\n\nFrom his earliest childhood days, when he famously declared he wanted to be \"world king\", Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has had his eyes on life's big prizes.\n\nHe came into the world in 1964 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in New York, where his father, Stanley, was studying economics.\n\nBoris Johnson as host of the BBC show, Have I Got News For You, in 2002\n\nOne of four children, he spent his early years on the family farm in Somerset, before moving to north London and then Brussels, where Stanley was working for the European Commission.\n\nThe Johnson siblings were close and highly competitive with one another. Young Boris, or Al, as he was known to the family, was largely brought up by his artist mother Charlotte, helped by au pairs.\n\nHe won a scholarship to Eton College, England's most prestigious private school, where he made a lasting impression on his teachers and classmates.\n\nIn a widely quoted excerpt from a school report, teacher Martin Hammond said of the 17-year-old Johnson: \"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility.\n\n\"I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.\"\n\nSimon Veksner, a school friend of Johnson, told author Simon Kuper in his recent book Chums: \"Boris's charisma even then was off the charts, so funny, warm, charming, self-deprecating,\"\n\nAt Oxford University, he was elected president of the union - a debating society dating back to 1823. He also joined the infamously rowdy and exclusive Bullingdon Club, alongside future prime minister David Cameron.\n\nBrimming with ambition: Boris Johnson was president of the Oxford Union in 1986\n\nAfter Oxford, he was taken on as a trainee reporter at the Times newspaper, but was sacked after falsifying a quote.\n\nIt proved to be a minor setback however, and in 1988 he was given a job on the Daily Telegraph by then-editor Max Hastings.\n\nAs the Telegraph's Brussels correspondent, Johnson specialized in ridiculing regulations passed by the European Commission - although many of his fellow reporters in Brussels felt his stories were exaggerated and in some cases simply untrue.\n\nIn 1999, he became editor of influential right-wing magazine the Spectator, and two years later finally achieved his ambition to enter Parliament, as the Tory MP for Henley, in Oxfordshire.\n\nThings did not go smoothly.\n\nHe insisted on continuing to edit the Spectator, even when he was promoted to the Tory frontbench by then leader Michael Howard.\n\nHe came unstuck in 2004 when the magazine published an article blaming the Hillsborough disaster on the behaviour of Liverpool football fans.\n\nAn incensed Howard ordered Johnson to Liverpool to apologise to the entire city.\n\nHe survived \"Operation Scouse Grovel\", as he dubbed it, only to be sacked by Howard a month later for lying about claims he had had an affair with journalist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nJohnson's colourful private life has long been a source of fascination for fellow journalists - in particular, the question of how many children he has fathered.\n\nHe has declined to confirm a number when asked, but it is thought be seven, with another on the way.\n\nHe has four children from his second marriage, to barrister Marina Wheeler, which ended in divorce, and another from an affair with art consultant Helen Macintyre.\n\nBoris and Carrie Johnson got married in May 2020\n\nIn May 2020, Johnson married Carrie Symonds, a former Tory aide, at a private ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. The couple had their first son together, Wilfred, in April 2020. Their second child, daughter Romy, was born in December 2021.\n\nIt was Johnson's two terms as London mayor - starting in 2008 - that transformed his political career.\n\nUp until then, he had been stuck in the slow lane, better known as a TV celebrity and comedy turn than a serious politician.\n\nHis ability to harvest votes from Labour supporters - and project an upbeat, positive vision of Conservativism - made him a powerful electoral asset for his party.\n\nHis popularity reached its peak during the 2012 London Olympics, despite, or perhaps because of, being pictured dangling from a zip wire gamely waving a pair of union flags.\n\nComic cheerleader: Boris Johnson suspended on a zip wire in a stunt to promote the 2012 London Olympics\n\nIn 2015, he returned to Parliament as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, with his sights set on the top job, and a major dilemma. David Cameron's decision to hold an EU referendum was a defining moment for the country, but also for the old friends and rivals.\n\nJohnson's decision - after much agonising - to join forces with the pro-Brexit campaign came as a severe blow to Cameron's hopes of keeping the UK in the EU. But it was seen as a game-changing moment by the pro-Brexit campaign, run by tough-talking strategist Dominic Cummings, a man Cameron had once dismissed as a \"career psychopath\".\n\nWhen his side emerged victorious, Johnson threw his hat into the ring to replace Cameron as Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nHowever, his campaign was dramatically undermined when colleague and close friend Michael Gove withdrew support and decided to run for the leadership himself, saying he did not think Johnson was up to the job of prime minister.\n\nNot for the first time, he was contemplating the end of his political career. Yet in a surprise move Theresa May, the eventual winner, appointed Johnson as foreign secretary.\n\nHe quit May's cabinet in 2018, in protest at her Brexit deal, which he claimed would lead Britain into \"the status of a colony\".\n\nWhen she was forced to resign as Tory leader the following year, he finally got his hands on the top job.\n\nHe was immediately plunged into turmoil, as he battled to govern with the non-existent majority inherited from May.\n\nIn an audacious and highly controversial move, later ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court, he attempted to prorogue, or suspend, Parliament, after his attempts to push through a Brexit deal faltered ahead of his own deadline of 31 October 2019.\n\nAfter two failed attempts to get MPs to vote for a general election, he finally went to the country in December 2019, promising to \"Get Brexit Done\", a slogan dreamed up by Dominic Cummings, who was now his closest aide.\n\nBoris Johnson during the 2016 Brexit campaign in front of a Leave EU bus controversially covered with the words \"We send the EU £350 million a week\"\n\nThe gamble paid off, and he was returned to power with the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher's 1980s heyday. Crucially, he had won seats in former Labour strongholds across the North of England, what came to be known as the Red Wall.\n\nHis Brexit deal was approved and on 31 January 2020 the UK left the EU.\n\nIt looked as though negotiating a trade deal with the EU would be his government's first key task - and Brexit his abiding legacy. But, within weeks, he was engulfed by an all-consuming crisis that few - least of all Mr Johnson - had seen coming: the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn April 2020, he tested positive for Covid himself and spent three nights in intensive care. Downing Street played down the seriousness of his condition but when he was discharged, the PM admitted \"it could have gone either way\".\n\nAs the UK emerged from the pandemic, Mr Johnson's government was under fire from all sides for its handling of the pandemic.\n\nHe hailed the success of the UK's vaccine roll-out, which was the fastest in the developed world.\n\nBut his political problems were mounting up.\n\nIn November 2020, he lost Dominic Cummings and other senior aides after a bout of bitter infighting in Downing Street.\n\nWorse was to come in November 2021, when the Daily Mirror accused Johnson of breaking Covid rules by attending parties in Downing Street when indoor mixing was banned. There was a further bombshell just over a week later when video footage emerged of Downing Street staff laughing and joking about holding a Christmas party.\n\nThen the Daily Telegraph revealed that Downing Street staff had held booze-fuelled parties the night before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. Johnson later apologised to the Queen.\n\nJohnson, his then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Carrie Johnson were among those fined by police, while a damning report by senior civil servant Sue Gray laid bare a Downing Street culture of drunkenness and contempt for the rules.\n\nJohnson did his best to sound contrite in public, telling MPs he had learned lessons and had launched a shake-up of backroom staff, but he continued to insist that he had not broken Covid rules on purpose.\n\nThe cabinet rallied round the prime minister, but a steadily growing band of backbench Conservatives, from different wings of the party, had come to the conclusion that he had to go, amid rising public anger.\n\nHe survived a confidence motion in June 2022, despite nearly half of his MPs voting against him. But a string of by-election defeats led MPs to fear he had become an electoral liability. The old magic, it seemed, was no longer working.\n\nBoris Johnson and has been a staunch supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\n\nThe final straw for many MPs was when ministers were sent out to defend the prime minister in a row over an MP facing allegations of sexual misconduct, armed with misleading information from Downing Street.\n\nA mass walkout by ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, followed and after 48 hours of defiance, in which he repeatedly vowed to \"get on with the job\" of governing, he was finally forced to face up to reality.\n\nHe did not go quietly. And within a few short months he would get an unexpected chance to make another comeback, following the spectacular implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHe flew back from a Caribbean holiday in October 2022 to launch a bid to replace Truss, who had won the contest to replace him.\n\nBut despite managing to scrape together just enough nominations from Tory MPs to get on the ballot, Johnson pulled out of the contest, paving the way for the coronation of Rishi Sunak, who had far more support in the Parliamentary party.\n\nHe insisted he would remain an MP, fuelling rumours that another comeback might be on the cards.\n\nBut questions about his conduct during the Covid pandemic refused to go away, with the committee of MPs investigating whether he had lied to Parliament eventually delivering their damning verdict.\n\nOnly a fool would write Boris Johnson off entirely - and he retains a band of loyal supporters, who point to his leadership over the war in Ukraine and his espousal of traditional Tory free market values as reasons for his return - not to mention his formidable campaigning skills.\n\nBut the road back looks like a long and steep one.", "Mikey Roynon, 16, from Bristol, was attacked at a party in Bath\n\nTwo teenagers charged with murdering a 16-year-old boy who was attacked at a house party have appeared in court.\n\nMikey Roynon, from Bristol, died from a single knife wound at a party in Eastfield Avenue, Bath, on Saturday.\n\nA 15-year-old boy, from Dorset, and a 16-year-old boy, from Wiltshire, have been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article.\n\nThe teenagers, who cannot be named due to their age, will next appear at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.\n\nThe youths appeared separately before Bristol Youth Court earlier. Neither entered pleas to the charges against them.\n\nDistrict Judge Lynne Matthews, who remanded the boys into youth detention, said: \"I can't let you go home, I have no choice about that.\"\n\nEleven people were arrested in connection with the killing, with nine released without charge.\n\nDet Insp Mark Newbury, the senior investigating officer, said Mikey's family had been informed of the charges and were being supported by a specialist family liaison officer.\n\nA police cordon at the scene has now been reduced but officers are likely to remain at the property for the next few days, he added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chloe Mitchell had been missing since last weekend\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the discovery of suspected human remains during searches for a missing woman in Ballymena.\n\nChloe Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town between the night of 2 June and the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation has been taking place in an attempt to find the 21-year-old.\n\nOn Sunday night, Det Ch Insp Richard Millar said police now had reason to believe she was murdered.\n\n\"Our thoughts this evening are very much with Chloe's family and we have specialist officers providing them with support at this heart-breaking time,\" he said.\n\nHe added the remains had not yet been formally identified.\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 34, who were earlier arrested over her disappearance remain in police custody.\n\nThe 34-year-old was arrested in Ballymena on Saturday, while the 26-year-old was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, police were granted a further 36 hours to question the 26-year-old.\n\nForensic teams have been seen entering a house in James Street\n\nForensic teams were seen entering a house in James Street in Ballymena on Sunday evening.\n\nThe property had been sealed off by police for a number of days.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Mitchell's brother, Phillip Mitchell, said he was broken by her disappearance and appealed for information.\n\nAt that stage, police had described her as a \"high-risk missing person\".\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they were increasingly concerned for the young woman's safety and renewed their appeal for information.\n\nExtensive searches had been carried out to try to find Ms Mitchell.\n\nOn Sunday the Community Rescue Service (CRS) said it had completed all search areas as requested.\n\nIn a statement it added: \"The CRS would like to thank the people of Ballymena, those who live and work in the Harryville area and especially Chloe's family and friends for their exceptional support during our operations.\"\n\nThe MP for the area, Ian Paisley, said he was \"deeply saddened and disturbed\".\n\n\"This is heartbreaking news for Chloe's family and friends and will shadow the town of Ballymena with sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"The family have stated they are broken. No one can understand just how deep that break is.\"\n\nMr Paisley said he understood the police would hold a press conference on Monday.", "Those releasing birds within or near sensitive sites have to ask for consent from Natural Resources Wales (NRW)\n\nStricter regulation of pheasant and partridge shooting in Wales could cost jobs in rural communities, businesses have warned.\n\nOne pub owner said he was worried he may have to close for part of the year.\n\nUnder new proposals gamebirds would only be able to be released into the countryside under licence.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which backs the plans, said it would help address large-scale shoot environmental concerns.\n\nJonathan Greatorex, owner of The Hand in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, in Wrexham county borough, said his business relied on a thriving shooting industry locally.\n\n\"Some think of it as wealthy people turning up in Range Rovers, shooting pheasants and then disappearing back to London,\" he said.\n\n\"But from our point of view, shooting sees us through the winter months - it's what keeps us alive as a business and an employer.\n\nThe Hand owner Jonathan Greatorex is worried the new rules will lead to a decline in the number of shoots being organised\n\n\"I have 25 people who are reliant on us for their livelihood and without shooting, those jobs are gone for a big chunk of the year.\"\n\nA public consultation ends next week, with the proposals having already led to angry exchanges in the Senedd.\n\nClimate Change Minister Julie James sparked outrage in the shooting industry by describing \"killing anything as a sport or leisure\" as not something \"any civilised society should support\".\n\nThe British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC) said shooting in Wales was worth £75m annually to the Welsh economy, supporting the equivalent of 2,400 full time jobs.\n\nGamekeeper Helen Jones, of Cwm Fedw Country Sports, said it had raised fears the changes were a first step towards an outright ban - something the Welsh government has denied.\n\nShe runs shoots at her farm in Powys and turns the game meat into delicacies like pheasant tikka bites and scotch eggs.\n\nShe questioned why more rules were needed, when those releasing birds within or near sensitive sites already have to ask for consent from Natural Resources Wales (NRW).\n\nA public meeting was recently held to discuss campaigners' concerns about proposals at Overton near Wrexham\n\nRSPB Cymru's head of species Julian Hughes said the charity was concerned about the impact of releasing large numbers of gamebirds on habitats and the risk of spreading diseases like avian flu.\n\nIt is estimated between 0.8 and 2.3 million birds are released into the Welsh countryside each year.\n\n\"At a high density that can have a real impact... on birds we're trying to save,\" he said.\n\nNRW was asked to develop proposals for regulation of gamebird releases by the Welsh government.\n\nIt follows a similar debate in England, where campaign group Wild Justice took the UK government to court.\n\nUp to 2.3 million birds are released into the Welsh countryside each year\n\nMannon Lewis, principal adviser at NRW, said the idea was to bring in a permitting system for releases within or 500m (1,640 ft) near to sensitive sites.\n\nGamekeepers would have to apply and pay for a licence, which would set conditions based on the features in those protected sites.\n\nThose wanting to release birds elsewhere would also have to apply for a general licence - though this would be free of charge.\n\n\"We fully recognise that many of the shoots currently in existence have done a lot of extremely good work for conservation in Wales,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not a ban - it's a consultation on regulating especially in those areas where there are unsustainable releases of birds which do cause problems.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh government said the consultation provided \"an opportunity for all with an interest to express their views.\"", "Fans travelled from around the world to see Beyonce in Stockholm last month\n\nThought the war in Ukraine or supply chain snarls were to blame for rising prices? You must not know 'bout Beyoncé.\n\nThe start of the singer's world tour in Sweden last month sparked such a frenzy of demand for hotels and restaurant meals that it has shown up in the country's economic statistics.\n\nSweden reported higher-than-expected inflation of 9.7% in May.\n\nRising prices for hotels and restaurants were behind the surprise.\n\nMichael Grahn, economist at Danske Bank, said he thought Beyoncé helped drive the jump in hotel rates. She may also have been the force behind the unexpectedly strong uptick in recreation and culture prices, he said.\n\n\"I wouldn't ... blame Beyoncé for [the] high inflation print, but her performance and global demand to see her perform in Sweden apparently added a little to it,\" he wrote in an email to the BBC.\n\nThere is little doubt that the singer's first solo tour in seven years marks a big economic moment. At least one estimate suggests the run could gross almost £2bn by the time it ends in September.\n\nSearches for accommodations in cities on the tour shot up after it was announced, Airbnb reported. Tickets for many concerts sold out within days and prices soared on the resale market.\n\nIn the UK, 60,000 people descended on Cardiff, including fans from Lebanon, the US and Australia. Demand for hotel rooms tied to her concert in London was so strong that in one case, some homeless families being housed in a hotel by the local council were reportedly booted to make way for her fans.\n\nThe Stockholm concerts, where Beyoncé played to a crowd of 46,000 for two nights, reportedly drew fans from around the world - especially the US, where a strong dollar against the krona helped to make tickets in the Nordic country seem a relative steal.\n\nIn an email to the Washington Post last month, Visit Stockholm described the boom in tourism to the city as the \"Beyoncé effect\" .\n\nInflation in Sweden peaked at 12.3% in December. The 9.7% rate last month was down from 10.5% in April, official figures show. Financial markets had expected around 9.4%.\n\nFor one star to have such an impact is \"very rare\", Mr Grahn told the BBC, adding that big soccer tournaments can have a similar effect.\n\nHe wrote on social media that he expected trends to return to normal in June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fathers of two university students killed in attacks in Nottingham have paid emotional tributes to them in a vigil attended by thousands of people.\n\nBarnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, were killed in the early hours of Tuesday, along with school caretaker Ian Coates, 65.\n\nA 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.\n\nThe vigil was held at the University of Nottingham, where the students studied.\n\nNeither of the fathers were expected to speak, but they took to the podium at the end despite being overcome with grief.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were all killed\n\nSpeaking to the crowds of people, Ms O'Malley-Kumar's father Sanjoy told the students to look after each other.\n\n\"Grace and her friend, they fell together, and you just need to be friends with everyone. You need to love everyone and I wish we had more of it,\" he said.\n\n\"She loved being here and she loved all of you. She really did and you should all feel very blessed.\"\n\nHis said his daughter had been \"so full of her stories and things that she said about all of you, and you've all touched her life. And hence ours\".\n\n\"You'll never be forgotten by us, certainly. We have children who were taken away prematurely from us, that should never happen to any parent,\" he said.\n\nBarnaby Webber's father and Grace O'Malley-Kumar's mother supported each other at the vigil\n\nSpeaking through tears, Mr Webber's father David told the crowd: \"I'm lost for words, I've lost my baby boy. I cannot comprehend how I am going to deal with it.\n\n\"Myself and Emma and Charlie and his family and friends... I know Barney would be super-touched by everyone that's here.\n\n\"He loved it here. He couldn't wait to come back. It drove me mad. His heart will be with you guys forever and thank you so much. I really can't talk much more.\"\n\nAnother vigil is due to be held in Nottingham's Old Market Square on Thursday from 17:30 BST, followed by a minute's silence, the city council has announced.\n\nThe attacks began with the fatal stabbing of Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar in Ilkeston Road, with police receiving a call at 04:04 on Tuesday.\n\nIt is believed the suspect then tried to enter a supported living complex in Mapperley Road, around two miles (3.2km) from the scene of the first attack, but was prevented from getting in.\n\nCCTV footage seen by the BBC shows a figure in a black hoodie being pushed away from a window and then confronted, before walking off.\n\nPolice officers believe Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in nearby Magdala Road - was then attacked, with his van being stolen and used to hit pedestrians in Milton Street, leaving one critically injured.\n\nThe suspect was Tasered by officers before being arrested.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Nottinghamshire Police said the force had not received any calls about the suspect prior to the first attack.\n\nThe families of the students held hands as thousands of people paid their respects\n\nThe vigil here on a sweltering day in the middle of the University of Nottingham campus was filled with raw emotion. Everyone seemed to either be in tears or on the verge of them.\n\nThe most affecting moment was an unplanned one: David Webber and Sanjoy Kumar, the fathers of the two students who were killed just the day before, took to the podium at the end to address the huge crowd of mourning students.\n\nThe university was not expecting them to speak. Despite being stricken with grief, they both talked about their children with eloquence and empathy, in a moment that those who witnessed it are unlikely to forget.\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Barnaby Webber's parents embraced each other during the vigil\n\nFlowers were laid for the students, who were killed as they walked home after a night out.\n\nMr Webber read history at the university and Ms O'Malley-Kumar studied medicine.\n\nIn a moving speech, student union community officer Daisy Forster told the families the city's students would support them, adding \"we will always be here when you need us\".\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton, from the university chaplaincy, described the deaths as \"one of those moments which we hoped we'd never encounter\" while the university's vice-chancellor, Professor Shearer West, said the lives of the victims had been \"curtailed\" by a \"seemingly random\" act of violence.\n\nBoth students were keen and talented sportspeople and their university team-mates, wearing sports kit, were among the crowd assembled to remember them.\n\nMr Webber, of Taunton, Somerset, played hockey, rugby and cricket and Ms O'Malley-Kumar played hockey and cricket.\n\nProf Shearer West told the crowd: \"What should have been a time of celebration and relaxation following the exam period has become a time to mourn tragic loss in the most unimaginable of circumstances.\"\n\nShe said the university was supporting both students' families, adding support was available to any students or colleagues affected by the tragedy.\n\nThe university and communities across Nottingham had come together in \"grief and remembrance of two much-loved students\", she added.\n\nVice-chancellor, Professor Shearer West, said the university was \"in a state of shock\"\n\nMr Coates, whose sons had earlier left tributes at the scene of his death, was also remembered at the event.\n\nWhile visiting the scene where Mr Coates was found fatally stabbed, Lee and James Coates said their dad was due to retire in four months.\n\n\"He used to take under-privileged kids fishing just to get away from crime. You genuinely couldn't find a nicer guy,\" Lee said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helicopter footage shows a wildfire the size of about 140 football pitches which is being tackled by fire crews on the Rhigos Mountain, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThe huge blaze shut an access road in Rhondda Cynon Taf county, which began at 18:00 BST on 9 June and reignited on Tuesday.\n\nAccess to the A4061 Rhigos mountain road was closed at 13:00 BST on Wednesday, but later reopened.\n\nIt is one of several wildfires being fought in the area, with South Wales Fire and Rescue Service saying it is \"inundated\" with reports.", "Last week Nadine Dorries said she would resign her Mid Bedfordshire seat with immediate effect\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has said she will not resign until she gets more information on why she was denied a peerage.\n\nThe Boris Johnson ally announced last Friday she would be standing down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire \"with immediate effect\".\n\nMs Dorries accused Rishi Sunak's team of removing her name from Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nIn a tweet, she said she had requested all correspondence around her removal.\n\nMs Dorries said she had put in Subject Access Requests to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office.\n\nSubject Access Requests allow an individual to receive a copy of all their personal data held by a government department.\n\nFreedom of Information expert Martin Rosenbaum has pointed out that under the Data Protection Act 2018, the right of access to personal data does not apply to data processed for the honours system.\n\nIn a multi-tweet thread Ms Dorries said she had requested copies of WhatsApp messages, texts, emails and meeting minutes. relating to the process of her nomination for the House of Lords\n\nOnce she receives them she will \"take the time to properly consider the information I am provided\", Ms Dorries added.\n\nShe went on to say it is \"absolutely my intention to resign\" but \"this process is now sadly necessary\".\n\nShe added that her \"office continues to function as normal and will of course continue to serve my constituents\".\n\nBefore Ms Dorries' announcement, No 10 said it was important for her constituents to have \"certainty\".\n\n\"It is obviously unusual to have an MP say they will resign with immediate effect and for that not to take place,\" the prime minister's press secretary added.\n\nMr Johnson also announced he was leaving Parliament on Friday, ahead of a Commons report expected to accuse him of misleading MPs over the Partygate scandal, which is due to be published on Thursday.\n\nNigel Adams, one of Mr Johnson's other close allies, stood down as an MP on Monday, following reports his name was also removed from the list of approved peerages.\n\nThe by-elections to replace them were triggered on Wednesday, with 3 July or 20 July the possible polling dates.\n\nWhile Ms Dorries remains a member of Parliament, she can turn up in the House of Commons chamber to make her views known.\n\nAnything she says would be covered by parliamentary privilege, allowing her to be outspoken on any issue, without fear of legal consequences.\n\nThe Conservatives - who are trailing Labour in national polls - wanted to conclude swift campaigns before Parliament's summer recess and for any political pain from the by-elections to be short and sharp.\n\nBut if Ms Dorries keeps her party waiting, she could force them into a potentially divisive by-election later on - for example, ahead of the autumn party conference season.", "MPs investigating whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Partygate will publish their long-awaited report on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson quit as an MP after receiving an advance copy of the report - which he said had found him guilty \"regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe report follows a year-long inquiry by the Privileges Committee.\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Johnson called for a committee member to resign over claims the MP had breached Covid restrictions.\n\nThe Guido Fawkes website alleged that Sir Bernard Jenkin, a senior Conservative MP on the committee, attended a drinks party for his wife's birthday in the House of Commons in December 2020. At the time social mixing outside of households or support bubbles was banned in London.\n\nHaving contacted several people involved in the allegations, the BBC has not been able to independently verify the claims. Sir Bernard, Lady Jenkin and the alleged host of the gathering have been approached for comment.\n\nSir Bernard originally denied attending any drinks parties during lockdown. When he was asked by a Guido Fawkes reporter whether he had a drink at the celebration of his wife's birthday that evening, Sir Bernard is quoted as saying \"I don't recall\".\n\nDame Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker, who allegedly hosted the party, told the website: \"I took advice on how many could be present in a room, I had the room measured and I kept a two-metre ruler so that I could always verify that nobody who was working here was put at risk.\"\n\nMr Johnson has written to Labour's Harriet Harman, who has chaired the inquiry, demanding she clarify whether she checked that panel members had not attended such events before the inquiry began.\n\nIf the reports were true, Sir Bernard was \"guilty of flagrant and monstrous hypocrisy\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nLast week, the former prime minister branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nMr Johnson accused the committee of mounting a \"witch hunt\" against him, and Ms Harman, of showing \"egregious bias\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures\" at all times and accused Mr Johnson of impugning \"the integrity of the House by his statement\".\n\nAt 23:57 BST on Monday, Mr Johnson sent a last-minute letter to the committee in response to their findings.\n\nUnder the published process, Mr Johnson was entitled to respond to the committee up to 14 days after receiving its draft findings, which were sent last week.\n\nThe committee said it would deal with the new developments and \"report promptly\".\n\nFor almost a year, the seven-person committee - a majority of whom are Conservatives - have been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid-19 breaches in Downing Street and what he knew about them.\n\nGiving evidence in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns, but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nThe Partygate scandal dogged Mr Johnson's premiership, with police fining him for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation as an MP, which has triggered a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, came last Friday.\n\nMr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".", "A US army soldier has pleaded guilty to attempting to help the Islamic State (IS) group attack and murder US service members in the Middle East.\n\nThe justice department also said he pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.\n\nCole Bridges, known as Cole Gonzales, shared information with an undercover federal agent, the department said.\n\nHe could face up to 40 years in prison.\n\nMr Bridges joined the US Army around September 2019 and was based in Fort Stewart, Georgia.\n\nHe soon began \"researching and consuming online propaganda promoting jihadists and their violent ideology,\" according to a US Attorney's Office statement.\n\nBut Mr Bridges began corresponding with a Federal Bureau of Investigation employee in October 2020 who was posing as an IS supporter in contact with members in the Middle East.\n\nMr Bridges shared his frustrations with the US military and noted his desire to aid IS - also referred to as ISIS - to the undercover FBI agent.\n\nThe statement said he began providing \"training and guidance to purported ISIS fighters who were planning attacks, including advice about potential targets in New York City\".\n\nHe is also said to have sent the undercover agent \"portions of a US Army training manual and guidance about military combat tactics\".\n\nBy December 2020, Mr Bridges started providing instructions for IS fighters on how to attack US service members in the Middle East, and even shared a diagram of specific military manoeuvres to maximize US troops deaths.\n\nHe provided a video of himself in US Army body armour standing in front of an IS flag and gestured support for the group.\n\nA week later he sent another video, using a voice manipulator, narrating a propaganda speech in support of the anticipated IS ambush of US troops.\n\n\"As he admitted in court today, Cole Bridges attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his fellow soldiers in service of ISIS and its violent ideology,\" said Damian Williams, US Attorney of the Southern District of New York. \"Bridges's traitorous conduct was a betrayal of his comrades and his country.\"\n\nHe will be sentenced on 2 November.\n• None The rise and fall of the Islamic State group", "Nationwide will become the latest lender to raise mortgage rates again, with increases of up to 0.7 percentage points taking effect on Friday.\n\nThe building society, one of the UK's biggest lenders, said that the changes were being made to ensure it could serve all its customers.\n\nAnother lender, Clydesdale Bank, said it was withdrawing deals via brokers later on Thursday owing to high demand.\n\nOne broker said the market was in a \"vicious circle\".\n\nAndrew Montlake, of Coreco, said that lenders were putting up rates at short-notice, then borrowers were grabbing deals, leaving lenders inundated and having to pull or raise rates again.\n\n\"It is massively hard to navigate for everyone, especially clients, who need to make quick decisions in these circumstances, whilst brokers are working round the clock to try to lock in to these rates,\" he said.\n\nNationwide is the latest major to repeat rate rises. On Friday, it will increase the rates on a variety of fixed-rate mortgages sold via brokers. Among them is a 0.7 percentage point hike in interest on new deals for existing customers moving home.\n\nA spokesperson for the building society said lenders' costs were rising, and competitors were also putting up rates.\n\n\"This ensures that, as a building society, we can continue lending to all types of borrowers. Despite the changes in rates, our full mortgage range continues to remain available,\" he said.\n\nData on wages and rising prices mean markets anticipate inflation and interest rates to stay higher for longer than previously expected.\n\nThis has led to government borrowing costs - which directly impact mortgage rates - rising to levels as high as last year's mini-budget.\n\nThe base rate, set by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and currently at 4.5%, will be reviewed next week and is widely expected to go up for the 13th time in a row.\n\n\"It is important that everyone does not panic, and that includes the Bank of England,\" Mr Montlake said.\n\n\"Questions need to be asked as to whether they really do need to increase rates beyond 5% before previous rate changes have had an effect, and they risk causing more problems than they are trying to solve.\"", "Christina Quinn had a long career in the NHS\n\nA woman who died along with two other British people in a diving boat fire in the Egyptian Red Sea would be \"missed beyond words\", her family has said.\n\nChristina Quinn, 58, chief executive of St Luke's Hospice in Plymouth, was a \"rock to many\", a statement said.\n\nInitial reports suggest the fire was caused by an electrical fault in the boat's engine room at 06:30 local time on Sunday.\n\nMs Quinn, from Somerset, was one of 15 guests on a week-long stay on the boat.\n\nThe boat, which left Port Ghalib on 6 June, had been due to return from sea on Sunday.\n\nA statement from Ms Quinn's family said she was \"a sister, daughter, wife, aunty, friend, and rock to many\".\n\nLast month she had taken up a new role as CEO at St Luke's Hospice in Plymouth after previously working as director of NHS South West Leadership Academy.\n\nTour operator Scuba Travel said 12 Britons on board had gone to at an early-morning briefing on Sunday but three others, including Ms Quinn, did not as they had \"apparently decided not to dive\" that morning.\n\nIn a statement, the company said the \"severity of the fire\" meant the 12 divers at the briefing were immediately evacuated to another boat nearby.\n\nThey were followed by the 14 crew members, including the captain and two dive guides, after attempts to reach the missing guests were unsuccessful, it said.\n\nThe identity of the two other British victims has not yet been released.", "Prof Yann LeCun is known as one of the three godfathers of AI and works as Facebook-owner Meta's top AI scientist\n\nOne of the three \"godfathers of AI\" has said it won't take over the world or permanently destroy jobs.\n\nProf Yann LeCun said some experts' fears of AI posing a threat to humanity were \"preposterously ridiculous\".\n\nComputers would become more intelligent than humans but that was many years away and \"if you realise it's not safe you just don't built it,\" he said.\n\nA UK government advisor recently told the BBC that some powerful artificial intelligence might need to be banned.\n\nIn 2018 Prof LeCun won the Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their breakthroughs in AI and all three became known as \"the godfathers of AI\".\n\nProf LeCun now works as the chief AI scientist at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. He disagrees with his fellow godfathers that AI is a risk to the human race.\n\n\"Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines\" he said. It would be a huge mistake to keep AI research \"under lock and key\", he added.\n\nPeople who worried that AI might pose a risk to humans did so because they couldn't imagine how it could be made safe, Prof LeCun argued.\n\n\"It's as if you asked in 1930 to someone how are you going to make a turbo-jet safe? Turbo-jets were not invented yet in 1930, same as human level AI has not been invented yet.\"\n\n\"Turbo jets were eventually made incredibly reliable and safe,\" and the same would happen with AI he said.\n\nMeta has a large AI research programme and producing intelligent systems as capable as humans is one of its goals. As well as research, the company uses AI to help identify harmful social media posts.\n\nProf LeCun spoke at an event for invited press, about his own work in so-called Objective Driven AI which aims to produce safe systems that can remember, reason, plan and have common sense - features popular chatbots like ChatGPT lack.\n\nProf LeCun speaking to the press at Meta in Paris\n\nHe said there was \"no question\" that AI would surpass human intelligence. But researchers were still missing essential concepts to reach that level, which would take years if not decades to arrive.\n\nWhen people raise concerns about the human-level or above machines that might exist in the future, they are referring to artificial general intelligence (AGI). These are systems, that like humans, can solve a wide range of problems.\n\nThere was a fear that when AGI existed scientists \"get to turn on a super-intelligent system that is going to take over the world within minutes\", he said. \"That's you know just preposterously ridiculous.\"\n\nIn response to a question from BBC news Prof LeCun said there would be progressive advances - perhaps you might get an AI as powerful as the brain of a rat. That wasn't going take over the world, and he argued \"it's still going to run on a data centre somewhere with an off switch\". He added: \"And if you realise it's not safe you just don't built it\".\n\nIt has been argued that AI has the potential to replace many jobs, and some companies have paused recruiting for certain roles as a result.\n\nProf LeCun told the BBC: \"This is not going to put a lot of people out of work permanently\". But work would change because we have \"no idea\" what the most prominent jobs will be 20 years from now, he said.\n\nIntelligent computers would create \"a new renaissance for humanity\" the way the internet or the printing-press did, he said.\n\nProf LeCun was speaking Tuesday ahead of a vote on Europe's AI Act which is designed to regulate artificial intelligence.\n\nHe said from his conversations with AI start-ups in Europe \"they don't like it at all, they think it's too broad, maybe too restrictive\". But he said he wasn't an expert on the legislation,\n\nProf LeCun said he was not against regulation - but in his view each application would need its own rules, for example different rules would govern AI systems in cars and those scanning medical images.", "Ed Sheeran had his account hacked and music sold online by Adrian Kwiatkowski\n\nA hacker who stole two unreleased songs from Ed Sheeran and sold them on the dark web has to pay more than £100,000.\n\nAdrian Kwiatkowski, 23, from Ipswich, traded the music by Sheeran and 12 songs by rapper Lil Uzi Vert in exchange for cryptocurrency.\n\nLast year, he admitted 19 charges, including copyright infringement and possessing criminal property, and was jailed for 18 months.\n\nAbout half of the money he has to pay is currently held in Bitcoin.\n\nKwiatkowski managed to get hold of them after hacking the performers' digital accounts, the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nHe had made £131,000 from the music, City of London Police said.\n\nIn his police interview, Kwiatkowski admitted he had hacked the musicians' cloud-based accounts and sold the songs online.\n\nAdrian Kwiatkowski was jailed for 18 months last year for hacking the musicians' accounts\n\nDuring his trial, Ipswich Crown Court heard that when the defendant's Apple Mac laptop was searched, 565 audio files, including the songs by Sheeran and Vert, were uncovered.\n\nThe same court has now granted a confiscation order against the hacker, giving him three months to pay £101,053, after proceedings brought by the Police Intellectual Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police.\n\nThe amount is made up of £51,975 held in a bank account owned by Kwiatkowski and 2.64 BTC (Bitcoin), worth £49,528, which makes it the first confiscation order of cryptocurrency secured by PIPCU.\n\nIf the payment is failed to be made within three months, he will face a further 18 months imprisonment.\n\nDet Con Daryl Fryatt from PIPCU said: \"Kwiatkowski executed a complex scheme to sell creative content that he did not own.\n\n\"Our work doesn't just stop at conviction, and this result means that Kwiatkowski will not be able to benefit any further from the money he earned through criminal activity.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook and Instagram. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nurse, originally from Hereford, denies all of the charges\n\nThe jury in the trial of nurse Lucy Letby have been told to approach their deliberations in a \"fair, calm, objective and analytical way\".\n\nJudge Mr Justice James Goss told them it would be \"instinctive for anyone to react with horror\" to any allegation of killing or harming a child.\n\nMs Letby, 33, denies murdering seven children and attempting to kill 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nHer trial, which has been sitting since October, is drawing to a close.\n\nMr Justice Goss earlier gave his first set of legal directions to the jury, who will retire to consider their verdicts in the coming weeks.\n\nThe neonatal nurse, originally from Hereford, is accused of carrying out the attacks throughout 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe jury has heard more than eight months of evidence, including claims she deliberately injected some children with air or poisoned them with insulin.\n\nMs Letby has insisted she did not harm any of the babies, pointed to issues of poor hygiene in the hospital and accused senior doctors of mounting a conspiracy against her.\n\nMr Justice Goss told the jury of eight women and four men that they were \"the judges of the facts\" and any decisions should be based on \"evidence and not speculation\".\n\n\"It is instinctive for anyone to react with horror to any allegation of deliberately harming - let alone killing - a child, the more so a vulnerable, premature baby,\" he said.\n\nMs Letby gave evidence in her own defence during the trial\n\n\"You will naturally feel sympathy for all the parents in this case, particularly those who have lost a child and the harrowing circumstances of their deaths.\n\n\"You must, however, judge the case on all the evidence in a fair, calm, objective and analytical way.\"\n\nMr Justice Goss said it was the prosecution's case that Ms Letby deliberately harmed the babies, intending to kill them.\n\n\"Some of the babies, they allege, were subjected to repeated attempts to kill them,\" he said.\n\nThis was a case in which the prosecution \"substantially, but not wholly\" relied on circumstantial evidence, he told the jury.\n\n\"The defendant was the only member of nursing and clinical staff who was on duty each time that the collapses of all the babies occurred and had associations with them at material times, either being the designated nurse or working on the unit,\" he said.\n\nThe attackes are alleged to have been carried out at Countess of Chester hospital\n\nOutlining the defence's case, Mr Justice Goss said it was their view that there were \"possible causes for many of the collapses other than an intentional harmful act\" and the prosecution's expert evidence \"could not be relied on\".\n\nHe added: \"It is for the prosecution to prove the defendant's guilt of any offence by making you sure of her guilt.\n\n\"She has no burden of proving her innocence.\n\n\"If you are not sure she is guilty of any offence, your verdict should be not guilty.\n\n\"If you are sure of her guilt, your verdict should be guilty.\"\n\nBoth the defence and prosecution are expected to give their closing statements next week.\n\nThe judge will then sum up the evidence in the case before the jury are sent out to begin their deliberations.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ejaz Azam said the goal-scoring wonder kept saying how \"incredible\" it was\n\nAn ice cream man has described the \"amazing\" moment Manchester City's Erling Haaland boarded his van and helped serve up frozen treats for fun.\n\nThe goal-scoring wonder was out celebrating his team's historic Treble when he spotted the van and knocked on the window.\n\nStunned owner Ejaz Azam said it was his \"favourite moment ever\" and was only too happy to welcome Haaland onboard.\n\nThe Scandinavian striker said it was \"incredible\" to make his own ice cream.\n\nMr Azam, from Oldham, said he was \"so shocked\" after coming face-to-face with Haaland close to Mayfield Depot near Manchester's Piccadilly rail station.\n\n\"Haaland asked to come in the van and then we served slush to people. It was my favourite moment ever,\" the 36-year-old said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man City's number nine is more used to hundreds and thousands of football fans\n\nMr Azam said his patch is usually in Chadderton but he had ventured into town on the day of City's open-top bus parade through Manchester on Monday.\n\n\"I had actually finished a 14-hour shift,\" he said.\n\n\"He knocked on the window just after midnight and I initially said I was closed, but when I saw it was Haaland, I started up my engine.\"\n\nHaaland recently became the first player to win both the Premier League's player of the year and young player of the year awards in the same season.\n\nMr Azam said the 22-year-old had initially asked for a blue slush before boarding the van and whizzing up an ice cream too.\n\nThe Norwegian may be more used to delighting hundreds and thousands of football fans across Europe but it seems his substitute appearance in the van made a big impression.\n\nMr Azam said the striker helped to serve customers too\n\n\"It's everyone's dream to come into a van and Haaland was so happy,\" Mr Azam continued.\n\n\"He kept saying it was incredible.\n\n\"Then people starting queuing outside asking for ice cream, so he helped serve some slush.\n\n\"I was so shocked, surprised and amazed.\"\n\nMr Azam, who has sold ice cream for eight years, said the whole episode became \"a blur\" but it was a moment he would \"treasure forever\".\n\nHe said his regular customers back in Oldham have since been queuing up at his Mr Whippy van to hear his story.\n\n\"They have a heart of gold and I have so much respect for them,\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ryanair has sacked its chief pilot after an investigation into his alleged sexual harassment of female colleagues.\n\nThe airline told staff that he had been fired for \"a pattern of repeated inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour towards a number of female pilots\".\n\nThe chief pilot, named in reports as Aidan Murray was appointed in 2020 and had been with the airline for 28 years.\n\nRyanair declined to comment \"on queries relating to individual employees\".\n\nAccording to The Independent, Mr Murray allegedly harassed eight junior colleagues, including sending text messages to some with comments on their bodies.\n\nMr Murray, 58, is also accused of altering flight rosters to fly with certain female pilots.\n\nIn a note to staff, Ryanair's chief people officer, Darrell Hughes, said Mr Murray's employment had been \"terminated with immediate effect\".\n\nAn investigation found his behaviour \"was in breach of our anti-harassment policy\". Ryanair said staff should be able to come to work \"in a safe and secure environment\".\n\n\"We would ask all of you to respect the privacy and integrity of those brave individuals who came forward to assist us in this investigation,\" Mr Hughes added.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Mr Murray has seven days to launch an appeal against his dismissal.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Murray for comment.\n\nThe job of chief pilot is an important one. The holder is both a highly qualified airline captain and a manager, responsible for overseeing other pilots based at a hub airport.\n\nThey are usually in charge of issues such as training, flight coordination and rostering as well as addressing personal issues. They can also represent the airline in disciplinary issues.\n\nAs such, they have a lot of power over their fellow pilots, particularly more junior ones seeking promotions.\n\nThe suggestion that someone in this position might be abusing their power - and behaving in an \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" way towards female staff - is therefore a very serious charge.\n\nIt's important to note that we haven't heard the other side of the story. But it appears that whistleblowers have come forward - and have been listened to.\n\nAgainst that background, the dismissal should come as no surprise.\n\nA report last year by the Royal Aeronautical Society into discrimination and lack of diversity in airline pilot training found \"extremely concerning\" reports of sexism and sexual harassment by many female pilots.\n\nAlthough many had positive comments on their training, reports of sexism and harassment ranged from \"banter\" to \"uncomfortable advances from male trainers\".", "Till Lindemann's lawyers have called the claims \"without exception untrue\"\n\nGerman police have opened an investigation into sexual assault allegations against Till Lindemann, the frontman of metal band Rammstein.\n\nA number of women have alleged they were recruited for sex at concerts.\n\nOne fan, Shelby Lynn, from Northern Ireland, recently told the BBC she believed her drink had been spiked and she had been \"groomed for sex\".\n\nMr Lindemann, 60, has denied the allegations, with his lawyers calling the claims \"without exception untrue\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokeswoman for the Berlin public prosecution's office said: \"Preliminary proceedings have been initiated against Till Lindemann on allegations relating to sexual offences and the distribution of narcotics.\"\n\nProsecutors opened the investigation on their own initiative as well as \"on the basis of several criminal complaints filed by third parties\", referring to people not directly involved in the alleged incidents, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nMs Lynn, 24, first posted her account on social media last month, and later told the BBC there was an \"organised system of funnelling girls\" and she was ushered into a small room at a show in Lithuania, but left when Mr Lindemann arrived because she suspected it was \"a sex thing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shelby Lynn, 24, from Ballymena, went to see Rammstein in concert in Vilnius in May\n\nHer accusations triggered a wave of other sexual misconduct allegations, with some - like Ms Lynn - suspecting they were pre-selected on social media by a Russian woman, believed to have been a \"recruiter\" for Mr Lindemann, who invited them to parties before and after the show.\n\nA spokesman for the band told the BBC that it is was conducting an internal investigation into the claims and interviewing staff and crew as part of the enquiry.\n\nThe German industrial metal group, formed in 1993 and known for their theatrical shows and controversial lyrics, have reached the top three in the UK album chart with their last two albums.", "Australia's most-decorated living soldier has found his reputation tainted by allegation of war crimes.\n\nBen Roberts-Smith is proud of his actions in Afghanistan, the former Australian soldier said in his first comments since a judge ruled claims he committed war crimes were true.\n\nA landmark defamation case this month found Mr Roberts-Smith was responsible for the murders of four Afghans.\n\nThe Victoria Cross recipient says he is innocent and will consider an appeal.\n\n\"I'm devastated... It's a terrible outcome and it's the incorrect outcome,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters from Nine as he returned to Australia for the first time since the judgement was delivered, Mr Roberts-Smith also said he would not apologise to those affected by his alleged crimes.\n\n\"We haven't done anything wrong, so we won't be making any apologies,\" he said.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith sued three Australian newspapers over a series of articles alleging he had carried out unlawful killings and bullied fellow soldiers while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009-2012.\n\nBut Federal Court Judge Anthony Besanko threw out the former special forces corporal's case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Canberra Times, ruling it was \"substantially true\" that Mr Roberts-Smith had murdered unarmed Afghan prisoners and civilians, and bullied peers.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who remains Australia's most-decorated living soldier, was not present for the civil court ruling, having spent the days leading up to it on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith, who left the defence force in 2013, has not been charged over any of the claims in a criminal court, where there is a higher burden of proof.\n\nNone of the evidence presented in the civil defamation case against Mr Roberts-Smith can be used in any criminal proceedings, meaning investigators must gather their own independently.\n\nThis week it was confirmed that the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) - which is responsible for addressing criminal matters related to the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan - would work alongside Australian Federal Police (AFP) to examine three alleged murders local media say involve the former soldier.\n\nThe killings allegedly took place at a compound codenamed Whiskey 108 and in the southern Afghan village of Darwan.\n\nThe OSI was set up following a landmark inquiry in 2020, known as the Brereton Inquiry, which found \"credible evidence\" that Australia's special forces unlawfully killed 39 people in Afghanistan.\n\nThere are currently 40 matters that are being jointly investigated by the OSI and the AFP.\n\nEarlier this year former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz became the first Australian defence force member to ever be charged by police with the war crime of murder.", "About 14,000 people were prevented from voting because they could not show an accepted form of photo ID during England's local elections, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nEthnic minorities and unemployed voters were more likely to be turned away, research by the watchdog suggests.\n\n\"Significantly more\" were put off voting by the requirement to show ID at polling stations, the report found.\n\nThe policy was rolled out for the first time in Britain in May's elections.\n\nData collected at polling station showed 0.25% of those who went to a polling station were not able to vote as a result of not being able to show ID, approximately 14,000 voters in total.\n\nThe true figure is thought to be higher as some of those who wanted to vote at polling stations might have turned away after reading the requirements at the entrance but were not formally recorded, the Commission said.\n\nThe figures are also based on incomplete data received from 226 of the 230 councils where polls were held this year.\n\nThe policy will be widened to cover all UK elections, meaning it will apply to voters in the by-elections to replace Boris Johnson, Nigel Adams and David Warburton on 20 July.\n\nIt is also set to be in force for the next general election, expected next year.\n\nData collected by the Electoral Commission, the independent body that oversees elections, found \"some correlation\" between the numbers turned away and \"specific socio-demographic factors, such as ethnicity and unemployment\".\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications at the commission, said \"it is too soon to draw conclusions\", but added \"some of the emerging evidence is concerning\".\n\nNo cases of personation - where someone pretends to be another person, in order to vote - were reported during this year's elections. In 2022, there were 13 cases recorded by police, including seven at polling stations, none of which led to prosecutions.\n\nResearch published by the commission on Friday found 0.7% of voters were initially turned away from polling stations in May. Around two-thirds of these returned later in the day and were able to vote.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the rules were having a \"chilling effect on democracy\".\n\nBut Labour have stopped short of saying they would scrap the policy, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calling for a \"wide review\" into the impact of Voter ID.\n\n\"This is the first piece of evidence coming through, so we need to look at everything in the round,\" he said.\n\nLib Dem spokesperson Helen Morgan said the policy \"looks like a transparent attempt at voter suppression by Conservative ministers who are desperate to stop people from holding them to account\".\n\n\"It is an outrage that thousands of people were denied a voice at the local elections because of the Conservative Party's Voter ID rules,\" she added.\n\nThe government announced the voter ID move in 2021, arguing it would tackle voter fraud and boost public confidence in elections.\n\nPassports, driving licences and blue badges are among the IDs permitted. Only 25,000 of the 90,000 free Voter Authority Certificates applied for before May's election were used as a form of ID.\n\nThere have been only a handful of convictions for electoral fraud in recent years - but ministers argue a lack of evidence could be masking the true level.\n\nThey also point out that voter ID has been a requirement in Northern Ireland since 2003, as well as in many other European countries.\n\nOpposition parties voted against it, arguing it was unnecessary and would hit turnout among marginalised groups.\n\nConservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was in the Cabinet when the measure was introduced, recently said the voter ID policy had been an attempt at gerrymandering - fixing rules to gain electoral advantage.\n\nHe said the measure had come \"back to bite them,\" claiming his party's vote had been hit because older people, who were more likely to vote Tory, were also more likely to lack an accepted form of identity.\n\nBefore the election, 87% of people in England were aware that they needed to show photo ID to vote at a polling station, according to a survey carried on behalf of the commission. The polling excluded London, which did not hold local elections in May.\n\nMr Westwood said: \"The evidence suggests that the vast majority of voters were able to present an accepted form of ID at the May elections.\n\n\"But it also shows that some people were prevented from voting in polling stations due to the requirement, and significantly more did not attempt to because they lacked the required ID.\n\n\"Overall awareness was high and achieved in a matter of months, but we can see that people who lacked ID were less likely to know they needed to show it.\n\nThe commission plans to publish its full election report in September.", "Children from one primary school appeared in Romeo and Juliet at Blackpool Grand Theatre as part of the RSC programme\n\nA scheme by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to partner with schools across England is being expanded to five new locations.\n\nThe company will work with pupils in Skegness, Coventry, Peterborough, Corby and Hartlepool to help them become more familiar with Shakespeare's work.\n\nThe RSC's Associate Schools Programme aims to target areas of structural disadvantage across England.\n\nIt has previously gone into areas such as Blackpool, Newquay and Hull.\n\nThese are some of the places where, traditionally, opportunity in culture and art is low; where educational attainment, employment opportunities, even transport infrastructure lags behind the national average.\n\nThere are currently 26 areas in the RSC programme, including North Staffordshire; and BBC News spoke to the head teacher of Springhead Primary School.\n\nAfter one session of PE there, one nine-year-old girl is heard saying to her teacher: \"I'm absolutely sluggardized.\"\n\nA few weeks before, her year five class had been deciphering the word - meaning made lazy or idle - in one of Shakespeare's plays. Now she was using it correctly, to emphasise how exhausted she felt.\n\nFor her school, it was the latest example of how Shakespeare is transforming the lives of children, including pupils who often struggle with language.\n\n\"The children cheer when we say we're going to do some Shakespeare work,\" says head teacher Brian Anderson.\n\nThat presumably can't be said for most school kids.\n\nA boy from a school in Blackpool, playing the role of a servant in Romeo and Juliet at Blackpool Grand in 2019\n\nThe RSC has seen a real-terms cut in its funding from Arts Council England, but ACE have awarded new specific funding for an increase in RSC touring, including to schools which is also backed by charitable grants and a loan from Nesta, a social innovation foundation.\n\nJacqui O'Hanlon, the RSC's director of learning and national partnership, explained: \"The language development of a child by age five is still the greatest predictor of whether that child can escape poverty in later life.\"\n\nThe RSC programme is about introducing children to the richness of Shakespeare's language. She says they \"get really curious about the possibilities of the meaning of particular words, rather than finding them scary or confusing\".\n\n\"Time and again it's the children who have struggled with reading and writing who are absolutely captivated by these plays.\"\n\nActors bringing Twelfth Night to a school in Birmingham, as part of the RSC's First Encounters scheme\n\nThe programme reaches 135,000 children and young people each year. It also aims to show them the many job opportunities possible in theatre, both on stage and off.\n\nAt Springhead, it starts with three and four-year-olds.\n\nThe nursery children might be shown a picture of Julius Caesar and told he's just won a battle. They march around as soldiers and talk about how their characters could be feeling at that moment.\n\nChildren from Springhead Primary School acting out a scene from Julius Caesar, when he returns from battle\n\nThe teacher might introduce them to A Midsummer Night's Dream with different words on the floor that could describe a forest. The children talk about those words and begin to add their own.\n\nIt's all about getting them more confident with language. Every school year at Springhead is involved.\n\nThe RSC trains the teachers in techniques used by actors and directors in rehearsals. Instead of sitting down and reading a difficult play, they are acting, exploring characters and their language choices, and getting behind the words to find their meanings.\n\nRSC actors also perform in the schools as well as at local theatres which are also involved in the programme.\n\nAnderson says it has a direct impact on his children's language development and literacy.\n\n\"The quality of their writing has really developed. The children really get a feel for the world of the play. When they go into the classroom to do the writing, it's easier.\"\n\nChildren from Springhead Primary School perform an extract from The Tempest at the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nHe tells me about a child with dyslexia who needed a teaching assistant to write his words down because he refused to put pen to paper.\n\nIn year six, the class was studying The Taming of Shrew, role playing and discussing why the characters might make those language choices.\n\nThe children were then asked to think of a line the character Katherina might say about her sister, Bianca, the favoured child.\n\nThe 10-year-old piped up: \"She drops one tear and gets the world handed to her on a golden platter.\n\n\"The teacher said it was wonderful. The other children started asking him about his sentence and saying they wanted to use it. Self esteem and self belief came from that.\n\n\"He told the TA he didn't want her to scribe for him anymore. From that moment on, he wrote himself.\"\n\nThe RSC's aim is to accelerate language acquisition, raise aspiration and widen creativity and critical thinking. A study is under way to assess its impact but, according to O'Hanlon: \"Teachers tell us that children who weren't previously meeting expected standards now consistently are - because of how they're taught Shakespeare.\"\n\nRona Pryme is the Executive Principal of Skegness Infant and Junior Academies, the schools leading the town's new partnership with the RSC which will start in September.\n\nMore than two thirds of her children claim free school meals - a marker of deprivation that is three times the national average.\n\nEmployment in this part of Lincolnshire can be seasonal and unreliable. Pryme told me many of her families are living in substandard housing and cramped conditions.\n\nShe wants to give her children something to aspire to.\n\nChildren from Skegness Junior Academy taking part in a workshop based on A Midsummer's Night's Dream\n\nAs well as Shakespeare in school, they'll be performing at the town's Embassy Theatre.\n\n\"We don't think of Skegness as the centre of the cultural universe, but we have to challenge those ways of thinking.\"\n\n\"We're hoping that the children will have their eyes opened, that they'll see that there is an option for them to have a career in the arts.\n\n\"If it sparks one child to go into an alternative career, that's a good thing.\"\n\nBack in North Staffordshire, 18-year-old Callum James would \"100%\" love to be an actor though, for now, with financial stability in mind, he is applying to the police force.\n\nAs a child at Springhead Primary in North Staffordshire, he was one of the first to take part in the RSC outreach programme around 10 years ago.\n\nCallum James (here being directed by the RSC's Robin Belfield) says the RSC's programme gave him confidence\n\n\"I remember being very excited by it all. I didn't know who Shakespeare was but I enjoyed it from the get go, the weird and wonderful words he used, like 'thou' and 'art'\".\n\nPicked to perform at school and at the local New Vic theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Callum was then chosen for the RSC's Next Generation talent development programme for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nHe's since performed at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nCallum says he loves \"delving into\" Shakespearean language and that being involved with the RSC has built his confidence.\n\n\"It's a sense of achievement, being able to understand and appreciate his meaning. Shakespeare is for everyone. His plays were for working class people to enjoy. If actors got the lines wrong, they threw tomatoes at them.\"\n\nO'Hanlon believes it is precisely the difficulty of Shakespeare's language that can be life-changing.\n\n\"It's all about giving the children the tools to decode things. They get a feeling of power. It's like unlocking a secret code. So they feel like they can do anything.\"\n\nIt can start small. Like the child after PE using an unusual word from Two Gentlemen of Verona.\n\nIt could be the beginning of something much bigger.", "More than 20 councils across England are removing pay and display parking machines and asking people to pay using an app instead.\n\nEight councils - all in London - have already removed all their machines, while 14 have removed some.\n\nCouncils say this saves money by reducing the risk of theft and avoiding the need to upgrade machines.\n\nBut charities say the changes are \"disastrous\" for people without a smartphone, especially the elderly.\n\nA growing number of councils are getting rid of traditional pay and display meters because mobile operators are switching off the 3G networks used to process card payments on older machines.\n\nCouncils say there is also a risk of theft from cash machines, while there are costs associated with collecting cash.\n\nThe BBC collated figures for 244 councils across England, which are responsible for parking. Out of the 242 councils which had information on their website or responded to requests for comment, eight had removed all their pay and display machines, while 14 had removed some.\n\nHalf of all London councils - 16 - have removed some or all of their machines.\n\nCouncils which have already removed all their machines include Bromley, Enfield and Kensington and Chelsea.\n\nOthers, including Brighton and Hove, and Slough, have removed some machines or are in the process of doing so. Oxford is also moving towards going cashless at all of its car parks.\n\nAs well as payment via app, many councils also offer the option to pay over the phone or in a local shop.\n\nOut of the councils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which responded, none had removed pay and display machines.\n\nNearly a fifth (19%) of drivers say their council has either scrapped machines or is consulting on doing so, according to a survey of 1,900 drivers by the RAC.\n\nThe survey found 59% of respondents felt angry about the idea of machines being removed, with the figure rising to 73% for those aged 65 and older.\n\nJoan Povey lives in Enfield, where the council has removed all its pay and display machines.\n\nThe 84-year-old has a smartphone but only uses it for emergency calls and said she does not feel confident using parking apps.\n\nShe told the BBC she used to park regularly in Enfield but had done so much less since traditional meters were removed earlier this year and now asks her son to pay for her parking using the app.\n\n\"It's inhibited me enormously,\" she said. \"I hate it because I'm 84 but I'm very independent.\"\n\nEnfield Council said drivers without smartphones could pay by cash or card at local shops or buy parking scratchcards at libraries. It said removing pay and display machines would save the council £44,000 a year.\n\nHowever, Ms Povey said friends had been unable to find anywhere to buy the scratchcards.\n\nJoan says the removal of pay and display machines has impacted her independence\n\nCustomers also complain they have to download several apps for different areas, with at least 10 apps used by councils across the country.\n\nAmanda Frolich, 53, teaches in nurseries across west London, and has to use parking apps multiple times a week.\n\nShe said being forced to download many different apps was \"frustrating\", along with having to put in her details each time.\n\n\"I do get anxious if they're not going to work because I have to be in that nursery at a certain time and I do not have time to then phone up,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn one occasion she said the app would not work and she had to tell the parking attendant she could not pay. She received a parking ticket despite being told she would not and only avoided a fine after complaining.\n\n\"I do feel for the older generation,\" she added. \"My dad only has a brick phone. He would never have a clue what to do.\"\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said there should always be an offline payment option to avoid excluding older people and others without a smartphone.\n\n\"If you are an older person who is reliant on your car for getting around but you have no means of legally parking it near to where you want to go then you may be left feeling there is little point going there at all, and that would be very sad for anyone affected, and very bad news for businesses too.\"\n\nLabour MP Clive Betts, who chairs the Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, urged the government to act to prevent people without a smartphone being unable to park.\n\n\"We've got to recognise that being able to park is a public service and people need to be able to access it easily,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIn April, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove wrote to councils in England telling them they must ensure parking services remain accessible to all.\n\nA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokeswoman said: \"Councils should determine what is best for their own area and have a duty to ensure that they do not discriminate in their decision-making against older people or those with vulnerabilities.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said: \"The removal of the 3G network is posing considerable challenges to some councils who operate physical parking meters.\n\n\"This change, along with other customer trends, has led to councils digitising parts of their parking services.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A Louis Tomlinson concert being held at the Red Rock Amphitheatre near Denver, Colorado, was called off before it started, after fans were injured during an intense hail storm.\n\nWest Metro Fire Rescue department announced that up to 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, with some suffering broken bones and cuts.\n\nThe former One Direction singer posted on Twitter that he was \"devastated\" and that he \"hopes everyone's ok\".", "David Ejimofor drowned on Monday after jumping from the pier at Aberavon beach\n\nThe school of a 15-year-old boy who drowned near a popular beach have described him as an \"exemplary pupil\" who will be \"hugely missed\".\n\nDavid Ejimofor's family said he was encouraged to join friends in jumping off the pier before he died.\n\nEmergency services were called to Aberavon beach, Port Talbot, at 18:09 BST on Monday after reports of a person in the water.\n\nDavid, from Aberavon, is said to have jumped off the pier with friends as a part of a \"yearly coming of age ceremony\" practised after GCSEs and A-levels.\n\nDavid Ejimofor drowned on Monday after jumping from the pier at Aberavon beach\n\n\"He was a bright and diligent young man, hardworking, friendly, and popular with his classmates and teachers,\" the school said in a tribute posted on Facebook on Friday.\n\nDavid had \"an infectious smile and a kind heart\" his school said, adding that the thoughts and prayers of the school community were with his parents, Alex and Maria, his brothers, Alex and Andrew and his sister, Sarah.\n\n\"He was a fitness role model to all pupils in the school and the wider community,\" the school tribute said. \"Members of the fitness community have commented on what a polite young man he was, as well as an 'absolute beast' in the gym.\"\n\nHeartfelt tributes to David in the school and at Aberavon beach show how much he was admired, his school says\n\nElaine Baines, who is head of year 11 at St Joseph's Catholic School, said: \"David was one of the most genuinely kind and conscientious pupils that I've ever had the pleasure of having in my year group.\"\n\n\"When David smiled, he brightened up everybody around him,\" she added. \"David was a role model amongst his peers and people naturally gravitated towards him.\n\n\"Words cannot describe how devastated I am, and my thoughts and prayers are with David's family and close friends.\"", "Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris Image caption: Remotely operated vehicles will be collecting the debris\n\nAny investigation into the Titan sub will undoubtedly focus on trying to work out what exactly happened to it - but how will experts do this?\n\nOne of the things they will be looking to do is examine the debris.\n\nIn particular, they will be looking for the site of the rupture - which will be hard because the Titan's body is in small pieces, and harder still because it is being collected by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in the darkness of the deep sea.\n\nAnother focus of the investigation will be whether there were sufficient checks following each dive. Each time the Titan went down on a deep dive, its hull would have been compressed by the immense water pressure - it would have become smaller and then returned to its normal size on its return to the surface.\n\nThis regular stress would have led to fatigue of the material, weakening it. It is so far unclear whether there were checks for cracks after each dive and if so how extensive they were.\n\nYou can read more on what experts will be looking for here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine has attacked a bridge linking southern Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula with long-range British missiles, Russian officials say.\n\nThe two parallel Chonhar bridges were both damaged, said the Russian-installed governor in occupied Kherson Vladimir Saldo. No-one was hurt.\n\nMr Saldo said it was likely British Storm Shadow missiles were used in an attack \"ordered by London\".\n\nThe bridge is the shortest route from Crimea to the front line in the south.\n\nIt is also an important link to the occupied city of Melitopol, which lies on the coastal route from the Russian border across southern Ukraine to Crimea.\n\nPhotos posted by Vladimir Saldo showed a gaping hole in one of the two bridges, but he said repairs would be made quickly and vehicles would take an alternative route temporarily. Another Russian-installed official, Nikolai Lukashenko, said repairs could take weeks.\n\nUkrainian military spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk said on national TV that the army was aiming to disrupt Russia's supply routes and a military intelligence official, Andriy Yusov, said more attacks would follow.\n\nThe surface of the Chonhar bridge was damaged prompting traffic to use an alternative route\n\nRussia uses the road as a land bridge to Crimea, and Melitopol is thought to be one of the targets of Ukraine's counter-offensive, which began in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia earlier this month.\n\nRussian forces seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and then in February last year they invaded Ukraine's southern coastal region too.\n\nUkrainian forces have bombed Russian-controlled bridges in the region before. Last summer, in the weeks before they recaptured the city of Kherson on the east bank of the Dnipro river, they repeatedly attacked the Antonivskiy bridge to stop Russian forces bringing supplies from occupied Crimea.\n\nThen in October a bridge across the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to Russia was put out of action for weeks in a deadly attack condemned by President Vladimir Putin called an \"act of terrorism\". Even now the Kerch bridge is not open to all traffic.\n\nVladimir Saldo threatened to retaliate for the latest attack by targeting a bridge linking neighbouring Moldova with Romania. Romania, a Nato member, and Moldova condemned his comments as unacceptable.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive in the south and east has made slow progress, with claims of eight villages recaptured so far.\n\nThe campaign was made harder when the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river was destroyed this month in a suspected Russian sabotage attack. Areas downstream of the dam were flooded, making crossing the Dnipro river much harder. Dozens of people have died, farms have been ruined and water supplies have been affected.\n\nRussian forces have continued to target Ukrainian cities including a residential area of President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rih and the southern port of Odesa overnight.\n\nPresident Zelensky told Ukrainians on Thursday that intelligence services had received information that Russia was preparing the \"scenario of a terrorist attack\" on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, seized during the full-scale invasion last year.\n\nThe plant is the biggest in Europe and Mr Zelensky warned that \"radiation has no state borders\". The Kremlin immediately rejected his comments as \"another lie\".\n\nAlthough the plant's six reactors have all been shut down, the UN's atomic energy agency warned on Wednesday that the safety and security situation there was \"extremely fragile\".\n\nWater levels in a channel used to cool the reactors have declined since the Kakhovka dam was destroyed and the UN agency said the situation around the plant had become increasingly tense amid reports of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nThe Chonhar bridge could be out of action for several weeks", "A South African woman has described working as a fruit picker on farms in the south of England as \"slave labour\".\n\n\"We weren't viewed as humans,\" Sybil Msezane told a House of Lords committee.\n\nShe said workers were addressed by numbers, rather than names, as if they were in prison, forced to work 18 hour days and live in overcrowded caravans.\n\nIf they complained to bosses they were threatened with deportation, the Lords horticultural committee was told.\n\nThe committee is investigating the treatment of migrant workers on British farms.\n\nAndrey Okhrimenko, from Kazakhstan, speaking via video link, said: \"If you don't work fast enough, if you don't comply with quality... they will say 'we will cancel your visa, we can send you back home to your country'.\n\n\"We had extremely bad living conditions, we had problems with working conditions. We were disrespected and manipulated.\"\n\nLike Ms Msezane, he was recruited last year by an agent in his home country via an advertisement on social media, and had to pay for his own airfare and visa before being put to work on fruit farms in the south of England.\n\nMs Msezane, who is from Johannesburg, is now a care worker for an English local authority.\n\nShe told the BBC she was treated with respect in her new role, in sharp contrast to her experience last year as a seasonal agricultural worker, picking and packing strawberries for British supermarkets.\n\n\"I could not have thought that the conditions I found in 2022, in the United Kingdom, were what I found. It was beyond shocking.\n\n\"I'd spent close to, almost, £2,500 equivalent. There is no way I am going home at that point. I am here to make money. That's essentially it. So you get to work.\"\n\nShe had to pay rent to live in a caravan with six people of different nationalities, both men and women, who had a single shower and fridge between them.\n\n\"My country is going through a lot economically. People need work. So I would never say to people not to come on the seasonal worker visa,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Everyone who was on the scheme with me was able to support their families in different ways.\"\n\nBut she added: \"You need to be aware that you are coming into a country where you don't have as many rights as a worker as you do in South Africa. So that can be challenging.\"\n\nVadim Sardov, from Kazakhstan, said conditions on his farm were so bad several people had decided to leave and work illegally instead.\n\nSeasonal workers were not asking for \"five star hotels\", he told the committee, but \"employers must provide proper living and working conditions\".\n\nEmiliano Mellino, a journalist for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who has written a series of articles on the treatment of migrant workers, told the Lords committee some workers had been subjected to bullying and abuse.\n\nHe said many take out loans to cover the costs of coming to the UK, and they also had to pay rent of up to £80 a week for their accommodation, which meant they were reluctant to speak out for fear of losing their job.\n\nThe government's official policy is to train British workers to fill the 50,000 seasonal jobs on British farms currently carried out by migrant workers.\n\nBefore the UK left EU, most of these casual workers came from Europe.\n\nWhen the current seasonal workers visa scheme was launched in 2019, it had a quota of just 2,500 places a year, with most coming from Russia and Ukraine.\n\nIt was expanded to 38,000 visas in 2022, following pressure from the farming industry, who had been forced to leave crops unpicked.\n\nThe net was cast to a wider range of nationalities, including South Africa and central Asian countries like Kazakhstan.\n\nThe scheme is due to run until 2024, with debate raging in government over whether it should be expanded to keep food costs down and help tame inflation.\n\nThe government has authorised only a small number of recruitment companies, known as \"scheme operators\", to arrange seasonal worker visas.\n\nFarmers must hire their overseas workers through those companies and must demonstrate that they are actively trying to recruit UK-based workers as well.\n\nScheme operators also have explicit duties to look after workers' welfare and make sure they are paid properly.\n\nAt an earlier committee hearing, in April this year, farmer Mike Newey said it was a \"myth\" that seasonal fruit picking was a low skilled, poorly paid job with bad accommodation.\n\n\"Our seasonal workers are paid a minimum of £10.42, the national living wage, and often earn £15 to £20 an hour when they are on piece-work rates. It is good pay. They have subsidised accommodation on the farm.\"\n\nHe added: \"We should be proud of giving people from other countries a leg up. That is what we are doing.\"\n\nAli Capper, of the West Sussex Growers' Association, said: \"To have staff, we need to accommodate them, and ensure their welfare and that they are very well looked after.\"", "The oil painting which belongs to the National Gallery is on tour\n\nAn oil painting by one of England's most celebrated artists has been hung in an empty store at a shopping centre.\n\nThe Cornfield was painted by John Constable in 1826, five years after his The Hay Wain masterpiece, and depicts the Suffolk countryside in summer.\n\nOwned by the National Gallery, it is on display at the Viking Shopping Centre in Jarrow as part of the museum's tour.\n\nIt has attracted a number of art fans, among them James Hays from Gosforth who described it as \"real life\".\n\n\"I don't like modern art, I've tried to study it and make something of it and I can't - but this is looking at life, it's real,\" added Mr Hays.\n\nJames Hays is no fan of modern art but thought the painting was like \"looking at life\"\n\nThe work was painted in January to March in the artist's London studio. The lane winding into the cornfield is based on Fen Lane, where Constable had often walked as a boy from his own village of East Bergholt to Dedham, where he went to school.\n\nAlthough it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826, it failed to sell.\n\nIt was presented to the National Gallery in 1837 as a tribute to the artist after his death, by a committee of friends and admirers who eventually bought it.\n\nBernadette and Frank Amos did not have to travel far to see the picture in their local shopping centre, finding it in the vacant Bright House unit.\n\nMrs Amos said: \"I just love the countryside and the feeling it gives you of freedom, I just love the outdoors.\"\n\nExhibition manager Gracie Divall from the National Gallery said it was great to see people embracing the opportunity.\n\nShe said she had met people who had previously seen the painting in London and had taken the chance to see it on their \"doorstep\".\n\nJoe and Pam Stewart made the trip to Jarrow from Sunderland to see the painting close up\n\nPam Stewart, visiting with her husband Joe from Sunderland, said: \"He's done all of this from memory which is really clever. We all take photographs now and can look back at them but if you ever do paint you never get it quite right - but he's got it and it's fabulous.\"\n\nDavid Forbes from North Shields added: \"I saw it was coming on the news and the chance to see something as exquisite as this you can't pass that by. My favourite bit is the little lad drinking water with his head in the pool, it's amazing.\"\n\nThe painting can be viewed in the shopping centre each afternoon until Sunday.\n\nMr Forbes liked the detail in the artwork\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Paris Mayo has been found guilty of murdering her infant son at her family home in Herefordshire\n\nA 19-year-old has been found guilty of murdering her baby son hours after she delivered him at home alone.\n\nParis Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to the boy, Stanley, in 2019, after concealing her pregnancy from her family.\n\nA trial at Worcester Crown Court heard Mayo suffocated him by stuffing cotton wool into his mouth and throat.\n\nMayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nJurors were also able to consider a charge of infanticide but took eight hours and 38 minutes to convict her of murder.\n\nMayo gave birth to Stanley at her family home in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire in March 2019.\n\nThe court heard how his remains were discovered by her mother the following morning in a bin bag which Mayo had left on the doorstep before going to bed.\n\nHer mother Coralie Mayo immediately called 999 after she made the discovery and later in hospital the teenager said she had not told her mother what had happened because \"she's got a lot going on\".\n\nMayo had claimed she did not know she was pregnant and said Stanley was not moving and did not make a noise when he was born.\n\nHowever medical experts said it was likely he had been alive for a couple of hours, had taken breaths and may also have cried.\n\nDuring her trial, Mayo told jurors she had loved her son and often thinks about \"what he could have been\"\n\nShe said she had used the cotton wool found in the infant's mouth and throat to clean up blood and claimed his fractured skull had been caused by him falling on the floor during birth.\n\nHowever the prosecution said medical evidence showed that was not an adequate explanation and that such injuries were normally found after major trauma, such as a car crash.\n\nThe court heard how Mayo had a difficult family life and her father, who was terminally ill at the time Stanley was born and died shortly after, made her feel \"worthless\".\n\nHe had been upstairs receiving dialysis with help from Mayo's mother, Coralie, while the baby was murdered below.\n\nIn her testimony, Mayo described how she started having sex at 13 and used it as a way to get people to like her because she was \"insecure\" due to her family situation.\n\nExperts disagreed about her state of mind, with one of the opinion she had \"created a false memory\" while another said she was \"remarkably well intact\".\n\nMayo cried in the dock after the jury, made up of five men and seven women, returned a majority guilty verdict for murder.\n\nThe jurors were thanked by judge Mr Justice Garnham, who said it had been a \"difficult and stressful case\" for them to deal with.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Insp Julie Taylor from West Mercia Police said it was \"a devastating case\".\n\n\"The death of a new-born baby is utterly heart-breaking, even more so when the person who is responsible is the baby's own mother,\" she said.\n\nMayo had concealed her pregnancy from people who \"could have, and would have, supported her,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said Stanley's \"short life was filled with pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved\".\n\n\"[Mayo] chose to hide her pregnancy, give birth alone and kill her baby, then hide his body despite accepting that she had a family who would have supported her.\"\n\nMayo was remanded in custody and is set to return to Worcester Crown Court on Monday to be sentenced.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sara-Jo Croker has been living in hotels, with her children, for five months\n\nThe Home Office has been accused of leaving people homeless by outbidding councils in a fierce competition for scarce accommodation.\n\nSeveral local authorities have lost out to a Home Office contractor finding properties to house asylum seekers.\n\nThe number of people in England having to stay in temporary accommodation is near record levels.\n\nAsked on three separate occasions why its contractor paid more than councils can, the Home Office refused to say.\n\nThe problem is most acute in London, where councils estimate about 166,000 people live in temporary accommodation - more than the total population of Oxford.\n\nThere was no suggestion the Home Office or asylum seekers created the problem, said Labour's Georgia Gould, who chairs London Councils, which represents all local authorities in the city. But she said \"the Home Office is contributing to homelessness\".\n\nThe councils, spending £52m a month on temporary accommodation, had agreed \"that we will not outbid each other, because we want to protect taxpayers' money\", Ms Gould said.\n\n\"We would like the same partnership with the Home Office,\" she added.\n\nThe competition for properties is due to:\n\nThe Home Office is under pressure to cut the approximately £7m a day it is paying to house asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nAnd its contractor, Clearsprings, is trying to find accommodation for them. There is no suggestion Clearsprings is doing anything illegal.\n\nKieron Williams, leader of Southwark council, in south London, said its homelessness staff \"have never seen anything like this - we have all but run out of options\" to find temporary accommodation in the borough.\n\n\"This is being made worse by the Home Office procuring properties in our borough which we desperately need,\" he said.\n\nEnfield, Westminster and Luton councils have also raised concerns about the impact of the Home Office contractor.\n\nCapital Letters chief executive Sue Coulson says: \"There's just not enough accommodation\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Capital Letters, a property agency owned by 10 London boroughs, could find only 18 homes within the limits of what the government will pay in housing benefit, in the entire city.\n\nThe rates, known as the local housing allowance, vary by location and property size and have been frozen for three years, despite soaring rents.\n\nCouncils across England are calling for an emergency increase because of the lack of affordable accommodation.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of families are having to spend weeks in hotels.\n\nEnfield council, in north London, is spending £850,000 a month housing residents in hotels.\n\nDozens of families are living in a local Travelodge and last month some had to be temporarily moved out of London altogether, as other guests had booked to stay there during Beyoncé's concerts.\n\nIn east London, nursery worker Sara-Jo Croker, 38, and her two children have been living in hotels for five months, after being evicted from their home when their landlord decided to sell it.\n\n\"It's been horrendous,\" she said. \"My whole life is in this room.\"\n\nHer current abode, a Premier Inn, is \"good\" but she has been moved to three other hotels, one of which was \"filthy\".\n\n\"I wouldn't even put a dog in it,\" Ms Croker said.\n\nShe has no cooking facilities, must make a 90-minute round trip to take her daughter to school each day and has to pay a £7 daily charge to park at the hotel.\n\nMs Croker said she was spending about £1,500 a month on fuel, parking and eating out each night and had had to give up all the furniture she had been keeping in storage as she could not afford the £250 monthly fee.\n\n\"I can't afford to pay for that,\" she said. \"I don't know how long I'm going to be in here.\"\n\nClearsprings is not just willing to pay higher rents. It also pays higher incentive payments to encourage landlords to cooperate.\n\n\"We understand they are giving about £2,000 per property more than we can offer,\" Capital Letters chief executive Sue Coulson said.\n\n\"That's a lot of money to a landlord, almost a month's rent.\"\n\nThe Home Office did not explain why its contractor is allowed to pay more than councils, who have a statutory duty to provide those families they accept are homeless with accommodation.\n\nHowever, in a statement it said: \"We have a statutory duty to ensure asylum seekers have access to safe and secure accommodation.\n\n\"If there is a need for Clearsprings to go above the local housing allowance, for example to ensure we are complying with this duty, then we will let the local council know.\"", "US toy giant Hasbro has brought back the iconic Furby robotic creature, which was hugely popular when it was launched a quarter of a century ago.\n\nThe firm hopes a new generation of children will \"discover their own curious little creature\".\n\nThe new Furby has its familiar bulbous eyes, yellow beak and colourful fur. It also speaks in gibberish and responds to hugs, pats and tickles.\n\nThe announcement comes as the toy industry faces a slowdown in demand.\n\n\"Over the past few years, we've done a lot of research to understand what kids would want to see in a new Furby,\" said Kristin McKay, a vice president and general manager at Hasbro.\n\nThe new toy is programmed to have more than 600 responses. It can react to commands, mimic sounds, dance and be \"fed\".\n\nFurby, which was originally launched in 1998, quickly became popular around the world.\n\nIn the first three years after being launched, more than 40 million of them were sold, Hasbro says.\n\nThe first Furby had infrared eyes which allowed them to communicate with each other.\n\nThe toy could also \"listen\" to conversations, and could, with a pat on the head, be taught to say a selection of words.\n\nFurby has been revamped over the years, including its infrared eyes being replaced with two small LCD screens.\n\nHasbro also developed a smartphone and tablet app, which could translate Furby's warblings into English.\n\nHowever, as the Furby phenomenon faded it was retired in 2016.\n\nThe revamped version of Furby in 2012\n\nThe relaunch of Furby comes as the toy maker attempts to boost lacklustre sales.\n\nIn its latest quarterly earnings, released in April, Hasbro said it expected the toy and games market to remain flat or decline this year.\n\nFor the first three months of the year, the maker of the iconic Monopoly board games reported a 14% drop in net revenue, with sales of its NERF blasters, Play-Doh and Peppa Pig toys falling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Battle collects electronic junk which he turns into musical instruments", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A man has been found guilty of murdering a Met Police sergeant by shooting him in the chest with an antique gun he had smuggled into a south London custody centre.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, 54, died of a chest wound after being hit by two bullets at Croydon's Windmill Road custody block on 25 September 2020.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25 and from Surrey, had claimed diminished responsibility.\n\nBut a jury at Northampton Crown Court ruled he had acted deliberately.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 27 July.\n\nDuring the three-week trial, the jury was shown distressing video footage of the New Zealand-born sergeant being hit by the first of three shots discharged by De Zoysa.\n\nA second bullet struck him in his thigh before De Zoysa was wrestled to the ground by other officers.\n\nSgt Ratana, who was known as Matt, died of his injuries in hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows arrest and detention of man accused of shooting police officer in custody\n\nDe Zoysa, who was living in Banstead, Surrey, was left with brain damage after a fourth shot which he fired while on the floor hit an artery in his neck.\n\nHe now uses a wheelchair and has communication difficulties.\n\nWhen he was arrested in London Road, Norbury, officers did not find the antique Colt .41, 1895 double action revolver he had on him which he had legally purchased over the internet. It had been loaded with six rounds of ammunition which he had made himself.\n\nThey did discover a bag contained seven bullets and cannabis, and he was taken into custody.\n\nDe Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said De Zoysa \"retrieved\" the 128-year old weapon from a holster under his left arm, while handcuffed to the rear, as he was being transported to Windmill Road in a police van.\n\nCCTV evidence suggested he managed to get hold of the gun - which has now been made illegal - with his right hand about 16 minutes before the shooting and then hid it in the back of his overcoat.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Sgt Ratana's partner Su Bushby said: \"Today is about justice for Matt.\n\n\"His life was taken too soon in the line of duty doing a job that he loved - a cruel end to a lifetime of service and dedication protecting others.\"\n\nShe said although the trial was now over, \"the constant feeling of grief and loss continues\".\n\n\"My love for Matt, my gentle giant, will never end. He will never be forgotten.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking after Ms Bushby, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he was \"inspired by the strength\" she had shown.\n\nHe said he believed \"more lives would certainly have been lost\" without the courage of the officers who were on duty.\n\n\"Officers never have a perfect picture of what awaits them at the next incident... I'm immensely proud of their professionalism and their bravery.\"\n\nSgt Ratana had joined the Met in 1991 and a year later he was just 300m from an IRA bomb that exploded outside 10 Downing Street.\n\nHe was an avid tennis player, winning the men's doubles title at the Police Athletic Association championships in 2000. He also led rugby teams in Worthing and was a coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, where he has been remembered with a statue.\n\nSir Mark described the sergeant, who was months away from retirement age, as an outstanding officer who \"treated everyone with respect, with compassion and with good humour\".\n\n\"Whether it was on the streets or in the custody centre, as a uniformed police officer, on the rugby field or later as a coach, it's clear that he was someone who made an enduring impact wherever he went,\" he said.\n\nA police image showing how the revolver was being carried by Louis De Zoysa\n\nLouis De Zoysa had been carrying an antique Colt revolver under his left arm in a holster as he travelled across south London.\n\nThe arresting officers checked De Zoysa's bag, his waistband and frisked his legs, but missed the gun. They also did not have a metal detector with them in the police van.\n\nDetectives believe the 25-year-old was able to move the gun from the holster to his hands as he travelled in the vehicle, despite them still being cuffed behind his back.\n\nThe court heard how De Zoysa has hypermobility, where a person's joints have an above-average range of motion\n\nThis ability allowed him to manoeuvre the gun from the holster to his hands and keep it hidden behind his back, the jury heard.\n\nFollowing Sgt Ratana's murder, the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has recommended that handheld search wands - metal detectors - should be introduced in all response vehicles and those used to transport those that have been detained.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is now exploring their implementation.\n\nThe Met said within weeks of the murder it had began a roll-out of hand-held search wands to all its police vehicles used to transport suspects.\n\nSgt Ratana's partner Su Bushby said he would never be forgotten\n\nThe IOPC's director of operations, Amanda Rowe, said she hoped the recommendation would \"improve officer safety and help to prevent detained persons from being able to harm themselves or others in custody\".\n\nShe added their investigation of the incident found that two officers could have conducted a more thorough body search of De Zoysa on the street, during which ammunition was found but not the firearm.\n\nHowever, their actions were found to not be in breach of the police standards of professional behaviour.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A jury has been shown the moment when a Met Police sergeant was shot with an antique revolver in a custody holding cell in south London.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25, denies killing Matiu Ratana, 54, with a gun concealed in an underarm holster at Croydon Custody Centre in 2020.\n\n\"Louis De Zoysa pulled the trigger on purpose four times,\" prosecutors said.\n\nDuncan Penny KC added Mr De Zoysa \"injured himself with the fourth shot\".\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Ratana, who was also known as Matthew and was the on-duty custody sergeant, was killed while Mr De Zoysa was handcuffed in a holding cell.\n\nMr Penny KC told the jury Mr De Zoysa bought the antique gun at an auction in June 2020, that it was legal to own, and he had made his own bullets because ammunition for it was no longer manufactured.\n\nOfficers who arrested and searched Mr De Zoysa earlier in the day \"did not find\" he was carrying a loaded revolver in a holster, the court heard.\n\nMr Penny KC told Northampton Crown Court: \"The prosecution say Louis De Zoysa pointed his gun at Sgt Ratana\", and that he \"pulled the trigger on purpose twice when he was pointing the gun at Sgt Ratana\".\n\n\"There is CCTV footage and other video of what happened,\" he added.\n\nMr De Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020, the court heard\n\n\"The video and the audio shows Louis De Zoysa killing Matthew Ratana,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nOn the opening day of the case on Tuesday, the court heard the fourth shot hit Mr De Zoysa in the neck, causing him to suffer brain damage.\n\nAs a result, he will be assisted by an intermediary during his trial and uses a whiteboard because of communication difficulties, the jurors were told.\n\n\"I am going to be talking in short sentences and simple words,\" Mr Penny KC told the court on Wednesday. \"This is so that Louis De Zoysa can understand what I am saying.\"\n\nThe prosecution opened their case by recounting the events that led up to the shooting.\n\nIt told the jury that: \"On Friday 25 September 2020, Louis de Zoysa was walking along London Road, in Norbury.\"\n\nHe was stopped by the police and searched by officers on the street and handcuffed, the prosecution told jurors, who were also shown the officers' body-worn camera footage.\n\n\"The police officers found that Louis De Zoysa was carrying cannabis and seven rounds of ammunition but the police officers did not find that Louis De Zoysa was carrying a loaded revolver in a holster.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana suffered a fatal injury to his heart and lung\n\n\"The gun and holster were probably concealed under one of his armpits,\" the court was told\n\nMr De Zoysa, who was 23 at the time, was then taken to Croydon Police Station and put in a holding room, still handcuffed.\n\nJurors were told: \"Louis De Zoysa kept the gun hidden and was able to point the gun at Sgt Ratana,\" who was on duty.\n\n\"He deliberately shot Sgt Ratana, once to the chest, at very close range. He did not give a warning.\"\n\nThe court heard the other officers present were not able to stop Mr De Zoysa, and the shot caused a fatal injury to Sgt Ratana's left lung and heart. The prosecution says this was \"deliberate\".\n\nThree further shots, including the one that injured Mr De Zoysa, were fired during a struggle with the other officers, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution alleges: \"The second shot was another deliberate shot at Sgt Ratana.\" That hit the officer in the leg.\n\nThe third shot hit the cell.\n\nThe prosecution told the court Mr De Zoysa \"must have been able to get hold of the gun after he was arrested and before he left the police van\".\n\nThe court has previously been told Mr De Zoysa has an autistic spectrum condition.\n\nDefence barrister Imran Khan KC told jurors: \"Louis De Zoysa says he did not mean to or want to kill Sgt Ratana, or to cause him really serious harm.\n\n\"Louis De Zoysa says that he is not guilty of murder.\n\n\"The reason Louis De Zoysa says he is not guilty of murder is because at the time he was suffering from an abnormality of mental function.\n\n\"The abnormality of mental function that Louis De Zoysa was suffering was an autistic meltdown.\"\n\nMr De Zoysa, of Banstead, Surrey, has pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This year's Glastonbury festival is off to a rocking start as thousands of festival-goers party in the summer sun.\n\nArctic Monkeys are headlining the iconic Pyramid stage on Friday night, mystery act the ChurnUps have been revealed as Foo Fighters to the delight of crowds and elsewhere Worthy Farm's visitors have been entertained by Texas, Gabriels, Flo and many more music acts from around the world.", "Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been blamed for starting war\n\nWe're used to hearing Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ranting and raving at Russia's military leadership - particularly at defence minister Sergei Shoigu - for problems on the battlefield.\n\nPublic infighting between the Wagner mercenary group and the Ministry of Defence isn't new.\n\nIn his latest video tirade via Telegram, Prigozhin blames Shoigu for starting Russia's war in Ukraine in February last year.\n\nSpeaking first about the fighting in eastern Ukraine that began in 2014 after Russia's military intervention, Prigozhin said: \"We were hitting them, and they were hitting us. That's how it went on for those eight long years, from 2014 to 2022. Sometimes the number of skirmishes would increase, sometimes decrease.\"\n\n\"On 24 February [2022] there was nothing extraordinary happening there. Now the Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president and tell a story that there was some crazy aggression by Ukraine, that - together with the whole Nato bloc - Ukraine was planning to attack us.\n\n\"The war was needed... so that Shoigu could become a Marshal, so that he could get a second Hero Star… the war wasn't for demilitarising or de-nazifying Ukraine. It was needed for an extra star.\"\n\nPrigozhin also blamed the war on oligarchs, condemning \"the clan which in practice rules Russia today\".\n\nStrong words. But will they have consequences?\n\nThat depends on the nature of Prigozhin's current relationship with President Vladimir Putin. And no-one's quite sure what that is right now.\n\nIs the tough-talking angry Prigozhin we see and hear on Telegram a fully-fledged Kremlin project? If so, his blame the war on Shoigu and oligarchs rant could be designed to shield Putin from public criticism, while offering the Kremlin a possible way out of a conflict that hasn't gone to plan, without damaging the president or the political system.\n\nPrigozhin and Putin at a dinner in 2011\n\nPrigozhin has named the fall-guys… and they don't include Putin.\n\nAfter all, Putin is so closely associated with this war. In his address to the nation on 24 February 2022, the Kremlin leader made it clear that it was his decision to launch the so-called \"special military operation\", the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPlus, arguing that the president has been woefully deceived by a minister he appointed doesn't reflect glowingly on the man at the top.\n\nTrue, in Russia the Kremlin controls the media landscape and the messaging. If TV channels and pro-Kremlin military bloggers here were to transmit such an interpretation, many Russians would accept it.\n\nBut what if Yevgeny Prigozhin's outburst wasn't coordinated with the Kremlin?\n\nWhat if he's acquired political ambitions of his own? Or concluded that, having made powerful enemies within the Russian elite (especially the military) for him attack is the best form of defence? Even if it means going off-message.\n\nA 'rogue' Prigozhin risks rocking the boat - and Russia's political system - by undermining the Kremlin's messaging.\n\nOnly last week Putin repeated the need (as he sees it) to \"demilitarise\" and \"de-nazify\" Ukraine. Prigozhin's latest comments contradict that argument.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine\n\nI've written before that making sense of Russian politics is like trying to do a giant jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. You attempt to connect the clues, but you're never quite sure what the final picture will be.\n\nBut, aside from the Wagner chief, there are other interesting pieces of the Russian jigsaw which hint at a different outcome.\n\nFor example, as badly as things have gone for the Kremlin in Ukraine, might Moscow declare \"mission accomplished\"?\n\nPresident Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently claimed that \"the aim [of demilitarising Ukraine] has largely been achieved\", arguing that Ukraine has less and less of its own armaments and is increasingly reliant on weapons from abroad.\n\nAnd earlier this month more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers, members of the Azov regiment, went on trial in southern Russia. Russia calls Azov a \"terrorist group\" that harbours neo-Nazis. Could it portray the case as \"de-nazification\" and stop there?\n\nBut there are other indications that \"stopping\" is not in Putin's plans. In recent appearances on TV, he's come across as confident of victory and dismissive of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"The enemy is suffering major losses,\" Putin told a Russian TV reporter this week, adding: \"The enemy has no chance.\"", "Pearse Doherty now mentors at St Vincent's, having graduated from the school last year\n\nA teenager from north Belfast who became a father at 14 and lost his brother to suicide has won two Prince's Trust education awards.\n\nPearse Doherty graduated from St Vincent's Training Centre in Belfast against the odds last year.\n\nIt is the only school in the city that works specifically with children who have social, behavioural, emotional and wellbeing difficulties.\n\nHe left with the equivalent of eight GCSEs and now trains as a youth worker.\n\nHe hopes to one day go to university.\n\nPearse has been asked back to school as a special guest to inspire the next generation of students.\n\nBrenda McMenamin says positive role models are really important for children at St Vincent's\n\nHe told BBC News NI that St Vincent's was \"all about helping people change their mindsets\" and that is the advice he has for the pupils still studying at the school.\n\nWell, that and to \"learn how to accept help when it's needed\" because he says you cannot do everything in life yourself.\n\nHis former Prince's Trust tutor Brenda McMenamin says it is important for the children to have a role model like Pearse.\n\n\"A lot of our children arrive to us with very negative self-beliefs,\" she explains.\n\nFor them to see somebody like Pearse, \"who is essentially one of them\", succeed in life makes them realise that success can be theirs as well.\n\nSean Paul, who is 16, says Pearse has been a huge help to him, not only to control his anger and \"not let stuff get to me\" but also to mentor younger kids.\n\nSean Paul, pictured with his uncle Jim, says St Vincent's has been positive for him\n\nSean Paul is leaving St Vincent's this year and says he is going to miss it.\n\n\"[Pearse] has helped me really good with my mental health and stuff.\"\n\nSean Paul's uncle Jim, who is his guardian, says his nephew never fitted into mainstream school but when he came to St Vincent's he felt comfortable \"because there are pupils exactly the same as him\".\n\nSean Paul is now hoping to train as a barber.\n\nPaula says her son Connall is thriving at the school\n\nWhile 12-year-old Connall has only been at St Vincent's for a year, he says \"it's the best school I've ever been in\".\n\nIt has given him more confidence, he says, and when \"you get angry or anything they know what to do\".\n\nConnall's mum Paula says he was \"statemented at the end of P6\" and although he was worried he wouldn't like it when he first arrived at the school, it has turned out to be brilliant.\n\n\"This school is the best school in the world, says Connall.\n\n\"But you have to understand, it is still school.\"", "Freema Agyeman played companion Martha Jones in Doctor Who and recently starred opposite Lily Allen in Dreamland\n\nDoctor Who star Freema Agyeman will appear in a new stage production of the Tony and Olivier-winning dark comedy God of Carnage.\n\nThe actress is best known for her role as the companion Martha Jones in Doctor Who and recently starred opposite Lily Allen in TV comedy Dreamland.\n\nShe will play Veronique Vallon in the revival of Yasmina Reza's play at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in September.\n\nAgyeman told BBC News she was \"beyond thrilled\" to be returning to the stage.\n\nGod of Carnage tells the story of two sets of parents, who meet up after one 11-year-old knocks out his classmate's two front teeth in a playground fight.\n\nThe boys' parents meet up to have a civil conversation about their children's altercation in a supposedly calm and rational way. But chaos ensues as the parents themselves descend into tantrums, name-calling and tears.\n\nAgyeman said: \"I'm happy to be staying in the genre of dark comedy post Dreamland - God of Carnage made me gasp and guffaw in equal measure.\n\n\"I look forward to performing in this play alongside the fantastic cast and am very excited to be working with director Nicholai La Barrie whose enthusiasm is infectious!\"\n\nReza's play was translated for English-speaking audiences by Christopher Hampton, who won an Oscar in 2021 for best adapted screenplay for The Father.\n\nAgyeman is best known for appearing opposite David Tennant (pictured in 2007) in Doctor Who\n\nGod of Carnage premiered in the West End in 2008 before transferring to Broadway the following year.\n\nThe play went on to win both the Tony and Olivier Award for best comedy, as well as additional Tonys for best play and best actress for Marcia Gay Harden.\n\nAgyeman's screen credits include Torchwood, Silent Witness, Law and Order and The Carrie Diaries, as well as the most recent film in the Matrix franchise, Resurrections.\n\nShe will appear alongside Ariyon Bakare, Dinita Gohil and Martin Hutson in the Hammersmith production of God of Carnage, which runs from 1 to 30 September.\n\nAgyman said the Lyric had an \"incredible history and tradition\" and praised its \"consistently solid, inclusive and high-calibre work\".\n\nDirector Nicholai La Barrie said: \"God of Carnage pokes fun at wealth, power and money. It lifts the lid on civility which is immensely funny to watch. From the moment I read this play, I imagined it to be a reflection of the cosmopolitan cities that we live in.\"\n\nIn a review of a 2018 revival of the play in Bath, the Guardian's Arifa Akbar recalled how the show's 2009 run in the West End \"put in just enough laughs, balanced with middle-class menace and marital rage, for the play to earn its reputation as a savage comedy that tears away the veneer of respectability in modern bourgeois lives to expose the bigotry, anger and predations that lie beneath\".\n\nPrior to God of Carnage, writer Reza made her name with the the 1994 play Art, which also won a string of Olivier and Tony Awards.", "Kesha with Dr Luke at the 2011 ASCAP Awards, where he won songwriter of the year for hits including Tik Tok and Katy Perry's Teenage Dream\n\nPop singer Kesha and music producer Dr Luke have reached an agreement to settle a years-long defamation lawsuit.\n\nIn an identical statement they each shared on Instagram, the two said they \"agreed to a resolution\" of the case.\n\nLukasz Gottwald, better known as Dr Luke, sued Kesha in 2014, saying she had fabricated rape claims against him to get out of a recording contract.\n\nKesha, full name Kesha Rose Sebert, rose to fame with Dr Luke-produced hits Tik Tok and We R Who We R.\n\nShe sued him in 2014, seeking to void their contract because, her lawyers claimed, he had \"sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [Kesha] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life\".\n\nThe allegations of abuse included two instances in which Kesha claimed Gottwald had drugged and raped her.\n\nA trial was due to begin on 19 July. The out of court settlement comes days after a New York appeals court ruled Dr Luke to be a public figure, raising the burden of proof for the producer to successfully prove he had been defamed.\n\nThe terms of their deal have not been publicly released.\n\nTheir Instagram statement, which included quotes from each of them, said they \"agreed to issue and post a joint statement regarding that resolution\".\n\n\"Only god knows what happened that night,\" Kesha's statement said, adding: \"As I have always said, I cannot recount everything that happened.\n\n\"I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one. I wish nothing but peace to all parties involved.\"\n\nDr Luke, who has recorded hits for Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne and Flo Rida, said he was grateful to \"put this difficult matter behind me and move on with my life\".\n\n\"While I appreciate Kesha again acknowledging that she cannot recount what happened that night in 2005, I am absolutely certain that nothing happened,\" he said.\n\n\"I never drugged or assaulted her and would never do that to anyone. For the sake of my family, I have vigorously fought to clear my name for nearly 10 years,\" he continued.\n\nHe ended by saying: \"I wish Kesha well.\"", "Meta has said it will begin to restrict news on its platforms to Canadian consumers after parliament passed a controversial online news bill.\n\nThe bill forces big platforms to compensate news publishers for content posted on their sites.\n\nMeta and Google have both already been testing limiting access to news to some Canadians.\n\nIn 2021, Australian users were blocked from sharing or viewing news on Facebook in response to a similar law.\n\nCanada's Online News Act, which cleared the senate on Thursday, lays out rules requiring platforms like Meta and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news organisations for their content.\n\nMeta has called the law \"fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work\".\n\nOn Thursday, it said news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada - before the bill takes effect.\n\n\"A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platforms, is neither sustainable nor workable,\" a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.\n\nThe company said the changes to news would not have an impact on other services for Canadian users.\n\nGoogle called the bill \"unworkable\" in its current form and said it was seeking to work with the government to find a \"path forward\".\n\nThe federal government says the online news bill is necessary \"to enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news market\" and to allow struggling news organisations to \"secure fair compensation\" for news and links shared on the platforms.\n\nAn analysis of the bill by an independent parliament budget watchdog estimated news businesses could receive about C$329m ($250m; £196m) per year from digital platforms.\n\nEarlier this month, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez told Reuters the tests being run by the tech platforms were \"unacceptable\" and a \"threat\".\n\nIn Australia, Facebook restored news content to its users after talks with the government led to amendments.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Rodriguez's office said he had met both Google and Facebook this week and planned further discussions - but the government would move forward with the bill's implementation.\n\n\"If the government can't stand up for Canadians against tech giants, who will?\" he said in a statement.\n\nMedia industry groups hailed the bill's passage as a step towards market fairness.\n\n\"Real journalism, created by real journalists, continues to be demanded by Canadians and is vital to our democracy, but it costs real money,\" said Paul Deegan, president and chief executive officer of News Media Canada, a media industry group, said in a statement\n\nThe Online News Act is expected to take effect in Canada in six months.", "The last of the Ukrainian refugees are due to leave the MS Victoria next month\n\nEdinburgh's council leader says Home Office plans to commission a cruise ship in Leith to house asylum seekers could turn it into a \"floating prison\".\n\nCammy Day said the city council had not been consulted on proposals to move asylum seekers onto the MS Victoria.\n\nThe ship has previously housed more than 1,000 Ukrainian refugees, with the last due to leave the ship on 11 July.\n\nThe Home Office said it had a \"statutory obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers\".\n\nBut a spokesman added: \"Individuals are not detained and are free to come and go therefore to describe such accommodation as a prison is wrong.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Forth Ports said it had no plans to house an asylum seeker vessel at the Port of Leith.\n\nMr Day said the potential consequences for the city and pressures on services were \"severe\".\n\nHe said the council was \"extremely surprised\" to be contacted by the Home Office about their intentions to commission the ship to house asylum seekers, adding that it was \"all the more surprising given their previous advice that it would be impossible for it to remain\".\n\nMr Day told BBC Scotland the plan was to send 700 single men to the capital, which has already has 4,000 people in temporary accommodation.\n\nHe added that the council had shown solidarity and support for thousands of Ukrainian refugees, along with those from Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan, and remained \"absolutely committed to supporting them in any way we can\".\n\nBut he said asylum seekers needed recognition, rights and support, not an \"unknown future\".\n\nThe council has now agreed to write to the UK government about its decision.\n\n\"We were not consulted on this and urgently require further details from the UK government on their plans,\" Mr Day said.\n\n\"I know the Scottish government and Cosla are in the same position and, having written jointly to the minister of state for immigration, Robert Jenrick MP, we've yet to receive a satisfactory response to our questions and concerns.\"\n\nRefugees first started living on the MS Victoria in July 2022\n\nHe added: \"The potential consequences for the council in terms of the pressures on our services - and the city as a whole - are severe and, barring robust partnership discussions involving NHS, police and other colleagues, we will continue to oppose these plans in the strongest terms.\"\n\nHe said the council believed that Forth Ports was also opposed to the proposals.\n\n\"Many of these people have risked their lives to make it to Europe and what they need is recognition and rights, not an unknown future without the support they so desperately need,\" he added.\n\n\"While the MS Victoria has been a place of refuge for many Ukrainian families arriving in Edinburgh, until we have adequate reassurances from the UK government regarding the welfare and ongoing engagement and support, we cannot allow it to become a floating prison for asylum seekers.\"\n\nForth Ports said it has had no contact from the UK or Scottish government on the matter.\n\nChief executive Charles Hammond said: \"We would not be able to accommodate this facility at the Port of Leith as we continue to create our bespoke offshore renewables hub.\n\n\"We believe that the MS Victoria, which is currently berthed in Leith as a refuge for Ukrainian people, is due to depart in July.\n\n\"Forth Ports has no plans to house an asylum seeker vessel at the Port of Leith.\"\n\nGraham O'Neill, of the Scottish Refugee Council, called on ministers to adopt a \"more sensible and humane\" policy\n\nGraham O'Neill, of the Scottish Refugee Council, said asylum seekers would face \"huge challenges\" if they were moved onto the ship.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland they would not be allowed to work or access social security and would have to exist on £1.30 a day.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"We think people will be highly isolated, carrying a lot of trauma and seeing no ability to get out of it.\n\n\"It is also important to remember that most people coming to the UK seeking asylum are not only coming from countries like Afghanistan, Sudan and Iran and fleeing very oppressive regimes but they are also stuck in a very long asylum backlog, often for years and years.\"\n\nHe said the figure was currently in the region of 170,000.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"We anticipate that if people were put onto this ship, like in other ships, barges and ex-hotels across the UK, they are basically being institutionalised.\"\n\nHe also urged UK ministers to implement a \"much more sensible and humane\" policy.\n\nThe Scottish government's migration and refugees minister Emma Roddick said: \"We have made clear to the UK government that vessels are not suitable accommodation for people seeking asylum.\n\n\"Housing asylum seekers in vessels cannot be compared with their use to temporarily accommodate displaced people from Ukraine because of fundamental differences in terms of their rights and agency.\"\n\nShe said that while people were waiting for a decision on their asylum application there were strict restrictions on the right to work and no access to most mainstream benefits.\n\nShe added: \"If the UK government chooses to impose the use of the Ms Victoria to accommodate people in Edinburgh it must provide suitable funding for the council and other local devolved services like health and policing, and ensure services are provided so that people can be supported appropriately.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while we consider their claim.\n\n\"The significant increase in illegal, unnecessary and dangerous Channel crossings has put our asylum system under incredible strain and made it necessary to continue to use hotels to accommodate some asylum seekers.\n\n\"We are committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and continue to engage with local authorities as early as possible whenever sites are used for asylum accommodation.\"", "Ross Kemp had planned to film a television show that involved a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the OceanGate submersible - but it was cancelled over safety fears.\n\nThe actor, known for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, was going to visit the wreck in the sub last year.\n\nBut TV company Atlantic Productions deemed the Titan not \"fit for purpose\".\n\nOceanGate's Titan sub imploded, killing all five passengers, during a trip to the wreck this week.\n\nMr Kemp's agent at InterTalent, Prof Jonathan Shalit, said the production company had carried out checks on the OceanGate submersible, but had deemed it unsafe.\n\n\"They found other sub dives which have been safe and successful but, by that point, Ross was so busy with all his TV shows that he was unable to commit the time,\" he said.\n\n\"I am just relieved not to have had my post note in history as the agent who killed Ross Kemp.\"\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported Kemp had wanted to mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in 2022.\n\nKemp has previously taken part in Sky History programmes which involved him deep-sea diving, including Shipwreck Treasure Hunter and Deep Sea Treasure Hunter.\n\nThe US Coast Guard confirmed all five men on board OceanGate's Titan sub were instantly killed in a \"catastrophic implosion\" - a violent inwards collapse, and parts of the vessel were found near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe five people on board were the CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet and father and son, Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood.\n\nLeading deep-sea exploration specialist Rob McCallum told BBC News he had warned Mr Rush in 2018 that he was potentially putting his clients at risk, and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.\n\nIn a tense email exchange seen by the BBC, Mr Rush dismissed safety concerns about the Titan as \"baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone'\", and said he took them \"as a serious personal insult\".", "Ernest Moret was detained by police at London St Pancras International railway station\n\nA French publisher who was arrested using anti-terror laws as he arrived in London will face no further action, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nErnest Moret, 28, was searched under counter-terrorism legislation after travelling from Paris in April, bailed and later released under investigation.\n\nHis employer claimed he was stopped over his alleged involvement in French pension age protests.\n\nScotland Yard said it \"will continue to be as open as possible about our work\".\n\nCmdr Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said Mr Moret had been informed via his solicitors.\n\nHe said: \"We are aware that this police interaction generated a lot of commentary about our use of Schedule 7 powers, and whether it was necessary and proportionate in this case.\n\n\"The public would rightly expect that the use of Counter Terrorism powers is always carefully considered, and we have reflected on this particular interaction so we can identify any learning.\n\n\"Schedule 7 is a valuable power in protecting the borders of the UK and remains an important tool in our efforts to counter the terrorist threat and keep the public safe.\"\n\nSchedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 gives the police wide powers to search people at border crossings to check if they are involved in terrorism.\n\nThe police do not need any grounds to stop and search people at borders under these powers.\n\nMr Moret, who works at Paris-based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was detained after travelling on the Eurostar to St Pancras railway station to attend London Book Fair.\n\nEditions La Fabrique and Verso Books had described the detention as an \"outrageous and unjustifiable infringement\" of freedom of expression and said it was an \"abuse of anti-terrorism laws\".\n\nThey said officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France. The controversial pension changes were signed into law this week.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nWarnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show.\n\nIn messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.\n\nMr Rush responded that he was \"tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation\".\n\nThe tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.\n\n\"I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic,\" he wrote to the OceanGate boss in March 2018. \"In your race to Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'\".\n\nIn the messages, Mr Rush, who was among five passengers who died when the Titan experienced what officials believe was a \"catastrophic implosion\" on Sunday, expresses frustration with the criticism of Titan's safety measures.\n\n\"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often,\" he wrote. \"I take this as a serious personal insult.\"\n\nMr McCallum told the BBC that he repeatedly urged the company to seek certification for the Titan before using it for commercial tours. The vessel was never certified or classed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rob McCallum tells the BBC the deep sea industry tried to halt Titan expeditions\n\n\"Until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations,\" he wrote in one email.\n\n\"I implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very, very conservative,\" he added. \"As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.\"\n\nIn his response a few days later, Mr Rush defended his business and his credentials.\n\nHe said OceanGate's \"engineering focused, innovative approach... flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation\".\n\nThroughout the exchange, Mr Rush defended his qualifications and questioned the existing framework around deep sea expeditions.\n\nHe said \"industry players\" were trying to stop \"new entrants from entering their small existing market\".\n\n\"I am well qualified to understand the risks and issues associated with subsea exploration in a new vehicle,\" he wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nMr McCallum then responded in stark terms, writing: \"It will be sea trials that determine whether the vehicle can handle what you intend to do with it so again; take care and keep safe.\"\n\n\"There is a lot more riding on this than Titan and the Titanic,\" he said.\n\nMr Rush founded OceanGate in 2009 and the company offered customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, including to the wreck of the Titanic, on board Titan for a price of $250,000 (£195,600).\n\nThe company has not commented on the email exchange.\n\nExperts have questioned the safety of Titan and how private sector deep-sea expeditions are regulated. Concerns have been raised over the Titan's experimental design and the carbon fibre material used to build it.\n\nMr McCallum was among more than three dozen industry leaders and experts who signed a 2018 letter to Mr Rush that warned OceanGate's approach could lead to \"catastrophic\" problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Businessman says he declined doomed trip on Titan\n\n\"The industry has been trying for several years to get Stockton Rush to halt his programme for two reasons,\" Mr McCallum, a specialist who runs his own ocean expedition company, told the BBC on Friday.\n\n\"One is that carbon fibre is not an acceptable material,\" he said. \"The other is that this was the only submersible in the world doing commercial work that was unclassed. It was not certified by an independent agency.\"\n\nSubs can be certified or \"classed\" by marine organisations - for example by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) or DNV (a global accreditation organisation based in Norway) or Lloyd's Register.\n\nThis essentially means that the vehicle must meet certain standards on aspects including stability, strength, safety and performance. But this process is not mandatory.\n\nIn a blog post in 2019, the company said the way it had been designed fell outside of the accepted system - but it \"does not mean that OceanGate does not meet standards where they apply.\"\n\n\"Stockton fancied himself as somewhat of a maverick entrepreneur,\" Mr McCallum said. \"He liked to think outside the box, didn't like to be penned in by rules. But there are rules - and then there are sound engineering principles and the laws of physics.\"\n\nMr McCallum maintains that nobody should have travelled in the Titan sub.\n\n\"If you steer away from sound engineering principles, which are all based on hard won experience, there is a price to pay, and it's a terrible price,\" he said. \"So it should never be allowed to happen again. It shouldn't have been allowed to happen this time.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Tributes for murdered police officer Sgt Matiu Ratana have been made after a jury at Northampton Crown Court found Louis De Zoysa guilty of his murder.\n\nThe murdered officer's partner Su Bushby, and Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, spoke to the press outside the court and thanked well-wishers for their support.\n\nSgt Ratana was shot twice by De Zoysa at Croydon Custody Centre in September 2020, using a gun he had concealed under his arm.", "Thousands of rail workers will strike on three days in July as part of a long-running dispute about pay and conditions.\n\nStrikes at 14 rail firms have been called on 20, 22 and 29 July, the RMT union said.\n\nIt said negotiations with rail firms and the government had stalled.\n\nBut train operators said the action was \"totally unnecessary\" and urged the union to put the latest pay offer to its members.\n\nPrevious strikes in the dispute have caused widespread disruption.\n\nUnions are pushing for more pay as the cost of living rises rapidly, but rail firms have said they will not pay more without concessions on conditions.\n\nThe RMT said 20,000 of its members, including guards, train managers and station staff, would walk out after train operators did not make a new offer.\n\nIts general secretary, Mick Lynch, said that train operators and the government had not \"made any attempt whatsoever to arrange any meetings or put forward a decent offer that can help us reach a negotiated solution\".\n\n\"The government continues to shackle the companies and will not allow them to put forward a package that can settle this dispute,\" he added.\n\nThe latest strike dates coincide with sporting events including the fourth and fifth Ashes Tests and the Open golf championship.\n\nUnions say any pay offer should reflect the rising cost of living. Inflation - the pace of general price rises - is at 8.7%.\n\nThe latest pay offer from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) which represents train operators, was a backdated pay rise of 5% for 2022.\n\nUnions would then have to agree to reforms before members could get a second year's pay rise of 4%, negotiated with individual operators.\n\nThe BBC understands that rail operators are willing to negotiate with the RMT, but want the union to put the latest pay offer to its members before taking further action.\n\nThe RDG said more strikes were \"totally unnecessary\", and that all the RMT had achieved was losing its members more money than they would have received from pay offers.\n\n\"We have now made three offers that the RMT executive have blocked without a convincing explanation,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA senior rail source said union members had lost £2,000 of pay through strike action so far.\n\n\"Negotiation has got us nothing. We have compromised on pay, job protections and issues like driver-only trains,\" the source said.\n\n\"Nothing is ever enough, Every one of our offers has been rejected - not even by our staff who have not cast a single vote. No more ransom demands, the industry must change to survive,\" the source added.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the strikes were \"targeting two iconic international sporting events\" and would disrupt families at the beginning of the school holidays in England and Wales.\n\n\"After a year of industrial action, passengers and rail workers alike are growing tired of union bosses playing politics with their lives,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe government has helped train operators put forward \"fair and reasonable pay offers that would see generous increases for rail workers,\" the spokesperson said. \"Union leaders should do the right thing and give their members a chance to vote on these pay offers.\"\n\nThe strikes announcement comes on the day that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said wage rises \"cannot continue\" at the rate they have been if inflation is to come down, reiterating Bank calls for restraint from workers.\n\nThe union's industrial action began a year ago, and last month members voted for another six months of action.\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality said the rail strikes were a \"hammer blow\" for firms including pubs, bars and restaurants.\n\n\"Strike disruption over the past year has already cost the hospitality sector £3.25bn in lost sales and there is no doubt that figure will increase as a result of these strike days,\" said the group's chief executive Kate Nicholls.", "Each year thousands of migrants make the journey from Western Africa to the Canary Islands\n\nMore than 30 migrants may have drowned after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, two charities have said.\n\nWalking Borders and Alarm Phone said the boat was carrying around 60 people.\n\nSpanish authorities said rescue workers found the bodies of a minor and a man, and rescued 24 other people - but did not know how many people were onboard.\n\nThe incident places fresh scrutiny on Europe's response to migration, after a boat sank off Greece last week.\n\nHelena Maleno Garzon, from Walking Borders, said that 39 people had drowned, including four women and a baby, while Alarm Phone said 35 people were missing. Both organisations monitor migrant boats and receive calls from people on board or their relatives.\n\nThe boat sank about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Gran Canaria on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's torture to have 60 people, including six women and a baby, waiting for more than 12 hours for a rescue in a flimsy inflatable boat that can sink,\" Ms Garzon said.\n\nA Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, Reuters reported, citing Spanish state news agency EFE.\n\nThe ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, Reuters reports.\n\nThe BBC has sent a request for comment to Morocco's interior ministry.\n\nAngel Victor Torres, leader of the Canary Islands region, described the incident as a \"tragedy\" and called on the European Union to establish a migration policy that \"offers coordinated and supportive responses\" to the issue of migration.\n\nAlthough off Africa's western coast, the Canary Islands are part of Spain, and many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nIOM said there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledged the figure is \"probably underestimated\" because data is scarce and incomplete.\n\nMost of those making the journey are from Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, it said.\n\nSeparately, Spanish authorities also rescued more than 160 people from three other boats near the islands of Lanzarote and Gran Canaria overnight on Wednesday and Thursday morning.\n\nThe news comes after a migrant boat carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast last week, with at least 78 known to have died, although many more are feared to have drowned.\n\nThe UN's human rights office says that up to 500 people are still missing, and the BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of what happened. The coastguard claims that the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.\n• None Two families united in grief after Greece boat disaster", "The Vietnamese migrants travelled by ferry from Belgium to Purfleet, before the trailer was opened in Grays\n\nA Romanian man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found suffocated in a sealed lorry trailer.\n\nThe victims, including 10 teenagers, were discovered in Essex in 2019.\n\nMarius Mihai Draghici also admitted one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration at a hearing at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 50-year-old was remanded in custody and Judge Richard Marks KC said he would be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDraghici was detained in Romania last August following the execution of a European Arrest Warrant and was extradited to the UK.\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nThe bodies of the 39 people were found in Grays on 23 October 2019, after the lorry had travelled by boat from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet on the Thames estuary.\n\nAn inquest heard their medical cause of death was asphyxia and hyperthermia, as temperatures rose in the back of the sealed lorry container and oxygen levels dropped.\n\nEach of the lorry victims, and their families, had paid significant sums of money to an organised criminal group that promised a better life and safe passage to the UK.\n\nDet Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe said it was \"the most complex investigation ever undertaken by Essex Police\".\n\n\"We have always maintained that the actions we believed Draghici was responsible for could never go unpunished. We now know they will not,\" she added.\n\nPolice said Draghici's role was to be involved in the onward transportation of the migrants once they arrived in the UK.\n\nFour men have been previously jailed over the deaths.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pittville Pump Room is the source of spa water for Cheltenham\n\nCheltenham faces losing its 300-year-old spa status after bacteria made its health-giving water unfit for drinking.\n\nThe public had already been unable to taste the mineral water at Pittville Pump Room since the pandemic ended, while the council and Cheltenham Trust installed a new water system.\n\nHowever, this work has been suspended after bacteria were discovered.\n\nBecause of the problem council chiefs now fear it is unlikely to ever be fit for drinking again.\n\nCheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort after the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nCheltenham Borough Council had been working with the trust to clean the water tank and system, ahead of installation of a new pump, originally in October 2021 but has still not taken place.\n\nAt the time, councillors hoped the water would be available for the public to try in January 2022 - but having found the bacteria they are trying to work out the source.\n\nMax Wilkinson, cabinet member for economic development, culture, tourism and wellbeing, told a meeting: \"If we find the source of the water is contaminated then my understanding is that it is unlikely that the water will ever be made fit for human consumption.\n\n\"If the source is not contaminated, then there may be scope to disinfect the system.\n\n\"However, the UV filters have been cleaned and replaced a number of times, and the system has been disinfected but bacteria were still present.\"\n\nHe explained an alternative option could be to replace the whole system but \"clearly that would come at some cost to local taxpayers\" and if the source was contaminated it would leave the water undrinkable anyway.\n\n\"For clarity, Cheltenham Borough Council is responsible for the building works that may arise and the repairs and maintenance of the system,\" he said.\n\n\"The Cheltenham Trust, which has responsibility for the testing of the spa water, has asked a specialist contractor to undertake a site visit within the next two weeks to review the system condition. That contractor has been asked to supply an options and costs proposal.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None Cafe by heritage spa given 17 months before removal", "A man accused of murdering Metropolitan Police custody sergeant Matiu Ratana was \"thinking very clearly\" before he fired the gun, a jury has heard.\n\nA consultant forensic psychiatrist told Northampton Crown Court Louis De Zoysa showed \"a clear ability to control his actions\" before he shot Sgt Ratana.\n\nDr Nigel Blackwood added he did not believe the 25-year-old had a defence of diminished responsibility.\n\nMr De Zoysa denies murder, telling the court he had not meant to fire the gun.\n\nThe prosecution argues the defendant, from Banstead in Surrey, \"pulled the trigger on purpose four times\" while he was handcuffed in a holding room at Croydon custody centre on 25 September 2020.\n\nLouis De Zoysa used a whiteboard and pen to help him communicate in court\n\nAppearing as an expert witness for the Crown, Dr Blackwood told the court he did not believe Mr De Zoysa was hyperventilating during footage showing him inside a police van.\n\n\"He takes a physically deep breath on a couple of occasions. He clearly requests an appropriate adult, mentioning his vulnerability, and he asks for the duty solicitor,\" he said.\n\n\"This is clearly somebody that is thinking ahead to the police station.\"\n\nDr Blackwood continued: \"He is not in a hyper-aroused state unable to think clearly, he is thinking very clearly and logically in that moment.\n\n\"He answers police questions appropriately - there is nothing in that series of interactions (with police officers) that, because of his autism, he is struggling to understand.\"\n\nThe consultant forensic psychiatrist went on to tell the court he had interviewed Mr De Zoysa on four occasions and found him to be highly intelligent.\n\nHe said he did not think there was any relationship between the defendant's autism and his decision not to tell officers he was carrying a hidden gun.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny KC also asked the expert witness for his view of defence suggestions that Mr De Zoysa's use of the gun was \"uncontrolled and impulsive\".\n\nDr Blackwood answered: \"I don't think that emerges from the evidence that we have.\n\n\"He demonstrated a clear ability to control his actions. He retrieves the gun, has it in his hand, has time to consider what he is going to do with it, and then discharges it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows arrest and detention of Louis De Zoysa and moment before Sgt Ratana was shot (warning: contains some violence)\n\nDuring cross-examination, Imran Khan KC asked Dr Blackwood about a comment made by Mr De Zoysa about a \"need for personal space\", which the defence claims shows the \"trigger\" for the alleged meltdown.\n\nMr Khan asked Dr Blackwood if it had surprised him an autistic meltdown had been suggested by a separate consultant forensic psychiatrist, called on by the defence.\n\nDr Blackwood responded: \"When you look at all the evidence in the round, yes it did.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Saltmarsh was over the alcohol limit when he ran a red light and killed a married couple\n\nA drink-driver who killed a married couple in a hit-and-run has been jailed for more than 11 years.\n\nWendy and David Gay, from Caerphilly, were run over by Michael Saltmarsh, 48, in his van as they crossed at a pedestrian crossing.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard that Saltmarsh, of Station Road, Caerphilly, was over the legal alcohol limit and speeding.\n\nHe was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison.\n\nHe was also disqualified from driving for 14 years and three months.\n\nSaltmarsh pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, as well as failing to stop after a road traffic collision and driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the limit.\n\nFollowing the crash on Nantgarw Road, Caerphilly, at about 19:50 on 17 March, Saltmarsh's partner rang the police after she found a handbag on the \"mangled\" bonnet of his van.\n\nAndrew Davies, prosecuting, told the court that Mrs Gay, 67, and Mr Gay, 58, were hit on a pelican crossing.\n\nSaltmarsh drove through a red light and had 46 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, when the legal limit is 35.\n\nIn a statement read in court, eyewitness Christine Crothers said conditions were dark, it was raining heavily and the couple were halfway across the road when they were struck.\n\nSaltmarsh was driving at between 37mph (60km/h) and 52 mph (84km/h) in a 30mph (48km/h) zone.\n\nMrs Crothers said she saw a body on the floor about 45ft (13.7m) away from the lights and what she thought was a coat on the floor.\n\nShe approached the man on the floor, who asked: \"Where is my wife?\".\n\nShe then realised the coat was the body of Mrs Gay, who died at the scene. Mr Gay died in hospital three days later.\n\nMembers of the public went to help the pair after they were struck.\n\nThe collision happened outside The Station Inn pub on Nantgarw Road in Caerphilly\n\nSaltmarsh took a call from his partner before the hit-and-run who asked if he had been drinking.\n\nWhen the father-of-two said he had been at the pub after work, she he told him: \"You're pathetic\", and hung up.\n\nSaltmarsh, who already had two convictions for drink-driving in 2001 and 2006, returned home and told his partner he thought he might have hit something.\n\nShe checked the Vauxhall Vivero van and found a damaged windscreen, bumper and bonnet, as well as a handbag hanging off the front.\n\nMrs Gay's son Adam Lawrence, said: \"Mum was always there for me. David and Mum had been together for 15 years. They were soulmates they had so much to live for.\n\n\"They have been robbed of their lives by the reckless actions of this driver.\"\n\nChery Hamm, Mrs Gay's best friend of 35 years, described her as \"her rock\" and said the couple \"had so much to live for and should be enjoying their life together\".\n\nMr Gay's older sister, Valerie Thomas, said the couple's deaths had caused \"unimaginable pain\" to their families.\n\nKevin Seal, defending Saltmarsh, said his client was remorseful and should be given full credit for pleading guilty to the charges against him.\n\nJudge Paul Hobson told Saltmarsh: \"You were in no fit state to be behind the wheel. In your own words you say you'd had four or five pints.\n\n\"It was selfish and irresponsible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: James Cameron told the BBC he \"felt in his bones\" what happened to the sub\n\nHollywood film director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 movie Titanic, has told the BBC the team who built the submersible which imploded with the loss of five lives had \"cut corners\".\n\nOceanGate, the parent company of the Titan sub, \"didn't get certified because they knew they wouldn't pass\".\n\n\"I was very suspect of the technology that they were using. I wouldn't have gotten in that sub,\" he said.\n\nCameron has completed 33 submersible dives to the Titanic wreck.\n\nTitan was built from carbon fibre and titanium.\n\nIn 2012 Cameron used a different technology for the Deepsea Challenger submersible expedition in the Pacific, which took him down to 10,912m (35,800ft), the deepest known oceanic trench.\n\nThe Titanic wreck is 3,810m (12,500ft) down.\n\nCameron said that when he learned the sub had lost both its navigation and communication at the same time he immediately suspected a disaster.\n\n\"I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously - sub's gone.\"\n\nHe said that on Monday, when he heard the sub had gone missing, \"I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community.\n\n\"Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3,500 metres (11,483ft), heading for the bottom at 3,800 metres.\n\n\"Their comms were lost, and navigation was lost - and I said instantly, you can't lose comms and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event or high, highly energetic catastrophic event. And the first thing that popped to mind was an implosion.\"\n\nOn Thursday, an official from the US Navy told the BBC's partner CBS News that the navy had detected \"an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion\" shortly after the Titan lost contact with the surface.\n\nThe official said the information had been relayed to the US Coast Guard team, which used it to narrow the radius of the search area.\n\nCameron suggested that there was a \"terrible irony\" in the loss of Titan and its crew, likening it to the loss of the Titanic itself back in 1912.\n\n\"We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings,\" he said. \"OceanGate were warned.\"\n\nCameron said that some within the deep submergence community, not including himself directly, had written a letter to OceanGate saying they believed, in his words, \"you are going on a path to catastrophe\".\n\nA letter sent to OceanGate by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in March 2018 and obtained by the New York Times stated \"the current 'experimental' approach adopted by OceanGate... could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)\".\n\nSeparately, US court documents show a former employee of OceanGate warned of potential safety problems with the vessel as far back as 2018.\n\nThe documents show that David Lochridge, the company's director of marine operations, raised concerns in an inspection report.\n\nBut the co-founder of OceanGate insisted however that Titan had undergone rigorous testing.\n\nGuillermo Sohnlein, who left the company 10 years ago, told the BBC that the 14-year development programme had been \"very robust\".\n\n\"Any expert who weighs in on this, including Mr Cameron, will also admit that they were not there for the design of the sub, for the engineering of the sub, the building of the sub and certainly not for the rigorous test programme that the sub went through.\"\n\nThe Titan sub was not certified, but then this is not mandatory.\n\nIn a blog post about it in 2019, the company said the way that Titan had been designed fell outside the accepted system - but it \"does not mean that OceanGate does not meet standards where they apply\".\n\nIt added that the classification agencies \"slowed down innovation… bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation\".\n\nCameron told BBC News the past week had \"felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff\".\n\n\"I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That's exactly where they found it,\" he continued.\n\nHe said anyone venturing to the Titanic wreck should be fully aware of the risks, as \"it's a very dangerous site\".\n\n\"Agree to those risks, but don't be in a situation where you haven't been told about the risks of the actual platform that you're diving in there.\n\n\"In the 21st Century, there shouldn't be any risks. We've managed to make it through 60 years, from 1960 until today, 63 years without a fatality... So, you know, one of the saddest aspects of this is how preventable it really was.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It's getting late here in London, but for thousands of revellers at Worthy Farm, the night is just beginning.\n\nAs one of our reporters at Glastonbury said, it's hard to fathom how huge the crowd was at a dairy farm in Somerset as the weekend's performances got under way.\n\nArctic Monkeys, the headliners, didn't disappoint, and neither did a \"surprise\" return from US rockers Foo Fighters on the main stage. But the other stages were packed with outstanding performances too, from Kelis to Wizkid and Carly Rae Jepsen to Texas.\n\nYou can read a full review of Friday's performances from our music correspondent Mark Savage here. And for those of you in the UK, you can watch all the acts back on BBC iPlayer, where the festival will be streamed all weekend.\n\nToday's coverage was brought to you by myself, Aoife Walsh, Ece Goksedef and Andre Rhoden-Paul in London, as well as our reporters in Glastonbury.\n\nGuns N' Roses, Elton John, Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Lewis Capaldi are just a few of the stars lined up on Saturday and Sunday, and we hope you can join us again as we bring you the latest from the festival. Until then, it's goodnight from us, thanks for following along.", "Heathrow airport security staff have called off strikes after voting to accept a pay offer.\n\nAround 2,000 members of the Unite union were due to strike on 29 days throughout summer.\n\nUnite staff at the airport had already said they would postpone industrial action on 24 and 25 June.\n\nThe union said that workers had voted to accept a pay increase worth between 15.5% and 17.5% depending on their band.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said: \"We are pleased to confirm Unite members have voted to accept a two-year above-inflation pay deal, ending the current dispute and allowing the strikes to be called off.\n\n\"We can now move forward together and focus on delivering an excellent summer for our passengers.\"\n\nStrikes during the summer period when many UK schools are on a break would potentially have been disruptive and led to queues at airport security.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said it was a \"hard won victory\".\n\nThe offer includes a 10% increase in pay - backdated to January - rising to 11.5% in October, and an increase in line with inflation in 2024, with a minimum uplift of 4%. Unite said that \"spot rates, salary ranges and formal pay progression will increase when the pay increase is implemented\".\n\nUnite added the deal also included improved maternity and paternity benefits.\n\nEarlier in June, Heathrow security officers at Terminals 3 and 5 said they would walk out for 31 days in the summer after turning down a pay offer of 10.1%, which they said was \"below inflation\".\n\nInflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index is now at 8.7%, but another measure - the Retail Prices Index - stood at 11.3% in the year to May.\n\nWorkers in several industries across the UK have been taking industrial action, mainly over demands for pay to stay in line with the soaring cost of living.\n\nExtensive walkouts by rail staff have continued since 2022, and industrial action has also led to walkouts by those including nurses, junior doctors, Border Force staff and civil servants.\n\nUnite regional co-ordinating officer Wayne King said: \"The solidarity and dedication of Unite's reps and members was fundamental in ensuring HAL [Heathrow Airport] returned to the negotiating table with an improved offer\".\n\nHeathrow security staff working at Terminal 5 had walked out for 10 days in April during the Easter holiday period, although the airport said it had suffered \"minimal\" disruption.", "The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has vowed to \"go all the way\" to topple Russia's military leadership, hours after the Kremlin accused him of \"armed rebellion\".\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin said his Wagner fighters had crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia, entering the city of Rostov-on-Don.\n\nMr Prigozhin said his men would destroy anyone who stood in their way.\n\nThe local governor urged citizens there to keep calm and stay indoors.\n\nMr Prigozhin claimed that his forces had shot down a Russian military helicopter that \"opened fire on a civilian convoy\". He did not give a location and the assertion could not be immediately verified.\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nTension has been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Mr Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.\n\nOn Friday, the 62-year-old mercenary leader accused the military of launching a deadly missile strike on his troops and vowed to punish them. He did not provide evidence.\n\nAuthorities have denied the strike and demanded he halt his \"illegal actions\".\n\nMr Prigozhin said the \"evil\" in Russia's military leadership must be stopped and vowed to \"march for justice\".\n\n\"Those who killed our lads, and tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers [in the war in Ukraine] will be punished,\" he said in an audio message posted to the social media platform Telegram.\n\n\"I ask you not to resist. Anyone who does will be considered a threat and destroyed. That goes for any checkpoints and aviation on our way.\n\n\"Presidential power, the government, the police and Russian guard will work as usual.\n\n\"This is not a military coup, but a march of justice. Our actions do not interfere with the troops in any way.\"\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin is receiving round-the-clock updates on the situation, his spokesman said.\n\nSecurity in Moscow was stepped up on Friday night at prime locations in Moscow, including government buildings and transport facilities, Russia's state-owned news agency TASS said.\n\nThe governor of Russia's Lipetsk region is also asking residents not to travel south.\n\nLipetsk is around 280km (175 miles) north-east of the nearest Ukrainian border, and more than 500km north of Rostov.\n\nWriting on Telegram, Igor Artamonov said security measures in the region are being tightened, with a particular focus on protecting critical infrastructure facilities.\n\nIn a tweet late on Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said simply: \"We are watching.\"\n\nThe White House said it was monitoring the situation and would consult with US allies.\n\nGen Sergei Surovikin, the deputy head of the Russian forces in Ukraine, whose leadership Mr Prigozhin has praised in the past, called on him to \"stop the convoys and return them to their bases\".\n\n\"We are of one blood, we are warriors,\" he said in a video. \"You mustn't play into the enemy's hands at a time that is difficult for our country.\"\n\nAnother senior commander, Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev, described the Wagner chief's actions as \"a stab in the back of the country and the president\".\n\nMr Prigozhin has been openly critical of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu\n\nRussian state media reported that the FSB, Russia's security service, has opened a criminal case against Mr Prigozhin, accusing him of \"calling for an armed rebellion\" and attempting to start armed civil conflict in Russia.\n\nThe FSB also reportedly called on Wagner fighters to disobey his orders and to take steps to apprehend him.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said in a statement that \"all reports by Prigozhin spread on social media\" of Russian strikes on Wagner camps were \"not true and are an information provocation\".\n\nIt comes after a video message in May in which Mr Prigozhin stood surrounded by the bodies of his troops and berated Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu - as well as Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - for not providing them with enough ammunition.\n\nOn Friday, he declared that the war in Ukraine had been started \"so that Shoigu could become a Marshal\".\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president and tell a story that there was some crazy aggression by Ukraine, that - together with the whole Nato bloc - Ukraine was planning to attack us,\" he said.", "Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent \"silent\" 999 calls.\n\nThe Emergency SOS feature calls when a side button is pressed repeatedly.\n\nPolice chiefs have said they think it is part of the reason for record numbers of 999 calls.\n\nGoogle, which develops the most widely used Android phone software, says it expects manufacturers to issue updates to address the problem.\n\nSmartphones that run on Android operating systems include Samsung's Galaxy, Google's Pixel and OnePlus handsets.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said the new update to Android software \"added a new SOS emergency function for devices to call 999 through the power button being pressed five times or more\".\n\n\"Nationally, all emergency services are currently experiencing record high 999 call volumes. There's a few reasons for this, but one we think is having a significant impact is an update to Android smartphones.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said silent calls took 20 minutes to deal with. They urged people who accidentally dialled 999 to stay on the line and tell the operator it was a mistake.\n\nThe force told the BBC it had received 169 silent 999 calls between 00:00 and 19:00 BST on Sunday alone.\n\nPolice Scotland said BT had reported \"a significant increase in accidental calls to 999\".\n\nWhile the feature was included in Android 12 in 2021, many have reported particular issues since the update to Android 13 last year.\n\nGuidance on how to disable the feature can be found on manufacturers' websites, with most handsets allowing users to turn off the emergency SOS call option in their settings.\n\nThis can typically be accessed by visiting safety and emergency options in settings and tapping the Emergency SOS toggle to \"off\", or by searching for \"emergency call\" in settings.\n\nThe problem is not confined to the UK. At the start of June, the European Emergency Number Association warned that it had been alerted by some of its members to a \"surge in automatic false calls originating from Android devices\".\n\nA Google spokesperson told the BBC it was up to manufacturers who choose to offer Emergency SOS on their devices to manage how the feature worked on their phones.\n\n\"To help these manufacturers prevent unintentional emergency calls on their devices, Android is providing them with additional guidance and resources,\" they said.\n\n\"We anticipate device manufacturers will roll out updates to their users that address this issue shortly. Users that continue to experience this issue should switch Emergency SOS off for the next couple of days.\"", "US President Joe Biden hailed US-India ties, while rolling out the pomp and pageantry for visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.\n\nThis included marching bands, a lavish vegetarian dinner and a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House.\n\nMr Modi, who is on a state visit, also addressed the US Congress, where he received a standing ovation.\n\nThe US, which denied a visa to Mr Modi over human rights concerns before he was PM, now sees him as a crucial ally.\n\nWashington has long viewed India as a counterbalance to China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific, although Delhi has never been fully comfortable with owning the tag.\n\nWhen addressing Congress, Mr Modi did not mention China by name, although he mentioned \"dark clouds of coercion and confrontation casting their shadow over the Indo-Pacific\".\n\nMr Modi also did not mention Russia or who started the war, saying instead, \"With the Ukraine conflict, war has returned to Europe\".\n\nIndia has so far not directly criticised Russia, which analysts say is largely due to its huge dependency on Russian defence and oil imports and its \"time-tested ties\" with Moscow.\n\nThis has strained relations between Washington and Delhi but Mr Biden chose to focus on the positive, saying ties between the two countries were stronger than ever. He went as far as to call it \"one of the defining relationships of the 21st Century\".\n\nMr Modi agreed, telling the US Congress that this was a coming together of the world's two great democracies. He also said that the friendship between the two countries would be \"instrumental in enhancing the strength of the whole world\".\n\nHe added that a \"new chapter\" had been added to the two countries' comprehensive and global-strategic partnership.\n\nMr Modi addressed the US Congress on Thursday\n\nHowever, not everyone was celebrating.\n\nThe Indian prime minister has come under increasing criticism for cracking down on dissent. His Hindu nationalist government too has been accused of not doing enough to protect minorities from violence and discrimination. But even as Mr Modi's visit to the US has seen protests, it has also been welcomed by a large and influential diaspora that includes many Silicon Valley CEOs.\n\nA number of liberal Democrats, however, boycotted his speech at Congress. Among them was representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said on Twitter that state visits - the highest diplomatic protocol in the US - should not be offered to individuals with \"deeply troubling human rights records\".\n\nApart from the pomp and parades, there was also progress on the trade front.\n\nThe two countries agreed to terminate six outstanding disputes at the World Trade Organization, and announced deals with General Electric and Micron.\n\nMr Modi also took the rare step of answering questions from reporters - something he has almost never done since becoming India's prime minister in 2014.\n\nWhen asked about human rights concerns in India, he said \"democracy runs in our veins\" and there is \"absolutely no space for discrimination\" in India, even as protesters gathered outside the White House to oppose his visit.", "Shoppers have been splashing out on new outfits and other items for enjoying the summer weather, boosting sales overall, latest retail figures show.\n\nAfter the sun came out in the second half of May, sales volumes rose by a stronger than expected 0.3%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nOnline retailers and garden centres did particularly well, the ONS said.\n\nFuel sales also rose compared to April, but people bought less food as prices continued to rise.\n\n\"Retail sales grew a little in May, with online shops doing particularly well selling outdoor goods and summer clothes, as the sun began to shine,\" Heather Bovill, senior statistician at the ONS said.\n\n\"Garden centres and DIY stores also saw growth, as the good weather encouraged people to start home and garden improvements.\"\n\nFood sales fell 0.5% in May. As well as price pressures, that could be due to the extra bank holiday last month, the ONS said, as more people ordered takeaways or went to the pub.\n\nOverall consumers are still buying slightly less than they were before the pandemic. But because prices have risen, they are spending significantly more in total.\n\nPrices are still rising, although inflation - the rate at which they are going up - has eased from over 10% at the start of the year to 8.7% in May.\n\nOn Thursday, the Bank of England put interest rates up by half a percentage point to 5% in an attempt to dampen demand and bring down prices. Interest rates have been rising since December 2021 but that does not yet seem to be having a big impact on consumer spending.\n\n\"Retail sales in the UK were stronger than expected which may partly justify the jumbo-sized interest rate increase from the Bank of England,\" said Neil Birrell, chief investment officer at Premier Miton Investors.\n\n\"It's hard to believe that tighter policy won't start having a significant impact sooner rather than later, meaning the consumer will react accordingly.\"\n\nThe online and High Street chocolate chain, Hotel Chocolat, issued a profit warning on Friday saying it expected to make a loss this year and lower than expected profits in 2024.\n\nThe firm blamed \"ongoing weakness in consumer sentiment and continuing inflationary pressures\" for the shift.", "Molly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 after viewing harmful online content while suffering depression\n\nThe government has agreed to give coroners and bereaved families new powers to access information on their loved ones held by tech companies.\n\nThe pledge came during a House of Lords debate on the Online Safety Bill.\n\nCulture minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said the amendments to the bill would make accessing data \"more straightforward and humane\".\n\nIan Russell, whose daughter Molly ended her life after viewing harmful content online, said it was \"really important\".\n\nThe Online Safety Bill was introduced in March under Boris Johnson, and has been repeatedly altered during its passage through Parliament.\n\nAs it moved towards being passed, the bill went through a final day of scrutiny by a committee in the House of Lords.\n\nDuring the committee hearing crossbench peer Baroness Kidron called for legal powers to request information from Facebook and other \"service providers\", which could be relevant to the death of a child who had used their platform.\n\nIn response, culture minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay announced a \"package of amendments\" to ensure \"coroners have access to the expertise and information that they need in order to conduct their investigations, including information held by technology companies, regardless of size\".\n\nLord Parkinson added: \"This includes information about how a child interacted with specific content online as well as the role of wider systems and processes, such as algorithms, in promoting it.\"\n\nSeveral parents of children who lost their children as a result of online harms were in the public gallery in the Lords during the debate, including Mr Russell.\n\nMr Russell said of the announcement: \"It's absolutely vital if we're to learn lessons\"\n\nMr Russell, from Harrow in north-west London, described the plans as \"the first major concession that the government's really given in this process\".\n\n\"It's absolutely vital if we're to learn lessons and find out how to make this great and fantastic digital world safer for everyone, and particularly children, to use,\" he said.\n\n\"What we have to do is let digital platforms bring their benefits with them but protect people from the harms that they contain.\"\n\nLorin LeFave was one of the parents in the public gallery while the bill was being discussed in the House of Lords\n\nLorin LeFave, whose son Breck Bednar, 14, was groomed and murdered by someone he met online said the progress had been \"very positive\".\n\n\"The speeches were supportive and the interactions were going in the right direction, so I'm hoping of all hopes that this bill will be all that it can be,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want to have to live with the online world being the wild west any longer, I want just to be able to tame it and to make sure our children are safer online.\"\n\nSpeaking after the announcement, Baroness Kidron said: \"It's not a victorious moment because it's so tragic that we've had to fight this hard, that so many families have hit the wall of 'computer says no' when they're in such grief and extremis.\n\n\"The minister said that the government would make a coroner's notice an equivalent of an Ofcom information notice - all of the powers of Ofcom will indeed go to the coroner in effect.\"\n\nShe added this would include powers to fine companies and hold managers responsible.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 June.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nElaine Wilson, of Lasswade, took this picture of the Dalkeith Arts Moos by artist M Bitici.\n\nSally Williams said of this shot: \"Here’s a photo taken from our front door today, looking towards Kilmaluag. The rain finally arrives in style after weeks of sunny weather on the Isle of Skye.\"\n\nRichard McKay, of Tornagrain, said heather provided the perfect foreground for her picture overlooking Loch Nevis in Knoydart.\n\nHazel Thomson, of Elgin, said of her picture: \"A warm summer’s evening and a gorgeous sunset over Portmahomack harbour.\"\n\nAllan Masson said he made an early ascent of Sgùrr nan Eag to avoid the heat of the day and to capture morning mist on the hills of Kintail.\n\nBob Smart, of Dunfermline, said his family had a great day out at Thirlistane Castle for a Borders Vintage Automobile Club meeting. Bob said the event's cycle stunt team was \"awesome\".\n\nMorag Cordiner, of Peterhead, said: \"I saw these sheep on the rocks at Fionnphort when I was waiting for the ferry to Iona. It's almost as if the big one is shouting 'Hurry up or we'll miss the ferry' to his pals lower down.\"\n\nGeorge Carson, who lives in Greenock, said of his picture: \"While out on a cruise on an old school friend's boat I took a few photos of the Cloch Lighthouse at Gourock. It is lovely to see the Lighthouse from the Clyde.\"\n\nGraham Paton's image was taken from South Queensferry. He said: \"These long sunny evenings make for some great sunsets.\"\n\nGraham Ferguson took a ramble across the long rickety bridge through Aberlady nature reserve on his way to locating the wrecks of World War Two XT midget submarines on Gullane sands.\n\n\"Anyone for chess by the pond in the grounds of Glenapp Castle?\" asks Helen Baird, of Greenock.\n\nKenny Bray, from Bearsden, said he came across this beautiful display of lupins with Crathes Castle in the background while on a road trip of NTS properties in Aberdeenshire.\n\nLaura Hynes, of Amsterdam, took this picture of a geological feature called a hexagonal basalt wheel at Mull's Ardmeanach Peninsula. Laura said: \"My partner and I visited Mull and were hiking to the fossil tree just further along the peninsula.\"\n\nGavin Blainey, of Oban, sent in this shot. Gavin said: \"This tree sits on the Ganavan Road, near Oban. It's fantastically striking during the right conditions.\"\n\nPat Christie captured this picture of Noctilucent clouds over North Berwick harbour at 02:00 in the morning. Pat said: \"So beautiful.\"\n\nLorna Donaldson's photo of perfect reflections of Dumyat on Airthrey Loch, Stirling.\n\nDerek McEwan took this shot. He said: \"Looking into Sgarasta Mhòr Beach from Harris Golf Club on the Isle of Harris.\"\n\nA picture from Michaela Cunningham, of Ayr, looking down Loch Leven.\n\nGillian Leary took this image while doing steps for a charity fundraising effort. She said: \"I chose to go up Berwick Law as part of my challenge. It was made all the more easier when I caught sight of the ponies.\"\n\nJohnny MacLeod's shot of Summer Solstice dawn at St Abbs Head Lighthouse. Johnny said the view was well worth a 02:00 alarm call and two-hour drive from Kennoway, Fife.\n\nAlex Leddy came across this tree washed up on Blackdog beach, near Aberdeen. Alex said: \"I think It looks like the skeleton of a whale or another large creature.\"\n\nCalum Goodfellow, from Elgin, said of his picture: \"A view of the Torridon Hills from the summit of Maol Chean-Dearg.\"\n\nGraham Christie said of this shot: \"The view over Arrochar Jetty and Loch Long looking north.\"\n\nGemma Brown, from Insch, took this picture on a camping trip to Beauly. She said the level of the River Farrar was really low.\n\nLauren McKinnon's picture of mist rising under the sunset from South Calder Water after the downpour that delayed Tuesday's Scotland vs Georgia game at Hampden.\n\nLooking at Bridgend over the Perth Old Bridge in a picture taken by Brian Johnston while he walked along Tay Street.\n\nDerek Bremner's picture of the Whaligoe Steps, south of Wick.\n\nOllie, a golden retriever from Inverkip, concludes the latest gallery. He was on his holidays in Skipness and was pictured by Lorraine Watters.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Teng Biao was a prominent human rights lawyer in China, known for challenging abuses of power by the Communist Party\n\nExiled Chinese human rights activist Teng Biao has apologised to a female journalist in Taiwan as the MeToo movement picks up momentum there.\n\nThe woman claims Mr Teng tried to rape her during a work-related trip in 2016. This week, Mr Teng said the rape allegations were baseless but apologised.\n\nHe said the encounter was a \"clumsy courtship\" and not an attack.\n\nMr Teng left mainland China in 2012 and has been living in the US since 2014.\n\nThe Taiwanese journalist, who prefers to not be named, says Mr Teng lunged at her in a hotel room in India in 2016.\n\nShe told the BBC that she had needed to extend her stay after the official schedule finished, and Mr Teng offered her a room that he claimed was already paid by some acquaintances who had left earlier than planned.\n\nShe alleges that when she entered the room, she had found Mr Teng sitting there.\n\n\"He lunged at me multiple times, I pushed him away. He then came at me again while I walked to the door so I withdrew to the corner,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I said 'don't you come, or I'll scream'. He didn't want others to hear so he had to let me go,\" she added.\n\nIn an email reply to the BBC, Mr Teng said he had “strong evidence that [shows] a rape attempt accusation is baseless\" although he didn't elaborate. Mr Teng resigned from two human rights groups after issuing the apology.\n\nThe journalist says that she had asked him to apologise publicly after the incident. She added that Mr Teng had agreed to do so, but several of their mutual acquaintances asked her to stop pursuing a public apology as they feared it would give other people a chance to discredit their work on human rights.\n\n\"The organiser of the trip asked me 'why are you giving me trouble'?\" she recounts. \"It made me feel ashamed.\"\n\nThe latest wave of MeToo allegations in Taiwan made her realise \"the wound is not healed\", she added.\n\nSo she reached out to Mr Teng two weeks ago asking for a public apology, which prompted him to put out a statement on Wednesday.\n\nThe statement, posted to Twitter and Facebook, stated that Mr Teng was \"extremely guilty\" for the damage she suffered.\n\n\"I have apologised to her many times privately and I will further make an apology publicly today: Sorry, I hurt you,\" it added.\n\nHe further said that to his memory he didn't lunge at her or stop her from leaving the room.\n\nA prominent human rights lawyer in China, Mr Teng was known for challenging abuses of power by the Communist Party. He was also formerly a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law.\n\nHe was detained for 70 days in 2011, and left mainland China in 2012. He previously said he didn't dare return because of the Chinese government's crackdown on human rights.\n\nNow in the US, he has been vocal about China's suppression of human rights issues. According to his Twitter account, Mr Teng is now the Hauser Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College of City University of New York and Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.\n\nThe MeToo movement has spread across Taiwanese society since late May, with more than 140 allegations being made against people including politicians, doctors, professors and celebrities.\n\nProminent Tiananmen protest leader Wang Dan was among those accused. He denied sexual assault allegations from two young men earlier this month. One of those men has launched a lawsuit alleging rape. Mr Wang has resigned from a faculty position, and said he will return to Taiwan from the US to fight the case.\n\nEarlier this week, famous TV show host Mickey Huang Tzu-Chiao was admitted to hospital with self-inflicted injuries after apologising to his accuser over an Instagram livestream session. He has reportedly been discharged and is currently stable.", "Germany's labour market has a shortage of hundreds of thousands of skilled workers\n\nWhile other countries are trying to restrict migration, the German parliament has passed a radical new law to attract migrant workers to Germany.\n\nThat means less red tape and lower hurdles for migrant workers from outside the European Union.\n\nA Canada-style points-based system will take into account age, skills, qualifications and any link to Germany.\n\nCriteria will be lowered for salary, educational level and German language ability.\n\nThis would make it easier for migrants to come to Germany with, or even without, a job offer. Incentives include being able to bring not only spouse and children, but also parents.\n\nThis is a major shift in policy for Germany. For decades German governments have resisted the idea that Germany is a country of migration.\n\nThe first generation of so-called \"guest workers\" from Turkey in the 1960s were seen as exactly that: \"guests\" who were supposed to help the economy and then leave.\n\nConservative-led governments in particular, including Angela Merkel's administration, struggled with the idea of a society open to migrant workers - despite the fact German society is increasingly diverse. More than a quarter of the population in Germany is either foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent.\n\nAfter years of low unemployment German business leaders are sounding the alarm about the lack of workers. The problem is exacerbated by an ageing population: baby-boomers born in the 1960s will soon start heading for retirement.\n\nMinisters warn that millions of job vacancies already need filling, and describe the labour shortage as the biggest risk facing the German economy.\n\nWhen Olaf Scholz's centre-left Social Democrat SPD party beat Mrs Merkel's conservatives in 2021, the new SPD-Green-liberal coalition made easing migration rules one of its flagship policies.\n\nThis coalition has been plagued by rows between the Greens and the business-friendly liberals over climate change policies. But both parties do agree on migration: the liberals want workers for the economy; the Greens more human rights in migration policy.\n\nBut Friday's parliamentary debate about the law was ferocious. Conservatives voted against the bill, outraged that the new law would allow some rejected asylum seekers already here to find work.\n\nThe far-right AfD also voted no, saying that Germany was not a country of \"immigration\" but rather a \"homeland\", reflecting the party's increasingly nativist view of what it means to be German.\n\nThe AfD does not reflect mainstream society's view that Germany needs migrant workers. But despite this, or maybe because of it, the party is reaching unprecedented numbers in the polls.\n\nIn the latest ARD Deutschland Trend, the party reached 19% this week, the highest it has ever scored in this poll. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD party has slumped to 17%.\n\nThe political climate in Germany is polarised and febrile when it comes to migration. The government wants it, the economy needs it and parliament has now voted for it. But will all voters accept it?", "Prof Chris Whitty has been a key government adviser during the pandemic\n\nThreats to independent experts during the pandemic could undermine responses to disasters in the future, Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned.\n\nGiving evidence to the Covid public inquiry, England's chief medical officer, Sir Chris, said abuse and threats aimed at experts had been \"extremely concerning\".\n\nIn January 2022, a man was jailed for eight weeks after he accosted Sir Chris in a London park.\n\nDuring the hearings into the two men the courts were told how one man, Jonathan Chew, 24, started filming Sir Chris on his phone while another, Lewis Hughes, also 24, grabbed him in a headlock.\n\nThe footage, lasting about 20 seconds, was widely shared on social media and showed the pair jeering as Sir Chris attempted to break free.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer was not injured in the attack during the summer of 2021.\n\nAs well as the incident, Sir Chris and others have reported being abused on social media, as well as being shouted at in public.\n\nSir Chris told the inquiry: \"We should be very firm in saying that society very much appreciates the work of these people [experts and scientists], who put in considerable amounts of time.\"\n\nHe said it was often provided without pay and also noted how universities were becoming stricter about releasing their academics.\n\nInquiry chair Baroness Hallett said she was \"astonished and sorry\" about what had happened.\n\nAfter Sir Chris had finished giving evidence on Thursday into how well prepared the UK was for the pandemic, she said: \"It's wrong for so many reasons, but I do know how distressing it can be.\n\n\"I hope that people will think twice but of course they never do before committing themselves to distressing acts unnecessarily.\n\n\"There are so many different ways to express different opinion. Why do we have to have personal abuse?\"\n\nDuring the rest of his evidence, Sir Chris said one of the key weaknesses the UK faced was the inability to scale up testing quickly.\n\nAnd he described the national lockdown as the \"very big new idea\" of the Covid pandemic and \"very radical thing to do\".\n\n\"It was an extraordinarily major, social intervention with huge economic and social ramifications.\"\n\nSir Chris also defended the government scientific advisory group Sage, which he co-chaired during the pandemic, after suggestions there was not enough diversity of thought within the group.\n\nThere were no economic or social experts for example.\n\nBut Sir Chris said it would have been too \"unwieldly\" if a range of different experts were added to it.\n\nInstead, he said the economic and societal consequences of responding to a pandemic should be done separately through a different mechanism.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, said it was a \"regret\" that during the pandemic it often took a long period of time for Sage research to be published.\n\n\"I believe that scientific advice should be made public - that's beneficial for everybody,\" he said.\n\nHe added it should always be open to \"scrutiny, comment and challenge\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steve Apelt is travelling across the site on his custom-made novelty bike\n\nGlastonbury veterans who have attended for more than four decades say the festival has not lost its magic.\n\nSteve Apelt, 60, from Chiselborough, Somerset, has been a regular since the early 1980s and first went to Glastonbury aged 21.\n\nHe said he had watched the festival go from \"chaotic\" to \"the most beautiful thing on the planet\".\n\nPat Rogers, 73, who has attended since the 1970s said he still finds \"there's so much to see at Glastonbury\".\n\nMr Apelt said: \"It went through that time when it was a festival when everyone was jumping the fence, and it all became a bit chaotic, to now, which is the most beautiful thing on the planet.\n\n\"Last night, we spent hours just walking around and every corner that you turn there's something else that's so innovative, beautiful, pretty and so many people just love it for that.\"\n\nMr Apelt described the festival as \"the most beautiful thing on the planet\"\n\nHGV driver Ben Rogers, 46, from Wells, who first came to Glastonbury aged one, said it is \"simply the greatest show on earth\".\n\n\"Many say it's too commercial now, but for me, it's still kept that incredible vibe and atmosphere you simply can't explain to anyone who hasn't been,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone comes and instantly embraces - it's impossible not to,\" he added.\n\nDancers from the Notting Hill Carnival are among this year's performers\n\nMr Rogers, a retired car technician, said variety is what sets the festival apart.\n\n\"You don't just turn up for the groups and go home, there's so much to see at Glastonbury,\" Mr Rogers said.\n\nBut he added that it has become \"quite political\".\n\n\"At my age, it irks me a little the political side of stuff as everything is in your face,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody has got to have a voice for something, but it's too much down your throat, in my opinion,\" added Mr Rogers.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis performed his own set on Thursday evening\n\nOn Thursday evening the original Glastonbury veteran, founder Michael Eavis, performed a collection of classics on The Park Stage.\n\nThe 87-year-old, who was wheeled on in an office chair due to a foot injury, kicked-off with Frank Sinatra's Love's Been Good To Me.\n\nEavis changed the words from \"There was a girl in Portland\" to \"There was a girl in Pilton\", in reference to the nearest village to Worthy Farm.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "A number of rescued migrants have been taken to hospital\n\nAt least 227 migrants were rescued off Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday, officials say, a day after reported deaths of more than 30 migrants there.\n\nEmergency services say the Coast Guard saved the migrants travelling on inflatable boats near the Lanzarote and Gran Canaria islands in the Atlantic.\n\nA number of them were taken to hospital to be treated for a \"mild condition\".\n\nOn Wednesday, two charities said more than 30 migrants may have drowned after their dinghy sank off Gran Canaria.\n\nSpanish authorities said rescue workers found the bodies of a minor and a man, and rescued 24 other people.\n\nHowever, the charities - Walking Borders and Alarm Phone - said about 60 people had been on board.\n\nHelena Maleno Garzon, from Walking Borders, said 39 people had drowned, including four women and a baby, while Alarm Phone said 35 people were missing.\n\nBoth organisations monitor migrant boats and receive calls from people on board or their relatives.\n\nA Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, according to Spanish news agency Efe.\n\nBut the ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, according to Reuters.\n\nThe BBC has sent a request for comment to Morocco's interior ministry.\n\nAngel Victor Torres, leader of the Canary Islands region, described the incident as a \"tragedy\" and called on the European Union to establish a migration policy that \"offers coordinated and supportive responses\" to the issue of migration.\n\nAlthough off Africa's western coast, the Canary Islands are part of Spain, and many migrants travel from Africa to the archipelago in the hope of reaching mainland Europe.\n\nThe Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest, and at least 543 migrants died or went missing on that journey in 2022, according to the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM).\n\nIOM says there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledges that the figure is \"probably underestimated\" because data is scarce and incomplete.\n\nMost of those making the journey are from Morocco, Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, it says.\n\nLast week, a migrant boat carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast, with at least 78 known to have died, although many more are feared to have drowned.\n\nThe UN's human rights office says up to 500 people are still missing, and the BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of what happened. The coastguard claims that the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.", "Junior doctors in England have announced a new five-day walkout in July - the longest yet - over pay.\n\nThe strike will take place between 07:00 on Thursday 13 July and 07:00 on Tuesday 18 July.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) union, which represents doctors, said a government offer of a 5% rise was not \"credible\" and that pay has not kept up with inflation.\n\nMinisters say the pay offer is \"fair and reasonable\".\n\nBMA negotiator have been asking for a 35% increase to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.\n\nThis will be the fourth strike by junior doctors since the pay dispute began.\n\nThousands of planned appointments will need to be postponed while more senior doctors fill in to provide emergency care.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the new strike was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\n\"It puts patient safety and our efforts to cut waiting lists at risk,\" he told reporters, insisting the government's offer was \"fair and reasonable\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said in a statement: \"The government has been clear that strikes must be paused while talks take place, and we remain ready to continue talking at any point if strikes are called off.\"\n\nCo-chairs of the BMA junior doctors committee Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: \"We are announcing the longest single walkout by doctors in the NHS's history - but this is not a record that needs to go into the history books.\n\n\"Even now the government can avert our action by coming to the table with a credible offer on pay restoration.\"\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, said: \"Trust leaders, staff and patients will have that sinking feeling at the prospect of five straight days of strike disruption, the longest-ever single period of industrial action in the history of the NHS.\n\n\"After a three-day walkout by junior doctors already this month, forcing more than 100,000 more procedures and appointments to be rescheduled (more than 651,000 in total since December) and with nurses, radiographers and consultants - who could strike for two days in July - being balloted too this figure is bound to rise by many thousands more.\n\n\"Trust leaders' priority throughout any industrial action will remain to keep patients safe and deliver high-quality care but this is getting tougher the longer strikes persist, and it's getting more and more expensive to find cover for staff on picket lines.\"\n\nJunior doctors make up around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all doctors working in GP surgeries. The BMA represents over 46,000 junior doctors in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, junior doctors have been offered a new 14.5% pay rise over a two-year period after negotiations with the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said three days of strike action would take place between 12 and 15 July unless an improved offer was made.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?", "In Washington, US officials have confirmed that Russian and American diplomats spoke directly on Saturday.\n\nThe US emphasised to Moscow that Washington was not involved in stoking up tensions between Wagner and the Kremlin, officials are saying.\n\n\"There were appropriate diplomat discussions that occurred over the weekend,\" said White House spokesman John Kirby without specifying at what level talks occurred.\n\nHe added Washington views the tensions with Wagner \"as internal Russian matters\" and has not taken a side.\n\nBiden remains focused on supporting Ukraine, rather than meddling in Russia, and spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, Kirby continued.\n\n\"We're not involved and have no intention of being involved,\" he said about the current situation in Russia.\n\n\"What we are involved with is supporting Ukraine.\"\n\nAt the Department of State, spokesman Matthew Miller said the communications involved the US ambassador to Russia as well as \"at other levels here in Washington\".\n\nTwo messages were sent, he said. The first was that the US expects Russia to protect US diplomatic personnel in Moscow and the second was to emphasise that \"this is an internal Russian affair, that in which the United States is not involved and will not be involved\".", "The cross-party All Under One Banner movement holds regular independence marches\n\nThe route to independence used to seem simple for SNP members.\n\nThere was a widespread expectation in the party that election victories would lead to a second referendum.\n\nBut the continued UK government refusal to grant another vote, and last year's Supreme Court confirmation that Holyrood doesn't have the powers to legislate for one, has left the party looking for a new direction.\n\nAnd that's why members will descend on Dundee this weekend.\n\nAt the party's Convention on Independence, they hope to flesh out a new strategy.\n\nSo what are the alternative paths to independence?\n\nThis isn't an exhaustive list, but here are three options the SNP may consider this weekend.\n\nOption one could be called the gradualist approach.\n\nThis involves taking time to drive up support for independence, ultimately reaching a level that means Downing Street can't ignore referendum demands.\n\nIt's rare for anyone in the SNP to publicly put a number on the level of support needed for this, but a sustained period of 60% pro-independence polling is thrown around privately.\n\nThe MSP Ben Macpherson is a former Scottish government minister. He stresses that he's as dedicated to independence as anyone in the SNP, but he believes that patience is required.\n\nHe's urged fellow members to focus on convincing more undecided voters to support independence, which he believes will create \"overwhelming\" pressure on the UK government to grant a second referendum.\n\nBut others feel another referendum won't happen, and that brings us to option two. This involves using elections to secure independence.\n\nIt's a tactic that's gained prominence in SNP circles in recent years.\n\nTowards the end of her leadership, Nicola Sturgeon floated the idea of running an election as a \"de facto\" referendum.\n\nThe concept is fairly simple: the SNP would contest an election (or elections) insisting that a vote for them is a vote for independence. This could be stated in the opening line of a manifesto.\n\nAsh Regan, who ran to replace Nicola Sturgeon earlier this year, backs this approach.\n\nShe believes the SNP could even team up with other pro-independence parties, meaning that more than 50% of the vote combined would lead to independence.\n\nShe thinks it's time to move away from relying on the referendum path, saying \"we've been thinking of it as the gold standard, but in fact it's the ballot box that's the gold standard route\".\n\nBut there are potential weaknesses with this option.\n\nWhy would the UK government agree to this? Would the international community recognise it?\n\nMost advocates of such a Plan B feel that Westminster intransigence on a second referendum means that a radical alternative is needed.\n\nBut others fear it won't deliver independence and would alienate the middle-ground of Scottish politics.\n\nOption three involves taking to the streets - mass demonstrations calling for independence.\n\nPerhaps this option should be seen as complementing others, rather than being a route to independence in itself.\n\nThe cross-party All Under One Banner movement will march from Stirling to Bannockburn at the very same time the SNP gathers in Dundee.\n\nPatrick McCarthy is organising Saturday's All Under One Banner march\n\nAs a party member, Patrick McCarthy could have attended the convention. But he worries the SNP is simply \"talking to themselves\" .\n\nHe'll be \"speaking to the mass movement\" by organising the march instead.\n\nHe says \"the hearts and minds and belief in independence is the thing that's going to get us over the line\".\n\nThe first minister will set out his preferred route to independence at Saturday's convention.\n\nThe first minister must show SNP members that he has an indy plan\n\nHumza Yousaf wants to drive up overall support, but he's also said that elections must be used to advance the cause of independence.\n\nThis convention won't rubber-stamp any strategy. That would have to come at the SNP's autumn conference.\n\nThere are political risks for Humza Yousaf in this weekend's convention.\n\nIt could highlight splits within his party. And it exposes him to accusations that he's prioritising the constitution over day-to-day problems.\n\nBut, given that independence is his party's fundamental aim, it's important for him to show party members that he's formulating a plan to achieve the ultimate goal.\n\nThe SNP may emerge closer to defining their strategy on independence, but making that a reality feels a harder task for the party right now.", "Claire Robinson says the cuts are \"wholly unacceptable\"\n\nCuts to schools are \"dire\" and will affect support to the \"most vulnerable children\", according to a Belfast school principal.\n\nClaire Robinson from Holy Evangelists' Primary School has written to parents urging them to fight budget cuts.\n\nThe school in Twinbrook has about 560 pupils, two-thirds of whom are entitled to free school meals.\n\nThere have been numerous cuts to support for children as the Department of Education tries to make savings.\n\nMs Robinson's intervention comes as the Children's Law Centre told Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris that it will take legal action unless he takes steps \"to assess how to protect children from the cumulative effects of the budget cuts\".\n\nIn her letter Ms Robinson said Holy Evangelist had a \"huge cut\" of about £100,000 to its budget for 2023-24, as the school had lost funding for a number of services.\n\n\"Every decision we make always has your children at the heart, but I do feel it is now vital that you know the reality we are facing,\" she told parents.\n\nNurture units are special classes in which small groups of pupils receive specialist teaching and support\n\nThe school is one of 62 primaries which have a \"nurture unit\", a special class in which small groups of pupils receive specialist teaching and support.\n\nBut funding for those classes has been reduced.\n\nLike others, the school has also lost funding for things like counselling for pupils and will also be affected by cuts to sports coaching.\n\nMs Robinson said the cuts \"will impact on how we support our most vulnerable children, those with needs\".\n\n\"Those children who struggled in the aftermath of the pandemic now won't get any additional support classes which is a travesty,\" she continued.\n\n\"This is a dire situation and those who suffer will be your children, future generations and staff who will be feeling the pressure like never before.\n\n\"I for one think this is wholly unacceptable.\"\n\nMs Robinson also said the school would have to end providing a free snack at breaktime to pupils.\n\n\"From September children will need to bring a healthy snack each day.\"\n\nThe principal also apologised to parents that costs for the school's breakfast and after-schools clubs would increase by 50p an hour.\n\n\"For this I am sorry, but we can't continue to offer these services at the current rate,\" she wrote.\n\nMs Robinson asked parents to \"stand up and fight for the children\" by contacting politicians or the media.\n\n\"Shout from the roof tops, because our children matter,\" she concluded.\n\nFergal McFerran, of the Children's Law Centre said Mr Heaton-Harris had \"utterly failed\" to apply the principle of equality when setting his budget.\n\n\"We fear the cumulative impact his budget will have on children and young people will be severe, particularly those most disadvantaged. We already see this in our everyday work,\" he said.\n\nThe Children's Law Centre has also written to Mr Heaton-Harris, telling him it will seek leave to apply to the High Court for judicial review unless the NI secretary takes action.", "The CPS said Jackson told police he was trying to provoke a reaction two days before the Coronation on 6 May\n\nA man who posted on TikTok that he would take a van to the Coronation of King Charles III and blow himself up has been sentenced.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Richard Jackson told police he was trying to provoke a reaction two days before the event and did not own a van.\n\nIt said the 28-year-old admitted sending a threatening communication.\n\nIt added Jackson, of Didsbury, was given a 12-month community order at Manchester Magistrates' Court.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned on a historic day of pageantry on 6 May.\n\nThousands packed the Mall in London despite the rain, after a service at Westminster Abbey and a procession.\n\nA CPS representative said investigators found Jackson did not possess any of the items that could be used to carry out his threat.\n\nThey said Jackson, of Brixton Avenue, was also ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, senior crown prosecutor Louise Hartley said Jackson \"didn't get the reaction he was looking for\" when he posted on the social media app.\n\n\"Instead, he found himself before the court,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope in future he will think twice before commenting on social media.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New video shows the moment a French woman was attacked by a dingo at a beach in K’gari, Australia.\n\nThe Queensland Department of Environment and Science says the animal was \"humanely euthanised\" after being involved in a number of \"high-risk\" incidents.\n\nK'gari Island in Queensland is home to some 200 wild dingoes. There are strict rules against feeding them with heavy fines for offenders. Another dingo was euthanised earlier this month after months of attacks on the island.", "Band member Ian 'H' Watkins told Chippenham Pride he did not want to perform in Dubai because of the human rights issues there\n\nSteps turned down a show in Dubai over a contract clause which stated they were not allowed to mention sexuality, band member Ian 'H' Watkins has said.\n\nHe told Chippenham Pride in Wiltshire he was at a point in his life where morals were more important than a \"pot of gold gig\".\n\nWatkins said nobody had known Steps were offered the show in the Middle East but he said it was \"important\" to raise the issue.\n\nIn an interview with Bobbi Pickard, chief executive of Trans in the city, on Saturday, Watkins said he was \"emotional\" that he had not spoken up sooner and wished he had had \"the guts\" to do so.\n\n\"This week we were offered a gig, a show, and it was in a country where there's lots of oppression, where the LGBTQ+ community is treated so horrendously,\" he said.\n\n\"And in the contract it said 'no mention of sexuality' and that really jarred with me.\n\n\"I'm at a point in my life now where my morals and what I strive for is more important that that pot of gold gig was in Dubai,\" he said.\n\nThe popstar organised the first-ever Pride for his hometown of Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nMr Watkins said he gave his reasons for not wanting to perform.\n\n\"It's because of all the horrendous human rights issues that are happening there,\" he said.\n\nDubai is one of the United Arab Emirates, which has strict laws against homosexuality.\n\nNearby Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup, has similar rules.\n\nIt was criticised for its attitude to LGBT people, its human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers.\n\n\"Respecting and backing H's position has shown fabulous allyship,\" Ms Pickard said.\n\n\"They [Steps] have a strong Pride community following, and this reinforces their support and love for their fans.\"\n\nShe added she would like to see other artists follow in Steps' example and think twice about performing in places where people in their fan base face imprisonment or the death penalty.\n\nIan \"H\" Watkins publicly came out in 2007, a decade after Steps launched\n\nMr Watkins said he had told the band they were welcome to perform without him, but the band decided to follow his decision.\n\nHe said regardless of one's gender, sexuality, or colour, people should be able to live their best life, and be their authentic selves.\n\n\"It felt like a little win.\n\n\"If everybody did that, all of those ripples will make huge waves, and we will have a much more inclusive and beautiful place to live.\"", "Bishop of Birkenhead, the Right Reverend Julie Conalty, said the \"church seems less safe\"\n\nA senior Church of England bishop responsible for safeguarding has told the BBC she does not \"entirely trust the church\" on tackling abuse.\n\nThe Bishop of Birkenhead, the Right Reverend Julie Conalty spoke after the Church sacked a panel of experts overseeing its safeguarding.\n\nShe later tweeted: \"Today the church seems less safe\".\n\nThe Church said its relations with the two of the experts on the panel had broken down.\n\nThe Archbishops' Council announced on Wednesday it was \"ending the contracts\" of all three members of the Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) it had set up to provide oversight of how the Church deals with abuse.\n\nTwo of the panel - Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves - recently told the Daily Telegraph working with church officials was \"an uphill battle\".\n\nTheir sacking has been met with criticism from some survivors and their advocates and now some members of the clergy.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One, Bishop Conalty, who is the Church's deputy head of safeguarding with a focus on survivor engagement, said: \"I think culturally we are resistant as a church to accountability, to criticism.\n\n\"And therefore I don't entirely trust the church, even though I'm a key part of it and a leader within it, because I see the way the wind blows is always in a particular direction.\"\n\nThe bishop said \"right at the moment it is less accountable\" and \"we have definitely taken a step back\".\n\nShe continued to say the decision causes survivors - who had a \"good degree of trust\" in the board - \"distress and anger\" as the independent body has \"seamlessly disappeared before their eyes\".\n\nAlison Coulter, lay member of the Archbishops' Council, said the decision to sack the panel was not \"taken lightly or easily\" and the Church remains committed to hearing the voices of victims and survivors.\n\nShe told the same World At One show: \"There was a breakdown in our working relationship, which is really regrettable.\n\n\"I don't want to blame anyone but we, the Archbishops' Council, felt we had no choice. There had been a dispute and the Council had been seeking to resolve that in good faith, but the two board members were reluctant to engage in those discussions. \"\n\nShe would not discuss the details of the dispute but added: \"We have been doing our best to work constructively. We haven't found compatibility through this framework.\"\n\nISB was part of the Church's response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report in 2020, which found the Church of England was a \"hiding place for abusers\".\n\nAsked if there were still places where abusers can hide in the Church, Mrs Coulter paused and said: \"I can't with my hand on my heart say there isn't, but I do know… we want the church to be a safe place for everyone.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Telegraph last month, Ms Sanghera -who founded a charity supporting forced marriage victims - and Mr Reeves - a specialist in abuse in organisations - raised the alarm over \"interference\" with their work.\n\nThey also raised their objections to the appointment of Meg Munn as acting chairwoman of their three-strong board.\n\nFormer MP Ms Munn has been the independent chairwoman of the Church's National Safeguarding Panel for the past five years. Although her new role has been ended, she has been asked by the Church to continue in an interim role to provide \"business continuity\".\n\nMr Reeves tweeted on Thursday: \"It's overwhelming to see people standing up for independence in safeguarding. It's been humbling to receive all the messages, in the hundreds now, expressing support for the work that Jas Sanghera and I have been doing - with the support of so many others - recently.\n\nMs Sanghera tweeted: \"We have not been removed because of a breakdown in relationships. I have advocated for victims and survivors for three decades and never experienced anything like this.\"\n\nThe pair were also critical of how the news was delivered, claiming they were not given time to prepare victims for the news.\n\nYou can hear the full report from The World At One on BBC Sounds.", "Former Wales international Dafydd James is among the ex-players bringing the legal action\n\nRugby players suing the game's authorities have been subject to intimidation, the High Court has heard.\n\nNearly 200 players are suing the Welsh Rugby Union, Rugby Football Union and World Rugby for head injuries they claim they sustained while playing.\n\nPlayers in \"small communities\" have faced intimidation and abuse, said the players' counsel told a hearing.\n\n\"None of us are in this to destroy the sport,\" Susan Rodway KC told the court.\n\nThe case management hearing was told that the players were suffering from progressive and deteriorating neurological conditions.\n\nMs Rodway said some of the former professionals, as trained athletes, were so large that they would require \"sophisticated, full-time care\".\n\nThe court was told some of the players suffering from persistent post-concussion syndrome were \"stable\" but the condition was progressing in other players.\n\nThe 169 former professional and 66 ex-amateur sportsmen and women involved in the case have undergone neurological interviews and neuropsychological tests, the court heard.\n\nPlayers who have previously spoken publicly about having these conditions include England's 2003 World Cup winner Steve Thompson and former Wales international Dafydd James - both of whom are bringing legal action.\n\nMs Rodway said among the issues to be decided were duty of care, breach of duty and causation, then, past and future losses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Thompson struggles to recall memories from his rugby career\n\nWorld Rugby Limited, Welsh Rugby Limited and the Rugby Football Union were named as defendants and Friday's hearing was preliminary to decide how the rest of the cases would proceed.\n\nThe court heard lawyers for the players had asked for disclosure of documents regarding the regulations and guidelines for head injuries, including return-to-play protocols, health surveillance and research studies.\n\nThe application was opposed by the defendants on the basis that the request was \"overwide and unfocused\".\n\nJudge Barbara Fontaine ruled World Rugby should provide old versions of its concussion management rules, but that no other disclosure was required.\n\nAside from this, the judge dismissed the application and awarded costs for the hearing to the defendants.\n\nIn a statement on behalf of all three defendants, the said they are \"incredibly saddened\" by the former players' health issues.\n\nThey added: \"The court's rulings today are welcome and player welfare will continue to remain as rugby's number one priority.\"", "Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner developed acute laryngitis after the band's stadium shows in London last weekend\n\nEmily Eavis has confirmed the Arctic Monkeys' headline set at Glastonbury will go ahead, despite frontman Alex Turner contracting laryngitis.\n\nThe band cancelled a gig in Dublin earlier this week, casting doubt on whether they'd be fit for the festival.\n\nBut festival co-organiser Eavis told BBC Radio 2: \"He's ok. They're on.\"\n\n\"It was a little bit close there for a minute. We were thinking about whether we should have a serious back-up plan - but no, thankfully, they're on.\"\n\nFans had already speculated the gig would go ahead, after the band's trucks parked behind the Pyramid Stage on Thursday night.\n\nWhen the Sheffield band take to the stage at 22:15 on Friday, it will be their third time at the top of the bill, after previous appearances in 2007 and 2013.\n\nThat puts them in a select group of triple headliners alongside Radiohead, Van Morrison and Elvis Costello.\n\nOnly Coldplay and The Cure have gone further, with four headline appearances each.\n\n\"Hopefully it gets easier every time, in terms of nerves,\" Arctics drummer Matt Helders told BBC News.\n\nSpeaking before Turner fell ill, he said the band were the most prepared they'd ever been for the festival,\n\n\"The first time, obviously, we really felt the pressure. Then the second time, it was at the beginning of a tour - so it was fun, but we hadn't been playing in the lead-up.\n\n\"This time, we're on it. We're in a good place, in the middle of a tour. We're firing on all cylinders.\" (Scroll down to read more of the interview with Matt Helders.)\n\nFoo Fighters, who headlined Glastonbury in 2017, are rumoured to making a surprise return\n\nMeanwhile, the site is rife with rumours about the \"mystery band\" who've been given a slot on the Pyramid Stage on Friday evening.\n\nThey're billed as The ChurnUps, a group who have no social media footprint or music available on streaming services.\n\nFans have speculated that they're actually US rock band Foo Fighters, after frontman Dave Grohl posted a social media statement in which he talked about \"churning up\" emotions as the band tour without late drummer Taylor Hawkins for the first time.\n\nOther rumours have included Britpop heroes Pulp and Blur, both former headliners, who are on the reunion trail this summer.\n\n\"I wouldn't like to give anything away,\" she said. \"You've got to allow the surprise to happen. It's all about the surprise.\"\n\nFestival-goers are using parasols to protect them from the sun\n\nGlastonbury opened its gates on Wednesday morning, with 200,000 fans expected to take in sets by Sir Elton John, Lana Del Rey, Guns N' Roses, Wizkid and Christine And the Queens.\n\nForecasters have issued a weather warning for the festival, with temperatures expected to reach 27 degrees over the weekend.\n\nFree water is available throughout the site, which is being entirely powered by renewable energy for the first time, in line with its long-standing commitment to sustainability.\n\nThe on-stage action slowly got into gear on Thursday, with DJ sets by Faithless, Mike Skinner, Nia Archives and Ewan McVicar and Arielle Free warming up the dozens of smaller stages that are dotted around the site.\n\nAnd 88-year-old festival founder Michael Eavis even played a surprise mid-afternoon set with his band on The Park Stage, covering old standards like My Way, Always On My Mind and Send In The Clowns.\n\nSinger-songwriter Ben Howard was the first artist on Friday's bill, opening The Other Stage shortly before lunchtime.\n\nThe Brit award-winner, who recently returned to music after suffering two mini-strokes, was visibly moved by the crowd who came to watch his early-morning set, offering a heartfelt and lingering goodbye thank you at the end.\n\n\"It was really special out there,\" he told BBC News after he stepped off stage.\n\n\"There's something in the air, isn't there? Everyone's having a great time, early doors. It's magic.\"\n\nOther artists on Friday's line-up include Scottish rockers Texas (Pyramid Stage, 16:15), Afrobeats star Wizkid (Other Stage, 22:30), psychedelic jazz band The Comet Is coming (Park Stage, 1815) US R&B star Kelis (West Holts, 22:15) and Call Me Maybe singer Carly Rae Jepsen (Other Stage, 15:45).\n\nMeanwhile, 16-year-old Eli Crossley will become one of Glastonbury's youngest-ever performers, along with his band Askew, when they play the Rabbit Hole at 17:30 BST.\n\nThe band were extended an invitation by Emily Eavis after Eli spoke to the BBC about the genetic condition he lives with, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and mentioned his dream of playing the festival.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast full sets and highlights from around the festival on TV, radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.\n\nThis is your third time on the Pyramid Stage. Are you looking forward to it?\n\nIt's good! Hopefully it gets easier every time, in terms of nerves. Where we are in the touring cycle, it means we'll be better at playing than we have been before, which is always good.\n\nAnd it's 10 years since we last did it, so it'll feel like a full circle celebration.\n\nIn previous years, you've had Dizzee Rascal as a special guest, and played with a string quartet. Any surprises this time?\n\nThere's a tradition of getting a guest on, or doing something extra special at Glastonbury, but I also think there's a lot to be said about just doing a really good show.\n\nYour new album [The Car] has had such a great reception. The NME made it their album of the year. How confident were you before it was released?\n\nWe actually sat on it for a while before it came out and there were certain songs that I had a lot of faith in. I knew [There'd Better Be A] Mirrorball was going to be special, and Sculptures Of Anything Goes. We'd spent a lot of time making sure it was what we wanted. So if at that point we weren't sure, we'd have felt like we'd done something wrong.\n\nAlex said he'd meant to write an album that would fit with rockier songs like Brianstorm and RU Mine. How come it ended up going a different way?\n\nWe often go in [to the studio] with that intention because, when we're playing live, those songs stand out so much. We're like, \"That was fun to play. We should get some more songs that feel like that\".\n\nBut then it doesn't always come naturally with the songwriting. You can write the riff but it's difficult to force it and still be sincere.\n\nLast year, you told Radio 1 that the subtlety of the new songs makes them \"trickier\" to play than the older material. How's that been going on tour?\n\nRecording-wise, the restraint is quite difficult - and that spills over to live [shows] too, because you can get a bit excited and want to show off a bit.\n\nBut there's moments in the set where I get to scratch that itch, We'll play all the action-packed ones and then it chills out for a bit. It's a good balance.\n\nWhat's your favourite of the new songs to play?\n\nAt the moment I'd say Body Paint, because, speaking of dynamics, that one comes to life at the end. We just sort of wig out a little bit and I'm in control of how long it goes and how intense it gets. It's nice having a bit more fun with it.\n\nThe set often closes with RU Mine, which is a real workout on the drums. Do you have to keep some energy in reserve?\n\nIt's funny you mention that because we put it in halfway through the set last night and it felt strange to play it there. A lot of the time, I'm relying on adrenalin by the end of the show, but also I would struggle if that [song] was the beginning - because I warm up as it goes on.\n\nExactly. We often play Brianstorm near the beginning and I have to try not to tense up too much for that very reason. I do try and do a little bit of drumming backstage and stretch a bit. But I've never been good or disciplined about making myself do that. I want to be around everybody.\n\nFinal question: Is it true you bought a pub?\n\nI contributed. It's called Fagan's in Sheffield and now I'm like a part of it. [Matt was one of nine investors who came to the rescue when it was threatened with closure last year].\n\nI've tried! I want to learn how to do the shapes in a pint of Guinness.", "The attack was reported at 13:18 BST on Wednesday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after two people were stabbed at Central Middlesex Hospital in north-west London.\n\nMatteo Bottarelli, 43, of Central Way, Park Royal, was also charged with two counts of threatening violence with a bladed article in a public place.\n\nIt comes after two men, believed to be aged in their 40s, were attacked at the hospital in Park Royal on Wednesday.\n\nMr Bottarelli appeared in custody at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nArmed police were called to the hospital\n\nArmed police were called to the hospital at 13:18 BST where they found the men with injuries thought to have been caused by a mattock - a type of pick-axe.\n\nNeither is in a life-threatening condition, but one of the men's injuries \"may be life-changing\", the Met Police has said.\n\nMr Bottarelli appeared in the dock in a grey a tracksuit with a bandage around his neck.\n\nHe was initially arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder but following police inquiries, he was further arrested on a third count.\n\nThe third person did not sustain any injuries, police said.\n\nMr Bottarelli, who spoke only to confirm his name and age, was initially treated for injuries, but was later released into police custody.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 27 June.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police in France and Belgium say they have arrested 19 members of gangs who sent people fake court summonses that accused them of viewing images of children being sexually abused.\n\nPeople who received the messages were threatened with prosecution and tricked into paying thousands of dollars in supposed fines.\n\nPolice say the scam had been going for more than two years, with at least €3.5m extorted.\n\nAt least one victim killed himself.\n\nThe man had been stung by the scam on two occasions, first being made to pay €5,978, then another €7,480.\n\nColonel Thomas Andreu, head of one of the special French police units, said the sums extracted from victims were often larger, in some cases as much as €200,000.\n\n\"We thought that the fraud was being run by one central structure,\" said Col Andreu. \"However, it turned out to be several little teams which were not linked.\"\n\nEighteen people were arrested in France on Monday and one in Belgium. All were aged between 20 and 50.\n\nAll but three suspects were ordered to appear in court on fraud charges.\n\nThe Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation after the scam began at the start of 2021. By June of the following year it had received 400 complaints relating to it.\n\nAuthorities are still trying to understand how many people were affected and believe that six others who were targeted may also have killed themselves.\n\nCommissioner Christophe Durand of the French anti-cybercrime unit said the \"victims had suffered real distress\".\n\nThe scammers spent some of the money they extorted in France, though the majority of it was sent to the Ivory Coast and other African countries.", "The US Navy detected sounds \"consistent with an implosion\" shortly after OceanGate's Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said.\n\nFive people were aboard the vessel when it went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday.\n\nThe loss of the sub was confirmed after a huge search mission.\n\nThe official told CBS News their information about the \"acoustic anomaly\" had been used by the US Coast Guard to narrow the search area.\n\nAccording to CNN, it was deemed to be \"not definitive\" and therefore the search and rescue mission continued.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Rear Adm Mauger of the Coast Guard confirmed that all five people aboard Titan had been killed following what was probably a \"catastrophic implosion\", based on patterns of debris discovered.\n\nHowever, he said no sounds had been detected during the search mission that were consistent with this.\n\n\"We've had sonar buoys in the water nearly continuously and have not detected any catastrophic events when those sonar buoys have been in the water.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the US Coast Guard confirmed that a Canadian P-3 aircraft had detected \"underwater noises\" in a search area for the missing vessel.\n\nThis brought new hope that the Titan's crew might be found alive and caused the Coast Guard to relocate operations.\n\nAccording to CBS, those noises are now thought to have been coming from other ships in the area.\n\nPaul Hankin, an undersea expert, said the first indication that the sub might have imploded came after a large debris field was found on Thursday.\n\n\"Essentially we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the Titan,\" he said.\n\nEfforts are continuing to map the debris field and to search the sea floor around the Titanic.\n\nContact with the vessel was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive nearly a week ago. Titanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland.\n\nAboard the vessel was British billionaire businessman Hamish Harding, who had written on social media ahead of the dive that it was taking place because a \"weather window\" had opened up,\n\nHe said that because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years\" the mission was \"likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nBritish father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were also part of the crew. They were from one of Pakistan's richest families.\n\nOceanGate CEO Stockton Rush also died on Titan, alongside former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How the story of the Titan sub unfolded... in 90 seconds", "The damage caused to the Kakhovka dam earlier this month wiped out homes and left families without water\n\nIn a shrinking, brackish pool of water, within earshot of Ukraine's front lines, two small fish gasped and flopped in the midday heat.\n\nAround them, vast expanses of mud and rock - covered, for the past three quarters of a century, by metres of water - were exposed to the sun. A huge grain barge lay sprawled across a nearby sandbank. Water snakes and frogs slithered through the dwindling shallows as if in search of shade.\n\nTwo weeks after a suspected Russian sabotage operation destroyed the dam that holds back the Dnipro River to form the giant Kakhovka reservoir, some 18 cubic kilometres of water - enough to fill a shallow paddling pool the size of England - have surged south to vanish into the Black Sea.\n\n\"It's a catastrophe. Everything was washed away. Deer, wild pigs, fish and so many endangered species. And about half a million people are now left without water,\" said Anatolii Derkach, 37, secretary of the town council in Marhanets, on the western shore of the former reservoir.\n\nFrom his fourth-floor office, Derkach peered out across the grey, cracked mud towards the silhouette of Europe's largest nuclear power plant on the eastern shore. The Zaporizhzhia plant, with its six reactors, is currently under Russian occupation. With the water gone, the plant - some 10km (six miles) away - suddenly looks much closer.\n\n\"They say it will have enough water in its reservoirs for about six months. But we cannot be sure,\" he said with a sigh, followed by the inevitable warning-word \"Chernobyl\" - a reference to the nuclear power plant whose reactor exploded in 1986 in Soviet Ukraine, causing the worst nuclear accident ever.\n\nPeople queue to access drinking water in Marhanets, a Ukrainian town often targeted by Russian strikes\n\nMeanwhile Marhanets, a small town perched on a hill overlooking the reservoir, is often targeted by Russian artillery.\n\n\"They watch us with drones. If they see more than five people in one place they begin shelling,\" said Derkach.\n\nBut with the reservoir emptying, and water supplies now cut off, the council has been obliged to set up temporary distribution points around town.\n\n\"How do you think I feel? I'm walking around like a donkey, forced to carry water,\" said Iuliia, a pensioner standing in a queue of more than 20 people beside a set of taps and a large plastic tank in the town centre.\n\n\"It's not even drinking water. I'm scared for the future. I don't see any way through this,\" said her neighbour, Nina, 70.\n\nMarhanets, and other nearby towns, are drawing up plans to dig new canals to connect them to other reservoirs. But many residents have left, and local mines and other industries have been forced to close. Local farmers are now trying to access old wells and small streams to find alternative sources of water.\n\n\"I don't know what [the Russians] were thinking - doing that. The environment will suffer, and it will be hard for all of us,\" said Ivan Zaruski, 56, taking a brief break from loading bales of straw onto a trailer with a group of relatives and neighbours in field outside town.\n\n\"The main thing is that the nuclear power plant doesn't explode. But we'll survive all this. We have nowhere else to go so we don't have a choice,\" he added with a grin.\n\nMoscow says it had nothing to do with the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied territory, and has accused Ukraine of firing missiles at it.\n\nIrina (R), with her husband Evhenii, said the water reached the roof of their small cottage close to the Dnipro River\n\nMeanwhile, further south, below the destroyed dam, the heaving flood waters that swept, without warning, through the port city of Kherson and smaller towns killing dozens of people and forcing thousands to flee, have largely abated.\n\n\"We're like rats - we can survive anything,\" said Irina, a 73-year-old retired teacher, as she and her husband, Evhenii, slowly dragged the drenched contents of their small cottage outside.\n\nAt one point the flood waters reached the roof of their home, on Tchaikovsky Street, close to the Dnipro River in the centre of Kherson. But now only a few big puddles remained outside, beside several small boats which had been used during the flooding.\n\n\"At least this happened at the start of summer. We still have time to dry things out,\" said Evhenii, stacking some stinking, rotting furniture in the yard.\n\nEarlier that morning, several Russian artillery shells had crashed into the centre of Kherson, and many more would land in this neighbourhood in the coming hours and days, fired from Russian positions on the far bank. Ukrainian troops were blocking cars from getting too close to the river, and much of the city seemed deserted.\n\nMost of the people who've stayed are elderly. They're not going anywhere\n\n\"Today was wonderful,\" said Oksana, who'd come to help her elderly parents on Tchaikovsky Street clean up after the flood. She was referring to news about Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"Our guys are doing a great job. We can tell who is shooting where. Our guys have had some big successes against Russian positions - and they've hit some large ammunition depots. I just wish it was all happening a bit quicker,\" she said.\n\nNearby, her 78-year-old father, Vladimir, slumped into a chair. He'd been kneeling, with an axe, to strip water-logged sections off an old cabinet, but had stood up too fast.\n\n\"He was born here. He's spent his whole life here. Most of the people who've stayed in this neighbourhood are elderly. They're not going anywhere,\" said Oksana.", "For Ukraine, the answer is obvious. Yes, because once it is inside the protective shelter of the Western alliance then any future attacks by Russia would oblige the whole of Nato to come to its defence - with troops, not just equipment.\n\nThe former US Army Commander in Europe, Lt.Gen Ben Hodges, told the BBC: \"Europe will be safer with Ukraine in Nato. Russia won’t attack Ukraine once it’s in Nato\".\n\nHe said the coming Nato summit in Vilnius would be a huge failure of credibility if there was no clear message about the inevitability of Ukraine joining Nato.\n\nBut on the other side of the argument, this would raise the stakes dramatically. What if Ukraine’s future Nato membership failed to deter Russian aggression and conflict erupted on its borders?\n\nThat would mean Nato was then at war with Russia, with all the accompanying risks of nuclear escalation.\n\nRussian nationalists, including President Putin, already consider Nato's eastwards expansion to be an intolerable provocation.\n\nIt’s hard to predict how Moscow would react to Europe’s second largest nation, and a place some consider to be a part of Russia, joining an alliance that it now views as an implacable enemy.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nNovak Djokovic says he is \"aware people would disagree\" with him writing a political message about Kosovo on a French Open camera lens but it is an issue he \"stands for\".\n\nDjokovic, 36, wrote \"Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence\" after his first-round win on Monday.\n\nFrance's sports minister said the Serb's actions were \"not appropriate\" and should not happen again.\n\n\"A drama-free Grand Slam, I don't think it can happen for me,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"I guess that drives me, as well.\"\n\nThe phrase Djokovic wrote is in reference to recent tension in Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Serbia has never recognised Kosovo's independence.\n\nThere has been violence in the past days following the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in the north of the country, with police and Nato troops clashing with Serb protesters.\n\nIn his post-match news conference, the 22-time Grand Slam champion attempted to put the controversy behind him.\n\nAsked if he had thought about the negative reaction to his actions, Djokovic said: \"Of course I'm aware that a lot of people would disagree, but it is what it is. It's something that I stand for. So that's all.\"\n\nAfter beating Hungary's Marton Fucsovics in the second round on Wednesday, Djokovic marked the lens - which the winner does after every French Open match - with his signature.\n\nWorld governing body the International Tennis Federation said Djokovic's statement did not violate any rules because the Grand Slam rulebook does not ban political statements.\n\nFrench sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said there needs to be a \"principle of neutrality for the field of play\".\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nOudea-Castera said she made a distinction for messages in support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's invasion, adding that she did not put Kosovo and Ukraine \"on the same level\".\n\nThat includes supporting Ukrainian player Marta Kostyuk, who was booed by the crowd after she refused to shake hands with Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday.\n\nBelarus is an ally of Russia and allowed troops to use its territory to launch last year's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nDjokovic, whose father was born in Kosovo, said earlier in the week he was \"against wars, violence and any kind of conflict\" but that the situation in Kosovo is a \"precedent in international law\".\n\n\"Especially as a son of a man born in Kosovo, I feel the need to give my support to our people and to the entirety of Serbia,\" he said on Monday.\n\n\"Kosovo is our cradle, our stronghold, centre of the most important things for our country. There are many reasons why I wrote that on the camera.\n\n\"Of course it hurts me very much as a Serb to see what is happening in Kosovo and the way our people have been practically expelled from the municipal offices, so the least I could do was this.\"\n\nKosovo Olympic authorities have asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to open disciplinary proceedings against Djokovic, accusing him of stirring up political tension.\n\n\"Kosovo is the heart of Serbia\" might seem like an odd statement. After all, Kosovo became independent in 2008 - and its geographical location in the south west meant that, even before then, it was always on the periphery of Serbia.\n\nBut its symbolic significance remains highly important to many Serbs. The 1389 Battle of Kosovo has been mythologised as the crucial event in the forging of Serbian identity. And many of the most important sites of the Serbian Orthodox Church are within modern-day Kosovo.\n\nSerbia is one of scores of countries which refuse to recognise Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. And Serbians with family ties to Kosovo are particularly keen to ensure that Serbia's policy of non-recognition continues.\n\nIt has been a turbulent month for Serbia - with mass shootings and multiple protests - and ethnic-Serbs in Kosovo. By writing his courtside message, the country's sporting icon was showing his support - but in a way which was bound to ruffle feathers.\n\nWith his marker pen scribble, Djokovic neatly illustrated the enduring complexity of the situation.\n• None Peacekeepers in the middle as Kosovo-Serbia row escalates\n• None In 2013, Simon Watts spoke to George 'Johnny' Johnson, the last survivor of the Dambusters squadron\n• None Shake off the cobwebs and give your brain a workout with this 19th-century test\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben Roberts-Smith: Why Australian soldier's case loss raises next question... in 83 seconds\n\nAustralia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a historic defamation case against three newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan.\n\nThe outlets were sued over articles alleging he killed unarmed prisoners.\n\nThe civil trial was the first time a court has assessed accusations of war crimes by Australian forces.\n\nA judge said four of the six murder allegations - all denied by the soldier - were substantially true.\n\nJustice Anthony Besanko found the newspaper had not proven two other murder allegations; nor reports Mr Roberts-Smith had assaulted a woman with whom he was having an affair; nor a threat against a junior colleague.\n\nBut additional allegations that he had unlawfully assaulted captives and bullied peers were found to be true.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith, who left the defence force in 2013, has not been charged over any of the claims in a criminal court, where there is a higher burden of proof. The 44-year-old was not present for Thursday's judgement.\n\nAfter the decision, a Taliban spokesman said the case was proof of \"uncountable crimes\" by foreign forces in Afghanistan, but added he did not trust any court globally to follow them up.\n\nAustralian troops were deployed to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021. Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles declined to comment on the case, saying it was a civil matter.\n\nMr Roberts-Smith is Australia's most famous living war veteran and served with the country's elite Special Air Service Regiment (SAS).\n\nHe received the country's highest military award - the Victoria Cross - in 2011 for having single-handedly overpowered Taliban machine-gunners who had been attacking his platoon.\n\nBut his public image was shattered in 2018 when The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times started publishing articles about his misconduct between 2009 and 2012.\n\nThe soldier argued five of the killings reported by the newspapers had occurred legally during combat, and the sixth did not happen at all.\n\nHis defamation case - dubbed by some \"the trial of the century\" - lasted 110 days and was rumoured to have cost up to A$25m ($16.3m, £13.2m).\n\nMore than 40 witnesses - including Afghan villagers, a government minister and a string of current and former SAS soldiers - gave extraordinary evidence about every facet of Mr Roberts-Smith's life.\n\nBut the case also exposed some of the secretive inner workings of Australia's elite special forces.\n\nThe trial heard from soldiers who said potential misconduct was rarely reported due to a \"code of silence\" within the regiment, and others defended their actions as necessary.\n\nMany giving evidence were there unwillingly, having been subpoenaed, and three refused to speak about some allegations fearing self-incrimination.\n\nMuch of the evidence against Mr Roberts-Smith relied on eyewitness accounts and recollections of discussions among soldiers. Justice Besanko had to weigh the reliability of witnesses against each other, with the media outlets contending theirs had no reason to lie.\n\nSpeaking outside the Federal Court in Sydney, the news outlets called the judgement a \"vindication\" for their reporting.\n\n\"It's a day of justice for the brave men of the SAS who stood up and told the truth about who Ben Roberts-Smith is: a war criminal, a bully and a liar,\" said investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, who wrote the stories alongside Chris Masters and David Wroe.\n\n\"[And] today is a day of some small justice for the Afghan victims of Ben Roberts-Smith.\"\n\nJournalist Nick McKenzie says their reporting had relied on the \"moral courage\" of other SAS soldiers\n\nThe Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation also praised the role of investigative journalism in \"uncovering the truth and raising public awareness\" about what had taken place in the country.\n\nMedia magnate Kerry Stokes - who employs Mr Roberts-Smith at rival outlet Seven West Media - said the judgement did \"not accord with the man I know\".\n\n\"I know this will be particularly hard for Ben, who has always maintained his innocence,\" said Mr Stokes, who loaned the soldier money to fund his legal case. Mr Roberts-Smith had offered to hand in his Victoria Cross as collateral, local media reported.\n\nThe case comes three years after a landmark report found credible evidence that Australian forces had unlawfully killed 39 civilians and prisoners in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2013.\n\nAccusations of war crimes have also been levelled at soldiers from the UK and US in recent years.\n\nLocal media say dozens of Australian soldiers are being investigated for their roles in alleged war crimes. But so far charges have only been laid against one, Oliver Schulz.\n\nWar historian Peter Stanley told the BBC ahead of the judgement that Mr Roberts-Smith's case was \"a litmus test\" for allegations of Australian wrongdoing in Afghanistan.\n\n\"The Ben Roberts-Smith episode is just a precursor to the major series of war crimes investigations, allegations, prosecutions, and possibly convictions that we'll see over the next few years.\"", "Glasgow's low emission zone (LEZ) has come into force, banning many older vehicles from the centre of Scotland's biggest city.\n\nDrivers of vehicles which do not meet emissions standards face fines mounting to hundreds of pounds per day.\n\nA last-ditch legal challenge to the scheme was thrown out by a Court of Session judge on Wednesday.\n\nGlasgow City Council's climate and transport convenor said the LEZ would ensure \"cleaner, more breathable air\".\n\nSimilar restrictions have been in place for buses since 2018.\n\nThe zone is bounded by the M8 motorway to the north and west, the River Clyde to the south, and the Saltmarket/High Street to the east.\n\nExemptions are available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles.\n\nBut in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.\n\nHowever residents within the area have been granted an extra year to prepare.\n\nThe zone, which will operate 24 hours a day and all-year round, was conceived to tackle poor air quality, with many streets in Scotland regularly reaching harmful and illegal levels.\n\nBefore the Covid pandemic, concentrations of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide on Hope Street in Glasgow averaged 50% more than the safe legal limit.\n\nBut those numbers fell during the lockdown and when the most polluting buses and heavy goods vehicles were banned from the city centre in the first stage of the LEZ.\n\nThe scheme has been controversial, with some critics accusing the city council of not consulting effectively and pressing ahead with banning cars even after emissions fell in the initial stage of the LEZ.\n\nA legal challenge brought by a vehicle repair company based in the Townhead area of Glasgow failed on Wednesday.\n\nPatons Accident Repair Centre called for the scheme to be suspended ahead of further legal action.\n\nIt estimated that the 50-year-old firm would have to close within two years because it would lose a third of its business if it could no longer repair older vehicles.\n\nIts workshop on Lister Street is about 500m (0.3 miles) inside the LEZ boundary, to the north of the city centre.\n\nHomeless Project Scotland has learned its refrigerated van is not compliant with the new LEZ rules which come into force next week\n\nLast month a charity providing food for homeless people in the city centre said its operations would be affected by the LEZ after it was refused an exemption by the city council to use its refrigerated van within the restricted area.\n\nHomeless Project Scotland chairman Colin McInnes said he had assumed the charity's refrigerated van was compliant as it was registered in 2015, only to find out recently through Transport Scotland's LEZ vehicle checker that it was not.\n\nScottish Conservatives transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the SNP council in Glasgow had \"not responded to the significant objections to the scheme raised by local businesses\".\n\nHe added: \"We all want to see a reduction in pollution and to meet environmental targets, but there is evidence that air quality is already meeting those standards, and that phase two will not result in further improvements.\"\n\nCouncillor Angus Millar, convener for climate and transport, said the bus-only phase of the scheme had seen a year-on-year improvement in the proportion of low or zero emission buses servicing the city centre.\n\nBut he warned: \"We still have stubbornly high air pollution levels in the city centre, which have been in breach of legal limits for decades now, and that poor air quality is actively harming Glaswegians' health.\"\n\nHe also said up to 90% of vehicles currently entering the city centre would be unaffected.\n\nMr Millar added: \"The LEZ standards will address the small minority of vehicles which pollute the most, disproportionately creating the harmful concentrations of air pollution.\n\n\"And by ensuring cleaner air, we can create a safer and more pleasant experience for everyone who lives, works and visits Glasgow city centre.\"\n\nNet Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan said air pollution from vehicles disproportionally affected the most vulnerable.\n\nShe added: \"It causes the most damage to the youngest, the oldest and people with pre-existing medical conditions.\n\n\"LEZs are an important tool in protecting public health and improving air quality - while at the same time protecting our environment by reducing harmful emissions and encouraging a shift to more sustainable transport.\"\n\nGareth Brown, who chairs Healthy Air Scotland, said one in five Scots would develop a lung condition like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in their lifetime.\n\nHe added: \"Our cities must be redesigned to be far healthier places, where people can walk and cycle and not forced to breathe in toxic levels of air.\"\n\nScotland's four biggest cities all introduced LEZs last year - but Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh announced a two-year grace period until 2024.\n\nThe rules are not as strict as some other UK schemes, such as Oxford's zero emissions zone - where no petrol or diesel vehicles are allowed.\n\nIt raised almost £120,000 in fines in its first six months.\n\nBut while non-compliant vehicles will be banned in Scotland, Birmingham and London's ultra low emissions zones only require drivers to pay a fee.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RSPB Scotland say the Cannich wildfire has damaged a nature reserve, with many birds losing chicks or eggs.\n\nA wildfire that has been burning in the Highlands since Saturday has caused extensive damage to a nature reserve, according to RSPB Scotland.\n\nThe charity said many ground-nesting birds, including black grouse, had lost chicks or eggs in the incident near Cannich, south of Inverness.\n\nHundreds of native trees planted to regenerate habitats at RSPB's Corrimony reserve have also been destroyed.\n\nSmoke from the fire was detected by Nasa satellites earlier this week.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) was first called to the blaze just before 13:00 on Sunday.\n\nIt was brought under control on Wednesday, but more than 20 firefighters remain at the scene dealing with \"deep-seated hotspots\".\n\nRSPB Scotland said wildlife and habitat had been lost to the fire\n\nRSPB Scotland said it had still to fully assess the impact of the blaze on wildlife.\n\nThe reserve's Simon McLaughlin said he had found fast-moving species such as spiders and lizards had survived.\n\nBut others, including frogs, had been found dead.\n\nRSPB Scotland thanked the dozens of firefighters and estate workers involved in the effort to extinguish the flames.\n\nThe charity said: \"The damage to Corrimony is extensive, and made even more devastating by the impact on many ground-nesting birds who have lost their chicks and eggs.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Nasa satellite images showed smoke from the wildfire drifting 12-mile (20km) west towards Loch Ness.\n\nPeople living near the fire were told to keep doors and windows of their homes closed as precaution against the smoke.\n\nThe wildfire has been burning for several days\n\nA plume of smoke, in the centre of the image, could be seen drifting 12 miles towards Loch Ness\n\nLatest available satellite data suggests the area affected could be smaller than previously feared.\n\nSFRS had estimated flames had burned through a 30 sq mile (80 sq km) area of moor and woodland, which would make it the largest wildfire seen in the UK.\n\nThe service said it was now estimated to be five square miles (15 sq km) in size.\n\nWildfire analysts said latest available satellite images suggested the \"monumental\" firefighting effort had contained the incident.\n\nSFRS group commander Niall MacLennan said: \"This has been a challenging large-scale fire, which has no doubt impacted on the rural community here.\n\n\"Our crews, who have been working tirelessly since Sunday to tackle this wildfire, will remain at the scene until it's made safe.\"\n\nThe effort to control the spread of the fire has been praised\n\nAt the height of the incident earlier this week, SFRS had nine appliances and their crews at the scene. They were helped by estate workers, including gamekeepers, RSPB staff and waterbombing by helicopters.\n\nTwo firefighters were injured during the operation after their all-terrain vehicle overturned. They were flown to hospital and discharged following treatment.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Parliament, Community Safety Minister Siobhian Brown said wildfires posed a threat to life and the environment.\n\nShe said: \"I thank all the firefighters and others who are tackling this wildfire.\n\n\"The weather and the conditions at this time of year lend themselves to fires starting easily and spreading quickly.\n\n\"The smallest fire can spread and devastate entire communities, hillsides, livestock, farmland, wildlife, protected land and sites of special interest.\"\n\nThe wildfire affected a large area of land near Cannich\n\nIn a tweet, wildfire analyst Dr Thomas Smith, an associate professor at London School of Economics, described a \"monumental\" effort to bring the fire under control.\n\nAnalysis of the latest available satellite imagery by Dr Smith and others suggested the damage covered a smaller area than previously thought.\n\nMichael Bruce, of Aberdeenshire-based Firebreak Services Ltd, said a satellite used by the European Forest Fire Information System and EU's Copernicus programme indicated 2,426-acres (982 ha) was involved.\n\nBut he added it could amount to 2,718 acres (1,100 ha) because of hotspots outside the main area of the wildfire.\n\nMr Bruce said: \"It was a tremendous successful joint effort by SFRS and local landowners who managed to contain the fire to this size.\n\n\"It is always difficult to establish fire size quickly, with smoke and further spread happening, and the focus of the people at the scene is on tackling the fire.\"", "Phillip Schofield left his role on This Morning last week following reports of a rift with Holly Willoughby\n\nPhillip Schofield has quit ITV after admitting he had an affair with a younger male ITV employee and lied to cover it up.\n\nThe ex-This Morning host said the relationship with his junior colleague was \"unwise but not illegal\".\n\nIn a statement to the Daily Mail, Schofield said he \"met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television\".\n\nHe apologised for lying to colleagues, employers, the media and public.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said they were \"deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit\" made by Schofield and confirmed it had cut all ties with the host.\n\nIt means the 61-year-old will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which ITV had said last week they were developing with him.\n\nSchofield left his role at This Morning last week after reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nHe said his departure from the show was unrelated to the affair with the colleague, who the BBC is not naming.\n\nThe TV presenter was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time of the relationship. They separated in 2020, after Schofield came out as gay.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife, and for lying to his colleagues, agents, employers, friends, the media and the public.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife Stephanie Lowe (pictured in 2017)\n\nThe TV host said he would reflect on his \"very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it\".\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust.\n\n\"Phillip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\"\n\nHis announcement follows significant online speculation over several months about Schofield's personal relationships.\n\nTalent agency YMU has also cut ties with Schofield following his announcement about the affair.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the TV presenter said: \"It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.\"\n\nSome former ITV daytime figures, including Eamonn Holmes and Dan Wootton, have suggested the network has questions to answer about how much managers knew about the relationship and what action they took.\n\n\"I am making this statement via the Daily Mail to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story which they wanted to write about me a few days ago.\n\n\"The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\n\n\"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.\n\n\"When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody 'forced' me out. Neither I nor anyone else, to my knowledge, has ever issued an injunction, super or otherwise, about my relationship with this colleague, he was never moved on or sacked by or because of me.\n\n\"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.\n\n\"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.\n\n\"I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.\n\n\"I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.\n\n\"To protect his privacy, I am not naming this individual and my deepest wish is that both he and his family can now move on with their lives free from further intrusion, and that this statement will enable them to do so.\n\n\"I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected.\"\n\nSchofield's final appearance on This Morning was on Thursday 18 May. He announced his departure from the ITV daytime show that weekend.\n\nCover presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield at the start of Monday's programme.\n\nSchofield had presented This Morning show since 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009.\n\nWilloughby is currently on holiday but set to return to the show on Monday 5 June.\n\nEarlier this year, his brother Timothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby presented ITV's This Morning and Dancing on Ice together before his departure", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSevilla claimed a record-extending seventh Europa League title as they beat Roma on penalties at a raucous Puskas Arena in Budapest.\n\nGonzalo Montiel, who also scored the winning penalty for Argentina in the World Cup final against France, repeated the trick for the Spanish side following a 1-1 draw, with a retaken spot kick after Roger Ibanez and Gianluca Mancini had missed for Roma.\n\nThe Spanish side, have now won all seven of the finals they have played in the competition with captain Jesus Navas involved in their first triumph against Middlesbrough in 2006.\n\nTheir most recent sees them qualify for next season's Champions League despite finishing outside the top four in the La Liga.\n\nThere will be a feeling that it could have been so different for Roma and their manager Jose Mourinho, who had won all five of the previous European finals he had been involved in and guided the club to inaugural Europa Conference League success last term.\n\nMontiel's international teammate Paulo Dybala had deservedly put Roma in front during the first period, racing onto to Italy defender Mancini's incisive pass to expertly steer a low effort past Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou into the bottom right corner.\n\nHowever, the Serie A side, who also saw Leonardo Spinazzola test Bounou before the break, relinquished their control of a testy encounter which saw 14 players and coaches, including Mourinho booked.\n\nAnd Sevilla drew level 10 minutes after the break with Navas' cross from the right, deflecting off the unfortunate Mancini into his own net, as they repeatedly pressed forward for an equaliser.\n\nRoma arguably had the better opportunities to win the contest in normal time with Tammy Abraham and Ibanez unable to convert from close range and Andrea Belotti slicing wide from Lorenzo Pellegrini's clever free-kick.\n\nWhen Lucas Ocampos went down under a challenge from Ibanez, Sevilla appeared to have been handed a golden opportunity to go ahead but, after initially awarding a penalty, English referee Anthony Taylor overturned his decision following a video assistant referee review.\n\nThat set up a tense additional 30 minutes with Chris Smalling heading against the Sevilla crossbar 11 minutes into stoppage time at the end of extra time before the dramatic finale.\n• None History for Sevilla as 'tired' Mourinho throws medal into crowd\n• None Reaction as Sevilla beat Roma in the Europa League final\n\nSpecialists Sevilla get the job done\n\nIn a match that had been dubbed the 'The Specialists against The Special One', there was an air of inevitability about Sevilla's latest conquest of Europe's second-tier competition.\n\nWhile Mourinho's gamble to name Dybala - despite injury concerns - in his starting line-up for the first time since 13 April initially appeared to pay dividends, Sevilla grew stronger as the contest drew on.\n\nBut the Argentine's influence and fitness faded before his second-half substitution against a side that have looked transformed under Jose Luis Mendilibar's guidance.\n\nSevilla's third coach of the campaign has overseen a superb turnaround, helping the club from Andalusia stave off relegation concerns at home and eliminate both Manchester United and Juventus on their way to the final.\n\nRoma, who had won just one of four previous penalty shootouts in European competition, looked nervy from the spot having withdrawn several potential penalty takers including captain Lorenzo Pellegrini, Dybala and Abraham.\n\nBut there was a sense of calmness and conviction to Sevilla, who clinically dispatched all four of their efforts.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 1(4), Roma 1(1). Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty saved! Ibañez (Roma) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 1(3), Roma 1(1). Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Gianluca Mancini (Roma) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 1(2), Roma 1(1). Erik Lamela (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 1(1), Roma 1(1). Bryan Cristante (Roma) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Sevilla 1(1), Roma 1. Lucas Ocampos (Sevilla) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Bryan Cristante (Roma) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Chris Smalling (Roma) hits the bar with a header from the left side of the box. Assisted by Nicola Zalewski with a cross following a corner.\n• None Ibañez (Roma) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Rishi Sunak has said he made cooperation on combating illegal migration a priority at a meeting of European leaders in Moldova.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"putting tackling illegal migration top of the international agenda\", and the UK was \"taking the lead\".\n\nThe main focus of the European Political Community (EPC) summit was the Ukraine war.\n\nBut Mr Sunak was keen to show progress on one of his five domestic promises.\n\nBefore he arrived for the talks at a castle near the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, he warned that Europe was \"facing unprecedented threats at our border\".\n\nThe UK is beginning talks with Moldova, which has a population of 2.6 million, on an agreement to return migrants who arrive in the UK illegally.\n\nHowever, only three Moldovan nationals arrived in the UK on a small boat last year, according to Home Office statistics.\n\nA similar deal struck with Georgia has now come into force.\n\nAround 300 Georgians arrived in the UK on small boats in 2022, and 31 in the first three months of this year.\n\nThe EPC - championed by French President Emmanuel Macron - was formed in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nIt includes 47 European nations - including European Union (EU) member states, the UK, Turkey, Norway and Balkans countries outside the EU.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also at the summit, which was held less than 15 miles from his country's border.\n\nPresident Zelenksy, who called for Nato to give a clear commitment that Ukraine could join the Western defensive alliance, had talks with Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking at the summit, the prime minister agreed that Ukraine's \"rightful place\" was in Nato, but gave no detail on a path to membership.\n\nHe said the UK was working with its allies to ensure Ukraine had the \"combat air capability needed to repel ongoing Russian aggression\".\n\nThe first EPC meeting, in Prague last October, was attended by then-prime minister Liz Truss. The UK is due to host a summit next year.\n\nTweeting from Moldova, Mr Sunak said: \"We've already made migration agreements with Albania, France and the EU to stop the boats.\n\n\"This global issue requires collaboration and the UK is taking the lead.\"\n\nThe Times has reported that the UK is keen to increase cooperation with Turkey and Bulgaria as part of efforts to tackle small boats crossing the English Channel.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak said: \"Europe is facing unprecedented threats at our borders. From Putin's utter contempt of other countries' sovereignty to the rise in organised immigration crime across our continent.\n\n\"In every meeting, every summit, every international gathering like this, the security of our borders must be top of the agenda.\n\n\"The UK will be at the heart of this international effort to stop the boats and defend our national security.\"\n\nMoldova, which is wedged between the EU and Ukraine, is a former Soviet state, and while its government looks West, pro-Russian separatists control its Transnistria region.\n\nIt has accepted thousands of Ukrainian refugees, and the EPC has promised it more support.\n\nIn March, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced £10m funding for Moldova's energy sector, as well as economic and governance reforms.\n\nMr Macron has said the new club of nations offers \"a platform for political coordination\" for countries inside and outside the EU.\n\nBut the EPC has no institutions or dedicated staff. That has provoked questions about how any decisions would be implemented.", "The justice department is investigating Donald Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office\n\nUS prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of Donald Trump in which he acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House.\n\nCNN first reported that investigators had the tape, and people familiar with the matter later told the BBC's US partner CBS this was the case.\n\nThe justice department is investigating Mr Trump's handling of classified material. He denies wrongdoing.\n\nThe inquiry is reported to be nearing its end and could result in charges.\n\nThe audio recording is said to be from a meeting at Mr Trump's New Jersey golf club in July 2021, which is around six months after he left office.\n\nTwo people familiar with the matter told CBS that Mr Trump can be heard acknowledging there are national security restrictions on a military memo because it details a potential attack on Iran.\n\nHe says it is still classified and should have been declassified before leaving the White House, one person said.\n\nMr Trump also says he wants to share information from the document but knows his ability to declassify it is limited because he is no longer president, CNN reported.\n\nIt is not clear whether Mr Trump had the document during the meeting or was just describing it to several aides who were there. Other reports suggest the sound of rustling paper can be heard.\n\nThe tape appears to contradict Mr Trump's repeated argument that he declassified all material he removed from the White House. It could also prove to be a key piece of evidence if prosecutors seek to show the former president was aware he should not be in possession of classified documents.\n\nNeither the BBC or CBS News have listened to the audio and it has not been made public.\n\nIt has been handed over to justice department investigators who are being overseen by special prosecutor Jack Smith.\n\nTheir investigation, which has ramped up in recent weeks, is examining the removal of hundreds of classified government documents from the White House which were then taken to Mr Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after he left office.\n\nInvestigators are assessing how these documents were stored and who may have had access to them. They are also examining how his team responded to a request for security footage from his Florida estate.\n\nMr Smith will ultimately decide whether the former president should face criminal charges. Among other statutes, the justice department believes Mr Trump may have violated the Espionage Act by keeping national security information after he left office.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, faces several other legal investigations. He was recently indicted in New York over hush money payments made to a porn star. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nHe is also the subject of an investigation in Georgia over his alleged efforts to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.", "The New York Campus opened in September 2013\n\nA Scottish university that became the first in the UK to open a campus in New York is to end the arrangement.\n\nGlasgow Caledonian University (GCU) launched GCNYC in September 2013 but it struggled to attract students and was unable to award degrees until nearly four years after it opened.\n\nGCU said the campus had \"not reached its potential\" and that the university would look to exit New York.\n\nThe project was given £26.5m in loans and grants from the university.\n\nCritics have dubbed the campus a \"white elephant\" and there have been calls for an inquiry into what went wrong.\n\nA statement from GCU said: \"Despite the significant efforts of many staff in the UK and New York in building highly regarded academic programmes, GCNYC has to date not reached its potential.\n\n\"Following a discussion at the university court in February, it was agreed that the university would actively seek a partnership with another educational organisation, with a view to the partner ultimately acquiring GCNYC.\n\n\"Whilst a partnership is our preferred option for the college, in the event a partnership cannot be established, we will initiate a process to exit from New York.\"\n\nGCU said it was in talks with \"prestigious educational organisations\" about partnering in New York and as a result has paused all new student admissions.\n\nGCU's latest accounts show that £23.1m of a loan agreement with GCNYC has been drawn down to date.\n\nIn addition, a grant award of £3.4m was made to GCNYC by the university in 2021/22.\n\nThe New York campus was formally opened in April 2014 by the then first minister, Alex Salmond, and has attracted a number of high profile speakers and seminars.\n\nWhen Mr Salmond's replacement, Nicola Sturgeon, visited in June 2015, she described the campus as an \"absolutely fantastic development\" and praised the \"foresight\" of university leaders.\n\nThe three-year delay in being able to issue degree certificates came because of delays in gaining a licence to do so from the New York authorities.\n\nLabour MSP Jackie Baillie said: \"This is an ignominious end to a vanity project encouraged by the SNP government.\n\n\"At a time when university staff have felt forced to take industrial action, it is simply unfathomable that this white elephant was still going.\n\n\"This is a welcome end to an expensive and doomed project that should go down in history as a guide in how not to run a project of this nature.\"\n• None US campus has no degree students", "Dendrophylax lindenii has flowered for the first time in the UK\n\nA species of endangered orchid has flowered in the UK for the first time.\n\nDendrophylax lindenii, known as the Florida Ghost Orchid in the US and Cuba, has blossomed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, in Kew, south-west London.\n\nIt was flown into the UK from Chicago two weeks ago, with the bud displayed at Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nWhile awaiting Thursday's bloom, he said: \"This is a wonderful example of a successful collaborative conservation project, with several universities and botanic gardens in the USA working together for the greater good, highlighting the importance of orchid conservation around the world.\"\n\nThere are only about 1,500 ghost orchid plants left in south Florida and 500 in Cuba, Professor Fay said.\n\nAfter being included in the famous flower show, the orchid was donated to Kew Gardens, where it is on display in a terrarium in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.\n\nIt was germinated at the University of Florida in 2014, before it was donated to Chicago Botanic Garden.\n\nProf Fay said that orchids acted as a barometer for biodiversity loss and were often the first species to disappear when an ecosystem suffers.\n\n\"When a link in the chain breaks, orchids become endangered,\" he said.\n\nDendrophylax lindenii is recorded as \"endangered\" on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.\n\nThe population drastically declined when its host trees, 1,000-year-old bald cypresses, were logged in World War Two to provide lumber for aircraft carrier decks.\n\nKew Gardens has one of the oldest collections of living tropical orchids in the world, as well as more than 400,000 preserved specimens.\n\nEach year it hosts an Orchid Festival in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "It’s been a long evening. The repeated roll-calls of senators, to go through amendments, has given the impression of a slow pace.\n\nBut of course this legislation’s actually been expedited through the Senate due to Monday’s deadline.\n\nThat’s when the US Treasury says the country could run out of money to pay all its bills.\n\nSo this is, in relative terms, speedy stuff.\n\nBut watching these apparently calm proceedings unfold is somewhat at odds with the frantic political drama that’s played out in recent weeks.\n\nIt did seem, at points, as though a deal could prove elusive between senior Republicans and the White House.\n\nBut, as is often the way with political deals, an 11th-hour agreement was struck.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReferees' body PGMOL says it is appalled by the \"unjustified and abhorrent\" abuse directed at Anthony Taylor in Budapest Airport following Wednesday's Europa League final.\n\nThe Englishman had officiated the game, where Sevilla beat Roma on penalties after a 1-1 draw.\n\nTaylor and his family were then shouted at by angry fans at the airport.\n\nBudapest airport officials said an Italian citizen involved in the incident had been charged with affray.\n\nIn the video, which has been shared on social media, Taylor and his family are accosted by fans as they are escorted through the airport. Scuffles then break out as they disappear through a secure door and a chair is thrown.\n\nFollowing the game, Roma manager Jose Mourinho was seen in a car park confronting Taylor with a foul-mouthed rant.\n\nA Budapest Airport statement read: \"Fans of the losing Roma team recognised the referee in the food court of the airport, where he was waiting for his flight to depart.\n\n\"Thanks to the airport operator's close co-operation with the police and the increased police presence at the airport during the arrival and departure of the fans, the authorities intervened immediately, and the referee was escorted to a lounge and boarded his flight safely, accompanied by police officers.\n\n\"The Italian citizen involved in the incident was apprehended by the police and criminal proceedings have been initiated on charges of affray.\"\n\nPGMOL said in a statement: \"[We are] aware of videos circulating on social media showing Anthony Taylor and his family being harassed and abused at Budapest Airport.\n\n\"We are appalled at the unjustified and abhorrent abuse directed at Anthony and his family as he tries to make his way home from refereeing the Uefa Europa League final.\n\n\"We will continue to provide our full support to Anthony and his family.\"\n\nThe Premier League said it was \"shocked and appalled by the unacceptable abuse\" directed at Taylor and his family.\n\nA Premier League spokesperson added: \"No-one should have to suffer the inexcusable behaviour they had to endure.\n\n\"Anthony is one of our most experienced and accomplished match officials and we fully support him and his family.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, whose side play Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday, said: \"All referees have a really difficult job and shouldn't be put through any difficult situations. That's not correct.\"\n\nUefa is waiting for reports from match officials and delegates before deciding whether to take action against Mourinho over the incident in the car park under the stadium after the match.\n\nMourinho criticised Taylor in his news conference and he was later captured ranting and making pointed comments as Taylor and officials were boarding a minibus.\n\nThe Portuguese repeatedly swore and twice shouted about a \"disgrace\" before talking in Italian.\n\nUefa's chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti attempted to calm the situation down.\n\nMourinho was booked during an ill-tempered game, with Taylor repeatedly called to the benches to take action as fourth official Michael Oliver struggled to keep control.\n\nTaylor issued yellow cards to 13 players, the most bookings in a Europa League game. Seven of them were to Roma players, a record for a final.\n\nDelays and injuries saw more than 25 minutes of injury time played across the four halves of the game, which went to extra time and then a shootout.\n\n'Mourinho should be banned for 10 games'\n\nFormer Premier League referee Keith Hackett called on Uefa to give Mourinho a 10-game ban and take tougher action against clubs.\n\n\"What is appalling here is that a referee has gone out and done his job,\" Hackett told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It is a prestigious game for him - for an English referee to be appointed to the final.\n\n\"He was looking forward to that. He spent years of refereeing to get to the level he is at. He is a world-class referee. He delivers a very difficult game without much contention and then he is faced with this particular problem as he is in the airport.\n\n\"It is unprecedented and Uefa have got to take action.\n\n\"The sanction for Mourinho? They have got to come down with a 10-game ban.\n\n\"They have also got to ban the teams from Europe. They have got to be tough; throw them out of the competition.\"\n\nHackett said Uefa must take \"responsibility for the security of match officials right up to the time that they leave the airport\".", "Evidence of potential human rights abuses may be lost after being deleted by tech companies, the BBC has found.\n\nPlatforms remove graphic videos, often using artificial intelligence - but footage that may help prosecutions can be taken down without being archived.\n\nMeta and YouTube say they aim to balance their duties to bear witness and protect users from harmful content.\n\nBut Alan Rusbridger, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board, says the industry has been \"overcautious\" in its moderation.\n\nThe platforms say they do have exemptions for graphic material when it is in the public interest - but when the BBC attempted to upload footage documenting attacks on civilians in Ukraine, it was swiftly deleted.\n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) can remove harmful and illegal content at scale. When it comes to moderating violent images from wars, however, machines lack the nuance to identify human rights violations.\n\nIhor Zakharenko, a former travel journalist, encountered this in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion he has been documenting attacks on civilians.\n\nThe BBC met him in a suburb of Kyiv where one year ago men, women and children had been shot dead by Russian troops while trying to flee occupation.\n\nHe filmed the bodies - at least 17 of them - and burnt-out cars.\n\nHe wanted to post the videos online so the world would see what happened and to counter the Kremlin's narrative. But when he uploaded them to Facebook and Instagram they were swiftly taken down.\n\n\"Russians themselves were saying those were fakes, [that] they didn't touch civilians, they fought only with the Ukrainian army,\" Ihor said.\n\nWe uploaded Ihor's footage on to Instagram and YouTube using dummy accounts.\n\nInstagram took down three of the four videos within a minute.\n\nAt first, YouTube applied age restrictions to the same three, but 10 minutes later removed them all.\n\nVideos documenting Russian attacks on civilians were taken down within minutes\n\nWe tried again - but they failed to upload altogether. An appeal to restore the videos on the basis that they included evidence of war crimes was rejected.\n\nKey figures within the industry say there is an urgent need for social media companies to prevent this kind of information from vanishing.\n\n\"You can see why they have developed and train their machines to, the moment they see something that looks difficult or traumatic, to take it down,\" Mr Rusbridger told the BBC. The Meta Oversight Board that he sits on was set up by Mark Zuckerberg and is known as a kind of independent \"supreme court\" for the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram.\n\n\"I think the next question for them is how do we develop the machinery, whether that's human or AI, to then make more reasonable decisions,\" Mr Rusbridger, a former editor-in-chief of the Guardian, adds.\n\nNo-one would deny tech firms' right to police content, says US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaak: \"I think where the concern happens is when that information suddenly disappears.\"\n\nAtrocities from war are being documented on social media. This material can be used as evidence to help prosecute war crimes. But the BBC has spoken to people affected by violent conflict who have seen the major social media companies take down this content.\n\nYouTube and Meta say that under their exemptions for graphic war footage in the public interest, content that would normally be removed can be kept online with viewing restricted to adults. But our experiment with Ihor's videos suggest otherwise.\n\nMeta says it responds \"to valid legal requests from law enforcement agencies around the world\" and \"we continue to explore additional avenues to support international accountability processes… consistent with our legal and privacy obligations\".\n\nYouTube says that while it has exemptions for graphic content in the public interest, the platform is not an archive. It says, \"Human rights organisations; activists, human rights defenders, researchers, citizen journalists and others documenting human rights abuses (or other potential crimes) should observe best practices for securing and preserving their content.\"\n\nThe BBC also spoke to Imad, who owned a pharmacy in Aleppo, Syria, until a Syrian government barrel bomb landed nearby in 2013.\n\nHe recalls how the blast filled the room with dust and smoke. Hearing cries for help, he went to the market outside and saw hands, legs and dead bodies covered in blood.\n\nLocal TV crews captured these scenes. The footage was posted on YouTube and Facebook but has subsequently been taken down.\n\nIn the mayhem of the conflict, Syrian journalists told the BBC their own recordings of the original footage were also destroyed in bombing raids.\n\nYears later, when Imad was applying for asylum in the EU, he was asked to provide documents that proved he was at the scene.\n\n\"I was sure that my pharmacy was captured on camera. But when I went online, it was taking me to a deleted video.\"\n\nIn response to this sort of incident, organisations like Mnemonic, a Berlin-based human rights organisation, have stepped in to archive footage before it disappears.\n\nMnemonic developed a tool to automatically download and save evidence of human rights violations - first in Syria and now in Yemen, Sudan and Ukraine.\n\nThey have saved more than 700,000 images from war zones before they were removed from social media, including three videos showing the attack near Imad's pharmacy.\n\nEach image might hold a key clue to uncover what really transpired on the battlefield - the location, the date or the perpetrator.\n\nBut organisations like Mnemonic cannot cover every area of conflict around the world.\n\nProving that war crimes have been committed is incredibly hard - so getting as many sources as possible is vital.\n\n\"Verification is like solving a puzzle - you put together seemingly unrelated pieces of information to build a bigger picture of what happened,\" says BBC Verify's Olga Robinson.\n\nThe task of archiving open-source material - available to pretty much anyone on social media - often falls to people with a mission to help their relatives caught up in violent conflict.\n\nRahwa says it is her \"duty\" to archive open-source material from the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia\n\nRahwa lives in the United States and has family in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which has been wracked with violence in recent years, and where the authorities in Ethiopia tightly control the flow of information.\n\nHowever, social media means there is a visual record of a conflict that might otherwise remain hidden from the outside world.\n\n\"It was our duty,\" says Rahwa. \"I spent hours doing research, and so when you're seeing this content trickle in you're trying to verify using all the open-source intelligence tools you can get your hands on, but you don't know if your family is OK.\"\n\nHuman rights campaigners say there is an urgent need for a formal system to gather and safely store deleted content. This would include preserving metadata to help verify the content and prove it hasn't been tampered with.\n\nMs Van Schaak, the US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice, says: \"We need to create a mechanism whereby that information can be preserved for potential future accountability exercises. Social media platforms should be willing to make arrangements with accountability mechanisms around the world.\"\n\nRead more about BBC Verify: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEuro 2022 top scorer Beth Mead is not included in England's Women's World Cup squad, having not fully recovered from an anterior cruciate ligament injury.\n\nThe Arsenal forward, 27, has not played since November and was a major doubt.\n\nTottenham striker Beth England, who has not been involved since last summer, is included having scored 12 goals in her past 12 Women's Super League games.\n\nChelsea centre-back Millie Bright, who has been out with a knee injury since March, has made the 23-player squad.\n\nEngland head coach Sarina Wiegman confirmed Bright would captain the team in the absence of injured defender Leah Williamson.\n\nMidfielder Fran Kirby was also already ruled out through injury, but Barcelona defender Lucy Bronze is in despite having knee surgery in April.\n\nWiegman said she did not ever think there was a chance Mead would be fit in time for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"She's so positive and going well, but the timescale she had we would have taken so many risks to get to the World Cup,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"I'm not willing to take that risk to push her too much and she gets injured again. We need to take care of players.\"\n\nThere is no place for Manchester United forward Nikita Parris or defender Maya le Tissier, but Le Tissier has been placed on standby, alongside uncapped goalkeeper Emily Ramsey and forward Jess Park.\n\nManchester City defender Steph Houghton, who captained England for eight years, has not been called up despite injuries in defence leading to some calls for her return.\n\nMidfielder Laura Coombs is one of six players in the squad who will be going to their first major tournament, along with Chelsea pair Lauren James and Niamh Charles, Manchester City's Esme Morgan, Manchester United's Katie Zelem and Brighton's Katie Robinson.\n\nEngland play Haiti in their opening match on 22 July in Australia.\n\nWiegman said her decision to leave out Le Tissier, 21, was one of the hardest to make because of competition in defensive positions, where there is lots of versatility.\n\nShe has just two caps for England but has impressed at centre-back for United this season.\n\nLe Tissier, Ramsey and Park will train with the squad at St George's Park in June. Goalkeeper Ramsey will leave the group prior to departure for Australia.\n\n\"Of course [Le Tissier] was really close,\" said Wiegman. \"That was a hard call. With all the defenders we had to think about it.\n\n\"She just didn't get there. She has had a very good season at Manchester United.\"\n\nWhile there was bitter disappointment for Le Tissier, England received her first call up for a year and was rewarded for her goalscoring form since making the January switch from Chelsea.\n\n\"She is selected because of her performances. She was at Chelsea and didn't build that much credit because we hardly saw her play,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"But then she made a move, and how she did, performed and the resilience she showed made us make the decision to get her in the squad.\"\n\n'Bright will be fine as captain'\n\nAside from selection, another talking point was who would take over the captaincy from Williamson in her injury absence.\n\nBright was named vice-captain for Euro 2022 and Wiegman confirmed she will wear the armband in Australia.\n\n\"I haven't told her she would be the captain, that's how we've been all the time,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"Where she is at right now in her rehab, we haven't really spoken about it yet. She will be fine, she has done it before.\"\n\nAnother question was whether Aston Villa forward Rachel Daly, who was the WSL's Player of the Season and top goalscorer, would play up front in the tournament having started every game at left-back at Euro 2022.\n\n\"Yes, she can, like some other players. She has had a very good season and done really well,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"She has played for us as a number nine and at the back. Her versatility helps the team.\"\n\nWiegman's decision to name 23 players is also different from last summer's home Euros, where she had a longlist of 28 names initially.\n\n\"It has to do with the timescale and going to the other side of the world,\" said Wiegman.\n\n\"While we were in England we could have training all the time and give clarity. Now we have a holiday then go quickly to Australia. So we wanted to have clarity on that.\"", "Sean \"Diddy\" Combs at the 2023 Met Gala in New York earlier in May\n\nRapper Sean Combs, known as Diddy, has accused drinks giant Diageo of breaking the terms of their business partnership and neglecting the tequila brand they bought together because he is black.\n\nIn a complaint filed in New York, he said the company invested in competing brands, while depriving DeLeon Tequila the same level of support.\n\nHe also said Diageo limited the drinks' distribution to \"urban\" neighbourhoods.\n\nDiageo denied the allegations and said it would defend itself \"vigorously\".\n\n\"This is a business dispute, and we are saddened that Mr Combs has chosen to recast this matter as anything other than that,\" a spokesman for the company said in a statement.\n\n\"Our steadfast commitment to diversity within our company and the communities we serve is something we take very seriously.\"\n\nThe lawsuit comes after years of partnership between UK-based Diageo and Mr Combs, who rose to fame as a music executive and rapper in the 1990s before branching out into acting and other business ventures.\n\nDiageo, owner of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray, approached him to help market the company's Ciroc vodka in 2007.\n\nTogether they bought DeLeon Tequila in 2013, but the complaint accused Diageo of quickly falling short of its commitments for distribution, investment and brand positioning.\n\nMr Combs' company, Combs Wines & Spirits, said there was a pattern of \"racial typecasting\", pointing to disputes that Diageo has had with other black business partners.\n\n\"This case is not an ordinary contract dispute in which a party chooses to disregard its contractual promises due to greed and profit,\" the firm said in the filing.\n\n\"Rather, and similar to the realities experienced by many people of colour in the United States, Diageo's treatment of its business relationship with Mr Combs was tainted by racial prejudices.\"\n\nThe lawsuit cites a 2019 conversation in which a Diageo executive allegedly said Mr Combs's brands would be more widespread had he been \"Martha Stewart\", among other decisions.\n\nThe DeLeon brand is also currently sold in less than 4% of possible outlets compared with more than a third for Diageo's competing Casamigos and Don Julio tequilas, the complaint said.\n\nDespite being repeatedly confronted over the issues, Diageo failed to repair the situation, Combs Wine & Spirits alleged.\n\nIt said Mr Combs intends to take separate legal action to request billions of dollars in damages and has asked the court to order the firm to \"provide the equal treatment that it has contractually promised\".\n\nDiaego said it was \"disappointed our efforts to resolve this business dispute amicably have been ignored and that Mr. Combs has chosen to damage a productive and valued partnership\".\n\n\"For more than 15 years, we've had a productive and mutually beneficial relationship with Mr. Combs on various business ventures, making significant investments that have resulted in financial success for all involved,\" the company said.\n\n\"While we respect Mr. Combs as an artist and entrepreneur, his allegations lack merit, and we are confident the facts will show that he has been treated fairly.\"", "British Airways has been fined $1.1m (£878,000) by the US government over claims it failed to pay refunds for cancelled flights during the pandemic.\n\nThe US Department of Transportation said the airline had not provided \"timely refunds to passengers\" for abandoned or rescheduled flights to and from the country.\n\nIt said it had received more than 1,200 complaints about the airline.\n\nBA rejected the claims, saying it had \"acted lawfully at all times\".\n\nAccording to the transport department, from March to November 2020, BA's website instructed consumers to contact the carrier by phone to discuss refund options, including for flights the carrier had cancelled or significantly changed.\n\nHowever, consumers were unable to get through to customer service agents when calling the carrier for several months during this period because BA failed to maintain adequate functionality of its customer service phone lines , it said.\n\n\"There was also no way to submit a refund request through the carrier's website during this period,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that from March to November 2020, misleading information on BA's website had led consumers to inadvertently request travel vouchers instead of refunds.\n\nIt said that along with the 1,200 complaints received by the department, BA had received thousands more complaints and refund requests directly from consumers.\n\nThe department said the failures had \"caused significant challenges and delays in thousands of consumers receiving required refunds\".\n\nIt added that the fine established a \"strong deterrent to future similar unlawful practices\".\n\nBA will be credited $550,000 towards the penalty because it paid more than $40m in refunds to customers with non-refundable tickets in 2020 and 2021.\n\nThe airline said: \"We're very sorry that at the height of the unprecedented pandemic - when we were unfortunately forced to cancel thousands of flights and close some call centres due to government restrictions - our customers experienced slightly longer wait times to reach customer service teams.\n\n\"During this period, we acted lawfully at all times and offered customers the flexibility of rebooking travel on different dates, or claiming a refund if their flights were cancelled.\n\n\"To date, we have issued more than five million refunds since the start of the pandemic.\"", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in an electric bike crash\n\nTwo boys who died after an electric bike crash that sparked a riot suffered head injuries, a coroner has been told.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and his friend Harvey Evans, 15, died on Snowden Road, Ely, in Cardiff shortly after 18:00 BST on 22 May.\n\nThey were found by a member of the public, Pontypridd Coroner's Court heard.\n\nTheir deaths led to a riot, with cars set alight and police officers attacked.\n\nThe boys were seen riding an electric bike on the road, coroner Patricia Morgan was told.\n\n\"A short time later, both were found by a member of the public having come off the bike,\" the inquest into their deaths heard.\n\nPost-mortem examinations found the provisional cause of death for Kyrees to be \"blunt injury to the head,\" while Harvey died as a result of \"blunt injury to the head and trunk\".\n\nThe coroner said the deaths were \"violent or unnatural\" and an inquest was required, but adjourned for an ongoing police investigation to be concluded.\n\nCars were overturned and set on fire during a riot that saw injuries to 15 police officers\n\nNine people were arrested for allegedly taking part in the riot.\n\nOne of the boys' aunts said police are to blame for the crash.\n\n\"They were two children who were chased to their death by South Wales Police,\" said Hayley Murphy, aunt of Harvey.\n\nHarvey's aunt and grandmother described him as cheeky but loveable\n\nPolice admitted officers had been following the boys before the crash, but said only the bike was involved in the fatal incident.\n\nCCTV from minutes before the crash showed a police van driving at a distance behind the two boys, but the force said its nearest vehicle was half a mile away when the bike crashed.\n\nAbout 800 family, friends and members of the wider community of Ely attended a vigil and balloon release for the two boys last Friday evening.\n\nMs Murphy told the BBC after the vigil: \"It still doesn't seem real that we're here for Harvey and Kyrees.\"\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nShe also revealed the electric bike was an early 16th birthday present.\n\nHarvey's grandmother, Dawn Rees, said Harvey and Kyrees \"did everything together, they loved each other like brothers\".\n\n\"[Kyrees] was lovely. If I needed milk he went to the shop for me, always asking if I needed anything. A lovely boy,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Joe Biden is \"fine\" after tripping and falling over at an event in Colorado, White House officials say.\n\nHe stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony for the US Air Force Academy.\n\nMr Biden, who is the nation's oldest serving president at 80, was helped back onto his feet and appeared to be unhurt after Thursday's fall.\n\n\"I got sandbagged!\" the president joked to reporters as he arrived back at the White House that evening.\n\nHe had been standing for about an hour and a half to shake hands with each of the 921 graduating cadets.\n\nFootage shows Mr Biden appearing to point at one of two sandbags used to prop up his teleprompter as he was helped up by an Air Force official and two members of his Secret Service detail.\n\nHe was seen walking back to his seat unassisted and later jogging back to his motorcade when the ceremony ended.\n\n\"There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands,\" White House communications director Ben LaBolt wrote on Twitter. \"He's fine.\"\n\nWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Mr Biden had boarded the plane flashing \"a big smile\", although one reporter noted that he did not take questions before the flight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCritics have said Mr Biden is too old to run for a second term as president.\n\nRecent polls suggest a majority of US voters are concerned about his advanced age. He would be 82 at the start of a second term if he wins.\n\nThis fall, in addition to previous stumbles from his bicycle and on the way up the Air Force One stairs, could add to those concerns.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner to face Mr Biden in the 2024 White House election, reacted to the incident from a campaign event in Iowa, saying \"the whole thing is crazy\".\n\n\"I hope he wasn't hurt,\" said Mr Trump, 76, who has often poked fun at Mr Biden's age. \"That's not inspiring.\"\n\n\"You got to be careful about that because you don't - you don't want that. Even if you have to tip toe down the ramp,\" added Mr Trump, apparently referring to his own careful walk off a stage that made headlines in 2020.\n\nHe said at the time that the ramp at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, was slippery, and brushed aside the ensuing media questions about his own health as fake news.\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis, another 2024 contender for the Republican nomination, also reacted to the fall during a campaign event in New Hampshire: \"We hope and wish Joe Biden a swift recovery from any injuries he may have sustained.\n\n\"But we also wish the United States of America a swift recovery from the injuries it has sustained because of Joe Biden and his policies.\"\n\nMr Biden's last physical examination took place in February.\n\nWhite House physician Dr Kevin O'Connor wrote at the time: \"The President remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations.\"\n\nDr O'Connor added that Mr Biden walks with a \"stiffened gait\", largely caused by wear and tear on his spine and nerve damage in his feet, but that his condition was unchanged from a previous physical in November 2021.\n\nMr Biden is hardly the first commander-in-chief to lose his footing in front of the cameras.\n\nPresident Barack Obama tripped walking up stairs at a 2012 event, while President Gerald Ford fell down the stairs of Air Force One in 1975.", "The project to build the two CalMac ferries is £200m over budget and six years behind schedule\n\nBosses at the troubled Clyde shipyard building two delayed and over-budget ferries will continue to receive bonus payments, MSPs have been told.\n\nIt emerged earlier this year that six executives at the nationalised Ferguson yard were awarded a total of £87,000.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has previously said he was angry about the payments and that bonuses should not be paid in future.\n\nBut the yard's chairman said the payments were \"contractual\".\n\nAndrew Miller told Holyrood's Public Audit Committee that without such payments \"the future of Ferguson Marine yard is at risk\" and described them as \"retention payments\".\n\nHe said they would need to continue to be paid \"because they're contractual, they're points of law and it is very difficult to say to somebody that we are just pulling that from your contract\".\n\nMr Miller added: \"It is very important we find the talent for the senior management. It is also very important we retain the talent for the senior management, in terms of completing our journey towards eventual profitability in our five-year plan.\n\n\"That is all very important to achieve. We have got to be competitive.\"\n\nIn a report to the Scottish Parliament in March, public spending watchdog the auditor general said it was \"unacceptable\" the bonus payments to the six executives in the 2021/22 financial year had not been cleared by the Scottish government.\n\nThe report added: \"There was a lack of transparency and good governance around the assessment and approval of these payments\".\n\nThe money is understood to have been paid under former turnaround director Tim Hair, who was recruited by the government after the yard was nationalised in 2019.\n\nMr Yousaf said in April that he \"shared the anger\" at the payments being made and that \"for any future discussion or consideration of bonuses, I have made it clear there should not be bonuses paid\" in relation to the two ferries.\n\nResponding to Mr Miller's comments, a Scottish government spokesman said the bonus arrangements were signed off by the Ferguson Marine board without its knowledge.\n\nHe added: \"The first minister previously made clear his anger at these payments and had sought advice as to whether they could be stopped.\n\n\"However - as we have already outlined - they form part of legacy employment contracts meaning they have been contractually unavoidable.\"\n\nA review of remuneration and reward arrangements for 2023/24 is being carried out in consultation with the government and is expected to conclude by the end of July.\n\nThere has been controversy over salaries and bonuses paid to senior staff at the Ferguson yard since it was nationalised\n\nThe two CalMac ferries - the Glen Sannox and another boat currently known as Hull 802 - were ordered in 2015 when Ferguson Marine (FMEL) was owned by Jim McColl, a pro-independence businessman who had rescued the Port Glasgow yard from administration a year earlier.\n\nThe project soon ran into trouble, with the yard being taken over by the Scottish government in 2019, and the ships are now more than £200m overbudget and due to be delivered six years later than originally planned.\n\nMr McColl and the government-owned ferry procurement agency CMAL have each blamed each other for the problems.\n\nThe committee also heard from David Tydeman, the CEO of Ferguson Marine, who insisted that the \"gravy train\" at the shipyard had ended.\n\nMr Tydeman was told by Scottish Conservative MSP Craig Hoy that workers believed people had been taking big salaries and big bonuses while \"not necessarily contributing to the health and wellbeing of the yard\".\n\nMr Hoy asked: \"Can you say, hand on heart, that gravy train culture has come to an end now?\"\n\nThe chief executive replied: \"Yes. I am very determined that it does come to an end and I have reduced the payroll costs by about £3m in the last 12 months.\"\n\nHis predecessor, Mr Hair, had an annual salary of about £790,000 a year. He got rid of Mr McColl's senior management team and his design consultants Vera Navis, and appointed new design consultants ICE, who are based in Romania.\n\nMr Tydeman, in comparison, has a basic annual salary of £205,000 with a 30% \"at risk\" element that depends on performance.\n\nHe told the committee that it was clear to him when he took the top job at Ferguson Marine in February last year that the planned delivery dates in 2022 and 2023 respectively for the Glen Sannox and Hull 802 were not achievable.\n\nHe said he believed this was the result of management mistakes by FMEL before it went into administration - but equally because of mistakes by Scottish government-owned company FMPG after the yard was nationalised in 2019.\n\nHe added: \"In summary, my view remains that the increases came from four almost equal parts - mistakes by FMEL, mistakes by FMPG and from the pricing and time impacts.\"\n\nBut he said the yard remained \"firmly targeted on delivering Glen Sannox before the end of this year and 802 before the end of next year\".\n\nMr Tydeman also expressed confidence in the future of the yard, telling the committee that the current UK shipbuilding market was the most buoyant he had seen in his 40-year career, with demand exceeding capacity.\n\nHe said: \"There is more than £250m of suitable work for Ferguson over the next five years from BAE and the CMAL small ferry programme.\n\n\"This combination creates really positive opportunities for us to get back on track and be competitive. I am pleased to advise that work has started with BAE at the Ferguson Port Glasgow yard and this is making a big difference to morale on site.\"", "The video on social media shows the driver pointing what appears to be a gun at a man in the passenger seat\n\nA Belfast taxi firm has terminated the employment of a driver over a video which shows him with a suspected firearm.\n\nPolice have said they are investigating the circumstances of the video.\n\nIn the video posted on social media, a driver for FonaCab points what appears to be a gun at another man in the front passenger seat of his car.\n\nAt one point the driver hits the other man in the face with it.\n\nThe footage appears to have been taken from a dashcam inside the taxi.\n\nThe BBC has identified the location in the background as a car park in Holywood, County Down.\n\nIn a statement, FonaCab told BBC News NI it was made aware of dashcam footage of an incident involving a FonaCab driver about 23:00 BST on 31 May.\n\n\"The driver was identified and called this morning to present at the earliest opportunity/ASAP to FonaCab Head Office, at which time he was interviewed and his relationship with FonaCab immediately terminated,\" it said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Belfast taxi firm said it was liaising with the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) Northern Ireland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and any further action would be determined by them.\n\n\"Our investigation was completed and our action taken before the footage was released on social media,\" the firm said.\n\n\"Due to the nature of the content of the footage, it would be inappropriate to make any further comment on the footage while other investigations are undertaken.\"\n\nFonaCab added that its staff receive the same training and vetting as all taxi drivers in Northern Ireland and it expects them to maintain high standards.\n\n\"We do not tolerate incidents like this where safety is compromised, standards are not upheld, or the company and our drivers are called into disrepute.\"\n\nPolice have said they are \"aware of a video circulating online showing a man with a suspected firearm and have launched an investigation\".", "Madeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nSeveral objects were found during a search of a Portuguese reservoir in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, German officials say.\n\nIt was too early to confirm whether the items, which are being analysed, are connected to the missing Briton, Braunschweig prosecutors added.\n\nPortuguese police helped by their German counterparts, searched the Arade reservoir in Portugal last week.\n\nMadeleine disappeared from a holiday complex in the Algarve in May 2007.\n\nPolice say their investigation into 46-year-old German national Christian Brueckner, who has been named as an \"arguido\" or official suspect, is expected to continue for some time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Daniel Sandford was at the reservoir in Portugal after the police search ended\n\nChristian Wolters, prosecutor for the city of Braunschweig, said the items found in Portugal would be examined over the coming weeks.\n\n\"We thank all officers who participated in the search. The co-operation between the Portuguese police, the British officers and the German federal police was outstanding and very constructive,\" he added.\n\nHeavy machinery, sniffer dogs and pickaxes were used during the three-day search - which came at the request of German investigators who believe convicted sex offender Brueckner is the prime suspect in her disappearance.\n\nHe is currently serving a prison sentence in Germany for the 2005 rape of a woman on the Algarve. Brueckner lived in the region between 1995 and 2007, say police.\n\nThe Arade lake is 31 miles (50km) from where Madeleine went missing while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz.\n\nBrueckner is thought to have often travelled in his Volkswagen T3 camper van to the reservoir - which is known to have been used as an unofficial camping spot.\n\nThe German denies any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance, saying he was \"miles away\" at the time.\n\nMadeleine was three-years-old when she vanished from the holiday complex where she had been on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann on 3 May 2007.\n\nThey left her and her younger twin siblings asleep in their apartment while they went out to dinner with friends.\n\nLast month, the McCann family marked the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".", "Amazon is to pay $25m (£20m) to settle allegations that it violated children's privacy rights with its Alexa voice assistant.\n\nThe company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it was accused of failing to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents.\n\nIt was found to have kept hold of sensitive data for years.\n\nAmazon's doorbell camera unit Ring will also pay out after giving employees unrestricted access to customers' data.\n\nRing will pay $5.8m to authorities, according to a filing in federal court in the District of Columbia.\n\nAccording to the FTC complaint regarding Alexa, Amazon \"prominently and repeatedly assured its users, including parents, that they could delete voice recordings collected\" by the system.\n\nBut the company did not do this, keeping data for years and using it unlawfully to help improve its Alexa algorithm, the complaint said.\n\nIn a statement, Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, accused Amazon of \"misleading parents, keeping children's recordings indefinitely, and flouting parents' deletion requests\".\n\nThe company \"sacrificed privacy for profits\", he added.\n\nSimilarly, the FTC said Ring - which Amazon bought in 2018 - allowed \"thousands of employees and contractors\" to watch recordings of customers' private spaces.\n\nThey were able to view and download customers' sensitive video data for their own purposes, the body said.\n\nAmazon told the BBC in a statement that \"Ring promptly addressed the issues at hand on its own years ago, well before the FTC began its inquiry\".\n\nBut according to the complaint, one employee viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that \"surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms\".\n\nThe employee was only stopped once their actions were spotted by a colleague, it said.\n\n\"Ring's disregard for privacy and security exposed consumers to spying and harassment,\" Mr Levine said. \"The FTC's order makes clear that putting profit over privacy doesn't pay.\"\n\nAmazon said: \"While we disagree with the FTC's claims regarding both Alexa and Ring, and deny violating the law, these settlements put these matters behind us.\"\n\nThe company added that it will continue to invent more privacy features on behalf of customers.", "Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human remains in a ravine outside the western city of Guadalajara.\n\nOfficials were searching for seven young call centre workers, who had been reported missing last week, when they found the bodies.\n\nThe remains include men and women, and the number of bodies is not yet known.\n\nThe search is expected to continue for several days because of difficult terrain and poor lighting.\n\nThe state prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco said in a statement that, following a tip-off in the search for the seven people, they had begun searching at the Mirador del Bosque ravine where they found the bags that included body parts.\n\nFirefighters and civil defence were working with police and a helicopter crew to recover the remains.\n\nThe first bag was found on Tuesday, but because of the difficult terrain and lack of sunlight, the investigation resumed on Wednesday and will continue until all remains are located, the prosecutor's office said.\n\nOfficials said they would continue working to determine the number of dead bodies, who they were, and their causes of death.\n\nIt added that it would continue trying to establish the whereabouts of the seven people reported as missing.\n\nAlthough it has not yet been established how the bodies ended up in the ravine, crimes of disappearance are relatively common in Mexico.\n\nMore than 100,000 people are missing, government figures suggest, with many being victims of organised crime. Perpetrators are rarely punished.\n\nGovernment data shows that many disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his \"war on drugs\".\n\nThree quarters of those reported missing were men and one fifth were under the age of 18 at the time of their disappearance.\n\nRelatives of the disappeared say that the government is not doing enough to find them, and that officials are indifferent when they report their loved ones as missing.\n\nThe United Nations has called it \"a human tragedy of enormous proportions\".\n\nJalisco is the heartland of a violent drug war, and some of the most powerful groups operating there include the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), and their rival, Nueva Plaza, which split from the CJNG in 2017, sparking violence across Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state.", "We're going to end our live coverage now after today's police press conference on yesterday's incident at Bournemouth beach.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy died after being pulled from the sea, while eight others were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nYou can read all the key details in our main story here.\n\nUpdates were written by Thomas Mackintosh and Malu Cursino, and the page was edited by me.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Debt advisors will no longer be allowed to receive a fee for referring people to debt solution companies.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) banned the fees after finding some companies were putting them ahead of customers' best interests.\n\nThe average fee advisors received for an individual voluntary arrangement (IVAs) referral in 2019-2020 was £940.\n\nA homeless client was recommended an IVA costing £6,000, but could have been debt-free for £90, the FCA found.\n\nCitizens Advice said banning referral fees was \"a big step towards tackling the way some firms prey on and profit from people struggling with debt\".\n\nThe FCA said the ban applied to \"debt packagers\" which are regulated providers of debt advice, who typically do not offer debt solutions themselves. They will no longer be able to receive referral fees paid by debt solution companies.\n\nFor some people, there is little or no chance of paying off debts, and so they may have to consider some form of personal insolvency.\n\nAn individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) - is an agreement with creditors to pay debt.\n\nThe individual agrees to make regular affordable payments to an insolvency practitioner, who will divide this money between creditors. At the end of an IVA any unsecured debt left is written off.\n\nDebt Relief Orders (DRO) freeze debt repayments and interest for 12 months if the money owed is less than £30,000 and the individual does not own a property. In that time, creditors cannot recover their money without the court's permission. At the end of the 12 months the debt is written off.\n\nA typical IVA can cost anything up to £3,600 over a customer's lifetime while DROs can be less than £100.\n\nThe regulator said this business model \"incentivises bad advice\" and meant that companies recommend options that make them more money, rather than what is in the customer's best interest.\n\nThe FCA said it had seen evidence of debt packagers appearing to manipulate customers' details so that they meet the criteria for IVAs and using persuasive language to promote products without explaining the risks involved.\n\nIn some of the worst cases identified, the FCA found evidence of customers in financial hardship who were recommended solutions which caused more problems.\n\nOne customer was recommended an IVA by a debt packager when a different solution would have been more suitable. This cost them an extra £4,710 compared with a DRO and meant it would take five years longer to become debt free, the FCA said.\n\nMatthew Upton, acting executive director of advocacy and policy at Citizens Advice said: \"Inaccurate or misleading advice from providers promoting Individual Voluntary Agreements can push people further into hardship and further away from a lasting solution to their problems.\"\n\nHe called on the government to bring all pre-IVA advice under the regulation of the FCA, \"so that people can be sure it's the right solution for them\".\n\nSheldon Mills, executive director of consumers and competition at the FCA, said: \"Good quality debt advice is vital in helping people out of financial difficulty and poor advice can have a devastating impact on those who are already struggling.\"\n\nExisting debt packager firms will need to develop a new way of doing business by October this year or face regulatory action, the regulator said.\n\nThe ban comes into effect immediately for new entrants to the debt packager market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Rogers has had to wear a prosthetic breast for six years after surgery delays\n\nA breast cancer survivor has said she feels \"cast aside\" due to reconstructive surgery being postponed three times this year.\n\nKaren Rogers, 57, from Magor, Monmouthshire, was given a mastectomy six years ago, but delays mean she is still waiting.\n\nShe said the wait affects everything from the clothes she wears to the way she hugs people.\n\nThe Welsh government said some cancer services were taking longer to recover.\n\nMs Rogers said: \"I know it's a lump of flesh and there are people going through far worse things.\"\n\n\"But I just want to look normal. It won't be a normal boob when I get it - it'll be lumpy and bumpy - but it will be mine. I'll be back to some sort of the old Karen.\"\n\nMs Rogers's surgery was already delayed several times before the three postponements in 2023.\n\nAfter the mastectomy on her left breast in December 2016, reconstruction was deferred until after cancer treatment.\n\nShe then needed stomach surgery to rule out a specific growth, and once she recovered, the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nProsthetic breasts can help women disguise the surgery they've had following a mastectomy, but don't always stay in position\n\nThe surgery, known as deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP), is only performed in one Welsh health board - Swansea Bay - and takes skin from the stomach to create a new breast.\n\nOperations deferred by the Covid pandemic restarted last year.\n\nBut a planned nurses' strike, concerns over Ms Rogers's white blood cell count and another patient needing an immediate reconstruction has led to more waiting.\n\nWhile she said priority must be given to cancer patients, she said she felt \"cast aside\".\n\nShe has worn a prosthetic for the past six and a half years, either stuck to her skin \"like a big plaster\" or placed in a pocket of special bras.\n\n\"I don't swim any more - I've got two little grandsons my daughter wants me to go swimming with, but I can't. I'm just too self-conscious.\"\n\nEven her hugs are done from the right side, she said, because she does not want people to notice the \"rock-solid\" prosthetic on the left.\n\nJo Woolnough decided to pay for the second stage of her breast surgery rather than wait three to four years\n\nJo Woolnough, 44, from Swansea, waited four years for her breast construction, which she had in August 2022.\n\nShe said: \"You try and get on with your life and you console yourself by thinking 'well I'm here, I'm lucky I survived' but after a while you can't hold on to that anymore because that lack of a breast affects you so strongly.\"\n\nBut the reconstruction left her with one side at a C-cup and the other at an F to an E-cup, leading her to feel self-conscious and stuffing \"teddy-bear filling\" in her bra.\n\nShe was then told it would be another three to four years for a reduction of her surviving breast so they would be the same size, which she described as \"soul destroying\".\n\n\"I was so elated from having the first surgery and thinking 'I'm nearly done, I'm nearly finished. I can see the end in sight'.\"\n\nShe decided to spend £8,000 to have the reduction privately, but after moving from a well-paid job to universal credit, this was a tough decision.\n\nShe said: \"We need to close the door and move on - our family needs this.\"\n\nLast year the Welsh government's women's health quality statement said health boards should ensure patients received care \"as close as possible to home without significant waits\".\n\nAs these specific, specialist operations are done by just one health board, cancer charity Macmillan said that service has to be adequately resourced.\n\n\"We are seeing these difficulties across Wales, and across the UK even, where there's not enough surgical space. There's not enough of the work force to do these massively important procedures,\" said Richard Pugh of Macmillan Wales.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said the plastic surgery team was working hard to reduce waiting lists, which grew significantly during the pandemic.\n\nIt added a new DIEP surgery service started at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, in September, which is unaffected by emergency patients, with additional surgery lists added in Morriston earlier this month, and on weekends when possible.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We understand how difficult long waits for treatment can be. We are committed to improving health services for women and girls and to tackling many of the issues they themselves have identified as most important to them.\n\n\"We have sought to protect cancer services from the impact of the pandemic as far as possible but some parts of the pathway, like breast reconstruction, are taking longer to recover.\"", "Health Canada made the decision to put labels directly on cigarettes after a 75-day public consultation period\n\nCanada will soon print warning labels directly on cigarettes in a world-first, the country's health agency announced.\n\nNew packaging will feature a warning on each cigarette with phrases like: \"Cigarettes cause cancer\" and \"Poison in every puff\".\n\nThe regulation will come into effect on 1 August, Health Canada said.\n\nIt is part of an effort to reduce tobacco use in Canada to less than 5% by 2035.\n\nIn an announcement on Wednesday, Health Canada said the new regulations \"will make it virtually impossible to avoid health warnings\" on tobacco products.\n\nThe health agency anticipates that by April 2025, retailers in Canada will only carry tobacco products that feature the new warning labels directly on the cigarettes.\n\nProducts that will have labels on tipping paper include individual cigarettes, little cigars, tubes and other tobacco products, Health Canada said.\n\nThe move follows a 75-day public consultation period that was launched last year.\n\nWarning labels are already printed on cigarette package covers. Health Canada said it plans to expand on those by printing additional warning labels inside the packages themselves, and introducing a new external warning messages.\n\nIn a statement, Canada's minister of mental health and addictions, Carolyn Bennett, said tobacco use kills around 48,000 Canadians each year.\n\n\"We are taking action by being the first country in the world to label individual cigarettes with health warning messages,\" Ms Bennett said, calling the change a \"bold step\".\n\nCanada has required printing warning labels on cigarette packages in 1989. They have since been expanded to include photos and information cards inside packs\n\nThe move was applauded by the Canadian Cancer Society, Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Lung Association, who said they hope the measures will deter people, especially youth, from taking up smoking.\n\nCigarette smoking is widely regarded as a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke.\n\nCanada has required the printing of warning labels on cigarette packages since 1989, though it was behind the UK, which printed warnings as early as 1971.\n\nThe US was the first nation in the world to require health warnings on cigarette packages, passing its Federal Cigarette Labelling and Advertising Act in 1965.\n\nLabels in all three countries have evolved over the years, notably to include sometimes graphic images in addition to text to show the health consequences of smoking.\n\nSince the US introduced warning labels, the smoking rate has significantly decreased. Some studies, however, have found that labels are not a deterrent for people who have a high nicotine dependence.\n\nAccording to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 42% of US adults were smokers in the mid-1960s. In 2021, that number dropped to a historic low of 11%. However, electronic cigarette use appeared to have risen.\n\nIn Canada, the rate of smokers aged 15 years or older is around 10%, according to a national 2021 Tobacco and Nicotine survey. Like the US, the survey revealed vaping rates to be higher at around 17%.", "Fiona Kennedy is an alternative fashion and festival-wear designer and stall owner\n\nWhen Rebecca Russell was 10-years-old, she used her first digital camera to photograph the stalls and traders at Glasgow's famous Barras market.\n\nMore than a decade later the photography student returned to the marketplace ahead of her new exhibition.\n\nWhile she was working on the university project, the 23-year-old learned that her great-grandparents ran a jewellery stall at the Barras during the 1930s.\n\n\"That drew me in more,\" Rebecca said. \"Because I had been visiting the Barras ever since I was wee and my dad had never mentioned it to me before.\"\n\nRebecca Russell remembers visiting this stall when she was a child\n\nThe street and indoor market in Glasgow's East End opened in 1934. The term \"barra\" is Glaswegian dialect for \"barrow\" relating to the market's early years where traders sold their goods from handcarts.\n\nRebecca's project, The Great Glasgow Bazaar, is based around today's stallholders, capturing them in a style inspired by street photographers such as Vivian Maier.\n\n\"I've always been fascinated by car boot sales and markets,\" Rebecca, from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, said.\n\n\"I went to the Barras when I was young - probably about 10-years-old and photographed it with my first digital camera,\" she said.\n\n\"With this project, I wanted to get to know the communities behind the stalls.\"\n\nThis well-dressed man is one of the owners of the stall 'Aw The Best Clobber'\n\nRebecca said this man told her that he might be the most photographed man in Glasgow\n\nRebecca said that with the story about her great-grandmother's stall, she had an instant connection with the vendors and they were always willing to to talk with her.\n\n\"I felt it was important that I get to know the stallholders a bit before taking the photos,\" she said. \"At first I was extremely anxious, as these people are just trying to make a living and I wasn't sure how they would respond.\n\n\"When I'd tell them what I was doing, they were excited. They'd point across the road and shout 'go get a photo of him too!', stuff like that.\"\n\nThe frames behind Rebecca came from the Barras\n\nThe fourth-year Edinburgh Napier University student said that the marketplace is \"like a family\".\n\n\"Not even just the traders, the people who go to spend time there. Everyone there is so close,\" she said.\n\nAn extra connection between Rebecca's 2023 degree show exhibition and the Barras is hidden in the display - the photo frames came from one of the market stands.\n\n\"I saw them there one day and realised they would be great for the project,\" Rebecca said. \"I wanted to create that vibe of non-uniformity.\"\n\nRebecca said she was photographing someone else when they asked her to take a photo of this gentleman as well\n\nShe said the chance to capture these shots has been a highlight of her time on Edinburgh Napier's BA Photography programme.\n\n\"I've always had a camera in my hands. I started with an early iPod touch and have done it ever since.\n\n\"I was too nervous to take photography seriously at school, but it's been great to have the opportunity to do it here.\"\n\nShowcasing work from students at the School of Arts and Creative Industries, the 2023 degree show runs at Edinburgh Napier University's Merchiston campus until 20:00 BST on 1 June.", "The witch mural in Pittenweem will be removed\n\nA Scottish council has ordered the removal of a giant mural by a renowned street artist.\n\nThe gable-end painting of a witch was created by Rogue One who has painted many of Glasgow's giant street scenes.\n\nHowever the mural which appeared on the side of the Larachmhor Tavern in Pittenweem, Fife, last Halloween - did not have planning permission.\n\nA retrospective planning application was rejected by Fife Council's north east planning committee on Wednesday.\n\nCouncillors called it \"gaudy and inaccurate\" and said it must be removed.\n\nThe painting of a witch with a hooked nose and warts along the Mid Shore harbour will also be subject to enforcement powers to make sure it is removed.\n\nPlanning officers said the mural was \"not only inaccurate but also gaudy in its use of colour and stylization\".\n\nThe village in the East Neuk has long been associated with witches and witchcraft. Popular witch tours ran in the village for several years.\n\nHowever, Fife Council felt the mural was \"based on historically inaccurate false narratives perpetuated by popular media\".\n\nThey also rejected it on other grounds.\n\nThe mural covers the gable end wall of a 19th Century Category C listed building overlooking the narrow School Wynd. It sits within the Pittenweem conservation area amongst a row of B and C listed properties.\n\n\"It is in a fairly prominent part of the harbour area, which is quite a popular area,\" planning officer Chris Smith told councillors. \"The wynd itself is widely used. Within the context of the narrow wynd, the mural is considered to be overbearing and inappropriate.\n\n\"The typical palette of colours along the harbour is fairly muted and neutral, and we'd be introducing a broad range of gaudy colours to a fairly neutral environment,\" he said.\n\nPittenweem is in the East Neuk of Fife\n\nHistoric Environment Scotland also advised that the application of paint to unpainted historic walls could cause \"considerable damage in the long term by preventing the evaporation of moisture from the underlying fabric.\"\n\nArtist Bobby McNamara, aka Rogue One, told BBC Scotland he enjoyed painting the mural because it was so different from his normal projects.\n\nHe said: \"The owner of the property wanted the witch mural as Pittenweem has a witch history, but a few locals did moan a bit about it being mean and ugly and they'd rather not expose their village witch history so much.\n\n\"I get that. It's understandable. But the owners wanted it, and I enjoyed doing something edgy and scary.\n\n\"I always do beautiful and nice. It's refreshing to be different. It is what it is.\"", "Hammer has appeared in Rebecca, Call Me By Your Name and Death on the Nile\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer will not be charged over allegations of sexual assault, prosecutors have confirmed.\n\nThe Social Network star was accused two years ago of raping a woman in Los Angeles in 2017.\n\nIt was also alleged the 36-year-old sent a string of explicit messages on social media.\n\nHammer said he is \"very grateful\" to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, following its decision not to charge him.\n\nThe woman who accused the actor of rape, known as Effie, said she was \"disappointed\" with the decision not to prosecute him.\n\nHammer said he was looking forward to \"beginning what will be a long, difficult process of putting my life back together now that my name is cleared\".\n\nThe actor, who has also appeared in Call Me By Your Name, Rebecca and Death On The Nile, had denied all criminal allegations against him.\n\nOn Wednesday, the district attorney's office said prosecutors had conducted an \"extremely thorough review\" into the allegations, but that there was \"insufficient evidence\" to charge Hammer.\n\nTiffiny Blacknell, director of the bureau of communications, said: \"Sexual assault cases are often difficult to prove, which is why we assign our most experienced prosecutors to review them.\n\n\"In this case, those prosecutors conducted an extremely thorough review, but determined that at this time, there is insufficient evidence to charge Mr Hammer with a crime.\"\n\nShe continued: \"As prosecutors, we have an ethical responsibility to only charge cases that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. We know that it is hard for women to report sexual assault.\n\n\"Even when we cannot move forward with a prosecution, our victim service representatives will be available to those who seek our victim support services.\n\n\"Due to the complexity of the relationship and inability to prove a non-consensual, forcible sexual encounter we are unable to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.\"\n\nHammer (left) shot to fame in 2010's The Social Network alongside Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg\n\nFollowing the announcement, Hammer wrote on Instagram: \"I am very grateful to the District Attorney for conducting a thorough investigation and coming to the conclusion that I have stood by this entire time, that no crime was committed.\n\n\"I look forward to beginning what will be a long, difficult process of putting my life back together now that my name is cleared.\"\n\nIn the caption he added: \"I would like to say a very special thank you to all of the people who have helped me get through this time. Onwards and upwards.\"\n\nHis accuser, who is known as Effie, told BBC News: \"I am disappointed with the LA County District Attorney's decision not to prosecute Armie Hammer.\n\n\"I felt a duty to speak out and file a report. It has cost me a great deal to have spoken out\n\n\"Since I came forward, I have received death threats, rape threats, countless attacks, and atrocious, incessant harassment.\"\n\nFollowing the initial allegation controversy, Hammer stepped down from his starring role opposite Jennifer Lopez in comedy film Shotgun Wedding, and was replaced by Josh Duhamel.\n\nHe was also replaced by Miles Teller in the TV series The Offer, a drama about the making of The Godfather.\n\nHammer married US TV personality Elizabeth Chambers in May 2010 and the pair share two children. The couple announced their divorce in 2020.\n\nIn September, a three-part Discovery+ series titled House Of Hammer, produced by the actor's aunt Casey Hammer, showed on-camera interviews with two of Hammer's alleged victims in which they detailed some of their alleged abuse.", "Phillip Schofield left ITV last week, after he admitted lying about an affair with a young male colleague\n\nITV has asked a barrister to lead a review into its handling of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and his colleague.\n\nThe review was confirmed by chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall in a letter seen by the PA news agency.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter left the network last week after he admitted lying about the affair.\n\nITV previously said it had investigated in 2020, but that both parties repeatedly denied the relationship.\n\nThe network has now instructed a barrister to carry out an external review to \"establish the facts\".\n\nJane Mulcahy KC \"will review our records and talk to people involved\", Dame Carolyn said in the letter.\n\nSchofield, 61, resigned from ITV on Friday and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to an \"unwise but not illegal\" affair with a younger male ITV employee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield spoke to the BBC's Amol Rajan about his affair\n\nThe letter from Dame Carolyn reads: \"This work will also consider our relevant processes and policies and whether we need to change or strengthen any.\n\n\"Given Phillip's admission of the extent of his deception the work will extend to cover any related issues that may emerge. This work will be carried out as quickly as possible and we will be happy to share the outcome.\"\n\nThe letter was addressed to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage, and Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes.\n\nThe letter mentions the \"significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield\" and adds: \"As you would expect we take the matter extremely seriously and have reviewed our own records over the weekend.\"\n\nThe broadcast network reiterated that it investigated rumours of a relationship in 2020, but \"did not find any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour\".\n\nPhillip Schofield presented This Morning opposite Holly Willoughby until his exit last week\n\n\"Given the ongoing rumours, we continued to ask questions of both parties, who both continued to deny the rumours, including as recently as this month,\" the letter added.\n\nDame Carolyn said there had been \"a lot of inaccuracy\" in reporting, adding the former employee Schofield admitted to an affair with had been offered support by the broadcaster.\n\nShe said: \"The ITV employee was aged 19 when he first did work experience at This Morning... and 20 years old when he applied and succeeded in securing a job as a runner on the show.\"\n\n\"As you would imagine given the social media scrutiny of him, we have offered him our support throughout this period and indeed are still doing so,\" the letter continued.\n\nITV bosses, including Dame Carolyn, are set to face MPs on the Commons DCMS Committee on Tuesday to discuss reforms to the laws governing public broadcasting, and Dame Carolyn has also been asked to face questions from MPs at a session of the committee on 14 June.\n\nMP John Nicolson, a former BBC journalist who sits on the committee and is also the SNP's culture spokesman, said on Twitter that recent events at ITV were a \"cause for concern\" and that he was looking forward to \"getting some answers\" from ITV bosses.\n\nSchofield was dropped as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust earlier this week\n\nSchofield left his role on This Morning following reports of a rift with his co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nDays later, he confirmed he had had a relationship with a younger male employee, which took place while Schofield was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe.\n\nSchofield apologised for lying to his colleagues, the media and his friends and family about the affair, and left ITV with immediate effect.\n\nEarlier this week, the Prince's Trust announced it was dropping Schofield as an ambassador following the controversy.\n\nThe charity, founded by the King, said it was \"no longer appropriate\" for it to work with the presenter.\n\nSchofield's exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards this weekend. They will now be hosted by singer and presenter Jane McDonald.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network said last week they were developing with him.\n\nDr Ranj Singh, who used to work on This Morning, alleged there was a toxic environment on the show\n\nThe show's former resident doctor, Dr Ranj Singh, previously criticised the show's \"toxic\" culture, saying he raised concerns about \"bullying and discrimination\" two years ago when he worked there.\n\nIn its latest letter, ITV said that an external review conducted following a complaint made by Dr Ranj found \"no evidence of bullying or discrimination\".\n\n\"We were sorry to read his statement,\" the letter said. \"We are fully committed to providing every opportunity for anyone who works with us to raise any concern or comments they may have.\n\n\"Following a complaint made by Dr Ranj, we appointed an external and independent adviser to carry out a review. This external review found no evidence of bullying or discrimination.\"", "\"It's hard to hear the criticisms… undoubtedly, we don't always hear well,\" says the Bishop of Birkenhead\n\nA support scheme set up for Church of England abuse survivors risks re-traumatising victims, a report seen by the BBC has concluded.\n\nOne man's dealings with the scheme left him suicidal, says the report by the Church's Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB).\n\nOther survivors told the BBC they have been treated with contempt.\n\nThe Church's lead on abuse engagement has apologised to victims who have had a \"poor experience\".\n\nThe Bishop of Birkenhead, Julie Conalty says \"others have had positive experiences\".\n\nThe Interim Support Scheme (ISS) was set up in August 2020 to support victims of abuse who are in urgent need of financial help.\n\nTwo months later, a landmark inquiry into child abuse within the Church of England concluded that compensation should be paid to victims and survivors. A full compensation scheme is yet to be created.\n\nTo use the ISS, a person must provide evidence that they are a survivor of Church abuse and in need of financial help. But some victims have told the BBC they have found it difficult, because they don't want to have to re-engage with the Church.\n\nThe Bishop of Birkenhead has told the BBC that the Church is \"trying to get it right\".\n\n\"It's hard to hear the criticisms… Undoubtedly, we don't always hear well,\" she said.\n\nThe Church says it has paid out £1.4m to 68 survivors.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC it said it did not want to comment specifically on the ISB report or the cases of any individuals accessing the scheme.\n\nIn its report, the safeguarding board looked at the experience of one individual - referred to as \"Mr X\" - who become suicidal as a result of the way his requests for support were handled by the scheme.\n\nMr X was abused as a child by individuals in the Church of England and this led to \"substantial health and financial impacts\", the report says.\n\nIt said the support scheme appeared to have been \"set up in haste, underthought and under-resourced\".\n\nThe Church \"failed to grasp that a longer term, co-ordinated, intervention was required to help Mr X get back on his feet.\"\n\nThe authors warn of a lack of \"effective central grip or oversight\" and that if survivors' needs were not properly managed it could result in \"repeated re-traumatisation\".\n\nSophie Whiting says she had her support payments stopped without notice or explanation\n\nTrying to get help from the scheme has taken its toll on other victims the BBC has spoken to.\n\n\"It's regular engagement. It's hundreds and hundreds of hours of work and time and effort,\" says Sophie Whiting, 55, who was abused by a member of the clergy as a child.\n\nShe says after a year of financial support, her payments were stopped with no explanation and there isn't a person she can contact for help.\n\n\"All I was met with was closed doors and passed from pillar to post,\" says Ms Whiting.\n\n\"I've written to numerous people within the Church of England to protest, because they had agreed that I was in financial need, and because I am now in greater financial need.\n\n\"I'm sick of having these kinds of conversations, and all this drama and trauma and upset and having my friends and family knowing about it.\"\n\nAbuse victim Teresa Cooper was threatened with possible legal action\n\nTeresa Cooper, 55, was sent a letter by a church administrator which threatened her with possible legal action in December last year, after she had posted about her bad experiences of the scheme on social media.\n\n\"I ended up in hospital about three weeks later, I was so distressed,\" she says.\n\nShe says it takes a long time to get support from the scheme and some payments have been revoked with no explanation.\n\nHer applications for help with an electric wheelchair were rejected, along with one to cover a carer's allowance.\n\nMs Cooper was abused in a Church of England-run residential home in Gravesend, Kent. Medical reviews have found that her health has been permanently damaged by drugs she was given there.\n\n\"This medical condition was forced on me through no fault of my own. The least they could have done was look after me,\" Ms Cooper says. \"They are supposed to be Christians, they are supposed to be caring.\"\n\nThe Church recently apologised for having criticised abuse survivors for \"horrific abuse and bullying\" towards Church staff.\n\nBishop Conalty has told the BBC it was a misjudgement that had served as a distraction from the \"main issue\".\n\n\"I think survivors understandably felt that through the comments that were made that the blame was being placed on them.\"\n\nBishop Conalty said she was unable to comment on individual cases. She admitted to the difficulties of survivors having to prove to the Church that they need help, but said it could not be avoided.\n\n\"As a scheme that's set up in order to meet need, there has to be some evidence of the need, and some evidence of how the money is spent,\" she says.\n\nThe survivors the BBC have spoken to have said they are desperate to have their final compensation claims settled, so they no longer have to deal with the Church of England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Knott was 39 when he took his own life\n\nA mother who lost her son to suicide said her grief was amplified by a video of his body being shared on social media.\n\nDaniel Knott, 39, died on 27 March and days later his mother Jenny Tancock was told about the distressing video.\n\nA man had filmed Daniel's body before the emergency services arrived.\n\n\"To go and share it online for the world to see... it's the ultimate insult, the ultimate degrading of someone I think,\" said Jenny.\n\nJacob Morse, 22, was sentenced to six weeks in prison at Llanelli Magistrates' Court on 18 May after pleading guilty to circulating the video online.\n\nJenny has not watched the video, but said knowing that others had seen it caused her and the rest of her family huge distress.\n\n\"[I felt] anger, pure anger, disbelief that somebody could be so vile as to arrive at a scene like that and actually video it,\" said Jenny from Betws, Carmarthenshire.\n\nJenny says she and Daniel were always incredibly close\n\n\"For us what Jake Morse has done has just amplified that grief. We're dealing with something so vile when we should just be grieving for Daniel.\"\n\nJenny was told a woman found Daniel's body who then called the emergency services.\n\nBut Morse, who had been working nearby, came across the scene and filmed Daniel's body using his mobile phone before emergency services arrived.\n\nJenny said coming face-to-face with Morse in court left her feeling \"full of hate\".\n\n\"I shouldn't have been there, I was grieving... I just shook from head to toe the whole time,\" she said.\n\nDespite her anger, she said she had mixed feelings about Morse's six-week custodial sentence.\n\n\"It hit me as a mother, it really did, he just looked like a big kid… and I was really torn as to how I felt,\" she said.\n\n\"I kept thinking 'what would Dan do?' and I don't think Dan would have wanted him to go to prison.\n\n\"Six weeks isn't enough but at the same time it's a prison sentence, he's gone to prison and that tells me that our justice system is taking it seriously.\"\n\nJenny says her grief has been amplified by the actions of Jacob Morse\n\nWith the court case behind her, Jenny has been left to contemplate the horror of the past eight weeks.\n\n\"To lose a child is the worst thing that can ever happen to you. To lose them to suicide takes it to a different level,\" she said.\n\nShe said she remembers Daniel as \"an enigma, full of beans, full of life, from the day he was born just kind, caring, generous, loved by everybody.\"\n\nDaniel grew up to be a raver with a passion for fun, hardcore dance music and DJing.\n\nBut seven years ago that changed when Daniel was involved in a serious car crash which left him with a fractured skull and a broken back. He underwent an operation to have metal rods inserted to stabilise his back.\n\n\"He split with his girlfriend, lost his house, lost his job, lost everything really,\" said Jenny.\n\n\"Physically he couldn't play the decks anymore, he couldn't stand for long, he'd shake from head to toe because the rods were pressing on nerves.\n\n\"It's almost as though Daniel lost the fight.\"\n\nShe said when she saw police officers at her door she \"just knew\".\n\n\"I just said please don't, please don't.\"\n\nJenny and her family are being supported by local charity The Jac Lewis Foundation, which was set up by Jac Lewis's family after he took his own life.\n\nThe charity has accompanied her to court and arranged for her to have counselling.\n\nShe said the support had \"helped us enormously\".\n\nJenny said speaking out would be worth it if it could prevent \"just one person who is tempted to take a video and share it under any kind of traumatic circumstances.\"\n\nShe said: \"I want to raise awareness that these are human beings, they're people, they've got families, to share things on the internet for shock value or for likes is awful and I want them to know that there's consequences.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article you can visit the BBC Action Line pages.", "In Denmark, the debt ceiling is not a political issue\n\nThe high-wire drama of raising the US debt ceiling is making headlines again. Is there a better way? Perhaps Denmark has the answer.\n\nThe US Congress is once more arguing about the country's debt ceiling - the limit on how much the government can borrow.\n\nIf the two major parties don't agree on lifting the cap in the next few weeks, the US could for the first time in history default on its debt.\n\nA default would send shockwaves through global financial markets and could be disastrous for the US economy, experts believe.\n\nBut Republicans, who control the lower chamber of Congress, want spending cuts before they will agree.\n\nThe ceiling was introduced more than a century ago and it makes the US something of an outlier in global terms.\n\nOnly one other industrialised nation - Denmark - has a formal debt ceiling, but it is handled without the drama and brinkmanship often seen in Washington.\n\nIn fact, the Danes' debt ceiling is rarely ever talked about, because it's never even come close to being broken.\n\nCalled \"gældsloft\" in Danish, it was introduced in 1993 as a constitutional requirement.\n\nIn 2011 there was a debt ceiling stand-off between congressional Republicans and President Obama\n\n\"It's there so that the government cannot just write a blank cheque,\" said Las Olsen, chief economist at Danske Bank.\n\nThough the American and Danish laws appear similar, they work rather differently.\n\n\"[Danish] politicians consider it to be more of a formality. It's not a political issue,\" Mr Olsen said.\n\n\"They [parliament] have already passed all the laws requiring spending and they have also passed the laws about how much tax to collect,\" he added.\n\n\"So it would be a little strange not to allow the government to borrow the difference.\"\n\nThe Danish threshold is set at DKK 2 trillion ($284bn, £237.7bn). For a small country that's relatively high, and means there's scope to take out state loans without repeatedly hitting it.\n\n\"The total level of state debt at this point is DKK 645 billion. So that's a long way off,\" said Mr Olsen.\n\nThe ceiling has only been lifted once, when it was doubled in 2010. This followed the 2008 financial crisis and the move was widely backed by Danish political parties.\n\n\"All of a sudden the government really did have to borrow a lot of money in a short period of time to support the economy,\" said Mr Olsen.\n\nIn comparison, the American ceiling has been raised on 78 separate occasions since 1960 - 49 times under a Republican president and 29 times under a Democrat.\n\nDanish politics is less polarised than in the US and there are more than a dozen different parties with seats in parliament.\n\nMr Olsen said that, while Danish politicians often disagree about what the budget should be spent on, they're mostly aligned on how to manage it.\n\n\"They broadly agree on the framework, which is that finances should be sustainable and that expenses should be paid for,\" said Mr Olsen. \"That brings a different kind of political discussion than maybe you see in the US.\"\n\nOne major way in which Denmark's scenario differs from the US, is that its debt has generally been shrinking. The government ended 2022 with a budget surplus, and used the money to pay down a large chunk of its borrowing.\n\n\"There is actually a lot of saving going on,\" Mr Olsen explained. \"It's a policy aimed at making sure that the economic situation is sustainable in the long term, when we know there's a lot of pensioners and we'll be living a lot longer.\"\n\nTHE POLITICS: A nightmare of its own making\n\nTHE ECONOMY: What happens when the US hits debt ceiling?\n\nThe US national debt has been growing since the early 1980s, with the government accumulating debts far bigger than the US earns in a given year. It surpassed the size of the country's GDP in 2013 and has now exceeded $31tn (£26tn).\n\nMany other countries opt for a different method, and look at debt as a proportion of GDP instead. This shows how much a country owes relative to the size of its economy, and can give a better sense of a country's ability to repay its borrowing.\n\nIn fact, EU member states have agreed to keep debt to less than 60% of GDP - though not always in practice.\n\nDenmark is unique because it has both a debt ceiling and has also committed to the EU cap. \"It's a much more meaningful constraint on governments,\" said Mr Olsen.\n\nSo what would it take for the US to be more Danish in its approach?\n\nExtracting the politics from the American debt limit fight won't happen any time soon because it's become a partisan ritual, says Jacob Kirkegaard, a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.\n\nHe supports getting rid of the US debt ceiling, which he argues is more of a \"nuisance\" than a sensible tool that constrains government spending.\n\nBut he thinks neither party would risk doing it because they risk being vulnerable to the charge that they don't care about balancing the nation's books.", "Elon Musk has reclaimed his title as the world's richest person, knocking the boss of luxury goods giant LVMH, Bernard Arnault, off the top spot.\n\nHis net worth has soared by $55.3bn (£44.44bn) since January to $192bn, after a rise in the value of his electric car company Tesla.\n\nMr Arnault's fortune has fallen by $24.5bn to $187bn, per Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.\n\nHe is followed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in third and fourth positions.\n\nMr Arnault, 74, had overtaken Mr Musk, 51, on the the rich list in December when shares in LVMH jumped as demand for luxury goods rebounded.\n\nAt the same, shares in Tesla - the company from which Mr Musk derives most of his wealth - fell sharply amid concerns that his takeover of the social media platform Twitter was affecting his leadership.\n\nHowever, Tesla shares have bounced back by almost 92% since the start of this year as investor nerves have eased and Mr Musk has announced his replacement as Twitter chief executive.\n\nHis visit to China this week to discuss Tesla has also sparked excitement, while the car firm is benefiting from the rise in interest in artificial intelligence.\n\nBy contrast, LVMH - which owns brands including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior - has gone into reverse.\n\nAfter hitting a record high in April, its shares have fallen sharply and are down 16% since the start of the year.\n\nMr Arnault, who co-founded the luxury goods giant in 1987, owns a majority stake in the business, which is Europe's most valuable firm.\n\nIn January, the Frenchman appointed his daughter Delphine Arnault, 47, as head of his fashion house Dior as part of a shake-up at LVMH.\n\nAll five of Mr Arnault's children hold management positions at brands in the group.\n\nAccording to Bloomberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's third richest person with a fortune of $146bn. Mr Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, is worth $126bn.", "A deal allowing the US to borrow more money has moved closer to becoming law, days before the world's biggest economy is due to start defaulting on its debt.\n\nThe measure easily passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 314-117, despite defections on both sides.\n\nThe Senate is now meeting ahead of a vote, which the bill needs to pass before it can be signed into law by President Joe Biden.\n\nThe government is forecast to hit its borrowing limit on Monday 5 June.\n\nThat has left little margin for error as lawmakers race to avoid the US defaulting on its $31.4tn (£25tn) debt, which underpins the global financial system.\n\nA default would mean the government could not borrow any more money or pay all of its bills. It would also threaten to wreak havoc on the global economy, affecting prices and mortgage rates in other countries.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, 165 Democrats joined 149 Republicans in approving the 99-page bill to raise the debt ceiling, allowing it to pass the House by the required simple majority.\n\nWith Republicans in control of the lower chamber of Congress and Democrats holding sway in the upper chamber and White House, a deal had proven elusive for weeks until Mr Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy inked a bipartisan compromise over the weekend.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Biden thanked the speaker, saying he had negotiated in good faith.\n\n\"Neither side got everything it wanted,\" said the president. \"That's the responsibility of governing.\"\n\nKevin McCarthy was able to push Joe Biden and reluctant Democrats to the negotiating table by passing a bill that raised the debt limit but included a laundry list of conservative priorities.\n\nThen he was able to hold his party together as he struck a less ambitious deal with the president that modestly trimmed the growth in federal spending and added some new conditions on aid for low-income Americans.\n\nThat was not enough for a group of hard-line conservatives, some of whom hinted they would unseat Mr McCarthy and force a new election for Speaker.\n\nBut by Wednesday, even the hottest of firebrands were backing away from their rhetoric. And when it came time to vote, a majority of Republicans approved Mr McCarthy's deal.\n\nWhile the hard-liners may grumble, it is clear they do not have anywhere near the level of support they would need to replace Mr McCarthy - or even any idea who to replace him with.\n\nThe agreement suspends the debt ceiling, the spending limit set by Congress which determines how much money the government can borrow, until 1 January 2025.\n\nThe legislation would result in $1.5tn in savings over a decade, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.\n\nBut the bill's passage had been in jeopardy after lawmakers from both parties voiced opposition.\n\nUltra-conservative Republicans complained they had secured too few concessions in exchange for raising the debt limit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The debt ceiling explained - in under 90 seconds\n\nDemocrats objected to provisions raising work requirements for Americans on federal food aid, and restarting student loan repayments.\n\nEmanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat, said he would vote for the bill, even though he viewed it as the \"second serving of Satan's sandwiches\".\n\nThe leader of the House Democrats, Hakeem Jeffries, said his party had politically bailed out the Republican speaker.\n\n\"Once again, House Democrats to the rescue to avoid a dangerous default,\" said the New York congressman.\n\nEli Crane, an Arizona Republican who had vowed to stop the bill, tweeted: \"More Democrats voted for this 'historic conservative victory' than Republicans.\n\nChip Roy of Texas vowed a reckoning over the bill\n\nRepublicans control the House by a narrow 222-213 majority, but Mr McCarthy was able to push the bill over the line with support from political centrists on both sides of the aisle.\n\nHe framed the package as \"the biggest cut and savings this Congress has ever voted for\".\n\nThe bill is not yet assured of passage. It now heads to the Senate, where some combination of Democratic and Republican votes may again be needed.\n\nOne conservative Republican, Mike Lee of Utah, has already threatened to use \"every procedural tool\" to stall consideration of the deal.\n\nLeft-wing Senator Bernie Sanders also came out against the bill on Wednesday, saying he cannot \"in good conscience\" support it - but he told CNN he would not delay its passage.\n\nBoth Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate are working to ensure that a bill reaches Mr Biden's desk for his signature this weekend before a default can occur.\n\nThe last time the US came this close to overshooting its debt ceiling, in 2011, the credit agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the country's rating, a move that has yet to be reversed.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, US stock markets ended the day down a little, with the Dow closing 0.4% lower, while the S&P and Nasdaq both dipped by 0.6%.\n\nWith Nomia Iqbal and Jessica Parker reporting from Capitol Hill", "Holly Willoughby is set to return to This Morning on Monday 5 June, two weeks after Schofield's exit\n\nPressure on ITV is increasing after several stars raised questions about what it knew of Phillip Schofield's relationship with a younger male colleague.\n\nThe former This Morning host left the show last week following reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nWilloughby was reportedly upset that Schofield had not told her his brother Timothy was facing charges of sexually abusing a boy, something he was ultimately convicted of earlier this year.\n\nDays after Schofield exited This Morning he confirmed he had an affair with a young male colleague while still married to his wife, and apologised for lying about it to those around him.\n\nThe 61-year-old's relationship has dominated headlines in recent days, but it has also prompted criticism about the working environment on the show.\n\nDr Ranj Singh, This Morning's former resident doctor, tweeted on Sunday: \"I didn't know the truth about what was going on with Phillip, but I do know the issues with This Morning go far beyond him. The culture at This Morning had become toxic, no longer aligned with ITV's values.\"\n\nIn response, an ITV spokesman said: \"We are sorry to read Dr Ranj's post. At ITV we are fully committed to providing every opportunity for anyone who works with us to raise any concern or comments they may have.\n\n\"Following a complaint made by Dr Ranj, we appointed an external and independent advisor to carry out a review. This external review found no evidence of bullying or discrimination.\"\n\nThis isn't the first time a light-hearted daytime show has been accused of a difficult culture behind the scenes - it was one of the factors which led to the end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show in the US.\n\nBut how did it come to this? A story which started life two weeks ago following an apparent feud between Schofield and his co-star Holly Willoughby has turned into a crisis for ITV.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield spoke to the BBC's Amol Rajan about his affair\n\nThe man who would become Schofield's lover was a teenager when they first met, although the relationship did not start until he was over 18 and working alongside the presenter on This Morning.\n\nThe pair met when the boy attended a talk Schofield gave at a school - and his connection to the star would ultimately lead to him being hired by ITV three years later.\n\nSome might say it is unfair that someone could land a job in the media industry because they happened to come into contact with a successful figure.\n\nThe truth is that kind of thing happens frequently in the entertainment world. But this case may prompt questions about whether more safeguards should be put in place for young employees.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, former culture secretary Nadine Dorries said: \"How did that young boy get a job at ITV - what were the processes that were involved and what were the safeguarding processes that were in place for someone who was so young?\"\n\nFormer culture secretary Nadine Dorries questioned whether safeguarding processes were put in place by ITV\n\nRumours continued to swirl about the nature of the pair's relationship for several years. Schofield came out as gay live on air in February 2020. By then, the man had moved programmes and was working on another ITV show.\n\nITV say the affair was \"categorically denied\" by both parties during a 2020 investigation, and no evidence beyond \"hearsay and rumour\" was found.\n\nA major TV network cannot fire someone based on rumour and suspicion alone, especially a high-profile presenter whose sudden and unexplained departure would invite a media circus to their doorstep.\n\nNonetheless, Dan Wootton and Eamonn Holmes were among the former ITV stars who maintained that network's bosses had questions to answer about what they knew and when.\n\nWootton claims he was one of the ITV employees who had urged bosses to investigate rumours of a relationship in 2019.\n\nAt the time, he also worked for the Sun and was keen to write something about what was happening, but he said he was only able to write \"a pale imitation of the real story\" due to legal constraints.\n\nFormer This Morning star Dr Ranj claimed the wider culture on the programme was \"toxic\"\n\nFollowing Schofield's high-profile exit, many are questioning whether or not Willoughby can remain on the programme, assuming she wants to. She is a hugely popular presenter who will not be short of offers from other broadcasters.\n\nWilloughby reportedly has no plans to leave but the drama surrounding Schofield and This Morning is such that it is hard to imagine how she'll be able to present the programme as normal when she returns on 5 June.\n\nShe has already distanced herself from her former co-star and friend, commenting it was \"very hurtful\" to find Schofield had lied about the relationship.\n\nIn the long-term, it's perfectly possible she could be able to build a relationship with a new co-presenter such as Alison Hammond. But Willoughby was so heavily associated with Schofield on This Morning it could be tricky for her to escape from under his cloud.\n\nAlison Hammond (pictured with Schofield in July 2022) is the favourite to replace him on This Morning\n\nOthers are asking whether Schofield's career can survive away from ITV. Comebacks are common in the media industry and it's worth reiterating that he hasn't done anything illegal.\n\nWhile it's unlikely he will ever reclaim his throne as the king of daytime, there are plenty of other radio stations and TV networks who might give him a lower-profile show after he's had a period of laying low.\n\nAs for the programme itself, there is a good chance it will survive. A huge number of staff work on This Morning beyond the presenters, including production staff, camera operators and regular guests.\n\nCancelling the show would leave a huge gap in ITV's daytime schedule and viewers could easily drift off to other channels and never come back if the show went off air, even temporarily. ITV will want to avoid this at all costs.\n\nITV said in a statement: \"This Morning is not under review and there's no plans for the show to be axed.\"\n\nWilloughby has no plans to leave This Morning following Schofield's exit, according to reports\n\nA rebrand of the show, which retains a lot of the staff and essence of This Morning but with a different title and colour scheme, might be a credible option if it is felt the show cannot continue.\n\nWhen GMTV finished in 2010, its troubled replacement Daybreak struggled for four years before being replaced by the far more successful Good Morning Britain.\n\nFor now, photos of Schofield have reportedly been removed from the This Morning set, and advertisers will be watching closely to see how the show weathers the storm.\n\nThree years after chef John Torode's tea towel caught fire live on air while he attempted the perfect breakfast muffin recipe, ITV is being forced to put out a few fires of its own.", "Three people have died, including an 11-year-old girl, in a new night-time missile attack on Kyiv, regional police have said.\n\nRussia has been subjecting the Ukrainian capital to regular aerial strikes with missiles and drones.\n\nThe latest attack, in which 11 other people were reported injured, occurred in the eastern Desnyanskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.\n\nA 33-year-old woman and the girl's 34-year-old mother were also killed.\n\nEarlier information from Ukrainian officials reported that two children had died, but that has since been revised.\n\nThis is the fourth attack this week, and comes after 17 strikes were launched on the Ukrainian capital throughout May. Most took place at night, although at least one occurred during the day.\n\nImages shared by military authorities showed teams of rescuers attending to people, as well as damaged buildings.\n\nIn a number of early morning posts on Telegram, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a \"series of explosions\" had taken place in the city, and that rescuers had been dealing with fallen debris and fires.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian-backed officials in the occupied part of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region said five people had been killed and 19 injured by Ukrainian shelling at a poultry farm on Wednesday.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the governor of the western Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said at least two people had been injured in an attack on the town of Shebekino which he blamed on Ukrainian troops.\n\n\"The night is tense for Shebekino again. Ukrainian troops were shelling the city for an hour,\" Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel.\n\nIn recent weeks, Russia - which launched its full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022 - has been using kamikaze drones as well as a range of cruise and ballistic missiles to attack targets in Ukraine.\n\nKyiv has been heavily targeted, and analysts believe Moscow is trying to deplete and damage Ukraine's air defences ahead of a long-expected counter-offensive, which the Ukrainian government has been planning for months.\n\nA building destroyed on a poultry farm in Luhansk region on Wednesday", "Alex Belfield was jailed for five and a half years for stalking four people, including Jeremy Vine\n\nA former BBC radio presenter in jail for stalking has been banned from contacting two more people.\n\nAlex Belfield, 43, who is serving a five-and-a-half year sentence for harassing four people online, including broadcaster Jeremy Vine, was made the subject of a stalking protection order.\n\nHe is banned from attempting to contact Greg Scott, a man he sent a tweet to, and his wife Karen.\n\nHe may also not publish, or attempt to, material relating to them.\n\nBelfield, originally from Mapperley in Nottingham, appeared before Nottingham Magistrates' Court via video link from HMP Stocken, Rutland.\n\nHe was charged with stalking eight different people, who were mostly current or former BBC staff.\n\nHe was convicted of stalking BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding, known as Bernie Keith, and videographer Ben Hewis.\n\nIn relation to Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany, Belfield was found guilty of two lesser offences of \"simple\" stalking, which does not require serious alarm or distress to be proved.\n\nBelfield was found not guilty of stalking Rozina Breen, Liz Green, Helen Thomas and Stephanie Hirst.\n\nVine told BBC Two's Newsnight that Belfield had taken him to a \"really unhealthy place\"\n\nNeither Mr or Ms Scott were involved in the trial, in which Vine labelled Belfield \"the Jimmy Savile of trolling\" as the court heard he repeatedly posted or sent abusive messages, videos and emails.\n\nIt is not clear how Belfield first came into contact with the couple.\n\nAddressing the court, Belfield said: \"I have never met, gone near or ever contacted Karen Scott or done anything other than replying to Greg Scott. I just want to make that clear.\"\n\nDistrict judge Sunil Khanna said he was satisfied there was a need for the order to protect from stalking - and warned Belfield he could face further jail time if he breached it.\n\nBelfield was a presenter at BBC Radio Leeds before running his own YouTube channel\n\nHe also made an order requiring Belfield to pay costs after barrister Christopher Pembridge said the case, which has been going on for three years, had cost police £20,000.\n\nMr Pembridge said it would be \"unjust\" for Belfield to pay the full costs, but asked the judge to consider an appropriate amount.\n\nDavid Aubrey KC, representing Belfield, said his client should not shoulder substantial costs as his ability to work following his release from prison would be limited.\n\n\"[Belfield] is in prison and on the question of his earning capacity when he comes out of prison, there could be restrictions on what work he could do,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very much up in the air and will depend on what happens upon his release eventually.\"\n\nBelfield made videos throughout his trial and posted them on YouTube\n\nAt Belfield's sentencing in September, the judge made restraining orders in relation to all of the complainants, including those he was not convicted of stalking.\n\nDet Con Janet Percival, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: \"It's been a long hard slog, but we've now managed to secure these significant orders which will provide peace of mind for these two victims who were caused genuine alarm and distress by Belfield.\n\n\"I understand that people can be reluctant to contact us - sometimes because they aren't sure that what's happening is serious enough to warrant police action, and sometimes because they feel we won't be able to help - but I can assure them that we will take their reports seriously and we will do whatever we can to help and protect them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friday marks the 29th day of rail strikes since the current set of disputes began.\n\nMembers of the rail unions have been regularly bringing much of the network to a halt for nearly a year.\n\nThe leisure industry has been hard-hit as people cancel trips and holidays, or avoid city centre shops, pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe RMT union, whose members are walking out on strike on Friday, claims that the strikes have cost the UK economy £5bn, with the leisure sector taking the biggest hit from lost sales.\n\nBut with the majority of rail commuters able to work from home, the impact elsewhere has been limited.\n\nTo understand how the UK has adapted to almost a year of rail strikes, take a look at the experience of Colin Bezant.\n\nA cycling-mad 58-year-old, train strikes don't stop him from doing his job as a consultant helping companies manage big IT projects.\n\nHe either works from home or cycles around 50 miles from his home in Basingstoke to the London office or to his client's office in Oxford.\n\nBut it completely messes up his weekend travels to cycling events around the country. He had booked a train on Friday to get to Carlisle ahead of a 600km cycle event.\n\nCyclist Colin Bezant can hop on his bike to work but train strikes mess up his weekends\n\nThe train he booked was cancelled, because of the strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, which is expected to put a halt to half of Friday's scheduled trains.\n\nHe can't depend on getting space for his bike on the trains that are running. So he'll be getting up at 07:00 to drive 300 miles instead.\n\nThe leisure industry has protested the loudest about the impact of train strikes.\n\n\"We've seen time and time again that rail strikes put a significant dampener on any sales as visitors are deterred from booking visits or eating and drinking out,\" Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said in a statement.\n\nThe industry group reckons strikes this week, during the half-term school holiday, will cost the sector £132m, bringing the total impact on the sector to an \"eye-watering\" £3.25bn.\n\nHaving to cancel leisure activities was by far the most frequently mentioned impact of the strikes, according to the most recent study from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nBusinesses that are in stations obviously suffer particularly. The ONS tracks weekly sales from 400 Pret a Manger sandwich shops around the country, and the branches in stations see a noticeable dip in sales on strike weeks.\n\nAnd retailers were acutely affected by the wave of strikes in the key shopping days ahead of Christmas last year.\n\nBut the impact of strikes on people getting to work is relatively limited, the ONS's work suggests.\n\nOnly one in 10 people actually travel to work by train, according to a different ONS survey.\n\nAnd of those who do travel by train, 70% said they could work from home.\n\nThe rest could get to work by other means - though not necessarily a 50-mile bike ride - and very few respondents said they couldn't work at all because of the train strike.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the RMT's assistant general secretary John Leach said: \"We regret the inconvenience caused by industrial action.\n\n\"We would much rather be doing what we do every other day of the year, which is keeping Britain moving, our members coming to work to do that. It's an obvious regret but it's also our responsibility to represent our people, our members, and we will never apologise for doing that.\"\n\nRail strikes have had much less impact since the signallers and other Network Rail staff agreed a pay deal to end their campaign. When the signallers joined the strikes, up to 90% of trains would be cancelled.\n\nTrain strikes will affect the Epsom Derby this weekend, as well as the FA Cup final at Wembley\n\nThe sector most hurt by the strikes may in fact be the railway industry itself.\n\nMr Bezant says the strikes, and cancellations caused by engineering works, have shaken his faith in the rail network.\n\n\"I expect that any events I book in the future, I will consider driving. There's not much point trusting the trains. It will change the way I travel,\" he says.\n\nEven if the strikes were resolved tomorrow, he would still be uncertain. \"It has been going on for so long. It will affect me for quite some time I think.\"\n\nHe estimates the train journeys he has not made because of strikes add up to around £700 - lost revenue for an industry that is already in a serious financial condition.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents the train operating companies, reckons the dispute has cost the rail industry around £580m so far, a sum which increases with every new day of strike action. The bill is ultimately met by the government, which now picks up the tab for any shortfall in ticket sales.\n\nAnd Mr Bezant is unlikely to be the only one who will take some time to regain his faith in the railways, even when the disputes are over.\n\nHow are you affected by the latest train strikes? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say.\n\nThe test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptoms, in England or Wales.\n\nIn 85% of those positive cases, it also pinpointed the original site of cancer.\n\nThe Galleri test looks for distinct changes in bits of genetic code that leak from different cancers. Spotting treatable cancer early can save lives.\n\nThe test remains very much a \"work in progress\", the researchers, from Oxford University, say, but could increase the number of cancers identified.\n\nOften, patients have symptoms, such as weight loss, with a range of possible causes and require multiple tests and hospital visits.\n\nMore than 350 of those in the study - the biggest of its kind in patients with suspected cancer symptoms - were subsequently diagnosed with cancer, using traditional methods such as scans and biopsies. About:\n\nAlthough not accurate enough to \"rule in or rule out cancer\", the test was really useful for patients lead researcher Prof Mark Middleton told BBC News.\n\n\"The test was 85% accurate in detecting the source of the cancer - and that can be really helpful because so many times it is not immediately obvious when you have got the patient in front of you what test is needed to see whether their symptoms are down to cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"With that prediction from the test, we can decide whether to order a scope or a scan and make sure we are giving the right test the first time.\"\n\nThe findings will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, in Chicago.\n\nThe NHS has also been using the Galleri test, developed by Californian company Grail, in thousands of people without symptoms, to see if it can detect hidden cancers.\n\nInitial results are expected next year - and, if successful, the NHS in England plans to extend the rollout to a further one million people in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe test is particularly good at finding hard-to-spot cancers such as head and neck, bowel, lung, pancreatic, and throat cancers.\n\nDr David Crosby, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"The findings from the study suggest this test could be used to support GPs to make clinical assessments - but much more research is needed, in a larger trial, to see if it could improve GP assessment and ultimately patient outcomes.\"\n\nNHS national director for cancer Prof Peter Johnson said: \"This study is the first step in testing a new way to identify cancer as quickly as possible, being pioneered by the NHS - earlier detection of cancer is vital and this test could help us to catch more cancers at an earlier stage and help save thousands of lives.\"", "A formal complaint has been submitted to Labour about the behaviour of suspended MP Geraint Davies.\n\nEarlier, the Labour Party said he had been suspended following \"incredibly serious\" allegations of \"completely unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nAccording to news website Politico, he is accused of subjecting younger colleagues to unwanted sexual attention.\n\nThe MP for Swansea West told Politico he did not recognise the allegations.\n\n\"If I have inadvertently caused offence to anyone, then I am naturally sorry as it is important that we share an environment of mutual and equal respect for all,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Davies for comment, but has so far received no response.\n\nMr Davies has been administratively suspended from the party pending an investigation into the allegations.\n\nThis means he can not sit as a Labour MP while the investigation is ongoing, although he remains the Member of Parliament for Swansea West, and will sit as an independent.\n\nPolitico, which first reported the allegations, said it had spoken to more than 20 people who worked with Mr Davies in Parliament, including serving MPs, and current and former Labour Party staff.\n\nThe news site said five women had claimed Mr Davies had subjected them to unwanted sexual attention, both physical and verbal.\n\nThe allegations, which go back at least five years, include excessive drinking, as well as sexual comments and unwanted touching of younger women, according to the website.\n\nSome of the individuals said they had discussed his behaviour with Labour whips, who are in charge of party discipline.\n\nPolitico later reported a different woman had submitted a formal complaint to the party. The BBC has confirmed a formal complaint has been made.\n\nEarlier, a Labour Party spokesperson said: \"These are incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"We strongly encourage anyone with a complaint to come forward to the Labour party's investigation.\n\n\"Any complainant will have access to an independent support service who provide confidential and independent guidance and advice from external experts throughout the process.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told Labour is undertaking a review into the party's complaints system, following recent reports of allege misconduct.\n\nMr Davies, who first became an MP in 1997, has sat on several Commons committees including the Welsh Affairs and Environment Committee.\n\nUntil 2005 he was the MP for Croydon Central and has also served as leader of the south London borough's council.\n\nIn 2010 he became MP for Swansea West, where he currently has a majority of 8,116.\n\nThe allegations of inappropriate behaviour are the latest to emerge from Westminster, in what has been dubbed the \"Pestminster scandal\".\n\nBoth Labour and Conservative MPs have faced accusations which have led to suspensions in recent years.", "Jane McDonald said hosting the awards was a \"dream come true\"\n\nJane McDonald will replace Philip Schofield as the host of this weekend's British Soap Awards.\n\nShe is best known as a singer, Loose Women panellist and presenter of Bafta-winning Channel 5 series Cruising With Jane McDonald.\n\nMcDonald will host Saturday's show in Salford before it is on ITV on Tuesday.\n\nSchofield stepped down from his presenting commitments on the channel after admitting to having an affair with a younger staff member at ITV.\n\nThe soap awards will see five dramas - Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks are up for the biggest prizes.\n\nMcDonald posted on Instagram the hosting job was a \"dream come true\".\n\n\"This year I've been honoured to be mentioned in Corrie, EastEnders and Emmerdale... I can't wait to see all our wonderful soap nominees and celebrate all their hard work with them,\" she added.\n\nPhillip Schofield left his role on This Morning last week following reports of a rift with Holly Willoughby\n\nSchofield, said last week: \"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family.\n\n\"I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.\"\n\nITV has now asked a barrister to lead a review into its handling of a relationship between Schofield and his colleague.", "The UK government is to launch an unprecedented legal challenge over the Covid inquiry's demand for WhatsApp messages and documents.\n\nThe government missed a 16:00 deadline to share Boris Johnson's messages and notebooks from during the pandemic.\n\nIt is thought to be the first time a government has taken legal action against its own public inquiry.\n\nMr Johnson said he would be \"more than happy\" to give the unredacted material directly to the inquiry's chair.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - the department that supports the prime minister in running the government - had until 16:00 on Thursday to hand over all documents requested by the Covid inquiry.\n\nBut the government refused to disclose some of the material by arguing it was not relevant to the inquiry, it would compromise ministers' right to privacy, and would set a precedent that could prevent ministers discussing policy matters in future.\n\nCrossbench peer and retired judge Baroness Hallett, who is the inquiry's chair, says it is up to her to decide what material is relevant.\n\nMr Johnson has not disclosed any WhatsApp messages sent before April 2021 because his mobile phone was involved in a security breach and has not been turned on since, his spokesman said.\n\nThe former prime minister has written to the Cabinet Office asking whether security and technical support can be given so that content can be retrieved without compromising security, the spokesman added.\n\nIn a highly unusual move announced after the 16:00 deadline had passed, the Cabinet Office said it would seek a judicial review of Baroness Hallett's order to release the documents.\n\nThis means a judge will have to decide whether the inquiry has overreached its legal powers - setting up a potential legal showdown in court just weeks before the inquiry is due to hold its first public hearings.\n\nMinisters set up the Covid inquiry in 2022 and tasked Baroness Hallett with identifying lessons from the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nElkan Abrahamson, the lawyer representing the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, said: \"The Cabinet Office is showing utter disregard for the inquiry in maintaining their belief that they are the higher power and arbiter of what is relevant material and what is not.\n\n\"It raises questions about the integrity of the inquiry and how open and transparent it will be if the chair is unable to see all of the material.\"\n\nOpposition parties have accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government of trying to obstruct the Covid inquiry and urged him to comply with its requests.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, branded the legal challenge a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\" and said \"these latest smoke-and-mirror tactics serve only to undermine the Covid Inquiry\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said the legal challenge was \"a kick in the teeth for bereaved families who've already waited far too long for answers\".\n\nSome senior Conservative MPs had urged the government to back down to avoid a lengthy legal battle with the Covid inquiry.\n\nScience minister George Freeman defended the decision to take legal action, while conceding he personally thought a defeat in the courts was likely.\n\nBut when speaking during a visit to Moldova earlier, Mr Sunak said he was \"confident\" in the government's position.\n\nOutlining its grounds for legal action, the Cabinet Office said ministers and officials \"should not be required to provide material that is irrelevant to the inquiry's work\".\n\nIt said \"irrelevant material\" requested by the inquiry included \"references to personal and family information, including illness and disciplinary matters\", and \"comments of a personal nature about identified or identifiable individuals which are unrelated to Covid-19\".\n\nBut the danger for the government is that it exposes it to the charge - already levelled by Labour - that ministers are trying to cover something up.\n\nThe legal action will test the ability of public inquiries to get hold of messages on WhatsApp, which has become an increasingly popular means of communication between ministers in recent years.\n\nBaroness Hallett has previously warned that a failure to disclose material requested by the inquiry would be a criminal offence.\n\nJonathan Jones, a former head of the government's legal department, said the Cabinet Office had \"a plausible case\" but faced \"an uphill challenge to overturn what are very wide powers of the inquiry\".\n\nHe told the BBC the matter could be settled in court \"within weeks, if not sooner\".", "Mr Johnson's spokesperson said the Cabinet Office has had access to the unredacted documents for \"months\"\n\nFormer prime minister Boris Johnson says he has given the UK government all the WhatsApp messages and notebooks demanded by the Covid-19 inquiry.\n\nMr Johnson is urging the government to hand the material to the inquiry in full without redactions.\n\nThe inquiry, which begins public hearings in two weeks, is investigating how ministers handled the pandemic.\n\nThe government has so far refused to hand over material it does not consider relevant.\n\nThe Covid inquiry has given the Cabinet Office - the department that supports the prime minister in running the government - until 16:00 BST on Thursday to disclose all of the information it has requested.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has argued that ministers must have the right to discuss policies in private and says a leading lawyer is in the process of deciding what is relevant to the inquiry.\n\nBut the inquiry's chairwoman, crossbench peer Baroness Hallett, said it was her role, not that of the government, to decide what was relevant.\n\nLord Saville - who chaired the Bloody Sunday inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 - said Lady Hallett had a \"duty\" to do a thorough job in looking into the Covid response.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"Who is to decide what is relevant or not? In my view - prima facie at least - its Lady Hallett.\n\n\"I cant see any downside to her as a very senior and respected judge seeing material that would otherwise be private,\" Lord Saville said.\n\nThe government has said it will not hand over \"unambiguously irrelevant material\" - as judged by its lawyers.\n\nThe standoff could lead to a legal battle between the Cabinet Office and the inquiry, with the courts deciding what material is made available.\n\nSome senior Conservative MPs have urged the government to back down to avoid a lengthy legal showdown.\n\nWilliam Wragg, chairman of a parliamentary committee on constitutional affairs, told the BBC: \"If the inquiry requests documents and info - then whoever it has asked should comply.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman has said the former PM would hand over the material directly to the Covid inquiry if asked.\n\nCabinet Office sources have stressed that individuals are at liberty to share any information with the inquiry team, so Mr Johnson could choose to hand things over directly.\n\nThe exception, they say, are documents such as government diaries which they argue any government would need to look at for national security reasons.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesperson has claimed that the Cabinet Office has had access to all these unredacted documents for \"months\", but has said the former PM handed over more material on Wednesday.\n\n\"While Mr Johnson understands the government's position, and does not seek to contradict it, he is perfectly happy for the inquiry to have access to this material in whatever form it requires,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it had received the material from Mr Johnson and \"officials are looking at it\".\n\nThe material includes 24 notebooks with contemporaneous notes, as well as his diaries and WhatsApp messages between Mr Johnson and cabinet ministers, advisers and senior civil servants.\n\nThe inquiry said on Tuesday it had been told the Cabinet Office did not have access to all the information it had been asked for.\n\nCabinet Office sources say the reason for this, contrary to what Mr Johnson has claimed, is because the former PM was previously working with lawyers employed by the government who were working through his notebooks, diaries and WhatsApp messages.\n\nBut they say when Mr Johnson cut ties with those lawyers, the Cabinet Office lost access to those documents.\n\nThe BBC has been told the Cabinet Office legal team visited Mr Johnson's office to inspect the notebooks.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to submit the material requested by the inquiry and to stop using Mr Johnson \"as an excuse to avoid handing over vital evidence\".\n\nThere has been friction between Mr Sunak's government and Mr Johnson over the Cabinet Office's decision to refer him to police over further potential Covid rule breaches during the pandemic.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it made the referral following a review of his official diary by government lawyers as part of the Covid inquiry.\n\nThe former PM has dismissed claims of any breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".", "King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, with Phillip Schofield at the annual Prince's Trust Awards in 2019\n\nThe Prince's Trust has dropped Phillip Schofield as an ambassador after he admitted he had an affair with a young male colleague and lied to cover it up.\n\nThe charity, founded by the King, said it was \"no longer appropriate\" for it to work with the presenter.\n\nSchofield, 61, issued a statement last Friday about the relationship and announced he was leaving ITV.\n\nIt came a week after he quit his role at ITV's This Morning after reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nA Prince's Trust spokesperson said: \"In light of Phillip's recent admissions, we have agreed with him that it is no longer appropriate to work together.\"\n\nThe Prince's Trust has a number of celebrity ambassadors who support the charity through fundraising or promoting its work.\n\nRepresentatives from ITV and other channels are due to appear in front of the Commons' culture, media and sports committee next Tuesday to discuss reforms to the laws governing public broadcasting.\n\nMP John Nicolson, a former BBC journalist who sits on the committee and is also the SNP's culture spokesman, said on Twitter that recent events at ITV were a \"cause for concern\" and that he was looking forward to \"getting some answers\" from ITV bosses.\n\nIn a statement last Friday, Schofield apologised for lying repeatedly to hide the relationship with the male employee, calling it \"unwise but not illegal\".\n\nITV said it was \"deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit\" made by Schofield and confirmed it had cut all ties with the host.\n\nThe network said it had investigated rumours of a relationship between Phillip and a younger employee in 2020 - but both \"repeatedly denied\" it.\n\nSchofield was also dropped by his talent agency YMU.\n\nITV said Schofield's statement \"reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship\".\n\nHis exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network said last week they were developing with him.", "William Paton intends to ask for a judicial review of the council's LEZ policy.\n\nA business owner whose legal bid to delay the introduction of Glasgow's low emission zone failed, has vowed to continue his fight.\n\nWilliam Paton claims the ban on high-polluting vehicles will have a detrimental impact on his garage, which is located 500m inside the zone.\n\nHe now plans to take his case to judicial review.\n\nGlasgow City Council said it would \"vigorously defend any legal challenge\".\n\nThe low emission zone (LEZ) came into force in Glasgow city centre on Thursday.\n\nMr Paton's bid to have the scheme paused was thrown out of the Court of Session on Wednesday.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that, following legal advice, he intends to take the case to a judicial review.\n\nHe said he decided to take legal action as the scheme will have a \"monumental\" impact on the garage - Patons Accident Repair Centre - he runs in Glasgow's Townhead.\n\n\"The council haven't mitigated for my loss, they've never said what about a business that doesn't rely on the person making the journey, we rely on the actual vehicle itself coming into us,\" Mr Paton said.\n\nIn general, the new rules mean petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.\n\nMr Paton claimed the council had not answered questions about whether non-compliant vehicles currently in his garage would be fined when leaving, or whether his non-complaint vehicles could be taken to the garage on a flat-bed truck.\n\nMr Paton added that about 35% of the vehicles that come into his garage are considered \"high-polluting\" under the new rules, meaning he could lose a third of his customers.\n\n\"We've had any diesel pre-2015, any petrol vehicle pre-2006 completely removed from us a potential customer,\" he said.\n\n\"Its not just us there's other dealerships up here at Townhead that face similar problems,\" he said.\n\nThe LEZ covers most of Glasgow city centre from the M8 motorway to the north and west, the River Clyde to the south, and the Saltmarket/High Street to the east.\n\nDonald McLeod, of the Night Time Industries Association, said the new regulations were creating a \"low economy zone\".\n\n\"If people make Glasgow why are the council bringing in such punitive a measure to deter visitors,\" he said.\n\nHe said city centre businesses, employees and suppliers should qualify for exemptions.\n\nA LEZ affecting only buses in Glasgow city centre has been in place since 2018.\n\nBlue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles are exempt from the new rules.\n\nAnd around 700 taxi drivers have also been granted an exemption until June 2024.\n\nA homeless charity which said the zone would affect its ability to feed vulnerable people in the city centre received an exemption on Wednesday evening.\n\nIt means Homeless Project Scotland will be able to use their current vehicle for two months while work is carried out on its new LEZ-compliant van.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlasgow City Council's climate and transport convenor, councillor Angus Millar, said the low emission zone would ensure \"cleaner, more breathable air\".\n\n\"It's important to stress that around 85-90% of vehicles that currently enter the city centre have already been meeting the standards of the LEZ,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There will definitely be some impacts on certain businesses who might have to change the way they operate.\n\n\"What I would say is there have been around 500 LEZs or similar initiatives in operation across Europe and we've seen that city centre businesses by and large have actually benefitted from the improvements in air quality.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A last minute legal challenge against Glasgow's low emission zone (LEZ) has been thrown out by a judge.\n\nThe scheme to ban more polluting vehicles from the city centre will start at midnight.\n\nPatons Accident Repair Centre took the case to the Court of Session in Edinburgh in a bid to have it suspended ahead of further court action.\n\nIt accused Glasgow City Council of not consulting properly and putting businesses at risk.\n\nBut a judge at the Court of Session refused the motion and said the balance of convenience lay heavily in favour of the local authority and granted it expenses following the hearing.\n\nAfter the ruling a council spokeswoman said the LEZ would come into force as planned.\n\nThe business which brought the case estimated it would lose a third of its business when it could no longer repair older vehicles.\n\nIts workshop on Lister Street is about 500m (0.3 miles) inside the LEZ boundary in Townhead, an area with several car dealerships.\n\nFour of those business previously joined Patons to propose a new boundary for the LEZ, but it was rejected by the council.\n\nCompany director William Paton told the Glasgow Times he did not think his business would last another two years within the low emission zone.\n\nPatons Accident Repair Centre estimated it would lose a third of its business when it could no longer repair older vehicles\n\nBut the ruling was welcomed by Asthma + Lung Scotland, which described air pollution as a \"public health emergency\".\n\nJoseph Carter, the charity's head, said: \"It will mean a reduction in harmful air pollution for everyone.\n\n\"With one in five Scots developing a lung condition like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] in their lifetime, for them, this is a day to celebrate.\"\n\nThe zone was conceived to tackle poor air quality, with many streets in Scotland regularly reaching harmful and illegal levels.\n\nFrom midnight, when the new rules come into force, vehicles which do not meet emission standards will no longer be able to enter parts of the city centre.\n\nViolations can lead to fines mounting to several hundreds of pounds per day.\n\nWhile there are exemptions available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles, in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the legal challenges illustrated the way in which the \"practical concerns of local businesses and communities have been ignored\" by Glasgow's SNP and Green councillors.\n\n\"We all want to see a reduction in pollution and to meet environmental targets, but there is evidence that air quality is already meeting those standards, and that phase two will not result in further improvements,\" he said.\n\n\"Homeless charities and other groups, including St Andrew's First Aid, have said they would be prevented from operating effectively. There is an obvious danger to women and vulnerable groups, as well as shift workers, if late-night transport is unavailable.\"\n\nMr Simpson called on the council to urgently address the \"flaws\" in the scheme.", "The beach, packed with people enjoying half-term holidays, was cleared along with nearby Pier Approach\n\nA 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy have died after being pulled from the sea off Bournemouth Pier.\n\nEight other people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries after emergency services were called at 16:32 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, Dorset Police said.\n\nIt is not clear how the pair, who died in hospital, sustained their injuries.\n\nBournemouth, which is full of people on half-term holidays, has been stunned by the tragedy.\n\nMany people who saw the incident unfold say, despite the helicopter, ambulance and coastguard activity, they did not get a sense of the horror until the police statement was put out.\n\nThe beach was cleared, along with the nearby Pier Approach, and a cordon set up\n\nThe coastguard said it had conducted a search to make sure there were no other people missing and was \"satisfied there are not\".\n\nIn a statement, Det Ch Supt Neil Corrigan said the beach was \"very busy\" at the time and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"We are at the early stages of our investigation and would ask people not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding the incident,\" he said.\n\nThe beach was cleared, along with the nearby Pier Approach, with a cordon set up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kathryn Walton was visiting the beach when lifeguards started rushing to the seafront\n\nThe beach, usually such a beautiful and benign setting, attracts families from all over the country.\n\nEeman Qamar, from Southampton, was there with her mother and three-month-old baby at the time.\n\nShe told the BBC that just after 16:00 lifeguards began to tell people to clear the beach, saying there had been a major incident.\n\n\"After about 20 minutes, the first air ambulance arrived and landed right in the middle of the beach,\" she said.\n\n\"The lifeguards started getting on jet skis and boats, searching the sea and about 20 minutes later the second air ambulance arrived and it took another hour-and-a-half for them to finish the whole search and rescue operation.\"\n\nKathryn Walton, from Oxford, was also on the scene with her family and described seeing lifeguards and \"loads of people rushing on to the beach\".\n\nShe said people were moved away from an area of the beach as several other emergency service vehicles arrived.\n\nAnother eyewitness, Trevor Pinto, had been walking along the pier with his 16-year-old son and said the incident happened \"very close\" by.\n\nHe said they watched as lifeguards attempted to resuscitate two people, adding: \"It took me a while to realise, oh my god someone had lost their life\".\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing \"loads of people rushing on to the beach\" to help\n\nBournemouth West MP Conor Burns expressed his condolences to the families of those who died and said the incident was a \"salutary lesson that our beaches and ocean can give much pleasure but danger is ever present\".\n\n\"A dreadful event in circumstances when they were enjoying beautiful weather in our town. So sad,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"Thanks to the lifeguards and the Air Ambulance who we can take for granted.\"\n\nAnyone with any information is being asked to contact Dorset Police via the force's website or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55230083818. Crimestoppers can also be contacted anonymously via its website or on freephone 0800 555 111.\n\nHow have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Nepali guide Gelje Sherpa found a Malaysian climber shivering and clutching a rope in the area of Mount Everest called the \"death zone\", where temperatures can dip to -30C.\n\nHe carried the climber down from 8,500m above sea level over the course of six hours.\n\nNepali tourism official Bigyan Koirala said it was \"almost impossible to rescue climbers at that altitude\" and that it was a \"very rare operation\".", "A fire destroys houses in a village in east London in July 2022, at the height of the summer heatwave\n\nA new alert system will warn the public when high temperatures could damage their health this summer in England.\n\nRun by the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office, it is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nClimate change is likely to make heatwaves more frequent.\n\nUK temperatures rose above 40C for the first time last summer, the country's fourth warmest, with Coningsby, Lincs, reaching a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest - and this century has had 15 of the top 20, with all of the hottest 10 in the past two decades.\n\nThe Heat Health Alert system will operate year-round, but the core alerting season will run from 1 June to 30 September. The system will offer regional information and advice to the public and send guidance direct to NHS England, the government and healthcare professionals.\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.\n\nThere will be four alert colours, with green indicating no risk to health:\n\nDr Agostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at the UK Health Security Agency, said the alert system would play \"a vital role\".\n\n\"Last year saw record high temperatures across England and evidence shows that heatwaves are likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"It is important we are able to quantify the likely impacts of these heatwaves before they arrive to prevent illness and reduce the number of deaths.\"\n\nWill Lang, from the Met Office, said the effects of human-induced climate change were already being felt on UK summers \"with an increase in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat events over recent decades\".\n\nThe health alerts would help save lives, protect property and the economy \"as we all work to tackle adverse weather and climate change\", he said.", "Chana Nachenberg was one of 16 people killed in the bombing\n\nA US-Israeli woman has died after 22 years in a coma from injuries suffered in a Palestinian suicide bombing at a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem.\n\nChana Nachenberg was 31 at the time of the attack at the Sbarro pizzeria, which killed 15 other people, including seven children and a pregnant woman.\n\nShe is the third US national to die as a result of the bombing in August 2001.\n\nThe US is seeking the extradition from Jordan of a woman convicted by Israel of murder for her role in the attack.\n\nAhlam Tamimi, a Jordanian citizen who lived in the occupied West Bank at the time, was given 16 life sentences by an Israeli court in 2003. She was released in 2011 as part of a deal to free an Israeli soldier held captive for more than five years by Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.\n\nTamimi helped the bomber, Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri, carry out the attack. She returned to Jordan after her release, and has spoken about her pride at her involvement in the atrocity.\n\nTamimi is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list and the US says it is seeking her extradition on charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against Americans. Jordan's High Court has rejected a previous request.\n\nThe parents of one of the two other US citizens killed in the attack - Malki Roth, who was 15 at the time - have campaigned for years for the US to do more to effect Tamimi's extradition.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arnold Roth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Sbarro restaurant, at a busy intersection in the centre of west Jerusalem, was packed with customers when Tamimi and Masri, both Hamas members, entered on 9 August. Tamimi, who chose the target, left before Masri blew himself up. In addition to those killed, about 130 people were injured.\n\nIt was one of multiple suicide bombings by Hamas during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel, which began the previous year and tailed off in 2005.", "A plume of smoke, in the centre of the image, could be seen drifting 12 miles towards Loch Ness\n\nFirefighters say they have brought under control a wildfire that could be the largest recorded in the UK.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said flames had burned through a 30 sq mile (80 sq km) area of scrub and woodland near Cannich in the Highlands.\n\nCrews have been at the scene since Sunday, but the area has been affected by four separate fires since last week.\n\nA 12-mile (20km) plume of smoke from the latest incident was detected from space by Nasa satellites.\n\nFurther analysis, including of satellite data, will confirm the eventual scale of the wildfire.\n\nThe incident has been hugely challenging for dozens of firefighters due to the terrain, and warm, dry and windy weather.\n\nTwo firefighters were hurt at the scene of the blaze after their all-terrain vehicle overturned.\n\nThey have been released from hospital following treatment and an investigation has begun into the cause of the accident.\n\nFirefighters from across the Highlands, along with deer stalkers and waterbombing by helicopters, have been tackling the flames.\n\nGroup commander Jamie Thrower said an 80 sq km area had been affected\n\nSFRS group commander Jamie Thrower said the fire had affected an area about five miles (8km) long and six miles (10km) wide.\n\nHe said: \"We have got control of the fire and have the fire surrounded. Helicopters have been a useful tool for that and we have stopped the fire from spreading, but the weather is still causing a challenge.\"\n\nDr Thomas Smith, an associate professor in environmental geography at the London School of Economics, said satellite data going back about 20 years would help to confirm the scale of the wildfire, and if it is the largest recorded.\n\nHe said he was awaiting the latest satellite information for calculations to be made.\n\nBefore the incident at Cannich, the UK's biggest wildfire affected 20 sq miles (53 sq km) of peatland in Sutherland's Flow Country in May 2019, and the second largest occurred this April at Glenuig in Lochaber and involved about 13 sq miles (35 sq km).\n\nSSEN said there was no damage to the electricity supply.\n\nRSPB's Simon McLaughlin said local schoolchildren had sent him card after learning of the damage caused to native trees\n\nForestry and Land Scotland (FLS) said it was believed the wildfire was associated with wild camping, and SFRS has urged people to be careful around campfires and disposing of cigarettes.\n\nEnergy company SSEN Transmission said it was monitoring the fire because of a number of electricity towers in the area.\n\nIt said there was no damage or threat to disruption of the electricity supply.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our engineers have been on site and inspected the overhead powerline where it crosses through the affected area to safely assess for any impact as a result of the wildfire.\n\n\"We'll continue to monitor the area to ensure the line remains in safe operation, and liaise with fire and rescue services as required.\"\n\nThe wildfire has been burning since last week\n\nThe fire has damaged heather moorland and forestry\n\nRSPB Scotland said the fire had spread on to its Corrimony Nature Reserve and had damaged birch woodland and heather moorland.\n\nThe reserve's Simon McLaughlin said the activities of ground-nesting birds had been badly affected and some species, including frogs, had died in the fire.\n\nTrees planted, some by local schoolchildren, in an effort to regenerate native woodland have also been destroyed.\n\nMr McLaughlin said: \"I got a wee card last night from the Cannich School kids saying sorry for the damage caused and they are here to help.\"\n\nA wildfire in Moray in 2019 affected thousands of acres of grassland\n\nThe majority of incidents are caused by accident, according to Forestry and Land Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish government agency said people did not realise how quickly an ember from a campfire or a dropped cigarette could develop into a wildfire in an area of dry vegetation or woodland.\n\nWildfires can result in the release of carbon.\n\nMay 2019's wildfire in the Flow Country in Sutherland released an estimated 700,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere during the incident, according to a WWF Scotland study.\n\nOther parts of Scotland have also seen major incidents.\n\nIn April 2019, a major wildfire near Paul's Hill wind farm at Knockando, south west of Elgin, destroyed more than 20 square miles (72 sq km) of grassland.\n\nThe Scottish Greens said the Highland region alone had seen about 360 recorded wildfires between 2017 and 2022.\n\nGreens MSP Ariane Burgess said: \"My thoughts are first of all with the two fire-fighters who have been injured.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Highlands are on the front line of the climate crisis, make no mistake.\n\n\"Our habitats and our land use, our size and geography, and our place as the jewel in Scotland's natural crown means what we do here is of vital importance.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexander Malkevich (pictured) is a close associate of the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin\n\nWhile Russia's notorious Wagner mercenaries have been at the forefront of fighting in Ukraine's ravaged eastern town of Bakhmut, a close associate of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been involved in another battle - for the hearts and minds of people in occupied areas behind the front lines.\n\nAlexander Malkevich has helped set up pro-Russian TV stations in key areas captured since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nThrough his links to Prigozhin the media boss has been involved in projects spreading Russian influence from Africa to the US and he is under Western sanctions for spreading disinformation.\n\nFormally, Malkevich's job is running state-funded TV in Prigozhin's home city, St Petersburg. But in the summer of 2022 he moved to then-occupied parts of Ukraine, making the southern city of Kherson his base.\n\nHis main task was to set up pro-Russian television stations in regions captured since the start of the full-scale invasion. He has masterminded Tavria TV in Kherson, Za TV in Melitopol and Mariupol 24 in the eastern Donetsk region.\n\nAlexander Malkevich (right) has recruited underage reporters for his propaganda channels\n\nThe channels' reporting strictly follows the Kremlin's propaganda narratives. For example, a recent programme aired by Tavria TV reminded its viewers of the reasons given by Moscow to justify its war against Ukraine. \"Russian President Vladimir Putin says the special military operation was a forced step, because Moscow had been left with no other choice. Such security risks had been created for Russia that no other reaction was possible,\" it said.\n\nOne major obstacle facing Malkevich was an acute shortage of people willing and able to work for his channels.\n\nTo train staff, he opened a \"media school\" in Kherson, became head of the journalism department at the local university and authored a textbook for aspiring media workers in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, called \"Real Russian journalism for new regions\".\n\nSome of his students joined his TV stations before becoming legally adults. Two reporters who started working for Za TV and Tavria TV respectively were both employed at the age of just 16. The BBC has chosen not to identify the two girls because of their age.\n\nOne of the teens is known as \"Russia's youngest war reporter\" and got an award from President Vladimir Putin\n\nBut Malkevich's stint in Kherson was short-lived. Shortly before the city was retaken by Ukrainian forces in November, he fled along with some equipment and staff. While evacuating, they came under fire, and one staff member (a Russian journalist and former FSB operative) was killed.\n\nOne of the teen reporters was wounded during the shelling, and was later presented with an Order of Bravery by President Putin at a ceremony in the Kremlin.\n\nMalkevich first rose to relative prominence in 2018, when he launched USA Really - a website set up in the US by RIA FAN, which, in turn, is the most prominent outlet in the stable of propaganda and disinformation media associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner head once dubbed \"Putin's chef\" because he supplied food to the Kremlin.\n\nPRIGOZHIN: From Putin's chef to head of Russia's private army\n\nRIA FAN grew out of Prigozhin's infamous \"troll factory\", which spread pro-Kremlin views across social media and the internet from offices in St Petersburg.\n\nBut USA Really failed to take off, and Malkevich was briefly detained and questioned by the US authorities and later sanctioned for \"facilitating Prigozhin's global influence operations\".\n\nA year after launching USA Really, Malkevich was back in St Petersburg, where he set up another propaganda venture, a foundation, reportedly with a spin doctor linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nMelkevich is a close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin (left), the Wagner chief known as \"Putin's chef\"\n\nThe Foundation for National Values Protection sent a man named Maxim Shugalei to Libya, ostensibly to research public opinion. The same man had been involved the previous year in Russian meddling in presidential elections in Madagascar, which saw one candidate offered a suitcase stuffed with cash, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nWhile in Libya, one of Shugalei's engagements included a meeting with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late deposed leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Soon afterwards, in May 2019, he was arrested on suspicion of interfering in Libya's affairs on Prigozhin's behalf.\n\nOne Libyan intelligence officer told the BBC: \"If Russia had its way, we would have had Saif Gaddafi giving his victory speech in Tripoli's famous Martyrs' Square.\"\n\nShugalei was freed in December 2020 and claimed in an interview that he had only been released because Prigozhin had sent \"several thousand fighters\" to Tripoli.\n\nWhile in charge of the propaganda foundation, Malkevich also campaigned for the release of Maria Butina, a Russian agent sentenced to 18 months in jail in the US for attempting to infiltrate American political groups.\n\nWhen she returned to Russia, Butina became an \"expert\" at the foundation, and when Shugalei came back from Libyan captivity, he replaced Malkevich as its head.\n\nBut Malkevich's links to Prigozhin's organisations remained. For example, his video programme for RIA FAN, called \"Just A Minute\", continued at least until September 2022, and the latest of his numerous interviews with the outlet is dated February 2023.\n\nMalkevich's work in Ukraine did not go unnoticed by the Russian government. In January 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin rewarded him for \"organising TV broadcasting in territories which are being liberated.\"", "Masterson arrives at the Los Angeles court to learn his fate with his wife, Bijou Phillips\n\nA jury in Los Angeles has found US actor Danny Masterson guilty on two out of three counts of rape.\n\nThe star of That '70s Show, a TV series, faces up to 30 years in prison. He was led from court in handcuffs.\n\nThree women, all former members of the Church of Scientology, accused the actor of sexual assault at his Hollywood home from 2001-03.\n\nProsecutors argued Masterson had relied on his status as a prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability.\n\nThe jury of seven women and five men was unable to reach a verdict on a third count after a week of deliberations, ending up deadlocked at 8-4.\n\nOne of his victims, who was raped in 2003, said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press: \"I am experiencing a complex array of emotions - relief, exhaustion, strength, sadness - knowing that my abuser, Danny Masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behaviour.\"\n\nMasterson's wife, actress and model Bijou Phillips, wept as he was led away, CBS News reports. Other family and friends sat stone-faced.\n\nAnother jury in an earlier trial was unable to reach a verdict in December 2022.\n\nProsecutors chose to retry Masterson and this time the judge allowed attorneys to present new evidence that had been barred from the first trial.\n\nThough the actor was not charged with drugging his victims, the jury heard testimony that the women had been dosed before he raped them.\n\nMasterson was first accused of rape in 2017 during the height of the #MeToo movement. He responded by saying that he had not been charged or convicted of a crime, and that in the climate at the time \"it seems as if you are presumed guilty the moment you are accused\".\n\nCharges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases because of insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nThroughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the Church of Scientology had helped cover up the assaults - an allegation the organisation has categorically denied.\n\nIn a statement after the verdict was announced, the International Church of Scientology claimed prosecutors' attacks on the Church during the trial were \"an unprecedented violation of the First Amendment\".\n\n\"The Church was not a party to this case and religion did not belong in this proceeding,\" the organisation wrote on Twitter. \"The District Attorney unconscionably centred his prosecution on the defendant's religion.\"\n\nAt the time of the assaults, Masterson and all three of his accusers were Scientologists. Several of the women said it took them years to come forward because Church of Scientology officials discouraged them from reporting the rape to police.\n\nInstead, they were forced to rely on the Church's \"internal justice system\", prosecutors said.\n\nScientology officials told one survivor she would be kicked out of the Church unless she signed a non-disclosure agreement and accepted a payment of $400,000 (£320,000), according to prosecutors.\n\nJudge Charlaine Olmedo allowed both sides to discuss the dogma and practices of Scientology.\n\nBut Deputy District Attorney Ariel Anson told jurors during the trial: \"The Church taught his victims, 'Rape isn't rape, you caused this, and above all, you are never allowed to go to law enforcement.'\"\n\nIn its statement, the Church said there was \"not a scintilla of evidence supporting the scandalous allegations that the Church harassed the accusers\".\n\nThroughout the trial, the defence tried to undermine the credibility of the \"Jane Does\" by focusing on inconsistencies in their testimony and their supposed drive to get \"revenge\" against their former Church.\n\nDuring closing arguments, Masterson's defence lawyer said of the survivors: \"If you are looking for motives why people are not being truthful… there are motives all over the place.\"\n\nAlthough the Church of Scientology was not a defendant in the case, before closing arguments began, a lawyer with ties to the Church emailed the district attorney's office to complain about the way the Church was portrayed during the retrial.\n\nThe defence also argued that the prosecution had relied heavily on testimony about drugging because there was an absence of evidence of any force or violence.\n\nMasterson's lawyers tried, unsuccessfully, to have a mistrial declared.", "Kim Cattrall received five Emmy Award nominations for her role in the original Sex and the City\n\nKim Cattrall, who was noticeably absent from the first season of Sex and the City spin-off And Just Like That, will appear in the second series.\n\nVariety reports she will reprise her role as Samantha Jones in one scene of the HBO show's season finale.\n\nCattrall, who has a strong gay following, shared the article online with the caption \"Happy Pride\".\n\nThe article reports that she shot her dialogue without other stars of the series, including Sarah Jessica Parker.\n\nCattrall's character is explained as being absent in a storyline that sees her move to London.\n\nDavis, Parker and Nixon reunited for And Just Like That\n\nThe original Sex and the City ran for six series from 1998 to 2004 and generated two spin-off movies.\n\nIt created storylines about work and relationships for four New York women in the 1990s and early 2000s.\n\nParker and Cattrall starred alongside Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis as Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte.\n\nParker, Nixon and Davis appeared in the 10-part And Just Like That series in 2021.\n\nIt was never explained why Cattrall did not take part in the latest revival but she reportedly has a strained relationship with the show and her cast-mates.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nDescribing a \"toxic relationship\", she ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, and denied that her decision was down to pay negotiations or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nShowrunner Michael Patrick King later said he could not imagine Cattrall returning to the show again.\n\nBut a reported conversation with CEO of HBO Casey Bloys was enough to change star's mind.\n\nThe second series of And Just Like That will air in June, with Cattrall's scene expected to be shown in August.", "US President Joe Biden fell on stage at a graduation ceremony for the US Air Force Academy. He was helped up and seated within a few seconds.\n\nThe White House said he was \"fine\", and had tripped over a sandbag.", "Drone footage released by Freedom of Russia Legion shows what they claim is destruction of Russian military targets in Belgorod region\n\nThe Russian region of Belgorod has again come under attack from across the Ukrainian border, with at least eight people reportedly hurt in shelling.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has also claimed it thwarted other attempts by Ukraine to \"invade\" the region.\n\nKyiv has not commented on the allegations but has denied involvement in previous attacks across the border.\n\nThe latest strikes come more than a week after one of the most significant cross-border raids since the war began.\n\nBelgorod's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Ukraine's armed forces shelled several districts on Thursday, damaging buildings. No fatalities have been reported but Mr Gladkov said hundreds of families would be evacuated once the situation became calmer.\n\nMr Gladkov added that as a result, some school exams in Shebekino had been cancelled and the authorities were now devising a way to allow students to secure university places without sitting them.\n\nHe also said that there had been an explosion in Belgorod city, which was thought to have been caused by a drone. Two people were injured in that attack.\n\nAlongside the shelling, Russia's defence ministry has claimed its servicemen in the region repelled several attacks.\n\nIt said in a statement on Thursday evening that more than 50 Ukrainian \"terrorists\", four armoured combat vehicles, a Grad multiple rocket launcher and a pickup truck were destroyed. It has not been possible to independently verify the reports.\n\nThere have been conflicting reports about violence on the border.\n\nBBC Verify has seen videos from two pro-Ukrainian paramilitary groups, the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, announcing raids into Russia's territory.\n\nThe town of Shebekino in Belgorod region was among those shelled on Thursday\n\nDespite this, local officials have denied reports of a Ukrainian troop breakthrough in Shebekino adding that the situation remains difficult and that the \"shelling is ongoing\".\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin was aware of the situation in Belgorod and criticised the international committee for failing to condemn Ukraine.\n\nThere have been a spate of attacks inside Russia in recent weeks.\n\nEarlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of trying to frighten Russians following drone attacks in the capital, Moscow.\n\nKyiv has denied involvement in any of the attacks.\n\nBut the US is investigating whether any of its military equipment was used in the earlier incursion in Belgorod on 22 May and said it did not support any attack on Russian soil.\n\nMeanwhile, three people have died during another attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. An 11-year-old girl is reported to be among the dead.\n\nIt is the fourth attack on the city this week and comes after 17 strikes were launched on Kyiv throughout May.\n\nIt comes as the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, again called for Ukraine to be allowed to join Nato and the EU.\n\nHe was visiting Moldova for the European Political Community summit, where he also met European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen.\n\nHe said their talks touched on security guarantees for Ukraine while it's waiting to join Nato.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"It was consensual, but it was my fault,\" says Phillip Schofield.\n\nPhillip Schofield has said he is \"not a groomer\" after admitting to having an affair with a younger male colleague.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter left ITV last week after he confirmed the relationship and he had lied about it.\n\nThe TV star told the Sun: \"I did a bad thing: I will die sorry - I've brought the greatest misery into his totally innocent life.\"\n\nSchofield has also spoken to the BBC's Amol Rajan, whose interview will be broadcast from 06:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe full interview will be available on iPlayer.\n\nThe 61-year-old first met the man he would go on to have an affair with when he was invited to appear at an event at a drama school.\n\nHe said he knew people had found some elements of the story shocking, but said: \"I am not a groomer.\"\n\nThe affair began, Schofield said, when the man was 20 years old and working alongside him at ITV.\n\n\"He worked on the show for a bit, and we became mates,\" Schofield told the newspaper.\n\n\"And then one day something happened that just changed it. And that is the moment I look back on, and regret so deeply.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about ITV's handling of the situation, how much bosses knew of the affair, and whether its own investigation went far enough.\n\nITV's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has been asked to attend the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 14 June to answer questions about the broadcaster's approach to safeguarding following the controversy.\n\nSchofield told the Sun that his first romantic encounter with the man was in his dressing room at ITV.\n\n\"It was a consensual moment, it was mutual,\" he said. \"It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates.\"\n\n\"Over a period of time it happened maybe five or six times. We just didn't think anyone knew, there was no lying, we thought, stupidly, that nobody knew.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"You look at yourself, and I absolutely know there is no question I did a bad thing. I was unprofessional, one time, in a 41-year career.\n\n\"I know I did that. And there is no excuse. I don't have an excuse. I won't put forward an excuse. No-one did anything wrong apart from me.\"\n\nSchofield also apologised to his former lover.\n\n\"It has brought the greatest misery into his totally innocent life, his totally innocent family, his totally innocent friends,\" he said. \"It has brought the greatest grief to them.\"\n\nITV has instructed a barrister to carry out an external review to establish the facts about how the broadcast network handled its own investigation into rumours of the affair in 2020.\n\nThe full BBC interview will be available on BBC iPlayer from 0600 on Friday morning", "Women in Argentina will no longer require a prescription to get emergency contraception.\n\nThe government said making the morning-after pill more easily available removed an \"important barrier\" for those seeking to prevent pregnancy.\n\nThe move was welcomed by feminist groups, who see it as a sign of progress in the Catholic-majority country.\n\nHowever pro-life campaigners said it sends out the wrong message.\n\nArgentina's health ministry said the measure would help avoid unintentional pregnancies by overcoming \"difficulties of access to health services, contraception supplies, and education\" faced by some.\n\n\"This removes an important barrier to access,\" Valeria Isla, director of sexual and reproductive health at the ministry, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"People can have this method of contraception as support before an emergency happens.\"\n\nVanessa Gagliardi, leader of the feminist group Juntas y a la Izquierda, said the move would help \"de-stigmatise\" the morning-after pill in a country where seven out of 10 adolescent pregnancies were unplanned, according to official data.\n\nArgentine pro-life group DerguiXlaVida called the measure worrying, accusing the government of \"essentially orienting itself towards promoting abortive measures\".\n\nIt said the move was recognition of the \"failure of pregnancy prevention [and] sex education\".\n\nIt is the latest sign of progress on reproductive rights in Argentina, one of the largest and most influential countries in Latin America, a region where the Catholic Church remains powerful.\n\nIn 2020, the country legalised abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy, a move opposed by the Church, which had called on senators to reject the bill.\n\nTerminations had previously only been allowed in cases of rape or when the mother's health was at risk.\n\nEmergency contraception pills - commonly known as morning-after pills - taken within 120 hours of unprotected sex prevent pregnancy by blocking the fertilisation of the egg, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), although it is more effective within 12 hours.\n\nEmergency contraception - including emergency contraceptive pills and copper-bearing intrauterine devices - can prevent about 95% of pregnancies when taken within five days of intercourse, the WHO says.\n• None 'The nurses wanted me to feel guilty about my abortion’", "A deadline has passed for the government to hand over unredacted material to the Covid inquiry, amid a row over WhatsApp messages.\n\nIt was given until 4pm to disclose messages between Boris Johnson and his advisers during the pandemic, as well as his diaries and notebooks.\n\nIt has refused to disclose some of the material, arguing it is not relevant to the inquiry's work.\n\nBut the inquiry's boss says deciding what is relevant should be her job.\n\nIt is not yet clear what will happen next. The stand-off could potentially lead to a legal battle between the inquiry and Cabinet Office, the government department that supports the prime minister.\n\nThere has been no word from the inquiry or the Cabinet Office over whether more material has been disclosed.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at a summit in Moldova, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government was confident in its position and was \"considering next steps\".\n\nThe inquiry, set up in May 2021, is investigating the government's handling of the pandemic and is due to begin public hearings in two weeks.\n\nMr Johnson has urged the Cabinet Office to hand the material to the inquiry in full without redactions, adding that he would do so himself \"if asked\".\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the former prime minister said he had now given the department all the documents, adding it had had \"access\" to the material for several months.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - which had earlier told the inquiry it didn't have all the WhatsApps or notebooks - then said officials were assessing them.\n\nThe material sought by the inquiry includes WhatsApp messages on Mr Johnson's devices from a group chat set up to discuss the pandemic response.\n\nIt has also asked to see WhatsApp messages on his devices he exchanged with a host of politicians, including his successor Rishi Sunak, as well as various civil servants, including the UK's top civil servant Simon Case.\n\nIt has also asked for the former prime minister's diaries, as well as 24 notebooks in which he made contemporaneous notes.\n\nBut in a challenge to the request, the Cabinet Office said the WhatsApp threads contained some messages that are \"unambiguously irrelevant\" to the inquiry's remit.\n\nIt said these included discussion of \"entirely separate\" policy areas, diary arrangements unconnected to Covid, references to disciplinary matters, and \"comments of a personal nature\" about individuals.\n\nDisclosing the messages, it added, could breach individuals' right to privacy and undermine the ability of ministers to discuss policy matters in the future.\n\nHowever, crossbench peer Baroness Hallett, who chairs the inquiry, said the information it had requested was \"potentially relevant\" to its task of investigating government decision-making.\n\nExamining \"superficially unrelated\" political matters might be necessary, she argued, to understand the broader context in which decisions were made.\n\nShe revealed that material redacted, or blanked out, by the Cabinet Office includes chats about relations between the UK and Scottish government, and the way in which WhatsApp itself should be used by ministers to discuss government policy.\n\n\"These are matters that I and my team are better placed to assess than any document provider,\" she added.\n\nBaroness Hallett has previously warned that a failure to disclose the material the inquiry has requested would be a criminal offence.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has questioned whether the inquiry has the power to request \"entirely personal\" WhatsApp messages, and is reportedly considering asking a judge to review whether the demands are legal.\n\nThe matter has been seen as a litmus test of the ability of public inquiries to get hold of messages on WhatsApp, which has become an increasingly popular means of communication within Westminster in recent years.\n\nHowever, some senior Conservative MPs have urged the government to back down to avoid a lengthy legal showdown.\n\nWilliam Wragg, chairman of a parliamentary committee on constitutional affairs, said on Wednesday: \"If the inquiry requests documents and info - then whoever it has asked should comply.\"\n\nThere has been friction between Mr Sunak's government and Mr Johnson over the Cabinet Office's decision to refer him to police over further potential Covid rule breaches during the pandemic.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it made the referral following a review of his official diary by government lawyers as part of the Covid inquiry.\n\nThe former PM has dismissed claims of any breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".", "Jack Rigby was only two years old when his father was murdered outside Woolwich Barracks\n\nA charity has praised the young son of murdered soldier Lee Rigby after he raised more than £50,000 for the group.\n\nJack Rigby, 12, was two years old when his father was murdered by Islamist extremists outside Woolwich Barracks.\n\nJack, who now lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire, ran 26.2 miles in May for charity Scotty's Little Soldiers.\n\nIt helps children grieving the death of a parent who served in the armed forces. Founder Nikki Scott said the charity was \"really proud\" of Jack.\n\nMrs Scott set up the organisation a year after the death of her husband Corporal Lee Scott in Afghanistan in 2009.\n\nShe said Jack had initially hoped to raise £10,000 - £1,000 for each year since his father's death - to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Lee Rigby's death on 22 May 2013.\n\nMrs Scott said his efforts had helped raise awareness of the work the charity did with children and young people.\n\n\"We are really proud of Jack, he's done such an amazing positive thing at a really tough time,\" she said.\n\n\"Whenever any of our young people fundraise for us it means the world, because it means what we are doing is having a real impact that they want to give back and help others.\"\n\nThe 12-year-old has raised more than £50,000 for the Scotty's Little Soldiers tri-service charity\n\nMrs Scott said the money would enable the charity to help more children in a similar situation.\n\n\"We are there whenever they need us, that might be respite breaks, it might be attending group events with other children or it might be one-to-one emotional support.\n\n\"A whole range to make sure they never feel alone.\"\n\nMrs Scott said although people might assume children who lost a parent at a young age had no memory, the impact of childhood bereavement \"never goes away\".\n\nFusilier Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, died as a result of multiple cut and stab wounds after he was attacked in London.\n\nHe had been returning to his barracks when he was attacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.\n\nAdebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was jailed for a minimum of 45 years.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian mining giant BHP says it underpaid current and former workers across the country for 13 years.\n\nAround 28,500 employees received less holiday than they were entitled to, a review conducted by the firm found.\n\nMeanwhile, 400 workers did not get additional allowances \"due to an error with the employment entity.\"\n\nBHP says it has reported the incident to the authorities and the errors will cost the company up to $280m (£225m) before taxes.\n\nSome affected employees had their leave incorrectly deducted on Australian public holidays, the company found. As a result they were owed a total of six days of leave on average.\n\n\"We are sorry to all current and former employees impacted by these errors. This is not good enough and falls short of the standards we expect at BHP,\" Geraldine Slattery, BHP's Australia president, said.\n\n\"We are working to rectify and remediate these issues, with interest, as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nThe firm also said it has commissioned a review of its payroll systems. It added that it would provide an update on its investigations during its full-year earnings call in August.\n\nBHP, which is headquartered in Melbourne, is the world's biggest miner.\n\nIt has around 80,000 employees and contract workers at sites including the Escondida mine in Chile, which is the largest copper mine in the world.\n\nAs well as its shares being listed in Australia, the company was part of the UK's blue chip FTSE 100 index for around a decade.\n\nIn January 2022, the firm took its shares off the London market after coming under pressure from some investors to simplify its corporate structure.\n\nSupporters of the move argued that it would make it easier for BHP to raise money, do deals and return money to shareholders.", "The idea of a default is nearly inconceivable\n\nThe US faces dire warnings that a political stand-off over the debt ceiling could unleash unprecedented economic chaos. But few in the country, where nearly half the population relies on money from the government to help make ends meet, are making any backup plans.\n\nIn the base of a tower near the Brooklyn Bridge, half a dozen white-haired men and women assembled for their monthly book club.\n\nThe members are among the nearly 70 million Americans who receive monthly payments from Social Security, the government's assistance for pensioners and the disabled.\n\nThe programme pays out more than $115m (£92m) each month - about $1,700 on average per person - support that is at risk if President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cannot reach a deal before the US runs out of money to pay its bills.\n\nAuthorities have warned that moment could arrive in less than two weeks.\n\nThe seniors at Southbridge Towers said they were following the talks - and feel worried. But asked if they had taken any precautions in case the US defaults and their Social Security benefits do not arrive, the seniors seated around the plastic table responded with a sea of blank looks.\n\n\"That will never happen,\" declared 82-year-old Norman Manning. \"It would be disastrous.\"\n\nMr Manning is hardly alone in betting that a deal allowing the US to borrow money will get done.\n\nFinancial markets also appear largely confident, despite some signs of anxiety among investors, including a drop in demand for some kinds of US debt.\n\nEven after the lead Republican negotiator last week walked out of a closed-door meeting with White House representatives during talks aimed at avoiding a default, shares only flinched.\n\nBut Ian Bremmer, president of political consultancy the Eurasia Group, warned that even if both sides can agree to a deal, it will probably take significant wrangling before Republicans in Congress will vote for it - which could push the US into risky territory.\n\n\"This is going to get worse before it gets fixed,\" he said.\n\nWithout a deal, the White House has warned that if the government defaults, there would be severe disruption to government functions as well as pay for pensioners, government employees and members of the military. Financial markets are expected to go haywire.\n\nAnalysts say a prolonged stand-off could spark an economic downturn on the scale of the 2008 financial crisis, when millions of people lost their jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth was wiped out in financial markets.\n\nA recent poll by Ipsos/Reuters found that three in four Americans fear personal financial fallout from such an event.\n\nBut dire predictions aside, no-one is exactly sure what would happen in a default - nor are government agencies providing many clues about if or how they are preparing.\n\nWhen asked if it had alerted Social Security recipients about the risks, the Social Security Administration referred questions to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers food benefits for the poor and other programmes.\n\nUnions representing government workers said their members had received no guidance about what staff should expect.\n\n\"I don't think the government itself knows quite what would happen,\" said Daniel Horowitz, deputy legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 750,000 federal and DC government workers. \"It is the Titanic heading for the iceberg right now.\"\n\nMax Richtman, president and chief executive of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said he was not surprised that the government would not want to unnecessarily alarm seniors if some kind of agreement to raise the debt ceiling is a foregone conclusion.\n\nArzu Deiker says she is worried about what could happen to her if the government defaults\n\nBut his organisation has still been trying to raise awareness among its millions of members and supporters about the potential risks.\n\n\"What we're telling our members is save some money, have a cushion in case things don't work out in the next couple of weeks,\" he said, noting that those on fixed incomes tend to have limited financial flexibility.\n\nRobin Warshay, one of the book club members, said without her Social Security payment arriving on time, she would have to dip into savings.\n\nShe was also concerned about the ripple impact on businesses and the economy, should people's ability to spend suddenly freeze. But she said she remained \"hopefully optimistic\" talks in Washington would yield an agreement.\n\n\"If they want to get re-elected, they better make up,\" she said.\n\nEven a deal could bring economic pain, depending on what it includes, analysts warn.\n\nRepublicans are seeking steep spending restrictions and changes to some benefits programmes.\n\nWhile Mr Biden has rejected many of their proposals, he has also laid the ground for compromise, saying: \"We're going to come together, because there's no alternative.\"\n\nArzu Deiker, a home health aide in New York who receives assistance from the government to buy groceries for herself and her three children, said she was worried about the threat to that support - whether it comes in the form of default or a deal.\n\n\"I'm scared,\" said the 29-year-old. \"It would affect me a lot.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters in Nova Scotia are battling the largest wildfire in the Atlantic province's history.\n\nOfficials say the fire on the southern tip of the province has burned about 20,000 hectares, with flames reaching nearly 100m (328ft) in height.\n\nMeanwhile, another fire that has forced the evacuation of thousands near Halifax, the largest city, continues to burn.\n\nThe wildfire smoke has travelled south, with air quality warnings in the US.\n\nAs of Thursday morning, Nova Scotia officials said the massive fire in Shelburne County in the south of the province is still burning. No fatalities or injuries have been reported, but abouy 50 homes have been destroyed as a result of the fire.\n\nDave Rockwood, a spokesperson with the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, told reporters on Wednesday that the fire appears to be \"very fast moving\".\n\nMr Rockwood said firefighters have spotted flames as tall as 60 to 90m.\n\nThe fire is significantly larger than the average seen during an entire fire season in Nova Scotia, said Lucas Brehaut, a wildfire researcher with the Canadian Forest Service.\n\n\"Last year was quite high, at about just over 3,000 hectares burned,\" Mr Brehaut told the BBC. The Shelburne County fire, by comparison, is more than five times that size.\n\nHe added the high flames reported by firefighters are an indication of how strong and rapid the wildfire's spread has been.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have been evacuated from the region, the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) division said.\n\nThey are in addition to another 16,400 people who were evacuated from a suburban area nearby Halifax due to a smaller, 836-hectare wildfire that has been burning since Saturday and has destroyed around 200 homes and structures.\n\nOn Wednesday, Nova Scotia officials increased the fine for breaking the provincewide burn ban - a restriction on outdoor fires - to C$25,000 ($18,000; £14,800) - a massive jump from C$237.50.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nOfficials said that smaller fire is more than 50% contained as of Thursday morning, but are fearful the flames may spread due to hot weather in the forecast.\n\n\"We are still dealing with a very dangerous and volatile situation,\" said David Steeves, a spokesperson with the Department of Natural Resources, adding the temperature could climb above 30C (86F) later in the day.\n\nOfficials said rain is not forecast for the region until Friday, and that they remain unsure on when residents can return to their homes.\n\nCanada's federal government also announced on Thursday that it will be sending more resources to help Nova Scotia battle the flames.\n\nThis includes military personnel, as well as additional firefighters to help relieve those who have been working on the ground for days.\n\nMore than 300 firefighters from the US and South Africa are heading to Canada in the coming days. Some will be sent to battle fires in Nova Scotia, while others will be sent to battle ongoing fires in Canada's western province of Alberta.\n\nThey will join firefighters from Australia and New Zealand who are already on the ground.\n\nThe massive fire in Shelburne County has destroyed around 50 homes and forced the evacuation of 5,000 residents\n\nNova Scotia is seeing an unusually active wildfire season this year, Mr Brehaut said. It is part of a wider trend in Canada where the fire season has had an earlier start than normal.\n\nOfficials say that the number of wildfires across the country is on par with the 10-year average, but the amount of land burned - around 2.7m hectares in total - is unprecedented.\n\nThe fires have had an impact as far as the US, where air quality warnings were issued in Rhode Island and Massachusetts on Wednesday.\n\nSome people in Boston have reported smelling smoke outside, according to reports in local media, while photos have shown a hazy sky over New York City on Tuesday as a result of the fires.\n\nNova Scotia officials said it remains unclear how the two fires started. Provincial officals\n\nExperts say that while wildfires can be sparked by direct human involvement, natural factors, like strikes of lightning, can also play a huge part.\n\nThe cycle of extreme and long-lasting heat caused by climate change draws more and more moisture out of the ground and vegetation, resulting in conditions ripe for wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrew Tate has denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation in a combative interview with the BBC.\n\nWhen the BBC put a range of allegations to him - including specific accusations of rape, human trafficking and exploiting women, for which he is being investigated by Romanian prosecutors - he dismissed them.\n\nWhen pushed on whether his controversial views on women harmed young people, the influencer claimed he was a \"force for good\" and that he was \"acting under the instruction of God to do good things\".\n\nThis was Mr Tate's first television interview with a major broadcaster since being released into house arrest from police custody in Romania in April.\n\nMr Tate, who has repeatedly expressed his mistrust of traditional media, has a huge following online but his views have until now gone unchallenged in a direct interview like this.\n\nHe agreed to our interview with no set conditions.\n\nHe dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nAnd he described another woman, interviewed anonymously by the BBC earlier this year, as \"imaginary\", saying she had been invented by the BBC.\n\nThe woman in question, given the pseudonym Sophie to protect her identity, told BBC Radio 4's File on Four that she followed Mr Tate to Romania believing he was in love with her. There, she was pressured into webcam work and into having Mr Tate's name tattooed on her body, she said.\n\nWhen questioned about Sophie's testimony, Mr Tate told the BBC: \"I'm doing you the favour as legacy media, giving you relevance, by speaking to you. And I'm telling you now, this Sophie, which the BBC has invented, who has no face. Nobody knows who she is. I know.\"\n\nSophie is now helping Romanian prosecutors with the investigation.\n\nI also put to him the concerns of schoolteachers, senior police figures and rights campaigners about the influence of his views.\n\nThese concerns include comments by the chief executive of Rape Crisis in England and Wales, who said she was \"deeply concerned by the dangerous ideology of misogynistic rape culture that Mr Tate spreads\".\n\nSitting across from me in a small armchair, Mr Tate said those accusations were \"absolute garbage\".\n\nLater in the interview, he said it was \"completely disingenuous\" to \"pretend\" that he was damaging young people.\n\nAndrew Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nWhen asked about organisations that blamed him for increased incidents of girls being attacked, and female teachers being harassed, he said: \"I have never, ever encouraged a student to attack a teacher, male or female, ever.\n\n\"I preach hard work, discipline. I'm an athlete, I preach anti-drugs, I preach religion, I preach no alcohol, I preach no knife crime. Every single problem with modern society I'm against.\"\n\nMr Tate suggested that some of his comments had been taken out of context or intended as \"jokes\" - including a video discussion in which he said that a woman's intimate parts belonged to her male partner.\n\n\"I don't know if you understand what sarcasm is. I don't know if you understand what context is. I don't know if you understand what's satirical content,\" he told me when challenged over the comment.\n\nHis description does not match the tone in an online video seen by the BBC.\n\nHe also denied admitting to emotional manipulation of women, despite comments made on a previous version of his online coaching course, Hustlers University.\n\nAn introduction on that site began: \"My name is Andrew Tate… and I'm the most competent person on the entire planet to teach you about male-female interactions.\"\n\nIt goes on to say that Mr Tate's job was to \"meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on a webcam so we could become rich together\".\n\nThe page has since been taken down.\n\nWhen asked about it in our interview, Mr Tate replied, \"I've never said that.\"\n\nI suggested that making controversial statements had brought him a lot of money by attracting followers who then signed up for a paid course on how to become a successful man.\n\nMr Tate replied: \"I genuinely am a force for good in the world. You may not understand that yet, but you will eventually. And I genuinely believe I am acting under the instruction of God to do good things, and I want to make the world a better place.\"\n\nDuring our conversation, which lasted nearly forty minutes, Mr Tate pointed several times to what he called the \"little pieces of paper\" I had brought with me, telling me I was \"saying silly things\" and should \"do some research\".\n\nIn a sign of his mistrust of traditional media, our visit and interview were filmed by his team for their own use - and after we left he claimed that the BBC had promised only to ask \"sanitised questions\".\n\nWhile the BBC did provide topics of discussion before the interview as a matter of courtesy, as per our editorial guidelines, we did not agree the questions we would ask in advance and were clear that our interview would be a wide-ranging, dynamic discussion with challenging questions.\n\nBefore we had even left the building, Mr Tate posted a message on social media promising to publish his own version of the interview, which he did shortly after.\n\nThe BBC has followed his case closely since the end of last year, when the Tate brothers were taken into custody, and has spoken to witnesses, former employees, neighbours and associates, and those involved in the investigation, to piece together an accurate picture of the Tate brothers' time in Romania.\n\nThe brothers are now in their sixth - and last - month under judicial control in this investigation, and any indictment is expected within the next few weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Nato peacekeepers in the northern Kosovo town of Zvecan\n\nNato says it is ready to send more troops to Kosovo after unrest following the appointment of ethnic Albanian mayors to majority-Serb areas.\n\nPristina and Belgrade have blamed each other for the unrest, with Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic calling for the mayors' removal.\n\nThe US has also criticised their installation, which came after Serb residents boycotted local polls.\n\nKosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia does not recognise it.\n\nNato has already sent 700 reinforcements to Kosovo but Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said more might be needed. The alliance already has 4,000 troops there.\n\nThe mayors were elected after Serbs in northern Kosovo boycotted local elections, depressing turnout to about 3% and leading ethnic Albanian candidates to be elected. Serb protestors then tried to stop them taking up their posts.\n\nSome 30 Nato peacekeepers and more than 50 Serb protesters were hurt in the ensuing clashes.\n\nSpeaking on the sidelines of a European summit in Moldova, Mr Vucic said withdrawing the mayors would be the \"most powerful\" way to defuse tensions.\n\nHe insisted that his country would \"attempt to persuade Serbs to protest calmly and peacefully\".\n\nBut at the same event Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani blamed Belgrade for the recent violence, accusing it of \"supporting criminal gangs\" in the country.\n\nSerbia \"needs to come to terms with its past\", he said, adding that the \"real threat in fact is coming from Serbia's denial of existence of a sovereign state\".\n\nThe US, which backed Kosovo's independence from Serbia, criticised Kosovo's decision to install ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo \"by forcible means\" and expelled Kosovo from participating in an ongoing American-led military exercise in Europe.\n\nSerbia's ally Russia has called for the rights of ethnic Serbs in Kosovo to be respected.\n\nFollowing the violence Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic drew attention to the situation by writing \"Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence\" after his first-round win at the French Open.\n\nThe tennis player, whose father was born in Kosovo, later said: \"Of course it hurts me very much as a Serb to see what is happening in Kosovo and the way our people have been practically expelled from the municipal offices, so the least I could do was this.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, following criticism from France's sports minister, he said it is an issue he \"stands for\" although he was aware that some would disagree with his action.", "The beach was cleared, along with the nearby Pier Approach, and a cordon set up\n\nA 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who died after being pulled from the sea off Bournemouth beach were not hit by any vessels, police have said.\n\nOfficers released more information regarding what happened on Wednesday when 10 swimmers got into difficulty.\n\nA man in his 40s arrested on suspicion of manslaughter has been released under investigation.\n\nDorset Police said there was no contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier.\n\nThe force stressed investigations were still in the early stages and it was only releasing certain details to address speculation. What exactly happened is still unclear.\n\nOfficers said members of the public rushed to help the 10 swimmers struggling in the water.\n\nThe girl and boy, from Buckinghamshire and Southampton respectively, sustained critical injuries and died later in hospital.\n\nPolice said they were from separate groups visiting the beach and the arrested man was not known to them.\n\nThe eight other people were rescued and treated on the beach.\n\nPolice confirmed on Thursday the arrested man was \"on the water\" at the time of the incident.\n\nIn a statement Dorset Police said: \"Following initial enquiries, a man aged in his 40s who was on the water at the time was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has now been released under investigation while enquiries continue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said pier jumping had been ruled out as a cause of the tragedy\n\nEmergency services were called to the beach off Bournemouth Pier, which was packed with people on half-term holidays, at 16:32 BST.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Dorset Police said: \"Early investigation indicates that there was no physical contact between a vessel and any swimmers at the time of the incident.\"\n\nSpeaking during a later press conference, Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Farrell thanked members of the public who helped people in trouble in the water, as well as beachgoers who \"quickly moved and let the emergency services do their jobs\".\n\nDr Rob Rosa was on the beach and helped emergency service crews trying to resuscitate the 12-year-old girl.\n\nIn a post on social media, he said: \"Many of the lifeguards on the beach were teenagers themselves and despite their training would not have encountered such a scene, let alone having to resuscitate two children simultaneously whilst actively searching for others in a crowded sea.\n\n\"These young lifeguards did everything asked of them, they didn't panic, there was no hysteria, they were exceptional and they followed instruction to the letter whilst taking their own initiative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two students described seeing emergency services descend on the seafront on Wednesday\n\nAir ambulances landed on the beach, while a lifeguard attended on a jet ski in a bid to rescue those who were in the water.\n\nThe coastguard also conducted a search to make sure no other people were missing and said it was \"satisfied there are not\".\n\nA section of the beach and the nearby Pier Approach were cleared and a cordon was put in place.\n\nThe RNLI is now offering support to the lifeguards who were on the scene.\n\nThe beach was cleared along with nearby Pier Approach in Bournemouth\n\nTobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, said protocols on the pier could be reviewed after the \"terrible tragedy\".\n\nHe said Bournemouth prided itself on being a family resort and the incident had taken \"everybody by shock\".\n\nLeader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, Vikki Slade, told members of the press making sure the beach is safe would be a \"top priority\" for the authority.\n\nShe said extra staff would be on at the scene this weekend and lifeboat support from the RNLI would be visible.\n\nWhen asked about the protocols in place for water safety, she said the team \"is always looking at these issues, but today isn't the day for that\".\n\nDorset Police is appealing for witnesses to come forward and has said further information will be released \"as the investigation progresses\".\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency are also involved in the investigation.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shelby Lynn, 24, from Ballymena, went to see Rammstein in Vilnius\n\nA woman from Northern Ireland has told the BBC she was recruited and \"groomed\" for sex with the lead singer of the German heavy metal band Rammstein.\n\nShelby Lynn, who also claims her drink was spiked at a concert in Vilnius in May, first made the claims on social media.\n\nHer allegations triggered a wave of other sexual misconduct allegations against the band's frontman Till Lindemann.\n\nThe band have denied the claims.\n\nA spokesman for Rammstein told the BBC an internal investigation was under way with the first results expected early next week.\n\nThe band, well known for its flamboyant shows and controversial lyrics, has been engulfed by scandal in recent weeks as a growing number of women claim that they were recruited for sex during concerts.\n\nLike Ms Lynn, some suspect they were pre-selected on social media by a Russian woman, believed to have been a \"recruiter\" for Mr Lindemann, who invited them to parties before and after the show.\n\nShe also gave them access to a restricted area directly in front of the stage, known as \"Row Zero\".\n\nMs Lynn, who is 24 and from Ballymena in County Antrim, told the BBC that when she arrived at the venue a man named Joe asked her and other young women to line up.\n\nShe said: \"He started filming... about four girls, including myself. He got very close to our faces.\"\n\nMs Lynn says singer Till Lindemann reacted angrily when she told him she would not have sex with him\n\nShe claimed that shortly afterwards he picked her and several other girls to attend a pre-concert party, where she was given alcohol and told Till Lindemann would like to meet her during a brief intermission once the concert began.\n\n\"I said: 'Why? Why me? Is this some sort of a sex thing?' [He replied:] 'No, no, no, nothing like that, nothing like that at all. Till's the perfect gentleman.'\"\n\nMs Lynn said she was ushered into a small room underneath the stage.\n\n\"As soon as Joe opens the curtains my stomach drops - this is bad, this is a sex thing absolutely.\n\n\"This room was no bigger than a Primark dressing room - like teeny tiny, dark black - you could maybe fit four or five people in it.\n\n\"Till comes in and I immediately say: 'Till, if you're here for sex. I'm not doing that.'\"\n\nThe singer, she said, reacted angrily and left.\n\nMs Lynn, who has emphasised on social media she wasn't sexually assaulted, said her memory of the evening was \"blurry\" and she recalls feeling nauseous and vomiting at a party after the concert.\n\nShe believes her drink was spiked and that she was the victim of an \"organised system of funnelling girls\".\n\n\"I was groomed, 100 percent, no doubt in my mind. I was groomed for sex,\" she said.\n\nRammstein initially reacted to her claims last month by releasing a statement online in which the band fully denied them.\n\nOn Saturday, after other women came forward with allegations, the band published another statement, saying that they took the accusations extremely seriously.\n\nThey condemned any kind of assault but asked their fans not to \"pre-judge\" them.\n\nA spokesman for the band has subsequently told the BBC that it is now investigating the claims and interviewing staff and crew as part of the enquiry.\n\nRammstein is currently performing several concerts in Germany.\n\nAfter demands from several politicians, including the German families minister, Wednesday's show in Munich went ahead with no \"Row Zero\".\n\nThere were specialist \"awareness teams\" on hand to assist anyone in a vulnerable position.\n\nThe spokesman added that the band had severed contact with the Russian woman accused of helping to select women for \"Row Zero\".\n\nThey said private after-show parties with Till Lindemann had been cancelled.", "The Northern says birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens area have declined year-on-year\n\nBirths will no longer take place at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry, following a decision by the Department of Health (DoH).\n\nThe DoH permanent secretary approved the move to consolidate maternity services at Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nThe Northern Trust had recommended that all births in the area should permanently move to the Antrim site.\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital, the department said.\n\nPermanent Secretary Peter May said the decision was made to ensure safe, consistent and sustainable care for mothers and babies in the trust area.\n\nThe recommendation was made by the Northern Trust board following a 14-week public consultation.\n\nThe changes will come into effect from 17 July 2023.\n\nAny women who are due to give birth at Causeway Hospital will be contacted directly by the trust and there is also a helpline to answer any queries from women who are due to give birth at the hospital.\n\nA trust spokeswoman said the decision for all hospital births to go to Antrim Area Hospital was a welcome one.\n\n\"We strongly believe this is the best outcome for women and babies in our care,\" she said.\n\n\"It will allow us to continue providing the highest standard of inpatient maternity care and births at one, dedicated site, with a safer, more sustainable staffing model.\"\n\nThe trust said it recognised it had been an uncertain time for the \"dedicated team of maternity staff at Causeway Hospital and we will be supporting them through this period of transition.\"\n\nThe trust has said birth numbers in the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area have declined year-on-year.\n\nIt expect birth rates to fall in the area by 11% within the next 20 years.\n\nThe trust had said maternity services in the area were \"vulnerable and unsustainable\".\n\nThe Department of Health said: \"[The] unsustainability of the current Causeway maternity unit relates to falling birth numbers at the hospital and associated difficulties of recruiting and retaining consultants and other staff.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary said: \"An overriding priority for our health service must be the provision of safe care for our population.\n\n\"This decision is in the best interests of mothers and babies in the Northern Trust area.\"\n\nAntenatal and postnatal clinics will be retained and enhanced at Causeway Hospital\n\nHe said maintaining the current service across the Causeway and Antrim sites \"would not be sustainable\".\n\n\"Avoiding planned change would simply lead to unplanned and forced change,\" Mr May added.\n\nCauseway maternity unit has become reliant on locum and temporary staff, making the provision of consistent care more difficult.\n\nDr Dave Watkins, medical director of the Northern Health & Social Care Trust and a consultant paediatrician, said: \"Trying to run two services on two sites clearly dilutes the expertise available and the number of staff available.\n\n\"We feel that this is the safest proposal and it allows us to plan forwards for a safe, sustainable and high quality service for our women here in Antrim Hospital.\"\n\nAnne Wilson from the Royal College of Midwives said: \"We are always disappointed whenever there is a reduction in choice for mothers birthing in maternity services - so it is disappointing.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Wilson said she understood the reason behind the decision.\n\n\"I think ultimately safety of mothers and babies especially giving birth is the main goal and priority here,\" she added.\n\nThe Department of Health said: \"Conditions of the approval include making planned capacity changes at Antrim Hospital as outlined in the public consultation.\"\n\nThe trust will also be required to prioritise the development of an interim three-bedded alongside midwife-led unit at Antrim.\n\nA protest was held in Coleraine in May against the cuts to Causeway Hospital maternity services\n\nThe department said this will offer additional capacity in advance of longer-term plans for a new-build women and children's unit.\n\nSetting out the department's decision-making process, Mr May said he had reviewed the trust's consultation outcome in line with its policy and guidance on change or withdrawal of service.\n\n\"It is also consistent with the wider health transformation agenda which acknowledges that changes need to be made to ensure sustainability of services,\" he said.\n\nThe trust said it was committed to maintaining acute services and an Emergency Department at the site.\n\n\"We recognise that the hospital and its staff play a vital role in serving the local community, and we want to enhance rather than diminish that role.\"\n\nThe trust added: \"Causeway Hospital will retain its high quality antenatal and postnatal care which we recognise are critical local services for women.\n\n\"We will also be enhancing these services so that pregnant women will have access to complex antenatal care and clinics at Causeway Hospital.\"\n\nGregory Campbell, the MP for East Londonderry, said he was \"disturbed\" by the trust's explanation for the move.\n\nHe said: \"The inability to staff hospital wards and in this case a maternity unit, points to a planning and management failure more than lack of need in the community.\"\n\nMr Campbell said the Northern Trust and DoH must spell out the sustainability of the Causeway Hospital.\n\nThe proposals had been met with some opposition over the last number of months.\n\nAbout 100 people gathered in Coleraine town centre after the Northern Trust approved the recommendation to remove births from the hospital in May.\n\nIn June Mother-of-three, Heidi Wright from Portrush, said she was concerned about the length of time it would take to travel to Antrim.\n\nIn less than a year, the Northern Trust has managed to deliver a major permanent change to how one of its core services will be delivered with little fuss or opposition.\n\nIn Northern Ireland that is remarkable.\n\nWhile for decades transforming health care has been much talked about, in practice little has happened.\n\nMost recently, and in 2016, Prof Rafael Bengoa said Northern Ireland faced \"a stark choice\".\n\nThe man who chaired the last local healthcare review said people could \"either resist change and see services deteriorate to the point of collapse over time, or embrace transformation and work to create a modern sustainable service\".\n\nAt present, these two contrasting viewpoints are being played out across three different health trusts.\n\nIn the Southern and Western Trusts, resisting change over many years at Daisy Hill and the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) has now triggered a rush to transform how some services are being delivered, a move likened by the BMA to \"falling off the cliff edge\".\n\nSome have said that the change feels \"unplanned and out of control\".\n\nPoliticians have led rallies and debates in protest.\n\nBut in the Northern Trust the picture is different.\n\nOfficials have said that before maternity services get to to the point of \"collapse\" they are implementing change that is planned, deliberate and intentional.\n\nWhile all the health trusts conducted consultations, it seems that Causeway will be able to consolidate all births at Antrim Area Hospital while maintaining an antenatal and post-natal assessment hub at Causeway.\n\nIt hasn't been without some public protest - but nowhere near the extent of that seen in Enniskillen and Newry.\n\nAll other health trusts must be looking to the Northern Trust in wonder.\n\nHow did it do what the Southern and Western trusts couldn't?\n\nThe big difference, it seems, is the lack of political interference at Causeway.\n\nIn 2016, the then health minister - the DUP's Simon Hamilton - said political consensus was key to the future of NI's health service.\n\nIt seems that is much easier said than done.", "There is a police presence at Petergate boarding house at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon\n\nWeapons have been found by police following an assault at a private school on Friday morning which has left two students in hospital.\n\nOne boy is in a critical condition after the incident at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon.\n\nA 16-year-old boy from the town has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said \"some weapons were located at the scene\".\n\nThe second injured boy also remains in hospital in a stable condition, and a male staff member has been discharged after also receiving serious injuries.\n\nSupt Antony Hart said this was \"a very traumatic incident for those involved\".\n\nHe added on Friday afternoon: \"We are still establishing what happened in the early hours of this morning and an extensive investigation continues.\"\n\nSupt Hart added: \"While we can confirm some weapons were located at the scene, it would not be appropriate to speculate on how these may have been involved while our enquiries continue.\n\n\"Our priority is to fully investigate this incident and support the victims, their families and the school community.\"\n\nIn a letter to parents and guardians of students - seen by the BBC - school head Bart Wielenga said he was \"confident that this was an isolated incident\".\n\nHe said there would be a police presence around Petergate, one of the school's boarding houses, for \"some time\".\n\nMr Wielenga said in the letter that the school was working closely with police, adding he would be addressing pupils and support would be available.\n\nHe urged parents not to engage in speculation or post on social media.\n\nThere will be a police presence for \"some time\", the school's head told parents\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said it was called at 00:57 BST.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: \"We sent three double-crewed land ambulances, an air ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and hazardous area response teams.\n\n\"Three individuals were conveyed by land ambulance to hospital.\"\n\nAlison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said she was liaising with Victim Support to be on hand at the school to provide specialist support for anyone who needs it.\n\nThe commissioner said: \"Incidents of this nature are always shocking, but when they take place in a school setting they are particularly distressing and my thoughts are with everyone involved.\"\n\nBlundell's School - which has fees of £41,325 a school year for a boarder - told the BBC it would not be commenting on the matter at this time.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "At least one police officer was assaulted every day in the first four months of this year in the north west, a senior officer has said.\n\nEight officers were assaulted in four separate incidents in Londonderry on Wednesday evening.\n\nCh Insp Yvonne McManus said so many assaults in one evening was \"exceptional for our district\".\n\nBut she said officers are increasingly being subjected to attacks.\n\n\"In relation to where we are as a district, and I know Derry City and Strabane is no exception, between January and April we have had 34.5 assaults per month - that is more than one officer assaulted per day,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle's The North West Today programme.\n\n\"Increasingly our officers are subject to attacks and we are here to help deal with extremely complex issues - issues around vulnerability - and regrettably we are forced to try and resolve these and at time officers are exposed to serious risk themselves\".\n\nCh Insp McManus said the eight officers injured on Wednesday had all been able to remain on duty.\n\nThree people have been charged to court and another reported to the Public Prosecution Service in relation to the incidents on Wednesday, she added.\n\nCh Insp McManus urged the public not to take officers for granted.\n\n\"At times they are dealing with very dangerous circumstances and they put themselves in harm's way to protect others and keep the community safe,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this year the PSNI said assaults resulting in injuries to officers are at a five-year high.\n\nAt that time the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents officers, said greater deterrents - including tougher sentencing by the court and the use of Tasers - are needed to prevent assaults on officers.", "The US Supreme Court has sided with whiskey brand Jack Daniel's in its lawsuit against a company that sells a lookalike poop-themed toy for dogs.\n\nThe dog toy says \"Old No. 2 on your Tennessee Carpet\", while the famous whiskey bottle reads \"Old No. 7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey\".\n\nIn a unanimous decision on Thursday, the top US court found that the toy is a trademark violation.\n\nThe unusual case led to laughter in the court, and a few jokes in the opinion.\n\nJustice Elena Kagan, who wrote the court's opinion, noted: \"This case is about dog toys and whiskey, two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.\"\n\nAt another point she asks court watchers to \"recall what the bottle looks like (or better yet, retrieve a bottle from wherever you keep liquor; it's probably there)\".\n\nThe decision throws out an appeal that found that the toy was a \"non-commercial\" parody, subject to First Amendment free speech protections, and throws the case back to lower courts.\n\nThe filing by the whisky makers argued that the Arizona-based VIP Products LLC was profiting \"from Jack Daniel's hard-earned goodwill\" and confusing consumers, by getting them to \"associate Jack Daniel's whiskey with excrement\". The toy costs about $20 (£16). ''\n\nThe bottle of liquor says \"40% alcohol by volume\", while the \"Bad Spaniels Silly Squeaker\" chew toy reads \"43% poo by volume\" and \"100% Smelly\". The packaging includes a label noting that it is not affiliated with Jack Daniel's.\n\nThe company also produces other similar toys that resemble other notable alcohol and soda brands.\n\nLawyers for the Tennessee whisky company said they found no humour in the pun.\n\n\"Jack Daniel's loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone. But Jack Daniel's likes its customers even more, and doesn't want them confused or associating its fine whiskey with dog poop,\" Lisa Blatt, attorney for Jack Daniel's, wrote in court papers.\n\nThe Biden administration and major brands - such as Nike, Campbell Soup Company, Patagonia and Levi Strauss - had urged justices to side with Jack Daniel's.\n\nIn a statement after the ruling, a spokesman for Jack Daniels said the company was pleased with the outcome.\n\n\"Jack Daniel's is a brand recognised for quality and craftsmanship, and when friends around the world see the label, they know it stands for something they can count on,\" said Svend Jansen.\n\n\"We will continue to support efforts to protect the goodwill and strength of this iconic trademark.\"\n\nThe case is the second intellectual property law that the court has ruled on in recent months.\n\nIn May, the court found that artist Andy Warhol had infringed on a photographer's property rights when he used images taken by the photographer to make silk screen images showing the singer Prince.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: View from a boat on what used to be a street\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of attacking evacuation points for those affected by the Kakhovka dam breach, after a person was killed by shelling in Kherson.\n\nThe Kherson prosecutor's office said two others were also injured, while the interior ministry said eight more were hurt by shelling in Korabelna Square.\n\nThe attacks came as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the city, where he met with locals affected by the flooding.\n\n2,000 people have been evacuated from the area, Kherson's governor says.\n\nSpeaking in a video statement posted to Telegram, Oleksandr Prokudin said the \"evacuation from zones of flooding is continuing\" despite the \"immense danger and constant Russian shelling\".\n\nBut he said that 68% of the flooded territory in the Kherson region was on Russian-held territory on the east bank of the Dnipro River.\n\nThe river has slowly swelled since the Kakhovka dam collapsed on Tuesday, causing thousands to flee their homes. The World Food Programme told the BBC on Thursday that the situation was a \"public health crisis in the making\" due to pollution including sewage, heavy oil and pesticides mixed into floodwater.\n\nUkraine says the flooding has affected an area of around 600 km sq (230 sq miles), and hundreds of thousands of people have been left without drinking water. The Ukrainian army has used drones to drop water bottles and food to some residents.\n\nWhile the water level seems to have stabilised in Kherson itself, it still flows through streets at a daunting height, and flies now fill the air along with a pungent smell.\n\nRescue teams and volunteers are continuing to head out on boats to salvage anyone, or anything they can. Their efforts are punctuated by outgoing artillery fire.\n\nBoth Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of targeting evacuation points in the Kherson region. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, accused Russia of bombarding the city and of \"preventing rescuers from evacuating the population\".\n\nThe Kremlin-installed head of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said on Telegram that two people died after Ukraine shelled a civilian evacuation point which was flooded after the dam breach.\n\nAnd Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that Russian rescue workers are \"forced to work in conditions of ongoing shelling from Ukraine, and this complicates their work\". He did not provide evidence to back up these claims.\n\nSpeaking in Kherson, where he met with rescue workers, President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his criticism of the international community, including the UN and the Red Cross, for their slow response to the dam collapse.\n\nAnd he vowed to local residents that his government would be available to help them rebuild their lives.\n\n\"You are going through this difficult ordeal now,\" Mr Zelensky said. \"We will help you and rebuild everything that needs to be restored. I thank you and wish you good health.\"\n\nThe Kremlin said there were no plans for President Vladimir Putin to visit the affected zones.\n\nCommunities on small islands close to Russian occupied territory are said to be experiencing the worst of these floods. Whole homes there have been submerged.\n\nAnd a local Russian-installed official said five people have died and 41 have been hospitalised by flooding in the region.\n\nElsewhere, fighting has continued in some areas, as analysts watch to see how Ukraine's long-anticipated advance takes shape.\n\nRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday that his forces had withstood fierce attempts by Ukrainian troops to break through the frontline in Zaporizhzhia province overnight.\n\nAnd footage posted to social media by pro-war Russian bloggers and geolocated by the BBC appeared to show units of Ukrainian armour coming under artillery fire as they advanced towards Russian held areas in Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nThe column appeared to be advancing towards fortifications at Tokmak, around 5-10km back from the limit of Russian control. The BBC cannot verify when the advance occurred.\n\nIn the east, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Kyiv's forces were continuing to advance around the city of Bakhmut.\n\nIn a daily intelligence update, the UK's ministry of defence said \"heavy fighting continues along multiple sectors of the front,\" noting that Ukraine \"holds the initiative\" in most areas.\n\nOn Wednesday Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's national security council, denied reports of the new offensive and said that when Kyiv does launch an offensive \"everyone will know about it\".\n\nSenior US officials have previously told the BBC's US partner CBS News that it is accurate to say that the Ukraine counteroffensive is in its opening phases, but that the main thrust has not yet begun.", "Restrictions on the rent private landlords can charge tenants are being considered by the Welsh government.\n\nThere are no firm plans but officials want to hear from the public and landlords on a range of ideas, including price ceilings and freezes.\n\nTenants have told the BBC they have faced rent hikes in recent months and have struggled to find alternative accommodation.\n\nBut landlords warned such controls would be a \"disaster\".\n\nAlthough controls exist in the social housing sector, there has been no law regulating rent increases on homes in Wales rented from private landlords for decades.\n\nThe Welsh government is consulting on the issue as part of a wider \"green paper\" on housing, looking at how ministers can help both landlords and tenants.\n\nAnother consultation will take place next year on what a new law might be - part of the Welsh government's co-operation deal with Plaid Cymru.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused Labour and Plaid of proposing \"socialist and nationalist red tape\".\n\nPlaid Cymru, which has backed rent controls in the past, said the green paper was a \"welcome step\" and the free market in housing was \"failing our communities\".\n\nMinisters resisted calls for a rent freeze last year, saying they did not want to drive landlords away from the sector.\n\nPenny, a PhD student who is currently renting a one-bed property in Cathays, Cardiff, said rent controls would be welcomed.\n\n\"There is nothing keeping rent level in check at the moment,\" they said.\n\nThe 26-year-old said they were forced to search for a new property on the rental market at the beginning of the year after their landlord \"arbitrarily\" suggested a rent increase of £25 per month.\n\nPenny, 26, says there is \"nothing\" keeping rent controlled at the moment\n\nPenny was unable to adjust their budget due to their salary, and said their rent takes up half their monthly income.\n\nPenny said the more affordable places on the market \"are not very nice,\" adding: \"Some of the cheaper places I've seen have mould in the property, or the energy is not very efficient.\n\n\"For a long time, I thought I was going to be homeless.\n\n\"It's always about security for the landlord, and never security for me.\"\n\nAde Zion says he thinks landlords are taking advantage\n\nAnother Cardiff renter, Ade Zion, said he would \"fully support\" a rental cap.\n\nThe project support officer's rent recently increased by £125 a month, but he was unable to find anywhere else to live.\n\n\"I had no choice. Some landlords have taken advantage of the interest rates going up and bumped up the rent prices.\n\n\"It's unfair to us if you consider the inflation rate, the cost of living and everything.\"\n\nEllen Knight, 22, says she thinks landlords charge more than what the houses are worth\n\nEllen Knight, a 22-year-old student at Cardiff University, said this proposal would help in student areas.\n\n\"Landlords charge so much more than the house is really worth,\" she said. \"My house has black mould growing underneath the window and we're still paying £400 a month each.\"\n\nShe added that controls on rental properties may also help local communities.\n\n\"The houses around here, if they go up for sale, are just snapped up by landlords. It means that the local people can't even live in the city that they were maybe born in,\" she said.\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said private rental prices increased by 4.8% in the year to April 2023.\n\nIt is the highest figure since the ONS started gathering the information in January 2010.\n\nThe green paper asks for views on a range of models for rent control, including strict price ceilings or rent freezes.\n\nIt gives the example of Scotland, which sets a percentage by which rents could increase. This was initially set at zero and later moved to 3%.\n\nCould rent price increases be capped in Wales?\n\nOther proposals include allowing a \"reset\" at or around market levels between tenancies, such as in Ireland.\n\nThere, the first rent that a tenant pays must not be set at more than market rent.\n\nThe document calls for evidence from the public and organisations.\n\nClimate Change Minister Julie James said the Welsh government wanted to \"better understand the rental market in Wales, in particular what factors influence landlord behaviour in setting rents and taking on tenants and what do tenants consider is an affordable and adequate property\".\n\nShe wrote: \"I am committed to using all the levers we have to ensure we maintain a viable private rented sector here in Wales... where landlords have confidence to invest in making improvements and tenants have greater certainty that longer term costs of moving into or staying in a rental property will be affordable.\"\n\nAcorn, a union for tenants, said \"big money is being made off the backs of Wales' struggling communities\".\n\nIn a statement, its Cardiff branch said: \"We're pleased the Welsh government is exploring the idea of rent controls; in this current crisis, with wages declining against inflation, they're the bare minimum response.\"\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has encouraged its members to take part in the consultation.\n\nBen Beadle, the NRLA's chief executive, said: \"Rent controls would serve only to decimate the sector further and would be a disaster for tenants, when so many are already struggling to find a place to rent.\n\nJanet Finch Saunders of the Welsh Conservatives said: \"More socialist and nationalist red tape and consultations are not going to reduce rents and deliver more affordable housing.\"\n\nShe accused Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru of trying to drive \"private landlords out of Wales\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's Mabon ap Gwynfor said the co-operation deal included a commitment for proposals to establish \"fair rents in the private rental market and new approaches to making homes affordable for those on local incomes\".\n\n\"It's been clear for decades that the free market is failing our communities when it comes to housing. The system is rigged against the majority of people who cannot afford to compete for what is a limited commodity, land,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City's long quest to win the Champions League finally ended in triumph against Inter Milan in Istanbul as Pep Guardiola's side completed the Treble.\n\nAfter winning the Premier League and FA Cup, City emulated Manchester United's triple trophy haul in 1999 as they became only the second English club to achieve the feat after Rodri's crisp 68th-minute strike settled an attritional final.\n\nGuardiola's all-conquering side were never at their best against a brilliantly organised Inter and had to cope with the loss of Kevin de Bruyne to injury in the first half.\n\nBut the massed ranks of City fans inside Ataturk Stadium did not care about that as they joyously celebrated the greatest night - and season - in the club's history.\n\nAnd for Guardiola, it seals his status as one of the managerial greats as he added a third Champions League to the two he won at Barcelona, the last coming in 2011.\n\nThis was never the walkover many predicted and City had to survive a few scares when Federico Dimarco's header bounced off the bar and Ederson made a stunning late save to deny Romelu Lukaku but ultimately this was all about the victory.\n\nNow Guardiola and his players can take their place in history.\n• None Have your say on Man City's performance here\n\nThe Champions League has brought suffering to City and Guardiola - especially when they lost to Premier League rivals Chelsea in the 2021 final - but all the pain disappeared just before midnight on a sultry night in Istanbul.\n\nCity survived late anxiety, especially when Inter substitute Lukaku headed straight at Ederson with the goal at his mercy, but there was an explosion of joy on the pitch and in the stands at Ataturk Stadium as they finally secured the giant trophy that has remained so elusively beyond their grasp for so long.\n\nGuardiola said, whether it was fair or not, that his time at Manchester City would be judged on whether he was able to bring the Champions League to the club. Now that judgement can be made.\n\nThe Catalan, who won the Champions League with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, will now be an iconic figure at City as well as Barcelona.\n• None 'Hysterical and hated at times' - but Guardiola is the greatest\n\nIt is a simple fact that many outside the Abu Dhabi-owned club will always view their triumph through the prism of the charges of 115 financial breaches brought against them by the Premier League, charges they fiercely deny.\n\nFor City's owners, with Sheikh Mansour attending only his second game since taking control in 2008, this was the night they have planned for and the one when they finally claimed that holy grail.\n\nThis was an evening when only the result mattered to City, not the manner in which their greatest victory was achieved.\n\nThis was not a win secured with the dazzling style and creation that is usually their hallmark. In fact for long periods it was a scrappy, sloppy performance in the face of a well-drilled Inter side who were right in this Champions League Final until the whistle went.\n\nNone of that will matter now. All that will be recalled forever about this game by City's fans was the moment when Rodri arrived on the end of build-up play from Manuel Akanji and Bernardo Silva to send that precise right-foot finish away from the reach of Inter's outstanding keeper Andre Onana.\n\nAnd of course the triumphant Champions League trophy lift.\n\nCity lived dangerously in the closing minutes and, when it was all over, Guardiola, so agitated in his technical area, was relatively calm as he sought out opposite number Simone Inzaghi for consoling words.\n\nJohn Stones was once again outstanding for City while keeper Ederson made key contributions when required.\n\nThe celebrations at the final whistle reflected a magnificent season as City finally got their hands on the Champions League trophy and prepared to parade it around the streets of Manchester along with the Premier League and FA Cup on Monday.\n• None Attempt saved. Robin Gosens (Inter Milan) header from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Federico Dimarco with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolò Barella (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Erling Haaland (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lautaro Martínez with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robin Gosens with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "A train crashed into a truck which was stuck on a railway crossing in North Carolina.\n\nThe truck driver got away in time and no injuries were reported.", "Former Prime Minster Boris Johnson has announced that he is standing down as an MP, with immediate effect.\n\nIt comes after he received a report from the MP-led Privileges Committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nHere is his statement in full:\n\nI have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear - much to my amazement - that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.\n\nThey have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.\n\nThey know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons, I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say, like any other minister. They know that I corrected the record as soon as possible; and they know that I and every other senior official and minister - including the current Prime Minister and then occupant of the same building, Rishi Sunak - believed that we were working lawfully together.\n\nI have been an MP since 2001. I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie, and I believe that in their hearts, the Committee know it. But they have wilfully chosen to ignore the truth, because from the outset, their purpose has not been to discover the truth, or genuinely to understand what was in my mind when I spoke in the Commons.\n\nTheir purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts. This is the very definition of a kangaroo court.\n\nMost members of the Committee - especially the chair - had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence. They should have recused themselves.\n\nIn retrospect, it was naïve and trusting of me to think that these proceedings could be remotely useful or fair. But I was determined to believe in the system, and in justice, and to vindicate what I knew to be the truth.\n\nIt was the same faith in the impartiality of our systems that led me to commission Sue Gray. It is clear that my faith has been misplaced. Of course, it suits the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP to do whatever they can to remove me from Parliament.\n\nSadly, as we saw in July last year, there are currently some Tory MPs who share that view. I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.\n\nMy removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.\n\nNor do I believe that it is any coincidence that her supposedly impartial chief counsel, Daniel Stilitz KC, turned out to be a strong Labour supporter who repeatedly tweeted personal attacks on me and the government.\n\nWhen I left office last year, the government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened.\n\nJust a few years after winning the biggest majority in almost half a century, that majority is now clearly at risk.\n\nOur party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.\n\nWe need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda. We need to cut business and personal taxes - and not just as pre-election gimmicks - rather than endlessly putting them up.\n\nWe must not be afraid to be a properly Conservative government.\n\nWhy have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?\n\nWe need to deliver on the 2019 manifesto, which was endorsed by 14 million people. We should remember that more than 17 million voted for Brexit.\n\nI am now being forced out of Parliament by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without the approval even of Conservative party members, let alone the wider electorate.\n\nI believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set.\n\nThe Conservative Party has the time to recover its mojo and its ambition and to win the next election. I had looked forward to providing enthusiastic support as a backbench MP. Harriet Harman's committee has set out to make that objective completely untenable.\n\nThe Committee's report is riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice, but under their absurd and unjust process, I have no formal ability to challenge anything they say.\n\nThe Privileges Committee is there to protect the privileges of Parliament. That is a very important job. They should not be using their powers - which have only been very recently designed - to mount what is plainly a political hit job on someone they oppose.\n\nIt is in no one's interest, however, that the process the Committee has launched should continue for a single day further.\n\nSo I have today written to my Association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.\n\nI am very sorry to leave my wonderful constituency. It has been a huge honour to serve them, both as Mayor and MP.\n\nBut I am proud that after what is cumulatively a 15-year stint, I have helped to deliver, among other things, a vast new railway in the Elizabeth Line and full funding for a wonderful new state of the art hospital for Hillingdon, where enabling works have already begun.\n\nI also remain hugely proud of all that we achieved in my time in office as prime minister: getting Brexit done, winning the biggest majority for 40 years and delivering the fastest vaccine roll out of any major European country, as well as leading global support for Ukraine.\n\nIt is very sad to be leaving Parliament - at least for now - but above all, I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias.\n• None I've been forced out over Partygate report - Johnson", "Time is running out if the police and the government are to restore public trust in policing, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary has warned.\n\nIn his annual report, Andy Cooke said police forces were experiencing \"one of their biggest crises in living memory\".\n\n\"Atrocious\" crimes committed by serving police officers had fuelled distrust, while too few criminals were being caught, he added.\n\nMr Cooke has called for new powers to enforce improvements.\n\nIn his annual assessment of policing in England and Wales, Mr Cooke's first since his appointment last year, he said police were failing to keep up with rising demand from the public and too often were not doing the basics right.\n\nCharge rates had fallen by two-thirds since 2014, the report stated, while victims were increasingly dissatisfied with the police and wider criminal justice system.\n\n\"I can't recall a time when the relationship between the police and the public was more strained than it is now,\" Mr Cooke said.\n\n\"The public expectation of policing is that they prevent crime, they investigate crime properly, that they're in the communities, they're visible, that they answer 999 calls quickly. These are all the basics of policing.\n\n\"We've seen too many occasions where opportunities are being missed to catch offenders who are causing misery in our communities.\"\n\nMr Cooke says the police are often \"picking up the slack\" for other parts of public services.\n\n\"Mental health is a great example,\" he said. \"Last year policing attended 600,000 mental health incidents. Most of those incidents there was no requirement for police to attend.\"\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley wrote to health and social care services in Greater London in May, informing them the service would stop attending mental health incidents from September, except where there is an \"immediate threat to life\".\n\nHumberside Police introduced the Right Care, Right Person scheme in 2020 to ensure mental health calls are dealt with by relevant professionals.\n\nMr Cooke welcomed investment that had seen more than 20,000 police officers added in England and Wales since 2020.\n\nHowever, he noted difficulties in vetting new recruits and the inexperience of a workforce which lost many established officers during David Cameron's time as prime minister.\n\nFurthermore, where failings have been identified, some forces have been too slow to implement improvements, he said.\n\nMr Cooke called on Home Secretary Suella Braverman to grant new enforcement powers to enforce compliance with the Inspectorate of Constabulary's recommendations by the end of this year.\n\nForces had taken too long to respond to recommendations in the 2016 State of Policing report relating to officers abusing their positions for sexual purposes, he said.\n\n\"Two forces did from the start what they should have done,\" Mr Cooke said. \"That should have been 43 forces.\n\n\"In those seven years, we have seen some truly horrendous acts by officers.\n\n\"The chances of these things happening would have been lessened had we had those powers at an earlier time.\n\n\"It would ensure police chiefs across the country would have to make the changes that are required to keep the public safe.\"\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper called the report \"truly damning\" and backed major reforms. She blamed successive Conservative home secretaries for a series of failings.\n\n\"These include systemic failings in policing and a totally dysfunctional criminal justice system, with more criminals getting away with crimes, victims let down, vital neighbourhood policing devastated, record numbers of forces in special measures, and confidence in policing falling,\" she said.\n\nMs Braverman said the report acknowledged a fall in crime rates but conceded \"there is lots more to do\".\n\nShe added: \"This is why I've been calling for common-sense policing. With the highest number of police officers than ever before, the police must deliver for victims.\n\n\"It has always been my priority to reduce burdens on policing and ensure they have the resources they need.\"\n\nBaroness Louise Casey, who authored a damning report on the Met earlier this year, told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast that for people to consent to policing, officers need to be seen as \"beyond reproach\" on issues like violence against women.\n\nShe said: \"The thing I still feel is fairly unforgivable is that misconduct in a police officer is totally undermining of the fact that they can arrest me, they can cuff me, they can strip search me, they can literally take my clothes off and strip search me.\n\n\"They can put me in a police cell for 24 hours, all on the basis of that officer's word.\"\n\nHave you been a victim of crime? How did the police respond? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None How did the government meet its police pledge?", "An amber heat health alert has come into force as some parts of the UK are forecast to hit 30C in the coming days.\n\nThe amber warning, which indicates high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service, is in place across eastern and southern England, as well as in the Midlands.\n\nIt will be 5C to 10C above normal June weather this weekend, say forecasters.\n\nThe alert, issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), was escalated from yellow to amber on Thursday.\n\nFire services have issued warnings about wildfires and urged people to be \"vigilant\" this weekend.\n\nThursday was the hottest day of the year so far, according to the Met Office.\n\nParts of south-east and north-east England, as well as the Midlands, are due to experience temperatures of 28C to 30C on Saturday, say BBC forecasters.\n\n\"Most areas will also notice an increase in how humid it is too, which will lead to some warm nights,\" said BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor, adding that there was a chance of \"some sporadic torrential thunderstorms\".\n\nHe said with \"very dry ground\" there was a risk of localised flooding where torrential downpours occur.\n\nThe temperatures this weekend will be a \"big leap\" for some eastern areas of the country where it has been cooler recently, added Mr Taylor.\n\nHe also noted that air quality would deteriorate over the weekend due to south-east winds coming off the continent.\n\nThe amber alert continues until 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nA less severe yellow alert, which advises people to check on vulnerable family and friends, is in place for the north of England and London.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunderstorms is also in place for all of Wales and large parts of southern England from 14:00 BST until 21:00 on Saturday. On Sunday, this warning is in place for most of the UK, including Northern Ireland, from 12:00 until 21:00.\n\nThis could mean disruption to travel, power cuts and some localised flooding from the heaviest showers.\n\nDuring the period of hot weather, the UKHSA advises people to:\n\nThe UKHSA said it was difficult to predict the exact impact of the higher temperatures on the health service, but that there would be additional need from vulnerable groups who suffer in the heat.\n\nThis includes people over 65, those with respiratory or cardiovascular conditions and children.\n\nHow are the high temperatures affecting you? You can share your experiences via:\n\nAndy Cole, assistant chief fire officer from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service, urged people to be \"vigilant\" this weekend and avoid using disposable barbecues or starting campfires.\n\nThere was a \"record number\" of wildfires last year, he said, adding that Dorset and Wiltshire saw a \"roughly 400% increase\" compared to the year before, with 911 recorded.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cole said wildfires were \"extremely dangerous\" and could take a lot of resources from the fire service.\n\nIn the Peak District, the discovery of a large fire bowl - used for outdoor cooking - prompted park rangers to warn that fire pits, barbecues, and other heat sources pose a serious risk of causing a wildfire.\n\nLast year fire services in England dealt with almost 25,000 wildfires during the summer, a four-fold increase on the same period in 2021.\n\nFire crews across the UK are being trained in new Mediterranean-style techniques, from southern Europe and the US, to tackle wildfires.\n\nClimate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme.\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest ever - Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, reached a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nThe UKHSA expects heatwaves are \"likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead\".\n\nThe new colour-coded alert system, launched last week, is run by the UKHSA and the Met Office and is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nThere is one further alert, not yet issued, representing the most serious risk. The red alert means there is a significant risk to life even for healthy people and a severe impact is likely across all sectors.\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.", "A US Navy veteran and aide to Trump, Walt Nauta, has also been charged as part of the documents probe.\n\nAccording to the charges, Nauta made several false and misleading statements to prosecutors about where the documents were stored and how they were transported.\n\nOn 17 January 2022 Nauta and another unnamed Trump employee gathered 15 boxes from Trump's residence, loaded them into Nauta's car, and then took them to a commercial truck for delivery to the National Archives.\n\nIn an interview with FBI agents in May 2022, he allegedly lied three times about his knowledge of the documents.\n\nProsecutors say he falsely stated that he was not aware that boxes of documents had been brought to Trump's home for review, that he did not know how they had arrived at his residence and that he did not know how they had been stored before being handed over to the National Archives.\n\nAsked about whether they were stored in a locked location, he responded: \"I wish, I wish I could tell you. I don’t know. I don’t — I honestly just don’t know.”\n\nThe charges against Nauta include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document and concealing a document in a federal investigation, all of which carry maximum prison sentences of 20 years.\n\nTwo other charges - scheme to conceal and false statements and representations - carry maximum sentences of five years in prison.\n\nRead more: Who is Walt Nauta?", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds United chairman Andrea Radrizzani has agreed a £170m deal to sell his stake in the relegated club to co-owners 49ers Enterprises.\n\nThe investment arm of the San Francisco 49ers purchased a 15% stake in Leeds in 2018 and increased that to 44% in 2021.\n\nItalian Radrizzani bought Leeds outright for £45m in 2017, but his stake has dropped to 56% since then.\n\nManagerless Leeds were relegated from the Premier League on the final day and are preparing for the Championship.\n\nThe previous agreement, which depended on their top-flight survival, was worth about £400m - but negotiations restarted following their drop to the second tier.\n\nA club statement read: \"Leeds United can confirm an agreement has been reached between Aser Ventures and 49ers Enterprises for the purchase of the club.\n\n\"Both parties continue to work through the details, and further updates will be provided soon. All of our focus remains on a quick return to the Premier League.\"\n\nAfter relegation was confirmed, the Leeds United Supporters Club released a statement saying Radrizzani was \"no longer an appropriate person to own Leeds United\".\n\n\"His behaviour is appalling and he risks never being welcome at our club again,\" it added.\"The sooner he goes the better and we look forward to the 49ers Enterprises offer being accepted. The only way he can begin to salvage his reputation is through an immediate sale of the club and the stadium.\"\n\nRadrizzani was popular with Leeds fans initially, with manager Marcelo Bielsa taking them back into the Premier League. But the relationship soured after he sacked the Argentine, and he did not attend their final game, a defeat by Tottenham which sealed their relegation while fans chanted for him to leave.\n\nThis deal has to be good for the club - analysis\n\nThis news has been expected since Sampdoria confirmed Radrizzani had taken a stake in the club, which had just been relegated to Serie B.\n\nThe brutal truth is that Radrizzani, charismatic as he is, lacks the funds to really shove Leeds up the Premier League in the way the 49ers have.\n\nIt was hoped they could escape again this term but, ultimately, they just were not good enough and not even interim boss Sam Allardyce could save them.\n\nHowever, while no-one would choose to get relegated because of the uncertainty it brings, under the circumstances it does not need to be a disaster.\n\nAllardyce has gone, just as director of football Victor Orta went before him. Recruitment-wise, Leeds are starting with a clean slate.\n\nWhat they are not starting with in the Championship is a level playing field. Given the parachute payments and their enormous fan base, quite frankly, it would reflect very badly if Leeds did not go straight back up.\n\nThe same could be said about Leicester and Southampton, putting the real pressure on the two clubs who went down in 2021-22 and did not come straight back - Norwich and Watford.\n\nThere are structural issues to address around Elland Road, which will be expensive to modernise but badly needs it. However, on the pitch, this deal has to be good for the club.\n• None Listen to the latest Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast\n• None Our coverage of Leeds United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Leeds - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says Labour will now \"ramp up\" its plan to spend £28bn a year on green industries\n\nLabour has rowed back on its pledge to invest £28bn a year in green industries if it wins power, saying it needs to be \"responsible\" with the public finances.\n\nIn 2021 Labour promised to spend £28bn a year until 2030 on green projects, funded by borrowing.\n\nInstead shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said she would now ramp up investment over time from a 2024 election win, reaching £28bn a year after 2027.\n\nShe told the BBC it was important not to be \"reckless\" with spending.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Reeves said the Tories had \"crashed the economy\", adding that after prices and interest rates increased \"financial stability has to come first\".\n\nFactors including the war in Ukraine have seen inflation soar and the Bank of England has increased interest rates, making borrowing more expensive, in an attempt to tame rising prices.\n\nFormer PM Liz Truss's mini-budget last year, which included billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts, also prompted turmoil in the financial markets and led to interest rates rising further.\n\n\"The truth is I didn't foresee what the Conservatives would do to our economy,\" Ms Reeves said.\n\n\"We will get to the investment that is needed. But we've got to do that in a responsible way.\"\n\nHowever, pressed on how much investment there would be in the first year of a Labour government, Ms Reeves would not commit to a figure, arguing the economic backdrop would not be clear until closer to the time.\n\nAnnouncing the party's Green Prosperity Plan in 2021, Ms Reeves said the £28bn would come from borrowing and would be spent on projects like offshore wind farms and developing batteries for electric vehicles.\n\nSince then the economic picture has changed considerably, with interest rates and borrowing costs soaring.\n\nLabour wants to be seen as economically credible and privately there had been concerns raised about whether the £28bn of investment was affordable in the current context.\n\nThere have also been complaints about how the policy has landed, with some worried the £28bn figure was better known than what the money would be spent on.\n\nThe Conservatives have also used the alleged dangers of the policy - that extra borrowing could increase interest rates and mortgage costs - as an attack line.\n\nHowever, the change in tack could make it more difficult to deliver Labour's aim of generating all electricity without using fossil fuels by 2030.\n\nConservative Party chairman Greg Hands said Labour's main economic policy was \"in tatters\" after they realised \"it would lead to disaster\".\n\n\"It doesn't matter if they try and pretend otherwise, Labour's plan remains to stick £28bn of borrowing on the government credit card which will lead to higher inflation and higher interest rates,\" he said.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said the move was \"the latest in a long line of broken promises\" from Labour, which \"could have very real and damaging consequences for Scotland's green energy potential\".\n\nGreen Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said Labour had offered a policy which \"does not go far enough\" and then \"row[ing] back at the first sign of any difficulty\".\n\nRachel Reeves toured the New York Stock Exchange on a three-day visit to the US last month\n\nMs Reeves was also critical of the deal Prime Minister Rishi Sunak secured with the US on his visit to Washington this week.\n\nPlans for a full free trade agreement have been abandoned but the new proposals include allowing UK electric car firms access to US green tax credits and subsidies.\n\nMs Reeves, who visited the US herself last month, said she was \"staggered\" that Mr Sunak had returned with \"no industrial plan for Britain\".\n\nShe has said Labour is taking inspiration from US President Joe Biden's plan to tackle inflation and create jobs, which includes a huge package of subsidies and tax breaks for green industries.\n\nBut she said her \"secureonomics\" strategy would be \"built on the rock of financial stability and economic security\", with strict limits on borrowing.\n\nLabour has also promised to create a publicly owned renewable energy company to create jobs and improve the country's energy security.\n\nLast week the party pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK, despite concerns from unions this could cost jobs.", "HSBC reopened channels for new mortgage deals temporarily on Friday after swiftly pulling down the shutters a day earlier.\n\nThe bank had said it would remove its \"new business\" residential and buy-to-let products on Thursday, with deals available again on Monday.\n\nHowever, it temporarily allowed applications via brokers again for a short period on Friday.\n\nThe mortgage market has been in a state of some turbulence.\n\nMortgage rates have been rising since recent data showed that inflation was not coming down as quickly as expected.\n\nThere have been predictions that the Bank of England will raise rates higher than previously thought, from their current 4.5% to as high as 5.5%.\n\nIt has prompted many lenders to raise mortgage rates and also to remove deals.\n\nHSBC said on Thursday that it was withdrawing new deals \"to ensure that we can stay within our operational capacity and meet our customer service commitments\".\n\nBrokers had expressed surprise at the speed of the withdrawal, which came initially with about four hours' notice, only for them to be pulled after less than three hours.\n\nHowever, on Friday, it opened the channel again.\n\n\"We remain open to new mortgage business, however to help ensure that new customers get the best possible service, we occasionally need to limit the amount of new business we can take each day via broker services,\" an HSBC spokesman said.\n\nProducts and rates for existing customers were still available.\n\nHow have mortgage rate rises been affecting you? You can share your experiences via:\n\nMohamed El-Erian, former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and president of Queens' College at Cambridge University, said HSBC had made the \"very dramatic move\" on Thursday because it judged its sustainability was threatened.\n\n\"People expect that the cost of mortgages will go up and you will accelerate your demand for getting that mortgage. Why pay more tomorrow when you can pay less today?\n\n\"If you're HSBC, you see lots of people turn up wanting mortgages and you worry about two things. One is: will I make money on those mortgages? Two is: can I operationally handle these?\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nNationwide, Britain's biggest building society, also said it would raise some of its fixed mortgage rates for new borrowing from Friday, which it said would ensure they \"remain sustainable.\"\n\nFinancial data firm Moneyfacts said it has seen several mortgage providers hiking rates on deals over the past week.\n\nOn Thursday, the average two-year-fixed-rate mortgage rate on the market was 5.82%, according to Moneyfacts, up from 5.49% at the start of June.\n\nMeanwhile, the average five-year deal was 5.49%, up from 5.17% since the start of the month.\n\nSome brokers criticised the change by HSBC, with one saying lenders should give notice of a \"minimum of 24 hours\".\n\nRiz Malik, founder and director at R3 Mortgages in Southend-on-Sea, said the move \"really underscored the turbulent times we're currently facing in the mortgage market\".\n\nMr El-Erian said as a result \"people are getting more anxious\", which would probably contribute to a slowdown in economic activity.\n\nHe said the only way to deal with the growing unease was for the government to tackle underlying inflationary pressures in the economy.\n\n\"Most central banks made the mistake in 2021 of calling inflation transitory, and transitory is a very dangerous word. If I tell you something is transitory, I'm telling you it's temporary, reversible, don't worry about it, don't change your behaviour.\n\n\"But it turned out inflation was persistent and therefore central banks were late and society as a whole was late to adjust to higher inflation,\" he told the BBC.", "The charges include conspiracy, false statements and illegally retaining classified documents, says Mr Trump's attorney\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.\n\nMr Trump, 76, faces seven counts, including mishandling classified documents and obstructing efforts to investigate the storage of the files at his Florida home, his lawyer said.\n\nBoth are federal crimes which can carry a prison sentence on conviction.\n\nMr Trump is campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024.\n\nLegal experts say the indictment does not prevent him running for the presidency again.\n\nIt is the second time Mr Trump has been charged with a crime, but now he is facing a federal case. These typically carry harsher sentences.\n\nHe is the first former president ever to be criminally prosecuted by the government he once headed.\n\nIn a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Mr Trump said he had been summoned to appear on Tuesday afternoon at a federal court in Miami, Florida, where the charges against him will be read.\n\n\"I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nHe added: \"This is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. We are a country in serious and rapid decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!\"\n\nThe charges have not yet been made public, but the details were laid out by his lawyer Jim Trusty. He told CNN they include conspiracy, false statements, obstruction of justice, and illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act.\n\nMr Trump was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday when news of the indictment broke.\n\nOn Friday, the US Secret Service will meet Mr Trump's staff and security officers to plan his journey to the Miami court next week.\n\nProsecutors had also presented evidence in court in Washington DC, but a decision to file the indictment in southern Florida instead may offer some consolation for the Trump team.\n\nLegal experts say the state - where the former Republican president is popular - is likely to produce a less Democratic-leaning jury pool than if the case had been prosecuted in the US capital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How much do you know about classified documents?\n\nThe investigation into Mr Trump's handling of classified documents has been overseen by special prosecutor Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November.\n\nMr Smith, a former war crimes investigator, is also overseeing a separate probe into Mr Trump's role in the storming of the US Capitol.\n\nIn the documents case, prosecutors have said that Mr Trump took about 300 classified files to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving the White House.\n\nAbout 100 of those - some labelled top secret - were seized when the FBI searched the Palm Beach mansion last August.\n\nReports surfaced last week that prosecutors had obtained an audio recording of Mr Trump acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the White House in January 2021. Transcripts of that tape circulated in US media on Friday.\n\nIt is against US law for federal officials - including a president - to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorised location.\n\nLegal experts say Mr Trump will still be able to enter the White House race.\n\n\"He can be indicted any number of times and it won't stop his ability to stand for office,\" says David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Centre.\n\nOpinion polls show Mr Trump is currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. He could continue running even if convicted in the documents case.\n\nAs Mr Trump issued a fundraising email with the subject line \"BREAKING: INDICTED\" on Thursday, several leading Republicans voiced their support for him.\n\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said it was \"unconscionable for a president to indict the leading candidate opposing him\".\n\n\"House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponisation of power accountable,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAn itemised list of property seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago\n\nMr Trump's rival for the 2024 nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, said: \"We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation.\n\n\"The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponisation once and for all.\"\n\nMr Trump became the first former president to be charged with a crime in April, after he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records over a hush-money payment to a porn star.\n\nHe faces a trial in that case in New York next year.\n\nAdding to his legal jeopardy, a prosecutor in Georgia is expected to announce this summer whether Mr Trump will be charged over alleged efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in that state.", "Crowds have lined the streets to celebrate West Ham football club's Europa Conference League final victory over Fiorentina.\n\nThe win meant that West Ham achieved the club's first major trophy for 43 years.\n\nFans of David Moyes' team gathered to watch the trophy parade through the streets of London.", "Glastonbury will happen from 21 June to 26 June this year\n\nGlastonbury festival has asked fans not to bring disposable vapes.\n\nIts organisers have added the items to its official \"do not bring\" list - which also includes gazebos and knives.\n\nThe updated message says disposable vapes - which contain lithium batteries - \"pollute the environment and can be hazardous at waste centres\".\n\nThere's no suggestion the devices will be confiscated - but BBC Newsbeat has approached the festival for more information.\n\nGlastonbury has also urged festivalgoers to \"reduce, reuse and recycle\" and avoid other single-use items like body glitter and body wipes.\n\nIt's banned the sale of plastic bottles on-site since 2019 - fans are encouraged to bring reusable bottles instead.\n\nVapes have become a common sight at festivals\n\nArctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses will top the bill at this year's Glastonbury, which takes place from 21 June to 26 June.\n\nOther acts on the line-up include Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X and Flo.\n\nWhen the line-up was announced, there was criticism on social media that all the main stage headliners were male - though there is almost a 50:50 split between male and female acts elsewhere.\n\n\"We try our best and we obviously aim for 50:50,\" Emily Eavis previously told the BBC. \"Some years, it's more, some years, it's less.\n\n\"This year, we did have a female headliner, and she unfortunately had to pull out... It changes all the time.\n\n\"But next year it's looking like we've got two female headliners, so fingers crossed.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Search and rescue teams have been assisting in the hunt for 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell\n\nThe brother of a missing 21-year-old woman has appealed for information about her disappearance.\n\nChloe Mitchell, who is described as a \"high-risk missing person\", was last seen in Ballymena last Friday night into the early hours of Saturday.\n\nPhillip Mitchell said he was \"broken\" by his sister's disappearance and appealed for privacy for his family.\n\nPolice have said they are continuing their searches but are \"increasingly concerned\" for her safety.\n\nA 26-year-old man who was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh is still being questioned.\n\nChloe Mitchell's brother Phillip said he is \"broken\" after her disappearance\n\nThe Community Rescue Service has conducted searches along the Braid River in the County Antrim town.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Ms Mitchell was seen on CCTV walking in the direction of James Street at the weekend.\n\nPSNI Supt Gillian Kearney says Chloe's family are very worried\n\n\"It's out of character for her not to have contacted her family or friends,\" PSNI Supt Gillian Kearney said on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"Her family are being supported by specialists but it's a very worrying time.\n\n\"I hope she is safe and well and that's why we are appealing for information and for the public to look at her photo and contact us if they have seen her.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up near homes on James Street\n\n\"Chloe was wearing a green and black The North Face-style jacket, a white t-shirt, leggings and Nike trainers,\" said Ch Insp Arnie O'Neill.\n\nThe Harryville Partnership Initiative, a community group for the area, said Ms Mitchell's family \"want left in peace\".\n\n\"It's a very hard time at present,\" the group said.\n\nAs well as searches along the river, there are also other areas involved in this investigation, including a house on James Street.\n\nThe house is cordoned off and forensic enquires were taking place inside it earlier today.\n\nAs we head towards a full week from when Chloe Mitchell was last seen heading towards James Street, the thoughts of this community are with her family.\n\nCommunity Rescue Service searching through dense shrubbery near James Street in Ballymena\n\nOn Thursday night, Community Rescue Service teams gathered along the banks of the Braid River while others searched in the river itself.\n\nSpokesperson Darren Harper said it was a \"pretty significant operation\".\n\nDarren Harper said the search area is significant in size and the terrain is difficult\n\nMr Harper said the river was not the only area being searched by at least 25 people.\n\n\"We do have the water technical team in the water and [on] the river banks and we also have ground teams searching other areas,\" he added.\n\nHe said difficult terrain, with dense shrubbery, brambles and steep river banks made the search difficult.\n\nThe hot weather also added to the challenge faced by personnel wearing waterproof gear, flotation devices and dry suits, he said.\n\nSearches are being carried out along the river Braid and near James Street in Ballymena\n\nAsked if the Community Rescue Service had found anything significant, Mr Harper said: \"We wouldn't be doing our job right if we didn't have some sort of finds. That's then passed on to the police to find out if it's relevant or not.\"\n\nOne of the search sites on Friday evening was close to the ECOS centre near Ballymena\n\nAnother voluntary search and rescue group, K9 Search and Rescue, said in a social media post that its team had assisted in the search for Ms Mitchell in the Harryville area of Ballymena.\n\nThe PSNI appealed for anyone with information to contact them by phoning 101.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has been given the findings of an MP-led investigation into whether he misled parliament over Partygate.\n\nThe Privileges Committee is examining whether the former PM purposefully misled Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.\n\nIn evidence given in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe now has two weeks to respond to a \"warning letter\" sent by the committee.\n\nThe letter details the criticisms it intends to make of Mr Johnson, along with any evidence which supports them, the BBC understands.\n\nIf the committee finds that Mr Johnson did mislead Parliament, it could recommend his suspension from the House of Commons for 10 days or more, triggering a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe letter will also inform Mr Johnson of any proposed penalties that the committee will suggest for MPs to approve.\n\nMPs would be asked to endorse the findings, via a vote in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Johnson now has two weeks to reply. His response will be considered by the committee before it finalises its report - this is expected to happen by the end of June.\n\nA spokesperson for the committee said it was \"proceeding in accordance with its previously published procedure. Under that procedure, if the committee decides to criticise Mr Johnson, it will not come to a final conclusion until it has taken into account any further submissions from Mr Johnson.\"\n\nMr Johnson has been approached for comment.", "Police Scotland said they were trying to establish the full circumstances of the death at St Kentigern's Academy\n\nA school says it has been devastated by the death of a 14-year-old boy after an \"isolated incident\" on its grounds.\n\nEmergency services were called to St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian, on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nPolice officers were sent to the school at about 13:20. The S3 pupil, who has not been named, was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nPolice Scotland said inquiries were ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the death.\n\nIn a statement, St Kentigern's Academy said it was an \"isolated incident within the school grounds\".\n\nIt added: \"All parents of pupils directly affected have been contacted and we are assisting the relevant authorities with their ongoing inquiries.\n\nHead teacher Andrew Sharkey said the school community was \"devastated to learn of the tragic death of one of our pupils\".\n\nHe said: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with their family and friends and we extend our deepest condolences and offers of support.\n\n\"We would like to respect the family's privacy at this incredibly painful time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Head teacher Andrew Sharkey said \"thoughts and prayers\" are with the pupil's family and friends\n\nMr Sharkey told BBC Scotland that the school - where singers Lewis Capaldi and Susan Boyle are former pupils - remained open and pupils were being supported.\n\nHe said: \"We deal with it as a community, we provide support, we look after them and we make sure they are always as safe as we can make them.\"\n\nScotland's Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said: \"My heartfelt sympathies go out to the family and friends of this pupil, and all of the students and staff at the school affected by this terrible news.\"\n\nLinlithgow and East Falkirk MP Martyn Day offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family and friends.\n\nHe added: \"I would ask everyone to respect the family's privacy whilst a full investigation takes place into this tragic incident.\"", "Flowers have been left at the scene on Langworthy Road in Salford\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after he was followed by police on his electric bike and was then in collision with an ambulance.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said traffic officers had followed the teenager in Salford until their vehicle's path was blocked by bollards.\n\nThe boy then rode on and was in collision with the ambulance, said North West Ambulance Service.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating.\n\nThe boy was followed by police officers along Fitzwarren Street and on to Lower Seedley Road at about 14:00 BST before bollards blocked their vehicle's way.\n\nInitial reports said the ambulance was stationary at the time but the North West Ambulance Service said that while its vehicle was not on an active call it was being driven back to a nearby ambulance station.\n\nThe crew inside were able to treat the boy immediately before taking him to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe mood near to the scene of the crash was sombre on Thursday evening, with the family of the boy understood to live nearby.\n\nFlowers, candles and cards have been left at the scene beside a framed picture of the young boy.\n\nOne tribute attached to a bunch of roses read: \"Doesn't feel real writing this card. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAnother said: \"You will always have a special place in my heart, I love you loads my dude.\"\n\nLangworthy Road is a busy main road and would have had a lot of traffic on it at the time of the collision.\n\nA police cordon in place there for much of the evening has now been lifted.\n\nIn a statement, GMP said the IOPC was now leading the investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the boy who tragically died,\" it said.\n\nThe IOPC, which oversees police conduct, said it was \"independently investigating the circumstances of a serious collision involving an e-bike and an ambulance in Salford\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones, as well as all those affected by this tragedy,\" its spokesman said.\n\n\"We were notified by Greater Manchester Police due to the fact a police vehicle had been following the e-bike shortly before the collision.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene of the collision, at the junction of Langworthy Road and Lower Seedley Road, as well as to the police post-incident procedures, to begin gathering evidence.\"\n\nHe added the IOPC would provide \"further details once we are in a position to do so\".\n\nLast month, 15-year-old Harvey Evans and 16-year-old Kyrees Sullivan were killed in an e-bike collision in Cardiff after being followed by a police van. Their deaths sparked a riot in the area.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The flooded town of Hola Prystan, Kherson region on 8 June Image caption: The flooded town of Hola Prystan, Kherson region on 8 June\n\nUN aid officials appeared to hit back at criticism from Ukraine that there had been no humanitarian response to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam earlier this week.\n\nSpeaking from flooded areas of Ukraine, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator Denise Brown told journalists in Geneva that UN aid agencies had arrived very quickly and said a convoy of five lorries of emergency supplies would be arriving today.\n\nThe UN says 17,000 people in Ukrainian-held territory are known to be affected, but warned the figure could be much higher.\n\nBrown said immediate concerns were landmines dislodged by the flood water, adding that the entire flood zone could be considered a mine-contaminated area.\n\nIn addition, hundreds of thousands of people now lack access to safe drinking water. Water supplies have been contaminated by sewage, pesticides, and other chemicals.\n\nThe UN is also warning of serious long-term consequences, with huge areas of agricultural land contaminated.\n\nAs throughout the conflict, the UN has no access to civilians in Russian-held areas, but acknowledged that many people there have also been affected.", "A trial under way at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is exploring whether artificial intelligence (AI) can assist radiologists in reviewing thousands of mammograms a year.\n\nThe pilot helped spot early-stage breast cancer for June - a healthcare assistant and participant in the trial - and she is now set to undergo surgery as a result.\n\nMammograms are low level X-rays used in breast cancer screenings to monitor and detect changes too small to see or feel.\n\nAccording to the NHS, they help save about 1,300 lives each year in the UK.\n\nAnd while the number of women who attended a routine breast screening, after an invitation, increased in Scotland in the three-year period to 2022, the number of radiologists to review results is shrinking.\n\nAI - technology which sees computers perform specific tasks that would typically require human intelligence - is already widely used across a range of industries.\n\nWhile high-profile experts' fears that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity have recently been making headlines, the tech's more practical realities are already being shown in healthcare.\n\nIts potential to speed up the process of drug and disease discovery means many scientists and doctors see AI as a powerful tool to work with, rather than replace, practitioners.\n\nAI radiology in breast cancer screenings is being trialled at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary\n\nThe number of screen-detected breast cancers of women of all ages grew to 1,830 between 2021 and 2022 in Scotland, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS) data.\n\nOf the 5,000 mammograms scrutinised on average by radiologists each year, between 250 and 300 patients will be called back - with 30 to 40 of them requiring closer attention.\n\n\"There is a chance that with that number, you could miss cancers,\" Dr Gerald Lip, clinical director of the North East Scotland Breast Screening Programme, told BBC Click.\n\nNHS Grampian's Gemini project - a collaboration between the NHS, the University of Aberdeen and private industry - was mentioned in Scotland's AI Strategy when it launched in 2021.\n\nKheiron Medical Technologies developed the AI model Mia, used in the trial, with Microsoft providing the cloud computing services to support it.\n\nWith rules set by the National Screening Counsel currently forbidding the automatic deployment of AI in screenings, Dr Lip and other radiologists are trialling it as an additional check at the end of mammogram scan reviews.\n\nJune, a participant in the trial who has undergone similar surgery before, received a biopsy to remove a small part of her breast tissue for testing after Dr Lip explained how the AI tool helped identify an area of concern.\n\nDr Lip talks June through the changes the AI software detected in her mammogram\n\nHe showed BBC Click how the software works using anonymised mammogram results.\n\n\"What we're seeing now is a lady who's got mammograms on the left side and right side, you're looking for differences,\" he said.\n\nBy clicking a button, radiologists can view and check differences identified by the AI between the two scans.\n\nDr Lip pointed to one area circled by the AI software, identifying it as the main area of concern.\n\nAreas of concern circled on a mammogram by AI software\n\n\"In screening you want to pick up things when they are small before they become big,\" he added.\n\nA few weeks after her biopsy, June told Click that using AI - rather than another human pair of eyes - made the process feel less intrusive.\n\n\"You know your images are on screen, and people are looking at them,\" she said. \"Whereas when it's an artificial intelligence, that bit of feeling that somebody is looking has gone.\"\n\nThe results of June's biopsy means she will once again be having surgery.\n\n\"The biopsy showed that I do have an early-stage cancer, they've certainly caught it at an earlier stage this time,\" June said. \"But because I've had previous history with it, I'm going to go in and have a mastectomy.\n\n\"It's not treatment I want to have. But at the same time, it's reassuring that it's being caught.\"\n\nA major review of Scotland's breast screening programme published last year suggested a large number of radiology and advance practitioner staff are either nearing or at retirement age.\n\nIt said the decline of \"super reader\" radiologists, relied on by the service to review a particularly high number of results, risks leaving the service \"vulnerable\".\n\nThe Royal College of Radiologists has also warned the UK is facing \"chronic staff shortages\", with patients waiting too long for vital tests and cancer treatments.\n\nWith two radiologists needed to read and report results, the Scottish government's review said replacing one human reader with AI could \"cover half of the screening image reading burden of approximately 1.72 million images read each year\".\n\nBut could the technology being tested in Aberdeen some day replace human staff?\n\n\"I think the goal of this evaluation is to see what's the best way we can work with AI, whether it's replacing one of the radiologists, whether it's part reading some of the normal mammograms, or whether it's to improve our cancer detection as a safety net,\" Dr Lip said.\n\nPeter Kecskemethy, co-founder of Kheiron, said the tech will used by more than 30 NHS trusts across the UK for millions to access.\n\nAnd with trusts in England already exploring how AI can support better, faster outcomes for breast cancer patients, the tech looks to continue playing a large role in helping doctors save lives.\n\nYou can see the full report and more ways AI is changing industries on this week's episode of Click.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neo-natal ward\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has \"deliberately misled\" the jury on a number of occasions throughout her murder trial, a prosecutor has told a court.\n\nOn the final day of cross-examination, prosecutor Nick Johnson KC said Ms Letby was a \"very calculating woman\" who had lied \"to try and get sympathy\".\n\nThe 33-year-old is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nShe has denied all charges against her.\n\nQuestioning the former nurse for a tenth day at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Johnson focused on the events following Ms Letby's removal from the neonatal unit in July 2016.\n\nJurors have previously heard that Ms Letby was moved to the Countess of Chester Hospital's \"risk and patient safety office\" after doctors raised concerns over her alleged involvement in baby deaths.\n\nSenior doctors at the hospital requested Ms Letby be taken off front-line duties after the deaths of triplet brothers, known to the court as Child O and P for legal reasons, in June 2016.\n\nMs Letby was placed on a three-month \"secondment\" to the office and told she would be placed under \"clinical supervision\".\n\nWhen she was arrested in July 2018, she told police she felt \"panicked\" and \"overwhelmed\" and had suicidal thoughts following the move.\n\nShe also previously told her trial she was only permitted to speak to a select few members of staff at the hospital during the period.\n\nMr Johnson said that claim was not correct and showed the court Facebook and phone records that were \"peppered with [Ms Letby] socialising with lots of different people from that unit\".\n\nShe agreed with his assertion that she had had \"a very active social life\", but denied his subsequent claim that she had \"deliberately misled the jury about this background\".\n\nLucy Letby is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nHe then asked her about her arrest, which he said she had claimed saw her being led away from her home in a nightgown.\n\nHe said Ms Letby was actually wearing a blue Lee Cooper leisure suit at the time.\n\nShe said she did not know why she had lied about that detail.\n\n\"You're a very calculating woman, aren't you, Lucy Letby?\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"You tell lies deliberately and the reason you tell lies is to get sympathy and attention from people.\"\n\nThe prosecutor then asked Ms Letby about various notes which were found in her home when police searched it in 2018 and in particular, about one on which she had written that she would never marry or have children.\n\nHe asked her why she wrote this when she had \"a house, a car [and] a boyfriend\".\n\nShe agreed had those things, but added: \"That's how I felt at the time.\"\n\n\"You felt like this because you knew you had killed and grievously injured these children,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"That is the truth, you have murdered these children.\"\n\n\"I have never murdered a child or harmed any of them,\" she replied.\n\nLucy Letby claimed that hospital bosses had conspired against her to cover up shortcomings on the neonatal unit\n\nHe also asked the former nurse about social media searches which were made to find the parents of the children involved in the case.\n\nShe has previously said searching for people on Facebook was \"a normal pattern of behaviour for me\" and was not confined to those parents.\n\nMr Johnson repeatedly pressed Ms Letby to explain why she had searched for certain parents, adding that she was \"a killer who was looking at your victims\".\n\nShe denied that accusation, adding that the people had been \"on my mind\".\n\nThe former nurse was also asked about her claim that hospital bosses had conspired against her to cover up shortcomings on the neonatal unit.\n\nShe has previously told her trial that a \"gang of four\" doctors apportioned \"blame\" on to her \"to cover up failings at the hospital\".\n\nMr Johnson asked what the conspiracy between the four was.\n\n\"I believe there were shortcomings from the medical team and they put that on me,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn antique revolver alleged to have been used to kill a Metropolitan Police sergeant has been shown to a jury.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25, denies murdering Matiu Ratana, 54, with a gun concealed in an underarm holster at Croydon Custody Centre in September 2020.\n\nBallistics expert Anthony Miller told jurors the gun did not go off by accident when Sgt Ratana was shot.\n\nJury members were allowed to hold the gun, loaded with dummy bullets, and fire it at the court ceiling.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Ratana, who was also known as Matthew and was the on-duty custody sergeant, was killed when Mr De Zoysa \"pulled the trigger on purpose four times\", while he was handcuffed in a holding cell.\n\nThe first and second shots hit Sgt Ratana, the third hit the wall during a struggle with officers and a fourth hit Mr De Zoysa in the neck, causing brain damage, the court has heard.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Sgt Matiu Ratana was shot twice by the antique revolver\n\nHe is being assisted by an intermediary during his trial as a result of his injuries and uses a whiteboard because of communication difficulties, jurors have heard.\n\nSpeaking in short and simple sentences so Mr De Zoysa could follow proceedings, Mr Miller told Northampton Crown Court about \"rigorous testing\" he had carried out on the revolver: \"I dropped it on the ground, I struck it with a cloth-faced hammer and I generally treated it roughly.\"\n\nAsked by prosecutor Duncan Penny KC if the gun had gone off \"by accident\" during this rigorous testing, Mr Miller said it had not.\n\nMr Miller explained the gun was completely safe to be used in the court room and had been loaded with dummy bullets, although it was aimed at the ceiling while being fired as an extra precaution.\n\nHe told the court he had examined both the revolver as well as the ammunition that was recovered after the incident.\n\nMr De Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020, the court heard\n\nImran Khan KC, defending Mr De Zoysa, told the jury on Wednesday the defendant had been suffering an autistic meltdown at the time of the shooting and \"did not mean to or want to kill Sergeant Ratana, or to cause him really serious harm\".\n\nThe court has previously been told Mr De Zoysa has an autistic spectrum condition.\n\nMr De Zoysa, of Banstead, Surrey, has pleaded not guilty to murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shadow minister Bambos Charalambous has been suspended as a Labour MP after a complaint about his conduct.\n\nThe BBC understands a formal complaint was made to Labour's complaint process, and an investigation was then launched.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Charalambous said there was an allegation \"that requires investigation by the Labour Party\".\n\nHe said it was \"right and proper that process is allowed to take place\" and would \"co-operate fully\".\n\nBut the MP added it was \"not appropriate to say anything further at this time\".\n\nMr Charalambous, a shadow Foreign Office minister in Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's top team, has had the party whip removed, pending an investigation.\n\nThis means he will not be part of the Labour party within Parliament while the investigation is ongoing, although he remains the MP for Enfield Southgate, and will sit as an independent.\n\nNeither Mr Charalambous nor Labour have commented on the nature of the complaint.\n\nMr Charalambous is a solicitor and worked for Hackney Council in their housing legal team before becoming an MP in 2017.\n\nThe 55-year-old has held several posts on Sir Keir's frontbench, including shadow minister for crime, and shadow minister for immigration.", "The publisher of the Mirror newspapers has made a court apology to the former Coronation Street actor Nikki Sanderson after admitting using private investigators to get stories about her.\n\nA barrister for Mirror Group Newspapers said it \"unequivocally apologises\" to her, adding \"it shouldn't have happened and won't again\".\n\nMs Sanderson was giving evidence in her High Court case against the newspapers.\n\nDespite the admissions, MGN denies targeting her more widely.\n\nShe is claiming damages for 37 articles published in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People newspapers between 1999 and 2009.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for the newspapers, said she had lived through \"much press intrusion\" and giving evidence would be \"unpleasant and stressful.\"\n\nIn her witness statement, Ms Sanderson said she had been \"abused\" by MGN and \"attacked\" by people with more power than her.\n\nMs Sanderson joined Coronation Street in 1999, aged 15, playing the role of Candice Stowe and immediately became of interest to the media, the court heard.\n\nCrowds would regularly gather outside the studios and photographers would appear to get pictures of her.\n\nMs Sanderson alleges the newspapers used information from her mobile phone voicemails which were hacked, and paid private investigators to get personal information about her.\n\nMr Green said a small number of records for calls from journalists to her phone numbers had been disclosed, but showed no evidence they were to hack her phone.\n\nHowever, within invoices for payments to private investigators, Mr Green said four were for the firms ELI and Avalon, which have been implicated in unlawful information gathering\n\nMaking the apology, he said MGN admitted on four occasions in 2004 and 2005 journalists used the investigators to target Ms Sanderson.\n\nMr Green is continuing to cross-examine Ms Sanderson about the stories she has put at the centre of her case.\n\nPrince Harry has said he is suing the publisher of the Daily Mirror to stop \"absolute intrusion and hate\" towards him and his wife.\n\nThe case is also due to hear from other claimants including Coronation Street actor Michael Turner, known professionally as Michael Le Vell, and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThey all allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nMGN, which has admitted widespread unlawful information gathering against other celebrities, has argued Ms Sanderson should have brought her legal action years ago, under rules that civil claims must be made within six years.\n\nShe called this \"gaslighting\" in her witness statement.\n\nDescribing herself as a \"young girl\" at the time, Ms Sanderson accused the publisher of \"hiring random men\" to follow her.\n\n\"They could have done anything to me,\" she said, adding that it was \"particularly distressing to learn that these illegal activities continued for a period of many years\".\n\nDescribing her experiences as \"abuse\", she said she did not use the word \"lightly\".\n\n\"The fact is these people were in positions of power and I was a child and a young female, and I was attacked by people who were more powerful than me - I did nothing to deserve this treatment.\"\n\nMs Sanderson also said she was tricked into giving away the name of a hotel she was staying at in Zakynthos, Greece.\n\nShe said someone working for \"Disney or Universal\" contacted her mother saying they were interested in making her part of a film and needed to send a telegram.\n\n\"The next thing I know, the paps [paparazzi] and press had managed to find me, she said, adding she \"was little more than a child and they deceived me\".\n\nMs Sanderson also said she was subjected to \"mental and physical abuse\" as a result of public backlash from articles written in the Mirror.\n\nAs well as being shouted at in the street, she said on one occasion a group of girls set fire to her hair in the toilets of a club.\n\n\"Fortunately, I wasn't wearing any hair product, otherwise, my hair would have gone up in flames,\" she said.\n\nMs Sanderson said she came to think that \"random people\" or others at Coronation Street were selling stories about her.\n\nShe also said she was \"really hurt\" by one article which accused her father of being a \"womaniser\".\n\n\"To have my personal life splashed over the papers for people to indulge in was heart-breaking.\"", "Experts believe the focus of Ukraine's long awaited counter-offensive will be in Zaporizhzhia\n\nUkraine's military has launched attacks on occupying Russian forces in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian officials and military bloggers say.\n\nThey say Ukrainian troops - backed by tanks, artillery and drones - are trying to advance south of the town of Orikhiv for the second night running.\n\nA senior Ukrainian defence official said the enemy was in \"active defence\".\n\nSeveral military experts have said the focus of Ukraine's long awaited counter-offensive will be Zaporizhzhia.\n\nThey argue Kyiv is trying to regain access to the Sea of Azov, splitting the occupying Russian forces in the region into two detached groupings.\n\nThat would not only weaken Russia's combat capability but also eliminate a land bridge to Crimea, the southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nUkraine has been planning a counter-offensive for months, but it has wanted as long as possible to train troops and to receive advanced military equipment from Western allies.\n\nThe government is deliberately saying little about its plans but its forces are now probing Russian positions at several points along the front line, looking for signs of weakness.\n\nMeanwhile Russian attacks on Ukraine continue. Overnight it launched fresh cruise missile and drone strikes, with falling debris killing at least one person in Zhytomyr to the west of the capital Kyiv.\n\nRussia seized most of the Zaporizhzhia region soon after President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion in February 2022. However the regional capital, the city of Zaporizhzhia, is controlled by Ukraine.\n\nThe recent fierce fighting in the area continued overnight, with several Russian pro-Kremlin military bloggers reporting late on Thursday that Ukraine had resumed attacks, noting the movement of armoured personnel carriers and drones directing artillery fire.\n\nVladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed local official, said Russian troops were holding their positions amid \"active fighting\" towards the city of Tokmak, seen as a key target for Ukraine as it seeks to advance to the Sea of Azov.\n\nIt is difficult to verify the competing claims by both sides. Earlier on Thursday Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Russian forces were currently \"in active defence\" in Zaporizhzhia and claimed advances were being made around the eastern city of Bakhmut, which has been largely destroyed during months of fighting.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia region is also home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant, which is in an area controlled by Russian forces.\n\nThe plant is continuing to receive cooling water from the reservoir of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river, despite the dam's destruction on Tuesday which has seen water levels in the reservoir fall and large areas downstream of the dam flooded.\n\nHowever the resulting emergency is threatening the region's water supplies, with the WHO also warning that cholera could spread.\n\nIt is also predicted to have serious long-term consequences for agriculture across one of the country's most fertile areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Hamdan Aslam had a pre-existing heart condition that had never been detected\n\nA 14-year-old who collapsed in the grounds of a West Lothian school died from natural causes, police have confirmed.\n\nSchoolboy Hamdan Aslam died in hospital after becoming unwell at St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn on Tuesday.\n\nHis family said Hamdan, from Harthill, had a pre-existing heart condition that had never been detected.\n\nThey said his death could have happened at any time and no-one was to blame for the death of their \"beautiful boy\".\n\n\"We want to assure Hamdan's friends and our community that this was an entirely natural death and could not have been predicted,\" the family said in a statement released by their lawyer Aamer Anwar.\n\nThey added: \"There is no one to blame for his loss, it was God's will.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to the school when the S3 pupil collapsed on the school grounds during a lunch break. He was taken to hospital but died shortly afterwards.\n\nA post-mortem examination carried out on Thursday confirmed that Hamdan died from natural causes, Police Scotland said.\n\nThere had been widespread rumour and speculation online and in newspapers about the cause of his death.\n\nHamdan's family urged people to put a stop to the rumours which they said were compounding their grief.\n\nThey said: \"We know that Hamdan's loss is being deeply felt by his friends and teachers and we would urge those who have engaged in rumours on social media to stop. It is untruthful and compounding our grief.\n\n\"Please take down the posts, the running commentary is unhelpful to the children, teachers and our family who have been left deeply traumatised and devastated.\n\n\"We know that Hamdan's teachers and friends did everything possible to save his life and for that our family will forever be grateful to them.\"\n\nAs with any sudden death, a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.\n\nPolice Scotland Ch Insp Jocelyn O'Connor said: \"This has been a tragic incident which has deeply affected everyone at the school. Our thoughts remain with Hamdan's family and friends at this very difficult time and we are providing our support to them.\n\n\"They have requested privacy and I would ask their wishes are respected.\"\n\nFlowers and notes addressed to Hamdan were left by fellow pupils outside the school\n\nHead teacher Andrew Sharkey said the school community had been devastated by the death of a \"bright and diligent young man\".\n\n\"Hamdan was an exemplary student and he will be hugely missed by the St Kentigern's community,\" he said.\n\n\"He was very friendly, popular with his classmates and he had a close group of friends. He was always polite and well-mannered in class and popular with his teachers. Hamdan was kind and thoughtful in all he did and he was always happy, with a beautiful smile.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our thoughts and prayers remain with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nThe school - where singers Lewis Capaldi and Susan Boyle are former pupils - has remained open this week and pupils have been offered support.\n\nLocal people and pupils left floral tributes and messages outside the school building on Thursday.\n\nOn Thursday First Minister Humza Yousaf responded to a question about the tragedy during First Minister's Questions at Holyrood on Thursday, calling for an end to rumour and speculation around the incident.\n\nHe said: \"This is the worst tragedy. Anybody who is a parent will know there cannot be a worse fear or nightmare that a parent has than losing a child.\"\n\nBathgate Mosque also paid tribute to Hamdan, saying that his death had \"left the community devastated\".", "Tesco could be breaking the law over how it displays Clubcard prices, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nThe group says Tesco does not explain the unit price of deals clearly enough to shoppers, making it hard for them to determine the cheapest product.\n\nWhich? has reported the supermarket to the regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nIn response, Tesco said it complied with all current rules and called Which?'s claims \"ill-founded\".\n\nHeinz tomato ketchup was one of the items that Which? highlighted in its report into pricing at Tesco.\n\nIt found a 700g bottle in Tesco for which the label showed the standard price to be £3.90, or 55.7p per 100g.\n\nA prominent Clubcard label showed the same size bottle on offer at £3.50, but the unit price, which would be 50p per 100g, was not given.\n\nA 910g bottle of the same ketchup on the shelf below was priced at £3.99, or 43.8p per 100g, for all shoppers, making it the cheapest option per 100g.\n\nWhich? argued many shoppers would wrongly assume the Clubcard option was the best deal available.\n\nThe Tesco Clubcard is a loyalty scheme that offers members discounted prices on products.\n\nWhich? said Tesco's decision not to display unit pricing on its Clubcard offers could be breaking the law.\n\nAccording to competition rules, unit prices could be seen as \"material information\" which most people would need in order to make an informed decision about how to get the best value from what they are buying.\n\nWhich? head of food policy Sue Davies said given the backdrop of a cost of living crisis, supermarkets should not be cutting corners.\n\n\"They have a duty to ensure pricing is clear so that customers can get the best value. Tesco's unclear Clubcard pricing is at best confusing for shoppers struggling with soaring food inflation and at worst, could be breaking the law,\" she said.\n\n\"This is simply not good enough from the UK's biggest supermarket. Tesco should think of its customers and act now to introduce clear unit pricing on all offers, including Clubcard promotions, so shoppers can easily find the best value items.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Tesco said the company had sought advice and approval from its local trading standards office in Hertfordshire where its headquarters are based.\n\n\"Providing great value and clear pricing is really important to us, we are supportive of calls for greater clarity on the regulations in this area,\" it said.\n\n\"However, given that we are complying with all the current rules, we are disappointed that Which? has chosen to make these ill-founded claims against our Clubcard Prices scheme, which helps millions of households get great value week in, week out.\"\n\nThe CMA is already investigating whether supermarkets are making excess profits through inflated prices.\n\nIn May, the boss of Sainsbury's, Simon Roberts, told the BBC that supermarkets were not profiteering from high inflation.", "UK firms could gain access to US green funding as part of plans to boost UK and US ties announced by Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden.\n\nThe pair unveiled the Atlantic Declaration, to strengthen economic ties between the two countries, at a White House press conference.\n\nThe PM said the agreement, which falls short of a full trade deal would bring benefits \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nUK electric car firms may get access to US green tax credits and subsidies.\n\nAs the pair unveiled their partnership to bolster economic security, Mr Sunak said the UK-US relationship was an \"indispensable alliance\".\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration, includes commitments on easing trade barriers, closer defence industry ties and a data protection deal and steps up co-operation on AI.\n\nAsked by BBC Political Editor Chris Mason whether the new deal was an \"acknowledgement of the failure\" to strike a broader trade agreement between the UK and US, Mr Sunak said today's deal \"responds to particular challenges and opportunities we face right now\".\n\nA UK-US free trade agreement was a key pledge in the Conservative Party's 2019 general election manifesto.\n\nMr Sunak insisted the more targeted approach of the declaration was about \"what can do the most benefit to our citizens as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"Be in no doubt, the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nPlans for a full free trade agreement were abandoned months ago. On the plane ride over to Washington Mr Sunak said: \"For a while now, that has not been a priority for either the US or UK.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy criticised Mr Sunak, saying the government has left \"Britain's cupboards bare\" by not securing a trade deal.\n\n\"This statement shows the government has failed to deliver the comprehensive trade deal they promised in the 2019 manifesto, or to secure the ally status under the Inflation Reduction Act that is so important for the automotive sector and for the green transition,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nMr Biden said the special relationship with the UK was in \"real good shape\", referring to their co-operation on Ukraine.\n\n\"Together we are providing economic and humanitarian aid and security systems to Ukraine in their fight against a brutal invasion from Russia,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration includes plans to mitigate some of the impact of the US flagship Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on the UK economy, with proposals to remove barriers which affected trade in electric vehicle batteries.\n\nUnder current policy, the IRA provides tax credit worth $3,750 (£3,000) for each electric vehicle (EV) manufactured in the US, or which use components mined, processed or manufactured in the country.\n\nThe UK is already a net exporter of raw materials for EV batteries to the US. But nations without a US trade deal are barred from accessing IRA subsidies.\n\nThe Atlantic Declaration commits the UK and US to working on a new critical minerals agreement - which would give buyers of vehicles made using critical minerals processed, recycled or mined by UK companies access to tax credits.\n\nThe declaration says the agreement would be launched after consultation with US Congress.\n\nJapan already has a similar deal, which allows Japanese firms to also swerve export duties on minerals used in producing EV batteries.\n\nThe declaration also includes a commitment to a \"new UK-US Data Bridge\" which would allow UK firms to transfer data freely to certified US organisations without paying a levy.\n\nDowning Street estimate the change will affect around 55,000 UK businesses - translating into £92.4m in direct savings per year.\n\nMr Biden also supported Mr Sunak's plans to set up an international summit on AI safety which will be hosted in the UK later this year.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The UK and US have always pushed the boundaries of what two countries can achieve together.\n\n\"So it is natural that, when faced with the greatest transformation in our economies since the industrial revolution, we would look to each other to build a stronger economic future together.\n\n\"The Atlantic Declaration sets a new standard for economic cooperation, propelling our economies into the future so we can protect our people, create jobs and grow our economies together.\"\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Mr Sunak agreed to carry out work to improve the resilience of supply chains and efforts will be stepped up to shut Vladimir Putin's Russia out of the global civil nuclear market.", "The controversial Tavistock Centre was earmarked for closure in 2022\n\nPuberty blockers will only be prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research, NHS England has announced.\n\nThe move comes after an interim report into children's gender services said there were \"gaps in evidence\" around the drugs.\n\nBlockers are used to \"pause puberty\" and work by supressing hormone release.\n\nDr Hilary Cass's report called for a transformation in the model of care for children with gender-related distress.\n\nCurrently, if a child seeks medical help, the drugs are one of the options a doctor could offer to help delay the onset of physical changes that do not match a child's gender identity.\n\nThis change will come into effect when new clinics replacing the Gender Identity and Development Service (Gids) begin to open later this year. No patients being treated by the current Gids service will be affected.\n\nChildren and their families will also be \"strongly discouraged\" from obtaining gender-affirming drugs such as hormones, from \"unregulated sources\" or online providers.\n\nA clinical study, run by the new Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria Research and Oversight Board, will look at the impact of drugs which delay puberty.\n\nFurther details on how the study will run will be released in the coming weeks, but only those signed up to take part in the research will be prescribed puberty blockers, except in exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis.\n\nIt is expected that the study will mostly involve looking at patient data and records.\n\nRecent data from Gids looked at a random selection of 312 patients in one year and found 47 of them accessed hormone suppressants.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"The NHS is today publishing an interim specification for gender services for children and young people in line with advice and recommendations from the Independent Cass Review - this will allow the new centres to finalise their preparation for service provision later this year.\n\n\"The NHS is now engaging on the proposal that puberty blockers will not be made routinely available outside of research. We will develop a study into the impact of puberty blockers on gender dysphoria in children and young people with early-onset gender dysphoria, which aims to be up and running in 2024.\"\n\nMore than 5,000 people responded to a consultation on the new service specification last year, and the new model will be implemented when the first of the new clinics opens in the south of England this autumn in partnerships with children's hospitals.\n\nThe current service, run by the Tavistock and Portman Trust, is to close in March 2024 following an independent review carried out by Dr Cass - the paediatrician found the service is \"unsustainable\" and said a new model of care is needed.\n\nDr Cass said many children referred to Gids have complex needs that can be sometimes overlooked and around a third have autism or other types of neurodiversity.\n\nThe NHS says a \"significant proportion\" of young people with concerns related to their gender can also experience other complexities related to mental health, neuro-development and family or social matters.\n\nThe new service will take a new \"holistic\" approach, focusing on the needs of each child individually with \"careful therapeutic exploration\".\n\nIt will be updated further after the final report by Dr Cass is published.\n\nIn order to be prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS, a patient would currently need to first be assessed by Gids and referred to an endocrinologist.\n\nMore than 7,000 young people under the age of 18 are awaiting their first appointment, with the waiting list thought to be more than three and a half years long.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to keep safe from wildfire smoke\n\nWashington DC and Philadelphia experienced their worst air quality in years as intense wildfires in Canada continue to impact millions.\n\nThe poor conditions have forced event cancellations and grounded flights across the US.\n\nNearly 100 million people are experiencing very poor air quality in North America.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described the fires as a \"stark reminder of the impacts of climate change\".\n\nData from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index (AQI) shows that cities in North America had the worst air quality in the world on Thursday morning.\n\nCities including Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York had significantly worse air quality than cities abroad such as Lahore, Dhaka and Hanoi.\n\nThe smoke has caused the cancellation of school outings and sporting events, and, in the capitol, the White House's planned pride celebrations.\n\nThe National Zoo was also closed, with its animals, including three giant pandas, taken indoors to shelter.\n\nIn nearby Baltimore, residents were wearing masks as they went about their day-to-day activities. One local, Sean Montague, said people \"have to put your health first and be cautious\".\n\nAt the city's Inner Harbour, friends Sharifah and Sheila disembarked from a water taxi, eager to hurry indoors.\n\nThey said they originally planned to spend the day in Baltimore's Fells Point, a waterside neighbourhood known for its galleries, shops and outdoor seafood restaurants.\n\nBut once on the water, their eyes stung and the smoke was so thick, so they agreed the ride was \"miserable\" and decided to return home.\n\nMuch of the smoke is coming from Quebec, where 150 fires are burning. It is already Quebec's worst fire season on record.\n\nSome areas of Canada continued to experience very high levels of contamination on Thursday. The city of Janvier in Alberta, for example, had an AQI of 338, far above Washington DC's 293.\n\nMr Biden said he spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday and deployed more than 600 firefighters to help battle the blazes in Canada.\n\nOn a typical Thursday, Washington DC's Union Market would usually be packed with customers, dining al fresco in the afternoon sun.\n\nBut with smoke thick in the air, dozens of tables and chairs sat empty. A nearby rooftop bar was completely deserted except for a small group of Canadian tourists, who jokingly apologised for the disruption.\n\nOne customer, Tori, sat back in a lone Adirondack chair, with a mask tied around her wrist having just travelled from West Virginia.\n\n\"As I was driving, I noticed it was more hazy, and I just feel a little bit different too. I had a headache,\" she said. \"It's very scary, if you think about it.\"\n\nEnvironment Canada said conditions were worsening in Toronto on Thursday, as more smoke poured in. The agency has recommended that anyone outdoors wear a mask.\n\n\"These fine particles generally pose the greatest risk to health. However, respirators do not reduce exposure to the gases in wildfire smoke,\" the Environment Canada statement said.\n\nIn New York, an orange haze blanketed the city's skyline and shrouded landmarks including the Statue of Liberty.\n\nPublic health officials have cautioned people not to exercise outside and to minimise their exposure to the smoke as much as possible, as the air poses immediate and long-term health risks.\n\nCanadian officials say the country is shaping up for its worst wildfire season on record.\n\nExperts have pointed to a warmer and drier spring than normal as the reason behind the trend. These conditions are projected to continue throughout the summer.\n\nFires across Canada have already burned an area that's 12 times the 10-year average for this time of year.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nExperts say exposure to wildfire smoke can cause a litany of health issues, such as an elevated pulse, chest pain, and inflammation in the eyes, nose and throat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather forecaster Chris Fawkes looks at when the wildfire smoke might clear\n\nHow have you been affected by the wildfires or air quality? What precautions are you taking? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The singer says she feels more \"free\" to express herself since coming out in 2018\n\nJanelle Monaé says her sensuous, hedonistic new album is a riposte to conservatives who want to suppress expressions of black, queer pleasure.\n\nThe record arrives amidst a spate of US bills targeting LGBTQ rights, and others that target how schools teach subjects like African-American history, race and racism.\n\n\"They want us to not enjoy life, they want us to be miserable, to feel like we don't belong,\" Monaé, who identifies as non-binary, told BBC 6 Music.\n\n\"We have to fight this every way.\"\n\nThe 37-year-old says her latest album, The Age Of Pleasure, is just one way to resist the tide of anti-LGBTQ sentiment.\n\n\"With this project I am making it very known that, even in the midst of these heavy times, we're going to celebrate ourselves, we're going to create a safe space for ourselves and we're going to enjoy this life.\"\n\nThe star is also taking practical action with her Fem The Future charity, which provides grants to under-resourced girls and non-binary youth in music, the arts and education.\n\nA record number of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the US since the start of the year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.\n\nAlong with a renewed push to ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, there has been a heavy focus on education.\n\nA total of 283 proposed bills target schools, including bills that aim to limit discussions about sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom, and \"forced outing\" bills, which would require teachers to alert parents when a student begins going by a different name or pronouns, even without the student's consent.\n\nSeveral states have also proposed bills that would ban drag performances.\n\nMonaé started releasing music in 2003, carving out a niche as one of America's most forward-thinking, genre-bending soul and pop artists.\n\nWith hits like Make Me Feel, Tightrope and Q.U.E.E.N, she's earned eight Grammy nominations, while building a parallel career on the big screen, with roles in award-winning dramas Hidden Figures and Moonlight, and last year's murder-mystery Glass Onion, in which she co-starred with Daniel Craig.\n\nThe star worked on her album while filming the Knives Out sequel Glass Onion\n\nThe Age Of Pleasure is her first album since 2018's Dirty Computer, a project that saw her acknowledge and embrace her sexuality in public for the first time.\n\n\"That was super nerve wracking,\" she told Matt Everitt. \"To have to deal with [everything] that comes with that. The pressures of constantly talking about it.\"\n\nBut \"understanding that I'm now non-binary freed me up,\" she continued.\n\n\"It makes the music better, it makes the art better, it makes you feel more fluid, more free.\"\n\nAs a consequence, her new album focuses almost entirely on the pleasures of the flesh.\n\nNaked skin is a big theme - and Monaé even appears bare-chested in the video for Lipstick Lover, a song inspired by a real-life liaison.\n\n\"I ended up with lipstick on my neck, red lip gloss on my neck. I went to the bathroom and saw it and just thought it was sexy, you know?\"\n\n\"And I was like, 'Yep, this deserves a song'. As simple as that.\"\n\nMonaé was named \"trailblazer of the year\" at the 2018 Billboard Women In Music Awards\n\nThe album took shape over the last few years, at events she hosted in her \"Wondaland West\" campus in Los Angeles.\n\nThe property is a hub of creativity and community, with a party-ready courtyard that Rolling Stone magazine described as \"magnificent, with its tranquil pool in the centre and troves of nooks, crannies, outdoor baths, and citrus trees\".\n\nDuring the pandemic, Monaé opened up her property to the organisers of Everyday People - a globe-trotting event that celebrates Black and African culture - allowing them to host gatherings, under strict Covid-testing regulations.\n\nHer new music reflects those bacchanalian nights, where people found freedom to be themselves \"free from police, free from judgement\", said Monaé.\n\n\"I tried my best to capture the beauty I saw and that's what we ended up with - The Age Of Pleasure,\" she said.\n\nAfter lockdown restrictions eased, the parties continued, acting as a testing ground for Monaé's material.\n\n\"If I knew we had a party on a Friday or Saturday, we would write the songs on a Monday or Tuesday,\" she explained.\n\n\"I told my DJ, 'Play the songs. Don't say it's me, and let's see how people move to them.'\n\n\"And when I saw people Shazam-ing them from the dancefloor, I was like, 'This is done. That's going on the album.'\"\n\nThe record recalls the free-wheeling parties the star holds on her Los Angeles estate\n\nThe musician has described the record as a love letter to the African diaspora, with grooves that move smoothly between R&B, hip-hop, Afrobeat, Amapiano, funk and reggae.\n\nReleased this week, it has already received positive reviews.\n\n\"Janelle Monáe sounds more self-possessed and confident than ever,\" wrote Slate magazine's Charles Lyons-Burt. \"There's no question that her unapologetic embrace of queer pleasure is sincere, bold, and subversive.\"\n\n\"It really is non-stop sauce,\" added Joe Muggs on The Arts Desk. \"Even a list of swimming strokes is so charged it'll make steam come out of your ears.\n\n\"It may well make you blush, but it is her best album, and is an extraordinary transformation.\"\n\nThe Line Of Best Fit's Sam Franzini was less enthusiastic, saying the record was \"slim on ideas\" and a poor reflection of Monaé's \"genius\". Not true, said David Smith in the Evening Standard, The Age Of Pleasure's \"sweltering style\" is destined to become \"the sound of the summer\".\n\nFor Monaé, whose previous records have deeply conceptual, multi-layered artistic statements, The Art Of Pleasure was simply about the chance to \"have fun\".\n\n\"I feel like I'm owning all of me, not explaining everything, and just enjoying it.\n\nCorrection 28th June: This article originally referred to a spate of US bills including those which outlaw the teaching of African American history, and has been amended to clarify that these bills target how schools teach subjects including African-American history, race and racism.\n• None Janelle Monae is 'standing up to bullies'", "DUP Leader says his party is happy to be involved in talks with all political parties\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he is hopeful of progress in the next few weeks in his talks with the government about restoring Stormont.\n\nHe was speaking after parties met the head of the civil service Jayne Brady.\n\nSir Jeffrey said discussions have reached an \"important stage\".\n\nHe added what happens then will determine of the government will be able to meet his party's demands on the protocol and \"be able to deliver what is required\" to restore the Executive.\n\nHe said his party's priority remained getting the solutions it needed on the Northern Ireland protocol which he said was continuing to cause harm.\n\nThe DUP collapsed power-sharing in February 2022 in protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nHe added that his party was happy to be involved in conversations around how to ease the budgetary pressures \"if and when\" the Executive was restored.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy says there was \"consensus\" within the Stormont parties that they need support with the ongoing financial pressures.\n\nSinn Féin's Conor Murphy says there is an elephant in the room around the DUP getting back to work\n\nBut Mr Murphy questioned \"the elephant in the room\" around when the DUP would get back to work.\n\nHe said: \"We are doing preparation work for negotiations that might not happen.\"\n\nHe added that the financial situation in regards to public funding was getting worse not better.\n\nThis is the first hint of a timeline in the DUP's talks with the government.\n\nAccording to the party leader we are reaching an \"important stage\" in the next few weeks and he is hopeful of progress.\n\nThat will coincide with a meeting of the UK and Irish governments in London hosted by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nCould that be the moment when the government sets out its legislative plan to deal with the DUPs protocol concerns?\n\nThe government will be keen to pass any legislation before Westminster breaks for the summer recess on 20 July.\n\nBut don't expect a quick decision from the DUP.\n\nThe party may want assurances around a financial package to help plug Stormont's £1.1bn black hole.\n\nThey may also decide to reserve judgement until the new arrangements agreed in Windsor Framework are put into operation in October.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie says the pace of executive restoration is ramping up\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the pace towards the return of a Stormont executive is being \"ramped up\".\n\nHe said the all-party talks with the head of the civil service were positive.\n\nMr Beattie said those around the table talked about \"when\" the Executive is restored.\n\nHe said talks focused on the financial ask of the treasury to plug the £1.1bn black hole in Stormont's finances.\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry says serious work is being done to move forward\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry said that the talks and the progress being made should not be seen as a barrier to getting the Executive back up and running again.\n\nBut he added the talks on Thursday were a positive sign and that \"serious work\" was being done to put together a plan from the parties for the UK government on moving forward.\n\nMr Farry said: \"There is some degree of momentum building in this process but it's still early days.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey also criticised Sinn Féin MP John Finucane over his planned attendance at an IRA commemoration at the weekend in Armagh.\n\nHe said his \"attendance was wrong on so many levels\".\n\nHe added they were \"building a fun day around celebrating volunteers who were one of the most feared killing machines in Northern Ireland during the troubles\"\n\nHe urged Sinn Féin to think again about its involvement this weekend and to think of the impact on the victims families who still carry the hurt and pain.\n\nSinn Féin has previously said that \"everyone has the right to remember their dead\".", "The promise was clear. And it was prominent.\n\nAt Labour's 2021 conference, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her ambition to be the UK's first \"green\" chancellor.\n\nTo stress her bona fides, she pledged to invest £28bn a year, every year to 2030 to \"green\" the economy.\n\nLabour's Green Prosperity Plan was one of its defining policies. It gave the party a clear dividing line with government.\n\nMs Reeves said there would be \"no dither, and no delay\" in tackling the climate crisis.\n\nIt was also an answer to the government's \"levelling up\" pledge.\n\nThe borrowed cash would underpin well-paid jobs in every corner of the UK in the energy sector.\n\nSo why has Ms Reeves kicked the pledge into the second half of the next Parliament, if Labour wins?\n\nThe first reason is obvious.\n\nMs Reeves now says she was \"green\" - in a different sense of the word - in 2021, in that she hadn't foreseen what then-Prime Minister Liz Truss would do to the economy.\n\nWith interest rates up, the cost of borrowing rises too, making the £28bn pledge more expensive to deliver.\n\nAnd Ms Reeves wants to emphasise that if any spending commitments clash with her fiscal rules, the rules would win every time.\n\nBut did the £28bn green pledge really clash with her rules?\n\nIn their own detailed briefing on their fiscal rules, Labour said: \"It is essential that for our future prosperity that we retain the ability to borrow for investing in capital projects which over time will pay for themselves.\n\n\"And that is why our target for eliminating the deficit excludes investment.\"\n\nSo borrowing to invest in the future technology and jobs shouldn't fall foul of that fiscal rule.\n\nBut there is another rule which Ms Reeves cited this morning - to have debt falling as a percentage of GDP or Gross Domestic Product, a measure of economic activity.\n\nMeeting that rule may have contributed to putting the £28bn on the backburner - though I remember at the 2021 conference some senior Labour figures questioning the wisdom of borrowing the equivalent of half the defence budget every year even then.\n\nAnd some senior figures in Labour are far less convinced that £28bn would necessarily bust the debt rule - economic forecasts can change by far greater margins.\n\nOne of the other justifications for the change of position is that £28bn shouldn't be poured in to the economy straight away.\n\nThat's because it will take time to train workers, to create and bolster supply chains. Hence \"ramping up\" to £28bn.\n\nOne shadow minister said that while today's announcement felt like a bit of a handbrake turn, it was nonetheless inevitable and sensible.\n\nThe scale of the ambition remained the same, but pragmatically the shadow chancellor was simply not committing to spending which would be difficult to deliver.\n\nBut all this must have been known in 2021, too.\n\nSo why announce the U-turn today?\n\nThe change of position was discussed within Labour's Treasury team for some time.\n\nEngagement with investors convinced them the government itself may not need to pump in a huge amount of cash straight away - the private sector would provide green jobs without state help.\n\nAnd while Ms Reeves has ditched the £28bn pledge in the first half of the Parliament, this doesn't mean that a Labour government would spend nothing on its Green Prosperity Plan.\n\nI understand cash will be prioritised for projects where the private sector would not commit without state assistance - nuclear and hydrogen for example.\n\nBut it seems clear that politics and not just economics played a role in today's announcement.\n\nThere have been grumbles and growls over how the policy has landed over the past two years within Labour's ranks and internal criticism has increased, not receded.\n\nOne concern was that the amount to be borrowed - the £28bn - was better known than what the money would buy - from home insulation and heat pumps to new carbon capture technology.\n\nBut it was crystal clear this week that the Conservatives felt that they had seen a vulnerability that could be exploited.\n\nThe front page of the Daily Mail blared this week about the alleged dangers of the policy - the extra borrowing would put up interest and therefore mortgage costs.\n\nThe independent Institute for Fiscal Studies was also being cited by Conservative ministers.\n\nIts director Paul Johnson had warned that while additional borrowing would pump money in to the economy, it also drives up interest rates.\n\nAs Labour has been attacking the Conservatives for their handling of the economy, and the \"mortgage premium\" they claim the government has caused, it was understandable that they did not want the same attack to be aimed at them, and Ms Reeves this morning sought to eliminate a potential negative.\n\nAs one Labour shadow minister put it: \"They [the Conservatives] will be pulling their hair out that one of their attack lines has failed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says Labour will now \"ramp up\" its plan to spend £28bn a year on green industries\n\nSome in Labour's ranks, though, believe the party should have insulated (no pun intended) itself from attack by making the case more stridently that borrowing to invest is different from borrowing to meet day-to-day spending.\n\nLabour's opinion poll lead is wide but pessimists in their ranks fear it is shallow.\n\nEstablishing economic credibility is seen as key.\n\nBut while it may have been the lesser of two evils, today's change of tack isn't cost-free.\n\nThe party has committed to achieve a net-zero power system by 2030.\n\nBut with potentially significantly less investment, is this target in danger too?\n\nAnd unlike many of the left-wing commitments that have been ditched - where the leadership don't really mind the backlash - this was the shadow chancellor watering down her own highest-profile pledge.\n\nThat in itself has allowed the Conservatives to shout about Labour's economic plans being \"in tatters\".\n\nAs Labour is still committed to its Green Prosperity Plan - just not the original timescale - they will still claim they have clear dividing lines with the government.\n\nBut one of their key arguments has been this: With the US pouring subsidies in to domestic green industries, the UK will get left behind if it doesn't follow suit. And fast.\n\nA delay doesn't destroy - but it does potentially weaken - the Labour case.\n\nBut there is another concern amongst those who are most certainly not on the Corbyn left.\n\nEmphasising competence and fiscal credibility over climate change commitments could leave some target voters cold.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met US President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday\n\nThe Conservative manifesto in 2019 read like this: \"Our goals for British trade are… ambitious. We aim to have 80% of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years, starting with the USA.\"\n\nIn truth the likelihood of such a full fat agreement, on that timeframe in particular, was probably pretty small, and it's been very small for as long as President Joe Biden has been in the White House - a reality acknowledged by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss as well as Rishi Sunak.\n\nAnd three years on from 2019 was 2022, last year - and there is no such deal.\n\nThis is why I asked the prime minister and the president about it: given they are unveiling something of an alternative - the Atlantic Declaration - it is important to scrutinise and highlight the gap between what was in the prospectus for government that gives Mr Sunak his mandate to govern, and what he is now talking up.\n\nNot least because trade deals have been done with others, possible once the UK was outside the European Union.\n\nFrom Mr Sunak's perspective, the politics of this is straightforward: attempting a free trade agreement, even if President Biden wanted to deliver one and could deliver one, would take longer than either man has between now and facing their electorates in the next 18 months.\n\nSo better to work up an arrangement now, even if chunks of it require further negotiation before they happen.\n\nDowning Street argues, in explaining why there has been no such deal with the US, that the world has changed since 2019. And it has.\n\nIt is worth exploring how it has changed, how that is remoulding international relations and the consequences for the UK.\n\nCovid, the threat posed by China, and the war in Ukraine have been catalysts for a collective fretting from many of the relatively rich democracies over economic security.\n\nTranslated: how to get hold of components or energy without relying on now hostile states.\n\nThis Declaration, at least partially, attempts to address this.\n\nThere is concern about military security too, which prompted the AUKUS pact between the UK, the US and Australia.\n\nBut the economic elephant in the diplomatic corridors is America's Inflation Reduction Act - a massive stimulus to address economic security and base green industries of the future in previously left behind American areas.\n\nIt is so big it has turned heads in boardrooms globally.\n\nThe Biden Administration's motivation is this: the economy needs to adapt given climate change, China and Russia - so let's make America less dependent on others and ensure those jobs of the future are in America.\n\nLabour say they'd do something similar. The Conservatives won't - but No10 point to elements in this deal that mitigate against some of its downsides to British businesses.\n\nDowning Street are upbeat about how the last few days have panned out.\n\nRishi Sunak and his delegation stayed at Blair House, the President's official guesthouse.\n\nTalk to those who have been there and it's a reminder the accommodation on these trips is part of the diplomacy.\n\nThe political history at every turn. The portraits on the walls. The giant strawberry dipped in chocolate left in a guest's room.\n\nOh, and it turns out the chef in Blair House is from Warrington.\n\nHe keeps fish and chips on the menu as a nod to his British heritage. But hasn't yet persuaded his bosses of the merits of shepherd's pie.\n\nThe prime minister appears to relish the international element of his job: the methodical building of alliances and personal relationships, the deal making.\n\nBut the domestic fray beckons again, as he swaps the Oval Office of the White House for a gathering of his northern English MPs in South Yorkshire.", "The grass is already parched in London's Hyde Park\n\nA weekend heat-health alert has been raised from yellow to a more severe amber warning in eastern and southern England, and the Midlands.\n\nThe amber alert - in place from 09:00 BST on Friday - indicates high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nThe alert, issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), continues until 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to hit 30C and some thunderstorms are expected.\n\nParts of the country are predicted to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife in the coming days as a plume of warm air moves in from the south, the Met office says.\n\nA less severe yellow alert, which advises people to check on vulnerable family and friends, is in place for the north of England and London.\n\nThe UKHSA first issued a heat alert on Wednesday, but raised it saying the temperatures would rise rapidly in affected areas with temperatures high overnight.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for thunder is also in place for all of Wales and large parts of southern England from 14:00 BST until 21:00 on Saturday.\n\nThis means there is a chance of disruption to travel, power cuts and some localised flooding from the heaviest showers.\n\nDuring the period of hot weather, the UKHSA advises people to:\n\nA spokesman for the UKHSA said it was difficult to predict the exact impact of higher temperatures on the health service but additional pressure would come from vulnerable groups suffering in the heat.\n\nThat includes people over 65, those with respiratory or cardiovascular conditions and children.\n\nAhead of the hot weather, the UKHSA has been in touch with groups which work with older people, such as care homes, to offer guidance.\n\nAndy Cole, the assistant chief fire officer from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service, urged people to be \"vigilant\" this weekend and avoid using disposable barbecues or starting campfires.\n\nThere was a \"record number\" of wildfires last year, he said, adding that Dorset and Wiltshire saw a \"roughly 400% increase\" compared to the year before, with 911 recorded.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cole said wildfires were \"extremely dangerous\" and can take a lot of resources from the fire service.\n\nClimate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme.\n\nLast year was the UK's warmest ever - Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, reached a record 40.3C on 19 July.\n\nThe UKHSA expects heatwaves are \"likely to occur more often, be more intense and last longer in the years and decades ahead\".\n\nThe new colour-coded alert system, launched last week, is run by the UKHSA and the Met Office and is aimed at reducing illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.\n\nThere is one further alert, not yet issued, representing the most serious risk. The red alert means there is a significant risk to life even for healthy people and a severe impact likely across all sectors.\n\nIndividuals can sign up to receive alerts directly here, and people can specify which region they would like to receive alerts for.", "\"All day long housewives complained about their lot but they got on with it,\" wrote Nadine Dorries in a novel about 1950s Liverpool inspired by her own upbringing. \"No-one ever thought it would alter. Their way of life was constant and familiar, as it had been as long as anyone could remember.\"\n\nGrowing up in a council house in that city, and enduring a sometimes hungry childhood, the Conservative MP might once have felt life's riches were beyond her reach. But from nursing, via a best-selling writing career and a stint in the Australian jungle for reality TV, she has risen to the cabinet.\n\nAppointed culture secretary by Boris Johnson on Wednesday, Dorries has taken responsibility for setting strategy and policy across huge industries such as broadcasting, sport, museums and tourism. Among the big decisions ahead of her are setting the level of the BBC licence fee, whether to privatise Channel 4, and picking a new head of the broadcast watchdog Ofcom.\n\nSince landing the job, many in entertainment have been scathing of a politician who once claimed \"left-wing snowflakes\" were \"killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto, removing Christ from Christmas and suppressing free speech\".\n\nCritics argue she is too divorced from the arts, citing her opposition to the gay marriage bill - though she has since said this was her \"biggest regret\" - and her statement that Boris Johnson \"didn't go far enough\" when, in 2018, he compared Muslim women who wear burqas to \"postboxes\" and \"bankrobbers\". Supporters believe she is herself a victim of snobbery within the artistic establishment.\n\n\"Some people were a bit taken back in terms of her suitability for the role,\" one Tory MP tells the BBC, but adds: \"We're going to have fun.\"\n\nAnother admits there \"was a bit of surprise that she would get such a big job\", while another still says: \"She's feisty. I'm sure she'll be up for the fight.\"\n\nI'm 5ft 3in and need every inch of my Louboutin heels to look my male colleagues in the eye\n\nWhatever your opinion of Dorries, her background is far from the norm for a Conservative MP. Born Nadine Bargery in Liverpool in 1957 to a Protestant mother, Sylvia, and an Irish immigrant Catholic father, George, she has described her childhood as warm and loving. But, the mother of three says she remembers a downside to working-class life in the '60s and '70s. \"We used to hide from the rent man, as we couldn't pay him,\" she told the Guardian. \"Some days there would be no food.\"\n\nBrought up an Anglican, Dorries was abused by a priest and family friend at the age of nine, but never reported this to the police. \"My childhood was stolen from me,\" she told the Mail on Sunday. \"I was not an innocent girl enjoying things in the way other children were.\"\n\nHer parents divorced during her early teens, and her father, a bus driver, became ill. He died when she was in her early 20s. Her younger brother, John, also died in a car accident, aged 26.\n\nAfter school, Dorries trained as a nurse. Her profession gave her an ongoing concern with one of the political issues she has spoken about most passionately - abortion. She has frequently pushed for the time limit for terminations to be reduced.\n\nIn 1984, she married financial adviser Paul Dorries. She came late to active politics, and until 1997, had considered joining Labour. However, she disliked Tony Blair's attitude to the Right to Buy scheme. Set up by Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, it allowed council tenants to buy their flat or house.\n\nIt was something that Dorries's own mother had used. \"Suddenly, the packing cases that divided people's fronts were replaced with handmade fences, and all the green front doors were lovingly painted different colours,\" she recalls. \"People were fighting to express their individualism, because suddenly they weren't part of this great mass. Now they were homeowners and they had something to shout about.\"\n\nOnce involved in politics and convinced of her Conservatism, Dorries ran unsuccessfully to be an MP in the 2001 general election. She found work instead as a special adviser to Sir Oliver Letwin, then the shadow chancellor, running his communications.\n\nThis is likely to be a spectacle worth watching\n\n\"It isn't often that someone with Nadine's energy and chutzpah arrives on the political scene,\" Sir Oliver, now retired from the House of Commons, tells the BBC. \"When they do, one can expect all sorts of fireworks. And now she is in charge of a department that will give her every chance to light up the sky. This is likely to be a spectacle worth watching.\"\n\nIn 2005, Dorries was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire, a seat she has retained since, enjoying a majority of more than 24,000 at the last general election. But it is her exploits outside Westminster which have gained her exposure far beyond that of most backbenchers.\n\nNadine Dorries loses control during an event to mark Red Tractor Week at Covent Garden, London 2007\n\nIn 2010, she appeared on the Channel 4 documentary series Tower Block of Commons, which challenged politicians to live on a council estate and get by on jobseeker's allowance. Two years later she signed up for the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.\n\nShe camped in the Australian jungle with darts player Eric Bristow, TV's Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson, and 1980s pop vocalist Limahl, among others. One challenge saw Dorries having to eat a camel's toe and an ostrich's anus.\n\nThe thought of her appearing 12,000 miles (19,300 km) away on peak-time TV while other MPs were at work was almost as unappetising to senior Conservatives, who suspended her from the parliamentary party. But she returned to the Tory fold within a few months.\n\nIn 2013, Dorries signed a contract to write the Four Streets series of novels based on her experience of growing up in Liverpool. Savaged by the critics, they went on to become best-sellers, as did the Lovely Lane series, about a group of young nurses in the city.\n\n\"I've worked with quite a few celebrities in the past and sometimes it's not always very easy,\" says Rosie de Courcy, senior editor at Dorries's publisher, Head of Zeus. \"But I found her an absolute delight. She's hardworking. She's easy to get along with. She's humble. She listens. She's very quick on the uptake.\"\n\nDorries did not enjoy such cordial relations with Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne, once describing them as \"a pair of posh boys who don't know the price of a pint of milk\". Neither Cameron nor successor Theresa May made her a minister.\n\nBoris Johnson greets Nadine Dorries and supporters before the Conservative leadership hustings, Wyboston 2019\n\nBut Dorries expressed her admiration for Mr Cameron's fellow Old Etonian Boris Johnson and they became firm allies. She was a strong supporter of Leave in the Brexit referendum and, when Johnson entered Downing Street in 2019, he made her a health minister.\n\nA few months later, she became one of the first few hundred people in the UK to be diagnosed with Covid, but recovered from what she called a \"very severe dose\". She was promoted to a more senior position in the Department of Health and Social Care, with responsibility for suicide prevention and mental health.\n\nIn a Times column, she revealed that her own cousin had taken his own life, writing: \"I know the sadness, the blame, the anger and the grief.\"\n\nThere was surprise and considerable scorn in the media and among politicians and celebrities when Johnson made Dorries culture secretary.\n\n\"Of course, she has extensive TV experience,\" one Conservative MP notes, archly referring to her time on I'm a Celebrity.\n\nThe reaction elsewhere was more severe. \"Nadine Dorries… Culture… this is like the result of some drunk bet,\" tweeted comedian Dom Joly, while Green Party MP Caroline Lucas wrote: \"Nadine Dorries as culture secretary? Satire is dead.\"\n\nBut Doctor Who scriptwriter Gareth Roberts has called such comments \"unhinged\", arguing: \"Dorries may not win plaudits from the arts world. But as her book sales show, she has a quality her detractors, and let's face it, her peers and predecessors, will never have: an understanding of what people actually enjoy.\"\n\nWhatever her reception, Dorries takes on the culture brief at a challenging time. As well as those decisions on the BBC, Channel 4 and Ofcom, she will oversee cyber security and the prevention of online harm to young people. A review of the way football in England is run is due out this autumn, too.\n\nThen there's the task helping sports and the arts recover from the pandemic.\n\n\"She's not filling big shoes following [her predecessor] Oliver Dowden,\" says Paul Fleming, general secretary of Equity, the union for actors and entertainment workers. \"She's inherited some small flip-flops from someone who didn't have good relations with the industry. We'll work with her and hope that she listens to everyone, at all levels.\"\n\nOn a previous occasion, Dorries defended the right of women to wear high heels, saying: \"I'm 5ft 3ins and need every inch of my Louboutin heels to look my male colleagues in the eye.\"\n\nBut she chose not to wear them - or flip-flops - when she left her first cabinet meeting, instead opting for a pair of white trainers as she hurried back to her new office.", "Former prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP and announced he is stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nIn a lengthy statement the ex-PM accused a Commons investigation of attempting to \"drive me out\".\n\nMr Johnson first became and MP in 2001, representing the constituency of Henley in Oxfordshire, since then he went on to become the Mayor of London, MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and then the prime minister.\n\nHere's a look back at his political career.", "Rachel Reeves tours the New York Stock Exchange on a three day visit to the US\n\nLabour is seeking inspiration from Joe Biden's plan to tackle inflation and create jobs, shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said.\n\nThe US president's vast package of subsidies and tax breaks for industry has been dubbed \"Bidenomics\".\n\nUnveiling her version in a speech during a US trip, Ms Reeves pledged to rebuild Britain's \"industrial foundations\" if Labour wins power.\n\nShe claimed this will insulate the country against \"global shocks\".\n\nMs Reeves has dubbed her strategy \"securonomics\", which she said would mean a bigger role for government in running the free market economy and greater cooperation with like-minded international allies.\n\nAs chancellor, she said she would aim to create high quality jobs in British businesses, and reduce the country's dependence on foreign workers and goods.\n\n\"Globalisation as we know it is dead,\" she told an audience of economists in Washington DC.\n\n\"We must care about where things are made and who owns them. We must foster new partnerships between the free market and an active state and between countries across the world who share values and interests.\"\n\nMs Reeves spoke of her admiration for Joe Biden's $430bn (£350bn) Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which seeks to tame rising prices by cutting the deficit and investing in domestic energy production while promoting clean energy.\n\nShe stressed that she did not want to make Britain \"a version of America, Australia, Germany or France\" as that \"would not work\".\n\nBut she did propose a \"new special relationship\" with the US, focusing \"on the clean energy economy, where both Britain and America have signature strengths\".\n\nLabour says this would involve regular dialogue with the Biden administration and US trade unions, to learn how to create more high quality jobs and tackle geographical inequality.\n\nThe party's flagship economic policy is a £28bn a year \"green prosperity plan\", which aims to create jobs in new green industries and set up a publicly-owned renewable energy company.\n\nThe shadow chancellor has promised to cut Britain's debt burden by binding a future Labour government to strict borrowing limits, leading some to suggest it will have to scale back its green prosperity plans.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Reeves said her \"securonomics\" strategy would be \"built on the rock of financial stability and economic security\".\n\nIn a Q&A afterwards, she conceded that Labour would not be able to do everything it wanted to do because money would be tight, but she insisted the party's manifesto policies were all fully-costed.\n\nShe also insisted that Britain would not be turning its back on global trade under Labour, as some critics of Mr Biden have accused him of doing.\n\n\"It is not a retreat from trade. It is about doing things differently in the interests of economic security and also security for working people,\" she said.\n\nMs Reeves, who also met US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on her trip, sets out her strategy in detail in a pamphlet, A New Business Model for Britain.\n\nIn January, Energy Secretary Grant Shapps warned that Mr Biden's policies could herald a \"dangerous\" slide into protectionism.\n\nAnd Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has written to her US counterpart complaining the IRA package would \"harm multiple economies across the world\".\n\nThe EU, Canada and South Korea have all argued it breaches world trade rules.", "Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has announced she is standing down as an MP.\n\nThe former culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson said she was standing down \"with immediate effect\" after \"something significant\" happened to change her mind.\n\nIt means there will be a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency, where she has a majority of 24,664.\n\nMs Dorries had already said she would not stand at the next general election.\n\nIt came ahead of the publication of Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.\n\nMs Dorries had been expected to be nominated for an honour, but she was not included on the list.\n\nEarlier on Friday, she told TalkTV: \"The last thing I would want to do is cause a by-election in my constituency.\"\n\n\"I don't believe I will be going into the House of Lords any time soon,\" she said, adding that she had not been contacted by anybody in No 10 about the honours list.\n\nHowever, after announcing she was standing down, she told the channel: \"The House of Lords thing was on the cards and it's gone back to HOLAC [the House of Lords Appointments Commission] to be vetted.\"\n\nThe advisory body is responsible for vetting nominations for peerages.\n\nAsked if she thought she should be in the House of Lords, Ms Dorries said it was \"very rare\" for someone from her background who was born into poverty to get a peerage.\n\nShe added that she was \"slightly disappointed\" but \"I don't think it was to be\".\n\nMs Dorries said \"something significant did happen to change my mind\" about remaining an MP, but she would not give further details.\n\nShe said she now had \"other priorities\", including her granddaughter and media career as a presenter on TalkTV and columnist for the Daily Mail.\n\nThe former culture secretary said she felt \"relief\", adding: \"I think I've been carrying a degree of guilt since I stood down as secretary of state. I think I possibly, maybe I should have stood down [as an MP] then.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said Mr Johnson's peerage list had been handed to HOLAC unaltered \"as is convention\", and HOLAC then passed back its approved list.\n\n\"He [Rishi Sunak] had no involvement or input into the approved list,\" she added.\n\nBorn in Liverpool in 1957, Ms Dorries worked as a nurse before becoming an MP in 2005.\n\nShe is also a successful author of romantic historical novels and hit the headlines in 2012 for taking part in ITV reality show I'm A Celebrity, which led to her suspension from the Conservative parliamentary party for six months.\n\nShe was a vocal critic of then-Prime Minister David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne, once describing them as \"a pair of posh boys who don't know the price of a pint of milk\".\n\nWhen Mr Johnson entered Downing Street he made her a health minister before appointing her as culture secretary in September 2021.\n\nShe left government last September when Mr Johnson stepped down as prime minister.\n\nSince then she has been a strong critic of current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and has hit out at those who sought to oust Mr Johnson.\n\nAnnouncing that she would not stand in the general election in February, she criticised \"the lack of cohesion, the infighting and occasionally the sheer stupidity from those who think we could remove a sitting prime minister\".\n\n\"I'm afraid it's this behaviour that I now just have to remove myself from,\" she added.", "Greta Thunberg at this Friday's climate 'school strike' outside the Swedish parliament. She says it will be her last\n\nGreta Thunberg has said she has taken part in her final Friday climate \"school strike\" after graduating, but vowed to keep protesting.\n\n\"Today, I graduate from school, which means I'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate,\" Thunberg, 20, said on Twitter.\n\nSwedish students usually complete their upper secondary studies at 19 but Greta took a year off to campaign.\n\nShe was 15 when she began protesting outside Sweden's parliament in 2018.\n\nCarrying a \"school strike for climate change\" sign, she said she would only attend when politicians took action.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greta Thunberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer solo protest led to various movements across Europe, the US and Australia, known as Fridays for Future or School Strike for Climate.\n\nGreta at a 'school strike' in 2018. She was 15 when she began the protests\n\nGreta has come to symbolise young people's fight for the world to wean itself of the fossil fuels that are warming the planet.\n\nReferring to herself simply as an \"Autistic climate justice activist\" on her Twitter bio, she's frequently berated world leaders on the international stage and sparred with them on Twitter, and was once nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nEarlier this year she was briefly detained at a protest against coal in Germany and she made it clear in a Twitter feed on Friday she had no intention of stopping protesting.\n\n\"We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it's not technically \"school striking\". We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.\"", "Some of Boris Johnson's closest allies - including Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg - have been rewarded with peerages and other awards in the former PM's honours list.\n\nIt was published hours before Mr Johnson stepped down as an MP.\n\nFormer secretaries of state Simon Clarke and Mr Rees-Mogg were knighted, while Ms Patel was made a dame.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and London Assembly member Shaun Bailey are among seven new peers.\n\nNo serving MPs were given peerages, avoiding by-elections for the Tories. But there will now be one in Mr Johnson's own constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Nadine Dorries was not put forward for the House of Lords, despite speculation she would be on the published list.\n\nMs Dorries - who served as culture secretary under Mr Johnson - stood down as an MP \"with immediate effect\" just over an hour before the honours list was released.\n\nThe resignation honours list is a tradition that gives outgoing prime ministers the opportunity to nominate people for honours.\n\nThe long-awaited list, approved nine months after Mr Johnson resigned as prime minister, included 38 honours and seven peerages.\n\nKulveer Singh Ranger, a former director of transport while Mr Johnson was London mayor, and former Downing Street chief of staff Dan Rosenfield are also among those who will enter the Lords.\n\nCharlotte Owen, a former adviser to Mr Johnson, will become one of the youngest peers, as will fellow advisers Ben Gascoigne and Ross Kempsell.\n\nHonours were handed out to some of Mr Johnson's closest advisers during his premiership, including former directors of communications Jack Doyle and Guto Harri, who were both made CBEs.\n\nAlso among recipients were aides who served with Mr Johnson during the scandal over lockdown parties in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMartin Reynolds, Mr Johnson's former principal private secretary, was awarded the Order of Bath.\n\nIn May 2020, Mr Reynolds sent an invite to a \"bring your own booze\" party to Downing Street staff when the nation was under lockdown.\n\nBen Elliot, the former co-chair of the Conservative Party, has also been awarded a knighthood, as have Tory MPs Michael Fabricant and Conor Burns, two Mr Johnson loyalists.\n\nThe first name on the list was Tory MP and long-standing Brexit backer Bill Cash, who has become a companion of honour.\n\nMembership is a special award granted to those \"who have made a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government\" and it is only held by up to 65 people at any one time.\n\nRishi Sunak has approved Mr Johnson's resignation honours list and \"forwarded it unamended\" to King Charles, the prime minister's press secretary said.\n\n\"He had no involvement or input into the approved list,\" the press secretary said.\n\nBy convention, a former prime minister's resignation list of new peers is forwarded to the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), which vets appointments.\n\nAnother Tory MP who did not feature on the list, despite being widely tipped for a peerage, was Alok Sharma, who was president of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nUsually when sitting MPs are given peerages, they resign their seats, triggering by-elections.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen was among those to be made a peer\n\nFollowing the Partygate scandal and the political turbulence of Mr Johnson's premiership, the former PM's honours list was always expected to be controversial and to provoke fierce criticism.\n\nSome of the reaction to the names published on Friday has met those expectations.\n\nA formerly loyal aide to Mr Johnson branded the honours list \"an utter disgrace\", telling the BBC it was \"rewards for failure all round\".\n\nThey said: \"Boris has slammed the door shut on the prospect of any return to the frontline of British politics and trashed what remained of his legacy.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said it was \"shameful\" that Mr Sunak had \"failed to stand up to his former boss's outrageous demands and agreed to hand out prizes to this carousel of cronies\".\n\n\"He promised integrity, but this weak prime minister is once again showing his appalling judgement by doing Boris Johnson's bidding,\" Ms Rayner said.\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Boris Johnson has been allowed to hand out gongs to his Partygate pals, and Rishi Sunak has just waved it through.\"\n\nThe seven new peers on Mr Johnson's honours list will enter a House of Lords that already has more than 800 members.\n\nThe Electoral Reform Society campaign group said Mr Johnson's resignation list \"demonstrates just how discredited and partisan the honours system has become\".\n\n\"It's time to end this rotten system of patronage and replace the unelected Lords with a smaller elected chamber, where the people of this country - not former prime ministers - choose who shape the laws we all live under,\" its chief executive Darren Hughes said.\n\nBoris Johnson is loyal to those who are loyal to him. And his resignation honours list underlines this - until the ink runs out.\n\nAlmost all of the 45 names know him personally. Many worked for him either at No 10 or when he was London mayor.\n\nEven his current spokesman has been transformed into a legislator, with a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nAnd for anyone who assumed that meritocracy might play a part in the honours system, a long-standing parliamentary hairdresser, Kelly Dodge, gets a gong for doing... Mr Johnson's hair.\n\nYes, you read that correctly. Mr Johnson's mop.\n\nBut just as Mr Johnson rewards loyalty, he has more subtly made clear disloyalty comes at a price.\n\nHe must know that a list strewn with reminders of the Partygate era will make the current PM uncomfortable.\n\nThe list is crammed with dames and knighthoods for some of Mr Johnson's defenders in the parliamentary party.\n\nBut there are plenty of Conservative detractors, those who describe the list as \"ghastly\" or full of \"sycophants\".\n\nFor them, the list has damaged their party specifically and trust in politics more generally.\n\nBut it also allows the opposition to portray Rishi Sunak as weak for not blocking the list.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was a very unconventional occupant of No 10.", "Taurine - a nutrient found in meat, fish and sold as a supplement - extends life and boosts health in a range of animal species, scientists say.\n\nLevels of taurine decline with age in different species, including people.\n\nExperiments on middle-aged animals showed boosting taurine to youthful levels extended life by over 10% and improved physical and brain health.\n\nThe researchers say taurine may be an \"elixir of life\" - but topping up levels in people has not been tested.\n\nSo the team, at Columbia University, in New York, recommend against people buying taurine pills or energy drinks packed with taurine in an attempt to live longer.\n\nThe animal research is, however, the latest development in the hunt for ways of slowing ageing.\n\nDr Vijay Yadav holding a model of the chemical structure of taurine\n\nThis study started by analysing molecules in the blood of different species - to explore the differences between young and old.\n\n\"One of the most dramatically downgraded [molecules] was taurine,\" researcher Dr Vijay Yadav said. In elderly people, levels were 80% lower than in the young.\n\nTaurine is virtually non-existent in plants. So the nutrient either comes from animal protein in diet or is manufactured by the body.\n\nAnd for the past 11 years, the research team have been trying to flesh out its role in ageing.\n\nA daily dose was given to 14-month-old mice, which is equivalent to about age 45 for humans.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Science, showed male mice lived 10% longer, females 12%, and both appeared to be in better health.\n\n\"Whatever we checked, taurine-supplemented mice were healthier and appeared younger,\" Dr Yadav said.\n\n\"They were leaner, had an increased energy expenditure, increased bone density, improved memory and a younger-looking immune system.\"\n\nIncreases in lifespan of 10-23% were also recorded in worms.\n\nThen, 15-year-old rhesus monkeys were given a six-month course of taurine - too short to notice a difference in life expectancy but, again, the researchers found improvements in body weight, bone, blood-sugar levels and the immune system.\n\n\"I thought this is almost too good to be true,\" said Prof Henning Wackerhage, who was involved in the research at the Technical University of Munich. \"Taurine somehow hits the engine room of ageing.\"\n\nBut many of the big questions remain unanswered:\n\nThe researchers performed an analysis of 12,000 people and showed those with more taurine in their blood were generally in better health.\n\nIf the data from mice applied to people, it would be the equivalent of an extra seven to eight years of life, they say.\n\nBut it will take proper clinical trials - where some people are given the nutrient and others a placebo pill - to see if any benefit can be detected.\n\nDifferences in human biology may stop taurine from working or there may be some evolutionary reason why levels are meant to fall with age. Current evidence - including energy drinks being on the market for decades - suggests taurine is safe.\n\nWhile taurine is in our diet, it would be hard to eat the quantities used in the experiments. The equivalent dose from the animal experiments, scaled up to people would be 3-6g (0.2oz) per day.\n\nDr Yadav refused to say whether he chose to take taurine supplements himself, for fear of unduly influencing people.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Let us wait for the clinical trials to be completed before recommending to the wider population that they go to the shelf in a grocery store and buy taurine.\"\n\nProf Wackerhage said rather than rushing for supplements, there were already proven ways of living longer.\n\n\"If you want to live a long, healthy and happy life, then you need a healthy diet - that's one of the most important things - and of course, you should exercise,\" he said.\n\nThe scientific report suggests taurine plays a role in reducing cellular senescence - where cells in the body stop dividing - a hallmark of ageing.\n\nThe nutrient also appeared to keep mitochondria - the power stations in the body's cells - functioning.\n\nBut how it does any of this remains unexplored.\n\nProf Ilaria Bellantuono, from the University of Sheffield, said the findings \"fits well with the existing evidence\" on ageing, but the implications for people would remain \"limited\" until potentially very expensive human trials were conducted.\n\n\"If there is a demonstrable clinical impact it could be used to prevent multiple long-term chronic conditions such as osteoporosis, muscle weakness, diabetes and potentially neurodegenerative diseases.\"\n\nCommenting on the findings, Joseph McGaunn and Joseph Baur, both from the University of Pennsylvania, said: \"A singular focus on increasing dietary taurine risks driving poor nutritional choices, because plant-rich diets are associated with human health and longevity.\n\n\"Thus like any intervention, taurine supplementation with the aim of improving human health and longevity should be approached with caution.\"", "John Finucane is the MP for North Belfast\n\nA relative of one of the victims of an IRA bomb atrocity in Coleraine nearly 50 years ago has criticised a Sinn Féin MP's planned attendance at a \"South Armagh Volunteers commemoration\".\n\nNorth Belfast MP John Finucane is billed as the main speaker at the event in Mullaghbawn on Sunday.\n\nThe move has been condemned by victims and unionist politicians.\n\nSinn Féin has said everyone has the right \"to remember their dead with dignity and respect\".\n\nNan Davis was among six Protestants killed in the Coleraine attack on 12 June 1973.\n\nHer granddaughter Lesley Magee said celebrating terrorism is \"a disgrace\".\n\n\"I don't think we should be commemorating terrorism on any level, whether it be Protestant, whether it be Catholic,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I have equal animosity towards both. I have no issue with anyone's religion, whether it be Protestant, Catholic, Judaism - whatever; I don't care.\n\n\"All I am interested in is the person that I know. But when we are celebrating terrorism, I think it is a disgrace.\"\n\nMs Magee said she did not think Mr Finucane should be at the event on Sunday.\n\n\"I don't think any MP should be at some kind of commemoration to celebrate a terrorist,\" she added.\n\n\"I mean what did that bomb in Coleraine achieve, by killing six pensioners? What did it achieve, other than it robbed families of their loved ones?\"\n\nAn event to remember those killed in the Coleraine atrocity is due to take place on Monday, and a permanent memorial to the victims will be unveiled.\n\nMs Magee was 10 at the time of her grandmother's death and described the impact on the family.\n\n\"I remember vividly my mum being hysterical,\" she added.\n\n\"It was just an awful time for the family.\n\n\"There were three siblings and the youngest one lived in England and he was very, very close to his mother.\n\n\"He's still alive. He's 80-odd now and if you were to speak to him about it now, at 80-odd he would still cry.\"\n\nSix people were killed when the bomb exploded in Coleraine in 1973\n\nMr Finucane's father, solicitor Pat Finucane, was shot dead by loyalist gunmen at his home in Belfast in 1989.\n\nA woman whose husband was shot dead by loyalists in Kennedy Way in west Belfast in January 1973 called BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show on Friday.\n\nMary from Lurgan, County Armagh, said Mr Finucane should \"think strongly\" about what he was planning to do.\n\n\"John should know exactly how I feel. I always thought at the time of his father, when we lose someone like that we have a bond with each other, we all have a bond as a victim,\" she added.\n\n\"So I would love to see what John is going to say to that commemoration.\n\n\"If he has a heart at all, he should know how we feel.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Finucane's plan to go to the IRA commemoration is \"wrong\" and reopens wounds for victims\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said Mr Finucane's plan to go to the IRA commemoration is \"wrong\" and reopens wounds for victims.\n\n\"The scars are still there, the broken homes remain, the broken lives are still there,\" he said.\n\n\"I would simply say to John Finucane, do you believe that your attendance and participation in that event is conducive towards what we are trying to build for Northern Ireland in the future, a shared future?\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has said he thought the commemoration was \"scandalous\", while Tánaiste Micheál Martin urged Mr Finucane not to address the commemoration, saying any attempt to \"celebrate or glorify horrible deeds from the past\" was not the correct way forward.\n\nHowever, earlier this week Sinn Féin assembly member Conor Murphy dismissed the row as a diversionary tactic by the DUP.\n\n\"I think what we are in here is distraction politics,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"The real issue is here is the fact that public services are crashing round our ears.\"\n\nConor Murphy said the row over Mr Finucane's attendance at a republican event in south Armagh was a DUP diversionary tactic\n\nBBC News NI has made a number of attempts to speak to Mr Finucane about Sunday's IRA commemoration event, but to no avail.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI previously, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has the right to remember their dead with dignity and respect.\n\n\"We will continue to stand with families who have lost loved ones in the conflict.\"\n\nLast year in a BBC interview, Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill said \"the only way that we're ever going to build a better future is to understand that it's OK to have a different take on the past\".\n\n\"My narrative is a very different one to someone who has perhaps lost a loved one at the hands of republicans,\" she continued.\n\n\"So I think that we need to be mature enough to say, that's OK, we'll have to agree to differ on that one, but let's make sure the conditions never exist again that we find ourselves in that scenario.\"\n• None Finucane urged to 'step away' from commemoration", "Dr Alena Yap is the only doctor available to Eleuthera Abus on an archipelago of 13,000 people\n\nWhen 99-year-old Eleuthera Abus lifts her right arm, she winces as the broken bones move. It's been six months since her fall.\n\n\"All I can do is manage her pain,\" says Alena Yap, the 28-year-old doctor who is examining her on her porch. \"She really needs to have the bone pinned. But the family is refusing to take her to hospital.\"\n\nEleuthera's daughters are not heartless. They are poor.\n\nThe nearest surgical facility is hundreds of miles away across the sea from the tiny island of Diit where they live. It's one of a cluster of islands that make up the Agutaya archipelago, stranded in the middle of the Philippines' Sulu Sea.\n\nFor the 13,000 or so people who live here, Dr Alena, as they call her, is the only doctor. Petite, with glasses and long hair tied back in a ponytail, she always wears a broad smile that masks quiet determination.\n\nThere is only one island in the archipelago she does not visit - Amanpulo, named after the luxury resort on it, which has reportedly hosted Tom Cruise and Beyoncé. On a clear day, it's visible from the beaches of Diit, just 20km (12 miles) away.\n\nDr Alena arrived just before the coronavirus - and learned to live with the death threats that came when she insisted people isolate. But the pandemic that swallowed the world was far from her only challenge in this oft-forgotten corner of the Philippines. She battled new diseases and old, and came up against her country's biggest challenges. She says she came to Agutaya to make \"real changes\" - but she left deeply disillusioned.\n\nThese remote, volcanic islands are not where you expect to find a graduate of the country's top medical school, who had spent all her life in Manila, the teeming Philippine capital. Unlike so many of her peers who have left to seek careers in Australia, America and Britain, Dr Alena volunteered to join a government programme that sent her here, to one of the poorest municipalities in the country.\n\nThe main island of Agutaya is a two-and-half day journey from Manila. It includes one flight, followed by a sleepless 15-hour night crossing on an open-deck ferry from the port city of Iloilo to a bigger island called Cuyo. Then the only way in and out of Agutaya is a drenching, two-hour roller coaster ride in an outrigger canoe.\n\nThese islands, floating in startlingly clear waters over white sands, look like they are straight out of paradise\n\nAs the skilled boatman guides the outrigger across the reef and into the shallows, Agutaya looks like a piece of paradise. Below the palm-fringed shoreline, a broad swathe of white sand stretches in each direction. Colourful outrigger canoes bob around on water so clear they could be floating in mid-air.\n\nBut geography is both a blessing and a curse. Scattered over hundreds of square kilometres of sea, the dozen or so islands that make up the archipelago are cut off for days, even weeks, when the monsoon comes, winds in tow. Covered with dense forest, the hillsides sit atop large fields of basalt boulders. There is little tillable soil. The islanders rely almost entirely on the ocean.\n\nDr Alena made her first crossing to Agutaya in February 2020. \"When I started here, I was 26 and a lot of people would mistake me for a high school student,\" she says with a chuckle. \"People wouldn't believe I was a doctor.\"\n\nHer first challenge arrived within a month when the coronavirus sent the Philippines into a lockdown. The islands were sealed off.\n\n\"The first year wasn't too bad,\" Dr Alena says. \"There weren't any local cases. But the second year [2021], that is when the government allowed everyone to travel back to their hometowns. Suddenly we had people coming back from as far away as Manila.\"\n\nDr Alena was in charge of enforcing their quarantine. \"When people learned they would be quarantined they reacted violently,\" she says. \"I received death threats. People said they wanted to shoot me.\"\n\nShe understood why. People here live day to day. What they catch in the morning they eat for dinner. If they couldn't leave their homes to fish, they would go hungry.\n\nSo far from being embraced by the local community, Dr Alena, who had left her fiancé in far-away Manila, was now resented as a government enforcer. \"There were days when I couldn't do anything but cry. There were a lot of tears,\" she says.\n\nTo ease the loneliness she began adopting dogs. Bruno is large with a big tail that never stops wagging, while Vigly is small and shy. They follow her everywhere.\n\n\"I spent a lot of time going to the beach with them and watching the sunset. I also started to draw. My pictures aren't any good, but it's a type of art therapy.\"\n\nThe pandemic, and the loneliness it bought, was especially trying for the 28-year-old\n\nThe next challenge emerged when the vaccines started to arrive in the summer of 2021.\n\n\"We had to go house to house to every island barangay [village],\" Dr Alena says. \"The farthest island is nearly three hours away by boat, and many people can't afford the fare [to come to the clinic]. So they wouldn't come.\"\n\nGruelling as it was, the distance wasn't the only problem: \"There was a lot of hesitancy, a lot of fake news about the vaccines being bad or that they can kill people. A lot of people get their news from social media here, and they were not getting the facts.\"\n\nBy autumn 2022, the threat from Covid had begun to abate. Despite the resistance, the vaccine rollout was successful. Only eight islanders across the archipelago had died of the virus.\n\nBut that brought little respite.\n\nA line starts to form on every weekday morning outside the main clinic on Agutaya while the daily meeting between Dr Alena and her team is still under way.\n\nOn that day, first in line is a man in his 50s who has had a suspected stroke.\n\n\"Before I came here, I thought everything would be fresh and organic,\" Dr Alena says, laughing at her own naivete. \"But it's very difficult to get a nutritious diet here.\"\n\nFor one, locals salt and dry their fish, leading to high blood pressure. Diabetes is also common because it's easier to find soft drinks than clean water.\n\nA boy walks to school on the island of Diit\n\nA sign at the entrance to the clinic announces the other major health problem: \"sputum sampling\" for tuberculosis or TB.\n\nDr Alens says they recorded 45 cases in 2022, but many more go undiagnosed.\n\nA bacterial infection, TB is fatal if left untreated. It kills millions yearly, although a combination of vaccines and antibiotics eradicated it from some parts of the world before the middle of the last century.\n\nBut the Philippines is still estimated to have more than a million cases. \"The long-term plan is to eradicate it,\" Dr Alena says, adding it's \"impossible in the near future\". She says because of poor access to healthcare people often relapse, and have even begun to develop drug-resistant strains.\n\nLater that morning, a woman brings her young son to the clinic. Pale and listless, the boy slumps on a chair. Dr Alena suspects he has dengue. A few minutes later, it's confirmed. She prescribes paracetamol, and tells his mother to keep him hydrated.\n\nDengue is new here. The one case in January turned to 10 by March even as Dr Alena and her team sprayed school grounds to kill the mosquitoes that spread it, and handed out treated nets.\n\nBy 11:00 the doctor is extricating herself from the growing line of patients. They will have to be dealt with by her capable nursing staff because she has to get across to Diit, 40 minutes away by boat.\n\nIt is more beautiful than Agutaya, but poorer. It has no electricity or a mobile phone tower, and only one concrete road that runs out after a few hundred metres.\n\nThe arrival of the \"medicine lady\" as Dr Alena is fondly called is greeted with much excitement. Dozens of school children come running down the beach. They've been given the day off so Dr Alena's dengue control team can spray their school grounds with insecticide. As she walks through the village, she's like the pied piper, with a long stream of laughing children following.\n\nShe visits an elderly couple sitting outside their house along the beach in wheelchairs. Both have had strokes and are partially paralysed. She checks his blood pressure - 150 over 90. \"It's high, but acceptable for his age,\" she says.\n\nOn these islands, a hernia, like the one this boy has, can bankrupt a family\n\nA woman in her 40s pushes her way through the crowd that has gathered around. She is carrying a boy, who is perhaps five or six years old. Dr Alena tells her to sit down on a chair and begins to examine the child. He has a hugely enlarged left testicle. The torch reveals a hernia in his lower abdomen. A part of his intestine has penetrated the bowel wall, pushing into his testicles.\n\n\"He will need surgery,\" Dr Alena tells the mother. The hope in the woman's eyes turns to anxiety.\n\nDr Alena asks her if she knows anyone who she can stay with on one of the bigger islands. Yes, the woman says - in Culion, a 12-hour boat ride away.\n\n\"Once I tell them they need to have an operation, you see in their faces the fear and the sadness because they realise there isn't any medicine I can give them to cure this,\" Dr Alena says. \"You see in their minds [the thought] how are they going to afford this? It's hard being the one to deliver the news.\"\n\nIn another part of the world, a hernia is a minor medical procedure. But here it can wipe out a family's savings, leaving them in debt for years.\n\n\"If we could make travel easier that would make a lot of difference,\" she adds. \"But that's hard because it will take a lot of resources.\"\n\nAfter three years on the island, Dr Alena's optimism and ambition have given way to the disheartening realisation that resources - or money - will always be the biggest challenge.\n\nA concrete all-weather road runs along the base of the rocky hills that circle the main island of Agutaya. Construction began alongside campaigning for the local election last year. One lane was finished before election day, but islanders say work stopped after that. There is no second lane yet.\n\n\"We'll have to wait for the next elections to get the road finished,\" quips one local.\n\nAgutaya and the islands around it are too tiny to matter to Manila, locals say\n\nOn the other end of the island, rusting steel bars stick out of an incomplete concrete structure that is gradually being overrun by vegetation.\n\nIt was supposed to be the new rural health unit, Dr Alena says. Work stopped last year because the local government ran out of money. \"But they haven't completed their part of the deal,\" she says, her frustration palpable.\n\nPhilippine politics is not driven by parties, but personalities, and dominated by large, powerful clans whose chiefs promise resources from Manila in return for votes. As one local woman put it, Agutaya is too small a community: \"There aren't enough votes here that make it worth the money.\"\n\nLocal politicians have little incentive to change and come election time, vote-buying is common enough that it now seems to have a well-worn price: 500 pesos, or $9 (£7). Corruption runs deep, and the money pouring in doesn't seem to reach its destination.\n\n\"I came here very idealistic,\" Dr Alena says, sighing. \"I was very aggressive to try and change the way the local health system worked. But then as time goes on you realise that three years is far too short to make any big changes.\"\n\nAs her time on Agutaya - a three-year-contract - drew to an end, many islanders told her they would be sad to see her go. \"Time flies fast,\" said Ricardo, one of the senior nursing assistants, who described her as \"selfless and hardworking\".\n\nAs much as she helped, Dr Alena says she feels deeply frustrated at the end of her stint\n\nBut in the weeks since returning to Manila, Dr Alena says she has felt disappointed and even cynical about her experience working for local government. She was offered a job at the provincial health administration in Palawan but turned it down. Instead she wants to work in a medical charity or NGO.\n\nLast week, she returned to Agutaya as part of an NGO-run programme. For decades, the NGO, with the help of local and international donors, has been regularly sending specialist doctors to the islands to do minor surgeries.\n\nBut this time Dr Alena's journey didn't last two and half days. She, along with other doctors, arrived there three hours after taking off from Manila - they touched down on a runway on the luxury island of Amanpulo.", "The French president met rescuers in Annecy on Friday afternoon\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said he has heard \"positive\" news about the condition of child victims of Thursday's knife attack in Annecy.\n\nMr Macron was visiting the town where four children were attacked.\n\nHe said a young British girl had \"woken up\" after surgery. A Dutch toddler is also reportedly recovering.\n\nThe suspect - a Syrian man with refugee status in Sweden - remains in custody and is due to undergo a psychiatric assessment.\n\nThe 31-year-old is thought to have been living homeless in Annecy and recently had an asylum claim rejected. No terrorist motive is suspected.\n\nFour children in all - aged between 22 and 36 months - and two pensioners were wounded during the assault.\n\nIn a speech in the Alpine town, Mr Macron said that attacking children was \"the most barbaric act\".\n\nHe visited a local hospital, where he met a man who was stabbed by the assailant during the attack. He also met Henri, the so-called \"backpack hero\" who used his backpack to stop the attacker.\n\nMr Macron said the young British girl who was attacked and received surgery had \"woken up\".\n\n\"She is watching TV and [the attack] is just a bad memory already,\" he said, according to the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Doctors are optimistic,\" the president said, adding that caution was still required.\n\nDutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said he was \"relieved\" to hear that the Dutch girl who fell victim to the attack \"is out of danger\".\n\nMany in Annecy have been paying tribute to the victims\n\nThe playground where the attack took place, by the lake in Annecy, was full on Friday. But there was not a child in sight - the glare of television cameras kept parents away.\n\nTheir place was taken by a crowd of journalists, as well as local people coming to leave tributes along the playground wall: white flowers for the innocence of the victims - messages that hint at the outrage in France.\n\n\"We must not fear the evil that sometimes resides in people,\" said another.\n\nMatic William, a 40-year-old shopkeeper from the area, said he often brought his three-year-old son to the playground.\n\n\"It feels like we're in another world,\" he told the BBC. \"You can feel this very heavy atmosphere, this tension.\"\n\nProsecutors are trying to work out the motive for the attack.\n\nThey have said that the suspect - a Syrian man with refugee status in Sweden - has no recorded history of psychiatric illness, but there are growing questions about his current mental state.\n\nHe is thought to have been living as a homeless person in Annecy since last autumn, after leaving his ex-wife and three year old son in Sweden.\n\nFrance's interior minister says his claim for asylum in France was rejected a few days ago.", "Jonathan Buckley (left) and Gavin Robinson are going head to head in a vote for the deputy leadership\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson has said the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is in \"healthy shape\" ahead of the election for its new deputy leader.\n\nPaula Bradley has been the party's second in command since 2021 but is stepping down from the role.\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson and Jonathan Buckley, who represents Upper Bann in the Stormont assembly, are in the running to replace her.\n\nDUP MPs and assembly members are due to vote later at the party headquarters.\n\nAhead of the vote Sir Jeffrey said: \"It's a healthy thing in a democratic political party that people have choice.\n\n\"It's a healthy sign that the DUP has young people like Gavin and Jonathan coming forward, wanting to take up senior positions.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey rejected any suggestion of a split in the party, adding that he had worked hard as leader to build unity over the past two years.\n\nPaula Bradley has served as the DUP's deputy leader since May 2021\n\n\"I don't detect any sense that this is about splits or division and it's not unusual in a political party to have competition for posts such as this,\" he said.\n\n\"It demonstrates that the DUP is in healthy shape.\"\n\nThe result of the vote will be ratified at a later date.\n\nMs Bradley succeeded Lord Dodds as deputy leader and has held the post since May 2021 when Edwin Poots was elected as the DUP's leader.\n\nShe retained her seat in the council election last month.\n\nThe DUP is blocking the normal functioning of Stormont's power-sharing government and its legislative assembly as part of a protest against post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nChanges were made to those trading arrangements in the Windsor Framework, agreed by the UK and the EU in March, but the DUP has said the new deal is not good enough.\n\nAs a result of the 16-month boycott Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has not been able to take up the post of Northern Ireland's first minister.\n\nThe DUP, which is the second biggest party at Stormont and is entitled to the deputy first minister role, must return to power-sharing to allow those posts to be filled.\n\nIt has also meant that civil servants have been left to run Northern Ireland's public services amid a major budget crisis.\n\nOn Thursday Sir Jeffrey said he was hopeful of making progress in his talks with the UK government about what he required in order to agree a return to Stormont.", "So what happens next? Some MPs are actually cock-a-hoop despite the colossal mess. One tells me: \"The man-baby has gone - so pleased!\"\n\nBut allies talk up his chances of running for another seat some time. One former senior minister tells me \"the question is does he plan to get another seat or even Mid-Beds?\" - the constituency his close ally and former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has just left.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister says: \"It would be very unwise for him to run again. He has a vociferous 20% in the party who like him but 80% don't. If he ran in a by-election the Lib Dems would murder him.\"\n\nWould party HQ even let that happen? Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has changed the personnel in charge there. One senior figure pours a bucket of freezing water over the idea telling me: \"Boris died today.\"\n\nWhat is not clear yet is whether as that MP suggests the manner of his departure could \"generate so much unrest I fear there will be an election much sooner than thought\".\n\nJohnson has thrown grenades at No 10 - not just the committee that has judged him - suggesting Sunak is not running a \"proper Conservative\" government.\n\nOne former ally says the ex-PM has \"gone full circle, returning to his political home - a hut across the water where he can now lob rocks without any sense of responsibility or accountability - and that is ultimately very dangerous for his party and Sunak\".\n\nRead more from Laura here", "We are now ending our coverage of today's events in France after yesterday's knife attack at a playground in the eastern city of Annecy.\n\nTo read the latest on this story, head here.\n\nIf you need support after reading about these distressing events, you can find details of organisations which can help using BBC Action Line.\n\nToday's page was brought to you by our writers Laura Gozzi, Jack Burgess and Sam Hancock; the editors were Alexandra Fouché, Alys Davies and James FitzGerald; and we had help from video producer Anna Boyd.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is writing a book about the political downfall of former PM Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Johnson was forced to quit in July by the resignation of dozens of his ministers after a series of scandals.\n\nOne of the first to go was then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whom some Conservative MPs accused of betraying the prime minister.\n\nMs Dorries' literary agent told the BBC the book would be published next autumn and its working title was The Plot.\n\nHe said she had already begun writing it.\n\nHe described it as \"a political whodunnit: murder on the Downing Street express\".\n\nThose \"who want to know whose fingerprints are on the knife will have to buy the book\", he added.\n\nA former nurse, born in Liverpool, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire is already a successful author of romantic historical novels set in Liverpool and Ireland.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership contest, which followed Mr Johnson's resignation, she was repeatedly critical of Mr Sunak, accusing him of leading a \"ruthless coup\".\n\nWhen Mr Sunak resigned as chancellor, he blamed divisions over economic policy and the government's integrity.\n\nHe lost the contest to Liz Truss, but then replaced her when she quit just over six weeks later amid the economic and political turmoil which followed the September mini-budget.\n\nMr Johnson had indicated he would run in a leadership contest, opening the way to a return to Downing Street, but pulled out, clearing the way for Mr Sunak to take over.\n\nBoris Johnson and Nadine Dorries promote rural broadband days before he was ejected as PM\n\nDespite her criticisms of Mr Sunak, the Evening Standard reported that Ms Dorries was playing down suggestions her book would point the finger at the new prime minister for forcing Mr Johnson out.\n\nShe has frequently argued Mr Johnson is the only Tory leader who can beat Labour at the next general election.\n\nShe recently told The House magazine: \"He will be back. I don't know when, I don't know how, I don't know whether it will be 10 years or 10 months.\"\n\nMs Dorries is thought to have been nominated for a peerage in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list, though her appointment is believed to have been delayed to avoid triggering a by-election.\n\nConservative MP Julian Knight, who chairs the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, told the Evening Standard: \"I'm sure the book may give Rishi some sleepless nights. Nadine is not known for her forgiving streak, and I imagine she won't pull any punches when naming names and pointing the finger.\n\n\"It's all part of a thread of covert asides at the new regime… you have a rump of Johnsonites and then those sacked by Liz Truss. There's a lot of discontented people around.\"", "Craig Court says families are concerned by the Welsh government's handling of the Covid public inquiry\n\nA woman who lost three relatives to Covid says there is \"great concern\" over the Welsh government's participation in a public inquiry.\n\nMiranda Evans, from Bridgend, said documents should have been shared \"a lot quicker\" to ensure Welsh stories were heard at the Covid public inquiry.\n\nSolicitor Craig Court claimed the Welsh government failed to deliver crucial paperwork as soon as it should have.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would not comment as proceedings were under way.\n\nA UK-wide inquiry, which will start on Tuesday, could go on as long as three years, and will predominantly look at the UK government's approach to the pandemic.\n\nA Wales-specific inquiry was blocked by Labour members of the Senedd, with First Minster Mark Drakeford saying it should wait until after the UK-wide investigation had been completed.\n\nMs Evans, whose grandmother, uncle and aunt died from the virus in hospitals, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that people were awaiting the inquiry with \"great interest\" and a desire to have their voices heard.\n\n\"We missed out a huge amount of time with our families when they needed us the most,\" she said.\n\n\"People have been sharing stories across the country so we really hope they will have a significant impact and help to change policy and practice for the future.\"\n\nMr Court, who represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru group, said there was \"a great concern over the duty of candour\" displayed by the Welsh government, which had not participated \"as well as it should have\".\n\nHe said the worries stemmed from the \"very late disclosure\" of documents from the government, which made preparations for the Tuesday inquiry difficult.\n\nMr Court said it had not produced all their documents \"as soon as they should have\".\n\n\"We are still getting documents [and], as of today, we're still not in receipt of some key Welsh evidence. We have been told we will continue to get documents up to and including the hearing,\" he said.\n\nMs Evans, who is not part of the group represented by Mr Court, added: \"I would have expected papers to be forwarded a lot quicker than that to ensure that evidence from Wales is actually fed into the inquiry.\"\n\nMr Court represents families who lost loved ones during the pandemic\n\nMr Court conceded some delays were to be expected due to a \"demanding schedule\" set by the head of the inquiry.\n\nBut he said: \"This is something they have been aware of for 18 months.\"\n\nMr Court, of Harding Evans solicitors, said he and his team are working to process \"the tens of thousands of documents\", to be \"as best prepared for the weeks to follow\".\n\nHe said \"there might not be as much of a focus on Wales as families would like\" in the UK-wide inquiry, but there was hope more answers would emerge for families from a Wales-specific portion of the investigation due in spring 2024.\n\n\"The inquiry is going to go on for a number of years yet,\" he said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly it's going to be a very emotional and difficult time for [the families].\"\n\nMr Court said the Welsh government was underprepared for the pandemic, with exercises carried out in the years prior \"often not heeded\".\n\n\"The NHS in Wales was significantly underprepared for these sort of instances,\" he said.\n\n\"There was an ageing NHS estate, buildings that weren't fit for purpose, lots of recommendations made over the years for things to improve and change that just simply weren't done.\n\n\"So what the families are really hoping for is that the issues that have been identified are acted upon, so that there is a better system in place should we be in the unfortunate position of the having the same sort of thing again in the future.\"\n\nMs Evans said proper scrutiny of decisions made at both Welsh and UK level was paramount for families.\n\nWelsh Conservative shadow health minister, Russell George MS said: \"A lack of candour, late disclosures and a failure to deliver crucial paperwork by the Labour government in Wales - that isn't my testimony, that is the assessment of the bereaved families' solicitor.\n\n\"The Labour government worked to block an independent Wales-specific Covid inquiry, but have now agreed to a halfway house committee thanks to Welsh Conservative pressure.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We will not be commenting on any matters relating to the inquiry as proceedings are now under way.\n\n\"We have made it clear that we continue to engage fully with the inquiry to ensure all actions and decisions are fully and properly scrutinised.\"", "A mountain rescuer has carried a 100kg (220lb) barbell on his shoulders up Ben Nevis to raise money for motor neurone disease (MND) research.\n\nDavid Dooher, from Uddingston, spent six months training for the Guinness World Record attempt.\n\nThe challenge was in aid of My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, a charity set up by former Scotland rugby international Doddie Weir.\n\nThe 52-year-old died last year, six years after being diagnosed with MND.\n\nBen Nevis is Britain's highest mountain at 1,345m (4,413 ft). It took Mr Dooher 16 and a half hours to complete his walk.\n\nMr Dooher said: \"It feels amazing to be finished - very sore and tiring - but amazing.\n\n\"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't tougher than expected, but this wasn't meant to be easy, and there was no greater motivator than who I'm doing this for: Doddie's memory and everyone affected by MND.\"\n\nThe 37-year-old completed several mountain climbs to prepare for the challenge.\n\nHe carried a 95kg (209lb) weight up Ben Vorlich and 75kg (165lb) up Ben Lomond.\n\nPaul Thompson, director of fundraising at My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, said: \"We are blown away by David's efforts. His training alone is unthinkable.\"\n• None Doddie Weir was 'a hero and a force of nature'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Violations of those laws put our country at risk'\n\nFormer President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including about US nuclear secrets and military plans.\n\nThe 37-count indictment accuses him of keeping the files at his Florida estate, including in a ballroom and a shower, and lying to investigators.\n\nIt alleges he then tried to obstruct the investigation into the handling of the documents.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for president again in 2024, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut legal experts say that the criminal charges against Mr Trump could lead to substantial prison time if he is convicted.\n\nCharges have also been filed against Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Mr Trump. The former White House military valet is accused of moving files to hide them from the FBI.\n\nThe 49-page indictment contains the first-ever federal charges against a former US president. It says the classified documents Mr Trump stored in his boxes contained information about:\n\nProsecutors say that when Mr Trump left office, he took about 300 classified files to Mar-a-Lago - his oceanfront home in Palm Beach, which is also an expansive private members' club.\n\nThe charge sheet notes that Mar-a-Lago hosted events for tens of thousands of members and guests, including in a ballroom where documents were found.\n\nProsecutors say Mr Trump tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing documents by suggesting that his lawyer \"hide or destroy\" them, or tell investigators he did not have them.\n\n\"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?\" Mr Trump said to one of his attorneys, according to the indictment.\n\nMr Trump's first court appearance in the case will be in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday - the eve of his 77th birthday.\n\nFiles were allegedly stored in a ballroom at Donald Trump's Florida property, Mar-a-Lago\n\nMar-a-Lago \"was not an authorised location\" for classified documents to be kept or discussed, the indictment says.\n\nSome files were allegedly stored on stage in the ballroom, where events and gatherings took place - and later in a bathroom and a shower, an office space, and in Mr Trump's bedroom.\n\nOn two occasions in 2021, the former president allegedly showed classified documents to people without security clearance, including a writer and two members of staff.\n\nAt his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which was also an \"unauthorised location\", he is said to have displayed and described a \"plan of attack\" that he told others had been prepared for him by the Department of Defense.\n\n\"As president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret,\" Mr Trump allegedly said, according to an audio recording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I did nothing wrong. We'll fight this out.'\n\nProsecutors say Mr Trump then showed off classified documents again in August or September 2021 at the Bedminster club.\n\nThe former US president allegedly \"showed a representative of his political action committee who did not possess a security clearance a classified map\".\n\nThis map \"related to a military operation\" and Mr Trump told the person \"he should not be showing it\" to them and they \"should not get too close\", the indictment says.\n\nSpecial Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the investigation, said on Friday that laws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced.\n\n\"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,\" he said in a brief statement in Washington.\n\nThe indictment included images of files allegedly stored in a shower\n\n\"He is a Trump hater - a deranged 'psycho' that shouldn't be involved in any case having to do with 'Justice,'\" he wrote on his Truth Social platform.\n\nMr Trump pointed out that classified files were also found in President Joe Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage.\n\nThe White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, contrasting with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators.\n\nA federal investigation into Mr Biden's handling of classified documents is being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur and is still under way.\n\nShortly before the Department of Justice made the criminal charges public, two of Mr Trump's lawyers suddenly quit the case without much explanation, saying this was a \"logical moment\" to resign.\n\nThis is the second criminal case for Mr Trump, who is due to go on trial in New York next year in a state case involving a hush-money payment to a porn star.", "The risk of wildfires is on the rise in the UK as the impacts of climate change are felt\n\nFirefighters will deploy new techniques learnt in the world's worst wildfire hotspots as climate change raises the risk level in the UK this summer.\n\nLast year's heatwaves saw thousands of fires break out, with one destroying homes at Wennington, east London.\n\nThis year has already seen hundreds of grass fires and one of the UK's largest ever has been burning near Cannich in Scotland for the past two weeks.\n\nMore fire crews are now training in skills from southern Europe and the US.\n\nFire chiefs are particularly looking to expand the number of specialist teams trained in \"burn suppression\" techniques - the deliberate burning of land to keep a fire contained.\n\nAt the moment, just five UK units across more than 50 fire and rescue services specialise in the \"fighting fire with fire\" technique, mostly in moorland areas.\n\nWith more than 90 buildings destroyed by wildfires close to urban areas last July, more units - including those in services that straddle urban and rural areas - would be trained in new ways of wildfire fighting.\n\nA volunteer walks Frensham Common, near Farnham, Surrey, hunting for reptiles that survived the fire\n\nThey could then be deployed nationally, in the event of a significant fire.\n\nChief Fire Officer Paul Hedley, wildfire lead for the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), said the risk and threat of such major wildfires was \"clearly growing in the UK\".\n\n\"All of this learning from international partners, who are probably still some years ahead of us, is a very sensible way of trying to get us ahead of the curve,\" he said.\n\nIt is hoped a UK-wide training programme will be set up as part of a national action plan drawn up in response to the lessons learnt from last year's blazes.\n\nOne of the services leading the way is Surrey Fire and Rescue, which has already dealt with more than 80 wildfires this year.\n\nThe most recent wildfire was last month at Frensham Common, near Farnham, a popular beauty spot.\n\nThe cause of the 10-hectare fire is not yet known - but the damage is clear to see.\n\nWhere once there was rich heathland, home to rare species, including sand lizards, there is now desolation.\n\nWhen the BBC visited, volunteers from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation charity were walking the scorched earth, stretched out in a line like a police forensics team, searching for creatures that survived the blaze.\n\nIf the immediate impact is shocking, the long-term effects are equally concerning.\n\n\"Whilst we can save some of these animals that survived the fire, we lose an awful lot and we lose all that biodiversity. It takes years, if not decades, for that to come back again,\" explained trustee Howard Inns.\n\nFor countryside ranger Darren Hill, who supported firefighters tackling the blaze here, seeing the aftermath, and knowing more wildfires could be on their way, is hard to take.\n\n\"To come back and see a site like this, and know I found this species over here and we had smooth snakes over there, it does take its toll,\" he said.\n\nMatt Oakley is a national wildfire tactical advisor who has trained abroad\n\nMeanwhile, using a drone with thermal imaging to survey the site for hidden subterranean burns is Matt Oakley, a fire investigations officer for Surrey Fire and Rescue.\n\nHe is one of the UK's national wildfire tactical advisors - a group of specialist officers who already have the skills learnt abroad and who will be training units.\n\nHe says the kind of techniques he's seen used in hotspots as far-flung as France and South Africa will be vital in the UK in the years to come.\n\n\"Our climate is changing - it's changing beyond recognition,\" he explained. \"What used to be a nine to 12-year cycle, this is every year now.\n\n\"We are heading towards a northern Mediterranean climate in the southeast of England within the next decade and this will be business as usual day in, day out.\"\n\nMany of the wildfire-fighting methods being rolled out across the UK rely on a 'toolbox' of skills, from creating natural firebreaks and reducing the 'fuel-load' of vegetation to setting controlled burns deliberately around wildfires to stop their spread.\n\nTogether they would reduce the need for huge amounts of water in a drought and reduce the number of appliances needed on site.\n\nBut the Fire Brigades Union says new training and techniques are not enough to tackle the rising challenges of climate change. It says more crews are needed after years of cuts that have seen the loss of thousands of firefighters since 2010.\n\nMatt Wrack, the Fire Brigades Union's general secretary, called for more funding from the government, saying: \"Rising temperatures and the systematic underfunding of the fire and rescue service are a recipe for destruction.\"\n\nThe government said it was giving fire and rescue authorities around £2.6bn this year, and each authority was able to decide what it spent it on.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The Home Office works closely with the National Fire Chiefs Council and England and Wales Wildfire Forum to continue to improve our response to wildfires and mitigate them.\"", "As things stand Rhun ap Iorwerth will become leader next Friday\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth is set to become the new Plaid Cymru leader.\n\nThe last two members of Plaid's Senedd group who had not ruled out standing against him have now confirmed they will not be entering the contest.\n\nDeputy leader Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams made the announcement in a joint statement on Friday morning.\n\nOnly Senedd members (MSs) can lead Plaid Cymru and, unless there is a U-turn from a Plaid MS, Mr ap Iorwerth will become leader next week.\n\nNominations are due to close on 16 June.\n\nPlaid Cymru has been looking for a new leader since Adam Price stood down in May.\n\nIt followed reports that a toxic culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny had become worse under his leadership.\n\nIn their joint statement, Ms Gwenllian and Ms Williams said: \"We are not putting our names forward as candidates for the leadership of Plaid Cymru, although we agree with comments made by former leader Leanne Wood in an interview this week that a woman would have been the best choice to lead Plaid Cymru at this time.\n\n\"We will campaign to introduce a new model of joint leadership in the future which would be more inclusive and ensure equality.\"\n\nThe Green Party of England and Wales has a joint leadership structure, meaning a man and a woman share the responsibility of leading the party.\n\nThe other Plaid Senedd members who were eligible to run for Plaid Cymru leader were Mabon ap Gwynfor, Cefin Campbell, Luke Fletcher, Heledd Fychan, Llŷr Huws Gruffydd, Delyth Jewell, Elin Jones, and Peredur Owen Griffiths.\n\nBut they have all ruled themselves out of the race.\n\nAdam Price quit as leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in Plaid Cymru\n\nYnys Môn Senedd member Mr ap Iorwerth announced he would be standing in a video published on Twitter.\n\nIn the video he said he was looking forward to playing his part in uniting the party.\n\nHe said previously it must offer a vision of Wales as \"confident, fair, green, prosperous\", and on a \"journey to independence\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth is currently the party's joint deputy leader, alongside Ms Gwenllian, and has been Plaid health spokesman in recent years.\n\nHe has been a vocal critic of the Welsh government's record on the troubled Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales.\n\nHe also ran for the leadership in 2018, when Mr Price replaced Leanne Wood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood would like to see a woman as the party's new head\n\nOn Friday, former Plaid Cymru chairman Alun Ffred Jones told BBC Radio Cymru he believed \"a contest within a party is a good thing in almost all circumstances, but if the more experienced people didn't want to stand for various reasons, there we are\".\n\n\"And if there is to be only one candidate, it's important that the party unites behind Rhun,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I don't see much of an argument in just putting your name forward, it's not the same as applying for a job just to get an interview and seeing how it goes.\n\n\"Anyone who stands for the leadership has to be in a position where they're confident they can deliver in the role.\"\n\nHe said Rhun ap Iorwerth needed to \"put his own stamp on things\" and \"turn our attention back to things that matter to the majority of people, and not on internal matters and things that are of marginal concern to most people.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said there were \"no plans\" to change the closing date for nominations.\n\nIt added: \"Plaid Cymru members will have the opportunity over the next week to nominate candidates for the party leadership through their local constituencies.\"\n\n\"The next leader of Plaid Cymru will be announced on Friday 16 June.\"\n\nFor a leadership contest with only one candidate, this has been a far from straightforward process for Plaid Cymru.\n\nAdam Price stepped down as leader in the wake of a report identifying a culture of misogyny within the party, so it isn't surprising that calls for a woman to take charge have gained a lot of support.\n\nBut the final two MSs to declare their intentions, Sian Gwenllian and Sioned Williams, have decided the leadership isn't for them - leaving the way clear for Ynys Môn MS Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe suggestion by Ms Williams for a \"co-leader\" muddies the waters further. A co-leader needs someone else to get involved - but who?\n\nPlaid Cymru say the official timetable, with nominations closing in a week, hasn't changed - so Mr ap Iorwerth still has seven days to wait - unless someone changes their mind at the last minute.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla will mark official Scottish coronation events during Royal Week in July\n\nThe dates for King Charles and Queen Camilla's week-long visit to Scotland marking their Coronation has been confirmed.\n\nThe King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland at a national service of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral on Wednesday 5 July.\n\nThis will follow a people's procession on the Royal Mile.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales, known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay in Scotland, will also attend events.\n\nThe visit will see the King follow in the footsteps of his mother Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.\n\nThe Honours are Scotland's crown jewels which are usually on display to visitors at Edinburgh Castle.\n\nMade of gold, silver and precious gems, they are the oldest crown jewels in Britain and comprise the crown, sceptre and sword of state.\n\nThe Honours of Scotland, usually on display in the Crown Room at Edinburgh Castle, are the oldest crown jewels in Britain.\n\nThe Stone of Destiny will be in St Giles' Cathedral for the service after playing a significant part in the Coronation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe Honours will be collected by the procession involving around 100 people representing aspects of Scottish life.\n\nIt will be led by The Royal Regiment of Scotland, Shetland pony mascot Corporal Cruachan IV and supported by cadet musicians from the Combined Cadet Force Pipes and Drums, 51 Brigade Cadet Military Band.\n\nThe rest of the parade will be made up of members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, representatives from charities such as Guide Dogs for the Blind, Enable Scotland, the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and the Princes Trust.\n\nThe Royal Regiment of Scotland's Shetland pony mascot Corporal Cruachan IV will lead the procession\n\nIt will have a distinctly Scottish theme and will also include youngsters from the Girlguiding, Scouts and Boys and Girls Brigade.\n\nThe Royal Procession will travel from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the Cathedral with a military escort.\n\nThe end of the St Giles' service will be marked with a 21-gun salute from Edinburgh Castle before the Royal Procession travels back to the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nThere will also be a fly past by the Red Arrows following the event.\n\nThe public will be able to gather and watch the procession along the Royal Mile.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, as they are known in Scotland, will also attend events\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"Scotland will welcome the new King and Queen in July with a series of events to mark the Coronation.\n\n\"A people's procession, a royal procession, a national service of thanksgiving and a gun salute will take place in Edinburgh.\n\n\"Representatives from many different communities and organisations in Scotland will take part in these historic events.\"\n\nThe new Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh were welcomed to Edinburgh during their own procession and service after her coronation in 1953.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II performed her Scottish ceremonial duties on 24 June 1953, three weeks after her Coronation on 2 June.\n\nThe Queen dressed in \"day clothes\" for the ceremony, not ceremonial robes. Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, wore a field marshall's uniform.\n\nThe last time the ceremony had been enacted before this was in 1822 during the visit of King George IV.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer says he will not let the oil and gas industries become a \"repeat\" of the coal mines.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has vowed to protect communities from \"decimation\" after being warned Labour's policies would lead to job losses in oil and gas.\n\nLabour has pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK\n\nGary Smith, the general secretary of the GMB, said Labour's policy risked creating \"a cliff-edge\" for jobs.\n\nBut speaking at the union's conference, Sir Keir promised to prevent a re-run of what happened when coal mines closed, in oil and gas communities.\n\n\"What I will never let happen is a repeat of what happened in coal mining where an industry came to an end and nobody had planned for the future,\" the Labour leader said.\n\n\"We're still living with the consequences, we cannot allow that to happen.\"\n\nA 2019 report by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust found former mining communities were more socially disadvantaged, with higher than average unemployment and ill health.\n\nLabour has pledged to achieve zero carbon energy in the UK by 2030 if elected.\n\nAt last year's Labour conference, Sir Keir said he would make the UK the first major economy in the world to generate all of its electricity without using fossil fuels. An emergency back-up capacity of 0.7% of fossil fuel electricity production would be kept on standby.\n\nThe party has said a Labour government would also stop issuing new licences for oil and gas production in the UK - a move which has prompted fury from both the industry and unions.\n\nGMB leader Gary Smith said it would be \"a huge mistake to put all the nation's eggs in one energy basket\"\n\nSir Keir has been keen to portray Labour as the party prepared to seize the future.\n\nBut some of Labour's big union funders, including the GMB whose members include workers in the fossil fuel industries, are concerned by some of the green plans.\n\nHe was forced to defend his energy policy after being asked by a delegate what he had to say to communities that would be \"decimated\" by the end of oil and gas production in the North Sea.\n\n\"Oil and gas are going to be part of the mix for decades to come, into the 2050s. I don't think that part of our argument is heard loud enough or clear enough,\" he said.\n\nHe told the GMB conference in Brighton there was a \"race on\" across the world \"to seize the next generation of jobs, in new nuclear, in renewables\".\n\n\"If we don't seize that opportunity, I genuinely think that future generations will never forgive us for repeating the mistake that was made when the coal mines were closed down,\" he added.\n\nLabour had estimated there were \"hundreds of thousands of jobs\" to be created in renewable energy, including 50,000 in Scotland, Sir Keir said.\n\nIn his speech to the GMB, he said: \"For too long, Britain has allowed the opportunities of the new energy technologies to pass us by.\n\n\"Without a plan, the energy industries that we rely on will wither and decline.\"\n\nThere are some in Labour's ranks who believe the party's entire energy plan - its defining policy- is not being communicated loudly or clearly enough\n\nSome senior figures have expressed fears that Labour's opponents will focus on the long-standing pledge to borrow £28bn a year to fund its drive for green energy. Meanwhile there are concerns the party leadership has not argued strongly enough for the benefits.\n\nThe North Sea Transition Authority estimates the UK oil and gas industry directly employs about 30,000 people and indirectly supports 100,000 jobs.\n\nThe oil and gas industry was estimated to be worth £28bn in 2022, according to the OEUK - the UK offshore energy industry body.\n\nSir Keir used his speech to make the same case President Joe Biden did in his flagship Inflation Reduction Act, that green jobs are a boon to working people.\n\nHe told the conference: \"President Biden once said: 'When I hear climate change, I think jobs.'\n\n\"When Labour sets out our mission for Britain to become a clean energy super power, we are thinking jobs too.\"\n\nSir Keir also promised Labour would use public procurement to help create \"unionised jobs\" in the UK.\n\n\"There's a framework for public procurement, at the heart of which is dignity and respect, and we expect to see unionised jobs, and support unionised industries\".\n\nThe Labour leader backed calls to force Amazon to recognise the GMB after the union signed up more than 600 people to stage walkouts over pay at a factory in Coventry.\n\n\"We will strengthen the role of trade unions in our society, and I want to see Amazon and businesses like it recognise unions,\" he said.\n\nGMB sources suggested members were heartened by Sir Keir's vision for employment and the economy.\n\nBut the union would keep pressing for what sources called \"a proper understanding\" of the nation's energy challenges, they said.\n\nIt looks like the Labour leader will have to expend some energy to keep some in the wider labour movement onside.", "Ukraine has been planning its counter-offensive for months - and it now may finally be under way\n\nWas this the week that Ukraine's long-anticipated counter-offensive finally got under way?\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin seems to think so. \"We can definitely state that this Ukrainian offensive has begun,\" he said in a video interview published on Telegram on Friday.\n\nIn some ways, it's already been under way for weeks, with Ukraine conducting what's known in military jargon as \"shaping operations\": long range artillery and missile attacks on key Russian logistical targets far behind the front lines.\n\nMonday seemed to herald a change, with small detachments of lightly armoured Ukrainian units moving forward across the open fields towards Russian fortifications in southern Ukraine, south-east of Zaporizhzhia.\n\n\"Now the so-called 'fighting reconnaissance stage' is taking place along the entire length of the front,\" Serhii Kuzan, co-founder and chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, told the BBC.\n\n\"That means there's a probing of Russian defences.\"\n\nSome videos and accounts suggested that they quickly ran into trouble.\n\n\"Somewhere this happens more successfully with small losses,\" Mr Kuzan said. \"And somewhere less successfully, where the Russians fight back.\"\n\nMr Kuzan declined to name specific towns, saying only that they were all in the area south of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nBy Tuesday, the world's attention was captured by the destruction of the dam at Nova Kakhovka and the subsequent flooding that soon covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.\n\nFor all the Kremlin's denials, it didn't look like a coincidence. The dam, and the road across it, offered a possible line of attack for Ukrainian forces looking for ways to keep Russian forces off-balance.\n\nIt seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up, taking one of Kyiv's military operations off the table.\n\nKyiv had already signalled its interest in this stretch of the front line more than once.\n\nIn late April, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the river and briefly established a bridgehead at Oleshky. Ukraine also took control of several small islands in the Dnipro delta, close to Kherson.\n\nThe extent of Kyiv's military plans for this area is not known, and is now academic. The catastrophic flooding will have made river crossings impossible for the time being.\n\n\"But the fact that such a direction was an option was seen by the Russians,\" Mr Kuzan said.\n\nThe burst dam has caused catastrophic flooding across southern Ukraine\n\nWhile the authorities in Kyiv suddenly grappled with the flooding, the fighting continued - and seemed to escalate - further east.\n\nBy early Thursday morning, the UK's Ministry of Defence tweeted that \"heavy fighting continues along multiple sectors of the front,\" adding that in most areas \"Ukraine holds the initiative.\"\n\nIn a video the same day, Russia's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that Russian forces had repelled an overnight Ukrainian attack in the area south of Zaporizhzhia, involving 150 armoured vehicles and 1,500 troops.\n\nAccording to the Russian Defence Ministry, Ukraine's 47th Mechanised Brigade \"made an attempt to break through Russian lines.\"\n\nA video circulated on the internet, purporting to show something new: a western-supplied Leopard tank being destroyed. The BBC has not yet verified the video.\n\nUkrainian officials, characteristically tight lipped about current operations, offered tantalising glimpses into what was going on.\n\nHanna Malyar, the Deputy Defence Minister, coyly said that Russian troops were \"actively on the defensive\" in the area around the town of Orikhiv, around 65km south-east of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nIn a statement on Telegram, she also confirmed that battles were continuing around Velyka Novosilka, further east.\n\nThe two towns likely form the western and eastern edges of a heavily fortified stretch of the front line where many analysts believe Ukraine will eventually try and punch through Russian lines.\n\n\"It's not a secret that one of our main goals is to cut the land corridor that feeds the whole southern grouping of enemy forces,\" Mr Kuzan said.\n\nUkrainian forces want to cut the Russian-held land corridor to Crimea\n\nPro-Russian Telegram channels in the Donbas were full of excited chatter about Ukraine's latest moves, much of it laced with scorn.\n\n\"They are going where the Russians are waiting for them,\" one member posted in the I Love Kramatorsk group. \"What stupidity!\"\n\nOthers acknowledged that Ukrainian forces had moved forward, but questioned the price in lost men and armour.\n\n\"I really question the price of this success,\" another member of the same group commented.\n\n\"Do they have enough forces to reach Tokmak [44km south of Orikhiv], let alone Berdyansk and Melitopol?\"\n\nBut it's not the only area where fighting is raging.\n\nFootage from north and south of the city of Bakhmut, scene of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, appeared to show Ukrainian forces moving forward.\n\nMs Malyar said they had advanced \"from 200 to 1,100 metres in various sections,\" in what may eventually be an effort to encircle the city and trap its Russian occupiers.\n\nIt is, as the UK's Ministry of Defence noted, \"a highly complex operational picture\".\n\nBut does it mean that Ukraine's counter-offensive is already entering a dramatic new phase?\n\nOn Wednesday, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, scoffed at the idea.\n\n\"All of this is not true,\" he told Reuters.\n\n\"When we start the counter-offensive, everyone will know about it. They will see it.\"\n\nThe air war - including the use of drones - will be vital for Ukraine's counteroffensive\n\nBut something has definitely changed.\n\n\"The point is that the front is finally moving,\" Serhii Kuzan said, adding that several options were still open to Ukrainian commanders.\n\nBut Ukraine is also operating under a number of significant restraints, the main one being the lack of fighter jets capable of providing support from the air.\n\n\"That's why we move slowly,\" Mr Kuzan said, \"and then move air defence [systems] closer.\"\n\nAnother factor is time. This offensive will probably last no more than five months, after which autumn rain will once again render open ground impassable for heavy armoured vehicles.\n\nWhat will success look like?\n\nIf Ukrainian forces can punch through Russian lines, all the way to the Sea of Azov, then any Russian troops west of that breach will suddenly be much more vulnerable, dependent entirely on supply lines through the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nAll that would then remain, Mr Kuzan says, would be to destroy the Kerch Bridge linking Russia with Crimea (briefly disabled by a huge truck bomb last October) and attack ships and planes being used to ferry supplies to the peninsula.\n\n\"That would be the end,\" he says. \"But don't expect this to happen soon. It'll take months.\"", "Holland said working on his latest TV series The Crowded Room left him feeling broken\n\nTom Holland has said he will take a year-long break from acting in order to look after his mental health.\n\nThe English Spider-Man star admitted he had a \"tough time\" while working on his latest project, The Crowded Room, and had been left feeling broken by it.\n\nHolland, 27, both stars in and produced the Apple TV+ thriller series.\n\nIt sees him play a character loosely based on \"the campus rapist\" Billy Milligan, a US man who claimed to have 24 alternate personalities.\n\nMilligan was the first person to be found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity - on the basis of dissociative identity disorder - and instead of going to prison he spent a decade in psychiatric hospitals.\n\nHolland, pictured on set during the filming of his new series, The Crowded Room, in New York last year\n\nIn an interview with Extra TV on Wednesday, Holland said the role found him \"exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before\", while the off-camera responsibilities had added an \"extra level of pressure\".\n\n\"I'm no stranger to hard work,\" he said. \"I've lived by the idea that hard work is good work. Then again, the show did break me.\n\n\"There did come a time where I needed a break and disappeared and went to Mexico for a week and had time on a beach and laid low.\n\n\"I'm now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was. I am excited to see how it turns out. I feel like our hard work wasn't in vain.\"\n\n\"It was a tough time, for sure,\" he added.\n\nIn a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly last month, the Bafta-winner revealed he'd had a \"a bit of a meltdown\" after being unable to switch the character off, and wanted to shake his head just to be rid of him.\n\n\"I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life,\" he said \"I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, 'I'm going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.'\n\n\"And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to… It was unlike anything I've ever experienced before.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the London-born actor has addressed such concerns. As last year, he announced he was stepping back from social media, saying he finds it can be \"detrimental\" to his mental health.\n\nThe year before Holland said he was considering giving up acting, which he began aged 11, altogether in order to be able to \"go and do other things\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish\n\nIt's one of the longest-running debates in Scottish football - what to do with the national stadium?\n\nHampden was redeveloped in the 1990s from a mostly terraced ground to an all-seated arena with a capacity of more than 50,000.\n\nDespite the facelift, for decades supporters have complained about the ground's shortcomings compared to more contemporary stadiums, most notably the distance from the pitch in the East and West stands behind the goals.\n\nThat's why the Tartan Army will be excited at images of a proposed new Hampden Park obtained by BBC Scotland.\n\nIn 2020, architects Holmes Miller, who were involved with recent upgrades to the stadium as well as Lesser Hampden, were commissioned to come up with a redesign by the Scottish FA.\n\nHowever, funding for the project at the time was at least partly predicated on an eventually abandoned UK World Cup 2030 bid. It also came just before the Covid-19 pandemic took a financial toll on the world.\n\nCoupled with rising costs and a squeeze on government funding, it is unclear if the grand design will ever become a reality, but it is likely to whet the appetite among fans used to a more traditional experience in Glasgow's south side.\n\nPlans show a new arena within the current footprint, consisting of a partly two-tier bowl design with stands tight to the pitch.\n\nComputer illustrations have the stadium's facade - similar to that of Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena - illuminated with 'Scotland Bluebell Thistle', while the grounds outside the arena are also changed to reflect the country's coastline.\n\nThe design process continued up until last year, with other features of the aspirational concept including:\n• None A retractable roof so the stadium could be used as an indoor arena in winter\n• None An increased capacity of 65,000 to make Hampden Scotland's largest football stadium\n• None The facility to curtain off the top tier if attendances were below 30,000\n• None A 'translucent external envelope' that could change colour depending on who was playing\n• None Remodelled elements of the existing main stand being kept\n\n\"We were approached by the SFA in 2020 to provide a vision for Hampden - the art of the possible,\" Holmes Miller project director Ian Cooney told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Our vision was to capture the essence of Hampden - the atmosphere - and wrap a world class stadium around it. Better views, better facilities, a better experience… while retaining the magic.\n\n\"The discussions continued with the potential of a World Cup 2030 bid, and Euro 2028 bid - of which we all await the outcome.\n\n\"As a football fan and frequent visitor to Hampden throughout my life, it was great to imagine what a new Hampden could be.\"\n\nIn 2018, the SFA began a £5m deal to purchase the national stadium from Queen's Park, with chief executive Ian Maxwell declaring it \"the start of the journey\" to make Hampden \"the best it can be\".\n\nThe ground hosted athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, five games at Euro 2020 and has been included as part of a joint-UK bid to host the European Championship in 2028, which could bring in a portion of funding.\n\nScotland fans are renowned for having a dream. It may be this design has to remain there for now.", "Boris Johnson was fined for attending a birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in 2020\n\nBoris Johnson has stepped down as a Tory MP after claiming he was \"forced out of Parliament\" over Partygate.\n\nThe ex-PM saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating if he misled the Commons over Downing Street lockdown parties.\n\nIn an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures and the mandate\".\n\nThe cross-party committee of MPs - the majority of which are Conservative - added it would conclude its inquiry on Monday and \"publish its report promptly\".\n\nMr Johnson's resignation now triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDelivering his announcement late on Friday evening, Mr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".\n\nHe also accused its chairwoman, Labour's Harriet Harman, of \"egregious bias\", saying he was \"bewildered and appalled\" at how he was being forced out.\n\nThe ex-prime minister previously admitted misleading Parliament when he gave evidence to the committee in a combative hearing in March - but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nMr Johnson also used his letter to attack the direction of the government, saying \"we must not be afraid to be properly Conservative\" and warning the party's majority was at risk.\n\n\"We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda,\" Mr Johnson argued.\n\n\"Why have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?\"\n\nIt was a direct aim at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - hours after he stepped off a plane from Washington where Mr Sunak was not talking about a free trade agreement with the US.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson's statement was an attempt to rally Brexiteers in his party, suggesting his demise was driven by a motivation to \"reverse the 2016 referendum result\".\n\nThe statement contained further criticism of former senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated lockdown gatherings at Number 10.\n\n\"I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence\" that she will soon become \"chief of staff designate\" of the Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer, Mr Johnson wrote.\n\nEnding his 1,000-word letter, Mr Johnson said he was \"very sad to be leaving Parliament\" before adding - \"at least for now\" - for anyone thinking he is about to retreat into obscurity.\n\nMr Johnson's exit will trigger a by-election in his west London seat, which he held with a 7,000 vote majority in the 2019 election.\n\nThe Conservatives will also have to defend the Mid Bedfordshire seat of Nadine Dorries - a close ally of Mr Johnson - after she stepped down as an MP earlier on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson claims his removal is a \"necessary first step\" in attempts by some to reverse the 2016 Brexit result\n\nMr Johnson's dramatic move came after he was given the committee's findings, including details of criticisms it intended to make and evidence to support its conclusion.\n\nHe had faced a potential by-election if MPs recommended a suspension from the Commons as a punishment for misleading Parliament.\n\nResponding to his statement, a Privileges Committee spokesperson said: \"The committee has followed the procedures and the mandate of the House at all times and will continue to do so.\n\n\"Mr Johnson has departed from the processes of the House and has impugned the integrity of the House by his statement. The committee will meet on Monday to conclude the inquiry and to publish its report promptly.\"\n\nElsewhere, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner condemned what she called a \"never-ending Tory soap opera\".\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Good riddance.\"\n\nAnd SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black said Mr Johnson \"jumped before he was pushed\", adding \"no-one in Scotland will be sorry to see the back of him\".\n\nHowever, former home secretary Priti Patel, who was made a Dame in his resignations honours list also announced on Friday, praised Mr Johnson for his work as prime minister on the issues of Ukraine and Brexit, describing him as \"a political titan\".\n\nBoris Johnson's local Conservative association chairman, Richard Mills, said the former PM \"has delivered on his promises to local residents\".\n\nAnother sitting MP announced in the resignation honours list, Sir Michael Fabricant, criticised the Privileges Committee for what he called its \"disgraceful treatment\" of the former prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson was prime minister from July 2019 until September 2022, and has been an MP since 2001 - although not continuously, having served as mayor of London between 2008 and 2016.", "Ms Frendo said Saul \"always had the biggest infectious smile and was full of love\"\n\nA teenager who died when his e-bike collided with an ambulance after he was followed by police was \"the most sweetest, kindest boy ever\", his mother has said.\n\nSaul Cookson, 15, was being followed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) traffic officers in Salford on Thursday until bollards blocked their vehicle's path.\n\nHis e-bike then collided with the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) vehicle.\n\nEmma Frendo said her son had been \"loved by all that met him\".\n\n\"He was the sweetest, most kindest boy ever, and always had the biggest infectious smile and was full of love,\" she said.\n\n\"Saul was a much-loved son, brother, grandson, and nephew, loved by all that met him.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun an investigation into Thursday's collision\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said an investigation into the collision.\n\nIt said Saul had been riding a black off-road Sur-Ron e-bike and was followed by officers along Fitzwarren Street and on to Lower Seedley Road at about 14:00 BST before the crash on Langworthy Road.\n\nWhile not on an active call at the time of the crash, NWAS said its vehicle was being driven back to a nearby ambulance station.\n\nIts crew were immediately able to treat the boy before taking him to hospital, where he later died.\n\nPolice and independent investigators have been examining the scene of the crash\n\nWriting on Facebook, Taylor-Jade Cookson paid tribute to her brother and said \"words cannot describe my feelings at the moment\".\n\n\"Rest in peace Saul I love you,\" she added.\n\nDozens of people have been leaving flowers and cards at the scene.\n\nTwo sapphire blue, heart-shaped balloons have been tied at the foot of a lamppost, along with flowers, candles, cards and a large white banner full of handwritten messages.\n\nAnother, circled with red hearts, simply reads \"Gone but not forgotten\".\n\nOne of Saul's relatives who attended the scene to lay flowers said the family was \"a mess\" following their loss.\n\nSaul's friend, 21-year-old Mitchell Murden, said he had been due to meet him on the day he died.\n\nHe described Saul as \"a good lad\" who \"kept himself to himself\".\n\nFamily friend Jacob Bailey said \"no-one had a bad word to say\" about Saul\n\nFamily friend Jacob Bailey, 19, told BBC Newsbeat he came to lay some flowers and pay his respects as he had \"known Saul since I was about five\".\n\n\"He was just one of those proper nice kids,\" he said.\n\n\"He never ever caused anyone any harm.\n\n\"No-one had a bad word to say about Saul.\"\n\nNeighbour Karen Cosgrove said she had passed the scene at about 14:30 BST on Thursday and saw Saul lying on the ground.\n\n\"I walked away, I could barely look at it,\" she said.\n\n\"His mum was there, she was screaming.\n\nHeartfelt messages have been left at the crash scene\n\nSome concerns have been expressed by local people about the availability and use of high-powered e-bikes.\n\nMr Murden said \"the majority\" of young people in the area had them.\n\nMike McCusker, lead member for transport at Salford City Council, said there was \"growing concern\" in the community about e-bikes, particularly \"very young men riding round without helmets on\".\n\n\"The ones we have on our loan schemes are limited to about 15mph, but there are unregulated ones that can go up to speeds of 60mph.\n\n\"We don't think regulation is keeping track with the technological advancements around e-bikes.\"\n\nFlowers and candles have also been left at the scene\n\nIn a statement, GMP said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the boy who tragically died.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had begun gathering evidence, including dashcam footage from the police vehicle, and had taken initial statements from two police officers, who were being treated as witnesses.\n\nA representative said there was \"no indication at this early time... of direct physical contact between the police vehicle and the e-bike\", but examinations of both were \"continuing\".\n\nIOPC regional director Catherine Bates said it was \"important we understand the events leading up to this incident and will be looking at the actions and decision-making of police prior to the collision, including the reason for the decision to follow the bike\".\n\nShe asked anyone who witnessed or had dashcam footage of the collision or \"events leading up to it\" to get in touch.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Teen on e-bike dies after being followed by police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanada's most populous city, Toronto, has won some respite from wildfire smoke, along with major US east coast cities as the haze heads south.\n\nAir quality in New York and Washington DC also improved from hazardous levels for the first time in two days.\n\nBut unhealthy air quality is forecast to hit several southern metropolitan cities, including St Louis, Missouri and Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nCanada wildfire smoke has left millions under health alerts this week.\n\nThe wildfires brought some of the worst levels of air pollution in decades, cancelling outdoor activities and flights in both the US and Canada.\n\nAs of Friday, more than 400 wildfires continued to rage in Canada, including over 200 that are considered out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.\n\nOfficials have urged residents to avoid going outside as much as possible and to wear masks when venturing outdoors, especially for vulnerable populations.\n\nExperts say exposure to wildfire smoke can cause a host of health issues, such as an elevated pulse, chest pain and inflammation in the eyes, nose and throat.\n\nCanadian forecasters said on Friday that air quality would continue to improve over the weekend in southern Ontario, although it remains poor in northern Ontario and western Quebec.\n\nWeather over the next few days might bring showers to the eastern part of the country, but could also come with lightning.\n\n\"As long as the fires are burning, there is a chance the smoke could come back,\" Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Gerald Cheng told a news briefing.\n\nThe US National Weather Service on Friday said smoke from the wildfires would continue to be \"transported south by winds into the US resulting in moderate to unhealthy air quality across parts of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, and Midwest\".\n\n\"Some improvement is expected this weekend,\" the service added.\n\nThe winds will bring relief for several cities including Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, which had significantly worse air quality this week than cities abroad such as Lahore, Pakistan; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Hanoi, Vietnam.\n\nMr Biden said this week that he was in contact with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that the US had deployed more than 600 firefighters to help battle the blazes in Canada since May.\n\nCanadian officials say the country is shaping up for its worst wildfire season on record.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.", "The man - known only as Henri - was saluted for his bravery by President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFrench media have lauded a young \"hero with a backpack\" for his attempts to thwart a knife attack in Annecy which left four children seriously injured.\n\nHenri, 24, was filmed chasing the suspect and swinging his bag at him.\n\nThe Catholic pilgrim - who has been touring France's cathedrals - said he had followed his instincts and did what he could to \"protect the weak\".\n\nHe was praised for his bravery by President Emmanuel Macron when the two met in the town on Friday afternoon.\n\nMr Macron told Henri that his actions were a \"source of hope\", but that the young man had \"lived through... a trauma\".\n\nThe French leader travelled to meet the victims of the stabbings and salute the work of first responders.\n\nHe said he had heard \"positive\" news about the condition of the four children wounded in the attack. Two adults were also hurt.\n\nFootage of the incident itself and the immediate aftermath appeared to show Henri swinging one of his backpacks at the attacker, who tried to slash at him in return.\n\nAnother clip showed him chasing the knifeman across a grassy area.\n\nAs the phrase #MerciHenri started to trend online, Henri posted on Instagram to say: \"Pray for the children, I am doing fine.\"\n\nHenri received messages of thanks, not only for his actions but also his apparent modesty.\n\nInterviewed the next morning by CNews, Henri said: \"All I know is, I was not there by chance.\"\n\nHe explained that it was \"unthinkable to do nothing... I followed my instincts and did what I could to protect the weak.\"\n\nThe management graduate, who has declined to provide his surname, later pointed out to BFMTV that that he was not the only civilian who put themselves in harm's way.\n\nHe had \"acted like any French person would\", he said. \"Many other people intervened in whatever way they could. I saw a park employee try to hit the attacker with his big plastic spade.\"\n\nHenri's father believes his son's actions prevented more people from getting wounded by the assailant.\n\nSpeaking to the Associated Press news agency, he said his son had \"prevented carnage by scaring him off. Really very courageous\".\n\nHenri had been interviewed just days before the incident by the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. He was quizzed on his nine-month tour of France's cathedrals, which he planned to complete by walking and hitchhiking.\n\nHe was quoted discussing his trick of knocking on random doors near cathedrals to try and find accommodation. \"It forces you to open up to people,\" he explained.\n\nCommenting on the suggestion that the suspect in Thursday's attacks also identifies as a Christian, Henri said it was \"profoundly unchristian to attack the vulnerable\".\n\nInstead, Henri said, \"something very bad inhabited him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youssouf, 78, says there was no reason for the attack", "A picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank\n\nNine Egyptian men accused of causing a disaster last week when a vessel carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast have pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe nine suspects - all aged between 20 and 40 - are accused of people-smuggling and other offences.\n\nA lawyer for one of the men said his client was a passenger, not a smuggler.\n\nAt least 78 migrants are known to have died in the disaster but many more are feared to have drowned.\n\nThe UN's human rights office says that up to 500 people are still missing.\n\nThe BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of the shipwreck.\n\nAnalysis of the movement of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized. But the coastguard still claims that during these hours the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.\n\nGreek officials maintain those on board said they did not want help and were not in danger until just before their boat sank.\n\nThe nine suspects all appeared at the Kalamata Court on Monday to face charges of negligent manslaughter, exposing lives to danger, causing a shipwreck and human trafficking.\n\nAlexandros Dimaresis, a lawyer for one of the accused, said that his client was innocent and \"paid the smugglers to be taken to Europe\".\n\n\"He is not a smuggler himself. He was just a passenger,\" Mr Dimaresis said outside court.\n\nThe suspects will be back in court on Tuesday, when it will be decided whether they will remain in jail until the start of the trial.\n\nMeanwhile, Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 people in connection with the alleged trafficking of several migrants who drowned in the disaster.\n\nThe government in Islamabad has ordered a high-level inquiry to investigate the human trafficking network thought to be involved, a statement from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's office said.\n\nAt least 21 of those who are missing came from the Kotli district in Pakistan's part of the Himalayan Kashmir region, police said. Two of the 12 Pakistanis who survived the sinking also came from the same town.\n\nSince the fishing boat carrying up to 750 people went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, the role of the coastguard has come under increasing scrutiny.\n\nThe UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.", "The home secretary has told police leaders to \"ramp up\" the use of stop-and-search powers to prevent more knife attacks and \"save more lives\".\n\nIn a message to all 43 forces in England and Wales, Suella Braverman said the \"dangerous culture\" of carrying weapons must end.\n\nShe also called on forces to publish bodycam footage quickly to stop police facing \"trial by social media\".\n\nOpponents of stop-and-search say it unfairly targets ethnic minorities.\n\nIn England and Wales, police can stop and search an individual or vehicle if they have \"reasonable grounds\" to suspect the person is carrying a weapon, drugs, stolen property or something that could be used to commit a crime.\n\nCritics say the practice disproportionately targets those from ethnic minorities - particularly black men - and can leave people feeling victimised.\n\nBut the government says it is a \"common sense policing tactic\" and the Met Police has described it as a \"hugely important power\" for protecting the public.\n\nThe government said new data shows more than 100,000 weapons have been removed from Britain's streets since 2019 through a range of tactics - almost half of which were seized in stop-and-searches, which have led to more than 220,000 arrests.\n\nIn a press release to forces, Ms Braverman said: \"My first priority is to keep the public safe, and people who insist on carrying a weapon must know that there will be consequences.\n\n\"The police have my full support to ramp up the use of stop-and-search, wherever necessary, to prevent violence and save more lives.\"\n\nGovernment statistics suggest black people are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched compared with white people.\n\nAnd campaign groups have previously warned that relaxing restrictions on police use of the power could compound discrimination.\n\nThe Home Office said it accepted that black men were more likely to be stopped by police, but that they were also \"disproportionately affected\" by knife crime.\n\nThe home secretary added: \"Every death from knife crime is a tragedy. That's why I also back the police in tackling this blight in communities which are disproportionately affected, such as among young black males. We need to do everything in our power to crack down on this violence.\"\n\nThe Home Office called on officers to use available powers to arrest people who unlawfully obstruct stop-and-searches. It said forces should publish footage from body cameras worn by officers quickly to prevent innocent officers from being \"subject to trial by social media\".\n\nThe Home Office also said it was planning to put into law two conditions for using stop-and-search powers.\n\nThe department said police should communicate with \"the local community\" when putting in place Section 60 orders - that is, stop-and-searches that can be carried out without requiring \"reasonable grounds\".\n\nPolice forces can authorise the use of Section 60 orders in set areas - usually a neighbourhood or sometimes a whole borough - for a defined period of time.\n\nThe Home Office also said data on every stop-and-search interaction must continue to be collected for it to publish for transparency and public scrutiny.\n\nThe National Police Chief's Council described stop and search as a \"valuable policing tool\".\n\nDorset Police Chief Constable Amanda Pearson said: \"We know that the use of stop-and-search can have a significant impact on individuals and communities, particularly our black communities and young people.\n\n\"It is our responsibility as leaders to ensure that we balance tackling crime with building trust and confidence in our communities.\"\n\nBut former Metropolitan Police Ch Supt Dal Babu said Ms Braverman's attempt to direct officers on stop-and-search was a \"very troubling\" intervention, and it should be down to local commanders to decide when it is used.\n\nEmmanuelle Andrews, policy and campaigns manager at Liberty, said the home secretary's push was going to do \"immense harm to our communities\".\n\nThe policing watchdog has previously called for an end to the overuse of stop-and-searches on people from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIn 2022, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said it was a \"legitimate policing tactic\", but it was time to \"break the cycle\" of its disproportionate use, which was causing \"trauma\" and damaging confidence in policing.", "Katie Boulter won her first WTA title with a dominant victory in Nottingham over Jodie Burrage in the first all-British tour-level final in 46 years.\n\nThe British women's number one ranking was also on the line as Boulter outplayed her good friend 6-3 6-3.\n\n\"I'm definitely going to be sleeping with this trophy tonight,\" Boulter said in her on-court interview.\n\nEarlier, Andy Murray won the men's event as Britons find form on grass before next month's Wimbledon.\n\nBoulter and Burrage were contesting the first all-British WTA final since Sue Barker beat Virginia Wade in San Francisco on 28 February 1977.\n\nBoth players were also appearing in their first WTA finals after excellent performances in Nottingham this week but it was Boulter who took control from the start.\n\nThe day's order of play had been changed because of the forecast of rain, and with dark clouds hanging heavy, Boulter stormed into a 5-1 lead with a double break in the opening set.\n\nBut she then failed to serve it out at the first opportunity as Burrage's forehand clicked. That was the only blip for the 26-year-old though as she immediately broke back to seal the set.\n\nShe barely paused for breath at the start of the second, taking the first two games to love and faced her only real challenge at 3-1 when she had to fend off break point with a stunning backhand winner.\n\nBoulter delivered her first ace of the match when she was serving for victory but she missed her first match point when she sent a backhand narrowly wide - Burrage's puff of the cheeks a big indication of just how close that had been. But she was soon celebrating victory when 24-year-old Burrage sent a forehand long.\n\nThe pair shared a warm hug at the net and then sat next to each other chatting and laughing while they waited for the trophy presentation at the end of a memorable week for both of them.\n\n\"I dreamed of this moment, to win this tournament, as a little girl when I was four years old,\" said an emotional Boulter, who considers this her home tournament after growing up in Leicester.\n\n\"Having come here as a fan and now as a player and somehow finding a way to win it means more than everything to me.\"\n\nBoulter, who took over as British number one from the injured Emma Raducanu last week, is now set to rise into the world's top 80 on Monday for the first time in a career that has been disrupted by injuries over the years.\n\nThe home success at the British grass-court tournaments this year has come just a few weeks after criticism of the state of tennis in the country when no British women appeared in the main draw of the singles at the French Open and only three men did.\n\nBritish player Dan Evans had suggested that Raducanu's 2021 US Open victory had \"papered over the cracks\" in British tennis.\n\nLess than four weeks after those comments, Murray has won back-to-back tournaments here and at Surbiton last week, while three of the women's semi-finalists at Nottingham were British.\n\nThere were also Britons in the women's doubles final, where Heather Watson and Harriet Dart lost to Norway's Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia's Ingrid Neel, while on Saturday Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday won an all-British men's doubles final against Liam Broady and Jonny O'Mara.\n\nThere are far stronger fields at some of the next grass-court tournaments before Wimbledon at Eastbourne, Queen's and Birmingham but there will also be a new sense of confidence among some of the Britons who have enjoyed their best tournaments, including Boulter and Burrage.\n\nBurrage said it had been \"such a positive week\" and that she had proven \"a lot of things\" to herself, while Boulter added: \"I've played so many British players, we appreciate an all-British final and what an incredible achievement it is.\n\n\"I don't doubt we [Burrage and I] will be back here playing more finals.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nBukayo Saka scored the first hat-trick of his career as England made it four wins out of four Euro 2024 qualifiers by thrashing North Macedonia at Old Trafford.\n\nGareth Southgate's side are well on course to qualify for the tournament in Germany next summer and, even though North Macedonia provided meagre opposition, England still demonstrated the dazzling array of attacking options they have at their disposal.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was Arsenal's Saka who struck a superb treble before departing to a standing ovation with the game won.\n\nEngland actually laboured in the early stages in the face of determined Macedonian defence but once captain Harry Kane scored his 57th international goal - turning in Luke Shaw's cross at the far post after 29 minutes - the floodgates opened.\n\nSaka added the second from Kyle Walker's pass nine minutes later and Marcus Rashford scored a third on the stroke of half-time after unselfish work by Jordan Henderson.\n\nThe highlight of this one-sided affair came two minutes after half-time when Saka controlled a perfect long pass by Trent Alexander-Arnold before sending a thunderous left-foot finish high past keeper Stole Dimitrievski.\n\nSaka completed his landmark hat-trick after racing clear on to Kane's pass, prompting Southgate to make a host of changes which allowed substitute Kalvin Phillips to get in the act with a simple tap-in to make it six.\n\nKane scored his second from the spot with 17 minutes left after John Stones had been fouled as England went on a goal rampage to record their biggest win since the 10-0 victory over San Marino in November 2021, and inflict North Macedonia's heaviest defeat.\n• None Can you name these England hat-trick heroes?\n\nUnstoppable England on course for Germany\n\nEngland could not have done a more convincing job of plotting their route to Euro 2024 with maximum points and their most testing assignment out of the way with victory over Italy in Naples.\n\nThis is a group England have to qualify from - there would be a serious inquest if they did not - but the manner in which Southgate's side have gone about their work is admirable and a sell-out Old Trafford crowd was given quite a show of attacking football.\n\nEngland may face a familiar problem of not being fully put to the test until they face elite competition in the heat of a major tournament but this does not mean Southgate will not learn anything from qualifiers, even if the passage is comfortable against inferior opposition.\n\nThe attacking riches the manager can manipulate were on show among his goalscorers and England's strength in depth was emphasised as Manchester City's Champions League-winning duo of Jack Grealish and Phil Foden came off the bench while Real Madrid's new teenage superstar Jude Bellingham was not present because of injury.\n\nThis must all be framed by the fact North Macedonia were nowhere their class but England could not have done a much better job of dismantling them.\n\nSaka grows into a more accomplished England footballer with every game and it was clear just how popular Arsenal's 21-year-old is with his team-mates by their show of sheer joy when he completed his hat-trick.\n\nThe big bonus for Southgate is that, with Alexander-Arnold's move into midfield, it has quickly become clear he and Saka are right on the same wavelength.\n\nThey combined for a goal in Malta in Friday night's win and linked again here as Alexander-Arnold picked out Saka for his second and England's fourth, a real \"wow\" moment as the latter applied a spectacular finish.\n\nSaka's England colleagues sought him out with the match ball at the final whistle. He will hope it is the first of many and he certainly has the talent to collect more.\n• None Attempt saved. Kalvin Phillips (England) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Darko Velkovski (North Macedonia).\n• None Kalvin Phillips (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! England 7, North Macedonia 0. Harry Kane (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Egzon Bejtulai (North Macedonia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Mary Masika, who lives opposite the school says she would often hear the students singing before bedtime\n\nPupils in Uganda were singing gospel songs before an attack by suspected Islamist militants on Friday, a woman who lives opposite the school says.\n\n\"Then I heard screaming,\" Mary Masika told the BBC. The vicious attack in Mpondwe left about 40 people dead.\n\nIslamic State-linked militants have been blamed for the attack.\n\nThe Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was created in the 1990s and took up arms against President Yoweri Museveni, alleging persecution of Muslims.\n\nThey are now largely based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School attacked on Friday is close to the border.\n\nMs Masika says she and other residents have been left terrified by the attack which lasted about 90 minutes.\n\n\"I have been unable to eat or sleep since then,\" she told the BBC in Swahili.\n\nThe students usually sing before bedtime - and at first she and her daughter thought the noise that interrupted their songs at around 22:00 (20:00 GMT) suggested that they were having a bit of fun.\n\nBut it soon became clear that something horrific was under way at the school, which had around 60 boarders living in a small compound.\n\nADF rebels had entered dormitories, setting fire to them and using machetes to kill and maim students.\n\nOne family in Mpondwe held the funerals on Sunday for a father and son killed in the attack - 47-year-old security guard Elphanas Mbusa and 17-year-old Masereka Elton.\n\nHurubana Kimadi Onesmus lost his son, a school watchman, and at least one of his grandsons - it is not clear if the other has been kidnapped\n\nTheir other son, 15-year-old Brian Muhindo who was also attending the school, is missing. They do not know if he is among the six boys kidnapped or one of those whose bodies cannot be identified because they have been so badly burned.\n\nHurubana Kimadi Onesmus told the BBC he found it difficult to understand how the attackers were able to infiltrate the school where his son, the security guard, worked and where his grandsons were studying.\n\n\"There is a very heavy military presence in the area,\" the 69-year-old said.\n\nThe BBC team were given a few minutes to photograph the scene at school in Mpondwe\n\nNow there is a lot of security at the school - and the BBC team was given only a few minutes to take some photos of the burnt buildings.\n\nIt was a devastating and upsetting scene.\n\nLots of dried blood is still on the ground outside the girls' dormitory - they had been attacked with machetes and others shot dead as they ran away.\n\nThe boys' dormitory had been locked - they had either refused to open it to the rebels or they were locked inside by them. The militants poured fuel on the building and set it alight.\n\nInside, the smell of death is unmistakeable - beds have been reduced to wire mesh with pieces of flesh still stuck to them.\n\nIt is not clear if the doors of the boys' dormitory was locked by those inside or the rebels\n\nMs Masika said towards the end of the attack, at around 23:30, she heard one of the assailants talking at her gate and asking a fellow fighter if \"the job was done\".\n\nThey were talking in Swahili - the lingua franca in the region - and afterwards began shouting \"Allahu Akbar\", meaning \"God is greatest\".\n\nShe said after these chants one of them added: \"We have succeeded in destabilising Museveni's country.\"\n\nSeveral funerals were held on Sunday for those killed in the attack\n\nIn response, President Museveni vowed to send more troops to Rwenzori Mountains, which are along the border between Uganda and the DR Congo, saying: \"Their action... the desperate, cowardly, terrorist action... will not save them.\"\n\nThe area around Mpondwe seems to be a mix of Christians and Muslims. Some of those attending the funerals on Sunday were dressed in traditional Muslim attire.\n\nOther funerals for the pupils killed in the attack were held in villages across the region, with most people dumbfounded and pained by the brutality of the assault.", "China and the US have interests that are destined to clash\n\nEven while the American side was celebrating what they view as a successful resumption of high-level contact with the Chinese, they acknowledged that there are larger, more intractable differences between the two nations. Taiwan, without a doubt, is the biggest area of contention – and the one that has the highest potential of escalating from a war of words into a shooting war. Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi said it is an issue on which there is “no room to compromise”. On a wider scale, China has ambitions to become the dominant regional power and global player equal to the US. The US continues to have its own agenda in world affairs – as the leader in what Joe Biden has described as an era-defining global struggle between democracies and autocracies. The US has said that it’s policy toward China is one of de-risking – avoiding the possibility of crisis and conflict – rather than containment or decoupling from China. But the US efforts to organise regional allies – Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and India – is viewed by the Chinese as a containment in deed if not in word. Meanwhile, on the economic front, the Biden administration has placed an emphasis – backed by hundreds of billions of dollars of government support – on boosting the US computer-chip manufacturing sector. At the same time, they have limited exports of advanced computer technologies to China. The Chinese consider this, along with Trump-era tariffs, as opening shots in a trade war. The Americans, on the other hand, think its a measured response to decades of Chinese subsidies of their key industries. Biden and US officials have said they view the Chinese as rivals and competitors and not adversaries. It is a fine line to walk, however, as the competition – both militarily and economically – heats up. And while the US and the Chinese both appear interested in normalising and stabilising their relationship, the cold reality is that the two global powers have interests that are destined to conflict. How they manage these differences in the end will determine what kind of future the two nations shape.", "The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is facing a new trial on charges of extremism that could keep him in prison for decades.\n\nMr Navalny is already serving a nine-year sentence for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court.\n\nHe and his supporters insist his arrest and imprisonment in 2021 was politically motivated.\n\nThe latest trial will begin on Monday in the penal colony where he is being held, 250km (150 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nMr Navalny is facing multiple charges, including creating an extremist network and financing extremist activity.\n\nHe has said that could extend his prison term by up to 30 years.\n\nThe 47-year-old has long been the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin and has exposed corruption at the very heart of Russian power for more than a decade.\n\nA charismatic campaigner, he seemed to be the only Russian opposition leader capable of mobilising people in large numbers across Russia to take part in anti-government protests.\n\nHe was arrested in 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he recovered from a poison attack the previous year that he blamed on the Kremlin. The Russian authorities denied any involvement.\n\nIn 2020, a report by the investigative outlet Bellingcat and Russian news site The Insider implicated several agents of Russia's internal security service, the FSB, in the attack.\n\nHe was initially jailed for two and a half years for breaking bail conditions while being treated in a German hospital, but was then given an extra nine years for fraud and contempt of court.\n\nThe latest case comes as the Kremlin intensifies its crackdown on opponents, more than a year after invading Ukraine, with most key opposition figures behind bars or in exile.\n\nMr Navalny said that prosecutors provided him with 3,828 pages outlining all the crimes he is alleged to have committed while behind bars.\n\n\"Although it is clear from the size of the tomes that I am a sophisticated and persistent criminal, it is impossible to find out what exactly I am accused of,\" Mr Navalny said.\n\nHe has been charged with financing extremist activity, publicly inciting extremist activities and \"rehabilitating the Nazi ideology\", among other crimes.", "Italian Adolfo Corrado has been named BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023.\n\nThe 29-year-old was named the winner after 16 singers competed in the 10-day competition which is a major event in the classical music calendar.\n\nSoprano Jessica Robinson from Llandissilio, Pembrokeshire was the first Welsh singer to make it to the finals in 20 years.\n\nThe event, which began in 1983 sees singers perform a repertoire of classical and contemporary songs.\n\nCommenting on his victory, Adolfo Corrado said: \"I'm full of joy and emotion. It was fantastic because on my journey the audience were incredibly powerful and I think they helped my performance.\n\nThe five finalists competing for the title were Welsh soprano Jessica Robinson, Scottish mezzo Beth Taylor, South African soprano Nombulelo Yende, Italian bass Adolfo Corrado, and South African mezzo Siphokazi Molteno.\n\nBBC Cardiff Singer of the World's artistic director, David Jackson said \"After 40 years, the competition continues to captivate audiences with its thrilling, world-class performances.\"\n\nThe finalists were Siphokazi Molteno, Nombulelo Yende, Adolfo Corrado, Jessica Robinson and Beth Taylor\n\nThe judging panel, comprised of respected figures made up from the classical music world, faced the arduous task of selecting a winner from the pool of extraordinary talent before declaring Adolfo as the winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023.\n\nAs the winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023, Mr Corrado will receive a prize package that includes a substantial cash award and numerous performance opportunities with leading orchestras and opera companies worldwide.\n\nJulieth Lozano Rolong, 31 from Colombia was crowned winner of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Audience Prize\n\nJulieth Lozano Rolong, 31 from Colombia was crowned winner of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Audience Prize.\n\nThis year's Song Prize was announced on Thursday was 32-year-old South Korean Tenor, Sungho Kim.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Sara Watson with their late son Adam, who died in August 2022 after almost three years of illness\n\nFinancial support for families with a child in hospital would help them cope with cost such as transport and food, two parents have said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Children's Health Coalition has called for a a £4m fund to give families a grant of £500 a year.\n\nDavid and Sara Watson said that money would have made a difference to them.\n\nTheir son Adam was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in October 2019 when he was seven.\n\nHis parents were living on one wage for many months with a sick child and many parents in similar situations also face costs such as food, drink, fuel, parking, overnight accommodation and childcare.\n\n\"You are starting to count pennies and say: 'We need that amount of money for diesel to get us up and down to hospital for five days this week and we have that for food,'\" said Mr Watson.\n\n\"Money does not come into it when you have a sick child but you still need money to survive.\n\n\"You need money to keep that child as comfortable as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Money doesn't come into when you have a sick child, but you still need money to survive'\n\nMrs Watson said her family were fortunate that they had a great support network around them.\n\nBut she added: \"No family wants to be known as a charity case, that you are having to rely on somebody dropping money round or you are having to rely on family.\n\n\"You feel like you owe it to try and go back to work to show that you are not in this to try and rip people off.\n\n\"You are trying your hardest. You are trying to get your child better, keep a roof over your head, trying to live and trying to work and it just builds up.\"\n\nDavid Watson pictured with his son Adam in hospital while the child was being treated for leukaemia\n\nMrs Watson said Adam was aware of the cost-of-living crisis and was watching the news when it talked about people having to make a choice between feeding their family or heating their homes.\n\nShe said he asked her: \"Mummy, do we have money to do both? Do we have money to do both because you and daddy cannot work at the minute because I'm sick?\n\n\"The money thing is one side of it but it is the mental impact that has on us and a child.\n\n\"To hear your son, whilst he is lying there fighting for his life, worrying about his mummy and daddy being able to pay the bills and heating the house.\"\n\nProf Victoria Simms, an academic from Ulster University who carried out a study on the issue, said she found the data \"quite shocking\".\n\n\"There is a disproportionate effect on family income and that is not good for the parents themselves, for their own self-esteem for example, but also for the environment in which those children are going to grow up,\" she said.\n\nThe professor added that there was a \"lack of awareness around the welfare state that they can access and have a right to access\".\n\nInstead, she said, the research found families were \"going to their own parents to ask for income support because they do not want to necessarily access the welfare system\".\n\n\"It just really hits home that these families are doing their best to support their little children and older children that are experiencing long term issues and we really need to support those families the best that we can,\" said Prof Simms.\n\nProf Victoria Simms said parents with children in hospital often rely on financial support from their families\n\nThe Northern Ireland Children's Health Coalition is calling for direct financial support for families who live in Northern Ireland and also cover hospitalisations across the UK and Ireland.\n\nIts co-chairwoman Alison McNulty said that money would help reduce the anxiety families have to bear because of the physical, mental, and practical impact of having a child in hospital.\n\n\"We are putting our parents in very difficult financial situations because they have a very ill child and those children could be in hospital for weeks, months or often a number of times over a given year,\" she said.\n\n\"It will help them with petrol, staying overnight when they have a very sick child, feeding themselves when their child is in hospital and it will go a long way to alleviate some of that stress and anxiety that many of our parents are under.\"\n\nMs McNulty said implementing such a fund would be easy as there was already a mechanism in place for rolling it out - it just needs the Northern Ireland Executive to vote for funding to be put into place.\n\n\"I understand that there are pressures on government at the moment but we cannot let a group of our citizens here in Northern Ireland go without support, to fall between the cracks, because they and their children are suffering when such a fund could make a huge difference,\" she said.\n\nAdam Watson's parents said he was worried about their lack of income while he was in hospital\n\n\"No family should ever fall into debt because they have a sick child,\" said Mr Watson.\n\n\"It is a stress you do not need.\n\n\"You are not looking to make money because your child is sick, you are just looking to survive,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, after an inquiry found he had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties.\n\nIn a damning report, the Privileges Committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.\n\nThe suspension would have potentially triggered a by-election to replace him, had Mr Johnson not already stood down last week after seeing the findings.\n\nIn a blistering statement, he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and claimed its year-long inquiry had delivered \"what is intended to be the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination\".\n\nMr Johnson - who helped the Conservative Party win a landslide election victory under his leadership only three years ago - is the first former prime minister to have been found to have deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nIt has been confirmed a by-election to replace him in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency will take place on 20 July.\n\nOn the same day, voters will also elect a replacement for Johnson ally Nigel Adams, who also stood down as MP for Selby and Ainsty in the wake of the former PM's resignation.\n\nThe seven-person committee, chaired by Labour's Harriet Harman but with a Tory majority, has been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid breaches in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nWhen giving evidence to the committee in March, Mr Johnson staunchly denied misleading Parliament on purpose, in a stormy session.\n\nBut in its lengthy report, which runs to 106 pages, the committee concluded that Mr Johnson's \"personal knowledge of breaches\", combined with \"his repeated failures pro-actively to investigate\" them, amounted to \"a deliberate closing of his mind\" to the facts.\n\nThe committee focused on six gatherings between May 2020 and January 2021, and statements Mr Johnson made to Parliament about them.\n\nThe committee concluded that officials did not advise Mr Johnson that social-distancing guidelines had been followed at all times, despite him making the claim in the House of Commons.\n\nIn key evidence, one of Mr Johnson's most senior officials, Martin Reynolds, said he advised the former prime minister against making the claim, questioning whether it was \"realistic\".\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's denials, the committee added, were \"so disingenuous that they were by their very nature deliberate attempts to mislead\".\n\nThey amounted to a \"contempt\" of Parliament, the MPs added, because they stopped Parliament carrying out its \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nExplaining their recommendation for a 90-day suspension, they found that he had also committed a repeated contempts by:\n\nThe committee has also recommended that Mr Johnson should be stripped of the pass given to former MPs allowing them access to Parliament.\n\nTwo of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to go further and expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted by the committee's four Tory MPs.\n\nThe report will be debated by MPs, with a vote held on whether to approve the findings on Monday.\n\nMPs are expected to approve the report, after Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said Tory MPs would not be ordered to vote against it.\n\nSo far, only a handful of Conservative MPs have openly criticised the report, including Johnson loyalist and former culture secretary, Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn a tweet, Ms Dorries claimed the report had \"overreached\" and said any Tory MP who voted to approve it was \"fundamentally not a Conservative\".\n\nOther Tory MPs supportive of Mr Johnson hit out at the findings, with Jacob Rees Mogg saying the committee looked \"foolish\" and Simon Clarke adding the report was \"absolutely extraordinary to the point of sheer vindictiveness\".\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the committee had \"gone off the evidence\" to reach \"a very damning conclusion\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson was a \"disgraced prime minister\" who \"shouldn't be anywhere near Parliament\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for Mr Johnson to be stripped of the £115,000 annual allowance available to former prime ministers to run their office.\n\n\"This damning report should be the final nail in the coffin for Boris Johnson's political career,\" the party's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, said.\n\nA campaign group representing families bereaved by Covid said he should \"never be allowed to stand for any form of public office again\".\n\nThe committee's report was met with disdain by Mr Johnson, who repeated his defence at length in a bitter parting shot.\n\nHe said he had been warned the committee was driven by \"the sole political objective of finding me guilty and expelling me from Parliament\".\n\nHe echoed many of the assertions he made in front of the committee in March, including his claim that he believed all of the events he attended were \"lawful\" and \"required by my job\".\n\nOn the charge he deliberately misled Parliament, Mr Johnson said this was \"rubbish\" and based on \"a series of things that are patently absurd\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe compared the committee to late TV astrologer Mystic Meg for concluding he was \"unlikely to have been unaware\" of a gathering attended by dozens of staff in No 10 Downing Street's press office in December 2020.\n\n\"How do they know what I saw?\" Mr Johnson said. \"What retinal impressions have they somehow discovered, that are completely unavailable to me?\"\n\nThe lockdown parties at the heart of the committee's report first came to public attention in newspaper reports at the end of 2021.\n\nThe reports exploded into a long-running scandal that dogged Mr Johnson's premiership and stoked discontent among his ministers, who forced him to resign as prime minister last year.\n\nAn internal inquiry into the parties was led by senior civil servant Sue Gray, and a Metropolitan Police investigation resulted in multiples fines for breaches of Covid rules.\n\nMr Johnson was fined by police for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first sitting prime minister to be sanctioned in such a way.", "Body camera footage shows the moment a Florida police officer, William Hollingsworth, was sucked through a drainage pipe while trying to rescue a man from flood water.\n\nBoth men were dragged underneath the four-lane highway, before resurfacing on the other side, safe and well, 30 seconds later.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nThe Commons voted overwhelmingly in support of the report, by 354 to seven.\n\nThe cross-party committee's report had found Mr Johnson committed repeated offences when he said Covid rules had been followed at No 10 at all times.\n\nSeveral allies of Mr Johnson questioned the impartiality of the committee and said they would vote against.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May, Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan were among the senior Conservatives who supported the report's findings.\n\nConservative MPs who voted against included Sir Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey and Heather Wheeler - while 118 Tories voted in favour.\n\nNo vote was recorded for 225 MPs, because they either abstained or did not turn up to vote.\n\nMr Johnson had asked his supporters not to vote against the report, with sources close to the former prime minister arguing it had no practical effect now he has resigned.\n\nBut his critics suggested the move was designed to avoid revealing the low level of support for him among Tory MPs.\n\nSome abstained, while others did not turn up to vote at all.\n\nJohnson allies who spoke in the debate but did not vote include Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lia Nici.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak did not attend the debate and has refused to say how he would have voted, suggesting he did not want to influence others.\n\nSenior Conservative Tobias Ellwood, who voted to back the report, said it was a \"highly symbolic\" day as Parliament sought to \"bring to a conclusion a very difficult chapter in British politics\".\n\nHe said that because Mr Johnson had already \"walked\", many MPs, including him, had not initially appreciated the wider public's high expectations for Parliament to not just rubber stamp this report but thoroughly debate its findings, given it related to rules set by the government.\n\n\"This was the collective conscience of Parliament, if you like, being judged by the British people,\" he said.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"His failure to vote says all you need to know about this prime minister's lack of leadership.\"\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said Mr Sunak was \"too weak to lead a party too divided to govern\".\n\nThe vote means Mr Johnson loses his right to a parliamentary pass, which gives access to certain parts of Parliament, as this was one of the report's recommendations.\n\nThe Privileges Committee of MPs, which has a Conservative majority, was asked to investigate whether Mr Johnson had misled MPs over what he knew about parties held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns - dubbed the Partygate scandal.\n\nIts report concluded that Mr Johnson made multiple deliberately misleading statements to Parliament about events at No 10.\n\nAhead of the report's publication, Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, branding the committee a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe report found Mr Johnson had committed further \"contempts\" of Parliament by attacking the committee, increasing the severity of the recommended sanction.\n\nThe committee subsequently recommended a 90-day suspension for Mr Johnson - a long ban by recent standards - as well as denying him the parliamentary pass, which he would normally be entitled to as a former MP.\n\nIf he had still been an MP, the suspension could have triggered a by-election in his constituency.\n\nSpeaking during a Commons debate ahead of the vote, Mrs May said backing the report would be \"a small but important step in restoring people's trust\" in Parliament.\n\nIt was \"important to show the public that there is not one rule for them and another for us\", she said.\n\nMrs May urged her fellow MPs to vote in support of the report \"to uphold standards in public life, to show that we all recognise the responsibility we have to the people we serve, and to help to restore faith in our parliamentary democracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak is asked several times if he will take part in Boris Johnson Partygate report debate and vote in the Commons.\n\nDuring the debate, supporters of Mr Johnson spoke out against the report's findings.\n\nMs Nici, who was Mr Johnson's parliamentary private secretary, told MPs she could not see any evidence he had knowingly misled Parliament.\n\nShe questioned the impartiality of the committee and suggested the process was \"political opportunism\" for people who did not like Mr Johnson.\n\nFormer minister Sir Jacob, who was knighted by Mr Johnson in his resignation honours, described the proposed 90-day suspension as \"a vindictive sanction\".\n\nIn response to accusations some Johnson allies had attempted to discredit the committee's work, Mr Rees-Mogg said it was \"absolutely legitimate to criticise the conduct of a committee\" and its members.\n\nHowever, the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said its members had to \"withstand a campaign of threats, intimidation, and harassment designed to challenge the legitimacy of the inquiry\".\n\nShe defended her impartiality, after Sir Jacob referenced her previous tweets criticising Mr Johnson, saying she had offered to step aside as chairwoman after the tweets emerged but she said she was assured by the government she should continue in her role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harriet Harman answers Jacob Rees-Mogg who raises her \"famous tweets\" about Boris Johnson\n\nEarlier it was not clear whether there would be a formal vote on the report - compelling MPs to go on the record to vote for, against or abstain - but Labour forced one.\n\nIt was a free vote for Tory MPs, meaning party managers - known as whips - had not instructed them how to vote.\n\nCommons Leader Ms Mordaunt, who opened the debate, said she would vote in support of the report, adding: \"The integrity of our institutions matter.\"\n\nHowever, she said \"all members need to make up their own minds and others should leave them alone to do so\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC has obtained evidence casting doubt on the Greek coastguard's account of Wednesday's migrant shipwreck in which hundreds are feared to have died.\n\nAnalysis of the movement of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.\n\nThe coastguard still claims that during these hours the boat was on a course to Italy and not in need of rescue.\n\nGreek authorities have not yet responded to the BBC's findings.\n\nAt least 78 people are known to have died, but the UN says up to 500 are still missing.\n\nThe UN has called for an investigation into Greece's handling of the disaster, amid claims more action should have been taken earlier to initiate a full-scale rescue attempt.\n\nGreek officials maintain those on board said they did not want help and were not in danger until just before their boat sank.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a computer animation of tracking data provided by MarineTraffic, a maritime analytics platform.\n\nTheir data shows hours of activity focused on a small, specific area where the migrant boat later sank, casting doubt on the official claim it had no problems with its navigation.\n\nThe fishing boat had no tracker so is not shown on the map. Neither are coastguard and military vessels which do not have to share their location.\n\nThe overcrowded vessel was pictured a number of times before tragedy struck\n\nFrontex, the EU's border force, says it first spotted the migrant boat at around 08:00 GMT on Tuesday and informed the Greek authorities.\n\nAlarm Phone, an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea, say they received a call at 12:17 GMT saying the boat was in distress.\n\nWe have used video and photographs authenticated by BBC Verify, as well as court records and shipping logs, to analyse the movement of vessels in the area in the following hours.\n\nThe Marine Traffic animation shows a ship called the Lucky Sailor abruptly turning north at 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe owner of the Lucky Sailor gave the BBC their timeline of events and confirmed it had been asked by the Coastguard to approach the migrant boat and give food and water.\n\nAbout half-an-hour later at 15:35 GMT, the coastguard helicopter found the migrant boat. Authorities have continued to claim it was on a steady course at the time.\n\nThe movement of ships in the area where the vessel eventually sank (in yellow) suggests it was stationary hours before the shipwreck\n\nBut two-and-a-half hours later at around 18:00 GMT, another vessel, the Faithful Warrior, travelled to the same area and also gave supplies to the boat.\n\nThe owners of Faithful Warrior referred us to the investigating authorities.\n\nVideo has emerged - reportedly shot from the Faithful Warrior - claiming to show supplies being delivered to the migrant ship via a rope in the water. No other ships can be seen.\n\nBBC Verify checked it and found the vessel - which is not moving in the footage - matched the shape of the migrant ship seen in photos and the weather conditions were a match for those reported at the time. It's not known exactly when this video was filmed.\n\nBetween 19:40 until 22:40, Greek officials originally claimed the boat was keeping a \"steady course and speed\".\n\nTheir initial statement claimed they observed from a discreet distance, but a close-up image they later published - from this time-period - suggests the migrant boat is not going anywhere.\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nA government spokesperson later said the coastguard had attempted to board the boat to assess the danger but that those on board removed a rope that had been attached and did not want help.\n\nAll of the shipping activity of the previous seven hours was focused around one specific spot, suggesting the migrant boat had hardly moved.\n\nThe scale of the animated map suggests it travelled less than a few nautical miles, which may be expected of a stricken vessel buffeted by the wind and the waves in the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nThe actions of people in distress, rocking the vessel, would also have contributed any movement.\n\nDuring this time period, Greek officials have insisted it was not in trouble and was instead safely on its way to Italy and so the coastguard didn't attempt a rescue.\n\nAt 23:00, the boat sank with hundreds on board and the tracking animation shows a frenzy of ships coming to help.\n\nThis included the Celebrity Beyond from which footage of the aftermath of the disaster was filmed and later sent to the BBC.\n\nA luxury yacht, the Mayan Queen, is then instructed to help take some of the 104 survivors ashore.\n\nThose rescued reached the safety at the port of Kalamata but left behind a series of troubling questions about the whole Greek response.\n\nRead more about BBC Verify: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify", "Boris Johnson has asked his supporters not to vote against a report that found he intentionally misled Parliament.\n\nThe Commons is expected to approve the Privileges Committee's recommendations - which will strip Mr Johnson of his right to a parliamentary pass.\n\nSeveral of the former PM's allies, including Nadine Dorries, have said they plan to vote against the motion.\n\nAnother ally, James Duddridge, said he had spoken to Mr Johnson and \"he doesn't want there to be a vote\".\n\nMPs are due to debate the Privileges Committee's conclusion that Mr Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons and committed contempt of parliament.\n\nThe committee's main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already stood down as an MP.\n\nThe motion could be passed without the need for MPs to troop through the voting lobbies, if no one in the Commons chamber shouts \"no\" when the Speaker asks if they approve it.\n\nOpposition parties - who all back the report - could force a vote, whether Conservatives want one or not.\n\nThis would mean MPs would have to publicly reveal whether they back the committee's findings.\n\nBBC Political Editor Chris Mason said this might expose just how diminished Mr Johnson's parliamentary support is now.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said the privileges report \"has no practical effect\" and that his supporters would speak in the debate but would not be told to vote against it.\n\nSir Simon Clarke, Sir Jake Berry and Brendan Clarke-Smith, three of Mr Johnson's biggest supporters, have previously said they would vote against the motion.\n\nThey are among a small group of Tory MPs who have rallied behind Mr Johnson following the Privileges Committee's damning verdict, which came after a year-long inquiry.\n\nAllies of Mr Johnson had warned Tory MPs they could face battles with their local parties to remain as candidates at the next election if they back the motion.\n\nMs Dorries claimed the report had \"overreached\" and said any Tory MP who voted to approve it was \"fundamentally not a Conservative\".\n\nOther Tory MPs supportive of Mr Johnson hit out at the findings, with Mr Clarke saying the report was \"absolutely extraordinary to the point of sheer vindictiveness\".\n\nBut senior Conservative MP Damian Green told the BBC the committee had \"come up with what is clearly a set of damning conclusions\".\n\nThe former cabinet minister under Theresa May said he intended to vote to approve the report with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThe seven-person Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson had shown \"personal knowledge\" of Covid-rule breaches in Downing Street but had repeatedly failed to \"pro-actively investigate\" the facts.\n\nThe committee said officials had not advised Mr Johnson that social distancing guidelines were followed at all times, contrary to what he said in the House of Commons at the time.\n\nIn an eviscerating statement he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and its findings \"deranged\", accusing Harriet Harman, the Labour chairwoman of the committee, of bias.\n\nMr Johnson announced last Friday that he was standing down as an MP with immediate effect after being shown a draft of the report.\n\nA by-election will be held on 20 July in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.", "Lightning strikes could also become an additional hazard, the MET Office says\n\nA thunderstorm warning has been issued across Northern Ireland from lunchtime on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office has warned that up to 20mm of rain could fall in some places across NI in under an hour.\n\nIt said that up to 25mm could fall in a few spots in the same time, leading to some surface flooding.\n\nThe rain could possibly cause some homes and businesses to flood, while lightning strikes could also become an additional hazard.\n\nThe warning lasts from 13:00 BST on Monday until 20:00.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDriving conditions could be affected by heavy downpours, surface flooding and hail.\n\nMeanwhile, warnings have also been issued across much of the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMet Éireann is warning of possible flooding, poor visibility, difficult driving conditions and power outages.\n\nThe warning lasts from noon until 22:00 on Monday.", "The mayor of Keighley has resigned after being criticised for describing his attendance at a Pride event as a \"lapse in judgement\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mohammed Nazam said his participation had contradicted his \"personal religious beliefs\".\n\nHe was suspended by the Conservative group on Bradford Council once his comments came to light and later announced he would quit as mayor.\n\nIn a statement he said he \"did not mean any harm to the LGBTQ community\".\n\nHe said he intended to carry on as an independent councillor, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nIn his post, on a page called Keighley Pakistanis, Mr Nazam said: \"I wholeheartedly apologise for my participation in the flag-raising ceremony, as it contradicts my personal religious beliefs, as many of you are aware.\"\n\nHe said he had since \"personally repented for this error,\" adding: \"Looking back, I realise that I should have respectfully declined the request at the time.\"\n\nHe described his participation as a \"lapse in judgement\"\n\nRobbie Moore, Conservative MP for Keighley, who also attended the event on Friday, had called for Mr Nazam to consider his position.\n\nHe said: \"I've seen comments made by [Mr] Nazam, stating that he feels the need to apologise for his part in the flag-raising ceremony and the need for him to \"personally repent for 'his' error\" because of religious beliefs.\n\n\"The role of the town mayor is to represent everyone within the community and therefore it was deeply disheartening to read the mayor's statement.\"\n\nFollowing his suspension, Mr Nazam issued a statement saying he would stand down with \"immediate effect\".\n\n\"By my apology I did not mean any harm to the LGBTQ community,\" he said.\n\n\"My religion teaches respect and tolerance for all and the law of the land. People should have the freedom to express their beliefs and live their lives as they wish to.\n\n\"This should apply to all communities and religious beliefs,\" he added.\n\nDavid Shaw, chair of Keighley Pride, said Mr Nazam had agreed to a request to be involved in the flag-raising ceremony, as other mayors had done in the past.\n\n\"That was very brave of him, but he has to stand by that,\" he said.\n\n\"To retract it in the way that he did is really quite unacceptable. As mayor you need to represent everybody and be inclusive,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say it is deteriorating.\n\nOver the course of five sub dives, an international team of deep-sea explorers surveyed the wreck.\n\nWhile some parts of the sunken ship were in surprisingly good condition, other features have been lost to the sea.", "Mr Webber's parents spoke at a vigil held at his home cricket club in Somerset\n\nThe parents of student Barnaby Webber who was stabbed to death in Nottingham on Tuesday have described him as \"a lovely soul\" during a vigil near his Somerset home.\n\nMr Webber, 19, died in attacks in which fellow student Grace O'Malley-Kumar, also 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were killed.\n\nSupport from \"his tribe\" there was a source of strength, his parents said.\n\n\"It's overwhelming the outpouring of love and support,\" Mr Webber's mother Emma Webber explained. \"This is his true home, his people.\n\n\"Today we wanted to come and see what this wonderful club has done for him. It's been healing.\"\n\nThe teenager, from Taunton - a first-year history student at University of Nottingham - was a keen cricketer.\n\nThe vigil was held as prayers were said at faith services across Nottingham for the victims.\n\nOn Friday, the England and Australia men's cricket team paid tribute to the victims ahead of the first Ashes test.\n\nMrs Webber said she had been overwhelmed by the \"outpouring of support\"\n\nDescribing last week's tributes in the city where her son died as \"wonderful\", Mrs Webber said on Sunday it was \"hugely important\" to remember all three of the victims.\n\n\"We are in touch with Grace's family a lot and I hope we'll be able to with Ian's family as well because we are intrinsically linked now,\" she explained.\n\nMr Webber (left) said: \"We always knew he was special\"\n\nMrs Webber's husband David Webber said everything that everyone had been doing to show support across the UK had been \"amazing\".\n\n\"It gives us strength and I'm sure it gives Grace and Ian's family strength,\" he said.\n\n\"We always knew [Barnaby] was special, we always knew he was a beautiful human being and a lovely soul.\n\n\"People were coming up to me and saying 'I don't know you Mr Webber, but your son was lovely, so much fun, he really helped me'.\n\n\"I found he was like a glue to all these different groups of friends,\" he added.\n\nThe family said the Somerset vigil was a \"reflection and celebration of a wonderful young man so cruelly taken away at the very prime of his life\".\n\nFamily and friends visited the vigil in Somerset\n\nMrs Webber said her son's body was \"coming home\" on Monday.\n\n\"That will be the next really big step for us, to know he's here,\" she said.\n\n\"We're still a family of four, it's just that one of us is not here right now.\"\n\nDavid Webber said his son was like \"a glue\" for lots of different friendship groups\n\nValdo Calocane, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with three counts of murder over the killings.\n\nHe appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Saturday and spoke only to confirm his name, giving an alias of Adam Mendes.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to face a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on 20 June.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The tram driver Alfred Dorris was cleared of a criminal charge on Monday\n\nThe driver of a tram that crashed in Croydon in November 2016, killing seven people, has been cleared of failing to take reasonable care at work.\n\nAlfred Dorris, 49, was charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 over the derailment, which left another 19 people seriously injured.\n\nThere were 69 passengers on the tram when it toppled over on a sharp bend.\n\nA jury at the Old Bailey on Monday cleared him in less than two hours. Mr Dorris left the dock in tears.\n\nThose who died were Dane Chinnery, Donald Collett, Robert Huxley, Philip Logan, Dorota Rynkiewicz, Philip Seary and Mark Smith.\n\nThe jury heard Mr Dorris was driving the tram at over 70km/h (43mph) - more than three times the limit - as he approached the curve near Sandilands.\n\nThe prosecution claimed Mr Dorris, from Beckenham, south-east London, may have had a \"micro-sleep\" while at the controls of the tram. He denied this, saying: \"It just went horribly wrong for me.\"\n\nDorota Rynkiewicz, Dane Chinnery, Donald Collett, Mark Smith, Phil Seary, Philip Logan and Robert Huxley were killed in the derailment\n\nHe told the trial that he had become \"confused\" and \"disorientated\" before the tram derailed but that he could not explain how it happened.\n\nWhile giving evidence, Mr Dorris broke down in tears as he described his final journey and told the victims' families he was \"deeply sorry\" for the crash.\n\nHe told them: \"I'm a human being and sometimes as a human being things happen to you that you are not in control of.\"\n\nMr Dorris blamed his confusion on a combination of external factors including poor lighting and signage in the Sandilands tunnel complex, darkness and bad weather.\n\nThe accident happened early on the morning of 9 November 2016\n\nHe told the jury he thought he was travelling in the opposite direction, but by the time he realised his mistake the tram was already tipping over and he was thrown from his seat, causing him to hit his head and pass out.\n\nMr Dorris also said he had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since the crash and had become estranged from his wife and daughter.\n\nSurvivors described being flung about as if in a washing machine or a pinball machine, then a moment of silence before people began to scream and shout.\n\nAt the crux of this case is where the weight of responsibility lay for the safety of tram passengers. Was it with the driver or was it actually on the tram operator and Transport for London (TfL) and the systems in place?\n\nThe defence maintained there were factors outside Alfred Dorris's control that made him disorientated. He denied he had ever fallen asleep at the controls.\n\nThere were a lack of visual cues in the tunnel, poorly maintained and broken lighting - many lights didn't work at all - and poor speed limit signage. The court heard there was \"an accident waiting to happen\" at the corner where the crash took place.\n\nThe driver became confused and thought he was going the opposite way and not into a tight corner. The jury decided that system errors were the issue, not the driver.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Joe Collett, whose brother Donald died in the derailment, said he felt the system had let him down and later broke down in tears.\n\n\"I'm very, very disappointed because the only one who knows what happened, the truth, is Mr Dorris,\" he said.\n\nJoe Collett, whose brother Donald died, said he did not believe justice had been done\n\n\"There's certain elements for example - that he'd done the journey several thousand times and this day said he had a bad day - but seven people had a worse day.\"\n\nHe continued by saying he didn't think justice had been done, adding: \"He's got to live with himself, he knows what he's done.\"\n\nMeanwhile Danielle Wynne, whose grandfather Philip Logan was killed in the crash, said it felt \"like someone stabbing me in the chest\".\n\n\"If I got into my car and I did what he did at the speed that he did, then I would go to prison.\"\n\nMs Wynne added: \"I don't believe that morning [Mr Dorris] set out to kill anyone. But he did kill people. There has to be some kind of accountability.\"\n\nLater outside court, Mr Dorris's lawyer Gary Rubin read a statement from his client in which he described the past seven years as \"difficult\".\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, that morning went horribly wrong and that was because of something I wasn't in control of.\n\n\"I am truly and deeply sorry - it's something that I am going to have to live with for the rest of my life, and I would just like to end by saying there are no winners in this case.\"\n\nIn July 2021, an inquest jury concluded that the deaths were accidental and the victims were not unlawfully killed.\n\nThe case against Mr Dorris was brought by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which said it \"conducted an extensive, detailed and thorough investigation\" into the derailment.\n\nThe ORR also prosecuted TfL and the tram operator Tram Operations Limited under health and safety laws. Both companies previously pleaded guilty to not taking reasonable care and will be sentenced next month.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new commemorative 50p coin marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in the UK has been released by the Royal Mint.\n\nDesigned by artist Valda Jackson, the coin depicts two black people standing against a backdrop of the Union Flag.\n\nThe coin pays tribute to the British Caribbean and Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK from 1948-1973.\n\nBristol-based Ms Jackson, whose parents came from Jamaica in the 60s, said it honours \"our parents and their legacy\".\n\nMs Jackson was born in St Thomas, Jamaica, and moved to England in 1964. Her parents were among the generation of people invited to leave their home in the Caribbean to come to work in Britain. She later joined them at the age of five.\n\n\"The image on the coin is one of unity representing the bond between the UK and Commonwealth citizens who have helped rebuild the country in its time of need,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It honours our parents and their legacy, and celebrates our presence, achievements, and contributions that continue to enrich our society.\"\n\nMs Jackson says she is proud of the contributions her parents made to rebuilding the UK after World War Two.\n\nThe Windrush generation refers to people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971, when British immigration laws changed.\n\nAlthough not all Windrush generation migrants arrived on HMT Empire Windrush itself, the ship became a symbol of the wider mass-migration movement. Many of those who came to the UK had served in the British armed forces in World War Two.\n\nIt first docked in Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948. This year marks the 75th anniversary of its arrival.\n\nRebecca Morgan, director of commemorative coins at the Royal Mint, added: \"We're honoured to be marking the 75th anniversary since the Windrush generation arrived in the UK.\"\n\nShe said the coin had gone through \"a rigorous process\". \"It's decided which anniversaries are suitable for British coinage and once it's passed that process, we then go to the Chancellor and only then does it finally go up to the King for his approval.\"\n\nThere are three coins available, all of which go on sale today ahead of Thursday's anniversary. Two are limited edition in gold and silver; the other is a standard metal coin, much like the legal tender 50p piece.\n• None Who are the Windrush generation?", "Fighting in the recently retaken areas was at close quarters\n\nTwo weeks since the counter-offensive began, Ukraine is making modest but steady progress in three areas of attack across the 1,000km (620 mile) front line.\n\nTroops are launching probing attacks, while most of Ukraine's forces are being held in reserve, waiting for a big enough opening in Russian defences to launch a main attack and try to recapture land in the south of the country.\n\nThe fighting has been hard, with heavy casualties on both sides, and opposing armies claiming the upper hand. Ukraine's advance in southern Donetsk has stuttered, but continues.\n\nThe BBC joined the 68th Jaeger Brigade as its combat forces sought to expand their control eastward of the recently regained village of Blahodatne.\n\nIn their sights were a series of trenches protecting Russian forces on nearby hilltops.\n\nThe men of a specialised drone unit grab cameras, roll cables and load a pickup truck with tins of ammunition, crates of smoke grenades and armour-piercing rounds.\n\nAside from them, there's little sign of life in Blahodatne. Down a lane, the wreckage of two heavily armoured American-made MRAP vehicles lie stranded, one a burnt-out shell. There are more of these mine-resistant vehicles disabled in the fields beyond.\n\n\"Steer clear of those, the Russians keep hitting them,\" we are warned. Russia has made much of the losses of Western-donated tanks and vehicles, even as Vladimir Putin admitted it has lost dozens of tanks since the counter-offensive began on 5 June.\n\nTroops are attacking at three points: Bakhmut, where they are advancing north and south of the city, which remains firmly under Russian control; south of Zaporizhzhia; and in southern Donetsk, where a number of villages have been taken back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yaroslav starts talking about the frequency of Russian fire and is interrupted by a blast\n\nBlahodatne is one of those. Another salvo comes in and the soldiers take cover in the cellar of a ruined house.\n\nA dirt floor passageway is lit with oil lamps, casting soft yellow light down its length to a stone and iron stove with three sturdy pots atop. Towels hang from a washing line. A rough wooden door opens and, in a headscarf, Nina Fedorivna emerges.\n\nShe has been living down here for the past year. Russian soldiers came by only once, she says.\n\nShe never, for a second, considered leaving the village.\n\nThe artillery barrage over, we leave through a lane at the end of her house. Three Russian corpses lie in a ditch, just beyond Nina Fedorivna's vegetable patch. A truck with the Z symbol, which was used by Russian forces, sits nearby riddled with bullet and shrapnel holes. The fighting here was at close quarters.\n\nThroughout the village roses are in bloom - but the smell of corpses catches the back of your throat.\n\nThere's no time to delay - the soldiers have an air of concentration and purpose. They are clearly preparing for something.\n\nThey head east, leaving Blahodatne behind. The two-car convoy is well spaced in case of Russian attack. The fields around are heavily mined, poles with red-and-white ribbon mark cleared ground.\n\nAs we get close to another abandoned American armoured vehicle, there's an explosion, just missing the wreckage. It is likely from a Russian drone.\n\nI was in this area back in March. Then, the front lines had barely moved a few metres in months. Russia was using far more artillery than Ukrainian forces, who mainly hunkered down in trenches waiting for the barrages to end. At the time, a commander told me they were conserving their shells for the counter-offensive. On this visit, Ukrainian guns didn't stop for the two days I was with the brigade.\n\nThe cars speed on to a network of trenches hidden in a line of trees. There, company commander, Senior Sergeant Andrii Onistrat, 49, runs his men through their next mission - a Ukrainian assault is planned for the next day on the Russian trenches, 3km (1.8 miles) away at the foot of the low hills to the south.\n\nIn their attempt to widen the front, sections of the 68th Brigade will attack from the countryside east of Blahodatne and Makarivka, across minefields and directly in the line of Russian fire.\n\nSgt Onistrat runs through the drone team's communication protocols and targets. The section loses as many as five drones a day. Tanned and with a brilliant white grin, he looks at his grim-faced men and gives one final order: \"Smile - why are you so serious? We are winning the war.\"\n\nSmile, why are you so serious? We are winning the war\n\nTwenty-four hours later, most of the same men are in a sweltering dugout. The attack is under way.\n\nFrom their surveillance cameras I can see two armoured vehicles slowly making their way through the minefield. Drone after drone is sent above the Russian positions dropping smoke grenades, creating a smoke screen along the Russian-occupied trenches to allow vehicles to advance and confuse enemy anti-tank weapons. As I watch, Ukrainian shells repeatedly strike the treeline.\n\nYuri, a young soldier, runs in and out of the dugout, changing drone batteries and sending them into flight, while voices bark orders and target positions across the radios. Mosquitoes and horseflies are feasting on the men, but still \"Frisbee\", from western Ukraine, has taken his shirt off because of the heat.\n\nTheir enemy isn't holding back. As I stand outside, a Russian strike lands close enough to throw dirt into the trench. Standing lookout in wrap-around shades and without body armour is Zheka.\n\nAnother Russian shell lands close and I hit the ground. I look up and Zheka hasn't flinched. He shouts in English - expletives directed at the Russians - and gives two middle fingers to the air. Salvoes of Grad rockets rain down on Ukrainian positions.\n\nUkrainian forces launch drones to drop smoke grenades near the Russian positions\n\nMore broadly, the counter-offensive is made more difficult because of the lack of Ukrainian air power. The West has promised F-16 fighter planes, but they will not arrive until later this year.\n\nBack outside in the trenches, another soldier, Yaroslav, explains: \"Russian helicopters, Russians jets fire at every area, every day\". He's interrupted as another strike lands nearby. \"Go to the shelter, good luck,\" he says.\n\nWhen, on 3 June, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine was ready for the counter-offensive, he mentioned Russian air superiority and warned many Ukrainian lives would be lost. And so it has been for the 68th Brigade.\n\nSgt Onistrat says this weighs heavily on him. \"The severity of the day depends solely on one thing - the number of people we lose. The last week has been extremely difficult. We have lost a large number of people.\"\n\nOn his head he wears a ballistic helmet, a size too small. I mention it and he starts to weep. \"It was my son's,\" he says.\n\nOstap Onistrat, 21, was killed in a drone strike not far from where we speak, a couple of days before the counter-offensive began. He'd been in the army a year.\n\nHis father is still in the throes of grief. \"A kamikaze drone flew to them and in fact hit him directly. It was impossible to recognise him. He was buried in a closed coffin,\" Sgt Onistrat says.\n\nSgt Onistrat lost his son Ostap (right) just days before the counter-offensive began\n\nHow does he go on, I ask. \"I made a commitment. You know, we're here to win. Not to sit back, not to escape. I just think that every person here must do their job professionally. There is nothing heroic in it. I just have to finish this job.\"\n\nWhen I ask if he's looking for revenge, he replies firmly: \"Revenge is a sin.\n\n\"My task is to bring this story to an end. I want to take part in the victory parade. I want us to win, and I want to lose fewer people.\"\n\nWe leave the front, the offensive still under way. Later, I received a message telling me they'd taken the Russian positions.\n\nReturning to the command post, Sgt Onistrat's car escorting us swerves and comes to a sudden stop. He, along with others, quickly exits the vehicle. I wonder if we too need to take cover.\n\nThen I see what's caught their attention - cherry trees.\n\nLike kids, they laugh carefree for a moment as they grab handfuls of the dark red fruit from the shady branches, as artillery and mortar fire continues to hammer Russian positions on the hillside.", "Bebe Rexha has yet to comment on the incident\n\nPop star Bebe Rexha was rushed off stage during a concert on Sunday after being hit in the head by a phone thrown by a fan.\n\nThe star, who was performing in New York, collapsed to her knees when the projectile struck the side of her head.\n\nShe was later escorted from the venue, apparently still in pain, with her hands pressed to her face.\n\nVideo posted online showed a man being removed from the crowd by security as fans shouted \"that's assault\".\n\nNew York Police later confirmed that a 27-year-old concertgoer had been charged with assault.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex Chavez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe singer, whose hits include I'm Good (Blue) and Meant To Be, posted photos showing her injuries to Instagram on Monday.\n\nThey showed bruising around her left eye and a cut on her eyebrow. However, she captioned the pictures, \"I'm good\", and gave the camera a thumbs-up.\n\nGossip website Pop Base quoted her mother as saying the star received medical treatment and needed three stitches.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Rexha's team for further comment.\n\nThe star showed the severity her injuries on an Instagram post\n\nThe star was at the end of her set at Pier 17 in New York when the incident occurred.\n\nShe had previously invited a tearful fan from El Salvador onto the stage to sing I'm Gonna Show You Crazy; and played an impromptu version of Seasons after a request from the audience.\n\nFans who attended the show expressed their disbelief at how the show ended.\n\n\"I'm still in shock two hours later,\" wrote one on Twitter. \"I saw something fly and hit her. I thought it was a CD or a paper until I saw he[r] drop.\"\n\n\"People really dressed up and were in a good mood that they were going to a concert but this old man ruined everything,\" added another.\n\n\"Super unsettling ending to an otherwise great show,\" commented a third. \"I hope she's okay.\"\n\nRexha, is next due to perform on Tuesday 20 June at The Fillmore in Philadelphia.\n\nShe will bring the tour to London on 28 July when she plays the Shepherd's Bush Empire.\n\nThere has been a growing trend of fans throwing their phone onstage in the hope that artists will pose for a selfie and return the handset.\n\nHarry Styles has even been known to pick up a phone and call the owner's friends to leave a voicemail.\n\nHowever, he was hit in the eye by a handful of Skittles during a set in Los Angeles, and spent the remainder of his show rinsing his eye out with water.\n\nN-Dubz star Tulisa had her sunglasses knocked off by a fan's phone at one of the band's reunion gigs in Glasgow.\n\nAnd David Bowie remonstrated with a fan at a Norwegian music festival in 2004 after being hit in the eye by a lollipop.\n\nThe hard candy - known locally as \"love on a stick\" - was presumably thrown as an act of affection, but caused the singer huge discomfort.\n\nHe backed off the runway, hunched over, and was assisted by his set crew, before returning to the microphone and swearing at the culprit.\n\nExplaining that he only had one good eye after a childhood fight, he said: \"The other one has just become a little bit more decorative than it was before… Lucky you hit the bad one\".\n\nRegaining his composure, he announced plans to punish the crowd with an \"even longer concert\" than planned.\n\nTowards the end of the concert, he threw a guitar pick into the crowd and jokingly asked if he'd hit anyone in the eye.", "The sea off the coast of Aberdeen, where this lighthouse stands, is particularly warm\n\nSome of the most intense marine heat increases on Earth have developed in seas around the UK and Ireland, the European Space Agency (Esa) says.\n\nWater temperatures are as much as 3 to 4C above the average for this time of year in some areas, according to analysis by Esa and the Met Office.\n\nThe sea is particularly warm off the UK's east coast from Durham to Aberdeen, and off north-west Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office says the reason is partly human-caused climate change.\n\nBut other, less-understood natural and man-made factors appear to be driving temperatures up further.\n\nThe Esa data shows sea water around virtually the entire coastline of the British Isles is warmer than usual.\n\nScientists warn that intense heat like this can kill fish and other sea life, sometimes on a huge scale.\n\nMarine heatwaves - prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures - are also associated with more extreme weather because storm systems pick up more energy and can become more intense and longer-lasting.\n\nThe warm sea around the UK comes as air and ocean surface temperatures worldwide have been spiking sharply in recent months.\n\nGlobal sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest ever recorded in Met Office data that goes all the way back to 1850.\n\nIn May the average ocean temperature was 0.85C higher than normal for the month, according to figures from the US National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\n\nWe have seen a series of extreme heat events around the world with unusually high temperatures helping fuelling record-breaking wildfires in Canada that blanketed New York and other North American cities in smoke.\n\nAsia has also been affected, with monthly records broken in China and in parts of Siberia.\n\nThe coast off County Durham, pictured here, has seen some of the biggest temperature increases\n\nAt the same time the extent of the sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record for this date by a large margin.\n\nProfessor Albert Klein Tank, the head of the Met Office's Hadley climate research centre, does not believe the array of global temperature records signals that the Earth has passed some kind of climate tipping-point.\n\n\"All of these elements are part of natural variation within the climate system which are coming together to elevate sea-surface temperatures to higher levels\", he says.\n\nThe unusually high temperatures have continued into this month.\n\nThe first 11 days of June were the hottest ever recorded worldwide for this time of year, the EU's Copernicus climate and weather monitoring service reported last week.\n\nIt said this is the first time that global air temperatures have exceeded pre-industrial levels by more than 1.5C during the month of June.\n\nThe scientific consensus is that keeping long-term global temperatures below that 1.5C threshold is essential to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nThe current high temperatures are expected to be temporary though; the 1.5C threshold relates to average temperatures over a 20 or 30-year period.\n\nWorkers in Peru clean up after a storm as a coastal El Niño impacted the coast\n\nBut experts expect more temperature records to be broken in the coming months because the Pacific Ocean is expected to continue to warm thanks to the development of an El Niño event.\n\nScientists are already predicting it is likely to make 2024 the world's hottest year.\n\nEl Niño is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth.\n\nThe El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, to give it its scientific name, is moving into its hot phase when warm waters come to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean driving significant heat into the atmosphere.\n\nBut the most dramatic increase in sea surface temperature right now is in the North Atlantic.\n\nIn May temperatures were 1.25C above the long-term average, the highest deviation ever recorded in a single month, according to the Met Office.\n\nScientists are not sure why we are seeing this record heat in the waters around the UK and across the North Atlantic, but they say climate change is certainly playing a crucial role. As we continue to pump vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere we are driving up global temperatures.\n\nBut other factors are likely also playing a role.\n\nProfessor Michael Mann, an atmospheric scientist at Penn State University, says weaker than average winds have reduced the amount of dust from the Sahara Desert in the atmosphere.\n\nSaharan dust blocks and reflects some of the sun's energy out of the atmosphere, moderating sea temperatures.\n\nThe trade winds have been unusually light this year and, at the same time, a persistent weather pattern with easterly winds from the continental US may also have helped warm the sea surface.\n\nA reduction in pollution in shipping may have helped to warm up the oceans\n\nAnother factor could be the effects of a reduction in pollution from shipping.\n\nRegulations reducing the sulphur content of fuel burned by ships were brought in by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2020.\n\nThis significantly reduces the amount of aerosol particles released into the atmosphere, the IMO says.\n\nBut aerosols that pollute the air can also help reflect heat back into space, so removing them may have caused more heat to enter the waters.\n\nIt looks like the impacts of the exceptional temperatures in the North Atlantic are already beginning to be felt.\n\nThe eastern tropical Atlantic is the main spawning ground for North Atlantic hurricanes and the Met Office says an Atlantic tropical storm looks likely to form east of the Caribbean by the middle of this week.\n\nJulian Heming, a tropical cyclone expert at the Met Office, says it is very unusual to see a storm developing in that area so early in the season.\n\nHurricane development is normally supressed during El Niño periods, but the Met Office's forecast suggests an above average season for tropical storms and cyclones in the North Atlantic basin this year because of the high surface temperatures.\n\nThe Met Office says we can expect the hot weather to continue.\n\nIt says there is a 45% chance - significantly higher than usual - that the UK will have what it describes as a \"hot summer\".", "So, Boris Johnson's former colleagues have voted to approve a report which concluded he deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nMissed it? Here's a quick wrap up of today's events:\n\nMPs voted by 354 votes to seven to approve the report, after five hours of debate on its findings that the ex-PM deliberately misled the House of Commons over parties in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nMany Tory MPs chose to stay away from Parliament today, which means no vote was recorded for them.\n\nQuestions have been raised over the whereabouts of current PM Rishi Sunak, who earlier said he had other commitments and was absent during the debate. He has declined to express an opinion on the report's findings so far.\n\nA full vote was called after Labour objected to adopting the report unanimously, forcing MPs to put their position on the record.\n\nSo what happens now?\n\nWell, in a sense not much as Johnson has already resigned as an MP. There'll be a by-election on 20 July in his north-west London constituency, Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nBut one material sanction against Johnson that MPs endorsed is to deny him a parliamentary access pass, given to former MPs to allow them unlimited access to Parliament.", "The long-anticipated report by MPs into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid lockdown parties in No 10 is finally out.\n\nThe report by the seven-member privileges committee followed a year-long investigation and runs to 106 pages.\n\nThe former prime minister stood down as an MP last week after receiving an advance copy, angrily accusing the committee of bias.\n\nHere are the key findings.\n\nThe main finding is that he deliberately misled the House of Commons by repeatedly telling it, after the Partygate scandal emerged, that Covid rules had been followed at all times in Downing Street.\n\nHe has already admitted MPs were misled by his original statements, but he says he believed them to be true at the time, and they were based on assurances he had received from officials.\n\nHowever, the report found he had \"personal knowledge\" of breaches of the rules and guidance in No 10.\n\nAnd it added he failed to proactively seek out \"authoritative\" assurances about compliance, which it said amounted to a \"deliberate closing of his mind\".\n\nIt concluded it was \"highly unlikely\" he had really believed the assurances he gave at the time, \"still less that he could continue to believe them to this day\".\n\nThe report therefore concluded he had committed a \"contempt\" of Parliament through his original reassurances, because they stopped MPs from carrying out their \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nThey found that he had also committed a contempt by:\n\nThe committee found that the contempt was \"all the more serious\" because he was the most senior member of the government.\n\nOne key bit of evidence came from Martin Reynolds, his former principal private secretary, a civil servant.\n\nHe told the inquiry that, while preparing for a session of Prime Minister's Questions in December 2021, he had questioned whether it was \"realistic\" for Mr Johnson to say rules had always been followed.\n\nMr Johnson also said he'd been given assurances by his media advisers that rules were followed.\n\nBut the committee said this advice, given in response to press stories, should not have been used to make broad statements about rules being followed at all times.\n\nThe report said he should have obtained an \"authoritative assessment\" before saying this, for example by consulting government lawyers.\n\nThe committee also published new evidence, including a statement from an unnamed No 10 official that there was a \"wider culture of not adhering to any rules\" in the building.\n\nThe official added that birthday parties, leaving parties and end of week gatherings \"all continued as normal\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe committee said before Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, it had wanted to recommend suspending him from for more than 10 days.\n\nThis would have meant he would potentially have faced a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe report also revealed two of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted.\n\nExpulsion is extremely rare in Parliament's history, having occurred only three times in the last hundred years or so.\n\nBut suspending him is no longer an option, given that he's already stood down as an MP in his blistering resignation statement last week.\n\nHowever, the report says that now, given what he's said about the committee, they would have recommended a ban of 90 days - an extremely long ban by the standards of recent years.\n\nAnd it says he should not get a parliamentary pass, which former MPs would normally be able to apply for.\n\nPerhaps the greatest punishment in the report, ultimately, will be the damage it does to his reputation among Conservative MPs - and what it means for his prospects of any future political comeback.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer outlines plans for a 'British jobs bonus' to create new jobs in the UK\n\nLabour will end new North Sea oil and gas exploration, but help communities profit from clean power projects, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh, the Labour leader vowed to \"cut bills, create jobs and provide energy security\".\n\nHe also said that a previously announced publicly-owned green energy company would be based in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir is under pressure from environmentalists and the oil industry over the scale and pace of change.\n\nClimate campaigners have criticised the party for rowing back on a pledge to invest £28bn a year in green industries.\n\nIn England, planning rules which effectively ban new onshore wind farm developments would be scrapped if Labour won the next election.\n\nLabour has confirmed it would \"not grant licences to explore new fields\" in the North Sea, a momentous shift for a sector which supports 200,000 UK jobs, including 90,000 in Scotland, according to trade body Offshore Energies UK.\n\nBut the party insisted it would honour any licences in existence at the time of the next election, which must be held by January 2025. That is likely to include the controversial new Rosebank development west of Shetland.\n\nSir Keir said: \"Labour will deliver lower bills, good jobs, and energy security for Scotland and the whole UK, as Britain leads the world in the fight against climate change.\"\n\nHe said it would be a \"historic mistake\" to wait until North Sea oil and gas runs out and let the opportunities \"pass us by\".\n\nThe Labour leader said his party had \"a credible plan to manage the change, protect good jobs and create good jobs. No cliff edges.\"\n\nOne of Labour's initiatives will be to provide more incentives for areas to take part in new clean energy projects. Under Labour's plans, GB Energy - the new publicly-owned firm which it says will be based in Scotland at a location yet to be decided - would play a key role in getting that message across.\n\nIt would oversee the return of profits from successful projects to local councils. The councils could then use that income to reduce council tax, pay for improved public services or simply provide rebates on energy bills.\n\nLabour says GB Energy could end up providing up to £600m per year to local councils to invest in green infrastructure and a further £400m annually in low interest loans for community projects.\n\nThese community loans would be designed to ensure small projects could benefit from the expertise of GB Energy while also generating money for local areas.\n\nSir Keir accused the Conservatives and the SNP of having abysmal records on renewables.\n\nHe said Labour would introduce new rules on \"good work, decent pay and union recognition\" - and create a new incentive.\n\nThis would be \"a British jobs bonus that will attract new investment, new jobs, new supply chains into our deprived industrial heartlands and will reward companies that back working people\".\n\nOffshore Energy UK's chief executive David Whitehouse told the BBC that Labour's plans to move away from the reliance of North Sea oil and gas \"would create a cliff edge\" deterring investment and heightening the risk of energy shortages.\n\nMr Whitehouse said 180 of the North Sea's 283 active oil and gas fields were due to close by 2030, and new licences were \"essential\" or production would \"plummet\" and \"the UK and its skilled workforce will be exposed\".\n\nThe GMB union said the UK was going to need oil and gas until 2050 and beyond, and that a ban on new licences \"ignores this reality\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer says he wants to make Britain a clean energy superpower\n\nBut Philip Evans, of Greenpeace UK, said the idea that the plans would \"lead to an overnight shutdown of the industry\" was nonsense.\n\nLabour's opposition to new exploration licences represented \"genuine leadership\" he added, and the party was right \"to debunk scare stories being peddled by climate delayers\".\n\nMike Childs, head of science, policy and research at Friends of the Earth, welcomed Labour's latest ideas but warned \"there can be no backsliding on pledges to stop new oil and gas extraction and invest in green growth\".\n\nEnvironmental groups are particularly vocal about their opposition to the proposed Rosebank development in the North Atlantic.\n\nIndustry and government sources say the field could be approved by the UK government's North Sea Transition Authority within weeks.\n\nNorwegian state-controlled oil company Equinor said Rosebank could produce almost 70,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak.\n\nThe ban against on-shore wind farms will be lifted if Labour wins the election\n\nSir Keir has held private talks with senior energy industry figures in the past week and previously gave direct assurances to Equinor that a Labour government would not revoke any licences.\n\nInstead the party says its focus is on delivering \"cheaper zero carbon power by 2030\" and its \"mission\" includes plans to attract and incentivise investment \"in the UK's industrial heartlands\".\n\nThat is likely to provoke comparisons with the approach taken by the US Democratic president Joe Biden whose Inflation Reduction Act has been described by the UK Conservative government's Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch as \"protectionist\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' energy spokesman Liam Kerr described Labour's plans as \"ruinous\" for the UK's oil and gas industry, claiming they \"would throw up to 90,000 highly skilled workers in the North East under a bus pretty much overnight\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was committed to \"a planned and fair transition\" away from fossil fuels that did not imperil jobs.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said Labour governments had squandered hundreds of billions of pounds of oil and gas revenues, and only invested a fraction in Scotland.\n\n\"I am not sure anybody will trust a Labour Party on the green economy just two weeks after they dump their £28bn green prosperity fund,\" he added.", "Amazon has pledged to hire 5,000 Ukrainian and other refugees in Europe as part of a wider drive to help people fleeing persecution.\n\nHilton Hotels, Adecco and Microsoft are also among the firms promising to offer work or career support.\n\nIt comes as the global number of people forcibly displaced from their countries stands at a record 110 million.\n\nMargaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the European Commission, said far too many refugees could not find work.\n\n\"This is despite our endemic skills shortages, their high levels of education, desire to earn a living, and legal right to work [in the EU] through the Temporary Protection Directive,\" she said.\n\n\"This unprecedented show of support from businesses across the continent will be critical to enabling tens of thousands of Ukrainians to provide for themselves and their loved ones back in Ukraine.\"\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian refugees living in Europe stands at more than 5.9 million, including 1.3 million living in Russia and Belarus.\n\nMillions of others have fled conflicts and persecution in regions such as Syria, Sudan and Afghanistan.\n\nThe Tent Partnership for Refugees charity, which is co-ordinating the efforts, said most of the Ukrainian refugees in Europe were women and faced particular hurdles when finding jobs.\n\nThese ranged from not knowing the local language to having to juggle childcare responsibilities.\n\nUnder its initiative, big firms including Amazon, Hilton and Marriott have committed to hire 13,680 Ukrainians and other refugees for their workforce over the next three years.\n\nIn addition, staffing agencies such as Adecco will help 150,000 find work, while the likes of Accenture and Microsoft will help train more than 86,000.\n\nAmazon has already committed to hiring at least 5,000 refugees in the US by the end of 2024 under its Welcome Door programme.\n\nIt said it also provided financial support for immigration-related processes, access to self-help guides on settling into a new community and mentorship and training.\n\nThe firm, which employs 200,000 across Europe, said most of the new roles for refugees would be in areas such as fulfilment and distribution.\n\nHowever, J Ofori Agboka, a vice-president at the e-commerce giant, said workers would be eligible \"to move into jobs that are in different levels of the organisation that are commensurate with their skills and abilities\".", "The BB in Northern Ireland originally decided to become a separate body in 2022\n\nThe Boys' Brigade (BB) in Northern Ireland has finalised the terms of its split from the organisation in the UK and Ireland.\n\nA new organisation called the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade is to be established.\n\nBut companies from County Donegal will be able to remain in the Northern Ireland body as part of the agreement.\n\nThe final decision to set up the new organisation is expected to be approved at a meeting on Monday.\n\nThe BB in Northern Ireland originally decided to become a separate body in 2022.\n\nThe split with the BB in the UK and Ireland is due to differences over finance, governance and some \"cultural differences\" on faith matters.\n\nWith about 11,000 boys and 2,500 leaders in about 260 churches across Northern Ireland, the BB is one of NI's biggest youth organisations.\n\nIt is connected mainly to Presbyterian churches, as well as some other Protestant denominations.\n\nThe first BB company in Northern Ireland was set up in Donegall Pass in Belfast in 1888, five years after the organisation was founded in Glasgow.\n\nThere are now about 1,200 companies in the UK and Ireland as a whole, and many more in other countries across the world.\n\nBBC News NI understands that stances on LGBT issues accounted for some of the \"cultural differences\" with the BB in the UK and Ireland.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade said it did not hold a \"doctrinal position\" on LGBT issues.\n\n\"That is a matter for each church denomination with which we partner,\" they added.\n\nAccording to the terms of the split agreement, seen by BBC News NI, the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade \"would not actively seek to form companies in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\nBut the agreement with the BB in the UK and Ireland means \"Donegal companies will be part of the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland BB will also pay a \"fixed annual fee for five years\" for intellectual property to continue using the BB anchor emblem, logo, uniform and the \"Sure and Steadfast\" motto.\n\nThe organisation in Northern Ireland will continue to take part in UK-wide award and activity schemes for \"an initial period of five years\".\n\nThe decision for Northern Ireland to become an \"autonomous organisation\" was previously approved by an overwhelming majority of companies.\n\nAs a result the vote on the final split agreement is also expected to be approved at the Monday's meeting.\n\nBut some members of the BB who have contacted BBC News NI have been critical of the move, saying it creates a \"BB Irish Sea border\".", "Church of Ireland lay reader, Melanie Houston, returned the book to David Galway, the original owner's grandson\n\nA 98-year-old family Bible has been reunited with its rightful owner after being found in a second-hand bookshop.\n\nChurch of Ireland lay reader Melanie Houston was given the Bible by a member of the congregation and made it her mission to find out who owned it.\n\nThe grandson of the original owner, David Galway, said he was \"delighted\" to be acquainted with a piece of family history he did not know existed.\n\nAnd he plans to pass the book on to his own children.\n\nMs Houston of Christ Church in Ardkeen, County Down, feared she was being sent on a \"wild goose chase\" when asked to trace the owners of the precious book.\n\nShe said she acknowledged the importance of family bibles as she still has her great grandmother's bible and feels a connection to her through the handwriting on the pages.\n\nBut she said: \"I just thought there was no way I was going to find this family, some of whom had travelled to England.\"\n\nBut after an appeal on the BBC News NI website Mr Galway got in contact with the BBC and was put in touch with Ms Houston.\n\n\"I spoke with David on the phone and there was no doubt that he was James Galway's grandson. He was able to give me all of the information about the marriages, even the ones in England,\" she said.\n\nThe bible was given to David Galway's grandfather David on his wedding day on 22 October 1925\n\nThe Bible was given to John Galway and Mary Eleanor Mills on their wedding day at St Mark's Church in Armagh on 22 October 1925.\n\n\"We are happy to have it reunited with ourselves. It contains some valuable information in relation to marriages and deaths, some of which is new to me,\" said Mr Galway.\n\nThe birth of his father William John Galway, known as Jack, is recorded in the bible in 1926.\n\n\"We knew there was bible from the other side of the family. It was a revelation that this book existed but I recognise some of the later entries as my father's writing so he appears to have kept it up.\"\n\nThe birth of David Galway's father William John Galway, known as Jack, is recorded in the bible in 1926\n\nThe current rector at St Mark's, the Reverend Canon Malcolm Kingston, explained that the gifting of a Bible to newlyweds is still common practice in the Church of Ireland.\n\n\"We would still give a Bible to every couple getting married in the church, although they would not have the family tree and record which seems to be something from the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Galway is unsure how the book got misplaced but believes it may have been donated to a charity shop along with other books after his parents died.\n\nMr Galway said that he recognises his father's writing in some of the later entries in the records\n\nHappy to be reunited with the family record, Mr Galway said that he plans to hand down the Bible to his youngest daughter.\n\n\"We pass down other items and they have been divided among the family, but I think it is important. She's so happy to be keeping it and it will be precious to her.\"​", "Philip Booth, owner of Supajump, put \"profit over safety\", a judge said\n\nThe owner of an indoor trampoline park where four children broke their legs has been given a suspended sentence.\n\nPhilip Booth, 61, from St Mellons, Cardiff, did not report the injuries to the council.\n\nThe children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were hurt at Supajump on Trident Trade Park, Ocean Way, Cardiff.\n\nA judge at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday sentenced him to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nHe also fined the company £10,000 and ordered it to pay prosecution costs of £10,000.\n\nHe said Booth had put \"profit ahead of safety\" and the trust the families of the children had put in him was \"sorely misplaced\".\n\nBooth previously admitted six health and safety offences which occurred between August 2017 and October 2019.\n\nFour children suffered broken legs, another fractured her spine, and a sixth sustained facial injuries.\n\nSupajump consists of about 20,000 sq ft (1,858 sq m) of interconnected trampolines with features such as angled walls, trick airbags, slam dunk basketball, and a battle beam.\n\nCarl Harrison, prosecuting, told the court the attraction did not have a suitable risk assessment, systems of work or staff training procedure in place.\n\nMr Harrison added there was no suitable supervision of young children and no reporting took place which would have triggered a review of the premises to see if it was up to standard.\n\nHe said Booth largely ignored guidance from the regulator which resulted in further accidents and more children being injured.\n\nThe mother of a girl who broke her leg at Supajump in 2018 in an incident not related to the case said it was \"shocking\" to know there were unsafe attractions for children.\n\n\"You don't think to research these places before you take your children,\" said Amy Kirkpatrick, whose daughter Lilly broke her tibia and fibula just under he knee.\n\nLilly, with her mum Amy, broke her leg at Supajump in 2018\n\nThe injury caused Lilly's leg to grow at an angle and she needed metal plates to straighten it out.\n\n\"It really shocked me and I was in a lot of pain,\" the 11-year-old recalled.\n\n\"I used to not be able to run properly,\" she said. \"My leg would hurt sometimes and I wouldn't be able to skip around.\"\n\nMum Amy said: \"It's horrific how there can be somewhere you take your children thinking you are having a nice day thinking it's safe because you assume the people running the parks have done all the right safety things.\"\n\nOf the six children whose injuries were part of the case, the court heard one child, aged eight, got stuck underneath an airbag trampoline in October 2017 and had difficulty breathing.\n\nWhen she managed to free herself she had blood coming from her mouth and had cuts on her face and arms.\n\nBooth told her parents it was \"only a graze\" and the accident was not reported to the local authority, Mr Harrison said.\n\nIn February 2018, another girl, aged three, broke her leg after an adult in his 30s landed on top of her while doing a star jump. The child was crying and was offered an ice pack.\n\nBut when she was taken to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, an X-ray revealed she had broken her leg and spent nine months in a plaster cast. The accident was again not reported by the company.\n\nMultiple broken legs at Supajump in Cardiff went unreported\n\nAnother child, aged 11, broke her leg after landing on something hard in the foam pit in April 2018.\n\nMr Harrison said when the parents filled out a form explaining what had happened, they were told by a staff member to take out any reference to her hitting something hard, claiming it was not possible, and the incident was not reported by Supajump.\n\nIn April 2019, a nine-year-old girl broke her thigh bone in the foam pit, and in August that year another girl, also nine, fractured her spine in the same area of the trampoline park. Neither incident was reported.\n\nFinally, the court heard a three-year-old boy broke his leg in August 2019 after an older boy jumped on his trampoline.\n\nThe double jump resulted in him landing awkwardly. An X-ray at the Royal Gwent Hospital revealed breaks in both lower leg bones in one leg, but the accident was not reported by the attraction owners.\n\nRepresenting Booth, John Ryan said: \"There are failures for which he is truly remorseful.\"\n\nAddressing Booth, Judge Matthew Porter Bryant that problems \"soon became evident\" at the park after it opened in April 2017 and that \"basic principles\" of safety were absent.\n\nHe said: \"Premises like yours should remove risk and give children a chance to have fun in a safe place.\n\n\"People put their trust in you that all safety precautions are taken but that trust was sorely misplaced. There is evidence you put profit ahead of safety.\"", "Rory McIlroy's nine-year wait for a fifth major win goes on after he was beaten by one shot by American Wyndham Clark at the US Open in Los Angeles.\n\nClark, 29, carded a level-par 70 to claim his first major on 10 under and the $3.6m (£2.8m) winner's cheque.\n\n\"US Opens are tough. I felt at ease though and kept saying to myself, 'I can do this, I can do this',\" he said.\n\nMcIlroy looked shattered after another close call in a major but said: \"I'm right there, it's such fine margins.\"\n\nUnderdog Clark's triumph, a fine storyline in Hollywood, means it is now 3,234 days since McIlroy's last major triumph, at the US PGA Championship at Valhalla in 2014.\n\nAnd whether at Southern Hills, Torrey Pines, the Augusta National, St Andrews or now on Los Angeles Country Club's ultra-exclusive north course, a theme has continued of the Northern Irishman just falling short - he now has 19 top-10 finishes in majors, including in each of the past five US Opens.\n\nAfter posting a 70 to finish on nine under, he said on Sky Sports: \"I have just got to keep putting myself in these positions. Sooner or later it's going to happen for me.\"\n\nThe world number three, who has essentially won everything else there is to win in golf, is sure to place this week high on his list of missed opportunities.\n\nHowever, like in his final reckoning of the 150th Open Championship last summer it was tough to find too much fault with a performance in a final round that yielded one birdie, one bogey and 16 pars.\n\nHis only possible regret will be that he was unable to exert enough pressure on Clark on a day when he found more greens in regulation than any other player.\n\nAn opening birdie set the right tone but thereafter it proved a difficult day for McIlroy with putter in hand on the treacherously quick and dried out surfaces.\n\nA missed birdie putt from four feet on the par-five eighth proved pivotal as did a messy bogey at the par-five 14th despite being given a free drop after plugging his approach into the muddy bank of a greenside bunker.\n\n\"There are a couple of things I will rue,\" he added. \"The chip on 14 being one.\n\n\"It was really hard to get the ball close [to the holes] but I hung in there and just didn't quite get the job done.\n\n\"I will keep coming back until I get another one.\"\n\nPrior to this week Clark had only made the cut in two of his six previous major championship appearances, with a tie for 75th at the US PGA Championship in 2021 his best finish.\n\nHowever, the world number 32 repeatedly belied his lack of major championship experience to announce himself on one of the game's biggest stages in fine style.\n\nClark, who claimed his first PGA Tour win at Quail Hollow last month, looked calm and confident on the sun-kissed north course and even when he found himself in difficulty was able to limit the damage to his scorecard.\n\nAfter taking two attempts to play out of waist-high clumps of grass to the left of the eighth green he was able to superbly chip to three feet to ensure he dropped only one shot.\n\n\"That up and down for bogey was probably the key to the tournament,\" said Clark who becomes the fifth successive player to win their first major at the US Open.\n\nClark also worked himself out of another tricky situation at the par-three ninth, draining a downhill seven-foot putt to salvage par after hitting his tee shot into the rough on the edge of a greenside bunker. Minutes earlier, McIlroy had missed a birdie putt on a similar line.\n\nDropped shots on the 15th and 16th revived the possibility of late drama, but a visibly emotional Clark, who had poignantly talked of wanting to win for his late mother, Lise, who died of breast cancer in 2013, hugged caddie John Ellis and family members on the 18th green after parring the last to seal his victory.\n\n\"I just felt like my mom was watching over me,\" he said.\n\n\"I just feel like it was my time. I have dreamed of this moment for so long and there are so many times I have visualised being here in front of you guys and winning this championship.\"\n\nThe best of the rest\n\nWorld number one Scottie Scheffler was third after also signing for a 70 and seven under total.\n\nLike his playing partner McIlroy, the American was unable to find his rhythm on the greens despite tinkering with his putter in practice during the week.\n\n\"I just felt like I wasn't sharp enough to move up the board. You've got to put the ball in the right spots, and it's tough to make putts,\" said the 2022 Masters winner.\n\nJoint overnight leader Rickie Fowler slipped to a disappointing five-over 75 as he finished in a tie for fifth.\n\nFowler's bogey at the 18th was one of seven overall as he fell away to end up a shot behind reigning Open champion Cameron Smith, who made three birdies on the back nine during a late charge.\n\nAustralia's Min Woo Lee and Tommy Fleetwood also ended the championship on five under, with the Englishman carding eagles on the sixth and 14th holes as he delivered the lowest round of the day with a seven-under 63.\n\nIt saw the 32-year-old, who also made four birdies, create history as he became the first player to shoot 63 twice at the US Open and the fourth player after Greg Norman, Vijay Singh and Brooks Koepka to post multiple 63s in major championships.\n\nWorld number two Jon Rahm signed for a five-under 65 to finish at three under in a tie for 10th, with England's defending champion ending the championship at one under alongside US PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka.", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was among the first media organisations to gain access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine's counteroffensive.\n\nOut of this cluster of four settlements in the eastern Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting according to the battalion which liberated it. Ukraine lost six soldiers in the process.\n\nIts name means \"not boring\" in Ukrainian.\n\nAn obvious irony for a village that was occupied by Russia in spring last year - a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt was at the most northern point of a protruding Russian front line.\n\nAs our army escort, Anatoliy, speeds along scarred roads in his camouflaged truck towards Neskuchne, it's clear this is a different kind of liberation to what we saw last year.\n\nFirstly there are no civilians here. The only remnants of civilisation come in the form of a blown out pharmacy and food store.\n\nThere isn't a complex network of trenches either. A makeshift wooden bridge over a river is all it takes to take us into territory Russia has held for so long.\n\nBuildings are also riddled with bullet holes from smaller calibre weapons. There's been a lot of close quarter fighting here.\n\nAnatoliy doesn't like to hang around for long.\n\nMortars are periodically fired from Ukrainian troops hidden in thick tree lines or abandoned gardens. He explains the Russians are just on the brow of hill in three directions.\n\nThe sudden rising of three plumes of smoke is a cue to keep moving. The Russians are responding with Grad missiles.\n\nThe situation here is far more fluid than the triumphant claims of liberation which had come from from Kyiv this week.\n\nRussian forces have been pushing back as recently as last night, which Ukrainian officials have now acknowledged.\n\nUkraine's counteroffensive is in its early stages with modest gains.\n\nIf Neskuchne is anything to go by, any liberation will be far from immediate, and won't necessarily bring freedom straight away.\n\nFormer residents of Neskuchne told the BBC that the village was also briefly occupied in 2014 - when Russia-backed fighters seized large swathes of land in the Donetsk and neighbouring Luhansk regions. This followed the illegal annexation by Russia of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.\n\nThe small village then went back into Ukrainian hands only to be seized by Russian troops soon after last year's invasion.\n\nEarlier this week, a video emerged purportedly showing two Ukrainian soldiers raising the country's blue-and-yellow national flag on destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.\n\nThe loud booming sound of nearby shelling can also be heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A video on social media purports to show a Ukrainian flag being raised in Neskuchne, Donetsk Oblast", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootball legend Graeme Souness has completed a swim across the English Channel to raise £1m for charity.\n\nThe ex-Liverpool player was inspired to take on the challenge after meeting Isla Grist, 14, who suffers from rare skin disease Epidermolysis bullosa.\n\nThe 70-year-old broke down in tears during a BBC interview as he called it \"the cruellest disease out there\".\n\nSouness completed the 21-mile swim as part of a six-person relay team in 12 hours and 17 minutes.\n\nHe took part in the team challenge, which included Isla's father, to raise money for Debra UK, which supports people with the disease, also known as butterfly skin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Souness explained why he decided to swim the English Channel\n\nPosting on Twitter, the charity offered its \"huge congratulations\" to Souness and his fellow swimmers.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast ahead of taking on the gruelling test of endurance, the former Rangers and Scotland player, who lives in Dorset, described meeting Isla from the Scottish Highlands.\n\nHe choked back tears as he described her as \"the most unique person I've ever met\".\n\n\"She does this to me every time. She's an inspiration to me - even at my age,\" he said.\n\nThe former Scotland international said he and Isla have become firm friends over the years he has known her\n\nIsla, from Black Isle, near Inverness, has had her condition since birth and has to be wrapped head to toe in bandages. These are changed three times a week in a procedure that is extremely painful.\n\nSouness said he first became aware of the disease about five years ago. He said he had now become \"mates\" with Isla, whose courage was an inspiration to him.\n\n\"This disease... it's the cruellest, nastiest disease. For someone so young to be so brave... and Isla's aware of the impact this has on her mum and dad and she helps them,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a very special young lady you're in the company of, she really is, and I am… she gets me in tears every time I'm in her company.\"\n\nSpecial coverage of Graeme Souness' Channel swim will feature on BBC Breakfast on Monday 19 June\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of Dawid Wlodarczyk, 3, Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11, and Michal Wlodarczyk, 39 were found on Friday\n\nPolice are treating the death of a woman found dead alongside her partner and two children as murder.\n\nMonika Wlodarczyk, 35, died from multiple sharp-force wounds, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nShe was found dead at a flat in west London alongside Michal Wlodarczyk, 39, Maja Wlodarczyk, 11 and Dawid Wlodarczyk, three.\n\nOfficers are not looking for anybody else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThe Met said Mr Wlodarczyk died from neck wounds.\n\nThe force added it was not able to provide further details as to the circumstances of his death at this stage.\n\nThe children's post-mortem examinations are due to take place on Wednesday at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said it was called by Maja's school at 15:12 BST on 16 June \"since they and her friends were concerned that she had not attended school since 12 June, and family members had not replied to messages\".\n\nOfficers later forced entry to the family home in Staines Road in Bedfont, Hounslow, where the four bodies were found.\n\nPolice officers were at the property in Staines Road on Saturday\n\nPolice said they do not yet know when the four died, but inquests into their deaths will open and adjourn on Tuesday at West London Coroner's Court.\n\nThe family's next of kin have been informed and are being supported by family liaison officers.\n\nDet Ch Insp Linda Bradley, who is leading the investigation, said: \"I would like to assure the community that specialist detectives continue to investigate the circumstances which led to this tragic incident and I will continue to provide further updates as soon as appropriate.\n\n\"Officers remain at the location and forensic examination of the flat is ongoing.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have voted to approve a report which found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over parties at Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nHe would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, but quit after seeing the findings in advance.", "Coronation Street actor Michael Turner has said press intrusion into his life left him feeling \"paranoid\".\n\nMr Turner, who goes by the stage name Michael Le Vell, is one of four people suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), accusing it of using unlawful methods.\n\nBut the actor admitted some information about him reported by MGN titles was published in other reports at the time.\n\nMGN is contesting the case in the High Court, and denies gathering information about Mr Turner unlawfully.\n\nMr Turner said the alleged intrusion had a \"massive and long lasting\" impact.\n\nThe star - who has played Kevin Webster in the soap for 40 years - told the court he was a \"very private person\" who only gave his mobile phone number to \"close friends and family\".\n\nTaken through numerous newspaper articles from the early 1990s, Mr Turner repeatedly conceded, \"yes, looks that way\", when it was put to him that information he claims came from hacking his voicemail messages had also appeared in other newspaper reports.\n\nOn claims that information about the impending birth of his daughter - including the fact she was overdue and his then-wife had suffered some complications - had come from hacking of his voicemail in 1995, Mr Turner conceded that he had given an interview in The Sun where he spoke in detail about the prospect of becoming a father.\n\n\"Looks that way, yes,\" was his response when it was put to him by MGN's barrister that he had spoken to the media about it.\n\nMr Turner told the court that he would likely have passed on such details about the pregnancy in voicemails, to his on-screen wife Sally Dynevor, but the court was also shown a News of the World article from September 1995 that described how he and his wife - who was heavily pregnant at the time - had attended a wedding and been in a pub.\n\nOn how details of a burglary at his home in 1993 emerged, and the revelation that his niece had subsequently given him money from her lottery jackpot winnings, Mr Turner was shown a previous article in which he was quoted as saying his wife was \"very upset\" and describing the \"bad world\" we live in.\n\nAsked by MGN's barrister if it was clear he had spoken to a reporter about the break in Mr Turner said: \"Yes, looks that way\".\n\nIn written evidence, Mr Turner said some colleagues thought he was leaking information to the tabloid press, particularly because he was a trade union representative and was privy to very personal information about them.\n\nHe added that many of professional relationships \"cooled\" after this, and that while many people now \"know the truth\", the actions of journalists caused \"irreversible damage\" to his friendships and reputation.\n\n\"I also became extremely paranoid about stories coming out and blamed innocent people close to me. I didn't know who I could trust,\" he said, adding that he started to treat friends with the same level of suspicion he had received from colleagues.\n\nClosing his cross examination, MGN barrister Richard Munden asked Mr Turner about his claim that he'd been labelled a \"mole\" by fellow Coronation Street actor Craig Charles.\n\nMr Turner said he was \"mortified\" by the claim, adding: \"Being a mole and leaking is one of the worst things you could do in our business.\"\n\nAsked how long Mr Charles had been in the cast of the soap at the time of the alleged exchange, Mr Turner told the court he was \"very new\" and may have been there only nine to 10 months.\n\nWhen asked as a final question how he came to think he may have been a victim of phone hacking, over a decade, by journalists at MGN, Mr Turner said: \"It just seems to be a few coincidences, let's say.\"\n\nMr Turner said he only became aware he may have a claim against MGN in May 2020, when Ms Dynevor called him and alerted him to it. His case focuses on 28 articles published by MGN.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March)\n\nThe High Court later heard that Piers Morgan \"explained\" how to hack a mobile phone and would have \"enjoyed\" sharing the details while working as the editor of the Daily Mirror.\n\nFormer political editor David Seymour said Mr Morgan \"mocked\" BT's chief executive about his customers needing to change their PINs.\n\nHe previously made this allegation about Mr Morgan during the 2012 Leveson Inquiry into press standards.\n\nMr Morgan has previously insisted in a BBC interview that he \"never told anybody to hack a phone.\"\n\nIn written evidence, Mr Seymour said he witnessed \"the work and behaviour of Mr Morgan on a daily basis at close quarters\" while Mr Morgan was the Daily Mirror editor between 1995 and 2004 - during which time Mr Seymour was the newspaper group's political editor.\n\n\"The nature of my role meant that he and I had a very close working relationship,\" he said.\n\n\"I regard him as unreliable and boastful who was apt to tell untruths when it suited him.\"\n\nMr Seymour went on to describe how on one occasion in 2002, he was told by a colleague that Mr Morgan had attended a lunch hosted by the chairman of the Mirror's parent company and allegedly told the chief executive of BT - who was also there - that BT customers should change their PIN settings.\n\n\"Sitting at my desk in the Mirror offices, I was approached by a journalist I knew, who sat nearby. This person had just come down from one of the chairman's lunches. My colleague started by saying, 'you'll never guess what Piers just said at Victor's lunch',\" Mr Seymour told the court.\n\n\"They then told me that Piers Morgan had mocked/taunted Ben Verwaayen, the CEO of BT who was present, saying something like, 'you need to tell your customers to change the PIN numbers on their mobile phones from factory settings, because otherwise you can just get into their voicemail messages'.\"\n\nWhen asked in court by Andrew Green KC, who was defending MGN, that the \"thrust of your evidence is that Piers Morgan knew how to hack a phone\", Mr Seymour responded: \"He explained it!\"\n\nFurther pressed on the unlikelihood that Mr Morgan would explain how to hack a phone if indeed he had done it or had the knowledge, Mr Seymour said: \"Piers Morgan was an extremely boastful person... he would've enjoyed\" telling BT's chief executive.\n\nMr Morgan has not given evidence during the case. Speaking to the BBC ahead of the High Court proceedings, Mr Morgan said: \"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the thunderstorms forecast for the weekend\n\nThunderstorms, winds and hail are sweeping across the UK and could cause flash flooding, the Met Office has warned.\n\nWarm, humid air this week has caused the storms to develop, the forecaster said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for England, Wales and Scotland is in place until Monday in some places.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said some of the worst storms could produce a month's worth of rain in a few hours.\n\nThe hot weather will continue, with temperatures reaching highs of 29C (84F) in some areas.\n\nHowever, seven flood warnings have been issued on Sunday evening in places including Bagley Dike at Grimesthorpe and Hunsworth Beck at Oakenshaw.\n\nThere are also 35 flood alerts, including for the River Maun in Nottinghamshire and the River Blythe in Warwickshire.\n\nThe entrance to the A&E department of Rotherham General Hospital was flooded on Sunday evening, as footage showed water seeping into the waiting area while a member of staff put down large paper towels on the floor to try to mop the water up.\n\nA person tries to mop up the flooding at Rotherham General Hospital\n\nFlash flooding also left roads \"impassable\" in Wrexham, North Wales Police said on Sunday evening, while Wrexham AFC said the 1864 Suite restaurant inside its Racecourse ground had to be evacuated due to structural damage caused by the heavy rain.\n\nOn Sunday, yellow weather warnings were in place for thunderstorms across Wales and most of England for most of the day.\n\nWeather warnings for rain were also in place until the evening of Sunday across northern England and the south of Scotland, due to a risk of spray and flooding.\n\nThe Met Office have issued further yellow warnings for heavy rain and the risk of flooding in the north of England a large part of Scotland for Sunday night and Monday morning.\n\nFlooding is expected across parts of England due to the heavy rainfall on Sunday, the Met Office said, adding that Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield, saw 35.6mm of rain between 18:00 and 19:00 BST.\n\nMr Taylor warned more rain was on the way, as he said: \"Some parts of the UK could see over a months worth of rain fall in just a few hours today and tonight, leading to flash flooding and disruption in places.\n\n\"Due to the nature of thunderstorms, there could be huge variations in weather conditions over a short distance. Whilst some areas stay dry and humid, others close-by could experience the severe storms with torrential rain, hail and frequent lightning.\n\n\"Thundery rain will develop more widely this evening across northern and eastern England, before heading into Scotland.\"\n\nHowever, he said that not everyone will see the storms, with conditions \"highly variable over just short distances, and many areas remaining dry\".\n\nLate on Sunday, and into the night, the thundery rain could affect more of northern and eastern England, as well as eastern Scotland, he added.\n\nA couple and their seven pets had to be rescued by neighbours after a lightning strike set fire to the roof of their bungalow on York Avenue, in Corringham, Essex, at about 03:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nThunder and lightning was spotted overnight in Penmon, Anglesey\n\nThe stormy forecast follows a week of high temperatures, where many parts of the UK officially experienced a heatwave.\n\nThe heatwave has caused some to experience heavy hay fever and worsened asthma attacks.\n\nPeople have complained on social media that their hay fever symptoms are worse than usual this year.\n\nGrahame Madge, a spokesperson for the Met Office, said this was a result of the hot, dry weather over the last few weeks.\n\n\"Pollen season is certainly with us,\" he said. \"The fact we've had very dry conditions means that grasses can release pollenen masseinto the air column.\"\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures are expected to keep rising.\n\nDespite the storms, the heat is set to continue. The highest temperature of the year so far was at Chertsey Water Works in Surrey on Saturday where highs of 32.2C were recorded.\n\nA hosepipe ban was issued in Kent and Sussex on Friday after South East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water reached \"record levels\" in June.\n\nThousands of South East Water customers were left without water or experienced low pressure over the last week due to supply issues - however the water company says people in Kent and Sussex should have now seen full supplies return.\n\nHow have the thunderstorms and rain affected your area? Share your experiences, pictures and videos by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Relations between Beijing and Washington have plummeted in recent years\n\nThe US and China have pledged to stabilise their tense relationship following US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two-day visit to Beijing.\n\nMr Blinken met China's President Xi Jinping for talks on Monday, restarting high-level communications between the rival superpowers.\n\nMr Xi said they had made progress, while Mr Blinken indicated that both sides were open to further talks.\n\nBut the top US diplomat made clear that there remained major differences.\n\n\"I stressed that... sustained communication at senior levels is the best way to responsibly manage differences and ensure that competition does not veer into conflict,\" Mr Blinken told reporters after the 35-minute meeting at the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square.\n\n\"I heard the same from my Chinese counterparts,\" he said. \"We both agree on the need to stabilise our relationship.\"\n\nBut Mr Blinken, 61, said he was \"clear-eyed\" about China and there were \"many issues on which we profoundly - even vehemently - disagree\".\n\nRelations between Beijing and Washington have plummeted in the wake of a Trump-era trade war, Beijing's assertive claims over Taiwan and the shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the US earlier this year.\n\nMr Blinken's visit is the first by a top US diplomat in almost five years.\n\nDiscussions between him and Mr Xi included everything from Russia's war in Ukraine and America's fentanyl crisis to Taiwan, North Korea and alleged human rights abuses by China, the US state department said.\n\nAnd although there were no clear breakthroughs, Mr Xi suggested relations could be moving in a positive direction.\n\n\"The two sides have also made progress and reached agreement on some specific issues,\" he said, in a transcript of his remarks released by the US state department. \"This is very good.\"\n\nThe meeting with Mr Xi was not originally on Mr Blinken's schedule and was announced just an hour before it took place.\n\nIt would have been widely viewed as a snub had it not happened, however, especially since Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates met Mr Xi in Beijing earlier this week.\n\nInstead, the Americans will be able to point to the secretary's visit - which also included meetings with China's top diplomat Wang Yi and Foreign Minister Qin Gang - as a successful re-engagement with the Chinese government after months of frosty relations.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and officials in Washington have said they view the Chinese as rivals and competitors and not adversaries. It is a fine line to walk, however, as the competition - both militarily and economically - heats up.\n\nWith the meeting, Mr Xi was also sending a message to his own people that his government was reaching out to Washington.\n\nTaiwan is the biggest area of contention between the two countries and the one that has the highest potential of escalating.\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province and Mr Xi has indicated that he wishes to bring Taiwan under Beijing's control during his term in office.\n\nHowever, Taiwan sees itself as distinct from the Chinese mainland with its own constitution and leaders. US President Joe Biden said last year that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack from China, a move condemned by Beijing.\n\nBut on Monday, Mr Blinken again stressed that Washington does not support Taiwan independence, adding that he sought to \"disabuse\" China of the notion the US is \"seeking to economically contain them\".\n\nHe said China gave some assurances too. It again stressed that it would not supply lethal aid to Russia to use in Ukraine, but Mr Blinken shared concerns about private Chinese companies aiding Russia's military.\n\nHowever, China knocked back a US proposal to restart communication channels between the countries' militaries - a key objective of the talks.\n\nWhile the trip yielded no great progress - as was expected - when concluding his news conference, Mr Blinken said he hoped it signalled better communication in the future.\n\n\"Progress is hard. It takes time. And it's not the product of one visit, one trip, one conversation,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I have done nothing wrong' - Nicola Sturgeon\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong after appearing in public for the first time since her arrest last Sunday.\n\nScotland's former first minister told journalists she intended to be back in the Scottish Parliament this week.\n\nMs Sturgeon was questioned for more than seven hours as part of a police investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nShe temporarily moved out of her Glasgow home after being released without charge.\n\nReturning there a week after her arrest, the former first minister said: \"For now, I intend to go home and catch up with family.\n\n\"I know I am a public figure - I accept what comes with that. But I'm also a human being that is entitled to a bit of privacy.\"\n\nWhen asked if she had considered stepping back from the SNP, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I have done nothing wrong and that is the only thing I am going to assert today.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell did not return to the house at the same time.\n\nPolice Scotland has been investigating for the past two years what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.\n\nAs part of Operation Branchform, officers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh on 5 April.\n\nEx-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was arrested before later being released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nA luxury motorhome which costs about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts and the arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nShe announced on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has since denied the timing was influenced by the police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.", "The Irish delegation raised concerns at a meeting of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference\n\nThe British and Irish governments have clashed over the UK's controversial bill dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt happened during a meeting of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference in London (BIIGC) on Monday.\n\nIt is understood Irish delegation raised concerns over the impact on investigations into loyalists attacks in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe BIIGC was set up by the Good Friday Agreement and meets twice a year.\n\nThe UK government's legislation on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland offers a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings and other Troubles-related crimes.\n\nIt has been criticised by victims' groups, the Irish government and political parties at Stormont.\n\nMicheál Martin said both governments need to work together on the issue of legacy\n\nOn Monday, it is understood the UK government was challenged on how its plan to end all police investigations as part of its legacy bill will affect ongoing Garda (Irish police) investigations into loyalist attacks.\n\nIrish government representatives highlighted both the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974 when 33 people were killed and also the loyalist bomb attacks in Belturbet, County Cavan, in 1972 when two teenagers were fatally injured.\n\nLast year Gardaí released two photofit images of a suspect in the Belturbet attacks as part of its cross-border investigation.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said both governments needed to work together on the issue of legacy.\n\nHe said he had an issue with people being granted immunity.\n\n\"We have fundamental concerns about the legislation currently before parliament,\" Mr Martin told the BIIGC press conference.\n\n\"We don't believe it is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights,\" he added.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said there was a \"complete agreement\" on the need for a restored executive\n\nMeanwhile, the Stormont stalemate was top of the agenda at the meeting for Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nHe said both governments were in \"complete agreement\" on the need for the restoration of the Northern Ireland executive.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said the local election results highlighted that the people of Northern Ireland wanted restoration as well.\n\nSinn Féin emerged as the biggest party in both local government and the Stormont assembly following recent elections.\n\nLast week, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the UK government was well aware of his party's concerns on the protocol which needed to be addressed before a return to Stormont.\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill called on the DUP to clarify what it has asked the government for in relation to the working of the NI Protocol.\n\nMs O'Neill said it was \"unacceptable\" that the DUP seemed to be holding private discussions with the government.\n\nAsked about Monday night's Commons debate on the privileges committee report that found former PM Boris Johnson misled parliament, Ms O'Neill said she would not comment on how MPs should vote but said \"Boris Johnson has been a disaster from start to finish\".\n\nMPs later voted by a margin of 354 to seven to approve the report.\n\nThe BIIGC is one of the few such bodies unaffected by the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) boycott of Stormont.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris's number two, Steve Baker, and Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee were also at the meeting.\n\nThe meeting was held as talks continued between the UK government and the DUP.\n\nIt is understood the party is looking for changes to the legislation governing the Northern Ireland Protocol as well as further constitutional guarantees.\n\nLast week Mr Heaton-Harris caused raised eyebrows when he said he did not know what the DUP was asking for - a view contradicted by the party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.\n\nOn Friday, at a meeting of the British Irish Council in Jersey, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he was sure Mr Heaton-Harris would \"listen respectfully\" to the DUP's position.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said his government could only play a supporting role.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward\n\nNurse Lucy Letby was a \"calculating and devious\" opportunist who \"gaslighted\" colleagues to cover her \"murderous assaults\", her trial has heard.\n\nMs Letby is accused of murdering seven children and attempting to kill 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said she \"got away with her campaign of violence for so long\" because people \"could not contemplate\" a nurse was trying to kill babies.\n\nHer trial at Manchester Crown Court, which has been sitting since October, entered its final phase earlier as Mr Johnson began his closing speech for the prosecution.\n\nThe prosecutor asked the jury of eight women and four men to focus on the \"similarities\" between the collapses of the children in the hospital's neonatal unit in this case.\n\nHe said the cases showed an \"evolution\" of Ms Letby's \"murderous assaults\" and reveal \"how calculating and devious she has been\".\n\nThe court has heard, in more than eight months of evidence, allegations the 33-year-old murdered and attempted to murder children between June 2015 and June 2016 by deliberately injecting air and insulin and force-feeding some with milk.\n\nThe alleged attacks were said to have been carried out at Countess of Chester hospital\n\n\"We suggest that Lucy Letby gaslighted staff at the hospital, doctors and nurses alike, professional people with many many years of experience,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said the nurse \"persuaded [the staff] what they knew, in their heart of hearts, to be utterly abnormal was just a run of bad luck\".\n\nIn her evidence, Ms Letby, originally of Hereford, told the jury a number of senior doctors - referred to as \"the gang of four\" by the prosecution - had apportioned \"blame\" on to her \"to cover up failings at the hospital\".\n\nMs Letby named Dr Ravi Jayaram, Dr Stephen Brearey, Dr John Gibbs and another doctor who cannot be named for legal reasons, as those who had conspired to accuse her.\n\nMr Johnson said this was a \"conspiracy theory\" and told the jury \"when considering whether this has any credibility, ask yourself the question, why would the doctors do that?\"\n\nHe also said there was no evidence to support Ms Letby's theory and pointed out when he had put to the nurse what those named doctors had witnessed she disputed \"very little, if anything\".\n\n\"All she did say was that she did not see what they say they saw,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"What was their motive for scapegoating Lucy Letby, she didn't give you specifics... she hasn't told you the evidence.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the jury Ms Letby had \"put a lot of effort in trying to pull the wool over your eyes\".\n\n\"We suggest that Lucy Letby was an opportunist - she used their [the babies in this case] vulnerabilities as camouflage,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said Ms Letby thought Child A and Child B had an inherited blood disorder and that allowed her the cover to target them.\n\n\"If she had left it there, she probably would have got away with it,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the misperception of the vulnerabilities \"gave her away\" and noted her \"ignorance\" of the \"biological fingerprint\" left in the cases of Child F and Child L, who were both poisoned with synthetic insulin.\n\nMr Johnson told the court \"when she thought she was rumbled [in June 2016] she did her best to create the impression the neonatal unit was dysfunctional\" by putting in false incident reports, through the hospital's Datix reporting system.\n\nMr Johnson said the evidence showed \"a pattern of behaviour, all down to Lucy Letby\".\n\n\"All the clues point in one direction, don't they? She's sitting in the back of court,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nFocusing on specific babies in the case, Mr Johnson later asked the jury to consider the evidence of the mother of Child E.\n\nShe told the court in November last year that she went to feed her son, who subsequently died, on the night of 3 August 2015.\n\nChild E's mother said she heard her son making \"horrendous\" sounds when she arrived on the neonatal unit and found him with blood around his mouth.\n\nShe told the court that she saw Ms Letby stood near a work station on the unit and when she alerted her to the blood, she was told it was due to a feeding tube.\n\nMs Letby in her evidence denied having this interaction and said no blood was sighted in Child E's mouth before 22:00 that night.\n\n\"Have [the parents] made that up, to get at Lucy Letby? Are they in on it? Are they a sub-gang of two?\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\nMr Johnson said this was \"a head on credibility contest\" and either Child E's mother was \"lying\" or Ms Letby was \"lying\".\n\nHe said of the mother's account: \"It's powerful evidence - independent of the medical evidence - that Lucy Letby murdered [Child E]\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For Dads By Dads runs a 10-week programme to educate new and expectant dads\n\nA dad who suffered a breakdown after witnessing the traumatic birth of his son says the impact a new baby can have on fathers is often overlooked.\n\nMark Williams, 48, said both the birth and supporting his wife through postnatal depression had a \"massive impact\" on his mental health.\n\n\"The first time I had a panic attack was in the labour ward thinking my wife and baby were going to die,\" he said.\n\nMark, from Bridgend, said he suffered in silence with depression for years.\n\nMark was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and later ADHD after the birth of his son\n\nThen in 2004 when his wife went into labour he witnessed her in prolonged pain and had to stand by helpless when she was rushed to theatre.\n\nWhen their baby was still small his wife was diagnosed with post-natal depression.\n\n\"Obviously I witnessed my wife go through those things as well,\" he said.\n\n\"I was really unwell, I was drinking, avoiding situations.\"\n\nHe began looking for support but struggled, and found a lack of conversation around new dads and mental health.\n\nHe was eventually diagnosed with anxiety and depression and later Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).\n\nHe said therapy, medication and learning coping skills through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy all played a part in improving his mental health.\n\nToday he is an advocate for fathers' mental health and wants to see more support for new and expectant dads.\n\n\"If dad is suffering with mental health or confidence, whatever that looks like, that can have an impact on the relationship and obviously on the child as well,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's really important that all parents should have our support.\"\n\nMark has been supporting the For Dads By Dads group in Torfaen, educating new and expecting men on the challenges of the early years of fatherhood.\n\nThe group was set up by another dad, Jacob Guy, who said: \"There were times where I did feel a little bit isolated and needed more information to be the best dad that I could be.\n\nJacob Guy found a lack of support for new dads when he became a father so set up a group\n\nWhen Jacob, 41, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, became a dad he felt that he did not have a network of people who were going through the same thing and would understand how he was feeling.\n\nHe looked around for dad groups but was unable to find the support he was looking for.\n\nIn 2022 he decided to set up a 10-week programme aimed to give dads a safe space and to educate new and expectant dads by running workshops covering a wide range of subjects.\n\nFor Dads, By Dads aims to build confidence in new fathers\n\nThe group gives opportunities to fathers to share experiences, build a network of support and tackle the challenges that come with fatherhood.\n\nAnd that support is vital: According to the British Journal of Midwifery, one in 10 fathers are affected by post-natal depression, which is about the same rate as mothers.\n\nUp to 38% of new dads are worried about their mental health and want more support, according social enterprise DadPad, which was developed with the NHS and real-life dads.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was investing in the development of perinatal mental health teams and networks.\n\n\"We remain committed to improving perinatal mental health services and will consider what further action can be taken,\" it said.\n\nJacob said he had seen the positive impact being around other dads had had on new fathers.\n\n\"It's built their confidence to know we're not going to get it right all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"If we make mistakes, we dust ourselves down and we start again.\"", "Iraqi authorities have vowed to try to repatriate all stolen artefacts\n\nA 2,800-year-old stone tablet has gone on display in Iraq after being returned by Italy following nearly four decades.\n\nThe artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet.\n\nItalian authorities handed it over to Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid in the city of Bologna last week.\n\nIt is not clear how the tablet was found - or how it made its way to Italy where it was seized by police in the 1980s.\n\nIraqi Culture Minister Ahmed Badrani said that it might have been found during archaeological excavations of the Mosul Dam, which was built around that time.\n\nIraq, often described as the \"cradle of civilisation\", is known, among others, for the world's first writing.\n\nIn the late 8th Century, the country's Bayt al-Hikmah (House of Wisdom) was home to the largest library of books on science, art, maths, medicine and philosophy.\n\nLooting of the country's antiquities intensified following the US-led invasion 20 years ago.\n\nIraq's president praised the co-operation shown by Italy and said he would work to recover all the archaeological pieces of Iraqi history from abroad.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Undercover filming of Indonesian man Ajis Rasajana, who laughs as he describes how he hurts monkeys\n\nA year-long BBC investigation has uncovered a sadistic global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States.\n\nThe World Service found hundreds of customers in the US, UK and elsewhere paying Indonesians to torture and kill baby long-tailed macaques on film.\n\nThe torture ring began life on YouTube, before moving to private groups on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nPolice are now pursuing the buyers and several arrests have already been made.\n\nBBC journalists went undercover in one of the main Telegram torture groups, where hundreds of people gathered to come up with extreme torture ideas and commission people in Indonesia and other Asian countries to carry them out.\n\nThe sadists' goal was to create bespoke films in which baby long-tailed macaque monkeys were abused, tortured and sometimes then killed on film.\n\nThe BBC tracked down both the torturers in Indonesia, and distributors and buyers in the US, and gained access to an international law enforcement effort to bring them to justice.\n\nAt least 20 people are now under investigation globally, including three women living in the UK who were arrested by police last year and released under investigation, and one man in the US state of Oregon who was indicted last week.\n\nMike McCartney, a key video distributor in the US known by his screen name, \"The Torture King\", agreed to speak to the BBC - and described the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey torture group.\n\n\"They had a poll set up,\" McCartney said. \"Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?\" The resulting video was \"the most grotesque thing I have ever seen,\" he said.\n\n\"The Torture King\" at home in Virginia. \"It went from baby bottle teasing to fingers being snipped off,\" he said\n\nMcCartney, a former motorcycle gang member who spent time in prison before entering the monkey torture world, ended up running several Telegram groups in which hardcore torture enthusiasts distributed videos.\n\n\"It's no different than drug money,\" he said. \"Drug money comes from dirty hands, this money comes from bloody hands.\"\n\nThe BBC also identified two other key suspects who are now being investigated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Stacey Storey, a grandmother in her 40s from Alabama who was known in the community as \"Sadistic\", and a ringleader known as \"Mr Ape\" - whose real name we cannot reveal for safety reasons.\n\n\"Mr Ape\" confessed in an interview with the BBC that he had been responsible for the deaths of at least four monkeys and the torture of many more. He had commissioned \"extremely brutal\" videos, he said.\n\nStorey's phone was seized by Department of Homeland Security agents, who found nearly 100 torture videos, as well as evidence that she had paid for the creation of some of the most extreme videos produced.\n\nAccording to police sources, Storey was active in a torture group as recently as earlier this month. Approached by the BBC in Alabama in January, Storey claimed that she had been hacked and declined to comment on the allegations in detail.\n\n\"I remember the face of every monkey and how they died,\" said Mr Ape\n\n\"Mr Ape\", Stacey Storey and Mike McCartney are three of five key targets in the ongoing Homeland Security investigation. They have yet to be charged, but could face up to seven years in prison if prosecuted based on evidence gathered by the DHS.\n\nSpecial Agent Paul Wolpert, who is leading the DHS investigation, said everyone involved from law enforcement had been deeply shocked by the nature of the alleged crimes.\n\n\"I don't know if anybody would ever be ready for a crime like this,\" he said. \"The same with the attorneys and the juries, and anybody who reads that this is going on. It is going to be a shocker I think.\"\n\nAnybody involved in buying or distributing the monkey torture videos should \"expect a knock on the door at some point\", Agent Wolpert said. \"You are not going to get away with it.\"\n\nPolice in Indonesia have arrested two torture suspects. Asep Yadi Nurul Hikmah was charged with animal torture and the sale of a protected species, and sentenced to three years in prison. M Ajis Rasjana was sentenced to eight months - the maximum sentence available for torturing an animal.\n\nPolice in Indonesia detain Asep Yadi Nurul Hikmah, who was among the most brutal torturers.\n\nMonkey torture videos are still easily accessible on Telegram and now Facebook, where the BBC recently found dozens of groups sharing extreme content, some with more than 1,000 members.\n\n\"We've seen an escalation in this extreme, graphic content, which used to be hidden but is now circulating openly on platforms like Facebook,\" said Sarah Kite, co-founder of animal charity Action for Primates.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it had removed the groups we brought to the company's attention. \"We don't allow the promotion of animal abuse on our platforms and we remove this content when we become aware of it, like we did in this case,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nMs Kite also called for UK laws to be updated to make it easier to prosecute individuals who pay for torture videos to be made. \"If someone is proactively involved in inflicting that pain by paying for it and providing a list of things they want done to the animal, there should be stronger laws to hold them to account,\" she said.\n\nYouTube told the BBC in a statement that animal abuse had \"no place\" on the platform and the company was \"working hard to quickly remove violative content\".\n\n\"Just this year alone, we've removed hundreds of thousands of videos and terminated thousands of channels for violating our violent and graphic policies,\" the statement said.\n\nTelegram told us it was committed to protecting privacy and freedom of speech and its moderators could not \"proactively patrol private groups\". But users could report content from those groups to Telegram moderators, it said.", "The bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe world's most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before.\n\nThe first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.\n\nIt provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the water has been drained away.\n\nThe hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner, which sank in 1912.\n\nMore than 1,500 people died when the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.\n\n\"There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship,\" Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News.\n\nHe said the model was \"one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research - and not speculation.\"\n\nThe bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship - never the whole thing.\n\nThe new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.\n\nThe scan was carried out in summer 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project.\n\nSubmersibles, remotely controlled by a team on board a specialist ship, spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck.\n\nThey took more than 700,000 images from every angle, creating an exact 3D reconstruction.\n\nThe scan is made up from 700,000 images captured by submersibles\n\nThe large hole to the right of the boat deck opens over where the grand staircase once stood\n\nMagellan's Gerhard Seiffert, who led the planning for the expedition, said it was the largest underwater scanning project he'd ever undertaken.\n\n\"The depth of it, almost 4,000m, represents a challenge, and you have currents at the site, too - and we're not allowed to touch anything so as not to damage the wreck,\" he explained.\n\n\"And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimetre - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects.\"\n\nThe scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.\n\nThe stern, which has separated from the bow, is a chaotic tangle of steel\n\nThe stern corkscrewed into the seabed as it plunged into the depths\n\nThe bow, now covered in stalactites of rust, is still instantly recognisable even 100 years after the ship was lost. Sitting on top is the boat deck, where a gaping hole provides a glimpse into a void where the grand staircase once stood.\n\nThe stern though, is a chaotic mess of metal. This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor.\n\nIn the surrounding debris field, items are scattered, including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened champagne bottles. There are also personal possessions, including dozens of shoes resting on the sediment.\n\nExtraordinary detail can be seen of the ship\n\nThe serial number on a propeller can be made out\n\nParks Stephenson, who has studied the Titanic for many years, said he was \"blown away\" when he first saw the scans.\n\n\"It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible, and you can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective. And what it's showing you now is the true state of the wreck.\"\n\nHe said that studying the scans could offer new insight into what happened to the Titanic on that fateful night of 1912.\n\n\"We really don't understand the character of the collision with the iceberg. We don't even know if she hit it along the starboard side, as is shown in all the movies - she might have grounded on the iceberg,\" he explained.\n\nStudying the stern, he added, could reveal the mechanics of how the ship struck the sea floor.\n\nThe hope is that the scan could reveal more about what happened on the night the Titanic was lost\n\nThe sea is taking its toll on the wreck, microbes are eating away at it and parts are disintegrating. Historians are well aware that time is running out to fully understand the maritime disaster.\n\nBut the scan now freezes the wreck in time, and will allow experts to pore over every tiny detail. The hope is the Titanic may yet give up its secrets.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "He was best known as a member of the Screwed Up Click, an influential group of Houston-based artists\n\nUS rapper Big Pokey has died after collapsing during a performance in Texas.\n\nThe artist, whose real name was Milton Powell, was performing at a Juneteenth-themed event at a bar on Saturday when he fell backwards on stage.\n\nWitnesses rushed to help the 45-year-old before he was taken to a nearby hospital. He died on Sunday.\n\n\"He was well loved by his family, his friends, and his loyal fans,\" his publicist said in a statement.\n\n\"Big Pokey will forever be 'The Hardest Pit In The Litter!'\", the statement added, a reference to the rapper's debut album.\n\nVideo circulating on social media showed Powell suddenly fall backwards with his microphone in hand while performing at the Pour09 Bar in Beaumont.\n\nParamedics were called shortly before midnight local time, a Beaumont Police spokeswoman told the Houston Chronicle. A cause of death has not been released.\n\nPowell was best known as a founding member of the Screwed Up Click, an influential hip-hop collective of Houston-based artists.\n\nIt helped pioneer the city's \"chopped-and-screwed\" sound, a laid-back, low-slung, style produced by slowing the pitch and tempo of the underlying track.\n\nPowell charted in the Billboard Hot 100 when he appeared on the Paul Wall single Sittin Sidewayz in 2005. And last year, he featured on Megan Thee Stallion's Southside Royalty Freestyle.\n\nVarious artists, including Juicy J, Slim Thug and Lil Flip, have paid tribute to Powell.\n\n\"Low key, humble mountain of a man who moved with honour and respect. He was easy to love and hard to hate,\" the rapper Bun B wrote on Instagram.\n• None Juneteenth: What is the origin of the US holiday?", "Former prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP and announced he is stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nIn a lengthy statement the ex-PM accused a Commons investigation of attempting to \"drive me out\".\n\nMr Johnson first became and MP in 2001, representing the constituency of Henley in Oxfordshire, since then he went on to become the Mayor of London, MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and then the prime minister.\n\nHere's a look back at his political career.", "Louise and Harry Gray were left devastated by the loss of their son\n\n\"It's all been done in his memory. They'll talk about Henry Gray.\"\n\nLouise Gray was at a routine check-up last May when she was told her baby boy had died. She was 35 weeks pregnant.\n\nThe 33-year-old was admitted to Antrim Area Hospital to give birth, but unlike other maternity units in Northern Ireland, it did not have a dedicated bereavement suite for parents.\n\nThat meant Louise had to deliver Henry on a busy labour ward. After her harrowing experience, she channelled her energy - and grief - into changing that.\n\n\"I had to walk past all the other delivery suites,\" said Louise, from County Londonderry.\n\n\"You're hearing those first newborn cries. Nothing was more deafening to us.\"\n\nAfter Henry's death, Louise and her husband Harry, who live in Ballinascreen in Derry, contacted their local MLA Emma Sheerin and started writing letters to then health minister Robin Swann.\n\nThey appealed for funding for a bereavement suite at Antrim to better support parents dealing with baby loss.\n\nLouise said: \"It was an ongoing issue that people had been fighting for for years, but we wanted to raise awareness. We thought how can we support them?\"\n\nBereavement suites are a safe, non-clinical place for mothers, as far away from live births as possible. They have separate delivery and living areas where parents can take time to grieve the loss of a baby, in a private and comfortable setting.\n\nLouise described the circumstances of Henry's birth at Antrim as \"extremely clinical\".\n\n\"I kind of staggered at the door when I first saw where they were taking us,\" she said.\n\n\"Harry was sleeping in a hospital bed or an armchair. All you want is somewhere to make it more bearable.\"\n\nThe couple spent the months that followed lobbying politicians and fundraising for a bereavement suite in Henry's memory. They hosted a hugely successful fundraising night on 25 November, the six-month anniversary of his death.\n\nFunding for the suite was eventually granted last year and construction is currently under way.\n\nWhile the Grays initially hoped to raise £3,000 to help furnish the unit, they recently presented the hospital with a cheque for £28,800.\n\n\"We drew up a list of items we wanted to use the money for. Things like a microwave, a coffee machine, a double bed,\" said Louise.\n\n\"It may seem materialistic but they're things you would appreciate so you can stay behind a closed door and cry all day.\"\n\nThe Grays, pictured with their two-year-old daughter Olivia, helped raise £28,000\n\nLouise said the new unit was being built in a repurposed area of the labour ward, close to theatre but \"far enough away from the other suites\".\n\nShe has unintentionally witnessed much of its construction, as she is currently being cared for at Antrim's maternity unit ahead of giving birth again in a few weeks' time.\n\n\"We are so lucky to get pregnant again. But there's no excitement or anything with this pregnancy. I'm filled with nerves,\" she said.\n\n\"I had this decision to make - 'Do I go back to Antrim?' But if anything was going to get me through, it was coming back here.\n\n\"The doctors and midwives are fantastic and constantly making me feel better. I know I've made the right choice. They are superstars.\"\n\nSands, a charity that supports parents in baby loss, has been working for several years to provide bereavement facilities in every maternity unit in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We are delighted to learn that Antrim, which was the next hospital on our list, will also have a dedicated bereavement suite soon, thanks to the fundraising efforts of Louise and Harry, meaning that every acute maternity unit in Northern Ireland will have a suite, which is what we set out to achieve,\" he said.\n\nLouise said baby Henry had \"10 fingers, 10 toes and a perfect button nose\"\n\nLouise hopes the new facility will provide some comfort to those going through such a traumatic experience, but she won't accept too much credit.\n\n\"One of the midwives said 'do you realise how proud you should be of yourself?' They can't believe what we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"But there are so many women, midwives and doctors who have been fighting for this for years. Our grief and our frustration helped, but it was already on the radar long before we went through it.\"\n\nThe Northern Health and Social Care Trust, which runs Antrim Area Hospital, said construction of the suite was almost complete and it would open in \"early summer\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"The Northern Trust is very grateful to the Gray family, and all the families who have contributed to the development of this new facility.\n\n\"It will provide comfort during the most difficult of times and ensure that parents and families are afforded privacy and sanctuary when they need it most.\"\n\nLouise said there was still \"so much stigma around baby loss\".\n\n\"For us and the people grieving with us, we talk about Henry all the time in a positive way. I am not afraid to say his name,\" she added.\n\n\"It's been a long road to recovery and the fundraising has provided us with a distraction. It's got us through some very dark days.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Student Julius Isingoma has told the BBC how he miraculously survived a night-time assault by suspected Islamist rebels on his school dormitory in western Uganda.\n\nWarning: Some people may find details in this story distressing.\n\n\"I smeared the blood of my dead colleagues in my mouth, ears and on my head so that the attackers would think I was dead,\" he said, when we met him at Bwera General Hospital in Kasese district.\n\nMore than 40 people - most of them students - died in the attack on the secondary school in the small town of Mpondwe on Friday night.\n\nUganda's President Yoweri Museveni blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), adding that they were \"possibly working with other criminals because I hear that school had some wrangles\". He did not elaborate, but vowed to hunt down the militants in their hide-outs across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe ADF has not yet commented.\n\nIt was formed in the 1990s and took up arms against Mr Museveni, alleging persecution of the minority Muslim population.\n\nIts leader reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group in 2016.\n\nBut it was not until April 2019 that IS first acknowledged its activity in the area, when it claimed an attack on army positions near the border with Uganda.\n\nThis statement marked the announcement of IS's \"Central Africa Province\" (Iscap).\n\nSix students are believed to have been abducted as the militants retreated to DR Congo.\n\nJulius was among six people who managed to survive the assault which lasted for several hours.\n\nHe did not identify the attackers, but said they were gun-wielding men who launched their attack at about 22:00 local time.\n\nThey came to the boys' dormitory but the students had locked it after realising they were in danger.\n\n\"When they couldn't open the door they hurled a bomb inside the dormitory and then used hammers and axes to break down the door,\" he said.\n\nJulius was standing behind many of the students who had formed a shield near the door and were shot dead when the militants got into the dormitory.\n\nThere were cries as the students were gunned down, hacked or shot to death.\n\nHe quickly climbed to the top of a bunk bed, removed some of the wooden planks of the ceiling, and jumped inside to hide.\n\nFrom there, he helplessly watched his colleagues being brutally murdered by the assailants, who then set fire to mattresses and left.\n\n\"I was overwhelmed by the smoke and dropped back down into the dormitory with a thud,\" he said.\n\nThe militants heard the thud and came back.\n\nIt was at that point that Julius knew he had to come out of the attack alive.\n\n\"I lay next to the bloodied bodies of my friends and thought very fast. Then I smeared a lot of blood into my ears, mouth and on my head and when the militants came, they checked my hand for a pulse and left,\" Julius said.\n\nStudent Godwin Mumbere managed to run away from the school\n\nAnother survivor, Godwin Mumbere, was in the same dormitory as Julius.\n\nThe 18-year-old recalled the assailants going to the girls' dormitory, dragging them out and hacking them to death with machetes.\n\nThey then came to the boys' dormitory, broke down the door and started attacking the students.\n\nThe bed Godwin was hiding under was overturned and his friends who were on top fell to the ground and were killed.\n\n\"The attackers saw me but thought I was dead,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut they went out and came back into the dormitory to ensure everyone was dead.\n\n\"It was at this point that they shot me in the hand and set the dorm ablaze,\" he said.\n\nGodwin was brought back to reality by the shouts of another student who said they were dying.\n\nHe ran out of the dormitory, scaled the school gate and ran to a nearby hardware store through a cocoa plantation. He got to a lodge and hid under a vehicle until he was rescued.\n\nClarice Bwambare, the senior administrator of Bwera General Hospital, told the BBC they started receiving the bodies of students and residents at around 01:00 - about three hours after the attack started on Friday night.\n\nHe noted that out of the 20 bodies they received, 18 were those of students.\n\nFive survivors are currently recuperating at the hospital. One of them is a girl who is in critical condition at the intensive care unit. A surgeon advised that she cannot be moved because of a severe head injury from being hit with a hammer by the rebels.\n\nMr Bwambare said only one body had not been claimed from the mortuary.\n\nOn Sunday, grief-stricken families buried 21 of the students, according to Uganda's New Vision newspaper.\n\nLying on his hospital bed, Julius expressed regret that he could not attend their funerals. He said he wished he was a soldier who could fight back and save the lives of his friends and colleagues.", "The party at Conservative headquarters was described as \"raucous\"\n\nScotland Yard is taking no action against former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey nor other people who attended a gathering at Conservative Party HQ during a Covid lockdown.\n\nMr Bailey and Tory aides were seen posing for a photo, raising glasses besides buffet food while London was under restrictions in December 2020.\n\nBut the Met said it found \"insufficient evidence to disprove the version of events provided by attendees\".\n\nFresh questions about the event at Conservative Campaign Headquarters in Westminster were raised after it was reported that former prime minister Boris Johnson had put Mr Bailey forward for a peerage in his resignation honours list.\n\nAfter the Daily Mirror published a picture of the gathering in December 2021, the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation.\n\nMr Bailey, a former candidate to be London's mayor, apologised \"unreservedly\" for the event organised by his campaign team and said it was a \"serious error of judgment\".\n\nThen-Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, who is now business secretary, said \"that scene is absolutely unacceptable\".\n\nBefore the photo was published, the Times had reported that a \"raucous\" party took place in the basement while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nThe Met concluded the \"photo by itself is not sufficient evidence on which to assess that an offence had been committed\".\n\nOfficers issued attendees with questionnaires to decide whether breaches of the rules were committed and fines should be issued.\n\n\"The investigation reviewed all the material thoroughly and after careful consideration, it was determined that there was insufficient evidence to disprove the version of events provided by attendees to a standard that would meet the threshold required,\" the Met said.\n\n\"As a result, a decision was made that no further action should be taken.\"\n\nMr Bailey, who remains a London Assembly Member, resigned as chairman of the governing body's Police and Crime Committee after the picture emerged.\n\nScotland Yard issued a total of 126 fines over rule breaches in Whitehall and Downing Street while Mr Johnson was prime minister, in a scandal that helped end his tenure in No 10.\n\nMr Johnson and his then-chancellor Rishi Sunak paid fixed-penalty notices over a gathering held for Mr Johnson's 56th birthday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak is asked several times if he will take part in Boris Johnson Partygate report debate and vote in the Commons.\n\nRishi Sunak is not expected to attend a debate on a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties in No 10.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister's schedule did not currently include attending Parliament.\n\nThe inquiry by a cross-party committee said the former PM committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.\n\nIt recommends he should have been suspended from the Commons for 90 days if he had remained an MP.\n\nMPs will debate the findings of the Privileges Committee report later on Monday.\n\nAfter the debate, there could be a recorded vote or MPs could simply nod the report through. If there is a vote, it is expected to pass easily.\n\nIt would be a free vote for Tory MPs, meaning party managers - known as whips - will not instruct them what to do at the vote, which is expected to take place on Monday evening after a debate.\n\nTalking to reporters on Sunday evening, Mr Sunak was repeatedly asked how he would vote but did not answer the question directly.\n\nHe said the issue was \"a matter for the House [of Commons], not for the government\".\n\n\"That's an important distinction and that's why I wouldn't want to influence anyone in advance of that vote.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged Mr Sunak to \"show leadership\" and vote on the issue.\n\nSir Keir - who is currently in Scotland promoting his party's approach to energy, but plans to travel to Westminster afterwards to take part in the debate - called Mr Johnson's conduct \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"If the prime minister wants to lead, he has to come into Parliament and vote in this debate this afternoon to show where he stands on this issue,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as an MP after receiving the report and therefore will not get to vote; however he has asked his allies not to oppose it.\n\nIt is likely that some Conservative MPs could abstain or not turn up to take part.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove, who also served in Mr Johnson's cabinet, has confirmed he intends to abstain - becoming the only member of the Sunak government to say what he intends to do.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, he told the BBC there were areas where Mr Johnson's conduct had fallen short of expectations, but he disagreed with the report's recommendation for a 90-day suspension.\n\nThe vote is tricky politically for the prime minister, who is embroiled in a bitter war of words with his former boss over his controversial resignation honours list.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir said he would not issue a resignation list if he became prime minister, saying it was \"very hard to justify\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUpon entering Downing Street, Mr Sunak vowed to put \"integrity\" at the heart of his government and will be under pressure from opposition MPs to approve the findings from the cross-party committee.\n\nBut voting for it would enrage Mr Johnson's supporters, some of whom have attacked the committee over their conclusions.\n\nMr Johnson himself also lashed out at the committee in an angry statement announcing his resignation as an MP before the report's publication, branding it a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nCommons votes are initially conducted by voice, with a division - where MPs go through the voting lobbies to record their support - only called if the Speaker thinks the result is not obvious.\n\nOpposition MPs are expected to shout \"aye\" later to approve the report, but if no MP in the chamber shouts \"no\" then there won't be a division, meaning the votes of individual MPs will not be recorded.\n\nIn their report, the Privileges Committee said Mr Johnson had deliberately misled MPs when he assured them after the Partygate scandal emerged that lockdown rules had always been followed in No 10.\n\nMr Johnson argued during the inquiry that his assurances were made in good faith, and were based on advice from officials.\n\nBut the MPs found he had \"personal knowledge\" of rule-breaking events, and had failed to \"pro-actively\" investigate allegations that Covid rules had been broken during the pandemic.\n\nThey concluded he had committed multiple \"contempts\" of Parliament - including by attacking the committee. They said this justified the 90-day ban, which is lengthy by the standards of recent years.\n\nThe report also recommends that Mr Johnson should be denied a parliamentary pass, which he would normally be entitled to as an ex-MP.\n\nSeveral of Mr Johnson's allies have heaped criticism on the committee for its findings.\n\nNadine Dorries, who was culture secretary in Mr Johnson's cabinet, said the committee had \"overreached\", warning that any Tory MP voting to endorse it would be \"held to account\" by party members.\n\nHowever, it is not clear how many of his allies are ultimately willing to turn up to register their opposition.", "Will there be further cuts to education in the near future?\n\nSchools are far too good at disguising their problems.\n\nGo into the vast majority of schools and you will enter a warm and welcoming place.\n\nBrightly lit classrooms, well-taught children, artwork on the walls, trophy cabinets, old and new photos of smiling staff and pupils.\n\nIn some ways that is necessary.\n\nPupils, for instance, do not need to know that their school is sliding further into deficit.\n\nBut those disguises mean that the real financial problems faced by education are easy to overlook.\n\nIt is different to the - also financially stretched - health service, where there is a tangible reality to lengthening waiting lists, cancelled operations or long waits for surgery.\n\nMany schools, to an extent, have never had as much money as they felt they needed to deliver what they wanted.\n\nBut what makes 2023 different is that the Department of Education (DE) and the Education Authority (EA) are now having to make radical and swingeing savings.\n\nThere has been an end to funding for soccer and GAA sports coaches\n\nThe 2023-24 budget for education, which at about £2.5bn is Stormont's biggest behind health, was reduced by about £70m or 2.5% - but the real-terms reduction is much larger.\n\nThe department has said that there is a £300m gap between what is needed to run the education system and what it has.\n\nAnd that has led to so many cuts over the last few months that it is hard to keep track.\n\nBut bear with me while I try to list them.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure has said it may not have the money to pay for road safety education materials\n\nMeanwhile, schools are on standstill funding for pupils despite rising costs.\n\nThat is despite many facing increasing demands due to the impact of pandemic restrictions on children's development and mental health, and the money struggles some pupils' families are facing.\n\nForgive me if I have missed anything above; I am sure I have.\n\nI also have not even begun to consider the possible impact of reductions in funding for further and higher education from the Department for the Economy.\n\nA list, though, does not gave any real idea of the full effect of each cut.\n\nFor example, what is the impact on struggling families of losing £27 per child per fortnight? That is the money they will now not receive over the summer holidays to help them pay for food when a child is not receiving a free school meal.\n\nThere is no doubt that there could be some reform of the education system.\n\nOne consequence of that would presumably be some savings.\n\nHowever, I have never known there to be unanimous agreement on what reforms should be a priority.\n\nAn independent review of Northern Ireland's education system was agreed in the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) deal.\n\nThat has been going on for a couple of years now, but is presumably on ice until a Stormont Executive appears again.\n\nBut let's face it, we have quite a history of reviews in Northern Ireland which have led to limited action.\n\nThe fear is that there are more cuts to education to come in the near future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2022, the BBC filmed inside the Titanic sub with the company's boss Stockton Rush\n\nA massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday.\n\nContact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.\n\nTour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard.\n\nTickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft).\n\nGovernment agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.\n\nTitanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston, Massachusetts.\n\nThe missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day emergency supply of oxygen.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Rear Adm John Mauger of the US Coast Guard told a news conference: \"We anticipate there is somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours available at this point.\"\n\nHe also said that two aircraft, a submarine and sonar buoys were involved in the search for the vessel but noted the area in which the search is taking place was \"remote\", making operations difficult.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Who is involved in search efforts\n\nRear Adm Mauger said the rescue teams were \"taking this personally\" and were doing everything they could to bring those on board \"home safe\".\n\nHamish Harding, a 58-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.\n\nOn social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said he was \"proud to finally announce\" that he would be aboard the mission to the wreck of the Titanic - but added that because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nHe later wrote: \"A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow.\"\n\nOceanGate said its \"entire focus [was] on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families\".\n\n\"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to re-establish contact with the submersible,\" it added.\n\nThe company bills the eight-day trip on its carbon-fibre submersible as a \"chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary\".\n\nAccording to its website, one expedition is ongoing and two more have been planned for June 2024.\n\nThe submersible usually carries a pilot, three paying guests, and what the company calls a \"content expert\".\n\nThe trip sets sail from St John's in Newfoundland. Each full dive to the wreck, including the descent and ascent, reportedly takes around eight hours.\n\nThe OceanGate website lists three submersibles it owns, and only the Titan is capable of diving deep enough to reach the Titanic wreckage.\n\nThe vessel weighs 23,000 lbs (10,432 kg) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 13,100 ft and has 96 hours of life support available for a crew of five.\n\nA vessel called the Polar Prince, which is used to transport submersibles to the wreckage site, was involved in the expedition, its owner told the BBC.\n\nDavid Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently \"no way\" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio \"work under water\".\n\n\"When the support ship is directly over the sub, they can send short text messages back and forth. Clearly those are no longer getting a response,\" Mr Pogue said.\n\nHe added that because the passengers were sealed inside the vessel by bolts applied from the outside, \"There's no way to escape, even if you rise to the surface by yourself. You cannot get out of the sub without a crew on the outside letting you out.\"\n\nThe Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.\n\nIts wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.\n\nThe wreck lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 2,600ft. A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.\n\nLast month, the first full-sized digital scan of the wreck was created using deep-sea mapping. The scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.\n\nDo you have information about this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukrainian soldiers from 35th Brigade posted a photo, saying its soldiers retook the village of Storozheve in the eastern Donetsk region\n\n\"Don't call it a counter-offensive,\" say the Ukrainians. \"This is our offensive, it's our chance to finally drive out the Russian army from our land.\"\n\nAll right, but what will it take to actually succeed?\n\nFirst off, let's not get distracted by the recent hard-fought but tiny territorial gains Ukraine has been making as it retakes obscure, half-abandoned villages in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, images of victorious, battle-stained Ukrainian soldiers holding up their country's blue and yellow flag in front of a bullet-ridden building is a welcome morale boost for Ukrainians.\n\nBut in the big strategic picture, this is a sideshow.\n\nThe area of Russian-held territory that matters most in this campaign is the south: the area between the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Sea of Azov.\n\nThis is the so-called \"land corridor\" that connects Russia to illegally annexed Crimea, the central part of that purple-shaded strip on the map below that has barely changed since the early weeks of the invasion last year.\n\nIf Ukraine can split that in two and hold the ground it's retaken, then its offensive will have largely been successful.\n\nIt would cut off Russia's troops in the west and make it hard to resupply their garrison in Crimea.\n\nIt would not necessarily spell an end to the war - which some are now predicting could drag on for years - but it would put Ukraine in a strong bargaining position when the inevitable peace talks finally take place.\n\nBut the Russians have looked at the map, quite some time ago, and reached the same conclusion.\n\nSo while Ukraine sent its soldiers off to Nato countries for training and readied their 12 armoured brigades for this summer campaign, Moscow spent that time constructing what is now being called \"the most formidable defensive fortifications in the world\".\n\nBlocking Ukraine's path to the coast - its own coast, let's not forget - are layer upon layer of Russian minefields, concrete tank-blockers (known as \"dragons' teeth\") bunkers, firing positions and trenches wide enough and deep enough to stop a Leopard 2 or M1 Abrams tank literally in its tracks.\n\nAll of this is covered by pre-determined artillery impact zones calibrated to rain down high explosive on Ukraine's armoured vehicles as they and their crews wait for their engineers to find a way through.\n\nThe early signs are - and it is still very early in this campaign - that those Russian defences are so far holding fast.\n\nRussia's military claims that a number of Ukraine's western-supplied tanks and armoured personnel carriers have been destroyed in fierce fighting\n\nUkraine has yet to commit the bulk of its forces - so these are probing, reconnaissance attacks designed to reveal the whereabouts of Russia's artillery and search out areas of vulnerability in their lines.\n\nIn Ukraine's favour is morale. Its soldiers are highly-motivated and fighting to liberate their own country from an invader.\n\nMost of Russia's troops do not share that motivation, and in many cases their training, equipment and leadership are inferior to Ukraine's.\n\nThe General Staff back in Kyiv will be hoping that if they can achieve a sufficient breakthrough then a collapse in Russian morale will be contagious, spreading across the battlefront as demoralised Russian troops lose the will to fight.\n\nAlso in Ukraine's favour is the quality of hardware that Nato countries have provided. Unlike Soviet-designed armoured vehicles, Nato's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can often withstand a direct hit, or at least enough to protect the crew inside who then live to fight on.\n\nBut will that be enough to counter the strength of Russia's artillery and drone attacks?\n\nRussia, as the vastly bigger country, can draw on more resources than Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin, who started this war in the first place, knows that if he can only wear down the Ukrainians into a stalemate that drags on into next year then there is a chance that the US and other allies will tire of supporting this expensive war effort and start to pressure Kyiv to reach a ceasefire compromise.\n\nFinally, there is the matter of air cover, or lack of it. Attacking a well dug-in enemy without sufficient close air support is highly risky.\n\nUkraine knows this, which is why it's long been pleading with the West to supply it with F16 fighter jets.\n\nThe US, which makes them, did not give the green light for this until late May, by which time the first, preparatory, phase of Ukraine's offensive was already under way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A video on social media purports to show a Ukrainian flag being raised in Neskuchne, Donetsk Oblast\n\nCritically for Ukraine, the game-changing F16s may now arrive too late on the battlefield to play a key role in the early phases of this counter-offensive.\n\nThis is not to say the Ukrainians will lose.\n\nTime and again they have proved themselves agile, resourceful and inventive. They successfully drove the Russian army out of Kherson by hitting their rear-area logistics hubs to the point where the Russians could no longer resupply their troops in that southern city.\n\nEquipped with long-range weapons like Britain's Storm Shadow cruise missile, Ukraine will be attempting to do the same now.\n\nBut amidst all the claim and counter-claim of a propaganda war, it may yet be weeks or even months before we get a clearer picture of who is likely to ultimately prevail in this war.", "Elle Edwards was caught in the crossfire of a gangland feud, a court has heard\n\nA stolen car used in a shooting which killed a woman was burnt out a week later by the man accused of her murder, a court has heard.\n\nElle Edwards was killed by a gunman who opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Merseyside, on 24 December.\n\nA black Mercedes A Class is alleged to have been used by Connor Chapman, 23, during the shooting.\n\nMr Chapman denies the murder of Ms Edwards, 26, at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nThe jury was shown footage of the stolen Mercedes travelling in a convoy with another Mercedes vehicle, both with false registration plates, from Wirral to Frodsham, Cheshire, on New Year's Eve.\n\nNigel Power KC, prosecuting, said cell site data showed the phones of Mr Chapman and co-defendant Thomas Waring appearing to move with the cars as they travelled.\n\nThe jury has been told Mr Chapman accepts he was involved in burning out the car but Mr Waring denies a charge of assisting an offender and claims he was separated from his mobile phone at the time.\n\nFootage played in court showed the car on fire at Grassy Lane just after 22:00 GMT.\n\nElle Edwards was on a night out with friends at the pub when she was shot\n\nDet Con Steve Duke said the vehicle was set alight in an area near the M56 motorway.\n\nHe said: \"It's a very secluded place with high banks, so it is very concealed.\"\n\nThe car was found by a dog walker the following day and identified by its chassis number, the court heard.\n\nHome Office pathologist Christopher Johnson said Ms Edwards was hit by three bullets in the shooting.\n\nThe court heard there were two gunshot entry wounds to the back of her head, as well as a graze to her shoulder where a bullet had gone through her coat.\n\nDr Johnson said one of the injuries to her head was \"irrecoverable\".\n\nThe court heard the two men said to be the intended targets of the attack, Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld, were both taken to Aintree University Hospital following the shooting.\n\nA bullet was recovered from Mr Salkeld's chest and, after surgery and time in the intensive care and major trauma units, he was discharged on 7 January, the jury heard.\n\nMr Duffy had surgery for wounds to his thighs and was discharged from hospital on 27 December.\n\nConnor Chapman, 23, denies murder and seven other charges\n\nThe court was told on 30 December a booking was made for Mr Chapman to travel on a ferry from Portsmouth to Santander in Spain on 2 January, but it was later cancelled.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Chapman was arrested in a Tesco store in Newtown, north Wales, on 10 January and told officers: \"It wasn't me.\"\n\nHe answered no comment in police interviews but gave a prepared statement in which he said he was at home in Houghton Road, Woodchurch, at the time of the shooting.\n\nHe said he spoke to police on the phone on New Year's Day, when they searched his grandparents' house, and claimed an officer said he wanted to speak to him over a serious matter, but did not mention it was murder.\n\nHe said: \"In recent years, I have felt targeted by the police and I didn't want to go and speak to them.\"\n\nThe shooting is alleged to have been the culmination of a feud between a group of people on the Woodchurch and Beechwood estates, on either side of the M53 motorway in Wirral.\n\nMr Chapman denies the murder of Ms Edwards, two counts of attempted murder and three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nHe also denies possession of a Skorpion sub-machine gun with intent to endanger life and possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life.\n\nMr Waring, 20, of Private Drive, Barnston, Wirral, denies possessing a prohibited weapon and assisting an offender by helping Chapman to dispose of the car.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elton John - who has long been fashion first - promises to go out with a Rocket Man bang, as he headlines Glastonbury at his last ever UK show\n\nTent: check. Sun cream: check. The next thing: what am I going to wear?\n\nWith Glastonbury 2023 ready to start, festival season is well under way.\n\nThe festival prides itself on being eco-conscious, but how do fans plan their outfits sustainably?\n\nFestival and concert fashion has become a huge part of event planning: a quick scroll on TikTok and you'll see cowboy hats and feather boas as the uniform for Beyoncé and Harry Styles concerts.\n\nJess Potter, 36, from Cardiff, will be going to Glastonbury with her online second-hand clothing business.\n\nAt the festival she will be hosting the second-hand style awards, where festival-goers will be judged on their best sustainable looks from the weekend.\n\nJess confesses she has not always been sustainable. During her first Glastonbury in 2014 she bought everything new, she used to be a \"retail addict\". That's where she met her now husband and business partner Davey, and they are now \"on a journey to sustainability together\".\n\nThe idea for UsedandLoved.com - a search engine tool that allows you to search for second-hand items all under one roof - came from a sleepless night idea, said Jess.\n\nJess Potter working on her stall, which will be in the Green Futures area of the festival\n\nShe said second-hand shopping was \"all about finding your own style\", and seeing content creators styling the outfits was key to changing people's attitudes on buying them.\n\nIn her spare time, Jess goes around Cardiff picking up bags of clothes that are left on the side of the road, which she sifts through and gives a new lease of life.\n\n\"I've found stuff from Ralph Lauren and Zara in them, all in really good condition,\" she said.\n\nShe plans to put the clothes found on the streets of Cardiff on display at Glastonbury with the idea that \"they are free again and their destiny has been changed because they are going to get another life, and that clothes can live on for so long if you let them\".\n\nBethany Lewis, from Swansea, planned her whole festival wardrobe via second hand shops and went on online clothes site Vinted for the In It Together festival in Margam, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nWhen she booked for In It Together, she was adamant she would not buy anything new.\n\nBethany Lewis didn't buy anything new for the In It Together festival she attended last month\n\n\"I've never done a festival in that kind of heat before so I kind of took all the basics out of my wardrobe, so I mostly managed to use things I already owned,\" she said.\n\n\"But then, if I was looking for something specific, like I wanted like a mesh top to wear under an outfit so I went on Vinted, looking for stuff specifically.\n\n\"Rather than buying it new, I knew that I got it cheaper. I was also reducing my impact on the environment by buying it.\"\n\nCost plays a part too, with tickets for festivals not cheap.\n\nA ticket to Glastonbury would set you back £335 this year - and that's without buying your camping essentials like tent, wellies and booze (if that's your thing) - so many people try to use second-hand sites to get their outfits.\n\nCaitlin Smith, a fashion blogger from Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, who's based in London, said: \"I don't tend to buy anything that doesn't work with at least five pieces in my wardrobe. So, if I'm looking for a festival 'fit, I'll only buy items that I know I'll wear again.\n\n\"I blame being a Capricorn for my frugality, so I don't like feeling like I've wasted money on something I'll wear once.\"\n\nCaitlin Smith says Vinted is her \"one true love\"\n\n\"I also tend to look for accessories or builder pieces that I can layer over things I already own. Accessorising and layering are such fun and easy ways to change up your look without having to buy a completely 'new' outfit.\"\n\nRachel Cosgrove-Pearce, the head of retail operations for Oxfam, said shopping second-hand was a great way to express individuality.\n\n\"For the festival season, a lot of the (Oxfam) shops will pull together festival-style windows to help people choose their outfits for going. They'll have festival displays inside and the beauty of shopping second-hand with Oxfam is that you can be your own stylist.\"\n\n\"You can go in, you shop in a variety of brands, you're not being influenced around the latest trends, and you can literally go and choose the pieces and create your own look unique for you.\n\n\"Everyone is more conscious than ever now about sustainability and by shopping with Oxfam not only are you going to look fabulous, and you know you're going to feel fabulous.\"\n\nSo that's the fashion advice. But what to do about the weather?\n\nWith Glastonbury predicted to be a scorcher, the advice is to try and pack for the heat - and if it does rain, trusty wellies and a raincoat will always be in style.", "Fighting in the recently retaken areas was at close quarters\n\nTwo weeks since the counter-offensive began, Ukraine is making modest but steady progress in three areas of attack across the 1,000km (620 mile) front line.\n\nTroops are launching probing attacks, while most of Ukraine's forces are being held in reserve, waiting for a big enough opening in Russian defences to launch a main attack and try to recapture land in the south of the country.\n\nThe fighting has been hard, with heavy casualties on both sides, and opposing armies claiming the upper hand. Ukraine's advance in southern Donetsk has stuttered, but continues.\n\nThe BBC joined the 68th Jaeger Brigade as its combat forces sought to expand their control eastward of the recently regained village of Blahodatne.\n\nIn their sights were a series of trenches protecting Russian forces on nearby hilltops.\n\nThe men of a specialised drone unit grab cameras, roll cables and load a pickup truck with tins of ammunition, crates of smoke grenades and armour-piercing rounds.\n\nAside from them, there's little sign of life in Blahodatne. Down a lane, the wreckage of two heavily armoured American-made MRAP vehicles lie stranded, one a burnt-out shell. There are more of these mine-resistant vehicles disabled in the fields beyond.\n\n\"Steer clear of those, the Russians keep hitting them,\" we are warned. Russia has made much of the losses of Western-donated tanks and vehicles, even as Vladimir Putin admitted it has lost dozens of tanks since the counter-offensive began on 5 June.\n\nTroops are attacking at three points: Bakhmut, where they are advancing north and south of the city, which remains firmly under Russian control; south of Zaporizhzhia; and in southern Donetsk, where a number of villages have been taken back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yaroslav starts talking about the frequency of Russian fire and is interrupted by a blast\n\nBlahodatne is one of those. Another salvo comes in and the soldiers take cover in the cellar of a ruined house.\n\nA dirt floor passageway is lit with oil lamps, casting soft yellow light down its length to a stone and iron stove with three sturdy pots atop. Towels hang from a washing line. A rough wooden door opens and, in a headscarf, Nina Fedorivna emerges.\n\nShe has been living down here for the past year. Russian soldiers came by only once, she says.\n\nShe never, for a second, considered leaving the village.\n\nThe artillery barrage over, we leave through a lane at the end of her house. Three Russian corpses lie in a ditch, just beyond Nina Fedorivna's vegetable patch. A truck with the Z symbol, which was used by Russian forces, sits nearby riddled with bullet and shrapnel holes. The fighting here was at close quarters.\n\nThroughout the village roses are in bloom - but the smell of corpses catches the back of your throat.\n\nThere's no time to delay - the soldiers have an air of concentration and purpose. They are clearly preparing for something.\n\nThey head east, leaving Blahodatne behind. The two-car convoy is well spaced in case of Russian attack. The fields around are heavily mined, poles with red-and-white ribbon mark cleared ground.\n\nAs we get close to another abandoned American armoured vehicle, there's an explosion, just missing the wreckage. It is likely from a Russian drone.\n\nI was in this area back in March. Then, the front lines had barely moved a few metres in months. Russia was using far more artillery than Ukrainian forces, who mainly hunkered down in trenches waiting for the barrages to end. At the time, a commander told me they were conserving their shells for the counter-offensive. On this visit, Ukrainian guns didn't stop for the two days I was with the brigade.\n\nThe cars speed on to a network of trenches hidden in a line of trees. There, company commander, Senior Sergeant Andrii Onistrat, 49, runs his men through their next mission - a Ukrainian assault is planned for the next day on the Russian trenches, 3km (1.8 miles) away at the foot of the low hills to the south.\n\nIn their attempt to widen the front, sections of the 68th Brigade will attack from the countryside east of Blahodatne and Makarivka, across minefields and directly in the line of Russian fire.\n\nSgt Onistrat runs through the drone team's communication protocols and targets. The section loses as many as five drones a day. Tanned and with a brilliant white grin, he looks at his grim-faced men and gives one final order: \"Smile - why are you so serious? We are winning the war.\"\n\nSmile, why are you so serious? We are winning the war\n\nTwenty-four hours later, most of the same men are in a sweltering dugout. The attack is under way.\n\nFrom their surveillance cameras I can see two armoured vehicles slowly making their way through the minefield. Drone after drone is sent above the Russian positions dropping smoke grenades, creating a smoke screen along the Russian-occupied trenches to allow vehicles to advance and confuse enemy anti-tank weapons. As I watch, Ukrainian shells repeatedly strike the treeline.\n\nYuri, a young soldier, runs in and out of the dugout, changing drone batteries and sending them into flight, while voices bark orders and target positions across the radios. Mosquitoes and horseflies are feasting on the men, but still \"Frisbee\", from western Ukraine, has taken his shirt off because of the heat.\n\nTheir enemy isn't holding back. As I stand outside, a Russian strike lands close enough to throw dirt into the trench. Standing lookout in wrap-around shades and without body armour is Zheka.\n\nAnother Russian shell lands close and I hit the ground. I look up and Zheka hasn't flinched. He shouts in English - expletives directed at the Russians - and gives two middle fingers to the air. Salvoes of Grad rockets rain down on Ukrainian positions.\n\nUkrainian forces launch drones to drop smoke grenades near the Russian positions\n\nMore broadly, the counter-offensive is made more difficult because of the lack of Ukrainian air power. The West has promised F-16 fighter planes, but they will not arrive until later this year.\n\nBack outside in the trenches, another soldier, Yaroslav, explains: \"Russian helicopters, Russians jets fire at every area, every day\". He's interrupted as another strike lands nearby. \"Go to the shelter, good luck,\" he says.\n\nWhen, on 3 June, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine was ready for the counter-offensive, he mentioned Russian air superiority and warned many Ukrainian lives would be lost. And so it has been for the 68th Brigade.\n\nSgt Onistrat says this weighs heavily on him. \"The severity of the day depends solely on one thing - the number of people we lose. The last week has been extremely difficult. We have lost a large number of people.\"\n\nOn his head he wears a ballistic helmet, a size too small. I mention it and he starts to weep. \"It was my son's,\" he says.\n\nOstap Onistrat, 21, was killed in a drone strike not far from where we speak, a couple of days before the counter-offensive began. He'd been in the army a year.\n\nHis father is still in the throes of grief. \"A kamikaze drone flew to them and in fact hit him directly. It was impossible to recognise him. He was buried in a closed coffin,\" Sgt Onistrat says.\n\nSgt Onistrat lost his son Ostap (right) just days before the counter-offensive began\n\nHow does he go on, I ask. \"I made a commitment. You know, we're here to win. Not to sit back, not to escape. I just think that every person here must do their job professionally. There is nothing heroic in it. I just have to finish this job.\"\n\nWhen I ask if he's looking for revenge, he replies firmly: \"Revenge is a sin.\n\n\"My task is to bring this story to an end. I want to take part in the victory parade. I want us to win, and I want to lose fewer people.\"\n\nWe leave the front, the offensive still under way. Later, I received a message telling me they'd taken the Russian positions.\n\nReturning to the command post, Sgt Onistrat's car escorting us swerves and comes to a sudden stop. He, along with others, quickly exits the vehicle. I wonder if we too need to take cover.\n\nThen I see what's caught their attention - cherry trees.\n\nLike kids, they laugh carefree for a moment as they grab handfuls of the dark red fruit from the shady branches, as artillery and mortar fire continues to hammer Russian positions on the hillside.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA boa constrictor spotted by police in the middle of a busy road in Birmingham gave officers an \"off-the-scale\" shock, the West Midlands force has said.\n\nThe officers were driving down Park Lane on Saturday afternoon when they saw the \"slippery customer\" moving across the road, according to police.\n\nThey managed to manoeuvre the snake into a pillow case and took it to Birmingham Reptile Centre for checks.\n\nStaff said the boa, which is non-venomous, was believed to be a pet.\n\nMohammed Shikdar, who filmed the capture, said he went closer after he saw police officers and on-lookers \"crowding around something\".\n\n\"That's when I saw the snake and the police were trying to pick the snake up using the broom and a walking stick,\" he said.\n\n\"The snake felt threatened and tried to attack the broom.\"\n\nChloe Clarke, team supervisor at the Reptile Centre in Erdington, said as boa constrictors were not native to the UK, the reptile must have been in captivity.\n\nThe snake was spotted by officers from the force's operational support unit, West Midlands Police said\n\nShe said she believed it had escaped, rather than having been left somewhere.\n\nThe snake was well-fed, but had a couple of marks and some scale damage from the dry climate, Ms Clarke added.\n\n\"It's just a shame that a lot of people think snakes are dangerous, but they are just an animal,\" she said.\n\n\"They [boa constrictors] are not venomous and are not capable of harming a human.\"\n\nShe said the snake might give a small bite \"like a pin-prick\" if it was scared.\n\nStaff at the centre would look after the creature for a month in the hope the owner would get in touch, but after that it would be re-homed, she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Dead' woman breathing in coffin is taken to hospital\n\nAn Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.\n\nBella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week.\n\nBut when mourners attending her wake heard her knocking on her coffin, she was immediately rushed back to the same hospital for treatment.\n\nAfter seven days in intensive care, Ecuador's health ministry confirmed she died on Friday from an ischemic stroke.\n\nThe ministry's statement added that she had remained under \"permanent surveillance\" while at the hospital.\n\nSpeaking to a local newspaper, her son, Gilbert Barbera, said, \"This time my mother really did die. My life will not be the same.\"\n\nFollowing her death on 16 June, Ms Montoya was taken back to the same funeral home ahead of her burial at a public cemetery, local media is reporting.\n\nLocal media reported Ms Montaya had a condition called catalepsy - where a person experiences seizure, loss of consciousness, and the body becomes rigid.\n\nA commission of experts has been assembled by the Ecuadorean health ministry to review her case.\n\nMs Montoya was placed in a coffin and taken to the funeral parlour in Babahoyo, south-west of the capital. Quito, after being declared dead on 9 June.\n\nBut after almost five hours inside, the woman gasped for air after her relatives opened the coffin to change her clothes for the funeral.\n\nMinutes later, she was stretchered out by fire fighters and transferred back to the same hospital.\n\nBella Montoya is not the only person to \"come alive\" after being officially declared dead.\n\nIn February, an 82-year-old woman was found to be breathing while lying in a funeral home in New York State. She had been pronounced dead three hours earlier at a nursing home.", "We did not run out of PPE, nationally - Wormald\n\nKeith now turns to the stockpile of PPE (personal protective equipment) prepared for an influenza pandemic, enough to last about three months. \"Was that a capability that was transferred to Covid, or did we run out?,\" he asks Wormald. Wormald replied that is was transferred, as they used the pandemic stockpile that had been built up. \"We never nationally ran out of PPE. We were very short and we had significant logistical issues.\" \"The stockpile that we had built up was useful in the pandemic...it would have been much better were it to have been larger.\" However, at this point chair of the Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, interrupts and says that medical professionals would be surprised to hear that we never nationally ran out of PPE. Wormald says he chose his words very carefully: \"There were huge pressures on PPE and we had, as I said, significant challenges getting PPE to the right place, so the department has never said and it would not be true to say that in individual places there were shortages of PPE. \"That's different from it having run out nationally.\"", "Greek authorities say a boat carrying hundreds of migrants was on a steady course for Italy right up until the moment it capsized off southern Greece, leaving least 78 people dead and many more missing.\n\nHowever, tracking data seen by the BBC's Europe correspondent Nick Beake suggests the boat was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 500 people are still missing from a migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN human rights office says.\n\nLarge numbers of women and children were among those missing in the \"horrific tragedy\" that left 78 people dead, said spokesman Jeremy Laurence.\n\nThe appalling loss of life underscored the need to bring people smugglers to justice, he added.\n\nBut it also made clear that search and rescue at sea was a \"legal and humanitarian imperative\".\n\nIn a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration, the refugee agency said any search and rescue action had to be conducted to prevent loss of life..\n\nSince the fishing boat carrying up to 750 people went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, the role of the coastguard has come under increasing scrutiny.\n\nGreece's caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, said a \"thorough investigation of the real facts and technical judgements\" would take place to determine what had caused the boat to sink.\n\nGreek officials have denied a series of reports that suggest it went down after 02:00 on Wednesday because a rope was attached by coastguards. Two of the 104 survivors of the wreck have described how the highly crowded boat had veered from side to side.\n\nInitially the coastguard said it had kept a \"discreet distance\" from the boat. But then Greek newspaper Kathimerini quoted a source saying members of the coastguard had tied a rope to the boat so its crew could check on conditions, and those on board had then untied it to continue heading for Italy.\n\nThat incident is understood to have taken place at around 23:00, three hours before the boat went down.\n\nGovernment spokesman Ilias Siakantaris confirmed on Friday that the coastguard had \"used a rope to steady themselves, to approach, to see if they wanted any help\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"There was no mooring rope,\" suggesting that there was no attempt to tow the boat or tether it for any length of time.\n\n\"They refused it, they said 'no help, we go to Italy' and continued on their way.\"\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nThe question of whether a rope had been tied to the migrant boat was first raised by a refugee activist who said people on board had told her they feared it could prompt their highly crowded boat to turn over.\n\nThe coastguard emphasised that its patrol boat had for a few minutes \"dropped a small rope on to the fishing vessel to find out the current condition of the boat and passengers\".\n\nSome of those on board then untied it in order to continue their route northwards to Italy and the patrol \"moved away to watch from a close distance\".\n\nBut since the tragedy unfolded, its timeline and account have been challenged. The coastguard has stressed that from the first moment it was in contact with the crew no request for assistance was made and further repeated offers of help were turned down.\n\nOne organisation which provides support for migrants at sea, Alarm Phone, sent an email on Tuesday afternoon warning the coastguard and others that as many as 750 people were on board and that they were urgently asking for help.\n\nTwo accounts from survivors have suggested that tying a rope to the fishing boat may have led to it going down.\n\nOne has come from a local councillor in the port city of Kalamata who had earlier spoken to a 24-year-old Syrian.\n\n\"The coastguard boat tied them with some rope and tried to tow them to the left. For an unknown reason the boat veered to the right and suddenly sank,\" said Tasos Polychronopoulos.\n\nNew footage from the search and rescue operation has been shared by the Greek military\n\nAnother survivor gave a similar version to former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a visit to Kalamata on Thursday.\n\n\"The Greek coastguard asked the vessel to follow them, but they couldn't,\" a translator told Mr Tsipras. \"The coastguard then threw a rope but because they didn't know how to pull the rope, the vessel started dangling right and left.\"\n\n\"The coastguard boat was going too fast but the vessel was already dangling to the left, and that's how it sank.\"\n\nNine people, including several Egyptians, have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, Greek TV is reporting.\n\nPolice officers escort a man as they arrest several Egyptians as part of their investigation\n\nGeorgios Vasilakos, a volunteer rescue doctor for the Hellenic Red Cross, told the BBC that no women and children were among the survivors.\n\nHe said survivors reported that \"all women and children were isolated below deck\".\n\n\"This is why, because of the rapid unfolding of events and the rapid capsizing of the boat, they were unable to get out in time,\" he said.\n\nPeople on the boat had been drinking sea water for at least two days before it sank, he said.\n\nFamilies of some of the missing have arrived in Kalamata in search of their loved ones.\n\n\"My relatives were on the boat,\" said Aftab, who had travelled from the UK and said at least four of his relatives from Pakistan were unaccounted for.\n\nA Syrian man from the Netherlands broke down as he revealed his wife and brother-in-law were missing.\n\n\"The authorities are looking for their bodies in the sea... They're looking in hospitals, they're looking among dead bodies, and among the survivors,\" Kassam Abozeed said.\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video reportedly showed the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than a quarter of patients on antidepressants in England - about two million people - have been taking them for five years, the BBC has found.\n\nThis is despite there being limited evidence of the benefits of taking the drugs for that length of time.\n\nA doctor who runs an NHS clinic helping people off the pills says withdrawal symptoms can make it hard for some to stop taking their medication.\n\nWithdrawal guidance was updated in 2019, but he says little has changed.\n\nMore than eight million people in England are on antidepressants - which are prescribed for depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder and other conditions. That's one million more people than five years previously, NHS prescribing figures show.\n\nThe new figures on long-term use - for the period 2018-2022 - were provided to BBC Panorama by the NHS, following a Freedom of Information request. The data gives an overall picture but does not reflect the circumstances of individual patients, some of whom could be on antidepressants long-term for good reason.\n\nThe investigation also uncovered evidence that a leading drug company attempted 27 years ago to conceal possible withdrawal effects that one drug could cause.\n\nModern antidepressants - called SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors) - arrived from the late 1980s, including Prozac. They were quickly heralded as wonder drugs compared with earlier medications, some of which had serious side effects.\n\nThey were thought to treat depression by fixing an imbalance of the mood-regulating chemical serotonin in the brain. Researchers are now not clear how they work. One theory is that they simply change how you think or feel, rather than rectifying an underlying problem.\n\nThe NHS recommends antidepressants as a treatment for more severe depression. Talking therapy as well as exercise and lifestyle changes might be recommended instead of, or in combination with, the medication.\n\n\"Throughout my long and extensive career, I have seen people benefit from antidepressants,\" said Prof Wendy Burn, former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.\n\n\"I see them working in my clinical practice, I see lives being changed by them.\"\n\nBut she added: \"People are staying on antidepressants longer, and we don't really have long-term studies that support that.\"\n\nThere has long been a debate about how effective antidepressants are. The most comprehensive research, from the University of Oxford, suggests antidepressants do help some people, at least in the short-term.\n\nBut on average, their benefits are relatively modest, and the way people respond varies, with some not responding at all, according to the researcher who led the study.\n\nAnd there is some evidence to suggest that long-term antidepressant use may be linked to some health risks, such as heart problems and diabetes. It is also thought that long-term use may lead to a higher risk of withdrawal symptoms in some people.\n\nWithdrawal can happen when you stop a drug that your body has become used to.\n\nTaking that drug away too quickly, before the brain has had time to adjust, can lead to symptoms - including low mood and feelings of anxiety. Some symptoms overlap with the original condition the drug was prescribed for, which means the withdrawal can sometimes be confused with relapse.\n\nThe symptoms depend on the individual, which drug they were taking, and for how long. Many patients can stop taking antidepressants without experiencing any problems.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line\n\nPanorama has uncovered evidence to suggest that one major drug company which manufactured SSRI antidepressants had become increasingly aware of a whole range of withdrawal symptoms from the mid-1990s, but was reluctant to share this information with the public and medicines regulators.\n\nA copy of a confidential 1996 memo from firm Pfizer - which originally sold sertraline, now the UK's most common antidepressant - shows employees discussing what the drug company would tell regulators in Norway.\n\n\"We should not volunteer to describe the withdrawal symptoms, but have an agreed list prepared in case they insist,\" the memo says.\n\nSome of the withdrawal reactions the memo refers to include sensory disturbances, sweating, nausea, insomnia, tremors, agitation and anxiety.\n\nPfizer no longer produces sertraline. Responding to Panorama's findings, a spokesperson said the company \"monitored and reported all adverse event data\" to licensing authorities, \"in line with its legal and regulatory obligations and updated sertraline labelling as required.\"\n\nIt added: \"Public health organisations and professional medical bodies throughout the world have recognised sertraline and other SSRIs as the treatment of choice for adult depression.\" The company said the drug's label warned about withdrawal and had been updated \"as required\".\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists published updated information on withdrawal in 2019 - overseen by Prof Burn, who was its president at the time. It came after she heard testimony from patients who had experienced severe withdrawal effects.\n\nUntil then, guidance used by the NHS and the college maintained withdrawal was mostly mild and short-lived - lasting no more than about a week.\n\nNow NHS guidance reflects that it can be severe and longer-lasting for some, and withdrawal can last many months.\n\nA Royal College of Psychiatrists spokesperson told the BBC: \"Medicine continuously evolves, as does our knowledge of treating mental illness. As a result, the college updates its guidance when new evidence comes to light.\"\n\nA lack of awareness about withdrawal difficulties has meant that even medical professionals who prescribe the drugs have struggled to stop taking antidepressants themselves.\n\nDr Mark Horowitz, who tried to stop the antidepressants he had taken for 15 years in 2015, said: \"It led to complete havoc in my life,\" he says. \"I would wake up in the morning in full panic, like I was being chased by an animal.\"\n\nThe panic he felt would last until late into the evenings and he took up running as a distraction.\n\n\"I ran until my feet bled, because it gave me a slight reprieve from that panic sensation.\"\n\nHe said it was worse than the symptoms that led him to take antidepressants in the first place.\n\nPanorama examines whether the current generation of antidepressant drugs have lived up to their promises, following patients who have suffered serious side effects.\n\nWatch The Antidepressant Story on BBC One at 20:00 on Monday 19 June (20:30 in Wales and Northern Ireland) and on BBC iPlayer afterwards (UK only)\n\nHe is concerned that far more work has been done on how to start patients on antidepressants - and much less on stopping.\n\n\"To me, it's the same as allowing cars to be sold without brakes,\" he said.\n\n\"We should know how to start the car and how to stop it.\"\n\nNow Dr Horowitz runs England's only NHS antidepressant deprescribing clinic - a pilot scheme set up in London in 2021 to help people struggling to stop taking their medication.\n\nAt the moment he is seeing about 25 patients.\n\nDespite withdrawal guidance having been updated, Dr Horowitz thinks patients are still struggling to get tailored advice. Guidance for doctors now recommends that people reduce the dose of their medication in stages, but it does not specify how long it should take. It's different for everyone.\n\nDr Horowitz is still trying to reduce his antidepressant dose - and hopes to stop altogether this year\n\nThe Royal College of GPs told Panorama that family doctors were \"highly-trained to have frank and sensitive conversations\" with patients about the risks and benefits of antidepressants.\n\n\"Amid intense workload and workforce pressures,\" it said it was, \"increasingly difficult to offer patients the time they need within the constraints of a standard 10-minute consultation.\"\n\nThe companies behind the most widely used antidepressants told Panorama that many clinical trials and studies, including ones conducted by independent researchers, had shown their drugs to be effective.\n\nThey said the drugs had been taken by many millions worldwide for potentially devastating and sometimes life-threatening conditions.\n\nAs with all medicines, they said, antidepressants have potential side effects which are clearly stated in the prescribing information. They added that their drugs are considered to be safe, with a positive benefit-risk ratio by doctors, patients and regulators around the world.\n• None Antidepressants exit must be slow - says watchdog", "Michael Gove says he will not vote for a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate.\n\nThe housing secretary told the BBC there were areas where the ex-PM \"falls short\" of expectations.\n\nBut he said he disagreed with the report's recommendation that Mr Johnson should have been suspended for 90 days if he had remained an MP.\n\nMr Gove said he would abstain in a vote scheduled for Monday on the report.\n\nDowning Street has yet to say how Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intends to vote, or even if he would take part.\n\nOn Friday, his spokesman told reporters he was still taking the time to \"consider the report fully\".\n\nIt will be a free vote for Conservative MPs, meaning party managers - known as whips - will not instruct them which way to vote.\n\nIn the damning 106-page report, the seven-member Commons privileges committee, which has a Tory majority, said Mr Johnson had deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nHe had \"personal knowledge\" of rule-breaking, and had \"closed his mind\" by not seeking assurances about compliance, it found.\n\nIt said it would have recommended a 90-day Commons suspension for Mr Johnson, partly because of his furious reaction to an advance copy of the report's findings, including him calling the committee a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe suspension will not apply given the former prime minister quit as an MP before the report was published.\n\nThe committee said his calling the committee a \"kangaroo court\" in his resignation statement had \"impugned the integrity\" of Parliament.\n\nBut speaking to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Gove said a ban of such length - rare in recent years - was \"not merited by the evidence the committee have put forward\".\n\nThe housing secretary, who initially backed Mr Johnson for Tory leadership in 2016 before dramatically withdrawing his support, added there were \"complexities\" in the report.\n\n\"Reducing it to a single badge to pin on Boris Johnson I think isn't right,\" he added.\n\nOpposition parties are expected to vote on Monday to endorse the report, which also calls for Mr Johnson to be stripped of the parliamentary pass he would normally be entitled to as a former MP.\n\nHowever, it is not yet clear whether a division - where MPs go through the voting lobbies to indicate their support - will even take place, with Mr Johnson asking his supporters not to vote against the report.\n\nIf no one in the chamber shouts \"no\" to oppose a motion approving the report, it will be passed without a division, meaning the votes of individual MPs will not be recorded.\n\nSeveral of Mr Johnson's allies criticised the report's findings last week.\n\nNadine Dorries, who was culture secretary in Mr Johnson's cabinet, said the committee had \"overreached,\" warning that any Tory MP voting to endorse it would be \"held to account\" by party members.\n\nEsther McVey, who was a housing minister in his government, said the demands for the former prime minister to be denied a parliamentary pass were \"absolutely absurd and utterly unnecessary\".", "Italy has moved to block a Chinese state-owned company from taking control of tyre making giant Pirelli.\n\nThe decision is part of measures announced by Italy's government to protect Pirelli's independence.\n\nBeijing-controlled chemical giant Sinochem is Pirelli's biggest shareholder, with a 37% stake in the 151-year-old Milan-based firm.\n\nIt comes as tensions between Beijing and the West are in focus as the US secretary of state visits China.\n\nOn Sunday, Pirelli said in a statement to investors that the Italian government had ruled that only Camfin - a company controlled by Pirelli's boss Marco Tronchetti Provera - could nominate candidates to be its chief executive.\n\nPirelli also said the government had decided that any changes to the company's corporate governance should be subject to official scrutiny.\n\nIt came after Sinochem told the Italian government in March that it planned to renew and update an existing shareholder pact.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's administration examined the agreement under the so-called \"Golden Power Procedure\" rules, which are aimed at protecting businesses that are viewed as strategically important to the nation.\n\nIn 2015, Pirelli was sold for €7.1bn (£6.1bn; $7.8bn) to a group of investors including ChemChina and Camfin. Six years later ChemChina merged with state-owned Sinochem. The Chinese government's Silk Road investment fund also owns a 9% stake in Pirelli.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Beijing, on his final day of a rare visit to China by such a high-ranking Washington official.\n\nMr Blinken's trip comes as the relationships between China and many Western nations have deteriorated in recent years over issues including trade, Taiwan and security.\n\nBefore his visit officials saw little chance of any breakthrough on the many disputes between the world's two biggest economies, which include Washington's attempts to slow the development of China's computer chip industry.", "Voters in Switzerland have backed a new climate bill designed to cut fossil fuel use and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nThe government says the country needs to protect its energy security and the environment, as glaciers melt rapidly in the Swiss Alps.\n\nThe law will require a move away from dependence on imported oil and gas towards the use of renewable sources.\n\nIn Sunday's referendum 59.1% of voters backed the green energy proposals.\n\nOpponents had argued the measures would push up energy prices.\n\nNearly all of Switzerland's major parties supported the bill, except the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which triggered the referendum after pushing back against the government's proposals.\n\nSwitzerland imports about three-quarters of its energy, with all the oil and natural gas consumed coming from abroad.\n\nThe climate bill pledges financial support of 2bn Swiss francs ($2.2bn; £1.7bn) over a decade to promote the replacement of gas or oil heating systems with climate-friendly alternatives, and SFr1.2bn to push businesses towards green innovation.\n\nIt comes as glaciers in the Alps are at particular risk of rising temperatures due to climate change. They lost a third of their ice volume between 2001 and 2022.\n\nLeading Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss, who has closely followed the glaciers' retreat, hailed the \"strong signal\" sent by Sunday's vote, saying on Twitter that he was \"very happy the arguments of climate science were heard\".\n\nSocialist Party parliamentarian Valerie Piller Carrard said it was \"an important step for future generations\".\n\nVoters also overwhelmingly backed plans to introduce a global minimum tax of 15% for multinational corporations in a second referendum, with 78.5% in favour.\n\nIn 2021, Switzerland joined almost 140 countries that signed up to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) deal to set a minimum tax rate for big companies.\n\nFinance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter hailed the \"very strong acceptance rate\" for the plan to amend the constitution so Switzerland can join the agreement.\n\nParticipation in Sunday's referendums was about 42%.", "The Port of Everett is a popular place for mariners in the northern Puget Sound area of Washington state.\n\nMore than a dozen companies, like OceanGate, are based here. But OceanGate is the only company that makes underwater submersibles here, port workers tell me.\n\nCorie Reed, the owner of the Seas the Day coffeeshop, says that more than half of her customers are regulars - since many both live on their boats and work in the port's administrative offices.\n\nShe's served Stockton Rush, the owner of OceanGate who is now missing, and his employees many times in the past year, she says.\n\nAfter returning from a recent trip to see the Titanic, Reed says OceanGate workers told her baristas all about their unique view of the famous shipwreck.\n\n\"Lots of people are coming in and talking about it,\" Reed told me about the missing sub.\n\n\"People are saying how scary it is, and 'they have x amount of oxygen left',\" she says.\n\nBut as someone who is not personally involved in shipping, she says she has \"no idea\" how likely the submersible is to be found.\n\n\"Lots of rumours,\" she says. \"But it's always a rumor mill here.\"", "Conservative activists filmed dancing at a Christmas party during Covid restrictions in 2020 were invited to \"jingle and mingle\", according to an invitation seen by the BBC.\n\nThe invitation was sent to 30 people on behalf of Ben Mallet, a former aide to Boris Johnson awarded an OBE last week.\n\nAt the time, London was under Tier-2 restrictions which banned indoor socialising.\n\nPolice are reviewing video of the event first published by the Mirror.\n\nIn the footage, one person is heard saying it is OK to film \"as long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules\".\n\nThe Conservative Party said four people were disciplined over the event, although it has not named them.\n\nThe event was held on behalf of Shaun Bailey's unsuccessful Mayor of London campaign, and was thrown for party activists.\n\nHe was awarded a peerage in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list last week.\n\nThe video features Mr Mallet - awarded an OBE in Mr Johnson's resignation honours - chatting to guests and holding a glass of red wine.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Mallet, who was campaign director for the Conservative Party's candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election, said he did not send the invitation himself. It was sent by an administrator.\n\nMr Bailey said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for the event, which he said \"turned into something\" after he had left.\n\nHe claimed he was \"very upset about the video\" as he had \"never seen it before\".\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had not chosen the team of staff seen in the video. \"It was a staff team that was given to me, but the buck stops with me,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to strip honours from those attending the party.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove has apologised for the video, and told the BBC the footage was \"terrible\" and would leave people feeling \"extremely angry\".\n\nIn November 2022, Scotland Yard said it was taking no action against Mr Bailey or other people who attended the gathering.\n\nOn Monday, the force said it was now \"assessing video footage that was not previously provided to officers\" in the party.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the video \"tells a much richer, clearer story\" than the photo the force had seen during its first investigation into the event.\n\nSpeaking on the News Agents Podcast, Sir Mark said: \"I think we can all see the colourful nature of the video and how much it tells a story way beyond the original photo.\n\n\"I need to let a team work through that but I think we can all guess which way it will go.\"\n\nThe Met Police are also investigating new reports, released by the Cabinet Office, of potential rule breaches by former prime minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street and Chequers during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAnd officers are looking into reports senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, who sits on the Privileges Committee attended a drinks party for his wife's birthday in the House of Commons while London was in Tier-2 lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the new Partygate video shows\n\nIn a 45-second video published by the Mirror newspaper, people can be seen drinking and standing in groups, while a man and a woman can be seen holding hands and dancing.\n\nOne member of the party can be heard asking: \"Are you filming this?\"\n\nA man then laughs before saying: \"As long as we are not streaming that we're bending the rules.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper said:\"While the Conservatives 'jingled and mingled', the British public followed the rules and did the right thing.\n\n\"The Conservatives should be utterly ashamed. It's clear it's one rule for them and another for everyone else.\"", "Actress Angela Thorne, best-known for starring in To The Manor Born, has died aged 84, her family has said.\n\nShe played Marjory Frobisher in the BBC comedy series, alongside Penelope Keith as Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton and Peter Bowles as Richard DeVere from 1979 to 1981.\n\nThorne also starred in the BBC comedy Three Up, Two Down, opposite Michael Elphick, from 1985-1989.\n\nHer family said she died \"peacefully at home\".\n\nThorne was also the mother of actors Rupert and Laurence Penry-Jones. and had been married to the late actor Peter Penry-Jones, who appeared in two episodes of To the Manor Born in 1981,\n\nA statement from Rupert said she died on 16 June, adding: \"She was the beloved wife of Peter Penry-Jones, and is survived by her two sons Rupert and Laurie Penry Jones and her grandchildren, Florence, Peter, Giorgio and Delilah.\n\n\"We will all miss her very much.\"\n\nAngela Thorne as Marjory, Penelope Keith as Audrey and Peter Bowles as Richard, back in To The Manor Born in 2007\n\nThorne trained on a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama, and later performed in repertory seasons.\n\nIn To the Manor Born, her character Marjory was the loyal friend of Audrey, who had a love-hate relationship with Richard until they married at the end of the show's three series in 1981.\n\nThe three actors returned for a one-off 60-minute special of the show in 2007.\n\nThorne and John Wells outside 10 Downing Street, promoting their play Anyone for Denis?\n\nThorne was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1981 for her stage portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Anyone for Denis?\n\nThree Up, Two Down: Lysette Anthony, Ray Burdis, Michael Elphick, Angela Thorne\n\nShe went on to appear in the TV series Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War, and other TV credits included police drama series Heartbeat and drama series Elizabeth R, which starred the late Glenda Jackson.\n\nShe also voiced the Queen Of England in the animated 1989 film adaptation of The BFG.\n\nIn 2013, she appeared in a stage adaptation of 1955 black comedy The Ladykillers, alongside Death In Paradise's Ralf Little, The Fast Show's Simon Day and Gregory's Girl actor John Gordon Sinclair.\n\nHer son Rupert is best-known for playing Adam Carter in Spooks, QC Clive Reader in Silk and DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel. Laurence has appeared in Waking The Dead and Doctors.", "Navalny has lost a lot of weight in jail, but is engaged and as vocal a critic as ever\n\nAt Penal Colony No 6, they've made an effort.\n\nOutside the maximum-security prison, a giant Russian tricolour has been stretched across the ground. Planted on top in three strict lines are red, blue and white blooms to mirror the national flag. A patriotic flowerbed for a Russian prison.\n\nBut I'm not here for the gardening.\n\nBehind these walls, Alexei Navalny - Russia's most famous prisoner and the Kremlin's most vocal critic - is about to go on trial. Again.\n\nPrison guards conduct a thorough search of our bags. Cue the sniffer dogs.\n\nFinally, we're let through. We're under strict instructions not to turn on our video camera until permitted to do so.\n\nAlong with the other journalists who've made the journey here to Melekhovo, we're led into a building.\n\nWe're not allowed into the hall which has been turned into a temporary courtroom. Neither are Mr Navalny's parents who are here, too. Instead, for now, we can follow proceedings on a video screen in a separate room.\n\nThe signal's switched on and the picture appears. It's a wide shot of the makeshift courtroom. No close-ups.\n\nBut Alexei Navalny is visible, sitting at a table with his defence lawyers. He's clearly lost a lot of weight in prison.\n\nBut Mr Navalny is engaged and defiant as he rails against the judge and condemns the decision to try him here.\n\nOn paper, it's a Moscow court that is hearing the case. But the trial is taking place 150 miles (240km) from the Russian capital.\n\nThat suggests the Russian authorities want to avoid the publicity that transporting Mr Navalny to Moscow would inevitably bring.\n\nNavalny's parents were not allowed in the courtroom\n\nThe picture on the screen doesn't last long. An hour and a half after the start of the trial, the prosecutor demands that proceedings are held behind closed doors.\n\nThe judge rules in favour. The video feed is cut.\n\nIt will now be even harder to follow what's happening to Russia's most prominent opposition leader in his trial behind bars.\n\nJailed in 2021, Alexei Navalny is currently serving a nine-year prison term here for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court - charges widely seen as politically motivated.\n\nBut that nine-year term is set to increase dramatically.\n\nIn this new trial, he faces multiple charges that could add decades to his time behind bars. They include creating an extremist organisation and financing extremist activities.\n\nThe authorities have already declared Mr Navalny's network of campaign offices and his Anti-Corruption Foundation \"extremist\" and shut them down.\n\nThere may be worse to come. Mr Navalny says investigators told him to expect another case, another trial, this time related to terrorism charges.\n\nWhy do the charges and trials keep coming? Why do the Russian authorities seem determined to pile on the pressure and keep Alexei Navalny behind bars?\n\nOver the years, Vladimir Putin's Kremlin has been busy removing all potential rivals to the president - clearing the Russian political landscape of any potential challengers. It will want to make sure that its loudest critic stays well away from Russia's political stage.\n\nFor more than a decade, Alexei Navalny has exposed corruption at the heart of Russian power. His video investigations have received tens of millions of views online.\n\nIt is Navalny's ability to galvanise crowds that authorities fear\n\nBut even more than this, perhaps, it is his ability to mobilise the public, especially young Russians, to take to the streets in anti-government protests which makes the authorities nervous.\n\nIn recent years, he has been the only Russian opposition leader capable of organising anti-Putin street protests on a national scale.\n\nHe had set up a network of regional campaign offices, having planned to run for president in 2018. He was barred from the vote.\n\nIn 2020, Mr Navalny was poisoned in Siberia by what Western laboratories later confirmed to be a nerve agent.\n\nHe accused the Kremlin of trying to kill him. The Russian authorities deny that.\n\nAfter receiving urgent medical care in Germany, his decision to return to Russia in 2021 will have been viewed by those in power here as a direct challenge to the Kremlin. He was arrested on arrival.", "Antony Blinken, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday, is the highest-ranking member of President Joe Biden's administration to visit China\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken held \"candid\" talks with his Chinese counterpart at the start of two days of meetings with officials in China, the US state department says.\n\nMr Blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping \"open channels of communication\", a statement added.\n\nHis trip is the first by a top US diplomat to China in almost five years.\n\nA planned Blinken visit in February was called off after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew in US airspace.\n\nUS officials say the main goal of the Beijing talks is to stabilise a relationship that has become extremely tense.\n\nChina's Foreign Minister Qin Gang told Mr Blinken that Beijing was committed to building a stable, predictable and constructive relationship with the US, state media said. US officials said he had agreed to a visit to Washington at the talks.\n\nMr Qin said Taiwan was the \"most prominent risk\" for China-US relations and described the Taiwan issue as one of \"China's core interests\", state media said.\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control, but Taiwan sees itself as distinct from the Chinese mainland with its own constitution and leaders. US President Joe Biden said last year that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack from China, a move condemned by Beijing.\n\nMr Qin greeted Mr Blinken on Sunday morning at the Diaoyutai State Guest House, a lavish estate that typically hosts visiting dignitaries.\n\nThe two shook hands as they stood before their respective flags, then sat down with their delegations at long tables to begin their meetings.\n\nThe greeting was business-like, underscoring the chilly relations that have developed between the two superpowers in recent years.\n\nThe US had been lowering expectations for the trip and both sides have made clear they do not expect any major breakthrough.\n\nThe war in Ukraine, trade disputes over advanced computer technologies, the fentanyl drug epidemic in the US and Chinese human rights conduct are all topics the Americans were expecting to be discussed.\n\nChinese officials have reacted coolly to Mr Blinken's visit, questioning whether the US is sincere in its efforts to mend relations.\n\nIt is not clear whether he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMr Blinken is the highest-ranking US government official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.\n\n\"If we want to make sure, as we do, that the competition that we have with China doesn't veer into conflict, the place you start is with communicating,\" Mr Blinken told reporters on Friday.\n\nLater he said he hoped to meet President Xi in the next few months.\n\nA meeting between President Biden and Xi Jinping in Bali in November briefly eased fears of a new Cold War, but since the balloon incident high-level communication between the two leaders has been rare.", "This is a war where Ukrainian fathers and sons serve on the same front lines. And this was how it was for 22-year-old Eugene Gromadskyi - at least, at the very beginning.\n\nOn the first day of the invasion he stood shoulder to shoulder with his father, Oleg, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, as column after column of Russian men and armoured vehicles sought to capture their city.\n\nIn those crucial first hours he was in command of a unit which, outnumbered and outgunned, attacked and destroyed Russian vehicle columns and captured prisoners. For this, Eugene would earn the country's highest military honour. His father would face a different fate.\n\nEugene has been in the thick of it for almost the entire war. He started out as a lieutenant in the National Guard. Now he's a senior lieutenant in the army's 92nd Mechanized Brigade, which is named after Ivan Sirko, a 17th-Century Cossack military leader. The intelligence platoon Eugene commands describe themselves as Sirko's Rowdy Boys - their motto is \"Revenge for all\". \"They are my family,\" he tells me\n\nIt is a December morning in Kupyiansk, some 120km (75 miles) south-east of Kharkiv, and the temperature is -7C, even before the howling wind hits you and finds its way into every inch of loose clothing or exposed skin. It is mostly open ground - there is no cover from the wind, nor from the Russians who, in places, are within rifle range. Lines of trees, which in the summer provided camouflage, are now stark and bare. There is nowhere to hide.\n\nBut Eugene glows with vitality. He explains that the early days of the war were frustrating. Ukrainian forces took back a village or two, there was little momentum. They were on the defensive and under-prepared, then a summer stalemate set in. But in September, a co-ordinated counter-offensive began, starting from Balakliya and going all the way down to Kupyiansk.\n\nEugene was awarded the country's top military honour by President Zelensky\n\nI first met him in early March. He had recently graduated from university and was full of courage but fresh to conflict and on the defensive. What he didn't tell me at the time was how he and his comrades, under his command, had captured the Russian prisoners. His bravery a matter for record, he was later awarded the country's top military honour, Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star.\n\nEugene has countless missions under his belt, and like the landscape around him, bears the scarred lessons of conflict.\n\nWar toughens the heart, and death is its companion. Eugene has lost many men close to him, so I ask, given the high casualty rate - Ukraine says 13,000 of its soldiers have been killed so far in the war - does he fear death?\n\n\"Death is one of [war's] problems. Death loves brave ones. And courage must be used cleverly. There is no need to be afraid of death,\" he says. But he reconsiders for a moment, and continues: \"The person who is not afraid is already dead… I don't think about mortality, I think only about life, about life of my comrades and the life of my unit.\"\n\nWe ride inside one of his platoon's armoured personnel carriers (APC). The noise is deafening, even before its 30mm cannon opens fire on some farm buildings where they suspect Russians are hiding. Condensation drips from the metal roof, two dim lights emit a pale-green glow and the vehicle's eight sturdy wheels slip and slide through the mud, swaying us from side to side. I feel as if I'm in a submarine.\n\nEugene with the APC that has stalled in mud\n\nAbove the din, Eugene explains why the September operation was key. \"It was really important for the boys that we were able to accomplish a counter-offensive. Everyone was very motivated. They were taking back their own territory, taking back homes of their own families. It was really needed.\" As if to underscore this point, in the front seat of the APC is Sasha. He only recently joined the platoon after his village was liberated from the Russians.\n\nA black-and-white targeting screen offers the only view of the road ahead. It is a quagmire - there are few obstacles as fiendish, or varied, as Ukrainian mud. One moment it's a deep, sucking soup, the next a thick putty clogging machinery, weighing down boots, and gumming up everything. We drive past one soldier who is hammering frozen chunks of it off his stranded truck with a mallet.\n\nSmall wonder, then, that in these conditions, and in the face of stiff resistance from enemy forces, the counter-offensive is bogged down here. And so are we - the APC can go no further. It doesn't pay to be trapped out here in open ground, so we turn around. Days later another Ukrainian vehicle would become stuck at the same spot. A Russian helicopter attacked, causing significant casualties.\n\nInside the APC, despite the din, Eugene falls into a deep sleep. He had only two hours' rest the night before, and he remains sound asleep until the vehicle makes it back to base and the heavy steel handle by his ear clunks open.\n\nThe unit, which has its own Instagram page, is crammed into a few rooms in an abandoned house. A huge pot filled with potatoes and pork sits atop a wood-burning stove. Eugene eats standing.\n\nThe counter-offensive has taken its toll on Ukrainian equipment and men along this front. A punishing winter lies ahead. But Eugene, as ever, is optimistic.\n\n\"I think it will be very difficult but we will manage,\" he says. \"Our reserves of troops are growing, the ones who were getting trained abroad. They will be additional reserves, additional forces who will help us with further offensives. For now, there are difficulties especially with the weather. But it doesn't stop us because we are taking back our land step by step, corner by corner.\"\n\nUkraine's defence had an improvised and precarious feel at the start. The country was underprepared. Before the invasion President Volodymyr Zelensky had dismissed talk of war, saying that the country should keep calm, it would celebrate Easter in April and come May, the country would be occupied with sun, holidays and BBQs, not war.\n\nA week into the war, Kharkiv was still in turmoil. At a marshalling point on the city's eastern edge, busloads of reinforcements arrived, then quickly disappeared again, pushed forward to halt the Russians who were still trying to force their way into the city. It was freezing cold, but the air was electric with a desperate, hurried energy. But the lieutenant was cool-headed, \"Call me Eugene,\" he said, in English, with a smile.\n\nEugene Gromadskyi at the beginning of the war\n\nI saw a very young man - surely too young to be in command - who like his country was battling against the odds in a war with Russia. He lacked a winter uniform and army boots, instead he was wearing trainers. \"I can move fast in these,\" he joked.\n\nWe jumped into one of the few armoured vehicles around and headed to the front, a fur Russian army hat from a captured soldier swinging from the ceiling as we bumped along rutted, snow-covered roads.\n\nThe snows thawed, spring became summer, and Ukraine held on. Eugene and I kept in touch, and he would send videos of him and his men in battle. In one, he's smiling broadly while riding atop a tank. We met again in late April on a warm afternoon in Kharkiv. There had been no holidays nor BBQs for him.\n\nHe was still fighting, though now well beyond the city limits. His uniform was filthy, and he stayed only a short while, before heading back to the front. A patch on his uniform read, \"Stop: no touch, no talk, no eye contact\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was in good spirits, grinning as ever. And despite the hardships of battle, he was clearly in his element. He still believed Ukraine could win. By then Russia's military inadequacies had been exposed and Western military aid was beginning to make a difference, though a large-scale push against the invading Russian forces still hadn't happened. There were questions over whether it ever would.\n\nEugene Gromadskyi needs little reminder of what Russian aggression has cost him - it's there every time he looks in the mirror. On the left side of his face a deep red scar is still healing.\n\nWe had lost touch in May. It's not unusual for soldiers to go offline, but 10 days went by and still he was out of reach. Eventually, he reappeared and sent a selfie as way of an explanation. He was in hospital, his face swollen and barely recognisable. It looks like he is trying to smile, but he can't, so instead gives a defiant hand gesture.\n\nAt the Kupyiansk front, he told me what had happened. \"Me and my comrade were on a combat mission,\" he explains.\n\n\"We came under fire and a shell exploded near me and shrapnel hit my face, near my lip and apparently came out at my temple. [In hospital] an operation was performed, I was put back together, they didn't need to use metal plates.\"\n\nEugene was wounded when a shell exploded in front of him\n\nHe checked himself out of hospital after only 10 days and returned to the front with a broken jaw. \"It wasn't nice,\" he says and smiles broadly.\n\nBut Eugene had suffered an even greater wound on the first day of the war.\n\nIn the early hours of 24 February, he had been commanding a small unit of National Guardsmen in the village of Pyatikhatky, when he was joined by his father, Oleg.\n\nOleg had been asleep in the family apartment on the edge of Kharkiv when he was awoken by his wife Natalia, who said she could hear Russian Grads nearby. The former army officer had trained hundreds of young recruits in battlefield care, so she knew her artillery.\n\nDuty and service to their country runs through the veins and history of the family - seven generations have served in the Ukrainian and Soviet military. Ukraine was under attack, and Oleg, an army veteran who had retired at the rank of colonel, would answer the call.\n\nHe posted a message on Facebook, rallying friends and former servicemen to gather weapons and equipment to defend the city, and went to join his son.\n\nSome Russian forces had already made it into Kharkiv but were driven back. The fighting was intense - Oleg manned a machine gun, while his son gave support with an automatic grenade launcher. They were outgunned and had to retreat. Oleg stayed behind to gather weapons, and father and son planned to regroup further back. But as he left his position, Oleg's car was caught in a rocket attack.\n\nNatalia had been sheltering in a city metro station, when she was told her husband had died. During breaks in the shelling, she headed to the area where she had been told Oleg had been killed. She discovered his body on the city's outskirts.\n\nNatalia was about to celebrate 25 years of marriage to her husband Oleg\n\n\"I picked up my husband and took him to the morgue. It was just me and him. I said goodbye over there. I conducted a body examination to make sure it was him.\"\n\nEugene was in the midst of battle when he learned of his father's death. He would later return home and bury Oleg alone. But for the moment, he set aside grief and took charge of another combat unit of 20 men. Cut off from their command, they destroyed more Russian vehicles, killing and capturing enemy soldiers.\n\n\"To this day, [my father's] friends and comrades who served with him write to me,\" Eugene tells me. \"They say, 'We are proud we served with your father because he was a man of honour and as he said, so he did.' He always kept his officer's word.\"\n\nOn 24 September, at a ceremony in Kyiv, President Zelensky made Eugene a Hero of Ukraine, bestowing on him the country's highest military order for bravery in the early defence of Kharkiv. His father's close friend, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, looked on as he received his medals.\n\nEugene was so nervous he forgot his own name.\n\nIn this country of 44 million people, only 652 have received the medal since the honour was created in 1998.\n\nEugene's medals now sit in a suitcase in the family apartment. Shortly after Oleg died, Natalia left Kharkiv as Russian attacks intensified. She returned in the early summer, but precious items remain packed, ready for her to leave again if necessary.\n\nNatalia's kitchen is full of home-made Christmas decorations, and an 11-year-old pekingese businka is at her feet. It is dark - there is no power, no water or light, because of Russia's continuing missile attacks.\n\nShe tells me how much she misses Oleg. \"He was a patriot. He is a real patriot of our country. A Ukrainian. Fun, friendly, people loved him a lot,\" she says. The couple were about to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary when he was killed.\n\nI ask Natalia if she ever imagined she would have to sacrifice so much. \"I gave my husband; my son is there. And I devoted my youth to Ukraine as well - to my country.\"\n\nShe makes me tea and serves home-made cookies, and tells me that I should visit again.\n\n\"When did you last see Eugene,\" I ask. She looks towards the door, remembering - perhaps expecting. \"A month ago,\" she replies. \"For two minutes at the door.\" And she starts to cry.\n\nThe following day I am travelling back to the front, and so I ask Natalia if there is anything I could take to her son - even just a message.\n\nShe wipes away a tear, and says: \"My son, you should know that I'm always waiting for you. Always. In any weather, any time, day or night.\" She pauses, then insists she will wait, \"until victory, only with victory\".", "A man has admitted wearing a Manchester United football shirt at Wembley Stadium which made an offensive reference to the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nJames White, 33, from Warwickshire, pleaded guilty to displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nThe judge at Willesden Magistrates' Court said it was \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe court heard he had worn a shirt with 97 and the words \"Not Enough\" on the back at the FA Cup Final on 3 June.\n\nDistrict Judge Mark Jabbitt said: \"It is hard to imagine a more... offensive reference to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.\"\n\nThe judge added the shirt which White wore bore a \"hateful expression\" - calling it an \"abhorrent message\" - and that the impact of his actions are \"profound and distressing\".\n\nNinety-seven football fans died as a result of a crush at a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield on 15 April 1989.\n\nIn 2016, inquests concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.\n\nAfter White was arrested at Wembley Stadium, the court heard he was cautioned and told police: \"You haven't even asked me what the T-shirt means.\n\n\"My grandad died aged 97 and didn't have enough kids.\"\n\nThe prosecution said White had \"many\" previous convictions, dating most recently to 2021, but none were football-related.\n\nPolice received a series of emails from people who saw an image of the shirt online.\n\nThe court heard how members of the public wrote they were \"absolutely devastated\" and \"disgusted\" by it.\n\nDiane Lynn, vice chair of Hillsborough Survivor Supporters Alliance, said it was \"very personal\" for people who were at Hillsborough that day and that survivors suffered with \"guilt\".\n\n\"How dare he make us feel like this,\" she said.\n\nThe defence told the court White \"deeply regrets\" his actions and accepted he \"hurt people very deeply\".\n\nWhite, who laughed in the dock, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay a surcharge of £400 and £85 in costs.\n\nHe has also been banned from all regulated football games in the UK for four years, while Manchester United said it had issued an indefinite club ban to White.\n\nA Manchester United spokesman said: \"The club's ban goes further with the immediately imposed three-year suspension being extended to an indefinite ban from all club activities including all matches at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Mockery of Hillsborough and other football tragedies is completely unacceptable and the club will continue to support firm action to eradicate it from the game.\"\n\nThe FA said in a statement it \"welcomed\" the sentence, adding White's actions were \"reprehensible\", and \"abuse that references Hillsborough or any football tragedy will not be tolerated at Wembley Stadium\".\n\n\"We hope that today's ruling sends a strong message that action will be taken against any perpetrators who behave in this way.\"\n\nDouglas Mackay from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: \"The CPS continues to work closely with the football authorities including the Premier League and the Football Association, police, clubs, and charities to look to stamp out all of the appalling and horrendous incidents of tragedy chanting and gesturing.\n\n\"We are sending a clear message that we call on so-called fans to stop this vile behaviour of a minority which has a terrible impact on the bereaved and communities.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tetyana Kraynyuk's son Sasha was one of 13 children taken by Russian troops from his special educational needs school last September\n\nWhen 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately.\n\nThe teenager sitting at a school desk has the Z-mark of Russia's war emblazoned on his right sleeve, coloured in the red, white and blue of the Russian flag.\n\nBut the boy's name is Artem, and he's Ukrainian.\n\nSasha and Artem were among 13 children taken from their own school in Kupyansk, north-eastern Ukraine last September by armed Russian soldiers in balaclavas. Ushered onto a bus with shouts of \"Quickly!\", they then disappeared for weeks without trace.\n\nWhen the children, who all have special educational needs, were finally allowed to call home, it was from much deeper inside Russian-occupied territory.\n\nTo get them back, their relatives were forced to make gruelling journeys across thousands of miles into the country that has declared war on them. Only eight of the children have been returned from Perevalsk so far and Artem was one of the last, collected by his mother just this spring.\n\nWhen I reached the school's director by phone, she saw no problem with dressing Ukrainian children in the uniform of an invading army.\n\n\"So what?\" Tatyana Semyonova retorted. \"What can I do? What's it to do with me?\"\n\nI countered that the Z symbolised the war against the children's own country. \"So what?\" the director demanded again. \"What kind of a question is that? No-one is forcing them.\"\n\nSarah Rainsford explores allegations of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and meets some of the relatives who have been fighting to get them back\n\nScrolling through the website of Perevalsk Special School, I found the photograph of Artem on public display. It was taken in February 2023, a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a class to mark Defenders of the Fatherland Day.\n\nThe lesson was dedicated to learning \"gratitude and respect\" for Russian soldiers.\n\nI tried to question the director some more, but the phone line abruptly cut out.\n\nUkrainian children were taken from their homes, dressed in Russian military uniforms, and taught the Russian curriculum\n\nFor Ukraine, the story of Kupyansk Special School is part of a growing body of evidence against Vladimir Putin as a suspected war criminal.\n\nThe International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russia's president in March, accusing him and his children's ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova, of the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.\n\nRussia insists that its motives are purely humanitarian, evacuating children to protect them from danger. Senior officials scorn the ICC indictment, even threatening retaliatory arrests against its representatives.\n\nThe ICC hasn't made the details of its case public and nor has Ukraine, but officials in Kyiv maintain that more than 19,000 children have been taken from occupied areas since the full-scale invasion. We understand that many have come from care homes and residential schools.\n\nWe investigated several cases, including another Special School in Oleshki, southern Ukraine, and found that each time Russian officials made minimal or zero effort to locate any relatives. Ukrainian children were frequently told there was nothing in their country to return to and were subjected, to varying degrees, to a \"patriotic\" Russian education.\n\nThe details and the nuance vary, as there is chaos in war as well as ill intention.\n\nBut there is also a clear, overriding ideology: Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, openly proclaims everything in occupied areas of Ukraine as its own, including the children.\n\nSasha (right) told the BBC it was too distressing to talk about his separation from his mother\n\nSasha is a tall, shy boy with a long fringe that he likes to smooth into place like any self-conscious teenager.\n\nForced separation from family would be upsetting for any child. For someone vulnerable, like Sasha, it was deeply unsettling. His mother, Tetyana Kraynyuk, tells me he's still withdrawn, months after they were reunited. The 15-year-old even has grey hairs from all the stress.\n\nThey're now living in the western German town of Dinklage as refugees where, after school, Sasha mainly lies on his bed playing on his phone. But he remembers very clearly the moment when Russian soldiers took him away.\n\n\"If I'm honest, it was scary,\" Sasha admits in his quiet voice, rubbing his hands back and forth on his thighs. \"I didn't know where they would take us.\"\n\nWhen I ask about missing his mum he pauses for a long time, says it's too distressing for him to remember and asks if he can change the subject.\n\nBefore the war, Sasha went to Kupyansk Special School in north-eastern Ukraine. He would board during the week, returning home at weekends, but when Russia invaded in February 2022, much of the Kharkiv region was overrun immediately and Tetyana kept her son home for safety.\n\nAs September approached, the occupying administration began insisting that all children return to school, now with the Russian curriculum. There was the same push in all occupied areas, often using teachers from Russia to replace those locals who refused to collaborate.\n\nTetyana was reluctant to send Sasha back, but the teenager was bored stiff after seven months in their village, so on 3 September she dropped him off in Kupyansk.\n\nDays later, Ukrainian forces launched their lightning operation to re-take the region.\n\n\"We heard the noise from miles away. The booms. Then the helicopters and the firing. It was a terrible din. Then I saw the tanks and the Ukrainian flag,\" Tetyana remembers of the counter-offensive.\n\nUnable to contact her son, she was frantic.\n\n\"When we reached the school only the caretaker was left. He said the kids had been taken and no-one knew where,\" Tetyana says.\n\nTetyana went weeks not knowing what had become of her son\n\nA teacher saw what happened that day, when as many as 10 heavily armed Russian soldiers \"swooped into\" the school.\n\n\"They didn't care about taking any documents or contacting parents,\" Mykola Sezonov told me, when we met in Kyiv. \"They just shoved the kids in a bus with some refugees and left.\"\n\nI put to him Russia's defence in such cases: that it was removing children from danger.\n\n\"I lived under Russian occupation, and I know the difference between what they say and what I see for myself through the window,\" was the teacher's response.\n\nFor six weeks, there was no word of the children.\n\n\"I cried every day, called the hotline and told them I'd lost my son and wrote to the police. We tried to find him through volunteers,\" Tetyana says.\n\nIt was a full month before a friend spotted a video on social media, dated early September 2022. It reported that 13 children from Kupyansk Special School had been moved east to a similar facility in Svatove, still under Russian control.\n\nAnother fortnight after that, Tetyana's phone beeped with a message: Sasha was at a Special School in Perevalsk, she read, and his mum could call to talk to him.\n\n\"He was happy to hear me, of course. But he really cried,\" Tetyana recalls of the moment they spoke. \"They'd told him his home was destroyed and he'd been afraid we were gone too.\"\n\nCommunication with areas of heavy fighting is not easy, but the Kupyansk children passed through three institutions before anyone tried to reach any relatives.\n\n\"There was nothing. Only from Perevalsk, and even then not immediately. I think they did it on purpose,\" says Tetyana.\n\nShe would have to return Sasha home in person, but the direct route crossed the frontline. Instead, Tetyana travelled from Ukraine through Poland and the Baltics before crossing on foot into Russia, where the FSB Security Service then interrogated her about Ukrainian troop movements.\n\n\"It was pitch dark, there were checkpoints, men in balaclavas with guns. I was so scared I took pills to calm me,\" Tetyana remembers of the rest of the trip into occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nShe had another reason to be frightened. By then, Russia was openly taking children from care homes in occupied areas and placing them with Russian families.\n\nRussia has changed its laws to make it easier to adopt Ukrainian children\n\nThe Telegram channel of the children's ombudswoman is full of videos showing her escorting groups of Ukrainian children across the border, where bewildered youngsters are greeted by Russian foster parents with gifts and hugs as the cameras roll.\n\nWe sent two requests for an interview with Maria Lvova-Belova and got no reply. But the message from all her posts is clear: Russia is the good guy in what it still refuses to call a war. Russia claims it's saving Ukrainian children.\n\nBy the time Sasha disappeared from Kupyansk, Vladimir Putin had already amended the law to make it easier for Ukrainian children to get Russian citizenship and be adopted. In late September he announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Luhansk where Sasha was then located.\n\nIn public and online, Maria Lvova-Belova referred repeatedly to children in those regions as \"ours\". She adopted a teenager from Mariupol herself, posting pictures with his new Russian passport.\n\n\"I was afraid that if they took Sasha into Russia, I would never find him. I was afraid he'd be put in a foster family, just like that,\" Tetyana tells me.\n\n\"What have our children got to do with anything? Why did they do this to us? Maybe it's just to cause us pain, like with everything else.\"\n\nSo when she finally reached Perevalsk, after an exhausting five days on the road, Tetyana hugged her son to her tightly. Sasha didn't say a word. He was crying from happiness.\n\nThe BBC joined Alla Yatsenyuk and a group of other mothers as they made their way to Russia to save their children\n\nFor six months, Alla Yatsenyuk felt like part of herself was missing.\n\nWhen she packed her 13-year-old son off to camp in Crimea, she thought Danylo was heading for two weeks by the sea. It was meant to be a break from the stress of war: other kids from Kherson had been to camp and come back, so Alla wasn't worried.\n\nBesides, their city had been occupied since the very start of the invasion and by October 2022, she'd begun to think Russia would control Kherson for good, though she didn't want that.\n\nBut days after Alla waved Danylo off, the officials responsible for him announced that the children would not return. The Russians had begun retreating from Kherson. If the children's parents wanted them back, they were told they should come for them.\n\nAlla pleaded with the regional administration but was told they would only return the children \"when Kherson is Russian again.\" She called the Prosecutor's Office in Crimea, but they insisted she had to get Danylo herself.\n\nAnd so for weeks, Alla reassured her son that she was coming for him even as she tried to work out how.\n\nThe distance from Kherson to Yevpatoria is short but the direct route was closed by the Russian military and a far longer route through Zaporizhzhia was too dangerous. \"There was a less than 5% chance of getting there and back safely,\" Alla was told.\n\nShe would also need around $1,500 (£1,200) for a driver, as well as her first ever passport and all the paperwork the Russians were demanding to prove her link to her son.\n\nAlla was already starting to despair when Danylo said officials at his camp were threatening to place the children in care if their parents didn't hurry.\n\n\"The kids have been calling us in panic, saying that they don't want to end up in homes,\" Alla fretted. \"And Russia is huge! Where would we look for them then?\"\n\nWe met as she finally set off in a train carriage full of other mums and grandmothers on the most anxious journey of their lives.\n\nThe women were being helped by a group called Save Ukraine, which stepped in when it emerged that hundreds of Ukrainian children might be stranded. Some were from broken homes or less well-off families, struggling with the logistics and funding for the trip. Other parents had been hesitant about returning their children to cities under heavy Russian fire.\n\n\"I still have this gnawing worry something will go wrong. It will be there until I have my son next to me. Then I can breathe again.\"\n\nOver a week later, Alla was one of the last to cross the border back from Belarus, dragging a big suitcase into Ukraine past concrete boulders and anti-tank defences. Danylo, with his dimpled grin, was finally safe beside her.\n\nDanylo (centre) as he crossed the border from Belarus into Ukraine after months away from home\n\nThere had been moments when she thought she wouldn't make it.\n\nSave Ukraine had instructed the women to turn off their phones when they entered Russia, so the details of their traumatic journey only began spilling out between welcome hugs.\n\n\"They kept us like cattle, separate from anyone else. Fourteen hours with no water, no food, nothing,\" Alla described being held by Russia's FSB security service at a Moscow airport. \"They kept asking us what military equipment we had seen, they checked our phones a million times and asked about all our relatives.\"\n\nThe women continued the 24-hour drive south to Crimea. As they drew close, they stopped for a break and 64-year-old Olha Kutova took a couple of steps, collapsed, and died by the side of the road. After days cramped-up in a minibus, in a state of stress, her heart had given out. Now Save Ukraine is trying to return Olha's ashes, as well as her granddaughter.\n\nEventually, Alla made it to the camp.\n\n\"The moment I saw my child running towards me in tears, it made up for everything we'd been through,\" Alla described her reunion, at last, with Danylo.\n\nHer son tells me it was \"just brilliant!\"\n\nSave Ukraine returned 31 children that day and several confirmed that camp staff had threatened to place them in care, which had scared them.\n\nThey talked of being taken on excursions at the start, and being reasonably fed and clothed. But on Russian-controlled territory they were treated and taught as Russians. When inspectors visited from Moscow, the Ukrainians had to line up beside the Russian flag and sing the Russian anthem.\n\nIn October, the occupying administration of Kherson posted a video on Telegram of such a moment. Russia's anthem booms through loudspeakers and the tricolour flag is unfurled. But look a little closer and it's clear that none of the children's lips are moving.\n\nThe camera operator suddenly realises that one girl has her hands over her ears to block out the sound. Too late, they zoom away from her.\n\nA few weeks after her return, I call Alla in Kherson.\n\n\"Everything was finally over, once we made it here,\" she tells me cheerfully down the line.\n\nDanylo has finally been reunited with his mother Alla\n\nShe admits there was some bad feeling towards the summer-camp mums at the start, seen as \"collaborators\" for sending their children to Russian-run facilities in the first place. But Alla feels that has faded.\n\nIn her own family, Danylo is back to bickering with his younger brother and studying online, in Ukrainian. But with no internet at home, she has to dash into the city centre to hunt for wi-fi to download his schoolwork, and that's risky.\n\nSince the Russians were forced into retreat, abandoning Kherson, they've been taking their revenge on the city from across the river.\n\n\"They're shelling from morning to night,\" Alla confirms, though she says their house is relatively far from Russian positions. They have no plans to leave.\n\nDanylo is still in a group chat with the other children from camp and most who remained have now been collected. But he says five were transferred to a care home somewhere in Russia.\n\nAlla forwards me a photograph of their room with rows of single beds, a cheap rug and a spider plant. Where the left-behind children go from there isn't clear.\n\nIn rural Germany, Sasha has had time to settle into life and another new school, but Tetyana is finding the adjustment a little harder.\n\nIn their flat, over a pile of sprat sandwiches, she explains that her eldest son is still in Ukraine expecting to be called up to fight any day. Tetyana wants nothing more than to go home to her husband, too, but Kupyansk is under heavy fire again.\n\nIn late April, Russian missiles destroyed the local history museum, killing two women. Before that, Sasha's old school in the city was badly damaged when missiles landed nearby.\n\nEight months after he and the other children were taken from there, five still remain in Russian-controlled territory. The director of the school where they ended up, Tatyana Semyonova, confirmed that when I called.\n\nThe BBC's Sarah Rainsford managed to speak to the director of the school over the phone\n\nI was surprised she agreed to talk at all, but the Russian number I used must have confused her. So did my questions.\n\nThe director claimed no-one had been in touch about the five, which we know isn't true, and insisted she would hand them \"straight back\" as soon as their legal guardians come to collect them.\n\nBut that's unlikely: various sources tell me the children are treated as \"social orphans\", whose parents are alive but who are not allowed or able to care for them.\n\nWhen I asked why Russia could take children without permission from Ukraine, but demanded a pile of paperwork to return them, Tatyana Semyonova was short.\n\n\"What's that got to do with me? I didn't bring them here.\"\n\nOn the website of her school in Perevalsk, I see a large picture of the director staring out, bleached hair sitting on a strip of dark brown like she's wearing a helmet. The photographs of Artem, Sasha's classmate, with a Z mark, are publicly displayed on the same site.\n\nSasha has identified two more of the missing children from Kupyansk among the school pictures: 12-year-olds Sofiya and Mikita are dressed up and standing in line to celebrate the Russian military.\n\nI ask Sasha's mother what she makes of the arrest warrant issued for Russia's president.\n\n\"Not only Putin, but all his main people - all the commanders - should be on trial for what they did to the kids,\" Tetyana Kraynyuk answers, without hesitating.\n\n\"What right did they have [to take the children]? How were we supposed to get them back? They just didn't care.\"", "Labour folk tell me privately that their plan for a publicly owned “national champion” as they call it, Great British Energy, polls very well – particularly with former Conservative voters.\n\nKeir Starmer compares his plan to what other countries have – such as Ørsted in Denmark and Vattenfall in Sweden.\n\nThe crux of it is attempting to ensure there is a proper economic dividend – ie jobs – to the revolutions that are coming in green energy.\n\nAnd by placing GB Energy in Scotland – the precise location is not yet known – it is also a transparent badge of the UK union; making the case for the benefits of the United Kingdom, as opposed to an independent Scotland, the SNP’s dream.\n\nBut, Sir Keir still has some persuading to do over his plans for North Sea oil and gas.\n\nHe wouldn’t grant any new exploration licences. Trades unions and others fret that this will cost jobs now, because it will put off companies investing in the future, conscious a Labour government might be close.\n\nLabour insist “there is no cliff edge,” there will be oil and gas extracted from the North Sea for decades, and they want to manage a smooth transition from oil and gas to greener alternatives.\n\n“We are not going to decimate communities,” says Anas Sarwar, Labour’s leader in Scotland, drawing a parallel with what happened to some places when coal mines closed.\n\nBut there are some jitters about Labour’s plans, including among some of those often loyal to the Labour cause.", "Prince Harry arriving at the High Court where he spent the day being cross-examined\n\nThis was Prince Harry's highly-anticipated day in court - and by the end he sounded increasingly weary, but still doggedly sticking to his arguments.\n\nThere were no clear-cut knock-out arguments, no courtroom fireworks, no angry outbursts - instead it was a rather intense stalemate.\n\nThe Mirror's barrister Andrew Green has been described as a \"beast\" in court, but in this case he was more of a well-mannered bulldozer, repeatedly ramming into the prince's allegations of phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry sat behind a desk and computer screen, water at hand, quietly answering questions for hours about tabloid news stories that mirrored his life since childhood.\n\n\"My mind's gone blank for a second,\" he said at one point, but there was no bristling or irritation about the cross-examining, when royals might be accustomed to more stagey, softball interviews.\n\nThe historic hearing was in a modern, open-plan courtroom, full of strip-lighting, modular furniture and boxes of paper, more like the set of The Office than a Victorian court drama.\n\nLike everything else in Prince Harry's life, there was huge press attention here, with a packed courtroom, hovering helicopters and banks of TV cameras and photographers crowded around the court entrance, fighting to get the best pictures for this press intrusion story.\n\nWhen the hearing had begun this morning, Prince Harry initially seemed hesitant, but he changed the mood with a nervous joke about juggling with so many files of documents.\n\n\"You've got me doing a work-out,\" he told the court.\n\nAnd he seemed to grow in confidence, with an increasingly frequently repeated reply to questions about his hacking claims.\n\nWhen Prince Harry was asked whether he thought the disputed news stories were based on unlawfully gathered information - he said why not ask the journalists who wrote them.\n\n\"I do not believe that as a witness it's my job to deconstruct the article or be able to answer which parts are unlawfully obtained and which aren't. I think the journalist themselves should be doing that,\" he said in one reply.\n\nPrince Harry's approach was not to get dragged into the detail\n\nThe Mirror's barrister kept drilling away at the foundations of Prince Harry's claims - saying they were \"in the realms of total speculation\".\n\nIn particular he highlighted that a number of these disputed Mirror news stories had already been published in other newspapers or news agencies.\n\nOr in the case of a story about Prince Harry's role in a school army cadet force, the Mirror's lawyer said the story seemed to have come directly from a Palace press release, rather than any more nefarious sources.\n\nThe question left hanging in the air was why would hacking have even been necessary if the key information in these stories had already been openly published elsewhere?\n\nPrince Harry's approach was not to get dragged into the detail - \"if you say so\" - he said ironically a number of times in response to questions.\n\nInstead he got in some spiky barbs of his own. He cast much doubt on the credibility of the terms \"royal sources\" and \"insiders\" used in royal reporting.\n\nAnd he talked about the \"paranoia\" created by the constant sense of intrusion into his private life, making him suspicious of everyone around him. Even going to the doctor at school was a worry for him, in case medical information was leaked.\n\nThere were unexpectedly wide attacks in his witness statement - claiming that the state of the government, as well as the press, was at \"rock bottom\", and this was from someone who remains a counsellor of state, although no longer a \"working royal\".\n\nHe has an almost evangelical ire, driving him forward, with his battle to change the media his \"life's work\".\n\nThere were glimpses too into the sheer oddness of his life.\n\n\"I don't walk down the street,\" he said emphatically, in questions about a news story about meeting friends in a Fulham restaurant.\n\nThat was because of security and he said it as if it were an obvious matter of fact, that the everyday pavements were off limits to him.\n\nWhile the focus of the High Court was on the machinery of the legal process, there's no escaping that the public fascination in this spectacle was to see a senior royal facing questioning as a witness in open court.\n\nThe last time it was Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, in the 19th Century. It's been something of a taboo for royals in modern times, for fear of uncorking something that couldn't be put back into the bottle.\n\nIt's also a lonely place, in court on his own, with the gulf from the rest of the Royal Family seeming even wider.\n\nBut Prince Harry emerged from court so far unscathed, got into his car and was driven away into the London streets, where he says he never feels able to walk.\n\nHe'll be back for more of this journey, even further away from his comfort zone than his Californian home, for further questions on Wednesday morning.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Unpaid carers in Northern Ireland are having to \"beg for help\" from the health service, according to an umbrella group which represents carers.\n\nIn their report the Coalition of Carers Organisations called on Stormont departments, health trusts and public services to deliver a new deal.\n\nThe group wants increased support and respite opportunities for carers.\n\nAbout 20 charities said people were not being offered help until they were in crisis.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, the Department of Health said: \"While the current budgetary position remains extremely challenging, the department is continuing to find ways to provide support to carers, where we can.\"\n\nThere are more than 220,000 people providing unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend across Northern Ireland - that represents one in eight people, according to Carers NI.\n\nThe report heard testimonies from more than 240 unpaid carers and it said that many of those looking after sick loved ones were reaching \"breaking point due to a postcode lottery of support\".\n\nIt said that services were either \"failing\" or \"aren't meeting\" the needs of carers.\n\nBarbara Morrow told BBC News NI that caring for her two children, who are both autistic, is being made \"unnecessarily difficult\" by those who are meant to offer support.\n\n\"There is a distinct lack of medical care, financial support or any form of government or public recognition for the position that I have found myself in,\" she said.\n\nMs Morrow, who lives in County Down, added that every single aspect of her children's care has been a \"fight\" and is an \"exhausting way to live\".\n\nShe added that life as a carer could be a \"lonely one\".\n\nCraig Harrison, the chair of the coalition group, said the all-too-common experience among carers from all backgrounds and ages was of \"being badly let down\" by Stormont and public services.\n\nMore than 220,000 people provide unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend in Northern Ireland\n\nHe said that carers, who save the public purse billions of pounds a year, are being expected to \"quietly prop up the health and social care system with little to no support\".\n\nMr Harrison, who wrote the report, said carers \"give so much and shouldn't be asked to sacrifice their own wellbeing, live in poverty and forgo any sort of quality of life in return\".\n\nHe added: \"Our unpaid carers need a new deal from Stormont to get to grips with the challenges they face and deliver the support they desperately need, not just in the realm of health and social care but in welfare, housing, employment and beyond.\"\n\nThe report said it was essential to get community care packages right and that carers were treated as expert partners.\n\nIt highlights that a carer's health and wellbeing also needs to be protected and any financial hardship met.\n\nThe Department of Health said it \"acknowledges the vital role played by carers in our society and is committed to raising awareness of the role and ensuring carers continue to be supported and valued\".\n\nHowever it added that due to \"significant budgetary challenges\" it has \"not yet been able to allocate the necessary resources to review and update the Carers Strategy\".\n\nIt pointed out that the former Health Minister Robin Swann launched a Support for Carers Fund in March 2021 in \"recognition of the challenges facing carers\".\n\n\"Over the lifespan of the fund, about £4m has been awarded to more than 100 projects to help and support unpaid carers in our community,\" said the department.\n\nThe most recent round of applications for funding closed on 13 March, which was described by the department as the \"fourth and final round\" from the £4m fund.", "Ernest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie has given birth to a boy, she has announced on Instagram.\n\nThe King's niece gave birth to her second child, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, with husband Jack Brooksbank on 30 May, she said. He weighed 7lb 1oz (3.2kg), she said.\n\nEugenie said the new baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\n\"Augie is loving being a big brother already,\" she added.\n\nShe shared a picture of her new son wearing a knitted blue-and-white hat, asleep in a Moses basket.\n\nEugenie, 32, is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, and is the late Queen's granddaughter.\n\nPrincess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank in October 2018 at St George's Chapel in Windsor\n\nThe newest member of the Royal Family is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nIn a second picture posted on Instagram Eugenie's first child two-year-old August rests his hand on his new brother's head.\n\nErnest's middle name is inspired by his great-great-great grandfather King George V, who also had Ernest as a middle name.\n\nThe middle name is also a tribute to Mr Brooksbank's father George, who died in 2021 after being ill for some time.\n\nRonnie is a nod to the Duchess of York's father, Maj Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003.\n\nEugenie gave birth to August at the exclusive Portland Hospital in central London in 2021.\n\nMost recently the princess was at Westminster Abbey with her husband at the start of May to witness the King's Coronation.\n\nAugust Brooksbank rests his hand on new brother's head", "An FBI agent-turned-Russian mole who is notorious as one of the most damaging spies in US history has been found dead in prison.\n\nRobert Hanssen was discovered at a maximum-security facility in Florence, Colorado, on Monday morning.\n\nHanssen, 79, received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds, and money paid into Russian accounts. Three hundred agents worked on his case.\n\nHe was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison for espionage.\n\nA cause of death has yet to be confirmed.\n\nHanssen lived in a modest four-bedroom house in suburban Virginia with his wife and six children prior to his arrest.\n\nBecause of his counterintelligence role, he had access to classified information and in 1985 he started his criminal activity, sending material to Russia and the former Soviet Union.\n\nHanssen, who became an FBI officer on 12 January 1976, used the alias \"Ramon Garcia\" when corresponding with his handlers.\n\nAccording to the FBI's website, he \"compromised numerous human sources, counterintelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified US government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value\".\n\nWhile there was some suspicion around his unusual activities occasionally, he was not caught for years.\n\nAfter the spy Aldrich Hazen Ames was arrested by the FBI in 1994, the bureau realised classified information was still being leaked, which is what instigated the investigation into Hanssen.\n\nHe had been due to retire so the FBI acted quickly in an effort to catch him \"red handed\".\n\n\"What we wanted to do was get enough evidence to convict him, and the ultimate aim was to catch him in the act,\" said Debra Evans Smith, former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division.\n\nTo lure him back to FBI headquarters for closer monitoring, he was given a fake assignment.\n\nHanssen began working in his new office - complete with hidden cameras and microphones - at FBI headquarters in January 2001.\n\nA month later, investigators learned he was scheduled to make a dead drop at a park.\n\nA dead drop is when one person leaves material for another person to later pick up at a pre-determined location, according to the Central Intelligence Agency.\n\nOn 18 February 2001, Hanssen went to Foxstone Park, located in Virginia, with a plastic bag filled with classified materials.\n\nThe FBI had seen him frequent the park before and as he returned to his vehicle, he was arrested and taken into custody.\n\nDuring his arrest, he asked FBI agents, \"What took you so long?\"\n\nHe told interrogators that the FBI security was pathetic, but he cooperated to avoid the death penalty.\n\nFriends and neighbours said they were shocked by his arrest and described him as quiet and unassuming.\n\nHis family drove to mass every Sunday in a 10-year-old van, and was said to be a strict father, who limited television for his children.\n\nBut behind this façade lay a sexual obsession. Hanssen secretly filmed pornographic videos of his wife and showed them to a friend.\n\nDuring the time of his arrest, CBS News, BBC's US partner, reported that he would frequent strip clubs where he tried to convert strippers to Catholicism.\n\nAdditionally, he would post sexually explicit stories about him and his wife online and share nude photos of her.\n\nAfter growing up in Chicago, he said in a letter contained in an FBI affidavit that he was inspired by the British spy, Kim Philby.\n\n\"I decided on this course when I was 14 years old,\" he wrote to his Russian handlers, according to the affidavit.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and in May 2002 was sentenced to life without parole.\n\nThe prison, ADX Florence, is one of the most secure federal prisons in the nation, which hosts other high profile inmates like al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.", "For months, Bakhmut in the Donetsk region has been at the heart of intense fighting (file photo)\n\nUkrainian forces have advanced around Bakhmut, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has said, describing the eastern city as the \"epicentre of hostilities\".\n\nShe did not say whether a long awaited counter-offensive had begun.\n\nSeparately, Russia's military said it had repelled a new attack in the eastern Donetsk region on Monday.\n\nBakhmut has for months been at the heart of fierce fighting. It has little strategic value - but is important symbolically both for Kyiv and Moscow.\n\nMonday's claims by Ukraine and Russia have not been independently verified.\n\nIn the early hours of Tuesday, air raid sirens were activated for several hours all over Ukraine. In the capital Kyiv, all missiles - more than 20 - were shot down, city officials said citing preliminary information.\n\nIn a post on social media on Monday, Ms Maliar said that \"despite stiff resistance and the enemy's attempts to hold the their positions, our military units advanced in several directions during the fighting\".\n\nShe said in Orikhovo-Vasulivka and Paraskoviivka, Ukrainian troops gained from 200m to 1,600m (656-5,250ft), while in Ivanivske and Klishchiivka they advanced between 100m and 700m (330-2,300).\n\nAll four villages are located within several kilometres of Bakhmut. The battle for the city in the Donetsk region has been the longest and bloodiest of the war.\n\nIn a video address late on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukrainian fighters for delivering \"the news we are expecting\" on the Bakhmut direction.\n\n\"The enemy knows that Ukraine will win,\" he said.\n\nThe Russian paramilitary group Wagner had claimed to have captured the city in late May. In recent weeks, some analysts have suggested Kyiv's forces are attempting to encircle Bakhmut and trap Russian units.\n\nA major Ukrainian counter-offensive has been long expected but Kyiv has already said it would not give advance warning of its start.\n\nThere has been a notable increase in military activity, with Ukraine claiming to have made marginal gains elsewhere on the front line.\n\nThe latest reports are being seen as a fresh sign that the expected Ukrainian push may have begun.\n\nA video released by the Ukrainian army claims to show a military vehicle near Bakhmut. The BBC has not verified the date of the image\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a new attack by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk had been repelled.\n\nIn a statement quoted by state-run media, It said the attacking side suffered heavy casualties, and that 28 tanks - including eight German-made Leopards - were destroyed. This has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nWagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin publicly mocked the Russian defence ministry, describing its statement as \"wild fantasy\".\n\nThis comes a day after Moscow said a Ukrainian \"large-scale offensive\" in the Donetsk region had begun on Sunday - but was unsuccessful. Ukraine's military said it had no information about such a major attack in the region.\n\nVideo of what Russia said was the battle in Donetsk showed military vehicles under heavy fire in fields. Russia claims it killed 300 troops and destroyed 16 tanks.\n\n\"We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake,\" a Ukrainian army spokesperson told Reuters.\n\nThere has been a significant increase in Ukrainian messaging on when and how their counter-offensive could take shape.\n\nUkraine has been planning such a move for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said his country now had enough weapons for a counter-offensive but would not comment on whether it had begun, Reuters reported.\n\nOfficials in Kyiv have warned against public speculation over the offensive, saying it could help the enemy.\n\n\"Plans love silence. There will be no announcement of the start,\" the defence ministry said in a recently posted video. It featured masked and well-armed troops holding their fingers against their lips.\n\nIt will take Ukraine time to achieve its goal of liberating territory taken by Russia as far back as nine years ago.\n\nAnd Moscow has had time to prepare. It means if Ukraine is able to mount a counter-offensive, it is going to take a while.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nElsewhere, fighters opposed to the government in Moscow say they have captured some Russian soldiers in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine.\n\nThe claim was made by the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL), which described the announcement as a joint statement with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nBoth groups want to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin and oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that he launched in February last year.\n\nRussia has blamed Ukraine for recent attacks in its border territories, but Kyiv denies being directly involved.\n\nMeanwhile, President Zelensky met UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in Kyiv on Monday.\n\nMr Zelensky said the pair discussed expectations from the upcoming Nato summit in Vilnius in July and Ukraine's peace proposals.", "A flooded residential area of Kherson today after the Kakhovka dam was breached Image caption: A flooded residential area of Kherson today after the Kakhovka dam was breached\n\nTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken to his counterparts in both Ukraine and Russia, and called for a joint investigation to establish the cause of the breach of the Kakhovka dam. Tens of thousands of people have been left at risk of flooding as a result of the incident.\n\nTurkey has attempted to play a mediator role during the Ukraine war.\n\nErdogan office says he told Russian President Vladimir Putin a comprehensive investigation was needed to establish how the dam was damaged. He suggested Turkey could establish an international commission to carry this out alongside the UN.\n\nErdogan earlier made the same proposal to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president. Zelensky's statement about the call does not mention the suggestion of a commission, and says they discussed \"the humanitarian and environmental consequences of the Russian act of terrorism\".\n\nUkraine's leader says he gave Erdogan a list of \"urgent needs to eliminate the disaster\", adding that Turkey's \"voice is important when it comes to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Ukrainian territory\".\n\nThe Kremlin has yet to release its own statement about the call, but has previously denied being responsible for the breach of the dam.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Tydeman has been at the helm of Ferguson Marine since February last year\n\nStanding at the helm of Glen Sannox, David Tydeman has the relieved look of a man coming to the end of a long and difficult journey.\n\nAfter eight years of construction, the boss of Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow is so confident the ship at the centre of Scotland's ferries fiasco is nearly ready that he has invited the cameras inside.\n\nCables snake everywhere, insulation glints in the sunlight, ceiling panels have yet to be fitted and protective coverings mask the floors - but the hard work is done.\n\n\"The ship is coming to life,\" he declares.\n\nMany of the power and control systems on board Glen Sannox are now operational\n\nEntering the wheelhouse of Glen Sannox feels a bit like stepping onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.\n\nControl panels are packed full of high-tech equipment. The ship's wheel looks more like something you would expect to find on a Ferrari rather than a passenger ferry.\n\nAt either side are the port and starboard wing control units offering complete control of the ship while manoeuvring into harbour. A glass floor panel allows the officers to see precisely how close they are to the quay.\n\n\"Everything is working. You could take this ship down the river,\" he tells us. \"We haven't got our final certificates yet so it wouldn't be legal but operationally, rudders are working, the steering gear is working, we can run the ship from here.\"\n\nThe wing control units allow complete control of the ship while manoeuvring at the quayside\n\nGlen Sannox and its sister vessel, Hull 802, have become some of Scotland's best known ships - for all the wrong reasons.\n\nSix years late and three times over budget, many have wondered if they would ever leave the yard at all. There are children completing their second year of primary school in Port Glasgow who have lived their entire lives with these ships a seemingly permanent part of the landscape.\n\nSo why have they proved so hard to build?\n\nIf you ask the customer - government-owned ferry procurement agency CMAL - it will say it was due to \"catastrophic contractor failure\" by FMEL, the company owned by businessman Jim McColl who rescued the yard from administration in 2014.\n\nCMAL says McColl's managers pressed ahead with fabrication without a proper design (despite it being a \"design and build\" contract) and ended up \"chasing steel\" to trigger milestone payments as cashflow problems mounted.\n\nNicola Sturgeon joined Jim McColl for the slipway launch of Glen Sannox in November 2017 - but the hull was largely empty\n\nFor his part, Jim McColl claims he was handed a \"poisoned chalice\" by CMAL who messed up the basic specifications and concept design (which was CMAL's responsibility) - then frustrated his team by constant interference and requests for changes.\n\nThat's a view shared, at least in part, by Commodore Luke Van Beek, a procurement expert appointed when Humza Yousaf was transport minister, who told MSPs: \"If you are going to put in place a design and build contract, you should have the specification almost complete when you let the contract. That was not what happened.\"\n\nWisely, Mr Tydeman avoids being drawn into the blame game.\n\nAnd having only started in the job 16 months ago, he does not have to own the mistakes that have created what many regard as the biggest public procurement disaster of the devolution era.\n\nAccording to some estimates the combined cost to the taxpayer of the ships and supporting the shipyard is close to half a billion pounds.\n\nBut he does believe the problems started very early on. \"I think the build strategy adopted in 2015, when we all look back in hindsight, was unwise, it embedded costs,\" he says.\n\n\"It was partly because the design wasn't finalised and I gather there were a lot of conversations going on between CMAL and FMEL about finalising the design.\n\n\"It's easy to look back and be critical, but the decision to build an empty ship and put things in later is unconventional and has added cost.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Ferguson Marine boss explains to the BBC's David Henderson why Glen Sannox has taken so long to build\n\nTo illustrate his point, he gestures to the ceiling, which is crammed with cables.\n\n\"All the brackets, all the racks that hold things could have been done while this was upside down in the shed as a module. Instead this had to be done on ladders, on scaffolding, working in the ceiling.\"\n\nMore expense has been incurred correcting mistakes made both before and after the yard was nationalised in 2019 when FMEL went bust.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if you're building a kitchen, building a skyscraper or building a ship. It's the same basic things. Is the design complete? Have you got the specification? Have you got the right plan to do it in the right sequence?\"\n\nUnlike the four CalMac ferries currently being built in Turkey, Glen Sannox has the added complexity of a dual-fuel propulsion system which can use both conventional marine gas oil (MGO) which is similar to diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG)\n\nThat LNG has to be stored at minus 160-170C in a huge tank in the belly of the ship, and moved around in cryogenic pipes. The ship contains 300km (186 miles) of cabling and 12,500 pipe sections.\n\nDavid Tydeman says Glen Sannox is a sophisticated ship but the yard now has the skillset to deliver such vessels\n\n\"One of the problems with a car ferry is that you have to squeeze all your systems below and around the car deck. So you pack in your engineering, your systems, your pipework into confined spaces and that makes it complicated.\"\n\nBarring any final surprises, Glen Sannox should be handed over to CMAL by the end of this year, although it is likely to be next spring before the ship is finally deployed on CalMac's busy Arran route.\n\n\"I think she's going to be a great ship. As we walk around you see the quality of the passenger areas, there's catering for 1,000 people on board. There's good capacity for car carrying and lorries. I think she'll be a pleasant surprise,\" he predicts.\n\nA short distance away, encased on scaffolding on the slipway, work continues on an identical ship still known only as Hull 802.\n\nLast month, in a jaw dropping moment at Holyrood, cabinet secretary Neil Gray told MSPs it would be cheaper to scrap the ship and place a new order with an overseas shipyard.\n\nDavid Tydeman appears slightly baffled by the figures used to make that calculation - but he is sure the government's decision to continue funding the build in Port Glasgow is the right one.\n\nDavid Tydeman says ministers made the right decision by continuing to fund the build of 802\n\n\"If ministers or CMAL decided to order a ship from Turkey, you'd have to wait many years to get another ship. This is going to be a good ship, and I think it was the right decision.\"\n\nThe high cost of finishing 802, as with Glen Sannox, is largely due to the way the ship's steelwork was fabricated without components pre-fitted. While it's too late to change that, there are lessons to be learned.\n\n\"We've been very careful on 802 to plan the learning from this ship - capture it, clean up the design drawings, make sure that before we start putting things inside 802 we've captured all the learning from 801.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The wheelhouse was lifted onto Hull 802 on Monday\n\nMonday was a big day for the shipyard and 802 as the pre-fabricated aluminium wheelhouse was lifted onto the deck.\n\nIt's the final major piece of fabrication. All the fitting out work will take place on board - and for the welders based in the module hall, their work on the ferries is done.\n\nSo what is the future for Ferguson shipyard?\n\nOn the day he shows us around, David Tydeman is clearly excited about a lattice of steel that has been been constructed in the main fabrication building.\n\nThe past and the future - the wheelhouse of 802 and the first \"reference table\" ready for accurate construction of Type 26 frigate modules\n\nThis is a \"reference table\", he explains - a solid raised base that allows structures to be welded together accurately without distortion. Two more are planned.\n\nThey are to be used for the construction of three units for a Royal Navy Type 26 frigate, work that has been subcontracted by BAE Systems which is building the warships at the Govan yard 15 miles up river.\n\nWhile a relatively small project, enough to keep Ferguson's welders in work until the autumn, he seems confident it will lead to much bigger subcontracting orders - hopefully whole bow sections for five more Type 26 frigates.\n\n\"To put it in perspective, a bow block on a warship is about a third of the size of 802,\" he says.\n\nThe same reference tables could be used to construct seven new \"Loch class\" small vessels for CalMac - a contract the yard will bid for. These all-electric ships are similar to MV Hallaig, MV Lochinvar and MV Catriona which the yard built on budget and on time a decade or so ago.\n\nMore order potential exists in building support vessels for the burgeoning offshore wind farm market. The yard is currently in discussions with two operators who are keen to build ships in Scotland.\n\nSo can a Scottish shipyard really compete in the open market with rivals in Poland, Romania or Turkey where labour costs are so much less?\n\nThere's more investment needed in productivity, he concedes. A new plating line, burning tables and better computer software to pull the systems together are on his shopping list.\n\nThird year trainee welders Ross McGeown, Mackenzie Miller and Jason Madden are among 52 apprentices at the yard, which has 320 people on its payroll\n\nBut many of the costs of building a ship, the engines and other equipment, are the same for shipyards both at home or abroad, he argues. The extra cost of building in Scotland, with better rates of pay, is manageable and \"worth the social premium of keeping jobs in the UK\".\n\nThe yard currently has 320 directly employed staff, 52 of them apprentices. When it recently advertised for a new intake of 15 apprentices it received 500 applications.\n\nThis year the shipyard marks its 120th anniversary. The current boss is keen for it be judged on that history rather than the unique circumstances surrounding hulls 801 and 802.\n\n\"I started my career 40 years ago in the Govan shipyards. The shipbuilding market in the world and in the UK particularly is the most buoyant I've seen in 40 years. There's a great opportunity for this yard to have good future 10 or 20 years ahead,\" he says.\n\nThere was a time when signs for the Ferguson shipyard signs had the words \"Proud Shipbuilders\" emblazoned on them. David Tydeman is hopeful those days are coming again.", "Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with racially abusing a man he allegedly told to \"go back to Bahrain\".\n\nThe Beckenham MP faces two public order charges relating to an incident outside an event hosted by the Bahraini embassy.\n\nIt occurred after a campaigner pressed him on his links to the country outside the event in December last year.\n\nMr Stewart will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 July.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Mr Stewart faced one charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, where the offence was racially aggravated.\n\nHe also faces an alternative charge of threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, the force added.\n\nThe force said the alternative charge related to the same incident, and would \"allow the court discretion on the racial element\".\n\nIn the December incident, Mr Stewart was confronted by a human rights activist who says he is living in exile after being tortured in the Gulf state of Bahrain.\n\nAfter the activist pressed him on his links to the country, Mr Stewart is alleged to have said: \"Get stuffed. Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nHe is then accused of telling the man to: \"Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it opened an investigation after receiving a complaint from a man alleging he had been verbally racially abused.\n\nIt is understood Mr Stewart will continue to sit as a Conservative MP, with a source in the party's whips saying he would contest the charges.\n\nMr Stewart, 73, is a former Army officer and has represented the south London constituency of Beckenham since 2010.", "An unexpected feline guest surprised royal historian Marlene Koenig as she was being asked questions about the Duke of Sussex's hacking court case.\n\nFleur the cat was eager to make her TV appearance and jumped up on to her owner's lap mid-interview, much to presenter Sally Bundock's surprise.\n\nMs Koenig tells the BBC her two-and-a-half-year-old rescue cat is \"the queen of the house\".\n\n\"Going viral was not on my bingo card today,\" she adds.", "Viktoria Makarova takes her daughter Eva back to eastern Ukraine, saying \"it's impossible to be a refugee\"\n\nAt the train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, attendants in smart, traditional uniforms help passengers down the steep carriage steps.\n\nDespite Russia's full-scale invasion, the trains here have never stopped running for the millions who rely on them.\n\nWe board and take a journey people are being urged to avoid - to the last stop before the eastern front line.\n\nAs we weave past the protruding feet that line the stuffy sleeper carriage, it becomes clear this isn't just a route to the battlefield.\n\nYes, there are soldiers. Most look out of the window - you wonder what they're thinking about.\n\nBut there are also young families on their way back home.\n\nViktoria is reunited with her husband Serhiy at Pokrovsk train station\n\nViktoria is heading back to the town of Pokrovsk with her baby Eva. The 20-year-old tells us she's had enough of avoiding the war, but isn't without worries.\n\n\"I have to overcome them somehow,\" she says. \"It's impossible to live like this, wandering everywhere. We have to make it work at home.\"\n\nSince February last year, Viktoria has travelled across Ukraine and Slovakia in an attempt to keep her and her daughter safe.\n\nAfter three hours of weaving through the rich green of Ukraine's countryside, we arrive in Pokrovsk and Viktoria is greeted by the husband she left behind.\n\n\"I'm overwhelmed,\" says Serhiy, who was waiting patiently on the platform with a bunch of flowers.\n\n\"I'm very glad to see my beautiful daughter and wife. I just want us to sit, cuddle, chat and that's it.\"\n\nArrivals like this are part of a broader trend in Ukraine. After the devastating scenes of departure of last year, six million Ukrainians have since returned to their country.\n\nOf those, thousands are moving back to their homes across the 600-mile (965km) front line, where the threat of a Russian attack remains.\n\nSerhiy is one of many who stayed in Pokrovsk for his job at the local coal mine - an industry ingrained in the Donetsk region's DNA, and a major employer here.\n\nMany coal miners remained in Pokrovsk after Russia's full-scale invasion began, working in a long network of tunnels\n\nNot only has it led to thousands staying, but it's also enticing people back with the offer of new jobs.\n\nIn the early hours, miners move with urgency to shuttle buses that take them to the mine shaft. Even once they're 800m (2,600ft) underground, it can take them up to an hour to walk to where they need to be.\n\nVolodymyr has worked here for 20 years. Stuffed down the front of his overalls is his packed lunch. They call their food \"tormozok\" in these parts, which means a brake on their work at the mine.\n\nHe and some colleagues are protected from mobilisation because their roles are seen as critical. For Volodymyr, going to work is a balance between personal safety and simple economics. He must earn a living.\n\n\"When you go underground, you don't know what's happening above with the family. I'm often very worried.\"\n\nPokrovsk's population is gradually rising, after dropping by two-thirds last year from 65,000. Svitlana, who works in the station control room, said when the war began in 2022 it was \"like an apocalypse - I had never seen so many people leave\".\n\nNow it's become a destination for those escaping Russian occupation and fighting.\n\nIt's a town very much on a war footing. The streets are filled with an even mix of civilians and soldiers. This area has seen war since the onset of Russia's aggression nine years ago.\n\nAnother attraction is the restoration of power and water by local officials, despite their warnings for people to stay away.\n\nPokrovsk is still comfortably in range of Russian multiple-rocket launcher systems (MRLS). Scars around the town remind you of their indiscriminate threat.\n\nOn the outskirts of Pokrovsk, closer to Russia's occupation, you find the town's last line of defence. Soldiers from the territorial defence keep a watchful eye towards the faint sounds of artillery.\n\nTheir dutiful actions are allowing people to move back into harm's way, and there seems to be sympathy in the trenches.\n\n\"Some are saving their children, some stay because it's their homeland,\" says Vyacheslav.\n\n\"If you have to die, it's better to die in your motherland than somewhere abroad.\"\n\nViktoria (right) with her husband Serhiy and their daughter Eva at their flat in Pokrovsk\n\nA couple of days later we rejoin Serhiy, Viktoria and Eva at their flat. Watching them play with their daughter is a picture of innocence.\n\n\"Who knows when it will become safe here?\" asks Serhiy. \"Maybe a year? Two? Or five?\n\n\"We don't want to wait five years, or even one year.\"\n\nThey've clearly made peace with their decision to stay as a family, despite the obvious risks.\n\nA move not just out of defiance, but from an acceptance, too, that this war won't end soon.", "Tech minister Paul Scully has warned so-called \"Terminator-style\" risks to humanity from artificial intelligence (AI) should not be highlighted at the expense of the good it can do.\n\nLast week several firms warned AI could pose a threat to human existence.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is about to travel to the US where AI is one of the items he will be discussing.\n\nAI describes the ability of computers to perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence.\n\nWhen it came to AI, there was a \"dystopian point of view that we can follow here. There's also a utopian point of view. Both can be possible\", Mr Scully told the TechUK Tech Policy Leadership Conference in Westminster.\n\nA dystopia is an imaginary place in which everything is as bad as possible.\n\n\"If you're only talking about the end of humanity because of some, rogue, Terminator-style scenario, you're going to miss out on all of the good that AI is already functioning - how it's mapping proteins to help us with medical research, how it's helping us with climate change.\n\n\"All of those things it's already doing and will only get better at doing.\"\n\nThe government recently put out a policy document on regulating AI which was criticised for not establishing a dedicated watchdog, and some think additional measures may eventually needed to deal with the most powerful future systems .\n\nMarc Warner, a member of the AI Council, an expert body set up to advise the government, told BBC News last week a ban on the most powerful AI may be necessary.\n\nHowever, he argued that \"narrow AI\" designed for particular tasks, such as systems that look for cancer in medical images, should be regulated on the same basis as existing tech.\n\nResponding to reports on the possible dangers posed by AI, the prime minister's spokesperson said: \"We are not complacent about the potential risks of AI, but it also provides significant opportunities.\n\n\"We can not proceed with AI without the guard rails in place.\"\n\nLabour's shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell told the BBC that while there was a \"level of hysteria going on and that's certainly dominating the public debate at the moment, there are real opportunities with the development of a technology like AI\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"But we do have to think really carefully about the risks, make sure we've got good regulation in place.\"\n\nIt was also important that everyone benefited from the impact of AI and it \"doesn't just go to the big tech giants in the US as happened in the last technological revolution\".\n\nMs Powell earlier told the Guardian she felt AI should be licensed in a similar way to medicines or nuclear power, both of which had dedicated regulators.\n\nAI company OpenAI recently blogged that a global regulator like the International Atomic Energy Authority might be needed for super-intelligent AI.\n\nAt the same event, Microsoft president Brad Smith said the most powerful AIs may need safety licences to operate.\n\n\"Before a model can be deployed it will have to pass some some kind of safety review.\"\n\nMr Smith argued it would be better if there was international co-operation and a single model of regulation. He said that when it came to cyber and national security, the UK and US were well placed to work together.\n\nHe told reporters at the event that Microsoft would not join \"the fear parade\", adding it would be better to reduce some of the rhetoric and focus more on current problems.\n\nA number of other experts have also said focusing on sci-fi-like disaster scenarios is a distraction from current issues with AI, such as the risk of racial or gender biases in algorithms.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess both died in hospital last Wednesday\n\nAll boat operations from Bournemouth Pier have been suspended \"as a precaution\" following the deaths of two children.\n\nThe council said the ban affected just one company, which operates the Dorset Belle sightseeing boat.\n\nThe vessel was impounded by police after the deaths of Joe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan, from Buckinghamshire.\n\nAn inquest heard a \"suggestion\" a riptide led to the pair drowning.\n\nThe council said the ban on boat operations would remain pending the outcome of a police investigation.\n\nThe Dorset Belle pleasure boat was seen on Friday morning being guarded by police\n\nDorset Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about the incident last Wednesday and dismissed speculation the pair had jumped from the pier.\n\nThe force said it was considering causes including the impact of weather conditions and the state of the water.\n\nThe incident involved 10 swimmers on a day when the beach was packed during half-term.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, the Dorset Belle sightseeing boat was impounded by police, but the force said it was \"just one of several lines of inquiry\".\n\nIt added that none of the swimmers were involved in any collision or contact with any vessel in the water.\n\nStephanie Williams (pictured with Sunnah) said she had lost her \"beautiful girl\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has said \"no formal investigation has been launched\" but it was continuing to make inquiries.\n\nIn a statement released earlier, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said all boat operations from the pier had been paused \"as a precaution\" while police continue to investigate.\n\n\"We are aware the investigation is complex and will consult with Dorset Police when the investigation is complete,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was \"on the water\" at the time, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nIn a hearing to open the inquest proceedings at Bournemouth Town Hall on Monday, Dorset coroner's officer Nicola Muller said post-mortem examinations identified drowning as the cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The brief circumstances are that emergency services were contacted by members of the public... following suggestion they had been caught in a riptide,\" she said.\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.\n\nJoe's family described him as \"a fabulous young man\", while Sunnah's mother Stephanie Williams posted on Twitter to pay tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\".\n\nShe wrote: \"No parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through. We love you so much baby girl.\"\n\nFriends of Joe Abbess (L-R) - Jack, Ben, Leo and Jack - paid tribute to the \"much-loved\" student\n\nSunnah's school described the 12-year-old as \"bold and happy\", whose personality \"resonated throughout the school\".\n\nBourne End Academy said in a statement: \"Her energetic character and fierce sense of loyalty meant that she had built strong and positive relationships with her peers and teachers. She will be enormously missed.\"\n\nTeachers at City College Southampton, where Joe was studying catering, said they were \"in tears\" over his death.\n\nHis friend and fellow student Ben said: \"Joe was kind of an inspiration to me. He was obviously very passionate about cooking. Head chef one day, for sure.\"\n\nAnother student Jack said: \"He was definitely the life of the kitchen. Bubbly, happy, trying to spread the cheeriness throughout the kitchen.\n\n\"Now I'm heartbroken. We all loved him so much.\"\n\nThe inquest was opened and adjourned for a pre-inquest review hearing on 18 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Daniel Allen was remanded in custody to reappear by video link on 26 March\n\nA man has appeared in court in Enniskillen charged with murdering four people who were found dead following a fire in County Fermanagh.\n\nDaniel Sebastian Allen, whose address given as Molly Road, Enniskillen, is charged with four counts of murder.\n\nThe 27-year-old is also charged with arson with intent to endanger life and criminal damage.\n\nA baby and two teenagers were among those who died in the fire in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, last Tuesday.\n\nThose who died have been named locally as Crystal Gossett, her son, Edward, 16, and her daughter, Diane, 19.\n\nThe name of the young child, believed to be 18-months old, is not yet known.\n\nThe PSNI has confirmed that formal identifications of the victims have yet to take place.\n\nThe court heard that Daniel Allen had been detained in hospital under police guard after the fire.\n\nWhen asked if he understood the charges, Mr Allen nodded and replied: \"Yes\".\n\nA detective inspector told the court he could connect him with the charges.\n\nMr Allen was remanded in custody to reappear by video link on 26 March.", "The coordinators are teachers who have overall responsibility for pupils with special educational needs in a school\n\nFunding for dedicated school staff to support pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland has been cut in half.\n\nEach school has to appoint a teacher as a special educational needs coordinator.\n\nBut the overall funding to schools for that role has been reduced from £22m last year to £11m in 2023-24.\n\nIt is the latest cut to be made by Stormont's Department of Education in an attempt to make savings.\n\nThe department has already stopped a number of schemes to save money, including the school holiday food grant for children entitled to free school meals.\n\nThat came after funding for education was reduced in the 2023-24 Stormont budget.\n\nBut potential cuts in funding to a range of early years and pre-school programmes did not go ahead.\n\nThe special needs coordinator is a teacher who has overall responsibility for pupils with special educational needs in a school.\n\nThey support and help SEN children with their learning and monitor their progress, and that can involve extra pastoral and administrative responsibilities.\n\nMore than 66,000 pupils in Northern Ireland have some form of SEN - just under one in five of the school population.\n\nMore than 24,000 have a statement of SEN, a legal document which details the level and type of support they should receive in school.\n\nThe way pupils with SEN are supported in Northern Ireland is changing and that could mean extra responsibility for special needs coordinators in schools.\n\nFor instance, they will be expected to complete and regularly review a personal learning plan for each child with SEN in conjunction with class teachers and parents.\n\nThe department gives each school some money to enable the coordinator to take time out from teaching a class in order to do the other duties their role requires.\n\nHowever the cut in money in the next year will mean schools have less money to provide substitute cover for their coordinator to give them time of class for their role.\n\nIn an email to schools about the funding the Education Authority said that \"£11m represents a reduction in the funding that has been made available in previous years\".\n\nBut it also said that \"given the challenging financial situation\" they were pleased that some funding had continued.\n\nA recently published major review into support for children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland identified a number of shortcomings in how that support was provided.\n\nThe system is \"not perceived to be an efficient way of supporting children\", said the review commissioned by the Department of Education.\n\nThe Education Authority, which is responsible for running education services in Northern Ireland, said it was facing a funding shortfall of £382m in this financial year.\n\nIt said it was concerned that the shortfall would have \"an enduring and detrimental impact... on our children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable\".", "Sunnah Khan, a 12-year-old girl from Buckinghamshire, and 17-year-old Joe Abbess from Southampton both died in hospital on Wednesday\n\nA riptide may have led to the deaths of a girl and a teenage boy off Bournemouth beach, an inquest heard.\n\nJoe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan, from Buckinghamshire, both died in hospital after the incident on Wednesday.\n\nAn inquest opening at Dorset Coroner's Court heard there was a \"suggestion\" a riptide had led to the pair drowning.\n\nDorset Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about the circumstances that led to the deaths.\n\nThe force said it was considering causes including the impact of weather conditions and the state of the water.\n\nIt has dismissed speculation the pair had jumped from the pier.\n\nStephanie Williams (pictured with Sunnah) said she had lost her \"beautiful girl\"\n\nRiptides are strong currents running out to sea that can quickly drag people and objects away from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.\n\nThey can be difficult to spot and are a major cause of accidental drowning on beaches all across the world, according to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).\n\nRip currents are often harmless, but around large headlands or piers - like Bournemouth Pier - they can be powerful.\n\nThey tend to flow at 1-2mph but can reach 4-5mph, which is faster than an Olympic swimmer, the RNLI explained.\n\nIn a hearing to open the inquest proceedings at Bournemouth Town Hall, Dorset coroner's officer Nicola Muller said post-mortem examinations identified drowning as the cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The brief circumstances are that emergency services were contacted by members of the public... following suggestion they had been caught in a riptide,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest in Bournemouth was opened and adjourned for a pre-inquest review hearing on 18 September.\n\nJoe's family described him as \"a fabulous young man\", while Sunnah's mother Stephanie Williams has posted on Twitter to pay tribute to her \"beautiful daughter\".\n\nMs Williams tweeted: \"No parent should ever have to go through what her dad and I are going through. We love you so much baby girl.\"\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident\n\nThe incident involved 10 swimmers on a day when the beach was packed during half-term.\n\nThe Dorset Belle sightseeing boat was impounded by Dorset Police in the immediate aftermath, but the force said this was \"just one of several lines of inquiry\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Neil Corrigan said: \"We are working with experts from partner agencies to understand all of the factors and this will take time to establish.\n\n\"We continue to support the families of Joe and Sunnah and they are being kept updated by specially trained family liaison officers about our investigation.\n\n\"I would ask that the police investigation is allowed to continue without further unhelpful speculation around circumstances of the incident, and that there is respect for the families of those who have died so tragically.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene of sightseeing boat the Dorset Belle on Friday\n\nTobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, said he believed police should have released more information that would have helped \"place into context the scale of this major incident\".\n\n\"The absence of clarity led to really wild speculation on social media,\" he added. \"Provide clarity early on - just so people can have an assurance of mind on what roughly happened.\"\n\nDavid Sidwick, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said: \"It is the family of Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess who have to be first in our thoughts both with our condolences and also from the point of view of whatever information comes forth.\n\n\"This is a complex investigation - it includes a number of agencies.\"\n\nMr Sidwick added: \"They are working together as fast as they can to find out what happened on that day and I truly believe that they need to be given the time and space to do that fully, thoroughly, professionally without hindrance.\n\n\"At this moment in time we have to understand that this is an immensely complex situation - the police moved to rule out those things which they could rule out when they had enough evidence to be able to do that.\n\n\"What they can't do is say what exactly happened. What is the point of saying to the family it's 'X' or it's not 'Y' if that isn't fully understood - we've got to let all these investigations work through.\"\n\nFriends of Joe Abbess (L-R) - Jack, Ben, Leo and Jack - paid tribute to the \"much-loved\" student\n\nThe force said none of the swimmers were involved in any collision or contact with any vessel in the water.\n\nIt has appealed for witnesses and urged people to send it any photographic footage.\n\nA man in his 40s, who was \"on the water\" at the time, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nCity College Southampton, where Mr Abbess was studying catering, said teachers were \"in tears\" over his death.\n\nCurriculum manager Joanne Pengelly said the teenager was a \"rare gem... totally reliable, always happy [and] really supportive in the department\".\n\nHis friend and fellow student Ben said: \"Joe was kind of an inspiration to me. He was obviously very passionate about cooking. Head chef one day, for sure.\"\n\nAnother student Jack said: \"He was definitely the life of the kitchen. Bubbly, happy, trying to spread the cheeriness throughout the kitchen.\n\n\"Now I'm heartbroken. We all loved him so much.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former senior civil servant Sue Gray could take up a job as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff in the autumn.\n\nMs Gray quit the civil service in March, prompting fury in government and claims rules had been broken.\n\nThe government wanted to stop Ms Gray working for Labour for a year - with a further six months of restrictions.\n\nHowever, reports suggest the advisory appointments committee is recommending she could start the job six months after leaving the civil service.\n\nThe BBC has been told the same by someone with knowledge of the process.\n\nThe independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) has been looking into the appointment and will provide a final judgement on Ms Gray's departure.\n\nMs Gray has held some of the most senior roles in the civil service and is best known for leading an investigation into the Partygate scandal, which contributed to Boris Johnson's downfall as prime minister last year.\n\nCivil servants - who develop and implement government policies - are expected to be politically impartial and Ms Gray's decision to leave the civil service after being offered a job with the Labour Party sparked anger among some Conservative MPs.\n\nAllies of Mr Johnson argued the job offer raised questions about the impartiality of her report on the former prime minister.\n\nLabour has said it did not approach Ms Gray until after the Partygate report was published.\n\nHowever, the Conservative government called the situation \"unprecedented\" and Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden ordered an internal investigation - separate to Acoba's inquiry - into the events surrounding Ms Gray's resignation.\n\nUnder the civil service code, officials of Ms Gray's seniority must wait a minimum of three months before taking up outside employment.\n\nSenior civil servants, as well as ministers, are expected to check with Acoba about any employment they wish to take within two years of leaving government.\n\nAcoba provides advice and can recommend a delay of up to two years in starting a new job, but it has no power to block appointments.\n\nLabour has said the party and Ms Gray will abide by Acoba's recommendations.\n\nAsked about reports that Acoba could allow Ms Gray to work for Labour by the autumn, Downing Street said it could not comment on speculation.\n\nBut Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith tweeted: \"Absolutely shocking, but sadly part of a wider pattern.\"\n\nIn reply, Labour's Chris Bryant said the committee was chaired by Conservative peer Lord Eric Pickles, who served as a minister under David Cameron.\n\nMs Gray had worked for the civil service since the 1970s, climbing to senior positions including running the government's propriety and ethics team.\n\nBut last year she was thrust into the public eye when given the task of investigating reports of Covid rule-breaking by staff in Downing Street, including her then-boss, head of the civil service Simon Case.\n\nHer final report concluded there had been \"failures of leadership and judgment in No 10\".", "DJ Paul Oakenfold has \"categorically\" denied accusations of sexual harassment after being sued by a former employee.\n\nThe woman filed a lawsuit in California against the British DJ and producer and his management company last week alleging harassment and wrongful termination.\n\nOn Monday, he called it an attempt to ruin his reputation and extort him.\n\n\"Let me be absolutely clear: I categorically deny any and all claims of improper conduct,\" he wrote online.\n\nThe 24-year-old woman, identified only as Jane Roe, has accused him of exposing himself and masturbating in front of her, according to Deadline.\n\nIn response, he wrote on social media: \"Respect, integrity, and consent are values I hold dear, and I have always treated everyone with the utmost professionalism.\n\n\"It is disheartening to see these baseless accusations, which appear to be nothing more than a calculated attempt to tarnish my reputation and extort money.\"\n\nThe woman has alleged that two companies run by Mr Oakenfold and others violated her employment and workplace rights. She is seeking a variety of damages in excess of $25,000 (£20,100).\n\nThe Grammy-nominated DJ and Swordfish film soundtrack composer has produced and remixed such artists as U2, Madonna, Britney Spears and the Rolling Stones.", "Civil servants around the UK are to continue striking despite an improved pay offer from the government.\n\nPublic and Commercial Services (PCS) union members will take industrial action on Tuesday in Northern Ireland and Wednesday in Wales.\n\nThe PCS says the stoppages will continue while it considers the \"significant concessions\" to pay, redundancy terms and job security.\n\nThe government said the offer was the highest for civil servants in 20 years.\n\nUnion members have taken action for months and there have been three national walkouts. Previously, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"Ministers need to resolve the dispute by putting money on the table.\"\n\nOn Friday, the government made a new offer to try to break the deadlock. Union bosses said civil servants below senior grades had been offered a lump sum of £1,500 for 2022/23.\n\nThe deal was welcomed by the union and in a statement on Monday evening the PCS said it was the \"first time in our union's history\" that members had won \"considerable extra money for members\".\n\nBut it said \"planned targeted action\" would go ahead this month - members in the Northern Ireland Office will walk out for three days from Tuesday, while Audit Wales and the National Library of Wales will be affected from Wednesday.\n\nIt added members at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency will take part in a 15-day strike from 11 June and driving examiners in 286 test centres across England and Wales will take action from 15 June.\n\nThe union said any re-ballots for further action had been put on hold pending the outcome of talks with the government at the end of the month.\n\nOfficials had been calling for a 10% pay rise to reflect the rising cost of living but at the time the government said their demands would cost an \"unaffordable £2.4bn\".\n\nThe union said the latest offer was a \"significant achievement... which, while short of our full claim, puts money in members' pockets and brings parity of treatment with other public sector workers\".\n\nThe government, when it announced its new offer on Friday, said guidance for Civil Service pay allowed departments to award a 4.5% pay increase for staff, with the potential for an extra 0.5% increase for lower paid staff.\n\nCabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin said \"constructive engagement\" with the unions had allowed the department to make the £1,500 payment offer.\n\n\"This is both fair to the taxpayer and a recognition of the financial pressures civil servants have faced over the last year,\" Mr Quin said.\n• None Offer made to civil servants in bid to end strikes", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nAn ITV executive has defended the network's duty of care to staff after the furore over Phillip Schofield's affair with a much younger colleague.\n\nThe This Morning host left ITV last month after admitting he lied to bosses and workmates about the affair.\n\nThere have also been allegations of a wider \"toxic\" culture at the programme.\n\nMagnus Brooke, ITV's director of strategy, policy and regulation, told MPs bullying was \"unacceptable\" and would be \"dealt with appropriately\".\n\n\"There's a very sophisticated and a significant system of safeguarding and duty of care at ITV with a very significant set of policies,\" Mr Brooke told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday.\n\n\"We have a code of conduct, which sets out our expectations about how people behave, and that deals with a number of different issues, from equal opportunities to respect to work, dignity and understanding.\n\n\"We then have an important set of requirements, which hold people to account internally.\"\n\nHowever, SNP MP John Nicolson told Mr Brooke he had spoken to whistleblowers at ITV, and that it \"seems like a very unhappy place\".\n\nMr Nicolson also referred to remarks about aubergines by This Morning editor Martin Frizell in response to a question from Sky News about whether there was a \"toxic\" environment on the show.\n\nMr Frizell told the reporter: \"I'll tell you what's toxic and I've always found it toxic. Aubergine. Do you like aubergine?\"\n\nMr Nicolson described those comments as \"surreal and bizarre\", adding: \"I wouldn't like to be a young staffer going in talking to that editor about bullying given that that's the way he treats the subject matter on camera in public.\"\n\nReferring to the aubergine remarks, Mr Brooke accepted it was \"extremely ill-judged to say what he did\".\n\n\"But I can reassure you on behalf of ITV that we do take all of these allegations very seriously, precisely because we do have a culture in which people's conduct matters enormously to us,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, Holly Willoughby said she was \"shaken, troubled, let down [and] worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what's going on\"\n\nThe broadcaster last week announced it had asked a barrister, Jane Mulcahy KC, into its handling of the relationship between Schofield and his colleague - who he met at the age of 15 and helped to get into the industry.\n\nMr Brooke suggested the move demonstrated that the network \"takes these issues very seriously\".\n\nHe said he hoped the review \"establishes the facts\" and \"gets to the bottom of what's happened\".\n\nHe also told Parliament's culture, media and sport committee: \"Bullying is absolutely a breach of our code of conduct is very clearly set out and we have a set of policies around bullying and harassment at work, and clearly it's unacceptable.\n\n\"If we find bullying, it's inconsistent with our policy, we'd expect people to report it and we'd expect it to be dealt with appropriately.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last week, Schofield denied there was a toxic environment on This Morning, as well as claims that he had become too powerful or was unpleasant to work with. \"I'm not rude on the studio floor, I don't bully people,\" he said.\n\nThat came after Dr Ranj Singh, who worked on This Morning for a decade, criticised the \"toxic\" culture at the programme.\n\nHe said the issues \"go far beyond\" Schofield and that he took his concerns \"directly to the top of ITV\", but found the subsequent process \"pretty heart-breaking\".\n\nITV has said that after Dr Ranj's complaint, an external review \"found no evidence of bullying or discrimination\".\n\nFormer This Morning co-host Eamonn Holmes has also accused Schofield of \"toxicity\".\n\nThe broadcaster's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall will discuss the matter when she appears in front of the same committee next week.", "Mr Stewart said he had been suffering with low mental health since October of last year\n\nScotland's transport minister has quit the government after saying he is suffering from poor mental health.\n\nIn his resignation letter to the first minister, Kevin Stewart said he has had bouts of low mental health since last October.\n\nMr Stewart said he had been feeling unwell for the past week, and could not put in the hours required to both serve his constituents and hold ministerial office.\n\nHe will continue to sit as an SNP MSP.\n\nAnd he pledged to continue to support First Minister Humza Yousaf and the government from the backbenches.\n\nThe Aberdeen Central MSP wrote: \"Since last October I have had bouts of poor mental health, with a low ebb in early December of last year.\n\n\"Over the last week or so I have once again been feeling unwell and I feel that I can no longer put in the hours required to serve both my constituents and hold ministerial office, while also trying to maintain good mental health.\"\n\nHe added: \"It has been the honour of my life to serve the people of Scotland in three ministerial positions under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon and yourself and I do hope that I have made a positive difference for our people and our country\".\n\nThe first minister said Mr Stewart had a record in government that he could be proud of\n\nIn his response to the letter, the first minister said he was very sorry that Mr Stewart had resigned, but that he could understand the reasons for him doing so.\n\nMr Yousaf told Mr Stewart that he had a \"record you can be proud of\", adding: \"I know what a hard-working, loyal and dedicated minister you have been in your eight years of service.\n\n\"That is much valued by me and across government, and I hope you will feel able to serve again in the future\".\n\nThe first minister also said that many people underestimate the pressure that is put on government ministers, and offered Mr Stewart any support that he needed.\n\nMr Stewart was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, having previously served as deputy leader of Aberdeen City Council.\n\nHe was appointed as the government's local government minister by Ms Sturgeon in 2016, and as the minister for mental wellbeing and social care five years later.\n\nHe was then given the transport brief by Mr Yousaf when the new first minister unveiled his government team in March of this year, with his role including ministerial responsibility for Scotland's struggling CalMac ferry fleet.\n\nMr Stewart denied newspaper allegations last October that he had been thrown out of an Aberdeen nightclub after being involved in an altercation with a man while the SNP conference was being held in the city.", "Apple has unveiled a much-anticipated augmented reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, in its first major hardware launch for almost a decade.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said the new headset \"seamlessly blends the real world and the virtual world\".\n\nThe tech firm also announced its latest iPhone operating system, as well as updates to MacBook Air.\n\nThe headset has a two-hour battery life, costs $3,499 (£2,849) and will be released early next year in the US.\n\nThe cost is considerably higher than virtual reality headsets currently on the market. Last week Meta announced its Quest 3 - which costs $499.\n\nApple said little about generative artificial intelligence - the buzzy technology that is the talk of Silicon Valley.\n\nThe company's share price fell slightly during the announcement, made at a developer's conference at Apple Park, the company's headquarters, in Cupertino, California.\n\nThe BBC was among the media outlets at the event, and technology editor Zoe Kleinman was one of the first people in the world to try out the headset.\n\n\"Since current boss Tim Cook took over in 2011, with the possible exception of the Watch, Apple has been unable to come up with the kind of world-changing product of the past,\" she said.\n\n\"Have they done it here?\"\n\nApple Vision Pro looks different to similar headsets on the market - and is more reminiscent of a pair of ski goggles than a virtual reality headset.\n\nApple used the phrase \"augmented reality\" to describe what the new device does.\n\nAugmented reality, also known as mixed reality, superimposes virtual objects in the world around us - enabling us to mix reality with virtual reality by looking through a screen.\n\n\"It's like your phone but right in front of you - big, bright and bold, wherever you are,\" Ms Kleinman said.\n\nIn letting you do things like watch videos of your family blowing out birthday candles or immerse yourself in your photography by making your panoramic photos life-size, she says it is pitched as a device which is \"very much about being part of your daily life\", unlike many other headsets on the market geared primarily towards immersive gaming.\n\nHow the Vision Pro's new app store will appear for headset users\n\nUsers can access apps, watch movies, and write documents in a virtual world. But so far, there is little evidence of a big market for this kind of wearable tech.\n\n\"It's still at the end of the day a VR headset,\" said Ms Kleinman. \"Apple is going to have to have an awful lot of content to throw at this when it ships early next year.\n\n\"And of course the other thing is the price point - $3,499 is a lot of money.\"\n\nHartley Charlton, senior editor of MacRumors, was unsure how much the headset would appeal to the general public.\n\n\"It won't appeal to mainstream consumers at first on account of its extremely high price point and immediate shortcomings as a first-generation device, such as its separate wired battery pack,\" he said.\n\nBut he said Apple has a track record of \"overcoming scepticism\" about new devices, and has historically encouraged people to \"part with their cash to add a new gadget to their repertoire\".\n\nJournalists and developers at Monday's conference saw a glimpse of the headset\n\nIn his sales pitch, Mr Cook said the headset allows users to \"see, hear and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space\".\n\nIt is controlled by using a combination of your hands, eyes and voice - such as tapping your fingers together to select, and flicking them to scroll.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Meta and Lenovo announced new iterations of their pre-existing virtual reality headsets, that do not superimpose objects on to a view of the real world.\n\nMeta has also invested heavily in mixed reality - but right now the sector is struggling.\n\nThe headset market saw a 54% drop in global sales last year, according to the International Data Corporation.\n\nApple's last major hardware release was for the Apple Watch device in 2015.\n\nThomas Husson, of Forrester Research, told BBC News it may take time for Apple's new headset to take off.\n\n\"The overall AR/VR space has been a bit overhyped over the past few years with the metaverse and that kind of experience,\" he said. \"That's the reason why I think it will take a bit more time.\n\n\"Having said that, if I told you 10 to 15 years ago that people would be ready to pay almost $2,000 for a mobile phone, I don't think many people would have said they would be willing to pay that.\"\n\nAside from the Vision Pro announcement, Apple also unveiled iOS17, the latest version of its iPhone operating system.\n\nUpdates include \"contact posters\" - a picture or image of yourself that will appear on a person's phone when you call them - and \"live voicemail\" - which provides a real-time transcription of an answerphone message being left to you.\n\nThis transcription will also apply to audio messages left using Apple Messages.\n\nAnd Apple has introduced a system called Check-In - which will automatically tell a friend or family member when you have arrived home.\n\nIf your journey is substantially delayed, it has the power to tell others that you have not made it home safely yet.\n\nThe new operating system will be available this autumn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlawful information-gathering \"acted like a web\" around the Duke of Sussex, a court has heard during his trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nPrince Harry's barrister told London's High Court no aspect of his youth was safe from press intrusion - citing stories about his relationship with Chelsy Davy appearing in the Mirror.\n\nThe duke is claiming MGN journalists used unlawful methods to gather information, including phone hacking.\n\nEarlier, the judge in the case, Mr Justice Fancourt, said he was a \"little surprised\" to hear Prince Harry would not be attending court on Monday.\n\nHe had given an earlier direction that witnesses should be available on the first day of their individual case in case there was time to give evidence.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for MGN, accused the prince's side of \"wasting time\", saying it was \"absolutely extraordinary we were told just last week that he is not available for day one of his own trial\".\n\nBarrister David Sherborne, for Prince Harry, said the duke had flown in from Los Angeles after his daughter's birthday, and added: \"He is in a different category from the three other claimants due to his travel and security arrangements.\"\n\nThe duke is likely to begin giving evidence on Tuesday, his lawyers said, making him the first senior royal in 130 years to testify in court.\n\nMaking his opening speech for the duke, Mr Sherborne, who is also representing three other people, said: \"These methods acted like a web around the prince in the hope it would catch the valuable information that they sought through these unlawful means, some of which made it in stories.\"\n\nHe said Prince Harry did not have a \"vendetta against the press\" but he wanted to hold them to account.\n\nAmong the articles complained about that are being considered by the judge are stories concerning the prince and his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy.\n\n\"The ups and downs and ins and outs of their relationship; the beginning, the break-ups and finally the split between them were all revealed and picked apart by the three Mirror Group titles,\" Mr Sherborne continued, saying this was \"clearly driven by unlawful activity\".\n\nHe told the court a story published by the People in April 2005 detailed the prince's phone calls to her.\n\n\"It was as if they were never alone,\" he added.\n\nMr Sherborne suggested the stories led to the couple's circle of friends becoming \"smaller and smaller\" due to them suspecting friends of leaking to newspapers, but he accepted that there was little direct evidence of unlawful methods being used to get stories like this.\n\nEventually the couple's relationship ended. In a witness statement previously reported, the prince claimed Ms Davy decided that \"a royal life was not for her\" following repeated acts of harassment.\n\nThe court was also told about a 2003 article detailing an alleged row between the duke and his brother Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, over their mother's ex-butler Paul Burrell.\n\n\"Brothers can sometimes disagree,\" Mr Sherborne said.\n\n\"But once it is made public in this way and their inside feelings revealed in the way that they are, trust begins to be eroded.\"\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nThe prince alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered at the trial.\n\nAt the start of the High Court hearing last month, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People admitted a private investigator had been instructed to unlawfully gather information relating to Harry's conduct in a nightclub in February 2004.\n\nThis incident does not form part of the duke's claim for breach of privacy.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court on Monday the suggestion that there was only one instance of unlawful information-gathering was \"plainly implausible\", arguing it would have happened on \"multiple occasions\".\n\nHe said \"every facet\" of the prince's life had been splashed across the papers and it would have been \"obvious\" stories about his private life were driving sales for MGN.\n\nBut Mr Green said there was no evidence to support claims by the prince.\n\nSummarising MGN's defence, Mr Green said there was no data showing that Harry had been hacked, \"still less on a habitual basis\".\n\nMr Green said none of the whistle-blowing journalists who have come forward admitting phone hacking said they had hacked the prince's phone.\n\n\"There's no evidence to support a finding that any mobile phone owned or used by the Duke of Sussex was hacked. Zilch, Zero, Nil, De Nada, Niente, Nothing,\" he said.\n\nAlongside Prince Harry, Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse, have also brought claims against the publisher.\n\nThe claimants argue senior executives must have known about unlawful information gathering behind these stories and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nPrince Harry's legal team argue MGN covered up and destroyed potential evidence of unlawful information gathering about Prince Harry but there remains enough of a trail for the court to follow.\n\nThey want the judge to take MGN's existing admissions of hacking, look at the alleged gaps in the defence case - and then make inferences about how some stories about Prince Harry must surely have been unlawfully gathered.\n\nThe judge only has to rule for or against the duke on the balance of probabilities.\n\nNo-one who has admitted phone hacking has said Prince Harry was among the victims.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nSeven people have been punished for acts of racism towards Real Madrid's Brazil forward Vinicius Jr.\n\nFour men were fined 60,001 euros (£51,700) and given a two-year stadium ban for hanging an effigy of Vinicius near Real's training ground in January.\n\nThe four men were arrested 11 days ago and released on bail by a Madrid court.\n\nThree other people were fined 5,000 euros (£4,300) and banned for one year for making racist gestures during Real's game at Valencia on 21 May.\n\nThose three are aged between 18 and 21, the police said, and were detained two days after the game.\n\nThe sanctions were given by Spain's State Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport, said the country's Sports Commission on Monday.\n• None La Liga racism allegations - what happens next?\n• None Listen: Can Vinicius episode be a turning point in racism battle?\n\nVinicius, whose red card for violent conduct late in the Valencia match was rescinded, later said the Spanish league \"belongs to racists\".\n\nLa Liga president Javier Tebas and the league's handling of the incident was widely condemned after he told Vinicius on social media that \"you need to inform yourself properly\".\n\nTebas later apologised to Vinicius, saying he did not mean to \"attack\" the 22-year-old.\n\nThe Brazilian government called for severe sanctions against those responsible for the racial slurs and La Liga said it will seek \"more sanctioning powers\" to ensure it can punish such incidents.\n\nBrazil will play friendlies against Guinea in Barcelona on 17 June and Senegal in Lisbon three days later, as part of an anti-racism campaign.", "The NHS in England is \"failing women\", the government's women's health ambassador has said.\n\nProf Dame Lesley Regan, appointed to support the Women's Health Strategy implementation, was speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Naga Munchetty.\n\nLast month, Munchetty, 48, revealed she had been diagnosed with the womb condition adenomyosis, after waiting years in severe pain.\n\nDame Lesley said she wanted women to be able to self-refer to specialists.\n\nWomen and girls should not have to seek \"permission [to] go and have your crippling menstrual pain sorted out\", she said.\n\nAdenomyosis, when the endometrium, womb lining, grows within the womb's muscular wall, can cause:\n\nContraceptives can help - but some women need a hysterectomy, womb removal, to completely relieve pain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Naga Munchetty reveals she has been living with menstrual pain for decades\n\nDame Lesley, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, told Munchetty it was necessary to \"get out of the frame of mind of women going to healthcare professionals who then do something to them\".\n\nIt was \"unacceptable\" the NHS website had no dedicated adenomyosis page - and this it would be rectified.\n\nNHS Scotland does have its own dedicated page, as do several NHS hospital trusts.\n\nDame Lesley said: \"2022 was the year of the menopause... 2023 [should be] menstrual-health awareness year.\n\n\"Make it just as common to talk about your period problems and knowing where to get help.\n\n\"Most girls and women will have 12 periods a year for 40 years of their life and that's an awful lot of suffering that doesn't need to necessarily be there, so I really think this has to be a common talking point, something that everybody understands.\"\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS takes women's health very seriously and, in line with [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence] guidance, we provide a wide range of treatments and support for many conditions, including adenomyosis. And we will be working with the Department of Health and Social Care to look at how we can do more through the Women's Health Strategy.\n\n\"GPs should keep up to date with the latest NICE guidance on this condition so a speedy diagnosis and appropriate treatments can be carried out.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said the government was \"working hard\" with Dame Lesley on improving women's lives through the Women's Health Strategy.\n\n\"This is delivering results - we've reduced the cost of hormone-replacement therapy, invested £25m to accelerate the development of women's health hubs and are supporting women's reproductive health in the workplace,\" the official said.\n\n\"Our strategy commits to creating a women's health area on the NHS website and adding additional pages about conditions like adenomyosis.\n\n\"We're also reducing waiting times and improving patient experience in gynaecology and urogynaecology.\"\n\nIn May, Munchetty told listeners: \"Right now, as I sit here talking to you, I am in pain - constant, nagging pain, in my uterus, around my pelvis, sometimes it runs down my thighs, and I'll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day, until I go to sleep,\" she said.\n\nOne in 10 women is thought to have adenomyosis.\n\nJen decided to have a hysterectomy, after years of pain\n\nMunchetty has not committed to having a hysterectomy yet - but Jen Moore, 34, from Cambridge, who has just had one, told her it had been \"an emotional rollercoaster\", becoming unable to bear children, but \"the right decision\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "It will be compulsory for all post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to teach pupils about access to abortion and prevention of early pregnancy.\n\nIt comes after Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris laid new regulations in Parliament, covering relationships and sex education (RSE).\n\nIn a written statement, he said he had a legal duty to act on recommendations made in a United Nations (UN) report.\n\nUntil now individuals schools have decided how to teach sex education.\n\nBut the Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, or the CEDAW Report, it said RSE in Northern Ireland should be compulsory and comprehensive.\n\nIn practice that will mean pupils have to be taught about issues like how to prevent a pregnancy, the legal right to an abortion in Northern Ireland, and how relevant services may be accessed.\n\nIn a statement, Stormont's Department of Education said: \"The department will now consider the implications of the new duties placed on it, including assessing any additional resources that will be required.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said: \"I have today laid regulations in Parliament to implement the CEDAW recommendation to 'make age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, a compulsory component of curriculum for adolescents, covering prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion in Northern Ireland, and monitor its implementation.'\"\n\n\"The regulations will mirror the approach taken in England with regard to education about the prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion.\n\n\"It has always been my preference that, as a devolved matter, the Department of Education in Northern Ireland updates the curriculum.\n\n\"However, nearly four years have passed since the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, adolescents in Northern Ireland are still not receiving comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights.\"\n\nEach school in Northern Ireland is currently required by the department to develop its own RSE policy and to teach RSE.\n\nHowever what is actually taught to pupils about RSE has been a matter for each school to decide, based on their school ethos.\n\nThat approach has previously been criticised by some experts, who have said it leads to \"different and inconsistent learning experiences\" for pupils.\n\nThe Executive Formation Act previously led to new laws on abortion being introduced in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut according to Mr Heaton-Harris, that act also required him to implement recommendations on RSE contained in the CEDAW report.\n\nThe CEDAW report said that young people were \"denied the education necessary to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights\".\n\nIn his written statement on Tuesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said he was amending previous education acts in Northern Ireland to make aspects of RSE compulsory.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris says he is amending previous education acts in Northern Ireland to make aspects of sex education compulsory\n\nAlthough the changes to the RSE curriculum will come into effect from 1 July, the Department of Education must issue guidance to schools by 1 January 2024 on what they are required to teach.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said that would give six months for \"meaningful engagement with teachers, parents and young people\" about the changes.\n\nHe also said that parents could still withdraw their children \"from education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, or elements of that education\".\n\n\"This follows the approach taken in England and Scotland,\" he said.\n\n\"Consultation with parents on relationship and sexuality education is already common practice in Northern Ireland and we expect the Department of Education to ensure schools afford parents the opportunity to review relevant materials.\n\n\"Educating adolescents on issues such as contraception, and access to abortion in Northern Ireland, should be done in a factual way that does not advocate, or oppose, a particular view on the moral and ethical considerations of abortion or contraception.\"\n\nThe changes to RSE have been welcomed by the NSPCC in Northern Ireland.\n\nNatalie Whelehan from the children's charity called the new regulations a \"positive step\".\n\n\"Making excellent quality RSE teaching available to all secondary school-aged children will ensure they receive information on what constitutes healthy and unhealthy relationships both online and offline and about their right to be safe, heard and protected,\" she said.\n\n\"This positive step also means that young people in Northern Ireland will now have consistent access to similar information available to young people in the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr John Kirkpatrick, said the Northern Ireland Secretary was trying to \"impose a particular worldview on the education of children in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"In an increasingly pluralistic context, RSE of course should be taught in a sensitive and inclusive manner, where teaching is reinforced and supported by policies and processes that schools have in place around safeguarding, bullying and pastoral care,\" he said.\n\n\"Young people should have the opportunity to explore their own personal morals, values and beliefs including the moral and ethical considerations around sensitive issues like abortion and contraception.\n\n\"The secretary of state's actions run contrary to these aspirations,\" he continued.", "Fashion model Sarah De Garnham said getting a bipolar disorder diagnosis reassured her that she \"wasn't going insane\"\n\n\"I knew when I was growing up, I wasn't normal.\"\n\nThat's how Sarah De Garnham felt for years before getting a bipolar disorder diagnosis after giving birth to her son Harlee.\n\nThousands of people in Wales have waited nearly 12 years for a diagnosis, according to the Bipolar Commission in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it has increased funding for mental health services.\n\nThe commission at The National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) is set to release more of its findings later.\n\n\"I knew I'd react differently to things compared to my friends, and they acted differently to me,\" Ms De Garnham, 35, said.\n\n\"Being diagnosed made me feel like I'm not nuts or crazy, this is a condition which has a name, and I can now learn about it and do things that can help me\".\n\nThe fashion model from Cwmafan, Neath Port Talbot, was originally misdiagnosed with depression before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah De Garnham was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2017\n\nCurrently the wait in Wales to be diagnosed is two years longer than in England.\n\nThe charity said that more than 60,000 people living with the mental health disorder in Wales were being failed by the healthcare system.\n\nAnd getting a diagnosis for single mum Ms De Garnham wasn't easy.\n\nShe was told by a doctor that pregnancy triggered her bipolar.\n\n\"I saw one doctor and I explained my triggers and I was told 'don't be stupid, you haven't got bipolar, you're being dramatic',\" she said.\n\n\"I went to see my psychiatrist and he explained that shouldn't have happened to me because I have got bipolar. It made me feel like I wasn't going insane. It wasn't easy for me to get to that stage, but you must push through and keep on fighting.\"\n\nMs De Garnham was told by a doctor her bipolar was triggered when she became pregnant with son Harlee\n\nMs De Garnham said modelling has helped her cope with her diagnosis.\n\nShe said: \"When I was growing up, models had long hair and nice figures and I'm not that.\n\n\"I've got a shaved head, I'm a plus-sized woman, I've got bipolar and if I'm doing it, you can too. You really can. Nothing should be off limits.\n\n\"This career has saved me. Mental health is a big thing for me on social media and I will always try and speak about it as openly as I can because I don't want people thinking I've got the perfect life. I want them to know it's not all butterflies and rainbows.\"\n\nBipolar disorder is a mental health condition where individuals exhibit extreme moods, which can last for several weeks. Deaths from suicide are higher in people with bipolar disorder, but many of those with it can be treated with medication.\n\nMs De Garnham said: \"When I'm manic, it's like I can't finish my sentences or if I start something I can't finish it. One time I was cleaning, and I was having a manic day and I just hammered all my kitchen tiles off the wall. It's just mad, and different for everyone.\"\n\nThe charity Bipolar UK said there are more than a million people with the condition in the UK, and millions more are affected through close friends and family.\n\nThe Bipolar Minds Matter report calls for an immediate restructure of the healthcare system in Wales.\n\nSimon Kitchen, chief executive of Bipolar UK, said there were \"shockingly poor levels of bipolar provision\" in Wales.\n\nHe said: \"Imagine living with a condition for nearly 12 years without the right treatment and support - that's what people all over Wales are having to cope with. It's simply not good enough.\n\n\"This is due to a combination of factors including social stigma surrounding the condition, people not seeing their GP when they're experiencing hypomania or mania, and a lack of specialist training around bipolar across the health sector.\"\n\nMr Kitchen added that people living with bipolar have a suicide risk that is 20 times higher than people without bipolar.\n\nHe said the charity's mission is to clear up confusion surrounding bipolar disorder, and promote faster diagnosis.\n\n\"Not only will these changes improve the quality of life for people with bipolar in Wales, they will literally save lives,\" he said.\n\n\"We are calling on the Welsh government to reduce the average diagnosis time for bipolar disorder down from nearly 12 years to five years, within the next five years or less.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it has increased mental health service funding \"to respond to local needs\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have also invested £6m this year into the implementation of the Strategic Mental Health Workforce plan for Wales which sets out the actions to achieve a sustainable mental health workforce.\"\n\nProf Ian Jones, director of the NCMH, and a professor of perinatal psychiatry at Cardiff University, said the organisation was \"delighted\" to be launching the research findings.\n\n\"Together, we are reaching out to people with lived experience of bipolar and hope to build a ground-breaking, collaborative research community dedicated to increasing understanding of bipolar; its causes, triggers, and how best to manage the condition,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Bibi's a big name on the UK dance scene, and is a regular in Ibiza\n\nDJ Michael Bibi has been diagnosed with a rare form of brain and spinal cancer.\n\nThe dance music producer said it was \"moving fast\" and he was staying in hospital for treatment.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Monday night, he told fans he'd been diagnosed with primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma.\n\n\"I don't know what lies ahead, I'm tired but I know I am strong and I won't let this beat me,\" the 32-year-old added.\n\nMichael is one of the British dance scene's most popular DJs, known for his groove style of house music.\n\nHe's been on residency at DC10 nightclub in Ibiza and was due to play at the Parklife festival in Manchester and Glastonbury this summer.\n\nThe DJ posted the news on Insta alongside a picture of him doing a peace sign with a cannula in his hand.\n\n\"Typing this message doesn't quite seem real and I'm sorry for the bad news,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I will be back stronger for you all. Love Bibi.\"\n\nSolid Grooves, the record label he founded also posted on Insta, saying he'd taken the brand around the world \"while maturing and growing into an international superstar\".\n\n\"The entire team sends our love and support while he recovers, and we hope to have him back with us as soon as possible to make more memories,\" they added.\n\nMichael Bibi (left) came to see Danny Howard in the Radio 1 studios a couple of years ago\n\nMichael's rise has been sharp over the last five years - going from London heavyweight to global superstar is testament to his hard work and talent.\n\nA brilliant producer and influential DJ, he's leading the new generation of ravers with his Solid Grooves-branded UK warehouse parties and popular Ibiza residency.\n\nWhile his profile has soared, he's always remained humble and the same guy I used to support back in the day on my late-night Radio 1 show when he was breaking through.\n\nSeeing the news is obviously a highly emotional time for everyone who's ever worked with or been connected with Michael.\n\nWe all need to be strong for him, send him love and support as he battles through this devastating time, I know the whole dance community is behind him.\n\nSome of the biggest artists in dance music commented on Michael's Insta post to let him know they were thinking of him, including Skrillex and Jamie Jones.\n\nDutch DJ Martin Garrix wrote: \"You got this bro! sending lots of strength and love.\"\n\n\"This is heartbreaking. Can't imagine what you're going through right now. Wishing you a speedy recovery,\" Belgian DJ Charlotte de Witte said.\n\nMichael runs two of his own music labels, Solid Grooves and SG Raw, and is known for playing lengthy sets.\n\nEarlier this year, he was forced to cancel some performances due to ongoing tinnitus health-related issues.\n\nThe DJ then posted a video online in May saying the problems were down to a \"more serious\" neurological concern.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Series writers Alice Nutter and Simon Beaufoy greeted those at the screening with placards\n\nThe cast of The Full Monty have returned to Sheffield to premiere a new Disney+ series that reunites the characters from the hit 1997 film.\n\nRobert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Lesley Sharp were at Monday's premiere in the city, where the film and show are set.\n\nHowever, Full Monty creator Simon Beaufoy and series co-writer Alice Nutter did not go in because of the continuing US writers' strike.\n\nInstead, they picketed the event, carrying placards outside the cinema.\n\nBeaufoy, who wrote the original Oscar-winning film, held a sign reading: \"The Full Monty - about people, for people, by people. No AI.\"\n\nNutter's message referred to the premiere. \"We love this show but we can't go - fair deal for writers,\" it said.\n\nThe new series stars (left to right) Steve Huison, Paul Barber, Wim Snape, Lesley Sharp, Robert Carlyle, Talitha Wing and Mark Addy\n\nThe British pair are both in the Writers Guild of America, which has told members not to work for US companies during the industrial action, saying studios are underpaying writers in the streaming age.\n\nIn a statement before the premiere, Beaufoy and Nutter said: \"We worked on The Full Monty TV series for over three years.\n\n\"We love this show, we put our hearts and souls into it and would like to be at the premiere - but as WGA writers, we won't be taking part in promotion until the strike is over.\n\n\"The ongoing strike and struggle to get a fair deal for writers is too important to us.\"\n\nThe eight-part series catches up with the Full Monty's characters 26 years after the film, which saw a group of unemployed men turn to stripping.\n\nIn a three-star review, the Telegraph said the new version \"firmly wears its politics on its sleeve - with mixed success\".\n\nThe cast and crew with Robert Carlyle (front centre), who returns as Gaz\n\n\"The issues will be all too recognisable, especially to those in neglected communities,\" the paper's critic Michael Hogan wrote.\n\n\"If the optimism of the original... has gone, that's the point - this is a sobering reminder of how far we haven't come.\"\n\nThe striptease \"makes a half-hearted reprise\" but is \"no longer the narrative-driver\", he said.\n\n\"For all the kitchen-sink bleakness, its community spirit still crackles with warmth, offering glimmers of hope,\" Hogan added.\n\nAbsent from the premiere altogether was Hugo Speer, who played Guy but was fired during filming after Disney+ investigated \"allegations of inappropriate conduct\" on set.\n\nThe actor told the Daily Mail, at the weekend, a runner had walked in on him getting changed in his trailer and he \"didn't believe I'd done anything wrong\".\n\n\"I'm not going to start turning into a flasher after all these years in the business,\" he said. \"I was so shocked to be told I'd made members of the crew feel 'uncomfortable'.\"", "Cuba Gooding Jr, pictured at an earlier court case in 2022. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed\n\nActor Cuba Gooding Jr has settled a lawsuit with an unnamed woman who accused him of raping her in a New York City hotel room in 2013.\n\nIt came as jury selection was about to begin in a federal civil trial that was expected to include damaging testimony against him.\n\nThe Oscar winner, 55, has denied the allegation and insists his interactions with the woman were consensual.\n\nHe has been accused of groping and unwanted touching by dozens of women.\n\nThe terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.\n\nLast year, Mr Gooding pleaded guilty to kissing a woman without her consent.\n\nThat case saw him spared from jail or a criminal history, with charges relating to three other accusers dismissed as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.\n\nHe was ordered to complete six months of alcohol and behavioural counselling.\n\nBut the testimony of those three women, who say the actor abused them between 2009 and 2019, was due to be heard at this civil case in Manhattan.\n\nThe now-settled lawsuit was filed in 2020 on behalf of a woman identified only as Jane Doe. The plaintiff sought $6m (£4.8m) in damages.\n\nShe alleged that, in the summer of 2013, Mr Gooding had introduced himself to her at a local restaurant and invited her to drinks at The Mercer Hotel in Soho, where he was staying.\n\nAt the hotel, she claimed, the actor told her he needed to change clothes, invited her up to his fifth-floor room and began to undress.\n\nThe woman said she had tried to leave but that Mr Gooding blocked her path, pushed her onto the bed, \"wouldn't stop\" touching her, \"aggressively removed\" her underwear and penetrated her twice.\n\nA lawyer representing the defendant at the time called the allegations \"completely false and defamatory\".\n\nThe presiding judge ruled last week that he would allow testimony from three of Mr Gooding's other accusers because they were \"sufficiently similar\" to the plaintiff's allegation.\n\nOne woman, Kelsey Harbert, said last year that Mr Gooding's previous plea deal had been \"more disappointing than words can say\".\n\nJury selection in the trial was set to begin at 10:00 EDT on Tuesday, but neither Mr Gooding nor attorneys for either side showed up.\n\nAn entry on the court's electronic docket for the case reads: \"TRIAL OFF. Reason for cancellation: The parties have resolved the matter.\"", "CBI head Rain Newton-Smith said the result was an \"important milestone\"\n\nThe CBI has won a key confidence vote over its future after members overwhelmingly backed the lobby group following a series of scandals.\n\nThe CBI said that 93% of the 371 members who voted backed its plans to reform the organisation.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, its new director general, said the result is \"a really strong mandate from our members\".\n\nHowever, some companies such as engineering giant Rolls-Royce said its membership remains suspended.\n\nThe CBI held the vote after the Guardian published allegations of sexual misconduct at the group, including two claims of rape which are currently being investigated by the City of London Police.\n\nIn response, the CBI set out a number of reforms and asked members to take part in a confidence vote on its future, the result of which was made public on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is not clear how much of the organisation's entire membership the 371 companies and trade associations who voted represents.\n\nThe CBI says on its website that it has 700 member organisations but following the misconduct allegations, firms and associations have left the group.\n\nMeanwhile, some companies like BT, who suspended their membership of the CBI but were eligible to vote, told the BBC they would not take part in the ballot.\n\nThe CBI has refused to say how many members it has \"due to commercial reasons\" but Ms Newton-Smith said the 371 who voted was a \"huge proportion of our membership\".\n\nHowever, the BBC's business editor, Simon Jack, said it was unclear how ringing a mandate this was.\n\nThe CBI by its own admission says it will be a smaller organisation. It is too soon to say they're in the clear. This is the beginning of their mission to establish trust.\n\nOne of the CBI's core functions is to speak with the government on behalf of businesses.\n\nThe government paused any activity with the CBI following allegations of sexual misconduct at the group which were revealed in the Guardian newspaper.\n\nAsked whether it would now re-engage with the CBI following the vote, a spokesperson for the Department of Business and Trade said: \"While this is a matter for the CBI and their internal processes, we will continue to engage with businesses on a case-by-case basis and business groups where appropriate.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his former role as Chancellor, at a CBI event\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said the business lobby group still faced \"a long and tortuous slog back from the brink\", adding it would take time to rebuild confidence.\n\n\"It's bought a little of that time today but if it can't win over the government, if it can't find its way back into the room, then it has no real value.\"\n\nWhile the CBI claims to represent 190,000 firms, not all of these are direct members - the number of which is thought to be substantially smaller.\n\nThe lobby group works with trade associations which represent thousands of firms, such as the National Farmers' Union which has 50,000 members.\n\nAt Tuesday's vote, each member had one vote each regardless of size. That means that a trade association that might represent thousands of companies had one vote.\n\nAlthough the CBI has won the backing of its remaining members, a recent exodus of fee-paying companies is already affecting the organisation.\n\nAnd some - like Rolls-Royce - said its membership of the CBI remains on pause.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We will monitor the implementation of the reforms detailed in the prospectus. In the meantime, our membership remains suspended.\"\n\nThe Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said that while it voted on Tuesday to back the CBI, its membership also remained suspended.\n\nREC chief executive Neil Carberry, said: \"We hope the CBI succeeds in its change programme which must be transparent, and effectively deal with both supporting the victims of what happened and ensuring that doesn't happen again.\n\n\"Ultimately the CBI has to create a safe environment for all CBI staff to work especially for female colleagues.\"\n\nThe CBI recently said it would have to make job cuts in order to slash its wage bill by a third. In its most recent public accounts, for 2021, the CBI reported income of £25m, of which £22m came from membership fees.\n\nThat is expected to fall for the current financial year following the number of companies who have quit the lobby group or let their memberships lapse.\n\nMs Newton-Smith told the BBC: \"We know we're going to come out of this a smaller organisation but [the vote] also gives us a really clear mandate to get out there and get new members to join our organisation. I want to work on all those members who maybe have left.\n\n\"We are proud of that conversation [that] now we have got a strong mandate from existing members and we're going to come out and focus on the really important issues of the day.\"\n\nThe CBI employs about 250 people in the UK and has offices overseas.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: President Zelensky shared a video of the dam on Telegram\n\nThousands of people are being evacuated downstream of a major dam which has collapsed in Russian-held Ukraine.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said 80 towns and villages may be flooded after the destruction of the dam at Nova Kakhovka, which he blamed on Russia.\n\nWater is surging down the Dnipro river, and is said to pose a catastrophic flooding risk to the city of Kherson.\n\nRussia has denied destroying the dam - which it controls - instead blaming Ukrainian shelling.\n\nNeither Ukraine nor Russia's claim has been verified by the BBC.\n\nThe Kakhovka dam, downstream from the huge Kakhovka reservoir, is crucial to the region.\n\nIt provides water to farmers and residents, as well as to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It is also a vital channel carrying water south to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nUkraine's state-owned hydropower plants administrator Ukrhydroenergo warned that the peak of a water spill downstream from the emptying reservoir was expected on Wednesday morning.\n\nIt said this would be followed by a period of \"stabilisation\", with the water expected to rapidly recede in four to five days.\n\nThere are concerns about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - which uses reservoir water for cooling.\n\nThe situation there is said to be under control and there is \"no immediate nuclear safety risk\" for the plant, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nVideo footage shows a torrent of floodwater gushing through a breach in the dam. Several towns are already flooded, while people in areas further downstream have been forced to flee by bus and train.\n\nAbound 40,000 people need to be evacuated, Deputy Prosecutor-General Viktoriya Lytvynova said on Ukrainian television - 17,000 people in Ukraine-controlled territory west of the Dnipro River and 25,000 on the Russian-controlled east.\n\nAlso speaking on Ukrainian television, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said about 1,000 people had been evacuated so far and 24 settlements had been flooded.\n\nHe accused Russia of shelling the southern region of Kherson, from where people were being evacuated, and issued a warning about the dangers posed by mines being exposed by the rising water levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A building is seen floating along the Dnipro river in the Kherson region\n\nOne local resident Andriy, who lives close to the dam - which was seized by Russian forces shortly after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 - said he believed Russia wanted to \"drown\" his city.\n\nIn the Ukraine-controlled city of Kherson, a woman called Lyudmyla - who was loading her belongings including a washing machine onto a trailer that was attached to an old car - said: \"We're afraid of flooding. We're taking our things a little higher up.\"\n\nShe called for Russian forces to be \"kicked out of here... they're shooting at us. They're flooding us or doing something else\".\n\nAnother resident of the city, Serhiy, said he feared \"everything is going to die here\".\n\n\"All the living creatures, and people will be flooded out,\" he said, gesturing at nearby houses and gardens.\n\nThe city of Kherson is 50 miles downstream of the dam\n\nOn the Russian-seized riverbank of Nova Kakhovka, the Moscow-installed mayor Vladimir Leontyev said the city was underwater and 900 people had been evacuated.\n\nHe said 53 evacuation buses were being sent by the authorities to take people from the city and two other settlements nearby to safety.\n\nWater levels had risen to over 11m (36ft) and some residents had been taken to hospital, he added.\n\nThe small town of Oleshky was also heavily flooded, Kremlin-appointed officials said.\n\nThe Kazkova Dibrova zoo on the Russian-held riverbank had been completely flooded and all 300 animals were dead, it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the breach in the dam in the early hours of Tuesday, but Ukraine's military intelligence has accused Russia of deliberately blowing it up.\n\nThis seems plausible, as Moscow may have feared that Ukrainian forces would use the road over the dam to advance into Russian-held territory, as part of their counter-offensive.\n\nFor Russia, anxious to defend conquered territory in southern Ukraine, the dam represented an obvious problem.\n\nJust as Ukrainian forces attacked road and rail bridges further downstream last autumn in a successful effort to isolate Russian forces in and around Kherson, Russia may have decided to destroy the dam to hold up Ukraine's counter-offensive, which it fears could come from multiple directions.\n\nHowever, a Russian official claims Ukraine carried out the attack on the dam to detract from what they said were the failures of its counter-offensive and to deprive Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russian in 2014 - of fresh water.\n\nA major Ukrainian push has long been expected. Kyiv has said it would not give advance warning of its start but a recent increase in military activity is being seen as a fresh sign that the counter-offensive may have begun.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, President Zelensky said the dam destruction would not stop Ukraine. \"We will still liberate all our land,\" he said in a video address.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Zelensky held an urgent meeting of the country's security and defence council to discuss the issue.\n\nAn aerial image shows water pouring through what appears to be a breach in the dam\n\nOn Monday, Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces had advanced around the \"epicentre of hostilities\" in Bakhmut, but did not say whether the counter-offensive had begun.\n\nBakhmut has for months been at the heart of fierce fighting. It has little strategic value - but is important symbolically both for Kyiv and Moscow.\n\nYuri Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's ministry of defence, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that phone intercepts suggest Russia wants to target more dams.\n\n\"They're actually calling to blow up more dams on the Dnipro river,\" he said.\n\nUkraine has branded the attack on the dam \"ecocide\" and said that 150 tonnes of engine oil has spilled into the Dnipro river.\n\nUkrhydroenergo said a power station linked to the dam had been \"completely destroyed... the hydraulic structure is being washed away\".\n\nWorld leaders have laid the blame for the blast at Russia's door, with some calling it a war crime.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that if Russia was found to be responsible for the collapse of the dam it would \"demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from Russian aggression\".\n\nThe head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said the destruction of the dam demonstrated once again the brutality of Russia's war in Ukraine, while Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said he was \"shocked by the unprecedented attack\".\n\nThe Geneva Conventions explicitly ban targeting dams in war due to the danger it poses to civilians.", "UK ministers have rejected Humza Yousaf's request for them to rethink their decision to exclude glass from Scotland's deposit return scheme.\n\nThe first minister wrote to Rishi Sunak warning that the scheme would be in \"grave danger\" without glass included.\n\nThe UK government has replied saying it had given the Scottish government a \"practical solution to proceed\" with cans and plastic bottles only.\n\nA Scottish cabinet decision on whether to go ahead is expected on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, the UK government approved a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act for the deposit scheme, but stipulated glass could not be part of it.\n\nThe firm set up to run deposit return, Circularity Scotland, said the scheme is still viable without glass.\n\nEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland originally consulted on a scheme that would include glass.\n\nThe Welsh government still wants to do that but the UK government has changed its mind.\n\nMr Yousaf said he \"would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead if it doesn't include glass\" and formally asked the UK government for a rethink.\n\nReplying for the prime minister, cabinet ministers Michael Gove, Alister Jack and Therese Coffey said they want to make sure that any Scottish scheme works in the same way as what's being planned for the rest of the UK.\n\nIn their letter to Mr Yousaf, the UK ministers said: \"Interoperability of schemes across the whole UK ensures all manufacturers, whether in Clydebank, Carlisle, Cardiff, or Carrickfergus, have the same access to sell their products across the UK internal market.\n\n\"The exclusion of glass also ensures consumer choice is not restricted in Scotland, given the risk that differences in scope would have led to some producers choosing not to supply Scotland through online or physical sales.\n\n\"There is nothing to prevent you from proceeding with your own scheme next March, on the basis that it would form part of a UK-wide solution to protect our shared market and increase recycling from 2025.\"\n\nMr Yousaf has already said he would not put Scottish businesses at a competitive disadvantage.\n\nThat's what the brewer behind Tennent's lager, C&C group has warned would happen to their canned product if deposit charges are not also applied to glass bottles.\n\nC&C has expressed a preference for a UK-wide approach to deposit return.\n\nIf it goes live as planned in March 2024, the deposit return scheme would see a 20p charge placed on drinks containers which would be refunded to consumers upon their return in a bid to increase recycling levels.\n\nCircularity Scotland said a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass would rise to 95% once the scheme was launched.\n\nCircularity Scotland's programme director, Donald McCalman told the BBC \"we absolutely believe the scheme is viable to launch\" with aluminium and plastic containers only.\n\nMr McCalman said that if it was not delivered in Scotland it could make drinks producers think twice about backing a later UK-wide scheme.", "Caroline Henderson now has a better understanding of her daughter Aibhilin's life\n\nA woman who used virtual reality to understand her child's visual impairment says seeing the world through her daughter's eyes is \"mind blowing\".\n\nCaroline Henderson's daughter Aibhilin, seven, was diagnosed with ocular albinism and nystagmus at 11 weeks old.\n\nWhen Caroline and her husband Carl used a VR headset developed in Belfast, they found it \"overwhelming\".\n\nIt showed them just how frustrating her visual impairment was for Aibhilin.\n\n\"It was very overwhelming and it made us realise just how frustrating and how her world is very different to the way her dad and I see the world,\" says Caroline.\n\n\"It made perfect sense why the playground and classroom can be really frustrating and she doesn't read non-verbal social cues.\"\n\nAibhilin Henderson was diagnosed with ocular albinism and nystagmus weeks after she was born\n\nThe software was developed in Belfast by Sara McCracken, whose twins were born at 29 weeks and registered blind at just six months.\n\nPeter and Connie have oculocutaneous albinism and nystagmus, which means their eyes move involuntarily from side to side and they have reduced vision.\n\nMs McCracken wanted the wider world to understand how people with visual impairments, like her twins, see every day.\n\nThe system recreates more than 30 eye conditions in a variety of settings such as a school classroom, a busy street, bus or play park.\n\nThe team involved include experts from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and Ulster University.\n\n\"We've developed software that can be manipulated to create lots of different eye conditions,\" says Ms McCracken.\n\nSara McCracken (right) says the software was inspired by with her daughter Connie (left) and her twin brother\n\n\"It's a very effective way of giving people who don't have clinical information or knowledge a really immersive impression of visual impairment.\n\n\"It's very effective for parents to be able to understand and change the way they advocate for their child but also for schools to understand the impact it has on children in the classroom or playground and, beyond that, for adults who have a visual impairment too.\"\n\nFor Caroline, the Empatheyes software has made her more understanding of Aibhilin's behaviour.\n\nShe says children with visual impairments often get very tired by the end of the week, their vision has deteriorated, and the way they are parented or taught needs to be adapted.\n\n\"I think sometimes the children with visual impairment, you're seeing the tip of the iceberg and not understanding what's underneath and driving that behaviour,\" she explains.\n\n\"Thursdays and Fridays are Aibhilin's most challenging days at school.\n\nSara McCracken has worked with Stephen Ellis from the Innovation Factory in west Belfast to develop Empatheyes\n\n\"But now, understanding her nystagmus and the way that she sees the world, and she's tired because she's held it together all week.\n\n\"I think without doing the VR technology we wouldn't understand the difference between the Aibhilin we have on a Monday and the Aibhilin we have on a Friday.\"\n\nEmpatheyes works as a social enterprise. Its team is based at the Innovation Factory in west Belfast.\n\nIts software is being used in schools, healthcare settings and offices across the UK and Ireland.\n\nNext month it will be shown to an international audience at the Vision 2023 conference in Denver.\n\n\"The United States is a massive market and they don't have anything like it there,\" says Ms McCracken.\n\n\"There's a lot of excitement already from professionals over there to see this VR system that we created right here in Northern Ireland.\"", "Balancing an AK-47 assault rifle slung around his left shoulder and with a large stick in his right hand, Abdul hits the heads of poppies as hard as he can. The stalks fly in the air, as does the sap from the poppy bulb, releasing the distinctive, pungent smell of opium in its most raw form.\n\nWithin a matter of minutes, Abdul and a dozen other men raze the poppy crop which covered the small field. Then the armed men, all wearing a shalwar kameez (a traditional Afghan tunic with loose fitting trousers), most with long beards and some with kohl-lined eyes, pile into the back of a pickup truck and move on to the next farm.\n\nThe men belong to a Taliban anti-narcotics unit in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, and we've been given rare access to join them on one of their patrols to eradicate poppy farming. Less than two years ago the men were insurgent fighters, part of a war to seize control of the country. Now they've won and are on the ruling side, enforcing the orders of their leader.\n\nIn April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly prohibited. Anyone violating the ban would have their field destroyed and be penalised according to Sharia law.\n\nA Taliban spokesman told the BBC they imposed the ban because of the harmful effects of opium - which is taken from the poppy seed capsules - and because it goes against their religious beliefs. Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of the world's opium. Heroin made from Afghan opium makes up 95% of the market in Europe.\n\nThe BBC has now travelled in Afghanistan - and used satellite analysis - to examine the effects of the direct action on opium poppy cultivation. The Taliban leaders appear to have been more successful cracking down on cultivation than anyone ever has.\n\nWe found a huge fall in poppy growth in major opium-growing provinces, with one expert saying annual cultivation could be 80% down on last year. Less-profitable wheat crops have supplanted poppies in fields - and many farmers saying they are suffering financially.\n\nWe travelled to provinces including Nangarhar, Kandahar and Helmand, drove through bumpy, mud roads, walked for miles in remote, mountainous areas, making our way through farmland, leaping across gurgling streams to see the reality on the ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Taliban decree wasn't applied to the 2022 opium harvest, which according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) increased by a third over 2021.\n\nThis year though, is very different. The evidence we saw on the ground is backed up by imagery taken from above.\n\nDavid Mansfield, a leading expert on Afghanistan's drugs trade, is working with Alcis - a UK firm which specialises in satellite analysis.\n\n\"It is likely that cultivation will be less than 20% of what it was in 2022. The scale of the reduction will be unprecedented,\" he says.\n\nA large number of farmers have complied with the ban, and Taliban fighters have been destroying the crops of those that haven't.\n\nToor Khan, the commander of the Taliban patrol unit we are with in Nangarhar, tells us he and his men have been destroying poppy fields for nearly five months, and have cleared tens of thousands of hectares of the crop.\n\n\"You're destroying my field, God destroy your home,\" one woman shouts angrily at the Taliban unit as they raze her poppy field.\n\n\"I'd told you this morning to destroy it yourself. You didn't, so now I have to,\" Toor Khan screams back. She retreats indoors.\n\nHer son is detained by the Taliban, released with a warning a few hours later.\n\nToor Khan (right) razing a poppy field to the ground along with fellow Taliban members\n\nThe Taliban go armed and in large numbers, because there have been instances of resistance from angry locals in this area. At least one civilian was killed in a shooting during the eradication campaign and there are reports of other violent clashes.\n\nFarmer Ali Mohammad Mia has a stricken look on his face as he watches the unit destroy his field. Pink poppy flowers, green bulbs and broken stems cover the ground when they are done.\n\nWhy did he cultivate poppy despite the ban, we ask.\n\n\"If you have no food at home, and your children are going hungry, what else would you do,\" he says. \"We don't have large pieces of land. If we grew wheat on them we would make a fraction of what we could from opium.\"\n\nThe ban on poppy growing forces farmers such as Ali Mohammed Mia to cultivate cheaper crops, like wheat\n\nWhat is remarkable is the speed at which the Taliban carry out the job using only sticks. Six fields, each between 200-300 sq m in size, are cleared in just over half an hour.\n\nHow do they feel about destroying a source of income for their own people who are going hungry, we ask Toor Khan.\n\n\"It is the order of our leader. Our allegiance to him is such that if he told my friend to hang me, I would accept it and surrender myself to my friend,\" he says.\n\nHelmand province in the south-west used to be Afghanistan's opium heartland, producing more than half of the country's opium. We travel there independently of the Taliban's anti-narcotics unit, to see first-hand how it now looks.\n\nLast year when we were in the province, we saw swathes of land covered with poppy fields. This time we can't spot a single field of the crop.\n\nAlcis's analysis shows that poppy cultivation in Helmand has reduced by more than 99%. \"The high resolution imagery of Helmand province shows that poppy cultivation is down to less than 1,000 hectares when it was 129,000 hectares the previous year,\" says David Mansfield.\n\nWe meet farmer Niamatullah Dilsoz in the Marjah district - south of Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah - while he is harvesting wheat. Last year, he grew poppy in the same field. He tells us farmers in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold, have all but complied with the ban.\n\n\"A few farmers tried to grow poppy in their courtyards hidden behind walls, but the Taliban found out and destroyed those fields,\" Niamatullah says.\n\nExcept for the sound of wheat stalks being cut and the calls of birds, it is quiet in the farm. During the war, the field was a front line. Helmand was where UK troops had a base and where they fought some of their fiercest battles.\n\nNiamatullah is in his early twenties. This is the first time in his life that he doesn't fear being hit by a bomb when venturing out. But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow, coming as it does amid an economic collapse which has caused near universal poverty in Afghanistan. Two thirds of the population don't know where their next meal will come from.\n\n\"We are very upset. Wheat earns us less than a quarter of what we used to make from opium,\" he says. \"I can't meet my family's needs. I've had to take a loan. Hunger is at its peak and we haven't got any help from the government.\"\n\nNiamatullah harvests the wheat he now grows in place of poppies\n\nWe ask Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban government's main spokesman, what his government is doing to help people.\n\n\"We know that people are very poor and they are suffering. But opium's harm outweighed its benefits. Four million of our people from a population of 37 million were suffering from drug addiction. That is a big number,\" he says. \"As far as alternative sources of livelihood go, we want the international community to help Afghans who are facing losses.\"\n\nHe rejects assertions by the UN, the US and other governments that opium was a major source of income for the Taliban when they were fighting against Western forces and the previous Afghan regime.\n\nHow can they expect international organisations to help, when the Taliban government has jeopardised their operations and funding by banning women from working for all NGOs, we ask.\n\n\"The international community should not link humanitarian issues with political matters,\" replies Mujahid. \"Opium isn't just harming Afghanistan, the whole world is affected by it. If the world is saved from this big evil then it is only fair that Afghan people receive help in return.\"\n\nAt the source, the impact of the ban on opium prices is already evident. In Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban and traditionally another major poppy-growing area, we meet a farmer who is holding on to a small stash of his harvest from last year - two plastic bags, each about the size of a football, filled with dark, smelly opium resin. We're hiding his identity to protect him.\n\n\"Last year just before the ban, I sold a bag like this for a fifth of what I could get now. I'm waiting for the price to increase further so it can sustain my family for longer. Our situation is very bad. I've already taken a loan to buy food and clothes. Of course, I know opium is harmful, but what's the alternative?\" he asks.\n\nDespite the crackdown, a farmer we spoke to still hoped to sell his harvest of opium\n\nIt might take a while for the price impact to filter down the chain of illicit drug trafficking to the street price of heroin.\n\n\"While opium and heroin prices remain at a 20-year high, they've been falling over the last six months, despite such low levels of poppy cultivation this year,\" says Mansfield. \"This suggests there are significant stocks in the system, and the production and trade in heroin continues. Seizures in neighbouring states and beyond also indicate a shortage of heroin is not imminent.\"\n\nMike Trace - a former UNODC official - was a senior UK government drugs policy adviser when the Taliban's first regime banned opium cultivation in 2000, a year before the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.\n\n\"That didn't lead to a massive and immediate impact on Western prices and markets, because there is an awful lot of stockpiling by the actors along that drug-trafficking route,\" he says. \"That's the nature of the market and it hasn't fundamentally changed for the last 20 years.\"\n\nBillions of dollars were spent by the US in Afghanistan to try to eradicate opium production and trafficking, in the hope of cutting the Taliban's source of funding.\n\nThey launched airstrikes on poppy fields in Taliban-controlled territory, burnt opium stocks and conducted raids on drug laboratories.\n\nBut opium was also grown freely in areas controlled by the US-backed former Afghan regime, something the BBC witnessed prior to the Taliban takeover in 2021.\n\nFor now, the Taliban appears to have accomplished in Afghanistan what the West couldn't. But there are questions about how long they can sustain it.\n\nAs far as heroin addiction in the UK and the rest of Europe goes, Mike Trace says a dramatic reduction in opium cultivation in Afghanistan is likely to alter the type of narcotics consumed. \"People are likely to turn to synthetic drugs which can be far more nasty than opium.\"", "Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou leaves Celtic to become new Spurs manager Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nPostecoglou struggled in his early weeks at Celtic but guided the club to two league titles Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Ange Postecoglou as their new manager on a four-year contract. The 57-year-old leaves Celtic after winning successive Scottish Premiership titles in his two seasons in charge. He is Spurs' fourth permanent manager since Mauricio Pochettino led them to the Champions League final in 2018-19, following Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte. \"We are excited to have Ange join us,\" said Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy. \"Ange brings a positive mentality and a fast, attacking style of play. He has a strong track record of developing players and an understanding of the importance of the link from the academy - everything that is important to our club,\" he added. Spurs have been searching for a new manager since Conte's departure in March, with Cristian Stellini and then Ryan Mason taking charge on an interim basis. Postecoglou - the first Australian to manage in the Premier League - arrives at Tottenham after winning a domestic treble in Scotland, where he has claimed five of the six trophies available to Celtic during his two campaigns with the club. He is one of only five managers - along with Jock Stein, Martin O'Neill, Brendan Rodgers and Neil Lennon - to secure a domestic clean sweep with Celtic. \"It has been a pleasure working with Ange, a great football manager and a good man. He has served the club with such energy and determination and delivered a phenomenal level of success,\" Celtic chief executive Michael Nicholson said. \"Of course, we wanted Ange to stay at Celtic and while there is real disappointment we are losing him, he has decided he wants to look at a new challenge, which we respect.\"\n• None All the best reaction to Postecoglou's appointment in one place\n• None The boy from Greece who has become Tottenham's main man\n• None He was four guys in one - how do Celtic replace Postecoglou? Spurs have spent 10 weeks searching for Conte's successor, with Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Arne Slot, Graham Potter, Julen Lopetegui, Rodgers and Pochettino all linked with the role at some point. Since losing 2-0 against Liverpool in the 2019 Champions League final, they have claimed just one top-four finish in the subsequent four seasons. Postecoglou is no stranger to arriving at a club facing a significant task though, having taken over Celtic in the summer of 2021 after they had finished the season 25 points behind champions Rangers. When he arrived at Celtic, chief executive Peter Lawwell had been replaced by Dominic McKay, Nick Hammond stepped down as head of football operations and long-serving captain Scott Brown left to join Aberdeen. There are several similarities as he walks through the door at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with chairman Levy searching for a new sporting director following the exit of Fabio Paratici, who resigned after losing his appeal against a 30-month ban from football. Addressing the uncertainty surrounding the future of striker Harry Kane - with Real Madrid showing interest in the England captain - will be high on the agenda this summer as the new manager looks to shape a squad capable of taking Tottenham back into the Champions League. Postecoglou won five trophies across two seasons with Celtic Postecoglou's playing career was spent in Australia, primarily with South Melbourne, where he played under Ferenc Puskas, the legendary Hungarian to whom he attributes his coaching philosophy. He stepped into management in 1996 with South Melbourne before winning back-to-back A-League titles with Brisbane Roar between 2009 and 2012. After a season with Melbourne Victory he became manager of Australia in 2013 and guided his country to the 2014 World Cup as well as victory in the 2015 Asian Cup. Further silverware followed during his time in Japan with Yokohama F Marinos, where he ended the club's 15-year wait for a J-League title in 2019. Few in Scotland knew much about Postecoglou when Celtic appointed their new manager two years ago, but after initially struggling he delivered five trophies across two seasons.\n• None Our coverage of Tottenham Hotspur is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Spurs - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has accused tabloid newspapers of hacking his voicemails when he was a teenager, saying it made him feel he \"couldn't trust anybody\".\n\nAppearing in court in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) he said he has \"experienced hostility from the press\" since he was born.\n\nHe is the first senior royal to give evidence in court in over 130 years.\n\nMGN's lawyer said he had sympathy for the duke, but denied journalists' actions were \"all unlawful\".\n\nPrince Harry arrived on Tuesday morning at London's High Court dressed in a dark suit and looking relaxed - dozens of journalists only had a matter of seconds to get their photographs as he made his way swiftly into the building.\n\nIn court he was cross-examined by MGN lawyer Andrew Green KC, who became increasingly direct in his challenges as the hearing wore on. The prince grew in confidence after a nervous start.\n\nMr Green - who has decades of experience and has been described as a \"beast in court\" - built up his line of questioning, asking in detail about the sourcing of stories, and suggesting they were based on official statements or publicly available information.\n\nPrince Harry's responses were often short, stressing his suspicion that each story was connected with a payment to a private investigator.\n\nIn his written statement, issued as he appeared at court, Prince Harry accused the tabloid press of casting members of the Royal Family into roles and creating an \"alternative and distorted version of me\".\n\n\"They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the 'spare' to the 'heir'\", he said.\n\n\"You're then either the 'playboy prince', the 'failure', the 'drop out' or, in my case, the 'thicko', the 'cheat', the 'underage drinker', the 'irresponsible drug taker'...\"\n\nThe duke also said stories he believed originated from hacking not only caused security concerns, but damaged his relationships.\n\n\"I felt that I couldn't trust anybody, which was an awful feeling for me especially at such a young age,\" he said.\n\nHe said numerous papers had reported a rumour that his biological father was former Army officer James Hewitt - a man his mother, Princess Diana, had a relationship with after he was born.\n\nAt the time, he said, he was not aware of the timeline. Aged 18 and having lost his mother six years earlier, he said such stories were \"hurtful, mean and cruel\".\n\nIn his statement, he also:\n\nHis statement is critical of the broader tabloid press, while there are also specific claims levelled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People.\n\nHarry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered in the court case. After being sworn in in court, the duke was initially addressed as \"your royal highness\" before saying he wanted to be called \"Prince Harry\".\n\nEarly in his cross-examination, Mr Green asked Prince Harry about his \"hostility\" towards the press, suggesting to the duke that this pre-dated his discovery that the tabloid press were using unlawful methods to gather information about him.\n\n\"I've experienced hostility from the press since I was born,\" Prince Harry responded, also admitting to having his own \"long-standing hostility\" towards the media.\n\nHe was also challenged on why he said in his witness statement he did not want to meet Paul Burrell, his mother's former butler, but wrote in his book Spare that he did.\n\n\"I honestly can't remember whether I wanted a meeting or not,\" he said.\n\nHe also claimed that remarks he had made about Mr Burrell to his brother, Prince William, were obtained illegally by MGN from a voicemail he left.\n\nA pattern began to emerge in the courtroom battle, with Mr Green pinning Prince Harry down with questions about specific details - while the duke pushed back with broader scepticism about how newspaper stories were gathered.\n\nPrince Harry said the media had a \"twisted objective\" to destroy his relationships\n\nA key strand of MGN's case is that stories were legally reported because they were in the public domain, and Mr Green put it to the duke that some stories written by MGN papers were follow-ups to articles in rival publications.\n\nPrince Harry said journalists were \"desperate for anything royal\" and \"any element of our private lives is interesting to the public\".\n\n\"Just because there was a story which came out previously doesn't mean there weren't attempts to take the story further,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Green said that while there was sympathy for the \"extraordinary level of press intrusion\" Prince Harry has faced \"it does not follow that it was all unlawful activity\".\n\nHarry said that journalists had caused a lot of pain and upset, and asked if he was in court to \"put a stop to this madness\", he replied: \"That is my hope.\"\n\nAfter several hours of questioning in the witness stand from Mr Green, in the afternoon there was a brief pause in proceedings.\n\n\"My mind's gone blank for a moment,\" Prince Harry said, in response to questioning about an article on his part in a school cadet event.\n\nBy appearing at the High Court, the duke has become the first senior royal to give evidence in a court since Edward VII in 1891.\n\nPrince Harry is one of four people suing the publisher, alongside Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nPrince Harry will return to continue his evidence on Wednesday.", "Willoughby said it felt \"very strange indeed sitting here without Phil\"\n\nHolly Willoughby has said she feels \"shaken, troubled and let down\" as she returned to ITV's This Morning.\n\nThe presenter's appearance on Monday's show was her first since the departure of her co-host Phillip Schofield.\n\nWilloughby addressed viewers directly and said it felt \"very strange indeed sitting here without Phil\".\n\nShe added recent events had been \"a lot to process\" and thanked viewers for their messages of support.\n\nHer statement received a mixed response on social media, with some viewers questioning her authenticity.\n\nSchofield left his role on This Morning last month following reports of a rift with Willoughby.\n\nThe 61-year-old later exited ITV altogether after he admitted lying about an affair he had with a young male colleague while he was still married.\n\nJosie Gibson is currently standing in as Willoughby's co-presenter\n\nOn Monday, Willoughby asked viewers: \"Are you OK? I hope so, it feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil. I imagine you might be feeling a lot like I have, shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what's going on, and full of questions.\n\n\"You, me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved.\n\n\"That is a lot to process, and it's equally hard to see the toll that it's taken on their own mental health.\"\n\nWilloughby presented Monday's episode of This Morning alongside Josie Gibson, a former Big Brother winner who regularly guest presents the ITV daytime show.\n\nWilloughby continued: \"I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal, for the health and wellbeing of everyone. I hope that as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.\n\n\"And from my heart, can I just say thank you for all of your kind messages, and thank you for being here this morning. Every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every single day to bring you the show that we love.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC News last week, Schofield said he had accepted his career was over following the affair, describing it as a \"grave error\".\n\nA source close to Schofield told the Sun he would not be watching Willoughby's return on Monday, commenting: \"He physically could not watch - he's not there yet. Even listening to the opening credits would be hugely triggering.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nWilloughby's statement at the start of Monday's This Morning seemed heartfelt and difficult for her to deliver - she was seen holding Gibson's hand for emotional support.\n\nPerhaps one of the most striking things was that Willoughby only used Schofield's name once, right at the beginning.\n\nAfter that, she did not even refer to his gender when discussing recent events. \"They themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved,\" she said in reference to Schofield.\n\nWilloughby's continued presence on the programme will depend on her authenticity, and some viewers on social media were sceptical about her statement.\n\nSome users drew comparisons with the speech Jennifer Aniston's character gave in Apple TV's The Morning Show - which also had a storyline about a disgraced former presenter. Others compared Willoughby's tears to former health secretary Matt Hancock's on Good Morning Britain in 2021.\n\nOne viewer recalled guest presenter Alison Hammond becoming emotional about Schofield last week, writing: \"On Friday, I believed Alison and you could tell she was truly upset. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the same listening to Holly Willoughby this morning.\"\n\nAnother viewer referred to Willoughby's almost angelic on-screen look: \"If I was a cynical person, I'd say they've made a very conscious decision to dress Holly Willoughby in white for her big speech.\"\n\nWilloughby's emotional opening speech did not overshadow the rest of the programme. She and Gibson cleanly and skilfully segued into the show's regular tone and content\n\nAny viewers who happened to tune in at 10:05 would never have known from watching the subsequent items about hay fever, holiday scams and BBQ king prawns that the episode had opened in such an unusually serious way.\n\nThe next few weeks will be crucial for Willoughby in proving she can still connect with viewers\n\nThis will have been exactly what bosses wanted, sending the message to viewers - and advertisers - that it's very much business as usual and the programme is not going anywhere.\n\nBut will the audience be convinced? Those watching on Twitter, admittedly an unrepresentative platform, were sceptical of Willoughby and the sincerity of her statement.\n\nIf the TV star wants to survive on the show, she will have to use the next few weeks to prove that she can still connect with viewers and build an authentic chemistry with the various guest hosts.", "The BBC, British Airways, Boots and Aer Lingus are among a growing number of organisations affected by a mass hack.\n\nStaff have been warned personal data including national insurance numbers and in some cases bank details may have been stolen.\n\nThe cyber criminals broke into a prominent piece of software to gain access to multiple companies in one go.\n\nThere are no reports of ransom demands being sought or money stolen.\n\nIn the UK, the payroll services provider Zellis is one of the companies affected and it said data from eight of its client firms had been stolen.\n\nIt would not reveal names, but organisations are independently issuing warnings to staff.\n\nIn an email to employees, the BBC said data stolen included staff ID numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and national insurance numbers.\n\nStaff at British Airways have been warned that some may have had bank details stolen.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said it was monitoring the situation and urged organisations using the compromised software to carry out security updates.\n\nThe hack was first disclosed last week when US company Progress Software said hackers had found a way to break into its MOVEit Transfer tool. MOVEit is software designed to move sensitive files securely and is popular around the world with most of its customers in the US.\n\nProgress Software said it alerted its customers as soon as the hack was discovered and quickly released a downloadable security update.\n\nA spokesperson said the firm is working with police to \"combat increasingly sophisticated and persistent cybercriminals intent on maliciously exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used software products\".\n\nThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning on Thursday to firms that use MOVEit, instructing them to download a security patch to stop further breaches.\n\nBut security researcher Kevin Beaumont said internet scans revealed thousands of company databases could still be vulnerable as many affected firms are yet to install the fix.\n\n\"Early indications are there are a large number of prominent organisations impacted,\" he said.\n\nExperts said it is likely the cyber criminals will attempt to extort money from organisations rather than individuals.\n\nNo ransom demands have been made public yet but it is expected cyber criminals will begin emailing affected organisations to demand payment.\n\nThey will likely threaten to publish the stolen data online for other hackers to pick through.\n\nVictim organisations are reminding staff to be vigilant of any suspicious emails that could lead to further cyber attacks.\n\nAlthough no official attribution has been made, Microsoft said it believed the criminals responsible are linked to the notorious Cl0p ransomware group, thought to be based in Russia.\n\nIn a blog post the US tech giant said it was attributing attacks to Lace Tempest, known for ransomware operations and running the Cl0p extortion website where victim data is published. The company said the hackers responsible have used similar techniques in the past to steal data and extort victims.\n\n\"This latest round of attacks is another reminder of the importance of supply chain security,\" said John Shier, from cyber security company Sophos.\n\n\"While Cl0p has been linked to this active exploitation it is probable that other threat groups are prepared to use this vulnerability as well,\" he added.\n\nThe National Crime Agency told the BBC that it was aware that a number of UK-based organisations had been \"impacted by a cyber incident\", as a result of a previously unknown security flaw relating to MOVEit Transfer.\n\nThe NCA added it was \"working with partners to support those organisations and understand the full impact on the UK\".", "Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83.\n\nOne of Brazil's biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with artists ranging from Quincy Jones to George Michael.\n\nHer version of The Girl From Ipanema sold more than five million copies and helped to popularise bossa nova.\n\nSofia Gilberto, the artist's granddaughter, broke the news of her death on Instagram.\n\n\"I'm here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto,\" wrote Sofia, who is also a musician.\n\n\"She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of Girl from Ipanema and gained international fame.\"\n\nPaul Ricci, a New York-based guitarist who collaborated with Gilberto, also confirmed the news on Facebook.\n\n\"I just got word from her son Marcelo that we have lost Astrud Gilberto,\" he wrote. \"He asked for this to be posted.\n\n\"She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy. RIP from 'the chief', as she called me.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Gilberto's representatives for official confirmation.\n\nBrazilian Bossa Nova and Samba singer Astrud Gilberto and her band performing at SOB's nightclub in New York in 1993\n\nBorn Astrud Evangelina Weinert in Bahia, she moved to Rio de Janeiro at an early age and took musical inspiration from her mother's side of the family, where \"almost everyone played an instrument\".\n\nIn her mid-teens, she fell in with a group of young people she described as a \"musical clan\", whose members included the famous singer Nara Leao and acclaimed guitarist João Gilberto, who helped create bossa nova.\n\nAstrud and João married a few months after meeting, and it was their relationship that accidentally gave rise to her recording career.\n\nIn 1963, she accompanied her husband to New York to help him as a studio translator while he cut an album with jazz legend Stan Getz.\n\nWhen the band came to record the English lyrics for The Girl From Ipanema, they needed a vocalist - and Gilberto shyly suggested she could handle the task.\n\n\"Producer Creed Taylor said he wanted to get the song done right away and looked around the room,\" engineer Phil Ramone told Jazzwax in 2012.\n\n\"Astrud volunteered, saying she could sing in English. Creed said, 'Great.' Astrud wasn't a professional singer, but she was the only victim sitting there that night.\"\n\nAlthough she had little time to prepare, Gilberto's detached but sultry vocals perfectly captured the vibe of a \"tall and tan and young and lovely\" girl who turns the heads of everyone she passes.\n\nThe song was an instant hit and went on to win the Grammy Award for record of the year.\n\nGilberto wasn't credited on the track (which was released under the name Stan Getz and João Gilberto) and she only received the standard $120 session fee for her performance.\n\nHowever, it was the springboard for a successful solo career, beginning with 1965's The Astrud Gilberto Album, where she re-joined Ipanema's co-writer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, to record a suite of Brazilian standards.\n\nSpeaking to The Independent last year, her son Marcelo claimed that Gilberto struggled with the objectification she received from the press, and often had to fight misogyny in the music industry.\n\nWriting on her website in the early 2000s, Gilberto recalled how several people had claimed responsibility for her success with Ipanema, with Stan Getz saying he had rescued her from being a \"housewife\".\n\n\"Nothing is further from the truth,\" she wrote. \"I guess it may them look 'important' to have been the one that had the 'wisdom' to recognize talent or 'potential' in my singing… I suppose I should feel flattered by the importance that they lend to this, but I can't help but to feel annoyed at the fact that they resorted to lying!\"\n\nIn the 1970s, she began writing her own songs, as showcased on albums like Astrud Gilberto Now (1972) and That Girl From Ipanema (1977).\n\nOn the latter, she achieved a lifetime ambition by recording one of her songs, Far Away, as a duet with legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.\n\nAlongside recording, she developed a second strand to her career, acting in the films The Hanged Man and Get Yourself a College Girl and recording the soundtrack for The Deadly Affair, arranged by Quincy Jones.\n\nIn the early 1980s, Gilberto formed a group that featured her son Maeclo on bass and toured the world, but she largely avoided playing in Brazil, where she felt she had not been afforded the recognition she deserved.\n\n\"Brazil turned its back on her,\" Marcelo told The Independent. \"She achieved fame abroad at a time when this was considered treasonous by the press.\"\n\nIn Europe, she recorded an album of samba classics with James Last; and George Michael sought her out to duet on a version of Desafinado for charity album Red Hot + Rio in 1996.\n\nShe recorded her final album, Jungle, in 2002, after which she announced an indefinite hiatus from public performance, having previously said that being \"close to the public was frightening\".\n\nThe singer devoted most of her later years to campaigning against animal cruelty, but the legacy of her first recording lived on, with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Madonna to Amy Winehouse and Nat King Cole offering their own interpretations of Gilberto's performance.", "Martyn Hett was 29 when he was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nThe mum of Manchester Arena bomb victim Martyn Hett has said the atrocity has left her a \"broken person\".\n\nFigen Murray has campaigned for Martyn's Law, which would would tighten security at venues and require authorities to have proactive plans against terror attacks.\n\nIts draft legislation has been published and is being scrutinised by a Home Office select committee.\n\nMs Murray's son, 29, was among 22 people killed in 2017.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, also injured hundreds of others after he blew himself up at the end of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nGiving evidence to the select committee, Ms Murray said: \"When you lose someone in such a violent way, it completely destroys families.\n\n\"I am a broken person. I am not completely not functioning, but I am different.\n\n\"Every single family who has been affected by terrorism in that way, is a changed family.\n\n\"The whole purpose of this is to try and not get another mother, another father, another sibling, another relative to suffer the way we have.\n\n\"It is completely life changing... and this legislation is so important to me.\"\n\nMs Murray, who was appointed an OBE for her counter-terrorism work, added: \"Terrorists have now changed the way they operate.\n\n\"They no longer ring in advance and warn people, they get radicalised in their bedrooms and go out and kill people.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died in the bombing on 22 May 2017\n\nMartyn's Law will follow a tiered model linked to the type of activity taking place and the size of the expected audience, and will seek to improve how prepared a venue is without putting an undue burden on business.\n\nVenues will need to undertake measures such as training, information sharing, and completion of a preparedness plan.\n\nSites that can hold 800 or more people will be required to undertake an additional risk assessment that will inform the development and implementation of a thorough security plan.\n\nMartyn's Law will also be debated by both Houses of Parliament before it is passed.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A criminal investigation has been launched into the death of an elderly woman who was struck by police escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nHelen Holland, 81, was hit by a police motorbike at a junction in Earl's Court, west London, on 10 May.\n\nThe police watchdog said the constable riding the vehicle was being investigated for offences including causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nIt will then decide whether to refer the case for potential charges.\n\nMs Holland suffered serious injuries in the crash and died two weeks later having suffered \"multiple broken bones and massive internal injuries\", according to her son.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Duchess of Edinburgh was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms Holland's death\n\nIn addition to causing death by dangerous driving, the officer is being investigated for causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, as well as potential gross misconduct, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nHowever, it does not necessarily mean that charges or disciplinary proceedings will follow.\n\nIOPC director Amanda Rowe said it was crucial a \"thorough, independent investigation\" was carried out \"to establish the full circumstances, which will include the actions and decision making of the officer under investigation\".\n\n\"At the end of our investigation, we will decide whether to refer the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision and whether the officer should face disciplinary proceedings,\" she said.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the duchess was \"deeply saddened\" by Ms Holland's death and had sent her \"deepest condolences\" to her family.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said: \"We are aware that the IOPC has launched a criminal investigation in relation to the actions of an MPS officer involved in a fatal collision at West Cromwell Road, on Wednesday, 10 May.\n\n\"We continue to fully support the IOPC as they work to establish the facts around this incident.\n\n\"The officer is currently on restricted duties.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lawyers representing bereaved families in the Covid-19 inquiries have demanded clarity on former first minister Nicola Sturgeon's WhatsApp messages.\n\nCounsel acting on behalf of Scottish ministers said Ms Sturgeon did not have any relevant informal correspondence.\n\nHowever, lawyers for the bereaved said it should be up to inquiry officials to decide what was considered relevant.\n\nThis could include private messages, emails or diaries regarding the handling of the pandemic.\n\nAamer Anwar is the lead solicitor for the Scottish Covid Bereaved group.\n\nThe group has made further legal submissions to the UK Covid Inquiry calling for all unredacted WhatsApp messages and other relevant materials to be provided.\n\nThe Covid inquiries are intended to help government officials and the public work out what ministers got right and wrong - before, during and after the pandemic.\n\nIn a new statement, Mr Anwar said a request \"should be made of Scottish ministers to provide to the inquiry any communications held by informal means in order that the primary relevance test can be carried out by this inquiry\".\n\nHe said: \"The government is, and should be, answerable to the people, this applies to both the Scottish government as well as the UK government.\n\n\"We were advised by the Scottish ministers' counsel that Nicola Sturgeon has advised them she does not have such informal messages - i.e. WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"Today we have sought full clarity from the UK and Scottish Inquiry as to what has happened to Ms Sturgeon's WhatsApp messages, and why they are not being disclosed in their entirety.\n\nLawyers Aamer Anwar and Stuart Gale KC met the Scottish Covid Bereaved group in May\n\n\"Ms Sturgeon and other Scottish ministers should be in no different of a position to that of Mr Johnston, Rishi Sunak or Matt Hancock - the job of establishing the relevance is a matter for this inquiry.\n\n\"We have said before and say it again, no individual, no matter how powerful, can be allowed to interfere with the pursuit of truth, justice and accountability in this inquiry.\n\n\"Those who lost their lives to Covid-19 deserve nothing less.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon will give evidence to the Scottish inquiry at a later date, alongside former deputy first minister John Swinney, health secretary Jeane Freeman and Scotland's former chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood.\n\nIt comes as a transparency row erupts between the UK inquiry and the Westminster government after WhatsApp submissions from senior aides had been redacted.\n\nFormer prime minister Boris Johnson said he would give unredacted WhatsApp messages dating back to May 2021 directly to the Covid inquiry.\n\nThis will bypass the UK government which has refused to hand them over.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for texts from the former prime minister and officials, arguing that many of the messages are irrelevant to the investigation.\n\nIt said they needed to protect the privacy of ministers and others.", "Prince Harry has accused the press and the government of being at \"rock bottom\" in his High Court privacy case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nIn a witness statement, Prince Harry said journalists were harming democracy by \"getting into bed\" with the government to \"ensure the status quo\".\n\nHe later gave evidence in person in the High Court.\n\nMGN denies using unlawful methods, including phone hacking, to find out sensitive information about him.\n\nRishi Sunak declined to be drawn on the remarks during a trip to the US, telling reporters it was a \"long-standing convention\" for prime ministers not to comment on royals.\n\nBy appearing in the witness stand, Harry became the first senior royal to give evidence in a court of law since the future Edward VII in 1891.\n\nIn a written statement issued to the High Court, he said: \"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo.\n\n\"In my view, in order to save journalism as a profession, journalists need to expose those people in the media that have stolen or highjacked the privileges and powers of the press, and have used illegal or unlawful means for their own gain and agendas.\n\n\"I feel that I need to make sure that this unlawful behaviour is exposed, because obviously I don't want anybody else going through the same thing that I've been going through on a personal level.\n\n\"But also on a national level as, at the moment, our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our Government - both of which I believe are at rock bottom.\"\n\nHarry alleges about 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information gathered using unlawful methods, and 33 of these have been selected to be considered in the court case.\n\nThe 55-page statement is critical of the broader tabloid press, while there are also specific claims levelled against MGN - the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People.\n\nThe Duke is bringing claims against the publisher alongside Coronation Street actors Michael Turner - known professionally as Michael Le Vell - and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nThe claimants allege unlawful methods were used to obtain information for stories and say senior executives must have known about it and failed to stop it, which MGN denies.\n\nThe publisher has either denied or not admitted each of the claims. MGN also argues that some of the claimants have brought their legal action too late.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBallon d'Or winner Karim Benzema has agreed terms on a three-year deal with Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad after leaving Real Madrid.\n\nFrench striker Benzema, 35, won 25 trophies - including five Champions Leagues and four La Ligas - in 14 years with Madrid but they agreed to let him leave his contract a year early.\n\nHe scored 354 goals for Real, second only to Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nRonaldo, who hit 450 Real goals, plays for another Saudi club, Al-Nassr.\n\n\"It's a good league and there are many good players,\" said Benzema. \"Cristiano Ronaldo is already there, a friend which shows Saudi Arabia is starting to further progress its level. I am here to win, like I did in Europe.\n\n\"I have been fortunate to achieve amazing things in my career and achieve everything I can in Spain and Europe. It now feels the time is right for a new challenge and project.\"\n\nAl-Ittihad are managed by former Wolves and Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo.\n\nBenzema played 648 times for Real after his 2009 move from Lyon and scored with his last touch for the club, netting a penalty in Sunday's 1-1 draw with Athletic Bilbao before being replaced.\n\nOn Monday it was announced Al-Ittihad were one of four leading Saudi Arabian clubs to be taken over by the country's Public Investment Fund, which also owns Newcastle United.\n\nRonaldo's Al-Nassr are another, and so are Al-Hilal, who have been strongly linked to Paris St-Germain's Lionel Messi this summer.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Denise Gossett, her son Roman, her daughter Sabrina and Sabrina's daughter Morgana were all killed in the fire\n\nA man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing four members of the same family in County Fermanagh.\n\nDaniel Sebastian Allen, 32, from Doon Road near Derrylin, changed his plea as his trial was about to start.\n\nHe admitted the murders of Roman Gossett, 16, his sister Sabrina, 19, and Sabrina's 15-month-old daughter Morgana Quinn.\n\nBut he denied murdering Denise Gossett, 45, and instead admitted manslaughter by reason of a suicide pact.\n\nCraigavon Crown Court was told that plea was acceptable to the prosecution.\n\nDaniel Allen, pictured at a previous court appearance, was at the scene of the fire when the emergency services arrived\n\nAllen's voice broke as he pleaded guilty to a fifth charge of arson with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe fire happened at a cottage the family were renting just outside Derrylin on 27 February 2018.\n\nAllen had been living with the family at the time.\n\nWhen the emergency services arrived he was standing outside and four bodies were discovered inside.\n\nAllen had previously denied murder and claimed he did not play any part in the deaths of Roman and Morgana.\n\nThe rural bungalow house was gutted by the blaze in February 2018\n\nThe judge said: \"Since you have pleaded guilty to three counts of murder I now sentence you to life imprisonment.\"\n\nA defence barrister said: \"Obviously these are serious matters and reports will be required.\"\n\nIn addition to a pre-sentence report, he said time would be required for a number of other professional reports.\n\nA sentencing hearing was set for 15 September when the judge will set the minimum number of years before Allen can be considered for release.\n\nHe will also be given prison sentences for manslaughter and arson.\n\nAllen nodded as the judge told him he would serve life imprisonment for three murders before he was led from the dock in handcuffs.", "Essence says she and her brother Garvey were \"inseparable\" growing up\n\n\"I don't know if I can ever fully forgive him for everything... I'm still in that process now.\"\n\nEssence Gayle still speaks regularly to her older brother Garvey, two years after he killed their father Michael.\n\nTheir mother, who was also injured in the attack, believes her partner's death could have been avoided if her son had been given more support.\n\nThis case will be one of the first of its kind to be reviewed under a new system in Wales by the government.\n\nFor that reason, South Wales Police and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said they could not comment on the case.\n\nThe health board said its thoughts remained with the family.\n\nGarvey Gayle later admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and the attempted murder of his mother. He is being held indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.\n\nAmanda said it took losing Michael for Garvey to get the help he needed\n\nOn 16 October 2020, Garvey, then 21, stabbed his 54-year-old father Michael 17 times. He was pronounced dead at their home in the St Mellons area of Cardiff.\n\nDuring the same attack, he also stabbed his mother Amanda Brookes Gayle in the arm, stomach and side.\n\nEssence says her brother's poor mental health meant when he killed their father \"you could say it wasn't him at the time\"\n\nMore than two-and-a-half years on, Amanda said they were yet to receive any satisfactory answers about what went wrong and whether the killing could have been avoided.\n\nShe is worried other families could be let down before any lessons identified in the case are eventually published.\n\nAmanda (pictured with her late partner Michael) says she still loves her son despite what he has done\n\n\"I'm appalled really at the time it's taking,\" said Amanda.\n\n\"I don't think it's fair on the family at all... I don't understand why all these things have taken so long.\"\n\nThe reviewers told BBC Wales Investigates they were sorry for the delay and any learning would be shared as it emerges.\n\nAmanda remembers Michael as a loving father to their four children - Garvey, Essence, Marlon and Marysia - and said he always put his family first.\n\nAmanda says her son cut himself out of family photos\n\n\"I know that all parents love their kids and their children and they do their best, but our children were our life, our focus - it wasn't about nine to five, it was about our family, that was our job, that was our work. That was our life,\" she said.\n\nEssence said of her father: \"He was a typical family man... always picking us up from school, taking us to school.\n\n\"He had to ride the bike to take us because he couldn't drive so I would be sat on the handlebars, Garvey would be sat on the pegs and Dad would ride to the school...\n\n\"We were just a very solid unit.\"\n\nEssence says Garvey began shutting himself off from his family as his mental health worsened\n\nEssence said she and her brother Garvey, who are 16 months apart, were \"inseparable\" growing up, but after he left college things started to change as his mental health deteriorated.\n\n\"We weren't as close and he'd shut himself off more,\" she said.\n\n\"Things he was saying just didn't really add up - he just wasn't making sense, there was just a drastic change in his behaviour.\"\n\nAs parents, Amanda and Michael also noticed changes in Garvey.\n\nGarvey and Essence are just 16 months apart in age\n\n\"He sat there and he cut himself out of every family photo precisely,\" said Amanda.\n\n\"He said we weren't his family any more and he was going to disappear, which didn't make sense at the time. It's just crazy.\"\n\nEssence and Garvey have two other siblings and were raised in Cardiff\n\nShe said on another occasion he sliced up their sofa and her bed and referred to himself as Jesus Christ.\n\nHe also began chanting or reading the Bible and would be up all hours in his bedroom.\n\n\"He'd be putting lit cigarettes in his pockets and I'd have to say, 'like your clothes are on fire, literally',\" she said.\n\nAmanda says she believes her partner Michael would have forgiven Garvey for his actions\n\nIn June 2019 Garvey started to become violent towards Amanda, was prosecuted and jailed for 10 weeks.\n\n\"I was hoping he was going to get help for his mental health but he was just released, came back home to me, broke police bail because he wasn't supposed to come to me,\" she said.\n\n\"Police officers, when they were coming, I was explaining 'it's not a criminal matter, he's genuinely mentally unwell'.\"\n\nEventually Garvey became so unwell as he was sectioned and held in psychiatric units.\n\nEssence still speaks to her brother Garvey about twice a week\n\nSix months later he was discharged but he was not able to live with Amanda and Michael as he had previously been assessed as posing a high risk to them.\n\nGarvey was sent to live in a homeless hostel in Cardiff but Amanda said it was clear to her that he could not look after himself in the hostel.\n\n\"He was known as Jesus Christ. I would go to visit my son and I'd go 'Garvey?' and they'd go 'Oh, Jesus, I'll go get Jesus for you, he's upstairs'.\"\n\nShe said he continually told her did not want to stay there and she would have to video call him to ensure he had taken his mediation.\n\nGarvey seriously injured his mother Amanda in the same attack where he killed his father\n\nThree months before Garvey killed his dad, South Wales Police, probation and mental health staff were meant to discuss the risks he posed at a special meeting but failed to do so.\n\n\"It was like they weren't joining up the dots, lack of communication or something, something wasn't working properly obviously,\" said Amanda.\n\n\"I just kept saying, 'please get him the mental health help that he needs'.\n\n\"It was just an ongoing cycle basically...until that tragic night...when our lives were changed forever.\"\n\nAmanda said it was not until after Garvey had killed his father that he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.\n\n\"If Garvey had got this intense help back then Michael would still be here and Garvey would have been getting the help he needed,\" she said.\n\n\"But we had to lose Michael for Garvey to get the help he needed. It's backwards.\"\n\n\"I don't think it really registered that dad was gone,\" said Essence.\n\nEssence says she struggles to accept that her father is gone\n\n\"Everything was still in place, his drink was still there where he left it when he went out earlier - it was like nothing's been touched, dad will be back soon.\n\n\"I don't think I'll ever get over that my dad's not here.\n\n\"Garvey did that, even though you could say it wasn't him at the time.\"\n\nEssence is still in touch with her brother.\n\nOn 16 October 2020, Garvey, then 21, fatally stabbed his father Michael\n\n\"We speak now every so often, twice a week maybe, some days he's like Garvey again - he's asked me questions about what have I been up to, then other days he doesn't sound well again, so it's still a work in progress,\" she said.\n\nAmanda has received a letter from Garvey but had only felt able to speak to him over the phone once.\n\n\"I told him how much I loved him. I told him I have forgiven him and I'm sure his dad's forgiven him as well,\" she said.\n\nEssence says her father was a family man and they were a strong family unit\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board has been reviewing the care it provided Garvey but Amanda does not yet have the findings.\n\nFor now, the family continues to wait for answers.\n\n\"I can just pray that lessons are learnt and something good comes out of this horrific thing that has happened to our family,\" said Amanda.\n\n\"I hope my son gets well and doesn't spend the rest of his life in hospital and he has some kind of future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katherine Davies said she would still encourage people to consider a career in nursing\n\nA nurse has said strikes are taking place because \"patients are dying\".\n\nCardiff-based Katherine Davies is on the picket line and said there simply are not enough staff.\n\nNurses across nearly all parts of Wales will strike for 12 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday in an ongoing dispute over pay.\n\nThe industrial action means thousands of planned care appointments will be impacted.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales' chief Helen Whyley said members needed \"more commitments\" from the Welsh government.\n\nShe added that the ballot for further action would reopen in July.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"disappointed\" that strike action was continuing.\n\nThe lack of staff makes it difficult to spot when patients deteriorate, which can be a matter of life and death in cases like sepsis, Ms Davies said.\n\nMs Davies, who works at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, said: \"We just don't have enough staff.\"\n\nMs Davies, who has been a nurse for 32 years, said the pressures have meant she has \"neglected\" her patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe is striking on the picket line with fellow Cardiff and Vale workers outside the hospital.\n\n\"I have not given them the attention they deserved,\" she said.\n\n\"I have thought about them on the drive home and what I haven't been able to do. That's not a good feeling.\n\n\"Five, ten years ago it was different. Now, we have to choose, who is the least ill.\n\n\"The least ill person might just want someone to sit with them at the start of the day, to talk through their diagnosis, their treatment but we can't do that.\n\n\"It wasn't perfect in the past but we could wash patients, do something and put moisturiser on someone's face or legs, we can't do that any more. We're lucky if we can wash their faces.\"\n\nPeople are picketing across Wales, including at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.\n\nAneurin Bevan health board, in south east Wales, is the only one not to be affected by the strikes.\n\nMarcus Longley, a former chairman of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, told that there is a \"real toxic mix\" of factors that have come together, from pay, working conditions and staffing issues.\n\n\"There is a danger of salami slicing - you chop a little bit off and a little bit off - and you end up with an institution that nobody is proud of,\" he said.\n\n\"That is a recipe for constant crisis.\"\n\nThe strike is due to take place between 07:00 and 19:00 BST on both days, though there are exemptions where certain units will be staffed.\n\nThese include critical care units, dialysis and chemotherapy services, life-threatening cancer treatments, neonatal and paediatric intensive care units and standalone paediatric emergency departments.\n\nNight duty levels of staffing will also be in place for A&E, 24-hour in-patient areas and community services.\n\nNurses in most parts of Wales are set to strike again on 6 and 7 June\n\nIt means elective and routine procedures involving Royal College of Nursing members - such as operations and outpatient appointments - will not take place.\n\nThe RCN in Wales has more than 17,000 members but it is not clear how many will withdraw labour during the strike.\n\nManagers are planning around that uncertainty, which is why many clinics and procedures will not have been booked for the two days.\n\nHelen Whyley of the RCN said members wanted better working conditions and a further rise in pay.\n\n\"We need some more commitments from the Welsh government about things that will influence and affect nursing,\" she said.\n\n\"It keeps people retained, it makes them want to come into the profession. But alongside that we're also looking for better and bigger commitments about terms and conditions, recruitment and retention, things that will keep nurses working not just today or tomorrow, but for the next five, 10, 15 years.\n\n\"My members don't want to be out on picket lines, they want to be doing what they do well and that's looking after patients.\"\n\nAn improved pay deal for most NHS staff was recently announced by the Welsh government, but RCN members in Wales voted to reject the offer and these two days of industrial action were scheduled.\n\nRCN Wales chief Helen Whyley says members have not taken the decision to strike lightly\n\nThe union went on strike twice in December last year, but suspended further action in February while talks with the Welsh government continued.\n\nTheir current mandate for strike action runs out on 1 August, though the RCN said it had already set plans in motion to renew that support among its membership.\n\nMs Whyley added that members were \"not doing this lightly\".\n\n\"My members don't want to be out on picket lines, they want to be doing what they do well and that's looking after patients,\" she said.\n\nBut she added that any solution needed to mean \"they'll go to work and they won't be the only person on duty that's substantive, that they'll take their pay packets and be able to pay to feed their families and take their children out.\n\n\"And that they'll have a profession that other people want to join.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"While we recognise the strength of feeling among members, we are disappointed that strike action is continuing despite the collective decision to accept the Agenda for Change pay offer by the Wales Partnership Forum Business Committee.\n\n\"We are working with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised.\n\n\"But it is vital that all of us to do all we can to minimise pressure on our health service during the industrial action and consider carefully what activities we take part in.\"\n\nThe Welsh government urged people to call 999 if \"in immediate danger\" but to use the NHS 111 website or a local GP or pharmacy for health advice \"where there is no immediate threat to life\".\n\nWhen nurses took to the picket lines in December, the wider mood was a little different.\n\nThey were soon followed by two other large unions representing ambulance staff. Discontent hung heavy in the air.\n\nBut six months on and a majority of unions representing healthcare workers have accepted the improved pay offer from the Welsh government - for both the current and previous financial years.\n\nWhile all health workers, aside from doctors, therefore benefitted from the deal, the RCN said its members were not bound by that collective decision - and were still exercising their right to strike.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer says he will not let the oil and gas industries become a \"repeat\" of the coal mines.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has vowed to protect communities from \"decimation\" after being warned Labour's policies would lead to job losses in oil and gas.\n\nLabour has pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK\n\nGary Smith, the general secretary of the GMB, said Labour's policy risked creating \"a cliff-edge\" for jobs.\n\nBut speaking at the union's conference, Sir Keir promised to prevent a re-run of what happened when coal mines closed, in oil and gas communities.\n\n\"What I will never let happen is a repeat of what happened in coal mining where an industry came to an end and nobody had planned for the future,\" the Labour leader said.\n\n\"We're still living with the consequences, we cannot allow that to happen.\"\n\nA 2019 report by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust found former mining communities were more socially disadvantaged, with higher than average unemployment and ill health.\n\nLabour has pledged to achieve zero carbon energy in the UK by 2030 if elected.\n\nAt last year's Labour conference, Sir Keir said he would make the UK the first major economy in the world to generate all of its electricity without using fossil fuels. An emergency back-up capacity of 0.7% of fossil fuel electricity production would be kept on standby.\n\nThe party has said a Labour government would also stop issuing new licences for oil and gas production in the UK - a move which has prompted fury from both the industry and unions.\n\nGMB leader Gary Smith said it would be \"a huge mistake to put all the nation's eggs in one energy basket\"\n\nSir Keir has been keen to portray Labour as the party prepared to seize the future.\n\nBut some of Labour's big union funders, including the GMB whose members include workers in the fossil fuel industries, are concerned by some of the green plans.\n\nHe was forced to defend his energy policy after being asked by a delegate what he had to say to communities that would be \"decimated\" by the end of oil and gas production in the North Sea.\n\n\"Oil and gas are going to be part of the mix for decades to come, into the 2050s. I don't think that part of our argument is heard loud enough or clear enough,\" he said.\n\nHe told the GMB conference in Brighton there was a \"race on\" across the world \"to seize the next generation of jobs, in new nuclear, in renewables\".\n\n\"If we don't seize that opportunity, I genuinely think that future generations will never forgive us for repeating the mistake that was made when the coal mines were closed down,\" he added.\n\nLabour had estimated there were \"hundreds of thousands of jobs\" to be created in renewable energy, including 50,000 in Scotland, Sir Keir said.\n\nIn his speech to the GMB, he said: \"For too long, Britain has allowed the opportunities of the new energy technologies to pass us by.\n\n\"Without a plan, the energy industries that we rely on will wither and decline.\"\n\nThere are some in Labour's ranks who believe the party's entire energy plan - its defining policy- is not being communicated loudly or clearly enough\n\nSome senior figures have expressed fears that Labour's opponents will focus on the long-standing pledge to borrow £28bn a year to fund its drive for green energy. Meanwhile there are concerns the party leadership has not argued strongly enough for the benefits.\n\nThe North Sea Transition Authority estimates the UK oil and gas industry directly employs about 30,000 people and indirectly supports 100,000 jobs.\n\nThe oil and gas industry was estimated to be worth £28bn in 2022, according to the OEUK - the UK offshore energy industry body.\n\nSir Keir used his speech to make the same case President Joe Biden did in his flagship Inflation Reduction Act, that green jobs are a boon to working people.\n\nHe told the conference: \"President Biden once said: 'When I hear climate change, I think jobs.'\n\n\"When Labour sets out our mission for Britain to become a clean energy super power, we are thinking jobs too.\"\n\nSir Keir also promised Labour would use public procurement to help create \"unionised jobs\" in the UK.\n\n\"There's a framework for public procurement, at the heart of which is dignity and respect, and we expect to see unionised jobs, and support unionised industries\".\n\nThe Labour leader backed calls to force Amazon to recognise the GMB after the union signed up more than 600 people to stage walkouts over pay at a factory in Coventry.\n\n\"We will strengthen the role of trade unions in our society, and I want to see Amazon and businesses like it recognise unions,\" he said.\n\nGMB sources suggested members were heartened by Sir Keir's vision for employment and the economy.\n\nBut the union would keep pressing for what sources called \"a proper understanding\" of the nation's energy challenges, they said.\n\nIt looks like the Labour leader will have to expend some energy to keep some in the wider labour movement onside.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It would be strange for me to name dates but we are ready for counter-offensive, says Mr Danilov\n\nUkraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC.\n\nOleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin's occupying forces could begin \"tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week\".\n\nHe warned that Ukraine's government had \"no right to make a mistake\" on the decision because this was an \"historic opportunity\" that \"we cannot lose\".\n\nAs secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Mr Danilov is at the heart of President Volodymyr Zelensky's de facto war cabinet.\n\nHis rare interview with the BBC was interrupted by a phone message from President Zelensky summoning him to a meeting to discuss the counter-offensive.\n\nDuring the interview, he also confirmed that some Wagner mercenary forces were withdrawing from the city of Bakhmut, the site of the bloodiest battle of the war so far - but he added they were \"regrouping to another three locations\" and \"it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us\".\n\nMr Danilov also said he was \"absolutely calm\" about Russia beginning to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, saying: \"To us, it's not some kind of news.\"\n\nUkraine has been planning a counter-offensive for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nIn the meantime, Russian forces have been preparing their defences.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nMr Danilov said the armed forces would begin the assault when commanders calculated \"we can have the best result at that point of the war\".\n\nAsked if Ukrainian armed forces were ready for the offensive, he replied: \"We are always ready. The same as we were ready to defend our country at any time. And it is not a question of time.\n\n\"We have to understand that that historic opportunity that is given to us - by God - to our country we cannot lose, so we can truly become an independent, big European country.\"\n\nHe added: \"It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week.\n\n\"It would be weird if I were to name dates of the start of that or those events. That cannot be done…. We have a very responsible task before our country. And we understand that we have no right to make a mistake.\"\n\nUkrainian troops have spent months training on Western equipment ahead of the expected attack\n\nMr Danilov dismissed suggestions the counter-offensive had already begun, saying that \"demolishing Russian control centres and Russian military equipment\" had been the task of Ukrainian armed forces since 24 February last year - the date Russia launched the invasion.\n\n\"We have no days off during this war,\" he said.\n\nHe defended the decision by Ukraine's army to fight in Bakhmut for so many months, a battle that has cost the lives of many of its soldiers.\n\n\"Bakhmut is our land, our territory, and we must defend it,\" he said. \"If we start leaving every settlement, that could get us to our western border as Putin wanted from the first days of the war.\"\n\nHe said that \"we control only a small part of the city, and we admit to that. But you have to keep in mind that Bakhmut has played a big role in this war.\"\n\nAsked if Wagner mercenaries were leaving, he replied: \"Yes, that is happening. But it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us. They are going to concentrate more on other fronts… they are regrouping to other three locations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Disposable vapes are the most popular vaping device among teenagers in the UK, surveys suggest\n\nChildren's doctors are calling for a complete ban on disposable vapes because they may damage young people's lungs and are bad for the environment.\n\nBut an anti-smoking campaign group says a ban would make it harder for some adults to give up smoking and increase the trade in illegal vapes.\n\nUK governments are planning steps to reduce vaping among under-18s.\n\nThese are likely to include tighter rules on how vaping products are marketed and promoted.\n\nSelling vapes or e-cigarettes to children is illegal, but that has not stopped a rise in 11 to 17-year-olds experimenting with vaping - from 7.7% in 2022 up to 11.6% in 2023, according to a YouGov survey for Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).\n\nAbout 15% of 16 to 17-year-olds and 18% of 18-year-olds are current vapers, it suggests.\n\nBrightly-coloured nicotine vapes in a variety of flavours, which are used once and then thrown away, are the most popular product among teenagers, who tend to get them from corner shops for about £5 each.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak recently said it was \"ridiculous\" that vapes were designed and promoted to appeal to children when they were supposed to be used by adults giving up smoking.\n\nA BBC investigation found unsafe levels of lead, nickel and chromium in vapes confiscated from a secondary school, which could end up being inhaled into children's lungs. Scientists analysing the vapes said they were the worst lab test results of their kind they had ever seen.\n\nThe Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) now says the UK government should \"without a doubt\" ban disposable e-cigarettes.\n\n\"Youth vaping is fast becoming an epidemic among children, and I fear that if action is not taken, we will find ourselves sleepwalking into a crisis,\" said Dr Mike McKean, paediatric respiratory consultant and RCPCH vice-president.\n\nHealth experts stress that smoking cigarettes, which contain tobacco, is still the single biggest cause of preventable illness and disease in the UK.\n\nHowever, Dr McKean said vaping products were \"not risk-free\" and research on them was \"still very much in its infancy\", meaning it was not possible to predict the long-term impacts on young people's lungs, hearts and brains.\n\nWhat's your reaction to a possible ban on disposable vapes? Get in touch via:\n\nLast week, Mr Sunak announced he would close a loophole allowing vaping companies to give free samples to children in England, and look at increasing fines for shops selling vapes illegally. A call for evidence on how to curb youth vaping ends on Tuesday.\n\nIn Scotland, the First Minister recently said a ban on disposable vapes was under consideration in a report being compiled by an environmental expert group.\n\nThe RCPCH said governments should now decide whether to take further action \"to prioritise our children and our planet\".\n\nBut others say a ban on disposable vapes is not needed and would not have the desired effect.\n\nCharity and campaign group Ash says a complete ban would end up boosting the market for illegal vapes and make it harder to recycle them.\n\nAnd it said disposable vapes were a useful tool for adult smokers, particularly older people and those with learning disabilities, to quit tobacco.\n\n\"We need to be really careful about banning them - vapes and e-cigarettes have been invaluable in stopping people smoking,\" said Prof Ruth Sharrock, respiratory consultant in Gateshead, who works with patients with respiratory failure.\n\nAlthough disposable vapes are just one kind of vaping product, Ash estimates that they are used by 20% of vapers who have quit smoking.\n\nProf Nick Hopkinson, respiratory physician and chairman of Ash, said smoking remained \"the biggest health problem for adults and children\", and urged more funding for stop smoking services as well as stricter rules on vaping.\n\nAsh says disposable vapes can be bought for \"pocket money prices\" and is calling on the government to put a tax of £5 on their price. This means they would cost a similar amount to rechargeable, reusable vaping products - but still much less than a pack of cigarettes.\n\nIt also wants rules to be tightened around the way vapes are promoted in shops, to reduce their appeal to children.\n\nThe vaping industry also says a ban on single-use vapes is not the answer.\n\nUK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) director general John Dunne said: \"Strong, targeted action directed at those illegally selling vape products to children is the way forward.\"\n\nGreen Alliance, an independent think tank, said disposable vapes wasted resources like lithium which are needed for batteries to power electric cars, and recycling them was costly.\n\nIt called current government proposals to restrict marketing and end free giveaways to children \"laughably inadequate\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Health and Social Care in England said: \"We are taking bold action to crack down on youth vaping through the £3m illicit vapes enforcement squad to tackle underage sales to children.\"", "Mr Blackford faced four different Conservative prime ministers in their weekly question session in the House of Commons\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's former Westminster leader, is to stand down as an MP at the next general election.\n\nMr Blackford has been the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber since 2015, when he defeated former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy in a controversial campaign.\n\nHe led the SNP's Westminster group for five years and faced four different Conservative prime ministers at question time in the Commons.\n\nThe former banker stepped down as group leader in December.\n\nThe resignation avoided Mr Blackford facing a possible challenge from his eventual successor, Stephen Flynn, amid speculation that some of his MPs were plotting to replace him.\n\nHe had become a well-known figure in the House of Commons through his weekly appearance at Prime Minister's Questions and was seen as being a close ally of Nicola Sturgeon, the former first minister and SNP leader who stood down earlier this year.\n\nBut he angered some members of the party's Westminster group by urging them to give \"absolute full support\" to SNP MP Patrick Grady, who had been suspended for sexual misconduct.\n\nMr Blackford said he had thought \"long and hard\" whether to stand in next year's general election and that he was \"privileged and humbled that people across my home constituency have put their trust in me at three elections\".\n\nHe added: \"Having stood down as SNP Westminster leader, I have gone through a period of reflection as to how I can best assist the party and the cause of independence - a cause I have campaigned for since joining the SNP as a teenager in the 1970s.\n\n\"My desire to see Scotland become an independent country, and for our country and its people to achieve its full potential, remains as strong as when I first entered politics decades ago.\n\n\"Although I will not be standing for the Westminster Parliament at the next election, I look forward to playing my part in the continuing campaign for Scottish independence and supporting our first minister and the SNP as we go forward to the next election and beyond.\"\n\nMr Blackford has been working on producing a paper on Scotland's industrial future, which he said he hoped would lead to \"sustainable enhancement in economic growth, driving investment and better paid jobs in Scotland and raising living standards\".\n\nHe added: \"I look forward to finishing this work and continuing as the first minister's business ambassador, on behalf of the SNP.\"\n\nMr Flynn, the SNP's current group leader at Westminster, said his predecessor had played a \"massive role\" in making the party a formidable force in Scottish and UK politics.\n\nHe said Mr Blackford had been a \"stalwart in the SNP for decades\", adding: \"I know Ian will be sorely missed by his constituents and colleagues when he stands down as an MP but I am confident that he will have a key role in continuing the campaign for Scotland to become an independent country.\"\n\nMr Blackford's campaign to replace Mr Kennedy as the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber in 2015 became mired in controversy over online abuse aimed at the former Liberal Democrat leader and his long-running battle with alcoholism.\n\nBrian Smith, who was convenor of the local SNP branch, later resigned after it was reported that he had called Mr Kennedy a \"drunken slob\" and \"quisling-in-chief\" in a series of more than 130 tweets.\n\nMr Kennedy died of a major haemorrhage linked to his alcoholism just three weeks after the election.", "Coldplay's Chris Martin arrived in Cardiff by train ahead of the band's two nights of gigs.\n\nHe jumped the gun, and listened to travel warnings before more than 100,000 fans descended on the city to see the band perform.\n\nMartin got off the train at Cardiff Central wearing joggers, a grey top and baseball cap on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe band also made sure their gig is bilingual by kicking it off with a Welsh translation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMartin's arrival strikes a hard contrast to superstar Beyoncé's arrival to Cardiff for her Renaissance World Tour about three weeks ago.\n\nThe star faced criticism from some for bringing her 60-production truck and 18-coach strong entourage.\n\nThe singer herself arrived by private jet at Cardiff Airport just after 15:00 and was then flown back to London at 23:00 the same day.\n\nOne onlooker tweeted: \"I worry about my recycling and here are all of #Beyoncé set trucks parked up in Cardiff... For one night! #ClimateEmergency #Carbon.\"\n\nAbout 60 production trucks were outside Cardiff City Stadium ahead of Beyoncé's concert\n\nColdplay, who boast hits such as Paradise and Yellow, pledged to cut their carbon footprint after stopping touring in 2019.\n\nTheir \"eco-friendly\" tour is partially powered by a dancefloor that generates electricity when fans jump up and down, and pedal power at the venues.\n\nTheir opener on Tuesday and Wednesday night will also play a bilingual video educating fans on the sustainability elements of the tour.\n\n\"This will be truly appreciated by the people of Wales and will add to the enjoyment of their World of Spheres shows in the capital,\" said Gwyn Derfel, Welsh language manager of the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\n\"I'm truly grateful for the respect that Coldplay are showing to the Welsh language.\"\n\nThe video educates fans on the sustainability elements of the tour\n\nThe green movement continued with the band bringing support act Hana Lili just 8 miles (12.8km) from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan to Cardiff.\n\nIt took the singer by surprise who believed the email inviting her from Coldplay's team was spam.\n\n\"I sent the email to my dad and he was like 'ignore it, that's a fake email',\" the folk artist, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan said.\n\n\"It was a massive surprise, I'm really looking forward to it.\"\n\nThe band, pictured here in Vancouver, last performed in Cardiff in 2017\n\nAs with Beyoncé's concert, commuters were urged to plan ahead, with the M4 and surrounding roads expected to be very busy.\n\nColdplay were originally set to play a single night at the Principality Stadium, but a second night was added after overwhelming demand.\n\nThe gates opened at 17:00 and Cardiff council has urged passengers to plan their journey in advance to avoid disappointment.\n\nFor Ed Sheeran's tour in May 2022, queues were so long on the M4 that some fans arrived hours late and even missed it entirely.\n\nThere will be a full city centre road closure from 16:00 BST to midnight on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nCardiff council said congested roads can be avoided by using its Park & Ride facility at Leckwith Stadium or the Park & Walk facility at County Hall, in Cardiff Bay.\n\nTransport for Wales was carrying out work for the South Wales Metro, so buses will be replacing rail on services north of Pontypridd (Treherbert and Merthyr Tydfil Lines) and Mountain Ash (Aberdare Line).\n\nIt provided additional services, but no post-event services to Birmingham or Holyhead.\n\nGreat Western Railway however did run extra services after the concerts.\n\nThey will operate from Cardiff Central to Swansea, Newport, Bristol and Swindon.\n\nBoth operators said it expected trains to be very busy and advised users to plan in advance.\n\nYou can visit the Cardiff council website for travel information around the city.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe PGA Tour and DP World Tour have agreed to merge with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund [PIF] in a deal that ends the split in the game.\n\nThe surprise announcement comes after a year of unprecedented disruption in the men's game following the launch of LIV Golf, which is funded by the PIF.\n\nIt means pending litigation between the tours will be halted and they will move forward as part of the same enterprise.\n\n\"This is a stunning development,\" said BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter.\n\n\"The PGA and DP World Tours were sworn enemies of the LIV circuit, which had poached some of their best players. They viewed the breakaway tour as an existential threat and entered into bitter and expensive legal action.\"\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Has Saudi Arabia just bought golf?\n\nMaking the announcement on Tuesday Jay Monahan, commissioner of the PGA Tour, golf's leading circuit, said: \"This is a historic day for the game.\"\n\nAn agreement has been signed that will combine the PGA Tour and LIV's commercial operations and rights into a new, yet to be named for-profit company.\n\nThe agreement includes the DP World Tour, formerly known as the European Tour.\n\nThe emergence of the LIV circuit fractured men's professional golf over the last year, with several top players lured by its huge prize funds and no-cut events, which include a team format.\n\nLIV Golf is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince and which has been embroiled in anti-trust lawsuits with the PGA Tour over the last year.\n\n\"This is a momentous day - to partner in this new entity is energising and exciting,\" said DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley.\n\nWhat will golf now look like?\n\nMonahan, his counterpart on the PGA Tour, said that a \"comprehensive evaluation\" of how best to integrate team golf will take place.\n\nYasir Al-Rumayyan is governor of the Saudi PIF, which is also the majority owner of Premier League club Newcastle United, who Al-Rumayyan serves as chairman. He will be chairman of the new commercial entity while Monahan will be chief executive.\n\nGreg Norman has been a divisive figurehead as chief executive of LIV Golf but the former world number one was not mentioned during Tuesday's announcement.\n\n\"This transformational partnership recognises the immeasurable strength of the PGA Tour's history, legacy and pro-competitive model and combines with it the DP World Tour and LIV - including the team golf concept - to create an organisation that will benefit players, partners and fans,\" Monahan added.\n\n\"I applaud Yasir Al-Rumayyan for his vision and collaborative and forward-thinking approach that is not just a solution to the rift in our game, but also a commitment to taking it to new heights. This will engender a new era in global golf, for the better.\"\n\nA joint press release added that all parties will work in the months to come to finalise terms of the agreement.\n\nAl-Rumayyan said: \"We are committed to unifying, promoting and growing the game of golf around the world and offering the highest-quality product to the many millions of long-time fans globally, while cultivating new fans.\n\n\"There is no question that the LIV model has been positively transformative for golf. We believe there are opportunities for the game to evolve while also maintaining its storied history and tradition.\"\n\nThe next event of LIV's second season is due to take place on 30 June at Valderrama, Spain.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nIn late 2021, it was announced that LIV Golf, fronted by Norman, was to commit more than $200m (£145m) to 10 new Asian Tour events to be staged annually over the next decade.\n\nIn March 2022, LIV announced a $250m eight-event invitational series and then, in May 2022, Norman told BBC Sport that he had secured an extra £1.6bn of funding from the PIF to turn the series into a 14-event league by 2024.\n\nThe first event took place in June last year featuring star names including Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and stalwarts of the European Ryder Cup team, including England's Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood.\n\nIn April, the DP World Tour won its legal battle against 12 LIV players who committed \"serious breaches\" of the Tour's code of behaviour by playing in LIV Golf events without its permission.\n\nThe subsequent increased fines and suspensions prompted Sergio Garcia, Poulter, Westwood and Henrik Stenson to resign their memberships and become ineligible for this year's Ryder Cup, which will take place from 29 September to 1 October.\n\nStenson had been selected as captain of the European team for the matches in Rome, but when he joined LIV he was sacked and replaced by Luke Donald.\n\nThose players could now return to the fold, with the new enterprise pledging to establish a \"fair and objective process\" for players to re-apply for membership after the end of this season.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nThe latest event in LIV's 2023 season was played at Donald Trump's course in Sterling, Virginia.\n\nThe former US president said on social media: \"Great news from LIV Golf. A big, beautiful and glamorous deal for the wonderful world of golf. Congrats to all.\"\n\nSix-time major winner Phil Mickelson, one of the first big names to switch from the PGA Tour to LIV, added: \"Awesome day today.\"\n\nAmerican golfer Michael Kim said: \"The hell is going on? Very curious how many people knew this deal was happening. About 5-7 people? Player run organisation right?\"\n• None Why is Saudi Arabia's involvement in sport controversial?\n\n'Not likely to sit easily with the PIF's critics' - analysis\n\nThis is a stunning development that has taken the golf world by complete surprise. The PGA and DP World Tours were sworn enemies of the LIV circuit, which had poached some of their best players.\n\nThey viewed Greg Norman's breakaway tour as an existential threat and entered into bitter and expensive legal action. But this was becoming increasingly uncomfortable for LIV's Saudi Arabian backers, who faced the prospect of being interrogated under oath during the discovery process.\n\nThe PGA Tour were also looking at huge costs to finance a string of $20m (£16.1m) tournaments introduced to counter their new opposition and had already dipped into their reserves.\n\nFor both sides there was a significant peace dividend in a sport that could ill afford to be split in the first place. It is an extraordinary climbdown for the PGA and DP World Tours to acknowledge LIV as being \"positively transformative for golf\".\n\nNevertheless, this deal appears to signal Saudi Arabia's massive wealth as a unifying force for the men's professional game. That is not likely to sit easily with critics who have regarded the PIF's involvement with LIV as nothing more than sportswashing for a kingdom whose human rights record is often questioned.\n\nHow this will transform the game remains to be seen, but all sides will be happy the threat of legal action has gone away. LIV players also now have a pathway back into a more unified game.\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild\n• None How to get cheap flight tickets: Martin Lewis gives us his top tips...", "Prince Harry has been facing a cross-examination in the High Court in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nHe believes journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People exploited a security gap to access his voicemails and hear messages left by friends and family.\n\nAs he entered the witness box, Harry's 55-page witness statement was published, detailing the times when he says journalists at the newspaper publisher used unlawful methods to gather information to generate stories about him, including phone hacking. MGN denies phone hacking in this case.\n\nHere are some key extracts from his statement which he is being challenged on in court by barristers on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\n\"In my experience as a member of the Royal Family, each of us gets cast into a specific role by the tabloid press.\n\n\"You start off as a blank canvas while they work out what kind of person you are and what kind of problems and temptations you might have.\n\n\"They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the 'spare' to the 'heir'.\n\n\"You're then either the 'playboy prince', the 'failure', the 'dropout' or, in my case, the 'thicko', the 'cheat', the 'underage drinker', the 'irresponsible drug taker', the list goes on.\n\n\"As a teenager and in my early 20s, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well 'do the crime'.\n\n\"It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers.\n\n\"Looking back, such behaviour on their part is utterly vile.\"\n\nPrince Harry says journalists would blag information about his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy's flights to the UK to see him. The couple were in an on-off, sometimes long-distance, relationship for six years from 2004.\n\n\"I walked into the [airport] arrivals hall with a baseball cap on and immediately spotted five separate paparazzi sitting on benches with cameras in bags, their hands inside rucksacks and everyone else looking at me,\" says the prince.\n\n\"I remember that someone was videoing me with one of those tiny little cameras between their legs.\n\n\"I recall thinking how on earth did they know I was going to be there, but now it's obvious.\n\n\"Here were five big, burly and dodgy looking men, with their hands in their pockets or in rucksacks and satchels in a busy public place.\n\n\"My security and I simply couldn't know whether they were reaching for a camera or drawing some kind of weapon.\"\n\nChelsy Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010\n\nHe adds: \"I always felt the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers.\n\n\"Whenever I got into a relationship, they were very keen to report the details but would then, very quickly, seek to try and break it up by putting as much strain on it and creating as much distrust as humanly possible.\n\n\"The twisted objective is still pursued to this day even though I'm now married.\"\n\n\"Tabloids would routinely publish articles about me that were often wrong but interspersed with snippets of truth.\n\n\"This created an alternative and distorted version of me to the general public - the people I had to serve and interact with as a member of the Royal Family - to the point where any one of the thousands of people that I met or was introduced to on any given day, could easily have gone: 'You know what, you're an idiot. I've read all the stories about you and now I'm going to stab you.\"\n\nPrince Harry on a walkabout in Edinburgh with his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2018\n\nPrince Harry says royal aides gave him his first phone when he went to Eton College, a boarding school in Windsor - and it became crucial to his daily life.\n\n\"As I was very heavily involved with various commitments, I would constantly be leaving and receiving voicemails, as text messaging was much less common back then,\" he says.\n\n\"It was my main means of communicating with my family [including my mother who I was obviously extremely close] ... my girlfriend at the time, my friends, members of the Royal Household and those I was working with.\n\n\"My voicemails would include incredibly private and sensitive information about my relationships, my operational security and that of my family [and in later years] my work both in the Army and as a senior member of the Royal Family.\"\n\nHe says knowing MGN journalists were listening in to private and sensitive voicemails suggests they could have heard \"anything and everything\".\n\nThis created huge stress, presented security concerns and created a \"huge amount of paranoia\" and suspicion in his relationships, he says.\n\n\"I felt I couldn't trust anybody, which was an awful feeling for me, especially at such a young age.\"\n\nThe King accompanied Prince Harry on his first day at Eton College in Berkshire\n\nPrince Harry says numerous papers had reported a rumour that his biological father was James Hewitt - a man his mother had a relationship with after he was born.\n\nAt the time, he says, he wasn't aware of the timeline. Aged 18 and having lost his mother six years earlier, he says such stories felt were \"hurtful, mean and cruel\".\n\n\"I was always left questioning the motives. Were the newspapers keen to put doubt into the minds of the public so I might be ousted from the Royal Family?\"\n\nJames Hewitt, a former cavalry officer, had a five-year affair with Princess Diana\n\nA 2003 article by The People detailed a disagreement between Prince Harry and his brother, the Prince of Wales, over a potential meeting with their mother's former butler, Paul Burrell. He says the pair had strong feelings about Mr Burrell's indiscretion after he sold their mother's possessions and conducted interviews about her.\n\n\"We firmly believed that she would have expected some privacy in death, especially from someone she had trusted,\" he says.\n\nWilliam had wanted to set up a meeting with him - Harry was firmly against it, having made up his mind about Mr Burrell.\n\nThe article said he believed him to be a \"two-faced shit\", a phrase he believes could have been lifted from a voicemail message.\n\nPaul Burrell said Princess Diana called him her rock\n\nBreaking with the convention that royals never interfere with politics, Prince Harry attacks Rishi Sunak's government in his statement.\n\n\"Our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government - both of which I believe are at rock bottom.\n\n\"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo.\"\n\nPrince Harry says he is determined to see this action through to the end because he is convinced unlawful information gathering was known about by those at the top.\n\n\"The fact that it was not just the journalists who were carrying out the unlawful activity, but also those in power who were turning a blind eye to it so as to ensure that it would continue unabated - and who then tried to cover it up when the game was up - is appalling.\n\n\"The fact they're all ganging up to protect each other is the most disturbing part of all, especially as they're the mothership of online trolling.\n\n\"Trolls react and mobilise to stories they create. People have died as a result and people will continue to kill themselves by suicide when they can't see any other way out.\n\n\"How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness.\"", "Denise Gossett, her son Roman, her daughter Sabrina and Sabrina's daughter Morgana were all killed in the fire\n\nA jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man accused of causing a fire in which a family of four died in County Fermanagh.\n\nThe fire happened at their rented home in Molly Road near Derrylin on 27 February 2018.\n\nDaniel Sebastian Allen, 32, denies each of their murders and one count of arson endangering life.\n\nThe court was told that Mr Allen, whose address was given as Maghaberry Prison, accepted the manslaughter of Denise and Sabrina Gossett.\n\nHe claim their deaths were due to \"a suicide pact\".\n\nDaniel Allen, pictured at a previous court appearance, denies four counts of murder\n\nThe judge outlined the circumstances of the case to the jury.\n\nHe said the emergency services were called to a fire in a cottage near Derrylin.\n\nWhen they arrived Mr Allen was standing outside and four bodies were discovered inside.\n\nThe prosecution case is that Mr Allen is responsible for all four murders and the arson.\n\nHe denies the four murders and claims he did not play any part in the deaths of Roman and Morgana.\n\nThe judge said that if there was a suicide pact with the eldest two then it would be open to the jury to return verdicts of manslaughter rather than murder in those two cases.\n\nThe jury of seven men and five women were told to return to court on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe trial at Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Craigavon, is expected to last three to four weeks.", "Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta, pictured two months before the robbery, were in their home at the time of the incident\n\nA man has been charged in connection with an armed robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish.\n\nMr Cavendish and his wife Peta's home in the Ongar area of Essex was broken into on 27 November 2021.\n\nDuring the incident, Mr Cavendish was seriously assaulted and violently threatened in front of his family. A Louis Vuitton suitcase and two watches were stolen.\n\nJo Jobson has been charged with two counts of robbery.\n\nThe 26-year-old, of no fixed abode, has also been charged with two counts of attempted grievous bodily harm relating to a separate incident in July 2022.\n\nHe is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court.\n\nEssex Police said it still wanted to talk to George Goddard in connection with the robbery at Mark Cavendish's house\n\nMr Jobson was one of two men Essex Police wanted to speak to as part of its investigation.\n\nThe force said efforts to trace George Goddard continued, and described him as being from Loughton in Essex and having \"connections across east London\".\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Lewisham in south-east London, and Ali Sesay, 28, of Rainham in Kent, were jailed in relation to the robbery at Mr Cavendish's home in February.\n\nHenry, who was found guilty of two counts of robbery, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sesay, who had admitted the charges, was jailed for 12 years.\n\nAli Sesay (left), 28, of Kent, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the robbery and Romario Henry, 31, of south-east London, was given 15 years\n\nMr Cavendish, the Manxman who jointly holds the record for most stage wins in the Tour de France, was recovering from broken ribs sustained in a cycling crash at the time of the incident.\n\nTwo Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000, were among the items taken in the raid.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Horse racing was introduced to Singapore in 1842\n\nThe more than 180-year-long history of horse racing in Singapore is set to draw to a close.\n\nIt has been announced that the small Southeast Asian nation's only racecourse - Singapore Turf Club - will hold its final meeting next year.\n\nThe country's government will take back the 120-hectare site, which will be used for public and private housing.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, who was an avid racegoer and racehorse breeder, has an event named after her at the course.\n\nHer late Majesty presented the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Cup during a visit to Singapore in 1972. She attended the feature race a second time in 2006.\n\n\"Horse racing has a long and distinguished history in Singapore,\" the Singapore Turf Club said in a statement late on Monday.\n\n\"With races continuing until the 100th Grand Singapore Gold Cup on 5 October 2024, the Club will continue to ensure the sportsmanship, safety and integrity of every race,\" it added.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II visited the Singapore Turf Club in 1972 and 2006\n\nThe sport was introduced to Singapore in 1842, when Scottish merchant William Henry Macleod Read and several other enthusiasts founded the Singapore Sporting Club.\n\nThey transformed a patch of semi-swampland in Farrer Park in central Singapore into a racecourse. In 1924, the site was renamed as the Singapore Turf Club.\n\nHorse racing proved to be popular not only with Europeans, with meetings also attracting wealthy Malay and Chinese racegoers.\n\nIn 1933, as horse racing's popularity increased on the island, the course was moved to a larger location at Bukit Timah in western Singapore.\n\nIn March 2000, the Singapore Turf Club moved to its current location at Kranji, in the north of the island. The S$500m ($370.9m; £298m) racecourse has a five-storey grandstand, with capacity for 30,000 spectators.\n\nHowever, the Singapore Turf Club has seen attendance decline over the past decade.\n\nThe country's government said the land would be redeveloped for public and private housing to meet \"future land use needs\".\n\n\"Singapore is a city-state with limited land. The government continually reviews its land use plans to meet today's needs while ensuring there is sufficient land for future generations,\" it added.\n\nThe Ministry of National Development also said it would explore other uses for the land, including leisure and recreation facilities.", "Capaldi was scheduled to play concerts in Glasgow, Dublin, London and Norway\n\nLewis Capaldi has cancelled a series of upcoming gigs to \"rest and recover\" over concerns about his health.\n\nThe Scottish singer said he was struggling \"mentally and physically\" and wanted to be at his best and return to the stage at Glastonbury on 24 June.\n\nCapaldi, 26, had been scheduled to play concerts in Glasgow, Dublin, London and Norway over the coming weeks.\n\nIn an Instagram post, he said he needed a break from touring in order to be \"Lewis from Glasgow for a bit\".\n\nCapaldi's recent second album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, became the fastest-selling of the year, with more than 95,000 sales in the seven days after its release.\n\nCapaldi said: \"It's been such an incredible time leading into this new album, and seeing all the support from everyone has been beyond I could have ever dreamed of.\n\n\"That said, the last few months have been full on both mentally and physically, I haven't been home properly since Christmas and at the moment I am struggling to get to grips with it all.\n\n\"I need to take a moment to rest and recover, to be at my best and ready for Glastonbury, and all of the other incredible shows coming up so that I'm able to continue doing what I love for a long time to come.\"\n\nCapaldi said he was \"extremely sorry for the impact\" of the cancellations on fans who had booked travel and accommodation for the gigs.\n\nAppearing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee last month, Capaldi told crowds he was living his childhood dream.\n\nHe said: \"Its an honour to get to be up here and do this for and to headline a festival still is mental to me.\"\n\nCapaldi's first album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, sold more than any other in the UK in 2019 and also went on to be the biggest seller of 2020.", "Microsoft will pay $20m (£16m) to US federal regulators after it was found to have illegally collected data on children who had started Xbox accounts.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with the company on Monday, which also includes increased protections for child gamers.\n\nAmong other violations, the FTC found that Microsoft failed to inform parents about its data collection policies.\n\nIt follows a similar action against Amazon last week over its Echo devices.\n\nThe FTC said Microsoft violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by not properly getting parental consent and by retaining personal data on children under 13 for longer than necessary for accounts created before 2021.\n\nThe law requires online services and websites directed towards children to obtain a parent's consent and to inform the parent about personal data being collected about their child.\n\nXbox users must create an account to use certain services. Information such as full name, email address and date of birth are collected as part of the set up.\n\nNot until after obtaining personal information, such as the child's phone number, did Microsoft ask for a parent to provide permission.\n\nFrom 2015 to 2020 Microsoft retained data \"sometimes for years\" from the account set up, even when a parent failed to complete the process, the FTC said in a statement.\n\nThe company also failed to inform parents about all the data it was collecting, including the user's profile picture and that data was being distributed to third parties.\n\n\"Regrettably, we did not meet customer expectations and are committed to complying with the order to continue improving upon our safety measures,\" Microsoft's Dave McCarthy, CVP of Xbox Player Services, wrote in an Xbox blog post.\n\n\"We believe that we can and should do more, and we'll remain steadfast in our commitment to safety, privacy, and security for our community.\"\n\nAs part of the settlement, Microsoft must also institute new safety protections for children. That includes maintaining a system to delete all personal data after two weeks if no parental consent is obtained.\n\nThe order must be approved by a federal judge before it can go into effect.\n\nLast week, Amazon agreed to pay $25m after the FTC found that it had retained sensitive data, including voice recordings of children, for years.\n\nAmazon's doorbell camera unit Ring also agreed to pay out $5.8m after giving employees unrestricted access to customers' data.", "Apple has said it will no longer automatically change one of the most common swear words to 'ducking'.\n\nThe autocorrect feature, which has long frustrated users, will soon be able to use AI to detect when you really mean to use that expletive.\n\n\"In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,\" said software boss Craig Federighi.\n\nHe announced the development at Apple's developers' conference in California.\n\niPhone users have often complained about how autocorrect forces them to rewrite their own messages - with the term \"damn you autocorrect\" becoming an acronym, a meme, an Instagram account and even a song.\n\nThe changes to the function will happen thanks to the use of a transformer model, which learns context by tracking relationships in data, like the words in this sentence, using mathematical techniques.\n\nInitially flagged in a 2017 paper from Google, transformers are some of the most powerful classes of AI models, and autosuggest - or predictive text - systems are beginning to become more mainstream.\n\nThe autocorrect change will be part of the iOS 17 operating system upgrades which are expected to be available as a public beta in July, with the general release in September.\n\nIt should mean that iPadOS 17 also carries the new function.\n\nElsewhere at the developers' conference, Apple unveiled an augmented reality headset, Apple Vision Pro which will retail at $3,499 (£2,849).\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said the new headset \"seamlessly blends the real world and the virtual world\".\n\nIt will be available early next year in the US and in other countries later in 2024.\n\nOn Monday, Apple's market valuation reached just under $3 trillion - a new company record.\n\nHave you sent any funny or unfortunate autocorrect texts? What happened next? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukraine's military has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in the Moscow-seized region of Kherson in the south of the country.\n\nPresident Zelensky shared a video of the damaged Kakhovka dam on his Telegram page.\n\nRead more on this story.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Kathleen Folbigg’s first statement after release from prison\n\nAn Australian woman convicted of killing her four infant children says a decision to pardon her after 20 years is \"a victory for science\" and \"truth\".\n\nKathleen Folbigg was released from prison on Monday after an inquiry upheld new evidence which cast \"reasonable doubt\" on her convictions.\n\nOriginally accused of smothering her children, the evidence suggested they died due to rare genetic abnormalities.\n\nThe 55-year-old said she was \"humbled\" and \"grateful\" to be free.\n\n\"For the past 20 years I have been in prison, I have forever, and will always, think of my children [and] grieve for my children,\" she said in a video statement.\n\nMs Folbigg also thanked her friends and supporters, who in recent years waged a campaign for her case to be reviewed.\n\n\"I would not have survived this whole ordeal without them,\" she said.\n\nMs Folbigg was met at the prison gates by long-time friend Tracy Chapman, who said she spent her first day of freedom enjoying simple pleasures.\n\nThese included a comfortable bed, pizza and garlic bread, and a Kahlua and coke, Ms Chapman told reporters, adding that Ms Folbigg was \"in awe\" of modern technology such as smartphones.\n\n\"There's no hate in Kath's heart. She just wants to live a life she missed for the last 20 years and move on,\" she said.\n\nMs Folbigg would now seek to have her convictions quashed in the Court of Criminal Appeal, lawyer Rhanee Rego said.\n\n\"If Australia really wants to make some good from a tragic story, they'll seriously consider reviewing the system of post-conviction review,\" she said, adding that it had taken too long for Ms Folbigg's case to be scrutinized.\n\nMs Folbigg, who always maintained her innocence, made two unsuccessful appeals against her conviction and an earlier inquiry upheld the guilty verdict.\n\nBut on Monday the New South Wales (NSW) attorney general said Ms Folbigg had been granted the unconditional pardon due to another recent inquiry into her case.\n\nThat inquiry, led by retired judge Tom Bathurst, heard all four children could have died from natural causes.\n\nA team of immunologists found that Ms Folbigg's daughters, Sarah and Laura, shared a genetic mutation - called CALM2 G114R - that can cause sudden cardiac death.\n\nThe heart condition, known as calmodulinopathy, is so rare that only 134 known cases have been detected worldwide.\n\nEvidence was also uncovered that her sons possessed a different genetic mutation, linked to sudden-onset epilepsy in mice. The inquiry heard Patrick had epileptic seizures in theffington months before his death.\n\nIt also heard that the diary entries from Ms Folbigg used in her original trial should not have been accepted as admissions of guilt.\n\nHer ex-husband, Craig Folbigg, had contacted police after reading diary entries, which prosecutors later argued implied she had harmed the children.\n\nHe maintains she is guilty, and his lawyer said news of her release had \"increased the pain and suffering his client had endured for two decades\".\n\nMs Folbigg could eventually claim a substantial compensation payment from the state if her convictions are overturned.\n\nIf her appeal succeeds she could take then legal action against the NSW government, or seek a settlement payment from them.", "Mr Yousaf said he would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead without glass\n\nHumza Yousaf has said it is \"very difficult\" to see a future for Scotland's deposit return scheme if glass is not allowed to be included.\n\nThe first minister's deadline for UK ministers to remove the condition on its scheme for recycling cans and bottles is due to expire later.\n\nHe set the deadline in a letter to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday.\n\nBut Circularity Scotland, the firm set up to run the scheme, has said it should still go ahead without glass.\n\nLast week, the UK government approved a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act for the deposit scheme, but stipulated glass could not be part of it.\n\nCircularity Scotland's programme director, Donald McCalman told the BBC \"we absolutely believe the scheme is viable to launch\" with aluminium and plastic containers only.\n\nMr McCalman said that if it was not delivered in Scotland it could make drinks producers think twice about backing a later UK-wide scheme.\n\nThe first minister said no final decision would be made until his cabinet met on Tuesday.\n\nMr Yousaf said he \"would struggle to see how the scheme could go ahead if it doesn't include glass\".\n\nSpeaking to a Scottish business forum event, he said he was \"annoyed as well as upset\" that the scheme had become a point of disagreement between the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nAnd he told BBC Scotland he had yet to receive \"even an acknowledgement\" of his letter to Mr Sunak.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to include glass bottles in its plans\n\nOn Sunday, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack insisted the exclusion of glass remained a condition of their support.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the scheme had been \"sabotaged by the UK government.\"\n\nHe said: \"The first minister will be hoping Rishi Sunak can bring some pressure to bear on Alister Jack to see some sense.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think people are bemused at why the UK government is taking this approach.\n\n\"We know action has to be taken. It reduces by around a third the effectiveness of the scheme if you take out glass, so let's just get some common sense on the table.\"\n\nMr Brown accused the Scottish secretary of \"scandalous\" mis-representation for stating that the scheme would not be recycling glass, but crushing it and using it as aggregate for filling roads.\n\nCircularity Scotland said a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass would rise to 95% once the scheme was launched.\n\nIf it goes live as planned in March 2024, the deposit return scheme would see a 20p charge placed on drinks containers which would be refunded to consumers upon their return in a bid to increase recycling levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In an interview on the BBC's The Sunday Show, Mr Jack strongly defended the UK government's position\n\nThe UK government has said deposit return schemes should be consistent across the UK.\n\nMr Jack said he had received more than 1,000 letters of concern from businesses about the Scottish DRS.\n\nHe said: \"It's those concerns that we've taken into account when we've come to our conclusion because we believe the deposit charge should be the same and reciprocated across the UK.\n\n\"If I get off the train in Carlisle and buy some recyclable material and it's 10p in Carlisle and 20p in Dumfries, I double my money. That makes no sense.\"\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Mr Yousaf cited concerns raised by C&C Group - one of the country's biggest brewers and the company behind Tennent's Lager.\n\nIn correspondence Mr Jack received from the firm, seen by the BBC, the company said it had been \"misrepresented\" in passages from the letter that appeared in the media.\n\nC&C added it was \"actively seeking and supports a UK-wide scheme introduced at the same time across the four UK nations\".\n\nKeith Brown denied any knowledge of C&C's letter being leaked to the media.\n\nScottish Greens environment spokesman Mark Ruskell said on Monday that the DRS was now \"on the brink\" and there needed to be negotiation around the detail of the conditions set down by the UK government.\n\nHe said: \"If the UK government continues to require the exclusion of glass, then clearly that will have an economic impact on the viability of the scheme.\n\n\"It will also have a very damaging impact on the environmental benefits of the scheme as well.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden said the Scottish government had \"made a dog's dinner of DRS from day one by refusing to heed the warnings of businesses and recklessly ploughing ahead with an unworkable scheme\".", "Prince Harry came to court on Tuesday morning with a simple mission: The onus was on him to prove his case.\n\nBut where is the smoking gun? Where is the repentant tabloid reporter admitting he targeted him?\n\nThe Mirror Group today repeatedly argued that stories had come from a variety of legitimate sources, and sought to expose the Duke's theories as wild.\n\nBut, the publisher also knows the Duke's case benefits from the fact that it has admitted large-scale unlawful information gathering in the past.\n\nSo Prince Harry has been repeatedly pointing out compelling similarities to the earlier cases which his lawyers want the judge to note: The same mystery missed calls or voice messages, the same journalists making the same payments to private investigators.\n\nTomorrow we get into the final batch of stories, many of which will continue to touch on the intrusion he says so damaged his life and those around him.", "Andrew Tate is being investigated by Romanian authorities\n\nA British woman says Andrew Tate choked her until she lost consciousness while they were having sex, and then subjected her to threatening behaviour.\n\nThe woman, who was 20 at the time, says she first met the controversial social media influencer in August 2014.\n\nShe says consensual sex turned violent when Mr Tate choked her and when she woke up, he was still having sex with her, adding: \"I didn't consent to it\".\n\nMr Tate said he \"vehemently denies\" the allegations against him.\n\nA spokesman said Mr Tate does not condone violence of any kind towards women, and that all sexual acts he had taken part in had been consensual.\n\nEvie - not her real name - told BBC Newsnight she first met Mr Tate in a bar in Luton, before he was an influencer with millions of followers. She says he was working as a club doorman and she was a student.\n\nShe says she had consensual sex with Mr Tate before meeting him again at her flat later in 2014, in late November or early December. It was then a consensual sexual encounter became violent, she says.\n\nShe says Mr Tate \"put his hand on my throat and strangled me\". Evie says when she came round \"it was a bit confusing at first\", saying the influencer was \"still having sex with me.\"\n\nEvie, now aged 30, claims Mr Tate also subjected her to violent threats, including threatening to kill her, until he left the following morning.\n\n\"He kept saying: 'I own you, you belong to me',\" she says. \"All throughout the night he was being fairly aggressive and saying horrible things.\" The next day, Evie says the white part of one of her eyes had completely turned red.\n\nEvie did not report the alleged incident to police at the time.\n\nAsked by the BBC why she did not go to the police to report a rape, Evie said she did not realise she had been the victim of an alleged crime.\n\nShe added: \"I think I knew what had happened I didn't consent to. But I didn't see it as rape or sexual assault because this was 10 years ago.\"\n\nShe says it wasn't until about six years later when she described the alleged incident to her friends that she began to think she had been sexually assaulted.\n\nThree people who know Evie - and say they remember her describing what had happened - have told her lawyers they are prepared to give evidence in court to that effect.\n\nShe says she wants to share her experience to raise awareness about Mr Tate and get justice.\n\n\"Hopefully it can teach women what [consent] looks like and encourage more women to come forward with stories,\" she added.\n\nEvie is the latest British woman to join a planned lawsuit against Mr Tate. Together with three others, they are pursuing civil claims for damages.\n\nThe women, all in their late 20s and early 30s, allege they were victims of sexual violence by Mr Tate between 2013 and 2016, when he was living in the UK.\n\nAddressing the former kick boxer, Evie added: \"You're going to be held accountable for what you've done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News last week, Mr Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nHe also dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nHe was first arrested, together with his brother, Tristan, at their Bucharest home, in Romania, in December 2022. The pair were later moved from custody to house arrest following a ruling by a Romanian judge.\n\nProsecutors are investigating the brothers for crimes of suspected human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. No charges have so far been brought against them. They deny those allegations.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Tate told the BBC: \"Andrew strongly encourages women who have experienced assault, in any form, to report it to the relevant authorities.\n\n\"He is saddened that a few opportunistic women who he has allegedly spent time with nearly a decade ago have decided to try and take advantage of his current situation. We will not be commenting any further on anyone's alleged intention to pursue legal action unless such action is submitted to the authorities.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.", "Denise Gossett, her son Roman, her daughter Sabrina and her granddaughter Morgana\n\nAbout 100 people have attended a service for a family killed in a house fire in County Fermanagh in February.\n\nThey were Denise Gossett, her 16-year-old son Roman Gosset, her 19-year-old daughter Sabrina Gosset and Sabrina's 15-month-old baby girl, Morgana Quinn.\n\nFlowers and teddy bears have also been left near their gutted bungalow on Molly Road, Derrylin.\n\nPolice renewed their appeal to anyone who was in contact with the family before their deaths to come forward.\n\nThe family were killed in a house fire on their Derrylin home on 27 February\n\nWednesday's interdenominational service was held at Derrylin's Church of Ireland Parish Church.\n\nDenise Gossett's older daughter, Samantha, travelled from England to attend and was accompanied by her husband.\n\nThe Reverend Alastair Donaldson conveyed thanks on their behalf to the community for the support offered.\n\nFather Gerard Alwill said the incident had shocked the village.\n\n\"The events of that Tuesday morning in late February brought a huge sense of shock to everyone in our community,\" the priest said.\n\n\"The loss of so many lives across three generations of the one family left us stunned and bewildered.\"\n\nPrayers were also said for those who had tried to rescue the family and the emergency services who attended the scene.\n\nA church bulletin said the service would mark \"the recent tragedy in our parish\"\n\nOn Monday, Enniskillen Magistrates' Court was told the four victims' remains have been formally identified and post-mortem examinations have been completed.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been charged with their murders and he remains in custody.\n\nMembers of the family used different names and the PSNI said Denise Gosset was also known as Crystal while Sabrina Gosset was also known as Elektra.\n\nRenewing the appeal for information, Det Insp Peter McKenna asked for \"anyone who was in contact with Denise, Sabrina or Roman in the weeks leading up to their murders to get in touch with detectives\".\n\n\"I would also like to hear from anyone who was in the area of Molly Road between the hours of midnight on Monday, 26 February through to 07.20 GMT on Tuesday, 28 February.\n\n\"Any information, no matter how trivial it may seem, could prove to be vital to this investigation,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nLondon Irish have been suspended from the Premiership after missing a deadline to pay players and staff.\n\nThe club, who were given until Tuesday to complete a takeover or risk being suspended, will not be allowed to play in any league next season.\n\nA US consortium had been trying to buy Irish, who finished fifth in the Premiership during 2022-23.\n\nA statement from governing body the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said the takeover had not materialised.\n\nDespite plans announced in 2021 to expand its top division to 14 teams, English rugby faces the prospect of a 10-team Premiership next season after the earlier demise of Worcester Warriors and Wasps.\n\nThat outcome was discussed by clubs midway through last season, according to Leicester Tigers chief executive Andrea Pinchen.\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney said: \"This is desperately sad news for everyone who is part of the London Irish community as well as all the players, fans, staff and volunteers for whom this club means so much.\"\n\nSweeney said the RFU had worked with the club, Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players' Association to \"do the utmost to secure the long-term viability of the club\".\n\n\"To achieve this, it was imperative that transparent evidence of funding be presented to us,\" he added.\n\n\"This would have been either by the proposed buyers undertaking to provide all required working capital to meet the club's obligations for at least the 2023-24 season; or the club providing evidence that it would continue to fund its operations throughout the 2023-24 season.\n\n\"Despite requesting this evidence over the last six months and receiving assurances on multiple occasions that we would receive proof of ownership and funds; it has not materialised.\"\n\nHow did London Irish get here?\n\nWhile Irish enjoyed a solid season on the pitch - finishing fifth and reaching the final of the Premiership Rugby Cup for the second successive season - there has been talk for some time of issues off the field.\n\nThe club are understood to have debts of about £30m, and owner Mick Crossan has been in protracted talks to sell to a US-based consortium.\n\nCrossan had to step in to pay overdue wages in April, just minutes before players were preparing to submit breach-of-contract notices.\n\nThe club were initially given a deadline of 30 May to complete the takeover or risk being suspended from the Premiership next season, but the RFU pushed that cut-off point back to 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as either completing the takeover or proving they had funding to operate for next season, Irish had to ensure all staff and players were paid in full for May, after just 50% of the money had been forthcoming.\n\nThe club were last week served a winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs over an unpaid tax bill.\n\nPetitions were filed at the High Court on Friday against London Irish Holdings Limited and London Irish Rugby Football Ground Limited.\n\nThe winding-up petition came on the day the UK government appointed independent advisers to support the sport in the wake of the demise of Worcester and Wasps in the early months of last season.\n\nBoth clubs went into administration within the space of 21 days and ended up being expelled from the Premiership.\n\nWasps' demise as a leading domestic club was confirmed last month when the RFU withdrew a conditional offer of a place in the Championship for next season.\n\nThe two-time European and six-times English champions will instead play \"at the bottom of the pyramid\" after being demoted to the 10th tier of English rugby.\n\nWasps went into administration in October, the month after Worcester suffered the same fate.\n\nThey were taken over in December but lost their proposed place in the second tier after the new owners could not provide evidence they were able to pay creditors and other financial commitments.\n\nWorcester, meanwhile, were suspended by the RFU after entering administration in September, just months after winning the Premiership Rugby Cup - their first major trophy.\n\nPlayers and staff had their contracts terminated after part of the club was wound up over an unpaid £6m tax bill.\n\nWorcester were formally taken over by the Atlas Group in May after initially agreeing a deal with administrators Begbies Traynor in February.\n\nWhen, and in which division, the club will return to playing is unknown.\n\nAfter being named as preferred bidders following the collapse of the club, Atlas - led by ex-Warriors chief executive Jim O'Toole - withdrew from negotiations with the RFU over playing in next season's Championship and backtracked on unpopular plans to rebrand as Sixways Rugby.\n\nAlthough proposals remain to merge with the first team of local tier-five side Stourbridge, nothing official has been announced, with Atlas warned by the RFU any move to \"buy their way\" back higher up the league, rather than start at the bottom in tier 10, would not be allowed.\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild\n• None How to get cheap flight tickets: Martin Lewis gives us his top tips...", "The footage shows young people fighting on the platform after the man (centre, in white t-shirt) was kicked on the head\n\nPolice are appealing for information about social media footage showing a man being kicked repeatedly in the head by a gang at Ballymoney train station.\n\nUp to 20 people were reported to have been fighting on a train. It spilled out on to a platform on Saturday.\n\nA glass bottle was smashed and a 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital. Several others were treated for their injuries at the station.\n\nPolice are still working to establish a motive for the attack.\n\nOfficers were sent to the station to bring the disturbance, which happened on Saturday evening, under control. They cautioned three people.\n\nSgt Jamie Halligan said: \"We are aware of the concern surrounding this incident and the footage circulating on social media.\n\n\"Our inquiries are ongoing and we would appeal for the public's assistance.\"\n\nPublic transport provider Translink said CCTV footage had been provided to the police to help them with the investigation.\n\n\"The safety of our passengers and staff is our top priority and we strongly condemn this serious incident,\" said Translink.\n\n\"We would appeal to anyone with further information to contact the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We operate a reward scheme of up to £1,000 for anyone who provides evidence which leads to a successful conviction.\"\n\nTranslink has given CCTV footage of the incident to the police\n\nPoliticians on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council also condemned the violence.\n\nAlliance Party councillor Lee Kane said he was aware of videos and photographs circulating that show \"horrific scenes\" at the train station.\n\n\"This behaviour has absolutely no place in our town, our community or our society,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the victim of the attack, Translink staff who had to deal with a very difficult situation and others on the train who were witness to this violent act.\"\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Darryl Wilson described it as \"gruesome assault\" and said he was \"beyond horrified at the footage\".\n\n\"Those responsible must be brought to justice and feel the full force of the law,\" he said.", "The streets in the district of Neftehavan have been flooded by rising water after a major dam in Ukraine was breached. More than 17,000 people are being evacuated.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky says the dam was \"mined by Russian occupiers\" who \"blew it up\" however Moscow denies this and has claimed Ukraine damaged the dam in a \"deliberate act of sabotage\".", "Tetyana Kraynyuk's son Sasha was one of 13 children taken by Russian troops from his special educational needs school last September\n\nWhen 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately.\n\nThe teenager sitting at a school desk has the Z-mark of Russia's war emblazoned on his right sleeve, coloured in the red, white and blue of the Russian flag.\n\nBut the boy's name is Artem, and he's Ukrainian.\n\nSasha and Artem were among 13 children taken from their own school in Kupyansk, north-eastern Ukraine last September by armed Russian soldiers in balaclavas. Ushered onto a bus with shouts of \"Quickly!\", they then disappeared for weeks without trace.\n\nWhen the children, who all have special educational needs, were finally allowed to call home, it was from much deeper inside Russian-occupied territory.\n\nTo get them back, their relatives were forced to make gruelling journeys across thousands of miles into the country that has declared war on them. Only eight of the children have been returned from Perevalsk so far and Artem was one of the last, collected by his mother just this spring.\n\nWhen I reached the school's director by phone, she saw no problem with dressing Ukrainian children in the uniform of an invading army.\n\n\"So what?\" Tatyana Semyonova retorted. \"What can I do? What's it to do with me?\"\n\nI countered that the Z symbolised the war against the children's own country. \"So what?\" the director demanded again. \"What kind of a question is that? No-one is forcing them.\"\n\nSarah Rainsford explores allegations of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and meets some of the relatives who have been fighting to get them back\n\nScrolling through the website of Perevalsk Special School, I found the photograph of Artem on public display. It was taken in February 2023, a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a class to mark Defenders of the Fatherland Day.\n\nThe lesson was dedicated to learning \"gratitude and respect\" for Russian soldiers.\n\nI tried to question the director some more, but the phone line abruptly cut out.\n\nUkrainian children were taken from their homes, dressed in Russian military uniforms, and taught the Russian curriculum\n\nFor Ukraine, the story of Kupyansk Special School is part of a growing body of evidence against Vladimir Putin as a suspected war criminal.\n\nThe International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russia's president in March, accusing him and his children's ombudswoman, Maria Lvova-Belova, of the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.\n\nRussia insists that its motives are purely humanitarian, evacuating children to protect them from danger. Senior officials scorn the ICC indictment, even threatening retaliatory arrests against its representatives.\n\nThe ICC hasn't made the details of its case public and nor has Ukraine, but officials in Kyiv maintain that more than 19,000 children have been taken from occupied areas since the full-scale invasion. We understand that many have come from care homes and residential schools.\n\nWe investigated several cases, including another Special School in Oleshki, southern Ukraine, and found that each time Russian officials made minimal or zero effort to locate any relatives. Ukrainian children were frequently told there was nothing in their country to return to and were subjected, to varying degrees, to a \"patriotic\" Russian education.\n\nThe details and the nuance vary, as there is chaos in war as well as ill intention.\n\nBut there is also a clear, overriding ideology: Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, openly proclaims everything in occupied areas of Ukraine as its own, including the children.\n\nSasha (right) told the BBC it was too distressing to talk about his separation from his mother\n\nSasha is a tall, shy boy with a long fringe that he likes to smooth into place like any self-conscious teenager.\n\nForced separation from family would be upsetting for any child. For someone vulnerable, like Sasha, it was deeply unsettling. His mother, Tetyana Kraynyuk, tells me he's still withdrawn, months after they were reunited. The 15-year-old even has grey hairs from all the stress.\n\nThey're now living in the western German town of Dinklage as refugees where, after school, Sasha mainly lies on his bed playing on his phone. But he remembers very clearly the moment when Russian soldiers took him away.\n\n\"If I'm honest, it was scary,\" Sasha admits in his quiet voice, rubbing his hands back and forth on his thighs. \"I didn't know where they would take us.\"\n\nWhen I ask about missing his mum he pauses for a long time, says it's too distressing for him to remember and asks if he can change the subject.\n\nBefore the war, Sasha went to Kupyansk Special School in north-eastern Ukraine. He would board during the week, returning home at weekends, but when Russia invaded in February 2022, much of the Kharkiv region was overrun immediately and Tetyana kept her son home for safety.\n\nAs September approached, the occupying administration began insisting that all children return to school, now with the Russian curriculum. There was the same push in all occupied areas, often using teachers from Russia to replace those locals who refused to collaborate.\n\nTetyana was reluctant to send Sasha back, but the teenager was bored stiff after seven months in their village, so on 3 September she dropped him off in Kupyansk.\n\nDays later, Ukrainian forces launched their lightning operation to re-take the region.\n\n\"We heard the noise from miles away. The booms. Then the helicopters and the firing. It was a terrible din. Then I saw the tanks and the Ukrainian flag,\" Tetyana remembers of the counter-offensive.\n\nUnable to contact her son, she was frantic.\n\n\"When we reached the school only the caretaker was left. He said the kids had been taken and no-one knew where,\" Tetyana says.\n\nTetyana went weeks not knowing what had become of her son\n\nA teacher saw what happened that day, when as many as 10 heavily armed Russian soldiers \"swooped into\" the school.\n\n\"They didn't care about taking any documents or contacting parents,\" Mykola Sezonov told me, when we met in Kyiv. \"They just shoved the kids in a bus with some refugees and left.\"\n\nI put to him Russia's defence in such cases: that it was removing children from danger.\n\n\"I lived under Russian occupation, and I know the difference between what they say and what I see for myself through the window,\" was the teacher's response.\n\nFor six weeks, there was no word of the children.\n\n\"I cried every day, called the hotline and told them I'd lost my son and wrote to the police. We tried to find him through volunteers,\" Tetyana says.\n\nIt was a full month before a friend spotted a video on social media, dated early September 2022. It reported that 13 children from Kupyansk Special School had been moved east to a similar facility in Svatove, still under Russian control.\n\nAnother fortnight after that, Tetyana's phone beeped with a message: Sasha was at a Special School in Perevalsk, she read, and his mum could call to talk to him.\n\n\"He was happy to hear me, of course. But he really cried,\" Tetyana recalls of the moment they spoke. \"They'd told him his home was destroyed and he'd been afraid we were gone too.\"\n\nCommunication with areas of heavy fighting is not easy, but the Kupyansk children passed through three institutions before anyone tried to reach any relatives.\n\n\"There was nothing. Only from Perevalsk, and even then not immediately. I think they did it on purpose,\" says Tetyana.\n\nShe would have to return Sasha home in person, but the direct route crossed the frontline. Instead, Tetyana travelled from Ukraine through Poland and the Baltics before crossing on foot into Russia, where the FSB Security Service then interrogated her about Ukrainian troop movements.\n\n\"It was pitch dark, there were checkpoints, men in balaclavas with guns. I was so scared I took pills to calm me,\" Tetyana remembers of the rest of the trip into occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nShe had another reason to be frightened. By then, Russia was openly taking children from care homes in occupied areas and placing them with Russian families.\n\nRussia has changed its laws to make it easier to adopt Ukrainian children\n\nThe Telegram channel of the children's ombudswoman is full of videos showing her escorting groups of Ukrainian children across the border, where bewildered youngsters are greeted by Russian foster parents with gifts and hugs as the cameras roll.\n\nWe sent two requests for an interview with Maria Lvova-Belova and got no reply. But the message from all her posts is clear: Russia is the good guy in what it still refuses to call a war. Russia claims it's saving Ukrainian children.\n\nBy the time Sasha disappeared from Kupyansk, Vladimir Putin had already amended the law to make it easier for Ukrainian children to get Russian citizenship and be adopted. In late September he announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Luhansk where Sasha was then located.\n\nIn public and online, Maria Lvova-Belova referred repeatedly to children in those regions as \"ours\". She adopted a teenager from Mariupol herself, posting pictures with his new Russian passport.\n\n\"I was afraid that if they took Sasha into Russia, I would never find him. I was afraid he'd be put in a foster family, just like that,\" Tetyana tells me.\n\n\"What have our children got to do with anything? Why did they do this to us? Maybe it's just to cause us pain, like with everything else.\"\n\nSo when she finally reached Perevalsk, after an exhausting five days on the road, Tetyana hugged her son to her tightly. Sasha didn't say a word. He was crying from happiness.\n\nThe BBC joined Alla Yatsenyuk and a group of other mothers as they made their way to Russia to save their children\n\nFor six months, Alla Yatsenyuk felt like part of herself was missing.\n\nWhen she packed her 13-year-old son off to camp in Crimea, she thought Danylo was heading for two weeks by the sea. It was meant to be a break from the stress of war: other kids from Kherson had been to camp and come back, so Alla wasn't worried.\n\nBesides, their city had been occupied since the very start of the invasion and by October 2022, she'd begun to think Russia would control Kherson for good, though she didn't want that.\n\nBut days after Alla waved Danylo off, the officials responsible for him announced that the children would not return. The Russians had begun retreating from Kherson. If the children's parents wanted them back, they were told they should come for them.\n\nAlla pleaded with the regional administration but was told they would only return the children \"when Kherson is Russian again.\" She called the Prosecutor's Office in Crimea, but they insisted she had to get Danylo herself.\n\nAnd so for weeks, Alla reassured her son that she was coming for him even as she tried to work out how.\n\nThe distance from Kherson to Yevpatoria is short but the direct route was closed by the Russian military and a far longer route through Zaporizhzhia was too dangerous. \"There was a less than 5% chance of getting there and back safely,\" Alla was told.\n\nShe would also need around $1,500 (£1,200) for a driver, as well as her first ever passport and all the paperwork the Russians were demanding to prove her link to her son.\n\nAlla was already starting to despair when Danylo said officials at his camp were threatening to place the children in care if their parents didn't hurry.\n\n\"The kids have been calling us in panic, saying that they don't want to end up in homes,\" Alla fretted. \"And Russia is huge! Where would we look for them then?\"\n\nWe met as she finally set off in a train carriage full of other mums and grandmothers on the most anxious journey of their lives.\n\nThe women were being helped by a group called Save Ukraine, which stepped in when it emerged that hundreds of Ukrainian children might be stranded. Some were from broken homes or less well-off families, struggling with the logistics and funding for the trip. Other parents had been hesitant about returning their children to cities under heavy Russian fire.\n\n\"I still have this gnawing worry something will go wrong. It will be there until I have my son next to me. Then I can breathe again.\"\n\nOver a week later, Alla was one of the last to cross the border back from Belarus, dragging a big suitcase into Ukraine past concrete boulders and anti-tank defences. Danylo, with his dimpled grin, was finally safe beside her.\n\nDanylo (centre) as he crossed the border from Belarus into Ukraine after months away from home\n\nThere had been moments when she thought she wouldn't make it.\n\nSave Ukraine had instructed the women to turn off their phones when they entered Russia, so the details of their traumatic journey only began spilling out between welcome hugs.\n\n\"They kept us like cattle, separate from anyone else. Fourteen hours with no water, no food, nothing,\" Alla described being held by Russia's FSB security service at a Moscow airport. \"They kept asking us what military equipment we had seen, they checked our phones a million times and asked about all our relatives.\"\n\nThe women continued the 24-hour drive south to Crimea. As they drew close, they stopped for a break and 64-year-old Olha Kutova took a couple of steps, collapsed, and died by the side of the road. After days cramped-up in a minibus, in a state of stress, her heart had given out. Now Save Ukraine is trying to return Olha's ashes, as well as her granddaughter.\n\nEventually, Alla made it to the camp.\n\n\"The moment I saw my child running towards me in tears, it made up for everything we'd been through,\" Alla described her reunion, at last, with Danylo.\n\nHer son tells me it was \"just brilliant!\"\n\nSave Ukraine returned 31 children that day and several confirmed that camp staff had threatened to place them in care, which had scared them.\n\nThey talked of being taken on excursions at the start, and being reasonably fed and clothed. But on Russian-controlled territory they were treated and taught as Russians. When inspectors visited from Moscow, the Ukrainians had to line up beside the Russian flag and sing the Russian anthem.\n\nIn October, the occupying administration of Kherson posted a video on Telegram of such a moment. Russia's anthem booms through loudspeakers and the tricolour flag is unfurled. But look a little closer and it's clear that none of the children's lips are moving.\n\nThe camera operator suddenly realises that one girl has her hands over her ears to block out the sound. Too late, they zoom away from her.\n\nA few weeks after her return, I call Alla in Kherson.\n\n\"Everything was finally over, once we made it here,\" she tells me cheerfully down the line.\n\nDanylo has finally been reunited with his mother Alla\n\nShe admits there was some bad feeling towards the summer-camp mums at the start, seen as \"collaborators\" for sending their children to Russian-run facilities in the first place. But Alla feels that has faded.\n\nIn her own family, Danylo is back to bickering with his younger brother and studying online, in Ukrainian. But with no internet at home, she has to dash into the city centre to hunt for wi-fi to download his schoolwork, and that's risky.\n\nSince the Russians were forced into retreat, abandoning Kherson, they've been taking their revenge on the city from across the river.\n\n\"They're shelling from morning to night,\" Alla confirms, though she says their house is relatively far from Russian positions. They have no plans to leave.\n\nDanylo is still in a group chat with the other children from camp and most who remained have now been collected. But he says five were transferred to a care home somewhere in Russia.\n\nAlla forwards me a photograph of their room with rows of single beds, a cheap rug and a spider plant. Where the left-behind children go from there isn't clear.\n\nIn rural Germany, Sasha has had time to settle into life and another new school, but Tetyana is finding the adjustment a little harder.\n\nIn their flat, over a pile of sprat sandwiches, she explains that her eldest son is still in Ukraine expecting to be called up to fight any day. Tetyana wants nothing more than to go home to her husband, too, but Kupyansk is under heavy fire again.\n\nIn late April, Russian missiles destroyed the local history museum, killing two women. Before that, Sasha's old school in the city was badly damaged when missiles landed nearby.\n\nEight months after he and the other children were taken from there, five still remain in Russian-controlled territory. The director of the school where they ended up, Tatyana Semyonova, confirmed that when I called.\n\nThe BBC's Sarah Rainsford managed to speak to the director of the school over the phone\n\nI was surprised she agreed to talk at all, but the Russian number I used must have confused her. So did my questions.\n\nThe director claimed no-one had been in touch about the five, which we know isn't true, and insisted she would hand them \"straight back\" as soon as their legal guardians come to collect them.\n\nBut that's unlikely: various sources tell me the children are treated as \"social orphans\", whose parents are alive but who are not allowed or able to care for them.\n\nWhen I asked why Russia could take children without permission from Ukraine, but demanded a pile of paperwork to return them, Tatyana Semyonova was short.\n\n\"What's that got to do with me? I didn't bring them here.\"\n\nOn the website of her school in Perevalsk, I see a large picture of the director staring out, bleached hair sitting on a strip of dark brown like she's wearing a helmet. The photographs of Artem, Sasha's classmate, with a Z mark, are publicly displayed on the same site.\n\nSasha has identified two more of the missing children from Kupyansk among the school pictures: 12-year-olds Sofiya and Mikita are dressed up and standing in line to celebrate the Russian military.\n\nI ask Sasha's mother what she makes of the arrest warrant issued for Russia's president.\n\n\"Not only Putin, but all his main people - all the commanders - should be on trial for what they did to the kids,\" Tetyana Kraynyuk answers, without hesitating.\n\n\"What right did they have [to take the children]? How were we supposed to get them back? They just didn't care.\"", "Prince Harry has become the most senior royal in modern times to step into the witness box as he sues Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over phone hacking and illegal intrusion into his private life.\n\nThe publisher admits phone hacking once took place at its newspapers - but denies that the Duke of Sussex was ever a target.\n\nThe judge will examine in minute detail 33 sample stories published in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People - part of 147 that the Duke of Sussex's lawyers say were the fruits of illegal newsgathering between 1996 and 2010.\n\nMGN has told the court that in the vast majority of the sample, it can show the story was legitimately sourced. The judge will decide who is right.\n\nIn the case of five stories however, it's not giving a full alternative account and is telling Prince Harry to \"prove it\".\n\nAlso, MGN has admitted that on one occasion in 2004 a private investigator was instructed to unlawfully gather information relating to Prince Harry's conduct in a nightclub - but this incident isn't part of his claim for breach of privacy.\n\nHere's a summary of some of the stories that Harry alleges were obtained through hacking:\n\nThe earliest allegation to be tested dates from 16 September 1996 when the Daily Mirror reported \"DIANA SO SAD ON HARRY'S BIG DAY\". The story revealed the prince's mother had spent just 20 minutes with him on his 12th birthday, which came weeks after his parents' divorce. The Mirror said the young prince was \"believed to be taking the royal divorce badly\".\n\nThere are other stories about the child prince. The Mirror reported in 2000 that the now 15-year-old Harry was going rock climbing rather than attending a gala pageant for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday.\n\nMGN is expected to argue both these examples that the information was in the public domain already, not reasonably private or simply trivial. Team Harry will say stories like these can be linked to records of payments to private investigators.\n\nPrince Harry says unlawful intrusion followed him, quite literally, on to the playing fields of Eton.\n\nTwo stories discuss sporting injuries. The Daily Mirror reported in November 2000 Harry had had \"a minor operation\" on his arm after a football-related injury at Eton, detailing specific advice doctors are said to have given the 16-year-old.\n\nEleven months later, the Sunday Mirror reported in a story headlined \"RUGGER OFF, HARRY\" that doctors had ordered the prince to stop playing rugby because of a back injury.\n\nBoth of these stories include what appears to be private medical information - but according to trial documents, MGN's team look set to argue the details were either provided by the Palace or essentially public knowledge at the school.\n\nPrince Harry with his family on his brother's first day at Eton in 1995\n\nSome of the 33 stories cover internal family affairs. One, from The People in December 2003, details a row between Harry and Prince William over the behaviour of their late mother's former butler Paul Burrell.\n\nAt the time, the former member of the household was being accused of selling stories about Princess Diana. The People suggested the brothers had fallen out over what to do, with Harry \"furious\" with William. Harry is quoted as having privately branded the butler a \"two-faced s***\".\n\nCourt documents show the Mirror Group is expected to say that while some of the information was private, there was an overwhelming public interest in reporting it - and their source was legitimate.\n\nPrince Harry with his brother in 2002\n\nSome of the trial's focus will be on the well-known stories about drinking and drugs - something Prince Harry has since talked about in his autobiography.\n\nOne Sunday Mirror story, from January 2002, reported the then Prince Charles had \"given Harry a stern warning\" for smoking cannabis.\n\nThe next day, the Daily Mirror's headline read \"HARRY'S COCAINE ECSTASY AND GHB PARTIES\", before going on to reveal the 17-year-old prince was \"very fed up and very cheesed off\" that he was now being chaperoned. MGN is expected to defend its reporting saying the stories were in the public interest and that they had \"a variety of legitimate routes and sources\" for them.\n\nThe largest chunk of articles concern the prince's love life.\n\n\"HARRY IS A CHELSY FAN\", reported the Daily Mirror on 29 November 2004, detailing the \"besotted\" 20-year-old's \"love-nest\" in Argentina with a \"pretty blonde\".\n\nFrom then on, his relationship with Chelsy Davy filled pages of newsprint across the global tabloid media. The Duke says part of the reason they ultimately split was that she was being hounded by the press and photographers.\n\nPrince Harry's team says that on many occasions paparazzi photographers could only have found out where he and Ms Davy were with the help of illegal intrusion - they say there is circumstantial evidence that both their mobile phones were targeted by journalists listening to their voice messages.\n\nOn one occasion, says the Duke, the newspaper's journalists booked into the same remote Mozambique hotel as him and Ms Davy, despite the trip being a total secret.\n\nOther articles report the pair phoning each other during rocky periods in their relationship.\n\nOne April 2009 article in The People - \"CHELSY'S NEW FELLA\" - reported Prince Harry had been \"bombarding the stunning blonde with calls in a bid to win her back\".\n\nAnthony Harwood, the journalist who wrote the original Mirror story about the Argentinian hideaway, has already told the trial he got that story legitimately with the help of a local freelancer who had spoken to eyewitnesses.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "A ban was imposed earlier this month and action can be taken over misuse from Monday\n\nA water company that has imposed a hosepipe ban has blamed people working from home for the shortage.\n\nSouth East Water, which supplies more than two million homes and businesses in Sussex and Kent, will implement the restriction from Monday.\n\nChief Executive David Hinton said demand had swelled by about 20% over a short period of time which had put the existing infrastructure under stress.\n\nCustomers said the real problem was the company's lack of investment.\n\nA petition has been set up calling for a change of ownership at South East Water.\n\nMeanwhile, a Kent MP has defended gardeners who want to water plants in the Garden of England.\n\nIn a letter to customers, Mr Hinton described people working from home as a \"key factor\" behind the ban.\n\nHe wrote: \"Over the past three years the way in which drinking water is being used across the south east has changed considerably.\n\n\"The rise of working from home has increased drinking water demand in commuter towns by around 20% over a very short period, testing our existing infrastructure.\"\n\nMr Hinton also blamed low rainfall since April and a recent spell of hot weather, which he said led to a spike in demand for drinking water.\n\n\"Our reservoir and aquifer stocks of raw water, essential to our water supply but not ready to be used, are in a good position. However, demand for treated mains water, which takes time to process and deliver, was greater than we could meet.\n\n\"Over the past week we have needed to find water to supply the equivalent of an additional four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne, every day.\"\n\nArtist Jutta Wrobel, 61, of Wadhurst, Sussex, who started an online petition demanding a change of ownership of South East Water after having no supply for five days, accused Mr Hinton of \"victim-blaming\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a deflection from the real issue which is how to stop South East Water paying away all our money in dividends rather than reinvesting in our water infrastructure, which is a public utility and a human right.\n\n\"We are supposed to be the Garden of England. We are not supposed to have hosepipe bans for two years running.\"\n\nBottled water stations were set up in Haywards Heath, Crawley, Crowborough and Pembury\n\nIn recent weeks, schools were closed, customers relied on bottled water stations and people were told to use water only for drinking, cooking and hygiene in order to allow the network to refill.\n\nIt led to panic among the elderly, vulnerable people struggling to open heavy bottles, and the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells, Greg Clark, describing the situation as \"woeful\".\n\nIt also followed supply issues in December when pipes burst due to snow and ice, leaving thousands of households without a supply.\n\nMr Clark, who met water company chiefs to demand compensation and plans to tackle the problem, said South East Water planned to expand capacity at water treatment plants but said he viewed it with a \"sceptical eye\".\n\nHe asked: \"They said they couldn't process enough water to get to people and what they are proposing is to expand capacity, but why hasn't it been done before?\"\n\nHe said he went to Bewl Water reservoir on Saturday morning and saw it was \"pretty much full to the brim\".\n\nAnd he said: \"To ban people from watering their gardens or using hosepipes during what's a brief period of hot weather - it hasn't been very long-lasting and not nearly as hot as in July last year - is not acceptable.\n\n\"The implication that somehow watering plants is disreputable in a county known as the Garden of England - that's not something we are prepared to accept. It's metered. People when they use it pay for every unit they use.\"\n\nThe MP also rejected the idea that home-working was to blame. He said: \"The idea that this uniquely affects South East Water and not other companies operating around London I think is ridiculous to suggest.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Belle Moore first started vaping while studying at college\n\nA woman who became addicted to vaping at the age of 16 has warned of the struggles she has faced, claiming e-cigarettes have ruined her life.\n\nBelle Moore, now 19, from Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, said she felt she has \"no control over it\" and now needed to vape every couple of hours.\n\n\"I start to get shaky and it's almost all I can think of,\" she said.\n\nShe has revealed her story after public health bosses called on the government to do more to stop young people vaping.\n\nBelle said she started vaping through peer-pressure from some of her college friends, and used to hide it from her mother.\n\nShe has since made two unsuccessful attempts to stop vaping but says she has now also become addicted to cigarettes.\n\n\"It honestly feels like I have no control over it,\" she told BBC North West Tonight.\n\nShe said she was able to buy vapes at 16 at a shop, which did not ask for identification even though she looked much younger than her age.\n\nIt is currently illegal to sell vapes to anyone under the age of 18.\n\nBelle Moore, pictured at the age of 16, said she saw children in school uniform buying vapes\n\nEarlier this week, nine directors of public health operating in Cheshire and Merseyside called for a country-wide ban on sales of disposable vapes.\n\nThey said the rapid rise of vaping was alarming and the vapes may have unidentified ingredients that could be harmful.\n\nThe government previously said it was taking \"bold action\" to crack down on youth vaping.\n\nBelle's mother Lynne said she hated watching her daughter vape, adding something \"drastic\" needed to be done.\n\n\"I hate that she feels the need to do it, because she's addicted and it's so hard for her to stop,\" she said.\n\n\"I hate that she's got to use her hard-earned cash to buy vapes and cigarettes because of the addiction.\"\n\nBelle said she had decided to share her story try to stop others from facing the same difficulties.\n\n\"I know how much of a struggle it's been for me,\" she said.\n\n\"I have started coughing more and getting sick easier.\n\n\"If there's anyone who is thinking of starting vaping or starting smoking, if they're younger don't because it can honestly just ruin your life.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Sara-Jo Croker has been living in hotels, with her children, for five months\n\nThe Home Office has been accused of leaving people homeless by outbidding councils in a fierce competition for scarce accommodation.\n\nSeveral local authorities have lost out to a Home Office contractor finding properties to house asylum seekers.\n\nThe number of people in England having to stay in temporary accommodation is near record levels.\n\nAsked on three separate occasions why its contractor paid more than councils can, the Home Office refused to say.\n\nThe problem is most acute in London, where councils estimate about 166,000 people live in temporary accommodation - more than the total population of Oxford.\n\nThere was no suggestion the Home Office or asylum seekers created the problem, said Labour's Georgia Gould, who chairs London Councils, which represents all local authorities in the city. But she said \"the Home Office is contributing to homelessness\".\n\nThe councils, spending £52m a month on temporary accommodation, had agreed \"that we will not outbid each other, because we want to protect taxpayers' money\", Ms Gould said.\n\n\"We would like the same partnership with the Home Office,\" she added.\n\nThe competition for properties is due to:\n\nThe Home Office is under pressure to cut the approximately £7m a day it is paying to house asylum seekers in hotels.\n\nAnd its contractor, Clearsprings, is trying to find accommodation for them. There is no suggestion Clearsprings is doing anything illegal.\n\nKieron Williams, leader of Southwark council, in south London, said its homelessness staff \"have never seen anything like this - we have all but run out of options\" to find temporary accommodation in the borough.\n\n\"This is being made worse by the Home Office procuring properties in our borough which we desperately need,\" he said.\n\nEnfield, Westminster and Luton councils have also raised concerns about the impact of the Home Office contractor.\n\nCapital Letters chief executive Sue Coulson says: \"There's just not enough accommodation\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Capital Letters, a property agency owned by 10 London boroughs, could find only 18 homes within the limits of what the government will pay in housing benefit, in the entire city.\n\nThe rates, known as the local housing allowance, vary by location and property size and have been frozen for three years, despite soaring rents.\n\nCouncils across England are calling for an emergency increase because of the lack of affordable accommodation.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of families are having to spend weeks in hotels.\n\nEnfield council, in north London, is spending £850,000 a month housing residents in hotels.\n\nDozens of families are living in a local Travelodge and last month some had to be temporarily moved out of London altogether, as other guests had booked to stay there during Beyoncé's concerts.\n\nIn east London, nursery worker Sara-Jo Croker, 38, and her two children have been living in hotels for five months, after being evicted from their home when their landlord decided to sell it.\n\n\"It's been horrendous,\" she said. \"My whole life is in this room.\"\n\nHer current abode, a Premier Inn, is \"good\" but she has been moved to three other hotels, one of which was \"filthy\".\n\n\"I wouldn't even put a dog in it,\" Ms Croker said.\n\nShe has no cooking facilities, must make a 90-minute round trip to take her daughter to school each day and has to pay a £7 daily charge to park at the hotel.\n\nMs Croker said she was spending about £1,500 a month on fuel, parking and eating out each night and had had to give up all the furniture she had been keeping in storage as she could not afford the £250 monthly fee.\n\n\"I can't afford to pay for that,\" she said. \"I don't know how long I'm going to be in here.\"\n\nClearsprings is not just willing to pay higher rents. It also pays higher incentive payments to encourage landlords to cooperate.\n\n\"We understand they are giving about £2,000 per property more than we can offer,\" Capital Letters chief executive Sue Coulson said.\n\n\"That's a lot of money to a landlord, almost a month's rent.\"\n\nThe Home Office did not explain why its contractor is allowed to pay more than councils, who have a statutory duty to provide those families they accept are homeless with accommodation.\n\nHowever, in a statement it said: \"We have a statutory duty to ensure asylum seekers have access to safe and secure accommodation.\n\n\"If there is a need for Clearsprings to go above the local housing allowance, for example to ensure we are complying with this duty, then we will let the local council know.\"", "Adam Chadwick was celebrating his daughter Ruby's third birthday on the day of the attack\n\nThe parents of a man gunned down in a doorstep attack 15 years ago have appealed for the \"little piece of evidence\" which could bring his killer to justice.\n\nDetectives believe the killing of Adam Chadwick in Leeds may have been a tragic case of mistaken identity.\n\nThe young father was shot by a masked gang after answering the door at his sister's home on 24 June 2008.\n\nHis family told the BBC: \"We are never, ever going to forget him.\"\n\nMr Chadwick's parents, Jackie and Martin, said they had not been able to rest as their son's killer had not been identified.\n\n\"The more time goes on, the more [angry] and frustrated you get because you just want to focus on his memory and not what happened and the people responsible to get justice for Adam,\" his mother said.\n\nJackie Chadwick said there were a lot of questions, \"but we don't know if we'll ever get the answers we want\"\n\nMr Chadwick, then aged 20, had been visiting his sister Gemma when a woman knocked on the door of the house in Clifton Mount, Harehills, asking for \"Michelle\".\n\nThe woman left but returned a short time later alongside three masked men who attempted to force their way into the property.\n\nMr Chadwick fought to repel them and was shot in the ensuing struggle.\n\nHe died in hospital two days later, leaving behind daughter Ruby whose third birthday the family had been celebrating on the day of the attack.\n\nMr Chadwick was shot as three masked men tried to force their way into his sister's house in Leeds\n\nDespite extensive appeals, including a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and a £12,000 reward, no-one has been charged with his murder.\n\nMrs Chadwick said: \"We just want justice for him. I don't want to be buried with my son, knowing I haven't got justice for him.\"\n\nHer husband added: \"Every year comes round and then goes, but you can sense something in the air, or I can, like butterflies in your stomach.\n\n\"It's that time of year again and you start thinking 'we still miss him'.\n\n\"We just want to remember him and what he did and how he was, but we have to keep the appeals going.\"\n\nAdam Chadwick's sister Gemma continues to be affected by her brother's killing\n\nThe family said knowing those responsible remained free had affected all of them.\n\nMr Chadwick's sister Gemma said: \"Normally you grieve for someone and then you have a funeral and each year you remember them for the good times.\n\n\"We can't do that as a family because instead it's appealing year after year, just trying to get some justice for him.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it remained committed to bringing those responsible for Mr Chadwick's death to justice.\n\nDet Supt Marc Bowes said: \"Adam Chadwick was a completely innocent victim who was shot and fatally wounded on the doorstep of his sister's home 15 years ago in what remains an utterly senseless act with no established motive.\"\n\nHe said despite the passing years it would \"never be too late\" for anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"It must still weigh heavily on their conscience despite the passage of time.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact West Yorkshire Police's major investigation review team.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ross Kemp had planned to film a television show that involved a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the OceanGate submersible - but it was cancelled over safety fears.\n\nThe actor, known for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, was going to visit the wreck in the sub last year.\n\nBut TV company Atlantic Productions deemed the Titan not \"fit for purpose\".\n\nOceanGate's Titan sub imploded, killing all five passengers, during a trip to the wreck this week.\n\nMr Kemp's agent at InterTalent, Prof Jonathan Shalit, said the production company had carried out checks on the OceanGate submersible, but had deemed it unsafe.\n\n\"They found other sub dives which have been safe and successful but, by that point, Ross was so busy with all his TV shows that he was unable to commit the time,\" he said.\n\n\"I am just relieved not to have had my post note in history as the agent who killed Ross Kemp.\"\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported Kemp had wanted to mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in 2022.\n\nKemp has previously taken part in Sky History programmes which involved him deep-sea diving, including Shipwreck Treasure Hunter and Deep Sea Treasure Hunter.\n\nThe US Coast Guard confirmed all five men on board OceanGate's Titan sub were instantly killed in a \"catastrophic implosion\" - a violent inwards collapse, and parts of the vessel were found near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe five people on board were the CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet and father and son, Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood.\n\nLeading deep-sea exploration specialist Rob McCallum told BBC News he had warned Mr Rush in 2018 that he was potentially putting his clients at risk, and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.\n\nIn a tense email exchange seen by the BBC, Mr Rush dismissed safety concerns about the Titan as \"baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone'\", and said he took them \"as a serious personal insult\".", "Voters on Saturday are faced with a choice between the same two leading presidential candidates as in 2018\n\nEarly results from Sierra Leone's presidential election have been branded \"daylight robbery\" by the main opposition challenger Samura Kamara.\n\nHe alleges that his electoral agents were not allowed to verify the ballot counting.\n\nWith the votes from 60% of the polling stations tallied, the electoral commission says that the incumbent Julius Maada Bio has a 56% share.\n\nHe has called on Sierra Leoneans to reject violence and \"keep the peace\".\n\nMr Kamara, of the All People's Congress (APC), is currently trailing on 42%. In order to win in the first round a candidate needs more than 55% of votes.\n\nMr Bio's success can likely be attributed to a series of strategic electoral alliances he made in the course of the campaign, including in opposition strongholds.\n\nBut European Union observers have criticised the electoral commission for a lack of transparency, and noted incidents of violence in some regions during the vote on Saturday.\n\nThe APC had previously made complaints about the conduct of the election and the electoral commission.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Kamara said live ammunition was fired into his party's headquarters as he held a news conference. A woman there was reportedly wounded and there are fears for her life.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Kamara's All People's Congress (APC) alleged that one of its supporters was shot dead by police, which the police have denied.\n\nSupporters of both main parties have been accused of attacking opponents.\n\nAccusations of election irregularities were also being thrown on Saturday, after Mr Kamara alleged ballot stuffing and voter suppression in some parts of the country.\n\nHowever, the electoral body had insisted, in a press conference, that it had mechanisms in place to ensure a fair vote. Local media reports that arrests were made.\n\nSaturday's vote saw a high turnout, with voters telling the BBC the process was smooth despite polling stations opening hours late in many areas.\n\nThe election took place against the background of a troubled economy, the rising cost of living, and concerns about national unity.\n\nThe voters were choosing a president, MPs and councillors in the West African country's fifth election since the civil war ended in 2002.\n\nThe 11-year conflict cost an estimated 50,000 lives, but since then the country has a tradition of largely peaceful, free and credible elections, according to Marcella Samba Sesay, chairperson of the NGO National Elections Watch.\n\nWith strong party loyalty among the 3.3 million registered voters, the campaigns have focused on shoring up their parties' bases rather than articulating and debating policy issues.\n\nHowever, voters have told the BBC they want to see concrete change in the country.\n\n\"I want a responsible government that will provide jobs, education, improve healthcare and also ensure food security. I expect the new president to work for the nation,\" Solomon Beckley from Freetown said.\n\nAdditional reporting from Azeezat Olaoluwa in Lagos and Natasha Booty in London", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nWarnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show.\n\nIn messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.\n\nMr Rush responded that he was \"tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation\".\n\nThe tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.\n\n\"I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic,\" he wrote to the OceanGate boss in March 2018. \"In your race to Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'\".\n\nIn the messages, Mr Rush, who was among five passengers who died when the Titan experienced what officials believe was a \"catastrophic implosion\" on Sunday, expresses frustration with the criticism of Titan's safety measures.\n\n\"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often,\" he wrote. \"I take this as a serious personal insult.\"\n\nMr McCallum told the BBC that he repeatedly urged the company to seek certification for the Titan before using it for commercial tours. The vessel was never certified or classed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rob McCallum tells the BBC the deep sea industry tried to halt Titan expeditions\n\n\"Until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations,\" he wrote in one email.\n\n\"I implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very, very conservative,\" he added. \"As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.\"\n\nIn his response a few days later, Mr Rush defended his business and his credentials.\n\nHe said OceanGate's \"engineering focused, innovative approach... flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation\".\n\nThroughout the exchange, Mr Rush defended his qualifications and questioned the existing framework around deep sea expeditions.\n\nHe said \"industry players\" were trying to stop \"new entrants from entering their small existing market\".\n\n\"I am well qualified to understand the risks and issues associated with subsea exploration in a new vehicle,\" he wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nMr McCallum then responded in stark terms, writing: \"It will be sea trials that determine whether the vehicle can handle what you intend to do with it so again; take care and keep safe.\"\n\n\"There is a lot more riding on this than Titan and the Titanic,\" he said.\n\nMr Rush founded OceanGate in 2009 and the company offered customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, including to the wreck of the Titanic, on board Titan for a price of $250,000 (£195,600).\n\nThe company has not commented on the email exchange.\n\nExperts have questioned the safety of Titan and how private sector deep-sea expeditions are regulated. Concerns have been raised over the Titan's experimental design and the carbon fibre material used to build it.\n\nMr McCallum was among more than three dozen industry leaders and experts who signed a 2018 letter to Mr Rush that warned OceanGate's approach could lead to \"catastrophic\" problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Businessman says he declined doomed trip on Titan\n\n\"The industry has been trying for several years to get Stockton Rush to halt his programme for two reasons,\" Mr McCallum, a specialist who runs his own ocean expedition company, told the BBC on Friday.\n\n\"One is that carbon fibre is not an acceptable material,\" he said. \"The other is that this was the only submersible in the world doing commercial work that was unclassed. It was not certified by an independent agency.\"\n\nSubs can be certified or \"classed\" by marine organisations - for example by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) or DNV (a global accreditation organisation based in Norway) or Lloyd's Register.\n\nThis essentially means that the vehicle must meet certain standards on aspects including stability, strength, safety and performance. But this process is not mandatory.\n\nIn a blog post in 2019, the company said the way it had been designed fell outside of the accepted system - but it \"does not mean that OceanGate does not meet standards where they apply.\"\n\n\"Stockton fancied himself as somewhat of a maverick entrepreneur,\" Mr McCallum said. \"He liked to think outside the box, didn't like to be penned in by rules. But there are rules - and then there are sound engineering principles and the laws of physics.\"\n\nMr McCallum maintains that nobody should have travelled in the Titan sub.\n\n\"If you steer away from sound engineering principles, which are all based on hard won experience, there is a price to pay, and it's a terrible price,\" he said. \"So it should never be allowed to happen again. It shouldn't have been allowed to happen this time.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ernest Moret was detained by police at London St Pancras International railway station\n\nA French publisher who was arrested using anti-terror laws as he arrived in London will face no further action, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nErnest Moret, 28, was searched under counter-terrorism legislation after travelling from Paris in April, bailed and later released under investigation.\n\nHis employer claimed he was stopped over his alleged involvement in French pension age protests.\n\nScotland Yard said it \"will continue to be as open as possible about our work\".\n\nCmdr Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said Mr Moret had been informed via his solicitors.\n\nHe said: \"We are aware that this police interaction generated a lot of commentary about our use of Schedule 7 powers, and whether it was necessary and proportionate in this case.\n\n\"The public would rightly expect that the use of Counter Terrorism powers is always carefully considered, and we have reflected on this particular interaction so we can identify any learning.\n\n\"Schedule 7 is a valuable power in protecting the borders of the UK and remains an important tool in our efforts to counter the terrorist threat and keep the public safe.\"\n\nSchedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 gives the police wide powers to search people at border crossings to check if they are involved in terrorism.\n\nThe police do not need any grounds to stop and search people at borders under these powers.\n\nMr Moret, who works at Paris-based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was detained after travelling on the Eurostar to St Pancras railway station to attend London Book Fair.\n\nEditions La Fabrique and Verso Books had described the detention as an \"outrageous and unjustifiable infringement\" of freedom of expression and said it was an \"abuse of anti-terrorism laws\".\n\nThey said officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France. The controversial pension changes were signed into law this week.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Andrew Butchart represented Team GB at the Rio and Tokyo Games\n\nA Team GB Olympic runner has broken the parkrun record which has stood for 11 years.\n\nThe previous best of 13 minutes 48 seconds was set in 2012 by Andy Baddeley in Bushy Park, London.\n\nButchart, who competed in the 5,000m at the 2016 and 2020 Games, finished 38 seconds ahead of Scottish 5k champion James Crowe.\n\nFellow runner Adrian Stott tweeted: \"See what happens when an Olympian ships up at Silverknowes in Edinburgh to run a 5k and there's 'Nae wind!'\"\n\nThe female UK record was set last December by Welsh athlete Melissa Courtney-Bryant at the Poole Parkrun in Dorset with a time of 15 minutes and 31 seconds.\n\nCourtney-Bryant, 29, won a bronze medal over 1500m at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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First Minister Humza Yousaf said the only route to independence was through \"lawful and democratic process\".\n\nHumza Yousaf has told a special SNP conference that greater support for Scottish independence must be built ahead of the next general election.\n\nHe said if the party won a majority of seats north of the border he would press the UK government for powers to hold a second referendum.\n\nScotland's first minister added the only route to independence was through \"lawful and democratic process\".\n\nBoth Labour and the Tories are opposed to further talks on another vote.\n\nBut Mr Yousaf told a convention in Dundee that his party would stand on the proposition that people could \"vote SNP for an independent Scotland\".\n\nHe later told BBC Scotland: \"We will put the simple proposition to the people in a general election because a referendum is being denied to us.\n\n\"If we win that general election we will then negotiate with the UK government of how we give it democratic effect.\n\n\"If it is a referendum or simply the general election that is of course for the UK government to determine because they have told us time and time again this is a voluntary union. If so then prove it.\"\n\nThe first minister said an election win would mean securing the most seats in Scotland - even if the party ends up with fewer than the 45 it currently holds.\n\nMr Yousaf also told the convention a summer campaign would focus on the \"opportunities of independence\" and announced a major march and rally would be held in Edinburgh on 2 September.\n\nThe convention was held at the same time as an independence rally in Stirling\n\nMr Yousaf's speech was interrupted by a protestor demanding a public inquiry into NHS Tayside about its disgraced former head of neurosurgery Sam Eljamel.\n\nThe SNP leader stopped his address and went to speak to the woman before returning to the stage after arranging to meet her later.\n\nSeveral other senior SNP politicians also addressed the convention on both the route to independence and its general election strategy.\n\nAs well as contributions from the floor it also featured \"interactive activist workshops\".\n\nEarlier, there was tributes to former SNP MP Winnie Ewing, an icon of the independence movement who died earlier this week at the age of 93.\n\nThe event will also be used to kickstart a summer programme of independence campaigning, which the party said would include leafleting, canvassing and regional assemblies.\n\nThere has been criticism from some within the SNP and wider Yes movement of the decision to only allow party members to attend the convention, which is being held at the same time as an All Under One Banner independence march in Stirling.\n\nFormer SNP leader Alex Salmond, who now heads the Alba Party, has been among those calling for a cross-party convention to be created that would include the SNP, Alba and other independence supporting parties and organisations.\n\nHe also wants an agreement that would see only one pro-independence candidate stand in each constituency at the general election - a proposal which seems unlikely to be accepted by the SNP.\n\nIn the heat and humidity of the hall, it sounded like Humza Yousaf was going for what's been called a \"de facto referendum\".\n\nThat was using a general election to begin negotiations on independence if won.\n\nIn the coolness of a briefing room, SNP insiders made clear it's not that - it's a nuanced approach.\n\nIn the the most basic way, it's about contesting the general election according to the rules of the game.\n\nSuccess is measured by seats won - whereas in a de facto referendum, success is measured by the popular vote\n\nIt's about saying to the UK government - prove that it's a voluntary union and if the SNP succeed then a referendum should be granted.\n\nThe ball is in their court, the SNP say.\n\nThis approach squares off difficulties - Mr Yousaf has commanded that marches are used to drum up support - that takes them away from the fringes.\n\nIt also neatly gets away from the need to get 50% of the vote - \"polls are tight\", Mr Yousaf noted.\n\nMembers I spoke to were enthused. That's the point - this is about injecting momentum back into the movement.\n\nDespite the widespread assumption that Brexit and Boris Johnson would be gifts for the independence movement, Nicola Sturgeon - who was recently described by Mr Yousaf as being Europe's most impressive politician - did not manage to consistently push support for leaving the UK above 50%.\n\nThe UK government repeatedly refused to give her permission to hold a referendum despite the SNP's electoral successes during Ms Sturgeon's eight years as first minister and party leader.\n\nThe Yes movement was dealt a further blow last November when the Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government did not have the powers to hold a vote without that permission being in place.\n\nMs Sturgeon's response to the court ruling was to propose treating next year's general election as a \"de facto referendum\".\n\nIf the SNP won more than 50% of the votes in the election it would regard it as an endorsement of independence, and the party would then attempt to open negotiations with the UK government.\n\nThe UK government would have been under no legal obligation to do so, however, and the plan was deeply unpopular among many SNP MPs, with Stewart MacDonald - previously seen as being one of Ms Sturgeon's staunchest allies - openly criticising it.\n\nMr Yousaf had previously distanced himself from a \"de facto referendum\" plan during the contest to succeed Ms Sturgeon as SNP leader and first minister earlier this year.\n\nWith polls suggesting support for the party has fallen in recent months his attempt to resurrect it will be seen as a big gamble.\n\nThe SNP leadership has also consistently ruled out holding a referendum that was not seen as being legally binding.\n\nMr Yousaf has previously said he wants to be the \"first activist\" as well as first minister\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said independence support is running at an average of 48% in recent polls - higher than support for the SNP itself.\n\nA Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times last weekend put the SNP at 34% for the next general election and suggested that the party could be on course to win fewer seats than Scottish Labour, a prospect that would have seemed almost unthinkable a year ago.\n\nThe past few months have seen both Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell being arrested and their home searched as part of an ongoing police probe into the SNP's funding and finances.\n\nBoth were later released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nThere has also been controversy over the Scottish government's handling of issues ranging from ferries and NHS waiting lists to gender reform and the deposit return scheme.\n\nFollowing Mr Yousaf's address Scottish Conservative constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said the first minister had \"decided to abandon the pretence he is governing for the whole country\".\n\nHe added: \"The latest push of his independence obsession appears to be an even more extreme version of Nicola Sturgeon's unpopular de facto referendum strategy.\n\n\"The SNP delegation that bothered to turn up to Dundee are speaking to themselves about their number one priority while people are struggling with the global cost-of-living crisis and our public services are under incredible pressure.\"\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray accused the first minister of \"clearly preparing for failure\" with his plans.\n\nHe said: \"We need a government focused on tackling the urgent challenges we face - from the cost of living crisis to the chaos in our NHS to a declining economy - but in the SNP we have a tired party rehashing the same old tired arguments.\n\n\"Today has laid bare just how bereft of fresh ideas the SNP truly is - even when it comes to their driving constitutional obsession.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"The SNP have put on an entire conference dedicated to demonstrating how tired, out of touch and bereft of ideas they are.\n\n\"Nobody believes Humza Yousaf's plan is going to lead to the break-up of the UK. It's a desperate ploy to appease a dwindling band of single-minded nationalist activists.\"", "In Washington, US officials have confirmed that Russian and American diplomats spoke directly on Saturday.\n\nThe US emphasised to Moscow that Washington was not involved in stoking up tensions between Wagner and the Kremlin, officials are saying.\n\n\"There were appropriate diplomat discussions that occurred over the weekend,\" said White House spokesman John Kirby without specifying at what level talks occurred.\n\nHe added Washington views the tensions with Wagner \"as internal Russian matters\" and has not taken a side.\n\nBiden remains focused on supporting Ukraine, rather than meddling in Russia, and spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, Kirby continued.\n\n\"We're not involved and have no intention of being involved,\" he said about the current situation in Russia.\n\n\"What we are involved with is supporting Ukraine.\"\n\nAt the Department of State, spokesman Matthew Miller said the communications involved the US ambassador to Russia as well as \"at other levels here in Washington\".\n\nTwo messages were sent, he said. The first was that the US expects Russia to protect US diplomatic personnel in Moscow and the second was to emphasise that \"this is an internal Russian affair, that in which the United States is not involved and will not be involved\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nStefanos Tsitsipas says comments he made towards Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon in 2022 have been \"misinterpreted\" after they were perceived as racist on social media.\n\nGreece's Tsitsipas said the Australian's approach to tennis was \"uneducated\" after he was knocked out in a fiery third-round clash.\n\nHe also said Kyrgios brought \"that NBA basketball attitude\" to tennis.\n\nHis remarks were shown in the new series of Netflix's Break Point.\n\nTsitsipas, the current world number five, said there had been \"an unfortunate misunderstanding that has a distorted picture of my intentions\".\n\n\"It has come to my attention that some individuals have misinterpreted my comments regarding Nick Kyrgios... insinuating racism where none exists,\" Tsitsipas, 24, wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"I want to emphasise that I harbour no prejudice towards anyone based on their background, ethnicity, or interests. I deeply regret if my words were misinterpreted or caused offence, as that was never my intention.\"\n\nHe added: \"My previous remarks regarding Nick Kyrgios were not meant to undermine his intelligence or abilities. Instead, I simply intended to express my perspective on certain aspects of his playing style, drawing comparisons to the passion and intensity often associated with basketball.\n\n\"It was an attempt to highlight the dynamic and captivating nature of his approach to the game, not a criticism of his character or capabilities.\"\n\nTsitsipas said he \"deeply regrets\" any hurt he may have caused and would be \"more mindful\" of his words and their impact in the future.\n\nKyrgios won the match 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-3 7-6 (9-7) en route to reaching his first Grand Slam final, which he lost to Novak Djokovic.\n\nIn an incident-packed encounter, Kyrgios called for Tsitsipas to be defaulted after he hit a ball into the crowd upon losing the second set, narrowly missing a spectator.\n\nThe Australian had received a warning for an obscenity by then, while Tsitsipas was given a point penalty for a second code violation as he responded to an underarm serve by hitting the ball away in frustration.\n\nAfter the match, Tsitsipas called Kyrgios a \"bully\" with \"an evil side\" while Kyrgios said Tsitsipas had \"serious issues\".\n\nResponding to Tsitsipas' statement on Saturday, Kyrgios said: \"It was a very heated battle. Sometimes as players we go into these press conferences without digesting the match. We've had some crazy battles and I know deep down you like my brand of tennis. We are all good.\"\n\nKyrgios had knee surgery in January and his presence at Wimbledon, which starts on 3 July, remains in doubt after he pulled out of the Mallorca Open on Saturday.\n\nHaving also withdrawn from the Halle Open in Germany last week, Kyrgios said in a video on Twitter he was \"super disappointed\" to be missing the Wimbledon warm-up event in Spain.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "From top left: Leonard Ward, Jerome Sheard, Carla McGuire and Michael McGuire (from bottom left) Paula Usherwood, Benjamin Taylor, Joseph Boscombe, Michael Mingoes and Joshua Agboola\n\nNine people have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a man who was stabbed in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nMichael Anton O'Connor was attacked outside a property in Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows, Nottingham, shortly after 22:20 GMT on 10 November 2021.\n\nThe 31-year-old was found collapsed on the pavement and died in hospital.\n\nThose responsible for his death have been sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court throughout the week.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said Mr O'Connor, who was also known as Anton, was stabbed to death in a pre-planned ambush by hired hit men.\n\nThe killing was over a row between rival drug gangs but Mr O'Connor was not the main target.\n\nHe was stabbed after being sent to broker a deal between the feuding gangs.\n\nPolice said Mr O'Connor was ambushed by a number of masked men\n\nFollowing a trial, nine defendants were found guilty of his murder on 12 June.\n\nThey have all since been sentenced.\n\nPolice said Ward was the head of The Meadows-based gang that ordered the killing.\n\nMother and son Carla and Michael McGuire were linked to the group and lived next to where Mr O'Connor was murdered.\n\nShe was accused of turning off CCTV at her property just before the attack was carried out.\n\nSheard, who is also her son, was Ward's right-hand man.\n\nMr O'Connor was attacked outside a property in Wilford Crescent West\n\nPolice said Taylor sent a team of dealers from Manchester to Nottingham to carry out the murder.\n\nBoscombe was part of the team along with Agboola and Mingoes.\n\nMingoes was believed to have dealt the fatal blow.\n\nUsherwood's role was setting up the ambush by meeting the intended target on the morning of the murder.\n\nPolice said it was \"a hugely complex investigation\" which saw 23 people arrested.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Routledge, who led the investigation for Nottinghamshire Police, said: \"Anton was asked to act as a peacemaker between two feuding groups - and it cost him his life.\n\n\"He was ambushed by a number of masked up men who were heavily armed.\n\n\"Anton was unarmed and his killing was therefore cowardly in the extreme.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mason Mount: Chelsea reject Manchester United's third bid of £55m for midfielder Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nMason Mount made his debut for Chelsea in 2019 Manchester United have had a third bid for Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount, worth about £55m, rejected. United had warned they would walk away from negotiations with the Blues if the offer was not accepted. Chelsea are thought to want at least £58m plus another £7m in possible add-ons for the England international. However, United feel that figure is excessive as Mount only has a year left on his contract and talks about an extension have stalled. United have previously had bids worth up to £40m and £50m for Mount rejected by their Premier League rivals. It is understood Chelsea have told United they are prepared to meet to resolve the matter.\n• None 'An exceptional player' - what would Mount bring to Man Utd? Red Devils boss Erik ten Hag wants Mount to be his first signing of the summer as he looks to strengthen his side following their qualification for next season's Champions League. Personal terms are not thought to be a problem and United are confident the player wants to make the move to Old Trafford. Mount, who has scored 33 goals in 195 appearances for Chelsea since making his debut in 2019, missed the end of the domestic season with injury as the Blues came 12th - their lowest finish for more than 25 years. He won the Champions League in 2021 with Chelsea and started their 1-0 win over Manchester City in the final. He has also won the Fifa Club World Cup and Uefa Super Cup with the Blues. The 24-year-old has been capped 36 times by England, scoring five goals, and was part of manager Gareth Southgate's squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Mount came through Chelsea's academy before joining Dutch side Vitesse on loan for the 2017-18 season, scoring nine goals in 29 Eredivisie appearances. The following campaign he was loaned to Derby County, scoring eight goals in 35 Championship games under manager Frank Lampard as the Rams suffered a 2-1 defeat by Aston Villa in the play-off final. Upon his return to Chelsea in 2019, Mount made his breakthrough under the newly appointed Lampard and became a key player at Stamford Bridge. Last month Chelsea appointed former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino as their new manager, replacing interim boss Lampard who took over after Graham Potter was sacked. The situation with Mason Mount has been bubbling for some time and now looks to be coming to an end. Chelsea want to keep Mount but his contract situation, the lack of agreement and Manchester United's long pursuit suggest this is only going to end one way. When Todd Boehly and the Clearlake group took over they made a point of not wanting to let players get into the last two years of their contracts. They had been stung the previous season when they lost Antonio Rudiger on a free to Real Madrid, which left them with a lot to do in the transfer market. Chelsea made two contract offers to Mount last year and the wages would have been comparable to other big-name players at Stamford Bridge. In an attempt to try to find a resolution, Chelsea even discussed with Mount's camp the possibility of extending his contract for a year, increasing his money and giving everyone more time to find a solution - but like the other two offers, it was rejected. The main issue with these negotiations is that Chelsea and the player have not been able to agree on wages.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "The singer started his set in full voice, but was largely unable to sing by the time he left the stage\n\nLewis Capaldi struggled to complete his Glastonbury set on Saturday evening, with vocal problems leaving him almost unable to sing his final songs.\n\nThe show was supposed to be a comeback, after Capaldi cancelled three weeks of shows to \"rest and recover\" amid concerns for his health.\n\nBut despite a warm reception from the crowd, his voice quickly faltered and he left the stage looking dejected.\n\n\"Glastonbury, I'm really sorry,\" he said. \"I'm a bit annoyed with myself.\"\n\nThe audience lent him their vocal support, willing him along and belting out the words. They wanted him to know it was OK, that they were there for him.\n\nIt was a wonderful, communal display of both the Glastonbury spirit, and the genuine public affection for Capaldi, who walked around the stage, singing when he could manage, and taking in the view.\n\nBy the end of the set, the star suggested he would need to take more time away from public life to recuperate.\n\n\"I feel like I'll be taking another wee break over the next couple of weeks. So you probably won't see much of me for the rest of the year, maybe even.\n\n\"But when I do come back and when I do see you, I hope you're still up for watching us.\"\n\nAs his band played Someone You Love, the singer largely stayed silent, with the crowd carrying him along on an affectionate wave of support,\n\n\"I genuinely dreamt of doing this,\" he said as he walked off. \"If I never get to do it again, this has been enough.\"\n\nThe singer has been remarkably brave in discussing his struggles with anxiety and the pressures of fame.\n\nLast year, he announced that he'd been given a diagnosis of Tourette's syndrome, and he recently appeared in a candid Netflix film documenting his mental health issues.\n\n\"When I have a panic attack, it feels like I'm going insane, completely disconnected from reality,\" he told the director, Joe Pearlman. \"I can't breathe. I can't feel my breath going in. I get dizzy. I feel like there's something happening to my head. I'm sweating.\n\n\"The big thing for me with it is, I'm always going to feel like this now, this is me.\"\n\nThe crowd took Capaldi's predicament to heart, and buoyed him along with a mass singalong\n\nAfter the release of his second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, earlier this year, he found that the pressures of touring and promotion were having an adverse effect.\n\nOn 5 June, he posted a statement on social media saying he was scrapping all of his tour dates in the run-up to Glastonbury to recuperate.\n\n\"The last few months have been full-on both mentally and physically,\" he wrote, \"I haven't been home properly since Christmas and at the moment I am struggling to get to grips with it all.\"\n\n\"I need to take a moment to rest and recover, to be at my best and ready for Glastonbury, and all of the other incredible shows coming up so that I'm able to continue doing what I love for a long time to come.\"\n\nHe was given a hero's welcome when he walked out onto Glastonbury's biggest stage, drawing a crowd to rival the one that watched Arctic Monkeys on Friday.\n\nAfter playing Forget Me and Forever (interrupted, unexpectedly, by a fly past from the Red Arrows), the audience started chanting, \"Ohhh, Lewis Capaldi\" to the tune of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.\n\n\"That's enough,\" he scolded. \"I don't need Jack White making money off this situation.\"\n\nBut as the chorus continued, he began to feign exasperation.\n\n\"All of you, I imagine, would make terrible lovers. You're so keen. Let me tease you a little bit, please.\"\n\nAnd tease he did, introducing Pointless with a bit of banter about how he'd written the song with \"fellow ginger\" Ed Sheeran.\n\n\"So ladies and gentlemen,\" he announced. \"Ed Sheeran... is not here.\"\n\nThe star said he would take an extended break after his performance\n\nBut by the fifth song, his voice began to sound raspy and fractured.\n\n\"I really apologise. You've all come out and my voice is really packing in,\" he said, in the first of many apologies.\n\nHe soldiered through, but the issues were clearly agitating him and the symptoms of his Tourette's began to become more visible.\n\nAlthough he was visibly upset, the audience were firmly on his side throughout.\n\nWhen he announced towards the end of his set that he might only be able to finish two more songs, the woman next to me stretched out her arms and whispered: \"You just play as many as you want, babe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nWomen's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge (day three of five)\n\nAustralia took control on day three of the one-off Ashes Test with a lead of 92, despite Tammy Beaumont's record-breaking 208 for England.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 463 in their first innings at Trent Bridge, trailing Australia by just 10, but openers Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield steered the visitors to 82-0 at the close.\n\nBeaumont's innings, the first double-century in England women's cricket, put England into a decent position but some loose bowling at the start of the innings eased all pressure on Australia.\n\nShe beat an 88-year-old record set by Betty Snowball, who scored 189 against New Zealand at Christchurch in 1935, in making England women's highest score.\n\nEngland started the day 255 runs behind Australia's first-innings 473 and dominated the morning session as Beaumont and all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt added a third-wicket partnership of 137.\n\nSciver-Brunt overturned an lbw decision from the first ball of the day and went on to score 78, before Test debutant Danni Wyatt struck an aggressive 44 from 49 balls to edge England closer to parity.\n\nBut Beaumont eventually ran out of batting partners as England lost their last four wickets for 15 runs, with spinner Ash Gardner finishing with 4-99 and Tahlia McGrath taking 3-24.\n\nEngland then produced a sloppy spell of bowling with the new ball, the seamers going at 5.15 runs an over as Litchfield and Mooney finished unbeaten on 41 and 33 respectively.\n\nSaturday's crowd at Trent Bridge was 6,951, taking the aggregate attendance for the game to 17,149, a record for a women's Test in England.\n\nBeaumont's journey in an England shirt has not always been smooth, with the batter struggling to nail down a place in the side and batting as low as number eight until 2016.\n\nMore recently, she has found herself out of England's T20 set-up, but in front of an appreciative crowd at Trent Bridge she provided a Test batting masterclass and a reminder of her value to England at the top of the order.\n\nBeaumont's intent had the usually unflappable Australia a little rattled.\n\nEdges burst through the slip cordon, rare fumbles crept in from the fielders and loose wide balls were accepted gratefully by Beaumont to thrash through the covers.\n\nIt was an innings of remarkable concentration and endurance as well as brutal strokeplay, her 200 coming from 317 balls - the second-fastest of all time after Australia legend Karen Rolton's 306-ball effort in 2001.\n\nShe was given a reprieve on 152, overturning an lbw as the review showed the ball to be marginally pitching outside the line of leg stump, but it was an otherwise chanceless innings against the best bowling attack in the world.\n\nSciver-Brunt and Wyatt's aggression took the pressure off Beaumont, allowing her to bat in her own style against their counter-attack.\n\nAustralia may be in the ascendancy, but Beaumont has etched her name into cricket history with a performance that will live long in the memory of those lucky enough to witness it.\n\nDespite Beaumont's heroics, England were served a harsh reminder of the class of their opposition as Australia's openers cashed in on a flat pitch.\n\nWith just 10 runs separating the sides after one innings, the game was almost perfectly balanced, and a couple of early wickets - or at least a conservative run-rate - could have seen England going into day four with the opportunity to set up victory.\n\nEngland have committed to playing their attacking brand of cricket so far, but with the new ball the seamers gifted Mooney and Test debutant Litchfield plenty of width to capitalise on and it felt like the game had slipped from their grasp.\n\nAgainst such formidable opposition England cannot afford to keep gifting so many scoring opportunities.\n\nOnce again Heather Knight was forced to turn to her trump card Sophie Ecclestone early, after her 46-over spell in Australia's first innings, to offer any element of control.\n\nAustralia's bowlers struggled during the day, but faced with England's tail they pounced - whereas their own lower order added a remarkable 158 from their final four wickets.\n\nAnd Australia's batting prowess was exemplified by all-rounder Annabel Sutherland scoring a flawless century from number eight on day two, so England's task - which was at one point on a relatively flat trajectory - is now firmly uphill.\n\nAustralia hold 'upper hand a little bit' - what they said\n\nEngland opener Tammy Beaumont on Test Match Special: \"I'm still confident. There's two days to go and plenty of runs and wickets to be taken. The morning session is key and we will try our best to chase the total.\n\n\"We want to get the ball swinging and we just have to club together.\"\n\nAustralia all-rounder Ash Gardner speaking to TMS: \"I'd say we have the upper hand just a little bit. I think in the second innings for the English girls it's going to be pretty hard to bat on.\n\n\"It's going to be interesting. There is so much time left in the game. We're thinking small at the moment and not thinking about the result just yet.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Alex Hartley on TMS: \"England have given the momentum to Australia and I'm frustrated for them. They will have to come back better on Sunday.\"\n• None How will Princess Georgiana cope Down Under?\n• None Is it time more of us bought an electric car? Panorama investigates why there are so few electric cars on the UK's roads", "The Vietnamese migrants travelled by ferry from Belgium to Purfleet, before the trailer was opened in Grays\n\nA Romanian man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found suffocated in a sealed lorry trailer.\n\nThe victims, including 10 teenagers, were discovered in Essex in 2019.\n\nMarius Mihai Draghici also admitted one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration at a hearing at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 50-year-old was remanded in custody and Judge Richard Marks KC said he would be sentenced at a later date.\n\nDraghici was detained in Romania last August following the execution of a European Arrest Warrant and was extradited to the UK.\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nThe bodies of the 39 people were found in Grays on 23 October 2019, after the lorry had travelled by boat from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet on the Thames estuary.\n\nAn inquest heard their medical cause of death was asphyxia and hyperthermia, as temperatures rose in the back of the sealed lorry container and oxygen levels dropped.\n\nEach of the lorry victims, and their families, had paid significant sums of money to an organised criminal group that promised a better life and safe passage to the UK.\n\nDet Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe said it was \"the most complex investigation ever undertaken by Essex Police\".\n\n\"We have always maintained that the actions we believed Draghici was responsible for could never go unpunished. We now know they will not,\" she added.\n\nPolice said Draghici's role was to be involved in the onward transportation of the migrants once they arrived in the UK.\n\nFour men have been previously jailed over the deaths.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John McKenna played for Scotby Football Club in Carlisle, who have paid tribute to him\n\nTributes have been paid to a popular footballer who died after apparently falling from a hotel balcony in Ibiza.\n\nJohn McKenna, 22, from Carlisle, Cumbria, had been on holiday when the tragedy happened on Friday at about 11:00 local time (10:00 BST).\n\nThe Scotby FC player, an electrician, is reported to have fallen from the third floor of his San Antonio hotel.\n\nHis Sunday league club said it had \"lost a legend, a brilliant player but an even better person\".\n\nIt added that he would be \"never forgotten but loved always. RIP big John.\"\n\nFriend and former Carlisle United player Josh Dixon, who went to school with Mr McKenna, also paid tribute and said he was \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\n\"One of my closest mates all the way through school,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Wherever you went you would put a smile on someone's face, will be a huge miss to us all. Rest easy big man.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside the club's pavilion, alongside a football shirt.\n\nScotby FC has received messages of support from other teams across the league\n\nThe Cumberland Football Association said it was \"so sorry to hear this tragic news\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with John's family and friends as well as his teammates in the AFC Scotby family at this time and always\".\n\nClubs from the Carlisle City Premier Sunday League have also sent their condolences, as well as other teams from the county.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of a British man who died in Ibiza and was in touch with the Spanish island's authorities.\n\nAn investigation is continuing into what happened, which is being led by the Civil Guard.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South East Water said demand for drinking water in Kent and Sussex has reached record levels in June\n\nA hosepipe and sprinkler ban has been imposed on people in Kent and Sussex.\n\nSouth East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water had reached \"record levels\" in June, similar to last year's drought.\n\nUp to 4,000 customers are without water or have been experiencing low pressure since Monday due to supply issues.\n\nThe water company had urged people to only use water for essential purposes, but has now issued an immediate ban on hosepipes and sprinklers.\n\nThe measures mean that using the equipment to water gardens, clean cars and fill swimming pools will not be allowed.\n\nIt is understood that the Temporary Usage Ban can only be enforced after ten days of consultation, meaning after 26 June rule-breakers could be hit with a £1,000 fine.\n\nAreas including Wadhurst, Mayfield, Biddenden and Staplehurst have been affected by water outages.\n\nBottle stations have been set up across the two counties, and the supply issues are expected to continue until Sunday.\n\nDouglas Whitfield, South East Water's director of operations, told BBC Radio Kent the hot weather had caused demand to outstrip supply.\n\n\"We are pumping as much water as we can into the system, but water is being used before it gets to those customers who are currently on the end of our system,\" he said.\n\nBottled water stations had been opened in Mayfield, Rotherfield, Wadhurst and Ashford\n\nSouth East Water said its facilities are working at full output, with every water treatment work and water source available producing treated water to keep up with demand.\n\nDespite this, the company said it was unable to return drinking water storage tanks to \"satisfactory levels\".\n\nIf your water is supplied by South East Water and you live in Kent or Sussex, you cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nThere are exemptions, which can be found on South East Water's website.\n\nThe firm said the demand for water had broken all previous records, including during the Covid lockdown heatwave periods.\n\nIt said it had produced an additional 120 million litres of water a day - equivalent to supplying four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne.\n\nThe company serves 2.3 million people across Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.\n\nCustomers took to Twitter to express their anger over the hosepipe ban, with some blaming the high usage on leaks.\n\nOne said: \"That will be the MANY water MAIN pipes that have burst recently!! My local area said demand was at its highest when NONE of us even HAD tap water!! Cause it was just falling out of the huge leaks!! Hardly CUSTOMER use is it?\"\n\nMr Whitefield told BBC Radio Kent that while leakage was an issue that South East Water was trying to address, the supply issues were not driven by leakage.\n\nA burst pipe in Tunbridge Wells was repaired on Thursday\n\nWealden District Council councillor Michael Lunn said he had spoken to 20 farmers affected by the drop in supply, including one with 40 cattle and heifers about to give birth, who were \"hysterical\".\n\n\"It's really serious,\" he said, adding: \"As far as I'm concerned, they [South East Water] are just so, so slow in responding to this crisis.\n\n\"We were aware this was going to happen. We are not shocked or surprised, we are disappointed and we are really angry.\"\n\nThe supply issues had forced several schools to close, and Rotherfield Primary School in Crowborough remains shut.\n\nBottled water stations have been opened at Mayfield Memorial Hall, Rotherfield Village Hall, Sparrows Green Recreation Ground in Wadhurst and Headcorn Aerodrome in Ashford.\n\nThe shortages have provoked criticism from customers and local MPs directed towards the water company.\n\nThe situation was described as \"completely unacceptable\" by Greg Clark, the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells.\n\nThe water level of Arlington reservoir, near Hailsham in East Sussex, was low in summer 2022\n\nMet Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said the remainder of this week will be hotter than average for the time of year across the UK.\n\nIn East Sussex, temperatures were tipped to reach 29C on Friday, while parts of Kent could reach a maximum of 27C on Saturday.\n\nIn the next two weeks, however, heavy rain may affect parts of the South East, according to the Met Office.\n\nSouth East Water experienced supply issues in December 2022 after pipes burst due to snow and ice thawing rapidly overnight, leaving thousands of households across Kent and Sussex without water before Christmas.\n\nA government minister told the provider earlier this year that it \"must act urgently\" to significantly improve its performance.\n\nCorrection 19 June 2023: This article was amended to make clear that the hosepipe ban affected only South East Water customers, not everyone in Kent and Sussex.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC shows Rick Astley round at his first Glastonbury\n\nThousands of fans gathered at the Pyramid Stage at midday, eager for the chance to be Rickrolled in person.\n\nAnd Astley didn't disappoint, rewarding them with a jubilant version of Never Gonna Give You Up that permanently redefined the term crowd-pleaser.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC before the show, he said being booked to play the festival was simultaneously \"a bizarre stroke of luck\" and \"pretty bonkers\".\n\n\"If we get the smallest audience on the 12 o'clock slot that Glastonbury's ever seen, I'm still OK with that,\" he told entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson.\n\nIn the end, he didn't have to worry. Early morning festivalgoers arrived in their droves, offering conclusive proof that the star is no stranger to love...\n\n\"I'm here for Rick Astley,\" said Debbie Anne O'Donovan, firmly planted in the front row two hours before the singer arrived.\n\n\"I've been a big fan since the 80s. He's a bit of a legend. I think he'll connect with the crowd really well.\"\n\nMother and daughter Penny and Corrie Wheeler reserved their places even earlier, at 07:30, and were determined to stay put until Guns N' Roses play their headline set.\n\n\"We do have provisions, we have plenty of snacks, so we're pretty set,\" said Corrie.\n\n\"I've seen him quite a few times,\" added Mark Old, who was watching with his wife. \"He's got a really cool, smooth voice and he's a fantastic performer.\"\n\nPenny (left) and Corrie Wheeler were amongst the first fans in the queue to see the star\n\nAstley took to the stage shortly after midday to the sound of the Star Wars theme, before launching into a disco-fied version Together Forever.\n\n\"My god, look at you,\" he declared, surveying the audience in a blush pink suit.\n\nHe didn't stay still for long, though, stalking the catwalk, reading out people's flags, serenading the front row and clearly having the time of his life.\n\nFor those unfamiliar with his back catalogue, he threw in covers of Chic's Good Times and Harry Styles's As It Was, the latter mixed with A-Ha's Take On Me.\n\nHe also took the opportunity of a nationwide TV audience to play his new single, Dippin' My Feet.\n\n\"I'm not an idiot!\" he announced with a wink, \"of course I'm going to play my new song\".\n\nThe singer rose to fame in the 1980s before a surprise career resurgence over the last decade\n\nThen he stepped behind the drum kit for AC/DC's Highway To Hell, explaining it was a song he'd play as \"a 15-year-old kid in my dad's greenhouse\" until his drum kit broke.\n\nAfter it ended, he apologised for his playing, saying his suit trousers kept getting caught in the kick drum pedal.\n\n\"All I can say, Glastonbury, is I'm sorry for wearing the wrong trousers.\"\n\nObviously, he saved Never Gonna Give You Up to the end, getting the crowd to sing the first verse and chorus with him a capella, then vamping on the groove for almost 10 minutes, introducing his band and throwing in the guitar solo for Queen's We Will Rock You for good measure.\n\nWhen he reached the final refrain of \"I just want to tell you how I'm feeling\", he ad-libbed: \"Glastonbury, I'm feeling fantastic, thanks to you.\"\n\nIt felt like a miniature version of Glastonbury's traditional Sunday afternoon legend slot. It'll be interesting to see how Cat Stevens, who fills that role tomorrow, will compare.\n\nThe audience stretched back as far as the eye could see\n\nNow 57 years old, Astley became an overnight sensation in 1987, when Never Gonna Give You Up topped the charts in 25 countries.\n\nA product of the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory, it paired his rich, mellow baritone with a cheesy dance beat and an even cheesier video - and won the Brit Award for best single.\n\nOver the next four years, he had another seven top 10 hits with tracks like Whenever You Need Somebody and Cry For Help; but, frustrated by a lack of control over his career, he quit showbusiness in 1991.\n\nFor more than a decade, he lived in Richmond, raising his young daughter while his wife worked as a film producer.\n\nThen, in the early 2000s Never Gonna Give You Up enjoyed a bizarre second life as an internet meme: Rickrolling - where users are sent a link and duped into watching Astley's music video.\n\nBy 2021, the video's YouTube page had reached 1 billion views, . Today, it's nudging 1.4 billion.\n\nThe affable star takes his internet infamy in his stride, describing RickRolling as \"brilliant\" and \"funny\".\n\n\"The video and the song have drifted off into the ether and become something else, and I'm ever so grateful for it,\" he told the Associated Press in 2022.\n\nThe star made sure everyone felt part of the performance\n\nThe notoriety encouraged him out of retirement in 2016, since when he's been on a new creative streak, producing soulful and mature pop albums like 50 and Beautiful Life.\n\nThat led to him being invited to Glastonbury in 2020, before the festival was cancelled due to the pandemic.\n\n\"I thought to myself, 'That's it, that's my shot gone',\" he told the BBC. \"I didn't think we'd get invited back because time moves on and there's new artists coming along. So I was really, completely made up when they got in touch.\"\n\nAnd the star's Glastonbury journey won't end on the Pyramid Stage. He'll also play the Woodsies stage on Saturday evening, performing a set of Smiths covers with Stockport indie band Blossoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther acts on Saturday's line-up include Lana Del Rey, Lizzo, Manic Street Preachers, Lewis Capaldi, Loyle Carner, Eurovision winners Maneskin, and French star Christine And The Queens.\n\nGuns N' Roses are the Saturday night headliners, with Sir Elton John topping the bill on Sunday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pittville Pump Room is the source of spa water for Cheltenham\n\nCheltenham faces losing its 300-year-old spa status after bacteria made its health-giving water unfit for drinking.\n\nThe public had already been unable to taste the mineral water at Pittville Pump Room since the pandemic ended, while the council and Cheltenham Trust installed a new water system.\n\nHowever, this work has been suspended after bacteria were discovered.\n\nBecause of the problem council chiefs now fear it is unlikely to ever be fit for drinking again.\n\nCheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort after the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nCheltenham Borough Council had been working with the trust to clean the water tank and system, ahead of installation of a new pump, originally in October 2021 but has still not taken place.\n\nAt the time, councillors hoped the water would be available for the public to try in January 2022 - but having found the bacteria they are trying to work out the source.\n\nMax Wilkinson, cabinet member for economic development, culture, tourism and wellbeing, told a meeting: \"If we find the source of the water is contaminated then my understanding is that it is unlikely that the water will ever be made fit for human consumption.\n\n\"If the source is not contaminated, then there may be scope to disinfect the system.\n\n\"However, the UV filters have been cleaned and replaced a number of times, and the system has been disinfected but bacteria were still present.\"\n\nHe explained an alternative option could be to replace the whole system but \"clearly that would come at some cost to local taxpayers\" and if the source was contaminated it would leave the water undrinkable anyway.\n\n\"For clarity, Cheltenham Borough Council is responsible for the building works that may arise and the repairs and maintenance of the system,\" he said.\n\n\"The Cheltenham Trust, which has responsibility for the testing of the spa water, has asked a specialist contractor to undertake a site visit within the next two weeks to review the system condition. That contractor has been asked to supply an options and costs proposal.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n• None Cafe by heritage spa given 17 months before removal", "A man has been found guilty of murdering a Met Police sergeant by shooting him in the chest with an antique gun he had smuggled into a south London custody centre.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, 54, died of a chest wound after being hit by two bullets at Croydon's Windmill Road custody block on 25 September 2020.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 25 and from Surrey, had claimed diminished responsibility.\n\nBut a jury at Northampton Crown Court ruled he had acted deliberately.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 27 July.\n\nDuring the three-week trial, the jury was shown distressing video footage of the New Zealand-born sergeant being hit by the first of three shots discharged by De Zoysa.\n\nA second bullet struck him in his thigh before De Zoysa was wrestled to the ground by other officers.\n\nSgt Ratana, who was known as Matt, died of his injuries in hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows arrest and detention of man accused of shooting police officer in custody\n\nDe Zoysa, who was living in Banstead, Surrey, was left with brain damage after a fourth shot which he fired while on the floor hit an artery in his neck.\n\nHe now uses a wheelchair and has communication difficulties.\n\nWhen he was arrested in London Road, Norbury, officers did not find the antique Colt .41, 1895 double action revolver he had on him which he had legally purchased over the internet. It had been loaded with six rounds of ammunition which he had made himself.\n\nThey did discover a bag contained seven bullets and cannabis, and he was taken into custody.\n\nDe Zoysa bought the antique revolver in an online auction in June 2020\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said De Zoysa \"retrieved\" the 128-year old weapon from a holster under his left arm, while handcuffed to the rear, as he was being transported to Windmill Road in a police van.\n\nCCTV evidence suggested he managed to get hold of the gun - which has now been made illegal - with his right hand about 16 minutes before the shooting and then hid it in the back of his overcoat.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Sgt Ratana's partner Su Bushby said: \"Today is about justice for Matt.\n\n\"His life was taken too soon in the line of duty doing a job that he loved - a cruel end to a lifetime of service and dedication protecting others.\"\n\nShe said although the trial was now over, \"the constant feeling of grief and loss continues\".\n\n\"My love for Matt, my gentle giant, will never end. He will never be forgotten.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking after Ms Bushby, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he was \"inspired by the strength\" she had shown.\n\nHe said he believed \"more lives would certainly have been lost\" without the courage of the officers who were on duty.\n\n\"Officers never have a perfect picture of what awaits them at the next incident... I'm immensely proud of their professionalism and their bravery.\"\n\nSgt Ratana had joined the Met in 1991 and a year later he was just 300m from an IRA bomb that exploded outside 10 Downing Street.\n\nHe was an avid tennis player, winning the men's doubles title at the Police Athletic Association championships in 2000. He also led rugby teams in Worthing and was a coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, where he has been remembered with a statue.\n\nSir Mark described the sergeant, who was months away from retirement age, as an outstanding officer who \"treated everyone with respect, with compassion and with good humour\".\n\n\"Whether it was on the streets or in the custody centre, as a uniformed police officer, on the rugby field or later as a coach, it's clear that he was someone who made an enduring impact wherever he went,\" he said.\n\nA police image showing how the revolver was being carried by Louis De Zoysa\n\nLouis De Zoysa had been carrying an antique Colt revolver under his left arm in a holster as he travelled across south London.\n\nThe arresting officers checked De Zoysa's bag, his waistband and frisked his legs, but missed the gun. They also did not have a metal detector with them in the police van.\n\nDetectives believe the 25-year-old was able to move the gun from the holster to his hands as he travelled in the vehicle, despite them still being cuffed behind his back.\n\nThe court heard how De Zoysa has hypermobility, where a person's joints have an above-average range of motion\n\nThis ability allowed him to manoeuvre the gun from the holster to his hands and keep it hidden behind his back, the jury heard.\n\nFollowing Sgt Ratana's murder, the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has recommended that handheld search wands - metal detectors - should be introduced in all response vehicles and those used to transport those that have been detained.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is now exploring their implementation.\n\nThe Met said within weeks of the murder it had began a roll-out of hand-held search wands to all its police vehicles used to transport suspects.\n\nSgt Ratana's partner Su Bushby said he would never be forgotten\n\nThe IOPC's director of operations, Amanda Rowe, said she hoped the recommendation would \"improve officer safety and help to prevent detained persons from being able to harm themselves or others in custody\".\n\nShe added their investigation of the incident found that two officers could have conducted a more thorough body search of De Zoysa on the street, during which ammunition was found but not the firearm.\n\nHowever, their actions were found to not be in breach of the police standards of professional behaviour.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wolves\n\nWolves have sold captain Ruben Neves to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal for a club record £47m.\n\nThe 26-year-old Portugal midfielder had a year left on his contract and leaves after six seasons at Molineux.\n\nNeves is the latest big-name player to leave a European club for Saudi Arabia's Pro League.\n\nEarlier this month Karim Benzema left Real Madrid for Al-Ittihad, joining former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo who signed for Al-Nassr in January.\n\nMidfielder N'Golo Kante agreed a deal to leave Chelsea and join France team-mate Benzema at Al-Ittihad earlier this week.\n\nChelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is also close to signing for Saudi Pro-League side Al Ahli while Manchester City's Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva is a target for Al-Hilal.\n\nNeves said at the end of last season he was ambitious amid interest from Barcelona, but with the La Liga champions not able to come up with an acceptable offer Neves opted for Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe fee paid by Al-Hilal surpasses the £41m that Wolves received for Diogo Jota when he switched to Liverpool in 2020.\n\nIt is also the biggest transfer fee paid by a Saudi Pro League side, dwarfing the reported 18m euro (£15.4m) deal that took Matheus Pereira from West Brom to Al-Hilal in 2021.\n\nNeves, who helped Wolves gain promotion from the Championship in 2017-18 and then consolidate in the Premier League, described his time at Molineux as \"an unbelievable journey\" in an open letter to the club's supporters.\n\nHe added: \"The way we worked together, the way we fought for the club, what we achieved and all the moments we spent together was unbelievable.\n\n\"There are no words to describe our dressing room, with a team spirit that I've never experienced before. And then to become captain for the final year made me so proud.\n\n\"My kids grew up in Wolverhampton and they were so happy here. Me and my lovely wife will never forget the time we had here as a family.\"\n\nDuring his time at the West Midlands club, Neves made 253 appearances and scored 30 goals after joining from Porto in 2017.\n\nWolves sporting director Matt Hobbs described Neves as one of Wolves' best ever players.\n\n\"Ruben is the embodiment of everything you look for when trying to bring players into a football club; a leader, a humble man and an extremely talented footballer who took Wolves to a different level,\" he said.\n\n\"He was part of a great era for this club and will go down as one of our best ever players. We are grateful for everything he has done for Wolves and wish him and his family the very best for the future.\"\n• None Our coverage of Wolverhampton Wanderers is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Wolves - go straight to all the best content", "Larry Daley said he lost a friend and a mentor when Titanic explorer PH Nargeolet died aboard the Titan.\n\nIn the park by the harbour in St John's, visitors sit quietly on benches, watching as the boats that went out to search for the Titan submersible make a slow procession home.\n\nIt's not the joyous scene most hoped for, but a reality many feared in the city from where the crew set out.\n\nJust two weeks ago, Larry Daley, a local Titanic explorer, shared a beer with Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a French Titanic expert who had completed more than 30 successful dives to the wreckage, and who was on board the Titan.\n\nMr Daley, who took a similar trip in 2003 with film director James Cameron, is now mourning the loss of a friend and mentor.\n\n\"We were just talking about the old times,\" Mr Daley said with a sad smile, recalling that final encounter. \"He lost his life in a place he so loved, exploring the Titanic. It's kind of symbolic, in a way.\"\n\nFog rolled into St John's harbour as news of the Titan's implosion spread through town.\n\nMr Nargeolet was one of five people to die on the submersible. The other four were Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Stockton Rush.\n\nSt John's in the province of Newfoundland is the oldest seaport in North America; nearly everyone the BBC spoke to in this fishing community said they have lost friends or family to the sea. At the bottom of a memorial anchor on the harbour side, people had placed roses dedicated to each of the five men killed.\n\nThe past 24 hours here have been a rollercoaster of emotion. Thursday began bright, warm and full of the hope that the crew of the Titan would soon be rescued. But by afternoon, the temperature and the mood had turned cold and grey.\n\nAs the news of the Titan's \"catastrophic implosion\" spread through St John's, fog rolled in from the sea, enveloping the city.\n\n\"The fog is very fitting, in a way,\" Kendall McPherson, a tourist passing through the town, told us.\n\n\"The Titanic has yet again claimed lives,\" local artist Patricia Hutton said from a café overlooking the water.\n\nIt was Newfoundland operators who received the RMS Titanic's distress call in 1912. It seems fitting, residents say, that Coast Guards from here should have tried to rescue the Titan's crew.\n\n\"There's no Newfoundlander who would leave you behind,\" said Captain Barry Rogers.\n\nA fifth-generation seaman, Capt Rogers said he's seen many things from the deck of his ship, but nothing like this week's rescue efforts.\n\nAs someone who has participated in rescue missions himself, Capt Rogers said the shift from hope to hopelessness felt regrettably familiar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'These disasters affect us all'\n\n\"There's a certain degree of grieving that we feel because we have a tremendous heritage here of making a living off water,\" he said. \"The Atlantic is not to be taken lightly.\"\n\nThough iceberg tours and whale watching expeditions are common here, many locals say they only just learned of OceanGate, the company that operated the Titan, and that tourists could take dives to visit the wreckage.\n\nCaptain Barry Rogers said people in St John's are familiar with the pain of losing loved ones at sea\n\nNewfoundland native John Michael Lennon said his heart fell when news of the Titan's fate began making its way through the town. As a father, his thoughts have lingered on the death of 19-year-old Suleman.\n\n\"We're going to plant a tree or some trees on behalf of Suleman and his generation,\" he said, tearing up. \"I come from this place, my people come from this place, and the sea has always given and it's taken.\"\n\nThe tragedy has left him with questions, he said. Should the Titan have even attempted the trip? Should taxpayers bear the cost of this kind of recovery mission? And what draws people to the sea?\n\nThat final question, he acknowledged, feels more existential.\n\n\"Joy and sorrow were always communal rites in small maritime communities,\" he said.\n\nAs the town awaits the return of the Polar Prince, the vessel that ferried the Titan, and with it the local Coast Guard crews who tried desperately to save those aboard the submersible, thoughts turn to the families in mourning.\n\nMr Daley said it will take time for him to process the death of his friend.\n\nIn quieter moments, he said he'll also have to try and reconcile this tragedy with his passion for exploration. But he's certain of one thing: \"We're going to keep exploring - that's what human nature is.\"", "This year's Glastonbury festival is off to a rocking start as thousands of festival-goers party in the summer sun.\n\nArctic Monkeys are headlining the iconic Pyramid stage on Friday night, mystery act the ChurnUps have been revealed as Foo Fighters to the delight of crowds and elsewhere Worthy Farm's visitors have been entertained by Texas, Gabriels, Flo and many more music acts from around the world.", "Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been blamed for starting war\n\nWe're used to hearing Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ranting and raving at Russia's military leadership - particularly at defence minister Sergei Shoigu - for problems on the battlefield.\n\nPublic infighting between the Wagner mercenary group and the Ministry of Defence isn't new.\n\nIn his latest video tirade via Telegram, Prigozhin blames Shoigu for starting Russia's war in Ukraine in February last year.\n\nSpeaking first about the fighting in eastern Ukraine that began in 2014 after Russia's military intervention, Prigozhin said: \"We were hitting them, and they were hitting us. That's how it went on for those eight long years, from 2014 to 2022. Sometimes the number of skirmishes would increase, sometimes decrease.\"\n\n\"On 24 February [2022] there was nothing extraordinary happening there. Now the Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president and tell a story that there was some crazy aggression by Ukraine, that - together with the whole Nato bloc - Ukraine was planning to attack us.\n\n\"The war was needed... so that Shoigu could become a Marshal, so that he could get a second Hero Star… the war wasn't for demilitarising or de-nazifying Ukraine. It was needed for an extra star.\"\n\nPrigozhin also blamed the war on oligarchs, condemning \"the clan which in practice rules Russia today\".\n\nStrong words. But will they have consequences?\n\nThat depends on the nature of Prigozhin's current relationship with President Vladimir Putin. And no-one's quite sure what that is right now.\n\nIs the tough-talking angry Prigozhin we see and hear on Telegram a fully-fledged Kremlin project? If so, his blame the war on Shoigu and oligarchs rant could be designed to shield Putin from public criticism, while offering the Kremlin a possible way out of a conflict that hasn't gone to plan, without damaging the president or the political system.\n\nPrigozhin and Putin at a dinner in 2011\n\nPrigozhin has named the fall-guys… and they don't include Putin.\n\nAfter all, Putin is so closely associated with this war. In his address to the nation on 24 February 2022, the Kremlin leader made it clear that it was his decision to launch the so-called \"special military operation\", the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPlus, arguing that the president has been woefully deceived by a minister he appointed doesn't reflect glowingly on the man at the top.\n\nTrue, in Russia the Kremlin controls the media landscape and the messaging. If TV channels and pro-Kremlin military bloggers here were to transmit such an interpretation, many Russians would accept it.\n\nBut what if Yevgeny Prigozhin's outburst wasn't coordinated with the Kremlin?\n\nWhat if he's acquired political ambitions of his own? Or concluded that, having made powerful enemies within the Russian elite (especially the military) for him attack is the best form of defence? Even if it means going off-message.\n\nA 'rogue' Prigozhin risks rocking the boat - and Russia's political system - by undermining the Kremlin's messaging.\n\nOnly last week Putin repeated the need (as he sees it) to \"demilitarise\" and \"de-nazify\" Ukraine. Prigozhin's latest comments contradict that argument.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine\n\nI've written before that making sense of Russian politics is like trying to do a giant jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. You attempt to connect the clues, but you're never quite sure what the final picture will be.\n\nBut, aside from the Wagner chief, there are other interesting pieces of the Russian jigsaw which hint at a different outcome.\n\nFor example, as badly as things have gone for the Kremlin in Ukraine, might Moscow declare \"mission accomplished\"?\n\nPresident Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently claimed that \"the aim [of demilitarising Ukraine] has largely been achieved\", arguing that Ukraine has less and less of its own armaments and is increasingly reliant on weapons from abroad.\n\nAnd earlier this month more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers, members of the Azov regiment, went on trial in southern Russia. Russia calls Azov a \"terrorist group\" that harbours neo-Nazis. Could it portray the case as \"de-nazification\" and stop there?\n\nBut there are other indications that \"stopping\" is not in Putin's plans. In recent appearances on TV, he's come across as confident of victory and dismissive of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"The enemy is suffering major losses,\" Putin told a Russian TV reporter this week, adding: \"The enemy has no chance.\"", "Arctic Monkeys are one of the select few bands to have headlined Glastonbury three times\n\nAfter a touch-and-go week, Arctic Monkeys pulled through to deliver a thrilling, if uneven, headline set at the Glastonbury festival.\n\nThe band's set was hanging in the balance after frontman Alex Turner caught laryngitis, forcing them to cancel a show in Dublin on Tuesday.\n\nBut he emerged sounding better than ever, high-kicking his way through a set full of era-defining indie anthems.\n\n\"The Monkeys are back on the farm,\" he deadpanned at the start of the show.\n\nIt's the band's third time as headliners, after previous slots in 2007 and 2013.\n\nAhead of the show, drummer Matt Helders told the BBC they were the best-prepared they'd ever been for the festival.\n\n\"The first time, obviously, we really felt the pressure. Then the second time, it was at the beginning of a tour - so it was fun, but we hadn't been playing in the lead-up.\n\n\"This time, we're on it. We're in a good place, in the middle of a tour. We're firing on all cylinders.\"\n\nThey were certainly match fit, tearing up songs like Crying Lightning and Fluorescent Adolescent, while allowing room for the more exploratory material from their latest album, The Car, to breathe and build.\n\nThe band's set included fan favourites like Do I Wanna Know, Arabella, Mardy Bum and 505\n\nIt was a meticulously paced set, never straying too far from a turf-stomping singalong. But even so, some of the broodier sections failed to connect with a festival audience who just wanted to hear the hits.\n\nThey opened with Sculptures Of Anything Goes, a foreboding, hesitant new song that quickly segued into the dynamite riffs of Brianstorm. At that point, the first flare of the night was lit, and the crowd started pogoing.\n\nFor the next 20 minutes, the pace barely flagged, as the band served up tracks like Snap Out Of It, Don't Sit Down 'Cause I Moved Your Chair, Crying Lighting and Teddy Picker in quick succession, sending perpetual ripples of energy across the field.\n\nTurner is a charismatic, if somewhat aloof, frontman. With his wide-collar shirt unbuttoned, he rests his foot on the monitors and pulls convincing rock star shapes. But he barely communicates with the audience beyond a Vegas-style, \"Thank you very much\".\n\nA bit more communication might have stopped the audience drifting off during the slower-paced new songs but, in the event, there's a frequent disconnect between the stage and the field.\n\nThat's a shame, though, because tracks like Four Out Of Five and There'd Better Be A Mirrorball are grand and romantic in a way that adds new dimensions to the Arctics' sound; and Turner is visibly more comfortable singing those tracks than the ones he wrote as a teenager in Sheffield.\n\nFor my money, one of the night's standout tracks was Body Paint - a swaggering, cinematic ballad from The Car, whose extended crescendo pushed Turner to greater and greater displays of guitar pyrotechnics.\n\nStill, if the crowd frequently grew impatient, all was forgiven when the Arctics closed the set with the double-whammy of I Bet You Look Good On The Dance and RU Mine.\n\nThe group stopped off at Worthy Farm in the middle of an extensive world tour\n\nThroughout the encore, Turner teased the audience with cheeky stop-start arrangements - so that, all of a sudden, you could hear 80,000 people singing about \"dancing like a robot from 1984\".\n\nWhich, of course, was what they'd wanted to do all along.\n\nFriday marked the first full day of music around the site; and it was packed full of highlights and surprises.\n\nOscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett appeared on stage with US pop experimentalists Sparks, reprising the interpretive dance she performed in their recent video for The Girl is Crying in Her Latte.\n\nHozier played a secret set on the Woodsies stage, although word had clearly got out, judging by the devoted fans who turned up to swoon over his thumping Celtic balladry.\n\nHowever, the biggest (and worst-kept) secret came from US rockers Foo Fighters.\n\nThey played a short, but rapturously-received set on the Pyramid Stage just after 18:00 BST, in a slot that had been advertised as \"The ChurnUps\".\n\nPlaying for just an hour, they leaned into their garage punk roots, tearing through raw and ragged versions of hits like Best Of You, The Pretender and Everlong.\n\nAt the end of their set, frontman Dave Grohl seemed to hint they'd return for a bigger show next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Glastonbury gets the weekend started in style... in 90 seconds\n\n\"If you guys come back, we'll come back,\" he declared.\n\nOver on the Other Stage, dance act Fred Again drew one of the biggest crowds of the day, and decided to make the most of it.\n\n\"Let's try to break the record at a festival for the amount of people on shoulders\", he shouted, and they duly obliged, to the soundtrack of his lockdown anthem Marea (We've Lost Dancing).\n\nThe London-born star has rapidly built a reputation as one of dance music's most compelling performers - effectively creating live remixes of his songs by layering samples, drum loops, live instruments and even video clips on the fly.\n\nBut it's the emotional component of his music that draws people in, with a fragility and humanity that's rare in modern dance. Given a few years, he could be headlining the Pyramid Stage.\n\nJust as impressive on the Other Stage was Nigerian star Wizkid, a one-man aphrodisiac who delivered a set full of laid-back but sensual Afrobeat jams.\n\nWizKid brought the sounds of Lagos to rural Somerset\n\n\"This is a Africa party tonight, baby,\" he purred, open-shirted and peering through pitch black shades as he prowled the stage and couples gyrated in the audience.\n\nArmed with hits like One Dance, True Love and Essence, and backed by a funky, eight-piece band, he stole and broke hearts in equal measure.\n\nHeadlining the West Holts stage, Kelis treated the Worthy Farm cattle to a serving of Milkshake - mixing her biggest hit with elements of Wu Tang Clan's Gravel Pit and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.\n\nBefore her came Scottish trio Young Fathers, who dedicated their scathing polemic Shame to Home Scretary Suella Braverman, before leading the audience in a chant of: \"Say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here.\"\n\nIt's a message the band deliver at all their gigs, but it seemed to carry extra weight on the weekend that marks the 75th anniversary of Windrush.\n\nKelis drew a big crowd to the West Holts stage, despite being programmed against Arctic Monkeys\n\nAlso performing on the festival's first full day of music were R&B trio Flo, Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen and Scottish rock band Texas.\n\nThe festival continues on Saturday with sets from Lana Del Rey, Lizzo, Christine And The Queens, Maneskin, Rick Astley and headliners Guns N' Roses.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Officials from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada board the Polar Prince after it arrived back in St. John's\n\nInvestigators in Canada have boarded the support ship used to launch the Titan submersible in their bid to understand what caused the vessel's catastrophic implosion.\n\nFlags on board the Polar Prince were at half-mast as it docked in St John's, Newfoundland, on Saturday.\n\nAnother boat was seen in the harbour towing the Titan's launch platform.\n\nThe Titan was on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic when it broke apart, killing all five people on board.\n\nLocals in St John's gathered around the cannon on top of Battery Lookout at 08:00 (11:30 BST) to watch the Polar Prince return to port. As some passengers disembarked, investigators in hard hats and high-visibility jackets climbed aboard.\n\nThe Polar Prince was the Titan's support vessel\n\nThe Polar Prince was the Titan's support vessel and had towed the submersible out to the area in the North Atlantic where it carried out its dive on Sunday, about 400 miles from St John's.\n\nOn board were members of the support team and some family members of the victims. It was also involved in the search for the Titan once it lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into its dive.\n\nParts of the submersible were found on the ocean floor on Thursday, approximately 1,600ft (487m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck.\n\nCanada announced on Friday that it was launching a safety investigation. Other countries' government agencies may join in, but it is unclear at this stage which will lead the investigation.\n\nAs well as the role of the Polar Prince, experts say officials will also look at the materials used to make the sub's outer walls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A definitive timeline of the Titan's last moments\n\nSince news of the accident broke, industry experts have come out to say that they had previously raised questions about safety practises at OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan, and whose CEO Stockon Rush was on board at the time of the accident.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC showed Mr Rush dismissing concerns from one expert as \"baseless cries\".\n\nAlso on board the Titan were Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTroops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group have reportedly started leaving the city of Rostov-on-Don, less than 24 hours after attempting a rebellion.\n\nEarlier, the group's chief said he had told his fighters to return to Ukraine to avoid bloodshed.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin will now move to neighbouring Belarus and charges against him and his troops will be dropped, Russian state media reports.\n\nIt signals the end of a chaotic and extraordinary day in Russia.\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nTension had been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.\n\nIt came to a head on Saturday morning, when Wagner mercenaries crossed the border from their field camps in Ukraine and entered the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.\n\nIn developments that were breathlessly fast, they reportedly took over the regional military command and seized military facilities in Voronezh, another city further north, towards Moscow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fighters started to march toward the capital, prompting the Kremlin to introduced tighter security in many regions, including Moscow, where the mayor of the capital city had told residents to avoid travelling.\n\nThere were also warnings that thousands of elite Chechen troops were heading to Moscow to fight off the Wagner soldiers, if needed.\n\nIn response, President Vladimir Putin had pledged to punish those who had \"betrayed\" Russia.\n\nThe agreement to suddenly de-escalate the situation came on Saturday evening, after Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Prigozhin, according to Russian TV channel Rossiya 24.\n\nHours later, video emerged purportedly showing Wagner troops leaving Rostov, and their leader being driven away to the cheers and handshakes of supporters.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin was pictured leaving Rostov-on-Don, where some took photos and shook his hand\n\nCommenting on the day's events, Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation was \"complete chaos\".\n\n\"The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. I am sure that he is no longer in Moscow,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"He knows what he is afraid of, because he himself created this threat. All evil, all losses, all hatred - it is he who spreads it.\"\n\nThere were rumours that Mr Putin had fled Moscow, after flight tracking showed that two presidential planes had left the city on Saturday.\n\nHowever his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the president was still in the Kremlin.\n\nMr Peskov added that the arrest warrant for Prigozhin would be dropped and criminal case against him and his troops would be closed.\n\nWagner mercenaries who wish to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence can still do so, the press secretary said.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said settling down was more complicated than she expected\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said readjusting to life in the UK after six years in an Iranian jail had been slower than she had expected.\n\nThe British-Iranian national said protests and civil unrest in Iran since her release had kept her story \"fresh on a daily basis\".\n\n\"I resonated very much with what they have gone through,\" she said.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Iran in 2016 on spying charges, which she denied.\n\nShe was released in March 2022 and returned to the UK following a sustained campaign.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe made the comments on Friday at Glastonbury Festival, where she was giving a talk about Iranian women's rights.\n\nAsked what it has been like readjusting to life in the UK, she said: \"A lot slower than what I thought it would be.\n\n\"Just because early on when I was released, the uprising in Iran happened... since then I went through stories of many other people who were arrested, and then their stories came out.\"\n\nShe discussed the impact of seeing unrest which centred on the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September while in police custody for wearing her hijab too loosely.\n\n\"My story was all of a sudden so fresh on a daily basis and I couldn't get myself out of it - it was very hard,\" she told the audience.\n\n\"So I think settling down was a lot more complicated and difficult than what I was expecting because of what is happening.\n\n\"But, you know, I can't complain. I'm free and I'm out, whereas many of my friends are still in prison.\"\n\nThe British-Iranian national was part of a panel discussion at Glastonbury Festival\n\nDuring the talk, she said the first names of the friends she was still campaigning to free: Nilufar, Sepideh, Mahvash, Fariba, Morad, Siamak, Emaad and Nargess.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from West Hampstead in London, said she felt the continued unrest in Iran was no longer getting the attention it deserved.\n\n\"I think when this whole uprising happened back in September 2022, there was a lot of momentum, but then, of course, the world moves on,\" she said.\n\nHer husband Richard Ratcliffe also commented on a damning report by the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Foreign Office's handling of hostage diplomacy.\n\nIt highlighted examples of \"ministerial clumsiness\" and \"hurtful comments\" in its communication with families.\n\nMr Ratcliffe described it as an important report.\n\n\"At the moment, cases like Nazanin's are reasonably rare... but they're growing, and that growth is something that the government is not really dealing with,\" he said.\n\n\"The head-in-the-sand 'let's hope we keep this at a low level' [approach] and manage it like you would with a really rare illness - it doesn't work.\n\n\"There are a number of countries who are taking hostages, there aren't many that make the media, there aren't many that the government will acknowledge as hostages or even acknowledge as arbitrarily detained.\n\n\"We'll await to see whether the government says 'yes, hands up, we need to get better' or whether what we get is a 'we'll carry on what we're currently doing but we'll tweak around the edges'.\n\n\"I've had both in my time... so let's see what comes.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"The best interests of British national detainees is at the heart of our consular work and we support and work with their families wherever we can.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Grant Shapps said it is important the UK gets its hydrogen industry \"up and running\"\n\nHouseholders will not have to pay more on their energy bills to fund hydrogen production, Grant Shapps has indicated.\n\nAn annual levy was expected to be introduced in 2025 to cover the cost gap between producing low-carbon hydrogen and polluting fossil fuels.\n\nBut, signalling a U-turn Mr Shapps said he opposed a direct charge on the bills of energy consumers.\n\nHe said: \"I don't want to see people's household bills unnecessarily bashed by this.\"\n\nThe Onward think tank has estimated the hydrogen levy would raise energy bills by around £118 per year for the average dual fuel household.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph Mr Shapps said he did not want to see a \"levy directly on households\" but insisted it is vital the UK gets its hydrogen industry set up to take advantage of \"massive export opportunities\".\n\n\"The way that's funded will have to be further up the chain,\" the Energy Security Secretary said.\n\nThis could potentially include landing the industry with the costs or general taxation.\n\nThe newspaper reported talks are ongoing between Mr Shapps's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Downing Street and the Treasury to agree an alternative.\n\nThere are hopes the new scheme will be put out to consultation before the end of July.\n\nGovernment plans for a hydrogen levy have caused a backlash from Conservative and opposition MPs who warned against increasing energy bills that soared in the wake of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and amid a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn response to Mr Shapps's announcement Labour criticised the about-turn as an effort to swerve a rebellion by Tory backbenchers.\n\nShadow energy minister Alan Whitehead claimed the government is \"completely out of touch with reality\".\n\nSetting out his party's plan Mr Whitehead said: \"Labour will continue to stand up for the millions of families across the country that are paying the cost for Tory failure.\n\n\"We will reform our broken energy system to we deliver the green transition we so desperately need, energy security, and bills that are affordable.\"\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police in France and Belgium say they have arrested 19 members of gangs who sent people fake court summonses that accused them of viewing images of children being sexually abused.\n\nPeople who received the messages were threatened with prosecution and tricked into paying thousands of dollars in supposed fines.\n\nPolice say the scam had been going for more than two years, with at least €3.5m extorted.\n\nAt least one victim killed himself.\n\nThe man had been stung by the scam on two occasions, first being made to pay €5,978, then another €7,480.\n\nColonel Thomas Andreu, head of one of the special French police units, said the sums extracted from victims were often larger, in some cases as much as €200,000.\n\n\"We thought that the fraud was being run by one central structure,\" said Col Andreu. \"However, it turned out to be several little teams which were not linked.\"\n\nEighteen people were arrested in France on Monday and one in Belgium. All were aged between 20 and 50.\n\nAll but three suspects were ordered to appear in court on fraud charges.\n\nThe Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation after the scam began at the start of 2021. By June of the following year it had received 400 complaints relating to it.\n\nAuthorities are still trying to understand how many people were affected and believe that six others who were targeted may also have killed themselves.\n\nCommissioner Christophe Durand of the French anti-cybercrime unit said the \"victims had suffered real distress\".\n\nThe scammers spent some of the money they extorted in France, though the majority of it was sent to the Ivory Coast and other African countries.", "Paris Mayo has been found guilty of murdering her infant son at her family home in Herefordshire\n\nA 19-year-old has been found guilty of murdering her baby son hours after she delivered him at home alone.\n\nParis Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to the boy, Stanley, in 2019, after concealing her pregnancy from her family.\n\nA trial at Worcester Crown Court heard Mayo suffocated him by stuffing cotton wool into his mouth and throat.\n\nMayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nJurors were also able to consider a charge of infanticide but took eight hours and 38 minutes to convict her of murder.\n\nMayo gave birth to Stanley at her family home in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire in March 2019.\n\nThe court heard how his remains were discovered by her mother the following morning in a bin bag which Mayo had left on the doorstep before going to bed.\n\nHer mother Coralie Mayo immediately called 999 after she made the discovery and later in hospital the teenager said she had not told her mother what had happened because \"she's got a lot going on\".\n\nMayo had claimed she did not know she was pregnant and said Stanley was not moving and did not make a noise when he was born.\n\nHowever medical experts said it was likely he had been alive for a couple of hours, had taken breaths and may also have cried.\n\nDuring her trial, Mayo told jurors she had loved her son and often thinks about \"what he could have been\"\n\nShe said she had used the cotton wool found in the infant's mouth and throat to clean up blood and claimed his fractured skull had been caused by him falling on the floor during birth.\n\nHowever the prosecution said medical evidence showed that was not an adequate explanation and that such injuries were normally found after major trauma, such as a car crash.\n\nThe court heard how Mayo had a difficult family life and her father, who was terminally ill at the time Stanley was born and died shortly after, made her feel \"worthless\".\n\nHe had been upstairs receiving dialysis with help from Mayo's mother, Coralie, while the baby was murdered below.\n\nIn her testimony, Mayo described how she started having sex at 13 and used it as a way to get people to like her because she was \"insecure\" due to her family situation.\n\nExperts disagreed about her state of mind, with one of the opinion she had \"created a false memory\" while another said she was \"remarkably well intact\".\n\nMayo cried in the dock after the jury, made up of five men and seven women, returned a majority guilty verdict for murder.\n\nThe jurors were thanked by judge Mr Justice Garnham, who said it had been a \"difficult and stressful case\" for them to deal with.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Insp Julie Taylor from West Mercia Police said it was \"a devastating case\".\n\n\"The death of a new-born baby is utterly heart-breaking, even more so when the person who is responsible is the baby's own mother,\" she said.\n\nMayo had concealed her pregnancy from people who \"could have, and would have, supported her,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said Stanley's \"short life was filled with pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved\".\n\n\"[Mayo] chose to hide her pregnancy, give birth alone and kill her baby, then hide his body despite accepting that she had a family who would have supported her.\"\n\nMayo was remanded in custody and is set to return to Worcester Crown Court on Monday to be sentenced.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from hot dog salesman to become the boss of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group.\n\nParts of this video were originally recorded on 25 May but it has been reversioned for publication on 24 June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: All sides should be responsible and protect civilians - UK PM\n\nRishi Sunak has urged all sides in Russia to \"be responsible and to protect civilians\", as mercenaries from the Wagner group seize military sites from Russia and Vladimir Putin vows to \"punish\" those involved in the move against his government.\n\nIn the UK, a meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra, was chaired by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Saturday afternoon.\n\nWe don't get to hear much about what is said in those meetings, but the government says Mr Cleverly received all the latest information and particular attention was paid to the situation of British nationals still in Russia.\n\nMr Sunak has also spoken to US President Biden, French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz about the situation.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Sunak suggested the government has been watching the internal threats to Vladimir Putin for some time.\n\nHe told me: \"We have been monitoring for a while the potentially destabilising impacts of Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.\"\n\nAnd he said the situation was \"evolving on the ground as we speak\".\n\nBut he urged calm on all sides, saying: \"The most important thing I'd say is for all parties to be responsible and to protect civilians\", a clear hint that the UK is concerned about how conflict inside Russia's borders could spiral, when for months the focus has naturally been on fighting in Ukraine.\n\nThe prime minister did not repeat a more candid assessment from the Ministry of Defence, which said on its official Twitter feed that \"this represents the most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak did not deny that was the case.\n\nWith so much unclear, it is evident that Number 10 does not yet want to give an official verdict on what is happening.\n\nYet it is clear from the Ministry of Defence's comments that the government sees the action taking place as a potential game changer.\n\nThe situation is volatile and no-one in Westminster would predict with any certainty what will happen next.\n\nIt is not clear exactly what Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's motives are.\n\nNor is it certain how many resources and men Wagner really has at their disposal.\n\nBut one of the questions being asked in Westminster this afternoon is how Ukraine can make the most of what seems like disarray inside Russia to make progress in what is now a long-running conflict.\n\nOur politicians, like the rest of us, are watching events and wondering what on earth is going on, and unable to be sure what will happen next. But they are watching with eager attention.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has had such enormous implications for politicians in the UK, because it has indirectly affected every family, every firm, and every household in the country by driving up the cost of energy.\n\nThat's one of the biggest factors in high inflation the prime minister describes as the \"number one enemy\".\n\nWe talk to the prime minister about that, his plans for the NHS and Boris Johnson in an exclusive interview you can watch on Sunday morning.\n\nBut as events unfold in Russia, remember that the actions of one man, Vladimir Putin, upended so much here.\n\nMoscow may be nearly 2,000 miles away, but what happens in the next few days to stability in Russia matters hugely to our politicians in Westminster, and to us all.", "Baroness McDonagh played a major role behind the scenes during Labour's success in the late 90s and early 2000s\n\nBaroness Margaret McDonagh, the first female general secretary of the Labour Party, has died aged 61.\n\nShe was a key figure in the party under Sir Tony Blair's leadership, and played a central role in both the 1997 and 2001 general election victories.\n\nShe was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2021.\n\nSenior Labour figures have paid tribute, including Sir Keir Starmer, who said she was \"absolutely essential\" in returning the party to power.\n\nHe called her a \"tireless champion for women\" who \"may not have been as famous as some of the politicians she worked with but they wouldn't have got into power without her\".\n\nAs part of Tony Blair's inner circle during the New Labour era, she helped lead the party back into government and became its general secretary in 1998, playing a key role behind the scenes.\n\nSir Tony called her the \"most loyal friend anyone could wish for\" and said she was a \"vital element\" during Labour's success in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nShe went on to run the successful 2001 election campaign and was made a life peer in 2004.\n\nLord Mandelson, who was the party's campaign director during the1997 election, said she was a \"tour de force\" who ran Labour's headquarters \"with a rod of iron\".\n\nHe continued: \"Everyone was terrified, including me. I have never met anyone so resolute, so uncompromisingly honest and so direct.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Neil Kinnock said she was \"magnificent in every way\" and had shown courage in fighting her illness.\n\nHe added: \"She strove in the most practical ways for true equality for women throughout her life, she was a brilliant organizer for democracy and she had mixture of steel and charm which earned her loyalty from friends and admiration from foes.\"\n\nIn March, her sister Siobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, accused the NHS of abandoning people with glioblastoma, the brain condition Margaret was diagnosed with.\n\nIn an emotional Commons speech, she was critical of the lack of progress in how the cancer is treated, saying: \"There is no hope, no future, no trials, nothing.\"", "Since getting Covid three years ago Iva Safrova spends much of her time at home, often in bed\n\nIva Safrova's existence is unrecognisable from the full and active life she led three years ago.\n\nBack in March 2020 she got Covid-19 when she was a health care worker on a renal ward at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales - and she never recovered.\n\n\"My life is ruined,\" said the 59-year old from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"No job, no social life. Cycling, travelling, walking - everything is gone.\"\n\nWith the Covid Inquiry under way with the aim of learning lessons from the past, it would be easy to assume the pandemic was behind us.\n\nBut with an estimated 2% of the population in Wales reporting they still have Covid symptoms a year after diagnosis, Covid-19 is far from over for many.\n\nIva became unwell right at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"I think I caught Covid from the first patient on our ward,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gareth Evans says he would like to see dedicated health facilities for people with long Covid in Wales\n\nShe went to bed with a temperature, exhaustion and a cough, assuming she would feel better within a couple of weeks at most.\n\nBut weeks turned into months, with simple tasks leaving her feeling like a \"walking zombie\".\n\n\"I was crying a lot and I didn't know what to do. The doctor told me to be patient,\" said Iva, who moved to the UK from the Czech Republic 14 years ago.\n\n\"You feel alone, you feel very alone, [with] nobody [to] help you.\"\n\nShe was prescribed antibiotics which did not help.\n\nEventually with no progress in her recovery, numerous tests all coming back clear and barely able to leave the house she was dismissed from her job because of long-term ill health.\n\nAt rock bottom she came across Long Covid Support - back then it was a Facebook group, today it is a registered charity.\n\n\"The Facebook group helped me because I was thinking I was crazy,\" said Iva.\n\nIva likes to visit family in the Czech Republic but now has to use a wheelchair at the airport\n\n\"With the illness I'm crying every day and [a girl in the group] said 'I have the same'.\"\n\nThree years on she still spends much of her time in bed.\n\n\"You feel tired, tired, tired from in the morning... because I do little, sit down, do little, lie down,\" she said.\n\nIn a bid to get well, Iva has taken things in to her own hands and lost weight, drastically changed her diet and spent hundreds of pounds on supplements and alternative medicine - but nothing seems to work.\n\nShe said being prescribed antidepressants \"saved her life\" and she is due to start HRT (hormone replacement therapy).\n\nIva loves to swim but now finds it exhausting\n\nLooking back over the past three years, one of the biggest frustrations has been barely being able to see doctors face-to-face.\n\nAs time moves on she said she and others like her are being forgotten.\n\n\"I think people don't know long Covid exists - it's an invisible illness,\" she said.\n\n\"Covid is gone [from the news] and millions of people have long Covid.\"\n\nGareth Evans has struggled to regain his fitness after getting Covid more than three years ago\n\nGareth Evans, 45, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, said he felt lucky compared with others with long Covid as he has been able to return to work and regain some of his previous fitness.\n\nIn April 2020 he became unwell with ear pain, fever and fatigue. With no testing available and the absence of a cough he was told he did not have Covid.\n\nHe went to bed to rest but as time went on instead of getting better he found he was developing new symptoms.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital under observation and in June 2020 was told he was suffering from anxiety and depression.\n\nBrain fog meant Gareth had to list all his symptoms before speaking to his doctor\n\nDuring this time he too came across the Facebook group Long Covid Support .\n\n\"It was a great source of comfort to me in terms of sharing experiences with other people or getting that validation that I was actually sick,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen messages from people where as a result [of long Covid] they've lost their partners or their homes, they're trying to claim disability but because they can't prove that they're ill they have real difficulty trying to get that help.\"\n\nHe said for him one of the most challenging symptoms was insomnia.\n\nGareth at the top of Pen y Fan before getting Covid\n\n\"I was lying in the bed for hours on end. It was difficult because it was a condition no-one knew anything about, I wasn't sure if I was ever going to recover or if I was going to live or die.\n\n\"The mental toll it took on me was enormous,\" he said.\n\nBefore getting sick Gareth had been training for a triathlon and was at the peak of his fitness - but he found himself signed off work and barely able to leave the house.\n\nWith so many symptoms Gareth was referred to countless specialists.\n\n\"Looking back, I've gone back and counted the number of appointments that I've had - at the moment I've had 127 appointments and that's outside of the stays I've had in hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"In my view isn't an effective use of resources.\"\n\nHe wants to see big changes in the way Wales treats people with long Covid.\n\n\"I think we'd be better served with a specialist clinic here in Wales, similar to what they have in England,\" he said.\n\nHe wants somewhere where patients can \"access all the various tests to rule out certain life-threatening conditions and give you that peace of mind\".\n\nGareth is speaking out to raise awareness of long Covid\n\nHe also wants to see patients involved in the conversation about how best to treat those with the condition.\n\nThe Welsh government said it has increased funding for long Covid patients and supporting them remained a priority.\n\nAlthough there are no long Covid clinics in Wales, it said rehabilitation services could be accessed through GPs\n\nSince Gareth first got Covid the UK has seen three prime ministers and, until the Covid inquiry, the cost-of-living crisis and war in Ukraine has knocked Covid from the headlines.\n\n\"Covid was everywhere in the news when you turned on the TV but nowadays you just don't hear about it,\" said Gareth.\n\n\"For some people we are still in the middle of the pandemic because we are suffering, we still haven't got back to our old lives.\"\n\n\"I think people don't know long Covid exists - it's an invisible illness,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very worried, if I stay like that all my life will be hell, it's horrible, horrible.\"", "The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has vowed to \"go all the way\" to topple Russia's military leadership, hours after the Kremlin accused him of \"armed rebellion\".\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin said his Wagner fighters had crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia, entering the city of Rostov-on-Don.\n\nMr Prigozhin said his men would destroy anyone who stood in their way.\n\nThe local governor urged citizens there to keep calm and stay indoors.\n\nMr Prigozhin claimed that his forces had shot down a Russian military helicopter that \"opened fire on a civilian convoy\". He did not give a location and the assertion could not be immediately verified.\n\nThe Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.\n\nTension has been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Mr Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.\n\nOn Friday, the 62-year-old mercenary leader accused the military of launching a deadly missile strike on his troops and vowed to punish them. He did not provide evidence.\n\nAuthorities have denied the strike and demanded he halt his \"illegal actions\".\n\nMr Prigozhin said the \"evil\" in Russia's military leadership must be stopped and vowed to \"march for justice\".\n\n\"Those who killed our lads, and tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers [in the war in Ukraine] will be punished,\" he said in an audio message posted to the social media platform Telegram.\n\n\"I ask you not to resist. Anyone who does will be considered a threat and destroyed. That goes for any checkpoints and aviation on our way.\n\n\"Presidential power, the government, the police and Russian guard will work as usual.\n\n\"This is not a military coup, but a march of justice. Our actions do not interfere with the troops in any way.\"\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin is receiving round-the-clock updates on the situation, his spokesman said.\n\nSecurity in Moscow was stepped up on Friday night at prime locations in Moscow, including government buildings and transport facilities, Russia's state-owned news agency TASS said.\n\nThe governor of Russia's Lipetsk region is also asking residents not to travel south.\n\nLipetsk is around 280km (175 miles) north-east of the nearest Ukrainian border, and more than 500km north of Rostov.\n\nWriting on Telegram, Igor Artamonov said security measures in the region are being tightened, with a particular focus on protecting critical infrastructure facilities.\n\nIn a tweet late on Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said simply: \"We are watching.\"\n\nThe White House said it was monitoring the situation and would consult with US allies.\n\nGen Sergei Surovikin, the deputy head of the Russian forces in Ukraine, whose leadership Mr Prigozhin has praised in the past, called on him to \"stop the convoys and return them to their bases\".\n\n\"We are of one blood, we are warriors,\" he said in a video. \"You mustn't play into the enemy's hands at a time that is difficult for our country.\"\n\nAnother senior commander, Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev, described the Wagner chief's actions as \"a stab in the back of the country and the president\".\n\nMr Prigozhin has been openly critical of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu\n\nRussian state media reported that the FSB, Russia's security service, has opened a criminal case against Mr Prigozhin, accusing him of \"calling for an armed rebellion\" and attempting to start armed civil conflict in Russia.\n\nThe FSB also reportedly called on Wagner fighters to disobey his orders and to take steps to apprehend him.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said in a statement that \"all reports by Prigozhin spread on social media\" of Russian strikes on Wagner camps were \"not true and are an information provocation\".\n\nIt comes after a video message in May in which Mr Prigozhin stood surrounded by the bodies of his troops and berated Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu - as well as Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - for not providing them with enough ammunition.\n\nOn Friday, he declared that the war in Ukraine had been started \"so that Shoigu could become a Marshal\".\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president and tell a story that there was some crazy aggression by Ukraine, that - together with the whole Nato bloc - Ukraine was planning to attack us,\" he said.", "Foo Fighters delivered a gnarly and ragged performance that felt like a miniature greatest hits set\n\nIt was one of Glastonbury's worst-kept secrets, but nobody was truly prepared to believe it until it happened.\n\nThen, shortly after 18:00 BST, Dave Grohl strolled onto the Pyramid Stage for a surprise set with Foo Fighters.\n\nIt was the band's first time at the festival since headlining in 2017, and their first full UK gig since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last year.\n\n\"You guys knew it was us the whole time, didn't you?\" laughed Grohl. \"It's nice to see your faces again.\"\n\nIn the run-up to the festival, the band had been billed as The ChurnUps, and Pulp and Blur had also been rumoured to be the mystery guests.\n\nBut Foo Fighters confirmed their appearance in a tweet an hour before their set, after which the already-crammed Pyramid Stage audience swelled to even bigger numbers.\n\nThey were rewarded with a miniature greatest hits set, as the group raced through All My Life, Learn To Fly, The Pretender and Best Of You, as well as snippets of Metallica's Enter Sandman, Black Sabbath's Paranoid and the Beastie Boys' Sabotage.\n\n\"We've only got one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can,\" Grohl explained.\n\nThe band drew a crowd approaching 100,000 people to the Pyramid Stage\n\nIt's hard to imagine the emotions he and the rest of the band were experiencing.\n\nWhen Foo Fighters last played Glastonbury, Hawkins was behind the kit. After his untimely death last year, Grohl's first public appearance was on the Pyramid Stage, during Paul McCartney's headline set.\n\nThe singer never gives less than his all but, even by his own standards, he was like a man possessed during Friday night's set.\n\nThe riffs were harder, the screams were more visceral. He was drenched in sweat within the first minute.\n\nIt was invigorating and emotional, especially during a slow, stripped-back version of My Hero that felt like an unspoken tribute to Hawkins (even more than Everlong, which was actually dedicated to him).\n\nImmediately after, Grohl brought out his daughter Violet to duet on Show Me How, a requiem to his mother Virginia, who also died last year.\n\nStill, the set was more celebratory than maudlin, with elongated versions of their songs that felt refreshed and relaxed, despite the compressed running time.\n\nGrohl and guitarist Pat Smear have been playing together for three decades\n\nNew drummer Josh Freese, who only joined a couple of months ago, fits right in. An accomplished session drummer, he is less of a focal point than Hawkins, who would often take the mic during the band's concerts, and his playing is more muscular than his predecessor's melodic style.\n\nBut, as Grohl told the audience, \"we wouldn't be here without him\".\n\nAfter an all-too-brief set, watched by Paul McCartney and his daughter Stella from the wings of the Pyramid Stage, they exited with a squall of feedback and a promise.\n\n\"If you guys come back, we'll come back... see you next year.\"\n\nThe group will be followed on the bill by UK rock duo Royal Blood, and headliners Arctic Monkeys, whose performance was only confirmed this morning, after frontman Alex Turner spent the week recovering from acute laryngitis.\n\nTexas drew a huge crowd to the Pyramid Stage on Friday afternoon\n\nFriday marks the first full day of music at the festival, which opened its gates to 200,000 revellers on Wednesday morning.\n\nSinger-songwriter Ben Howard opened proceedings on the festival's second-biggest stage - known as The Other Stage - shortly before lunchtime.\n\nThe Brit award winner, who recently returned to music after suffering two mini-strokes, was visibly moved by the crowd who came to watch his early-morning set, offering a heartfelt and lingering goodbye and thank you at the end.\n\n\"It was really special out there,\" he told BBC News after he stepped off stage.\n\n\"There's something in the air, isn't there? Everyone's having a great time, early doors. It's magic.\"\n\nOver on the Pyramid Stage, The Master Musicians of Joujouka were first on the bill, playing an ancient style of trance-inducing music from the Ahl Srif mountains of Morocco.\n\nIt was a gentle, uplifting way to ease people into the day, ahead of a main-stage line-up that also included pop singer Maisie Peters, dancehall-inflected rapper Stefflon Don and Scottish rock band Texas.\n\nThe latter drew a huge crowd, who were almost word perfect on hits like Say What You Want, I Don't Want A Lover and Summer Son.\n\nIt was the band's first time at the festival since 1999, over which time Sharleen Spiteri's voice had developed a subtle rasp that added a welcome touch of grit to their soft-focus rock ballads.\n\nSpeaking at the end of their set, the star said she had been asked several times about Texas's addition to the bill, with the unspoken assumption that they were only there to balance out the male acts.\n\n\"I can only say Emily Eavis is a massive supporter of female musicians,\" she said.\n\n\"Not because she's ticking a box. She's putting us on these stages because she thinks we're [expletive] amazing.\"\n\nStefflon Don brought a touch of dancehall to the Pyramid Stage\n\nElsewhere around the site, The Lightning Seeds hosted a laid-back singalong on The Other Stage, while ADG7 gave an impromptu Korean lesson in the middle of their relentlessly danceable set on West Holts.\n\nCarly Rae Jepsen was a mid-afternoon highlight on The Other Stage, climbing down the stage scaffolding and jumping into the crowd during a joyous rendition of her hit song Call Me Maybe.\n\nThe Canadian star's dedicated fanbase turned up in pink cowboy hats, brandishing inflatable swords (it's a long-running joke that the star receives a sword from the audience at every show).\n\nTo make things even more surreal, one section of the audience even formed a human pyramid, topped by a man dressed as Super Mario who swung his beret around while hollering the words to Cut To The Feeling.\n\n\"I don't know what to say,\" said the singer. \"This is one of those memories that will be implanted in my mind forever.\"\n\nCarly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe was one of the biggest singalongs of Friday afternoon\n\nAfter Foo Fighters, Friday's highlights also include WizKid, who will be bringing a touch of Lagos to Pilton with a headline set on The Other Stage; and R&B star Kelis, who will be delivering a truckload of Milkshakes to West Holts.\n\nThe festival continues all weekend, with Guns N' Roses, Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Loyle Carner, Blondie and Elton John all scheduled to play.", "...but we'll be back tomorrow, and we'll have a wealth of music legends to get our ears around.\n\nSir Elton John will be headlining the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night and has promised to create a \"brand new show\" for Glastonbury.\n\nHis set will wrap up his touring commitments in the UK, and Sir Elton has told Radio 1's Clara Amfo it \"couldn't be a more perfect ending\".\n\nElsewhere, in the coveted Sunday afternoon Legend slot Yusuf, also known as Cat Stevens, will take to the stage.\n\nGlasto festival-goers will also be treated to Lil Nas X, Blondie, Queens of the Stone Age, Rudimental, Phoenix, Alt-J, and many, many more.\n\nToday's coverage was brought to you by myself, Christy Cooney, Imogen James and Jasmine Taylor-Coleman in London, as well as our reporters in Glastonbury.\n\nGoodnight and see you tomorrow!", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump is spending the night in Miami, Florida, before he appears in court there on Tuesday charged with mishandling national security files.\n\nThe former US president flew from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to his Trump Doral resort near Miami.\n\nMr Trump is facing dozens of charges of illegally retaining classified information, including some about nuclear secrets.\n\nIt is the second time this year he has been charged with a crime.\n\nMr Trump, campaigning to make a return to the White House in 2024, has denied wrongdoing as he faces the first ever federal criminal prosecution against a former US president.\n\nHe appeared muted but unflustered as he strolled into the steakhouse at his Miami golf resort on Monday evening.\n\nMr Trump greeted the smattering of guests at the BLT Prime restaurant with his signature thumbs-up, and even posed for a photo with a group of men enjoying their happy hour.\n\n\"With you all the way!\" shouted one patron seated at the bar.\n\n\"Thank you very much,\" Mr Trump replied, before security escorted him to the dining area.\n\nThe guests had an inkling of Mr Trump's arrival when several security agents appeared and casually swept diners with metal detectors. A few had their phones ready to snap photos.\n\nThe staff, on the other hand, were nonchalant about their boss' presence, continuing to mix drinks and serve guests.\n\nA handful of supporters were also at the bar. One woman sipped wine with a Trump flag draped over the back of her chair.\n\nMr Trump has continued to strike a defiant tone. In an interview on a Spanish-language talk radio programme in Miami, he aired grievances with the indictment, while accusing the Biden administration of weaponising law enforcement agencies against him.\n\nMeanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters the city was preparing for Mr Trump's court appearance.\n\nPolice will be deployed in anticipation of crowds up to 50,000 people, he said, though other sources told US media the expected number was in the low thousands.\n\n\"We encourage people to be peaceful,\" Mr Suarez said.\n\nThe former president flew to Miami on his Trump Force One jet\n\nHe is holed up at his Trump Doral golf course complex near Miami\n\nOn Saturday, in his first public appearances since the charges were filed, Mr Trump said the case amounted to \"election interference\" by the \"corrupt\" FBI and justice department.\n\nThe former president will appear in court alongside a close aide, Walt Nauta, who was charged by the same grand jury in Florida.\n\nMr Nauta faces six criminal counts related to alleged handling of national security documents. Both men are scheduled to make their initial appearances at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nA federal judge denied a request by news organisations for photo and video access during Tuesday's hearing - though a court sketch artist will be present.\n\nAfterwards, Mr Trump is expected to return to Bedminster to make remarks to the media.\n\nLast week's 37-count indictment comes after more than 100 documents with classified markings were found at Mr Trump's private Florida resort Mar-a-Lago in August.\n\nFederal prosecutors accuse the Republican of illegally retaining documents, storing some in a ballroom and a shower at Mar-a-Lago and engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the government's attempts to retrieve them.\n\nThe documents allegedly contained information about the defence and weapons capabilities of both the US and foreign countries, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.\n\nMr Trump, the indictment claims, tried to obstruct the FBI inquiry into the missing files by suggesting his lawyer \"hide or destroy\" them, or tell investigators he did not have them.\n\nLegal experts say the criminal charges could lead to substantial prison time if he is convicted. Mr Trump has vowed to continue his campaign for president whatever the verdict.\n\nMr Trump has also pointed out that classified files were also found in Mr Biden's former office and Delaware home, including in his garage.\n\nThe White House has previously said it immediately co-operated with officials as soon as those files were discovered, a contrast with Mr Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators.\n\nA federal investigation into Mr Biden's handling of classified documents is being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur and is still under way.\n\nWhat do you want to know about Donald Trump's court appearance? Our US experts will be answering your questions on Tuesday.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nKatie Boulter has replaced Emma Raducanu as the British number one women's player following her run to the Surbiton Trophy semi-finals.\n\nBoulter, 26, will hold the top spot for the first time in her career when she plays at the Nottingham Open this week.\n\nRaducanu, 20, became British number one after her US Open triumph in 2021 but has been hampered by injuries since.\n\n\"Naturally, I am very proud to join the women before me who have reached that historic spot,\" Boulter said.\n\n\"However, my main goal remains on improving my ranking and continuing to work hard.\n\n\"It's going to be an exciting summer as we are all very close in the rankings.\"\n\nRanked 126 in the world following her three victories at Surbiton, Boulter is two places and 19 points above Raducanu in the latest standings, with Jodie Burrage (131), Katie Swan (134) and Harriet Dart (143) all close behind.\n\nRaducanu is set to miss the summer season - including Wimbledon - after undergoing hand and ankle surgery, which also kept her out of the French Open.\n\nAt Wimbledon last year, Boulter recorded the biggest win of her career in beating former world number one and 2021 runner-up Karolina Pliskova to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.\n\nLeicester-born Boulter first picked up a racquet at the age of five before going on to represent Great Britain at eight.\n\nHer breakthrough year came in 2018, when she won her first ITF 25k and 60k titles, before reaching her first WTA quarter-final at the Nottingham Open as a wildcard.\n\nShe reached a career-high ranking of 82 in 2019, however a stress fracture of the back kept her out for six months and disrupted her progress.\n\nBoulter has been drawn against compatriot Emily Appleton in her first match in Nottingham on Tuesday, with coverage of this week's tournament available on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app and the BBC Red Button every day.\n• None On court legends and off court revolutionaries...: Meet the most iconic tennis players of the 1970s and 1980s", "Jean Jefferson says IRA bomber helped her come to terms with husband's death\n\nA woman whose father was injured in an IRA bomb 50 years ago has said the friendship she forged with the bomber has helped her through the recent death of her husband.\n\nJean Jefferson's father was severely disfigured in the blast, which killed six people, including her aunt, in Coleraine in 1973.\n\nIn 2011, Jean met and forgave the man who was convicted of the bombing.\n\nSean McGlinchey spent 18 years in jail for his part in the car bomb attack.\n\nTwo car bombs exploded in the County Londonderry town on 12 June 1973.\n\nAll of those injured or killed were caught up in the first explosion, which went off on Railway Road at 15:00 BST.\n\nA second explosion went off in Hanover Place five minutes later.\n\n\"I was teaching in England at the time and got a call that changed our lives forever,\" Mrs Jefferson told BBC News NI.\n\n\"My sister ran down town to see what happened. My father was sat with his head in his hands. She didn't even recognise him because he was that injured.\n\n\"I remember arriving back at the airport in Northern Ireland. Nobody was able to meet me at Aldergrove because of what happened at home.\n\n\"Home changed from then. How could someone do that in my home town, I thought.\"\n\nSean McGlinchey, who is currently a Sinn Féin councillor, faced criticism after being appointed as mayor of Limavady in 2011.\n\nMrs Jefferson said: \"People gave him such a hard time and I remember being angry as he said he was sorry.\n\n\"My father also forgave Sean although he never told him directly. He was the instigator of forgiveness. How could we as a family not forgive then?\n\n\"I understand why some people can't do what we've done. I understand all sides.\"\n\nShe added: \"My husband died last year and Sean has been a great friend to me. Bill had a great deal of time for Sean.\n\n\"Sean had a mass said for him in the monastery in Portglenone. He was really upset about Bill's death. That meant a lot to me.\"\n\nWhen asked in advance about John Finucane attending an IRA commemoration in south Armagh, Mrs Jefferson said she \"has a lot of time\" the Sinn Féin MP.\n\n\"I understand how people struggle to understand it but I really think he was condemned before he gave his speech. That's not right either.\"\n\nMrs Jefferson said she will spend the 50th anniversary of the IRA bombing on her own at home to reflect.\n\nThe new memorial was unveiled in the presence of the mayor and relatives of victims\n\nA memorial to the victims of the bombing was unveiled during an act of remembrance service in Coleraine on Monday afternoon.\n\nMayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Steven Callaghan said the memorial would ensure the innocent lives lost that day would never be forgotten.\n\n\"This beautiful sculpture will ensure the victims are never forgotten and will give the families a place to come and remember them,\" he said.\n\n\"We would not have reached this point without the help and support of the victims' families and I want to thank them for engaging with this long collaborative process to bring about this fitting memorial.\"\n\nThe permanent memorial follows the unveiling in 2022 of a granite plaque enshrined on a pavement at Railway Road in the town - marking the location of the first bomb.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The boat, called Hurricane, caught fire off the coast of Marsa Alam\n\nThree British people have died after a fire on a dive boat in the Egyptian Red Sea, the tour operator for the trip has said.\n\nIn a statement, Scuba Travel said the tourists' families had been contacted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nTwenty-six other people, including 12 Britons, were rescued from the boat called Hurricane, authorities said.\n\nInitial reports suggest the fire, which started at 06:30 local time on Sunday, started after an electrical fault.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Foreign Office, which has not yet confirmed the deaths - but earlier a spokesperson said British nationals were being supported.\n\nThe boat left Port Ghalib on 6 June and been due to return on Sunday.\n\n\"It is with great regret that we, as tour operator, with heavy hearts, must accept that three of our much-valued dive guests... perished in the tragic incident,\" said the statement from Scuba Travel.\n\n\"Our sincere and heartfelt condolences go out to their families and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nIt said the 12 Britons on board had been present at an early-morning briefing on Sunday, and the three others who went missing were not as they had \"apparently decided not to dive\" that morning.\n\nAll of those on board were described as \"qualified diving enthusiasts\".\n\nThe statement said the \"severity of the fire\" meant that the 12 divers present at the briefing were immediately evacuated to another boat nearby.\n\nThey were followed by the 14 crew members, including the captain and two dive guides, after attempts to reach the missing guests were unsuccessful.\n\nScuba Travel said it had been working with the boat's operator, Tornado Marine, since 2001.\n\nGuests rescued from the boat were brought on shore to the village of Marsa Shagra, where they were provided with medical assistance and are understood to have given statements to local police.\n\nScuba Travel added the British tourists rescued from the boat were likely to return to the UK in the coming week, and local authorities would conduct a full investigation into the fire.", "Media watchdog Ofcom has confirmed that it is a victim of a cyber-attack by hackers linked to a notorious Russian ransomware group.\n\nConfidential data about some companies regulated by Ofcom, and personal information from 412 employees was downloaded during the mass hack.\n\nA number of firms, including British Airways, the BBC and Boots, have been affected by the software breach.\n\nTransport for London also told the BBC on Monday it had been affected.\n\nThe mass hack breached software called MOVEit, which is designed to move sensitive files - such as employee addresses or bank account details - securely and is used by companies around the world.\n\nOfcom said it had \"swiftly\" alerted all the affected companies that it regulates and referred the matter to the data and privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).\n\nIt is understood that no payroll data was compromised.\n\n\"A limited amount of information about certain companies we regulate - some of it confidential - along with personal data of 412 Ofcom employees, was downloaded during the attack,\" said Ofcom.\n\n\"We took immediate action to prevent further use of the MOVEit service and to implement the recommended security measures. We also swiftly alerted all affected Ofcom-regulated companies, and we continue to offer support and assistance to our colleagues.\"\n\nIt said that none of its own systems were compromised during the attack.\n\nTransport for London (TfL), which operates the capital's public transport, told the BBC it too had been affected.\n\nIt said one of its contractors had suffered a data breach.\n\n\"The issue has been fixed and the IT systems have been secured. The data in question did not include banking details and we are writing to all of those involved to make them aware of the incident\".\n\nThe breach did not relate to passenger data. TfL said the ICO had been informed.\n\nAccountancy firm Ernst & Young (EY) also told the BBC it was a victim.\n\nAs soon as it became aware of the problem with MOVEit the firm \"immediately launched an investigation into our use of the tool and took urgent steps to safeguard any data\".\n\nIt said the vast majority of its systems which used the software were unaffected but added: \"We are manually and thoroughly investigating systems where data may have been accessed.\n\n\"Our priority is to first communicate to those impacted, as well as the relevant authorities. Our investigation is ongoing.\"\n\nThe hack is known as a \"supply-chain attack\".\n\nIt was first disclosed when US company Progress Software said hackers had found a way to break into its MOVEit Transfer tool.\n\nA security flaw was exploited by hackers to gain access to a number of companies.\n\nSome organisations that do not even use MOVEit are affected because of third-party arrangements.\n\nThe BBC, for example, has had data from current and past employees stolen because Zellis, a company that the broadcaster uses to process the payroll, used MOVEit and fell victim.\n\nIt is understood eight companies that use Zellis are affected, including the airlines British Airways and Aer Lingus, as well the retailer Boots. Dozens of other UK companies are thought to be using MOVEit.\n\nThe criminals responsible for the hack are linked to the notorious Clop ransomware group, thought to be based in Russia.\n\nThey have threatened to begin publishing data of companies that do not email them to begin the negotiations by Wednesday.\n\nBBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy said the group is well-known for carrying out its threats and it is likely that organisations will have private data published on the gang's darknet website in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said it is usually the case that if a victim does not appear on Clop's website, they may have secretly paid the group a ransom which could be hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.\n\nVictims are always encouraged not to pay though as it fuels the growth of this criminal enterprise and there is no guarantee that the hackers will not use the data for secondary attacks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday, in the dead of night at the heart of the Colombian jungle, army radios crackled to life with the message the nation had been praying for: \"Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.\"\n\nThe military code revealed that four children missing in the jungle for 40 days had all been found - alive.\n\nThe youngsters, all members of the indigenous Huitoto people, had been missing since the light plane they were travelling in crashed into the Amazon in the early hours of 1 May.\n\nThe tragedy killed their mother and left the children - aged 13, nine, four and one - stranded alone in an area teeming with snakes, jaguars and mosquitos.\n\nRescuers initially feared the worst, but footprints, partially eaten wild fruit and other clues soon gave them hope that the children might be alive after they left the crash site looking for help.\n\nOver the next six weeks, the children battled the elements - and the odds - in what Colombia's President Gustavo Petro called \"an example of total survival which will remain in history\".\n\nIf there were ever children well-prepared to tackle such an ordeal, the Mucutuy family were the ones.\n\nHuitoto people learn hunting, fishing and gathering from an early age, and their grandfather Fidencio Valencia told reporters that the eldest children, Lesly and Soleiny, were well acquainted with the jungle.\n\nSpeaking to Colombian media, the children's aunt, Damarys Mucutuy, said the family would regularly play a \"survival game\" together growing up.\n\n\"When we played, we set up like little camps,\" she recalled. Thirteen-year-old Lesly, she added, \"knew what fruits she can't eat, because there are many poisonous fruits in the forest. And she knew how to take care of a baby\".\n\nFidencio Valencia told reporters that the children had grown up learning to take care of themselves in the jungle\n\nAfter the crash, Lesly built makeshift shelters from branches held together with her hair ties.\n\nShe also recovered fariña, a type of cassava flour, from the wreckage of the Cessna 206 plane they had been travelling in.\n\nThe children survived on the flour until it ran out and then they ate seeds, Edwin Paki, one of the indigenous leaders who took part in the search effort, told reporters.\n\n\"There's a fruit, similar to passion fruit, called avichure,\" he said. \"They were looking for seeds to eat from an avichure tree about a kilometre and a half from the site of the plane crash.\"\n\nThe fruit from the avichure tree, also known as milk tree, is rich in sugar and its seeds can be chewed like chewing gum.\n\nHenry Guerrero, one of the indigenous people who was part of the search team that finally located the children, said they had also been eating fruits from the Bacaba palm tree known locally as \"milpesos\", which are rich in oil and taste similar to avocados.\n\nHe said one of the young children had a seed from the tree in his mouth when they found him.\n\nAstrid Cáceres, head of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, said the timing of their ordeal meant \"the jungle was in harvest\" and they could eat fruit that was in bloom.\n\nBut they still faced significant challenges surviving in the inhospitable environment.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Mundo on Saturday, indigenous expert Alex Rufino said the children were in \"a very dark, very dense jungle, where the largest trees in the region are\".\n\nAnd while there are leaves with which the children could purify water, he warned that \"others are poisonous\".\n\n\"It is an area that has not been explored. The towns are small, and they are next to the river, not in the jungle,\" he added.\n\nIn addition to avoiding predators, the children also endured intense rainstorms and may have had to evade armed groups said to be active in the jungle.\n\nBut Mr Rufino noted that a 13-year-old raised in an indigenous community would already possess many of the skills needed to thrive in such an environment.\n\nJohn Moreno, leader of the Guanano group in Vaupés, in the south-eastern part of Colombia where the children were brought up, said they had been \"raised by their grandmother\", a widely respected indigenous elder.\n\n\"They used what they learned in the community, relied on their ancestral knowledge in order to survive,\" he said.\n\nAs the search continued, officials in Bogota came under pressure over its slowness. President Petro faced criticism after his office falsely published a tweet saying the children had been found.\n\nAuthorities dropped 10,000 leaflets with survival tips written in Spanish and the indigenous Huitoto language, and helicopters blared messages from their grandmother from speakers to reassure the children they were being looked for.\n\nBut unbeknownst to the media, the army was coming increasingly close to finding the family. On several occasions rescue teams passed within 20 to 50 metres (66 to 164ft) of where the children were found, search commander Gen Pedro Sánchez said.\n\nBy the time the children were discovered, about 150 troops and 200 volunteers from local indigenous groups were involved in the operation, which was combing an area of more than 300 sq km (124 sq miles).\n\n\"This isn't a search for a needle in a haystack, it's a tiny flea in a vast carpet, because they keep moving,\" Gen Sanchez told reporters during the hunt.\n\nBut on Friday, after a month-long search, specialist rescue dogs found the children.\n\nThe first words from eldest daughter Lesly, who was holding the baby in her arms, was \"I'm hungry,\" one of the rescuers told Colombia's RTVC. One of the boys, who had been lying down, got up and said: \"My mum is dead.\"\n\nIt later emerged that the children's mother had survived in the jungle for four days after the plane crash. \"Before she died, their mum told them something like, 'You guys get out of here'\" said the children's father, Manuel Ranoque.\n\nA video shared by Colombia's ministry of defence showed the children being lifted into a helicopter in the dark, above the tall trees. They have been flown to the nation's capital, Bogota, where ambulances have taken them to hospital for further medical treatment.\n\nThe children's family thanked the army for continuing their search despite the low odds of survival, and they urged the government to bring the children home as soon as possible.\n\n\"I never lost hope, I was always supporting the search. I feel very happy, I thank President Petro and my 'countrymen' who went through so many difficulties,\" their grandmother told state media.\n\nPresident Petro also hailed the efforts of the army and the volunteers, praising \"the meeting of knowledge: indigenous and military\", adding that \"this is the true path of peace\".\n\nBut he reserved special praise for the children and their relationship with the environment.\n\n\"They are children of the jungle, and now they are also children of Colombia,\" he said.\n\nWhile many in deeply Catholic Colombia have referred to the children's rescue as a \"miracle\", Mr Rufino, the indigenous expert, said the real story lay in their \"spiritual connection with nature\".\n\n\"The jungle is not only green, but there are ancient energies with which the populations relate, learn and help each other,\" he said.\n\n\"It is difficult to understand this, I know, but this is a good opportunity for society, human beings, to learn about the different worldviews that exist in the territories.\n\n\"The same mother, who became a spirit after the accident, protected them,\" he said. \"And only now is she going to start resting.\"", "An 11-year-old girl from a British family who was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden in France has been named as Solaine Thornton.\n\nThe family were having a barbecue on Saturday evening when the shooting happened in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany.\n\nHer parents, Adrian and Rachel Thornton, were also hurt and are in hospital.\n\nThe family were named by the mayor of the commune where the family lived, Marguerite Bleuzen.\n\nThe UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was providing assistance to a British family.\n\nThe girl and her eight-year-old sister were playing on a swing as their parents tended the barbecue, when a neighbour began firing at them with a shotgun through a hedge.\n\nThe younger girl ran to another neighbour's house to raise the alarm and is now said to be in shock.\n\nA local resident told French media that the younger child ran to neighbours shouting: \"My sister is dead, my sister is dead\".\n\nThe suspect, described as a 71-year-old Dutch national, reportedly shut himself in his house following the incident but eventually surrendered to police and was arrested along with his wife.\n\nLocals said the man was something of a recluse who was in dispute with the British family over a plot of land adjoining the two properties.\n\nLocal media reported that the family had lived in the village for several years.\n\nA forensic officer was one of the staff spotted gathering evidence at the family home\n\nProsecutor Carine Halley said the circumstances around the incident were not yet known.\n\nMs Bleuzen, the mayor of Plonévez-du-Faou commune, said: \"We knew the family well. There is a village fête every year and they always came.\n\n\"It is incomprehensible to have shot a child. No one can understand how that could have happened.\"\n\nRegine Guillot, the secretary of the Plonevez-du-Faou town hall, said the village \"is in shock\".\n\n\"There were neighbourhood issues, yes, a hedge, a field, but nothing more than that, not that we were aware of,\" Guillot told Reuters.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We are providing consular assistance to a British family following a shooting in France and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon was synonymous with the SNP, but is now facing calls to quit the party she once led\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has rejected calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from the SNP after his predecessor was arrested as part of a police probe of party finances.\n\nMs Sturgeon was released without charge and insists she is innocent, but has faced calls from opposition parties and some SNP politicians to step back from her party membership while the investigation continues.\n\nThis inquiry has taken the SNP into uncharted territory after years of stability at the top of Scottish politics, but there have been questions over the membership of some parliamentarians in the past.\n\nWhat precedent will Mr Yousaf and Ms Sturgeon have to lean upon as they weigh up her future in the SNP?\n\nColin Beattie quit as SNP treasurer, but continues to represent the party on the back benches at Holyrood\n\nThe most immediate examples come from the same police investigation into party fundraising and finances, which has seen two other senior SNP figures arrested and released without charge.\n\nThe first was Peter Murrell, the party's former chief executive and Ms Sturgeon's husband - the arrest which sparked a two-day search of the couple's home in Glasgow. Mr Yousaf rejected calls for him to be suspended because he is \"innocent until proven guilty\".\n\nMeanwhile Colin Beattie opted to step down as SNP Treasurer, but has stayed on as an SNP MSP - with Mr Yousaf saying \"it is really important that due process takes place\".\n\nThe first minister has leaned on these two examples as his reasoning for not suspending Ms Sturgeon, saying he has been consistent in his decisions.\n\nAlex Salmond once said he would return to the SNP after clearing his name, but now runs the rival Alba Party\n\nBut under Ms Sturgeon's leadership, there was a broad range of examples where MPs and MSPs resigned or were suspended from the SNP - which obviously cover quite different circumstances to her own.\n\nHer predecessor Alex Salmond resigned his membership when he was accused of harassment, stepping back from the party while he took the government he once led to court over its investigation.\n\nHe said he intended to rejoin the SNP once he had cleared his name, but instead set up his own Alba Party after being cleared of sexual assault charges in a criminal trial.\n\nNatalie McGarry voluntarily withdrew from the SNP whip at Westminster before being convicted of embezzlement\n\nOthers have also opted to resign or voluntarily \"step back\" from the party whip or membership.\n\nNatalie McGarry withdrew from the SNP whip at Westminster in 2015 - just months after being elected - amid a fraud investigation.\n\nAt the time, Ms Sturgeon said that was \"the right thing to have done\", although she added that Ms McGarry was \"entitled to the presumption of innocence\".\n\nShe left Westminster at the 2017 election, and was ultimately jailed for embezzlement.\n\nMichelle Thomson has called for Nicola Sturgeon to step back from the SNP, having been pushed out herself in 2015\n\nResignations are not always entirely voluntary though.\n\nMichelle Thomson resigned the whip at Westminster in 2015 amid allegations of financial impropriety which ultimately led to nothing, with prosecutors announcing two years later that there was an \"absence of sufficient credible and reliable evidence\" against her.\n\nShe said she wanted to stay in the party, but was told it was \"a case of go or be pushed\" by senior figures in the party.\n\nIn a telling sequence of events, she published a statement saying she would co-operate fully with police - one minute before the party released the same statement, but with an additional line saying she had \"decided to withdraw from the party whip\".\n\nThe fact she was left sitting as an independent MP meant she was unable to stand for the SNP in the snap election in 2017, and lost her seat - although she has since been readmitted to the party and is now an MSP at Holyrood.\n\nMs Thomson has called for Ms Sturgeon to resign the party whip while she is under investigation, saying \"her values should be consistent\".\n\nMargaret Ferrier was suspended from the SNP and faced calls to quit as an MP after breaching Covid rules\n\nOthers have been directly suspended by the party, without being given the option of jumping before they are pushed.\n\nThe MP Margaret Ferrier was suspended after admitting she had breached Covid lockdown restrictions, and Ms Sturgeon urged her to quit parliament entirely.\n\nShe sits as an independent MP but has now been suspended from the House of Commons too, meaning she faces the prospect of losing her Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat via a recall petition.\n\nAt Holyrood, the MSP Mark McDonald was suspended from the party amid harassment allegations which saw him quit as a government minister.\n\nAfter serving a month-long suspension from parliament he saw out the term as an independent MSP, having quit the party ahead of a group meeting where his SNP membership was to be debated.\n\nThe MP Chris Law has pointed out that he was detained by police as part of an investigation without ever being suspended from the SNP\n\nOne of the stranger cases was that of Neale Hanvey, who was suspended from the party midway through the 2019 general election campaign after making a \"clearly unacceptable\" post on social media.\n\nAlthough technically an independent candidate, the ballot papers in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath had already been printed with the SNP logo next to his name - and he went on to take the seat from Labour's shadow Scottish secretary.\n\nMr Hanvey was readmitted to the party in May 2020, but less than a year later he resigned to join the newly-formed Alba Party.\n\nTo complete the broadest possible range of potential outcomes, the SNP MP Chris Law has pointed out that he was detained by police in 2016 as part of a financial investigation.\n\nThe Dundee West MP was questioned by officers about his Spirit of Independence campaign, but was released without charge.\n\nHe was not suspended from the party and was backed by the party leadership, and now says remaining in post \"should be the right course for anyone that is in that position\".", "Elizabeth and Ethan John were both found unresponsive with significant injuries\n\nTwo children who were killed inside a house in Stoke-on-Trent have been named.\n\nEthan John, 11, and his sister Elizabeth, seven, were both found unresponsive with significant injuries.\n\nA woman who was known to the siblings was arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice discovered the children when they went to the house in Flax Street after first being called to the stabbing of a man at a car wash nearby.\n\nThe suspect, 49, was arrested in connection with the stabbing and then on suspicion of murder. She remains in custody and is being questioned.\n\nThe children's schools paid tribute to their pupils, saying Ethan had an \"infectious smile\" and Elizabeth was a \"ray of sunshine\".\n\n\"Ethan was a wonderful member of our school community. He had impeccable manners and an infectious smile,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He will be hugely missed by the staff and pupils alike and will forever be part of our hearts.\"\n\nElizabeth's school said she was \"a kind, caring and friendly member of our school family\".\n\n\"She was a ray of sunshine who always had a smile on her face. She was everyone's friend - she was both bright and popular,\" a statement said.\n\n\"The loss of Elizabeth is truly devastating for us all and her absence will leave a huge hole within our school community.\"\n\nThe children were found fatally injured at an address on Flax Street\n\nThe stabbed man, in his 40s, was treated in hospital but has since been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cheryl Hannan said: \"We are solely focussed on finding out what happened to these two children and supporting those affected by this deeply traumatic incident.\n\n\"I cannot begin to imagine the pain and suffering felt by the family and friends of these two children at this time.\"\n\nSpecially-trained officers are supporting \"those closest to the children whilst we find out more about what happened yesterday afternoon\", she added.\n\nNeighbours said they were heartbroken at hearing the news.\n\nA neighbour near the scene said she burst into tears when she found out the news\n\nJade Halket said: \"It's scary with it being so close, I have two young kids myself, I find it devastating. It's awful.\"\n\nAnother resident told the BBC: \"I can't put it into words, I'm absolutely gutted.\n\n\"[The children] haven't even seen a life yet. We started crying when we found out, it's just not fair,\" she said.\n\nOfficers have appealed to anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the area of Flax Street and Campbell Road between 13:30 and 14:30 BST or to hear those who were in the area at the time.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Murder arrest as children, 11 and 7, die at home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karima El Mahroug is better known as Ruby the Heart Stealer\n\nMuch has been written about the ways in which the late Silvio Berlusconi's populist politics reshaped Italian public life, but the ex-prime minister was even better known for his lurid and colourful personal life.\n\nDuring his lifetime, he had a string of spouses and partners. His second wife, Veronica Lario, divorced him in 2010 after accusing him of lying about his relationship with a teenager.\n\nBut chief among the sex scandals that surrounded him was the saga of the notorious \"bunga bunga\" parties held at his Arcore villa near Milan.\n\nThe erotic events came to light in 2010, when Berlusconi personally telephoned a police station seeking the release of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, Karima El Mahroug, who had been arrested in Milan on suspicion of jewel theft.\n\nThe bid to spring her from jail was successful. But in order to secure her freedom, Berlusconi wrongly told the police that she was a granddaughter or niece of Egypt's then-President Hosni Mubarak and her arrest risked a diplomatic incident. He later told the court that he believed that at the time.\n\nIt later emerged that the girl was a belly dancer and suspected prostitute who went under the name of Ruby Rubacuori - or in English, Ruby the Heart Stealer.\n\nShe claimed to have received $10,000 (£8,000) from Berlusconi at the parties he held.\n\nShe told prosecutors in Milan that the events, which resembled orgies, involved Berlusconi and numerous young women stripping off and performing a ritual known as the \"bunga bunga\".\n\nMany of the women attending the parties were apparently hoping to break into show business by appearing on one of the TV channels owned by Berlusconi.\n\nIn the ensuing Rubygate scandal, Berlusconi was initially found guilty of paying Ms Mahroug for sexual services while she was under the age of 18, but the verdict was overturned on appeal.\n\nFor her part, Ms Mahroug said she had never worked as a prostitute and denied any sexual relationship with Berlusconi, saying he was just a lonely man who paid to be in the company of young women.\n\nIn a biography of Berlusconi published in 2015, the ex-prime minister was quoted as saying the phrase \"bunga bunga\" originally came from a joke told to him by the Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The two men enjoyed a close friendship before Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011.\n\nWherever the expression came from, the \"bunga bunga\" parties proved to be a lasting stain on Berlusconi's reputation. It was not until February 2023 that he was finally cleared of bribing witnesses to lie about the events.\n\nIn an Instagram post following that verdict, Berlusconi said his acquittal had ended years of \"suffering, of mud and of incalculable political damage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Weather watchers enjoyed the Bangor coastal path at the weekend with better weather to follow\n\nA heatwave is set to hit Northern Ireland as temperatures nudge close to 30C at times.\n\nThermometers could climb to the high 20s towards the east on Monday in parts of counties Down, Antrim, and Armagh.\n\nThose are temperatures up to 10C above average for the time of the year.\n\nThat would make it as warm as some holiday hotspots like Benidorm and Gran Canaria in Spain, and Albufeira in Portugal.\n\nThe Met Office defines a heatwave in Northern Ireland as three consecutive days above 25C.\n\nThat heat could spark off thunderstorms on Monday and Tuesday, especially across western counties where a warning has been issued.\n\nThe yellow alert for counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Londonderry lasts from noon until 21:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt is expected that the yellow weather warning will extend to counties Antrim, Armagh and Down on Tuesday and will last from noon until 21:00 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office - Northern Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough many places will avoid them, the Met Office says 20-30mm of rain could fall in an hour where the showers hit.\n\nA few spots could see between 40-50mm with lightning and hail.\n\nThe rest of the week will stay very warm with the chance of some heavy and thundery showers, especially the first half of the week.\n\nTemperatures will stay in and around the mid twenties right through until next weekend, at least.\n\nOn Saturday the hottest day of the year so far was recorded as temperatures hit 25.3C in Armagh.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Met Éireann, has also issued a yellow weather warning for counties Leinster, Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary and Waterford.\n\nIt said localised heavy downpours could lead to localised flooding and difficult travelling conditions in these areas.", "Kylian Mbappe: PSG were told last year he would not extend contract, says France forward Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nKylian Mbappe wants to stay at Paris St-Germain for now but says he will not extend his contract beyond 2024. The 24-year-old France forward's deal expires after next season, with the option of another year. On Tuesday he tweeted he \"will continue\" at PSG, but a letter from his camp said next season would be his last at the club. Mbappe says PSG were first told on 15 July, 2022 of his decision to reject the extension. Official correspondence has followed to that effect this week, with Mbappe saying the \"only aim of the letter was to confirm what had already been spoken about\". However, PSG are prepared to sell their record goalscorer this summer rather than risk losing him for free in a year's time. Mbappe said reports he wants to join Real Madrid this summer were \"lies\". His camp told the AFP news agency on Tuesday the possibility of extending his contract \"has not been discussed since [he informed PSG last year] over the course of the year, except a fortnight ago to announce the sending of the letter\". \"No potential contract extension has been mentioned,\" they added. \"After maintaining publicly in recent weeks that he would be a PSG player next season, Kylian Mbappe has not asked to leave this summer and has just confirmed to the club that he would not be activating the extra year.\"\n• None Real Madrid? Man Utd? Where Mbappe might go next If Mbappe is sold this summer, Real Madrid are long-time admirers of the Frenchman, although he rejected a move to the Bernabeu to stay at PSG last year. The exit of Karim Benzema to Saudi Arabia means Real need a striker, but it was thought Tottenham's Harry Kane was top of their list. Mbappe, who joined PSG in 2017 initially on loan from Monaco before a 180m euro move, has scored 212 goals in 260 games. He has 38 goals in 68 games for France, including a hat-trick in last year's World Cup final in Qatar, as France lost to Argentina on penalties. Mbappe finished as Ligue 1's top scorer in each of the past five seasons and has won five league titles in his six seasons at PSG. PSG ended 2022-23 with just the Ligue 1 title after once again failing to win the Champions League, losing to Bayern Munich in the last 16. Mbappe would be the second high-profile forward to depart Parc des Princes this summer, after Argentina forward Lionel Messi left at the end of his two-year contract to join Major League Soccer's Inter Miami. Neymar, the third member of PSG's superstar frontline last season, has been linked with a big-money move to Saudi Arabia. The most important thing in Mbappe's statement today is that once again he is saying he doesn't want to leave the club this summer and that's important because now, it's all about PSG. They have to open the door (to a transfer this summer). In my understanding he will leave because he doesn't want to renew and his position won't change and I think PSG's position won't change so I think they will open the door (to a transfer) before the end of the market. The more complicated thing now is to find an agreement with Real Madrid because PSG won't want to do any gifts to Real and the Spanish club will try for a low price because they will say they don't want to pay a big amount of money for a player who is out of contract in a year. I think he wants to go to Real Madrid, but Liverpool is also there since many years as well. They kept contact with the family for many years. And I would add Manchester United because they will have a new project soon under new owners.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The boss of one of the UK's biggest food firms is calling for higher taxes on salty, fatty and sugary foods.\n\nFood producers had not \"shown enough appetite to change\", said James Mayer, who runs Danone in the UK and Irish Republic.\n\nThe French firm is best known for its yoghurt brands, but also owns bottled water brands Evian and Volvic.\n\nHe said only 10% of Danone's own products would be affected by what have been dubbed \"sin\" taxes.\n\n\"The UK food industry's efforts to improve the health profile of its products have not moved fast enough,\" Mr Mayer said in comments first shared with the Observer newspaper.\n\nHe said it was time for \"meaningful intervention\" by the government.\n\n\"We see this as the only way industry as a whole will be incentivised to move towards healthier, more sustainable products over the often cheaper but unhealthy alternatives,\" Mr Mayer said.\n\nThe UK introduced a \"sugar tax\" on soft drinks in 2018, but has rejected more recent proposals to put extra taxes on other unhealthy products, relying instead on manufacturers to engage with voluntary programmes to reduce salt, fat and sugar.\n\nThe steep rise in the cost of food over the last year makes it a difficult time to argue for higher taxes.\n\nBut Mr Mayer said the new approach should include restrictions on advertising as well as \"looking at how VAT rates can be aligned to the health credentials of products\".\n\nCurrently VAT, a consumption tax, is not charged on most food products, but the standard 20% VAT rate is applied to alcoholic drinks, confectionery, many crisps and savoury snacks, ice cream and soft drinks.\n\nMineral water, which makes up a significant part of Danone's product portfolio, is also subject to VAT.\n\nThe food industry has previously lobbied against additional taxes, arguing it would push up prices. However campaigners in favour of the strategy argue that tax revenues could be used to promote healthier eating patterns.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government had taken \"firm action\" to tackle unhealthy foods, and would continue to work closely with industry.\n\n\"Our sugar reduction programme has delivered dramatic reductions in the amount of sugar in foods eaten by children - including a 14.9% decrease in the sugar content of breakfast cereals and a 13.5% reduction in the sugar content of yogurts and fromage frais,\" the spokesperson said in a statement.\n\nThe government introduced restrictions late last year on where unhealthy foods can be displayed in shops, but delayed new limits on \"volume\" offers such as buy-one-get-one-free, until autumn this year.\n\nA ban on TV advertising of junk food before 21:00 has been pushed back to October 2025 to give the industry more time to prepare for the restrictions.\n\nHenry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon fast-food chain, appointed as the government's healthy eating \"tsar\", resigned earlier this year, criticising the lack of progress.\n\nHis report last year, which recommended measures including taxes on salt and sugar used in processed food, with the revenues used to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to low-income families, was not taken up by the government.\n\nIndustry body the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) said manufacturers were committed to improving the \"nutritional profile\" of their products, in part by offering a range of portion sizes. As a result, the average shopping basket contained 13% fewer calories, 15% fewer sugars and 24% less salt than in 2018, the FDF said.\n\n\"Companies will continue to innovate, but this often takes time, requires significant investment and can be technically challenging depending on the food,\" an FDF spokesperson said.\n\nAdditional taxes would make the task harder by adding to the \"financial burden\" of rising costs that manufacturers were already facing, the FDF said.\n\nMr Mayer said Danone UK & Ireland had committed to keep 90% of its range of products below the threshold that counts as high in fat, salt and sugar, and would not launch any new products marketed at children that were in that category.", "The stage show is over, and so is this live text. Thanks for joining us this evening.\n\nRead the news story of the parade here.\n\nThat's the end of the football season now, we'll see you back in August.\n\nLol jk it's the Netherlands v Croatia in the Nations League on Wednesday. See you then.", "Wales' scheme is to start in two years, after Scotland's scheme was delayed\n\nThe Welsh government intends to press on with plans for a refundable bottles and cans fee after the UK government blocked similar ones in Scotland.\n\nThe scheme is set to start in Wales in two years, but Scotland's scheme was delayed last week after Westminster said glass could not be included.\n\nThe UK government said its decision would affect Wales' plans too.\n\nClimate Change minister Julie James said she would take the UK government \"to task\".\n\nThe UK government has decided not to include glass bottles in its own deposit return scheme, and told the Scottish government it wanted glass excluded so a consistent UK-wide approach was taken.\n\nWestminster used post-Brexit legislation called the Internal Markets Bill to stop Scotland's plans.\n\nJulie James said she would take the UK government \"to task\"\n\nMs James said her reading of the UK Internal Markets Bill was that no single nation could interrupt the commerce of the others.\n\nShe said: \"It's England that's the outlier here, not Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and they need to understand that.\"\n\nUnder the Welsh government plans, people would get their money back if they returned empty drinks containers made of plastic, glass, steel or aluminium.\n\nMs James insisted the Welsh government would continue to roll out its scheme in two years.\n\n\"We don't think we need the permission of the UK government to do that,\" she said.\n\nAndrew RT Davies said Labour liked doing things differently \"for the sake of it\"\n\nThe Welsh government consulted jointly with the UK government and Northern Ireland executive on its plans.\n\nWhen the UK government decided not to include glass it cited concerns about creating complexity and burdens for business.\n\nThe UK government said it wanted to deliver a consistent approach for the deposit return scheme across the UK, providing a simple and effective system for both businesses and consumers.\n\n\"We have listened to industry. Businesses have been clear that adding glass to a deposit return scheme will add fundamental complexity for our pubs and restaurants, increase burdens on small businesses, whilst creating greater inconvenience for consumers,\" it said.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies accused Ms James of being different for the sake of it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew RT Davies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a tweet he asserted she had \"obviously\" not spoken to independent Welsh brewers.\n\nTheir belief, he said, was that including glass would \"cripple\" them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The suspect held over the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old British girl in France is under investigation for murder, prosecutors say.\n\nSolaine Thornton was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden on Saturday evening.\n\nProsecutors said Dirk Raats, a 71-year-old neighbour, got to within 10m of the girl's father before opening fire through a hedge.\n\nHe had been in conflict with the family over building work on their property.\n\nMr Raats then shut himself in his house in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany, following the incident but gave himself up to police an hour later.\n\nHis wife, who was also arrested, surrendered half an hour after he did, but she has since been released.\n\nProsecutor Camille Miansoni said the couple had been in conflict for years with their British neighbours over works taking place on their property.\n\nThe suspect was \"profoundly exasperated\" over the works, which he said affected his privacy and caused disturbance to him and his wife.\n\nMr Miansoni said the suspect had gone into his home to fetch one of the guns and returned to the garden before opening fire and shooting three or four times through a hedge. This suggested a level of premeditation, he said.\n\n\"It appears that he clearly aimed at the father, that he aimed at his wife, but however he seems less clear as to a possible admission that he aimed at the girl,\" Mr Miansoni said.\n\nSolaine Thornton and her eight-year-old sister Celeste had been playing on a swing as their parents tended the barbecue when the neighbour began firing.\n\nThe younger girl ran to another neighbour's house to raise the alarm and is now said to be in shock.\n\nA local resident told French media that the younger child ran to neighbours shouting: \"My sister is dead, my sister is dead\".\n\nThe victim's parents Adrian and Rachel Thornton were also hurt and are in hospital.\n\nA search of Mr Raats' home uncovered two rifles, one of which had not been previously declared. The couple, both Dutch nationals, tested positive for alcohol and cannabis. They had no previous convictions, prosecutors said.\n\nMr Miansoni said the suspect had expressed regret, and that a mental health assessment had found nothing notable.\n\nFlowers and teddies have been left on the family's front door step\n\nAdrian and Rachel Thornton, both from Oldham, came with their two daughters to live in the hamlet of Saint Herbot in 2019. Theirs is the only English family in the area.\n\nPreviously, the Thorntons had lived in other parts of France. Solaine was born in Brittany and Celeste in the Massif Central in central France.\n\nThe family home in Saint Herbot is a square, whitewashed, relatively modern house with a large plot of land behind and a workhouse which was once a sawmill.\n\nWhile his wife worked in social services and his two children attended local schools, Adrian, a mechanic, spent a lot of time working on his plot of land.\n\nAccording to Marguerite Bleuzen, mayor of the town of Plonevez-du-Faou, the land had been abandoned and was returning to the wild. Adrian set about the task of clearing the land, cutting down undergrowth and some trees.\n\nThis appears to have caused the friction with his neighbours, whose large green-shuttered house looks down onto the Thorntons' plot.\n\n\"I was called out there three years ago, when there were the first tensions,\" said Mr Bleuzen. \"We managed to settle things down, but since then I had never had to intervene.\"\n\nBut after Saturday's shooting, the mayor later heard from neighbours that there had been regular flare-ups.\n\n\"On one occasion, I was told that the Dutch man brought out a weapon. I wish I or the police had been told, and this might have been avoided,\" he said.\n\nLocals say that the English family were well-liked. They lent their plot of land for parking at the hamlet's annual September festival which honours the saint after which it is named. The 14th Century church lies 100m from the Thorntons' house.\n\nBy contrast, no-one seems to have had any contact with Mr Raats or his wife.\n\nAt around 22:00 local time on Saturday night, he fired through his hedge into the plot of land where the Thorntons were having a barbecue.\n\nThe rough-and-ready children's play area, with a swing and a small trampoline, is right next to the hedge which separates the two properties. When the man fired, the girls were at practically point-blank range.\n\nAccording to Mayor Bleuzen, when police arrived, Rachel Thornton was holding her dead child in her arms.\n\nThe UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was providing assistance to a British family.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn't prepared to do\"\n\nA war of words has erupted between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the former prime minister's attempt to give peerages to several close allies.\n\nMr Sunak accused his former boss of asking him to \"overrule\" the vetting advice on his House of Lords nominations.\n\nBut in a fiery statement, Mr Johnson accused Mr Sunak of \"talking rubbish\".\n\nThe House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) said it rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations.\n\nThere has been no confirmation of who the nominees were, and why they were not included on Mr Johnson's controversial resignation honours list.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said HOLAC did not support the peerage nominations of the MPs put forward by Mr Johnson.\n\nThe honours list was published by Mr Sunak's government on Friday, without the names of some of Mr Johnson's key supporters, including Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams.\n\nA few hours after his honours list was released, Mr Johnson announced he was standing down as an MP over an investigation into whether he had misled Parliament about lockdown parties.\n\nCompeting claims have now surfaced about how and why the names would not have appeared on the list.\n\nMr Adams and Ms Dorries have both announced they would immediately standing down as MPs, triggering by-elections to replace them.\n\nEarlier, the row over the nominations spilled into a public spat between Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking at a tech conference in London earlier, Mr Sunak claimed Mr Johnson had asked him to do \"something I wasn't prepared to do\" on peerage nominations.\n\n\"I didn't think that was right. And if people don't like that, then tough,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Johnson claimed it \"was not necessary to overrule HOLAC - but simply to ask them to renew their vetting, which was a mere formality\".\n\nMr Sunak's comments are the first made publicly about the dispute over peerages, and marks a heightening of tensions between the two.\n\nTheir relationship has been an uneasy one after Mr Sunak quit as chancellor in Mr Johnson's government, setting off a wave of resignations that brought down his premiership.\n\nThe process of vetting Mr Johnson's nominees for peerages appears to be the one of the points of disagreement between the former allies.\n\nThere has been speculation in media reports about what would happen if a serving MP was nominated for a peerage, and whether they could remain in the House of Commons until the next general election, before taking up their seats in the Lords.\n\nBut HOLAC says its vetting checks expire after six months, meaning its advice on nominations is only valid for that period.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Johnson appears to be suggesting the vetting checks for his nominees could be carried out again.\n\nIn an interview with TalkTV, Ms Dorries claimed Downing Street had not been \"telling the truth\" about her nomination for a peerage.\n\nMs Dorries said Mr Johnson had told her in autumn last year she had been put on his resignation honours list.\n\nThe former culture secretary said she had been vetted for the peerage, but because six months had passed, her checks had expired.\n\nShe said Mr Sunak and Mr Johnson had a meeting last week to discuss his honours list.\n\nMs Dorries accused the prime minister of using \"weasel words\" to give Mr Johnson the impression Mr Sunak would ask HOLAC to restart the vetting process.\n\nShe said Mr Sunak used those words because he \"knew a situation had been engineered\" in which her name would not be on the list.\n\nWhen asked who she believed had stopped her from entering the House of Lords, she replied: \"The prime minister - Rishi Sunak.\"\n\nFollowing her interview, the Cabinet Office said it would be \"unprecedented for a sitting prime minister to invite HOLAC to reconsider the vetting of individual nominees on a former prime minister's resignation list.\n\n\"It is not therefore a formality.\"\n\nAs a departing prime minister, Mr Johnson has the right to nominate people for seats in the House of Lords, and for other honours such as knighthoods.\n\nBy convention, current prime ministers pass on the list of nominees to HOLAC, which can recommend their names do not go forward after a vetting process.\n\nHOLAC advises prime ministers on the suitability of candidates for peerages and usually, they accept its recommendations on appointments, whatever the outcome.\n\nBut Mr Johnson broke with this convention in 2020, when he nominated businessman Peter Cruddas for a peerage, despite his rejection by HOLAC.\n\nOn Sunday, a spokesman for the vetting commission said it had rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations, but declined to name them or say why, adding it \"does not comment on individuals\".\n\nDowning Street has insisted that Mr Sunak passed on Mr Johnson's list of nominations unaltered. It says it also accepted HOLAC's full approved list and passed it to the King.\n\nBut on Monday, a source describing themselves as an ally of Mr Johnson accused the prime minister of \"secretly\" blocking peerages for \"Nadine and others\".\n\n\"He refused to ask for them to undergo basic checks that could have taken only a few weeks or even days,\" the source added.\n\n\"That is how he kept them off the list - without telling Boris Johnson.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf says he sees 'no reason' to suspend Sturgeon's SNP membership.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf says he will not suspend Nicola Sturgeon from the SNP.\n\nThe former party leader was arrested and released without charge on Sunday as part of a police investigation into SNP finances.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland he saw \"no reason\" to suspend a party member who has been released without charge.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is \"innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\nHer arrest follows that of her husband and former party chief executive, Peter Murrell, and the party's ex-treasurer Colin Beattie in April.\n\nBoth were also released without charge pending further investigations.\n\nMr Yousaf said the news of his predecessor's arrest was \"personally painful\" due to their \"long-standing friendship\".\n\nHe added: \"I'll not suspend Nicola's membership. I'll treat her in the same way I've treated, for example, Colin Beattie.\n\n\"Those that have been released without charge I see no reason to suspend their membership.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon was arrested and released without charge on Sunday\n\nMr Beattie, the SNP MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, resigned as SNP treasurer following his arrest.\n\nMr Murrell had quit as chief executive in March after taking responsibility for misleading the media about party membership numbers.\n\nEarlier SNP MSPs Ash Regan and Michelle Thomson urged Ms Sturgeon to quit the party while the police investigation continues.\n\nAngus MacNeil, the SNP MP, said there should be \"political distance\" between the SNP and its former leader.\n\nAsked if his predecessor should resign the whip, Mr Yousaf said: \"There's no pressure on her to do so from the party or from me as leader of the SNP.\"\n\nHe added: \"She has been released without charge and I think it is so important that presumption of innocence is upheld.\"\n\nOpposition party MSPs have joined calls for Ms Sturgeon to be suspended, with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross saying the SNP to \"follow their own precedent\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said: \"If you look at previous incidents in the SNP normally people in that position have been suspended. And the question for Humza Yousaf is whether he is strong enough or whether he is too weak to show leadership.\"\n\nPolice launched their investigation after complaints were made relating to more than £600,000 donated to the SNP by activists.\n\nAn SNP spokesman said the party was co-operating fully with the investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon arrested as part of SNP finances investigation - in 80 seconds\n\nMs Sturgeon was taken into custody and questioned by detectives at a police station after she attended voluntarily shortly after 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nShe was released from custody at about 17:25 on the same day.\n\nPolice said a report would be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n\nIn a statement released on Twitter, Ms Sturgeon said she was \"innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\n\"To find myself in the situation I did today when I am certain I have committed no offence is both a shock and deeply distressing,\" she added.\n\n\"I know that this ongoing investigation is difficult for people, and I am grateful that so many continue to show faith in me and appreciate that I would never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country.\"", "People sheltering from the rain under umbrellas at Bournemouth beach\n\nThe Met Office has issued a new yellow warning for thunderstorms across parts of the UK after the hottest days of the year so far.\n\nThe new warning was put in place at noon on Sunday. It will run until 21:00 BST on Monday, the Met Office said.\n\nForecasters have warned torrential downpours may cause challenging conditions in parts of the UK.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon the Parklife festival in Manchester had to be briefly halted as one thunderstorm hit.\n\nIn Wales, one weather warning for heavy rain covers a large section of the country apart from the six council areas in the north. It will be in place for Sunday evening into Monday morning.\n\nA yellow thunderstorm warning means there is a small chance homes and businesses could flood quickly and damage buildings.\n\nThe Met Office said delays and some cancellations to train and bus services could happen as a result of any flooding or lightning strikes.\n\nDifficult driving conditions could also be expected as a result of spray and sudden flooding and there is a slight chance of power cuts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has an amber hot weather alert in place until 09:00 BST on Tuesday for much of south England and the Midlands.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nA temperature of 32.2°C in Chertsey, Surrey, made it the UK's hottest day of the year too.\n\nTemperatures reached 29.8 C in Auchincruive, Ayrshire, on Saturday - making it the warmest day of the year in Scotland.\n\nThe Met Office forecasts that next week the risk of thundery downpours will continue in some areas and temperatures are likely to remain above average.\n\nHave you been affected by storms or flooding where you are? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf should consider suspending Nicola Sturgeon from the SNP if she refuses to resign, a former minister has said.\n\nMSP Ash Regan called for \"decisive action\" after Ms Sturgeon was arrested by police and released without charge on Sunday as part of an investigation into SNP finances.\n\nThe former party leader said she was \"innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\nAn SNP spokesman said the party was co-operating fully with the investigation.\n\nPolice Scotland is investigating what happened to £660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists for use in a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nMs Regan, who quit as community safety minister over the gender recognition reform bill and finished third in the SNP leadership contest, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that Ms Sturgeon should resign her party membership.\n\n\"There is precedence in the party for people involved in issues of this type to resign from the party voluntarily and suspend their membership until it is cleared up,\" she said.\n\n\"If she [Ms Sturgeon] did that, I think it would reaffirm her commitment to the principles of the party.\"\n\nAsked if the former first minister should be suspended if she does not quit the party, Ms Regan added: \"I think Humza should consider it under those circumstances, yes, if she doesn't resign.\n\n\"We do have a code of conduct in the SNP, which says members should refrain from conduct likely to cause damage or hinder the party's aims.\n\n\"I think Nicola will no doubt be considering whether to resign from the party at the moment.\"\n\nAsh Regan has called for \"decisive action\" from the first minister\n\nSNP MSP Michelle Thomson has also called for Ms Sturgeon to resign the party whip.\n\n\"This is not because she doesn't deserve to be treated as innocent until proven guilty – she does, but because her values should be consistent,\" a statement read.\n\nThomson, a former SNP MP, resigned the party whip in 2015 following an investigation into alleged mortgage fraud.\n\nShe later said she was given no choice but to resign by the party and criticised her treatment by its leadership.\n\nIn August 2017 the Crown Office confirmed there was insufficient evidence to launch criminal proceedings.\n\nMeanwhile SNP MP Angus MacNeil said \"this soap-opera has gone far enough\".\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less,\" Mr MacNeil tweeted.\n\nScottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy said Mr Yousaf must \"now show some leadership and suspend his predecessor from the SNP\".\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie also said Ms Sturgeon should be suspended.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question in my mind is, given all this chaos, given the kind of secrecy and cover-up that has been the hallmark of how the SNP operate, is whether Humza Yousaf, the current first minister, is indeed strong enough to suspend her and protect the party.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was taken into custody and questioned by detectives at a police station after she attended voluntarily shortly after 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nShe was released from custody at about 17:25 on the same day.\n\nPolice said a report would be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon arrested as part of SNP finances investigation - in 80 seconds\n\nIn a statement published on Twitter shortly afterwards, the former first minister said: \"To find myself in the situation I did today when I am certain I have committed no offence is both a shock and deeply distressing.\n\n\"I know that this ongoing investigation is difficult for people, and I am grateful that so many continue to show faith in me and appreciate that I would never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country.\"\n\nShe went on: \"Innocence is not just a presumption I am entitled to in law. I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing.\"\n\nIt follows the arrest of her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, on 5 April by officers who searched the couple's home in Glasgow as part of their Operation Branchform probe.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh were searched on the same day and a luxury motorhome valued at about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, the party's treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested.\n\nBoth men were released pending further investigations, with Mr Beattie resigning as treasurer a short time later. Mr Murrell quit as chief executive in March after after taking responsibility for misleading the media about party membership numbers.\n\nFormer SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was arrested and released without charge as part of Operation Branchform\n\nThe arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected as she was one of the three signatories on the SNP's accounts alongside Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nMr Yousaf said in April that Mr Murrell would not be suspended from the SNP because he is \"innocent until proven guilty\". But the SNP leader confirmed the party would not be paying Mr Murrell's legal fees.\n\nSeveral SNP politicians who faced police investigations under Ms Sturgeon's reign were suspended or had the whip removed - which automatically leads to suspension.\n\nHer predecessor Alex Salmond quit the party in 2018 after it emerged Scottish government staff members had complained about his behaviour when he was first minister. Police Scotland said it was assessing the case at the time. Mr Salmond was later cleared at trial of sexually assaulting nine women.\n\nSNP MP Patrick Grady was suspended from the party for making a sexual advance to a teenage member of staff. He had the whip restored in December following a six-month suspension.\n\nFormer finance minister Derek Mackay was suspended from the SNP after admitting he \"behaved foolishly\" by messaging a 16-year-old boy on social media. A police investigation concluded there was \"nothing to suggest that an offence has been committed\".\n\nMargaret Ferrier lost the SNP whip after speaking in the Westminster Parliament while awaiting the results of a Covid test in September 2020, before travelling by train back to Glasgow instead of isolating.\n\nMargaret Ferrier will appeal against the proposed ban\n\nShe was later ordered to complete a 270-hour community payback order by a court after admitting culpably and recklessly exposing the public \"to the risk of infection, illness and death\".\n\nMs Sturgeon was among those who consistently called for Ms Ferrier to resign as an MP. She has now been suspended from the Commons, a move which is expected to trigger a by-election.\n\nAnother former SNP MP, Natalie McGarry, withdrew from the party whip in 2015 amid a police investigation into her finances.\n\nShe was sentenced to two years in jail for embezzling £25,000 from the SNP and a pro-independence group. The sentence was later cut to 20 months.", "The bus overturned while making a turn at a roundabout late on Sunday night\n\nAt least 10 people have died and 15 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crashed in an Australian wine region north of Sydney, officials say.\n\nThe passengers were returning from a wedding at a winery on Sunday night in the Hunter Valley when their coach overturned near the town of Greta.\n\nPolice have charged the 58-year-old bus driver with 10 counts of dangerous driving which resulted in death.\n\nThey said they were still in the process of identifying the dead.\n\nThe newlyweds were not reported to be on the bus, which crashed in the state of New South Wales.\n\nThe driver, who is from the town of Maitland, north of Sydney, has been refused bail and will appear in court in Cessnock on Tuesday.\n\nPolice commissioner Karen Webb said the site of the crash is \"still an active crime scene\". \"We've got forensics officers processing the crime scene, we've got crash investigation unit officers, we've got rescue officers [on scene],\" she added.\n\nThe accident occurred about 23:30 local time [13:30 GMT] on Sunday when, according to police, there had been heavy fog in the area. The bus had rolled over while making a turn at a roundabout off a highway. Authorities say the vehicle has now been pulled upright.\n\nNew South Wales Police acting assistant commissioner Tracy Chapman said the guests were travelling to Singleton \"presumably for their accommodation\". Two of the survivors were airlifted from the crash, she added. Local media report that at least one of them is still in a critical condition.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it is \"so cruel, so sad and so unfair\" for a \"joyous day in a beautiful place like that to end with such terrible loss of life\".\n\n\"People hire a bus for weddings in order to keep their guests safe, and that just adds to the unimaginable nature of this tragedy,\" he said at a press conference in Canberra.\n\nMr Albanese said some of the injured passengers are at John Hunter Hospital, but many had been flown to Sydney.\n\nNSW Premier Chris Minns said the loss of so many lives was \"nothing short of heartbreaking\", adding: \"For this horrific crash to have occurred on a day that should have been filled with love and happiness only adds to the heartbreak.\"\n\n\"For a day of joy to end in such devastating loss is cruel indeed. Our thoughts are also with those who have been injured,\" he said.\n\nHunter Valley in New South Wales is known for its vineyards and native bushland, making it a popular spot for wine lovers and group outings or celebrations.\n\nA guest at the wedding said the day had been a \"fairy tale\" until news of the accident broke.\n\n\"We all started panicking,\" he told 7 News.\n\nPolice said they are still working to identify the crash victims and contact their next of kin.\n\n\"Family and friends of a person who may have been on board the bus are urged to contact Cessnock Police Station,\" they said in a statement.", "Millions of pounds have been paid out in the last ten years to people who were abused in the Scouts, lawyers say.\n\nBBC File on 4 contacted 13 law firms who specialise in child abuse claims, and data from the eight that responded revealed more than £6m had been paid out in compensation in the last decade.\n\nSome 166 cases were settled over the same time, while more female survivors were now coming forward, lawyers said.\n\nThe Scout Association said it was \"deeply sorry\" anyone suffered abuse.\n\nIt comes as two women, who both say they were abused in the Scouts, have started a campaign asking the organisation to change its safeguarding policy.\n\nFile on 4 contacted 13 firms who specialise in abuse claims, all in the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers.\n\nAccording to data from the lawyers who responded, at least 260 claims were taken on against the Scouts in the last ten years, and 166 cases were settled. Some 50 had been unsuccessful and others were still ongoing.\n\nThe BBC asked the Scouts how much money it had paid out in the last ten years.\n\nThe association said it had not been able to get to a definitive number because much of the information related to historical cases and was spread across numerous insurers - but the number of payouts broadly matched what they were aware of.\n\nAccording to the association, 96% of claims related to offences that happened prior to 2013 - with many from the 1960s to 1990s. But some have happened more recently, including in the last few years.\n\nHundreds of thousands of children across the UK are signed up as members of the Scout Association, whose programmes include Squirrels, Beavers, Cub Scouts, as well as Scouts and Explorer Scouts for older children.\n\nAbbie Hickson, from Bolt Burdon Kemp solicitors, says her firm has settled more than 100 abuse claims in the last ten years. She said a key problem was \"safeguarding policy relies much on the integrity of the adult involved\".\n\n\"Scout leaders who sexually abused children in their care are by their very nature highly manipulative, secretive, devious and opportunistic individuals. And their very aim is to separate a child from the group in order to facilitate that abuse.\"\n\nDino Nocivelli, from Leigh Day solicitors, has spent the last 20 years representing abuse survivors. He said the number of female complainants was rising.\n\nYoung women were able to join the Venture Scouts from 1976. Then, in 1991, girls were allowed to join across all age groups - but it wasn't until 2007 that it became compulsory for Scout groups to accept girls.\n\n\"In the last 12 months, a number of women and girls have contacted me about sexual abuse in the Scouts,\" Mr Nocivelli said. \"This is not an issue from the 60s, 70s, 80s. This abuse is happening in the 2000 and the 2010s and sadly the 2020s.\"\n\nSheanna Patelmaster, 27, and Lucy Pincott, 29, both say they were abused when they joined the Scouts, in 2007.\n\nSheanna was 13, and her leader was 24. She says he noticed she was having an unhappy time at home and offered to let her stay at his house one night a week after Scouts. It was there, she says, he sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions.\n\nLucy was also 13 when she says she was groomed by a young leader. He bought her necklaces and he would often arrange to meet her before Scouts.\n\nIt was at one of these meetings that Lucy says she was forced to have sex with him. She says the sexual abuse continued for nine months in the grounds where the Scout meetings took place and on camps.\n\nLucy says other adult volunteers were aware of what was going on but failed to report the abuse. She subsequently sued the Scout Association for failing in their duty of care. It didn't accept liability but settled out of court, paying Lucy £160,000.\n\nSheanna and Lucy have now set up a petition asking the Scouts to change their safeguarding policies.\n\nThey want a paid safeguarding lead officer in every Scout county in the UK, who would be responsible for monitoring the conduct of volunteers and ensuring allegations of abuse are properly reported. They are calling for both the Scouts and Girlguiding to be subject to an inspection regime, similar to Ofsted.\n\nThe campaign, called Yours in Scouting, includes a call for personal testimonies from anyone who has suffered abuse in the Scouts.\n\nIn a statement, the Scout Association told the BBC: \"Any form of abuse is abhorrent and we're sorry for Sheanna and Lucy's terrible experiences.\"\n\nIt added: \"In the UK almost half a million young people enjoy Scouts every week and nothing is more important than their safety. We have robust safeguarding policies, training and procedures in place. These are now reviewed every other year by the NSPCC.\"", "Thousands of Reddit communities have \"gone dark\" as part of a protest by users over how the site is being run.\n\nReddit is introducing controversial charges to developers of third-party apps, which are used to browse the social media platform.\n\nBut moderators of some of the biggest subreddits have hit back by making their communities private for 48 hours.\n\nReddit relies heavily on community moderation but on Monday more than 7,000 subreddits shut down.\n\nA subreddit is the name given to a forum within the Reddit platform - effectively a community of people who gather to discuss a particular interest.\n\nReddit users - or Redditors - will typically join a variety of subreddits, rather than following individual users on other platforms, and see posts from these communities in their feed.\n\nAs well as a few paid administrators, the website uses tens of thousands of unpaid moderators - known as mods - to keep the website functional.\n\nThese mods may spend one or two hours per day ensuring that their subreddit does not get filled with off-topic comments, content that is banned, or even content which is illegal.\n\nBut the flipside of this is that Reddit does not charge any hosting fees for people who want to set up their own community based on an interest they have.\n\nIn a post to the website on Friday, Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman said it \"needs to be a self-sustaining business\" and addressed the blackout.\n\n\"We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all responsible for ensuring Reddit provides an open accessible place for people to find community and belonging.\"\n\nHe also confirmed that explicit content would remain on the site, but Reddit would limit how it can be accessed from third-party apps.\n\nThe blackout includes 3,489 subreddits in total, including five of the 10 most popular communities on the site - r/gaming, r/aww, r/Music, r/todayilearned and r/pics - which each have memberships of more than 30 million people.\n\nA moderator for one of these subreddits told the BBC the protest was about \"strength in numbers\".\n\n\"If it was a single subreddit going private, Reddit may intervene,\" they said.\n\n\"But if it's half the entire website, then you feel a lot more pressured.\n\n\"This is a completely volunteer position, we don't receive any financial compensation, and despite that, we do like to take it quite seriously.\"\n\nThey said they wanted Reddit admins to realise that they rely on moderators to operate the site and felt that the only way to send a message was by harming Reddit's traffic.\n\n\"Our entire community is supporting us against this change,\" they said.\n\n\"It feels good to be able to have the power to say: 'We will not continue to moderate our communities if you push these changes through'.\n\n\"If it's almost the entire website, would they destroy what they've built up in all these communities, just to push through this highly unpopular change that both the mods and users of Reddit are overwhelmingly against?\"\n\nReddit, which describes itself as \"the front page of the internet\", has an official app but it was developed in 2016, many years after the website was founded.\n\nBecause of this, third-party apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Sync and ReddPlanet were set up as a way for people to access the platform on their mobile devices.\n\nReddit has introduced a series of charges to the developers who wish to continue using its Application Programming Interface (API) - the behind-the-scenes code which allows third-party apps to find and show the content on Reddit.\n\nAll four of these apps have said they will be shutting down as a result of Reddit's new API pricing.\n\nApollo is a popular Reddit browser at the heart of the protest\n\nThese charges have been heavily criticised as extortionate - with Apollo developer Christian Selig claiming it would end up costing him $20m (£15.9m) to continue operating the app.\n\nBut a Reddit spokesperson told the BBC that Apollo was \"notably less efficient\" than other third-party apps.\n\nThey said the social media platform spends \"multi-millions of dollars on hosting fees\" and \"needs to be fairly paid\" to continue supporting third-party apps.\n\n\"Our pricing is based on usage levels that we measure to be comparable to our own costs,\" they said.\n\nThe spokesperson also said that not all third-party apps would require paid access. Previously, Reddit announced it would not charge apps which make the platform more accessible.\n\nBut the moderator the BBC spoke to said they believed the blackout could continue until Reddit row back on the changes.\n\n\"The current plan for many communities is... they might keep the blackout going for longer, beyond the original forty-eight hours, or keep their subreddits restricted so that nobody can post,\" they said.\n\n\"Every community operates differently, and different moderators have different views on what's happening right now, so it does vary.\n\n\"But given recent communications between moderators and Reddit admins, I don't believe that they are intending to reverse these changes.\"\n\nAnd some communities, such as r/Music - which has 32 million members - say their subreddit will be indefinitely inaccessible until Reddit reverses its policy.", "Jodie Comer apologised to her friends and family for being \"absent\" in the past year\n\nJodie Comer says she's \"overwhelmed\" after winning a prestigious Tony Award for her one-woman Broadway show Prima Facie.\n\nThe Killing Eve actress won best leading actress in a play for her portrayal of a defence lawyer who ends up in the witness box.\n\nThe Tony Awards were hosted by Ariana DeBose in New York, but she did not use a script due to the writers strike.\n\nThe ceremony also saw two non-binary actors win prizes for the first time.\n\nIn her acceptance speech for her performance in Prima Facie, Comer said: \"This woman in this play has been my greatest teacher.\n\n\"I have to thank Suzie Miller for that, who wrote this magnificent piece. Without her writing that [I] would not be here so this feels just as much Suzie's as it is mine.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old from Liverpool has previously won an Olivier award for her performance, which transferred from London's West End to Broadway.\n\nLast week, Comer had to leave the stage during a performance due to breathing difficulties as a result of wildfire smoke across North America. The performance was completed by her understudy.\n\nThe actress went on to thank members of her production team and apologised to her friends and family for being \"absent\" in the past year as she worked on the show.\n\n\"To every person who feels represented by Tessa, this has been my greatest honour,\" she said, quickly adding \"and it continues to be - there's three weeks left!\"\n\nSunday's ceremony, which is Broadway's biggest night of the year, was hosted by Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose who warned audiences to \"buckle up\" as the show was unscripted, due to the ongoing Hollywood writers strike.\n\nThe show opened with a performance where she flipped through empty pages in a binder labelled \"script\" in a dressing room\n\n\"We don't have a script you guys. I am live and unscripted. You're welcome,\" DeBose said.\n\n\"To anyone who may have thought that last year was a bit unhinged. To them I say 'darlings, buckle up'.\"\n\nSeveral winners, including best leading actress in a musical winner Victoria Clark, referenced the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike during acceptance speeches.\n\n\"We are nothing without our writers and I support the WGA and their struggle for the contract they deserve,\" she said.\n\nAriana DeBose thanked those who had helped put the Tony Awards together, despite the strike\n\nAlso at Sunday's ceremony, Alex Newell and J Harrison Ghee became the first non-binary performers to be recognised at the awards.\n\nNewell won the best featured actor in a musical for Shucked, while J. Harrison Ghee, won best leading actor in a musical for playing a gender-questioning musician in Some Like It Hot.\n\nMichael Arden won his first Tony Award for his direction of the Broadway revival of Parade, which depicts the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of the Jewish-American factory manager Leo Frank in Georgia.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, Arden said: \"Parade tells the story of a life that was cut short at the hands of the belief that one group of people is more or less valuable than another and that they might be more deserving of justice.\n\n\"This is a belief that is the core of antisemitism, of white supremacy, of homophobia, of transphobia and intolerance of any kind. We must come together. We must battle this. It is so, so important, or else we are doomed to repeat the horrors of our history.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nOne of the night's biggest awards, best play, went to British writer Sir Tom Stoppard for his play Leopoldstadt, which also scooped best direction, best costume and best performance by an actor in a play.\n\nBritish creatives Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding, Tim Lutkin and Carolyn Downing picked up awards for the Life of Pi, with Goulding and Downing referencing Sheffield, where the play had its premiere, in their acceptance speeches.\n\nKimberly Akimbo was named best musical, also scooping best original score and best leading actress for Victoria Clark.\n\nAlex Newell (left) and J Harrison Ghee became the first two non-binary Tony winners\n\nBest performance by an actor in a leading role in a play - Sean Hayes for Good Night, Oscar\n\nBest performance by an actress in a leading role in a play - Jodie Comer for Prima Facie\n\nBest performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical - J. Harrison Ghee for Some Like It Hot\n\nBest performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical - Victoria Clark for Kimberly Akimbo\n\nBest performance by an actor in a featured role in a play - Brandon Uranowitz for Leopoldstadt\n\nBest performance by an actress in a featured role in a play - Miriam Silverman for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window\n\nBest performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical - Alex Newell for Shucked\n\nBest performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical - Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo\n\nBest scenic design of a play - Tim Hatley & Andrzej Goulding for Life of Pi\n\nBest scenic design of a musical - Beowulf Boritt for New York, New York\n\nBest costume design of a play - Brigitte Reiffenstuel for Leopoldstadt\n\nBest costume design of a musical - Gregg Barnes for Some Like It Hot\n\nBest lighting design of a play - Tim Lutkin for Life of Pi\n\nBest lighting design of a musical - Natasha Katz for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\n\nBest sound design of a play - Carolyn Downing for Life of Pi\n\nBest sound design of a musical - Nevin Steinberg for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\n\nBest direction of a play - Patrick Marber for Leopoldstadt\n\nBest direction of a musical - Michael Arden for Parade\n\nBest choreography - Casey Nicholaw for Some Like It Hot\n\nBest orchestrations - Charlie Rosen & Bryan Carter for Some Like It Hot\n\nSpecial Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre - Joel Grey and John Kander\n\nTony Honours for excellence in the theatre - Victoria Bailey, Lisa Dawn Cave and Robert Fried", "The parade was delayed by heavy rain and lightning but tens of thousands of fans turned out\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans gathered to celebrate their team's historic Treble as they staged an open-top bus parade through the city.\n\nBlue flares were set off and fans threw inflatable bananas in the air as several of the players went shirtless in the heavy rain.\n\nManager Pep Guardiola was seen puffing on a cigar as fans climbed lamp-posts.\n\nThe parade was delayed by lightning storms. City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final.\n\nIt comes after the club clinched the Premier League and FA Cup this season.\n\nGuardiola said his side's Champions League success following Rodri's 68-minute goal was \"written in the stars\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drenched Guardiola was later seen pumping his fists to the crowd as the players showed off all three trophies.\n\nDefender Ruben Dias and striker Erling Haaland were among several players who went shirtless after they were drenched in the rain.\n\nHaaland, 22, led the dancing players onto a stage just after 20:00 BST as midfielder Kalvin Phillips serenaded England defender John Stones.\n\nGuardiola hailed the fans for coming out in the storms.\n\nHe said: \"We had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise it is not Manchester.\n\n\"We don't want sunshine, we want rain, so it was perfect. The fans are used to the rain.\"\n\nTopless defender Ruben Dias held up the FA Cup in the rain\n\nCaptain Ilkay Gundogan said it was \"incredible\" that they had \"three trophies\".\n\nEngland midfielder Jack Grealish said: \"For the past 24 hours, I have had the best day and night.\n\n\"To be fair, I don't think I have slept.\"\n\nThe team had departed from Tonman Street, Deansgate, at the slightly delayed time of 19:00 BST due to stormy weather and travelled to St Mary's Gate.\n\nThe parade was delayed due to forecast lightning storms\n\nOne fan climbed up a set of traffic lights to get a good view of the parade\n\nThe delays did not dampen the spirits of the fans.\n\nZoro and his family said they were looking forward to seeing Guardiola, Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden.\n\nCity players show off the three trophies\n\nHe said: \"This goes down in history for us. Pep has just redesigned the football world. It's a big statement but it's true.\"\n\nThe parade travelled through Cross Street and King Street, before finishing on the corner of Princess Street and Portland Street.\n\nZack, Nic and Noah have travelled from Blackpool to be at the parade\n\nZoro said Guardiola has \"just redesigned the football world\"\n\nCity became just the second English men's team to win the Treble, following in the footsteps of rivals Manchester United, who achieved the feat in 1999 under Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nThe team were welcomed back by fans at Manchester Airport on Sunday after travelling from Istanbul, where the European final was played.\n\nManchester City clinched the Champions League after a 1-0 final win over Inter Milan\n\nA mural has been created on New Cathedral Street celebrating the team's success\n\nA street vendor sold trophy balloons as fans waited for the parade\n\nFormer City boss Joe Royle said Guardiola's current side was one of the best teams English football had ever seen.\n\nRoyle, 74, who led the club from the third tier to the Premier League after back-to-back promotions in 1999 and 2000, said: \"There's no doubt about it. They're one of, if not the best English club side there has been.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Askam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The parade was delayed by heavy rain and lightning but tens of thousands of fans turned out\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans gathered to celebrate their team's historic Treble as they staged an open-top bus parade through the city.\n\nBlue flares were set off and fans threw inflatable bananas in the air as several of the players went shirtless in the heavy rain.\n\nManager Pep Guardiola was seen puffing on a cigar as fans climbed lamp-posts.\n\nThe parade was delayed by lightning storms. City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final.\n\nIt comes after the club clinched the Premier League and FA Cup this season.\n\nGuardiola said his side's Champions League success following Rodri's 68-minute goal was \"written in the stars\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drenched Guardiola was later seen pumping his fists to the crowd as the players showed off all three trophies.\n\nDefender Ruben Dias and striker Erling Haaland were among several players who went shirtless after they were drenched in the rain.\n\nHaaland, 22, led the dancing players onto a stage just after 20:00 BST as midfielder Kalvin Phillips serenaded England defender John Stones.\n\nGuardiola hailed the fans for coming out in the storms.\n\nHe said: \"We had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise it is not Manchester.\n\n\"We don't want sunshine, we want rain, so it was perfect. The fans are used to the rain.\"\n\nTopless defender Ruben Dias held up the FA Cup in the rain\n\nCaptain Ilkay Gundogan said it was \"incredible\" that they had \"three trophies\".\n\nEngland midfielder Jack Grealish said: \"For the past 24 hours, I have had the best day and night.\n\n\"To be fair, I don't think I have slept.\"\n\nThe team had departed from Tonman Street, Deansgate, at the slightly delayed time of 19:00 BST due to stormy weather and travelled to St Mary's Gate.\n\nThe parade was delayed due to forecast lightning storms\n\nOne fan climbed up a set of traffic lights to get a good view of the parade\n\nThe delays did not dampen the spirits of the fans.\n\nZoro and his family said they were looking forward to seeing Guardiola, Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden.\n\nCity players show off the three trophies\n\nHe said: \"This goes down in history for us. Pep has just redesigned the football world. It's a big statement but it's true.\"\n\nThe parade travelled through Cross Street and King Street, before finishing on the corner of Princess Street and Portland Street.\n\nZack, Nic and Noah have travelled from Blackpool to be at the parade\n\nZoro said Guardiola has \"just redesigned the football world\"\n\nCity became just the second English men's team to win the Treble, following in the footsteps of rivals Manchester United, who achieved the feat in 1999 under Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nThe team were welcomed back by fans at Manchester Airport on Sunday after travelling from Istanbul, where the European final was played.\n\nManchester City clinched the Champions League after a 1-0 final win over Inter Milan\n\nA mural has been created on New Cathedral Street celebrating the team's success\n\nA street vendor sold trophy balloons as fans waited for the parade\n\nFormer City boss Joe Royle said Guardiola's current side was one of the best teams English football had ever seen.\n\nRoyle, 74, who led the club from the third tier to the Premier League after back-to-back promotions in 1999 and 2000, said: \"There's no doubt about it. They're one of, if not the best English club side there has been.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Askam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Darren Nesbit, editor of the Light, defended calls in his paper to use force against \"aggressors\"\n\nA UK conspiracy theory newspaper sharing calls for trials and executions of politicians and doctors has links with the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe Light, which prints at least 100,000 copies a month and has more than 18,000 followers on the social media site Telegram, grew to be a focal point of the UK conspiracy theory movement with its anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown stance during the pandemic.\n\nIn its pages and on its corresponding Telegram channels, the Light has shared hateful and violent rhetoric towards journalists, medics and MPs, as well as platforming far-right figures accused of antisemitism.\n\nThe paper is handed out free by volunteers in dozens of towns across the country, where local leaders have accused it of inflaming division and harassment with false and misleading claims about vaccines, the financial system and climate change, amid other more mundane articles on local politics, health and wellness.\n\nArticles and content shared by the Light have called for the government, doctors, nurses and journalists to be punished for \"crimes against humanity\" in war crime-style trials sometimes called \"Nuremberg 2.0\" - referring to the execution of Nazi Party members after World War Two.\n\nRecent articles declare \"It's just a matter of time before these worst perpetrators of war crimes are facing trial\" like in \"November 1945\" and \"MPs, doctors and nurses can be hanged\".\n\nOther posts shared by the Light on Telegram have featured cartoons of gallows and included work addresses of \"liable people to be held to account\" for taking part in sinister plots to harm people with vaccines - plots for which there is no evidence.\n\nOn Telegram, the paper has also shared and endorsed content from UK far-right groups including Patriotic Alternative, promoting rallies and posts talking about the \"replacement\" of white people and asking people to \"#GetInvolved\".\n\nIt has also shared posts from an extreme group called Alpha Men Assemble offering military-style training to anti-vaccine activists. They say \"it's time we show them who rules this country\".\n\nDarren Nesbit, editor of the Light, defended calls in his paper to use force against \"aggressors\" in power, telling the BBC it would be a matter of \"self-defence\" in circumstances such as the government ordering another lockdown or what he described as forced evacuations.\n\nBundles of copies of the Light were piled up at the protest in Totnes, Devon\n\nHe says he isn't in charge of the Light's Telegram channels, although acknowledges they are directly linked to the paper. Posts are sometimes signed off by the \"Light Paper Team\" and sometimes with his name.\n\nMr Nesbit says he speaks to the editor of the conspiracy theory newspaper in Germany, Demokratischer Widerstand (Democratic Resistance) - which is connected to a failed coup attempt in the country - \"two or three times a year\". He has published content endorsing the publication.\n\nThe German paper refers to the Light as its \"partner\" paper and its \"colleagues\" at the British publication, describing how they're \"internationally connected\".\n\nReferring to concerns about the wider conspiracy theory movement more generally, the UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Matt Jukes has told the BBC they are currently \"seeing evidence of conspiracy theories being interwoven with extremism\" and that this \"connection is very much on our radar and in our sights as investigators\".\n\nSet up in 2020 as a print publication, the Light is distributed in about 30 places across the UK such as Brighton, Thetford, Stroud, Plymouth, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and Glastonbury. Local conspiracy theory groups place bulk orders and distribute them on the streets for free.\n\nIn the Devon town of Totnes, a motivated minority have been distributing the Light for the past two years. Its former town Mayor Ben Piper says he first became a key target of the conspiracy theory movement there because of his role enforcing coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFormer mayor of Totnes Ben Piper says \"aggression\" in articles about him inflamed harassment over Covid restrictions\n\nHe fears an article about him in the Light exacerbated the harassment he experienced - from abuse in the street, to sinister phone calls, to someone driving a car at him.\n\n\"There was an aggression that bled through the editorial that was not as innocent as it was making out to be,\" he says.\n\nThe Light's editor, Darren Nesbit, is based near Manchester. He agreed to speak to me, only on the condition that he can ask me questions and record the interview too.\n\nFor him, everything from financial turmoil to climate change and 9/11 terror attacks in the US are part of a plan by governments to control and harm our lives. He thinks the pandemic was just one step towards doing that.\n\nThe paper has featured an article by a blogger called Lasha Darkmoon, saying that people should be able to question the Holocaust. And another article recommended a book by white supremacist Eustace Mullins - author of The Biological Jew and Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation. Mullins is referred to in the Light as a \"renowned\" author.\n\n\"If they write good articles on topics that are useful topics that are interesting to people, then we should [feature them] at the end of the day,\" Mr Nesbit says. He reiterates again and again that \"people should be adults and make their own decisions\".\n\n\"My aim is not to do anything else apart from get to the truth and then obviously let other people have a bash at seeing that information as well.\"\n\nThe Light directly defended a UK-based radio host called Graham Hart over antisemitic remarks he made on his show referring to Jewish people as \"filth\" and like \"rats\", suggesting \"they deserve to be wiped out\". He was sentenced to 32 months in prison for making the remarks.\n\nDarren Nesbit defends the paper's right to publish opinions associated with the far right\n\nWhile Mr Nesbit says those comments were \"pretty harsh\", he maintains that the paper defends the radio host's \"right to say it\".\n\nI ask him whether he thinks calls for action in the paper could result in action that's not peaceful.\n\nHe replies, \"Of course, people can make their own decisions, and they need to be responsible for their own actions.\"\n\nHe tells me that the paper doesn't \"actually necessarily call for action\". But, Mr Nesbit also says, \"People should not be passive and just let the world change around them because there is, you know, an agenda and a purpose behind it.\"\n\nI directly ask him, \"Why don't you say there's no place for violence in our movement?\"\n\nHe replies, \"Because I might be wrong.\"\n\nThroughout the interview, Mr Nesbit condemns violent action - and then gives cryptic answers, which seem to contradict that.\n\nTelegram has not responded to the BBC's request for comment about why it has allowed the Light and other conspiracy theory papers to share violent and hateful rhetoric.\n\nResearch carried out by King's College London backs up the idea that calls to action endorsed by conspiracy theory media like the Light could be affecting attitudes.\n\nA survey, commissioned by the BBC, suggested that an average of 61.5% of people - who said they would have attended rallies linked to common conspiracy theories, such as anti-vaccine beliefs - think violence could be justified at protests. They were more likely to think this if they read conspiracy theory media including the Light.\n\n\"Built within these theories [are] inherent demands to do something, to take direct action,\" says research team member Dr Rod Dacombe, who has studied the Light.\n\n\"We shouldn't get away from [how] this occasionally moves into either violence or some sort of violent right action. Not everybody who goes to a protest is going to be brought in by this. Most people won't, right? But some people will.\"\n\nMarkus Haintz, who used to write for the German paper linked to the Light, says its editor is an \"extremist\"\n\nAs well as links with the German paper Demokratischer Widerstand, The Light has related papers in Ireland, Canada and Australia.\n\nTwo whistleblowers spoke to the BBC over concerns about how radical they say the German paper has become.\n\nThey say some of the Demokratischer Widerstand's writers and a key donor to the paper met the Reichsburger group behind a failed coup attempt in Germany in December 2022.\n\nOne of the whistleblowers, lawyer Markus Haintz, who stopped writing for the paper in 2022, says the editor, Anselm Lenz, is an \"extremist\" which he defines as someone who \"brings people in a position where they at least could think about getting violent\".\n\nMr Haintz also says members of the wider conspiracy theory movement in Germany have been offered money by Kremlin-linked figures to push disinformation.\n\nThe other, Martin Le Jeune, who stopped writing for the paper in 2021 says it is creating a \"hateful and divided\" atmosphere, where \"somebody who could be emotional or psychologically unstable could be triggered to do something terrible\".\n\nThe editor of the German conspiracy paper, Mr Lenz, did not reply directly to any of the points raised by the BBC. He called me \"a highly paid Nato and BBC Propagandist'' and said I was a threat to him and his family. He also accused me of slander of \"our friends of the great English democratic movement\".\n\n\"If needed, we are willing to take the fight by all means,\" he wrote.\n\nWhat happened to the people who fell down the rabbit hole into a world of conspiracy theories during the pandemic?\n\nListen to the podcast Marianna in Conspiracyland on BBC Sounds and on BBC Radio 4.\n\nAnd click to watch Conspiracyland: UK? on iPlayer (UK only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSilvio Berlusconi, the Italian former PM who overcame various scandals to hold office four times, has died at 86.\n\nHe died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. In April, he was treated for a lung infection linked to leukaemia.\n\nBerlusconi's death leaves a \"huge void\", Italy's defence minister said, with a national day of mourning due to take place on Wednesday.\n\nThe longest-serving prime minister in post-war Italy, he had bounced back from sex scandals and corruption cases.\n\nAfter taking political office in 1994, the billionaire media tycoon led four governments until 2011 - though not consecutively.\n\nLast September, Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party went into coalition under right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.\n\nReacting to the news, Ms Meloni remembered her predecessor as a \"fighter\". In a video message, she said he remained \"one of the most influential men in the history of Italy\".\n\nHer deputy Matteo Salvini said he was \"broken\" and thanked Berlusconi for his \"friendship\", \"advice\" and \"generosity\".\n\nDefence Minister Guido Crosetto said: \"An era is over... Farewell Silvio.\" His death left a \"huge void\", Mr Crosetto added in a tweet.\n\nThe Italian government has declared a national day of mourning for Wednesday, the same day Berlusconi's funeral is scheduled to take place at Milan Cathedral.\n\n\"All Italian and European flags on public buildings will be lowered to half mast from Monday nationwide,\" a spokesman told the media.\n\nAnother figure to pay tribute was Vladimir Putin, who called Berlusconi a \"true friend\". In a statement the Russian President said he had always admired Berlusconi's \"wisdom\" and \"ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron sent his condolences to Berlusconi's family and the Italian people on behalf of the French people.\n\nHe described Berlusconi as \"a major figure in contemporary Italy\", saying he was \"at the forefront of the political scene for many years, from his first election as a member of parliament in 1994 to the senatorial mandate he held until his final days\".\n\nIn the US, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Italy was a major US ally and Berlusconi had \"worked closely with several US administrations on advancing our bilateral relationship\".\n\nBerlusconi had been suffering from a rare form of blood cancer, chronic myelomonocyte leukaemia, doctors at San Raffaele revealed in April.\n\nHe had repeated health problems after contracting Covid in 2020. So far, there has been no official confirmation of the precise cause of death.\n\nBorn in 1936 in Milan, Berlusconi began his career selling vacuum cleaners, before setting up a construction company.\n\nHe went on to become one of Italy's richest men, building a business empire that included television networks, publishing companies and advertising agencies.\n\nOn top of that, he gained international recognition as owner of legendary football club AC Milan - which he saved from bankruptcy in 1986 - before going into politics in the 1990s.\n\nFormer AC Milan player and manager Carlo Ancelotti, who now manages the Real Madrid team, remembered Berlusconi as a \"loyal, intelligent, sincere man\".\n\nMr Ancelotti, who twice won the Champions League with AC Milan under Berlusconi's ownership, said the former PM had been a fundamental part of his journey \"as a football player first, and then as a coach\".\n\nBerlusconi was a polarising politician. He was praised by supporters for his business acumen and populist verve, but reviled by critics for his disregard for the rule of law.\n\nThroughout his political career, he faced a string of legal troubles, including charges of bribery, tax fraud, and sex with an underage prostitute. He was convicted on several occasions, but avoided jail because of his age and the expiry of statutes of limitations.", "Colombian soldiers tend to the four children shortly after they were found\n\nThe mother of four children rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle was alive for four days after their plane crashed.\n\nMagdalena Mucutuy told her children to leave and find help as she lay dying.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the children's father, Manuel Ranoque, said his eldest daughter told him their mother urged them to \"get out\" and save themselves.\n\nThe siblings, aged 13, nine, five, and one, were rescued and airlifted out of the jungle on Friday.\n\nThey were moved to a military hospital in the nation's capital Bogota.\n\n\"The one thing that [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for me is that, in fact, her mother was alive for four days,\" Mr Ranoque told reporters outside the hospital.\n\n\"Before she died, their mum told them something like, 'You guys get out of here. You guys are going to see the kind of man your dad is, and he's going to show you the same kind of great love that I have shown you,\" he said.\n\nDetails have been emerging about the children's time in the jungle and their miraculous rescue - including the first things the children said when they were found.\n\nRescue worker Nicolás Ordóñez Gomes recalled the moment they discovered the children.\n\n\"The eldest daughter, Lesly, with the little one in her arms, ran towards me. Lesly said: 'I'm hungry,'\" he told public broadcast channel RTVC.\n\n\"One of the two boys was lying down. He got up and said to me: 'My mum is dead.'\" He said rescuers responded with \"positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were sent by the family\".\n\nMr Ordóñez said the boy replied: \"I want some bread and sausage.\"\n\nMembers of Colombia's Air Force tended to the children\n\nThe children are members of the Huitoto indigenous group and their grandfather told Colombian media that their knowledge of edible fruit and seeds had been key to their survival.\n\nThe eldest child, 13-year-old Lesly, has been credited with keeping her siblings alive.\n\nHenry Guerrero, an indigenous man who was part of the team which finally located the children, said they managed to build a small shelter.\n\n\"They had made a small tent from a tarpaulin and placed a towel on the ground. They always stayed near the river and she [Lesly] carried a small soda bottle which she used to [fill with and] carry water.\"\n\nIn footage released on Sunday of the children's rescue, the four siblings appeared to be emaciated from the weeks they spent fending for themselves in the wilderness.\n\nMr Guerrero said that \"the only thing they had in mind was to eat, eat\", when they were found. \"They wanted to eat rice pudding, they wanted to eat bread,\" he said.\n\nMs Mucutuy and her children had been travelling on the Cessna 206 aircraft from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, on 1 May.\n\nTheir plan was to join the children's father, who had fled their home after receiving threats from a rebel group.\n\nThe plane crashed nose first in dense jungle in the south of Colombia after experiencing engine failure. It took search teams two weeks to locate the wreckage.\n\nThe bodies of the adults on board - the children's mother and the two pilots - were found at the crash site by the army but it appeared that the children had wandered into the rainforest to find help.\n\nThe missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving more than 100 soldiers, local indigenous people and sniffer dogs.\n\nThe search teams repeatedly spotted signs in the jungle, including footprints and fruit that had been bitten into, which led them to believe the children had survived the crash.\n\nHelicopters flew over the area broadcasting a recorded message from their grandmother in the Huitoto language urging them to stay put to make it easier to locate them.\n\nThe children told their rescuers that they had heard the helicopters and the message.\n\nThey were finally located on Friday in a small clearing by a team of rescuers who had heard one of the siblings crying. \"When we found them, it was really a great happiness,\" Mr Guerrero said, describing the moment.\n\nTheir grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, said they were \"very weakened, they have small wounds and bruises, they have illnesses that they contracted in the jungle, but overall they're well, they're in good hands\".\n\nFidencio Valencia, the children's grandfather, has visited them in hospital\n\nHe added that a bag of cassava flour the children had found in the plane had sustained them for the first weeks.\n\nThey are being treated in hospital for malnutrition and dehydration and have been visited by their family and members of the search operation.\n\nThe Colombian military tweeted drawings the children had painted, one of which shows a sniffer dog known as Wilson.\n\nWilson, who lost contact with his handlers, is thought to have tracked the children down and spent some time with them in the jungle but is now unaccounted for.\n\nThe Colombian military said it would continue searching for the dog, assuring Colombians in a tweet that \"we leave no one behind\".\n\nWhile recuperating in hospital, one of the children drew rescue dog Wilson", "A Sinn Féin MP has told an IRA commemoration that everyone has \"the right to remember, and the right to commemorate\".\n\nJohn Finucane was the main speaker at what has been billed a \"South Armagh Volunteers commemoration\".\n\nHe said there was \"nothing to celebrate in conflict\", but commemoration was \"a right which everyone is entitled to\".\n\nHis involvement in the event was condemned by IRA victims, unionists and the Irish government.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said Mr Finucane was \"a hypocrite\" for taking part.\n\nMr Finucane told the event that truth and justice were \"something which every person who has been impacted by our conflict deserves.\"\n\n\"For just as truth and justice applies equally to everyone, so too does the right to remember, and the right to commemorate,\" he said.\n\nMr Finucane's father, solicitor Pat Finucane, was shot dead by loyalist gunmen at his home in Belfast in 1989.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP said he would defend commemorations by other groups - including loyalists - \"without hesitation\".\n\n\"There is nothing to celebrate in conflict, or in our difficult and painful past, but to commemorate those we have loved and lost is a right which everyone, including every single one of us gathered here today, is entitled to, and we do so with dignity and with pride,\" he said.\n\nThe event was held earlier in south Armagh\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event, Belfast East MP Mr Robinson said Mr Finucane had a few hours to decide if he wanted to \"proceed with being a hypocrite on these issues or withdraw\".\n\n\"You cannot burnish your credentials as a victim one day and then tarnish the memory of victims and their loved ones the next,\" he told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme.\n\nBut Mr Robinson, the newly-elected deputy leader of the DUP said victims were \"hurt\" by the prospect of Mr Finucane's attendance at the event in Mullaghbawn.\n\n\"This should not be happening,\" he said.\n\n\"When we consider the need to reconcile our communities that anybody, let alone a member of Parliament and a victim, would go to a family fun day to show respect for terrorists, shows just how shallow some of the commitments about an Ireland for all are, that have been shared with us over the previous number of weeks.\"\n\nGavin Robinson said victims of terrorism were \"hurt\" at the move\n\nOn Friday, a relative of one of the victims of an IRA bomb atrocity in Coleraine nearly 50 years ago criticised Mr Finucane's planned appearance.\n\nLesley Magee's grandmother, Nan Davis, was among six Protestants killed in the Coleraine attack on 12 June 1973.\n\n\"I don't think we should be commemorating terrorism on any level, whether it be Protestant, whether it be Catholic,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I have equal animosity towards both. I have no issue with anyone's religion, whether it be Protestant, Catholic, Judaism - whatever; I don't care.\n\n\"I don't think any MP should be at some kind of commemoration to celebrate a terrorist,\" she added.\n\nAlliance Party assembly member Sorcha Eastwood said she was disappointed Mr Finucane took part in the event.\n\n\"There is a difference between remembering and paying tribute to individuals, and commemorating terrorist organisations, including the IRA and its South Armagh 'brigade', particularly without reference to its many victims,\" she said.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said he thought the commemoration was \"scandalous\".\n\nTánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Micheál Martin had urged Mr Finucane not to address the commemoration, saying any attempt to \"celebrate or glorify horrible deeds from the past\" was not the correct way forward.\n\nBut earlier in the week, Sinn Féin assembly member Conor Murphy dismissed the row as a diversionary tactic by the DUP.\n\n\"I think what we are in here is distraction politics,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"The real issue is here is the fact that public services are crashing round our ears.\"", "Borrowers are being warned mortgage rates are set to rise further as turbulence continues to hit the market.\n\nBroker London & Country said lenders had been withdrawing deals and raising rates at a \"relentless pace\" and this week would \"bring more of the same\".\n\nMortgage rates have gone up about 0.5 percentage points in the last month to approach an average fixed deal of 6%.\n\nOn Monday Santander became the latest big lender to temporarily withdraw new deals due to \"market conditions\".\n\nMeanwhile, NatWest said it was increasing rates for new residential mortgages by 0.2 percentage points, and for buy-to-let mortgages by up to 1.57 percentage points from Tuesday.\n\nAbout 1.5 million households are set to come off fixed mortgage deals this year and face a sharp rise in their monthly repayments.\n\nRates have been rising since recent data showed that UK inflation is not coming down as quickly as expected.\n\nThere have been predictions that the Bank of England will raise interest rates higher than previously thought, from their current 4.5% to as high as 5.5%.\n\nIt has a direct impact on mortgage lenders, many of whom have raised rates and taken deals off the market over the last few weeks.\n\nIn the latest move, Santander said it was \"temporarily withdrawing all our new business residential and buy-to-let fixed and tracker rates at 7.30pm on Monday 12 June\".\n\n\"We're relaunching our full new business range on Wednesday 14 June,\" it added.\n\nIt comes after HSBC suspended new deals via brokers last week only to temporarily reopen them on Friday.\n\nOn Monday it returned to the market with higher rates for its fixed residential and buy-to-let mortgages.\n\nDavid Hollingworth from London & Country told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's been pretty relentless for the last couple of weeks. We're back to that phase of you can't hang around if you are looking at a fixed rate.\"\n\nHe said lenders were being forced to reprice deals as the market shifted around them and those with cheaper deals faced a \"tidal wave\" of business.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think this week we may still have to see more of that happening.\n\n\"But hopefully those rates will just start to find a level and we'll see things start to calm down in the near future.\"\n\nAccording to financial data firm Moneyfacts, the average two-year fixed-rate mortgage deal is 5.86%, while a five-year deal has hit 5.51%.\n\nLast May they were 3.03% and 3.17% respectively, meaning many households have seen sharp rises in their borrowing costs.\n\nWhen a fixed term comes to an end then a borrower reverts automatically to their lender's standard variable rate (SVR). But brokers say these SVRs have soared, meaning anyone who adopts a wait and see approach would see a massive jump in the rate they pay, and therefore a much higher monthly mortgage bill.\n\nIan Stuart, boss of HSBC in the UK, admitted it was a \"deeply concerning\" time for a lot of customers.\n\n\"If you've got an old rate, as many will have, let's say 1.5%, and you're going to come off that rate and go onto something like 5%, that is a big impact on your monthly budget.\"\n\nHe said the bank had been forced to pause sales of new deals last week as it was struggling to meet \"unprecedented\" demand.\n\nHe also said HSBC expected UK interest rates to rise further, putting more pressure on the market.\n\n\"So not the news mortgagees would be looking for, but I don't think inflation is going to fall quite as fast as we had hoped.\"\n\nRising mortgage rates are also putting pressure on landlords, pushing some to consider selling up, surveyors say.\n\nIn turn, that could further squeeze the availability of rental properties and raise costs for tenants, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.", "Russia appears to have moved to take direct control of Wagner, after months of infighting between defence officials and the private military group.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Saturday \"volunteer formations\" will be asked to sign contracts directly with the ministry of defence.\n\nThe vaguely worded statement is widely believed to target the group.\n\nBut in a furious statement on Sunday, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces would boycott the contracts.\n\nThe private military group has played a major role in the war in Ukraine, fighting on the side of Russian forces.\n\nBut Prigozhin, who is said to hold political ambitions of his own, has been embroiled in a public dispute with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and military chief Valery Gerasimov for months.\n\nHe has repeatedly accused the pair of incompetence and of deliberately undersupplying Wagner units fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\"Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu,\" Prigozhin said in response to a request for comment on the defence ministry's announcement. \"Shoigu cannot properly manage military formation.\"\n\nHe insisted that his group was well integrated with the Russian military, but said that its effectiveness would be damaged by having to report to the defence minister.\n\nWhile Saturday's announcement did not directly reference Wagner or any other paramilitary groups, Russian media suggested that the new contracts were a move to bring Prigozhin and his forces under control.\n\nBut the defence ministry said the move was designed to \"increase the effectiveness\" of Russian units fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\"This will give volunteer formations the necessary legal status, create common approaches to the organization of comprehensive support and the fulfilment of their tasks,\" the ministry said in a statement, adding that the contracts must be signed by 1 July.\n\nThe long-running tensions between the Wagner Group and the army have threatened to boil over in recent weeks.\n\nLast week the group kidnapped a senior frontline army commander, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, after accusing him of opening fire on a Wagner vehicle near Bakhmut.\n\nLt Col Venevitin was later released, and in a video shared by Russian military bloggers he accused the group of stoking \"anarchy\" on Russia's frontlines by stealing arms, forcing mobilised soldiers to sign contracts with the group and attempting to extort weapons from the defence ministry.\n\nPrigozhin called the comments - which appeared to be read from a script - \"absolutely total nonsense\".\n\nHe has also suggested that he is ready to deploy his troops on Russian soil, saying on Telegram that Wagner was ready to fight against insurrectionist forces in the Belgorod region.\n\nIn December, the US estimated that Wagner had around 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine.\n\nAnd the mercenary group has increasingly become a tool of Russian state power around the world. Its troops are currently believed to have been deployed in Mali, the Central African Republic,Sudan and Libya.", "Nicola Sturgeon had been taken into police custody on Sunday morning\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police.\n\nScotland's former first minister was arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the SNP's funding and finances at 10:09 on Sunday.\n\nAfter being questioned by detectives she was released from custody at 17:24.\n\nShe has since released a statement saying \"I know beyond doubt that I am innocent of any wrongdoing\".\n\nPolice said a report will be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n\nThe force has been investigating for the past two years what happened to £660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists for use in a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nOfficers had been able to question Ms Sturgeon for a maximum of 12 hours before deciding whether to charge her with a crime or release her while they carry out further inquiries.\n\nA suspect released pending further investigations can be re-arrested at a later date.\n\nMs Sturgeon published a statement on Twitter shortly after police confirmed her release.\n\nShe said: \"To find myself in the situation I did today when I am certain I have committed no offence is both a shock and deeply distressing.\n\n\"I know that this ongoing investigation is difficult for people, and I am grateful that so many continue to show faith in me and appreciate that I would never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe went on: \"Innocence is not just a presumption I am entitled to in law. I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing.\"\n\nShe thanked people for messages of support and also her family for \"much-needed strength at this time\".\n\nHer statement ended: \"While I will take a day or two to process this latest development, I intend to be back in Parliament soon where I will continue to represent my Glasgow Southside constituents to the very best of my ability.\"\n\nA police patrol at the home of Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell on Sunday - it is not known where the police questioning took place\n\nMs Sturgeon was succeeded as first minister and SNP leader in March by Humza Yousaf, who is now facing calls from opposition politicians and at least one of his own MPs - Angus MacNeil - to suspend her from the party.\n\nMr MacNeil tweeted: \"This soap-opera has gone far enough, Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less!\"\n\nScottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy also called on Mr Yousaf to \"show some leadership and suspend his predecessor from the SNP\", in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nMs Sturgeon had attended a pre-arranged police interview and was arrested and questioned after she arrived.\n\nIt follows the arrest of her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, on 5 April by officers who searched the couple's home in Glasgow as part of their Operation Branchform probe.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh were searched on the same day and a luxury motorhome valued at about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, the party's treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested.\n\nBoth men were released pending further investigations, with Mr Beattie resigning as treasurer a short time later.\n\nThe arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected as she was one of the three signatories on the SNP's accounts alongside Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nPolice Scotland officers carried out a search of the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh in April\n\nThe Branchform investigation began after complaints were made about what happened to £666,954 that was donated to the SNP by activists for a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nThe party's accounts later accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe SNP had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year, but still owes money to Mr Murrell - although it has not said how much.\n\nMs Sturgeon made a shock announcement on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her in March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has denied the timing was influenced by the ongoing police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.\n\nThree things immediately jump out from Nicola Sturgeon's statement.\n\nThe most obvious is her vehement denial of any wrongdoing, expressed in emphatic terms.\n\nAnother is her pledge to return to Holyrood in short order - something which will no doubt have the parliamentary press pack sharpening their pencils and doorstep questions.\n\nThe third highlight is something that isn't mentioned at all - the question of Ms Sturgeon's continued membership of the SNP, which some, including one of the party's own MPs, have been questioning.\n\nWhen her predecessor Alex Salmond was accused of sexual assault in 2018, he swiftly resigned from the party with a pledge to clear his name. He was subsequently cleared of charges, but never did return to the SNP, instead setting up his own Alba Party.\n\nMs Sturgeon may well prefer the approach of Colin Beattie, who quit as SNP treasurer but remained within the party after his own arrest and release.\n\nThere is a recent precedent there - but this will doubtless still spark questions to Humza Yousaf about how he intends to handle the latest developments.", "The children were found fatally injured at an address on Flax Street\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two children died at a home in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nThe boy, 11, and girl, seven, were found injured and died at the scene.\n\nPolice discovered the children when they visited the house after first being called to the stabbing of a man at a car wash nearby.\n\nA woman, 49, known to the children, was arrested in connection with the stabbing and then on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe children were found at an address on Flax Street at about 14:15 BST on Sunday, after a call-out to the car wash on Campbell Road slightly earlier.\n\nThe stabbed man, in his 40s, was treated in hospital but has since been discharged.\n\nPolice remain at the scene of a murder investigation in Flax Street\n\nStaffordshire Police has referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to the force's recent contact.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cheryl Hannan said: \"We don't believe there to be any wider threat to the public at this time.\n\n\"Our focus remains on finding out more about what happened yesterday and supporting the family at this deeply distressing and tragic time.\"\n\nThe children's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers, the force said.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said the children were found in a critical condition and despite the crew's best efforts, they were confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nA neighbour near the scene said she burst into tears when she found out the news\n\nNeighbours said they were devastated at hearing the news.\n\nJade Halket, aged 22, said: \"It's scary with it being so close, I have two young kids myself, I find it devastating. It's awful.\"\n\nAnother resident told the BBC: \"I can't put it into words, I'm absolutely gutted.\n\n\"[The children] haven't even seen a life yet. We started crying when we found out, it's just not fair,\" she said.\n\nDetectives are appealing for witnesses and anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the area of Flax Street and Campbell Road between 13:30 BST and 14:30 on Sunday to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chloe Mitchell had been missing since last weekend\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the discovery of suspected human remains during searches for a missing woman in Ballymena.\n\nChloe Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town between the night of 2 June and the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation has been taking place in an attempt to find the 21-year-old.\n\nOn Sunday night, Det Ch Insp Richard Millar said police now had reason to believe she was murdered.\n\n\"Our thoughts this evening are very much with Chloe's family and we have specialist officers providing them with support at this heart-breaking time,\" he said.\n\nHe added the remains had not yet been formally identified.\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 34, who were earlier arrested over her disappearance remain in police custody.\n\nThe 34-year-old was arrested in Ballymena on Saturday, while the 26-year-old was arrested in Lurgan in County Armagh on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, police were granted a further 36 hours to question the 26-year-old.\n\nForensic teams have been seen entering a house in James Street\n\nForensic teams were seen entering a house in James Street in Ballymena on Sunday evening.\n\nThe property had been sealed off by police for a number of days.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Mitchell's brother, Phillip Mitchell, said he was broken by her disappearance and appealed for information.\n\nAt that stage, police had described her as a \"high-risk missing person\".\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they were increasingly concerned for the young woman's safety and renewed their appeal for information.\n\nExtensive searches had been carried out to try to find Ms Mitchell.\n\nOn Sunday the Community Rescue Service (CRS) said it had completed all search areas as requested.\n\nIn a statement it added: \"The CRS would like to thank the people of Ballymena, those who live and work in the Harryville area and especially Chloe's family and friends for their exceptional support during our operations.\"\n\nThe MP for the area, Ian Paisley, said he was \"deeply saddened and disturbed\".\n\n\"This is heartbreaking news for Chloe's family and friends and will shadow the town of Ballymena with sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"The family have stated they are broken. No one can understand just how deep that break is.\"\n\nMr Paisley said he understood the police would hold a press conference on Monday.", "Chloe Mitchell was last seen between ten and eleven days ago\n\nA 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell in County Antrim.\n\nBrandon John Rainey of James Street, Ballymena, was charged with murdering Ms Mitchell between 2 and 5 June.\n\nMs Mitchell was last seen in the County Antrim town on the night of 2 June and into the early hours of 3 June.\n\nA huge search operation got under way and, on Sunday, suspected human remains were found. These have not been formally identified.\n\nMr Rainey appeared at court via video link along with fellow accused Ryan Johnson Gordon, 34, of Nursery Close, Ballymena who is charged with attempting to impede justice by concealing evidence around the alleged murder of Ms Mitchell.\n\nBallymena Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Rainey has serious mental health problems and is a paranoid schizophrenic.\n\nIn court, when asked if he understood the charge against him, Mr Rainey replied: \"Yeah.\"\n\nBrandon John Rainey, who appeared in court via video link, denied murdering Ms Mitchell\n\nHis defence lawyer said he had \"acute mental health difficulties\"and that he denied the charge.\n\nAn application was made for Mr Rainey to be released to the Shannon Clinic - a medium secure unit for people with mental illness - outside Belfast, but police objected as he had previously escaped from the clinic.\n\nJudge Peter King said Mr Rainey had been charged with the \"most serious offence in the criminal canon\" and remanded him in custody at Maghaberry Prison until 6 July. No application for bail was made.\n\nCounsel for Mr Gordon said he wanted to \"echo similar sentiments to my colleague\" in terms of his client, adding: \"There are mental health difficulties.\"\n\nMr Gordon was also remanded pending a bail application which will be heard at Ballymena Magistrates Court on 20 June.\n\nNone of Chloe's family was present for the hearing.\n\nA huge search operation was launched in Ballymena after Ms Mitchell's disappearance\n\nEarlier on Monday, North Antrim MP Ian Paisley told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that Chloe Mitchell's death was an \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"There is a terrible shadow over the town - the sadness is palpable,\" he said.\n\nMr Paisley paid tribute to the teams of people - both professionals and volunteers - saying that they showed \"great courage and bravery\".\n\n\"They were just brilliant; they worked in very hot weather through river beds and through difficult terrain.\n\n\"It shows the community spirit. No-one wanted to hear that awful news that emerged and the sadness that is there. They worked in hope, but unfortunately that has been put aside now.\"\n\nThe Ballymena community worked alongside the Community Rescue Service (CRS) last week searching along the banks of the Braid River as well as in the water.\n\nSurrounding parklands and the Ecos centre were also searched.\n\nA prayer vigil for Ms Mitchell was held at Harryville Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.\n\nA prayer vigil for Chloe Mitchell was held in Harryville in Ballymena on Sunday\n\nBallymena resident Patricia Mitchell, who is not related to Chloe Mitchell, said people in the town were devastated.\n\n\"There's no words to describe what has happened around here - absolutely unbelievable,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nIndependent councillor Rodney Quigley said it was \"beyond people's worst nightmares\".\n\n\"This is a great community and to have this happen right on the doorsteps is heart-breaking,\" he said.", "Alex Salmond never returned to the SNP and now leads the Alba party Image caption: Alex Salmond never returned to the SNP and now leads the Alba party\n\nThere has been much talk this morning of past suspensions from the SNP, and whether they suggest Nicola Sturgeon should continue as a member.\n\nThe most immediate precedent comes from this same investigation, which has seen two other SNP figures arrested and then released without charge.\n\nColin Beattie stepped down as SNP treasurer, but kept his party membership and continues to sit as an SNP MSP.\n\nSimilarly Peter Murrell – Ms Sturgeon’s husband and until recently the party’s chief executive – has not publicly renounced his membership and First Minister Humza Yousaf says he is “innocent until proven guilty”.\n\nThere have been other cases, covering a broad range of allegations, which provide a rather muddy picture of the party’s approach to discipline.\n\nMs Sturgeon’s predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, resigned his membership when he was accused of sexual offences. He was ultimately cleared of the charges at trial, but never returned to the party.\n\nOthers have also opted to resign or voluntarily “step back” from the party whip or membership – like the former MP Natalie McGarry, who was ultimately jailed for embezzlement.\n\nMichelle Thomson also resigned the whip at Westminster amid allegations of financial irregularities, but would later say she was forced into the move by party bosses. The police investigation was dropped, and Ms Thomson now sits as an SNP MSP at Holyrood.\n\nHowever, others have been suspended – like the MP Margaret Ferrier, who is currently suspended from the House of Commons after breaching Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former MSP Mark McDonald was also suspended amid harassment allegations, having resigned as a government minister. He was also suspended from Holyrood following a standards committee probe and sat as an independent member until the 2021 election.\n\nObviously many of these cases are in no way comparable to Ms Sturgeon’s situation – and there does not seem to be a clear precedent for the party to follow in terms of how it handles this.", "The speeding groom was pulled over on the M4 in Wiltshire\n\nA groom heading to his wedding was pulled over by traffic police who caught him speeding at 121mph on a motorway.\n\nWiltshire Police Special Ops tweeted \"usually, the bride is always late\" but the wedding-bound driver had \"some explaining to do\" after being pulled over on the M4 in his silver BMW.\n\n\"A rear nearside tyre with cord exposed topped this stop off,\" the force added.\n\nThe speeding groom will appear in court at a date to be confirmed.\n\nWiltshire Police confirmed that members of the wedding party later collected the groom to take him to his ceremony.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We're wrapping up our live coverage now, thanks for joining us.\n\nToday's developments from Ukraine largely centred on reports from Kyiv that a number of settlements were reclaimed from Russian control.\n\nAs the BBC's Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse explains, this counter-offensive is still in its early phase and this is reflected by the Ukrainians attacking in multiple areas with modest gains.\n\nYou can read a detailed analysis of how today's events unfolded and what this means in terms of Ukraine's counter-offensive by our security correspondent here.\n\nToday's page was edited by James Fitzgerald and myself, and written by Jack Burgess, James Harness and Ece Goksedef. We'll be back tomorrow with more live updates on the conflict in Ukraine, so until then, goodbye for now.", "Security workers at Heathrow airport have called off the first two days of strike action after receiving an improved pay offer.\n\nMore than 2,000 staff said they will postpone industrial action on 24 and 25 June.\n\nUnite, the union, said that its members will vote on the latest pay deal over the coming days.\n\nHowever, if that is rejected, the remaining 29 days of strikes will go ahead as planned.\n\nLast week, Heathrow security officers announced they would walk out after turning down a pay offer of 10.1%, which they said was \"below inflation\".\n\nThe most common measure of inflation, the CPI index, is has fallen from more than 10% to 8.7%. But the RPI index, another measure of inflation stood at 11.4% in the year to April.\n\nThe strikes will affect Terminals 3 and 5, and have an impact on airport crew checks. The action could spark queues at security.\n\nThe walkouts coincide with busy travel periods including the summer holiday period for schools across the UK.\n\nThey also include dates for the Eid festival (28, 29 and 30 June) and the August bank holiday (24, 25, 26 and 27 August).\n\nUnite said it had called off the initial two days of strikes as a \"gesture of goodwill\" after \"extensive talks\" between workers and management.\n\nUnder the new pay deal, workers will receive a 10% pay increase backdated to 1 January, which will begin in July's payslip.\n\nIt will then rise to an 11.5% increase from October.\n\nHeathrow further offered a guarantee of an inflation-linked pay increase for 2024, rising by a minimum of 4%.\n\nA spokesperson for the airport said: \"We encourage them to accept the deal so that everyone can have certainty and the backdated pay increase that so many have been waiting for.\"\n\nUnite members will be balloted between 13 and 23 June.\n\nIf further strikes were to go ahead, the airport does not anticipate any flight cancellations.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic says it is not down to him to decide if he is the greatest player of all time after he won a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic won the French Open on Sunday, moving him one clear of Rafael Nadal in terms of men's majors.\n\nHe is level with Serena Williams on 23 and could equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I don't want to enter in these discussions. I'm writing my own history,\" Djokovic, 36, said.\n\n\"I don't want to say I am the greatest. I leave those discussions to someone else.\"\n\nIn the past several years Djokovic has been locked in an engaging battle with Nadal and Roger Federer, who retired last year with 20 major titles, to finish with the most men's Grand Slams.\n\nBy beating Norway's Casper Ruud at Roland Garros, Djokovic has moved clear of his long-time rivals for the first time.\n\nOn this evidence Djokovic looks a good bet to extend the gap further, especially with the injured Nadal planning to retire in 2024 and 41-year-old Federer already retired.\n\n\"It's amazing to know that I'm ahead of both of them in Grand Slams, but at the same time everyone writes their own history,\" said Djokovic, who also regained the world number one ranking in Paris.\n\n\"I feel like each great champion of his own generation has left a huge mark and a legacy.\n\n\"I have huge faith, confidence and belief in myself and everything that I am, who I am and what I am capable of doing.\n\n\"This trophy is another confirmation of the quality of tennis that I'm still able to produce.\"\n\nHow many more Slams can Djokovic win?\n\nDjokovic will attempt to tie Court's record at Wimbledon - a place where he has already won seven times and will be the favourite to equal Federer's record tally of men's titles.\n\n\"Grand Slams are the biggest priorities on the checklist, not just this season but any season, especially at this stage of my career,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"The journey is still not over. If I'm winning Slams, why even think about ending the career that already has been going for 20 years?\n\n\"I still feel motivated and inspired to play the best tennis in these tournaments.\n\n\"These are the ones that count the most in the history of our sport.\"\n\nDjokovic has cut back his schedule at tour level in recent years in a bid to peak at the right time for the four majors.\n\nThat strategy is clearly working, with Djokovic now having won six of the past eight majors he has played.\n\n\"He has this software in his head that he can switch when a Grand Slam comes,\" Goran Ivanisevic, Djokovic's long-time coach, said.\n\n\"The day we arrived here [in Paris], he was better, he was more motivated, he was more hungry.\n\n\"It's fascinating to see, because sometimes you think 'OK, now you have 23'.\n\n\"But he's going to find some kind of motivation to win 24, maybe 25 - who knows where is the end?\"\n\nDoes he still have the physical strength to win more?\n\nDjokovic came into Roland Garros without a great deal of preparation having been hampered by an elbow injury in the European clay-court swing.\n\nAfter needing treatment in his third-round win over Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Djokovic said he had a list of injuries \"too long to name\" and added the only way to deal with physical issues was to \"accept it\".\n\n\"I don't like to think about age and, it sounds like a cliché, but I really feel age is just a number in my case,\" said Djokovic, who surpassed 2022 winner Nadal as the oldest Roland Garros men's singles champion.\n\n\"My body is responding differently. I have to deal with more things physically than I have had maybe in the past.\n\n\"Maybe five to 10 years ago I was recovering much quicker or just didn't feel as much pain in the body.\"\n\nIvanisevic said he was never worried about Djokovic's condition and believes he still has \"a lot more\" in his body to win majors.\n\n\"He's keeping his body great - there's little ones [injuries] here and there but not major,\" said the Croat, who won Wimbledon in 2001.\n\n\"He's unbelievable and he's still moving like a cat on the court. He's there like a ninja, he's everywhere.\"\n\n'No sign his powers are on the wane' - analysis\n\nDjokovic's daughter Tara completed a few laps of honour on Court Philippe Chatrier on behalf of her father, as he conducted some final television interviews.\n\nAt 36, Djokovic is the oldest male champion in Roland Garros history, but he does not sound, look or play like it - even if he admits the aches and pains are gradually increasing.\n\nRoger Federer had two Wimbledon championship points against Djokovic a month shy of his 38th birthday, so the Serb knows exactly what might still be possible as he begins a 388th week as the world number one.\n\nHe could lose top spot over the grass court season, but it's likely to be just temporary. Having skipped last year's US Open - and all its preceding events - Djokovic has no ranking points to defend until October.\n\nHe has won the last three Grand Slams he has contested, and even in his 37th year, there is no sign his powers are on the wane.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThunderstorms have brought torrential downpours and flooding to parts of the UK on Monday.\n\nCars could be seen ploughing through deep puddles after flash flooding in north-west London.\n\nEasyjet said some flights leaving Gatwick Airport had been disrupted after thunderstorms \"caused air traffic control delays\".\n\nMeanwhile, lightning delayed Manchester City's victory parade celebrating their Treble win by 30 minutes.\n\nOfficial weather warnings have now passed for Monday, but two storm warnings are in place for Northern Ireland and Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThe yellow warnings, which mean storms may bring some disruption, will cover much of Northern Ireland, and a western area of Scotland from 12:00 BST to 21:00.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Stav Danaos said a number of thunderstorms in the Midlands had brought intense downpours in places, with Woburn in Bedfordshire catching 26.4mm in one hour on Monday afternoon.\n\nTuesday will be drier and more settled, with large amounts of sunshine, BBC Weather said. There could be some isolated showers and cloud in the afternoon, mainly in western areas. Later in the week, temperatures are expected to be less humid.\n\nIt is hard to tie specific weather events to climate change, but we do know that extreme weather is becoming more likely and more intense because of human-induced climate change.\n\nDrumnadrochit, on the western shore of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, saw 32.4mm in one hour, followed by another 10.6mm in the following hour. Other parts of Scotland had their hottest day of the year so far, with Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reaching 30.1C.\n\nThere were around 7,500 lighting strikes recorded nationwide, with more expected.\n\nDespite the poor weather causing delays, thousands of Manchester City fans lined streets in the city centre for the open-top parade celebrating the club's Treble.\n\nMany of the club's players - including star striker Erling Haaland - were unfazed by the rain, taking their shirts off as they paraded their silverware around the city.\n\nFormer City goalkeeper Shay Given told BBC Radio 5 Live he had experienced \"rain, hailstones and wind - four seasons in one hour\".\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans braved poor weather for the club's open-top parade celebrating its Treble\n\nMeanwhile, Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire asked people to only attend its emergency department for life-threatening illness and injuries because of \"localised flooding\". Heavy rain also caused flood-flashing in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire.\n\nSome flight cancellations were also reported at London Heathrow.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has also issued an amber alert for hot weather until 09:00 BST on Tuesday in the West Midlands, East Midlands, east of England, South East and South West.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect all ages and impact the health service.\n\nSadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has also issued a high air pollution alert for Tuesday, the second of the year, caused by high temperatures and pollution travelling from Europe.\n\nHe urged people to avoid unnecessary car journeys, and instead to walk, cycle or take public transport.", "People want to move on from the \"drama\" of Boris Johnson, Grant Shapps has said, dismissing the ex-PM's claim that he was the victim of a witch hunt.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as an MP, saying he had been forced out by a \"kangaroo court\" of MPs investigating Partygate.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Shapps said it was Mr Johnson's \"own decision\" to stand down.\n\nThe energy secretary denied reports Rishi Sunak's team prevented Mr Johnson handing out honours to key allies.\n\nMr Johnson dramatically stood down from Parliament, just hours after Downing Street published his resignation honours list without the names of key allies including Nadine Dorries, Sir Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams.\n\nAll three had been expecting to be appointed to the House of Lords, the BBC has been told.\n\nCompeting claims about how and why the names were removed are now at the heart of a rift within the Tory party following the former PM's resignation.\n\nA source familiar with the process has told the BBC that Mr Sunak's political team removed some of Mr Johnson's suggestions months ago.\n\nAsked if rumours were true that Mr Sunak's team had removed the names, Mr Shapps said: \"No.\"\n\n\"The prime minster has exactly followed the very longstanding conventions\" over honours, Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) - the official body for checking and vetting new peers - has confirmed it rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations on the grounds of propriety.\n\nPressed on whether Mr Sunak's team had taken names off the list months before the nominations were sent to HOLAC, Mr Shapps said: \"As far as I'm aware that is not true.\"\n\nThe spat might look grubby from the outside - but some of Mr Johnson's allies have no desire to let this lie.\n\nWithin 24-hours of the list being published both Ms Dorries and Mr Adams resigned as MPs - triggering by-elections in their constituencies, both of which are considered safe seats for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation also triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nThis hat-trick of by-elections have the potential to create major problems for Mr Sunak at a time when the Conservatives are trailing Labour by an average of 15 points in national polls.\n\nPressed on whether Mr Johnson had been the victim of a witch hunt, Mr Shapps said: \"I don't think that's true.\"\n\n\"Boris himself has decided to step down - that is his own decision.\"\n\n\"People don't miss the drama\" of Mr Johnson's time in office, Mr Shapps added.\n\nMr Johnson announced he was leaving parliament a day after seeing advance a report of the findings of the Commons Privileges Committee investigating into whether he misled the Commons over Partygate.\n\nIn an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nIn a written statement, Mr Johnson said the draft report from the committee was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\".\n\nHe said the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's comments, Mr Shapps said: \"I haven't seen what they've written, but I have no particular reason to think that is the case.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the fallout from Mr Johnson's resignation shows \"there should be a general election\".\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Lammy said: \"We have a former prime minister crafting a letter undermining the sitting prime minister.\n\n\"And we've got three by-elections brought about, not in the usual way because an MP has passed away, or there has been wrongdoing, but simply because these MPs want to put pressure on the current government.\n\n\"I don't say this with any glee, I say it because I genuinely believe, in the interests of this country, we need certainty.\"", "Sir Tom Jones became the oldest man to top the UK album chart in 2021\n\nSir Tom Jones said he still loves singing now as much now as he ever did, less than a week after turning 83.\n\nThe veteran singer kicks off a summer tour on Wednesday that will take to him to 11 European countries.\n\nSir Tom is performing 30 shows in 54 days, including three performances at Cardiff Castle.\n\nAs well as his new tour, the great-grandad from Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said new members of his family were giving him \"a lot of joy\".\n\n\"I've got a great-grandson now, it's a wonderful thing to see your family grow,\" he said.\n\n\"I remember my grandkids being born and seeing them growing up.\n\n\"Now they're wonderful adults and they're having a family now, so all that is very important to me as an older person.\"\n\nReflecting on his years of performing, Sir Tom said he had changed musically, as well as physically.\n\n\"When you're young, you feel young. I think I used to attack things more vocally,\" he said.\n\n\"When you get older through the decades, you treat things differently, because you're changing hopefully for the better - and you do that musically as well.\"\n\nThe 83-year-old also said he used to sing gospel songs in Elvis's hotel rooms after performances in Las Vegas.\n\nTom Jones at the Flamingo Hotel with Priscilla and Elvis Presley in 1968\n\n\"He was hard to stop,\" he said.\n\n\"The only problem was… we used to play Vegas a month at a time then, and when he would finish his month, sometimes I would still have shows to do.\n\n\"So he had finished his stint and I was still doing shows. He would come over every night. I used to say 'Elvis, I've still got two shows to do tomorrow' - he would just want to keep going.\n\n\"It's a weird thing to say, but it was hard to get away from Elvis Presley.\"", "The report was carried out by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission\n\nSome schools in Northern Ireland are teaching pupils that homosexuality is wrong in relationships and sex education (RSE).\n\nA Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) report said \"many schools use language that shames and stigmatises young people\" who had sex.\n\nSome told pupils that those who \"engage in casual sex must bear the consequences of their actions\".\n\nThe NIHRC investigated schools policies on the teaching of RSE.\n\nThe detailed investigation found most schools were not providing \"age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on access to abortion services\".\n\n\"Some schools actively contributed to the shame and stigma surrounding unplanned pregnancy and abortion, by making statements such as 'abortion is not a means of contraception and those who knowingly engage in casual sex must bear the consequences of their actions',\" the NIHRC report said.\n\nIt also said about two-thirds of post-primaries promoted abstinence in their sex education policies.\n\nOne school's policy stated that \"sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it, will be presented as the positive and desirable option and an achievable reality\".\n\nThe commission recommended that schools should be monitored to ensure sex education is taught in \"an objective and non-judgemental manner\".\n\nThat should include \"detailed assessments of the content and delivery of lesson plans\".\n\nThe NIHRC was established following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIt has the power to conduct investigations and compel evidence.\n\nIts investigation into relationships and sex education focused mainly on legal and policy matters but it also made recommendations on delivery of the subject in schools.\n\nAbout three-quarters (149) of post-primaries in Northern Ireland provided evidence to the commission's investigation and 124 provided their RSE policies.\n\nSome schools provided lesson plans and teaching notes, and experts were also consulted by the commission.\n\nSpeaking about the findings, NIHRC chief commissioner, Alyson Kilpatrick told Good Morning Ulster that \"an awful lot more needed to be done by a majority of schools in relation to age appropriate, comprehensive, scientifically accurate education and sexual reproductive health and rights\".\n\n\"The Department for Education needs to work with schools, consult with parents and children, to work out what the appropriate content should be and that it is delivered properly,\" said Ms Kilpatrick.\n\nIn 2018, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) said RSE in Northern Ireland should be compulsory and comprehensive.\n\nAs a result, the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris recently laid new regulations in parliament making teaching topics like abortion and prevention of pregnancy compulsory in schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said he had a legal duty to act on the recommendations made in the CEDAW report.\n\nBut the change has been criticised by Protestant and Catholic church leaders.\n\nThe NIHRC investigation into RSE was carried out before Mr Heaton-Harris's move.\n\nBut the commission said that there must be monitoring to \"ensure that schools are meeting their new obligations\".\n\n\"It's very easy to have a policy or to have a list of things you are going to teach, but it is the actual teaching of them and the way in which they are taught which is so influential,\" said Ms Kilpatrick.\n\nAt present, each school in Northern Ireland has to teach sex education but can decide what to teach \"based on the ethos of their school,\" according to Department of Education (DE) guidance.\n\nThe NIHRC said that the majority of schools who submitted their RSE policy to the investigation \"still promoted the value of the 'sanctity of marriage'\", and related terms, such as \"permanent committed sexual relationship\", and \"married love\" in their RSE policies and school ethos.\n\n\"In addition to this idealisation and promotion of abstinence, marriage, and monogamy, many schools use language that shames and stigmatises young people who do engage in sexual practices,\" the report continued.\n\n\"Most schools also contributed to this association of shame with sexual activity, by attributing specific moral values and personal characteristics to those who engaged (or did not engage) in sexual behaviour.\"\n\nThe NIHRC said about two-thirds of post-primaries taught pupils about contraception, but it was difficult to know if they offered accurate information.\n\nIn their RSE policies, some schools stated that \"they will present the Catholic teaching that 'the use of any artificial means of preventing procreation is not acceptable',\" the report said.\n\n\"Some schools even outline their beliefs that \"homosexuality\" is wrong,\" in their polices, the NIHRC said.\n\n\"For example, one [school] writes that 'the belief that homosexual acts are against the nature and purpose of human relationships will be presented to pupils',\" the report continued.\n\nOne third of schools who provided information to the NIHRC said their school would teach pupils that \"heterosexual relationships was the 'main' or 'ideal' context for sexual intimacy\".\n\nThe report also said most schools \"indirectly contribute to the societal victim-blaming and slut-shaming of women and girls.\"\n\nIt said this was because they focused on how young people could stop themselves becoming victims of sexual abuse or violence, rather than challenging the perpetrators.\n\nThe NIHRC said that while their investigation showed some schools provided \"comprehensive and scientifically accurate\" relationship and sex education, the majority in Northern Ireland did not.\n\nThe commission concluded that the case for reforming the RSE curriculum was \"compelling\".\n\nIt provided 13 recommended reforms, including schools involving their students in drawing up RSE policies.", "Ukrainian soldiers from 35th Brigade posted a photo, saying its soldiers retook the village of Storozheve in the eastern Donetsk region\n\n\"Don't call it a counter-offensive,\" say the Ukrainians. \"This is our offensive, it's our chance to finally drive out the Russian army from our land.\"\n\nAll right, but what will it take to actually succeed?\n\nFirst off, let's not get distracted by the recent hard-fought but tiny territorial gains Ukraine has been making as it retakes obscure, half-abandoned villages in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, images of victorious, battle-stained Ukrainian soldiers holding up their country's blue and yellow flag in front of a bullet-ridden building is a welcome morale boost for Ukrainians.\n\nBut in the big strategic picture, this is a sideshow.\n\nThe area of Russian-held territory that matters most in this campaign is the south: the area between the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Sea of Azov.\n\nThis is the so-called \"land corridor\" that connects Russia to illegally annexed Crimea, the central part of that purple-shaded strip on the map below that has barely changed since the early weeks of the invasion last year.\n\nIf Ukraine can split that in two and hold the ground it's retaken, then its offensive will have largely been successful.\n\nIt would cut off Russia's troops in the west and make it hard to resupply their garrison in Crimea.\n\nIt would not necessarily spell an end to the war - which some are now predicting could drag on for years - but it would put Ukraine in a strong bargaining position when the inevitable peace talks finally take place.\n\nBut the Russians have looked at the map, quite some time ago, and reached the same conclusion.\n\nSo while Ukraine sent its soldiers off to Nato countries for training and readied their 12 armoured brigades for this summer campaign, Moscow spent that time constructing what is now being called \"the most formidable defensive fortifications in the world\".\n\nBlocking Ukraine's path to the coast - its own coast, let's not forget - are layer upon layer of Russian minefields, concrete tank-blockers (known as \"dragons' teeth\") bunkers, firing positions and trenches wide enough and deep enough to stop a Leopard 2 or M1 Abrams tank literally in its tracks.\n\nAll of this is covered by pre-determined artillery impact zones calibrated to rain down high explosive on Ukraine's armoured vehicles as they and their crews wait for their engineers to find a way through.\n\nThe early signs are - and it is still very early in this campaign - that those Russian defences are so far holding fast.\n\nRussia's military claims that a number of Ukraine's western-supplied tanks and armoured personnel carriers have been destroyed in fierce fighting\n\nUkraine has yet to commit the bulk of its forces - so these are probing, reconnaissance attacks designed to reveal the whereabouts of Russia's artillery and search out areas of vulnerability in their lines.\n\nIn Ukraine's favour is morale. Its soldiers are highly-motivated and fighting to liberate their own country from an invader.\n\nMost of Russia's troops do not share that motivation, and in many cases their training, equipment and leadership are inferior to Ukraine's.\n\nThe General Staff back in Kyiv will be hoping that if they can achieve a sufficient breakthrough then a collapse in Russian morale will be contagious, spreading across the battlefront as demoralised Russian troops lose the will to fight.\n\nAlso in Ukraine's favour is the quality of hardware that Nato countries have provided. Unlike Soviet-designed armoured vehicles, Nato's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can often withstand a direct hit, or at least enough to protect the crew inside who then live to fight on.\n\nBut will that be enough to counter the strength of Russia's artillery and drone attacks?\n\nRussia, as the vastly bigger country, can draw on more resources than Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin, who started this war in the first place, knows that if he can only wear down the Ukrainians into a stalemate that drags on into next year then there is a chance that the US and other allies will tire of supporting this expensive war effort and start to pressure Kyiv to reach a ceasefire compromise.\n\nFinally, there is the matter of air cover, or lack of it. Attacking a well dug-in enemy without sufficient close air support is highly risky.\n\nUkraine knows this, which is why it's long been pleading with the West to supply it with F16 fighter jets.\n\nThe US, which makes them, did not give the green light for this until late May, by which time the first, preparatory, phase of Ukraine's offensive was already under way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A video on social media purports to show a Ukrainian flag being raised in Neskuchne, Donetsk Oblast\n\nCritically for Ukraine, the game-changing F16s may now arrive too late on the battlefield to play a key role in the early phases of this counter-offensive.\n\nThis is not to say the Ukrainians will lose.\n\nTime and again they have proved themselves agile, resourceful and inventive. They successfully drove the Russian army out of Kherson by hitting their rear-area logistics hubs to the point where the Russians could no longer resupply their troops in that southern city.\n\nEquipped with long-range weapons like Britain's Storm Shadow cruise missile, Ukraine will be attempting to do the same now.\n\nBut amidst all the claim and counter-claim of a propaganda war, it may yet be weeks or even months before we get a clearer picture of who is likely to ultimately prevail in this war.", "Berlusconi was a major public figure in Italian business, broadcasting, and politics\n\nIn the labyrinthine world of Italian politics, Silvio Berlusconi was the supreme wheeler-dealer - a man who merged business and public life like no other.\n\nHis flamboyant personality struck a chord with the Italian electorate, which continued to back him despite allegations of corruption and double-dealing.\n\nFour times he was prime minister, and each time it seemed his political career was over, he managed to confound his critics and bounce back.\n\nNine years after he was banned from public office for tax fraud, he was back in parliament, elected to Italy's Senate before he turned 86 in September 2022.\n\nBut it was often his private life - his fondness for surrounding himself with beautiful young women, and the ensuing sexual scandals - that made headlines around the world.\n\nBerlusconi, who has died at the age of 86, was a media mogul, football club owner and billionaire businessman who never gave up on politics - and helped shape Italy's image for decades.\n\nSilvio Berlusconi was born into a middle-class family in Milan on 29 September 1936 and grew up in a village outside the city during World War Two.\n\nFrom his student days, he demonstrated the ability to make money. While studying law at university, he played double-bass in a student band - and developed a reputation as a singer, working in nightclubs and on cruise ships.\n\nBerlusconi had a spell as a singer on cruise ships\n\nHis first foray into using his natural charm for business was as a vacuum cleaner salesman and in selling essays written for his fellow students.\n\nAfter graduation, he started in construction with his own company, Edilnord, building an enormous apartment complex on the edge of Milan - though the source of funding for the project was something of a mystery.\n\nIn 1973, the entrepreneur launched a local cable television company called Telemilano to provide television to his properties.\n\nFour years later, he owned two more stations and a central Milan studio. By the end of the decade, he had created a holding company, Fininvest, to manage the rapid expansion of his business holdings.\n\nEventually, it would own Mediaset - Italy's largest media empire and owner of the country's biggest private stations - and Italy's largest publishing house, Mondadori.\n\nBy the time of his death, he was one of Italy's richest men, with a family fortune in the billions of dollars. His children - Marina, Barbara, Pier Silvio, Eleonora and Luigi - have all taken part in the running of his business empire.\n\nSome of that wealth would be used to indulge his personal interests - including saving his hometown football club AC Milan from bankruptcy in 1986.\n\nThe football club AC Milan was just one of his business interests\n\nThat investment would pay off three decades later in 2017, when he sold the club to Chinese investors for £628m (€740m).\n\nHe never gave up on football either, later buying Monza football club and enjoying its rise to the top flight of Serie A for the first time in its history.\n\nBerlusconi's remarkable ability to face down the courts repeatedly - and maintain his popularity in politics - was unrivalled.\n\nHe often complained of victimisation - particularly by prosecutors in his native Milan - once claiming to have made 2,500 court appearances in 106 trials over 20 years.\n\nCharges over the years have included embezzlement, tax fraud and false accounting, and attempting to bribe a judge. He was acquitted or had his convictions overturned on several occasions.\n\nHis controversies were highly public and formed a regular backdrop throughout his political career. It was not until February 2023 that he was finally cleared of bribing witnesses to lie about the notorious \"bunga bunga\" parties he had held at his villa as prime minister.\n\nHe had founded his own political party 30 years earlier in 1993 and within a year, he was catapulted to power.\n\nLeveraging his enthusiasm for football, he named his party after a supporters' chant - Forza Italia (Go Italy). At the time, a power vacuum had emerged in the wake of a scandal affecting Italy's centre-right - and Berlusconi offered an alternative to those voters that was not leftist.\n\nA massive advertising campaign on his own TV channels had helped propel him to victory in the 1994 election.\n\nHowever, his new appetite for politics was seen as a bid to avoid being implicated in corruption charges himself, after several of his businesses were drawn into the investigation.\n\nBut he dismissed the claims. \"I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats, beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family. I am making a sacrifice.\"\n\nOnce he was in power, Berlusconi's government passed a law that gave him, and other top public figures, immunity from prosecution while in office, but it was later thrown out by the constitutional court.\n\nBerlusconi's first coalition lasted only a few months - partly owing to friction between the different parties in it, and partly because of Berlusconi's indictment for alleged tax fraud by a Milan court.\n\nHe lost the 1996 election to the Left - but his political career was only just beginning.\n\nIn 2001, Berlusconi was back as prime minister, at the head of a new coalition known as House of Freedoms. The main plank of his election campaign was a promise to overhaul the Italian economy, simplify the tax system and raise pensions.\n\nBut Italy's finances were suffering in a worsening global economy, and Berlusconi was unable to fulfil his pledges. He lost to the Left in 2006 - but won again in 2008.\n\nHe remained a fixture in Italian politics until 2011, which would prove among his most challenging years.\n\nItaly's borrowing costs soared during the eurozone debt crisis. The prime minister haemorrhaged support and was forced to resign after losing his parliamentary majority.\n\nThe same year, the constitutional court struck down part of the law granting him and other senior ministers temporary immunity.\n\nBerlusconi eventually carried out community service as part of his conviction for tax fraud\n\nBy the end of 2011, he was out of power. In October 2012, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for tax fraud and barred from public office. Berlusconi declared his innocence and spoke of a \"judicial coup\".\n\nBut by then, he was over 75 years of age and was handed community service instead. He worked four hours a week with elderly dementia patients at a Catholic care home near Milan.\n\nHe was also banned from public office - a prohibition which lasted for several years before his next comeback.\n\nBeyond politics, Berlusconi made headlines for his private life, which was often very public.\n\nThe flamboyant prime minister did not hide his pursuit of younger women. His most recent partner, party colleague Marta Fascina, is more than 50 years his junior. He was known to use hair transplants and plastic surgery to make himself seem younger.\n\nHe met his second wife, Veronica Lario, after she performed topless in a play. She would go on to express frustration publicly with her husband's behaviour around young women on more than one occasion.\n\nShe filed for divorce after her husband was photographed at the 18th birthday party of model Noemi Letizia.\n\nHis most high-profile scandal was the alleged \"bunga bunga\" parties at his villa, attended by showgirls - a story which ended in a conviction for paying an underage prostitute for sex.\n\nAmid the scandal, both Silvio Berlusconi and Karima El Mahroug denied they had sex\n\nIt eventually emerged that in 2010, Berlusconi, while prime minister, had telephoned a police station and asked for the release of 17-year-old Karima \"Ruby\" El Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby Heart-Stealer, who was being held for theft. She was also a reported guest of the \"bunga bunga\" parties.\n\nItalian media reported that the prime minister had claimed the girl was the niece or granddaughter of the president of Egypt, and he was attempting to avoid a diplomatic incident.\n\nBerlusconi was found guilty of paying her for sex and abusing his power in 2013 - but that ruling was overturned the following year.\n\nFor his part, Berlusconi always rejected claims he had paid any woman for sex, saying to do so was \"missing the pleasure of conquest\". But he also admitted he was \"no saint\".\n\nBeset by national budgetary problems and embroiled in personal scandals, Berlusconi's People of Freedom party did poorly in 2011 local elections, losing Milan, his home town and power base.\n\nBut he remained popular, coming within 1% of winning the 2013 national elections. Eventually, his party split - and Berlusconi relaunched it under its original name, Forza Italia.\n\nBetween his electoral defeats and the ban on holding public office because of his criminal conviction, it might have seemed that his political career was over.\n\nIn 2019, Berlusconi ran for election himself once more - and won\n\nYet Forza Italia came third in the 2018 elections with Berlusconi's name attached to its branding, behind the populist, anti-establishment Five Star and Forza Italia's own right-wing electoral partner, the League.\n\nBerlusconi promised to \"loyally support\" League leader Matteo Salvini's efforts to form a government - but the League chose to rule without Forza Italia.\n\nOnce again, it seemed like Berlusconi's political career might be coming to a close. But in 2018, a court ruled that he could, once again, stand for public office - declaring him \"rehabilitated\".\n\nThe decision came too late for the 2018 elections, but in 2019 the eternal vote-winner announced he was running for the European Parliament. As the top candidate on his party's lists, he easily won himself a European seat.\n\nThree years later, he was back in Italy's parliament and his Forza Italia a junior party in Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition.\n\nWith his slicked-back dark hair and raunchy scandals, Berlusconi was instantly recognisable and cultivated a larger-than-life personality.\n\nHe also became notorious for his questionable sense of humour after a number of high-profile gaffes. On one occasion, he suggested a German MEP would have made a good concentration camp guard - and on another, claimed Mussolini was actually a benign leader.\n\nHe dismissed these statements as jokes. However, he was also a long-time friend of Vladimir Putin and blamed Ukraine for Russia's invasion when his own government was strongly behind Kyiv.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is probably his involvement in almost every aspect of Italian life that angered his critics most - particularly his media empire, which, many say, gave him an unfair advantage at elections.\n\nThe many Italians who voted for him felt his success as a business tycoon was evidence of his capabilities, a reason why he should run the country.\n\nBerlusconi himself dismissed claims that mixing business and politics had been more beneficial to him personally than to Italy as a whole.\n\n\"If in taking care of everyone's interests, I also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest,\" he declared.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Berlusconi tried to teach me to shake hands\n\nAt the end of our conversation, with the cameras still rolling, we shook hands. Quick as a flash, he said to me: “Don’t shake hands so strongly! Men will be frightened of you, and no-one is going to marry you!” When I replied, suggesting a firm handshake was a good thing, he insisted he was only joking: “You’ve got to joke every once in a while.” He then proceeded to teach me how to shake hands properly. “Let’s try this again”, he said. “No, no! Too strong! Any man will think you are trying to beat them up!” When the piece was published, many condemned him for his sexism and his lack of respect towards a female reporter. But others – especially at home in Italy – thought the exchange was funny and harmless. In my 10 years as a BBC journalist no other political interviewee has introduced this level of awkwardness. But having grown up in the Italy of Berlusconi, I wasn’t shocked. If anything, I reflected on the fact that there were at least six cameras filming our interview. Berlusconi knew exactly what he was doing. He wanted to be filmed making a joke. Because, he may have figured, that for as many people who would condemn him, there were just as many who would applaud the authenticity of a man who wasn’t going to conform to perceived political correctness.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate Forbes says people are becoming \"fearful\" of expressing their faith\n\nThe lingering sense of shock Kate Forbes still feels at the scale of the backlash against her during the race for Scotland's highest political office is very clear.\n\nThe 33-year-old had been on maternity leave from her role as Scotland's finance secretary when Nicola Sturgeon suddenly said she was quitting as first minister and SNP leader in February.\n\nMs Forbes was considered a frontrunner to replace Ms Sturgeon but within days of announcing her candidacy she found herself at the centre of a political storm about her religious views.\n\nIn response to interviews questions, she said the idea of having children outside of marriage conflicted with her Christian faith and confirmed that she was anti-abortion.\n\nMs Forbes also said she would not have voted for same-sex marriage if she had been a politician in 2014 when the law passed.\n\nThe backlash against these views led SNP colleagues to abandon her campaign in droves.\n\nIn a frank interview with the BBC, Ms Forbes, who had been a high-ranking minister for three years, said: \"I'd always been open about my views so there was no surprise that they were a topic of discussion and - in some quarters - concern.\n\n\"The surprise was that those who knew my position, immediately distanced themselves from me.\"\n\nThere was no way back after her campaign's dramatic downturn and in March she lost the election, coming second to Humza Yousaf, although by a narrower margin than many had predicted.\n\n\"If I had not been honest, if I had tried to make certain things more palatable or politically correct, would I have been more successful?,\" she says. \"Perhaps.\"\n\nBut she adds that she does not regret what she said and has not changed any of her views.\n\nMs Forbes said she received \"thousands\" of messages from people who fundamentally disagreed with her position but supported her right to express her views and stand for office.\n\nWhen Mr Yousaf was elected SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, Ms Forbes left the Scottish government and returned to being the backbench MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.\n\nShe says with a smile that her faith tells her to forgive the colleagues she still works alongside who abandoned her campaign to be leader.\n\nBut her experience leads her to believe that people of faith are being squeezed out of political life.\n\nShe says: \"I do think there is a fear which characterises right now any discussions about faith.\n\n\"I do think people of faith are a minority and certainly my experience is they are, by and large, fearful.\n\n\"So they either feel like they have to hide their faith or adapt it and that is a cause for concern.\"\n\nMs Forbes says she does not know if seeing a public figure like her being \"absolutely traduced\" for her views has made them braver or more fearful.\n\nAt the heart of Ms Forbes' identity is her membership of the socially conservative Free Church of Scotland, whose evangelical Christian ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland in the 19th Century.\n\nMs Forbes feels that her own religious views were \"100%\" scrutinised more than those of Mr Yousaf - who has describes himself as a proud Muslim who fasts during Ramadan.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced she was quitting in February after more than eight years as first minister\n\nDuring the leadership campaign he was asked about his religious views and about gay marriage, something he said he supported even though he missed the vote on the issue in 2014.\n\nMs Forbes insists she holds to her faith \"in its entirety\" while others are making their religion more palatable in order to make themselves electable.\n\nIt is a view that dismisses the many politicians who say their deep faith is not in conflict with issues such as support for same-sex marriage.\n\nMs Forbes bristles a little at the suggestion that it was not just having a faith but her \"brand\" of faith - and the views it informs - that made it difficult for her to get elected.\n\n\"Yes, I talked at the time about fairly orthodox mainstream Christian teaching but my following the teachings of Jesus - which is based on a belief in the Bible - means that I don't feel I'm in a position to just pick and choose what I believe is truth or not,\" she says.\n\nGiven this stance, during the campaign it was confusing to some observers that while Ms Forbes said she would not have voted for gay marriage, now that it was the law she would defend the right of same-sex couples to marry.\n\n\"I'm a servant of democracy,\" she says again now. \"And in a democracy you have a debate, there is a vote by majority, and then it's for every leader to uphold.\"\n\nAs bruising as her experience has been, Kate Forbes says she was heartened by what she calls \"the backlash to the backlash\" against her and the fact that she did go on to secure 48% of the SNP vote.\n\nIf anything, she says she feels it is now all the more important for someone like her to remain in politics.\n\n\"I'm obviously at a crossroads because I'm no longer in government,\" she says.\n\n\"I have a 10-month old baby who's most demanding of my time, and I've got a constituency that I've been absent from for the duration of maternity leave. So there's lots to be getting stuck into and we'll see what happens next.\"", "Boris Johnson was fined for attending a birthday gathering in the Cabinet Room in 2020\n\nBoris Johnson has stepped down as a Tory MP after claiming he was \"forced out of Parliament\" over Partygate.\n\nThe ex-PM saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating if he misled the Commons over Downing Street lockdown parties.\n\nIn an explosive and lengthy statement, he called the committee a \"kangaroo court\" whose purpose \"has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts\".\n\nThe committee said it had \"followed the procedures and the mandate\".\n\nThe cross-party committee of MPs - the majority of which are Conservative - added it would conclude its inquiry on Monday and \"publish its report promptly\".\n\nMr Johnson's resignation now triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nDelivering his announcement late on Friday evening, Mr Johnson said the draft report he had seen was \"riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice\", adding it was clear the committee was \"determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament\".\n\n\"They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,\" he said, insisting \"I did not lie\".\n\nHe also accused its chairwoman, Labour's Harriet Harman, of \"egregious bias\", saying he was \"bewildered and appalled\" at how he was being forced out.\n\nThe ex-prime minister previously admitted misleading Parliament when he gave evidence to the committee in a combative hearing in March - but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nHe said social distancing had not been \"perfect\" at gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns but insisted the guidelines, as he understood them, were followed at all times.\n\nMr Johnson also used his letter to attack the direction of the government, saying \"we must not be afraid to be properly Conservative\" and warning the party's majority was at risk.\n\n\"We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda,\" Mr Johnson argued.\n\n\"Why have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?\"\n\nIt was a direct aim at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - hours after he stepped off a plane from Washington where Mr Sunak was not talking about a free trade agreement with the US.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson's statement was an attempt to rally Brexiteers in his party, suggesting his demise was driven by a motivation to \"reverse the 2016 referendum result\".\n\nThe statement contained further criticism of former senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated lockdown gatherings at Number 10.\n\n\"I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence\" that she will soon become \"chief of staff designate\" of the Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer, Mr Johnson wrote.\n\nEnding his 1,000-word letter, Mr Johnson said he was \"very sad to be leaving Parliament\" before adding - \"at least for now\" - for anyone thinking he is about to retreat into obscurity.\n\nMr Johnson's exit will trigger a by-election in his west London seat, which he held with a 7,000 vote majority in the 2019 election.\n\nThe Conservatives will also have to defend the Mid Bedfordshire seat of Nadine Dorries - a close ally of Mr Johnson - after she stepped down as an MP earlier on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson claims his removal is a \"necessary first step\" in attempts by some to reverse the 2016 Brexit result\n\nMr Johnson's dramatic move came after he was given the committee's findings, including details of criticisms it intended to make and evidence to support its conclusion.\n\nHe had faced a potential by-election if MPs recommended a suspension from the Commons as a punishment for misleading Parliament.\n\nResponding to his statement, a Privileges Committee spokesperson said: \"The committee has followed the procedures and the mandate of the House at all times and will continue to do so.\n\n\"Mr Johnson has departed from the processes of the House and has impugned the integrity of the House by his statement. The committee will meet on Monday to conclude the inquiry and to publish its report promptly.\"\n\nElsewhere, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner condemned what she called a \"never-ending Tory soap opera\".\n\nFor the Liberal Democrats, deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Good riddance.\"\n\nAnd SNP deputy Westminster leader Mhairi Black said Mr Johnson \"jumped before he was pushed\", adding \"no-one in Scotland will be sorry to see the back of him\".\n\nHowever, former home secretary Priti Patel, who was made a Dame in his resignations honours list also announced on Friday, praised Mr Johnson for his work as prime minister on the issues of Ukraine and Brexit, describing him as \"a political titan\".\n\nBoris Johnson's local Conservative association chairman, Richard Mills, said the former PM \"has delivered on his promises to local residents\".\n\nAnother sitting MP announced in the resignation honours list, Sir Michael Fabricant, criticised the Privileges Committee for what he called its \"disgraceful treatment\" of the former prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson was prime minister from July 2019 until September 2022, and has been an MP since 2001 - although not continuously, having served as mayor of London between 2008 and 2016.", "Papa Stour lies off the west coast of Shetland's mainland\n\nPeople living in one of the remotest parts of Scotland are to get a high-speed broadband link from space.\n\nThe UK government has announced that residents on Papa Stour, an island to the west of the Shetland mainland, will get a link to a satellite internet connection.\n\nWork to connect to one of the low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will be completed later this week.\n\nPapa Stour has the smallest population of Shetland's inhabited islands.\n\nUK minister for data and digital infrastructure, Sir John Whittingdale, said: \"Improving Papa Stour's connectivity is a major milestone in our efforts to close the digital divide as it transforms the lives of the island's residents and visitors.\"\n\nThe equipment to receive the satellite connection is expected to be in place on Papa Stour later this week and it will then link with OneWeb's LEO satellites to beam the high-speed broadband connection to the island from space.\n\nPaul Coffey, of Clarus Networks Group, said: \"Until now, Papa Stour residents have been constrained due to unreliable and slow internet connectivity.\n\n\"This installation is a landmark step in connecting remote communities, offering new possibilities for UK business and tourism.\"", "Dmitry Mishov: \"I am an officer, not an accomplice in a crime\"\n\nA military defector who fled Russia on foot has given a rare interview to the BBC, in which he paints a picture of an army suffering heavy losses and experiencing low morale.\n\nLieutenant Dmitry Mishov, a 26-year-old airman, handed himself into the Lithuanian authorities, seeking political asylum.\n\nDmitry said escaping from Russia in such dramatic fashion, with a small rucksack on his back, was his last resort.\n\nHe is among a small handful of known cases of serving military officers fleeing the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine to fight - and the only case of a serving airman that the BBC knows of.\n\nDmitry, an attack helicopter navigator, was based in the Pskov region, in north-western Russia. When the aircraft started to be prepared for combat, Dmitry sensed a real war was coming, not just drills.\n\nHe tried to leave the air force in January 2022 but his paperwork had not gone through by the time Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. He was sent to Belarus where he flew helicopters delivering military cargo.\n\nDmitry says he never went to Ukraine. We cannot verify this part of his story but his documents appear to be genuine and many of his statements match what we know from other sources.\n\nIn April 2022 he returned to his base in Russia where he hoped to continue his decommissioning. It was a lengthy process which was close to completion - but in September 2022 President Putin announced partial military mobilisation. He was told he would not be allowed to leave the army.\n\nHe knew that sooner or later he would be sent to Ukraine and started looking for ways to avoid it.\n\n\"I am a military officer, my duty is to protect my country from aggression. I don't have to become an accomplice in a crime. No one explained to us why this war started, why we had to attack Ukrainians and destroy their cities?\"\n\nHe describes the mood in the army as mixed. Some men support the war, he says, some are dead against it. Very few believe they are fighting to protect Russia from real danger. This has long been the official narrative - that Moscow was forced to resort to a \"special military operation\" to prevent an attack against Russia.\n\nOverwhelming and common, according to Mishov, is unhappiness with low salaries.\n\nHe says experienced air force officers are still paid their pre-war contract salary of up to 90,000 roubles (£865, $1090). This is while new recruits are being tempted into the army with 204,000 roubles (£1960, $2465) as part of an official and publicly advertised campaign.\n\nDmitry says that while attitudes towards Ukraine may vary, no one in the army believes official reports about things going well at the front or about low casualties.\n\nDmitry Mishov's documents prove his rank and position in the army\n\n\"In the military no one believes the authorities. They can see what is really happening. They are not some civilians in front of the telly. The military do not believe official reports, because they are simply not true.\"\n\nHe says that while in the early days of the war the Russian command was claiming no casualties or losses of kit, he personally knew some of those who had been killed.\n\nBefore the war his unit had between 40 and 50 aircraft. In the first few days after the start of the Russian invasion, six had been shot down and three destroyed on the ground.\n\nRussian authorities rarely report military casualties. Last September, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russia had lost around 6,000 men, a figure most analysts, including pro-Kremlin military bloggers considered an underestimate.\n\nIn the most recent instalment of a research project identifying Russian servicemen killed in the war in Ukraine, BBC Russian's Olga Ivshina compiled a list of 25,000 names and in many cases ranks of soldiers and officers. Real figures, including those missing in action, she believes, are much higher.\n\nDmitry describes losses among military air crews as extremely high. This matches findings in an investigation Olga Ivshina has been conducting which found that Russia lost hundreds of highly skilled servicemen, including pilots and technicians, whose training is time-consuming and costly.\n\n\"Now they can replace the helicopters, but there are not enough pilots,\" Dmitry says. \"If we compare this to the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, we know that the Soviet Union lost 333 helicopters there. I believe that we've experienced the same losses in one year.\"\n\nIn January this year, Dmitry was told he was going to be sent \"on a mission\".\n\nRealising that it could mean only one thing - going to Ukraine - he resorted to a suicide attempt. He hoped that this would lead to his decommissioning on health grounds. But it did not.\n\nWhile he was recovering in hospital, he read an article about a 27-year ex-police officer from the Pskov region who had successfully escaped to Latvia. Dmitry decided to follow his example.\n\n\"I was not refusing to serve in the army as such. I would serve my country if it faced a real threat. I was only refusing to be an accomplice in a crime.\n\n\"Had I boarded that helicopter, I would have taken the lives of several dozen people, at the very least. I didn't want to do that. Ukrainians are not our enemy.\"\n\nDmitry searched for help on Telegram channels to plot a route through the woods on the EU border. He packed as light as he could.\n\nHe says walking through the woods was terrifying as he feared being stopped by border guards.\n\n\"Had they arrested me, I could have gone to prison for a long time.\"\n\nHe says at one point a flare launched somewhere close to him and then another one. He panicked that this was border guards coming after him and started running.\n\n\"I couldn't see where I was going, my thoughts were in disarray.\"\n\nHe came to a wire fence and climbed over it. Soon he knew he made it.\n\nA reconstruction of the moment Dmitry felt he could breathe freely\n\nDmitry assumes the Russian authorities will start a criminal case against him. But he believes many of his army comrades will understand his motivation.\n\nSome had even advised him to try and hide in Russia, but he thinks even in a country that vast he would not have escaped being found and punished for desertion.\n\nHe does not know what will happen to him next.\n\nBut Dmitry says he prefers to try and build a new life in the EU than be on tenterhooks at home.", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started.\n\n\"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage or state the counter-offensive was in.\n\nThe comments come after an escalation of fighting in the south and east of Ukraine and speculation about progress of the widely anticipated push.\n\nUkrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.\n\nBut assessing the reality on the front lines is difficult, with the two warring sides presenting contrasting narratives: Ukraine claiming progress and Russia that it is fighting off attacks.\n\nMeanwhile in Russia's Kaluga region - which borders the southern districts around Moscow - governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a drone crashed near the village of Strelkovk early on Sunday. The BBC has not independently verified the report.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said in a video interview published Friday that Ukrainian forces had certainly begun their offensive but that attempted advances had failed with heavy casualties.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv on Saturday after talks with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Mr Zelensky described the Russian leader's words as \"interesting\".\n\nShrugging his shoulders, raising his eyebrows and pretending not to know who Mr Putin was, Mr Zelensky said it was important that Russia felt \"they do not have long left\".\n\nHe also said that Ukraine's military commanders were in a positive mood, adding: \"Tell that to Putin.\"\n\nMr Trudeau announced 500 million Canadian dollars (£297m) in new military aid for Ukraine during the unannounced visit.\n\nA joint statement issued after the talks said Canada supports Ukraine becoming a Nato member \"as soon as conditions allow for it\", adding that the issue would be discussed at the Nato Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.\n\nMeanwhile, fighting has escalated in recent days in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian officials say. Ukrainian forces are thought to be trying to push south to split Russian forces in two, breaking through the occupied territory which connects Russia to Crimea.\n\nUkraine's hope of advances in the region could be hindered by huge flooding in the south of the country after the Nova Khakovka dam was destroyed last week.\n\nThe flooding has covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.\n\nIn his nightly address on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said 3,000 people have been evacuated from the flooded Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.\n\nAnd Kherson's regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said water levels had dropped by 27cm, but more than 30 settlements on the right bank of the river - which is Ukrainian-held territory - were still flooded and almost 4,000 residential buildings remained underwater.\n\nNato and Ukraine's military have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.\n\nHowever, it seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the river as part of their ongoing counteroffensive, the BBC's Paul Adams says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Take a tour of HotSat-1, filmed by the BBC's Kevin Church\n\nA novel British satellite designed to map the heat signature of buildings has been launched.\n\nThe idea is to highlight those dwellings that are wasting energy and could benefit from better insulation.\n\nThe relatively small spacecraft is appropriately called HotSat-1 and it will be operated by the London-based start-up Satellite Vu.\n\nIts infrared sensor has been developed with funds from the UK and European space agencies.\n\nHotSat-1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at about 14:35 PDT (22:35 BST), a little later than planned.\n\nFlying at an altitude of 500km (311 miles), it will have the resolution to see individual roof tops and walls.\n\nThe UK has some of the most inefficient housing stock in Europe, with the vast majority of dwellings built pre-1970.\n\nIf many of these properties can be retrofitted, it would not only save on householders' fuel costs but help the country as a whole achieve its ambition of becoming climate-neutral by 2050.\n\n(L) Airborne infrared view of houses; data de-resolved to simulate HotSat-1. (R) Properties graded for their energy efficiency\n\n\"There is grant money there to improve insulation, but for councils and utilities there is a challenge in knowing where best to apply it,\" said Satellite Vu CEO Anthony Baker.\n\n\"With city-wide data, we'll be able to show you the worst 20% of buildings very quickly. And after the upgrades are done, we can check to make sure that it's done well.\"\n\nThe company plans to fly eight satellites as a constellation of \"thermometers in the sky\".\n\nIt has already had pre-launch commitments worth £100m from users who plan to use the thermal data in multiple ways - both within the UK and internationally.\n\nAs well as describing the heat profile of buildings, HotSat-1 should quickly identify the structures and open spaces that exacerbate the so-called urban heat island effect. These include the large car parks at retail centres that pump up the temperatures in towns and cities.\n\nPlanners could get an idea of where best to plant trees to cool the environment.\n\nArtwork: HotSat-1 is expected to be followed by seven more satellites\n\nThe data will also provide intelligence to the financial and insurance sectors - and even the military - by showing how temperatures in a scene change over time. It's possible, for example, to get a sense of the volume and type of output from a factory just from its heat signature.\n\nPollution monitoring ought to be another application. Watching for sudden changes in the temperature of river water might be an indicator that something is awry.\n\nA discharge from an industrial complex changes the water temperature in a nearby canal\n\nOrdnance Survey (OS), Britain's national mapping agency, will have early access to HotSat-1's data.\n\nIt has already conducted a trial of the sensor flown on a plane over the London Borough of Ealing. An aircraft is, obviously, much closer to the ground than a satellite, so the data had to be de-resolved to simulate more accurately what the space information will look like.\n\nBut it's given OS a head start on what to expect.\n\n\"Earth observation is tremendously powerful but it can be difficult to understand and use; few people have a degree in spectral analysis,\" observed Donna Lyndsay from OS.\n\n\"But as soon as you put that information on one of our maps, people get it - they understand it's hotter over here compared with over there. So, we'll have that early discovery of Satellite Vu data, combining it with our intelligence and then testing it on our customers.\"\n\nHotSat-1 has been manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in Guildford.\n\nThe spacecraft is based around its new low-cost bus, or chassis, referred to as Carbonite (named after the fictional substance used to freeze Han Solo in the movie The Empire Strikes Back).\n\n\"It's been a fun project to work on, very fast-paced,\" said SSTL engineer Ellie Sargeaunt.\n\n\"We only started integrating modules properly for the satellite in January/February. We've now got a second satellite in manufacture for launch next year. And then, hopefully, six more to come.\"\n\nA heat map of a French steel works: The data can be used to estimate the plant's output\n\nSatellite Vu flew its airborne sensor over the Nordstream pipeline leak in the Baltic Sea. The natural gas surfacing from the broken pipeline appears cooler than its water surroundings", "Who would be a prime minister or a first minister with predecessors keeping as… busy… as this?\n\nThere are many, many differences between the story of Boris Johnson and the story of Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nBut, politically what unites them is what has happened makes the business of being prime minister - or First Minister of Scotland - considerably harder.\n\nThe magnetism of the drama swirling around Mr Johnson should not distract from the two central points at its core.\n\nFirstly, those implications for Rishi Sunak attempting to get on with the job right now giving the impression of running a calm, considered administration shorn of the turbulence of recent years.\n\nMr Johnson has made Mr Sunak's job harder - and that matters in the here and now.\n\nSecondly, that a committee of his peers - containing a majority of Conservative MPs - has concluded in the strongest terms that Mr Johnson's integrity, or the perceived lack of it, was deserving of a sanction which would almost certainly have prompted a by-election.\n\nIn that case Mr Johnson would have had to win over his constituents in west London in order to carry on as an MP.\n\nThe man who was prime minister this time last year not just driven out of Downing Street, but driven out of parliament, by his fellow MPs. Even his fellow Conservatives.\n\nIts members have been offered extra security, such has been the profile and anger this inquiry into Boris Johnson has provoked.\n\nSome MPs are livid that Mr Johnson and his supporters have been, in their view, so cavalier in impugning the reputation of those on the committee, who have no capacity to respond publicly while they are compiling their report.\n\nMr Sunak and Mr Johnson met a week last Friday and discussed his honours list.\n\nNo 10 insist they have acted honourably - and have gone to considerable lengths to try to prove it.\n\nThey declassified a document to point out they had not tinkered with the list of nominees for peerages in recent weeks.\n\nBut critics are still not convinced - asking instead what did or did not happen much earlier.\n\nMr Johnson's allies claim they've been misled - even lied to.\n\nDowning Street sources say this is \"nonsense\".\n\nThis week at Westminster will be dominated by Boris Johnson and the report into his conduct expected in the next few days.\n\nBut what gives this row a much longer tail is the three by-elections that will follow.\n\nFrom what I am hearing, there is a desire within the Conservative Party to get on with them as quickly as possible, within the next month or so.\n\nThe parties are already out campaigning.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are upbeat about their prospects in Mid Bedfordshire. Labour are upbeat about Uxbridge and South Ruislip, which is a marginal.\n\nBut it's entirely possible the Conservatives win at least some of the contests - especially given Mid Bedfordshire and Selby and Ainsty had big Conservative majorities at the last election.\n\nBut as one senior Tory put it to me, it'll be the swing that matters - if there's a big swing against the Conservatives it'll set off the jitters again for many, many Tory MPs who fear oblivion at the general election.\n\nThere is nothing good about these by elections for Rishi Sunak.\n\nMeanwhile, at Holyrood, one of the defeated contenders to replace Nicola Sturgeon in spring's leadership race has called for her to stop sitting - for now - as an SNP MSP.\n\nAsh Regan told BBC Radio Scotland Ms Sturgeon should resign - or the first minister should consider suspending her.\n\nIt is amid this noise and the headlines that both the prime minister and the new First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, have to find the time and the space to get on with the very business of governing.\n\nBut this is made vastly more difficult by their predecessors' capacities to generate attention.", "Former senior party whips have told the BBC a \"professional\" HR system is needed in Parliament to handle sexual misconduct allegations against MPs.\n\nIt comes ahead of a debate on Monday on whether to ban some MPs under investigation for violent or sexual offences from Parliament.\n\nCurrently, there is no single authority at Westminster that deals with sexual misconduct cases against MPs.\n\nWhips are senior MPs in charge of their party's discipline and welfare.\n\nBut they are often expected to handle misconduct cases.\n\nSome allegations are reported to Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme, some to parties or whips, some to the Commons Speaker or leader of the House, and some to police.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to multiple senior MPs and former MPs, who have served as whips for different parties.\n\nMany argue Parliament needs a formal HR system to stop allegations being dealt with in different ways, on a case-by-case basis.\n\n\"There should be a better HR system for the employment of members' staff,\" said a former chief whip, who wanted not to be identified.\n\nMPs currently hire their staff directly, but the former chief whip argued they should be employed in the same way as ministers' special advisers.\n\n\"Although they are the appointment of the minister, they are centrally employed, and come under the HR umbrella of the rest of the civil service.\n\n\"That would give [MPs' staff] the protection of being able to speak to somebody else other than their employer, where it might be a very small office.\n\n\"So their employer is not necessarily the member of Parliament, but the House authorities,\" they said.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Anne Milton was deputy chief whip from 2015-2017\n\nOthers the BBC spoke to, who have served as whips, also said they wanted HR \"beefed up\" to help resolve grievances and other issues, citing a lack of clarity and training for whips on how to handle such cases beyond directing individuals to complaint processes, support services, or even the police.\n\nFormer deputy chief whip Anne Milton told the BBC: \"In the short period of time I was involved with the allegations against Charlie Elphicke, I was clear that the whips' office was not the place to consider issues such as this.\n\n\"You can help people through difficult periods in their life - but the whips' offices are not equipped and don't have the expertise to deal with complaints of this nature.\"\n\nElphicke was a Conservative MP who was suspended by the party after \"serious allegations\" were referred to the police, and was subsequently convicted of sexual assault.\n\nMs Milton added: \"I felt that the House of Commons - because allegations of misbehaviour or sexual harassment or sexual assault bring the House of Commons into disrepute - that the House of Commons needs to deal with that.\n\n\"You need a process that should be handled by an external organisation, who are professionals, to investigate allegations swiftly.\"\n\nShe said the whips' office was an instrument of the party leadership - and in the case of the government, its role was to get government business through Parliament.\n\n\"The whips' offices do not have the HR skills needed.\"\n\n\"Trying to crack the nut of MPs acting like small businesses is quite a difficult nut to crack. But using an external agency to resolve workplace issues is not difficult.\n\n\"Neither Parliament nor the whips' offices are equipped to do it. This is highly specialised stuff.\"\n\nShe said whips could remove the whip from MPs, but \"that's a political party decision\".\n\n\"The whips shouldn't be enacting sanctions as part of the complaints process. It may be considered prudent by a political party to withdraw the whip pending an investigation.\"\n\nCurrent MPs have also raised concerns about a lack of \"HR professionals\" to deal with cases like this.\n\nOne Conservative MP said: \"Where does the buck stop? The whips, the police, the Speaker, there's also the parties. I don't see that there is any formal coming together of those.\"\n\nParties often \"live in fear of someone saying: 'why didn't you take action?' That's where the judgement comes,\" they added.\n\nThis MP said that, while they still wanted a say in who their staff were, \"I do think there's a benefit in more HR support for MPs - I'm not an HR expert.\"\n\nThey compared MPs employing their own staff with Parliament \"dealing in effect with 650 small businesses\".\n\nAnother former chief whip the BBC spoke to echoed the argument for \"external supervision\", saying the role of the whips was to \"look after their flock, not to sit in judgement of them\", and to persuade them to vote with their party the \"right\" way.\n\nOn Monday, MPs will debate proposals to bar some MPs under criminal investigation for violent or sexual offences from setting foot in Parliament.\n\nThe proposals have been drawn up by the House of Commons Commission, a body of senior MPs which oversees the working of the Commons, following a consultation.\n\nIf approved, the plans could allow MPs or peers to be barred from the Houses of Parliament if they are deemed to pose a risk.\n\nThe exclusion would apply to the parliamentary estate in Westminster and any parliamentary-funded travel.\n\nMPs are being asked to have their say on the plans, but a formal vote has yet to be arranged.\n\nThe Commission has proposed that if the parliamentary authorities were presented with credible allegations of a sexual or violent offence by the police at any point in the criminal justice process, a staff panel would assess the claims.\n\nIf the panel undertook a full risk assessment on the basis of information provided by the police, it would consider the nature of the alleged misconduct and whether there were any safeguarding concerns.\n\nIf this led to exclusion being recommended, this would be put to an adjudication panel for a decision.\n\nUnder the proposals, excluded members would get a proxy vote so their constituents were not disadvantaged.\n\nThe BBC has been told there is some disagreement on the plans - with a number of MPs arguing members should not be excluded unless they are charged by police, and others arguing that the threshold for exclusion should be lower.\n\nOne former chief whip said excluding people who had not been charged flew \"against natural justice\".\n\n\"Allegations can be made against members of parliament that may be false, and they may be made in a vexatious way.\"\n\nMs Milton said she believed Parliament should be able to vote on excluding MPs from the Commons, because it was \"quite a serious issue democratically\".\n\n\"Their [MPs'] job is to hold the government to account. If you're going to withdraw an MP's ability to do this on behalf of their constituents. that's serious enough for the whole House to make a decision.\"", "Attacks on MPs investigating Boris Johnson are \"bang out of order\", Labour's Sir Chris Bryant has said, after the ex-PM called the Privileges Committee a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nMr Bryant, who chairs the committee but recused himself from the inquiry into Partygate, criticised Mr Johnson's allies for their \"confected anger\".\n\nNo 10 said it did not want to see people \"unfairly traducing\" the probe.\n\nThe committee is expected to publish its report on Wednesday.\n\nFor almost a year, the seven-person committee - a majority of whom are Conservatives - have been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about what he knew about Covid breaches in Downing Street. In evidence given in March, Mr Johnson admitted misleading Parliament, but denied doing it on purpose.\n\nThe committee met on Monday and are likely to meet again on Tuesday to finalise the report.\n\nThe committee had been preparing to recommend suspending Mr Johnson as an MP for 10 days or more, the BBC was told, a threshold which would have resulted in a recall petition among his constituents and a potential by-election.\n\nAfter receiving an advanced copy of the report on Friday, Mr Johnson shocked Westminster by announcing his resignation as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nIn his resignation letter, he vehemently attacked MPs on the committee, accusing them of trying to \"drive him out of Parliament\".\n\nHe said most members of the committee, including Labour's Harriet Harman who took over from Mr Bryant as chair of the inquiry \"had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson's close ally Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the committee's report was \"clearly partisan\" and \"biased\".\n\nHowever, Mr Bryant issued a strong defence of the MPs telling the BBC: \"This was a committee set up by whole House of Commons, it had a Conservative majority on it and it is now being judged on the basis of a report that no one has even seen yet - absolutely appalling and preposterous.\"\n\n\"We have enough nastiness in politics without people stirring this up. People like Jacob Rees-Mogg should be utterly ashamed of themselves.\"\n\nAsked about the criticism, Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the committee was \"properly set up\" and that the government would \"in no way criticise the work of the committee who are carrying out what Parliament has asked them to do\".\n\n\"People are entitled to express opinions. What we wouldn't want to see is people unfairly traducing the work of a legitimate committee.\"\n\nMembers of the Privileges Committee have been offered additional security, the BBC's Chris Mason says.\n\nOur political editor says there is widespread anger among the MPs' colleagues - from many political parties - that the tenor, tone and language of some of the criticisms of the committee, from Mr Johnson and others, has contributed to an atmosphere where committee members feel vulnerable.\n\nHe says there is additional irritation that, some believe, the integrity of committee members has been impugned without them being able to respond to it publicly.\n\nIn addition to reaching a conclusion on Mr Johnson, it is also expected that the report will reflect on the conduct of others in Parliament in how they have described the committee during its work, but without naming them.\n\nMr Johnson stood down from Parliament just hours after Downing Street published his resignation honours list without the names of key supporters, including Nadine Dorries, Sir Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams.\n\nAll three had been expecting to be appointed to the House of Lords.\n\nCompeting claims about how and why the names were removed are now at the heart of a rift within the Tory party following the former PM's resignation.\n\nThe House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) - the official body for checking and vetting new peers - has confirmed it rejected eight of Mr Johnson's nominations on the grounds of propriety.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Gove defended the decision to pass Mr Johnson's honours list to the King before the Privileges Committee report was published, insisting this was a \"separate procedure\".\n\nWithin 24 hours of the list being published, both Ms Dorries and Mr Adams resigned as MPs - triggering by-elections in their constituencies, both of which are considered safe seats for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation also triggers a by-election in his marginal constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.", "Ms Sturgeon attended a police interview by arrangement before being arrested\n\nFormer First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP.\n\nPolice confirmed a 52-year-old woman was taken into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by detectives.\n\nIt follows the arrest and subsequent release of her husband, ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, in April.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ms Sturgeon confirmed she had attended a police interview by arrangement on Sunday.\n\nThe former SNP leader, who stood down in March, was then arrested and questioned by officers who have been investigating for the past two years what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the party by independence activists.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has today, Sunday 11 June, by arrangement with Police Scotland, attended an interview where she was to be arrested and questioned in relation to Operation Branchform.\n\n\"Nicola has consistently said she would cooperate with the investigation if asked and continues to do so.\"\n\nSNP MP Angus MacNeil has joined opposition parties in calling for Ms Sturgeon to be suspended from the party - arguing that \"this soap-opera has gone far enough\".\n\nOfficers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh on 5 April, with Mr Murrell being arrested before later being released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nA luxury motorhome which sells for about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts and the arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected - although there was no indication of when it was going to happen.\n\nA forensic tent outside Nicola Sturgeon's house when it was searched in April\n\nUnder the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, police can release a suspect for further investigation, but they can be re-arrested at a later date.\n\nA spokesman for the SNP said the party would not comment on Ms Sturgeon's arrest, adding: \"These issues are subject to a live police investigation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon served as Scotland's first minister for more than eight years after succeeding Alex Salmond in the wake of the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's arrest follows that of her husband Peter Murrell earlier this year\n\nShe announced on 15 February that she would be standing down as both SNP leader and first minister once a successor was elected, with Humza Yousaf winning the contest to replace her.\n\nMs Sturgeon said at the time that she knew \"in my head and in my heart\" that it was the right time to go, and has denied the timing was influenced by the ongoing police investigation.\n\nShe was Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the only woman to have held the position.\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said the SNP was \"engulfed in murkiness and chaos\" and called on Mr Yousaf to suspend his predecessor from the party.\n\nThe SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, also called for Ms Sturgeon to be suspended, writing on Twitter: \"This soap-opera has gone far enough, Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less.\n\n\"Time for political distance until the investigation ends either way.\"\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish Secretary, Ian Murray, described the developments as \"deeply concerning\" and said the police inquiry must be allowed to proceed without interference.\n\nPolice Scotland launched their Operation Branchform investigation two years ago after complaints were made about what happened to £666,954 that was donated to the SNP by activists for a future independence referendum campaign.\n\nThe party's later accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe SNP had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year, but still owes money to Mr Murrell - although it has not said how much.\n\nPolice Scotland has been looking into SNP funding for some time.\n\nMs Sturgeon is the third high-profile arrest. Her husband - Peter Murrell - was previously arrested and released without charge. So was the party's former treasury Colin Beattie.\n\nThis is a live case, so there's a limit to what journalists can report.\n\nBut politically, there's no doubt this is a big blow to Scotland's governing party.\n\nThe new leader - Humza Yousaf - had been trying to move on from arrests and police probes, to talk about policy and his vision for government.\n\nIt's inevitable he'll now face days of questions about this arrest and what it means for the party.", "Sitting in long grass is not recommended for hay-fever sufferers\n\nMore than 122,650 people visited the NHS website seeking hay-fever advice last week, as the pollen count hit some of its highest levels this year.\n\nWeekly visitors to the site's hay-fever advice pages have tripled in the past five weeks, NHS England says, with one visit every three seconds on Sunday.\n\nThe allergy usually strikes from late March to September, when it is warm, windy and humid and pollen counts high.\n\nThere is no cure but over-the-counter medication can manage most symptoms.\n\nPeople with asthma may also suffer worse symptoms than usual over the coming days. Thunderstorms are predicted for parts of the UK and water breaks down pollen granules into smaller particles that can lodge deeper into the airways in the lungs.\n\nThe pollen count is set to be high or very high across most of the UK this week - and the NHS website features recommendations on how to manage symptoms, including:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The boat, called Hurricane, caught fire off the coast of Marsa Alam\n\nThree British tourists are missing after a fire on board a dive boat on the Egyptian Red Sea.\n\nTwenty-six other people, including 12 Britons, were rescued from the boat, called Hurricane, which was off the coast of Marsa Alam, authorities said.\n\nThey added that initial reports suggested the fire, at 06:30 local time, was down to an electrical fault.\n\nThe boat had been on a dive cruise and had left Port Ghalib on 6 June and been due to return on Sunday.\n\nThe boat's operator, Tornado Marine Fleet, said 15 British passengers had been on board along with 12 crew members and two guides - a different figure to that given earlier by the local authority, the Red Sea Governorate.\n\nThe local authority said initial examinations had found an electrical short circuit in the engine room, while the public prosecution office had begun an investigation.\n\nAll of those who had been rescued were said to be well.\n\nThe Hurricane is one of several operated by Tornado Marine Fleet.\n\nA spokesman said the fire happened while crew were doing the diving briefing at Elphinstone Reef - a diving destination known for its wealth of marine life including colourful corals and sharks.\n\nScuba Travel, which chartered the boat, said the group on board had been on a seven-day tour and the company was working with the local authorities and specialist advisers.\n\n\"Our first priority is the safety of our guests,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Red Sea is a popular resort for diving trips.\n\n\"This is really bad news for the tourism industry,\" said BBC News correspondent Sally Nabil. \"They depend on tourism, particularly British tourism.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting British nationals involved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are in contact with local authorities following an incident aboard a dive boat near Marsa Alam, and are supporting British nationals involved.\"", "Rescuers react to Russian shelling during evacuation efforts of those trapped by flooding in Kherson region\n\nThree people were killed after Russia attacked a boat carrying evacuees from a flooded area in Kherson, the regional governor said.\n\nUkraine has been trying to rescue people trapped on the Russia-held eastern bank of the Dnipro River since the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed.\n\nOleksandr Prokudin said Russian troops shelled the evacuation boat and shot a 74-year-old man dead.\n\nThe man was trying to rescue a woman from gunfire, Mr Produkin said.\n\nTwo police officers were also injured.\n\nThe Nova Kakhovka dam burst on Tuesday, releasing a huge torrent of water which quickly flooded vast areas of land on both sides of the Dnipro river.\n\nUkraine has blamed Russia for \"blowing up\" the dam, located in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine. Russia has denied this and has accused Ukraine of being responsible for its destruction.\n\nThe BBC has not verified either claim, although it appears likely that Russian forces, who controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to complicate Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive.\n\nThe eastern bank of the Dnipro River has been one of the areas worst hit by the flooding, with hundreds of people there posting on the Telegram app asking to be rescued.\n\nUkraine's military says it has been co-ordinating rescues from the eastern bank, but claimed \"fearless volunteers\" were carrying out some of the evacuations.\n\nOne of those involved in the rescue effort, Viktor, told the BBC he came under Russian fire while attempting a trip, saying Russian soldiers were \"waiting for volunteers or soldiers to arrive so they can shoot them\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nMeanwhile, the size of the flooded area in Kherson region has receded, officials said, but experts and officials fear infectious diseases may spread in polluted waters.\n\nThousands of Ukrainian homes remain flooded, and tens of thousands of people have lost access to drinking water.\n\nBehind the dam, the huge Kakhovka reservoir - a vital source of water for the region - has drained of water.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO)'s Ukraine representative, Dr Jarno Habicht, told the BBC the situation was \"devastating\" and providing safe, clean water was a priority. He said it was important to keep an eye on water-borne illnesses and that precautionary sample testing was ongoing.\n\nThe UK's defence ministry said people were facing a \"sanitation crisis\" with limited access to safe water and an increased risk of water-borne diseases.\n\nWhile Ukrainian officials said no cases of infectious illnesses have been reported so far, the city of Kherson - around 100km (62 miles) from the Kakhovka dam and badly affected by the floods - has introduced restrictions on the use of river water in order to prevent their spread.\n\nThe flooding of houses and sewage facilities means the water is now highly polluted, the city military administration said, meaning that bathing, fishing and drinking the water, or giving it to animals, is prohibited.\n\nUkraine's interior ministry said 32 settlements had been flooded in Ukrainian-controlled Kherson, while another 14 were flooded in the Russian-controlled part. Another 31 settlements were flooded in the Mykolayiv region.\n\nThe destruction of the Kakhovka dam has also likely led to the disruption of water supplies to Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nThe North Crimean Canal draws its water supply from the Kakhovka reservoir, located behind the now-destroyed dam.\n\nUkrainian hydro energy company Ukrhydroenergo said the water level in the reservoir had fallen by more than 7m (23ft) and on Sunday the UK defence ministry warned that \"water will soon stop flowing\" to the peninsula.\n\nDrone footage filmed after the dam breach appears to show significantly reduced water levels near the entrance to the canal.\n\nDrone footage appears to show water drying up at the mouth of the North Crimean Canal\n\nWhoever was responsible for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam will have done so knowing that it would deprive Crimea of badly needed fresh water.\n\nThe canal was blocked by Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but Russia quickly unblocked it after it invaded southern Ukraine last year.\n\nRussian commanders may have concluded that rendering the waterway useless again by blowing up the dam might have seemed like a necessary, if extreme, price to pay for complicating Ukraine's military plans.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia had started.\n\n\"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place,\" he said on Saturday.\n\nUkrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.\n\nUkraine said on Sunday that it had captured three villages in the south-east of the country, and that these were the first liberations of the counter-offensive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: View from a boat on what used to be a street", "There is \"little evidence\" Albanians are at risk in their country and need asylum in the UK, a committee of MPs says.\n\nAlbanian nationals should not routinely be granted asylum, the Home Affairs select committee said.\n\nA total of 51% of asylum claims by Albanians were initially accepted over six months to June last year.\n\nSome making asylum claims, particularly women, had been trafficked and need protection, MPs said.\n\nThe government said it was working with Albania to stop illegal migration.\n\nIt follows a rise in Albanian arrivals to the UK last year via small boats crossings.\n\nIn a report published on Monday, the cross-party committee stressed Albanian migrants to the UK were unlikely to require asylum.\n\nIt cited figures showing that 51% of Albanian cases were initially accepted in the first half of 2022 - the majority of these claimants arrived on ferries or planes rather than small boats.\n\nThe committee said nine countries, including Germany, had accepted no asylum claims from Albania during that period.\n\nIt called on the Home Office to explain why the UK's acceptance rate was so high - particularly compared to other countries.\n\nThe report also highlighted figures showing that in 2022, more than a quarter of the 45,755 people who crossed the Channel in small boats came from Albania - \"and most claimed asylum\".\n\nIt added the number of Albanians arriving in the UK by this route had gone from 800 in 2021, to 12,301 in 2022.\n\n\"Albania is a safe country,\" the MPs said. \"It is not at war and is a candidate country to join the European Union.\n\n\"There is no clear basis for the UK to routinely accept thousands of asylum applications from Albanian citizens, the committee finds.\"\n\nIt suggested that driving factors for people coming to the UK from Albania largely included better job opportunities and higher wages.\n\nBut the MPs also flagged there were \"unquestionably cases of Albanian citizens being trafficked to the UK\".\n\nIt said more needed to be done to support the Albanian victims of people smuggling - especially women.\n\nLabour MP Dame Diana Johnson, the committee's chairwoman, said there had been a \"substantial sudden increase in asylum claims from a seemingly peaceful country\".\n\nShe said: \"While it is important that questions are asked and lessons are learnt, it is clear that the immigration picture is not static and will continue to evolve.\"\n\nThe MPs recommended the government promote seasonal work visas in agriculture and construction to give more Albanians the opportunity to come to the UK without making unauthorised Channel crossings.\n\nIt also said appropriate safeguards must be put in place before any victims of trafficking were returned to Albania, and recommended the UK maintain strong links with the country's government.\n\nDame Diana said: \"Changes in migration will inevitably place strain on any system, but the government must do much more to ensure it can better handle these stresses.\"\n\nShe also said it was important the \"UK improves its overall approach to asylum\".\n\nLast week in Kent, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his plan to tackle migration is progressing, but there is \"work to do\".\n\nHe said a deal with Albania to return migrants had led to 1,800 people being sent back, and that was having a deterrent effect.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said \"this government's priority is stopping the boats\".\n\nIt went on: \"Last year, 28% of those who arrived by small boat to the UK were from Albania - a safe European country and Nato ally - placing further strain on our asylum system.\n\n\"We've worked closely with the Albanian government to disrupt criminal gangs and deter illegal migration. In the five months to the end of May, Albanian small boat arrivals are down 90% on last year and we have returned 1,800 illegal migrants and foreign criminals back to Albania. Thanks to changes to our asylum system, we have gone from accepting 1 in 5 Albanian asylum claims to just 1 in 50, in line with other European countries.\n\n\"We will carefully consider the report and respond in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother-of-three has been jailed for more than two years for inducing an abortion after the legal limit.\n\nCarla Foster, 44, received the medication following a remote consultation where she was not honest about how far along her pregnancy was.\n\nThe \"pills by post\" scheme, introduced in lockdown, allows pregnancies up to 10 weeks to be terminated at home.\n\nHowever, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the woman was between 32-34 weeks pregnant when she took them.\n\nAbortion is legal up to 24 weeks. However, after 10 weeks the procedure is carried out in a clinic.\n\nProsecutors argued Foster had provided false information knowing she was over the time limit and had made online searches which they said indicated \"careful planning\".\n\nThe court heard between February and May 2020 she had searched \"how to hide a pregnancy bump\", \"how to have an abortion without going to the doctor\" and \"how to lose a baby at six months\".\n\nBased on the information she provided the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), she was sent the tablets because it was estimated she was seven weeks pregnant.\n\nThe woman was initially charged with child destruction, the court heard\n\nHer defence argued that lockdown and minimising face-to-face appointments had changed access to healthcare and so instead she had to search for information online.\n\n\"The defendant may well have made use of services had they been available at the time,\" said her barrister Barry White. \"This will haunt her forever.\"\n\nOn 11 May 2020, having taken the abortion pills, an emergency call was made at 18:39 BST saying she was in labour.\n\nThe baby was born not breathing during the phonecall and was confirmed dead about 45 minutes later.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded the baby girl's cause of death as stillbirth and maternal use of abortion drugs and she was estimated to be between 32 and 34 weeks' gestation.\n\nFoster, from Staffordshire, already had three sons before she became pregnant again in 2019.\n\nThe court heard she had moved back in with her estranged partner at the start of lockdown while carrying another man's baby.\n\nThe judge accepted she was \"in emotional turmoil\" as she sought to hide the pregnancy.\n\nFoster was initially charged with child destruction, which she denied.\n\nShe later pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion, which was accepted by the prosecution.\n\nSentencing, judge Mr Justice Edward Pepperall said it was a \"tragic\" case, adding that if she had pleaded guilty earlier he may have been able to consider suspending her jail sentence.\n\nHe said the defendant was \"wracked by guilt\" and had suffered depression and said she was a good mother to three children, one of whom has special needs, who would suffer from her imprisonment.\n\nShe received a 28-month sentence, 14 of which will be spent in custody with the remainder on licence.\n\nAhead of Monday's hearing, a letter co-signed by a number of women's health organisations was sent to the court calling for a non-custodial sentence.\n\nHowever, the judge said it was \"not appropriate\" and that his duty was \"to apply the law as provided by Parliament\".\n\nHe told the defendant the letter's authors were \"concerned that your imprisonment might deter other women from accessing telemedical abortion services and other late-gestation women from seeking medical care or from being open and honest with medical professionals\".\n\nBut he said it also \"has the capacity to be seen as special pleading by those who favour wider access to abortions and is, in my judgment, just as inappropriate as it would be for a judge to receive a letter from one of the groups campaigning for more restrictive laws\".\n\nThe sentencing has sparked outcry among women's rights organisations and campaigners.\n\nBPAS said it was \"shocked and appalled\" by the woman's sentence which they said was based on an \"archaic law\".\n\n\"No woman can ever go through this again,\" said its chief executive, Clare Murphy.\n\n\"Over the last three years, there has been an increase in the numbers of women and girls facing the trauma of lengthy police investigations and threatened with up to life imprisonment under our archaic abortion law,\" she said.\n\n\"Vulnerable women in the most incredibly difficult of circumstances deserve more from our legal system.\"\n\nShe said MPs must do more to offer protection so \"no more women in these desperate circumstances are threatened with prison again\".\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy said \"no other patient group would be treated this way\"\n\n\"The average prison sentence for a violent offence in England is 18 months,\" she said in a tweet.\n\n\"A woman who had an abortion without following correct procedures just got 28 months under an 1868 act - we need urgent reform to make safe access for all women in England, Scotland and Wales a human right.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"These exceptionally rare cases are complex and traumatic.\n\n\"Our prosecutors have a duty to ensure that laws set by Parliament are properly considered and applied when making difficult charging decisions.\"\n\nWhen asked whether the prime minister was confident criminalising abortion in some circumstances was the right approach, Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said the current laws struck a balance.\n\n\"Our laws as they stand balance a woman's right to access safe and legal abortions with the rights of an unborn child,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not aware of any plans to address that approach.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSwiss cyclist Gino Mader has died at the age of 26 after crashing on stage five of the Tour de Suisse.\n\nThe Team Bahrain Victorious rider was involved in a high-speed crash with American Magnus Sheffield, 21, on Thursday on the descent of the Albula Pass and fell into a ravine.\n\nHe was resuscitated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital in Chur, but passed away on Friday morning.\n\nBahrain Victorious said Mader was \"one of the shining lights of our team\".\n\nFriday's stage six was cancelled but the peloton rode the final 20km of the route neutralised in honour of Mader.\n\nHis mother received condolences from several riders, who wore black armbands, with many consoling one another before, during and after the ride.\n\n\"Gino was an extraordinary athlete, an example of determination, a valued member of our team and the whole cycling community,\" Mader's team said.\n\n\"His talent, dedication and passion for the sport has inspired us all.\"\n\nTeam managing director Milan Erzen said: \"Not only was he an extremely talented cyclist but a great person off the bike.\n\n\"Bahrain Victorious will race in his honour, keeping his memory on every road we race. We are determined to show the spirit and passion Gino displayed, and he will always remain an integral part of our team.\"\n\nThe last high-profile rider death in similar circumstances at World Tour level was in 2011, when Belgium's Wouter Weylandt crashed at the Giro d'Italia after descending at great speed and died soon afterwards from head injuries.\n\nThe UCI - cycling's world governing body - said Mader was a \"rising star\".\n\nTour de Suisse race director Olivier Senn said: \"We're heartbroken, the whole organisation, the teams and the riders.\n\n\"It is devastating what happened, really hard to put into words. We just stood together with all the teams and riders in memory of Gino and that's all that counts for us at the moment.\n\n\"Gino was a fantastic rider and an excellent human, he was really a good person and he doesn't deserve to leave the world like this.\"\n\nIneos Grenadiers rider Sheffield was taken to hospital with a concussion and soft tissue damage.\n\nIneos said they were \"heartbroken\" by the news, adding: \"Gino wasn't just a hugely talented bike rider and great competitor, he was also an incredible person and a friend to many of us.\n\n\"His absence will be felt by everyone in the peloton and throughout our sport.\"\n\nMader was a track cyclist before turning professional on the road in 2019 and joined Team Bahrain Victorious two years later.\n\nIn 2021, he won stage six of the Giro d'Italia and finished top of the young rider classification at the Vuelta a Espana.\n\nAfter the conclusion of stage five, Soudal-Quickstep rider and road race world champion Remco Evenepoel expressed his concerns over the \"dangerous descent\" at the finish.\n\n'Your smile will forever be in our hearts' - reaction\n\nFollowing Mader's death, the Giro d'Italia said his \"smile will forever be in our hearts\", while UCI president David Lappartient said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news, adding it was a \"terrible blow\" to the cycling community.\n\nBritish rider Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France winner, said: \"I can't believe what I'm reading. Such a sad sad day. Thoughts with everyone who knew and loved Gino.\"\n\nThe professional riders' association the CPA added: \"Our hearts bleed at this news. Condolences to his family, the team and the many friends who loved him.\"\n\nThomas de Gendt - a five-time stage winner across the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana - said: \"Again someone taken too soon. Feel sick reading this horrible news.\"\n\nFormer world champion Alejandro Valverde said \"there are no words\" while 2023 Giro d'Italia winner Primoz Roglic said he was \"speechless\".\n\nGino Mader was a talented rider, whose ability to climb the highest peaks with the sport's top athletes was much admired.\n\nWhat will now be the crowning moment of a life and career cut so tragically short is his victory during the 2021 Giro d'Italia, on the climb to Ascoli Piceno, in which he beat 2019 Tour de France winner Egan Bernal among others.\n\nBut his death is a reminder that cycling is one of the most dangerous high-profile elite sports - it takes place on closed public roads with little or no protection for riders who are under pressure to make up time while descending off high mountain climbs.\n\nRiders frequently surpass 100kph, as demonstrated by the race craft of Britain's Tom Pidcock during last year's Tour de France stage victory to Alpe d'Huez.\n\nWhile descending is a big part of what makes professional road cycling so enthralling for its fans, Mader's death must reopen debate into whether changes should be made to such a risky endeavour.", "An 18-year-old man named Mohammad, who was among the survivors of a capsized fishing boat in Greece, has tearfully reunited with his brother.\n\nHis brother, Fadi, travelled from the Netherlands, and embraced him through the gates at the port in Kalamata, where survivors of the deadly shipwreck were being held and cared for in a warehouse.\n\nFadi briefly spoke to reporters where the reunion took place and choked back tears, he told them that Mohammad had been in Libya for two years.\n\nAt least 78 people have already been confirmed dead in the disaster, but up to 750 could still be missing at sea. The BBC has been told that as many as 100 children may have been on board.\n\nRead more about what happened here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 15 people have died after a bus carrying elderly people to a casino crashed into a truck in the Canadian province of Manitoba.\n\nPolice said the collision happened on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, two hours west of Winnipeg.\n\nAt least 10 people, including the two drivers, have been taken to hospital.\n\nWitness John Proven said he saw a burning vehicle in a ditch just after noon local time on Thursday. \"I have never seen an accident that big.\"\n\nMr Proven said he also saw a semi-trailer lorry nearby with a burned front end.\n\nIn several tweets, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Manitoba said it was responding to a serious \"mass casualty\" collision and that all of its resources, including its major crime unit, had been deployed to the scene.\n\nEmergency vehicles, including an air ambulance and 12 ambulances, were dispatched to the scene at 11:43 local time on Thursday (17:35 BST), the RCMP said at a press conference.\n\nMost of the elderly people aboard were from Dauphin, Manitoba, and the surrounding areas. They were traveling to the Sand Hills Casino in the town of Carberry, which confirmed that the bus had been expected to arrive later in the day.\n\nThose in hospital have \"significant\" injuries due to the force of the crash, officials said.\n\nWilliam Doherty, the CEO of Day & Ross trucking company - which was involved in the crash - told CTV News that \"the thoughts of the entire Day & Ross team are with those who have lost loved ones in this terrible incident\".\n\n\"We are holding out hope that those injured will recover,\" Mr Doherty added. \"We will fully cooperate with the investigation and offer any assistance and support that we can.\"\n\nAmong those who have so far offered their condolences is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\n\"I'm keeping the injured in my thoughts,\" he said in a statement on Twitter. \"I cannot imagine the pain those affected are feeling - but Canadians are here for you.\"\n\nA spokesperson with the local air ambulance service told CBC News that the agency had deployed one of its largest responses ever to the crash.\n\n\"This is sort of in line with the similar large incidents that we responded to in the past, such as the tragedy with Humboldt Broncos,\" Blake Robert said, referring to a 2018 crash between a bus carrying a youth hockey team and a semi-trailer in Saskatchewan that led to the death of 16 people.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, RCMP Superintendent Rob Lasson said that officials in Manitoba had already \" linked into the investigators in Saskatchewan who have first-hand experience and were some of the primary investigators in the investigation into the Humboldt crash\".\n\nMembers of the Saskatchewan RCMP are now helping the investigation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patient Leann Sutherland says surgeon Sam Eljamel \"played God\" with my body\n\nLeann Sutherland was 21 and suffering from chronic migraines when one of Scotland's top surgeons offered to operate.\n\nShe was told she would be in hospital for a few days and had a 60% chance of improvement. Instead she was in for months while Sam Eljamel operated on her seven times.\n\nThe BBC can reveal her surgeon - the former head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside - was harming patients and putting them at risk for years but the health board let him carry on regardless.\n\nNHS Tayside has consistently claimed it only knew about concerns from June 2013 and that they put him under supervision at that point but an NHS whistleblower has told the BBC the health board knew as early as 2009 that there were serious concerns.\n\nBBC Scotland has spoken to three surgeons who worked under Mr Eljamel at Tayside. All three said he was a bully who was allowed to get away with harming patients.\n\nAll three said there was a lack of accountability in the department and that Mr Eljamel was allowed to behave as if he were a \"god\" - partly because of the research funding he brought to the department.\n\nThe health board told the BBC it was working with the Scottish government to support an independent review of patients' care under Mr Eljamel and that it could not comment on individual cases.\n\nLeann used to work full-time and go on holidays abroad with friends before her operations\n\nBefore her operation in 2011 Leann used to work full-time and go on holidays abroad with friends but her life was blighted by migraines.\n\nMr Eljamel, reputed to be the best neurosurgeon in Scotland, told her he could help.\n\nIt would be one operation and she would be home in a matter of days, she was told.\n\nHe would remove a small part of her skull to alleviate pressure and he told her he would use a new glue to seal the wound.\n\nLeann told the BBC: \"Unfortunately it did not seal properly and it burst.\n\n\"The wound burst open and the brain fluid started to pour out the back of my neck.\"\n\nShe says the next day her hospital bed was \"soaked\" with her spinal fluid.\n\nWhen she got up to use the bathroom she collapsed and said the fluid went all over the floor. A nurse put a wet floor warning sign on the area.\n\nLeann says that her mum had to chase Mr Eljamel down a corridor to get him to come and look at her - at which point she was rushed back into surgery.\n\nLeann spent months in hospital. She contracted meningitis and developed hydrocephalus. Mr Eljamel ordered her to have four lumbar punctures - which her medical notes say she specifically should not have had.\n\nLeann knows now he was using the glue as part of a research trial.\n\n\"Experimenting on me - that's what he was doing,\" she says.\n\n\"There can't be any other reason to try a glue, try different shunts, that's experimenting.\n\nShe adds: \"He had free rein on my body. He was playing God with my body and the NHS handed him the scalpel, seven times.\"\n\nWhen Leann tried to raise concerns with staff she was told that Mr Eljamel had saved her life. She was not told that he was under investigation, nor that he had been later forced to step down.\n\nIt was only after seeing recent BBC coverage she realised she was not alone.\n\nLeann is now 33. She lives in constant pain. She needs crutches to walk and has a tube - called a shunt - through her body controlling her spinal fluid.\n\n\"Everything is changed,\" she says. \"My dream was to be a police officer and that will never happen.\n\n\"I struggle with that, not being able to have the career you want, not being able to have the lifestyle you want, not being able to have children.\n\n\"A lot of things have been taken away through no fault of my own.\"\n\nLeann is one of 100 patients calling for a public inquiry to find out exactly what harm Mr Eljamel did.\n\nThe damage to her and other patients is irreversible but she wants to ensure the health board is held accountable and that no other surgeon can cause such damage.\n\nShe says she only realised he had harmed patients after seeing a story by BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I thought it was just me, I didn't know there was 99 other people,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't understand how he got to wash the blood off his hands and go home.\"\n\nSam Eljamel was the head of the neurosurgery department in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee\n\nMr Eljamel was suspended by NHS Tayside following internal and external reviews in 2013 and went to work in Libya.\n\nFor the first time, three people who worked with Mr Eljamel have spoken to the BBC.\n\nMark, not his real name, says he is speaking out now because he fears the health board has still not learnt the lessons of the past.\n\n\"I did raise concerns at the time but I was shut down,\" he says.\n\n\"Part of me feels guilty I did not do anything [more] about it but I was too junior.\n\n\"We were told we would never get our traineeship.\"\n\nHe says nurses, senior surgeons and managers knew at least as early as 2009 that Mr Eljamel was regularly away from the hospital doing private work when he was meant to be operating on patients.\n\nMark says that on a weekly basis Mr Eljamel left junior surgeons to operate unsupervised.\n\n\"Letting a junior operate when you're not even in the building and a patient coming to harm is negligent,\" he says.\n\n\"NHS Tayside has covered things like this up for a long time in Dundee.\n\n\"It went all the way up to the board. They all knew about it.\"\n\nMark remembers on one occasion being in surgery to watch the junior operating on Mr Eljamel's patient when the junior surgeon accidentally cut through the spinal cord.\n\nHe said the spinal fluid was \"pouring out\" and that he and another surgeon were sent running to find a more senior surgeon. That patient was left permanently disabled.\n\n\"What has this top neurosurgeon done to these patients?\" He says. \"I think serious harm. Cover-ups happen so these things need to be looked into again.\n\n\"Drawing a line is easy to say but the culture will not change if you just draw a line in the sand. You need to change the culture first to protect the patients.\"\n\nThe three surgeons told us Mr Eljamel discouraged the use of X-rays because he was so arrogant and because it saved him money.\n\nIt is thought that as a result he operated in the wrong place on the spines of at least 70 patients - leaving many permanently disabled.\n\nMark says one of the reasons Mr Eljamel was considered \"untouchable\" was that he brought so much money in to the department through research projects which many of them considered to be \"odd and even questionable\".\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS Tayside said: \"The NHS Tayside medical director and chief executive met with the cabinet secretary and local Tayside MSPs in April to discuss the ongoing concerns of patients of Professor Eljamel.\n\n\"It was agreed at the meeting that NHS Tayside would work with Scottish government regarding the next steps to support individual patients through a process independent of both the health board and government.\n\n\"NHS Tayside remains committed to do whatever is required to support the independent process recognising it will be tailored to the circumstances of individual patients.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on individual patients and their treatment due to patient confidentiality, we would invite Ms Sutherland to contact NHS Tayside's Patient Liaison Response Team.\"", "Padam Padam is the star's 52nd top 40 hit in the UK\n\nKylie Minogue has scored her biggest solo hit in more than a decade with the infectious dance anthem Padam Padam.\n\nIt's the star's first song to break into the UK top 10 since All The Lovers peaked at number three in 2010.\n\nThat means Kylie is one of only four women to reach the UK's top 10 in five separate decades, alongside Cher, Lulu and Diana Ross.\n\nThe singer said the success of the song, which has gone viral on TikTok, had \"really taken us all by surprise\".\n\n\"I can't even, I can't even, full stop!\" she told Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show earlier this week. \"We loved it as a team, but the way that it's taken off is way beyond me.\"\n\nThe song has been steadily climbing the chart since entering at number 26 four weeks ago. This week, it rose three places to reach number nine.\n\nKylie hasn't been in the top 10 in any capacity since appearing as a featured artist on Taio Cruz's 2011 single Higher.\n\nPadam Padam is also a hit in Ireland, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Germany, El Salvador, New Zealand and Kylie's home country, Australia.\n\nSaid to be inspired by the Edith Piaf song of the same name, its title mimics the sound of a racing heart.\n\nBut since its release last month, the word \"Padam\" has been adopted by fans, especially during Pride month, to represent all sorts of things - from hello and goodbye, to a vocal seal of approval.\n\nWhat do you think of her outfit? Padam. How do you take your coffee? Padam. Is it hot outside? Padam Padam.\n\n\"It means being gay and having a great time,\" one fan explained on Instagram.\n\n\"People are hilarious. It's become a noun, a verb, an adjective,\" Kylie told Zoe Ball.\n\n\"You know, friends leaving going: 'Padam!' Like they've turned into minions or something. It's taken on a life of its own and I am having the time of my life seeing what people are doing.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Kylie Minogue This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWriting in Harper's Bazaar, Louis Staples said the phrase fits into a history of \"queer people using art as part of a coded language that only we - the initiated - understand\".\n\n\"A historic example would be San Francisco's Castro District in the 1970s, during the time of Harvey Milk, when there was an entire sartorial code for gay men, according to which not only different-coloured handkerchiefs, but also everyday garments like Converse and plaid shirts all meant different things,\" he observed.\n\n\"Padam Padam seems to have entered that same gay lexicon, the shorthand many of us use to communicate with each other.\"\n\nAccording to The Sun, fans are even petitioning the Oxford English Dictionary to add the word to its next edition.\n\n\"That's a wild thought,\" Kylie told Capital Radio. \"Because what does it mean? It means whatever you want it to mean.\"\n\nPadam Padam is the second song to be taken from the star's upcoming album Tension, which is due for release in September.\n\nAfter the disco vibes of her last record, and the country-pop songs of 2018's Golden, she said the musical reference point for her new material was her slow-burning and sensual 2003 single Slow.\n\nCoincidentally, that song was Kylie's last number one in the UK.\n\nBut with streams of Padam Padam increasing week-on-week, the singer could return to the top five very soon.\n\nNiall Horan poses with his Official Charts number one trophy\n\nElsewhere in the charts, One Direction star Niall Horan achieved his second number one album with The Show, closely followed by McFly, with their seventh studio album, Power To Play.\n\nDave and Central Cee have the number one single for a second week with the laid-back summer jam, Sprinter. Another high-profile rap collaboration - J Hus and Drake's Who Told You - is the week's highest new entry at two.\n\nAnd Sam Fender and Harry Styles both get a boost after playing huge UK shows this week.\n\nFender's Seventeen Going Under returns to the Top 40 at 29, while Styles' singles Late Night Talking and Satellite are at 30 and 31 respectively.", "Police described the attack on The Vivienne as shocking\n\nA man has been arrested after The Vivienne - star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK - was subjected to a homophobic attack.\n\nThe star tweeted about being punched in a McDonalds restaurant in Liverpool, adding \"homophobia is alive and well.\"\n\nMerseyside Police said a man had been detained on suspicion of assault and was currently in custody.\n\nDet Insp Alan Nuttall said: \"This was a shocking attack which happened in broad daylight in a busy venue.\"\n\nIn a statement, police said: \"We have arrested a man following reports a man was subjected to a homophobic assault in Liverpool today, Friday 16th June.\n\n\"The victim, who is in his 30s, reported he was in McDonalds on Edge Lane in Old Swan at around 12:25 BST, when a man made homophobic comments towards him and then punched him in the face.\n\n\"The man then made off. Enquiries into the incident are ongoing.\"\n\nThe Vivienne also said: \"Two lovely ladies just came and complimented my hair and said I look lovely, what a stark contrast of people we have on this planet!\n\n\"All in a day huh? A punch and a compliment.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla will mark official Scottish coronation events during Royal Week in July\n\nThe King has given Scotland's highest royal honour to his wife Queen Camilla, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nThe Order of the Thistle can only be bestowed by the King himself.\n\nIt currently recognises 16 knights as well as men and women who have held public office or who have given a particular contribution to national life.\n\nThe palace made the announcement ahead of King Charles' birthday honours which will be revealed on Friday night.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said: \"The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Queen to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.\"\n\nKing James VII of Scotland (James II) established the Order of the Thistle in 1687, though it is possible it dates back further.\n\nPrince William and Princess Anne are members as well as various members of the aristocracy and House of Lords - most recently Lady Elish Angiolini, a former Lord Advocate, and former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament Sir George Reid.\n\nSt Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, which hosts the Order of the Thistle service, says the honour is \"traditionally given to Scots or people of Scots ancestry\".\n\nThe service sees knights take part in a procession to the chapel dressed in green velvet robes and white plumed hats.\n\nThe royal website says the honour is second only in precedence in England to the Order of the Garter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenariff gorse fire: 'It was pretty scary here at midnight'\n\nA farmer whose family land is alongside the path of a large gorse fire in County Antrim has described it as her \"worst nightmare\".\n\nAbout 35 firefighters, six appliances and one high-volume pump remain at the scene of the blaze at Ballyeamon Road, Glenariff, on Thursday night.\n\nIt is expected that additional resources will be sent to the scene at first light on Friday.\n\nThe fire was first reported just before 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier on Thursday more than 80 firefighters and 14 appliances tackled the blaze which had a fire front of 1km.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the Irish Air Corps joined the effort supporting the fire service.\n\nAt the scene, farmer Catherine Crawford told BBC News NI: \"I have never known a fire here in Glenariff and I'm here 30 odd years.\n\nMore than 80 firefighters were at the scene on Thursday evening\n\n\"I never want to see another one, the way it has done damage here at the minute.\n\n\"It's just anybody's worst nightmare to be involved with a gorse fire.\n\n\"If it spreads out onto the mountain, there's livestock, sheep on each side of the fire.\"\n\nShe added: \"With so much smoke last night we were all told to close our windows, keep doors closed and make sure all the elderly people stayed in and were safe.\n\n\"It was pretty scary here last night.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) Deputy Chief Officer Paul Harper welcomed the support of the Irish Air Corps as firefighters continue to work in \"punishing conditions\".\n\n\"Deploying water directly onto the fire from the air will greatly enhance our firefighting operations,\" he said.\n\nSupport from the Irish Air Corps has been welcomed\n\n\"We have implemented several contingencies to ensure we can maintain a response to all types of emergencies today. We continue to do all we can to support our firefighters on the front line during this challenging time.\"\n\nMr Harper added that he expected the gorse fire to continue for a further 24 to 48 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA major incident was declared on Wednesday evening as the NIFRS dealt with a number of gorse fires.\n\nOn Thursday night NIFRS Chief Officer Aidan Jennings said that from early Wednesday morning until 11pm on Thursday, the fire service received 650 emergency calls and mobilised to 266 incidents, with 80 of these being wildfire incidents.\n\nHe said the fire service had mobilised 496 firefighting pumps and specialist appliances to deal with the incidents.\n\nTiarnan Donnelly, John Crawford and Catherine Crawford watch as an Irish Air Corps brings water to the scene.\n\n\"Our firefighters have been working in extremely challenging and exhausting conditions whilst battling to bring these wildfires under control,\" Mr Jennings said.\n\n\"I would like to pay credit to our firefighters, control room operators, supervisory officers and support staff, all of whom have responded and in many cases come on duty or remained on duty to support our operational response and enhanced resilience arrangements.\"\n\nOvernight 50 firefighters dealt with a gorse fire in Clogher, County Tyrone, which has now been extinguished.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, firefighters were called to a gorse fire at Slievenaman Road, Newcastle, which was declared fully extinguished shortly after 16:00.\n\n14 pumping appliances and a specialist wildfire team are still at the blaze in Glenariff\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Chief Officer Jennings said it was too early to suggest a cause of the gorse fires but in his experience \"they need an ignition source and it is usually deliberate\".\n\nHe called on the public to be vigilant when enjoying the good weather, use dedicated safe spots to barbeque and dispose of cigarettes safely.\n\nHe also advised the public to avoid the areas where fires are ongoing and to drive carefully if they find themselves nearby.\n\nThe gorse fires follow a prolonged period of warm and dry weather across Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, parts of Northern Ireland were officially under heatwave conditions according to the Met Office.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a heatwave is when temperatures exceed 25C for at least three consecutive days.\n\nAccording to the Met Office this has happened in the north-west, in counties Antrim and Londonderry.\n\nTuesday also marked the highest June temperature in five years.", "The overnight rockfall just missed the village, coming to a halt close to the local school\n\nMillions of cubic metres of rock have thundered on to a tiny Swiss village, with huge boulders blocking roads - some landing within inches of houses.\n\nThe entire village of Brienz, population 70, was evacuated in mid-May, when geologists warned a massive rockfall was imminent.\n\nThe rockface immediately above the village, nicknamed \"the island\", had been unstable for decades.\n\nBut this spring, the rock slippage began to accelerate.\n\nMany Brienzers had expected they would to leave their homes temporarily, but were unhappy the evacuation order had come so suddenly. Days before the order came, they had been told to expect to move some time in late summer.\n\nInstead, they were summoned to an emergency village meeting on 9 May and told they had 48 hours to leave.\n\nIn the weeks since, some voiced frustration that the predicted massive rockfall had not happened. They asked why they could not go home when the rocks seemed to be trickling down slowly and harmlessly.\n\nOn Thursday night, the mountain answered back and authorities in the eastern canton of Graubünden say the village had a very lucky, narrow escape.\n\nTwo-thirds of the loose rock, estimated to measure more than two million cubic metres in total, crashed down.\n\nTo the villagers' relief, helicopters assessing the scene reported no obvious damage to houses, but there is little prospect of going home soon. There is up to a million cubic metres of loose rock still on the mountain above.\n\nThe rockfall missed the empty village by a hair, according to a statement from local authorities\n\nEven if the falling rocks do not destroy people's houses, there is a risk for anyone in the area.\n\nChristian Gartmann, spokesman for the village authorities, told Swiss TV that large boulders crashing into one another as they fell could create rock splinters that hurtled \"like cannonballs\", smashing windows and causing serious injuries.\n\nSome wonder whether Brienz's situation is due to climate change. Switzerland's Alpine regions are especially sensitive to global warming.\n\nAs the glaciers shrink, and the permafrost high in the mountains begins to thaw, the rock becomes unstable.\n\nIn fact, the mountain above Brienz has no permafrost, but this spring's unusually heavy rain, also linked to global warming, was certainly a factor in the evacuation order. The mountainside, sodden with water, began to slip faster towards the valley.\n\nGeologists warn that mountain areas can expect more rockslides as the climate changes.\n\nFor now, the wait to go home continues for the population of Brienz.\n\nThis was Brienz before the rockfall - but there is more to come", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland and Australia will pay tribute to the victims of the Nottingham attacks on day one of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on Friday.\n\nPlayers and management will wear black armbands, while there will also be a moment's silence before play starts.\n\nThe same tributes will be paid on day one of the women's Ashes Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on 22 June.\n\nThree people died after a series of attacks in Nottingham early on Tuesday morning.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed, with another three people injured.\n\n\"The deeply distressing scenes witnessed in Nottingham this week have brought immense sorrow to everyone, particularly the cherished friends and families of the victims,\" said England men's Test captain Ben Stokes.\n\n\"It is impossible to express how much their lives and futures have been tragically disrupted.\n\n\"These events sadden the England cricket teams, and we are thinking about those affected at this harrowing time. As a gesture of respect, we will honour them by wearing black armbands.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar was a member of the England U16 and U18 hockey squads, as well as playing for Southgate Hockey Club and Woodford Wells Cricket Club in London.\n\nMr Webber was a \"key member\" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for the university team.\n\nEngland women's captain Heather Knight said: \"It was incredibly saddening to learn about the events that took place in Nottingham, and it felt a bit closer to home to learn that two of the victims had been cricket players.\n\n\"All of our thoughts are with the families and friends of everyone affected by the tragedy, and with the city of Nottingham.\"\n\nA 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.", "Coverage: Live text commentary and in-play video clips on the BBC Sport website & app, plus BBC Test Match Special on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra. Daily Today at the Test highlights on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 19:00 BST\n\nAnd so the next chapter in sport's greatest love story is set to be written.\n\nWhether it is Ben Stokes or Pat Cummins getting their hands on the Ashes urn at The Oval at the end of July, they will be holding a (replica) romantic gift.\n\nThe concept of the Ashes was formed by a mock obituary in an English newspaper in the summer of 1882, but it was only the following winter in Australia that a real prize came into existence.\n\nAustralian Florence Morphy gave the small terracotta urn to England captain Ivo Bligh as a trophy and symbol of her love. The pair would eventually be married, while the two rival teams had something tangible to compete for.\n\nOver the intervening 140 years, England and Australia have become the best of enemies. Three Lions and Baggy Greens coming together at regular intervals to measure their cricketing excellence and celebrate everything we like and dislike about each other.\n\nAt Edgbaston on Friday, the perfect dance partners take to the floor once more.\n• None All you need to know about the 2023 men's Ashes\n• None Stokes has 'confidence' he can bowl in Ashes\n• None Warner will be more aggressive - Cummins\n\nEighteen months ago, in a series that ended with Ollie Robinson bowled from closer to square leg than his own stumps, the distance between the two teams seemed every inch the 10,000-plus miles between London and Sydney.\n\nIn the aftermath of the 4-0 defeat down under, England were accused of a drinking culture and too much golf. Now, on the back of 11 wins in 13 Tests, they have prepared for this series with a golfing trip and a few drinks.\n\nThe change has come from the kiss of life given to England's Test cricket by captain Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum. With fun, fearlessness and huge dollop of derring-do, they have turned England into the most exciting team in cricket, possibly all of sport. The prospect of England meeting Australia, the newly crowned world champions, creates the most tantalising Ashes series in years.\n\nIntrigue abounds, not least over whether England can swashbuckle their way to success against an Australian bowling attack that is pound-for-pound the best on the planet.\n\nBut, to question England's method would be to miss the point. For them, aggression is not a choice, it is a necessity. It is how they play because that is their best chance of being successful.\n\nBeyond that, England's attitude strikes right to the very heart of sport's actual existence. What is the point if it is not entertaining?\n\nStokes always says that results come at the bottom of his list of his priorities and, perhaps, at this very moment in the history of the game, the result of this particular Ashes series is not as important as the style with which it is achieved.\n\nTest cricket is under greater attack than ever, the primacy of the oldest and longest format of the game threatened by the rise of franchise leagues from the United States to the United Arab Emirates.\n\nT20 and other short formats are here to stay, a cash cow to be milked by players, administrators and broadcasters alike.\n\nOnly by reiterating its value, its capacity to captivate and compel, and its unique ability to create drama and tension can Test cricket survive and thrive. What better opportunity than the most hyped Ashes series for a generation?\n• None All of the essential reading before the first Ashes Test\n\nPlenty of the current England players say their earliest cricketing memory is the 2005 Ashes epic. The same will go for many of the crowd at Edgbaston on Friday. The class of 2023 have a similar opportunity to inspire.\n\nThere are grumbles about the schedule - the series is slotted into a seven-week period and completed before August, the earliest ever finish to an Ashes in the UK. But, the opportunity to exist outside of the domestic football season creates a unique shop window for Test cricket to show off.\n\nAt the heart of it all is Stokes, who has become the centre of the English cricketing universe.\n\nAlready the all-rounder has a body of work rivalled by few in British sport - match-winning performances in two World Cup finals and one of the finest innings ever played in Test cricket at Headingley four years ago.\n\nDespite those sizable personal achievements, it could be that revolutionising Test cricket not only in England but eventually across the world is the most important part of his legacy.\n\nIf not, he will at least go down as the first England captain to do his pre-Ashes press conference wearing a bucket hat.\n\nStokes is the headliner of all-star ensemble cast about to tell a story overflowing with subplots.\n\nDavid Warner v Stuart Broad. Steve Smith's path to becoming the most prolific Ashes run-getter since Don Bradman. Broad and James Anderson's final stab at the Aussies. Moeen Ali's return. Travis Head's moustache. Zak Crawley's outside edge.\n\nPredicting what will happen is more difficult than ever, even if the Test Match Special team have given it a good go.\n\nWhat we know is it is 22 years since Australia have won in this country. In that time, England have never failed to win at least two Tests in a home Ashes. For any team to win an Ashes series away is incredibly difficult, even if that team does happen to be the world champions.\n\nEngland are enchanting, riding the wave of hope and expectation from fans that believe in them again.\n\nThere is a concern that they have been sucked into an age-old mistake by overlooking Mark Wood for the first Test. An attack of Anderson, Broad and Robinson looks one-paced, while Moeen was hit out of the Ashes four years ago, when he was still a regular Test cricketer. Then again, skipper Stokes has proved to be a conjuror of 20 wickets on even the flattest pitches.\n\nTheir buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers. England are likely to fall in a heap at some point this summer, but when? The longer they delay the collapse, the more chance of lifting the urn.\n\nAustralia are formidable, though not unbeatable.\n\nMarnus Labuschagne, Smith and Head are ranked as the top three batters in the world. Cummins is a magnificent fast bowler, off-spinner Nathan Lyon has nearly 500 wickets and all-rounder Cameron Green looks like a cricketer hewed from granite.\n\nBut what about the fallibilities of openers Warner and Usman Khawaja? How will Head cope when England stick the ball into his soup strainer? Will the Aussies get rattled when England get after them?\n\nHere we go. Five Tests of worrying about Stokes' knee, reminding Glenn McGrath he predicted 5-0 and wondering why Smith leaves the ball like a man inventing a new form of dance. Seven weeks of watching Crawley from behind the sofa, marvelling at Scott Boland's accuracy and hoping Moeen's comeback has been worth it.\n\nThis is cricket's most storied and fabled contest, drawing the most eyeballs, broadcast hours and column inches. The perfect partners doing the big dance with the lights on brightest.\n\nLet the summer of love begin.\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow to Sky Sports: \"It's been a good day. The lads have been in good form, enjoying themselves and that's exactly what we spoke about.\"\n\nOn Zak Crawley's boundary with the first ball of the day: \"We just heard it, I was like 'wow'. It was out like a canon.\"\n\nOn England's approach: \"It hasn't changed over the last 12 months. If the ball is there to hit we have tried to hit it. If we miss, it's part and parcel of the game. The lads are out there with smile on their face from the start to the end.\n\n\"When you go into a game on the back of wins, people in form and trusting each other to do their own jobs. Then collectively coming together as a unit. That's really important.\n\n\"But we are not machines. We all don't bat in the same way. We are humans too so we will make mistakes as well.\"\n\nOn his partnership with Joe Root: \"We were five down and thinking 'lose a couple here and we are in trouble'. But I've been lucky enough to bat with Rooty for far too long. We've shared some special times in the middle. So you call upon those and we had a bit of craic out there.\"\n\nOn how England will take 10 wickets tomorrow: \"Be patient, relentless on a length. They are going to hit the middle of the bat, they are good players. If we can build pressure, we have guys with such a wealth of experience I've not doubt the guys will be able to call on those experiences tomorrow.£", "South East Water said demand for drinking water in Kent and Sussex has reached record levels in June\n\nA hosepipe and sprinkler ban has been imposed on people in Kent and Sussex.\n\nSouth East Water said it had no choice after demand for drinking water had reached \"record levels\" in June, similar to last year's drought.\n\nUp to 4,000 customers are without water or have been experiencing low pressure since Monday due to supply issues.\n\nThe water company had urged people to only use water for essential purposes, but has now issued an immediate ban on hosepipes and sprinklers.\n\nThe measures mean that using the equipment to water gardens, clean cars and fill swimming pools will not be allowed.\n\nIt is understood that the Temporary Usage Ban can only be enforced after ten days of consultation, meaning after 26 June rule-breakers could be hit with a £1,000 fine.\n\nAreas including Wadhurst, Mayfield, Biddenden and Staplehurst have been affected by water outages.\n\nBottle stations have been set up across the two counties, and the supply issues are expected to continue until Sunday.\n\nDouglas Whitfield, South East Water's director of operations, told BBC Radio Kent the hot weather had caused demand to outstrip supply.\n\n\"We are pumping as much water as we can into the system, but water is being used before it gets to those customers who are currently on the end of our system,\" he said.\n\nBottled water stations had been opened in Mayfield, Rotherfield, Wadhurst and Ashford\n\nSouth East Water said its facilities are working at full output, with every water treatment work and water source available producing treated water to keep up with demand.\n\nDespite this, the company said it was unable to return drinking water storage tanks to \"satisfactory levels\".\n\nIf your water is supplied by South East Water and you live in Kent or Sussex, you cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nThere are exemptions, which can be found on South East Water's website.\n\nThe firm said the demand for water had broken all previous records, including during the Covid lockdown heatwave periods.\n\nIt said it had produced an additional 120 million litres of water a day - equivalent to supplying four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne.\n\nThe company serves 2.3 million people across Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.\n\nCustomers took to Twitter to express their anger over the hosepipe ban, with some blaming the high usage on leaks.\n\nOne said: \"That will be the MANY water MAIN pipes that have burst recently!! My local area said demand was at its highest when NONE of us even HAD tap water!! Cause it was just falling out of the huge leaks!! Hardly CUSTOMER use is it?\"\n\nMr Whitefield told BBC Radio Kent that while leakage was an issue that South East Water was trying to address, the supply issues were not driven by leakage.\n\nA burst pipe in Tunbridge Wells was repaired on Thursday\n\nWealden District Council councillor Michael Lunn said he had spoken to 20 farmers affected by the drop in supply, including one with 40 cattle and heifers about to give birth, who were \"hysterical\".\n\n\"It's really serious,\" he said, adding: \"As far as I'm concerned, they [South East Water] are just so, so slow in responding to this crisis.\n\n\"We were aware this was going to happen. We are not shocked or surprised, we are disappointed and we are really angry.\"\n\nThe supply issues had forced several schools to close, and Rotherfield Primary School in Crowborough remains shut.\n\nBottled water stations have been opened at Mayfield Memorial Hall, Rotherfield Village Hall, Sparrows Green Recreation Ground in Wadhurst and Headcorn Aerodrome in Ashford.\n\nThe shortages have provoked criticism from customers and local MPs directed towards the water company.\n\nThe situation was described as \"completely unacceptable\" by Greg Clark, the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells.\n\nThe water level of Arlington reservoir, near Hailsham in East Sussex, was low in summer 2022\n\nMet Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said the remainder of this week will be hotter than average for the time of year across the UK.\n\nIn East Sussex, temperatures were tipped to reach 29C on Friday, while parts of Kent could reach a maximum of 27C on Saturday.\n\nIn the next two weeks, however, heavy rain may affect parts of the South East, according to the Met Office.\n\nSouth East Water experienced supply issues in December 2022 after pipes burst due to snow and ice thawing rapidly overnight, leaving thousands of households across Kent and Sussex without water before Christmas.\n\nA government minister told the provider earlier this year that it \"must act urgently\" to significantly improve its performance.\n\nCorrection 19 June 2023: This article was amended to make clear that the hosepipe ban affected only South East Water customers, not everyone in Kent and Sussex.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, after an inquiry found he had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties.\n\nIn a damning report, the Privileges Committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.\n\nThe suspension would have potentially triggered a by-election to replace him, had Mr Johnson not already stood down last week after seeing the findings.\n\nIn a blistering statement, he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and claimed its year-long inquiry had delivered \"what is intended to be the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination\".\n\nMr Johnson - who helped the Conservative Party win a landslide election victory under his leadership only three years ago - is the first former prime minister to have been found to have deliberately misled Parliament.\n\nIt has been confirmed a by-election to replace him in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency will take place on 20 July.\n\nOn the same day, voters will also elect a replacement for Johnson ally Nigel Adams, who also stood down as MP for Selby and Ainsty in the wake of the former PM's resignation.\n\nThe seven-person committee, chaired by Labour's Harriet Harman but with a Tory majority, has been considering whether Mr Johnson misled MPs about Covid breaches in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nWhen giving evidence to the committee in March, Mr Johnson staunchly denied misleading Parliament on purpose, in a stormy session.\n\nBut in its lengthy report, which runs to 106 pages, the committee concluded that Mr Johnson's \"personal knowledge of breaches\", combined with \"his repeated failures pro-actively to investigate\" them, amounted to \"a deliberate closing of his mind\" to the facts.\n\nThe committee focused on six gatherings between May 2020 and January 2021, and statements Mr Johnson made to Parliament about them.\n\nThe committee concluded that officials did not advise Mr Johnson that social-distancing guidelines had been followed at all times, despite him making the claim in the House of Commons.\n\nIn key evidence, one of Mr Johnson's most senior officials, Martin Reynolds, said he advised the former prime minister against making the claim, questioning whether it was \"realistic\".\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's denials, the committee added, were \"so disingenuous that they were by their very nature deliberate attempts to mislead\".\n\nThey amounted to a \"contempt\" of Parliament, the MPs added, because they stopped Parliament carrying out its \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nExplaining their recommendation for a 90-day suspension, they found that he had also committed a repeated contempts by:\n\nThe committee has also recommended that Mr Johnson should be stripped of the pass given to former MPs allowing them access to Parliament.\n\nTwo of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to go further and expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted by the committee's four Tory MPs.\n\nThe report will be debated by MPs, with a vote held on whether to approve the findings on Monday.\n\nMPs are expected to approve the report, after Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said Tory MPs would not be ordered to vote against it.\n\nSo far, only a handful of Conservative MPs have openly criticised the report, including Johnson loyalist and former culture secretary, Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn a tweet, Ms Dorries claimed the report had \"overreached\" and said any Tory MP who voted to approve it was \"fundamentally not a Conservative\".\n\nOther Tory MPs supportive of Mr Johnson hit out at the findings, with Jacob Rees Mogg saying the committee looked \"foolish\" and Simon Clarke adding the report was \"absolutely extraordinary to the point of sheer vindictiveness\".\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the committee had \"gone off the evidence\" to reach \"a very damning conclusion\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson was a \"disgraced prime minister\" who \"shouldn't be anywhere near Parliament\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for Mr Johnson to be stripped of the £115,000 annual allowance available to former prime ministers to run their office.\n\n\"This damning report should be the final nail in the coffin for Boris Johnson's political career,\" the party's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, said.\n\nA campaign group representing families bereaved by Covid said he should \"never be allowed to stand for any form of public office again\".\n\nThe committee's report was met with disdain by Mr Johnson, who repeated his defence at length in a bitter parting shot.\n\nHe said he had been warned the committee was driven by \"the sole political objective of finding me guilty and expelling me from Parliament\".\n\nHe echoed many of the assertions he made in front of the committee in March, including his claim that he believed all of the events he attended were \"lawful\" and \"required by my job\".\n\nOn the charge he deliberately misled Parliament, Mr Johnson said this was \"rubbish\" and based on \"a series of things that are patently absurd\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe compared the committee to late TV astrologer Mystic Meg for concluding he was \"unlikely to have been unaware\" of a gathering attended by dozens of staff in No 10 Downing Street's press office in December 2020.\n\n\"How do they know what I saw?\" Mr Johnson said. \"What retinal impressions have they somehow discovered, that are completely unavailable to me?\"\n\nThe lockdown parties at the heart of the committee's report first came to public attention in newspaper reports at the end of 2021.\n\nThe reports exploded into a long-running scandal that dogged Mr Johnson's premiership and stoked discontent among his ministers, who forced him to resign as prime minister last year.\n\nAn internal inquiry into the parties was led by senior civil servant Sue Gray, and a Metropolitan Police investigation resulted in multiples fines for breaches of Covid rules.\n\nMr Johnson was fined by police for breaking Covid rules in 2020 - making him the UK's first sitting prime minister to be sanctioned in such a way.", "Kent Police said a 48-year-old man from Maidstone remains in custody following the serious assault\n\nA police officer is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in Maidstone.\n\nThe assault took place at about 20:00 BST on Thursday when officers were attending an address in Albion Place.\n\nPolice said the officer suffered injuries consistent with stab wounds and was airlifted to a London hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.\n\nA 48-year-old man from Maidstone was arrested and remains in custody.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A GP has been convicted of a sexual offence after adding his semen into a woman's drink.\n\nDr Nicholas Chapman, 55, from Taunton, put the bodily fluid into a coffee he made for the woman in September 2021.\n\nAt Gloucester Crown Court, he was convicted of attempting to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nChapman claimed the fluid could have been present due to a medical condition that causes him to ejaculate when going to the toilet.\n\nHe was acquitted of a second count of the same offence on Thursday.\n\nChapman was granted bail ahead of his sentencing hearing on 6 July.\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard Chapman was accused of adding his semen to drinks he made the victim on several occasions in 2021.\n\nAfter becoming suspicious, the woman kept a sample of one of the drinks.\n\nWhen tested, the coffee was found to contain semen with DNA matching Chapman.\n\nHe denied the charges, claiming he would routinely ejaculate when going to the toilet due to a medical condition.\n\nHe claimed the fluid may have ended up in the drink as a result of him not washing his hands after going to the bathroom, the court was told.\n\nChapman was convicted of one charge relating to a drink he made on 13 September 2021.\n\nHe was acquitted of a second charge relating to drinks made between 12 September 2020 and 12 September 2021.\n\nThe victim, who cannot be named, told the court in an impact statement: \"I feel betrayed by him, by his actions. He has made me feel powerless.\n\n\"The devious and cowardly nature has shocked me. If this was a physical attack I may have at least had a chance to defend myself.\"\n\nShe continued: \"I hope in the future I am able to put this all behind me and move on with my life.\n\n\"Though I have to accept that the mental and emotional trauma I have suffered throughout this will always remain with me in some way.\"\n\nDet Sgt Rachel Wall, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: \"I wish to praise the complainant in this case.\n\n\"She was very brave to report this to the police and enable us to carry out a thorough investigation.\"\n\nNHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group was kept informed of the case, police said, to ensure appropriate safeguarding measures were in place from the start of its investigation.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The WRU was told about unfavourable treatment of female rugby players in a 2021 review\n\nConcerns female rugby players in Wales may have faced \"unfavourable treatment\" were highlighted to the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) two years before sexism allegations were revealed by BBC Wales.\n\nExtracts of the 2021 independent review have been published as part of a Senedd report that found \"systemic failures in the culture of the WRU\".\n\nAllegations of sexism and racism were uncovered in January.\n\nThe WRU said the report had led to a \"great deal\" of change.\n\nThe previously unseen review of the Wales women's rugby game was written two years before allegations of sexism were highlighted by a BBC Wales Investigates programme in January.\n\nIt concluded the WRU was, \"facing a significant number of risks not only in respect of the women's performance programme, but as a national governing body (NGB) for rugby in Wales\".\n\nThe WRU previously resisted calls for the review to be published, including from former board member Amanda Blanc who had criticised the culture at the union.\n\nIn the aftermath of the revelations reported by BBC Wales the WRU apologised, its chief executive Steve Phillips resigned and an independent panel was appointed to look at the culture within the organisation.\n\nActing WRU chief executive Nigel Walker told a Senedd committee the organisation had been in \"denial\" about the \"extent of the problem\"\n\nExtracts of the 2021 review are contained within a Senedd sport committee report into the WRU.\n\nOne review conclusion titled \"legal risk\" said: \"There is the potential for individuals within the game (currently and formerly) to challenge the WRU with some worrying examples of what could be defined as unfavourable treatment and a lack of equitable provision provided through this review.\"\n\nAnother conclusion titled \"reputational risk\" said: \"The perceived intransigence and reluctance to fully commit to women's performance in respect of investment, profile, culture and leadership will only serve to reinforce views of the WRU as a NGB for men's rugby with little interest in the female game.\"\n\nIn evidence to the committee, the WRU acting chief executive, Nigel Walker said there were 40 recommendations in the 2021 review, and told the committee, \"it was obvious that the Welsh Rugby Union had failed women's rugby\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He joked he wanted to rape me', said former Welsh Rugby women's general manager Charlotte Wathan\n\nThe Senedd report also highlighted six reports in the past five years of sexist, racist or homophobic complaints within the WRU, with three WRU staff members being subject to disciplinary action following the allegations.\n\nResponding to a question from the committee about non-disclosure agreements, the WRU said it had used four \"settlement agreements\" in the past five years connected to allegations of sexism, racism and homophobia.\n\nThe committee said there was \"long-standing toxic behaviour\" within the WRU and opportunities were missed to act on \"concerning behaviour\".\n\nThese included \"formal complaints, the WRU entering into several settlement agreements in relation to allegations of sexism, racism and homophobia over several years, the review into the women's game and the resignation of Amanda Blanc\".\n\nCommittee chairperson Delyth Jewell MS said evidence showed the WRU \"had seen a failure of governance\" and \"there were failures in the culture of the union that led to women feeling that they had no choice but to go to the press about what had happened to them\".\n\nShe said: \"That was utterly unacceptable, it should never have happened that way.\"\n\nMs Jewell added that women's voices should be kept \"at the heart of our deliberations\", so when a new review is published \"we can have complete faith\" that recommendations are actually acted upon.\n\nThe Senedd sport committee found a \"serious failure of governance\" by the WRU\n\nThe committee added: \"It is unacceptable that it took a BBC documentary for the Welsh Rugby Union to act decisively.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Walescast podcast earlier this month, Henry Engelhardt, a WRU independent non-executive director and a former chief executive of Admiral Insurance described the BBC investigation as \"sensationalism\".\n\nBut soon after Mr Walker insisted the organisation, including Mr Engelhardt were \"remorseful\" about what went on in the union.\n\nIn its report the committee made several recommendations, including that any future Welsh government funding to the WRU should be compatible with a violence against women strategy.\n\nThe committee also called on the Welsh government to review how ministers and civil servants respond to concerns raised with them regarding inappropriate behaviour in organisations in Wales.\n\nThe WRU said: \"We have already accepted, and did so again at the committee session, that we have much work to do to ensure that we address our past failures and we again express our sincere remorse for the missed opportunities and failures described and offer our sincere apologies to anyone affected.\n\n\"We commissioned the independent report into the Women's performance area in 2021 to identify concerns and help us reshape our support for our international players.\n\n\"This led to a great deal of change and we are pleased to be able to report that the recommendations have been substantively delivered. We are very proud of the way in which our squad has responded to these changes and we hope that the results are clear to see.\"", "A 21-year-old woman has died after she was attacked and thrown from a hill at the historic Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors said the woman - who has not been named but is believed to be a US tourist - died overnight after she was shoved 50 metres into a gorge.\n\nHer friend, a 22-year old woman, remains in hospital with serious injuries after she was also pushed when she attempted to stop the assailant.\n\nA US man was detained over the attack.\n\nThe 30-year-old tourist, who has not been named by police, initially fled the scene, officers said.\n\nHe was later detained on Wednesday after a massive police manhunt involving more than 25 vehicles and was taken to a police station in nearby Fuessen in Bavaria state.\n\nIn a statement, police said they believed the man met the women - who German media reported were both American citizens - on a trail near the Marienbrücke bridge. The spot is a popular viewpoint used by tourists to view the castle.\n\nThe Marienbrücke bridge where police say the man met the two women\n\nThe spot is a popular viewpoint used by tourists to view the castle\n\nHe then led them to a hidden trail, on the pretext that the way to the bridge was difficult to navigate, before attacking the 21-year old woman.\n\n\"When the 22-year-old wanted to intervene, he choked her and then pushed her down a steep slope,\" Bavarian police said in a statement.\n\nOfficers said that \"an attempted sexual offence to the detriment of the 21-year-old must be assumed\".\n\n\"He then pushed her down the slope, where she came to rest about 50 meters next to her friend,\" they added.\n\nThe 21-year-old woman was taken to hospital by helicopter, but later died from her injuries. Her friend, who is said to be in a serious condition, was responsive when found by police.\n\nAnother American tourist, who witnessed the rescue and arrest, told the Associated Press that the man had scratches across his face as he walked with police.\n\n\"I'm honestly absolutely stunned someone is still alive from this,\" Eric Abneri added. \"It is like falling from the top of an absolute cliff.\"\n\nHe said rescue services had done \"an unbelievable job\" performing \"a very, very difficult rescue\".\n\nThe man appeared at the Kempten District Court on Thursday, where the investigating judge issued an arrest warrant and the man was remanded into custody.\n\nHe is under investigation for murder, attempted murder and attempted sexual assault.\n\nSenior public prosecutor Thomas Hormann told reporters that the investigation into the incident was just beginning.\n\nNeuschwanstein is one of Germany's most popular tourist attractions. More than 1.3 million people visit the site annually, according to the Bavarian finance ministry.\n\nSitting around 126km (78 miles) from Munich, it was built in the 19th century and intended to serve as a residence for the rulers of the region, but was never occupied.", "Boris Johnson has asked his supporters not to vote against a report that found he intentionally misled Parliament.\n\nThe Commons is expected to approve the Privileges Committee's recommendations - which will strip Mr Johnson of his right to a parliamentary pass.\n\nSeveral of the former PM's allies, including Nadine Dorries, have said they plan to vote against the motion.\n\nAnother ally, James Duddridge, said he had spoken to Mr Johnson and \"he doesn't want there to be a vote\".\n\nMPs are due to debate the Privileges Committee's conclusion that Mr Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons and committed contempt of parliament.\n\nThe committee's main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already stood down as an MP.\n\nThe motion could be passed without the need for MPs to troop through the voting lobbies, if no one in the Commons chamber shouts \"no\" when the Speaker asks if they approve it.\n\nOpposition parties - who all back the report - could force a vote, whether Conservatives want one or not.\n\nThis would mean MPs would have to publicly reveal whether they back the committee's findings.\n\nBBC Political Editor Chris Mason said this might expose just how diminished Mr Johnson's parliamentary support is now.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson said the privileges report \"has no practical effect\" and that his supporters would speak in the debate but would not be told to vote against it.\n\nSir Simon Clarke, Sir Jake Berry and Brendan Clarke-Smith, three of Mr Johnson's biggest supporters, have previously said they would vote against the motion.\n\nThey are among a small group of Tory MPs who have rallied behind Mr Johnson following the Privileges Committee's damning verdict, which came after a year-long inquiry.\n\nAllies of Mr Johnson had warned Tory MPs they could face battles with their local parties to remain as candidates at the next election if they back the motion.\n\nMs Dorries claimed the report had \"overreached\" and said any Tory MP who voted to approve it was \"fundamentally not a Conservative\".\n\nOther Tory MPs supportive of Mr Johnson hit out at the findings, with Mr Clarke saying the report was \"absolutely extraordinary to the point of sheer vindictiveness\".\n\nBut senior Conservative MP Damian Green told the BBC the committee had \"come up with what is clearly a set of damning conclusions\".\n\nThe former cabinet minister under Theresa May said he intended to vote to approve the report with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThe seven-person Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson had shown \"personal knowledge\" of Covid-rule breaches in Downing Street but had repeatedly failed to \"pro-actively investigate\" the facts.\n\nThe committee said officials had not advised Mr Johnson that social distancing guidelines were followed at all times, contrary to what he said in the House of Commons at the time.\n\nIn an eviscerating statement he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and its findings \"deranged\", accusing Harriet Harman, the Labour chairwoman of the committee, of bias.\n\nMr Johnson announced last Friday that he was standing down as an MP with immediate effect after being shown a draft of the report.\n\nA by-election will be held on 20 July in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.", "Pressures caused by the numbers of inmates at Maghaberry Prison are expected to continue for some time, the head of the prison service has said.\n\nDirector general Ronnie Armour was speaking after a \"disappointing\" inspection in the autumn.\n\nThe Criminal Justice Inspection and HM Inspector of Prisons report found a \"serious drug problem\" at the prison.\n\nIt said there were also major areas for improvement in the delivery of education, skills and work activities.\n\nJacqui Durkin, chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland, said: \"Forty-one per cent of prisoners surveyed during this inspection indicated it was easy to get illicit drugs at Maghaberry and 28% said they had developed a drug problem while they were there.\n\n\"We found there was no effective or co-ordinated plan in place to reduce the demand for and supply of drugs and no means of assessing the effectiveness of actions taken.\n\n\"This needs to be addressed as a priority.\"\n\nThe report identified a number of concerns regarding the prison, which included:\n\nMr Armour said the drugs issue was being addressed with the use of X-ray body scanners.\n\nThe head of the prison service also said the demands placed on prison officers were unprecedented.\n\nHe said there were now 1,230 prisoners, up from 830 in 2018.\n\n\"More than half are being held on remand and therefore do not have to engage in rehabilitative work,\" he said.\n\nWhen the inspection was carried out, the number of prisoners stood at 1,050.\n\n\"While it is important that we don't seek to make excuses for the decline in service delivery at the prison since the pandemic, no-one should underestimate the pressures prison staff are currently facing,\" Mr Armour added.\n\nRonnie Armour is director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service\n\nOn the report's comments on the treatment of Catholic prisoners, Mr Armour said this was an allegation taken very seriously and would be investigated.\n\n\"No stone should or will be left unturned in dealing with such allegations of unacceptable behaviour,\" he explained.\n\nAddressing the safeguarding concerns, Ms Durkin added: \"We accept the Covid-19 pandemic was challenging for Maghaberry as it has been for all prisons in the United Kingdom and we acknowledge the increase in the prison population and high numbers of men held on remand.\n\n\"However, prison leaders must focus on getting prisoners off wing and into the sort of meaningful work, training, education and rehabilitative support that will make them less likely to offend on their release.\"\n\nThe prison service accepted it was struggling with regards to prisoners' access to education, skills and work activities, but said there had been improvement since the inspection.\n\nIt also said the most significant area of concern related to the lack of a specialist provision for personality disorder for inmates.\n\nThe service accepted demand was growing for such a provision but that resources had not been made available.", "Shaheen Sheikh Ali shared photos with the BBC of his four male relatives feared drowned in the Mediterranean\n\nShaheen Sheikh Ali knew something bad had happened when he saw frantic activity in a family WhatsApp group.\n\nFour male relatives, all under the age of 30, are suspected of being on board the fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean, 80km off the Greek coast.\n\n\"People are waiting for any piece of good news,\" he told the BBC. But they're all fearing the worst.\n\nThe 31-year-old now lives in Germany but he's Syrian and from the majority Kurdish city of Kobane. He knows of 12 people who are believed to have been on the boat.\n\nIt's one of the worst migrant tragedies in recent years with nearly 80 people dead and at least 100 rescued. But it's suggested that as many as 750 people may have packed onto the boat, including 100 children.\n\n\"We hadn't heard from them for days and didn't even know if they were on the boat,\" said Mr Ali, adding that the group's last contact with relatives back in Syria took place almost a week ago.\n\nSince 14 June, he and his family have received conflicting news about whether the group is dead or alive.\n\n\"In incidents like this, you can't know for certain whether someone is dead or alive. One word can destroy the morale of the whole family,\" he said.\n\nShaheen Sheikh Ali, a Syrian refugee living in Germany, fears four of his relatives were on the migrant boat that sank\n\nFor British Pakistani journalist Raja Faryad Khan, it's good news - his 22-year-old nephew Adnan Bashir is one of the few survivors,\n\nBut his relief is tinged with sadness as up to 16 people from his village in Pakistan-administered Kashmir could have been on the boat.\n\nMr Khan travelled from the UK to the Greek port city of Kalamata to meet his nephew but was only allowed a few moments with him by the security guard.\n\n\"(My nephew) said the boat was shaking and it became one sided, and then the boat was just gone into the sea,\" said Mr Khan.\n\nBack in Germany, Mr Ali is living with the agony of uncertainty as he describes the journey his relatives took.\n\nThey were smuggled from Syria to Lebanon before flying to Libya where they stayed for 40 days waiting for a chance to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Italy.\n\nAccording to Mr Ali, the group paid at least $5,000 each to the smugglers, but this didn't save them from harsh treatment by their hosts.\n\n\"The smugglers picked them up from the airport and chucked them anywhere they could,\" he said.\n\nHe says his relatives were placed in a \"block of concrete\" with no furniture and had to sleep on blankets laid out on the hard floor.\n\nThe last time he spoke to anyone from the group was early June, when some of his relatives hinted that a crossing could be imminent.\n\n\"They told me they would leave soon because the weather was hot and the sea was calm enough,\" Mr Ali recalled.\n\nHis relatives shared photos that raised alarm bells. \"I saw expressions of sadness in their eyes but it could also have been fatigue.\"\n\nWhat makes his pain deeper is that he himself risked his life to escape the war in Syria in 2016.\n\nBut he said that at that time, it was much easier for people to reach Europe, as more migration routes were available.\n\nIt is believed that most of the people on board the fishing boat were young men\n\nMr Ali crossed the Turkish border before setting off on a much shorter boat journey to Greece.\n\n\"I took a dingy to get to Greece but it was a 4km journey,\" he said. \"When we left, we could see the lights from some of the Greek islands.\"\n\nThe distance from Libya to Italy is at least 725km. Another difference pointed out by Mr Ali is that the passengers on his dinghy all had life jackets.\n\nThe Greek coastguard has said none of the people on board the capsized fishing boat were wearing them.\n\nMr Ali can easily place himself in his relatives' shoes though, imagining what they \"must have been thinking\" before getting on the fishing boat.\n\n\"You don't know what will happen. You worry someone might die, someone might fall off,\" he said. \"No matter how I try, I can't describe how I feel in relation to this tragedy.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old is disgusted at the role played by smugglers, whom he accuses of \"treating people like meat\".\n\n\"I imagine those smugglers do not even count how many people they are putting on a boat. They don't care about the consequences.\"\n\nAnd then an appeal for more understanding and solidarity.\n\n\"People need safer routes. No one will ever stop migration, neither European countries or anyone,\" he said.\n\n\"My relatives were only dreaming of coming to Europe to work and help their families.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chief Constable Sarah Crew says the force is 'institutionally racist'\n\nA chief constable says she believes her own force is \"institutionally racist\".\n\nSarah Crew said she came to that conclusion after applying a series of criteria to Avon and Somerset Police following a report into the local criminal justice system.\n\nShe said she was \"in no doubt\" that racism and racial bias were reinforced within systems across the force.\n\nThe force's Police Federation has objected to her statement and said it could divide officers and communities.\n\nMs Crew said: \"We are not representative of the community we police. I am now owning the definition of institutional racism.\n\n\"This is recognition that the system is unfair, and our job is to make it fair.\"\n\nAvon and Somerset Police employs more than 6,000 people\n\nShe was the peer asked to investigate the performance of the Metropolitan Police following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.\n\nActive discussions about racism have taken place within Avon and Somerset Police since Desmond Brown published his report Identifying Disproportionality in the criminal justice system in the force area.\n\nIt showed evidence of a difference in the way the force interacted with people from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, particularly those from black heritage communities.\n\nThe body which represents officers in the force has objected to Ms Crew's statement\n\nMs Crew said they had been working through the report's recommendations.\n\n\"To make real change we need to work together, we need to be accountable and by admitting the truth we can start to make progress.\n\n\"I am hugely committed to build trust amongst all communities and this is an important step,\" she said.\n\nThe Casey Review called the Met Police institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic\n\nShe described Baroness Casey's review into the Metropolitan Police - which found it was guilty of \"institutional prejudice\"- including racism, sexism and homophobia - as another \"catalyst\" for her own force to examine itself.\n\n\"I'm in no doubt that, by Baroness Casey's criteria at least, Avon and Somerset Police is institutionally racist,\" Ms Crew said.\n\n\"I must accept that the definition fits - it does for race,\" said Ms Crew.\n\n\"I think it's likely to for misogyny, homophobia and disability as well, though the gaps in the data don't give us the sense of scale, impact or certainty that we have for race.\"\n\nThe Casey Review sets four tests on institutional racism:\n\nHowever, Avon and Somerset force's Police Federation, which represents officers, objected to Ms Crew's statement.\n\nIt said it created \"a false narrative\" that could cultivate the impression its officers were racist \"and actually drive a divide between our officers and the communities this is intended to assist\".\n\nChair Mark Loker said Ms Crew's comments had been shared internally via a vlog and needed data to back them up, otherwise they amounted to \"virtue signalling\".\n\n\"If accusations of 'institutional racism' are levelled against institutions, these should - like any other serious accusation - be subject to robust assessment and evidence.\"\n\nHe added Ms Crew's characterisation of the force \"will do more harm than good\".\n\n\"This will make our jobs that much more difficult because there will be sections of the community that will use this to their advantage to either make complaints to the police on the back of a legitimate stop and search or on the back of a legitimate arrest and we see that all too often.\n\n\"Unfortunately too much time is wasted on vexatious complaints to subvert criminality.\"\n\nLast year, the force apologised to an investigator who was subjected to \"toxic\" racial abuse.\n\nMs Crew said she had \"no doubt\" the force was institutionally racist\n\nMs Crew argued there was \"real data\" behind her words.\n\n\"You are six times more likely to be stopped and searched in the force area if you're from black heritage,\" she said.\n\n\"The evidence is undeniable - we are improving but it is not happening fast enough.\"\n\nMs Crew added: \"I need to be clear, I'm not talking about what's in the hearts and minds of the vast majority of people who work for the force.\n\n\"This is about recognising the structural and institutional barriers that exist and which put people at a disadvantage in the way they interact with policing because of their race.\"\n\nJames Oluoch-Olunya, chair of Avon and Somerset Police's Race Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage (Reach) group, said Ms Crew's findings were an important first step for change.\n\n\"It's an important acknowledgment of people's lived experience and all of the pain and suffering - it is starting the conversation from an honest place and we can't fix a problem unless we acknowledge it,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was \"actions\" communities were most interested in, adding in future, the force needed to take a zero-tolerance approach to racism.\n\n\"The culture of an organisation is defined by the worst behaviour it will tolerate, so by giving people multiple passes it just keeps perpetuating.\"\n\nHis sentiments were echoed by civil right's charity Black Equity Organisation.\n\n\"The admission by Sara Crew is a welcome first step in the fight to ensure that all communities are policed fairly and that the structures that support racism, misogyny and homophobia are dismantled,\" chief executive Dr Wanda Wyporska said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dargavel Primary is at the heart of a newbuild development with more than 4,000 homes planned\n\nA council which miscalculated the number of places needed for pupils at a new school has been branded \"grossly incompetent\".\n\nAn independent review has delivered a withering verdict on Renfrewshire Council's handling of an error which left Dargavel village short of up to 1,000 primary school places.\n\nThe report ruled the local authority's planning was \"woefully inadequate\".\n\nThe council has said it is \"deeply sorry for the very serious mistakes\".\n\nDargavel Primary in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, opened last year with a capacity of 548.\n\nRenfrewshire Council then admitted \"significant errors\" had been made with its forecasts and between 1,100 and 1,500 primary school age places would now be needed in the area over the next decade.\n\nParents have said they face splitting their children between different schools or moving home as a result of the error.\n\nAnd now an independent review has levied a series of criticism at the council. This includes:\n\nThe Renfrewshire Council review led by independent consultant David Bowles recommends local school catchment areas are reconsidered and the council's pupil forecast model continues to be revised.\n\nLocal parent Alan Kelly says the report highlights \"unimaginable failings within Renfrewshire Council\"\n\nLocal parent Alan Kelly, a former chairman of the school's parent council, said: \"The report uses the word incompetent more than once and it notes that numerous legitimate concerns expressed by parents were brushed aside.\n\n\"Disappointingly it doesn't touch on failures since October, 2022, and doesn't consider the roles of the current council leadership team.\n\n\"The council have again let us down - still no land for the new school, still no plan, nothing in place.\"\n\nRenfrewshire Council is in talks with with landowners BAE about securing a site for a new primary school in Dargavel, capable of accommodating 800 pupils, which would cost up to £45m.\n\nIn addition, an expansion of Park Mains High School in Erskine, to accommodate 400 extra pupils, would also be required and this has an estimated cost of up to £30m.\n\nThe council's chief executive Alan Russell said he was \"deeply sorry for the very serious historic mistakes made over a prolonged period\" and the \"understandable distress caused to local communities in the area.\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a very difficult report for the council and will be equally upsetting for the Dargavel community.\n\n\"I fully acknowledge the review findings and accept all its recommendations.\n\n\"Detailed work is progressing at pace to increase pupil capacity and to improve our processes and procedures.\"\n\nA BAE Systems spokesperson said: \"Whilst we've fulfilled our planning obligations for primary education by delivering a new school in 2021 and providing land for a nursery, we continue to work proactively with Renfrewshire Council, over and above these obligations, to support its revised strategy for local primary education provision.\"We recognise the importance of this issue for the residents of Dargavel village and have identified potential areas of the development to Renfrewshire Council which could be used to deliver its additional primary education requirements.\"", "Joe Dailly's garden near Forfar was overrun with starlings and their young. He said: \"Lots of squabbling between young and adults alike. These two had had a 'go' at each other and the younger was the victor on this occasion.\"", "Rhun ap Iorwerth has been elected unopposed as leader of Plaid Cymru\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth has been elected unopposed as the new leader of Plaid Cymru, a month after the dramatic resignation of Adam Price.\n\nHe was the only candidate for the vacancy triggered by a damning report alleging a culture of bullying, harassment and misogyny in Plaid.\n\nThe new leader vowed to make the organisation a \"welcoming party where everyone feels safe\".\n\nThe former BBC journalist represents Ynys Môn in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid is the Senedd's third largest party with 12 seats.\n\nIt holds three MPs in Westminster and is in a co-operation deal with the Welsh Labour government.\n\nThe announcement follows months of problems in the party, including claims of a toxic culture and an allegation last November of sexual assault made against a senior member of staff.\n\nThe situation led to the Project Pawb report by former Senedd member Nerys Evans, who found there were \"too many instances of bad behaviour in the party\".\n\nA Plaid Cymru Senedd member was also suspended last year, pending an investigation, following a separate serious allegation about his conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at the St David's Hotel in Cardiff Bay, Rhun ap Iorwerth committed to the co-operation agreement and said it showed \"a glimpse from opposition of what we could achieve in government\".\n\n\"But to be the champions that Wales needs, we have to be fit as a party and ready to face the challenges ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"And I'm determined that we will be, and I will be uncompromising in making this a welcoming party where everyone feels safe and supported and empowered to play their parts.\"\n\nThe Anglesey politician was the only candidate for the role, with many senior figures having ruled themselves out.\n\nThat was despite former leader Leanne Wood saying the new leader should be a woman.\n\nShe argued tackling misogyny would be easier, given a woman leader would have experience of it.\n\nShortly after her intervention on BBC Wales Live, the two remaining potential candidates said they would not run.\n\nEarlier, former Plaid Cymru Senedd member Bethan Sayed said not enough was done in the party to make women feel confident about standing.\n\nShe said: \"Sometimes we need other people to approach certain candidates - or as Leanne Wood would like to have seen in this case, a woman - to say 'what can we do to help you?'\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth has represented Ynys Mon in the Senedd since 2013\n\nBut he said there were \"women in positions of leadership right across the party\" and said he saw Plaid has \"having a collective leadership\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford welcomed the announcement and said he looked forward \"to a constructive working relationship\".\n\nBut leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, Andrew RT Davies, mocked the new leader in his statement welcoming the announcement.\n\n\"I'd like to congratulate Rhun on his appointment as leader of the third largest party in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Although the reason the change of leadership came about was because of the previous Plaid leadership's inability to tackle issues within their party. As Rhun was the deputy leader in that team, what's changed?\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth has represented the constituency of Ynys Môn - which covers the Island of Anglesey - since 2013.\n\nThe former BBC Wales political correspondent had previously attempted to become party leader in 2018, when he was beaten by Adam Price.\n\nBefore he became leader - a role that has to be performed by a Member of the Senedd - the politician had been selected to stand for the party in Ynys Môn at the next general election.\n\nIt will now need to find another candidate, as the new leader confirmed he would not stand for the seat.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth is taking over Plaid Cymru in the absence of a public debate about the party's future and after weeks of near-radio silence from his colleagues.\n\nHe becomes leader with no detailed plans for what he will do - his campaign amounting to a short social media video issued a few weeks ago.\n\nAnd apart from a tweet here and there, there have been few big interventions from party figures.\n\nIt all gives the impression of a party that did not have the appetite for the theatre of a leadership campaign, given everything that has happened.\n\nThe task facing Rhun ap Iorwerth is enormous. Plaid remains vexed by the question of how to break out of its heartlands in north and west Wales.\n\nTo ever have a chance of unseating Labour it has to win seats in urban Wales, where Plaid struggles.\n\nBut with the party's internal problems out in the open, the hard politics of the ballot box are taking a backseat.\n• None What we know about Plaid Cymru's new leader", "The long-anticipated report by MPs into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid lockdown parties in No 10 is finally out.\n\nThe report by the seven-member privileges committee followed a year-long investigation and runs to 106 pages.\n\nThe former prime minister stood down as an MP last week after receiving an advance copy, angrily accusing the committee of bias.\n\nHere are the key findings.\n\nThe main finding is that he deliberately misled the House of Commons by repeatedly telling it, after the Partygate scandal emerged, that Covid rules had been followed at all times in Downing Street.\n\nHe has already admitted MPs were misled by his original statements, but he says he believed them to be true at the time, and they were based on assurances he had received from officials.\n\nHowever, the report found he had \"personal knowledge\" of breaches of the rules and guidance in No 10.\n\nAnd it added he failed to proactively seek out \"authoritative\" assurances about compliance, which it said amounted to a \"deliberate closing of his mind\".\n\nIt concluded it was \"highly unlikely\" he had really believed the assurances he gave at the time, \"still less that he could continue to believe them to this day\".\n\nThe report therefore concluded he had committed a \"contempt\" of Parliament through his original reassurances, because they stopped MPs from carrying out their \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nThey found that he had also committed a contempt by:\n\nThe committee found that the contempt was \"all the more serious\" because he was the most senior member of the government.\n\nOne key bit of evidence came from Martin Reynolds, his former principal private secretary, a civil servant.\n\nHe told the inquiry that, while preparing for a session of Prime Minister's Questions in December 2021, he had questioned whether it was \"realistic\" for Mr Johnson to say rules had always been followed.\n\nMr Johnson also said he'd been given assurances by his media advisers that rules were followed.\n\nBut the committee said this advice, given in response to press stories, should not have been used to make broad statements about rules being followed at all times.\n\nThe report said he should have obtained an \"authoritative assessment\" before saying this, for example by consulting government lawyers.\n\nThe committee also published new evidence, including a statement from an unnamed No 10 official that there was a \"wider culture of not adhering to any rules\" in the building.\n\nThe official added that birthday parties, leaving parties and end of week gatherings \"all continued as normal\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe committee said before Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, it had wanted to recommend suspending him from for more than 10 days.\n\nThis would have meant he would potentially have faced a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe report also revealed two of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted.\n\nExpulsion is extremely rare in Parliament's history, having occurred only three times in the last hundred years or so.\n\nBut suspending him is no longer an option, given that he's already stood down as an MP in his blistering resignation statement last week.\n\nHowever, the report says that now, given what he's said about the committee, they would have recommended a ban of 90 days - an extremely long ban by the standards of recent years.\n\nAnd it says he should not get a parliamentary pass, which former MPs would normally be able to apply for.\n\nPerhaps the greatest punishment in the report, ultimately, will be the damage it does to his reputation among Conservative MPs - and what it means for his prospects of any future political comeback.", "Asylum seekers who arrive by small boat face long waits for their claims to be decided\n\nPlans to improve the asylum system are \"in doubt\" unless the Home Office takes urgent action, the department has told the government's spending watchdog.\n\nThe National Audit Office revealed the admission in a highly critical report warning plans to make the asylum system more efficient are not on track.\n\nOne of the factors was Home Office delays in deciding asylum claims, the watchdog said.\n\nThe Home Office said it was working non-stop to reduce backlogs.\n\nBut earlier this week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said at the current rate of processing the government could fail to meet the prime minister's target of clearing the backlog of asylum claims.\n\nThe backlog of 173,000 people waiting for an initial decision on their claim means the Home Office is spending an estimated £3.6bn a year on asylum support.\n\nIn April, Home Office chiefs classified their department's progress on speeding up the asylum system as \"amber-red\", the NAO report reveals, meaning it was \"in doubt, with urgent action required and possible delays to delivery\".\n\nThe NAO said the Home Office case for a £430m programme of improvements to the asylum system was based on \"highly uncertain assumptions\".\n\nRisks remained high, including the demand for accommodation for asylum seekers exceeding supply\n\nThe proportion of asylum applicants waiting more than six months for a decision had been increasing for five years.\n\nAnd that slowdown in decision-making had increased the demand for accommodation.\n\nBut the Home Office was failing to meet its targets to secure enough places for people to stay.\n\nAnd even after decisions were taken, only 0.4% of those who had no case to be in the UK were suitable to be removed from the country, because of problems relating to documentation or medical and safeguarding concerns.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said: \"Despite recent progress, the asylum and protection transformation programme is a long way from meeting government's ambitions to reduce the cost and improve the quality of the service.\n\n\"The Home Office has nearly doubled the number of decisions made each week - although, it is unclear whether it will be enough to remove the backlog of older asylum decisions by the end of 2023.\"\n\nOliver Lodge, director of the spending watchdog, said it was going to be \"very challenging\" for the government to hit to target.\n\nHe said the Home Office was making 1,300 asylum claim decisions a week in April. To meet its objective, Mr Lodge said the government needs to process 2,200 claims a week.\n\nBut if claims are refused quickly, other teams \"will have to increase their capacity\" and shoulder the costs and increase their staffing levels.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The backlog pushes costs to the wider asylum system if it isn't done intelligently.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was working \"non-stop\" to reduce the backlog and had already doubled the number of caseworkers and cut the \"legacy backlog\" by 20% - the pile of more than 100,000 unresolved asylum applications made before 28 June 2022.\n\n\"We know more must be done to bring the asylum system back into balance,\" he said.\n\n\"The Illegal Migration Bill will stop the boats by detaining those who come to the UK illegally, and swiftly returning them to their home country or a safe third country.\"\n\nThe National Audit Office's report said only half of case workers are taking decisions, falling short of the Home office's target of 62%. Cuts in the \"legacy backlog\" had been achieved by slowing down decision-making on newer claims, it found, meaning a new backlog was growing there.\n\nLabour shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the Conservatives had \"lost control\" of the backlog.\n\n\"The prime minister has admitted that the asylum system is broken,\" he said.", "The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nA senior doctor has said the number and type of infections at Glasgow's child cancer wards were unlike anything he had seen before.\n\nDr Dermot Murphy told an inquiry he became convinced environmental factors were to blame.\n\nHe was among clinicians giving evidence about infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus (QEUH).\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow denies a link between the buildings and infections except in two distinct cases\n\nThe QEUH campus, which includes the Royal Hospital for Children, was hailed as a world leading facility when it opened in 2015.\n\nBut a series of infection outbreaks and concerns around the water and ventilation systems began to emerge three years later.\n\nDr Murphy told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry this week he believed there was a link between the environment at the new children's hospital and the infections which led to the closure of the wards in 2018.\n\nThe paediatric oncologist said he had never seen the \"number and type of infections\" in Glasgow's child cancer wards in any other of the hospitals he had worked at.\n\nHe said: \"I'd worked at the Royal London Hospital, at Great Ormond street, and the Royal Marsden Hospital, and had not seen in those hospitals the types and variety of environmental gram negative infections that we were seeing in the new children's hospital in Glasgow.\"\n\nThe design and construction of the QEUH campus and its impact on patients are being examined\n\nDr Murphy told the inquiry that, while it was hard to get data on infection rates elsewhere, he discussed the situation with colleagues in other hospitals.\n\n\"The reflection we were getting back from those conversations was that we were seeing far more infections in Glasgow than similar units were around the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We were seeing more infections than colleagues were in Scotland and in the UK, and when we were at European meetings people were saying we were seeing more infections than they were.\"\n\nHe told the inquiry that after the wards closed in 2018, he became anxious about the whole hospital estate.\n\nIn written evidence to Lord Brodie, he said that every clinical area the department had moved to had \"proved to have defective build issues\".\n\nHe told the inquiry's senior counsel Alister Duncan KC: \"I was anxious that wherever we moved to within the children's hospital or the adult hospital, we would uncover similar problems to the ones that we were leaving behind.\"\n\nMilly Main died after contracting an infection at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow\n\nA number of families have raised concerns about deaths of patients at the QEUH campus - including that of 10-year-old Milly Main who was being treated for leukaemia but died after contracting a rare bacterial infection.\n\nTwo other patients died after contracting a fungal infection known as Cryptococcus.\n\nEarlier in the week the inquiry heard from leading paediatric cancer specialist Prof Brenda Gibson.\n\nShe established the unit in the old Glasgow children's hospital at Yorkhill 30 years ago and has led the department since then.\n\nShe told the inquiry that she had refused to approve plans for the unit at the new hospital because they were not provided with the requested facilities.\n\n\"We had been promised a like-for-like unit in a flagship hospital and it certainly wasn't a like-for-like unit,\" said Prof Gibson.\n\nShe said staff were shocked to find that there were no air filters in the transplantation rooms, and waiting for them to be fitted led to delays in the treatment of some cancer patients.\n\nAccording to Prof Gibson, staff became increasingly concerned that they were seeing unusual infections in children and more often than expected.\n\nShe said drains, sinks and taps were cleaned repeatedly, yet the infections kept coming back.\n\nProf Gibson said that it was difficult for staff to communicate with families who were already very stressed and confused.\n\nShe told the inquiry that she had never had an explanation from senior managers at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde about whether the hospital environment was responsible for the infections or not.\n\n\"There are two versions of what's happened,\" she said.\n\n\"There is a real environmental problem [or] there's no environmental problem at all. I still don't know which is true.\"\n\nShe added: \"The responsibility for providing a safe environment for that treatment to be delivered lies, within our view, with the health board led by the chief executive.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, nursing staff gave evidence about the impact on patients of the upheaval involved in constantly moving patients for cleaning.\n\nThey also spoke about having to move children to unsuitable wards in the adult hospital.\n\nSenior charge nurse Emma Sommerville said some had gone to their union to express concern around the children being in an unsafe environment.\n\nNext week the inquiry will hear further evidence from frontline clinical staff, as well as managers closely involved in the department.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde says it continues to work with the inquiry, and senior executives are expected to give evidence next year.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine issues that affected the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh\n\nProblems with the ventilation system were only discovered days before it was due to open in July 2019.\n• None Hospitals inquiry: What is being investigated?", "Sir Michael Caine has described actress and former MP Glenda Jackson as \"one of our greatest movie actresses\" following her death aged 87.\n\nJackson won two Oscars, three Emmys, two Baftas and a Tony in an acting career which spanned six decades.\n\nSir Jonathan Pryce said he believed she was \"the greatest actor that this country has ever produced\".\n\nJackson gave up acting to join the House of Commons as a Labour MP in north London from 1992 to 2015.\n\nThat included two years as a junior transport minister in Tony Blair's New Labour government from 1997.\n\nShe later returned to acting, playing King Lear on stage in 2016, then winning a Bafta for her screen comeback in the TV drama Elizabeth Is Missing in 2020.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, her agent Lionel Larner said: \"Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.\n\n\"She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.\"\n\nSir Michael first acted with Jackson in 1975. Following their recent reunion, he said: \"It was as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I shall miss her.\"\n\nOther tributes were paid from across the worlds of the arts and politics.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq, who now sits in Jackson's former seat, tweeted: \"Devastated to hear that my predecessor Glenda Jackson has died.\n\n\"A formidable politician, an amazing actress and a very supportive mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you Glenda.\"\n\nGlenda Jackson, pictured in 1999 with then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, was a Labour MP for 23 years\n\nShadow culture secretary Lucy Powell, who worked for Jackson before becoming an MP herself, recalled the \"incredibly kind\" politician's \"cutting humour\" and \"general disdain at most things\".\n\n\"She was the definition of an icon, successfully spanning the world of acting and politics with great aplomb,\" Powell wrote.\n\nBroadcaster and former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth said she was \"a wonderful actress, a committed politician [and] a remarkable human being\".\n\n\"We became MPs on the same day in 1992 & I treasure our unlikely friendship,\" he wrote. \"She was such a gifted, caring & special person who came into the world to make a difference - and did.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was \"extremely sad news\", adding: \"His thoughts will be with her friends and family at this time.\"\n\nTV presenter Carol Vorderman said: \"To see this unique woman turn into a firebrand in politics was deeply impressive for young girls like me. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nJackson won a string of prizes for her acting, including Oscars, Baftas, and a Tony Award (pictured, in 2018)\n\nJackson began acting after joining an amateur dramatics group as a teen while working in Boots near her tome town of Birkenhead in Merseyside.\n\nShe won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Rada) in London, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1963.\n\nAfter making her name on stage, she won her first Oscar for playing a headstrong artist in director Ken Russell's film of DH Lawrence's novel Women in Love.\n\nHer second Academy Award came three years later for A Touch of Class, a romantic comedy in which she played a fashion designer caught up in a catastrophic love affair with a US businessman.\n\nShe did not attend either ceremony, though, saying she was busy.\n\n\"All awards are very nice to have,\" she told BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life last year. \"But they don't make you any better.\"\n\nJackson (centre) in 1967 with Marianne Faithfull (left) and Avril Elgar, her co-stars in a stage production of The Three Sisters\n\nThe role in A Touch of Class came about after she famously showed off her comedy skills in a guest appearance as Cleopatra on Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's hit Saturday night TV show.\n\n\"I've always said, and I mean it, they were the apotheosis of my career, working with them,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nShe also played the Egyptian queen - more seriously - on stage in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for the RSC.\n\nSir Jonathan, who was also in that production, told BBC Radio Wales: \"Everyone will talk about her tremendous strength and courage and intelligence, [and] her wit.\n\n\"I worked with her twice in the 70s, and she was always direct, always honest. And, like the greatest art, her work was simple and uncluttered.\"\n\nIn its tribute, the RSC described her as \"a tour de force in acting and politics, dedicating her life to both\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're proud her extraordinary talent was seen on RSC stages early in her career in ground-breaking productions.\"\n\nJackson played Elizabeth I in BBC drama Elizabeth R - another role she famously revisited - winning Emmys for both Elizabeth R and also playing the queen opposite Dame Vanessa Redgrave in 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots.\n\nFurther Oscar nominations came her way for portraying a frustrated office worker in a love triangle in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday, and for taking the title role in 1975's Hedda, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant, who wrote a biography of Jackson in 1999, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: \"She had such versatility.\n\n\"It's the quality of the work, and the variety. Her voice could go to gravel to caramel in three seconds.\"\n\nFormer Labour MP Baroness Hoey told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When she came into Parliament, she was so modest. She never wanted to be reminded that she was an actress.\"\n\nGlenda Jackson was transport minister for London when she visited Hugh Grant on the set of Notting Hill in 1998\n\nOther credits included playing English poet Stevie Smith in Stevie, and as Hollywood icon Patricia Neal in The Patricia Neal Story.\n\nA staunch Labour supporter, she was approached to stand for Parliament - and said she agreed because she disliked former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the \"destruction that her policies has had on human beings\".\n\nThere was a link between acting and politics, she said.\n\n\"The best theatre is about trying to find and tell the truth,\" she told Desert Island Discs. \"It's not about covering up. It's not about playing games. It's not about hiding. It's not about pretending you're something you're not.\n\n\"It's trying to find what it is to be a human being and why we behave towards each other in the ways that we do. And I think that the best politics is trying to find the truth as well.\"", "The West now plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F16s. But when will they be able to use them in the war?\n\nWestern allies are set to announce their plans to train Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16s when they meet in Brussels today. But it's still not clear which countries will be willing to provide the jets, how many, or even when.\n\nSupplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets will \"not be a silver bullet\" or a \"quick fix\", says the head of Norway's Air Force. Maj Gen Rolf Folland says it'll take time for Ukraine to develop the ability to operate Western jets with complex weapons.\n\nWe meet at a large allied air exercise taking place over Norway, Finland and Sweden. It involves 150 fighter planes - many more than the entire Ukrainian Air Force.\n\nGen Folland says the training is about dominating the skies - to avoid what he calls the type of \"old fashioned\" conflict now taking place in Ukraine.\n\nTo gain supremacy of the air requires a level of scale and sophistication that Ukraine will not be able to replicate. Even providing a small fleet of F-16s could prove a major challenge.\n\nIt took Pulse, a Belgian pilot, three years to master his F-16 fighter. We've been asked to use his call sign, not his real name.\n\nHe shows us round his F-16, originally designed in the late 1970s, long before he was born.\n\n\"It flies like a dream\", he says. \"But flying is the easiest part. The rest is more difficult.\"\n\nFlying is the easy part. The rest is more difficult\n\nThat includes learning to operate the F-16's radar, sensors and weapons. Ukraine, which currently has more pilots than aircraft, is hoping to compress that training into months.\n\nPulse sees the logic of providing Western jets to Ukraine. He points to his F-16's weapons: air-to-air missiles to destroy enemy aircraft, and bombs to hit targets on the ground. \"That's important,\" says Pulse, \"because you can use any weapons from Nato stocks with this jet.\"\n\nBut then there's the question of maintaining the jets.\n\nThe Norwegian Air Force, like others in Europe, has transitioned to the more modern F-35. So in theory there should be F-16s available for Ukraine.\n\nAt Orland air base they use two of their old F-16s to train aircraft engineers. That can take a year - even longer for a senior aircraft technician.\n\n\"You can't just hand over a fighter aircraft and say off you go!\" Col Martin Tesli, the base commander and a former F-16 pilot, says.\n\nHe says there's a large logistical tail - spare parts, software and weapons. But he too understands the need to modernise Ukraine's fleet of old Soviet-era jets.\n\n\"At a certain point, if they're not provided with another aircraft, they won't have an air force to defend themselves.\"\n\nYou can't just hand over a fighter aircraft and say off you go!\n\nJustin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute says Ukraine would probably need the help of Western contractors to keep any F-16s flying. The obvious question, is what country is willing to accept the obvious risks of putting their own people on the ground?\n\nProfessor Bronk adds that Russia is only more likely to target Ukraine's air bases if it's supplied with Western jets. That's a danger for the single engine F-16, which has a large intake that can suck up debris from the runway.\n\nThese are good reasons why the US has, for so long, resisted pressure from Ukraine to provide F-16s. It's less about fears of escalation, and more about the practicalities of operating and maintaining the jets. The Pentagon has warned it'll be both complex and costly.\n\nUkraine has pleaded for Western fighter jets since the war began\n\nNor is providing Ukraine with Western fighters likely to significantly alter the battle on the ground.\n\nLt Col Neils Van Hussen, a former F-16 pilot of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, says \"not a single weapons system will change a big war\". F-16s, he believes, would simply give Ukraine \"the ability to sustain what they're doing now\".\n\nThe reality of this war is that even Russia, with its sizeable air force, has not been able to dominate the skies. Ground-based air defence systems are helping to prevent that from happening.\n\nProviding Ukraine with more air defences will continue to be the immediate priority for the West. Rebuilding its air force is a longer term goal.", "Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports.\n\nThe synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss.\n\nNobody is currently suggesting growing them into a baby.\n\nBut the rapid progress has outpaced discussions on how they should be dealt with ethically and legally.\n\nProf James Briscoe, from the Francis Crick Institute, said the field needed to \"proceed cautiously, carefully and transparently\" to avoid a \"chilling effect\" on the public.\n\nThe development of human synthetic embryos was announced at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.\n\nSynthetic embryos are also known as \"embryo models\", as they resemble embryos, for the purposes of research, rather than being identical to them.\n\nThe work comes from the laboratories of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThe full details have yet to be published and made available for scientific scrutiny, leading many researchers to feel unable to comment on the significance of the reports.\n\nBut the principle is the synthetic embryos are made from a stem cell rather than a fusion of egg and sperm.\n\nStem cells have the capacity to become any cell-type in the body and if coaxed in just the right way can be persuaded to form embryos.\n\nThis is the first time that has been achieved using human material. Although, they are not truly \"synthetic\", as the starting material was cells cultured from a traditional embryo in the laboratory.\n\n\"It's beautiful and created entirely from embryonic stem cells,\" Prof Zernicka-Goetz told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nShe has already developed synthetic mouse embryos with evidence of a developing brain and beating heart.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists in China have implanted synthetic monkey embryos into female monkeys - although, all the pregnancies failed.\n\nSide by side, the natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days\n\nThe synthetic embryos do not behave in exactly the same way as normal embryos. And it is unclear how their use in research should be governed.\n\nProf Briscoe said: \"On the one hand, models of human embryos made of stem cells might offer an ethical and more readily available alternative to the use of IVF-derived [in-vitro fertilisation] human embryos.\n\n\"On the other hand, the closer stem-cell-derived models of human embryos mirror human embryos, the more important it is to have clear regulations and guidelines for how they are used.\"\n\nMost countries use the 14-day rule in human-embryo research. This allows an embryo created by fertilising a human egg to be grown for 14 days.\n\nHowever, these \"embryo models\" are not legally \"embryos\" and are not governed by the same laws.\n\nDr Ildem Akerman, from the University of Birmingham, said: \"These findings suggest that we would soon develop the technology to grow these cells beyond the 14-day limit, with potentially more insights to gain into human development.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the ability to do something does not justify doing it.\"\n\nLegal and ethical experts in the UK are drawing up a voluntary set of guidelines for how to proceed.\n\nResearchers hope these synthetic embryos will further understanding of the earliest stages of human's lives.\n\nProf Roger Sturmey, from the University of Manchester, said: \"We know remarkably little about this step in human development but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost.\n\n\"So models that can enable us to study this period are urgently needed to help to understand infertility and early pregnancy loss.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland continued their perfect record in Euro 2024 qualifying with a comfortable win at Malta.\n\nLiverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold - who started in central midfield - scored a fine 25-yard strike between an own goal, and two penalties from Harry Kane and Callum Wilson.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.\n\nThe Three Lions are next in action against North Macedonia on Monday.\n\nTheir qualifying campaign to reach Germany next summer is going to plan with nine points from three games - six ahead of Ukraine, North Macedonia and reigning champions Italy.\n\nThe three points at Ta'Qali National Stadium were sealed inside the first 31 minutes as Ferdinando Apap turned past his own goalkeeper before Alexander-Arnold's impressive strike.\n\nJust 96 seconds after Alexander-Arnold's goal, Kane made it 3-0 from the penalty spot after being fouled by Matthew Guillaumier. It was his 50th competitive England goal, and means he has now scored in 11 straight Euro qualifiers.\n\nKane was replaced in the second half, allowing Wilson the chance to score from the spot when his cross was handled by Malta captain Steve Borg and a penalty was awarded by VAR.\n\nWearing number 66 for his club side, Alexander-Arnold is no stranger to an unusual shirt number. Regardless, the sight of the right-back wearing 10 in central midfield for England was guaranteed to catch the eye.\n\nSouthgate deploying Alexander-Arnold there is not an entirely new idea - he was used as a playmaker against Andorra in 2021, albeit to limited effect.\n\nHere, against similarly limited opposition, Alexander-Arnold was much more effective - his quick and accurate through-balls for Bukayo Saka and James Maddison causing no end of issues for the Maltese defence.\n\nIt was via this route that England took the lead - a great Alexander-Arnold ball over the top from deep for Saka to cut back towards Kane. Covering Malta defender Apap had no option but to try and intervene and he could only steer the ball into the roof of the net.\n\nPlaying further up the field also allowed England to exploit Alexander-Arnold's long-range shooting ability, so often seen at free-kicks. Here, he found space 25 yards out in open play midway through the first half and curled an unstoppable effort past Henry Bonello.\n\nThe real test of Alexander-Arnold as a viable midfield option will come if he plays there against stronger opponents - but as an experiment, this game was a success.\n\nSouthgate resisted the temptation to try much more experimentation. Maddison started in the front three and produced some good touches, as he continues to be monitored by several Premier League clubs following Leicester's relegation.\n\nHe was replaced midway through the second half by Crystal Palace midfielder Eberechi Eze, making his long-awaited debut two years after he was denied a place in the provisional Euro 2020 squad by a major Achilles tendon injury.\n\nTrips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.\n\nThis was a much more comfortable experience, with only a couple of minor worries. Among them was Saka requiring treatment to his ankle after a tough first-half challenge. He was replaced by Phil Foden at the interval.\n\nUltimately there are tougher qualifying challenges lying ahead. North Macedonia's 2-0 win over Ukraine on Friday night is proof of that, before England then face Ukraine away and Italy at home in September and October respectively.\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Wilson (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Eberechi Eze (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.\n• None Goal! Malta 0, England 4. Callum Wilson (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Steve Borg (Malta) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Zoo staff in the US have trained a rescued 9-year-old otter, Juno, how to play basketball several years ago in order to exercise her elbow joints and ease her arthritis.\n\n\"Juno loves to play basketball,\" said Nicole Nicassio-Hiskey, Oregon Zoo's senior marine life keeper. \"She gets so excited whenever we bring the ball out for her training sessions. And she's good too!\"\n\nJuno was rescued as a pup after she was orphaned off the coast of California. She was brought to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's rescue and care program for rehabilitation. Unable to be paired with a surrogate mum, she was deemed non-releasable by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.", "Counting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war Counting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war Russia has a history of extraordinary secrecy over its wartime losses. So when it invaded Ukraine, the BBC and its partners began painstakingly verifying and counting as many deaths as possible. We identified more than 25,000 named individuals - people we know to have died - setting a bare minimum for Russia's total losses. Some of them are pictured here. The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them.\n\nCounting Russia's dead in Ukraine - and what it says about the changing face of the war\n\nRussia has a history of extraordinary secrecy over its wartime losses. So when it invaded Ukraine, the BBC and its partners began painstakingly verifying and counting as many deaths as possible. We identified more than 25,000 named individuals - people we know to have died - setting a bare minimum for Russia's total losses. Some of them are pictured here. The count provides hard evidence of the war's impact on Russian forces. But it has also given answers to grieving families. Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them. Sgt Nikita Loburets, a squad leader in Russian special forces, died on 20 May last year in a village in eastern Ukraine. He was 21. Nearly a year later, relatives of Alexander Zubkov learned of his death during the fighting in Bakhmut. Aged 34 and serving a nine-year sentence for drug offences, he had joined the Wagner mercenary group in the hope of gaining his freedom. These are just two of the 25,000 dead fighters who have been identified by the BBC, independent Russian media organisation Mediazona, and a team of volunteers, using information from official reports, newspapers, social media, and new memorials and graves. We can't tell the stories of all these thousands of deaths, but the data collected in the count uncovered a tale of the Russian army's changing face - represented by Sgt Loburets and Zubkov. It is a fighting force that is increasingly older and less well-trained as the deaths mount up. When the war began, the typical Russian fighter whose death was recorded in the BBC's count was about 21 years old and a low-ranking professional soldier - just like Sgt Nikita Loburets. According to an account by his father, Konstantin, Loburets had wanted to be a paratrooper even before he left school in Bryansk, a city about 60 miles (100km) from the border with Ukraine. He began studying martial arts and learned how to parachute-jump before graduation. Eventually, he won a place at the elite Ryazan Higher Airborne School, a training academy for Russian paratroopers, before joining the special forces brigade of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence. Nearly three months into the war, Sgt Loburets and a small unit of Russians were ambushed in a village north of Kharkiv and he was killed, his father said. He was buried in the “Alley of Heroes” in his home city’s cemetery and was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. There were thousands of stories like his in the early months of the war. Typical casualty in the first three months Typical casualty in the latest three months But, a year later, they are less common. In recent months, the typical Russian soldier killed in Ukraine is a 34-year-old convict recruited from prison. But, a year later, they are less common. In recent months, the typical Russian soldier killed in Ukraine is a 34-year-old convict recruited from prison. Zubkov - prisoners fighting in Wagner units have no military rank - was born in Severodvinsk, a city on the White Sea on Russia’s north-west coast and a major shipyard for the Russian navy. In 2014, court records show he was unemployed with a child when he was convicted of murder and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. Released on parole in 2020, he was back in court on drugs charges the following year - after he and an accomplice were caught with 600g of the illegal stimulant a-PVP. The court sentenced him to a further nine years in prison, noting that he was divorced with a young child and a disabled sister whom he helped to care for. When the Wagner group began recruiting from prisons, Zubkov joined up in November last year for the promise of 100,000 roubles ($1,250; £1,000) a month. If he completed six months’ service, he could expect to be freed. But Zubkov died after five months, during Wagner’s fight to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut - the war’s bloodiest battle so far. He was buried in his home town on 28 April. Zubkov and people like him are being used almost as “disposable troops”, says Jack Watling, an expert in land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), a defence think tank. The prisoners appearing in the count of the dead range from petty thieves to gang leaders. In one case, one man died at the front after having been jailed for murdering a 92-year-old World War Two veteran. Along with mobilised civilians, some of whom are picked up off the street or in shopping malls, they are ordered to skirmish constantly with Ukrainian forces, to wear them down and expose their positions to artillery. “They send them forward in the expectation that they will be killed,” says Dr Watling. “And so the Russian military is burning through these troops at a significant rate.” This change in tactics can be seen in the count. The categories of thousands of deaths remain unknown. Analysis of data from BBC and Mediazona. Russia lost large numbers of professional solders in the first three months of the war. But in the latest three months, non-professional soldiers are dying in far greater numbers. Russia lost large numbers of professional solders in the first three months of the war. But in the latest three months, non-professional soldiers are dying in far greater numbers. The categories of thousands of deaths remain unknown. Analysis of data from BBC and Mediazona. Dr Watling says Russia is deliberately protecting its remaining professionals, using them to hold ground and carry out sniper attacks, and only to undertake rare assaults when conditions are right. Expertise is harder to come by now. The BBC has confirmed the deaths of more than 2,100 Russian military officers - perhaps because Russia relies more on junior officers for combat leadership than Western countries, putting them in harm’s way. At least 242 held the rank of lieutenant-colonel or higher. At least 159 fighter pilots have also been killed, according to the count. These cannot be replaced on a practical timescale: it takes a minimum of seven years and millions of dollars to train them. These losses have forced veterans out of retirement, such as Maj Gen Kanamat Botashev. His military career was halted in 2012 when he borrowed an Su-27 fighter jet without permission and crashed it. In May last year, at the age of 63, he was piloting an Su-25 ground attack aircraft when it was shot down over Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. He was not the oldest person in our count of the dead. Mikhail Shuvalov, a retired power plant worker, volunteered at the age of 71. Media reports say he was initially rejected, but eventually he went to the front line and was killed on 10 December. This count began because BBC Russian staff knew that otherwise there might never be a trustworthy record of fatalities. Each side in a war downplays its losses. But Russia has a history of obscuring its wartime deaths far beyond what is necessary for military secrecy or the nation’s morale. Years after the Afghan and Chechen wars ended, veterans and relatives are still struggling to get accurate public records of the dead. Even the full extent of World War Two deaths is unacknowledged. Working with Mediazona and members of the Russian public sending tips, the BBC collated and verified deaths mentioned by local officials, in media reports or from relatives on social media. They monitored war memorials across the country for new names, and volunteers took photographs of new graves, putting a name and an identity to each confirmed death. Seven new cemeteries for dead fighters recruited to Wagner units - six in Russia and one in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine - were uncovered during the course of the count. The BBC contacted the Russian government for comment, but it has not responded. Not all of Russia’s deaths are captured by our count - we can only pick up people mentioned in open sources, or on memorials and in cemeteries visited by volunteers. But the volunteers cannot cover all of Russia’s vast expanse. And the count does not include the Russian-speaking separatists in the Donbas. In February, UK intelligence services estimated 40,000 to 60,000 troops had been killed. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence estimates there are more than 200,000 Russian casualties - but this also includes the wounded. All of these figures dwarf the Russian claim of about 6,000. In February, UK intelligence services estimated 40,000 to 60,000 troops had been killed. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence estimates there are more than 200,000 Russian casualties - but this also includes the wounded. All of these figures dwarf the Russian claim of about 6,000. But incomplete as it is, the count has been able to provide answers for some bereaved relatives, where officials could not. When the BBC contacted Anna - not her real name - in December, she only had suspicions about what had happened to Fail Nabiev, her former partner and the father of her daughter. “Could you tell me what happened?” she said. “I don't know where he is buried or how he died.” Nabiev’s grave was found in Bakinskaya, the cemetery seen in satellite photos above, and his identity was traced by the BBC. He had died on 6 October last year aged 60, in heavy fighting on the approach to Bakhmut - where all of Wagner’s forces were engaged at the time. Anna, who lives in a region just north-east of Moscow, said she remained friends with Nabiev after they had split up: “He was a good person.” But she said he was poor and in need of easy money, so he used to break into garages and steal car parts and other machinery to sell them. That was how he ended up in prison, where he was recruited by Wagner. Confirming the deaths of prisoners in units run by Russia’s mercenary Wagner group can be especially hard. When Anna went to her local military recruitment office, they said there was no record of Nabiev. As well as the uncertainty, the absence of official confirmation about a wartime death can also make it hard to claim the wages or compensation due to the family. “I wanted to know if he was alive or dead. After all, except for your words, I have no information,” Anna told the BBC. “I would like to receive his medals, at least some kind of memory - this person is dear to me.” Russia believes if it can just dig in and hold on, Western support for Ukraine will eventually fracture, says Dr Jack Watling, the Rusi land war expert. If Ukraine can break through Russia’s fortifications in its long-planned counter-offensive, the depleted, inexperienced troops may suffer a “significant collapse”, he says. But whatever happens, Dr Watling says Russia is unlikely to run out of manpower, citing defence minister Sergei Shoigu on the country’s mobilisation of civilians. “When he says, ‘I have 25 million reserves’, he is not joking. He's quite serious about the intent.” That means messages to BBC staff counting the Russian dead will continue to arrive, from women such as Vera in Irkutsk, who has been trying for months to find out what happened to her brother, after rumours of his death in a Wagner unit. “We don't know where to run, where to look for help,” she says. “We’ve had a disaster, how do we get to the truth?”", "Police in Durham released video showing the moment a robber was trapped underneath a shop's shutters as he was trying to flee.\n\nMalcolm Trimble can be seen drinking from a can of lager before the police arrive.\n\nThe 30-year-old was given three years and four months after admitting attempted robbery and possession of a knife.", "Ukraininan troops have recaptured several settlements in the east of the country\n\n\"Extremely fierce battles\" are raging in parts of Ukraine as Kyiv's forces continue their counter-offensive, the country's deputy defence minister says.\n\nHanna Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had managed to advance near Bakhmut in the east and Zaporizhzhia in the south.\n\nBut she conceded Russian forces were mounting a stiff defence in some areas.\n\nHer comments come after another night of Russian missile and drones strikes on cities across Ukraine.\n\nRussia has stepped up its bombing campaign in recent weeks, despite President Vladimir Putin admitting that his forces are suffering from a shortage of missiles and drones.\n\nIn the early hours of Thursday morning, overnight attacks hit industrial facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukraine's army. Regional military spokesperson Serhiy Bratchuk said a series of drone attacks on the Black Sea region of Odesa were repelled by air defence systems.\n\nThe previous day, a strike on a warehouse and a shopping centre in the city of Odesa had killed three people.\n\nKyiv's much-anticipated advance has been long in the making, and Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of increasing strikes in recent weeks to deflect attention from the offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainians say their troops have recaptured seven settlements and at least 90 sq km (35 sq miles) since starting their counter-offensive.\n\nMs Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian troops had advanced around the city of Bakhmut, long the centre of a grinding and bloody street-by-street battle with Russian forces.\n\nShe said soldiers advanced by 200m to 500m towards the city, as well as advancing 300m to 500m in the southern Zaporizhzhia province. The BBC cannot independently verify these claims.\n\nBut she conceded that the counter-offensive had already led to some \"extremely fierce battles\", as Ukrainian forces try to break through well-established Russian defensive lines.\n\nSenior Western officials have warned against the idea that Russian forces will simply \"melt away\" in the face of Ukrainian attacks, adding that Kyiv's gains had already been \"costly\".\n\n\"Russian forces have generally put up a good defence from their well-prepared, defended positions and had been falling back between tactical lines,\" the sources said.\n\n\"This 'manoeuvre defence approach' is proving challenging for the Ukrainians and also costly to attacking forces. Hence, the advance at the moment has been slow,\" they observed, adding that it was too soon to say how effective Ukraine's offensive has been.\n\nBut they emphasised that heavy losses were to be expected, given Russia has had months to prepare defensive lines.\n\n\"This was never going to be without risk,\" they said. \"What we're seeing is not unexpected. It's difficult, and it is going to be challenging for Ukrainians. What we have seen, though, is they've continued to push through where they have had losses, and then continued to advance. So overall is going in the right direction.\"\n\nBoth sides have reported mounting casualties among their opponents which cannot be independently verified.\n\nWednesday night's strikes on the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at east three people, Ukrainian officials have said.\n\nAnother 13 people were injured in the early morning attacks, which targeted a warehouse and damaged shops.\n\nThe south-western city is vital to Ukraine's grain exports through the Black Sea and has come under infrequent missile fire during the war.\n\nMilitary commanders said Russia fired 10 missiles and 10 drones overnight, most of which were shot down by air defences.\n\nThey added that three of four KH-22 missiles launched from a Russian warship in the Black Sea were shot down, with the final one managing to hit Odesa.\n\nA number of civilians buildings were destroyed by the Russian attack in Odesa, including a shopping mall\n\nOleg Kiper, the head of the region's military administration, said the three dead were workers in the warehouse, which was being used as a food storage centre.\n\n\"There may be people under the rubble,\" he added. More civilians were injured after the blast and \"air combat\" damaged shops, restaurants - including a McDonald's - and residential areas, Mr Kiper wrote on Telegram.\n\nElsewhere, strikes on the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka killed a further three people and destroyed dozens of residential houses, Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nAnd six people - including four forestry workers - were killed after Russia shelled a a van in north-eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Ukrainian prosecutors said the attack occurred near the village of Seredyna-Buda, close to the Russian border.\n\nThe director of the UN's nuclear watchdog has postponed a planned trip the the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.\n\nSenior Ukrainian officials said Rafael Grossi had agreed to delay his trip until it was safer to travel. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said on Tuesday that he was \"very concerned\" that the plant could be caught in the crossfire of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\nHis officials have also stressed their need to access a site near the plant to check water levels, after the nearby reservoir supplying cooling pools for the plant was hit by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.\n\nMeanwhile, in Moscow the state Duma [parliament] has approved a new bill allowing the defence ministry to sign contracts with convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine.\n\nThe new law will allow anyone who is being investigated for committing a crime, having their case heard in court or who has been convicted but before the verdict takes legal effect, to sign up to the army.\n\nPeople accused of sexual offences, treason, terrorism or extremism will be excluded from the law.\n\nThe move - widely seen as the latest attempt by Russian to avoid moving to full conscription - seeks to fill gaps left by mounting casualties.", "The Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a pattern of discrimination against black and Native American people and routinely resorted to \"excessive force\", a report has found.\n\nThe US Department of Justice report says that problems within the MPD \"made what happened to George Floyd possible\".\n\nThe death of Floyd at the hands of police sparked mass protests in 2020.\n\nThe investigation was launched a day after the trial of his killer.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland said the department's conduct uncovered in the report \"is deeply disturbing, and it erodes the community's trust in law enforcement\".\n\nFollowing the investigations, the city has agreed to negotiate an agreement, known as a consent decree, with the justice department on reforming its police department.\n\nFootage of Floyd's fateful arrest - his neck area was pinned under the knee of convicted ex-officer Derek Chauvin for more than nine minutes - led to racial justice protests nationwide.\n\nThe 46-year-old black man was arrested on 25 May 2020 on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for cigarettes at a corner store in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\n\"As I told George Floyd's family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on the Minneapolis community, on our country, and the world,\" Mr Garland said on Friday, as he announced the findings of the federal investigation.\n\nThe justice department opened a civil rights investigation into the city's police department in April 2021, one day after Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter.\n\nThree other officers have also since been convicted on federal charges for their roles in the arrest.\n\nThe 92-page report concluded that for years city police \"used dangerous techniques and weapons against people who committed at most a petty offense and sometimes no offense at all\".\n\nIt also claimed the MPD had \"patrolled neighbourhoods differently based on their racial composition and discriminated based on race when searching, handcuffing, or using force against people during stops\".\n\nThe report further alleges that the city of Minneapolis sent officers to behavioural health-related emergency calls \"even when a law enforcement response was not appropriate or necessary, sometimes with tragic results\".\n\nFindings from the report are based on a review of city-provided documents, police incident files and body-camera footage, as well as conversations with officers and local residents.\n\n\"Now things have to be different. Now things have to change,\" the city's mayor Jacob Frey said Friday, standing alongside Mr Garland.\n\nThe federal consent decree, overseen by a federal judge, will follow the progress of reforms mandated for MPD by the government.\n\nSeveral police departments in other cities - including Seattle, Washington and Oakland, California - already operate under consent decrees over alleged civil rights violations of their own.\n\nSuch court-enforced oversight was also recommended earlier this year in Louisville, Kentucky, following an investigation into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.", "Eve Davies wonders what the point is in a graduation ceremony for her\n\nA marking and assessment boycott means some final-year students face the prospect of having graduation ceremonies before final degree grades.\n\nCardiff University student Eve Davies, 22, said her marks could arrive in September, despite graduation in July.\n\nThe university said it regretted that the boycott was causing uncertainty for students.\n\nThe action by UCU union members follows a UK-wide dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nIt began on 20 April and will continue until employers make an improved offer on pay and conditions, a spokesperson said.\n\nAn offer of between 5% and 8% has been made, while a poll of universities found about 10% of students will be affected by the boycott.\n\nEve's three years studying English literature have been marred by disruption, from Covid-19 in her first couple of years to a fresh wave of strikes in her final year.\n\n\"Most of my degree obviously was delivered online through blended learning, so it was all very much you had to get on and do the work yourself.\n\n\"The lectures were uploaded, you had to figure out your schedule for when you'd get through them and then join a Zoom call for your seminars,\" she said.\n\nShe believes strikes in her second semester meant she had about half the teaching she should have.\n\nNow, on top of this, she faces not knowing her final degree grade until after the summer.\n\n\"All we've heard is that our marks will not be released until 1 September, they've put that forward as a provisional date and our graduation ceremonies will still go ahead in July whether we have our marks by then or not,\" Eve said.\n\n\"It's particularly affected how I feel about graduation, obviously that's a ceremony that you really look forward to and I was really looking forward to it. But without knowing my marks by then, I feel like what's the point in graduating?\"\n\nAre graduations set to be affected by the marking boycott?\n\nThe boycott has also left Eve nervous about a course she is due to start on 25 September.\n\n\"I'm also going on to postgraduate study, I've got a conditional offer for that so it would just be nice to know that I have the marks there,\" she said.\n\nShe said she understood why lecturers were taking industrial action, but wished a resolution could be found quickly.\n\nUniversity unions have been striking over casual contracts, pay and workloads since 2019.\n\nDr Emily Lowthian, a lecturer in education at Swansea University, said conditions had worsened over her time in the sector.\n\nBefore getting a permanent lectureship, Dr Lowthian was on a variety of short-term contracts ranging from seven months to two years.\n\nShe said she was struggling to make ends meet due to the cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"With the cost-of-living crisis, what my wage does now is actually nothing compared to what it would have done for people in 2009, so for me I'm really struggling to get on to the housing market,\" she added.\n\nDr Lowthian said her pay would be reduced by 50% while taking place in the marking boycott, which she said was disproportionate, adding: \"We don't feel valued.\"\n\nSome students have supported staff on the picket lines\n\nChief executive of employment association the Universities and Colleges Employers Association Raj Jethwa said employers recognised the cost-of-living pressures university staff were facing, but finances were stretched.\n\n\"The [pay] offer was at the very top of what the sector could afford back when we made it in February and many institutions have had to defer that uplift because they're financially stretched,\" he said.\n\nHe said institutions believed it was a \"reasonable pay uplift\" in the circumstances.\n\nHowever, Dr Andy Williams, the media spokesperson for the Cardiff UCU branch, said he believed the money is there.\n\n\"Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions and you can't have excellent learning opportunities for students in world class universities when you are short-changing your staff the way they have with us over the last decade,\" he said.\n\nBoth Cardiff and Swansea universities said this was a national dispute and could not be resolved independently by them, and that they legally reserved the right to withhold pay for partial performance of duties.\n\nIn a statement, Swansea University said: \"We are doing all we can to mitigate the impact of this action on our students, and we are committed at all times to upholding the standard of our awards and the quality of the education we provide.\n\n\"Locally we have good relations with the campus trades unions and are committed to remaining in regular dialogue with the UCU during the current dispute.\"\n\nA Cardiff University spokesperson said it regretted the marking and assessment boycott is causing uncertainty for students.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Edgbaston (day one of five)\n\nEngland stunned Edgbaston by declaring against Australia on the first day of an Ashes series that more than lived up to the hype.\n\nJoe Root's masterful unbeaten 118 pulled England from 176-5 to 393-8 when captain Ben Stokes executed the earliest first-innings declaration in Ashes history.\n\nRoot added 121 with Jonny Bairstow, who crunched 78 in as many balls, and coaxed valuable lower-order contributions from Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson.\n\nAll this after Zak Crawley, who batted beautifully for 61, got the series off to an explosive start by hammering Pat Cummins' first ball of the day through the covers for four.\n\nOff-spinner Nathan Lyon took 4-149 for an Australia side that looked to counter England's swashbuckling style by posting fielders to the boundary for the entire day.\n\nIf that tactic was surprising, it was nothing compared to Stokes' bold play that gave his bowlers four overs at the Australians, who had been fielding in sweltering conditions.\n\nDavid Warner defied his old nemesis Stuart Broad, taking Australia to 14-0 alongside opening partner Usman Khawaja.\n\nAt the end of a breathless, memorable day, the Ashes holders found themselves 379 runs behind.\n• None TMS podcast: Root hits century as England declare on day one\n• None Watch the best clips and read how day one unfolded\n• None 'Have you got your sandpaper, Dave?' - Ashes crowd feast on first morning\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nThis was more than enough to justify the expectation surrounding the most eagerly anticipated Ashes series in a generation.\n\nThere were fireworks when former England captain Alastair Cook paraded the urn before play, but that was nothing compared to the pyrotechnics of Crawley's crunching drive off Cummins' first ball of the match - a shot that will go down as an iconic moment in Ashes history if England go on to win the series.\n\nWhat followed was riveting, made all the more compelling by the Australian plan to have fielders on the boundary from the first over. It created a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse, with England only finding their top gear for a period after tea.\n\nWere the Australians too passive? England still scored in excess of five runs an over. The tourists had the chance to run through the home side's lower order, but, guided by Root, England were able to reach a total that is at least par on a pitch currently ideal for run-scoring.\n\nThen came the ultimate power move from Stokes, who had earlier won the toss. No-one in Birmingham was expecting the declaration on 78 overs, but it exposed Warner and Khawaja to an evening examination.\n\nBroad even took the first over against his old bunny Warner, but Australia came through and England face some hard work with the ball on Saturday.\n\nRoot in the ranks and in the runs\n\nRoot did not make an Ashes hundred in any of his three series as captain, but back in the ranks produced his first century against Australia since 2015.\n\nIt was a vital contribution, too. When Stokes edged behind off Josh Hazlewood, England had lost two wickets for one run and were in huge danger.\n\nBut Root combined with Yorkshire team-mate Bairstow in a stand that had shades of their epic match-winning effort against India on this ground last year.\n\nRoot flicked off his pads, dabbed to third man and reverse-swept Lyon - a shot that resulted in an lbw decision on 61, only for Root to successfully review.\n\nPacemen Scott Boland, preferred to Mitchell Starc, and Cummins were both audaciously reverse-scooped for six.\n\nBairstow, in his first international innings since breaking his leg last August, timed the ball as if he had never been away.\n\nHe looked primed for a century when he ran past Lyon to be stumped. Moeen was given a rousing reception on his return to Test cricket, making 18 before he fell the same way as Bairstow.\n\nBroad, with 16, and Robinson, 17 not out, guided to Root to his 30th Test century, which he celebrated with two maximums off Lyon before England declared.\n\nThere was never likely to be any surprises in England's approach, but it was fascinating to see Australia's attempt to contain them by having three men on the fence as early as the second over of the day.\n\nDespite Ben Duckett limply under-edging Hazlewood, the plan looked to be backfiring during a second-wicket stand of 70 between Crawley and Ollie Pope.\n\nIt took the introduction of Lyon, who bowled Australia to victory on this ground four years ago, to stem the tide. Pope was lbw on review and, after Crawley gloved a beauty from Boland on the stroke of lunch, Lyon got Harry Brook in freakish fashion - the ball ballooned into the air off his thigh pad, hit his back and went down on to the stumps.\n\nBut instead of pouncing after Stokes fell, Australia continued to sit back and paid the price. They could have been punished further had England's declaration brought a wicket.\n\nThere was one more surprise from Stokes - the England new ball was shared by Broad and Robinson, relegating James Anderson to a change-bowling slot in a home Test for the first time since 2009.\n\nAustralia survived and will have the chance to bat in friendly conditions on Saturday, but must beware there is the prospect of turn and uneven bounce when they eventually come to chase in the final innings.\n\n'We didn't know about declaration' - what they said\n\nEngland batter Jonny Bairstow: \"We didn't know anything about it. I am sure he [Ben Stokes] had a couple of conversations with Brendon [McCullum] and the bowlers - one of them was out in the middle so there can't have been too many people that knew about it and I wasn't [one of them].\n\n\"It was a scramble to get the tape on, the pads on and the rest. When you are not expecting something, it is the best form of attack.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't have declared. You just don't know what is going to happen. England are trying to send a message no team has ever done before.\n\n\"I, as a captain, would've wanted a few more runs, especially with Joe Root out there.\n\n\"Even though England didn't get the wicket, it creates what the Ashes is all about: Warner and Khawaja, two experienced pros, were running like kids.\"\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "A network of sensors provides real-time information on changes in water quality\n\nArtificial intelligence will be used in south-west England to predict pollution before it happens and help prevent it.\n\nIt's hoped the pilot project in Devon will help improve water quality at the seaside resort of Combe Martin, making it a better place for swimming.\n\nSensors placed in rivers and fields will build a picture of the state of local rivers, rainfall and soil.\n\nAI will then combine that data with satellite imagery of local land use.\n\nIt will predict when the local river system is most vulnerable to things like agricultural runoff, allowing for measures such as asking farms to hold off on applying fertiliser.\n\nComputer systems company CGI is running the artificial intelligence project with mapping experts Ordnance Survey. CGI said it was more than 90% accurate during a test run.\n\nIt's being trialled in what's known as the North Devon Biosphere Reserve, a 55-sq-mile (142-sq-km) protected area that includes important natural habitats as well as farmland and small towns.\n\n\"We'll give (the AI) the history,\" said CGI's chief sustainability officer Mattie Yeta. \"We'll give it all of the geographic information, as well as data sets from the sensors for it to learn and develop the predictive mechanisms to be able to inform where these incidents are occurring and indeed when they will take place.\"\n\nThe green lined River Umber brings pollution into the sea at Combe Martin\n\nIt's hoped the project could clean up the seaside resort town of Combe Martin, where the quality of bathing water has long been a concern.\n\n\"It's always been bumping along the bottom in terms of water quality,\" says Andy Bell from the North Devon Biosphere Reserve.\n\nThough the water at Combe Martin was last year rated by the Environment Agency as 'good', Mr Bell says that was mainly down to dry weather. More typical years, he says, were 2018 and 2019 when it received a 'poor' rating, which meant a notice being posted advising people not to swim.\n\n\"There is very much a fear in the community of what would happen if the bathing water status was rescinded.\" Andy says\n\n\"It would impact on the cafes, the restaurants, the B&B's… people want to come to a clean place to enjoy themselves.\"\n\nThe River Umber is the main culprit, according to Mr Bell. It reaches the sea through a corridor of lush green algae on the edge of the beach. The Umber is usually little more than a stream but it receives discharges both from a sewage treatment plant and agricultural runoff from farms.\n\nCleaning up the Umber is seen as a first step towards improving the water quality on the beach and the key to that, according to the artificial intelligence project, is a huge amount of real-time information.\n\nFloating water sensors monitor key indicators and send back information over mobile and wifi networks\n\nA couple of kilometres upstream from Combe Martin beach, a floating water sensor is being installed in the river. It's a square black box with solar panels on top and is moored by a cable to the bank.\n\nIt automatically transmits a stream of data on six key indicators of water health including acidity (pH), ammonia, the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water and how clear the water is (turbidity).\n\n\"It's a really good overview of water quality,\" said Glyn Cotton, the chief executive of environment-focussed technology company Watr, which is supplying the £2,000-a-go ($2,557) sensors to the project.\n\n\"If sewage was being discharged upstream we would see spikes in things like ammonia and pH and we can then cross-reference that with temperature and dissolved oxygen levels.\"\n\nAbout 50 connected sensors are being used across the catchment area, a mix of water, soil and rain gauges. Mapping company Ordnance Survey are providing the expertise to integrate that information with location specific data and satellite imagery.\n\nMapping experts Ordnance Survey are helping integrate the sensors with satellite imagery in the AI model\n\n\"We can start training the model using data to get it understanding that when there was a pollution event - whether it was associated with a particular area?\" said Donna Lyndsay from Ordnance Survey. \"Was there for example a particular rainfall event that washed it all off?\"\n\nThe hope is that the AI might, for example, advise a farmer to stop putting more fertiliser on his field, if the soil is dry and heavy rain forecast because of the likelihood of it being washed into the waterways.\n\nPreventing raw sewage being discharged by water treatment plants - a practice allowed when heavy rainfall overwhelms facilities - is more complicated. The AI might see it coming after heavy rainfall but that doesn't mean the water company has the capacity to stopped it being released.\n\nThe first phase of the AI project was a desk-based model using historic data, with CGI saying it predicted pollution events with 91.5% accuracy. Now the AI model is being unleashed 'in the wild' and the question is whether it can do the same.\n\n\"We're starting very small here (in North Devon) … but the idea is very much to scale up and roll this out to different parts of the UK.\" said CGI's Mattie Yeta.\n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) technology is developing fast, and transforming many aspects of life. Great promises have been made, and dire predictions as well. So what is the reality? Find out more here.", "The fossilised remains of a previously unknown type of dinosaur have been found on the Isle of Wight.\n\nIt is the first new species of armoured dinosaur to be found on the island since 1865 and belongs to the same family - the ankylosaurs.\n\nThough fearsome in appearance with its blade-like armour, the giant reptile - which has been named Vectipelta barretti - ate only plants.\n\nIt was discovered in rocks dating back between 66 and 145 million years.\n\nThe name Vectipelta barretti is a tip of the hat to Professor Paul Barrett, who has worked at the Natural History Museum in London for 20 years.\n\nHe said he was \"flattered and absolutely delighted to have been recognised in this way\", and insisted \"that any physical resemblance is purely accidental\".\n\nThough the new dinosaur bears some similarities to the last ankylosaur discovered on the island - called Polacanthus foxii - scientists do not think the two species were very closely related.\n\nAs well as having different neck, back and pelvic bones, the recent find would have had more spiked armour, scientists say.\n\nThe new species has more in common with ankylosaurs discovered in China, suggesting they moved freely from Asia to Europe in the Early Cretaceous period.\n\nStuart Pond, a researcher at the Natural History Museum, said the find shed light on the diversity of species present in England at that time.\n\nHe said the discovery would trigger reanalysis of other similar fossil remains, which scientists have assumed belonged to P foxii for well over a century.\n\nThe team behind the find said the site where the new species was found, known as the Wessex Formation, was a \"hugely important\" resource for understanding more about how the dinosaurs went extinct.\n\nThere are competing theories about what caused the mass disappearance of dinosaurs 66 million years ago, with both an asteroid impact and massive volcanic eruptions both in the frame.\n\nThe findings are described in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A timelapse movie of Patagotitan's assembly at the Natural History Museum", "Ashley Jensen is currently filming series eight of Shetland\n\nAshley Jensen, the new star of the hit crime drama Shetland, had never been to the islands before she arrived for filming in April.\n\nThe Scottish actress said she was \"blown away\" by what she found when she arrived.\n\n\"The view I had when I came into land was just like nothing I'd ever seen before,\" she says in her first interview from the set of the show.\n\n\"I'm a bit of a talker but it shut me up. I just soaked in this landscape.\"\n\nFor the first seven series of the TV series, the lead detective was DI Jimmy Perez, played by Douglas Henshall, but the Glasgow-born actor quit the role last year.\n\nFilming on series eight began in April\n\nIn the new series, currently being filmed, Jensen plays DI Ruth Calder, a native Shetlander who reluctantly returns to the isles after 20 years working for the Met Police in London.\n\nThe 53-year-old, who was born in Annan in Dumfriesshire, got her big break when she starred alongside Ricky Gervais in Extras in 2005.\n\nShe went on to appear regularly in US TV series Ugly Betty before returning to the UK with roles in shows such as Agatha Raisin and Catastrophe.\n\nIn 2019 she reunited with Gervais in the Netflix comedy series After Life.\n\nShe says taking over from Henshall on Shetland is \"big boots to fill\".\n\n\"I almost can't think about it too much because I would get the fear,\" she says.\n\n\"I've tried to look at it as a new project for me and its a new world because people predominately know me for a lot of comedy that I've done.\"\n\nLong-term fans of the show have become accustomed to DI Perez's famous peacoat.\n\nSo what has Jensen's DI Calder picked for Shetland's wintry weather?\n\n\"I think it's important for TV detectives to have what I call a silhouette,\" she says, referencing both Henshall and the main character in the TV detective series Vera, which is also written by Ann Cleeves.\n\n\"You can see Vera in a shadow in a silhouette miles away and you know it was her,\" Jensen says.\n\nShe says DI Calder has returned to Shetland from London so she is very urban.\n\n\"She's very much more sophisticated than the weather here would allow,\" Jensen says.\n\n\"There's a lot more cashmere involved because I said to my costume designer I'm a wee bit feeble in the cold.\n\n\"So at the moment there's lots of cashmere and it's quite long and sleek.\"\n\nJensen (left) is recording series eight of Shetland on the islands\n\nWhile Jensen replaces Henshall in her new role, Shetland favourite Alison O'Donnell, who plays DI Alison \"Tosh\" McIntosh, remains a mainstay.\n\nJensen says the two of them \"get on like a house on fire\" and are like \"two naughty school girls\".\n\nShe says both actresses are very small and they find it amusing to arrest lots of 6ft tall men.\n\nThe last series of Shetland averaged 7.2 million viewers in the UK and it is popular around the world.\n\nSince it first aired in 2013 thousands of tourists, many from cruise ships, have been to Shetland on the trail of the murders and to see Jimmy Perez's fictional home at the Lodberries in Lerwick.\n\nShirley Mey, from Florida, is a big fan and says she loved seeing the area.\n\n\"I think when they shoot things here they do as much exteriors on site and that's what I really like about it,\" she says.\n\n\"We'll miss Jimmy Perez, but I'm glad it will continue.\"\n\nRichard and Elizabeth Eastwick, from New Jersey, also enjoy the crime drama.\n\n\"Jimmy Perez embodies the role so well that it's going to be hard to adapt to somebody else doing it,\" Richard says.\n\n\"We always have to guess who the villain is. I'm always wrong.\"\n\nVisit Scotland's manager for Shetland, Steve Mathieson, says the impact has been fantastic for tourism.\n\nHe says surveys show 38% of leisure tourists who visit were influenced by a TV series and 87% of that figure said it was the Shetland series.\n\nSo does Jensen think there will be a ninth series?\n\nShe says: \"I would certainly come back, but I've got to get some more Shetland jumpers.\"\n\nShetland series eight will air on BBC One later in the year.", "UFC fighter Conor McGregor has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman after an NBA Finals basketball game in Miami earlier this month.\n\nA legal letter outlining allegations, sent to Mr McGregor and seen by BBC News, states the alleged assault took place in a bathroom at Kaseya Center.\n\nA lawyer representing Mr McGregor said: \"The allegations are false. Mr McGregor will not be intimidated.\"\n\nThe City of Miami Police said an investigation had been opened.\n\nIn a statement, UFC said it was aware of the allegations and was gathering further details. The Miami Heat, which hosted the NBA Finals game, said it was conducting a full investigation.\n\nThe woman's lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, said her client had been watching game four of the NBA Finals on Friday 9 June before the alleged incident happened.\n\nIn the legal letter to Mr McGregor, Ms Mitchell alleged the woman was forced into a men's bathroom by security guards from the NBA and Miami Heat before being violently sexually assaulted by Mr McGregor.\n\nThe letter claimed the woman was able to free herself from the bathroom, but left behind her purse, which she is said to have retrieved after pleading with security guards.\n\nIt alleges that security for the league, team and arena \"aided and abetted\" Mr McGregor by trapping and isolating her in the bathroom.\n\nIn an interview, Ms Mitchell said she had obtained video footage showing part of the alleged incident.\n\nA police report relating to the incident was made on Sunday 11 June, the City of Miami Police told BBC News.\n\n\"This is an open investigation so no additional information can be released at this time,\" a police department spokeswoman said.\n\nMr McGregor's appearance at the NBA Finals made headlines after the Irish former champion hit the Miami Heat's mascot during half-time, in an apparent stunt for a pain relief spray he was promoting.\n\nThe person acting as the mascot was taken to a local hospital for treatment after the incident, the Athletic reported.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWales suffered one of their most embarrassing and damaging defeats in recent memory as they lost at home to Armenia in a chaotic and foul-tempered Euro 2024 qualifier.\n\nThe hosts seemed to be on course for a comfortable evening when Daniel James fired them in front from Brennan Johnson's low cross, but the home crowd were soon silenced by an exquisite volley from Armenia's Lucas Zelaryan.\n\nThere were then gasps of disbelief as Grant-Leon Ranos was given the freedom of the Cardiff City Stadium to head the visitors - 71 places below Wales in the world rankings - into a first-half lead which was as deserved as it was shocking.\n\nWales had several chances to equalise but their wasteful finishing was punished after the break as Ranos hit a fine first-time shot from the edge of the area to send Armenia's small contingent of travelling fans into raptures.\n\nHarry Wilson pulled a goal back for Wales with a little under 20 minutes remaining, only for Zelarayan to curl in a superb second to restore Armenia's two-goal advantage.\n• None The state of play in Euro 2024 qualifying\n\nAny hopes Wales had of salvaging something from this game were then dealt another blow when striker Kieffer Moore was sent off for an off-the-ball clash with Armenian goalkeeper Ognjen Chancharevich.\n\nThat final calamity set the seal on a nightmarish evening for Wales, who squandered the chance to go top of Group D with previous leaders Croatia instead in Nations League action.\n\nRob Page and his Wales players must now try to recover from this humiliation in time for Monday's trip to face new leaders Turkey, touted by many as their closest rivals for qualification behind group favourites Croatia.\n\nWales were heavily criticised for last year's World Cup, where their first appearance at the tournament since 1958 was spoiled by three dismal performances which saw them knocked out in the group stage.\n\nA promising start to their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign in March - drawing in Croatia and beating Latvia at home - seemed to suggest Wales had purged themselves of their experience in Qatar, but this display against Armenia suggested otherwise.\n\nIt could, or more pertinently should, have been straightforward. Within 10 minutes, the pace of Johnson and James overwhelmed Armenia as they combined to put Wales ahead.\n\nInstead of seizing control of the match from that point, however, Wales surrendered it.\n\nArmenia's first goal was a gem, Zelarayan's sweet volley the kind that you could write off as just one of those things, a moment of individual class - even if Wales' defenders were sloppy in tracking their runners.\n\nBut there was no justifying the second. Joe Rodon tried carrying the ball out of defence but lost it carelessly and then his colleagues did nothing to reduce the masses of space afforded Ranos to head in.\n\nWales did not learn their lesson. As players rushed forward in the desperate hope of getting themselves back into this game, they instead fell further behind as Ranos struck again.\n\nThe porous Welsh midfield practically invited their Armenian opponents into their penalty area, while the home defence was passive and, at times, statuesque.\n\nBut it is not only the players who should shoulder the responsibility for this horror show.\n\nJust as he did against the United States and Iran at the World Cup, Page got this game horribly wrong.\n\nWales still have five games left to revive their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2024 but this result could have long-lasting and serious ramifications for Page and his players.\n\nWhile Wales wallow in the humiliation of this result, Armenia can bask in the afterglow of one of their greatest victories.\n\nThey had lost nine of their previous 10 competitive matches, conceding 29 goals in the process and sliding down to 97 in the world rankings.\n\nIn Cardiff, however, they made a mockery of those statistics, harrying their opponents and counter-attacking astutely.\n\nTheir goals were no flukes. Indeed, they could have scored more and, apart from the occasional wayward shot, the visitors' finishing was supreme.\n\nThis was also a moment to savour for their manager Oleksandr Petrakov, who had stood by the same touchline a year ago as his then Ukraine side were beaten by Wales in their World Cup play-off final.\n\nThe pain of that rain-soaked Sunday afternoon may now have eased for Petrakov, while the jubilation of World Cup qualification seems like a distant memory for Wales.\n• None Norberto Briasco (Armenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. David Brooks (Wales) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Ugochukwu Iwu (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Tom Bradshaw (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Neco Williams (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Artak Dashyan (Armenia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dan James (Wales) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.\n• None Kieffer Moore (Wales) is shown the red card for violent conduct. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-8 -6 -5 -3 S Scheffler (US), B DeChambeau (US), H English (US), S Bennett (US), SW Kim (Kor), P Barjon (Fra), M Hughes (Can)\n\nThe US Open first round featured record lows, two holes-in-one and a charging Rory McIlroy as the tournament returned to Los Angeles after a 75-year absence.\n\nCalifornians Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele lead on eight under after recording the US Open's first 62s.\n\nFormer champions Dustin Johnson and McIlroy led the chase but bogeyed their last holes to end six and five under on a day of unusually low scoring.\n\nFrenchman Mathieu Pavon and American Sam Burns both aced the 15th.\n\nThey were the 49th and 50th holes-in-one at the championship, which was last played in the city in 1948 and is making its first visit to exclusive Los Angeles Country Club.\n\nAmerican Wyndham Clark birdied the last to post a 64 and join Johnson at six under while Brian Harman is level with McIlroy after a 65.\n\nScottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau add more star power to a stacked leaderboard, both five shots adrift, while a frustrated Jon Rahm shot a 69.\n\nIt's been quite a journey for Fowler, one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour, who went from a career-high fourth in the world ranking in 2016 all the way down to 173rd just a year ago.\n\nThe 34-year-old, one of just four players in history with top-five finishes in all four majors in one season, failed to qualify for the past two US Opens but marked his return in some style.\n\n\"It has been long and tough. It's a lot longer than you ever want it to be,\" Fowler said after his record round. \"It's been so worth it and now being back.\"\n\nWhile Fowler tied the US Open record with 10 birdies in his round to counter two bogeys, current Olympic champion Schauffele had eight birdies in a bogey-free round.\n\n\"It's a great start. I hit a lot of really good shots,\" said Schauffele, who like Fowler is yet to win a major. \"Rickie was just right in front of me and I was playing really good golf so thought I may as well just chase him down.\n\n\"You have to play hard here, dig your way around.\"\n\nFor a notoriously slow starter in the majors, McIlroy's 65 on the quirky par-70 layout represents a huge improvement for the Northern Irishman as he looks to end his nine-year wait for a fifth major.\n\nMcIlroy made five front-nine birdies - his best effort in majors - on the back of some explosive driving off the tee.\n\nAnd he played solid golf on the back nine, adding one more birdie before making his only mistake at the 18th - playing an air shot from the greenside rough before making an 11-foot putt to drop just one shot.\n\nJohnson came flying home with five birdies on his back nine but he too made a mistake on the 18th.\n\nHe missed the par-three ninth green by a good 20 yards and his ball plunged into a bunker by the 18th green. He took three from there to drop his only shot of the day and finish two off the lead.\n\n\"The golf course is in perfect condition,\" said Johnson. \"I really like it. You just have to drive it well or you have no chance.\n\n\"The course was set up really nicely. I would imagine the next few days you're going to see the golf course set up as hard as they want to.\"\n\nScheffler, DeChambeau and best of the rest\n\nWorld number one Scheffler bookended his round with a bogey on the first and last, but found a spark around the turn with five birdies in eight holes to card a creditable 67.\n\nThat scored was matched by 2020 US Open champion DeChambeau, who had an eventful round with six birdies and three bogeys.\n\nLocal favourite Max Homa, who was born in Los Angeles and holds the course record of 61, is just a shot further back on two under while Viktor Hovland is one under after a round of highs and lows that included a hole-out eagle from 175 yards and a double-bogey seven.\n\nNorwegian Hovland, 25, has come close in the past three majors, playing in the final groups in both last year's Open Championship and last month's US PGA Championship.\n\nReigning Masters champion Rahm looked largely frustrated with three birdies and two bogeys in his one-under 69.\n\nThe Spaniard has a great record in California, with five of his PGA Tour wins coming in the state - including his 2019 US Open victory at Torrey Pines in nearby San Diego.\n\nJordan Smith is the leading Englishman after shooting a level-par 70 that featured five bogeys and five birdies, while defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick headed to the practice range after signing for a 71.\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the UK's Covid inquiry, on the fourth day of public hearings.\n\nThis phase, or module, is one of six and is examining how prepared the UK was for the pandemic.\n\nFrom 10:00, we're expecting to hear from global health expert Prof Sir Michael Marmot and public health expert Prof Clare Bambra.\n\nFrom 14:00, former director of the civil contingencies secretariat in the Cabinet Office, Katharine Hammond, is expected to speak.\n\nThere will be no text coverage of today's hearing, but you can watch the proceedings live at the top of this page by clicking the Play button.\n\nRead yesterday's coverage here - and our Covid inquiry explainer here.", "CCTV footage emerged earlier in the week appearing to show the suspect trying to enter a hostel\n\nThe man arrested on suspicion of murdering Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham has been named as Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane.\n\nStudents Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Mr Coates, 65, were stabbed early on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspect, 31, was subsequently arrested and is in custody.\n\nPolice have until the early hours of Saturday to continue questioning him.\n\nHe graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2022.\n\nThe dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national had settled status in the UK through his Portuguese citizenship.\n\nBarnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates died at the scene of the attacks\n\nMr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were attacked by a man with a knife in Ilkeston Road, shortly after 04:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAfter this a man matching the suspect's description attempted to get into a supported living complex in Mapperley Road, but was unable to gain entry.\n\nPolice believe shortly afterwards he attacked Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in nearby Magdala Road - and stole his van which was then used to hit pedestrians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'My beautiful boy' - families pay tribute at the vigil\n\nOne of these was left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nMr Calocane was arrested at about 05:30 after police stopped a van in Maples Street.\n\nCustody rules state police can hold people for up to 96 hours if they are accused of a more serious offence, such as murder, before they are charged or released.\n\nPeople arrested under the Terrorism Act can be held without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nEngland and Australia players paid their respects at Edgbaston\n\nNottinghamshire Police said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about the motives for the attacks, and was working alongside counter-terrorism police, as would normally be the case for an incident like this.\n\nVigils for the victims were held at the University of Nottingham's campus on Wednesday and in Nottingham city centre on Thursday.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead addressed the crowd in the city's Old Market Square and urged them to be \"kind to one another\".\n\n\"Look after each other, don't have hate in your hearts. Say prayers for my baby girl,\" she said.\n\nMr Coates's son James also gave a speech, telling the crowd: \"It feels like he touched a lot of hearts over the years, a lot more than we knew and assumed he had.\n\n\"It's been really nice and heart-warming to see messages and people coming out to say how he was with them when they were younger.\n\n\"We are still dealing with what's happened, we still haven't taken it all in.\n\n\"Dad was an avid fisherman, he loved his family and he also loved his Forest.\"\n\nMr Coates's sons wore customised Nottingham Forest shirts in memory of their father\n\nHe ended his address with \"You Reds!\", drawing cheers from the crowd, many of whom were wearing Nottingham Forest club colours at the family's request.\n\nEngland and Australia cricketers will also be wearing black armbands in tribute to the victims on day one of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.\n\nBoth Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar had been keen and talented cricketers.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The former head of the police watchdog has been charged with raping a girl under 16 and indecent assault.\n\nMichael Lockwood, 64, is accused of six counts of indecent assault and three counts of rape against a girl under 16.\n\nHe left the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in December after it emerged he was being investigated over a historical allegation.\n\nHis lawyers said he \"strenuously denies\" the allegations.\n\nThe nine offences allegedly took place between October 1985 and March 1986, the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the special crime division at the CPS, said: \"After carefully considering all of the evidence provided to us by Humberside Police, we have authorised charges against Michael Lockwood, 64, for nine offences under the Sexual Offences Act 1956.\n\n\"Mr Lockwood has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a girl under the age of 16, alleged to have been committed during the 1980s.\n\n\"The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Lockwood are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.\"\n\nMr Lockwood is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 28 June.\n\nEmma Brooks, partner at the law firm PCB Byrne, said: \"Mr Lockwood strenuously denies all of these allegations from nearly 40 years ago.\n\n\"He will strongly defend his position and will continue to co-operate with the proceedings.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it was aware of the charges, adding: \"Mr Lockwood was IOPC director general from 2018 to 2022, but as a Crown appointee, not employed by the IOPC.\n\n\"As criminal proceedings are active, we are unable to comment any further.\"\n\nHe was the first person appointed to lead the the organisation when it replaced the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2018.\n\nIt handles the most serious complaints against police in England and Wales.\n\nBefore that, he worked in a range of central and local government roles, including being the chief executive of Harrow Council, in north-west London.\n\nAfter the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, Mr Lockwood was asked by a government task force to lead the recovery and remediation work and liaise with the bereaved families and survivors.", "Levi Bellfield applied to marry his girlfriend and made a bid for legal aid to challenge a decision to block his marriage\n\nSerial killer Levi Bellfield will be allowed to marry in prison.\n\nThere are no current legal routes to block the marriage, the Ministry of Justice said, acknowledging the \"pain and anger\" victims' families will feel.\n\nThe 55-year-old is serving two whole-life orders for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and Milly Dowler.\n\nHe had applied to marry his girlfriend and for legal aid to challenge a decision to block the marriage.\n\nAccording to The Sun, he won a bid to receive up to £30,000 in legal aid after his lawyers cited the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1983 Marriage Act.\n\nThe newspaper also said he claimed he had been discriminated against after officers banned him from wearing an engagement ring.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"Under current laws there are no legal routes to block this marriage and we recognise the pain and anger this outcome will bring to his victims' families.\n\n\"It is what has driven our plans to stop prisoners on whole life orders from marrying in prison through our new Victims and Prisoners Bill - ensuring this never happens again.\"\n\nWhen the government's plans were unveiled in March, the then Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"There is a history of vulnerable women who have become pen pals with serial killers or particularly nasty offenders who get into relationships and then there is an issue around marriage.\n\n\"We're doing this as a safeguarding issue but also as a public confidence in the justice system issue.\"\n\nBellfield received a whole-life sentence for the murder of Marsha McDonnell, 19, in 2003, Amelie Delagrange, 22, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, in 2004.\n\nHe was already serving his sentence when he went on trial for killing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, 13, who was abducted while walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to another whole-life term in 2011.\n\nLast year, when news emerged Bellfield was engaged and had applied to marry in prison, the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson was said to be \"sickened and appalled\" by the murderer's request.\n\nThe woman Bellfield proposed to began writing to him several years ago, before becoming a regular visitor.\n\nFormer Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the newspaper any prospective wedding \"beggars belief\".\n\n\"Milly never got to see her wedding day. It cannot be right that he gets to have his,\" said Mr Buckland.", "Oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, the UN says.\n\nFor years, fossil fuel employees have been able to attend without having to be clear about their relationship with their companies.\n\nLast year, over 600 industry participants were able to enter the COP27 meeting in Egypt.\n\nCampaigners say the UN ruling is the first step to limiting the influence of polluters.\n\nThe new rules will be in place for the COP28 summit in November in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, one of the world's top oil producers. UAE oil company chief Sultan Al Jaber will preside over the summit, an appointment that has irked environmentalists.\n\nEvery year, political leaders from around the world attend the Conference of the Parties or COP meeting, where key decisions are made on how the world tackles climate change.\n\nGreta Thunberg warned about the influence of the fossil fuels industries at recent talks in Bonn\n\nAs well as politicians and diplomats, the events are attended by environmental campaigners who see ending the global reliance on fossil fuels as the key goal for the COP process.\n\nIncreasingly, representatives from the fossil fuel industries have been attending as well. The problem though is that often employees of coal, oil and gas companies are not open about their affiliations.\n\nAt COP26 in Glasgow, there were more delegates from the fossil fuel industries than from any single country.\n\nLast year at COP27 in Egypt, the numbers had swollen by a quarter, with more than 600 representatives according to analysis from campaign group, Global Witness.\n\nWith registration for delegates to this year's COP28 summit in Dubai set to open soon, the UN will now put in place a mandatory question on affiliation.\n\n\"From now onwards, every single badged participant attending the event will be required to list their affiliation and relationship to that organisation,\" said UN climate chief Simon Stiell, speaking at the closing of a preparatory meeting in Bonn.\n\nCampaigners say the step is long overdue.\n\nDelegates representing fossil fuel industries have increased in number over the last two climate conferences\n\n\"As long as UN climate talks have existed, the fossil fuel industry lobbyists have been flooding these talks seeking a seat at the table where the rules of climate action are written,\" said Rachel Rose Jackson from Corporate Accountability.\n\n\"It's actually no small thing that for the first time ever, all participants, will have to be honest to the world about who they are.\"\n\nObservers say that the new requirement might prevent a recurrence of what happened last year when BP chair Bernard Looney attended the talks as a delegate of Mauritania, a poor African country where the company has major investments.\n\nSimilarly, four senior employees of Total, the French oil company, came to the COP as representatives of a mysterious German environmental campaign group.\n\nHowever while information on a delegate's affiliation will now be mandatory, participants will be allowed to opt out on the nature of their relationship to that organisation.\n\nThere will also be no requirement to say who's financing the trip to the COP.\n\nIf delegates do opt out from providing some information, the UN will publish these blank answers in their lists, allowing people to draw their own conclusions.\n\n\"This information should help prevent those representing the interests of fossil fuels from sneaking through the back door without declaring their true intentions,\" said Alice Harrison, from Global Witness, who compile an annual list of fossil fuel delegates attending the COP.\n\nSultan Al Jaber, from the United Arab Emirates is the president-elect of COP28\n\n\"We'll be certain to dig into those who refuse to declare.\"\n\nThe move comes as delegates left the meeting in Bonn meeting meant to prepare the ground for COP28.\n\nDeep divisions between rich and poor were again apparent, with huge frustration on the part of developing countries that their financial needs are not being met, as climate impacts ramp up around the world.\n\n\"The credibility of this process is under threat. Let's remember there is nowhere else to go to solve these issues,\" warned UN climate executive secretary Simon Stiell.\n\nThere was also ongoing rancour about the role of Sultan Al Jaber from the United Arab Emirates, who will preside over COP28.\n\nMany have questioned the suitability of an oil company chief executive for this crucial role.\n\nSupporters say he is well positioned to help major oil producing nations transition away from fossil fuels.\n\nOn a short visit to the talks last week, Sultan Al Jaber said that the \"phasedown of fossil fuels is inevitable\".", "The chief executive of airline Ryanair has apologised after a flight attendant announced that the Israeli city of Tel Aviv was in Palestine.\n\nEddie Wilson told Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center it was an \"innocent mistake\".\n\nSome passengers complained, and the row gathered momentum after the flight.\n\nMr Wilson said that he had written to the Israeli ambassador in Ireland, adding that Israel was \"an important partner\" for Ryanair.\n\nOn 10 June, on a flight from Bologna to Tel Aviv, a junior cabin crew member \"innocently but inexplicably\" announced that the flight would soon be landing in Palestine, Mr Wilson wrote in a letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.\n\nMr Wilson said that Ryanair was \"100% satisfied that this was an innocent mistake with no political overtones or intent\".\n\nAfter the announcement, which was made in Italian and English, several passengers complained, and \"continued to be abusive\" even after the cabin crew apologised, he said.\n\nPolice had to be called to meet the aircraft when it landed, Mr Wilson said.\n\nThe use of the name Palestine in place of modern day Israel represents non-recognition of the Jewish state and is seen as highly provocative by most Israelis.\n\nFollowing the flight, the row gained momentum. Some Israeli media commentators called for Israelis to boycott the airline if an apology was not made.\n\nMr Wilson said that Israel was an \"important partner\" for Ryanair, adding that it was Israel's second-largest airline.\n\n\"We plan to invest in Israel to grow traffic and connectivity both for Israelis travelling to Europe and also to bring much-needed inbound tourism to Israel,\" he said.\n\nIn a letter to Ryanair, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it had received \"numerous complaints\" about the incident.\n\nIt said after the announcement passengers had asked for a correction, which was refused.\n\nRabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean, said: \"How would Ryanair react if their flight attendant on a flight to Dublin announced multiple times that passengers would soon be arriving in the UK?\"\n\nHe added: \"Everyone is entitled to their opinions but not to alternative facts.\"", "Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor is one of the hospitals administered by the health board\n\nA troubled health board has failed to recruit a new chief executive, despite \"an intensive search\" and offering a salary of £225,000.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, covering north Wales, has had four leaders in the past four years.\n\nThe Welsh government put it back into special measures in February over patient safety concerns.\n\nBut management said a search for a new chief executive has so far proved unsuccessful.\n\nConcerns were raised in February 2023 about the way the Betsi Cadwaladr health board was being run.\n\nA report by Audit Wales said that evidence \"points to dysfunctionality and factions\" within the senior executive team, and \"the whole team is not united\" around the then interim chief executive.\n\nIt highlighted \"clear and deep-seated fractures within the executive team that are preventing that team from working effectively\".\n\nIn response, Health Minister Eluned Morgan asked the non-executive directors on the health board to resign, and put the organisation into special measures.\n\nShe said at the time that appointing a new chief executive would be key to improving the performance of the NHS in north Wales.\n\n\"The new chair will lead the recruitment of an individual with necessary vision, leadership and drive to re-build the confidence of the workforce and the public,\" she said.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said appointing a new chief executive will be key to improving the performance of the NHS in north Wales\n\nIn addition, a report by accountant EY said the health board wrongly accounted for millions of pounds, and that finance officials deliberately made incorrect entries into their own accounts.\n\nAdverts for the chief executive job were published earlier this year, with a salary range of £208,000 to £225,000 per year, but the health board has now confirmed that nobod has been appointed.\n\nHealth board chairman Dyfed Edwards said: \"Our campaign to recruit a new chief executive did not result in us making an appointment and a further intensive search will recommence in the coming months.\n\n\"This is a critically important job and it is vital that we appoint the right person to build the positive culture that will help to guide the organisation into a brighter future.\"\n\nThe current interim chief executive Carol Shillabeer was appointed in May 2023, and is on secondment from the Powys Teaching Health Board.\n\nMr Edwards added: \"In the intervening period, I'm pleased that Carol Shillabeer will continue in the role of interim chief executive.\n\n\"Carol has extensive experience in chief executive and clinical leadership roles in NHS Wales and she is working hard with colleagues across the health board to ensure that we achieve a period of stability, while making progress in addressing some of our key challenges.\"\n\nConservative Member of the Senedd (MS) Darren Millar, whose Clwyd West constituency is covered by the Betsi Cadwaladr health board, said: \"Given the health board's reputation, it is not surprising that recruiting a new chief executive is proving to be a challenge.\n\n\"Not only will anyone taking the helm have a significant task in turning around the performance of the NHS in north Wales, but they will also be saddled with having to work with a dysfunctional executive team, most of whom should have been sacked a long time ago.\n\nDarren Millar said most of the health board's \"dysfunctional team\" should have \"been sacked years ago\"\n\n\"The best way to attract a new chief executive is to clear out the current executive team so that an incoming CEO can appoint a team with the integrity and culture that people should rightly expect of senior managers working in our NHS,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, prior to becoming party leader on Friday, said: \"The failure to recruit a new chief executive shows how bad the situation is at Betsi Cadwaladr.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru has been consistent in our calls that this is a health board that is too big and too unwieldy to adequately serve the people in the north of Wales. After a seemingly never-ending series of damning reports, that repeatedly flag up issues with leadership, re-organisation must now be looked at seriously.\n\n\"Welsh government has refused calls to look again at a new model for health services in the north, but perhaps now that it's clear Plan A isn't working, they will admit that there needs to be a Plan B.\"\n\nThe health board, which is the largest organisation in the Welsh NHS, says an interim chief executive will stay in post while a further search is made for a suitable candidate.", "A gunman accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has been found guilty by a jury in the US state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThe federal trial of Robert Bowers, 50, now moves to the sentencing phase, with the court poised to decide whether he should be given the death penalty.\n\nThe 27 October assault inside the Tree of Life synagogue was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.\n\nBowers pleaded not guilty to all 63 charges against him.\n\nThe jury convicted him on all counts after less than a full day of deliberations.\n\nDuring the three-week trial, prosecutors called 60 witnesses as they tried to prove the gunman carried out his attack because of a hatred for Jews.\n\nBowers' defence team did not call any witnesses and did not deny he carried out the attack, but said it was due to a delusional hatred for immigrants and a Jewish non-profit group, not Jewish people.\n\nUS Attorney Mary Hahn said in closing arguments on Thursday that the defendant had \"hunted\" his victims.\n\n\"He outright told Swat operators he went to the synagogue to kill Jews,\" she said.\n\nDefence attorney Elisa Long had argued that \"stopping religious study was not his intent or motive\".\n\nThe distinction is important because under US federal law, in order for the jury to impose the death penalty prosecutors must prove that Bowers was motivated by race hate or killed people to stop them exercising their religious beliefs.\n\nA psychiatric evaluation of Bowers has been prepared by the government, and the state of his mental health may be raised during the sentencing.\n\nThat hearing will begin on 26 June and is expected to last six weeks.\n\nThe 11 worshippers who died in the attack ranged in age from 54 to 97. Seven others were injured, including five police officers who rushed to the scene.\n\nThree congregations - Dor Hadash, New Light and the Tree of Life - shared the synagogue.\n\nMost families of those killed have voiced support for the death penalty, although some other family members and the Dor Hadash congregation have stated that they are opposed to it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rabbi Doris Dyen: 'I'm broken and I can't pray' (from 2018)\n\nCommunity groups, Jewish advocacy organisations and survivors thanked police and prosecutors after the verdict was announced.\n\n\"I am grateful to God for getting us to this day,\" Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who survived the attack, said in a statement.\n\n\"And I am thankful for the law enforcement who ran into danger to rescue me, and the US attorney who stood up in court to defend my right to pray.\"\n\n\"Justice has been served,\" the American Jewish Committee said in a statement.\n\n\"We realise it does little to ease the pain for the families and friends of the 11 people murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh simply for being Jewish and practising their faith. However, we hope this verdict allows them to continue the slow process of healing if not closure.\"\n\nThis is only the second federal death penalty case under the Biden administration, which has placed a moratorium on federal executions.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump allowed 13 executions to take place in the last six months before he left office.", "Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer surprised audiences at London's O2 Arena by proposing to his partner live on stage during a show.\n\nThe 65-year-old brought Dina De Luca on to the stage on Thursday night before asking her, \"will you marry me?\"\n\nAmid rapturous applause from the crowd, his partner nodded and the pair embraced and shared a kiss.\n\nZimmer is renowned for his award-winning scores for movies like the Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean.", "A man has been charged with stalking an MP and impersonating a police officer.\n\nSimon Parry, 44, was arrested on Thursday following an incident with the unnamed MP in Westminster, on Wednesday.\n\nMet Police said officers had \"acted swiftly to identify, arrest and charge\" the man, adding \"we take the safety and security of MPs extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Parry will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\n\"Our officers have acted swiftly to identify, arrest and charge a man in relation to this incident after it was reported to us,\" said Ch Supt Elisabeth Chapple, who leads the Met Police's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command,\n\n\"I'd like to thank the teams involved for their fast action and hard work on this case.\"\n\nShe added: \"More broadly, we continue to work with MPs and their offices, the Parliamentary Security Department and with local police forces through the Operation Bridger network to provide MPs and their staff safety and security advice.\"", "Boris Johnson has committed a \"clear breach\" of the ministerial code by not clearing a new role writing a column for the Daily Mail with the parliamentary authorities.\n\nThe committee that vets ex-ministers' appointments says he informed them only half an hour before the news emerged.\n\nThe first weekly column by the former prime minister appeared online late on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe paper was one of Mr Johnson's staunchest supporters when he was PM.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as an MP on Monday, but is still required to seek advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) on new jobs for two years after leaving ministerial office.\n\nHe stepped down as prime minister last September.\n\nIn a statement, Acoba said: \"The ministerial code states that ministers must ensure that no new appointments are announced, or taken up, before the committee has been able to provide its advice.\n\n\"An application received 30 mins before an appointment is announced is a clear breach.\n\n\"We have written to Mr Johnson for an explanation and will publish correspondence in due course, in line with our policy of transparency.\"\n\nA spokesman for the former prime minister said: \"Boris Johnson is in touch with Acoba and the normal process is being followed.\"\n\nDescribing Acoba as \"toothless\", deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson was \"once again breaking the rules and taking advantage of a broken system for his own benefit\".\n\nAcoba, chaired by Conservative peer Lord Pickles, exists to ensure there is \"no cause for any suspicion of impropriety\" when a former minister or senior official takes up a new job.\n\nIt is currently looking into the case of former Partygate investigator Sue Gray, who quit the civil service in March, having been offered a post as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff. Both Ms Gray and Labour have said they will abide by Acoba's recommendations.\n\nThe committee has no powers to enforce its recommendations or to punish MPs - or former MPs - who have broken the rules, but it can issue public rebukes.\n\nEarlier, an Acoba spokeswoman told the BBC \"newspaper columns are not considered significantly problematic\", but Mr Johnson was still meant to seek its advice.\n\nMr Johnson's first column details his experience with the anti-obesity medication Ozempic, which he used to try and control his weight.\n\n\"It's a cinch, said the doctor,\" he wrote. \"All you need to do is inject a tiny dose of clear Ozempic fluid into your abdomen, once a week, and hey presto — no more raiding the fridge at 11.30pm for the cheddar and chorizo washed down with half a bottle of wine.\"\n\nWhile the ex-PM hoped he was \"going to become an ex-glutton\" and \"start to resemble chiselled whippet\", things \"started to go wrong\" after a month of injections, which he puts down to \"constantly flying around the world and changing time zones\".\n\n\"For now I am back to exercise and willpower,\" he added.\n\nThe Daily Mail announced an unnamed \"erudite new columnist\" on its Friday front page\n\nThe Daily Mail Online Twitter account described Mr Johnson as \"one of the wittiest and most original writers in the business\".\n\nIn a video shared by the paper, he said: \"I am thrilled to have been asked to contribute a column to the Daily Mail.\n\n\"It is going to be completely unexpurgated stuff.\n\n\"I may even have to cover politics, but I'll obviously try to do that as little as possible unless I absolutely have to.\"\n\nIn his opening column, the former prime minister made good on that promise, steering clear of politics and the events of the past week altogether.\n\nInstead, he wrote of his experience trying a weight-loss drug which, he said, worked \"miraculously\" for one of his cabinet ministers, but not for him.\n\n\"I was going to search for the hero inside myself - the one that was three stone lighter. I was going to locate that svelte and dynamic version of Johnson, imprisoned for decades in pointless extra body weight, and I was going to set him free,\" wrote the former MP.\n\nHe said he had to give up injecting the fluid into his stomach once a week \"because they were making me feel ill\", but still believed such drugs could be \"transformative\".\n\nMr Johnson has declared millions of pounds in earnings outside Parliament since leaving No 10 last September, most of it from making speeches.\n\nIn February, the total was nearing £5m.\n\nNow that he has stood down as an MP, he will not have to declare his earnings in the register of members' interests.\n\nThe committee previously found Mr Johnson broke the rules by taking up a £275,000 a year column with the Telegraph weeks after standing down as foreign secretary.\n\nIt said it was \"unacceptable\" Mr Johnson had not sought its advice before signing the contract.\n\nHis Telegraph column became an important platform for his opposition to then-Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans, and for building support for his own leadership ambitions. He stopped writing it when he entered Downing Street in July 2019.\n\nHis new role with the Mail could give him the chance to take public pot shots at Rishi Sunak, with whom he has recently clashed over his resignation honours list.\n\nPaul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the Mail titles, was rumoured to have been nominated for a peerage by Mr Johnson, but was reportedly one of the names removed during the House of Lords vetting process.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson has asked his supporters not to vote against a report that found he deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate.\n\nSeveral of his allies, including Nadine Dorries, had said they would oppose the Privileges Committee's findings in a Commons vote on Monday.\n\nIts main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already resigned as an MP.", "iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, chairman and boss Young Liu told the BBC what the future may hold for the Taiwanese firm.\n\nHe said even as Foxconn shifts some supply chains away from China, electric vehicles (EVs) are what will drive its growth in the coming decades.\n\nAs US-China tensions soar, Mr Liu said, Foxconn must prepare for the worst.\n\n\"We hope peace and stability will be something the leaders of these two countries will keep in mind,\" 67-year-old Mr Liu told us, in his offices in Taipei, Taiwan's capital.\n\n\"But as a business, as a CEO, I have to think about what if the worst case happens?\"\n\nThe scenarios could include attempts by Beijing to blockade Taiwan, which it claims as part of China, or worse, to invade the self-ruled island.\n\nMr Liu said \"business continuity planning\" was already under way, and pointed out that some production lines, particularly those linked to \"national security products\" were already being moved from China to Mexico and Vietnam.\n\nHe was likely to be referring to servers Foxconn makes that are used in data centres, and can contain sensitive information.\n\nFoxconn, or Hon Hai Technology Group as it is officially known, started off in 1974, making knobs for TVs. Now it is one of the world's most powerful technology companies, with an annual revenue of $200bn (£158.2bn).\n\nIt is best known for making more than half of Apple's products - from iPhones to iMacs - but it also counts Microsoft, Sony, Dell and Amazon among its clients.\n\nFor decades, it has thrived on a playbook perfected by multinational corporations - they design products in the US, manufacture them in China and then sell them to the world. That is how it grew from a small component-making business to the consumer electronics giant it is today.\n\nBut as global supply chains adjust to souring ties between Washington and Beijing, Foxconn finds itself in an unenviable spot - caught between the world's two biggest economies, the very nations that have powered its growth until now.\n\nThe US and China are at loggerheads over many things, from trade to the war in Ukraine. But one of the biggest potential flashpoints is Taiwan, where Foxconn is headquartered.\n\nTaiwan has been a thorny issue for a long time but Chinese leader Xi Jinping's repeated pledges of \"reunification\" have upset the uneasy status quo. Meanwhile, the US, under President Joe Biden, has been more vocal in its support for Taiwan in case of an attack.\n\nSome US voices have crossed China's red line, calling for independence, although the White House has reaffirmed its position that it maintains diplomatic relations with Beijing and not Taipei.\n\nThere are hopes of a thaw with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visiting China this weekend. But there are also fears of a conflict - one US general has estimated it could happen as soon as the next few years.\n\n\"The United States and China are engaged in what we see as strategic competition,\" said Shihoko Goto, the deputy director for the Asia programme at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.\n\n\"Foxconn wants to do business with both, but there can only be one winner.\"\n\nBut Mr Liu does not think it is that simple. For one, he said, Foxconn's business model, which relies on US designs and Chinese manufacturing, is far from over.\n\n\"We hire a lot of workers and most countries, including China, want to support their workers,\" Mr Liu said, adding that the Chinese government wants companies like Foxconn to keep going because of the huge number of jobs they create.\n\nFoxconn's manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou, China, was hit hard by Covid restrictions\n\nAre rising tensions putting pressure on the model? \"So far? We haven't seen it,\" he told us.\n\nBut the West and its allies have called for countries and companies to \"de-risk\" from China - a long-term shift to curb global reliance on China that is yet to play out.\n\nWhen asked if that was impacting business, Mr Liu responded cautiously.\n\nSome overseas clients had pushed to move production out of China, he said, but this was their decision to make, not Foxconn's.\n\n\"They get the push from their government about de-risking, and then they will let us know.\"\n\nGeopolitics aside, Covid-19 is another reason companies might consider \"de-risking\" from China.\n\nA mix of harsh Covid policies, a lack of space for quarantine and the infectiousness of the Omicron variant led to protests and riots at Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou - the world's biggest iPhone plant - in late 2022. Hundreds of workers, who feared the spread of the virus, fled the campus on foot.\n\nMr Liu said the scenes that played out for the world to see were caused by a lack of transportation due to Beijing's unyielding zero-Covid policy.\n\nBut when pressed further, he admitted that he should have handled things differently.\n\n\"If the same situation occurs again, I would stop production altogether,\" he said, reiterating that he would have made that decision even at the risk of irking clients like Apple.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe company's success certainly rests on its impressive client base, but Foxconn is just as indispensable to those clients.\n\nTo understand how essential it is to Apple, for instance, you just need to look at how much of the iPhone is made by Foxconn - around 60%, by some estimates. The factories in China make some of the most essential parts of the device - camera modules, connectors, even the back of the phone casing.\n\nThat expertise is also what Mr Liu is hoping will fuel Foxconn's next big bet: electric cars.\n\n\"Look at this - this is a big iPhone, so we're very familiar with this,\" he said, pointing to a panel that controlled the car he had taken us for a drive in.\n\nBuilt for families and priced for an aspiring global middle class, the shiny white SUV is one of several models manufactured by Foxconn.\n\n\"The reason why we think this is a great opportunity for us is that with the traditional gas engine, you have engines which are mostly mechanical. But with EVs, it's batteries and motors,\" he explains.\n\nFoxconn chairman Young Liu with one of the firm's electric cars\n\nThat is a familiar language for a technology company like Foxconn, he added.\n\nFoxconn's hopes to capture about 5% of the global electric vehicle market in the next few years - an ambitious target given the firm has only made a handful of models so far. But it is a gamble that Mr Liu is confident will pay off.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense for you to make [EVs] in one place, so regionalised production for cars is very natural,\" he added. Foxconn car factories will be based in Ohio in the US, in Thailand, Indonesia and perhaps even in India, he said.\n\nFor now, the company will keep focusing on what it does best - making electronic products for clients. But perhaps not too far in the future, Foxconn will do the same for clients with electric cars.\n\nEither way, with the foray into electric cars, Foxconn is diversifying not just production but also supply lines - both of which, Mr Liu believes, hold the key to the company's future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2022 interview: Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg says he was a secret back-up for Wikileaks\n\nDaniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, has died, aged 92.\n\nHe died at his home in Kensington, California, of pancreatic cancer, his family said.\n\nThe former US military analyst's 1971 Pentagon Papers leak led to him being dubbed \"the most dangerous man in America\".\n\nIt led to a Supreme Court case as the Nixon administration tried to block publication in the New York Times.\n\nBut espionage charges against Ellsberg were ultimately dismissed. \"Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an anti-war activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more. He will be dearly missed by all of us,\" Ellsberg's family said in a statement obtained by NPR.\n\nFor decades, Ellsberg was a tireless critic of government overreach and military interventions.\n\nHis opposition crystallised during the 1960s, when he advised the White House on nuclear strategy and assessed the Vietnam War for the Department of Defense.\n\nDaniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to expose actions the US had taken in the Vietnam War\n\nWhat Ellsberg learned during that period weighed heavily on his conscience. If only the public knew, he thought, political pressure to end the war might prove irresistible.\n\nThe release of the Pentagon Papers - 7,000 government pages that exposed deceptions by multiple US presidents - was a product of that rationale.\n\nThe papers contradicted the government's public statements on the war and the damning revelations they contained helped bring an end to the conflict and, ultimately, sowed the seeds of President Richard M Nixon's downfall.\n\nEllsberg was \"the grandfather of whistleblowers\", the former chief editor of The Guardian newspaper, Alan Rusbridger, told the BBC.\n\nHis intervention \"radically changed the public opinion in the Vietnam War\", Rusbridger said on Radio 4's World Tonight programme. The case against him set a precedent and \"no US government has ever tried to injunct a paper on grounds of national security since\", he said.\n\nThe Pentagon Papers created a First Amendment clash between the Nixon administration and The New York Times, which first published stories based on the papers - cast by government officials as an act of espionage that compromised national security. The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of the freedom of the press.\n\nEllsberg was charged in federal court in Los Angeles in 1971 with theft, espionage, conspiracy and other counts.\n\nBut before the jury could reach a verdict the judge threw out the case citing serious government misconduct, including illegal wiretapping.\n\nThe judge said that in the middle of the case he had been offered the job of FBI director by one of President Nixon's top aides.\n\nIt also emerged that there had been a government-sanctioned burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.\n\nEllsberg was born in Chicago on 7 April 1931, and grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Before reaching the Pentagon, he was a Marine Corps veteran with a Harvard doctorate who had worked for the Defense and State departments.\n\nAccording to Rusbridger, recent whistleblowers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were \"moulded by\" Ellsberg.\n\nHe told the BBC that the Pentagon Papers case had prompted him to think \"who gets to define the national interest: is that the government of the day or people with a conscience like Daniel Ellsberg?\"\n\nEllsberg continued his quest to hold the government accountable years after the Pentagon Papers leak.\n\nDuring an interview in December 2022, he told BBC Hardtalk that he was the secret \"back-up\" for the Wikileaks documents leak.\n\nIn the Wikileaks case, Julian Assange's organisation published more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables, provided by a US Army intelligence analyst, in 2010.\n\nEllsberg said he felt Mr Assange \"could rely on me to find some way to get it [the information] out\".\n\nIn the wake of a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in February, in which doctors told Ellsberg he had three to six months to live, he spent recent months reflecting on the Pentagon Papers and whistleblowing more broadly.\n\nIn a March 2023 email obtained by the Washington Post, Ellsberg wrote: \"When I copied the Pentagon Papers in 1969, I had every reason to think I would be spending the rest of my life behind bars. It was a fate I would gladly have accepted if it meant hastening the end of the Vietnam War, unlikely as that seemed.\"\n\nPolitico released an interview with Ellsberg on 4 June and, within it, the publication asked him whether whistleblowing is worth the risk despite his view that it has not made the government any more honest.\n\n\"When we're facing a pretty ultimate catastrophe. When we're on the edge of blowing up the world over Crimea or Taiwan or Bakhmut,\" he replied.\n\n\"From the point of view of a civilization and the survival of eight or nine billion people, when everything is at stake, can it be worth even a small chance of having a small effect?\" he said. \"The answer is: Of course... You can even say it's obligatory.\"", "Tory MPs are torn about whether or not to back the former prime minister\n\nSome of Boris Johnson's closest allies are rallying behind the former PM before a vote on a damning report which found he had misled MPs over Partygate.\n\nNadine Dorries is among a small group of Johnson loyalists planning to oppose the Privileges Committee's report in a Commons vote on Monday.\n\nMany other Tory MPs have yet to decide how to vote - or whether to abstain.\n\nThe motion - which would see Mr Johnson stripped of his right to a parliament pass - is likely to pass comfortably.\n\nThe committee's main recommendation is that Mr Johnson should be suspended from Parliament for 90 days, but he has already stood down as an MP.\n\nThe report, which was published on Thursday morning, said the former PM had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties and had committed repeated offences with his denials.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak - who was Mr Johnson's chancellor - has not said whether he will vote on the report.\n\nJohnson loyalists - including former ministers Sir Simon Clarke, Nadine Dorries and Sir Jake Berry - have said they will vote against the report's findings.\n\nIt is likely that many more Conservative MPs could abstain, or simply not turn up to the vote, while Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all expected to support the committee's findings.\n\nBut Conservative MPs still face a dilemma over Monday's vote.\n\nVoting against the recommendations risks alienating local party activists who want Mr Johnson gone, voting for it risks angering his fans, who believe he has been hounded out of Parliament.\n\nAllies of Mr Johnson warned Tory MPs they could face battles with their local parties to remain as candidates at the next election if they back the motion.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Damian Green told the BBC that \"deliberately abstaining is not really rising to the importance of the occasion\".\n\nThe former cabinet minister under Theresa May said he intended to vote to approve the report with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nSir Jake - an ally of Mr Johnson - said he was \"almost certain that Parliament will vote in favour\" of the report on Monday.\n\nBut Sir Jake said he would \"certainly be one of those in the no lobby opposing this report, whose conclusions he called \"wrong\".\n\nSo far, 15 Conservatives have publicly criticised the committee:\n\nLiberal Democrats say the report \"speaks for itself\" and should be approved without a debate.\n\nSir Ed Davey criticised the amount of time the government is spending debating Mr Johnson's conduct, and said the Conservative party is operating \"in absolute chaos\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing a year-long investigation, the seven-person Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson had had \"personal knowledge\" of Covid-rule breaches in Downing Street but had repeatedly failed to \"pro-actively investigate\" the facts.\n\nThe committee said officials had not advised Mr Johnson that social distancing guidelines were followed at all times, contrary to what he said in the House of Commons at the time.\n\nIn key evidence, Martin Reynolds - one of Mr Johnson's most senior officials - said he had advised the PM against making the claim, questioning whether it was \"realistic\".\n\nMr Johnson announced last Friday that he was standing down as an MP with immediate effect after being shown a draft of the report.\n\nA by-election will be held on 20 July in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nIn an eviscerating statement he branded the committee a \"kangaroo court\" and its findings \"deranged\", accusing Harriet Harman, the Labour chairwoman of the committee, of bias.\n\nThe committee said the initial proposed sanction was increased \"in light of Mr Johnson's conduct\" in recent days - including breaching confidentiality rules and \"being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee\".\n\nMr Johnson's statement was \"completely unacceptable\", they said.\n\nResponding to the report, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson had \"disgraced himself\", and the Liberal Democrats' Daisy Cooper said he had treated Parliament with \"total disdain\". SNP leader Humza Yousaf called it a \"dark day\" for Westminster.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 500 people are still missing from a migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN human rights office says.\n\nLarge numbers of women and children were among those missing in the \"horrific tragedy\" that left 78 people dead, said spokesman Jeremy Laurence.\n\nThe appalling loss of life underscored the need to bring people smugglers to justice, he added.\n\nBut it also made clear that search and rescue at sea was a \"legal and humanitarian imperative\".\n\nIn a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration, the refugee agency said any search and rescue action had to be conducted to prevent loss of life..\n\nSince the fishing boat carrying up to 750 people went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, the role of the coastguard has come under increasing scrutiny.\n\nGreece's caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, said a \"thorough investigation of the real facts and technical judgements\" would take place to determine what had caused the boat to sink.\n\nGreek officials have denied a series of reports that suggest it went down after 02:00 on Wednesday because a rope was attached by coastguards. Two of the 104 survivors of the wreck have described how the highly crowded boat had veered from side to side.\n\nInitially the coastguard said it had kept a \"discreet distance\" from the boat. But then Greek newspaper Kathimerini quoted a source saying members of the coastguard had tied a rope to the boat so its crew could check on conditions, and those on board had then untied it to continue heading for Italy.\n\nThat incident is understood to have taken place at around 23:00, three hours before the boat went down.\n\nGovernment spokesman Ilias Siakantaris confirmed on Friday that the coastguard had \"used a rope to steady themselves, to approach, to see if they wanted any help\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"There was no mooring rope,\" suggesting that there was no attempt to tow the boat or tether it for any length of time.\n\n\"They refused it, they said 'no help, we go to Italy' and continued on their way.\"\n\nThis picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coastguard on Thursday\n\nThe question of whether a rope had been tied to the migrant boat was first raised by a refugee activist who said people on board had told her they feared it could prompt their highly crowded boat to turn over.\n\nThe coastguard emphasised that its patrol boat had for a few minutes \"dropped a small rope on to the fishing vessel to find out the current condition of the boat and passengers\".\n\nSome of those on board then untied it in order to continue their route northwards to Italy and the patrol \"moved away to watch from a close distance\".\n\nBut since the tragedy unfolded, its timeline and account have been challenged. The coastguard has stressed that from the first moment it was in contact with the crew no request for assistance was made and further repeated offers of help were turned down.\n\nOne organisation which provides support for migrants at sea, Alarm Phone, sent an email on Tuesday afternoon warning the coastguard and others that as many as 750 people were on board and that they were urgently asking for help.\n\nTwo accounts from survivors have suggested that tying a rope to the fishing boat may have led to it going down.\n\nOne has come from a local councillor in the port city of Kalamata who had earlier spoken to a 24-year-old Syrian.\n\n\"The coastguard boat tied them with some rope and tried to tow them to the left. For an unknown reason the boat veered to the right and suddenly sank,\" said Tasos Polychronopoulos.\n\nNew footage from the search and rescue operation has been shared by the Greek military\n\nAnother survivor gave a similar version to former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a visit to Kalamata on Thursday.\n\n\"The Greek coastguard asked the vessel to follow them, but they couldn't,\" a translator told Mr Tsipras. \"The coastguard then threw a rope but because they didn't know how to pull the rope, the vessel started dangling right and left.\"\n\n\"The coastguard boat was going too fast but the vessel was already dangling to the left, and that's how it sank.\"\n\nNine people, including several Egyptians, have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, Greek TV is reporting.\n\nPolice officers escort a man as they arrest several Egyptians as part of their investigation\n\nGeorgios Vasilakos, a volunteer rescue doctor for the Hellenic Red Cross, told the BBC that no women and children were among the survivors.\n\nHe said survivors reported that \"all women and children were isolated below deck\".\n\n\"This is why, because of the rapid unfolding of events and the rapid capsizing of the boat, they were unable to get out in time,\" he said.\n\nPeople on the boat had been drinking sea water for at least two days before it sank, he said.\n\nFamilies of some of the missing have arrived in Kalamata in search of their loved ones.\n\n\"My relatives were on the boat,\" said Aftab, who had travelled from the UK and said at least four of his relatives from Pakistan were unaccounted for.\n\nA Syrian man from the Netherlands broke down as he revealed his wife and brother-in-law were missing.\n\n\"The authorities are looking for their bodies in the sea... They're looking in hospitals, they're looking among dead bodies, and among the survivors,\" Kassam Abozeed said.\n\nGreece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.\n\nLast month the Greek government came under international criticism over video reportedly showed the forceful expulsion of migrants who were set adrift at sea.\n\nAre you in Greece? Have you noticed anything which we should be reporting? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The northern UK tends to be much wetter than the south, but this summer that pattern is being flipped on its head.\n\nWater levels in much of Scotland are very low with some rivers breaking records, while southern England is mostly healthy after a very wet spring.\n\nThe UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology warns of increased risk of drought affecting farmers and nature.\n\nOne North Wales farmer told BBC News he has already almost lost a crop.\n\nMeanwhile, experts at the Wildlife Trusts say they are seeing signs of stressed nature.\n\nBut current forecasts suggest the UK is unlikely to face drinking water shortages or hosepipe bans this summer.\n\nHowever, \"vigilance is still required\" in the southeast after demand for water in the recent heatwave may have depleted supplies, explains Jamie Hannaford, UKCEH Group Leader for Hydrological Status and Outlooks.\n\nClimate change is driving up global temperatures but there are currently no studies that clearly link human-induced climate change with altered risk of drought in the UK, according to the Met Office.\n\nUKCEH is an environmental research institute that analyses data from the Environment Agency and other public bodies.\n\nA map of UK river flows in May shows a clear divide between southern England and Wales, compared to Scotland, north-west England and north Wales.\n\nThe river Nevis in western Scotland registered its lowest May flow since records began in 1983, while the Ewe had its second lowest since 1971.\n\nThe Highlands had its eight driest May since 1890.\n\nLast week the Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued water scarcity alerts for the majority of the country, with Loch Maree in the northwest highlands facing significant shortages.\n\nBy contrast, most southern regions received over 140% of their average rainfall. Wessex had its fifth wettest spring since records began there in 1890.\n\nOne exception is in Devon and Cornwall where hosepipe bans remain in place after drought last year affected reservoir levels.\n\nThe effects of dry weather are already being felt in parts of Scotland and Wales. A large wildfire burned overnight on Wednesday in the Rhondda valley, South Wales.\n\nLast week firefighters in the Scottish Highlands fought to control what could be the UK's largest fire to date.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLlŷr Jones, a farmer in Corwen, North Wales, has already noticed the effects of heat on his farm this year.\n\nTemperatures in the sheds for his flock of 32,000 hens have consistently reached 28C for the past 10 days.\n\n\"We put in extra fans and encourage them to drink more water. They don't like anything higher than 25C so we're constantly checking to make sure they're happy,\" he says.\n\nA field of spring barley planted in April was close to failure until thunderstorms on Monday rescued the crop, he explains.\n\n\"Last year, on this mountain in Wales, it reached 32C. You get to a point where there's nothing else you can do but desperately hope for rain to save the crops,\" he says.\n\nHe lives on the family farm with his wife and three young children, and says it's clear they will have to change how they farm.\n\n\"We are fully aware of the weather changing and we're doing everything we can to adapt,\" he explains.\n\nThe environment is already showing signs of drought, explains Ali Morse at The Wildlife Trusts.\n\n\"Vegetation is starting to look a bit drier, flowers aren't as healthy. If you look out at the countryside, it doesn't look as green,\" she explains.\n\nBut the \"hidden impacts\" of drought on wildlife are really concerning, she says, adding that there is some evidence that insect numbers are lower this year after the 2022 drought.\n\nButterflies and moths can be affected if they lay their eggs on plants that are dried out, or young fish may have stunted growth in rivers with low flows, affecting their ability to mate as adults.\n\n\"If we do avoid drought this year it was by chance, not because the UK did the right things to avoid it,\" she adds.", "The current exam system was described as \"no longer fit for purpose\"\n\nA radical review of school qualifications in Scotland is to be published before the end of the month.\n\nThe review was commissioned by the Scottish government to look at how well the system is working after Standard Grades were abolished 10 years ago.\n\nThere is speculation it could recommend an end to exams for fourth year pupils and for some qualifications.\n\nPupils could be assessed on coursework and receive qualifications that recognise extra-curricular activities.\n\nThe review is being chaired by the academic Louise Hayward and was always expected to be \"bold\" in its thinking.\n\nThe interim report, published in March, said the current exam system was \"no longer fit for purpose\".\n\nNational 4 and 5 qualifications, normally taken by 15 and 16-year-olds, were introduced in 2013/14.\n\nThere are two distinct questions: should there be exams for particular qualifications, and when should students sit exams for the first time?\n\nThere is a long-standing argument that senior students sit too many exams - and that by removing exams in S4, students could spend more time working towards obtaining their first formal qualifications the following year, at the end of S5.\n\nThe review is also likely to address whether there is even a need for National 4 qualifications or exams for National 5 candidates.\n\nThere are no exams for National 4 qualifications and some contend that National 5s could also be obtained through coursework and continuing assessment.\n\nAny fundamental changes to the qualification system would be a decision for Scottish government ministers and parliament.\n\nWhen the new qualifications system was introduced, a handful of schools decided not to routinely present students for exams in S4.\n\nAt Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, this proved hugely controversial and pressure from parents led to their reintroduction.\n\nMinisters are likely to seek the views of parents and employers - as well as education professionals - before they contemplate any fundamental changes.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC Scotland: \"The recommendations of the final report will be carefully considered and the Scottish government will respond in due course.\"\n\nJenny Gilruth has said Scotland needed to \"future-proof our qualifications\"\n\nShe said there was a need to \"future-proof our qualifications\" and they may look \"radically different\" in the future, adding it was essential that pupils were assessed continuously throughout the academic year.\n\nScotland's education and exams agencies are already to be scrapped and replaced by the summer of 2024 after another report said there was too much focus on exams in schools.\n\nThe overhaul will include government bodies Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), Education Scotland and a separate school inspection agency.\n\nPupils across Scotland are currently waiting for the results of this year's written exams, to be published on 8 August. They were the last of three years of altered assessments designed to mitigate disruption caused by Covid.\n\nThe SQA said its grading would be \"sensitive\" this year because of the continuing impact of the pandemic.\n\nIt has taken similar steps to last year to help students, such as removing or reducing exams or elements of coursework, but plans for exams to go fully back to normal next year.", "Lucy Caldwell's novel was praised for its \"pitch-perfect, engrossing narrative\"\n\nBelfast writer Lucy Caldwell has won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for her novel These Days.\n\nShe was announced as the winner at the Borders Book Festival which is taking place in Melrose.\n\nShe took the £25,000 top prize for her story of the aerial bombardment of her home city during World War Two.\n\nThe judges of the award praised her winning work for its \"pitch-perfect, engrossing narrative ringing with emotional truth\".\n\nFounded in 2009, the Walter Scott Prize has become one of Britain's most important literary awards with previous winners including Sebastian Barry, Robert Harris, Andrea Levy and Hilary Mantel.\n\nThe judges said Ms Caldwell's novel was a \"a story of both great violence and great tenderness\".\n\nShe immersed herself in eyewitness accounts while she was writing the book, interviewing survivors, including a 103-year-old.\n\nShe said winning the award was a \"bit overwhelming\".\n\n\"One of my absolute favourite authors is Hilary Mantel who was twice a recipient of this prize,\" she said.\n\n\"She wrote some words that are on the cover of my hardback and I thought that was the greatest privilege of my writing life to have my name alongside hers on the cover.\n\n\"So to win a prize for historical fiction which she and so many other great writers have won in the past feels incredible.\"\n\nThe other shortlisted novels for the award were The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan, Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry, The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane, Ancestry by Simon Mawer and I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'My beautiful boy' - families pay tribute at the vigil\n\nThousands of people at a vigil for those killed in the Nottingham attacks have been urged to hold no \"hate in your hearts\".\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death in Tuesday's attacks.\n\nTheir families joined a vigil in the city's Old Market Square, where a minute's silence was held.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead urged the crowd to be \"kind to one another\".\n\n\"Look after each other, don't have hate in your hearts. Say prayers for my baby girl,\" she said.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Mr Webber's mother Emma, who said: \"Please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion.\"\n\nJames Coates, whose father was an avid Nottingham Forest fan, roused the crowd with a shout of \"you Reds!\".\n\nMany of those attending the vigil had arrived wearing red in response to a request from him and brother Lee.\n\nBarnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates died at the scene of the attacks\n\nAddressing the crowd, James said: \"I want to thank everybody that has given us a kind word.\n\n\"It feels like he touched a lot of hearts over the years - more than we thought he had, so it's heartening to see the messages and see people come out and talk about how it helped them, some beautiful comments.\n\n\"We're still dealing with what's happened. We still haven't taken it all in so we just want to say - my dad was an avid fisherman and he loved his family he also loved his Forest - go you Reds!\"\n\nBarnaby Webber's mother Emma joked they \"couldn't get him home\" from Nottingham\n\nMrs Webber told the vigil her son had \"really loved\" Nottingham.\n\n\"Like Grace's dad said yesterday, we couldn't get him bloody home,\" she said.\n\nShe referred to an anonymous letter left during Wednesday's tributes at the university, and offered her support to everyone affected.\n\n\"We stand here and we feel your love and we are united in grief and shock and disbelief, and one day we will smile again, but it will take time,\" she said.\n\nShe called for a roar of support from the crowd, who responded with emotion and enthusiasm.\n\nThe \"monstrous individual\" responsible for the deaths in the city on Tuesday \"will not define us\", she continued.\n\n\"I know he will receive the retribution that he deserves,\" she said.\n\n\"However, this evil person is just that. He is just a person.\"\n\nGrace O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead said her daughter was \"a treasure\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's mother Sinead said the magnitude of the grief for her daughter reflects the magnitude of the love everyone had for her.\n\n\"My beautiful baby girl, she wasn't just beautiful on the outside, you must have seen her pictures, she was so beautiful on the inside. She was a treasure, an adored child,\" she said.\n\n\"She wanted very few things in life, she wanted to be a doctor, she wanted to play hockey with her pals, she wanted to have fun.\"\n\nShe added: \"All they were doing was walking home, were just walking home after a night-out and, like Emma Webber says, this person must face justice. It just is truly so unfair.\"\n\nPaying tribute to the caretaker, Ross Middleton, head teacher of Huntingdon Academy where Mr Coates worked, said he was \"full of fun with a mischievous glint in his eye\" and put huge effort into students' welfare.\n\n\"My abiding memory, then, will be the time he spent with his grandson and how he looked at his grandson with such love and pride he and he did a great job,\" he said.\n\n\"We will all remember him with great affection. Rest in peace Ian, and, of course, I'll keep an eye on Forest results for you.\"\n\nCommunity, religious and political figures, including council leader David Mellen are speaking at the vigil\n\nCity council leader David Mellen told the families: \"The attack on you is an attack on us all.\"\n\nThe Reverend Grant Walton from the University of Nottingham, where Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar studied, described the three deaths in the city's attacks as a \"traumatic, violent and needless loss\".\n\nHe was followed by Prof Shearer West, the university's vice-chancellor who said they were still \"trying to process the information\" that the suspect was a former student.\n\n\"All three of these lives were cut short in the most unimaginable way on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Their well-earned retirement plans and bright futures brutally curtailed by a seemingly random act of violence.\n\n\"At the university, we held our own vigil yesterday with Barney and Grace's families to remember them and mourn their loss.\n\n\"I was overwhelmed by the love and support that was offered to the families by more than 2,000 students and staff who gathered together as a community.\n\n\"Although seemingly unconnected to these dreadful acts, we are still in the university trying to process the information that the suspect in custody was a former student,\" she said.\n\nNottingham North Labour MP Alex Norris said \"we must all be there\" for the families of the victims as he spoke on behalf of Nottingham's other MPs, Nadia Whittome and Lilian Greenwood.\n\nNottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry said: \"There is no place for hate in the healing process.\n\n\"It's important that we remain united and come back stronger from this tragedy as Nottingham together.\"\n\nDuring a short pause before the minute's silence at 18:00 BST, the crowd were asked to talk to each other to emphasise Nottingham's sense of community.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons with the words \"Choose Love\" were held by one woman near the stage.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Suella Braverman added a wreath to flowers laid outside the Council House.\n\nShe also met with police chiefs for an update on the investigation and visit emergency services personnel to thank them for their response to the attacks.\n\nWriting in the Nottingham Post, she spoke of her \"profound sorrow\" at Tuesday's attacks.\n\n\"As I pay my respects today, I am touched by the words of tribute from family and friends and join them to remember Barnaby, a talented student and respected sportsman, and Grace, an accomplished hockey player and promising medical student,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Both with so much promise and who had already achieved so much in their young lives. And to Ian, a kind, dedicated and much-loved family man and pillar of the school community.\"\n\nPolice were earlier granted more time to question the 31-year-old suspect.\n\nThey said he was a former student of the university but did not believe this to be behind the attack.\n\nNottinghamshire Police also confirmed it had referred part of the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), as a marked police car followed the suspect's van before it collided with two pedestrians.\n\nCCTV pictured a man matching the suspect's description trying to get into a supporting living complex\n\nMr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were attacked with a knife in Ilkeston Road, shortly after 04:00.\n\nAfter this a man matching the suspect's description attempted to get into a supporting living complex in Mapperley Road, but was unable to gain entry.\n\nPolice believe that shortly afterwards, he attacked Mr Coates - who was found dead from knife injuries in Magdala Road - and stole his van, which was then used to hit pedestrians.\n\nOfficers have given more details of three other people injured in this part of the attacks.\n\nA man was run over in the Milton Street area and left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nThe suspect was Tasered and arrested after a van was used to run over pedestrians\n\nAn attempt was then made to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area. They are believed to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nIt was this part of the attacks that prompted the referral to the IOPC, police confirmed.\n\nThe IOPC confirmed the move and said: \"We are assessing the referral to decide what further action may be required of the IOPC.\"\n\nLarge parts of the city centre were sealed off after the attacks\n\nThe suspect was Tasered and arrested after leaving a van and approaching officers with a knife, police said.\n\nThe force said it was still working alongside counter-terrorism policing and keeping an \"open mind\" on the motives behind these attacks.\n\nA statement added: \"A team of dedicated detectives is continuing to question the suspect and building up a strong picture of what happened that morning.\n\n\"This has included CCTV gathering, forensics, eyewitness accounts and searching a number of properties in the city.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bathhouse on the eastern side of Birdoswald will be covered again at the end of the summer\n\nVisitors wanting to see the remains of a Roman bathhouse have just a few weeks left before it is covered over again.\n\nThis summer's excavation of settlements around Birdoswald Fort on Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria will be the largest since the 1990s.\n\nA previously-unearthed bathhouse said to be a significant find will be reburied at the end of the season for preservation.\n\nHistoric England and Newcastle University are investigating the site.\n\nTony Wilmott, senior archaeologist for Historic England, said previous discoveries had led to a greater knowledge about the towns that grew up either side of the fort, which was built between AD 122 and 138.\n\nAbout 800 soldiers, originally from the Romania area, were based at the five-acre fort, which sits between modern-day Haltwhistle and Brampton, with towns setting up around it.\n\nAbout 800 soldiers were based at Birdoswald Roman fort about 1,900 years ago\n\n\"These were not just shanty towns but proper settlements with stone buildings,\" Mr Wilmott said.\n\nThe size of the towns was first revealed in the 1990s by geophysical surveys with subsequent digs revealing more.\n\nMr Wilmott said fields to the north, east and west of the fort were the subject of a five-year project which was now entering its penultimate summer.\n\nOne of the most important finds was the remains of a bathhouse on the east side, which was first alluded to by a dig in 1931 and further explored during the current project.\n\nMr Wilmott said it was a large and obviously important building but it was only last summer when its purpose as a bathhouse was revealed when evidence of the under-floor heating and associated waterworks were discovered.\n\nEvidence of towns and settlements have been found on multiple sides of Birdoswald fort\n\nBut the remains will be covered over again at the end of the summer with Mr Wilmott saying visitors had four weeks to go and see it.\n\n\"We cannot preserve them in situ,\" he said, adding it would cost millions of pounds so covering them over was their best hope for conservation.\n\nOne of this summer's focuses will be a 60m (197ft) by 10m (33ft) field to the west of the fort and Mr Wilmott said he was excited about what could be unearthed.\n\n\"We are following up on a survey which seems to show an open area with buildings around it that looks like a marketplace,\" he said.\n\nMr Wilmott said he had been working at Birdoswald since 1987 with some 21% of the fort having been examined.\n\nMultiple Roman artefacts have been found including this face painted on a pot, possibly that of Empress Julia Domna who died in 217\n\n\"It's a dream to work here,\" he said, adding the archaeology students from Newcastle University assisting with the dig also appreciated the site's importance and the opportunity it offered to learn more.\n\nSince the project began, more than 200 students have taken part and discoveries have included large amounts of domestic pottery, hobnails used to protect the soles of footwear, semi-precious jasper and glass stones used in rings and to seal documents.\n\nIan Haynes, Newcastle University Professor of Archaeology, said the dig would be a \"career highlight\" for students and staff, adding: \"Birdoswald always has something surprising to teach us.\"\n\nVisitors can take a guided tour of the dig and meet some of the archaeologists until 7 July.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Could this really be the end?\n\nBoris Johnson's latest departure from Parliament has a feeling of finality about it.\n\nThe last time he stood down as an MP, in 2008, it was in triumph. He had just been elected mayor of London, a job that would launch him on the path to Downing Street.\n\nNow he is heading for the exit with all guns blazing, with a scathing attack on the MPs who sought to punish him for misleading Parliament over Covid rule-breaking.\n\nHis reaction to the Privileges Committee report is vintage Johnson - colourful, amusing in parts - the references to \"Mystic Meg\" and nudist colonies - but with an unfamiliar edge of bitterness and anger.\n\nWhether it turns out to be the final raging testament of a man destined for the political wilderness remains to be seen.\n\nHe has bounced back from many, mainly self-inflicted, disasters before.\n\nAnd he is clearly in no mood to settle for comfortable semi-retirement.\n\nHe has already earned more than £5m for giving speeches around the world since he quit as prime minister.\n\nHe is also about to become a father again, at 58, with wife Carrie expecting their third child. The family have just moved into a £3.8m Grade II listed manor house in Oxfordshire, complete with its own moat.\n\nThere are books to write - his memoir of his time in Downing Street is well under way apparently, and talk of business opportunities.\n\nBut this may be thin gruel for someone with Boris Johnson's outsize personality.\n\nFrom his earliest childhood days, when he famously declared he wanted to be \"world king\", Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has had his eyes on life's big prizes.\n\nHe came into the world in 1964 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in New York, where his father, Stanley, was studying economics.\n\nBoris Johnson as host of the BBC show, Have I Got News For You, in 2002\n\nOne of four children, he spent his early years on the family farm in Somerset, before moving to north London and then Brussels, where Stanley was working for the European Commission.\n\nThe Johnson siblings were close and highly competitive with one another. Young Boris, or Al, as he was known to the family, was largely brought up by his artist mother Charlotte, helped by au pairs.\n\nHe won a scholarship to Eton College, England's most prestigious private school, where he made a lasting impression on his teachers and classmates.\n\nIn a widely quoted excerpt from a school report, teacher Martin Hammond said of the 17-year-old Johnson: \"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility.\n\n\"I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.\"\n\nSimon Veksner, a school friend of Johnson, told author Simon Kuper in his recent book Chums: \"Boris's charisma even then was off the charts, so funny, warm, charming, self-deprecating,\"\n\nAt Oxford University, he was elected president of the union - a debating society dating back to 1823. He also joined the infamously rowdy and exclusive Bullingdon Club, alongside future prime minister David Cameron.\n\nBrimming with ambition: Boris Johnson was president of the Oxford Union in 1986\n\nAfter Oxford, he was taken on as a trainee reporter at the Times newspaper, but was sacked after falsifying a quote.\n\nIt proved to be a minor setback however, and in 1988 he was given a job on the Daily Telegraph by then-editor Max Hastings.\n\nAs the Telegraph's Brussels correspondent, Johnson specialized in ridiculing regulations passed by the European Commission - although many of his fellow reporters in Brussels felt his stories were exaggerated and in some cases simply untrue.\n\nIn 1999, he became editor of influential right-wing magazine the Spectator, and two years later finally achieved his ambition to enter Parliament, as the Tory MP for Henley, in Oxfordshire.\n\nThings did not go smoothly.\n\nHe insisted on continuing to edit the Spectator, even when he was promoted to the Tory frontbench by then leader Michael Howard.\n\nHe came unstuck in 2004 when the magazine published an article blaming the Hillsborough disaster on the behaviour of Liverpool football fans.\n\nAn incensed Howard ordered Johnson to Liverpool to apologise to the entire city.\n\nHe survived \"Operation Scouse Grovel\", as he dubbed it, only to be sacked by Howard a month later for lying about claims he had had an affair with journalist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nJohnson's colourful private life has long been a source of fascination for fellow journalists - in particular, the question of how many children he has fathered.\n\nHe has declined to confirm a number when asked, but it is thought be seven, with another on the way.\n\nHe has four children from his second marriage, to barrister Marina Wheeler, which ended in divorce, and another from an affair with art consultant Helen Macintyre.\n\nBoris and Carrie Johnson got married in May 2020\n\nIn May 2020, Johnson married Carrie Symonds, a former Tory aide, at a private ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. The couple had their first son together, Wilfred, in April 2020. Their second child, daughter Romy, was born in December 2021.\n\nIt was Johnson's two terms as London mayor - starting in 2008 - that transformed his political career.\n\nUp until then, he had been stuck in the slow lane, better known as a TV celebrity and comedy turn than a serious politician.\n\nHis ability to harvest votes from Labour supporters - and project an upbeat, positive vision of Conservativism - made him a powerful electoral asset for his party.\n\nHis popularity reached its peak during the 2012 London Olympics, despite, or perhaps because of, being pictured dangling from a zip wire gamely waving a pair of union flags.\n\nComic cheerleader: Boris Johnson suspended on a zip wire in a stunt to promote the 2012 London Olympics\n\nIn 2015, he returned to Parliament as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, with his sights set on the top job, and a major dilemma. David Cameron's decision to hold an EU referendum was a defining moment for the country, but also for the old friends and rivals.\n\nJohnson's decision - after much agonising - to join forces with the pro-Brexit campaign came as a severe blow to Cameron's hopes of keeping the UK in the EU. But it was seen as a game-changing moment by the pro-Brexit campaign, run by tough-talking strategist Dominic Cummings, a man Cameron had once dismissed as a \"career psychopath\".\n\nWhen his side emerged victorious, Johnson threw his hat into the ring to replace Cameron as Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nHowever, his campaign was dramatically undermined when colleague and close friend Michael Gove withdrew support and decided to run for the leadership himself, saying he did not think Johnson was up to the job of prime minister.\n\nNot for the first time, he was contemplating the end of his political career. Yet in a surprise move Theresa May, the eventual winner, appointed Johnson as foreign secretary.\n\nHe quit May's cabinet in 2018, in protest at her Brexit deal, which he claimed would lead Britain into \"the status of a colony\".\n\nWhen she was forced to resign as Tory leader the following year, he finally got his hands on the top job.\n\nHe was immediately plunged into turmoil, as he battled to govern with the non-existent majority inherited from May.\n\nIn an audacious and highly controversial move, later ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court, he attempted to prorogue, or suspend, Parliament, after his attempts to push through a Brexit deal faltered ahead of his own deadline of 31 October 2019.\n\nAfter two failed attempts to get MPs to vote for a general election, he finally went to the country in December 2019, promising to \"Get Brexit Done\", a slogan dreamed up by Dominic Cummings, who was now his closest aide.\n\nBoris Johnson during the 2016 Brexit campaign in front of a Leave EU bus controversially covered with the words \"We send the EU £350 million a week\"\n\nThe gamble paid off, and he was returned to power with the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher's 1980s heyday. Crucially, he had won seats in former Labour strongholds across the North of England, what came to be known as the Red Wall.\n\nHis Brexit deal was approved and on 31 January 2020 the UK left the EU.\n\nIt looked as though negotiating a trade deal with the EU would be his government's first key task - and Brexit his abiding legacy. But, within weeks, he was engulfed by an all-consuming crisis that few - least of all Mr Johnson - had seen coming: the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn April 2020, he tested positive for Covid himself and spent three nights in intensive care. Downing Street played down the seriousness of his condition but when he was discharged, the PM admitted \"it could have gone either way\".\n\nAs the UK emerged from the pandemic, Mr Johnson's government was under fire from all sides for its handling of the pandemic.\n\nHe hailed the success of the UK's vaccine roll-out, which was the fastest in the developed world.\n\nBut his political problems were mounting up.\n\nIn November 2020, he lost Dominic Cummings and other senior aides after a bout of bitter infighting in Downing Street.\n\nWorse was to come in November 2021, when the Daily Mirror accused Johnson of breaking Covid rules by attending parties in Downing Street when indoor mixing was banned. There was a further bombshell just over a week later when video footage emerged of Downing Street staff laughing and joking about holding a Christmas party.\n\nThen the Daily Telegraph revealed that Downing Street staff had held booze-fuelled parties the night before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral. Johnson later apologised to the Queen.\n\nJohnson, his then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Carrie Johnson were among those fined by police, while a damning report by senior civil servant Sue Gray laid bare a Downing Street culture of drunkenness and contempt for the rules.\n\nJohnson did his best to sound contrite in public, telling MPs he had learned lessons and had launched a shake-up of backroom staff, but he continued to insist that he had not broken Covid rules on purpose.\n\nThe cabinet rallied round the prime minister, but a steadily growing band of backbench Conservatives, from different wings of the party, had come to the conclusion that he had to go, amid rising public anger.\n\nHe survived a confidence motion in June 2022, despite nearly half of his MPs voting against him. But a string of by-election defeats led MPs to fear he had become an electoral liability. The old magic, it seemed, was no longer working.\n\nBoris Johnson and has been a staunch supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\n\nThe final straw for many MPs was when ministers were sent out to defend the prime minister in a row over an MP facing allegations of sexual misconduct, armed with misleading information from Downing Street.\n\nA mass walkout by ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, followed and after 48 hours of defiance, in which he repeatedly vowed to \"get on with the job\" of governing, he was finally forced to face up to reality.\n\nHe did not go quietly. And within a few short months he would get an unexpected chance to make another comeback, following the spectacular implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHe flew back from a Caribbean holiday in October 2022 to launch a bid to replace Truss, who had won the contest to replace him.\n\nBut despite managing to scrape together just enough nominations from Tory MPs to get on the ballot, Johnson pulled out of the contest, paving the way for the coronation of Rishi Sunak, who had far more support in the Parliamentary party.\n\nHe insisted he would remain an MP, fuelling rumours that another comeback might be on the cards.\n\nBut questions about his conduct during the Covid pandemic refused to go away, with the committee of MPs investigating whether he had lied to Parliament eventually delivering their damning verdict.\n\nOnly a fool would write Boris Johnson off entirely - and he retains a band of loyal supporters, who point to his leadership over the war in Ukraine and his espousal of traditional Tory free market values as reasons for his return - not to mention his formidable campaigning skills.\n\nBut the road back looks like a long and steep one.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nOlympic great Allyson Felix has called for better maternity care for black women to ensure the death of team-mate Tori Bowie is \"not in vain\".\n\nBowie died at the age of 32 in May from complications in childbirth.\n\nOf the four Americans who teamed up to win 4x100m relay gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics, three have nearly died or died while giving birth.\n\nFelix gave birth at 32 weeks in 2018, having developed pre-eclampsia, and was \"unsure if she was going to make it\".\n\nHer and Bowie's team-mate Tianna Madison (formerly Bartoletta) said she nearly died during childbirth after going into labour at 26 weeks.\n\nWriting for Time magazine, seven-time Olympic champion Felix said: \"Three gold medallists from that 4x100m relay team in Rio set out to become mothers. All three of us - all Black women - had serious complications.\n\n\"Tori passed away. We're dealing with a black maternal health crisis. Here you have three Olympic champions and we're still at risk.\"\n\nFelix, the most decorated US track and field athlete of all time, pointed to CDC data from 2021 which states the maternity mortality rate for black women in the United States is 2.6 times higher than the rate for white women.\n\nIn the UK, data published by the University of Oxford in 2021 showed black women were four times more likely than white women to die in pregnancy and childbirth.\n\nFelix said: \"That needs to change, now, especially in light of Tori's tragic passing.\n\n\"Awareness is huge. Serena Williams had near-death complications during her pregnancy. Beyonce developed pre-eclampsia [a condition that causes high blood pressure during pregnancy and after labour].\n\n\"I hate that it takes Tori's situation to put this back on the map and to get people to pay attention to it. But oftentimes, we need that wake-up call.\"\n\nFelix, 37, added she has a \"very real concern\" about having more children and called for the medical community to \"do its part\" and \"hear the pain of black women\".\n\n\"I'm hopeful that things can get better,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm hopeful that Tori, who stood on the podium at Rio, gold around her neck and sweetness in her soul, won't die in vain.\"\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Try Michael Mosley's suggestions for relaxing and dropping off", "And with that round up of today's key events and developments, we bring our live coverage to a close.\n\nThanks for coming along with us on what has been a busy day. It started with the stalled arrival of the African peace mission. One missile strike on Kyiv and one grounded plane later, the visit went ahead as planned - and concluded with an offer from the leaders for further engagement in the peace process. Read more about the African peace initiative here.\n\nAlso today, we saw Vladimir Putin's annual St Petersburg address, which coincided with a meeting of Nato defence ministers.\n\nTo read more about Putin's address and further details on today's developments please click here.\n\nThis page was edited by Alexandra Fouche, Jamie Whitehead, Nathan Williams and James Harness. You have been reading the words of Anna Boyd, Ece Goksedef, Thomas Mackintosh, Joshua Cheetham and Emily Atkinson.", "Tesco's boss has said there are \"encouraging early signs\" that price rises are easing as the retail giant reported higher sales.\n\nKen Murphy said he was \"very conscious\" of the financial pressure on shoppers, but hit back at claims that the supermarket was profiteering.\n\nThe chief executive said he believed it was unfair for grocers to be blamed for inflation remaining at a high level.\n\nLatest figures showed food inflation hit 19.1% in the year to April.\n\nThe rate at which food prices are rising has been pointed out as one reason why the inflation rate for all consumer goods is not falling as quickly as expected, with prices still 8.7% higher than a year ago.\n\nCritics have accused food retailers of \"greedflation\" - putting prices up to bolster profits - and the competition watchdog is looking into whether a \"failure in competition\" means customers are overpaying.\n\nMr Murphy denied Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, was profiteering, adding: \"There are encouraging early signs that inflation is starting to ease across the market.\"\n\nHe told shareholders at the company's annual general meeting that the \"headline\" food inflation figure was \"dramatically lower\" at Tesco in terms of the \"true\" prices customers face.\n\nEarlier this week, the governor of the Bank of England, who is trying to reduce inflation to its target of 2%, said inflation was taking \"a lot longer than expected\" to come down.\n\nAndrew Bailey said this was due to food price inflation being slower to drop than global commodity prices, despite past reassurances from the Bank's contacts in the retail industry that prices would fall.\n\n\"We've been told for some time, you know, they've reached their peak, they're going to come down, the rate of inflation is going to come down. And then the contacts come back and say, 'Sorry, we got that one wrong,'\" Mr Bailey said.\n\nTesco's Mr Murphy said he believed the Bank of England had been unfair in blaming supermarkets for inflation remaining at a high level.\n\nMr Murphy said the retailer had \"led the way\" in cutting prices on staple goods such as milk, pasta and cooking oil.\n\nHe added there were several factors contributing to food inflation, but when commodity prices have come down, the \"grocery industry has been very quick to pass on those savings to consumers\".\n\nThe Tesco boss said prices were \"unlikely\" to return to the levels they were prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, known as the bread basket of Europe, but pointed out that wages were \"materially higher than they were two years ago\".\n\n\"What's important here is the purchasing power of the family,\" he added. \"That's really where we should be focused on improving people's purchasing power so that they can continue to feed their families and live a decent life.\"\n\nUK supermarkets have previously said there is typically a three to nine-month lag to see price falls reflected in shops.\n\nLast month, Sainsbury's hit back after accusations of bolstering profits at a time when many households are struggling with higher prices.\n\nMr Murphy's comments came as Tesco released its latest trading update, showing that in the three months to the end of May sales in the UK were up 9% from a year earlier to £10.8bn.\n\nCharles Allen, a retail analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told the BBC's Today programme that inflation was a \"huge factor\" in Tesco's latest figures.\n\n\"The top commodity prices are starting to fall but it's important to remember that lower inflation doesn't mean deflation. It doesn't mean prices dropping, it just means prices going up less fast.\"\n\nOn a call with reporters, Mr Murphy also said Tesco's board had \"acted in the best interests\" of the company regarding the departure of its chairman John Allan.\n\nMr Allan announced he was stepping down last month following allegations over his conduct.\n\nHe has strongly denied three of four claims made against him.\n\n\"It was a difficult decision but at the same time, I think it coincides with the fact that the search for a new chairman was already well under way,\" Mr Murphy said.", "Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nA man has been charged with the murders of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham.\n\nNineteen-year-old students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Mr Coates, 65, were stabbed in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nValdo Calocane has also been charged with attempted murder after three people were injured, one critically, when they were hit by a van.\n\nThe 31-year-old will appear before magistrates in the city on Saturday.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed in Ilkeston Road, just after 04:00 BST on Tuesday, while Mr Coates was found dead with knife injuries in Magdala Road after his van was allegedly stolen.\n\nMr Calocane, of no fixed address, is accused of using the van to drive at pedestrians.\n\nOne man was struck in Milton Street and left in a critical condition, but a Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust spokesman said he was now stable.\n\nA number of roads in Nottingham city centre were cordoned off on Tuesday\n\nPolice said an attempt was also made to run over two other pedestrians in the Sherwood Street area. They are believed to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had received a referral from police and was investigating.\n\nA spokesman for the police watchdog said: \"We have viewed dashcam footage from the police car and can confirm the officer, in a single-crewed vehicle en route to a linked incident, had sight of the van for less than a minute before the collision in the South Sherwood Street area. The officer immediately stopped to provide first aid.\n\n\"We will be contacting the two people injured in the collision to wish them a speedy recovery and advise them that we have decided to investigate this specific police interaction.\n\n\"Our investigation will consider whether the actions of the van driver were influenced by the police car's presence shortly before he collided with the two pedestrians.\"\n\nThousands gathered in Nottingham city centre to remember Mr Coates, Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar on Thursday\n\nNottinghamshire Police Chief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"These charges are a significant development and arise as a result of our thorough investigation into these horrific incidents that occurred in our city.\n\n\"We are keenly aware of the deep emotion being felt surrounding these tragic events and the high level of interest, not only in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire but also across the whole country.\n\n\"However, posting prejudicial information online about an active case could amount to contempt of court and, in the most serious cases, have the potential to cause the collapse of a trial.\"\n\nPolice previously revealed Mr Calocane was a former University of Nottingham student, but said \"this is not believed to be connected with the attack\".\n\nThe dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national had settled status in the UK through his Portuguese citizenship.\n\nThe BBC understands he grew up in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Mr Webber's parents embraced at another vigil held at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday\n\nMr Webber, from Taunton, Somerset, was a first-year history student and keen cricketer, described as \"fun, friendly, and full of life in his seminars\".\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar, from north-east London, was in her first year of studying medicine, while playing top-flight hockey at university. Her family said she was \"an adored daughter and sister\".\n\nMr Coates worked at the Huntingdon Academy in Nottingham and was four months from retirement.\n\nHis sons, Lee and James, said he was a keen fisherman and \"die-hard\" Nottingham Forest fan.\n\nRelatives of Mr Webber, including his father David (second left), laid flowers at the spot where he was stabbed in Ilkeston Road\n\nTheir deaths have prompted an outpouring of grief in the city and beyond.\n\nThousands of people gathered at emotional vigils - at the university on Wednesday and then in the Old Market Square in the city centre on Thursday - where relatives addressed the crowds and paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Webber's family visited the scene of where he was stabbed.\n\nThey said they laid flowers at the spot in Ilkeston Road because \"we owe it to both Barnaby and Grace to let them know we are here\".\n\n\"As has been expressed by so many already, heartbreak cannot begin to describe our loss,\" his family said.\n\n\"As painful as this tribute today has been, it is yet another step forward on the very long, dark journey we have been forced to take.\"\n\nMr Webber's family placed a picture of him at the scene of the stabbing and circled it with flowers\n\nThe England and Australia men's cricket teams also paid tribute to those who died at the start of the Ashes test series at Edgbaston on Friday.\n\nPlayers wore black armbands as a mark of respect and to \"show solidarity\", with a minute's silence observed before the national anthems.\n\nEngland and Australia players paid their respects at Edgbaston\n\nBoth Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber were keen and talented cricketers.\n\nA trumpeter from England's Barmy Army supporters group played Amazing Grace during the match in memory of the pair.\n\nThe tribute took place during the 56th over, chosen because 56 was Mr Webber's player number.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ejaz Azam said the goal-scoring wonder kept saying how \"incredible\" it was\n\nAn ice cream man has described the \"amazing\" moment Manchester City's Erling Haaland boarded his van and helped serve up frozen treats for fun.\n\nThe goal-scoring wonder was out celebrating his team's historic Treble when he spotted the van and knocked on the window.\n\nStunned owner Ejaz Azam said it was his \"favourite moment ever\" and was only too happy to welcome Haaland onboard.\n\nThe Scandinavian striker said it was \"incredible\" to make his own ice cream.\n\nMr Azam, from Oldham, said he was \"so shocked\" after coming face-to-face with Haaland close to Mayfield Depot near Manchester's Piccadilly rail station.\n\n\"Haaland asked to come in the van and then we served slush to people. It was my favourite moment ever,\" the 36-year-old said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man City's number nine is more used to hundreds and thousands of football fans\n\nMr Azam said his patch is usually in Chadderton but he had ventured into town on the day of City's open-top bus parade through Manchester on Monday.\n\n\"I had actually finished a 14-hour shift,\" he said.\n\n\"He knocked on the window just after midnight and I initially said I was closed, but when I saw it was Haaland, I started up my engine.\"\n\nHaaland recently became the first player to win both the Premier League's player of the year and young player of the year awards in the same season.\n\nMr Azam said the 22-year-old had initially asked for a blue slush before boarding the van and whizzing up an ice cream too.\n\nThe Norwegian may be more used to delighting hundreds and thousands of football fans across Europe but it seems his substitute appearance in the van made a big impression.\n\nMr Azam said the striker helped to serve customers too\n\n\"It's everyone's dream to come into a van and Haaland was so happy,\" Mr Azam continued.\n\n\"He kept saying it was incredible.\n\n\"Then people starting queuing outside asking for ice cream, so he helped serve some slush.\n\n\"I was so shocked, surprised and amazed.\"\n\nMr Azam, who has sold ice cream for eight years, said the whole episode became \"a blur\" but it was a moment he would \"treasure forever\".\n\nHe said his regular customers back in Oldham have since been queuing up at his Mr Whippy van to hear his story.\n\n\"They have a heart of gold and I have so much respect for them,\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Footage released by US Coast Guard shows a crew member swimming through rough seas to rescue a dog trapped on a beach\n\nThe German Shepherd was injured after falling about 300ft (90m) down a cliff, and ended up trapped on an inaccessible beach in Oregon’s Ecola State Park.\n\nThe dog was airlifted from the beach and returned to her owner, who after a visit to the emergency vet told the Coast Guard that she is “doing just fine.\"", "Vladimir Putin said moving nuclear weapons was about \"containment\"\n\nRussia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Vladimir Putin says.\n\nRussia's president told a forum they would only be used if Russia's territory or state was threatened.\n\nThe US government says there is no indication the Kremlin plans to use nuclear weapons to attack Ukraine.\n\n\"We don't see any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon,\" US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after Mr Putin's comments.\n\nBelarus is a key Russian ally and served as a launchpad for Mr Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nMr Putin said transferring the tactical nuclear warheads would be completed by the end of the summer.\n\nAnswering questions after a speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia's president said the move was about \"containment\" and to remind anyone \"thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on us\".\n\nWhen asked by the forum's moderator about the possibility of using those weapons, he replied: \"Why should we threaten the whole world? I have already said that the use of extreme measures is possible in case there is a danger to Russian statehood.\"\n\nTactical nuclear weapons are small nuclear warheads and delivery systems intended for use on the battlefield, or for a limited strike. They are designed to destroy enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread radioactive fallout.\n\nThe smallest tactical nuclear weapons can be one kiloton or less (producing the equivalent to a thousand tonnes of the explosive TNT). The largest ones can be as big as 100 kilotons. By comparison, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was 15 kilotons.\n\nThe Russian leader is meeting African leaders in St Petersburg after they visited Kyiv on Friday as part of a peace initiative they are presenting to both countries.\n\nHowever while they were in the city it came under Russian missile attack.\n\nMr Putin is also expected to hold a separate meeting with the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThe African leaders are due to meet Mr Putin on Saturday\n\nIn Kyiv, Mr Ramaphosa called for de-escalation on both sides and negotiations for peace.\n\n\"We came here to listen and recognise what the people of Ukraine have gone through,\" he said.\n\nBut Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said instead of making diplomatic overtures to Russia it should be frozen out diplomatically to send a message that the international community condemned its invasion.\n\nKyiv would not enter negotiations with Moscow while it still occupied Ukrainian territory, Mr Zelensky said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The road to peace is not an easy one,' said President Cyril Ramaphosa in Ukraine\n\nMr Putin also repeated his claim that Ukraine stood no chance of succeeding in its ongoing counter-offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian military was also running out of its own military equipment and would soon only be using Western-donated equipment, he said.\n\n\"You can't fight for long like that,\" he said, warning that any F16 US fighter jets given to Ukraine \"will burn, no doubt about it\".\n\nUkraine has previously dismissed similar remarks, asserting they are making progress in recapturing territory in both eastern and southern Ukraine.\n\nThe Russian leader also addressed economic themes, claiming that Western sanctions on Russia had failed to isolate it and instead led to an expansion in its trade with \"the markets of the future\".\n\nHe praised new deals with countries in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America - calling them \"reliable, responsible partners\".", "Al Pacino stars in the Godfather film series and Scarface\n\nAl Pacino has welcomed his fourth child at the age of 83.\n\nThe Godfather star's partner Noor Alfallah, 29, gave birth to their son Roman, it was announced on Thursday.\n\nPacino's publicist Stan Rosenfield confirmed the news to the PA news agency, adding no further details.\n\nThe Hollywood veteran also has twins, Anton and Olivia, 22, with actress Beverly D'Angelo; and a 33-year-old daughter, Julie Marie, with acting coach Jan Tarrant.\n\nThe New Yorker, considered by many to be one of the finest actors of his generation, won the best actor Oscar for his role in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman and has also been nominated many times over.\n\nHis partner Alfallah works in the film industry and has produced movies such as the upcoming Pacino-starring Billy Knight, Little Death and Brosa Nostra.\n\nThe couple revealed they were expecting a child a fortnight ago.\n\nThe news about the arrival of his son comes less than a month after Robert De Niro, Pacino's co-star in The Godfather II, Heat and The Irishman, welcomed his seventh child at the age of 79.\n\nRolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger - who Alfallah previously dated in 2017 - had his eighth child, son Deveraux Octavian Basil, with Melanie Hamrick in 2016 when he was 73.\n\nMedia mogul Rupert Murdoch was 72 when his daughter Chloe, with ex-wife Wendi Deng, was born in 2003.\n\nA couple of years earlier, broadcaster and journalist Jon Snow also became a father again at the age of 74.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nBukayo Saka scored the first hat-trick of his career as England made it four wins out of four Euro 2024 qualifiers by thrashing North Macedonia at Old Trafford.\n\nGareth Southgate's side are well on course to qualify for the tournament in Germany next summer and, even though North Macedonia provided meagre opposition, England still demonstrated the dazzling array of attacking options they have at their disposal.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was Arsenal's Saka who struck a superb treble before departing to a standing ovation with the game won.\n\nEngland actually laboured in the early stages in the face of determined Macedonian defence but once captain Harry Kane scored his 57th international goal - turning in Luke Shaw's cross at the far post after 29 minutes - the floodgates opened.\n\nSaka added the second from Kyle Walker's pass nine minutes later and Marcus Rashford scored a third on the stroke of half-time after unselfish work by Jordan Henderson.\n\nThe highlight of this one-sided affair came two minutes after half-time when Saka controlled a perfect long pass by Trent Alexander-Arnold before sending a thunderous left-foot finish high past keeper Stole Dimitrievski.\n\nSaka completed his landmark hat-trick after racing clear on to Kane's pass, prompting Southgate to make a host of changes which allowed substitute Kalvin Phillips to get in the act with a simple tap-in to make it six.\n\nKane scored his second from the spot with 17 minutes left after John Stones had been fouled as England went on a goal rampage to record their biggest win since the 10-0 victory over San Marino in November 2021, and inflict North Macedonia's heaviest defeat.\n• None Can you name these England hat-trick heroes?\n\nUnstoppable England on course for Germany\n\nEngland could not have done a more convincing job of plotting their route to Euro 2024 with maximum points and their most testing assignment out of the way with victory over Italy in Naples.\n\nThis is a group England have to qualify from - there would be a serious inquest if they did not - but the manner in which Southgate's side have gone about their work is admirable and a sell-out Old Trafford crowd was given quite a show of attacking football.\n\nEngland may face a familiar problem of not being fully put to the test until they face elite competition in the heat of a major tournament but this does not mean Southgate will not learn anything from qualifiers, even if the passage is comfortable against inferior opposition.\n\nThe attacking riches the manager can manipulate were on show among his goalscorers and England's strength in depth was emphasised as Manchester City's Champions League-winning duo of Jack Grealish and Phil Foden came off the bench while Real Madrid's new teenage superstar Jude Bellingham was not present because of injury.\n\nThis must all be framed by the fact North Macedonia were nowhere their class but England could not have done a much better job of dismantling them.\n\nSaka grows into a more accomplished England footballer with every game and it was clear just how popular Arsenal's 21-year-old is with his team-mates by their show of sheer joy when he completed his hat-trick.\n\nThe big bonus for Southgate is that, with Alexander-Arnold's move into midfield, it has quickly become clear he and Saka are right on the same wavelength.\n\nThey combined for a goal in Malta in Friday night's win and linked again here as Alexander-Arnold picked out Saka for his second and England's fourth, a real \"wow\" moment as the latter applied a spectacular finish.\n\nSaka's England colleagues sought him out with the match ball at the final whistle. He will hope it is the first of many and he certainly has the talent to collect more.\n• None Attempt saved. Kalvin Phillips (England) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Darko Velkovski (North Macedonia).\n• None Kalvin Phillips (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! England 7, North Macedonia 0. Harry Kane (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Egzon Bejtulai (North Macedonia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Barra plane on its runway (Traigh Mhòr beach)\n\nIf your dream is to own your own business in a beautiful location, then a Scottish island might have the perfect opportunity.\n\nBarra in the Western Isles is well-known for its stunning beaches, one of which doubles as the island's famous beach runway.\n\nBarra Airport runs on the tide's schedule and is looking for someone to provide hospitality for its passengers.\n\nStaff who work there say it could be a dream job for the right person.\n\nThe airport is currently undergoing a £1.5m refurbishment of the terminal and facilities.\n\nThe development includes a new, extended café catering concession, which the airport team believes can play a significant role in supporting tourism facilities on the island.\n\nOperator Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (Hial) believes it could be a business for locals and tourists.\n\nBarra is the world's only airport offering scheduled beach landings\n\nRewards include a view of the dramatic plane landings that make Traigh Mhòr beach a tourist destination even for those who haven't booked a ticket.\n\nThe airport is home to the only beach runway in the world that handles scheduled airline services.\n\nBuilding work on the tiny terminal is due to be completed in August, with an extension to the seating area and new kitchen facilities. The new café will be the only one in the area.\n\nAirport manager Michael Galbraith says people are constantly asking about the lack of café facilities\n\nNot your average check in desk at Barra Airport\n\n\"It's amazing when you don't have something,\" said airport manager Michael Galbraith, \"the amount of people that come in and ask, when's the café opening?\"\n\n\"Usually an airport's an airport, and that's it,\" he said.\n\n\"All the passengers come through and that's the only customers they have. But we have locals coming in, who want a wee snack, or a coffee and cake. You have the tourists coming in who want to see the plane landing, you have coach tours coming in, and you've also got the passengers themselves.\n\n\"We've got roughly 11,000 to 15,000 passengers coming through a year, but you can quadruple that when you look at all the other customers.\"\n\nDolina Manford says working at the beach puts a smile on her face every day.\n\nDolina Manford, who works for Loganair at the makeshift check-in desk, says her job has some unique perks.\n\nWhen the airport is closed and the windsocks are down, members of the public are free to walk on the runways which revert to a public beach enjoyed by surfers, dog walkers and families.\n\nShe said: \"You get to be at the beach every day and it puts a smile on your face. You can also swim on the runway in the evening.\n\n\"You see something different every day.\n\n\"The plane landing and taking off - you never get tired of watching that.\n\n\"You meet all sorts of people from all nationalities and it's nice.\"\n\nCyclists have been disappointed to arrive at the airport for lunch and find only vending machines\n\nAndy from Nottingham was surprised there was no café when he arrived on his bike.\n\n\"People say, when you come to Barra, you need to come and see the plane land, and there are far more people here than just those who plan to fly.\n\n\"A vending machine and a seat by a window was a bit disappointing. There are so many people here and there's nothing for them really. It's a shame.\"\n\nAlastair from Edinburgh is also on a long-distance cycling trip and had planned to stop for lunch at the airport.\n\n\"It's dreadful. We've been cycling for hours just to get here and timed it so we could have a nice lunch before going to the ferry. Nothing.\n\n\"Devastated. Absolutely devastated! It's ruined the whole day.\"\n\nThe airport terminal sits right on the beach\n\nCrowds of people come to the airport to watch the planes land on the beach, even if they are not travelling by plane\n\nHis fellow cyclist, Maggie, says she thinks it would be a profitable enterprise, and doesn't need a complicated menu.\n\n\"Some good scones. Definitely good scones. And then some sort of healthy sandwiches for lunch, nothing too fancy, and maybe a couple of cakes.\"\n\nJudy from British Columbia flew into the airport and is about to leave on her return journey to Glasgow.\n\n\"I'm not sure if a café would work very well, because the hours would be just really when the planes come in, so it might be two hours here, and then come back in the afternoon and two hours there. But there's a captive audience!\"\n\nThe refurbished and extended café facilities should be open by August\n\nPrevious catering contractors did run a successful business on the site, but the café closed after Covid restrictions hit trade.\n\nThe new tenants will need to work around landing times for the planes, which depend on the tide, and deal with the seasonal nature of the business.\n\n\"Your peak to make any money is the summer,\" says airport manager Michael.\n\n\"Summer months are very demanding. I think of the predecessor, they had about eight people and they were flat out.\n\n\"Whoever takes it on will really have to be hands on. You can't sit back and just let others do the cooking, you know, you'll have to do your bit.\n\n\"Come September time, the island goes quiet, right up until Easter. You're left with the locals who come in and staff to keep it going.\n\n\"So the winter months are hard and difficult.\"\n\nThe view on the way to work is decent\n\nBut he says the beach landings provide entertainment all year round.\n\n\"The sunny summer days are good, but the windy days, when the weather's bad, can also make for interesting landings and approaches. The pilots make their money then.\n\n\"I've been here 29 years and you never, ever, ever get sick of it. I look at all the people on the fences with their phones and cameras out, and I'm getting to see it every day.\"\n\nInterested parties have to be quick. The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday.", "David and Sara Watson with their late son Adam, who died in August 2022 after almost three years of illness\n\nFinancial support for families with a child in hospital would help them cope with cost such as transport and food, two parents have said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Children's Health Coalition has called for a a £4m fund to give families a grant of £500 a year.\n\nDavid and Sara Watson said that money would have made a difference to them.\n\nTheir son Adam was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in October 2019 when he was seven.\n\nHis parents were living on one wage for many months with a sick child and many parents in similar situations also face costs such as food, drink, fuel, parking, overnight accommodation and childcare.\n\n\"You are starting to count pennies and say: 'We need that amount of money for diesel to get us up and down to hospital for five days this week and we have that for food,'\" said Mr Watson.\n\n\"Money does not come into it when you have a sick child but you still need money to survive.\n\n\"You need money to keep that child as comfortable as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Money doesn't come into when you have a sick child, but you still need money to survive'\n\nMrs Watson said her family were fortunate that they had a great support network around them.\n\nBut she added: \"No family wants to be known as a charity case, that you are having to rely on somebody dropping money round or you are having to rely on family.\n\n\"You feel like you owe it to try and go back to work to show that you are not in this to try and rip people off.\n\n\"You are trying your hardest. You are trying to get your child better, keep a roof over your head, trying to live and trying to work and it just builds up.\"\n\nDavid Watson pictured with his son Adam in hospital while the child was being treated for leukaemia\n\nMrs Watson said Adam was aware of the cost-of-living crisis and was watching the news when it talked about people having to make a choice between feeding their family or heating their homes.\n\nShe said he asked her: \"Mummy, do we have money to do both? Do we have money to do both because you and daddy cannot work at the minute because I'm sick?\n\n\"The money thing is one side of it but it is the mental impact that has on us and a child.\n\n\"To hear your son, whilst he is lying there fighting for his life, worrying about his mummy and daddy being able to pay the bills and heating the house.\"\n\nProf Victoria Simms, an academic from Ulster University who carried out a study on the issue, said she found the data \"quite shocking\".\n\n\"There is a disproportionate effect on family income and that is not good for the parents themselves, for their own self-esteem for example, but also for the environment in which those children are going to grow up,\" she said.\n\nThe professor added that there was a \"lack of awareness around the welfare state that they can access and have a right to access\".\n\nInstead, she said, the research found families were \"going to their own parents to ask for income support because they do not want to necessarily access the welfare system\".\n\n\"It just really hits home that these families are doing their best to support their little children and older children that are experiencing long term issues and we really need to support those families the best that we can,\" said Prof Simms.\n\nProf Victoria Simms said parents with children in hospital often rely on financial support from their families\n\nThe Northern Ireland Children's Health Coalition is calling for direct financial support for families who live in Northern Ireland and also cover hospitalisations across the UK and Ireland.\n\nIts co-chairwoman Alison McNulty said that money would help reduce the anxiety families have to bear because of the physical, mental, and practical impact of having a child in hospital.\n\n\"We are putting our parents in very difficult financial situations because they have a very ill child and those children could be in hospital for weeks, months or often a number of times over a given year,\" she said.\n\n\"It will help them with petrol, staying overnight when they have a very sick child, feeding themselves when their child is in hospital and it will go a long way to alleviate some of that stress and anxiety that many of our parents are under.\"\n\nMs McNulty said implementing such a fund would be easy as there was already a mechanism in place for rolling it out - it just needs the Northern Ireland Executive to vote for funding to be put into place.\n\n\"I understand that there are pressures on government at the moment but we cannot let a group of our citizens here in Northern Ireland go without support, to fall between the cracks, because they and their children are suffering when such a fund could make a huge difference,\" she said.\n\nAdam Watson's parents said he was worried about their lack of income while he was in hospital\n\n\"No family should ever fall into debt because they have a sick child,\" said Mr Watson.\n\n\"It is a stress you do not need.\n\n\"You are not looking to make money because your child is sick, you are just looking to survive,\" he said.", "Chloe Mitchell was last seen alive on CCTV on 3 June\n\nThe process of identifying human remains found in the Chloe Mitchell murder investigation is ongoing, police have said.\n\nA post-mortem examination had been completed but the remains had still not been formally identified.\n\nMs Mitchell, 21, was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of 3 June in Ballymena.\n\nHuman remains were later found following a huge search operation.\n\nBrandon John Rainey, 26, of James Street in Ballymena has been charged with murdering Ms Mitchell.\n\nRyan Johnson Gordon, 34, of Nursery Close, Ballymena, is charged with attempting to impede justice by concealing evidence around the alleged murder of Ms Mitchell.\n\nMr Gordon appeared at Ballymena Magistrates' Court for a brief hearing on Tuesday.\n\nHis barrister told the court there was no application for bail and the defendant was remanded into custody until 6 July.\n\nMr Rainey is also in custody.", "Body camera footage shows the moment a Florida police officer, William Hollingsworth, was sucked through a drainage pipe while trying to rescue a man from flood water.\n\nBoth men were dragged underneath the four-lane highway, before resurfacing on the other side, safe and well, 30 seconds later.", "They RSPCA says without the Kept Animals Bill, the government's animal welfare plan is \"merely smoke and mirrors\"\n\nMPs have rejected an attempt by Labour to force the government to revive its flagship animal welfare bill.\n\nIn May, the government quietly dropped its Kept Animals Bill which aimed to crack down on dog thefts and ban the live exports of farm animals.\n\nThe government is still pursuing plans to ban keeping primates as pets - a 2019 Tory manifesto pledge and a central tenet of the previous bill.\n\nBut campaigners accuse the government of betraying its animal welfare agenda.\n\nIn a joint statement, 18 animal protection organisations, including the RSPCA, Humane Society International/UK and Dogs Trust, urged MPs to reintroduce the bill describing it as \"the obvious and most expedient vehicle to create protections for farmed, companion and wild animals\".\n\n\"Animals are sentient individuals, with needs and emotions, vulnerable to mistreatment. They are not political footballs,\" the statement added.\n\nLabour's motion in the Commons aimed to force the bill back into Parliament, in defiance of the government's plans.\n\nIf passed, the motion would have allocated 12 July to try to pass the bill through its final legislative steps in the House of Commons.\n\nHowever, following a debate, MPs voted by 256 votes to 183 to reject Labour's motion.\n\nRSPCA adverts calling on MPs to back the Kept Animals Bill were placed around Westminster\n\nA number of Conservatives have previously expressed frustration at the government's decision to pull the bill, but during the debate some attacked Labour for tabling the motion.\n\nTory Dame Andrea Jenkyns said that, by attempting to reintroduce the bill rather than simply a motion to support it, the opposition party had been \"too clever by half\"\n\nShe said she had been prepared to vote with the opposition on the issue, but couldn't \"let an unelected opposition take control\" of Parliament's timetable.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith said: \"If the opposition has genuinely wanted to make this and put pressure on the government to do this, a simple motion that said we would support the bill moving and being adopted would have got everybody in favour of it. By doing this in a way that tries to take over the business he knows very well that this is actually about the politics.\"\n\nLabour's shadow environment minister Alex Sobel said Conservative MPs had supported the bill, \"so why can they not today join us and give us the time to get this through\".\n\n\"Let's work together to do the right thing and put animal welfare before party politics,\" he said.\n\nThe SNP's Patricia Gibson described the government as a \"weak, lily-livered husk\" which \"doesn't even have the confidence to deliver its own manifesto commitment\". She added that Scotland was \"shackled to a corpse that can not act\".\n\nEnvironment minister Trudy Harrison sought to reassure MPs that the government was committed to introducing the animal welfare measures \"successfully and swiftly\" through different bills.\n\nAnnouncing in May that the bill had been scrapped, environment minister Mark Spencer put the blame mostly on Labour, saying the opposition were \"clearly determined to play political games by widening the scope of this bill\".\n\nMr Spencer said at the time that the government would use single-issue legislation to keep to commitments on \"cracking down on puppy smuggling\", \"ban live exports for fattening and slaughter\", and tackle pet abduction and livestock worrying.\n\nLivestock worrying is when a dog attacks or chases livestock on agricultural land, which can result in injury or death.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government announced plans to consult on a new system of licences to effectively ban the keeping of primates as pets.\n\nThe new licensing system, based on the results of a consultation held in December 2020, requires \"zoo-level standards\" of care for any primate kept in captivity in the UK.\n\nUp to 5,000 primates - mammals which include apes, monkeys and lemurs - are living outside licensed zoos in the UK, according to RSPCA estimates.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said: \"The UK is a world leader on animal welfare and we are fully committed to maintaining and enhancing our strong track record to date.\n\n\"We are committed to delivering the Kept Animals Bill measures individually during the remainder of this Parliament and look forward to progressing these. We will be setting out next steps in due course.\"\n• None Monkeys could be banned as pets, says government", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nThe Commons voted overwhelmingly in support of the report, by 354 to seven.\n\nThe cross-party committee's report had found Mr Johnson committed repeated offences when he said Covid rules had been followed at No 10 at all times.\n\nSeveral allies of Mr Johnson questioned the impartiality of the committee and said they would vote against.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May, Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan were among the senior Conservatives who supported the report's findings.\n\nConservative MPs who voted against included Sir Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey and Heather Wheeler - while 118 Tories voted in favour.\n\nNo vote was recorded for 225 MPs, because they either abstained or did not turn up to vote.\n\nMr Johnson had asked his supporters not to vote against the report, with sources close to the former prime minister arguing it had no practical effect now he has resigned.\n\nBut his critics suggested the move was designed to avoid revealing the low level of support for him among Tory MPs.\n\nSome abstained, while others did not turn up to vote at all.\n\nJohnson allies who spoke in the debate but did not vote include Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lia Nici.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak did not attend the debate and has refused to say how he would have voted, suggesting he did not want to influence others.\n\nSenior Conservative Tobias Ellwood, who voted to back the report, said it was a \"highly symbolic\" day as Parliament sought to \"bring to a conclusion a very difficult chapter in British politics\".\n\nHe said that because Mr Johnson had already \"walked\", many MPs, including him, had not initially appreciated the wider public's high expectations for Parliament to not just rubber stamp this report but thoroughly debate its findings, given it related to rules set by the government.\n\n\"This was the collective conscience of Parliament, if you like, being judged by the British people,\" he said.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"His failure to vote says all you need to know about this prime minister's lack of leadership.\"\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said Mr Sunak was \"too weak to lead a party too divided to govern\".\n\nThe vote means Mr Johnson loses his right to a parliamentary pass, which gives access to certain parts of Parliament, as this was one of the report's recommendations.\n\nThe Privileges Committee of MPs, which has a Conservative majority, was asked to investigate whether Mr Johnson had misled MPs over what he knew about parties held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns - dubbed the Partygate scandal.\n\nIts report concluded that Mr Johnson made multiple deliberately misleading statements to Parliament about events at No 10.\n\nAhead of the report's publication, Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, branding the committee a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe report found Mr Johnson had committed further \"contempts\" of Parliament by attacking the committee, increasing the severity of the recommended sanction.\n\nThe committee subsequently recommended a 90-day suspension for Mr Johnson - a long ban by recent standards - as well as denying him the parliamentary pass, which he would normally be entitled to as a former MP.\n\nIf he had still been an MP, the suspension could have triggered a by-election in his constituency.\n\nSpeaking during a Commons debate ahead of the vote, Mrs May said backing the report would be \"a small but important step in restoring people's trust\" in Parliament.\n\nIt was \"important to show the public that there is not one rule for them and another for us\", she said.\n\nMrs May urged her fellow MPs to vote in support of the report \"to uphold standards in public life, to show that we all recognise the responsibility we have to the people we serve, and to help to restore faith in our parliamentary democracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak is asked several times if he will take part in Boris Johnson Partygate report debate and vote in the Commons.\n\nDuring the debate, supporters of Mr Johnson spoke out against the report's findings.\n\nMs Nici, who was Mr Johnson's parliamentary private secretary, told MPs she could not see any evidence he had knowingly misled Parliament.\n\nShe questioned the impartiality of the committee and suggested the process was \"political opportunism\" for people who did not like Mr Johnson.\n\nFormer minister Sir Jacob, who was knighted by Mr Johnson in his resignation honours, described the proposed 90-day suspension as \"a vindictive sanction\".\n\nIn response to accusations some Johnson allies had attempted to discredit the committee's work, Mr Rees-Mogg said it was \"absolutely legitimate to criticise the conduct of a committee\" and its members.\n\nHowever, the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said its members had to \"withstand a campaign of threats, intimidation, and harassment designed to challenge the legitimacy of the inquiry\".\n\nShe defended her impartiality, after Sir Jacob referenced her previous tweets criticising Mr Johnson, saying she had offered to step aside as chairwoman after the tweets emerged but she said she was assured by the government she should continue in her role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harriet Harman answers Jacob Rees-Mogg who raises her \"famous tweets\" about Boris Johnson\n\nEarlier it was not clear whether there would be a formal vote on the report - compelling MPs to go on the record to vote for, against or abstain - but Labour forced one.\n\nIt was a free vote for Tory MPs, meaning party managers - known as whips - had not instructed them how to vote.\n\nCommons Leader Ms Mordaunt, who opened the debate, said she would vote in support of the report, adding: \"The integrity of our institutions matter.\"\n\nHowever, she said \"all members need to make up their own minds and others should leave them alone to do so\".", "Lightning strikes could also become an additional hazard, the MET Office says\n\nA thunderstorm warning has been issued across Northern Ireland from lunchtime on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office has warned that up to 20mm of rain could fall in some places across NI in under an hour.\n\nIt said that up to 25mm could fall in a few spots in the same time, leading to some surface flooding.\n\nThe rain could possibly cause some homes and businesses to flood, while lightning strikes could also become an additional hazard.\n\nThe warning lasts from 13:00 BST on Monday until 20:00.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDriving conditions could be affected by heavy downpours, surface flooding and hail.\n\nMeanwhile, warnings have also been issued across much of the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMet Éireann is warning of possible flooding, poor visibility, difficult driving conditions and power outages.\n\nThe warning lasts from noon until 22:00 on Monday.", "One survey suggest there were almost no private rental properties in Wales that were affordable using housing benefits\n\nPeople are being made homeless because housing benefits are not keeping up with rental costs, charities have said.\n\nA survey in February of private properties advertised for rent in Wales found that only 32 out of 2,638 could be covered by housing benefits.\n\nThe Bevan Foundation, which conducted the survey has said the UK government needs to increase benefits.\n\nThe UK government said it gave a £1bn boost to housing benefit rates in 2020 and maintained that level ever since.\n\nPeople who claim housing benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit for privately rented properties get an amount determined by a formula called the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).\n\nIt was designed to cover rental costs for the cheapest 30% of private properties in a given area, but it has been frozen since April 2020, despite rents continuing to increase.\n\nIn the year to April, private sector rents in Wales rose by 4.8%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - the biggest annual percentage increase since the ONS started measuring the data in Wales in 2010.\n\nThe charities say the pressure in the private rental market is intense - rents have increased sharply in Wales at a time when the wider cost of living price rises are also putting budgets under strain.\n\nThat is why they are calling on the UK government to increase the rates for housing related benefits, which have been frozen since April 2020, leaving many claimants with a shortfall.\n\nThey say that is driving many people into homelessness. There are more than 10,000 people in temporary accommodation in Wales - that can often mean bed and breakfast type establishments without cooking or laundry facilities.\n\nBut the UK government says it gave housing benefits a big cash boost in 2020 and has maintained that funding level in subsequent years, as well as providing billions more in help with other cost of living pressures like energy bills.\n\nDebbie Thomas, head of policy in Wales for Crisis, said: \"Rents are really difficult and it's really hard for people to find the money to keep a roof over their heads.\"\n\nShe said the UK government needed to \"to get with the times, to get with the soaring cost of living so that people can start to use housing benefit for what it's meant to be for, to have somewhere safe you can call home\".\n\nThe Bevan Foundation's Dr Steffan Evans said the current situation left people with \"really difficult choices\" which risk them over-extending financially or settling for \"really poor-quality accommodation because that's all they can afford\".\n\nDr Evans said more than 10,000 people in Wales were living in temporary accommodation, a figure which had increased by 25% in the past 12 months, with \"the problem around LHA is absolutely one of the drivers of that\".\n\nThe UK government said the April 2020 LHA increased provided more than \"a million people with an extra £600 a year on average\".\n\n\"The UK government is also giving an extra £50m to help people in Wales with essential costs,\" it added.", "Post Office bosses have been asked to repay bonuses wrongly paid for completing an inquiry into a scandal that saw hundreds unfairly prosecuted.\n\nHundreds of sub-postmasters were convicted due to accounting errors caused by the faulty Horizon IT system.\n\nThe Post Office annual report incorrectly said the inquiry chairman had approved the payments.\n\nBusiness select committee chair Darren Jones said all the inquiry-related bonuses should be returned.\n\nPost Office chief executive Nick Read apologised to MPs on the Business and Trade Select Committee for the error, explaining that the inquiry was originally intended to take just four months.\n\nIt then became a statutory inquiry which would take far longer, and would not be completed in time to trigger the bonuses.\n\nMembers of the Post Office's remuneration committee, which oversees bonuses, used their discretion to pay the bonuses anyway after debating \"long and hard\", its former chair Lisa Harrington told MPs.\n\nShe said a report from an independent law firm was enough to give them \"confidence the inquiry was being supported\".\n\nHowever, the reasons for awarding the bonuses were not recorded in the minutes, a fact which current remuneration committee chair Amanda Burton described as \"extremely unfortunate\".\n\nAnd when the Post Office's annual report for 2021-22 was published, it said the target of finishing the inquiry had been \"achieved\" with \"confirmation from Sir Wyn Williams,\" the inquiry chairman - which was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody picked up on the wording needing to be updated,\" Ms Harrington said.\n\nIt was \"baffling\" how so many people missed it, Post Office chairman Henry Staunton said.\n\nBusiness committee chair Darren Jones asked: \"Many of the victims of the scandal will be looking today and hearing your apologies and saying they weren't allowed to apologise for something that turned out to not be their fault, what are the consequences for any of you?\"\n\nChief executive Nick Read replied: \"I do think it was a mistake, I don't think there was anything dishonest.\"\n\nFormer sub-postmaster Chris Trousdale was just 19 when he was convicted for accounting irregularities at his post office in the Yorkshire village of Lealholm. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the ordeal.\n\nAfter watching the select committee testimony, he said: \"I think the bonus payments are just part of a wider culture. We need independent bodies to step in and look at these things. It's mindboggling.\n\n\"And the trauma and the added distress that is being added on to the victims when they watch things like this is incomprehensible. It is really difficult to listen to.\"\n\nMr Read said that 30 out of 34 managers had returned the portion of their bonuses awarded for meeting the target of \"inquiry support\", which is one of four inquiry-related targets. He personally had paid back £7,000, equivalent to £13,600 before tax and National Insurance, out of a bonus package worth £455,000, he said.\n\nMr Jones said he felt that this was not sufficient, and called on managers to repay the entire portion of their bonuses that related to the Horizon Inquiry.", "Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has denied knowledge of unlawful activity\n\nThe judge in a privacy trial brought by Prince Harry and others has questioned why nearly 30 journalists, including Piers Morgan, have not given evidence.\n\nMr Justice Fancourt said Mr Morgan had recently had \"a good deal to say\" about phone hacking \"outside the court\".\n\nHe is among a list of journalists about which the judge may have to \"make inferences\" given that they have not appeared in the witness box.\n\n\"To be clear, originally I said I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anyone to hack a phone. And no story's ever been published in the Mirror in my time from hacking a phone,\" he said, in an interview with Amol Rajan.\n\nThe judge also highlighted a recent interview by the former newspaper executive, Neil Wallis.\n\nMr Wallis, who was cleared of phone hacking, recently criticised those bringing cases against newspapers in the BBC documentary Scandalous: Phone Hacking On Trial.\n\nHe told that programme: \"You have just about anybody who's ever appeared in a tabloid newspaper saying - give me large wadges of cash please. I think it's actually a legal scandal.\"\n\nMr Justice Fancourt said: \"There's a question in my mind whether any of the individuals on my list could and should have given evidence.\"\n\nAs well as Piers Morgan and Neil Wallis, the list of 29 journalists includes:\n\nOne of those mentioned, Eugene Duffy, has died.\n\nThe two leading barristers in the case, David Sherborne, and Andrew Green KC, will address the judge next week in closing submissions.\n\nThey will make arguments about missing witnesses and Mr Justice Fancourt will have to weigh up allegations made during the case against those who have not given evidence.\n\nThe privacy action has been brought by Prince Harry, Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, and Fiona Wightman, the ex-wife of the comedian Paul Whitehouse.\n\nIn civil actions such as this one, each side can make their own decisions about which witnesses to rely on when making their case.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers called a handful of journalists, but there has been detailed evidence about many others who have not appeared in the witness box.\n\nThe claimants have called a series of former reporters, some of them convicted of phone hacking, who have become whistleblowers.\n\nThe judge's comments came as the last witnesses in the trial gave evidence.\n\nCoronation Street star Michael Turner, who works under his stage name Michael Le Vell, told the court that appearing in the witness box had taken him to \"really dark places\" but it was time for him to speak up for himself.\n\nHe is suing the publisher of the Mirror newspapers for using phone hacking to gather stories about him dating back to the 1990s.\n\nMr Turner said at the time he suspected friends and colleagues were leaking information about him to newspapers.\n\n\"I feel I wasted a lot of years alienating a lot of decent people in my life for want of trust,\" he told the court.\n\nTwenty-eight articles published in the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror or People newspapers often attributed quotes to \"pals\", \"friends\" or a \"Corrie source\".\n\nThe claimants say these phrases are used to cover up the fact information has been taken from intercepted mobile phone voicemail messages by journalists.\n\nIn one story, a conversation Michael Turner had with a friend, Alan Halsall, was reported by the Mirror as having been overheard in a pub.\n\nMr Turner was discussing how sexual abuse allegations had left him devastated, despite being cleared by a jury, and returning to Coronation Street.\n\nHe suggested he was not overheard because he and his friend deliberately chose a quiet corner of the pub away from members of the public.\n\nHe also said he spotted the photographer who took the pictures for the story in the back of a car with a long lens on the other side of the car park.\n\nRepeatedly he told the court he believed at the time of the story that people were selling stories about him.\n\n\"It made me question everything about who you were associating with and who to trust,\" he said.\n\nBut now he suspects his messages had been hacked.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers has previously apologised after a previous judge ruled that unlawful information gathering had been widespread at the publisher's titles.\n\nHowever MGN denies allegations made by the four claimants at the centre of this case, three of whom were chosen as representative of hundreds of people who could bring legal cases in future.\n\nPrince Harry has refused to settle out of court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShaun Bailey should consider declining his peerage over a lockdown party for staff on his failed London mayoral bid, senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says.\n\nGuests were invited to \"jingle and mingle\" at the 2020 Christmas gathering, at a time when indoor social events were banned.\n\nMr Bailey is set to become a lifetime member of the Lords, after Boris Johnson nominated him for a peerage.\n\nHe has said it was \"for others to decide\" whether he takes his seat.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether Mr Bailey should consider his position, Mr Ellwood replied: \"Absolutely, he needs to consider that, if we're being frank.\"\n\n\"There are big questions there, I don't think I can answer those now,\" added the chair of the Commons Defence Committee.\n\nIt comes after a video was published by the Mirror over the weekend, showing staff on Mr Bailey's campaign team drinking and dancing at the event in Tory HQ in London.\n\nIn the footage, one person is heard saying it is OK to film \"as long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules\".\n\nThe BBC has seen an invitation to the party, in which guests were asked to save the date for \"the Shaun Bailey for London Holiday Party\" and were invited to \"jingle and mingle\".\n\nIt was sent to 30 people on behalf of Ben Mallet, a former aide to Boris Johnson seen chatting to guests in the latest footage. He was awarded an OBE by the former prime minister in his resignation honours list earlier this month.\n\nAt the time, London was under Tier-2 restrictions which banned indoor socialising.\n\nThe Conservative Party said four people were disciplined over the event, although it has not named them.\n\nAlthough Mr Bailey does not feature in the footage, he has previously apologised for attending and was pictured in a still image from the event that first emerged in late 2021.\n\nHe apologised again on Monday, saying he had not seen the video but was \"very upset\" by it.\n\nHe said he had not chosen the team of staff seen in the video, but \"the buck eventually stops with me\".\n\n\"It obviously turned into something once I'd left, I didn't realise that,\" he added.\n\nHe has said it would be \"for others to decide\" whether he takes up his seat.\n\nHe added he considered it a \"great privilege\" and he would like to \"keep doing work for the rest of the country, and London as well\".\n\nHowever, the co-founder of a campaign group representing families bereaved by Covid said those involved should lose their honours.\n\nMatt Fowler, whose father Ian died in 2020, told the Guardian: \"For many of us it's much more difficult to see this in person. It's just been a really gut-wrenching experience all around.\"\n\nThe gathering on 14 December 2020 was organised by the campaign team for Mr Bailey, a Tory member of the London Assembly who was running to be the capital's mayor at the time.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police investigated after the still image emerged, but decided to take no action against those who attended. It has since said it is reviewing the new footage.\n\nMetropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said on Monday the force was not aware of the video during the inquiry, adding it \"tells a story way beyond the original photo\" published of the gathering.\n\n\"I need to let a team work through that, but I think we can all guess which way it will go,\" he told the News Agents podcast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the new Partygate video shows\n\nLife peers can voluntarily resign their membership of the House of Lords, but legislation is required to remove it.\n\nHowever, Hannah White from the Institute for Government think tank told Today they \"would retain, in theory, the title of the peerage\".\n\nFor other types of honours, such as MBEs and OBEs, the Forfeiture Committee - part of the Cabinet Office - can recommend to the monarch that an award be removed.\n\nHowever, it has no investigatory powers and can only reflect the \"findings of official investigations\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have written to the committee's chair asking him to open an investigation into withdrawing the whole of Mr Johnson's resignation honours.\n\nIn her letter, Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine said people attending the party receiving titles had \"brought the honours system into disrepute\".\n\nOn Sunday, housing secretary Michael Gove said he didn't think those attending the party recently given honours should lose their awards.\n\nHe added that \"the decision about who was on that list is Boris Johnson's\" - and the government needed to respect \"due process\".", "The overwhelming mood was one of cathartic anger.\n\nA sense from MP after MP - over five hours of debate - that Boris Johnson's actions and his words had managed to debase them all: debase politicians, debase politics, debase democracy.\n\nThose speaking up for Mr Johnson were few and far between.\n\nEven though the sanction against the former prime minister, who has already given up as an MP, was almost academic - Mr Johnson losing his right to a pass to access the Palace of Westminster - and the outcome of the debate near inevitable, this was a debate with energy and verve, with a core principle at its heart.\n\nWithout being able to assume what you are hearing is the truth, what is the point?\n\nBut there was also some blunt politics in play.\n\nThere wasn't really any need for a vote at the end of it all. It was obvious where the balance of opinion lay.\n\nBut it is mighty useful for opposition parties to be able to directly label individual Conservative MPs on how they chose to vote and whether they chose to vote.\n\n118 Conservative MPs backed the Privileges Committee report. Among them, Chief Whip Simon Hart and the education secretary for England, Gillian Keegan. Seven voted against it.\n\nBut that means more than 200 Tory MPs - the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the home secretary and the foreign secretary among them - did not vote at all.\n\nIt was, to use the jargon, a \"free vote\" on what is called a \"one-line whip\" - Conservative MPs could choose how or whether to vote without fear of party sanction. But that so many were equivocal will be seized upon by their political opponents.\n\nAlready Labour and the Liberal Democrats are branding the prime minister as \"weak\", who has gone out of his way in the last few days to swerve questions about it all by a country mile.\n\nSo ensuring there was a vote wasn't merely a way of quantifying Parliament's anger.\n\nIt was also a tool to needle away at the conflict many Conservative MPs wrestle with about Boris Johnson: his role in winning the last election, perhaps helping them win their seat. His role in delivering Brexit.\n\nHis role in Partygate, his spectacular downfall and the turmoil he has provoked in the last ten days.\n\nThe vote means a one-sentence description on how they approached it can be attached to every Conservative MP.\n\nDon't be surprised if one or two of these lines pop up on election leaflets before long.", "An influencer who bombarded Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount with messages has been given a suspended prison term.\n\nOrla Melissa Sloan, 22, who called herself Devil Baby on Instagram, used 21 phone numbers to target Mount.\n\nShe also stalked his ex-teammate Billy Gilmour and caused harassment to fellow Chelsea star Ben Chilwell.\n\nMount, 24, became worried she would turn up at the club's training ground in Cobham, Surrey, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nThe court was told Sloan slept with Mount after they met at a party at Chilwell's home in November 2020.\n\nProsecutor Jason Seetal told an earlier hearing the pair remained in contact for about six months before Mount \"decided that the relationship was not going to progress\".\n\nChelsea's Mason Mount was subjected to a four-month stalking campaign\n\nHe said: \"Upon informing Ms Sloan of this, he has been subjected to a bombardment of messages.\n\n\"He began asking her to stop messaging him before blocking the number.\n\n\"He then began to receive messages from new numbers and each time he would block those numbers, there would be messages from a different number.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old pleaded guilty to stalking and harassment\n\nMount was \"concerned she had an obsession or fixation with him and he didn't know what she was capable of\", Mr Seetal told the previous hearing.\n\nIn mitigation her lawyer Michael Cogan said she had been \"naive\" in not realising any relationship with Mount was not going to progress, adding that she was remorseful.\n\nSloan, who admitted stalking Mount and Gilmour and causing harassment to Chilwell, was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to complete 30 rehabilitation days and 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nadine Dorries claimed that John Nicolson had breached bullying rules at Westminster by \"liking\" disparaging tweets about her\n\nAn SNP MP has been cleared of bullying former UK government minister Nadine Dorries.\n\nMs Dorries had complained about John Nicolson's behaviour in a Commons committee and tweets about her that he had posted, liked or retweeted.\n\nThe liked tweets included references to Ms Dorries being a \"vacuous goon\".\n\nAn independent expert panel said Mr Nicolson had not been shown to have breached parliament's bullying and harassment policy.\n\nHe had appealed to the panel after an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards upheld the complaint against him that had been made by Ms Dorries.\n\nThe panel said the commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, had failed to take into account that the bullying and harassment policy was not intended to \"prevent vigorous opposition to the government\".\n\nIt also said he had not taken into account Ms Dorries' own record of tweeting, which the panel said was relevant when considering whether it was reasonable for her view of Mr Nicolson's conduct as bullying.\n\nAnd it said the commissioner had failed to consider that Ms Dorries had made similar complaints in the past which had been dismissed, and had not fully examined the chronology leading up to the her complaint against Mr Nicolson.\n\nMr Nicolson said the complaint against him was politically motivated\n\nThe panel's report said: \"A close examination of that evidence might have shed light on the true subjective reaction to the tweets on the part of the complainant, and whether her reaction was reasonable.\n\n\"For those reasons, the decision had to be set aside\".\n\nHowever, it said similar behaviour between MPs and staff members, or between MPs in different circumstances, might be breaches of the bullying and harassment policy.\n\nIt added: \"Anyone who experiences behaviour not in line with the parliamentary behaviour code will have their case considered on its own individual merits.\"\n\nThe panel also said Mr Nicolson had been \"unwise\" to like or retweet some of the tweets in question.\n\nThe commissioner's decision to uphold Mr Dorries' complaint had gone against the recommendation of the investigator assigned to the case, who concluded that Mr Nicolson had not breached the bullying and harassment policy.\n\nIn his appeal against that decision, Mr Nicolson - a former BBC journalist - told the independent panel that the complaint was \"political and personal\" rather than genuine.\n\nHe said it had been made because he had been \"effective in exposing the complainant's weakness as a minister and exposing problems with her own record, which might militate against her being accorded a peerage\".\n\nMs Dorries' allegations included claims that the Ochil and South Perthshire MP had tweeted, liked or retweeted disparaging material about her 168 times over a 24-hour period in November 2021.\n\nThe liked tweets were said to have included descriptions of Ms Dorries as being \"grotesque\", \"as thick as two short planks\" and a \"mendacious, vacuous goon\".\n\nShe also claimed to have been \"ragdolled\" by Mr Nicolson during exchanges in a meeting of the digital, media, culture and sport committee.\n\nShe was the secretary of state for that portfolio at the time, while Mr Nicolson is the SNP's spokesman.\n\nMs Dorries recently announced that she would be standing down as a Conservative MP after blaming \"dark forces\" for removing her name from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.", "The car left the road and hit a tree in the early hours of Tuesday, police said\n\nThree teenagers have died and a fourth is in a life-threatening condition after the car they were travelling in hit a tree.\n\nThe four were in a silver BMW that crashed on the A415 in Marcham, Oxfordshire, at about 00:10 BST.\n\nThe passengers, two 18-year-old men and a 17-year-old boy, all died. Police said their next of kin have been told.\n\nThe driver, an 18-year-old man from Oxfordshire, remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe site of the crash is on a bend in the road on the edge of the rural village of Marcham, near Abingdon. The A415 cuts through the village between Frilford and the A34.\n\nEmergency services have cleared the road but Scottish and Southern Energy was still working to make safe a live cable from a lamp-post.\n\nIt was not clear whether it was damaged by the car or the tree falling on it.\n\nSusie Jackson, who lives close to the scene, told the BBC: \"Something needs to be done about the road, it's too dangerous.\n\n\"There's been about four incidents in the last couple of years and there have been several fatalities here.\"\n\nResident Andrew James said he had known three serious accidents at that spot\n\nNearby resident Andrew James said he was woken up at 02:00 by flashing blue lights outside.\n\n\"There were about 20 police [officers] and two fire crews, and activity just down the road in the trees,\" he said.\n\nMr James added: \"This is the third serious accident at almost exactly the same spot. It's an unexpected curve, surrounded by trees, which seems to create a black spot.\n\n\"It is so sad to see yet another instance like this, especially with such tragic loss of life.\"\n\nResearch by the AA showed there had been 96 collisions on the A415 between 2013-18, 13% involving young drivers.\n\nSgt Matt Cadmore, from Thames Valley Police, said: \"This is an extremely tragic incident which has resulted in the deaths of three young men.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with their families and friends at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who witnessed the crash or with dashcam footage prior to it to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The long-anticipated report by MPs into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid lockdown parties in No 10 is finally out.\n\nThe report by the seven-member privileges committee followed a year-long investigation and runs to 106 pages.\n\nThe former prime minister stood down as an MP last week after receiving an advance copy, angrily accusing the committee of bias.\n\nHere are the key findings.\n\nThe main finding is that he deliberately misled the House of Commons by repeatedly telling it, after the Partygate scandal emerged, that Covid rules had been followed at all times in Downing Street.\n\nHe has already admitted MPs were misled by his original statements, but he says he believed them to be true at the time, and they were based on assurances he had received from officials.\n\nHowever, the report found he had \"personal knowledge\" of breaches of the rules and guidance in No 10.\n\nAnd it added he failed to proactively seek out \"authoritative\" assurances about compliance, which it said amounted to a \"deliberate closing of his mind\".\n\nIt concluded it was \"highly unlikely\" he had really believed the assurances he gave at the time, \"still less that he could continue to believe them to this day\".\n\nThe report therefore concluded he had committed a \"contempt\" of Parliament through his original reassurances, because they stopped MPs from carrying out their \"essential task\" of holding him to account.\n\nThey found that he had also committed a contempt by:\n\nThe committee found that the contempt was \"all the more serious\" because he was the most senior member of the government.\n\nOne key bit of evidence came from Martin Reynolds, his former principal private secretary, a civil servant.\n\nHe told the inquiry that, while preparing for a session of Prime Minister's Questions in December 2021, he had questioned whether it was \"realistic\" for Mr Johnson to say rules had always been followed.\n\nMr Johnson also said he'd been given assurances by his media advisers that rules were followed.\n\nBut the committee said this advice, given in response to press stories, should not have been used to make broad statements about rules being followed at all times.\n\nThe report said he should have obtained an \"authoritative assessment\" before saying this, for example by consulting government lawyers.\n\nThe committee also published new evidence, including a statement from an unnamed No 10 official that there was a \"wider culture of not adhering to any rules\" in the building.\n\nThe official added that birthday parties, leaving parties and end of week gatherings \"all continued as normal\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe committee said before Mr Johnson announced he was quitting as an MP, it had wanted to recommend suspending him from for more than 10 days.\n\nThis would have meant he would potentially have faced a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nThe report also revealed two of the committee's MPs, the SNP's Allan Dorans and Labour's Yvonne Fovargue, wanted to expel him from the Commons - but were outvoted.\n\nExpulsion is extremely rare in Parliament's history, having occurred only three times in the last hundred years or so.\n\nBut suspending him is no longer an option, given that he's already stood down as an MP in his blistering resignation statement last week.\n\nHowever, the report says that now, given what he's said about the committee, they would have recommended a ban of 90 days - an extremely long ban by the standards of recent years.\n\nAnd it says he should not get a parliamentary pass, which former MPs would normally be able to apply for.\n\nPerhaps the greatest punishment in the report, ultimately, will be the damage it does to his reputation among Conservative MPs - and what it means for his prospects of any future political comeback.", "Domestic transport was the biggest source of emissions\n\nScotland's target for cutting planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions has been missed after a bounce back following the pandemic.\n\nTotal emissions were 49.9% lower in 2021 than in 1990 but the target for the year was a 51.1% cut.\n\nIt is the eighth time in 12 years that the legally binding target has been missed.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was disappointed but that it was \"not far behind\" where it should be.\n\nDomestic transport was still the biggest source of emissions and was responsible for 26.2% of the total.\n\nEmissions in 2020 had dropped sharply because lockdown measures shut large sections of our economy and we were able to travel much less.\n\nWhile the figure for transport saw a jump of more than 10%, emissions from cars were still 17.5% lower than 2019, the year before the pandemic.\n\nDomestic aviation remained the same as 2020 but was half the levels of 2019, although this still accounted for just a fraction of total transport emissions.\n\nAgriculture narrowly overtook business as the second largest source of emissions.\n\nThe figures are calculated using seven different greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane.\n\nEmissions from the energy sector, business and international aviation and shipping have all fallen.\n\nThe energy supply sector saw another significant drop in emissions of around 9.2% which mean that since 1990 - the baseline year - they fell 77.6%.\n\nThe figures attribute the latest fall to a drop in the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation.\n\nWhile power from renewables fell sharply because there was less wind, the contribution from nuclear grew but the figures do not reflect the closure of Hunterston B nuclear power station in January 2022.\n\nThe Scottish government insisted the target had been missed \"narrowly\" by just 1.2 percentage points and did not reflect the policies introduced under its updated climate change plan in March 2021.\n\nIt said that while the change will be driven by government it cannot happen without the contributions of individuals, communities and businesses.\n\nNet Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan added: \"As the real life impacts of climate change become increasingly clear, we must go further and faster, and we will be introducing a draft of our new climate change plan later this year, which will contain even greater ambition while steering our emissions reduction pathway out to 2040.\"\n\nThe total emissions for 2021 were the equivalent of 41.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.\n\nA growth area was in waste incineration which contributed 19% of the total emissions from electricity generation.\n\nThat is expected to rise further in future years as more \"energy from waste\" plants begin operating.\n\nResidential emissions also grew by about 7% from 2020 to 2021 because colder winter temperatures at the start of the year meant we were burning more fuel to heat our homes.\n\nPower from renewables fell sharply because there was less wind\n\nThe Stop Climate Chaos Coalition has called for \"bold new action\" to drive down emissions in the worst polluting areas like transport.\n\nIt describes 2020's figures as a \"hollow success\" as a result of the pandemic lockdowns.\n\nChairman Mike Robinson added: \"Every missed target means more effort is required the following year, making it harder to meet our crucial goals.\"\n\nScottish Labour's net zero spokesperson Sarah Boyak accused the SNP of \"empty rhetoric and broken promises\".\n\nLiam Kerr, of the Scottish Conservatives, said it was \"particularly galling\" that the emissions target was missing in the year the COP26 climate summit was in Glasgow.", "Amazon has pledged to hire 5,000 Ukrainian and other refugees in Europe as part of a wider drive to help people fleeing persecution.\n\nHilton Hotels, Adecco and Microsoft are also among the firms promising to offer work or career support.\n\nIt comes as the global number of people forcibly displaced from their countries stands at a record 110 million.\n\nMargaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the European Commission, said far too many refugees could not find work.\n\n\"This is despite our endemic skills shortages, their high levels of education, desire to earn a living, and legal right to work [in the EU] through the Temporary Protection Directive,\" she said.\n\n\"This unprecedented show of support from businesses across the continent will be critical to enabling tens of thousands of Ukrainians to provide for themselves and their loved ones back in Ukraine.\"\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian refugees living in Europe stands at more than 5.9 million, including 1.3 million living in Russia and Belarus.\n\nMillions of others have fled conflicts and persecution in regions such as Syria, Sudan and Afghanistan.\n\nThe Tent Partnership for Refugees charity, which is co-ordinating the efforts, said most of the Ukrainian refugees in Europe were women and faced particular hurdles when finding jobs.\n\nThese ranged from not knowing the local language to having to juggle childcare responsibilities.\n\nUnder its initiative, big firms including Amazon, Hilton and Marriott have committed to hire 13,680 Ukrainians and other refugees for their workforce over the next three years.\n\nIn addition, staffing agencies such as Adecco will help 150,000 find work, while the likes of Accenture and Microsoft will help train more than 86,000.\n\nAmazon has already committed to hiring at least 5,000 refugees in the US by the end of 2024 under its Welcome Door programme.\n\nIt said it also provided financial support for immigration-related processes, access to self-help guides on settling into a new community and mentorship and training.\n\nThe firm, which employs 200,000 across Europe, said most of the new roles for refugees would be in areas such as fulfilment and distribution.\n\nHowever, J Ofori Agboka, a vice-president at the e-commerce giant, said workers would be eligible \"to move into jobs that are in different levels of the organisation that are commensurate with their skills and abilities\".", "The BB in Northern Ireland originally decided to become a separate body in 2022\n\nThe Boys' Brigade (BB) in Northern Ireland has finalised the terms of its split from the organisation in the UK and Ireland.\n\nA new organisation called the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade is to be established.\n\nBut companies from County Donegal will be able to remain in the Northern Ireland body as part of the agreement.\n\nThe final decision to set up the new organisation is expected to be approved at a meeting on Monday.\n\nThe BB in Northern Ireland originally decided to become a separate body in 2022.\n\nThe split with the BB in the UK and Ireland is due to differences over finance, governance and some \"cultural differences\" on faith matters.\n\nWith about 11,000 boys and 2,500 leaders in about 260 churches across Northern Ireland, the BB is one of NI's biggest youth organisations.\n\nIt is connected mainly to Presbyterian churches, as well as some other Protestant denominations.\n\nThe first BB company in Northern Ireland was set up in Donegall Pass in Belfast in 1888, five years after the organisation was founded in Glasgow.\n\nThere are now about 1,200 companies in the UK and Ireland as a whole, and many more in other countries across the world.\n\nBBC News NI understands that stances on LGBT issues accounted for some of the \"cultural differences\" with the BB in the UK and Ireland.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade said it did not hold a \"doctrinal position\" on LGBT issues.\n\n\"That is a matter for each church denomination with which we partner,\" they added.\n\nAccording to the terms of the split agreement, seen by BBC News NI, the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade \"would not actively seek to form companies in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\nBut the agreement with the BB in the UK and Ireland means \"Donegal companies will be part of the Northern Ireland Boys' Brigade\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland BB will also pay a \"fixed annual fee for five years\" for intellectual property to continue using the BB anchor emblem, logo, uniform and the \"Sure and Steadfast\" motto.\n\nThe organisation in Northern Ireland will continue to take part in UK-wide award and activity schemes for \"an initial period of five years\".\n\nThe decision for Northern Ireland to become an \"autonomous organisation\" was previously approved by an overwhelming majority of companies.\n\nAs a result the vote on the final split agreement is also expected to be approved at the Monday's meeting.\n\nBut some members of the BB who have contacted BBC News NI have been critical of the move, saying it creates a \"BB Irish Sea border\".", "The Church has set aside an initial £150m but scheme details have yet to be finalised\n\nThe Church of England has announced plans for what it says is the broadest and most ambitious compensation scheme of its kind for victims of abuse.\n\nBut survivors waiting years for redress say they had hoped for more details on when the scheme will be rolled out.\n\nIt will be open to anyone who has faced physical, sexual, emotional or spiritual abuse by someone representing the Church.\n\nBut some fear being re-traumatised by the application process.\n\nIn 2020, Church of England leaders made a commitment to settle compensation claims quickly where abuse had been acknowledged.\n\nIt now says a robust scheme will take some time to be established and the parameters are still being discussed.\n\nThe scheme will be administered by a still-to-be-determined third party.\n\nThe Church promises survivors who have never before come forward will be eligible.\n\n\"We want to take a broad and a generous approach to this and not a begrudging one that would sit ill with our commitment to provide genuine redress, to express genuine regret and repentance for what's happened,\" the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Truro, told the BBC.\n\nBut the bishop, chair of the Church of England's national redress board, acknowledged there was little idea of how many people might come forward.\n\nHe still promised redress would be delivered in a \"timely\" manner.\n\n\"It is a huge initiative, but survivors want a one-stop shop, and that's what this scheme is designed to provide them with,\" he said.\n\nThe Church is making a commitment to provide a financial settlement as well as emotional and therapeutic support and an apology as each survivor sees fit.\n\nJulian Whiting says people are nervous about having to engage with the Church\n\n\"It's about time but why couldn't the Church find it within itself to have done this years ago?,\" asked Julian Whiting, who suffered sexual abuse at a school run by the Church of England.\n\n\"If it's genuinely going to happen it's extremely good news, but we're nervous about being re-abused, having to engage with the Church about our stories,\" Mr Whiting said.\n\nHe is supportive of the scheme's very broad scope but is also concerned this could mean claims could yet take years to be settled.\n\nThe Church says its commissioners' board has agreed to set aside £150m in initial funding once the scheme is in place to ensure swift financial payouts.\n\nThe BBC understands that the eligibility of applicants will first be assessed, and there will be different bands of financial settlement for survivors, depending on the nature of the abuse and the way their case was handled.\n\nSome abuse survivors who before now independently pursued civil compensation have reported bad experiences in dealing with the Church.\n\nGilo: \"The Church's reputation is at stake here\"\n\nOne survivor who wants only to be known as Gilo says the process was \"shameful\" and \"toxic\" and he was treated like an adversary in spite of his abuse as a teenager by two senior members of the Church of England.\n\n\"The process was profoundly cruel and the new redress scheme must avoid that at all costs. They must make sure that it is a compassionate, authentic process of redress, not another circus,\" Gilo said.\n\n\"They need to step up to the plate and make sure that this is delivered properly. The Church's reputation is at stake here.\"\n\nOther survivors fear they will be retraumatised by having to prove abuse that has already been documented and acknowledged.\n\nBishop Mounstephen responded: \"I fully and entirely accept that there will be people who are cynical and sceptical about this and who have very good reason to be.\n\n\"I myself have encountered appalling practices in safeguarding and belittling of the experiences of survivors. And that is a source of great shame and of great regret.\n\n\"That's why it's all the more important that we get this right and do it well.\"\n\nAs the proposal is now put to the Church's national assembly, survivors await a clear idea of when the scheme will finally be open to applications.", "Veteran broadcaster Archie Macpherson was the voice - and the face - of Scottish football.\n\nBut behind that on-screen persona, the Sportscene presenter was suffering bleak periods of depression.\n\nAt the age of 86, he has spoken about the low points he kept hidden from friends and colleagues in football.\n\nSpeaking on a new BBC Scotland documentary series Icons of Football, Macpherson admitted to struggling with his mental health.\n\nHe said it struck at the height of his career but he did not speak about it until later in life.\n\n\"Depression is something that is invisible,\" he said. \"It burrows its way secretly into your very soul at times, inexplicably.\n\n\"On the surface I had a marvellous job, earning well, travelling the world and yet at times I felt black despair.\n\n\"And I got out of it eventually through talking.\"\n\nArchie Macpherson enjoyed a broadcasting career of more than five decades\n\nHe also revealed that he fell into sports broadcasting by accident.\n\nA teacher in North Lanarkshire in the late 1950s, he had ambitions of being a writer.\n\nAfter having a short story accepted by BBC Scotland's radio drama department, he asked if he could read it himself.\n\nTold he had to audition for this, he attended BBC Scotland's studios in Glasgow.\n\nWhile he was there, something happened to change the course of his life.\n\n\"When I was in the canteen, I bumped into a guy who said, 'Would you have an audition for sport?' I said yes, I went and did an audition for them and they hired me.\"\n\nHis first appearance for BBC Scotland was a day to remember.\n\nArchie Macpherson made his debut broadcast during the Cuban missile crisis started\n\n\"My debut for BBC Sport was on 27 October 1962. That was one of the most perilous days in the history of mankind,\" he said.\n\nThe rest of the world watched with worry as the threat of nuclear war loomed, with the USA and the Soviet Union at loggerheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis.\n\nMacpherson said: \"Nuclear missiles were heading for Cuba, so Armageddon was hanging over all our heads.\n\n\"What did I have to console myself with? Hamilton Accies against Stenhousemuir.\n\n\"So I always related Accies to the salvation of mankind. And more importantly to helping me start a new career.\"\n\nThe presenter made a name for himself when football TV broadcasting was in its infancy.\n\nHe was there when Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen challenged for glory in European finals.\n\nAnd he was there at various World Cups, including Scotland's infamous 1978 Argentina campaign\n\nMacpherson was introduced to a new audience when his commentary was included in 90s hit movie Trainspotting.\n\nHe remained as a presenter with BBC Scotland until 1990.", "CMO has total independence of thought, says Prof Davies\n\nKeith asks Davies if her role as chief medical officer (CMO) was equivalent to the role of departmental chief scientific adviser or if it had a greater degree of independence. She says the CMO has total independence of thought and ability to advise. The chief scientific adviser is there to advise their department. She says in that role she tried to help policy teams know what the latest stance was, she says. Keith then asks about The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and the role of the CMO when it comes to SAGE and dealing with a major health emergency. She says when she stared in 2010, the pandemic of flu of 2009-10 was declared over but she reviewed how things had went in that pandemic and said it wasn't a very good way of knitting together all the bits of advice to make it as affective as it should be. They came to an agreement over the following few years that in a medical emergency the CMO would co-chair in SAGE.", "The Titanic sits 3,800m (12,500ft) down at the bottom of the Atlantic (file image)\n\nSearch teams are racing against time to find a submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic's wreck.\n\nFive people were on board when contact with the small tourist sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive on Sunday.\n\nThere was about 40 hours of oxygen left in the sub as of 13:00 EST (18:00 BST) on Tuesday, the US Coast Guard said.\n\nThe rescue operation has expanded into deeper waters in the mid-Atlantic, but so far, nothing has been found.\n\nThe five people on board are British businessman Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Stockton Rush - the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm behind the dive.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Capt Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard said crews were \"working around the clock\" to find the sub, but so far, the search had \"not yielded any results\".\n\nHe added it was a \"very complex search\" across an \"enormous amount of distance\".\n\nUS and Canadian agencies, navies and commercial deep-sea firms are all helping the rescue operation, using military planes, a submarine and sonar buoys. Several private vessels are assisting.\n\nA commercial pipe-laying ship, Deep Energy, with remote submersibles has also arrived at the site.\n\nOceanographer and world-renowned shipwreck hunter, David Mearns, told the BBC that he was hopeful Deep Energy's subs could reach the 3,800m (12,500ft) depth of the Titanic wreck to search for the missing vehicle.\n\nMr Mearns knows two of the passengers on board personally - Mr Harding, 58, and Mr Nargeolet, 77.\n\nMr Harding is a renowned explorer who has flown to space and holds three Guinness World Records. At the weekend, he said he was \"proud to finally announce\" that he was part of the mission.\n\nMr Nargeolet is a former French navy officer and diver, and also director of underwater research at a company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nPakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and Hamish Harding (on the left)\n\nTitanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, in Canada, though the rescue mission is being run from the US city of Boston in Massachusetts.\n\nThe US Coast Guard said research ships the Polar Prince - which was the support ship on Sunday's tourist expedition - and Deep Energy are continuing to search the ocean's surface.\n\nA Canadian P3 Aurora aircraft is carrying out sonar searches of the area, which as of Tuesday morning was of more than 10,000 sq miles (26,900 sq km), the Coast Guard added.\n\nOn Tuesday, France's sea ministry diverted the Atalante, a vessel equipped with a subsea robot, to assist with the search.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2022, the BBC filmed inside the Titan sub with the company's boss Stockton Rush\n\nThe missing craft is tour firm OceanGate's Titan submersible, which CBS journalist David Pogue travelled aboard last year to reach the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nHe has told the BBC that when the support ship is directly above the sub, short text messages are able to be sent between the two.\n\nOtherwise, communication via GPS or radio systems is not available as neither work underwater.\n\nMr Pogue said it was also not possible for those aboard the sub to escape by themselves because they are sealed inside by bolts applied from the outside.\n\nA submersible vessel is different from a submarine. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a submarine can launch itself into the ocean from a port independently, while a submersible has very limited power reserves so needs a mother ship that can launch it and recover it.\n\nAdded to this is the fact that visibility is quickly lost below the surface of the water as light cannot penetrate far.\n\nThe OceanGate website lists three submersibles it owns, and only the Titan is capable of diving deep enough to reach the Titanic wreckage.\n\nThe vessel weighs 23,000lb (10,432 kg) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 13,100ft.\n\nTickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip, including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m.\n\nOn social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nHe later wrote: \"A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow.\"\n\nOceanGate said it had \"been unable to establish communications with one of our submersible exploration vehicles\", but that its \"entire focus [was] on the crew members in the submersible and their families\".\n\n\"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep-sea companies in our efforts to re-establish contact with the submersible,\" it added.\n\nThe company bills the eight-day trip on its carbon-fibre submersible as a \"chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary\".\n\nIt sets sail from St John's in Newfoundland, with each full dive to the wreck, including the descent and ascent, reportedly taking around eight hours.\n\nAccording to its website, one expedition is ongoing and two more have been planned for June 2024.\n\nThe Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 died.\n\nIts wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.\n\nDo you have information about this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men who made the same trip in a tourist submersible that has now gone missing during a Titanic wreck dive have shared their fears over whether those stuck inside can escape.\n\nThe craft went missing in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, prompting a major search and rescue operation.\n\nA journalist who travelled last year aboard the submersible said it would be impossible to escape without help.\n\nAnd it would be challenging for rescuers to find it in time, he said.\n\nCBS correspondent David Pogue - who took the trip last year and wrote an account of it - explained to the BBC that passengers were sealed inside the main capsule by several bolts that were applied from the outside and had to be removed by an external crew.\n\nHe told The Context programme that the craft, which is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, had seven different functions to allow it to resurface and that it was \"really concerning\" none of these had so far worked.\n\nHowever, Mr Pogue said the vessel's resurfacing capabilities would be irrelevant if the sub became trapped or sprang a leak.\n\n\"There's no backup, there's no escape pod,\" he said. \"It's get to the surface or die.\"\n\nMike Reiss, a TV comedy writer who worked on The Simpsons and also took the trip last year, said he was \"not optimistic\"\n\n\"I know the logistics of it and I know how vast the ocean is and how very tiny this craft is,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"If it's down at the bottom I don't know how anyone is going to be able to access it, much less bring it back up,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2022, the BBC filmed inside the Titanic sub with the company's boss Stockton Rush\n\nMr Reiss said communication was also lost during all three of his dives, including that to the Titanic.\n\nRescuers are racing against time to locate the missing sub, which normally carries around four days-worth of oxygen for a crew of five, according to the US Coast Guard.\n\nGovernment agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.\n\nBut further complicating the recovery mission is the fact that GPS does not work underwater, nor does radio - meaning there is currently \"no way\" to communicate with the vessel.\n\n\"When the support ship is directly over the sub, they can send short text messages back and forth. Clearly those are no longer getting a response,\" Mr Pogue said, adding that Titan had got lost for about three hours during the expedition he was on last year.\n\nHe described being initially hesitant about going aboard the sub at all because some of the components appeared \"off the shelf, sort of improvised\".\n\n\"You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mike went to see the Titanic before and says we're all aware of the risks, it's not a lark\n\nMr Pogue said he had been reassured by Titan's inventor and Stockton Rush, the chief executive of OceanGate, that the carbon-fibre main capsule had been co-designed with Nasa and the University of Washington and was \"rock solid\".\n\nMr Reiss said that the Titan is \"a beautifully designed craft\" but that problems can arise due to the nature of the expedition.\n\n\"This is not to say this is a shoddy ship or anything, it's just that this is all new technology and they're learning it as they go along.\n\n\"You have to just remember the early days of the space programme or the early days of aviation, where you just make a lot of mistakes on the way to figuring out what you're doing.\"\n\nTitanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston, Massachusetts.\n\nAmong those aboard the submersible is the British billionaire businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, according to his family.\n\nPakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, were also on board, their family said in a statement.\n\nFrench explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet is thought to be on board, according to a Facebook post by Mr Harding before the dive started\n\nMr Rush, the head of OceanGate is also being widely reported to be on the vessel.\n\nThe missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible (pictured)\n\nIn a statement on Monday, OceanGate said its \"entire focus [was] on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families\".\n\nThe company added that it was \"deeply thankful\" for the \"extensive assistance\" it had been given from government agencies and companies involved in deep sea operations.\n\nThe Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.\n\nIts wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.", "The CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board the Titan\n\nAll five passengers on board the missing Titan submersible are dead, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.\n\nOfficials say they found parts of the vessel amidst debris near the wreckage of the Titanic.\n\nThe debris was consistent with the \"catastrophic implosion of the vessel\", Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.\n\nThe CEO of the submersible company, a British billionaire explorer, a French diver and a father and son were all on board.\n\nMr Mauger said he could not confirm whether their bodies would be recovered because of the \"incredibly unforgiving environment\" of the ocean.\n\nHere is what we know about them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: OceanGate boss Stockton Rush on his passion for the seas - and for taking risks\n\nStockton Rush was the chief executive of OceanGate, the firm which runs the Titanic voyages, and the company confirmed he was on board.\n\nHe was an experienced engineer who had previously designed an experimental aircraft and worked on other small submersible vessels.\n\nMr Rush founded the company in 2009, offering customers a chance to experience deep sea travel, and made global headlines in 2021 when it began offering trips to the site of the Titanic wreck.\n\nFor $250,000 (£195,600), his company offers passengers the opportunity to get an up-close glimpse of what remains of the famous ship.\n\nParticipants travel some 370 miles (595km) on a larger ship to the area above the wreck site, then do an eight-hour dive to the Titanic on a truck-sized submersible known as Titan.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times in 2022, he defended the business model, and said the ticket price was a \"fraction of the cost of going to space and it's very expensive for us to get these ships and go out there\".\n\nA 2017 feature written for the website of Princeton University, where he studied, reported that Mr Rush goes on every OceanGate dive.\n\nMr Rush was married to Wendy Rush, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic wreck after letting women and children escape before them.\n\nMike Reiss, a writer and producer of The Simpsons, went on a Titanic dive in a different OceanGate submersible with Mr Rush. He said the CEO was a \"magnetic man\", the New York Times reported, adding that he was \"the last of the American dreamers\".\n\nHamish Harding has flown to space and visited the South Pole\n\nThe British adventurer ran Action Aviation, a Dubai-based private jet dealership, and completed several exploration feats.\n\nHe visited the South Pole multiple times - once with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and flew into space in 2022 on board Blue Origin's fifth human-crewed flight.\n\nHe held three Guinness World Records, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.\n\nIn summer 2022, he told Business Aviation Magazine that he grew up in Hong Kong, qualified as a pilot in the mid-1980s while studying at Cambridge, and set up his aircraft firm after making money in banking software.\n\nHe said the Titanic dive had been meant to take place in June 2022 but was delayed because \"the submersible was unfortunately damaged on its previous dive\". He said no-one was injured in the incident.\n\nAsked about his appetite for exploration, he said: \"My view is that these are all calculated risks and are well understood before we start.\"\n\nLast weekend, he said on Facebook that the mission was \"likely to be the first and only in 2023\" because of poor weather conditions in Newfoundland, Canada, where the missions set off from.\n\nLater, his stepson Brian Szasz said in a now-deleted post on Facebook that his stepfather \"has gone missing on (the) submarine\".\n\nFriend David Mearns, a marine scientist and expedition leader, described Mr Harding as a \"very charming guy\" who was attracted to extreme adventures.\n\nPatrick Woodhead, founder of British tour operator White Desert Antarctica, said Mr Harding was an \"incredible\" aviation explorer, and that his thoughts and prayers were with Mr Harding's wife, Linda, and his sons.\n\nTerry Virts, a retired Nasa astronaut, said his friend was the \"quintessential British explorer\" who loved adventure and exploring, but was not an adrenaline junkie.\n\n\"Some people watch Netflix, some people play golf, and Hamish goes to the bottom of the ocean, or into space, and he's set world records flying around the planet,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nLucy Cosnett, Mr Harding's cousin and goddaughter, called for a full investigation into his death as she described him as a \"lovely caring person\".\n\n\"When I read they had heard banging noises I was feeling hopeful that maybe it was coming from the submersible. But then yesterday was the worst when I heard that he didn't make it, that they all died,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been more safety checks done. The company OceanGate should have done more… it should be fully investigated, to see what went wrong, why it happened, why they didn't survive.\"\n\nMs Cosnett added she was also feeling sad that she would not be able to wish her godfather a happy birthday as he would have turned 59 years old this weekend.\n\nMr Harding - along with Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was also on board - was a member of the Explorers Club, a little known century-old exploration group whose members have included Sir Edmund Hillary and Amelia Earhart.\n\nIts president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, said Mr Harding's excitement over the expedition had been palpable during a meeting at last week's Global Exploration Summit.\n\nBritish businessman Shahzada Dawood was from one of Pakistan's richest families. He was travelling on the sub with his son Suleman, a student.\n\nMr Dawood lived with his wife, Christine, and other child, Alina, in Surbiton, south-west London. The family were spending a month in Canada prior to the dive.\n\nShahzada was vice-chairman of Pakistani conglomerate Engro Corporation, which is a large fertiliser firm.\n\nHe worked with his family's Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute, a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.\n\nShahzada was also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles III - the British Asian Trust and the Prince's Trust International.\n\nA Palace spokesperson previously said the King's \"thoughts and prayers\" were with all those onboard.\n\nWill Straw, the chief executive officer of Prince's Trust International, said he was \"deeply saddened by this terrible news\".\n\nThe British Asian Trust said it was an \"unfathomable tragedy\".\n\n\"We try to find solace in the enduring legacy of humility and humanity that they have left behind and find comfort in the belief that they passed on to the next leg of their spiritual journey hand-in-hand, father and son,\" a spokesperson for the trust added.\n\nShahzada's family said he was interested in \"exploring different natural habitats\", and had previously spoken at both the United Nations and Oxford Union.\n\nHe studied in Philadelphia, in the US, and the University of Buckingham in England, where he graduated in 1998.\n\nSuleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he had just completed his first year at the university's Business School.\n\nFollowing news of his and his father's death, Suleman's aunt told NBC News the 19-year-old had said he felt \"terrified\" about the trip, but wanted to please his dad.\n\nA family statement described the teenager as a \"big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things\", and having an interest in Rubik's cubes and playing volleyball.\n\nHe recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, according to local media reports.\n\nThe university's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, wrote to students to inform them that Suleman was in the missing sub.\n\nHe said the student wellbeing team was available to support those affected by the news.\n\nThe plight of Suleman and his fellow passengers had been raised at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said: \"My thoughts are very much with the families and the communities that are affected.\"\n\nPaul-Henry Nargeolet was a diver in the French Navy\n\nAlso on board was Mr Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.\n\nNicknamed Mr Titanic, he reportedly spent more time at the wreck than any other explorer and was part of the first expedition to visit it in 1987, just two years after it was found.\n\nHe was director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.\n\nAccording to a company profile, Mr Nargeolet supervised the recovery of thousands of Titanic artefacts, including the \"big piece\", a 20-tonne section of the boat's hull.\n\nFamily spokesman Mathieu Johann described Mr Nargeolet as a \"super-hero for us in France\".\n\n\"He is the world specialist on the Titanic, its conception, the shipwreck, he has dived in four corners of the world,\" he told Reuters.\n\nÉric Derrien, director at Genavir, a subsidiary of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, where Mr Nargeolet had worked for more than 10 years, said staff \"shared the grief of his family and friends\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened by the death of this insatiable explorer of the ocean, who left his mark on Genavir. His dives will remain engraved in the memory of French oceanography,\" he said.\n\n\"We would also like to extend our sincerest condolences to the families of the Titan's other passengers.\"\n\nShortly before boarding the sub, Mr Nargeolet said he had been looking forward to an expedition next year to recover objects from the wreck, he added.\n\nMr Nargeolet's wife, Anne, who is French, lives in Connecticut, while his children live outside of France, according to Reuters.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lucy Letby, 33, is accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward\n\nNurse Lucy Letby enjoyed \"playing God\" at the hospital where she is accused of murdering and attacking babies, her trial has heard.\n\nShe was said to be \"completely out of control\" with the \"misplaced confidence she could pretty much do whatever she wanted\" after her alleged sixth murder.\n\nThe 33-year-old denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further 10 at Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nHer trial heard she was \"enjoying what was going on\" and \"controlling things\".\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC has been continuing his closing speech to the jury at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nHe reminded them of the allegation that Ms Letby killed one premature boy, referred to as Child O, in June 2016 on her return from a week's holiday in Ibiza.\n\nThe court previously heard Child O was in good condition and stable up until the afternoon of 23 June, when he suffered a \"remarkable deterioration\" and died.\n\nThe boy was one of triplets and his brother, referred to as Child P, died just over 24 hours later after also being allegedly attacked by the nurse.\n\nThe jury has heard Child O's death was a result of an \"inflicted traumatic injury to the liver\" and the injection of air into his bloodstream and via a nasogastric tube.\n\nMs Letby gave evidence in her defence during the trial\n\nMr Johnson said on the afternoon of 23 June Ms Letby \"deliberately overfed\" Child O.\n\nHe told the court that on that morning the nurse was \"clearly missing\" a registrar, who the prosecution have previously suggested Ms Letby \"had a crush on\".\n\nThe registrar, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was on duties away from the neonatal unit at the time.\n\nDuring the morning, Ms Letby texted him to say: \"Bit rubbish that you couldn't stay on [the unit].\"\n\nMr Johnson said Ms Letby's act of \"sabotaging\" Child O was her way of attracting the attention of the doctor.\n\nThe prosecutor said the doctor was \"somebody that we suggest she was very keen on. Not just as a friend\".\n\nIn cross examination, the nurse denied wanting to attract the attention of the doctor and denied sabotaging the baby.\n\nChild O continued to decline throughout the afternoon of 23 June and was pronounced dead at 17:47 BST.\n\nBruising was found on the boy's liver during the ensuing post-mortem examination, the court heard.\n\nThe alleged attacks were said to have been carried out at Countess of Chester hospital\n\nDr Andreas Marnerides, an expert in neonatal pathology, previously told the jury that the \"most likely\" cause of the bruising was \"an impact type of injury\", the force of which was akin to the boy being in a road accident.\n\nMr Johnson said the murder of Child O was \"cruel and it was violent\".\n\nHe said the nurse \"combined all three methods [overfeeding, injection of air and assault] she had previously used to such devastating effect on the other children\".\n\nThe barrister added: \"By this stage she was completely out of control.\n\n\"The fact she had got away with so much by the time she returned from Ibiza gave her the misplaced confidence that she could pretty much do whatever she wanted,\" he said.\n\nAfter the death of Child O, Mr Johnson said Ms Letby \"was determined to mete out the same treatment to [Child P] the very next day.\"\n\nHe said the accused's actions towards Child P displayed her \"malevolence at its height\".\n\nHe accused Ms Letby of doing \"something to destabilise\" Child P before she left her shift on 23 June and pointed out that she text a colleague that evening which read: \"Worry as identical.\"\n\n\"This is gaslighting at its very worst isn't it,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"She was laying the ground for her attack on [Child P].\"\n\nAfter Child P collapsed on 24 June preparations were put in place to move him to another hospital.\n\nJust before the planned transfer, Ms Letby is said to have said to a doctor \"he's not leaving here alive, is he?\".\n\nMr Johnson said the accused made this comment as she \"knew what was going to happen\".\n\nHe said: \"She was controlling things. She was enjoying what was going on and happily predicting something she knew was going to happen.\n\n\"She, in effect, was playing God.\"\n\nIn the week following the deaths of Child O and P, Ms Letby was removed from the unit by hospital managers and given a clerical role, where she remained until her arrest in 2018.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thirty-two teams will compete in this year's Women's World Cup\n\nThe world's top women footballers are being put at risk because of a lack of pay, medical supervision and suitable training facilities, according to a new report.\n\nThe players' union Fifpro says conditions are a \"barrier to performance\" at the world's six continental championships.\n\nAll, except Europe's, are used as qualifying rounds for the World Cup.\n\nThe BBC has asked world football's governing body Fifa for comment.\n\nFifpro are warning that inadequate playing and support conditions are having a big impact on the health and wellbeing of international football players. A previous Fifpro study suggested that more than one in three footballers experience depressive symptoms.\n\nEarlier this year, Fifa announced equal conditions - but not equal prize money - for its women's and men's World Cup tournaments, including better travel provisions and private hotel rooms for each player.\n\nNow Fifpro are calling for equal conditions when it comes to the pathways to the World Cup as well.\n\n\"The obligations and pressures have increased with the upward trajectory of professionalisation but the conditions and wellbeing of players has either stayed the same or actually decreased,\" Dr Alex Culvin, Fifpro's head of research for women's football told the BBC's 100 Women.\n\nFor her, its crucial that the right care is offered to the more than half of players who reported either not receiving, or not being aware of, mental health support.\n\nFifpro says almost one in three players surveyed said they are not paid by their national team for these matches. More than half said they didn't get a pre-tournament medical examination.\n\n\"It is not an environment that supports players to be at their best all of the time,\" says Sarah Gregorius, Fifpro's director of strategic relations for women's football.\n\nWhen it comes to pre-tournament medicals, she says, \"the numbers on their own are quite shocking and dangerous\".\n\nShe wants to see all players offered one and anything less is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMany countries have a long history of men's professional football and experts say this established infrastructure is partly why medical care for male players is more consistent compared to women's football.\n\n\"Because of the limited number of [women's] professional clubs who offer professional standards... the need for women players to have these tests done at the international level is greater,\" says Dr Culvin.\n\nShe points to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) as an example of what can be achieved - its players reported a much higher likelihood of receiving adequate health checks compared to players at other confederation championships.\n\n\"Caf had made a real effort to give a medical and an ECG [electrocardiogram - to check heart rhythms] to all of the players... so when confederations make it a priority, the data can shift,\" she says.\n\nNearly all of those who took part in the Fifpro research said that pay and prize money needed to be improved.\n\nAlmost one third of those surveyed said they had to take unpaid leave from other employment to take part in qualifying rounds.\n\n\"Players have to make a choice between competing for their national team in international tournaments or maintaining their second job and another source of income. A choice players should not have to make,\" says Fifpro in its report.\n\nAs part of Fifa's recent commitment to minimum conditions for this year's Women's World Cup tournament - taking place in Australia and New Zealand - it promised a share of prize money for players.\n\nEach individual player from the squad of up to 23 players will be given an amount of money depending on their team's achievement in the competition, from $30,000 (£23,476) for those exiting at the group stage, up to $270,000 (£211,286) for each player in the winning team.\n\nQualifying for the Women's World Cup has made Zambia pay attention to women's football, says Evarine Katongo\n\nThis year will be the first time a team from Zambia - men's or women's - will appear in a football World Cup competition. It has made everyone in the country pay attention to women's football, says Evarine Katongo, a midfielder on the qualifying team.\n\nShe thinks Fifa's promise is a step in the right direction for footballers who come from challenging backgrounds or low incomes.\n\n\"It really will make an impact, especially to the African players,\" she says. \"It will really help them to do good for their family and probably it will help them make ends meet.\"\n\nAlthough she sees women's football becoming more popular in Zambia, when it comes to pursuing her own dreams, Evarine says success lies abroad, where there is more money and opportunity.\n\n\"My dream for myself at the World Cup is to be scouted by another team,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't see myself playing for the local league in Zambia again after the World Cup.\"\n\nOne player who has achieved success with a bigger club is Colombian international Leicy Santos, who moved to Spain to play professionally for Atletico Madrid in 2019.\n\nEarlier in her career, she faced immense financial hardship in order to pursue her dream.\n\n\"I come from a very humble family,\" she says of her time growing up in rural Colombia.\n\nLeicy Santos will be playing in her second World Cup this year, after first appearing for Colombia in 2015\n\n\"Until I joined the Colombian national team in 2012, I didn't have any financial support. Then I started to earn a small amount of money every time I went to training, they [the national team] paid my travel expenses,\" she says.\n\n\"At that point I stopped asking my parents for money and rather helped them as much as I could, but what they [the national team] paid me wasn't much either.\"\n\nDespite being part of the national team, it still wasn't possible for her to make a living only from football, and Leicy says she cleaned houses with her mother to help contribute towards the family's income.\n\n\"The reality is that you don't have a constant support that allows you to make a living from football and focus only on the sport,\" she says.\n\nIn 2019, Atletico Madrid signed Leicy and that's when she noticed a huge change in her professional experience.\n\n\"I am in a club that offers me everything - training facilities, medical services, a salary,\" she says.\n\n\"I know that I am privileged; there are clubs that even in my same league here in Spain do not provide any of this and [the players] have a very bad time.\"\n\nOrganisers are hoping a record two billion people will watch the Women's World Cup this year, nearly double the 1.12 billion viewers for the 2019 tournament in France.\n\n\"I just think it's an incredible way to smash the stereotypes that have persisted,\" says Jennifer Cooper, UN Women's sport lead.\n\n\"It shows that women are capable. It provides role models and dreams for girls and... it normalises that men and women both play football.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Fifa, the six confederations and the national teams for Colombia and Zambia to make a statement but none were provided.", "Stephen McKinney has always denied killing his wife\n\nJurors found a man guilty of murdering his wife after \"an overwhelmingly strong prosecution case\", a court has heard.\n\nStephen McKinney was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for murdering Lu Na McKinney.\n\nShe drowned during a boating holiday in County Fermanagh in April 2017.\n\nMcKinney, who is originally from Strabane, is seeking to overturn his conviction and also challenge the sentence.\n\nA prosecution lawyer told the Court of Appeal there was no unfairness to the defendant during his trial.\n\nThe body of Mrs McKinney, 35, was recovered from Lough Erne near a jetty at Devenish Island, where the couple were moored on a cruise with their two young children.\n\nMcKinney, 46, claimed his wife fell into the water while on deck to check mooring ropes and that he tried to save her.\n\nBut in 2021 a jury at Dungannon Crown Court found him guilty of his wife's murder after accepting the prosecution case that it was not a boating accident.\n\nMcKinney's lawyers have advanced a number of grounds in his attempt to have the verdict declared unsafe.\n\nProsecution lawyer Richard Weir KC said the sudden death of one of the two defence barristers before the end of the trial was tragic.\n\nHowever he argued that every effort was made by the judge to ensure the trial continued to be fair.\n\nHe said issues regarding the admissibility of evidence were also ruled on by the trial judge and that evidence was not changed or exaggerated.\n\nThe jury were attentive throughout the trial and the judge was \"above criticism\" in her \"fair, comprehensive and effective\" charge to them.\n\n\"Given the overwhelming nature of the Crown case, nothing should cause this court unease or disquiet in any way,\" Mr Weir added.\n\nThe three appeal court judges will listen to the recording of the 999 calls McKinney made on the night his wife drowned.\n\nLady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan said judgement in the appeal would be reserved and a ruling will be given as soon as possible.", "MPs have voted to approve a report which found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over parties at Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nHe would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP, but quit after seeing the findings in advance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor says some of the mortgage relief schemes being talked about would prolong the \"inflationary agony\".\n\nThe government has ruled out introducing major financial support to mortgage holders over fears it would drive the cost of living higher.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said offering mortgage relief schemes would \"make inflation worse, not better\".\n\nBut he said he would meet mortgage lenders later this week to ask what help they could give to households struggling with rising bills.\n\nBut the government said it was \"spending record amounts\" helping people and that it already had \"specific tools\" to provide support, citing help - in the form of a loan - for people who receive benefits.\n\nA spokesperson added households had been provided with £3,300 each on average to help ease the cost of living pressures.\n\nConservative MP Sir Jake Berry asked Mr Hunt in Parliament on Tuesday to consider \"reintroducing a bold Conservative idea of mortgage interest relief at source\" to avoid what he described as a \"mortgage bomb\" happening.\n\n\"If we don't help families now all the other money we have spent helping them will be wasted if they lose their home,\" he said.\n\nBut the chancellor said the government was not considering such a move.\n\n\"Those kind of schemes, which involve injecting large amounts of cash into the economy, would be inflationary,\" he said.\"As much as we sympathise with the difficulties and do everything we can to help people seeing their mortgage costs go up, we won't do anything that would mean we prolong inflation.\"\n\nMr Hunt said he would be meeting the principal lenders to ask what help they could give to people struggling to pay more expensive mortgages and \"what flexibilities might be possible for families in arrears\".\n\nInflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, stood at 8.7% in April, meaning consumer prices overall were 8.7% higher than they were in April 2022.\n\nIn an attempt to reduce inflation, the Bank of England has been raising interest rates, making the cost of borrowing, including for a mortgage, more expensive.\n\nIt is expected that the Bank will raise rates further this week and that they will stay higher for longer.\n\nPrior to the Bank's decision, expectations of a rise has already been reflected in the funding cost of mortgages, hitting new borrowers, and people trying to remortgage.\n\nLenders have been pulling deals and putting up rates at short notice and on Monday the average rate on a two-year fixed deal rose above 6%.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also called for mortgage relief and a mortgage protection fund, but Treasury minister Andrew Griffith said such policies would delay bringing down inflation.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves asked Mr Hunt where are families \"going to get the money to pay the Tory mortgage penalty\", claiming that higher costs were a \"a consequence of the Conservative mini-budget last year and 13 years of economic failure\".", "First LV= Insurance Ashes Test, Edgbaston (day five of five)\n\nAustralia somehow prevailed in one of the all-time great Ashes Tests to beat England by two wickets and take a 1-0 lead in the series.\n\nOn an unbearably tense final day of another Edgbaston classic, ninth-wicket pair Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon added an unbroken 55 to defy the raucous crowd and get Australia to their target of 281.\n\nIn doing so, they exacted revenge for Australia's famous two-run defeat on this ground 18 years ago, when the tailenders just fell short of reaching a target of 282.\n\nCummins, with 44 not out, and Lyon's unbeaten 16 took Australia to their narrowest Ashes win in terms of wickets since 1907.\n\nEngland looked to be surging towards victory when captain Ben Stokes produced a magical slower ball to bowl Usman Khawaja for 65 and Joe Root held a stunning return catch off Alex Carey.\n\nBut as a breathless match entered its final hour, Cummins and Lyon swung the bat at England's short-ball plan to inch Australia closer.\n\nStokes almost dismissed Lyon with a flying catch for the ages when 37 were still needed, the skipper losing control of the ball as he dived backwards at square leg.\n\nThe target ticked down, the evening drew in. With three runs required and less than five overs remaining, Cummins deflected Ollie Robinson towards third man, a diving Harry Brook fumbled and Australia had an incredible victory.\n\nA series that has already lived up to the hype continues with the second Test at Lord's on 28 June.\n• None 'Cummins is The Boss but England can come back'\n• None Relive an incredible day with all the best clips\n• None Watch the highlights on Today at the Test\n\nThis was not just an homage to the epic contest on the same ground 18 years ago, but the perfect opening to the most anticipated Ashes series in a generation.\n\nFrom the moment Zak Crawley crunched the first ball of the series for four, this Test had everything: England's daring first-day declaration, Root's attempted reverse-ramp off Cummins from the first ball of day four and the fascinating clash of style between the two teams.\n\nBut none of that could match the nerve-shredding drama of the final hour, played out in front of a buoyant crowd that had earlier waited until 14:15 BST for rain to pass and play to begin.\n\nEngland have been involved in some thrilling Tests since Stokes took charge, but none with the stakes as high as this. In truth, they wasted chances throughout, but have shown enough quality, endeavour and bravery to suggest they have what it takes to get back into the series.\n\nFor Australia, the narrow win just about vindicates their cautious approach to combatting England's Bazballers. It was fitting that captain Cummins, the architect of the safety-first plan, played the vital role on the final day.\n\nThis was magnificent sporting theatre, whetting the appetite for the rest of the series and for the Test between England and Australia's women, which begins at Trent Bridge on Thursday.\n\nCummins and Lyon get revenge 18 years in the making\n\nIn 2005, Australia arrived on the fourth morning needing 107 with only two wickets remaining and almost got them thanks to the efforts of their last three batters - Shane Warne, Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz.\n\nFrom a position almost as hopeless, Cummins and Lyon launched their own rescue mission and this time got Australia over the line.\n\nThe tourists had been almost inert for most of the day. At 107-3 overnight, they did not shift from a neutral gear. Khawaja, who made a century in the first innings, added only 31 runs from 116 balls and looked immovable.\n\nStokes somehow conjured the slower ball from his fragile body and Root held on to Carey to make England favourites, but fearsome competitors Cummins and Lyon refused to yield.\n\nRoot had already failed to cling on to a low caught-and-bowled chance when Cummins had six and the captain would later make him pay by crashing 14 from a single over.\n\nIn the next over, Stokes flung himself at a catch that would have matched his grab in the 2019 World Cup, but this time could not hold on.\n\nThe new ball was belatedly taken, but Australia's confidence grew. For every time the outside edge was beaten, a single was pinched. Cummins slapped Robinson past a flying Ollie Pope at cover, Lyon twice belted Stuart Broad down the ground for fours.\n\nThe outside edge was beaten, England kept the field back, James Anderson was ignored. Australia were within one hit of victory for more than two overs.\n\nWith three required, Cummins fended off a short ball and the flailing Brook could not prevent the boundary. Australia ended on 282 - their target back in 2005 - and the brilliant Cummins threw his bat in the air to begin wild celebrations.\n\nEngland had lost two of their past 12 Tests and one of those, against New Zealand in Wellington in February, was by just one run after they had made the Black Caps follow on.\n\nThis, though, will test the resolve of their new attitude under captain Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum like never before. Not because their swashbuckling style has failed its first examination by Australia, but because they were so close to winning and it is their own errors that have cost them.\n\nThey missed eight chances of varying difficulty in the field, four of which were by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow. Most crucially, Bairstow failed to move for an edge when Khawaja had only five on the fourth evening.\n\nQuestions will linger over Stokes' decision to declare on the first evening and the fitness of Moeen Ali, who was badly hampered by a cut on his spinning finger throughout the match.\n\nIt was also telling that Stokes, who is managing a left-knee injury, did not bowl himself until the 70th over of the second innings and that Anderson, England's all-time leading wicket-taker, was not trusted with the second new ball.\n\nNo team has come from behind to win an Ashes series since 2005. Stokes' England have shown they can get at Australia, but they must be near-perfect in the remaining four Tests if they are to win the urn for the first time since 2015.\n• None How did Messi win the World Cup with Argentina? Captivating interviews reveal what happened behind the scenes in Qatar\n• None Can you crack the code to open the safe? Put your code-breaking skills to the test in this brainteaser", "Officials in Kyiv say the capital was attacked by waves of more than 20 drones\n\nRussian drones targeted the capital Kyiv and other cities in the early hours of Tuesday, hitting critical infrastructure in Lviv in the west, Ukrainian officials have said.\n\nUkraine's air force says 35 drones were launched and all but three shot down.\n\nThe attack on Lviv triggered a fire, but no-one was injured, the local authorities say.\n\nThe raid on Kyiv and a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia in the south were both described as massive.\n\nMore than 20 drones were fired at Kyiv in waves from Russian territory to the north and from the coast of the internal Sea of Azov in the south-east, according to the air force. It was the first such incident in 18 days.\n\nIn Lviv, the head of the regional authority, Maksym Kozytskyi, said a critically important target had been hit by Iranian-made Shaheed drones and fire had broken out.\n\n\"Today, about five o'clock in the morning [02:00 GMT] during an air raid alert we had three hits,\" he said. \"Fortunately, there are no casualties.\"\n\nIn southern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia was attacked by a number of Iskander-M ballistic missiles, local officials said, adding that nobody had been hurt.\n\nThree drones were also shot down over the southern region of Mykolaiv, the governor said.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia region is the focus of much of the Ukrainian military's current offensive to recapture territory seized by Russia at the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nIn his nightly TV address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in some areas the military was moving forward while in others they were holding positions against Russian attack.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said hours earlier that Ukrainian forces had recaptured the village of Piatykhatky as they try to break through Russia's front line in the southern region. She said it was the eighth Ukrainian village to be recaptured in the past week. There has been no independent confirmation of the latest developments.\n\nMs Maliar said Ukraine's push had advanced some 7km (4.3 miles) in two directions in Zaporizhzhia, towards the occupied southern cities of Melitopol and Berdyansk.\n\nThe exiled mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said residents had seen Russian forces leave the Kherson region further west for the front line in Zaporizhzhia.\n\nMelitopol and Berdyansk lie on a coastal route from Russia to Crimea seen as critical to the Russian military because the bridge over the Kerch Strait from Russia to occupied Crimea is largely avoided by supply lorries. A Russian MP said earlier this month that the bridge was not considered secure but the \"land corridor\" was operating normally.\n\nWestern intelligence officials say Russian troops have moved away from the front line in Kherson since areas around the Dnipro river were flooded after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed on 6 June.", "The Irish delegation raised concerns at a meeting of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference\n\nThe British and Irish governments have clashed over the UK's controversial bill dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt happened during a meeting of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference in London (BIIGC) on Monday.\n\nIt is understood Irish delegation raised concerns over the impact on investigations into loyalists attacks in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe BIIGC was set up by the Good Friday Agreement and meets twice a year.\n\nThe UK government's legislation on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland offers a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings and other Troubles-related crimes.\n\nIt has been criticised by victims' groups, the Irish government and political parties at Stormont.\n\nMicheál Martin said both governments need to work together on the issue of legacy\n\nOn Monday, it is understood the UK government was challenged on how its plan to end all police investigations as part of its legacy bill will affect ongoing Garda (Irish police) investigations into loyalist attacks.\n\nIrish government representatives highlighted both the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974 when 33 people were killed and also the loyalist bomb attacks in Belturbet, County Cavan, in 1972 when two teenagers were fatally injured.\n\nLast year Gardaí released two photofit images of a suspect in the Belturbet attacks as part of its cross-border investigation.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said both governments needed to work together on the issue of legacy.\n\nHe said he had an issue with people being granted immunity.\n\n\"We have fundamental concerns about the legislation currently before parliament,\" Mr Martin told the BIIGC press conference.\n\n\"We don't believe it is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights,\" he added.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said there was a \"complete agreement\" on the need for a restored executive\n\nMeanwhile, the Stormont stalemate was top of the agenda at the meeting for Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nHe said both governments were in \"complete agreement\" on the need for the restoration of the Northern Ireland executive.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said the local election results highlighted that the people of Northern Ireland wanted restoration as well.\n\nSinn Féin emerged as the biggest party in both local government and the Stormont assembly following recent elections.\n\nLast week, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the UK government was well aware of his party's concerns on the protocol which needed to be addressed before a return to Stormont.\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill called on the DUP to clarify what it has asked the government for in relation to the working of the NI Protocol.\n\nMs O'Neill said it was \"unacceptable\" that the DUP seemed to be holding private discussions with the government.\n\nAsked about Monday night's Commons debate on the privileges committee report that found former PM Boris Johnson misled parliament, Ms O'Neill said she would not comment on how MPs should vote but said \"Boris Johnson has been a disaster from start to finish\".\n\nMPs later voted by a margin of 354 to seven to approve the report.\n\nThe BIIGC is one of the few such bodies unaffected by the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) boycott of Stormont.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris's number two, Steve Baker, and Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee were also at the meeting.\n\nThe meeting was held as talks continued between the UK government and the DUP.\n\nIt is understood the party is looking for changes to the legislation governing the Northern Ireland Protocol as well as further constitutional guarantees.\n\nLast week Mr Heaton-Harris caused raised eyebrows when he said he did not know what the DUP was asking for - a view contradicted by the party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.\n\nOn Friday, at a meeting of the British Irish Council in Jersey, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he was sure Mr Heaton-Harris would \"listen respectfully\" to the DUP's position.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said his government could only play a supporting role.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Undercover filming of Indonesian man Ajis Rasajana, who laughs as he describes how he hurts monkeys\n\nA year-long BBC investigation has uncovered a sadistic global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States.\n\nThe World Service found hundreds of customers in the US, UK and elsewhere paying Indonesians to torture and kill baby long-tailed macaques on film.\n\nThe torture ring began life on YouTube, before moving to private groups on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nPolice are now pursuing the buyers and several arrests have already been made.\n\nBBC journalists went undercover in one of the main Telegram torture groups, where hundreds of people gathered to come up with extreme torture ideas and commission people in Indonesia and other Asian countries to carry them out.\n\nThe sadists' goal was to create bespoke films in which baby long-tailed macaque monkeys were abused, tortured and sometimes then killed on film.\n\nThe BBC tracked down both the torturers in Indonesia, and distributors and buyers in the US, and gained access to an international law enforcement effort to bring them to justice.\n\nAt least 20 people are now under investigation globally, including three women living in the UK who were arrested by police last year and released under investigation, and one man in the US state of Oregon who was indicted last week.\n\nMike McCartney, a key video distributor in the US known by his screen name, \"The Torture King\", agreed to speak to the BBC - and described the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey torture group.\n\n\"They had a poll set up,\" McCartney said. \"Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?\" The resulting video was \"the most grotesque thing I have ever seen,\" he said.\n\n\"The Torture King\" at home in Virginia. \"It went from baby bottle teasing to fingers being snipped off,\" he said\n\nMcCartney, a former motorcycle gang member who spent time in prison before entering the monkey torture world, ended up running several Telegram groups in which hardcore torture enthusiasts distributed videos.\n\n\"It's no different than drug money,\" he said. \"Drug money comes from dirty hands, this money comes from bloody hands.\"\n\nThe BBC also identified two other key suspects who are now being investigated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Stacey Storey, a grandmother in her 40s from Alabama who was known in the community as \"Sadistic\", and a ringleader known as \"Mr Ape\" - whose real name we cannot reveal for safety reasons.\n\n\"Mr Ape\" confessed in an interview with the BBC that he had been responsible for the deaths of at least four monkeys and the torture of many more. He had commissioned \"extremely brutal\" videos, he said.\n\nStorey's phone was seized by Department of Homeland Security agents, who found nearly 100 torture videos, as well as evidence that she had paid for the creation of some of the most extreme videos produced.\n\nAccording to police sources, Storey was active in a torture group as recently as earlier this month. Approached by the BBC in Alabama in January, Storey claimed that she had been hacked and declined to comment on the allegations in detail.\n\n\"I remember the face of every monkey and how they died,\" said Mr Ape\n\n\"Mr Ape\", Stacey Storey and Mike McCartney are three of five key targets in the ongoing Homeland Security investigation. They have yet to be charged, but could face up to seven years in prison if prosecuted based on evidence gathered by the DHS.\n\nSpecial Agent Paul Wolpert, who is leading the DHS investigation, said everyone involved from law enforcement had been deeply shocked by the nature of the alleged crimes.\n\n\"I don't know if anybody would ever be ready for a crime like this,\" he said. \"The same with the attorneys and the juries, and anybody who reads that this is going on. It is going to be a shocker I think.\"\n\nAnybody involved in buying or distributing the monkey torture videos should \"expect a knock on the door at some point\", Agent Wolpert said. \"You are not going to get away with it.\"\n\nPolice in Indonesia have arrested two torture suspects. Asep Yadi Nurul Hikmah was charged with animal torture and the sale of a protected species, and sentenced to three years in prison. M Ajis Rasjana was sentenced to eight months - the maximum sentence available for torturing an animal.\n\nPolice in Indonesia detain Asep Yadi Nurul Hikmah, who was among the most brutal torturers.\n\nMonkey torture videos are still easily accessible on Telegram and now Facebook, where the BBC recently found dozens of groups sharing extreme content, some with more than 1,000 members.\n\n\"We've seen an escalation in this extreme, graphic content, which used to be hidden but is now circulating openly on platforms like Facebook,\" said Sarah Kite, co-founder of animal charity Action for Primates.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it had removed the groups we brought to the company's attention. \"We don't allow the promotion of animal abuse on our platforms and we remove this content when we become aware of it, like we did in this case,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nMs Kite also called for UK laws to be updated to make it easier to prosecute individuals who pay for torture videos to be made. \"If someone is proactively involved in inflicting that pain by paying for it and providing a list of things they want done to the animal, there should be stronger laws to hold them to account,\" she said.\n\nYouTube told the BBC in a statement that animal abuse had \"no place\" on the platform and the company was \"working hard to quickly remove violative content\".\n\n\"Just this year alone, we've removed hundreds of thousands of videos and terminated thousands of channels for violating our violent and graphic policies,\" the statement said.\n\nTelegram told us it was committed to protecting privacy and freedom of speech and its moderators could not \"proactively patrol private groups\". But users could report content from those groups to Telegram moderators, it said.", "The bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe world's most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before.\n\nThe first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.\n\nIt provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the water has been drained away.\n\nThe hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner, which sank in 1912.\n\nMore than 1,500 people died when the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.\n\n\"There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship,\" Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News.\n\nHe said the model was \"one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research - and not speculation.\"\n\nThe bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship - never the whole thing.\n\nThe new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.\n\nThe scan was carried out in summer 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project.\n\nSubmersibles, remotely controlled by a team on board a specialist ship, spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck.\n\nThey took more than 700,000 images from every angle, creating an exact 3D reconstruction.\n\nThe scan is made up from 700,000 images captured by submersibles\n\nThe large hole to the right of the boat deck opens over where the grand staircase once stood\n\nMagellan's Gerhard Seiffert, who led the planning for the expedition, said it was the largest underwater scanning project he'd ever undertaken.\n\n\"The depth of it, almost 4,000m, represents a challenge, and you have currents at the site, too - and we're not allowed to touch anything so as not to damage the wreck,\" he explained.\n\n\"And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimetre - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects.\"\n\nThe scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.\n\nThe stern, which has separated from the bow, is a chaotic tangle of steel\n\nThe stern corkscrewed into the seabed as it plunged into the depths\n\nThe bow, now covered in stalactites of rust, is still instantly recognisable even 100 years after the ship was lost. Sitting on top is the boat deck, where a gaping hole provides a glimpse into a void where the grand staircase once stood.\n\nThe stern though, is a chaotic mess of metal. This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor.\n\nIn the surrounding debris field, items are scattered, including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened champagne bottles. There are also personal possessions, including dozens of shoes resting on the sediment.\n\nExtraordinary detail can be seen of the ship\n\nThe serial number on a propeller can be made out\n\nParks Stephenson, who has studied the Titanic for many years, said he was \"blown away\" when he first saw the scans.\n\n\"It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible, and you can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective. And what it's showing you now is the true state of the wreck.\"\n\nHe said that studying the scans could offer new insight into what happened to the Titanic on that fateful night of 1912.\n\n\"We really don't understand the character of the collision with the iceberg. We don't even know if she hit it along the starboard side, as is shown in all the movies - she might have grounded on the iceberg,\" he explained.\n\nStudying the stern, he added, could reveal the mechanics of how the ship struck the sea floor.\n\nThe hope is that the scan could reveal more about what happened on the night the Titanic was lost\n\nThe sea is taking its toll on the wreck, microbes are eating away at it and parts are disintegrating. Historians are well aware that time is running out to fully understand the maritime disaster.\n\nBut the scan now freezes the wreck in time, and will allow experts to pore over every tiny detail. The hope is the Titanic may yet give up its secrets.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teenagers in England will be offered a single shot of HPV vaccine instead of two, from September, in line with latest evidence and recommendations already in place in Scotland.\n\nStudies from around the world suggest one dose is enough to provide good protection against a range of cancers, including cervical cancer.\n\nSchool pupils are offered the vaccine when they are aged about 11-13.\n\nHPV is a common virus usually spread through intimate sexual contact.\n\nIt is very contagious, spread by close skin-to-skin contact.\n\nThere are more than 100 different types of HPV (human papillomavirus) and infections do not usually cause any symptoms - although, some types can cause warts on hands, feet, genitals or inside the mouth.\n\nMost people's bodies get rid of the virus without treatment - but high-risk types can cause abnormal tissue growth that can lead to cancers.\n\nThose the vaccine protects against cause:\n\nStudies suggests it is very effective, cutting cases of cervical cancer by nearly 90%.\n\nFrom September, in England, a single dose will be offered to:\n\nTwo doses will still be offered to:\n\nThree doses will be offered to:\n\nWales has already announced it is moving to a one-dose schedule in September.\n\nUK Health Security Agency immunisation consultant epidemiologist Dr Vanessa Saliba said: \"The HPV-vaccination programme is one of the most successful in the world and has dramatically lowered the rates of cervical cancer and harmful infections in both women and men - preventing many cancers and saving lives.\n\n\"The latest evidence shows that one dose provides protection as robust as two doses. This is excellent news for young people.\n\n\"If you missed your HPV vaccine, it is vital you get protected. Contact your school nurse, school immunisation team or GP practice to arrange an appointment - you remain eligible to receive the vaccine until your 25th birthday.\"\n\nNational screening and vaccinations director Steve Russell, said: \"This is another step forward for our world-leading HPV vaccination programme, which saves lives by significantly reducing the risk of cervical cancer.\n\n\"With one quick HPV jab now making it simpler than ever to reduce your risk of cancers caused by the virus, it's so important that people come forward when invited.\n\n\"Along with getting your HPV vaccine, it is also still vital to book in for your cervical-screening appointment, which checks for high-risk HPV and remains one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five teachers at a preschool in Taiwan have been accused of drugging students\n\nInvestigations into the drugging of preschool children in Taiwan have sparked widespread alarm on the island.\n\nTeachers at a kindergarten in New Taipei City have been accused of sedating students with cough syrups containing drugs like phenobarbital and benzodiazepines.\n\nPolice have been investigating for weeks and say it's not clear why the children were fed the addictive syrups.\n\nBut the scandal has sparked family protests outside government buildings.\n\nHundreds joined a demonstration in New Taipei City on Sunday calling for greater transparency from the police investigation, with many criticising authorities for their lack of public disclosure.\n\nOn Monday, a separate case also emerged concerning a medical practice in the southern city of Kaohsiung, on the other end of the island.\n\nThe local health department there found four doctors guilty of misconduct and improper use of phenobarbital on about 20 children. They were ordered to suspend their practice for six months, and were fined 1.4m Taiwanese dollars (£35,989, $46,121).\n\nAmid growing public concern, Taipei City Hospital has also begun offering free blood tests for preschool children to check for traces of sedatives.\n\nThe measures come after the scandal first emerged in May, when parents at a private preschool in New Taipei City accused staff of feeding their children \"unknown drugs\".\n\nMike, a father of a five-year-old child, told BBC Chinese that parents had noticed what appeared to be withdrawal symptoms in their children over the long Lunar New Year holiday period in February.\n\n\"Some parents found their children, over the vacation, had become irritable, restless and screamed when sleeping, and even cried out with leg cramps,\" he said.\n\nAfter speaking to the children, parents learnt that their teachers had fed them an \"unknown potion\". Complaints were filed with police in April and May.\n\nFollowing more complaints from parents in June, local authorities launched an investigation, and found at least eight children with trace amounts of phenobarbital and benzodiazepines - a class of psychoactive drugs - in their system.\n\nThe kindergarten at the centre of the controversy, a franchise of the Kid Castle Educational Institute, was ordered to shut down on 12 June. Its directors have been fined 150,000 Taiwanese dollars(£3,800 $4,872).\n\nThe principal and five teachers were arrested and questioned by police but have since been released on bail. A criminal investigation is underway.\n\nLocal media reported that the staff said the parents had consented to a list of medicine provided by the school but some parents in response questioned the medicines used by the school.\n\nA Taiwanese pharmacist told local media that, although rare, some cough and gastrointestinal medicine contain phenobarbital.\n\nDrugs containing phenobarbital are mostly used in the treatment of epilepsy and or used as surgical anaesthesia, and are difficult to obtain.\n\nBenzodiazepines are a class of depressant drugs most commonly used to treat severe anxiety.\n\nThe drugs are highly addictive, and overdose may lead to drowsiness and shortness of breath.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have signed France striker Christopher Nkunku from RB Leipzig for £52m.\n\nThe 25-year-old scored 16 goals in 25 games in the Bundesliga last season.\n\nNkunku, who has won 10 caps for France, is manager Mauricio Pochettino's first signing since he took charge in May.\n\n\"I am incredibly happy to be joining Chelsea. A big effort was made to bring me to the club. I am very excited for this challenge and will be proud to wear the Chelsea shirt,\" Nkunku said.\n\n\"Having played in Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, I now want to play in the Premier League, one of the strongest leagues in the world.\n\n\"I am looking forward to meeting my new coach and team-mates and showing the Chelsea supporters what I can do on the pitch.\"\n• None Check out all the latest transfers\n\nNkunku, whose Chelsea contract starts on 1 July, won three Ligue 1 titles and two French Cups during four years at Paris St-Germain before joining Leipzig in 2019.\n\nHe was named Bundesliga player of the season and German PFA player of the season in 2021-22 after scoring 20 goals and contributing 15 assists in the league.\n\nNkunku scored in the final of the German Cup this month as Leipzig won the competition for the second successive year. They finished third in the Bundesliga last season.\n\nNkunku made his France debut last year but missed the World Cup campaign because of a leg injury.\n\nLaurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, Chelsea's co-sporting directors, said: \"Christopher has proved himself one of the standout attacking players in European football over the past two seasons and will add quality, creativity and versatility to our squad.\"", "The Paris Olympics take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024\n\nFrench police are searching the headquarters of the organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.\n\nOfficials say the raids are part of two preliminary corruption investigations.\n\nThe BBC understands the police are looking into allegations of favouritism and misuse of public money in the attribution of construction contracts.\n\nA spokesperson for the Paris 2024 organising committee told the BBC the body was \"co-operating fully with the investigators\".\n\nOn Tuesday, anti-corruption investigators arrived unannounced at the headquarters of the Olympics organising committee in Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb, as well as at the offices of Solideo, the public body in charge of building projects for the games, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.\n\nThe French judicial organisation responsible for tracking down financial crime, the PNF, later confirmed to the BBC that their searches were being carried out across several locations involving the two organisations.\n\nThe 2024 Olympics take place from 26 July to 11 August, with the Paralympics running in September.\n\nTuesday's police raids are the latest episode affecting France's Olympic movement and sports in general in recent months.\n\nIn May, France's National Olympic Committee President Brigitte Henriques resigned in a move that surprised many sports experts.\n\nNo reason was given for Ms Henriques' decision, but it came amid reports of intense infighting in the organisation.\n\nEarlier in the year, the bosses of France's football and rugby federations stood down following high-profile scandals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorna Slater told the Holyrood chamber that Circularity Scotland staff were in an \"extremely difficult position\".\n\nThe firm which was due to manage a controversial recycling scheme in Scotland has gone into administration.\n\nCircular Economy Minister Lorna Slater told MSPs the collapse of Circularity Scotland was a \"disaster\" for its 60 workers.\n\nThe company was in charge of the deposit-return scheme (DRS), which has been delayed until 2025.\n\nMs Slater blamed the firm's demise on conditions imposed by the UK government such as the exclusion of glass.\n\nOpposition parties said she was refusing to take responsibility for the collapse of the firm, and called on the Scottish Greens co-leader to quit as the government's circular economy minister.\n\nMs Slater told the Scottish Parliament: \"We have learned today that a process is under way is to appoint administrators to CSL [Circularity Scotland Ltd] leaving their staff in extremely difficult position.\n\n\"This is an unforgiveable consequence of the UK government's 11th hour intervention which undermined our deposit-return scheme, made progress impossible and is now resulting in these jobs being lost.\"\n\nShe added: \"We set out what we were going to do, the UK government changed their mind at the last minute.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said delaying the Scottish scheme was entirely a decision made by the Scottish government, and that the decision to exclude glass was made after the drinks industry raised concerns about it differing from plans in the rest of the UK.\n\nHe added: \"The chief executive of Circularity Scotland was categorical that the scheme remained viable on this basis and that many other successful schemes run without glass.\n\n\"But the Scottish government decided not to proceed and instead further paused the scheme until October 2025\".\n\nIt emerged last week that Circularity Scotland was on the brink of collapse, with staff sent home and the board unable to say whether they would be paid this month.\n\nDrinks manufacturers and retailers subsequently said they did not have the confidence to continue funding the firm due to the \"political uncertainty\".\n\nThe future of Circularity Scotland had been thrown into doubt when the Scottish government announced the deposit-return scheme, which was supposed to launch in March of next year, would not be introduced until October 2025 at the earliest.\n\nThe delay came after the UK government agreed to grant an exemption to internal market rules but only if the scheme excluded glass to bring it into line with similar proposals for elsewhere in the UK that are also due to launch in October 2025.\n\nThe chief executive of Circularity Scotland had said there was no reason why the Scottish scheme could not go ahead as planned next March despite glass not being included.\n\nAnd there had been widespread concern among many Scottish businesses about the way the DRS was implemented long before the UK government said it would not allow glass recycling to be included.\n\nA recycling facility in Aberdeenshire - with a large batch of 'deposit return' bins - now deserted after the collapse of Circularity Scotland\n\nThe scheme would have seen a 20p deposit added to the price of single-use drinks containers sold in Scotland.\n\nThe customer would then get that deposit back when they took the empty container to a return point, either over-the-counter at a shop or using an automated reverse vending machine.\n\nThe BBC has heard claims from sources close to Circularity Scotland that workers have not been paid a full month's wages.\n\nHowever, Ms Slater told the chamber it was her understanding that staff had been paid for the work they have done.\n\nShe said staff had also been offered support from Partnership Action for Continuing Employment - the government's redundancy support service.\n\nCircularity Scotland's official logistics service partner for the DRS project, Biffa, was set to open a state-of-the-art recycling facility in Portlethen in Aberdeenshire with the creation of up to 60 jobs.\n\nThe site was due to be operational this summer.\n\nHowever, it was deserted and gates closed on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nA recycling system might not seem like the obvious trigger for a showdown between governments.\n\nBut the deposit return scheme - already rocked by delays and industry concerns - has become the subject of a furious dispute between ministers in Edinburgh and London.\n\nThe Scottish government says the scheme has been scuppered by conditions set by UK counterparts; opponents say that is an excuse to cover for the fact the plans were unworkable.\n\nIt has all come at a cost for the businesses which have invested in infrastructure and return points, and now at the expense of dozens of jobs at the firm set up to run the scheme.\n\nA source close to Circularity Scotland said no rescue package or redundancy was available for staff, who haven't been paid in full for the last month.\n\nAnd they said the firm had been caught in the crossfire between Westminster and Holyrood - which could have prevented the Scottish government from stepping in to help as they might with another firm.\n\nLater on Tuesday, Ms Slater survived a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament over her handling of the DRS by 68 votes to 55.\n\nFormer minister Fergus Ewing was one of those to vote against Ms Slater, with the SNP MSP saying business had lost confidence in the minister.He could face sanction for breaking the party whip, but the SNP has refused to comment on matters of internal discipline.\n\nThe motion was tabled by the Scottish Conservatives, whose MSP Maurice Golden said Ms Slater was \"refusing to take any responsibility\" for the collapse of the DRS.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the vote, he said: \"Circularity Scotland themselves, like the UK government and other stakeholders, were absolutely clear that the scheme could have remained viable and gone ahead without glass, but instead she pulled the plug.\n\n\"The loss of jobs and the eye-watering sums invested - for which Scottish firms should be compensated - are entirely due to her stubborn and petulant decisions.\n\n\"No minister who has failed on such a scale can possibly command any confidence and she must now go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the players who have been waiting for as long as 62 years for their Wales caps\n\nWhen Lynne Thomas played her first game of hockey for Wales in 1961, she never imagined she would be 83 years old when she was finally given her cap.\n\n\"I have waited 62 years for my cap - it was an honour, but it would have been nice to have my parents here, especially my father, who was a big sportsman.\"\n\nDespite a Welsh national hockey career spanning from 1961 until 1979, Ms Thomas was not finally recognised for the achievement and awarded a cap until 2023.\n\nShe said it was a wonderful moment to be capped alongside her teammates and celebrate with \"probably the oldest group that played hockey\".\n\nThe women who played for their national team in the 1960s and '70s may not have had their recognition until this year, but the friendship and bonds they made playing the sport they love are visible.\n\nThe seven women who were part of that team still meet up at their local pub, Tafarn Morlais in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, every six weeks.\n\nAlong with their coach Marion Williams, they reminisce about the \"good old days\".\n\nLeft back Lynne Thomas (second right), was the only women in the top 10 of Welsh sport contest in 1969, along with other winners Lynn Davies and Howard Winstone\n\n\"It's super that we keep in touch quite regularly and we can go over all the stories and the games [that we can remember], we enjoyed ourselves, but we took every game seriously, said Ms Thomas.\n\nShe said it was a big honour when she was first selected to play for her country.\n\n\"I was very excited, and my parents were more excited than I was. I travelled the world playing for Wales, I toured America and West Indies, I went across Europe to Belgium, Holland and France, and also South Africa.\n\n\"It was an honour to represent my country out there and once we had been there they all knew where Wales was - it was very happy times.\"\n\nMs Thomas, from Llanelli, played in four World Cups - the first was in the United States in 1963 and the last in 1979 in Canada.\n\nAs well as playing hockey for Wales, Ms Thomas also played cricket for England and Wales.\n\nThe women said wherever they travelled they were expected to sing, and they did\n\nBeti-Wyn Williams said she was shocked when she got a letter from the Welsh Hockey Union to tell her that anybody who represented Wales deserved to have a cap.\n\nThe 80-year-old from Clydach said: \"I remember going to Shropshire one year for Welsh trials and being selected for my first cap, which I didn't quite believe because there were a lot of other very able players around.\"\n\nReminiscing about the tours Ms Williams is adamant that \"what goes on tour, stays on tour\", and will not repeat what they got up, but spoke about the World Cup they went to in Leverkusen, Germany, in 1967.\n\n\"Janet Hopkin and I were the entertainers for the Welsh team, there was a national night and each of the countries had to depict its culture in song, and we did a song together which was meant to be done with brushes, but we did it with hockey sticks and in full Welsh costume.\"\n\nShe said the 57-year wait for her cap was \"worth it\".\n\nBeti-Wyn Williams Williams said she was the only girl to have her picture on a wall celebrating sports players at her school\n\nAnne Ellis, 82, said her hockey stick was her passport, taking her to countries including Japan, Zimbabwe, Australia and Bermuda.\n\nShe started playing for Wales in the late 1960s and ended in the early 1980s. She went on to captain Wales, as well as Great Britain, before coaching both sides later in her career.\n\nShe said it was nice to be recognised, not just wither her team, but her niece Rae, who also played for Wales.\n\nRae Ellis followed in the footsteps of her aunt Anne Ellis who she said was a \"spearhead\" for hockey worldwide\n\nRae Ellis, 62, said: \"Although I didn't play alongside Anne, she was my Welsh coach and my PE coach, so she got me involved in the sport and I tried to follow in her footsteps.\n\n\"I have known these ladies since I was about six years old... I've grown up with them and I have played against them at club level, I was coached by Marion and then by Lynne, and Margaret was the team manager - it's great they are getting the recognition they deserve.\"\n\nThe women played for Wales in the 1960s and 70s and still meet up every six weeks to reminisce about their hockey days\n\nEirianwen Thomas, 88, from Bryneglwys, Denbighshire, captained the side and said she was keeping her cap in a drawer, but had ordered a display case to put it in.\n\n\"I'm delighted it's happened, but I'm sorry that some people are no longer with us to receive their caps.\n\n\"It's sad that some people have not yet received their caps and I would be very happy if they got theirs sooner rather than later so they can be recognised.\"\n\nMs Williams said there were tears in her eyes when she finally saw the team she coached get their caps.\n\n\"It was so well-deserved and yet they hadn't been acknowledged for all these years, I was very proud to see that, and actually being able to have the privilege to give them to the ones that are still here.\"\n\nThe women said it was an honour to finally be recognised with a cap because all they had before was a badge from the blazers they wore\n\nCentre forward Margaret Edwards said it was great that the women now had \"something to show\" for the fact they played for Wales.\n\nDiscussing her favourite memory, the 78-year-old said the first game she played stands out.\n\n\"You just can't describe the feeling of putting that red shirt on, of course the games we won were better than the ones we lost, but it was such an honour to put that shirt on,\" said Margaret.\n\nJanet Hopkin, 80, said she was very fortunate to played for Wales, even though \"we had to pay for everything ourselves, including our hockey gear, it was a wonderful opportunity\".\n\nHockey Wales said, prior to the early 2000s, no caps were awarded for representing Wales but over the past 12 months it had been working with partners and the Heritage Lottery fund to increase its knowledge of all players who have represented Wales and to digitise as much memorabilia as possible.\n\nChief executive officer Paul Whapham said: \"Hockey Wales feel extremely passionate that we recognise the achievements of all male and female internationals.\n\n\"As a sport that has participants from age six to 90, it is extremely important that we offer past the players an opportunity to receive a cap to recognise the role that they have played in playing the sport and representing Wales on the international stage, whilst educating new players about the past.\"\n\nHe added that the first historic cap presentation was held last August with approximately 100 issued to both men and women.\n\nHockey Wales said some caps have been sent as far afield as New Zealand and Australia\n\nBeing recognised for playing for their country has meant a lot to these women, but they now hope their achievements will inspire the next generation.\n\n\"I had my cap 62 years ago and now my grandson has just been chosen to play football for Wales,\" said Ms Evans.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Student Julius Isingoma has told the BBC how he miraculously survived a night-time assault by suspected Islamist rebels on his school dormitory in western Uganda.\n\nWarning: Some people may find details in this story distressing.\n\n\"I smeared the blood of my dead colleagues in my mouth, ears and on my head so that the attackers would think I was dead,\" he said, when we met him at Bwera General Hospital in Kasese district.\n\nMore than 40 people - most of them students - died in the attack on the secondary school in the small town of Mpondwe on Friday night.\n\nUganda's President Yoweri Museveni blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), adding that they were \"possibly working with other criminals because I hear that school had some wrangles\". He did not elaborate, but vowed to hunt down the militants in their hide-outs across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe ADF has not yet commented.\n\nIt was formed in the 1990s and took up arms against Mr Museveni, alleging persecution of the minority Muslim population.\n\nIts leader reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group in 2016.\n\nBut it was not until April 2019 that IS first acknowledged its activity in the area, when it claimed an attack on army positions near the border with Uganda.\n\nThis statement marked the announcement of IS's \"Central Africa Province\" (Iscap).\n\nSix students are believed to have been abducted as the militants retreated to DR Congo.\n\nJulius was among six people who managed to survive the assault which lasted for several hours.\n\nHe did not identify the attackers, but said they were gun-wielding men who launched their attack at about 22:00 local time.\n\nThey came to the boys' dormitory but the students had locked it after realising they were in danger.\n\n\"When they couldn't open the door they hurled a bomb inside the dormitory and then used hammers and axes to break down the door,\" he said.\n\nJulius was standing behind many of the students who had formed a shield near the door and were shot dead when the militants got into the dormitory.\n\nThere were cries as the students were gunned down, hacked or shot to death.\n\nHe quickly climbed to the top of a bunk bed, removed some of the wooden planks of the ceiling, and jumped inside to hide.\n\nFrom there, he helplessly watched his colleagues being brutally murdered by the assailants, who then set fire to mattresses and left.\n\n\"I was overwhelmed by the smoke and dropped back down into the dormitory with a thud,\" he said.\n\nThe militants heard the thud and came back.\n\nIt was at that point that Julius knew he had to come out of the attack alive.\n\n\"I lay next to the bloodied bodies of my friends and thought very fast. Then I smeared a lot of blood into my ears, mouth and on my head and when the militants came, they checked my hand for a pulse and left,\" Julius said.\n\nStudent Godwin Mumbere managed to run away from the school\n\nAnother survivor, Godwin Mumbere, was in the same dormitory as Julius.\n\nThe 18-year-old recalled the assailants going to the girls' dormitory, dragging them out and hacking them to death with machetes.\n\nThey then came to the boys' dormitory, broke down the door and started attacking the students.\n\nThe bed Godwin was hiding under was overturned and his friends who were on top fell to the ground and were killed.\n\n\"The attackers saw me but thought I was dead,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut they went out and came back into the dormitory to ensure everyone was dead.\n\n\"It was at this point that they shot me in the hand and set the dorm ablaze,\" he said.\n\nGodwin was brought back to reality by the shouts of another student who said they were dying.\n\nHe ran out of the dormitory, scaled the school gate and ran to a nearby hardware store through a cocoa plantation. He got to a lodge and hid under a vehicle until he was rescued.\n\nClarice Bwambare, the senior administrator of Bwera General Hospital, told the BBC they started receiving the bodies of students and residents at around 01:00 - about three hours after the attack started on Friday night.\n\nHe noted that out of the 20 bodies they received, 18 were those of students.\n\nFive survivors are currently recuperating at the hospital. One of them is a girl who is in critical condition at the intensive care unit. A surgeon advised that she cannot be moved because of a severe head injury from being hit with a hammer by the rebels.\n\nMr Bwambare said only one body had not been claimed from the mortuary.\n\nOn Sunday, grief-stricken families buried 21 of the students, according to Uganda's New Vision newspaper.\n\nLying on his hospital bed, Julius expressed regret that he could not attend their funerals. He said he wished he was a soldier who could fight back and save the lives of his friends and colleagues.", "The former Manchester United manager has joind Gordon Strachan, Alex McLeish and others in the call to reclassify football brain injuries\n\nSir Alex Ferguson has added his name to a campaign for the Scottish government to reclassify football-related brain injuries as industrial injuries.\n\nThe former Manchester United manager joins names including Gordon Strachan, Alex McLeish, Willie Miller and Craig Levein who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt comes after a study found ex-professionals were three-and-a-half times more likely to develop dementia.\n\nThe 'Injury Time' campaign is being led by MSP Michael Marra.\n\nThe North East Scotland MSP launched the bid in 2021 over fears that repeated heading of the ball could be playing a significant part in brain injuries in later life.\n\nIt comes just days after the death of the former Scotland, Leeds and Manchester United defender, Gordon McQueen.\n\nHe was diagnosed with dementia two years ago and his family are convinced his condition was a result of repeated heading of the ball.\n\nMr Marra told BBC Scotland: \"We think there's more work to be done on research into the injuries sustained in the game.\n\n\"It's an issue of growing concern. The impact on an individual and their family is absolutely huge.\n\n\"The loss of memory, the loss of all kinds of function. Over time it is a really debilitating disease that can lead to death.\"\n\nAlex McLeish said the campaign was about helping families\n\nThe brain injury research was conducted by Dr Willie Stewart at the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology and Neuroscience,\n\nMr Marra said the campaign had three \"demands\" of the Scottish government.\n\nThe Labour MSP said the Scottish government would soon have powers to decide who received industrial injury benefits and it had its own planned scheme known as employment injury assistance.\n\nFormer Scotland manager Alex McLeish said it was \"vital\" to get more support for ex-players.\n\nHe said: \"The science guys are not often wrong. So you have to respect that.\n\n\"We need to do something about it, have a voice, and try to shift the government's stance to help.\"\n\nHe added: \"Right now, it's about helping families if a loved one goes down after participating in this wonderful sport of ours.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit continues to be delivered by the UK government who decide which conditions should be prescribed for the purposes of the benefit.\n\n\"We recognise that there are a range of views on Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit which is why we have committed to a consultation in the next few months on our approach to replacing the scheme in Scotland.\"", "Jean Frickel waited for more than 13 hours for an ambulance before she died\n\nA woman waited for more than 13 hours for an ambulance before she died from heart failure, an inquest has heard.\n\nJean Frickel, 79, from Buckley, Flintshire, had a history of heart problems and had been experiencing breathlessness on 19 December 2022.\n\nHer husband called 999 but was told there would be a significant delay due to extreme demand.\n\nCoroner Kate Sutherland recorded a narrative conclusion and said she was worried this would continue happening.\n\n\"Despite assurances of change, the issue still remains and the multi-factoral issues involve not just the ambulance service but the health boards, the local authorities and social care,\" the assistant coroner for north Wales east and central said.\n\nAlthough Ms Frickel's case was categorised as amber one, meaning a threat to life, the inquest heard 61 other amber one calls across north Wales were being dealt with.\n\nA crew was on its way at about 08:00 the following morning when Mr Frickel dialled 999 again to say his wife was not breathing.\n\nParamedics arrived within five minutes of that call and confirmed she was dead.\n\nGillian Pleming from the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) told the hearing at Ruthin Coroner's Court: \"The initial wait for 13 hours is not the standard WAST want to apply to patients but due to significant handover delays at hospitals we were unable to get to Mrs Frickel sooner\".\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board consultant cardiologist Richard Cowell, who had treated Ms Frickel since 2004, said she may have survived \"a few more weeks\" had the ambulance arrived sooner, although not much longer.\n\nMs Frickel's daughter Helen Underhill said she knew her mother was \"extremely poorly\" but her death came \"a little bit too soon\".\n\nThe inquest heard that work was being done to improve the system, with handovers being treated as a priority between the ambulance service and the health boards as part of a wider system of changes.\n\nMs Sutherland said: \"Due to the time it took for the ambulance to arrive, Jean Frickel was denied the opportunity for possible life-extending treatment at hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2022, the BBC filmed inside the Titanic sub with the company's boss Stockton Rush\n\nA massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday.\n\nContact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.\n\nTour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard.\n\nTickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft).\n\nGovernment agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.\n\nTitanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston, Massachusetts.\n\nThe missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day emergency supply of oxygen.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Rear Adm John Mauger of the US Coast Guard told a news conference: \"We anticipate there is somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours available at this point.\"\n\nHe also said that two aircraft, a submarine and sonar buoys were involved in the search for the vessel but noted the area in which the search is taking place was \"remote\", making operations difficult.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Who is involved in search efforts\n\nRear Adm Mauger said the rescue teams were \"taking this personally\" and were doing everything they could to bring those on board \"home safe\".\n\nHamish Harding, a 58-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.\n\nOn social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said he was \"proud to finally announce\" that he would be aboard the mission to the wreck of the Titanic - but added that because of the \"worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023\".\n\nHe later wrote: \"A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow.\"\n\nOceanGate said its \"entire focus [was] on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families\".\n\n\"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to re-establish contact with the submersible,\" it added.\n\nThe company bills the eight-day trip on its carbon-fibre submersible as a \"chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary\".\n\nAccording to its website, one expedition is ongoing and two more have been planned for June 2024.\n\nThe submersible usually carries a pilot, three paying guests, and what the company calls a \"content expert\".\n\nThe trip sets sail from St John's in Newfoundland. Each full dive to the wreck, including the descent and ascent, reportedly takes around eight hours.\n\nThe OceanGate website lists three submersibles it owns, and only the Titan is capable of diving deep enough to reach the Titanic wreckage.\n\nThe vessel weighs 23,000 lbs (10,432 kg) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 13,100 ft and has 96 hours of life support available for a crew of five.\n\nA vessel called the Polar Prince, which is used to transport submersibles to the wreckage site, was involved in the expedition, its owner told the BBC.\n\nDavid Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently \"no way\" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio \"work under water\".\n\n\"When the support ship is directly over the sub, they can send short text messages back and forth. Clearly those are no longer getting a response,\" Mr Pogue said.\n\nHe added that because the passengers were sealed inside the vessel by bolts applied from the outside, \"There's no way to escape, even if you rise to the surface by yourself. You cannot get out of the sub without a crew on the outside letting you out.\"\n\nThe Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.\n\nIts wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.\n\nThe wreck lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 2,600ft. A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.\n\nLast month, the first full-sized digital scan of the wreck was created using deep-sea mapping. The scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.\n\nDo you have information about this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Dame Sally Davies tells the Covid inquiry that \"it wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died\".\n\nEngland's former chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies was close to tears at the Covid Inquiry as she apologised to families bereaved by the pandemic.\n\n\"It wasn't just the deaths, it was the way they died... it was harrowing and it remains horrible,\" she said.\n\nShe also said the UK did not have enough resilience to cope with the pandemic, with fewer doctors, nurses or hospital beds than similar countries.\n\nThe inquiry is currently examining the UK's preparedness ahead of Covid.\n\nIn her evidence, Dame Sally also expressed concern about the impact of the lockdowns on children and students.\n\n\"We have damaged a generation, and it is awful... watching these people struggle,\" she said.\n\nThe former chief medical officer told the inquiry the UK did not have plans in place to cope with a Covid pandemic, but she added \"it didn't have resilience either\".\n\nCompared with similar countries, the UK was at the bottom of the table for numbers of doctors, nurses, beds, IT units and ventilators per 100,000, she said.\n\nDuring questions about preparation exercises for pandemics, Dame Sally broke off to say: \"Maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families.\"\n\n\"I heard a lot about it from my daughter who was on the front line as a doctor in Scotland,\" she added.\n\nDame Sally Davies became chief medical officer in 2010 and left in 2019 to be replaced by Sir Chris Whitty. He is due to give evidence on Thursday along with Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic.\n\nAt the same hearing, George Osborne said his spending cuts meant the UK was better able to cope with the pandemic.\n\nThe former chancellor argued that without austerity Britain would have been \"more exposed\" and rejected claims his approach left the health and social care \"depleted\" ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nLast week Sir Michael Marmot, a professor of epidemiology at University College London told the inquiry that the UK had entered the pandemic with \"depleted\" public services.\n\nAsked by inquiry lawyer Kate Blackwell KC if he agreed with the statement, Mr Osborne said: \"Most certainly not, I completely reject that.\"\n\nHe accepted more money could have been spent on the NHS, but said as chancellor he had to balance demands for resources from other public services.\n\n\"You can't just say we like public spending to be higher without explaining where you get money from,\" he told the inquiry.\n\nHe said the public had elected the Conservatives to government in 2010 and 2015 knowing the party was planning to cut public spending.\n\nDuring the period, cuts were introduced in welfare spending, school building programs, local government, police, courts and prisons. There was also an overall squeeze on health spending.\n\nGeorge Osborne was quizzed on the impact of spending cuts\n\nMr Osborne - who was chancellor from 2010 to 2016 - said: \"If we had not done that Britain would have been more exposed, not just to future things like the coronavirus pandemic, but indeed to the fiscal crisis which very rapidly followed in countries across Europe.\n\n\"If we had not had a clear plan to put the public finances on a sustainable path then Britain might have experienced a fiscal crisis, we would not have had the fiscal space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic when it hit.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association said Mr Osborne's \"denial\" of a connection between austerity and the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable was \"staggering\".\n\nOn Monday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) produced a report which said austerity had led to unsafe staffing in public services leaving the UK \"hugely unprepared\" for Covid.\n\nDuring the one hour 20 minute question session, Mr Osborne was also asked about the Treasury's planning for potential national lockdown.\n\nHe said the department had plans for an outbreak of influenza but added \"given what subsequently happened that was very small scale\".\n\n\"There was no planning done by Treasury - or any western Treasury - for asking the entire population to stay at home for months and months on end.\n\n\"If someone had said to you the UK government should be preparing for a lockdown that might last for months, then I have no doubt the Treasury would have developed schemes it did subsequently develop around the furlough and the Covid loans.\n\n\"Planning could have been done for a furlough scheme in advance - I'm not clear that would have made a better furlough scheme than the one we as a country actually saw.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Sir Oliver Letwin, a senior minister in David Cameron's government, told the inquiry a rapid turnover of civil service staff hindered the government's ability to plan for pandemics.\n\nHe also warned that the UK was \"wildly under-resilient\" and said there should be a minister \"solely devoted\" to the subject.\n\nLabour said the admissions were \"too little, too late\", adding the Conservatives \"cannot be trusted to protect the public from the emergencies of tomorrow\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Kateryna Fuglevych was working as a TV reporter in the Ukrainian city of Odesa when the war began\n\nMore than 2,650 Ukrainians have arrived in Northern Ireland since Russia invaded their country in February 2022.\n\nOne of them is former TV reporter and presenter Kateryna Fuglevych.\n\nThe 32-year-old has been living in Belfast and working in a creche since fleeing Ukraine last spring.\n\nWhen the war began, Ms Fuglevych left Odesa, where she was working as a journalist, and travelled to join her parents in her home city of Kherson, which was under Russian control.\n\nShe told BBC News NI she thought she would be there for a few days but ended up living in the basement of her family home for two months.\n\n\"Thank God my grandfather built that basement,\" she said.\n\n\"But even when we were down there we could hear the bombs, the missiles - we barely slept.\n\n\"We just could not believe that this could happen, that the war would come to our land. But I had to be with my family.\n\n\"We would swap medicine and food with neighbours so everyone could survive.\"\n\nKateryna Fuglevych sheltered from bombs in the basement of her family home in Kherson\n\nMs Fuglevych then made the decision to leave Kherson with the help of a friend.\n\n\"I had 15 minutes to pack everything, my whole life, in my car and leave,\" she said.\n\n\"The roads were gone - they had been destroyed - so we had to follow people who knew the way through fields.\n\n\"It was eight hours, no water because I forgot water, and it was very scary.\n\n\"I was worried that Russians would recognise me as a journalist when I hit a checkpoint.\n\n\"When I first saw a Ukrainian soldier, I hugged him.\"\n\nKateryna Fuglevych in a Ukrainian TV studio before she fled to the UK\n\nMs Fuglevych eventually made it to Odesa but when bombing started there, she decided to leave Ukraine.\n\nShe drove to Hungary and onwards to France before getting a ferry to Dover in England, eventually ending up in Belfast in the same car in which she had fled Ukraine.\n\n\"That car saved my life. It's been through a lot,\" she said.\n\n\"You can imagine, it needs a lot of repairs.\"\n\nMs Fuglevych's home city of Kherson has been in the headlines this month following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam which has cause serious flooding of vast areas of land on both sides of the Dnipro river.\n\nAn aerial view of flooded homes in Kherson after the Nova Kakhovka dam breach\n\nWhile her parents managed to make it to Odesa, many of Kateryna's relatives are still in Kherson.\n\n\"Every day they live in huge fear because they live under the shelling and the missiles. They are in danger,\" she said.\n\n\"The flood has caused so much damage, I was crying. I knew there were animals and older people who could not escape.\n\n\"My parents thought they had escaped when they got to Odesa but it's under attack too.\n\n\"I haven't seen them in a year but sometimes we can video call. You can't imagine how difficult it is.\"\n\nMs Fuglevych has now been living in Belfast for eight months and says she is grateful for a chance to build a new life in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It's very different to my life as a journalist,\" she said.\n\n\"I was speaking to politicians and celebrities and now I work with children, but it's great.\n\nKateryna Fuglevych pictured in the headquarters of BBC News NI in Belfast\n\n\"Belfast is amazing because of the people who are so kind and so pleasant when I'm talking about my parents, about my life.\n\n\"I know in Belfast in the past there were not such easy times so they feel in their soul how it is to try to live for Ukrainians.\n\n\"For me it's really very nice that I am here in Northern Ireland and I have a possibility to start a new life in Belfast.\"", "Victims are still being failed, say campaigners\n\nTwo years after the government's end-to-end rape review for England and Wales, victims are still being failed, say women's groups.\n\nCharge rates are low, support services underfunded and, in court, cases face lengthy backlogs, says their report.\n\nThe review promised to put more rapists behind bars but \"we have barely scratched the surface\", says the End Violence Against Women Coalition.\n\nThe government said it was on track to meet the rape review ambitions.\n\nThe Centre for Women's Justice, End Violence Against Women Coalition, Rape Crisis England and Wales, and black feminist organisation Imkaan produced the report to coincide with the second anniversary of the government's rape review.\n\nThe 2021 review came as women's groups said rape had been effectively decriminalised after prosecutions in England and Wales dropped to a record low.\n\nTwo years on, women's groups acknowledge some \"green shoots\" of positive change, including:\n\nHowever, the latest available Home Office figures show that between April and December 2022 there were about 50,000 rape offences recorded by police in England and Wales.\n\nOf these offences, about 900, amounting to fewer than 2%, have so far resulted in a charge or court summons.\n\nOf the bulk of the cases, more than 20,000 are still being investigated - while another 20,000 have had to close because the victim has withdrawn from legal proceedings.\n\n\"After two years of promises and commitments we have barely scratched the surface to improve support for victims of rape, let alone preventing it in the first place,\" said Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition\n\nHarriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, says while there has been some improvement to charging levels, they are nowhere near those before 2016, \"meaning only a small minority of those who report rape will see their cases prosecuted\".\n\nShe says the key problem now lies with a failure of police to refer cases to the Crown Prosecution Service or get early advice.\n\n\"Those that report rape are still facing disproportionate requests for personal data which impacts directly on the attrition rate,\" adds Ms Wistrich.\n\nImkaan, which focuses on violence against black and minoritised women and girls, says: \"It is well established that race and ethnicity remain one of the very biggest gaps in police data.\n\n\"It is disappointing that there has been no progress in understanding who does and does not access the criminal justice system.\"\n\nA number of police forces in England and Wales have adopted Operation Soteria, a Home Office scheme to increase prosecutions, to investigate rape and serious sexual offences.\n\nThe women's groups claim Soteria's progress is threatened by uncertainty over future funding.\n\n\"The pace of change must pick up. Victims and survivors of these highly traumatic crimes deserve justice now,\" says Amelia Handy, head of policy and public affairs at Rape Crisis England and Wales.\n\nA government official said: \"We're doing more than ever to ensure rape victims get better support and quicker justice and we remain on track to meet the ambitious targets set out in our rape review two years ago... but we know more needs to be done for victims to come forward and stick with the process.\"\n\nThe changes being made included better funding for support services and enabling victims to pre-record their evidence to court, the official added.", "Sage Todz tweeted to say he did not look like Mace the Great\n\nWelsh-language channel S4C has apologised for a \"serious mistake\" after an afternoon programme confused one rapper with another.\n\nPrynhawn Da showed a photo of Cardiff rapper Mace the Great, but presenters said the photo was of another rapper, Sage Todz, from Penygroes, Gwynedd.\n\nSage Todz tweeted the programme, saying: \"We gotta do better than this.\"\n\nS4C said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the error and said it had \"apologised profusely\" to Todz.\n\nIt added it had spoken to the production company to ensure the mistake does not happen again.\n\nIn a Twitter thread, it added: \"S4C has huge respect for Sage as one of the most exciting talents in Wales and we are currently collaborating on a number of projects with him.\n\n\"This isn't good enough and we must do better.\"\n\nMace the Great is a rapper from Cardiff\n\nAnother rap artist in south Wales, SZWÉ tweeted to say it was the \"bare minimum to get this right. It's infuriating and genuinely angers me every time\".", "Beth Morrison has campaigned on behalf of her son Calum for more than a decade\n\nA new law is being proposed following a campaign about a young man who was restrained at a special educational needs school when he was 11 years old.\n\nLabour MSP Daniel Johnson is starting a consultation on a new members' bill after what happened to Calum Morrison. He refers to it as Calum's Law.\n\nHe wants physical restraint guidelines in schools to be legally enforceable.\n\nThe law would ensure compulsory training for all teachers on how to de-escalate difficult situations.\n\nBeth Morrison, from Angus, has been campaigning for more than a decade over what happened to her son Calum, who has learning disabilities, autism and epilepsy.\n\nShe says he was still at primary school child when he was restrained on the floor by four adults until he lost consciousness.\n\nCalum was still at primary school child when he was restrained\n\nHis mother says Calum had been riding a specially-constructed disabled bike in the gym hall and he did not understand the teacher's instructions to come off it.\n\nMs Morrison said: \"Our children are the most vulnerable in Scotland. They use their behaviour to communicate because it is all they have.\n\n\"What are we doing restraining children on the floor for discipline, for punishment, to make them comply?\n\n\"It is about control, it is not about care. That's got to change.\"\n\nRestraint and seclusion, which involves locking someone in a room or safe space, have often been used in educational settings - particularly for children with disabilities and additional support needs.\n\nMs Morrison wants the current guidelines on physical restraint to become legally enforceable, with mandatory recording and reporting of all incidents.\n\nShe also wants compulsory training for all teachers and support staff in how to de-escalate difficult situations and understand children's needs so that physical restraint can be avoided.\n\nShe told the BBC that since she started campaigning 12 years ago more than 2,500 other families had contacted her because their children had been hurt while being physically restrained.\n\nMs Morrison said hundreds of cases were reported to her each year and almost all the children who had been injured were of primary school age - and all of them had additional support needs.\n\nCalum Morrison, now 24, has learning disabilities, autism and epilepsy\n\nDaniel Johnson's proposed law comes five years after a report by Scotland's Children's Commissioner revealed thousands of restraint incidents, affecting hundreds of children.\n\nThe Labour MSP told the BBC: \"We have now had over a number of years reports showing there is an alarming use of restraint and seclusion, sometimes literally putting them in cupboards.\"\n\nHe said a change in the law was needed to make sure there was much more regulation around these practices.\n\nMr Johnson said the issues often arise when dealing with pupils with additional support needs in very stressful situations.\n\nHe said physical interventions might sometimes be required but there should be transparent reporting and teachers needed to be trained so parents could be confident of what was happening.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said they had not seen the full detail of the proposed Member's Bill.\n\n\"Restraint and seclusion in schools must only ever be used to prevent harm and as a last resort,\" he said.\n\n\"The Scottish government is currently exploring options for strengthening the legal framework in this area.\"\n\nA spokesman for the EIS union said the issue of the underfunding of ASN provision was a concern commonly raised by teachers.\n\n\"The reality is that ASN provision has been under-resourced for many years, with serious implications for young people in our schools,\" he said.\n\n\"There has been a significant decline in the number of specialist ASN staff employed in schools, while the number of young people with an identified additional support need has also increased substantially over the last few years.\n\n\"Mainstreaming is not a cheap option, but must be supported by adequate staffing and resources to ensure that all young people with ASN receive the specialist support that they require and have the right to expect.\"\n• None Mother calls for new law on restraint in schools", "The winding wheel of Haig Colliery Mining Museum next to the West Cumbria Mining offices, which was given approval to extract coal last year\n\nThe government is planning to remove a ban on opening new coal mines from a bill that is going through Parliament.\n\nThe ban was added to the Energy Bill by peers in the House of Lords.\n\nMinisters also plan to drop changes to the bill which would have enabled small community energy projects to sell electricity directly to local homes.\n\nGreen MP Caroline Lucas called the decision \"reckless\" and said the amendments should be reinstated \"immediately\".\n\nA government spokesperson said it was made after \"careful consideration\" and they would continue to engage with parliamentarians.\n\nThe amendment to ban the opening of new coal mines was approved by the House of Lords in April by a majority of just three with 197 peers voting in favour of the motion and 194 against.\n\nIntroducing his amendment Liberal Democrat Lord Teverson said he had previously believed a ban was not necessary because it was \"totally and absolutely obvious\" that building a new coal mine \"would be a really stupid thing for a country to do\".\n\nHowever, he told peers he had changed his mind after the government's decision to allow a new mine to be built in Whitehaven, Cumbria.\n\n\"If that happens once, it can happen again - that is why this amendment is so important,\" he said.\n\nOpposing the amendment, minister Lord Callanan said the government was committed to phasing out coal but argued that an outright ban could cause a \"severe weakening of our security of supply\".\n\nShadow energy secretary Ed Miliband had said Labour would back the ban, but the government plans to remove the amendment from the bill at committee stage, where a bill is examined in detail, before it reaches a vote of the whole House of Commons.\n\nThe government also intends to ditch measures put in by the House of Lords which would enable small community energy projects to sell electricity directly to local consumers.\n\nFor example, a group which has installed solar panels on a school roof would be able to sell electricity directly to neighbouring homes.\n\nCurrently, projects tend to sell their energy to other, larger utilities because the cost and burdens of setting up as a supplier in their own right are too high.\n\nMore than 60 organisations - including the National Grid and the Church of England - have written to Energy Secretary Grant Shapps urging him to reconsider.\n\nIn the letter, the organisations say community energy schemes have seen \"almost no growth for six years, despite renewable technologies being cheaper than ever\".\n\nThey say this is \"largely due to the prohibitive costs they face in accessing local markets\" and suggest the current rules are holding back the possibility of a big expansion in community schemes.\n\nThe government may also be heading for a run-in with some of its own backbenchers.\n\nMore than 120 Conservative MPs had previously pledged to support a private members' bill, which had the exact same wording as the clauses added in the House of Lords.\n\nSpeaking in a debate about the bill in May, Conservative MP for North Devon Selaine Saxby spoke in favour of community schemes, telling MPs: \"It is still bewildering to me, as someone who lives somewhere sunny, windy and with a huge tide, why this has not progressed sooner.\"\n\nResponding to the debate Energy Minister Andrew Bowie said he agreed community energy schemes had \"a role to play in tackling climate change\" and that the department was looking into what further support could be given to the sector.\n\nGreen MP Ms Lucas said the government's approach was \"well and truly stuck in the last century\".\n\nShe said that \"after endlessly repeating the importance of no new coal at COP26, its words have proved to be meaningless - and when hundreds of MPs from across the House have thrown their weight behind innovative community energy schemes to generate clean electricity at low cost, ministers rip them to shreds and offer up no alternative\".", "Taylor Swift has announced international dates for her record-breaking Eras tour, with shows set for UK, Europe and Asia in 2024.\n\nThe pop star will play nine shows in the UK, with concerts in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and London.\n\nThere is also a gap on Glastonbury's final night, with the star rumoured to be reclaiming the headline slot she missed in 2020 due to the pandemic.\n\nThe first leg of the tour has seen her play to record audiences in the US.\n\nDemand for the tickets was so high that it overwhelmed Ticketmaster's systems, with thousands of fans left unable to obtain seats.\n\nThe fiasco led to Ticketmaster being hauled in front of US senators to answer questions on the company's handling of the event.\n\nSwift herself said it was \"excruciating\" to watch fans struggling to get tickets, and that she had been assured Ticketmaster could cope with the demand.\n\nFor the UK dates, fans have been invited to register interest via Swift's website, although those who tried to do so after the announcement were put in a long queue.\n\nAfter registration closes, fans will be sent a purchase link for tickets. The London dates then go on sale on 18 July, followed by Edinburgh on 19 July and Cardiff on 20 July.\n\n\"We expect there will be more demand than there are tickets available,\" Ticketmaster warned those who successfully registered.\n\n\"Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis while currently-available inventory lasts\".\n\nEras is Swift's first world tour since 2018, since when she has released four new studio albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Folklore.\n\nMusic publication Billboard has estimated the ticket revenue from the 52-date US tour to be $591m (£464m).\n\nThose shows launched in March, with Swift playing a three-hour, 44-song set spanning the entirety of her recording career.\n\nAs well as hits like Shake It Off, Love Story and Lover, she plays two \"surprise\" acoustic songs at every show, often bringing out special guests to help.\n\nSo far, the acoustic section has included fan favourites like Mirrorball, Snow On The Beach and Getaway Car alongside more mainstream hits like Welcome To New York and her debut single Tim McGraw.\n\nFans have been clamouring for international dates for months, and the tour extension will see her play in Asia and Australia at the start of 2024, before reaching Europe in May.\n\nReactions from 'Swifties' - a term the pop star has trademarked and uses to call her fans - in Asia have already been wild on social media.\n\nShe will begin her Asia tour in the Japanese capital Tokyo, where she will play for four nights beginning 7 February. She will then make her way to Australia, performing first in Melbourne for two nights, and then three nights in Sydney.\n\nHer Asia leg ends in Singapore, the only South East Asian country in her Eras tour, where she will set up stage for three nights ending on 4 March.\n\nThe UK dates will kick off at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium on 7 June, and wrap up with two nights at London's Wembley Stadium in August.\n\nTwo earlier Wembley shows appear to clash with Glastonbury's first two nights. But she has a space in her diary on Sunday 23 June, which means she could close the festival with a headline slot on the Pyramid Stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReviews for the US leg of the Eras tour have been overwhelmingly positive.\n\n\"The queen of pop reclaims her throne,\" declared The Times, adding: \"If there is a danger that shifting between 10 such different albums could lead to an uneven experience it is somehow avoided here, with Swift managing to produce a cohesive experience despite the constantly changing outfits and backdrops.\"\n\n\"The Swifties are certainly going to be Enchanted,\" said Hello magazine in a review peppered with Swift's song titles.\n\n\"It's been a long wait back to this moment, but karma is, indeed, a queen - and this was worth the wait.\"\n\n\"The achievement is often staggering,\" concluded Billboard, \"with costume changes, set-piece upheaval [and] vulnerable moments in a crowd of thousands and sing-alongs that will rival the scope of any tour this year.\"\n\nThere have been reports of fans who couldn't get tickets gathering in car parks outside venues to sing along with the star's songs.\n\nOther fans have reported suffering a form of amnesia after the show, due to the overwhelming nature of the experience.", "Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan were first arrested at their Bucharest home in December\n\nControversial influencer Andrew Tate has been charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.\n\nHis brother Tristan and two associates also face charges. All have denied the allegations.\n\nThe Tate brothers appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nAs he left court Andrew Tate said: \"I love this country... and I look forward to being found innocent.\"\n\nThe brothers were first arrested at their Bucharest home in December before being moved to house arrest in March.\n\nThe indictment deposited with the Bucharest court says that the four defendants formed an organised criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries including the US and the UK.\n\nIt names seven alleged victims who it says were recruited by the Tate brothers through false promises of love and marriage.\n\nThe alleged victims were later taken to buildings in Ilfov county in Romania where they were intimidated, placed under constant surveillance and control and forced into debt, according to a statement from Romanian prosecutors.\n\nThe defendants allegedly then forced the women to take part in pornography which was later shared on social media.\n\nOne defendant is accused of raping a woman twice in March 2022, the statement adds.\n\nThe trial will not start immediately and is expected to take several years.\n\nA Romanian judge now has 60 days to inspect the case files before it can be sent to trial.\n\nThe media team for the Tate brothers said: \"While this news is undoubtedly predictable, we embrace the opportunity it presents to demonstrate their innocence and vindicate their reputation.\"\n\nIt added that the indictment \"allows us to present a comprehensive body of evidence, diligently collected and prepared over time, which will undoubtedly substantiate the brothers' claims of innocence\".\n\nThere are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.\n\nIn 2016, Andrew Tate, a British-American former kickboxer, was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.\n\nHe went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear some responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.\n\nDespite social media bans, he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting what he presented as a hyper-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Port of Everett is a popular place for mariners in the northern Puget Sound area of Washington state.\n\nMore than a dozen companies, like OceanGate, are based here. But OceanGate is the only company that makes underwater submersibles here, port workers tell me.\n\nCorie Reed, the owner of the Seas the Day coffeeshop, says that more than half of her customers are regulars - since many both live on their boats and work in the port's administrative offices.\n\nShe's served Stockton Rush, the owner of OceanGate who is now missing, and his employees many times in the past year, she says.\n\nAfter returning from a recent trip to see the Titanic, Reed says OceanGate workers told her baristas all about their unique view of the famous shipwreck.\n\n\"Lots of people are coming in and talking about it,\" Reed told me about the missing sub.\n\n\"People are saying how scary it is, and 'they have x amount of oxygen left',\" she says.\n\nBut as someone who is not personally involved in shipping, she says she has \"no idea\" how likely the submersible is to be found.\n\n\"Lots of rumours,\" she says. \"But it's always a rumor mill here.\"", "Triple-murder accused Valdo Calocane appeared at Nottingham Crown Court, giving his name as Adam Mendes\n\nA man charged with the murders of three people who died in attacks in Nottingham has appeared in court.\n\nValdo Calocane is accused of killing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on 13 June.\n\nThe 31-year-old gave his name in court as Adam Mendes.\n\nScheduling a trial date of 12 January, the judge said the victims' families had been \"profoundly and devastatingly affected by the case\".\n\nWearing a grey prison jumper and tracksuit, Mr Calocane was remanded in custody after no application was made for bail at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday morning.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham students Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed on Ilkeston Road just after 04:00 BST on Tuesday, while Mr Coates was found dead with knife injuries on Magdala Road after his van was allegedly stolen.\n\nIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks\n\nMr Calocane is also charged with attempting to murder pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller after allegedly driving Mr Coates' van at them in Milton Street and Upper Parliament Street, in the city centre.\n\nOne man remains in a stable condition in hospital and two people have been discharged, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust said.\n\nProsecuting, Peter Ratliff said it was a \"complex and ongoing investigation with multiple lines of inquiry being pursued\".\n\nJudge Nirmal Shant KC asked the defendant to confirm his name was Valdo Calocane, to which he replied, \"it is Adam Mendes\".\n\nAddressing Mr Ratliff, the judge said: \"There are people in this court who are profoundly and devastatingly affected by this case.\n\n\"Can I say through you that they have shown the utmost restraint and dignity and I thank them for it.\"\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's father (right) and Mr Webber's parents embraced at a vigil held at the University of Nottingham\n\nThe family of Mr Webber, a history student from Taunton in Somerset, previously described their \"complete devastation\" at the \"senseless murder of our son\", saying he was a \"beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Webber's cricket club, Bishops Hull, announced a memorial game would be taking place to honour their \"irreplaceable teammate and friend\".\n\nThousands gathered in Nottingham city centre to remember Mr Coates, Mr Webber and Ms O'Malley-Kumar on Thursday\n\nMs O'Malley-Kumar's family described her as a \"truly wonderful and beautiful young lady\" and that she would be \"so dearly missed\".\n\nThe medical student, from Woodford in north-east London, had represented Essex in cricket as a teenager and had also played for England Hockey.\n\nThousands attended vigils at the university and Market Square to remember the victims, and a minute's silence was held ahead of the first Ashes cricket Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Friday.\n\nA number of roads in Nottingham city centre were cordoned off after the attacks\n\nNottinghamshire Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) the day after the attacks.\n\nThe investigation will look at whether the actions of the van driver were influenced by the presence of a police car that was following.\n\nThe IOPC said an officer driving the single-crewed vehicle had sight of the suspect driving the van for less than a minute before it hit pedestrians.\n\nThe officer immediately stopped to give first aid to those who had been hit, the IOPC added.\n\nMr Calocane, of no fixed address, is due to enter pleas before Nottingham Crown Court on 25 September.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hunter Biden is expected to avoid jail time under a plea agreement\n\nUS President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanour tax crimes and admit to illegally possessing a gun while a drug user, after a five-year investigation.\n\nThe US Attorney in Delaware has filed papers indicating a plea agreement has been reached.\n\nThe terms of the agreement are likely to keep him out of jail.\n\nTop Republicans have called it evidence of a \"two-tiered system of justice\".\n\nIn theory, the president's son still faces a maximum penalty of a year in prison on each of the tax charges and 10 years in prison on the gun charge, the justice department said in a statement.\n\nHe is expected to agree to drug treatment and monitoring as part of the proposed deal.\n\nThe final deal would need to be approved by the judge in the case, who will also determine his sentence.\n\nIt is unclear when Hunter Biden will appear in court to enter his guilty plea on the tax charges.\n\nHe will admit to felony gun possession as part of a \"pre-trial diversion agreement\" that is separate from the plea deal, his lawyer Chris Clark said in a statement.\n\n\"I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life,\" Mr Clark added. \"He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward.\"\n\nMr Clark told MSNBC that the conditions of his client's probation were \"up to to the court\" but that he expected Mr Biden would be released without conditions after his court appearance.\n\n\"I think the judge is going to do what's fair and I think what's fair is my client gets on with his life,\" he said.\n\nHunter Biden, 53, has previously worked as a lawyer, and a lobbyist including abroad in China and Ukraine. He was discharged from the US Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.\n\nThe plea deal brings to an end a long-running justice department investigation into whether he properly reported his income and made false statements on paperwork used to purchase a firearm in 2018.\n\nThe two misdemeanour tax charges stem from a failure to pay more than $100,000 (£78,000) in taxes in both 2017 and 2018. A former justice department official told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that these amounts would lead to most clients being charged with misdemeanours, but \"in the jail time range\".\n\nIn a statement, Joe Biden said that neither he nor Jill Biden would comment further on Hunter Biden's case.\n\nThe gun charge stems from a 2018 possession of a firearm while a drug user.\n\nIn a 2021 book, the younger Mr Biden admitted to being a heavy user of crack cocaine at that time.\n\nBut he reportedly said \"no\" on a federal form asking if he was \"an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug or any other controlled substance\". Lying on these forms can lead to jail time.\n\nThe deal comes as some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have accused Joe Biden of \"weaponising\" the justice department against political opponents.\n\nHunter Biden has long been a target of scrutiny from conservatives, who have alleged that his dealings overseas indicate a pattern of corruption.\n\nNews of the plea deal was met with swift and strong criticism from Donald Trump and his campaign, as well as senior congressional Republicans.\n\nKaroline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the pro-Trump Make America Great Again Inc, called the agreement a \"sweetheart deal\" that allows the justice department to \"turn a blind eye\" to corruption. Mr Trump, for his part, called the deal a \"mere traffic ticket\".\n\nHouse majority leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill that the deal was evidence of a \"two-tier\" system of justice and vowed that the case would \"enhance\" a separate Republican investigation into Hunter Biden.\n\nProminent Democrats have remained largely quiet on the case. David Brock, a former right-wing investigative reporter turned pro-Democrat operative, said in a statement that the case should now be considered closed since \"Hunter will not be charged with any of the unfounded and outlandish issues Republicans and right-wing media have used to smear him with for years\".\n\nIn a brief statement, the White House also said that Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden \"love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will have no further comment\".\n\nWhile the younger Mr Biden has detailed a troubled life and \"massive drug addiction\", he long denied engaging in illegal activity.\n\nHe first admitted knowledge of an investigation into him in December 2020.\n\nIn a statement at the time, he said that he was \"confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, with the benefit of professional tax advisers\".\n\nMr Clark has said he believes the investigation is now \"resolved\", but the justice department in its statement said that the probe is \"ongoing\".\n\nSign up for our UK morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Emergency services were called to Aberavon beach on Monday evening\n\nA boy who drowned in the sea near a popular beach has been named by police.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the victim was 15-year-old David Ejimofor from Aberavon.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to the incident at Aberavon pier, Neath Port Talbot at 18:09 BST on Monday after reports of a person in the water.\n\nSt Joseph's Catholic School in Port Talbot said it was \"deeply saddened\" by the \"tragic and unexpected passing away\" of one its Year 11 pupils.\n\nHead teacher Eugene Scourfield said on the school's Facebook page that support for pupils had been arranged.\n\nEmergency services were called to Aberavon beach on Monday evening\n\n\"Our chapel is open to pupils, parents and friends of our school community. Please keep the family in your prayers,\" his statement said.\n\nA helicopter and Port Talbot RNLI lifeboat joined the rescue operation, as well as South Wales Police.\n\nCh Insp Richard Haines, said: \"Shortly before 7.10pm, officers were called to a report of a boy in the sea at Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot.\n\n\"We attended with a number of other emergency services.\n\nAn RNLI lifeboat responded to the incident at Aberavon Pier\n\n\"Despite the best efforts of members of the public and emergency services he sadly passed away.\"\n\nThe ambulance service said: \"We were called on Monday, 19 June, to reports of a medical emergency at Mariners Quay, Port Talbot.\n\n\"We sent one emergency ambulance, two rapid response vehicles, a duty operations manager, and our crews were support by Wales Air Ambulance.\"\n\nThe RNLI said a volunteer lifeboat crew from Port Talbot launched a lifeboat on Monday evening.\n\n\"The crew were on scene alongside other emergency services. Port Talbot RNLI would like to express their deepest sympathy to the friends and family of those involved,\" the charity said in a statement.\n\nLeighton Hockin, who was at the beach on Tuesday morning, said the incident was \"absolutely tragic\".\n\n\"A young boy only 15 years of age and just doing what kids do, but I guess they just don't see the dangers,\" he said.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see this happen, when you've got children or grandchildren it just really brings it home and people have to look out for each other.\"\n\nLabour MP for Aberavon, Stephen Kinnock said: \"I am shocked and extremely saddened to hear of the passing of a 15-year-old local boy.\n\n\"This is a huge tragedy and my thoughts are with the family of this young man.\"\n\nHe thanked the emergency services and said \"my thoughts are also with them\".\n\n\"It has been heartening to see our community send so much love to this young man's family,\" he added.", "Conservative activists filmed dancing at a Christmas party during Covid restrictions in 2020 were invited to \"jingle and mingle\", according to an invitation seen by the BBC.\n\nThe invitation was sent to 30 people on behalf of Ben Mallet, a former aide to Boris Johnson awarded an OBE last week.\n\nAt the time, London was under Tier-2 restrictions which banned indoor socialising.\n\nPolice are reviewing video of the event first published by the Mirror.\n\nIn the footage, one person is heard saying it is OK to film \"as long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules\".\n\nThe Conservative Party said four people were disciplined over the event, although it has not named them.\n\nThe event was held on behalf of Shaun Bailey's unsuccessful Mayor of London campaign, and was thrown for party activists.\n\nHe was awarded a peerage in Mr Johnson's resignation honours list last week.\n\nThe video features Mr Mallet - awarded an OBE in Mr Johnson's resignation honours - chatting to guests and holding a glass of red wine.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Mallet, who was campaign director for the Conservative Party's candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election, said he did not send the invitation himself. It was sent by an administrator.\n\nMr Bailey said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for the event, which he said \"turned into something\" after he had left.\n\nHe claimed he was \"very upset about the video\" as he had \"never seen it before\".\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had not chosen the team of staff seen in the video. \"It was a staff team that was given to me, but the buck stops with me,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to strip honours from those attending the party.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove has apologised for the video, and told the BBC the footage was \"terrible\" and would leave people feeling \"extremely angry\".\n\nIn November 2022, Scotland Yard said it was taking no action against Mr Bailey or other people who attended the gathering.\n\nOn Monday, the force said it was now \"assessing video footage that was not previously provided to officers\" in the party.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the video \"tells a much richer, clearer story\" than the photo the force had seen during its first investigation into the event.\n\nSpeaking on the News Agents Podcast, Sir Mark said: \"I think we can all see the colourful nature of the video and how much it tells a story way beyond the original photo.\n\n\"I need to let a team work through that but I think we can all guess which way it will go.\"\n\nThe Met Police are also investigating new reports, released by the Cabinet Office, of potential rule breaches by former prime minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street and Chequers during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAnd officers are looking into reports senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, who sits on the Privileges Committee attended a drinks party for his wife's birthday in the House of Commons while London was in Tier-2 lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the new Partygate video shows\n\nIn a 45-second video published by the Mirror newspaper, people can be seen drinking and standing in groups, while a man and a woman can be seen holding hands and dancing.\n\nOne member of the party can be heard asking: \"Are you filming this?\"\n\nA man then laughs before saying: \"As long as we are not streaming that we're bending the rules.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper said:\"While the Conservatives 'jingled and mingled', the British public followed the rules and did the right thing.\n\n\"The Conservatives should be utterly ashamed. It's clear it's one rule for them and another for everyone else.\"", "Sir Elton John says he has planned an entirely new show for his headline performance at Glastonbury this Sunday.\n\nThe star is playing the festival as the final UK date of his farewell tour, but said fans should expect the unexpected.\n\n\"I'm starting with a song I haven't played for about 10 years, so we'll see how it goes,\" he told BBC Radio 1.\n\n\"I've got the set list down, I've got rehearsal dates booked for the guest artists, so we just have to hope the weather will still be nice.\"\n\nSunday night's set will come more than five years after Sir Elton announced his 350-date Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.\n\nIt was originally due to end in 2021, giving the 76-year-old more time to spend with his young family, but multiple dates had to be rescheduled due to the Covid pandemic and a hip injury the singer sustained last year.\n\nThe Glastonbury date wraps up his touring commitments in the UK, and Sir Elton told Radio 1's Clara Amfo it \"couldn't be a more perfect ending\".\n\nHe added that the set list had been revamped to keep the show fresh.\n\n\"It's a different show to what people have been seeing. On Farewell Yellow Brick Road, there's quite a lot of deep cuts, it's not all hits, and you've got to keep people interested.\n\n\"When you put a setlist together, I always say it's a bit like having sex. You start off really well, then you chill out a little bit, then towards the end of the show all hell breaks loose\".\n\nSir Elton has played more than 2,500 shows across his career\n\nFans are hoping Sir Elton's Glastonbury set will replicate his final US shows at LA's Dodger Stadium last year. Those concerts were suitably grand affairs that saw guest appearances by Dua Lipa, Kiki Dee and Brandi Carlile.\n\nThe star has confirmed he will have special guests when he visits Worthy Farm, but is keeping their identities under wraps.\n\nIt will be his first ever performance at the festival and, he confessed, his first visit to Glastonbury, full stop.\n\n\"I've watched Glastonbury on the TV,\" he said, \"and the thing that I love about Glastonbury is not the headliners, per se, it's the people on the smaller stages that they give the chance to shine.\n\n\"So if I was at Glastonbury, I would probably be in one of the smaller tents, looking at one of the newer acts playing, because that's what I want to see.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glastonbury 2023: What you should be packing\n\nSir Elton, whose love affair with music has never waned, went on to discuss four of the new artists he's most excited about.\n\nAmong them were singer-songwriter Olivia Dean, future-soul artist Obongjayar, Scottish crooner Joesef and thrash-punk band Nova Twins.\n\n\"These girls rock my world,\" he said. \"There's so many girls out there rocking it: You've got the Linda Lindas and you've got Wet Leg and you've got the Nova Twins, who are just unbelievable.\n\n\"I'm so looking forward to seeing them live because they are, for me, phenomenal.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview on Clara Amfo's Future Sounds at 19:00 BST on BBC Radio 1 this Tuesday, 20 June.\n\nSir Elton's Glastonbury performance will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC Radio 2 on Sunday 25 June as part of the BBC's coverage of the festival on TV, radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.", "Provan was previously jailed for nine years for the rape of the 16-year-old but had his conviction quashed\n\nA former Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl and a fellow police officer.\n\nAdam Provan, 44, of Newmarket, Suffolk, was convicted of six counts of raping the woman between 2003 and 2005.\n\nHe was also convicted of two counts of raping the teenager following a retrial. He met her on a blind date after lying about his age in 2010.\n\nThe offences happened while he was in the Met's East Area Command Unit.\n\nHe was sacked from the Met in March 2019.\n\nThe jury heard Provan raped the girl in Central Park, Romford in east London, in a \"brazen and calculated\" attack after meeting her through a friend in 2010 and claiming to be 22.\n\nThe teenager has had to go through two trials to see him brought to justice.\n\nShe told a relative she had been raped at the time but it was not reported to police until 2016 and Provan was later convicted and jailed for nine years.\n\nHowever, he successfully appealed against the conviction, which was quashed in 2022, and a retrial began in May this year, along with six new counts of rape relating to the second victim.\n\nThe trial at Wood Green Crown Court heard that Provan was violent, abusive and controlling to the second victim.\n\nThe jury unanimously found him guilty of all eight counts on Monday.\n\nDet Sgt Victoria James said: \"Provan abused his position to win the trust of both these women.\n\n\"The Commissioner [of the Metropolitan Police] has been extremely clear there is no place in the Met for anyone who does not uphold the highest standards and where there is criminality we will absolutely investigate and bring before the courts.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon has said the interests of the SNP are “as close to my heart as is possible”.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has returned to the Scottish Parliament for the first time since being arrested as part of an investigation into SNP finances.\n\nThe former first minister was released without charge after being questioned by Police Scotland for more than seven hours last week.\n\nShe told reporters at Holyrood that she is \"absolutely certain\" she has done nothing wrong.\n\nShe also indicated she would not resign from the SNP.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who stood down as both party leader and first minister in March, said the party had been her life and she would always act in its best interests.\n\nShe said: \"I'm back in parliament today getting on with my job representing my constituents.\"\n\nThe former first minister told reporters she was \"heavily constrained\" on what she could say about the police investigation, adding: \"I respect and understand the process that is under way, but I am absolutely certain that I have done nothing wrong.\"\n\nQuestioned on whether she should stand down from the SNP, she said she would always consider what is best for the party.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it had not been an \"easy\" period in her life. \"The thing that sustains me right now is the certainty that I have done nothing wrong,\" she told reporters.\n\nThe former first minister also insisted that the investigation had not \"shaken\" her belief that the case for Scottish independence was getting \"stronger every day\".\n\nHer successor, Humza Yousaf, has been under pressure from opposition parties and some within the SNP to suspend Ms Sturgeon while the police investigation is ongoing.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has rejected calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from the SNP\n\nAfter her arrest and subsequent release he described Ms Sturgeon as being \"the most impressive politician I think we have seen in Europe\" and described her as \"an asset to our movement, and to our party\".\n\nSNP MSPs also agreed to send flowers to the former first minister \"as an expression of our support\" after a group meeting at Holyrood last week.\n\nMs Sturgeon spoke to reporters outside her home in Glasgow on Sunday - the first time she had been seen in public since her arrest on 11 June.\n\nShortly after being released from custody pending further investigations she released a statement on social media which stated she would \"never do anything to harm either the SNP or the country\".\n\nHer latest statement came after a Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times suggested that Labour could be on track to win more seats than the SNP in a Westminster election for the first time since 2010, with Mr Yousaf's party projected to go from 45 seats to 21.\n\nThe poll, conducted in the days after Ms Sturgeon's arrest, also suggested that her personal approval rating has fallen by 38 points since February, from plus 20 to minus 18.\n\nPolice Scotland's investigation, named Operation Branchform, is looking into what happened to more than £600,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.\n\nOfficers searched Ms Sturgeon's home and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh on 5 April.\n\nFormer SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, who is also Ms Sturgeon's husband, was arrested and released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nA luxury motorhome which costs about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nAlmost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested and released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and Mr Beattie were the three signatories on the SNP's accounts and the arrest of the former first minister had been widely expected.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously denied that her decision to resign as first minister and SNP leader earlier this year was influenced by the police investigation.\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy MSP said: \"While the former first minister was adamant she was innocent of wrongdoing in the SNP finances scandal, she pointedly refused to give any such assurances on behalf of Peter Murrell.\n\n\"Michelle Thomson is rightly annoyed that she was forced to give up the SNP whip by her then-leader Nicola Sturgeon, who is now refusing to follow her own precedent.\n\n\"But rather than apologise to her colleague, Nicola Sturgeon would only say she understood her anger, which will be cold comfort to those suspended under her leadership.\"", "Navalny has lost a lot of weight in jail, but is engaged and as vocal a critic as ever\n\nAt Penal Colony No 6, they've made an effort.\n\nOutside the maximum-security prison, a giant Russian tricolour has been stretched across the ground. Planted on top in three strict lines are red, blue and white blooms to mirror the national flag. A patriotic flowerbed for a Russian prison.\n\nBut I'm not here for the gardening.\n\nBehind these walls, Alexei Navalny - Russia's most famous prisoner and the Kremlin's most vocal critic - is about to go on trial. Again.\n\nPrison guards conduct a thorough search of our bags. Cue the sniffer dogs.\n\nFinally, we're let through. We're under strict instructions not to turn on our video camera until permitted to do so.\n\nAlong with the other journalists who've made the journey here to Melekhovo, we're led into a building.\n\nWe're not allowed into the hall which has been turned into a temporary courtroom. Neither are Mr Navalny's parents who are here, too. Instead, for now, we can follow proceedings on a video screen in a separate room.\n\nThe signal's switched on and the picture appears. It's a wide shot of the makeshift courtroom. No close-ups.\n\nBut Alexei Navalny is visible, sitting at a table with his defence lawyers. He's clearly lost a lot of weight in prison.\n\nBut Mr Navalny is engaged and defiant as he rails against the judge and condemns the decision to try him here.\n\nOn paper, it's a Moscow court that is hearing the case. But the trial is taking place 150 miles (240km) from the Russian capital.\n\nThat suggests the Russian authorities want to avoid the publicity that transporting Mr Navalny to Moscow would inevitably bring.\n\nNavalny's parents were not allowed in the courtroom\n\nThe picture on the screen doesn't last long. An hour and a half after the start of the trial, the prosecutor demands that proceedings are held behind closed doors.\n\nThe judge rules in favour. The video feed is cut.\n\nIt will now be even harder to follow what's happening to Russia's most prominent opposition leader in his trial behind bars.\n\nJailed in 2021, Alexei Navalny is currently serving a nine-year prison term here for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court - charges widely seen as politically motivated.\n\nBut that nine-year term is set to increase dramatically.\n\nIn this new trial, he faces multiple charges that could add decades to his time behind bars. They include creating an extremist organisation and financing extremist activities.\n\nThe authorities have already declared Mr Navalny's network of campaign offices and his Anti-Corruption Foundation \"extremist\" and shut them down.\n\nThere may be worse to come. Mr Navalny says investigators told him to expect another case, another trial, this time related to terrorism charges.\n\nWhy do the charges and trials keep coming? Why do the Russian authorities seem determined to pile on the pressure and keep Alexei Navalny behind bars?\n\nOver the years, Vladimir Putin's Kremlin has been busy removing all potential rivals to the president - clearing the Russian political landscape of any potential challengers. It will want to make sure that its loudest critic stays well away from Russia's political stage.\n\nFor more than a decade, Alexei Navalny has exposed corruption at the heart of Russian power. His video investigations have received tens of millions of views online.\n\nIt is Navalny's ability to galvanise crowds that authorities fear\n\nBut even more than this, perhaps, it is his ability to mobilise the public, especially young Russians, to take to the streets in anti-government protests which makes the authorities nervous.\n\nIn recent years, he has been the only Russian opposition leader capable of organising anti-Putin street protests on a national scale.\n\nHe had set up a network of regional campaign offices, having planned to run for president in 2018. He was barred from the vote.\n\nIn 2020, Mr Navalny was poisoned in Siberia by what Western laboratories later confirmed to be a nerve agent.\n\nHe accused the Kremlin of trying to kill him. The Russian authorities deny that.\n\nAfter receiving urgent medical care in Germany, his decision to return to Russia in 2021 will have been viewed by those in power here as a direct challenge to the Kremlin. He was arrested on arrival.", "An egg-freezing cycle involves taking drugs to boost your production of eggs, which are later collected and frozen\n\nRecord numbers of women are freezing their eggs in the hope of having a family later in life, according to a new report.\n\nMore than 4,000 patients froze their eggs in 2021, compared to 2,500 in 2019, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said.\n\nThe \"dramatic rise\" could be linked to the pandemic, a charity said.\n\nBut doctors warned there needed to be more awareness of the pros and cons.\n\nSarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust fertility charity, said some women had considered their fertility during the lockdowns.\n\n\"Restrictions on socialising may have prompted some women to think more about their fertile window, and decide to try to increase their reproductive choices,\" she said.\n\nDespite the number of egg collections increasing, less women decided to donate their eggs for another woman to use, according to the report.\n\nThere were nearly 1,500 new egg donors in 2019 but this dropped to just over 1,400 in 2021.\n\nHelen Henry donated some of her eggs at the same times as having some frozen\n\nHelen Henry, from Thurrock in Essex, donated some of her eggs when she had hers frozen 10 years ago at the age of 34.\n\nShe was in a long-term relationship with a partner at the time, who did not want children.\n\n\"I remember having counselling explaining the reason why I wanted to freeze my eggs and being given the opportunity to donate as well. I took that option as I wasn't just doing it for myself.\n\n\"After donating I started to feel quite guilty. I wasn't sure that I had done the right thing. What if the mother of the child isn't a good one? What if the child ends up in foster care? What if it's neglected?\n\n\"Fast forward a few years, I found out that a baby girl was born in December 2011 from my donation. Finding out a child was born made those guilty feelings go away,\" she said.\n\nMs Henry went on to have her own children with a new partner, and never used her frozen eggs, which have now been disposed of.\n\n\"I fell pregnant naturally and quite quickly and had my first daughter at age 39 and I am currently on maternity leave again having had my son last December, aged 44,\" she said.\n\n\"This will be an ongoing conversation with my two children that they have a genetic sister out there in the world. I pray that I will see this child one day. It is one of my last wishes.\"\n\nVicky Pattison says she feels empowered by being able to make the decision to have children when it is right for her\n\nTV presenter and podcaster Vicky Pattison, who also lives in Essex, has just had some of her eggs frozen, after deciding she was not yet ready for children.\n\nThree of her eggs were turned into embryos with her partner's sperm, which she was told have a 20% chance of resulting in a baby. She has also kept three as unfertilised eggs, which have a 10% chance.\n\nShe shared her feelings throughout the treatment, saying there was \"not enough genuine, honest information out there\".\n\nSuccess is strongly dependent on the age of the woman at the time of freezing her eggs, the HFEA said, with higher success rates in those aged under 35.\n\nConsultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Bassel Wattar said more work was needed to inform patients and support them through their fertility journey.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is limited public awareness on the pros and cons of this treatment and how it could be best planned to optimise chances of starting a family in the future,\" he said.\n\nAre you freezing your eggs? Do you want to have children later in life? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim the £111.7m jackpot from Friday's EuroMillions draw.\n\nLottery operator Camelot said it had received a claim which would now go through a process of validation.\n\nOnce the ticket has been validated and paid, the winner can decide if they want to share the news.\n\nThis winner will become the 18th UK player to win more than £100m in a EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nThe winning numbers were 03, 12, 15, 25 and 43 with Lucky Stars 10 and 11.\n\nThe lucky winner will be wealthier than England footballer Harry Kane (£51m), Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe (£92m) and pop singer Dua Lipa (£75m), according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"It is wonderful news that a lucky ticket-holder has claimed this incredible prize.\"\n\nLast month, a UK ticket-holder claimed £46.2m out of a possible £138m.\n\nIn July last year, a UK ticket-holder won a record jackpot of £195m, but kept their identity anonymous.", "Mike Pence is expected to announce his 2024 candidacy on 7 June\n\nThe US justice department will not pursue criminal charges against former Vice-President Mike Pence over his handling of classified documents.\n\nAn investigation has now cleared Mr Pence of any wrongdoing, according to US media reports.\n\nThe news comes just days before he is expected to announce his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.\n\nIn January, his lawyers said a \"small number\" of classified documents were found at his Indiana home.\n\nFrom the outset of the investigation, Mr Pence's team said that the documents had been \"inadvertently\" stored in boxes that were not in a secure area at his Carmel, Indiana property.\n\nIn a letter to the National Archives in January, Mr Pence's attorney said neither the ex-vice-president nor his counsel reviewed the contents of the boxes. Soon after, the documents were retrieved by FBI agents.\n\nCiting sources familiar with the investigation, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reported that multiple members of Mr Pence's staff were interviewed as part of the investigation, including former chief of staff Marc Short.\n\nHe is expected to announce his 2024 presidential bid at an event in Des Moines, Iowa on 7 June.\n\nThe announcement will put Mr Pence on a collision course with his former boss, Donald Trump. The relationship between the two has become strained over time, particularly after Mr Pence refused to try to derail the certification of the 2020 presidential election on the day of the 6 January US Capitol riot.\n\nBoth President Joe Biden and his predecessor Mr Trump, who are running for the White House next year, are still being investigated for possessing classified material.\n\nEarlier this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel to oversee a justice department investigation into the handling of hundreds of classified documents at Mr Trump's Florida estate.\n\nAnother special counsel was also appointed to overlook a separate investigation into classified documents found at President Biden's Delaware home and a Washington DC office.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCameron Norrie has never reached the French Open fourth round Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app Cameron Norrie's bid to crack the French Open last 16 came undone once again as Italy's Lorenzo Musetti outclassed the British number one. Norrie, 27, lost in the Roland Garros third round for the third successive year with the 6-1 6-2 6-4 defeat. Norrie, who was seeded 14th, is ranked higher than Musetti, but produced an error-strewn display against the Italian 17th seed on the Paris clay. Norrie's exit means there are no British players left in the singles. \"I would say this one hurts more than others being at a Grand Slam and wanting to play well,\" said Norrie, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last year. \"Hopefully it gives me more fuel and I'll get ready for the next Grand Slam [at Wimbledon]. \"There are no excuses to play the level that I did today. I missed so many easy-shot balls, and, yeah, I lost so many points within a couple of shots where usually I can win a lot of those ones.\" Defeat ended the possibility of Norrie facing top seed Carlos Alcaraz in the fourth round, with Musetti advancing to play the 20-year-old after the Spaniard beat Canadian 26th seed Denis Shapovalov.\n• None Follow live radio and text coverage of day six from Roland Garros\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone Norrie plan to peak in Paris doesn't come off When Norrie decided to go to South America after this year's Australian Open, the purpose of the trip was to spend more time on the clay with the ultimate goal of peaking for the French Open. The immediate benefits were clear. The left-hander reached the final in Buenos Aires, where he lost to then world number two Alcaraz, then avenged that defeat by beating the Spaniard a week later to win the Rio de Janeiro title. However, Norrie has not been able to replicate the same level of success on the European clay-court swing. Now it has ended with one of the heaviest Grand Slam defeats of his career. \"There was a reason why I went to South America, so not to play well from the beginning in Monte Carlo and come in with a lot of energy is disappointing,\" said Norrie. \"I'm pretty disappointed with the performance, especially having such big goals to play well at Grand Slams and go deeper. \"I have the chances, the draws. I think it's a good match-up for me today, and I didn't take advantage of it.\" Six wins in 11 matches - including a defeat by 21-year-old Musetti in Barcelona - meant he entered Roland Garros in far from peak form and he needed to dig deep in his opening match against France's Benoit Paire. A similarly partisan atmosphere awaited the Briton in the second round, but he stifled home hope Lucas Pouille - and the French fans - with a dominant start. Before playing Musetti, Norrie spoke about the importance of getting on top early again. Instead, he lost his opening service game of the match, and was broken again in the sixth game, as Musetti wrapped up the first set in 34 minutes. Pushed back by Musetti's groundstrokes and disrupted by his variety, errors continued to flow from Norrie's racquet in the second set and he was broken twice more as he lost the final five games. After losing serve in the opening game of the third set, Norrie's level improved and led to the conversion of his first break point for 3-3. Two more break points came his way in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead, but he could not take them and lost serve again in the following game when Musetti took the sixth of his 18 break points in the match. From that point, there was only going to be one outcome and Musetti served out a victory which demonstrated his quality.\n• None How was Wales' first serial killer unmasked? The inside story of the police investigation into the 1973 murders of three teenage girls\n• None Why did Jimmy Carr start his career all over again? He reveals all to Steven Bartlett in The Diary of a CEO", "British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful will be stepping down from his role after six years of breaking boundaries at the top fashion magazine.\n\nThe 51-year-old will remain as an editorial advisor to the UK title but move into a newly-created job next year aimed at growing the brand globally.\n\nHis new portfolio as Vogue's global creative and cultural advisor will also allow him to take on external projects.\n\nEnninful will be involved with the recruitment search for his successor.\n\nThe Ghanaian-British creative is the first black man to hold the top job at the British fashion magazine.\n\nBritish Vogue recently featured its first disabled models, including actress Selma Blair who lives with multiple sclerosis and Ellie Goldstein, a 21-year-old model with Down's syndrome.\n\nIn an interview last year about his favourite Vogue covers, Enninful said the inspiration behind his first one in December 2017 featuring mixed race model Adwoa Aboah was aimed at resetting \"the image of modern Britain\".\n\n\"It was important to create a cover that represented the Britain of today, a multicultural society where everyone was welcome - where my family was welcome,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British Vogue Editor Edward Enninful speaks to the Today Programme about their May cover, which features disabled models.\n\nOther notable cover stars from Enninful's time as editor include:\n\nLast month, Enninful attended the King and Queen's Coronation. He has helped the King's charity, the Prince's Trust, with its work in Africa and worldwide as a global ambassador.\n\nEdward Enninful, pictured alongside singer Katy Perry, attended the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla last month\n\nEnninful has been a high-profile champion for greater inclusivity in the fashion industry.\n\nHe took over as editor-in-chief of British Vogue in August 2017 from Alexandra Shulman, who had been in the job for 25 years. One of his first priorities was to diversify his staff at the publication.\n\nAnd in 2018, model and writer Paris Lees became the first openly transgender woman to be featured in British Vogue as part of a feature celebrating 100 years since women have had the right to vote in the UK.\n\nEnninful has been open about his struggles with racism and being a black gay man.\n\nA few years ago, while working as editor-in-chief, Enninful said he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" by a security guard as he entered work.\n\nIn interviews with the BBC, he has also shared concerns about losing his eyesight, his struggles with alcoholism and being estranged from his father for 15 years.\n\nBritish Vogue's contributing European sustainability editor Dana Thomas told the BBC she was \"thrilled\" by the news of his new role.\n\n\"This gives him more freedom to do what he does best, and what clearly brings him joy, which is the creation of beauty,\" she said.\n\n\"His influence has been immense. I write for British Vogue because I found him so inspiring. His leadership in the areas of inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability - what he calls the three pillars of British Vogue - have been unmatched in any publication.\"\n\nSelma Blair on the cover of British Vogue\n\nIn a memo sent to Vogue staff, Enninful said he would \"continue to contribute to the creative and cultural success of the Vogue brand globally\" in his newly-created job, \"whilst having the freedom to take on broader creative projects\".\n\nA head of editorial content for British Vogue will also be hired, he said, adding: \"For now everything remains the same, and I'm so excited about what the future holds for us.\"\n\nEnninful thanked editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch, the chief executive officer of publishers Condé Nast, \"for their continued support\".", "Steven Spoel said: \"This is one of five very cute fox cubs that live in our garden in Edinburgh. I particularly like the 'up-to-no-good' look this cub had just before it jumped its sibling.\"", "A US Air Force colonel \"mis-spoke\" when describing an experiment in which an AI-enabled drone opted to attack its operator in order to complete its mission, the service has said.\n\nColonel Tucker Hamilton, chief of AI test and operations in the US Air Force, was speaking at a conference organised by the Royal Aeronautical Society.\n\nA report about it went viral.\n\nThe Air Force says no such experiment took place.\n\nIn his talk, he had described a simulation in which an AI-enabled drone was repeatedly stopped from completing its task of destroying Surface-to-Air Missile sites by its human operator.\n\nHe said that in the end, despite having been trained not to kill the operator, the drone destroyed the communication tower so that the operator could no longer communicate with it.\n\n\"We've never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realise that this is a plausible outcome,\" Col Hamilton later clarified in a statement to the Royal Aeronautical Society.\n\nHe added that it was a \"thought experiment\" rather than anything which had actually taken place.\n\nThere have been a number of warnings about the threat to humanity posed by AI issued recently by people working in the sector, although not all experts agree how serious a risk it is.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this week, Prof Yoshua Bengio, one of three computer scientists described as the \"godfathers\" of AI after winning a prestigious Turing Award for their work, said he thought the military should not be allowed to have AI powers at all.\n\nHe described it as \"one of the worst places where we could put a super-intelligent AI\".\n\nI spent several hours this morning speaking to experts in both defence and AI, all of whom were very sceptical about Col Hamilton's claims, which were being widely reported before his clarification.\n\nOne defence expert told me Col Hamilton's original story seemed to be missing \"important context\", if nothing else.\n\nThere were also suggestions on social media that had such an experiment taken place, it was more likely to have been a planned scenario rather than the AI-enabled drone being powered by machine learning during the task - which basically means it would not have been choosing its own outcomes as it went along, based on what had happened previously.\n\nSteve Wright, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of the West of England, and an expert in unmanned aerial vehicles, told me jokingly that he had \"always been a fan of the Terminator films\" when I asked him for his thoughts about the story.\n\n\"In aircraft control computers there are two things to worry about: 'do the right thing' and 'don't do the wrong thing', so this is a classic example of the second,\" he said.\n\n\"In reality we address this by always including a second computer that has been programmed using old-style techniques, and this can pull the plug as soon as the first one does something strange.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The document will be on display for its 703rd anniversary.\n\nOne of the most famous documents in Scottish history has gone on display for the first time in 18 years.\n\nThe Declaration of Arbroath was written on 6 April 1320 by Scottish nobles asking the Pope to acknowledge Scottish independence.\n\nThe fragile text can only occasionally be shown in public to ensure its condition is preserved.\n\nIt will be on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh until 2 July.\n\nThe letter was one of three written to Pope John XXII, who refused to recognise King Robert I - Robert the Bruce - as the monarch in Scotland.\n\nThe King and the Bishop of St Andrews also wrote to the Pope, but the barons' letter is the only surviving document.\n\nTheir collective plea was unsuccessful as the Pope's reply urged reconciliation with the English.\n\nThe two countries had been fighting against each other in the Wars of Scottish Independence since the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, with Robert the Bruce leading the Scottish army to a famous victory in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.\n\nThe first war of independence eventually ended with a peace treaty in 1328, but a second war erupted four years later and continued for 25 years.\n\nHazel de Vere and Eva Martinez Moya work on preserving the letter\n\nDr Alan Borthwick, head of medieval and early modern records at the National Records of Scotland (NRS) said the declaration helps people understand the political feeling at the time.\n\nHe said: \"It encapsulates an awful lot about what the Scots thought about themselves as a nation in 1320 and their rights to be an independent kingdom, not subject to the English king.\n\n\"The way that it is written, using quotes from the Bible but also classical authors - it's a very, very carefully crafted text.\n\n\"It is strongly asserting their position as supporters of Robert the First as their king without having to get an approval from the king of England.\"\n\nThe Declaration was written in Latin and was sealed by eight earls and about 40 barons.\n\nOne of the most famous quotes of the roughly 1,000-word long text still inspires the Scottish independence movement 700 years later.\n\nDr Alan Borthwick at the Declaration of Arbroath display\n\nIt reads: \"As long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English.\n\n\"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.\"\n\nDr Borthwick said: \"There are a number ways in which you can interpret the text.\n\n\"There is the context in which it was produced, and for some undoubtedly it is the context that it may have in more modern times.\n\n\"It's phrases like that which undoubtedly resonate across the generations and across the centuries and across the world. When you think of people fighting for freedom, that is really what it's about.\"\n\nSome historians claim its significance has been overstated and the purpose of the declaration was simply to shore up the reign of the Scottish king.\n\nThe Declaration of Arbroath display has been organised in partnership between National Museums Scotland and NRS, who keep the document.\n\nThe letter is usually kept in a temperature-controlled secure location with limited access and no light.\n\nIt is vulnerable to degradation as it is made from sheep skin, and moving the document for display is a very complex process.\n\nLinda Ramsay, who heads up conservation at the NRS, has worked on preserving the Declaration of Arbroath since 1991.\n\n\"It is a great privilege to be so close to these real history-making documents,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a totemic document, certainly for a Scot. It has a lot of challenges but it is a real privilege.\n\n\"With display there are so many vulnerabilities and so many factors that we are not in total control of.\"\n\nShe said she feels nervous when the document leaves the managed space, adding: \"We like it to be back sleeping in its bed in the store secure.\n\n\"We're pleased that people are going to see the Declaration. A public record is something you can't just keep and nobody sees it, there is an interest and quite rightly we have to make that possible.\"\n\nWe were given rare access to film the Declaration of Arbroath ahead of it going on display.\n\nIn a room where both the temperature and humidity were tightly controlled, we watched as expert conservators from the NRS inspected the document, looking for and recording any signs of deterioration in its condition.\n\nThey explained to me that a visual examination is carried out any time a significant document goes on display.\n\nThe 700-year-old letter is normally kept in a case in a darkened room. We weren't allowed to use artificial lights with our camera when we filmed and instead relied on daylight from the huge windows in the north-facing room to illuminate the medieval writing and seals.\n\nThere was also UV laminate on the window panes to reduce any potential damage from sun light.\n\nThe cupboards in the lab-like room held vellum and dyes and more exotic sounding material such as Goldbeater's skin. Linda Ramsay, head of conservation at the NRS, said their aim was to slow down degradation and preserve the Declaration of Arbroath in the best state they can for future generations.\n\nWe took an immense amount of care while filming and moving around the 14 Century priceless, fragile document. Being allowed such close access was both a privilege and a responsibility.", "It’s been a long evening. The repeated roll-calls of senators, to go through amendments, has given the impression of a slow pace.\n\nBut of course this legislation’s actually been expedited through the Senate due to Monday’s deadline.\n\nThat’s when the US Treasury says the country could run out of money to pay all its bills.\n\nSo this is, in relative terms, speedy stuff.\n\nBut watching these apparently calm proceedings unfold is somewhat at odds with the frantic political drama that’s played out in recent weeks.\n\nIt did seem, at points, as though a deal could prove elusive between senior Republicans and the White House.\n\nBut, as is often the way with political deals, an 11th-hour agreement was struck.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReferees' body PGMOL says it is appalled by the \"unjustified and abhorrent\" abuse directed at Anthony Taylor in Budapest Airport following Wednesday's Europa League final.\n\nThe Englishman had officiated the game, where Sevilla beat Roma on penalties after a 1-1 draw.\n\nTaylor and his family were then shouted at by angry fans at the airport.\n\nBudapest airport officials said an Italian citizen involved in the incident had been charged with affray.\n\nIn the video, which has been shared on social media, Taylor and his family are accosted by fans as they are escorted through the airport. Scuffles then break out as they disappear through a secure door and a chair is thrown.\n\nFollowing the game, Roma manager Jose Mourinho was seen in a car park confronting Taylor with a foul-mouthed rant.\n\nA Budapest Airport statement read: \"Fans of the losing Roma team recognised the referee in the food court of the airport, where he was waiting for his flight to depart.\n\n\"Thanks to the airport operator's close co-operation with the police and the increased police presence at the airport during the arrival and departure of the fans, the authorities intervened immediately, and the referee was escorted to a lounge and boarded his flight safely, accompanied by police officers.\n\n\"The Italian citizen involved in the incident was apprehended by the police and criminal proceedings have been initiated on charges of affray.\"\n\nPGMOL said in a statement: \"[We are] aware of videos circulating on social media showing Anthony Taylor and his family being harassed and abused at Budapest Airport.\n\n\"We are appalled at the unjustified and abhorrent abuse directed at Anthony and his family as he tries to make his way home from refereeing the Uefa Europa League final.\n\n\"We will continue to provide our full support to Anthony and his family.\"\n\nThe Premier League said it was \"shocked and appalled by the unacceptable abuse\" directed at Taylor and his family.\n\nA Premier League spokesperson added: \"No-one should have to suffer the inexcusable behaviour they had to endure.\n\n\"Anthony is one of our most experienced and accomplished match officials and we fully support him and his family.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, whose side play Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday, said: \"All referees have a really difficult job and shouldn't be put through any difficult situations. That's not correct.\"\n\nUefa is waiting for reports from match officials and delegates before deciding whether to take action against Mourinho over the incident in the car park under the stadium after the match.\n\nMourinho criticised Taylor in his news conference and he was later captured ranting and making pointed comments as Taylor and officials were boarding a minibus.\n\nThe Portuguese repeatedly swore and twice shouted about a \"disgrace\" before talking in Italian.\n\nUefa's chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti attempted to calm the situation down.\n\nMourinho was booked during an ill-tempered game, with Taylor repeatedly called to the benches to take action as fourth official Michael Oliver struggled to keep control.\n\nTaylor issued yellow cards to 13 players, the most bookings in a Europa League game. Seven of them were to Roma players, a record for a final.\n\nDelays and injuries saw more than 25 minutes of injury time played across the four halves of the game, which went to extra time and then a shootout.\n\n'Mourinho should be banned for 10 games'\n\nFormer Premier League referee Keith Hackett called on Uefa to give Mourinho a 10-game ban and take tougher action against clubs.\n\n\"What is appalling here is that a referee has gone out and done his job,\" Hackett told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It is a prestigious game for him - for an English referee to be appointed to the final.\n\n\"He was looking forward to that. He spent years of refereeing to get to the level he is at. He is a world-class referee. He delivers a very difficult game without much contention and then he is faced with this particular problem as he is in the airport.\n\n\"It is unprecedented and Uefa have got to take action.\n\n\"The sanction for Mourinho? They have got to come down with a 10-game ban.\n\n\"They have also got to ban the teams from Europe. They have got to be tough; throw them out of the competition.\"\n\nHackett said Uefa must take \"responsibility for the security of match officials right up to the time that they leave the airport\".", "British Airways has been fined $1.1m (£878,000) by the US government over claims it failed to pay refunds for cancelled flights during the pandemic.\n\nThe US Department of Transportation said the airline had not provided \"timely refunds to passengers\" for abandoned or rescheduled flights to and from the country.\n\nIt said it had received more than 1,200 complaints about the airline.\n\nBA rejected the claims, saying it had \"acted lawfully at all times\".\n\nAccording to the transport department, from March to November 2020, BA's website instructed consumers to contact the carrier by phone to discuss refund options, including for flights the carrier had cancelled or significantly changed.\n\nHowever, consumers were unable to get through to customer service agents when calling the carrier for several months during this period because BA failed to maintain adequate functionality of its customer service phone lines , it said.\n\n\"There was also no way to submit a refund request through the carrier's website during this period,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that from March to November 2020, misleading information on BA's website had led consumers to inadvertently request travel vouchers instead of refunds.\n\nIt said that along with the 1,200 complaints received by the department, BA had received thousands more complaints and refund requests directly from consumers.\n\nThe department said the failures had \"caused significant challenges and delays in thousands of consumers receiving required refunds\".\n\nIt added that the fine established a \"strong deterrent to future similar unlawful practices\".\n\nBA will be credited $550,000 towards the penalty because it paid more than $40m in refunds to customers with non-refundable tickets in 2020 and 2021.\n\nThe airline said: \"We're very sorry that at the height of the unprecedented pandemic - when we were unfortunately forced to cancel thousands of flights and close some call centres due to government restrictions - our customers experienced slightly longer wait times to reach customer service teams.\n\n\"During this period, we acted lawfully at all times and offered customers the flexibility of rebooking travel on different dates, or claiming a refund if their flights were cancelled.\n\n\"To date, we have issued more than five million refunds since the start of the pandemic.\"", "Israel's far-right Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been jeered by marchers at Jerusalem Gay Pride.\n\nThousands turned out for the event despite security fears over online threats and counter-protests.\n\nThe march was the first since the election of a hardline religious-nationalist government, including openly homophobic senior ministers.\n\nTensions are always high after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremist murdered a teenage participant in 2015.\n\nMarchers waved huge rainbow and Israeli flags and banners that accused far-right ministers of trying to push them \"back in the closet\".\n\nMr Ben-Gvir, who as National Security minister was responsible for securing the march, has a long track-record of aggressively homophobic positions and once attended a so-called \"beast parade\" rejecting LGBTQ rights.\n\nThe climate surrounding the event has thrown a fresh spotlight on the deepening fault lines in Israeli society, where secular Jews have long championed the country's open culture of LGBTQ rights, but where political and demographic shifts are giving unprecedented power to the nationalist and ultra-Orthodox right-wing. The schism is sharply felt in Jerusalem, known for its conservative and religious populations.\n\nPolice arrested three people over threats made in the run-up to the event, while an online watchdog reported a spike in homophobic hate speech.\n\nFar-right Telegram and WhatsApp groups published \"violent and hateful messages\" throughout the week, according to FakeReporter, which monitors online extremism. It said that Lehava, a far-right group, referred to march as the \"abomination parade\" and called for protests accompanied by a message stating that it would be a \"deadly Thursday\".\n\nThe event was sealed by protective barricades while the route was patrolled by hundreds of armed police. Organisers reported a record attendance of 30,000 people after warning of a \"public climate of danger\" for LGBTQ people.\n\nAs the rally began, Mr Ben-Gvir - swamped by his armed security team - briefly toured a street running parallel, causing marchers to rush to barricades and shout \"shame\" at him.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir (C) has distanced himself from the anti-LGBTQ beast parades\n\nAsked by the BBC if he was deliberately creating a provocation, Mr Ben-Gvir said: \"Perhaps our mere existence is a provocation. For you, that Jews live is a provocation.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a few dozen ultra-religious and far-right protesters, organised by Lehava, were separated by police from the Gay Pride rally. Banners read: \"Don't let them have children\" and \"Jerusalem is not Sodom\", in reference to the biblical city supposedly destroyed by God for the sin of homosexuality.\n\nIt comes in a year which has seen an unprecedented clash between secular Israelis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, culminating in weekly protests against the coalition's now-delayed plans to strip powers from the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Netanyahu has rejected claims his coalition would erode LGBTQ rights. He tweeted during the event: \"I am proud that Israel is one of the most open countries in the world in relation to the gay community and that the discourse in it has become more accepting and respectful every year.\"\n\nGay Pride marcher Elisa Gilman stood with a sign offering \"free hugs\" to younger participants who \"haven't had a hug from a parent for a while\" due to their sexuality.\n\nShe told the BBC a lot of gay people were \"worried\" by the current coalition.\n\n\"Many have said 'I will be here this year because of that - I cannot allow who is in government to affect the fact that this is who I am and this is my life',\" said Ms Gilman who described herself as an \"ally\" to the LGBTQ community.\n\nAnother marcher, Yuval from Jerusalem, who declined to give his surname, told the BBC: \"We're here today to say that we are here to stay and that we will not give up.\"\n\n\"Our government is the most homophobic and transphobic it has ever been. The minister of police who is here supposedly protecting us - until last year he came here to protest against us,\" he said.\n\nIn 2006, Mr Ben-Gvir attended a so-called beast parade against Gay Pride, in which religious activists led goats and donkeys through the streets and hoisted banners calling LGBTQ people \"impure\". Two years later, he was photographed kicking a trans woman at Gay Pride in Tel Aviv. He later claimed it was in self-defence.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir has since distanced himself from the beast parade and reportedly described LGBTQ people as his \"brothers and sisters\".\n\nIn the run-up to this week's event he toured police headquarters saying the marchers must be kept safe, but that those opposing it must also be allowed to protest.\n\nEarlier, the Islamist militant group Hamas had also denounced the parade as \"provocative\" and called on Palestinians to confront it.", "President Joe Biden made his first address from the Oval Office on the debt deal\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said raising the US borrowing limit averted \"economic collapse\", in his first Oval Office address to the nation on Friday.\n\nHe signed the bill into law on Saturday after it cruised through Congress with bipartisan support.\n\nThe Democratic president voiced rare praise for his Republican counterparts, saying they \"operated in good faith\".\n\nHe said a US default on its $31.4tn (£25tn) debt by Monday's deadline would have been \"catastrophic\".\n\nSpeeches to the nation from the Oval Office are typically reserved for major crises, such as war or natural disasters.\n\nThe White House said Mr Biden's decision to make his remarks there underscored the gravity of the situation if the debt ceiling had not been raised at the last minute.\n\nFor weeks the White House and Republicans debated details of a deal, and there was scepticism about whether the package would actually be finalised before the US government ran out of money on 5 June.\n\nThe bill passed 63-36 in the Senate on Thursday night, a day after it easily cleared the House of Representatives.\n\nThe president praised congressional leaders, including Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.\n\n\"They acted responsibly, and put the good of the country ahead of politics,\" said Mr Biden, who is running for re-election in 2024.\n\nThe deal suspends the debt limit until 1 January 2025 and caps non-defence spending, while expanding work requirements for food and healthcare assistance, amongst other provisions.\n\nFull funding for the medical care of military veterans would also increase, in line with what President Biden had sought.\n\nThe legislation will result in $1.5tn in savings over a decade, the independent Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.\n\nThough it was largely a bipartisan bill, there were Republicans who said the deal did not go far enough with cuts while some Democrats said it went too far.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Joe Biden is \"fine\" after tripping and falling over at an event in Colorado, White House officials say.\n\nHe stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony for the US Air Force Academy.\n\nMr Biden, who is the nation's oldest serving president at 80, was helped back onto his feet and appeared to be unhurt after Thursday's fall.\n\n\"I got sandbagged!\" the president joked to reporters as he arrived back at the White House that evening.\n\nHe had been standing for about an hour and a half to shake hands with each of the 921 graduating cadets.\n\nFootage shows Mr Biden appearing to point at one of two sandbags used to prop up his teleprompter as he was helped up by an Air Force official and two members of his Secret Service detail.\n\nHe was seen walking back to his seat unassisted and later jogging back to his motorcade when the ceremony ended.\n\n\"There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands,\" White House communications director Ben LaBolt wrote on Twitter. \"He's fine.\"\n\nWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Mr Biden had boarded the plane flashing \"a big smile\", although one reporter noted that he did not take questions before the flight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCritics have said Mr Biden is too old to run for a second term as president.\n\nRecent polls suggest a majority of US voters are concerned about his advanced age. He would be 82 at the start of a second term if he wins.\n\nThis fall, in addition to previous stumbles from his bicycle and on the way up the Air Force One stairs, could add to those concerns.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner to face Mr Biden in the 2024 White House election, reacted to the incident from a campaign event in Iowa, saying \"the whole thing is crazy\".\n\n\"I hope he wasn't hurt,\" said Mr Trump, 76, who has often poked fun at Mr Biden's age. \"That's not inspiring.\"\n\n\"You got to be careful about that because you don't - you don't want that. Even if you have to tip toe down the ramp,\" added Mr Trump, apparently referring to his own careful walk off a stage that made headlines in 2020.\n\nHe said at the time that the ramp at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, was slippery, and brushed aside the ensuing media questions about his own health as fake news.\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis, another 2024 contender for the Republican nomination, also reacted to the fall during a campaign event in New Hampshire: \"We hope and wish Joe Biden a swift recovery from any injuries he may have sustained.\n\n\"But we also wish the United States of America a swift recovery from the injuries it has sustained because of Joe Biden and his policies.\"\n\nMr Biden's last physical examination took place in February.\n\nWhite House physician Dr Kevin O'Connor wrote at the time: \"The President remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations.\"\n\nDr O'Connor added that Mr Biden walks with a \"stiffened gait\", largely caused by wear and tear on his spine and nerve damage in his feet, but that his condition was unchanged from a previous physical in November 2021.\n\nMr Biden is hardly the first commander-in-chief to lose his footing in front of the cameras.\n\nPresident Barack Obama tripped walking up stairs at a 2012 event, while President Gerald Ford fell down the stairs of Air Force One in 1975.", "Popular streamer Puppers has died aged 32, three years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nThe US Twitch streamer rose to fame playing survival game Dead by Daylight, where he was known for his positivity.\n\nThe game's community rallied around him following his diagnosis and set up the Light in the Fog Foundation, raising $270k (£216k) to support his care.\n\nIn a reference to his catchphrase, the foundation said Puppers was \"forever in our hearts, eternally comfy\".\n\nPuppers, also known as Max, would end his streams by telling fans to \"stay comfy, because if you're comfy, you're winning\".\n\nThe streamer was diagnosed with ALS - the most common form of MND - in 2020.\n\nIt affects the brain and nerves and causes weakness that gets worse over time, according to the NHS. There is no cure for the disease, but there are treatments to help reduce the impact on a person's daily life.\n\nA post on his Twitter page confirmed his death, saying he \"loved you all so very much\".\n\n\"Thank you for all of the love and support throughout his career - making you all happy is truly what he lived for,\" it said.\n\nWhen Max was diagnosed with ALS, his friends - known by their online usernames Eshleee, Sunshine and Silver - \"moved across the country\" to provide care and support.\n\n\"Being his caregiver as he fought this absolutely awful disease was the biggest test and the biggest joy of my life,\" Sunshine told the BBC.\n\n\"I will never forget him, and a piece of my heart will remain empty without him.\"\n\nSilver said they \"will always remember\" Max's laugh and playing Dead by Daylight beside him, and Eshleee called the streamer \"a beacon of positivity\".\n\n\"I can't think of a single person who has had a greater impact on my life or the lives of so many,\" they said.\n\n\"I wouldn't trade a second of these last two years I had with him for anything.\"\n\nThe three said they were \"devastated\" when Max was diagnosed, and set up Light in the Fog to help.\n\nMore than 150 Dead by Daylight streamers collaborated in a multi-day event to raise money for his treatment and care, which was boosted by endorsements from online personalities including MrBeast - the most subscribed YouTuber in the world.\n\nThe group are now asking the community for additional money to help cover his funeral costs, as well as outstanding medical costs from his treatment.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of support from the wider gaming community, which has called him a \"true gaming champion\" and \"a kind soul we didn't deserve\".\n\nThe developers of Dead by Daylight, who had previously added an item to the game in honour of him, called him \"one of the brightest lights in The Fog\", a feature which helps players stay hidden from each other.\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds of posts from fans responding to the news echoed Puppers' signature sign off. \"Rest easy,\" many of the posts said, \"stay comfy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In just three years Twitch has become a household name for videogamers but does it represent a new mainstream cultural phenomenon?", "Geraint Davies has said he does not recognise the allegations\n\nThree female MPs have said they were warned about Geraint Davies in their first weeks in Westminster.\n\nThey were told by other MPs to \"watch out\" for him, they say.\n\nThe Swansea West MP was suspended by the Labour Party following reports by the Politico website of \"completely unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nTwo formal complaints have now been made against the politician but he has said he does not recognise the allegations.\n\nThe three MPs who spoke to BBC Wales included two from the Labour Party and one Conservative.\n\nOne new Labour MP claimed she was subject to lewd comments and inappropriate touching.\n\n\"He was always lewd and yuck in terms of his behaviour, it was just his MO [modus operandi],\" she said.\n\n\"It was never sinister, just inappropriate. He'd make lewd comments or touch your arm when you were next to him in the voting lobby. It just made you feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"If you saw him in the tea room, you would avoid sitting on his table and pray he wouldn't come and sit with you.\"\n\nShe added: \"When I first became an MP, he was one of the ones you'd be warned about. Several people sat me down and told me to watch out for him.\n\n\"It's about time this came to light.\"\n\nThe Swansea West MP has said he does not recognise the allegations\n\nA second female Labour MP told BBC Wales that she was also advised by fellow MPs to avoid Mr Davies.\n\nThe second MP had not experienced or witnessed any inappropriate behaviour herself, and therefore did not raise the issue with the party.\n\nShe believes the party needed to reassess its procedures.\n\n\"The Labour Party have a new complaints process, but we now need to question if it's working. There needs to be a review of that process to see whether it's working and if it's robust enough,\" she said.\n\n\"Why do we need to put the onus on young women to come forward and to make an official complaint before action is taken?\n\n\"There is now a lot of talk amongst female MPs on how we change the culture in Westminster because enough is enough.\"\n\nA Conservative female MP has revealed she was also warned about Mr Davies when she first went to Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"During the day, he is dismissive and rude to you. But when he has a drink - and you go to speak to him - his eyes light up in the creepiest way.\"\n\nAnother Labour MP told BBC Wales they were \"amazed\" it had taken so long for allegations about Geraint Davies' behaviour to become public.\n\n\"Everybody had heard about Geraint,\" they said.\n\nAsked about Labour's procedures for dealing with allegations of inappropriate behaviour, the MP said the party's \"hands were tied\" until somebody had submitted a written complaint.\n\nMr Davies has been approached for comment but has not responded.\n\nHowever, in response to earlier claims, he told Politico he did not recognise the allegations.\n\n\"If I have inadvertently caused offence to anyone, then I am naturally sorry as it is important that we share an environment of mutual and equal respect for all,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said his party has \"acted swiftly\" to suspend Mr Davies.\n\nOn a visit to Edinburgh, Mr Drakeford told the BBC the accusations against Mr Davies are \"very serious\" and \"need to be taken seriously\".\n\nOriginally Labour said it had not received a formal complaint, but the BBC now understands that one has been made.\n\nIt's understood that following an overhaul of its complaints procedures, the Labour Party introduced a new process last year which it believes is robust, and is one that complainants can have confidence in.\n\nA Labour spokesperson has previously said: \"These are incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"We strongly encourage anyone with a complaint to come forward to the Labour Party's investigation.\n\n\"Any complainant will have access to an independent support service who provide confidential and independent guidance and advice from external experts throughout the process.\"\n\nLabour general secretary David Evans said a review has been launched into the complaints process following previous incidents, including an aide receiving a warning after allegedly groping a junior staff member.\n\nIn an email sent on Thursday, he said: \"Since the stories two weeks ago, it has been my urgent focus that we review the formal processes through which our colleagues can report such behaviour, how we work together with independent complaints bodies to ensure rigorous outcomes and protection for staff while investigations are ongoing, and how we can create a culture in which colleagues feel safe and encouraged to make a complaint if they need to.\n\n\"I have been working together with a taskforce of the party's senior leadership team to move this review forward as quickly as possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sean Conway is trying to set a triathlon record to encourage children to take part in sport\n\nAn extreme endurance adventurer has completed 51 consecutive full distance triathlons on his latest world record attempt.\n\nBut Sean Conway is only half way - he is aiming to swim 2.4 miles (3.8km), cycle 112 miles (180km) and run 26.2 miles (42km) daily for 102 days.\n\nHe aims to beat the 101 days record set by American James Lawrence in 2021.\n\nTo achieve this, he is consuming 8,000 calories a day and working with a specialist team.\n\nThe swims are taking place at Mold Sports Centre, Flintshire, from 05:00 BST until about 06:30, before the cycle starts at about 06:40, travelling to Holt and ending at Queensferry.\n\nMr Conway then runs around the Chester Greenway.\n\nThe athlete from Mold, Flintshire, started on 10 April and has now completed 51 consecutive days - this has broken the British and European Records.\n\nWhen asked how he had found the challenge so far, Mr Conway said: \"Day one, I felt strong. Then day two and three were the toughest as my body adjusted despite the hours spent training.\n\nPeople can join Sean for his daily swims, runs and cycles\n\n\"In the first couple of weeks, lack of sleep was an issue, my body just didn't want to shut down at the end of the day and I would wake up at 2am, two hours before my alarm was due to go off.\n\n\"I got into a rhythm around day 14, as momentum built on my social media. It meant more people joined me for the swim, cycle and run which gave me a real boost.\n\n\"At the moment, one of the most difficult parts has been eating 8,000 calories a day, I feel full constantly but just need to get fuel in me. I feel strong and ready to smash the next 51 days.\"\n\nMr Conway was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa, where he had an adventurous upbringing in the bush.\n\nBut he now lives in north Wales with his wife and two children.\n\nMr Conway is now half way through his challenge\n\nMr Conway holds the record for the world's longest Ultra Triathlon, fastest crossing of Europe by bicycle and first person to swim the length of Britain.\n\nThis latest record attempt is a new approach to adventure for him.\n\nNormally self-supported, this gruelling challenge sees him working with a team of nutritionists, doctors, physiotherapists and specialist triathlon coaches.\n\nHe is also raising funds for a local charity close to his heart - True Venture - which aims to inspire and support children and young athletes by improving access to positive opportunities through sport.\n\nFounding partner Ryan Morrison said: \"We believe that all children and young athletes should be given an equal opportunity to enter and succeed in sport.\"\n\nHe said Mr Conway is an \"inspiration\" to young people and is \"showing them anything is possible\".\n\nMr Conway is due to finish the 102 days on Thursday 20 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matthew King wore a balaclava in some of the videos he made\n\nA 19-year-old man has been given life with a minimum term of six years for planning to stab police and soldiers.\n\nPolice believe Matthew King, who converted to extreme Islamism during lockdown, could have been hours away from carrying out an attack when they arrested him.\n\nKing will serve a discretionary life sentence of a minimum of six years, minus the 367 days he spent on remand.\n\nThe judge praised King's mother for reporting her suspicions to police.\n\nIn January this year, King pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the preparation of terrorist acts between December 2021 and 17 May 2022.\n\nSentencing him on Friday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said: \"When it comes to the minimum term that you will serve, I make it plain that I am not ordering that you are to be released at the end of it.\n\n\"Whether you will be released or not at that stage or at any later stage will be a matter for the parole board to consider only when the minimum term has been served.\"\n\nJudge Lucraft warned King that if he was released he would remain on licence and liable to recall for the rest of his life.\n\n\"In my judgement you are someone where there is a significant risk to members of the public or serious harm,\" the judge told King.\n\nPolice believe King turned from being a \"troubled young man\" to a potential \"self-initiated terrorist\" while stuck at home during the Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nCdr Dominic Murphy, the Met's head of counter-terrorism, told journalists that King \"held really extreme anti-Western views, he had an extremist Islamist mindset and he was intending to carry out a terrorist attack either here or abroad\".\n\n\"It was imminent,\" Cdr Murphy said.\n\nProsecuting barrister Paul Jarvis told the court King had dabbled in drugs since early secondary school, was expelled and left education at 16 with no qualifications.\n\nHe converted to Islam in 2020 and, at first, his behaviour improved, but in 2021 he began criticising his sisters' clothing as immodest. His mother contacted the government anti-extremism agency, Prevent, because she feared the videos he was watching promoted hatred.\n\nOfficers from the Metropolitan Police arrested King at his home at Wickford in Essex on 18 May last year.\n\nExamination of his phone revealed evidence of him viewing extremist videos which officers believe had convinced him he should kill or torture a British soldier either in the UK or abroad.\n\nThe phone also showed he had joined an online chat group where he discussed terrorist funding and travel routes to Syria.\n\nHe had changed his WhatsApp status to \"kill non-Muslims\" and recorded himself rapping to his own lyrics about fellow terrorists in Belmarsh Prison and detonating a bomb, officers found.\n\nIn 2022, in the weeks before his arrest, King began carrying out reconnaissance in east London, including on police officers patrolling outside Stratford railway station, as well as at Stratford police station and magistrates' court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Matthew King seen on CCTV outside Stratford court\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that among videos found on his phone was one near the police station, overlaid with a soundtrack including the words: \"Coldly kill them with hate and rage. Plan your perfect killing spree.\"\n\nOn 17 May 2022, a CCTV camera had captured him filming after dark outside the 7 Rifles army barracks in east London.\n\nHe had also purchased military goggles and gloves, and carried a balaclava and a \"shihada\" jihadist flag, sometimes wearing combat clothing to the mosque.\n\nSeveral of the mosques he attended warned him several times about his behaviour, and one decided he was no longer welcome, Mr Jarvis told the court.\n\nMembers of the public who called the police about King included members of two WhatsApp groups he had joined called Southend Brothers and Southend Shurah.\n\nKing was put under surveillance, and his social media posts of police officers, captioned with the words \"Target Acquired\", heightened concerns at how fast he appeared to be moving towards an attack. These concerns led to his arrest.\n\nEvidence of King's efforts to buy a hunting knife online helped police build the case against him - he had to give passport details to prove his age, under new rules brought in since 2019.\n\nAlthough King never bought a weapon, police say he would have easily been able to obtain a kitchen knife to carry out attacks, though potential terrorists often prefer bigger hunting knives for their shock factor.\n\nOfficers also obtained Snapchat messages King sent to a girl who was still in the sixth form, in which he said he wanted to travel to Syria to become a martyr.\n\nThey exchanged messages about how they would like to mutilate members of the British and American armed forces.\n\nMiss A wrote to him: \"We can't let them die quick tho. Slow painful death akhi... I'll guide you through it. Or bring him or her home.\"\n\nHe said he was \"training for Jihad\" and just wanted \"to kill people\".\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that on 17 May 2022, the day before King's arrest, the girl messaged him to say she wanted to concentrate on her exams. King replied he would \"be worshipping Allah\" and he might soon be \"on the news\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are at the quayside of the Dorset Belle, which is anchored at Cobb's Quay in Poole Harbour\n\nPolice investigating the deaths of two children pulled from the sea in Bournemouth are at the quayside of a boat that was in the vicinity when 999 calls started coming in.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and a boy, 17, died after an incident involving a total of 10 swimmers on Wednesday.\n\nPleasure cruiser Dorset Belle is at anchor at Cobb's Quay in Poole Harbour, with a police van nearby.\n\nDorset Police said it was unable to comment.\n\nThe Dorset Belle is being guarded by a police van in nearby Poole\n\nAccording to the Marine Traffic website, Dorset Belle visited Bournemouth Pier, where the incident happened, at 16:00 BST.\n\nThe boat offers regular cruises around Bournemouth and the Dorset Coast leaving from the pier.\n\nThe BBC has tried to contact the owners of Dorset Belle.\n\nThe vessel's website states that it was purpose-built as a passenger boat to operate locally and could \"cope with the occasional challenging swell conditions encountered at local piers\".\n\nTen swimmers got into difficulty in the sea off Bournemouth beach on Wednesday afternoon\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council's website says all passenger-carrying boats must be issued with a licence to operate in the area.\n\nIt also states from April to October, yellow marker buoys are set out 200m (656ft) from the low water mark to indicate that vessels must not \"go beyond six knots, annoy or endanger other beach users or run ashore or launch from the beach\".\n\nVikki Slade, leader of BCP Council, said: \"There is no evidence to suggest any of those rules have been breached.\n\n\"We are confident with our partners that any lessons that need to be learned in the future will be learned.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said pier jumping had been ruled out as a cause of the tragedy\n\nTobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, urged Dorset Police to provide a \"qualified statement\" on the circumstances surrounding the incident, which resulted in the deaths of the girl from Buckinghamshire and boy from Southampton.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Solent, he said: \"Police must be given the space to do their investigation, but ultimately we do need to alleviate fears and remove the rife speculation that pours out because of social media, we have eight miles of beach and families want to know is it safe.\"\n\nDorset Police has declined to comment on any investigation into the Dorset Belle.\n\nThe force said it was working with the Maritime Accident Investigation Branch and Maritime and Coastguard Agency.\n\nA floral tribute was left on the beach close to the pier after news of the deaths emerged\n\nIt comes after Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Farrell stressed investigations were still in the early stages and the force was only releasing certain details to address speculation. The exact circumstances of what happened remain unclear.\n\nAn earlier police statement confirmed there was no physical contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier during the incident. A man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe council leader previously told members of the press making sure the beach was safe would be a \"top priority\" for the authority.\n\nShe confirmed she would be meeting with MP Conor Burns to discuss pier safety on Friday.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Novelist Jojo Moyes says the thing that has struck her most since reaching her early 50s is \"the absolute joy of the solidarity of other women\".\n\nSpeaking at the Hay Festival on Friday, the writer behind bestsellers such as Me Before You, said: \"I've always been a woman's woman.\n\n\"In your 20s, there's an anxiety... you're constantly measuring yourself up against other women,\" she explained.\n\n\"Now, there is nothing apart from empathy and supportiveness.\"\n\nMoyes also gave credit to fellow writers Sophie Kinsella and Jodi Picoult for encouraging her to keep going with her writing at times when she felt like giving up.\n\nShe grew up in London's Hackney, which was then \"not overburdened with literary types\" - although her parents were \"penniless sculptors\" so she was exposed to the arts at home.\n\nMoyes, 53, credits her Protestant work ethic for her success, which was evident from an early age. At 14, she saved up money from cleaning jobs to buy a stray horse called Bomber, who was kept in a stables located behind Hackney town hall.\n\nSome of Moyes's work has been adapted for the big screen, including Me Before You\n\nJobs on a market stall and a mini-cab office followed after school before she landed a bank job and was sent on a management course taking place at Oxford University.\n\n\"All my school mates' horizons were very limited so... I didn't have an idea of what I wanted to do,\" she says.\n\n\"It wasn't just the environment... I was surrounded by really ambitious young people. Everybody had a goal. And they were the first people I met who had goals and by the end of that week, I didn't want to go home.\"\n\nShe broke off her engagement with her then-boyfriend and applied to London's City University before embarking on a career in journalism, ending up at the Independent alongside the likes of Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding.\n\n\"I watched that turn into a column that spoke to so many women my age at the time - early 20s - and I suddenly had that feeling of 'wow, if she can do it, so can I'.\"\n\nBut Moyes had her first three books rejected, which she describes as \"crushing... like someone telling you your baby is ugly\", although she wasn't going to give up.\n\n\"There's definitely a girder of bloody-mindedness running down my spine. I can't see why I can't do something.\n\n\"My mum used to put it down to me being very premature as a baby. She was told I was going to die. I was 10 weeks early. There's this bit of me that just says, 'No, I'm going to do it!'\"\n\nHer third book, about an art heist, was knocked back after being deemed too political for the female market and too romantic for the male market at the time.\n\nMoyes's next eight books went to print but did not exactly set the publishing world alight.\n\nBy the time she wrote her hit 2012 novel Me Before You, one publisher had told her her career was \"unrecoverable\" and she had built an extra room on her house so she could rent it out to a lodger.\n\nShe says the reason Me Before You - about a woman who is a carer for a man with paralysis and later falls in love with him - got past a few thousand words was down to Sophie Kinsella, the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series.\n\n\"She took me out for lunch, I told her about this idea I'd had for a book. I said I'm not sure about it. And I told her the whole thing. At the end of it, she said: 'You have to write this book.'\"\n\nThe same thing happened with her latest book, Someone Else's Shoes, which fellow author Jodi Picoult encouraged her to keep ploughing on with.\n\nThe two female protagonists in the book come from very different backgrounds and Moyes recognises that \"social inequality, whether it's class or money... has been a big factor in a lot of my books\".\n\nShe adds: \"But it's not about how much money you've got, it's how loved and connected you feel to other people.\"\n\nMoyes herself is now enjoying a renewed connection with her best friend - who she has known since she was 16 - having moved back to London after 22 years in the Essex countryside.\n\nIt follows a rough couple of years for the author, who has sold more than 38 million copies of her books worldwide.\n\nHer prolific output plus writing screenplays had begun to take its toll.\n\n\"I overworked myself for 10 years. I burnt out. So I thought, 2020 is going to be my year of rest and relaxation, I'm going to see people, take a sabbatical. I decided to take time out, see friends... and then my mum died of cancer, I got divorced and we had a pandemic!\"\n\nBut writing has always got her through.\n\n\"Often I find when I write a book, I only realise four or five years later that it was actually therapy and I wasn't processing something at the time.\n\n\"And it's cheaper than therapy.\"", "Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human remains in a ravine outside the western city of Guadalajara.\n\nOfficials were searching for seven young call centre workers, who had been reported missing last week, when they found the bodies.\n\nThe remains include men and women, and the number of bodies is not yet known.\n\nThe search is expected to continue for several days because of difficult terrain and poor lighting.\n\nThe state prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco said in a statement that, following a tip-off in the search for the seven people, they had begun searching at the Mirador del Bosque ravine where they found the bags that included body parts.\n\nFirefighters and civil defence were working with police and a helicopter crew to recover the remains.\n\nThe first bag was found on Tuesday, but because of the difficult terrain and lack of sunlight, the investigation resumed on Wednesday and will continue until all remains are located, the prosecutor's office said.\n\nOfficials said they would continue working to determine the number of dead bodies, who they were, and their causes of death.\n\nIt added that it would continue trying to establish the whereabouts of the seven people reported as missing.\n\nAlthough it has not yet been established how the bodies ended up in the ravine, crimes of disappearance are relatively common in Mexico.\n\nMore than 100,000 people are missing, government figures suggest, with many being victims of organised crime. Perpetrators are rarely punished.\n\nGovernment data shows that many disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his \"war on drugs\".\n\nThree quarters of those reported missing were men and one fifth were under the age of 18 at the time of their disappearance.\n\nRelatives of the disappeared say that the government is not doing enough to find them, and that officials are indifferent when they report their loved ones as missing.\n\nThe United Nations has called it \"a human tragedy of enormous proportions\".\n\nJalisco is the heartland of a violent drug war, and some of the most powerful groups operating there include the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), and their rival, Nueva Plaza, which split from the CJNG in 2017, sparking violence across Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state.", "The US Congress has approved a deal to lift the country's borrowing limit, days before the world's largest economy is due to default on its debt.\n\nThe bipartisan measure sped through the Senate by a vote of 63-36, a day after it cleared the US House of Representatives.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said he will enact the measure into law.\n\nHis signature on the bill will spare the US from a catastrophic default on its $31.4tn (£25tn) debt.\n\nThe country is forecast to overshoot its current debt ceiling on Monday 5 June.\n\nA default would limit the government's ability to borrow more money or pay all of its bills. It would also threaten to wreak havoc overseas, affecting prices and mortgage rates in other countries.\n\nIn Thursday night's session, the bill passed with support from 44 Democrats and 17 Republicans, plus two independents.\n\nSixty votes were required to approve the measure in a 100-seat chamber that Democrats only narrowly control.\n\nThirty-one Republicans were opposed, including a member of the party's leadership in the chamber, John Barrasso.\n\nDemocratic senators John Fetterman and Elizabeth Warren, plus Bernie Sanders who is independent, also voted against.\n\nSenators first proposed 11 amendments to the debt ceiling bill, but they were all rejected in quick order, paving the way for a final vote.\n\nIf a single one of the amendments had passed, the whole bill would have had to be sent back to the House, leaving little time to ensure final passage of the measure before the US fell off a fiscal cliff.\n\n\"America can breathe a sigh of relief, a sigh of relief because in this process we are avoiding default,\" Democratic Majority leader Chuck Schumer told the Senate.\n\nIn a rare display of bipartisanship, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he would be \"proud to support it without delay\".\n\nThe deal had easily cleared the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening by a vote of 314-117. Some 165 Democrats joined 149 Republicans in approving it by the required simple majority.\n\nWith Republicans in control of the lower chamber of Congress, and Democrats in the Senate and White House, a deal proved elusive for weeks until Mr Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy inked a compromise last weekend.\n\nThe agreement suspends the debt ceiling, the spending limit set by Congress that determines how much money the government can borrow, until 1 January 2025.\n\nThe legislation will result in $1.5tn in savings over a decade, the independent Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.\n\nThe contents of the bill drew objections from both right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats, but there were more than enough political centrists in both parties to get it over the line.\n\nThe last time the US came this close to overshooting its debt ceiling, in 2011, the credit agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the country's rating, a move that has yet to be reversed.\n\nAhead of the Senate vote, US stock markets made gains, with the Dow closing 0.5% higher. The broader S&P 500 index rose by 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq ended the day 1.3% higher.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 261 people have been killed and 1,000 are injured in a crash involving three trains in India's eastern Odisha state.\n\nOne passenger train derailed on to the adjacent track and was struck by an incoming train on Friday, also hitting a nearby stationary freight train.\n\nA massive recovery operation is under way, after hundreds of emergency workers searched the wreckage.\n\nThe cause of India's worst train crash in over 20 years is not yet clear.\n\nOfficials say several carriages from the Coromandel Express, travelling between Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), derailed at about 19:00 (13:30 GMT) in Balasore district after hitting a stationary goods train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track.\n\nAnother train travelling in the opposite direction - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - then hit the overturned carriages.\n\n\"The force with which the trains collided has resulted in several coaches being crushed and mangled,\" Atul Karwal, chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told ANI news agency.\n\nMore than 200 ambulances and hundreds of doctors, nurses and rescue personnel were sent to the scene, the state's chief secretary Pradeep Jena said.\n\nSudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, had earlier said 288 had died.\n\nAll trapped and injured passengers have been rescued. It is not clear how serious the injuries of those taken to hospitals were.\n\nWork to restore the site of the crash begun, India's South Eastern Railway company said on Saturday.\n\nIt is India's worst train crash this century\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site of the accident on Saturday afternoon, joining Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the scene.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched, although Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has blamed \"technical reasons\".\n\nSurvivors and eyewitnesses have described chaotic scenes and the heroic efforts of people from nearby villages to save trapped passengers.\n\nMukesh Pandit, who was trapped for half an hour before being rescued, told the BBC he heard a \"thunderous sound\" shortly before the carriage overturned.\n\n\"Four passengers who were travelling from my village have survived, but a lot of people are injured or still missing. A lot of people died in the coach I was travelling in,\" he added.\n\nResidents of the neighbouring villages were among the first to reach the site of the accident and start the rescue operation.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world with millions of passengers using it daily, but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.\n\nTrains can get very packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people travelling during school holidays.\n\nBoth passenger trains involved in the crash were full and had many more people on the waiting list, according to passenger lists on the Indian rail ministry website reviewed by the BBC.\n\nIndia's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing at least 800 people.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Locals in the Mearns area are objecting about the potential impact on the environment\n\nCampaigners are fighting plans to build pylons through the landscape at the heart of the classic novel Sunset Song.\n\nSSEN is consulting on the development of its East Coast 400kV project which is set to feature overhead lines between the villages of Kintore in Aberdeenshire and Tealing in Angus.\n\nThe company says it is needed to help meet climate change and energy security targets.\n\nHowever locals are objecting on both environmental and cultural grounds.\n\nSunset Song is one of Scotland's best-loved novels.\n\nPublished in 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale follows a farming family struggling to make a living in the north east of Scotland leading up to World War One.\n\nIt was named Best Scottish Book of All Time at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005.\n\nSunset Song has been adapted as a TV series and a film.\n\nShona Alexander and her husband John, who have run a farm in Fordoun for more than 30 years, say they may be left with no choice but to move if the project goes ahead in its current form.\n\nMrs Alexander said they were first approached at the beginning of the year and told there was the possibility of a five acre substation on their land.\n\n\"I think it was January when somebody first came out and spoke to my husband,\" she said. \"Then he came back out a short time later and it had grown to 60 acres and then we heard from our neighbours that it was actually going to be 120 acres.\n\n\"I was horrified. It's on our doorstep and goes right through the heart of the Mearns. I think it's going to make our house uninhabitable due to the noise and the vibrations.\n\n\"When the work is going ahead, a thing of that size is going to have a lot of traffic coming and going. It's going to take away a large part of our farm so we'll have less crops to grow and less profit.\"\n\nShe added: \"My husband is older now so it's not like we can just uproot and move somewhere else.\n\n\"We don't want to at this age, we are looking forward to retiring and now this is happening we don't know what we are going to do.\"\n\nThe area is home to many farms\n\nTracey Smith said she learned last month that her Fordoun home fell on SSEN's preferred route for the East Coast 400kV line.\n\n\"We were absolutely shocked, we had sleepless nights, nothing else was in our heads other than what's happening here,\" the co-founder of the Save Our Mearns campaign said.\n\n\"We want to live here for the rest of our lives, we wanted to convert a steading, my son loves coming here on holiday. This is home for us.\n\n\"The consultation process by SSEN was very cloak and dagger, very quiet, we found out that there weren't a lot of people in the community who knew it was going ahead. They didn't know the route and they didn't know the reason.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are all for net zero, we are quite happy with that and we have no objections. We just don't want overhead pylons.\n\n\"We realise that as time moves on that there does need to be an improvement in infrastructure but it doesn't necessarily have to be 65 miles of overhead lines running through a beautiful area.\"\n\nTracey Smith co-founded the Save Our Mearns campaign\n\nGreg Clarke, head of corporate affairs for SSEN Transmission, said: \"These projects are part of a major upgrade of the electricity transmission system that are required to deliver our climate change and energy security targets.\n\n\"We're still at the very early stages of developing these projects and we are consulting extensively with communities across the north of Scotland and we'll continue to do so to develop these projects in such a way that tries to minimise and mitigate impacts.\n\n\"It is likely that the significant proportion of this infrastructure will be overhead steel lattice towers but there may be sections of undergrounding that we look at where there are landscape and visual impact assessments that justify that technology.\"\n\nMr Clarke explained: \"We will look to do everything that we possibly can to reach voluntary agreements and build support for our projects with landowners and with local communities.\n\n\"In the event that we are unable to reach a voluntary agreement, after exhausting all options, then we do have the ability to undertake compulsory purchase orders.\n\n\"We would like to reassure everybody that that is only ever taken as an absolute last resort, once we have exhausted all other options, to deliver this critical national infrastructure that is required if we are to meet our climate change and energy security targets.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.", "About 15 officers were at the scene on Friday morning\n\nPolice have appealed for information after a man was shot in the leg in Bangor, County Down.\n\nOfficers said the incident happened in the Greenside area of the Whitehill estate.\n\nThe attack was reported to police shortly after 23:00 BST on Thursday - the man is understood to have been shot a short time earlier.\n\nPSNI Insp Donnelly said injuries inflicted on the man were \"a stark violation of his basic human rights\".\n\nThe man was shot close to Valentine Playing Fields, a popular spot for sport and dog walkers\n\n\"Attacks like these not only place the victim at risk, but also the local community,\" Insp Donnelly added.\n\nOn Friday morning, police serched the area on the edge of Valentine Playing Fields, near Bangor Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Complex.", "Debt advisors will no longer be allowed to receive a fee for referring people to debt solution companies.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) banned the fees after finding some companies were putting them ahead of customers' best interests.\n\nThe average fee advisors received for an individual voluntary arrangement (IVAs) referral in 2019-2020 was £940.\n\nA homeless client was recommended an IVA costing £6,000, but could have been debt-free for £90, the FCA found.\n\nCitizens Advice said banning referral fees was \"a big step towards tackling the way some firms prey on and profit from people struggling with debt\".\n\nThe FCA said the ban applied to \"debt packagers\" which are regulated providers of debt advice, who typically do not offer debt solutions themselves. They will no longer be able to receive referral fees paid by debt solution companies.\n\nFor some people, there is little or no chance of paying off debts, and so they may have to consider some form of personal insolvency.\n\nAn individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) - is an agreement with creditors to pay debt.\n\nThe individual agrees to make regular affordable payments to an insolvency practitioner, who will divide this money between creditors. At the end of an IVA any unsecured debt left is written off.\n\nDebt Relief Orders (DRO) freeze debt repayments and interest for 12 months if the money owed is less than £30,000 and the individual does not own a property. In that time, creditors cannot recover their money without the court's permission. At the end of the 12 months the debt is written off.\n\nA typical IVA can cost anything up to £3,600 over a customer's lifetime while DROs can be less than £100.\n\nThe regulator said this business model \"incentivises bad advice\" and meant that companies recommend options that make them more money, rather than what is in the customer's best interest.\n\nThe FCA said it had seen evidence of debt packagers appearing to manipulate customers' details so that they meet the criteria for IVAs and using persuasive language to promote products without explaining the risks involved.\n\nIn some of the worst cases identified, the FCA found evidence of customers in financial hardship who were recommended solutions which caused more problems.\n\nOne customer was recommended an IVA by a debt packager when a different solution would have been more suitable. This cost them an extra £4,710 compared with a DRO and meant it would take five years longer to become debt free, the FCA said.\n\nMatthew Upton, acting executive director of advocacy and policy at Citizens Advice said: \"Inaccurate or misleading advice from providers promoting Individual Voluntary Agreements can push people further into hardship and further away from a lasting solution to their problems.\"\n\nHe called on the government to bring all pre-IVA advice under the regulation of the FCA, \"so that people can be sure it's the right solution for them\".\n\nSheldon Mills, executive director of consumers and competition at the FCA, said: \"Good quality debt advice is vital in helping people out of financial difficulty and poor advice can have a devastating impact on those who are already struggling.\"\n\nExisting debt packager firms will need to develop a new way of doing business by October this year or face regulatory action, the regulator said.\n\nThe ban comes into effect immediately for new entrants to the debt packager market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Rogers has had to wear a prosthetic breast for six years after surgery delays\n\nA breast cancer survivor has said she feels \"cast aside\" due to reconstructive surgery being postponed three times this year.\n\nKaren Rogers, 57, from Magor, Monmouthshire, was given a mastectomy six years ago, but delays mean she is still waiting.\n\nShe said the wait affects everything from the clothes she wears to the way she hugs people.\n\nThe Welsh government said some cancer services were taking longer to recover.\n\nMs Rogers said: \"I know it's a lump of flesh and there are people going through far worse things.\"\n\n\"But I just want to look normal. It won't be a normal boob when I get it - it'll be lumpy and bumpy - but it will be mine. I'll be back to some sort of the old Karen.\"\n\nMs Rogers's surgery was already delayed several times before the three postponements in 2023.\n\nAfter the mastectomy on her left breast in December 2016, reconstruction was deferred until after cancer treatment.\n\nShe then needed stomach surgery to rule out a specific growth, and once she recovered, the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nProsthetic breasts can help women disguise the surgery they've had following a mastectomy, but don't always stay in position\n\nThe surgery, known as deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP), is only performed in one Welsh health board - Swansea Bay - and takes skin from the stomach to create a new breast.\n\nOperations deferred by the Covid pandemic restarted last year.\n\nBut a planned nurses' strike, concerns over Ms Rogers's white blood cell count and another patient needing an immediate reconstruction has led to more waiting.\n\nWhile she said priority must be given to cancer patients, she said she felt \"cast aside\".\n\nShe has worn a prosthetic for the past six and a half years, either stuck to her skin \"like a big plaster\" or placed in a pocket of special bras.\n\n\"I don't swim any more - I've got two little grandsons my daughter wants me to go swimming with, but I can't. I'm just too self-conscious.\"\n\nEven her hugs are done from the right side, she said, because she does not want people to notice the \"rock-solid\" prosthetic on the left.\n\nJo Woolnough decided to pay for the second stage of her breast surgery rather than wait three to four years\n\nJo Woolnough, 44, from Swansea, waited four years for her breast construction, which she had in August 2022.\n\nShe said: \"You try and get on with your life and you console yourself by thinking 'well I'm here, I'm lucky I survived' but after a while you can't hold on to that anymore because that lack of a breast affects you so strongly.\"\n\nBut the reconstruction left her with one side at a C-cup and the other at an F to an E-cup, leading her to feel self-conscious and stuffing \"teddy-bear filling\" in her bra.\n\nShe was then told it would be another three to four years for a reduction of her surviving breast so they would be the same size, which she described as \"soul destroying\".\n\n\"I was so elated from having the first surgery and thinking 'I'm nearly done, I'm nearly finished. I can see the end in sight'.\"\n\nShe decided to spend £8,000 to have the reduction privately, but after moving from a well-paid job to universal credit, this was a tough decision.\n\nShe said: \"We need to close the door and move on - our family needs this.\"\n\nLast year the Welsh government's women's health quality statement said health boards should ensure patients received care \"as close as possible to home without significant waits\".\n\nAs these specific, specialist operations are done by just one health board, cancer charity Macmillan said that service has to be adequately resourced.\n\n\"We are seeing these difficulties across Wales, and across the UK even, where there's not enough surgical space. There's not enough of the work force to do these massively important procedures,\" said Richard Pugh of Macmillan Wales.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said the plastic surgery team was working hard to reduce waiting lists, which grew significantly during the pandemic.\n\nIt added a new DIEP surgery service started at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, in September, which is unaffected by emergency patients, with additional surgery lists added in Morriston earlier this month, and on weekends when possible.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We understand how difficult long waits for treatment can be. We are committed to improving health services for women and girls and to tackling many of the issues they themselves have identified as most important to them.\n\n\"We have sought to protect cancer services from the impact of the pandemic as far as possible but some parts of the pathway, like breast reconstruction, are taking longer to recover.\"", "In deciding King's sentence, the judge has had to consider his dangerousness and any potential serious risk he may pose to the public in the future.\n\nIn his view, the prison material presented to the court this morning showed an unclear picture of King - something he felt was concerning enough to give King a discretionary life sentence.\n\nKing’s guilty plea entitled him to three years off the minimum term the judge would have imposed had the case gone to trial.\n\nHe has been in custody since his arrest last May, so that time (just over one year) will count towards his overall minimum term of six years.\n\nThis means he will have at least another five years in prison before he is considered for release by the parole board.", "Phillip Schofield left ITV last week, after he admitted lying about an affair with a young male colleague\n\nITV has asked a barrister to lead a review into its handling of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and his colleague.\n\nThe review was confirmed by chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall in a letter seen by the PA news agency.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter left the network last week after he admitted lying about the affair.\n\nITV previously said it had investigated in 2020, but that both parties repeatedly denied the relationship.\n\nThe network has now instructed a barrister to carry out an external review to \"establish the facts\".\n\nJane Mulcahy KC \"will review our records and talk to people involved\", Dame Carolyn said in the letter.\n\nSchofield, 61, resigned from ITV on Friday and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to an \"unwise but not illegal\" affair with a younger male ITV employee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield spoke to the BBC's Amol Rajan about his affair\n\nThe letter from Dame Carolyn reads: \"This work will also consider our relevant processes and policies and whether we need to change or strengthen any.\n\n\"Given Phillip's admission of the extent of his deception the work will extend to cover any related issues that may emerge. This work will be carried out as quickly as possible and we will be happy to share the outcome.\"\n\nThe letter was addressed to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage, and Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes.\n\nThe letter mentions the \"significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield\" and adds: \"As you would expect we take the matter extremely seriously and have reviewed our own records over the weekend.\"\n\nThe broadcast network reiterated that it investigated rumours of a relationship in 2020, but \"did not find any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour\".\n\nPhillip Schofield presented This Morning opposite Holly Willoughby until his exit last week\n\n\"Given the ongoing rumours, we continued to ask questions of both parties, who both continued to deny the rumours, including as recently as this month,\" the letter added.\n\nDame Carolyn said there had been \"a lot of inaccuracy\" in reporting, adding the former employee Schofield admitted to an affair with had been offered support by the broadcaster.\n\nShe said: \"The ITV employee was aged 19 when he first did work experience at This Morning... and 20 years old when he applied and succeeded in securing a job as a runner on the show.\"\n\n\"As you would imagine given the social media scrutiny of him, we have offered him our support throughout this period and indeed are still doing so,\" the letter continued.\n\nITV bosses, including Dame Carolyn, are set to face MPs on the Commons DCMS Committee on Tuesday to discuss reforms to the laws governing public broadcasting, and Dame Carolyn has also been asked to face questions from MPs at a session of the committee on 14 June.\n\nMP John Nicolson, a former BBC journalist who sits on the committee and is also the SNP's culture spokesman, said on Twitter that recent events at ITV were a \"cause for concern\" and that he was looking forward to \"getting some answers\" from ITV bosses.\n\nSchofield was dropped as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust earlier this week\n\nSchofield left his role on This Morning following reports of a rift with his co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nDays later, he confirmed he had had a relationship with a younger male employee, which took place while Schofield was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe.\n\nSchofield apologised for lying to his colleagues, the media and his friends and family about the affair, and left ITV with immediate effect.\n\nEarlier this week, the Prince's Trust announced it was dropping Schofield as an ambassador following the controversy.\n\nThe charity, founded by the King, said it was \"no longer appropriate\" for it to work with the presenter.\n\nSchofield's exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards this weekend. They will now be hosted by singer and presenter Jane McDonald.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network said last week they were developing with him.\n\nDr Ranj Singh, who used to work on This Morning, alleged there was a toxic environment on the show\n\nThe show's former resident doctor, Dr Ranj Singh, previously criticised the show's \"toxic\" culture, saying he raised concerns about \"bullying and discrimination\" two years ago when he worked there.\n\nIn its latest letter, ITV said that an external review conducted following a complaint made by Dr Ranj found \"no evidence of bullying or discrimination\".\n\n\"We were sorry to read his statement,\" the letter said. \"We are fully committed to providing every opportunity for anyone who works with us to raise any concern or comments they may have.\n\n\"Following a complaint made by Dr Ranj, we appointed an external and independent adviser to carry out a review. This external review found no evidence of bullying or discrimination.\"", "A family was left \"petrified\" after the RAC failed to attend when their car broke down at night, despite being on a disability priority list.\n\nSophie and Callum Smart were returning from a birthday trip with their son Karson, who has cerebral palsy, when the car's clutch failed on the M1.\n\nThe family made many calls to the RAC over seven hours but no-one turned up.\n\nThe RAC said: \"We've apologised personally to Mrs Smart for her and her family's experience.\"\n\nIt told the BBC's Access All podcast the situation was \"in no way reflective of the excellent service we provide to thousands of drivers every day of the year. We're also providing a gesture of goodwill to say sorry.\"\n\nThe family's ordeal began at 17:29 BST on 26 May when their car, a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, broke down near junction 8 on the M1. The family had been to Alton Towers theme park to celebrate Karson's 8th birthday.\n\nThey managed to manoeuvre the vehicle to the hard shoulder and lifted Karson and his wheelchair over the motorway barriers.\n\nAs members of Motability - a scheme enabling people to use disability benefits to lease a vehicle - the family was on a priority list with the RAC and should have been attended to within 45 minutes.\n\nAfter their first call, the RAC said it would be with them within 34 minutes.\n\n\"We were feeling OK at this point,\" Sophie said.\n\nBut as the hours passed and the temperature dropped, Sophie became increasingly worried.\n\nHer husband, Callum, repeatedly called the RAC who kept saying recovery would be there within the hour.\n\nCallum also spoke to National Highways, which said because of the RAC's imminent arrival it wouldn't dispatch a traffic officer.\n\nCallum tried using an SOS emergency telephone on the motorway, but could not hear the operator clearly.\n\nWith limited food and water, and Karson becoming increasingly distressed, Callum phoned Hertfordshire Constabulary.\n\nSophie said: \"On the third attempt at calling the police, they actually hung up on us and told us it wasn't an emergency.\n\n\"I just broke. There's no words to explain how a mother feels in that situation. I was petrified.\"\n\nFollowing the event, the force said: \"Whilst the correct policing protocols were followed on the day, we are in the process of reviewing our contact with the caller.\"\n\nDuring the evening a passing stranger gave the family some food and water.\n\n\"If it wasn't for that generous man we wouldn't have been able to administer Karson's medication,\" Sophie said. \"I was just beside myself, I needed to get my son to safety.\"\n\nAs it approached midnight, the family called a friend who drove 90 minutes to collect them. But Karson's bespoke wheelchair would not fit in his car and had to be left in the broken-down vehicle.\n\nThe Smarts were told their car would be returned to them overnight. National Highways said it sent a traffic officer to recover the vehicle at 00:30 BST on Saturday \"as the RAC had still not arrived\". It took the vehicle to a police garage, which was closed to the public for the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\n\"We were without Karson's wheelchair for four days,\" Sophie says. \"He was bed-bound.\"\n\nThe following Tuesday, Callum had to take a day off work and make a five-hour round trip in a taxi to collect the wheelchair. Motability paid for this.\n\nGraham Footer, the chief executive of Disabled Motoring UK - a charity which supports disabled drivers, passengers and Blue Badge holders, said: \"I'm absolutely shocked and flabbergasted to hear this. This is absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Footer, who also sits on a panel for National Highways, said: \"I think there's been a massive breakdown in communication between the agencies.\"\n\nHis advice to disabled drivers and passengers involved in a breakdown is:\n\nMr Footer said: \"There is no way anybody should ever have to wait that long for assistance on a motorway.\n\n\"Sophie did everything right. She got her family to safety. It's just that the response was an absolute failure.\"\n\nYou can listen to the podcast and find information and support on the Access All homepage\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 120 people have been killed and 850 injured after trains collided in India's eastern Odisha state, local officials say.\n\nFootage shows people climbing over the wreckage of the trains.\n\nDozens of ambulances were sent to the scene in the Balasore district, the state's chief secretary said.", "Dame Elan Closs Stephens has been appointed as acting chairwoman of the BBC after Richard Sharp's resignation.\n\nHe stepped down earlier this year after breaking rules over dealings with then-PM Boris Johnson ahead of his appointment.\n\nDame Elan will lead the BBC board from 27 June for 12 months or until a new permanent chair has been appointed, whichever is sooner.\n\nShe said the new role was \"a huge honour\".\n\nShe was appointed by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, who said Dame Elan had \"the unanimous support of the board\" and \"would provide stability in the leadership of the BBC\".\n\nMr Sharp resigned in April after a report found he created the appearance of a conflict of interest by not fully disclosing his knowledge of Mr Johnson's personal finances.\n\nHis position had been scrutinised after it emerged he tried to secure a high-level government meeting for a businessman offering financial help to the former prime minister.\n\nA report - led by barrister Adam Heppinstall KC - found in April that Mr Sharp broke the corporation's rules by not fully disclosing his part in arranging a meeting between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and Sam Blyth, a distant cousin of Mr Johnson who had offered to support the then-PM financially.\n\nThe investigation had been launched after the Sunday Times reported that in 2020 Mr Johnson was offered a loan of up to £800,000 to top up his income.\n\nMr Sharp, an ex-investment banker and Conservative Party donor, had already applied for the BBC role when he approached Mr Case, and was given the job a few months later.\n\nDame Elan has been a member of the BBC's governing body since 2010, where she served as the member for Wales when it was the BBC Trust.\n\nShe then continued as the Welsh member of the BBC Board and has been the chairwoman of the Wales committee, and from 2019 to 2022 also served as chairwoman of the BBC's commercial subsidiary.\n\nDame Elan, who lives in Aberystwyth, is a native Welsh speaker and served for two terms as chairwoman of Welsh-language broadcaster S4C between 1998 and 2006.\n\nShe will still serve the British Film Institute as a non-executive director of the Imax Cinema in Waterloo and is currently the pro-chancellor and professor emerita in communications and creative industries at Aberystwyth University.\n\nThe mother of two, who is also the electoral commissioner for Wales and member of the UK Electoral Commission Board, said there was \"much work to be done\".\n\n\"As a board, we will champion the licence fee-payer across all of the UK, ensure the BBC is a vital partner for the UK creative industries, maintain trust, and drive change to make the BBC fit for a fast-changing media landscape,\" she said following the announcement.", "Noel Gallagher's case was dealt with by magistrates under the Single Justice Procedure\n\nMusician Noel Gallagher must pay more than £1,000 for failing to tell police who was driving his Range Rover.\n\nThe 56-year-old former Oasis star, who cannot drive, was also handed six penalty points.\n\nHe refused to give information relating to the identification of a driver when required by magistrates earlier this week.\n\nGallagher's Range Rover was recorded speeding at 41mph on a 30mph stretch of the A40 in west London in October.\n\nThe guitarist and songwriter's case was dealt with at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. Under the Single Justice Procedure, Gallagher was not required to be present.\n\nHe was fined £742 and told to pay a £296 victim surcharge plus £100 costs, a court official confirmed.\n\nIn April, Gallagher told Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 he gave up on learning to drive at the height of Oasis' popularity in the 1990s after being mobbed by fans during a lesson.\n\nHe said: \"I have had one driving lesson, in the 90s, and I was driving round a housing estate in Slough and she (the instructor) said to me, 'if you just indicate and pull over here' then I pulled over.\n\n\"She got out the car she said, 'I'll be back in a minute'. She came out with her mum, she drove me to her house. Then the local comprehensive bell went and they all came out.\n\n\"This is at the height of Oasis-mania and I was like 'never, never again'.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemic\n\nThe government is likely to lose its legal case against the Covid inquiry, a government minister has said.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has said it will seek a judicial review of the inquiry's demand that it submit Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages unredacted.\n\nScience minister George Freeman told the BBC's Question Time he had \"very little doubt\" a court would find the documents should be handed over.\n\nBut, he added, it was \"worth testing\" if officials had a right to privacy.\n\nOn Thursday, the government missed a 16:00 BST deadline to submit messages sent between Mr Johnson and 40 other ministers and officials during the pandemic.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - which supports the prime minister in running the government - has argued many of the messages are not relevant, and that to hand them over would compromise ministers' privacy and hamper future decision-making.\n\nBaroness Hallett, the retired judge and crossbench peer who is chairing the inquiry, has said it is up to her to decide what material is relevant.\n\nMr Johnson has said he has given his messages to the Cabinet Office and would be \"more than happy\" for them to be passed to the inquiry unredacted.\n\nBut the former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemic - because his phone was involved in a security breach and has not been turned on since, his spokesman said.\n\nIn April 2021, it emerged that Mr Johnson's personal mobile phone number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years, leading to concerns over the device's security.\n\nMr Johnson has written to the Cabinet Office to ask whether technical support can be given so the content can be retrieved without compromising security, his spokesman added.\n\nDocuments released by the Cabinet Office also list questions put to Mr Johnson by the inquiry earlier this year, including: \"In or around autumn 2020, did you state that you would rather 'let the bodies pile high' than order another lockdown, or words to that effect? If so, please set out the circumstances in which you made these comments.\"\n\nThe inquiry also asked the former prime minister if he received advice to sack Matt Hancock as health secretary between January and July 2020.\n\nAsked about the government's legal case against the Covid inquiry, Mr Freeman told the BBC he thought the \"courts will probably take the view\" that Baroness Hallett is entitled to decide \"what evidence she deems relevant\".\n\nBut he added that \"people's privacy is really important\" and that the question of how private correspondence should be handled was a \"point worth testing\".\n\n\"I would like to see a situation where the inquiry says: 'Listen, we will wholly respect the privacy of anything that's not related to Covid. We will redact it',\" he said.\n\nThe challenge is thought to be the first time a government has taken legal action against its own public inquiry.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine, who led the review into the 2009 swine flu outbreak, said the government taking legal action would be \"most ill-advised\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think this is unwise on the part of the government and they have no right to withhold the documents.\"\n\nLord Gavin Barwell, who worked as chief of staff to former prime minister Theresa May, said he thought the government was making a \"bad mistake\" by not handing over the full WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"We're having the enquiry to give people confidence we're getting to the truth. And if the government is controlling what the inquiry can and can't see, then people are not going to get confidence in the outcome,\" he told Today.\n\nRelatives of the bereaved have expressed frustration at the government's stance\n\nThe saga comes just two weeks before the inquiry - tasked with identifying lessons from how the pandemic was handled - is due to hold its first public hearings.\n\nLobby Akinnola, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, expressed exasperation at the government's decision to bring the challenge and said he feared it was part of an attempt to render the inquiry \"lame\".\n\n\"I'm frustrated, I'm angry,\" he told the BBC's The World Tonight, adding that \"we're trying to understand what went wrong so we can prevent it happening again and that... is what the government is hindering.\"\n\nOpposition parties have also urged the government to comply with the inquiry's requests.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the legal challenge as a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\" that would serve \"only to undermine the Covid Inquiry\", while the Liberal Democrats called it a \"kick in the teeth for bereaved families who've already waited far too long for answers\".", "The former BBC Newsline presenter claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability\n\nThe employment tribunal case between Donna Traynor and the BBC in Northern Ireland and its director Adam Smyth has been settled.\n\nThere was no admission of liability.\n\nMs Traynor, a former BBC Newsline presenter, had claimed she was discriminated against on the basis of age, sex and disability.\n\n\"The parties are pleased that this matter has been brought to a conclusion and intend to put it behind them,\" an agreed joint statement said.\n\n\"The dispute between Donna Traynor and the BBC and Adam Smyth has ended, without any admission of liability on the part of either respondent.\n\n\"Donna Traynor acknowledges the BBC and Adam Smyth continue to refute strongly all the allegations made against them, including the claims made on the opening day of the tribunal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Smyth was asked to comment on the case after it had been settled\n\nAfter the case had ended, Ms Traynor said she did not want to comment to reporters.\n\nHowever, in a social media post on Friday, she wrote: \"My employment tribunal case is now settled and over.\n\n\"Many thanks to everyone who has sent me supportive messages in recent times. Wishing you well.\"\n\nA BBC statement said: \"We settled Donna's claims at a level of payment consistent with what we would pay out in a redundancy-type arrangement.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donna Traynor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, the tribunal was told that Ms Traynor was treated in a manner that amounted to bullying and harassment by the BBC.\n\nHowever, the hearing, which had been due to last for several days, was halted on Friday morning when a settlement between the parties was announced.\n\nMs Traynor announced she was leaving the BBC in November 2021 with immediate effect, after a career at the corporation spanning more than 30 years.\n\nMs Traynor joined the BBC in 1989, presenting radio news bulletins before moving into television.\n\nShe was one of BBC Northern Ireland's most high-profile presenters and in 2022 made a cameo appearance in the finale of hit sitcom Derry Girls.\n\nAt the time of Ms Traynor's departure, Mr Smyth was the head of news at BBC Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was appointed director of BBC NI in April 2023, after almost a year and a half as interim director.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said: \"We strongly refute all of the allegations that were made against us.\"\n\nHe added the settlement was \"acceptable\" and that the BBC treats the use of licence fee payers' money \"very carefully and very sensitively\".\n\n\"It's a very sad day but we're glad to have the dispute come to an end,\" he said.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"Speculation on the settlement amount is far from accurate. We settled Donna's claims at a level of payment consistent with what we would pay out in a redundancy-type arrangement.\"", "Elon Musk has reclaimed his title as the world's richest person, knocking the boss of luxury goods giant LVMH, Bernard Arnault, off the top spot.\n\nHis net worth has soared by $55.3bn (£44.44bn) since January to $192bn, after a rise in the value of his electric car company Tesla.\n\nMr Arnault's fortune has fallen by $24.5bn to $187bn, per Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.\n\nHe is followed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in third and fourth positions.\n\nMr Arnault, 74, had overtaken Mr Musk, 51, on the the rich list in December when shares in LVMH jumped as demand for luxury goods rebounded.\n\nAt the same, shares in Tesla - the company from which Mr Musk derives most of his wealth - fell sharply amid concerns that his takeover of the social media platform Twitter was affecting his leadership.\n\nHowever, Tesla shares have bounced back by almost 92% since the start of this year as investor nerves have eased and Mr Musk has announced his replacement as Twitter chief executive.\n\nHis visit to China this week to discuss Tesla has also sparked excitement, while the car firm is benefiting from the rise in interest in artificial intelligence.\n\nBy contrast, LVMH - which owns brands including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior - has gone into reverse.\n\nAfter hitting a record high in April, its shares have fallen sharply and are down 16% since the start of the year.\n\nMr Arnault, who co-founded the luxury goods giant in 1987, owns a majority stake in the business, which is Europe's most valuable firm.\n\nIn January, the Frenchman appointed his daughter Delphine Arnault, 47, as head of his fashion house Dior as part of a shake-up at LVMH.\n\nAll five of Mr Arnault's children hold management positions at brands in the group.\n\nAccording to Bloomberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's third richest person with a fortune of $146bn. Mr Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, is worth $126bn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Caroline Flack's mum says ITV treats presenters such as Phillip Schofield like \"commodities\"\n\nCaroline Flack's mother has criticised ITV over its handling of the departure of presenter Phillip Schofield, saying the broadcaster had failed to learn lessons from the death of her daughter.\n\nPresenters are not always protected, Christine Flack, whose daughter fronted ITV's Love Island, told BBC Newsnight.\n\nEx-This Morning host Schofield has apologised for lying about an affair and said he had \"lost everything\".\n\nITV says it feels \"badly let down\" by him and takes \"duty of care seriously\".\n\nAccusing the broadcaster of treating employees as \"commodities\", Christine told Newsnight that presenters are \"people\" but are sometimes \"sidelined, not protected\".\n\nShe also appeared to question ITV's aftercare, saying: \"They could have someone speaking for him really, whether he did right or wrong.... it's not a good look really.\"\n\nCaroline Flack was found dead in February 2020 at the age of 40.\n\nShe stood down from hosting the hugely-popular Love Island in December 2019 after being charged with assault by beating.\n\nA coroner later ruled she took her own life - a day after learning that prosecutors were going to press ahead with the assault charge after an incident involving her boyfriend Lewis Burton.\n\nChristine believes ITV \"haven't learned anything\" since the death of her daughter.\n\nShe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: \"If my employer didn't take care of me, there'd be all hell to pay. And there's not.\"\n\nChristine said Schofield and his former lover were going through an \"awful time\" and urged them not to do \"anything silly\".\n\nSchofield gave his first interviews this week, after admitting to lying about having an affair with a younger male colleague.\n\nAsked how he was, and after a long pause, the TV presenter told the BBC's Amol Rajan: \"I think I understand how Caroline Flack felt.\"\n\nChristine told the BBC that Schofield \"knew Caroline\" and when she died, \"he was very upset\".\n\n\"I think he's now realising even more what she went through,\" Christine said. \"But until it happens to you, you feel sad but you don't understand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nSchofield told the BBC that the fallout in the media had been \"relentless\", which Christine said was \"exactly\" how her daughter Caroline had felt.\n\n\"Every day she would try to be a bit stronger, which I should imagine Phillip is [doing],\" she said.\n\nThe problem is, she continued: \"You get more and more thrown at you\".\n\nImploring people to let the situation \"settle\", she said Schofield had \"lost his job\" and \"his world\", adding: \"I think that's enough. I think that's enough for anybody.\"\n\nIn a statement, ITV said: \"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust. Phillip made assurances to us and his agency which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\n\n\"As a producer and broadcaster, ITV takes its responsibilities around duty of care seriously and has robust and well-established processes in place to support the mental and physical health of employees and all those we work with.\"\n\nITV has already ordered an external review into its handling of the relationship between Schofield and his colleague.\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight, former ITV's News executive Lis Howell said it was not just an issue with the channel.\n\n\"It's a problem across the entertainment sector,\" she said.\n\n\"It's also a problem as regards to the tabloid press. They are very responsible in many cases for making people's lives a misery, and of course there is social media. So let's not just pretend, it's ITV, because it's not.\"\n\nSchofield, who came out as gay in 2020, also said he believed homophobia had fuelled the media coverage surrounding his extra-marital affair.\n\nHe said revelations about a similar heterosexual relationship would have been treated as \"nudge nudge, wink wink\" but \"if it's a gay relationship, then suddenly it raises eyebrows\".\n\nHe continued: \"People do find each other attractive in different age groups, I mean it does happen... I appreciate it's the workplace and the history, and I get that - but the fact it is so massive is predominantly homophobia.\"\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.", "Phillip Schofield told the BBC's Amol Rajan he had no involvement with his former colleague leaving This Morning\n\nPerhaps few people in Britain understand the power of televised testimony like Phillip Schofield.\n\nFor more than 40 years he has solicited it; for the past 20, on This Morning, he has specialised in it.\n\nHe also knows, given his public profile, about the enduring power of tabloids. This is why, after a week of frenzied headlines, allegations, speculation and abuse on social media - all of it a postscript to years in which his sexuality and extra-marital affair were not public knowledge - he agreed to an interview with the Sun and, separately, the BBC.\n\nWhat did he want from this interview? To say sorry, show contrition, and correct falsehoods in the public domain.\n\nWhat did BBC News want from the interview? To get to the truth, by applying scrutiny.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nThis task was made significantly more delicate by his clearly very highly charged emotional state. As Tony Dolce, one of our two camera operators (along with Tony Jolliffe) observed afterwards, Schofield's hands were shaking through much of the interview. Before we began, after we finished, and during the two short breaks in filming, he instinctively reached for a small green vape, from which he took long drags.\n\nSchofield, whom I had never met, mentioned suicide within moments of our acquaintance, and repeatedly during the interview.\n\nWhen an interviewee presents themselves in this way, there is a tension between a duty of care to the individual and a duty of care to the truth. Hard questions still need to be asked, not least because this is not primarily a story about celebrity tittle tattle, or idle gossip about ITV's star talent.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.\n\nIt is a story about potential abuse of power, and workplace culture at a time when many industries in many countries are under scrutiny as never before.\n\nOn several key points, Schofield offered an alternative account to the prevailing narrative.\n\nAnd he said that he did not reveal he was gay on This Morning in 2020 because a deal was struck with the Sun, in which they got the exclusive in return for not running a story about his relationship with the young man.\n\nAll these claims - or rather counter-claims - will feature in ITV's forthcoming review. Why should we believe Schofield today, given he lied for years? That's for you to decide. ITV still has many questions to answer, and they'll be asked them by MPs in the coming days.\n\nIt is worth emphasising that this is Schofield's account of events. Others - notably the young man - have their own. Moreover, it is Schofield's account at a particular moment in this story, on the basis of the evidence available. ITV's independent, external review will likely uncover fresh evidence that adds detail and context to what we know.\n\nAfter years of innuendo, speculation and deceit, the truth about Phillip Schofield's relationship with a young colleague is finally, slowly, emerging. Perhaps more importantly, Britain's biggest commercial public service broadcaster has joined the ranks of mighty institutions having to prove they do not tolerate abuse of power.\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe full BBC interview is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer\n\nThe former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.", "Dev Shah, 14, receives the trophy after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition\n\nA teenager from Florida has won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States.\n\nDev Shah, a 14-year-old student from Largo, spelled \"psammophile\" correctly to win the 95th national bee and the $50,000 (£40,000) prize.\n\nCharlotte Walsh, also 14, from Arlington, Virginia, was the runner-up, having incorrectly spelled \"daviely\" as \"daevilick\".\n\nA psammophile is an organism that lives in sandy areas.\n\nEleven students made the finals after 11 million people entered spelling competitions, according to the organisers.\n\n\"It's surreal... my legs are still shaking,\" Dev said as he collected the trophy on stage, joined by his family. His mother said she was \"very proud\" of him.\n\nHe had previously entered the competition in 2019 and 2021, finishing tied 51st and tied 76th respectively.\n\nOn his way to the final he correctly spelled words such as bathypitotmeter, schistorrhachis and rommack. He also correctly answered a question, saying that a magician would be most likely to practice legerdemain.\n\nCharlotte correctly spelled words such as akuammine, sorge and collembolous on her route to the final, which took place in National Harbor, Maryland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Spelling Bee official explains how words are picked", "Tracey Emin says she's \"a much better artist\" and \"a much better human being\" after having cancer.\n\n\"I'm more alive than I've ever been,\" she told an audience at the Hay Festival on Thursday night.\n\nEmin was diagnosed with an aggressive type of bladder cancer in 2020 and underwent major surgery.\n\nShe added that giving up alcohol three years ago had also helped improve her work: \"I've got so much more time because I'm not drinking.\"\n\nThe maverick creative said she was worried her art \"wouldn't be wild enough\" after giving up drinking \"but it's more wild, more free, [has] more energy\"-.\n\nConsidered one of Britain's greatest living artists, Emin suggested she had been enjoying a creative purple patch since her recovery.\n\n\"It's like I've come out of this dark shadow that's been following me all my life.\n\n\"My work has taken on this whole new life, this freedom. I'm painting all the time.\"\n\nShe added: \"I really messed up a lot of my life earlier and did loads of really stupid things. Luckily I realise that I've got this other chance, it's almost like someone's said, 'She's not that bad, give her another chance!' And I'm really making the most of it.\"\n\nAsked by an audience member if she had any advice to offer her younger self and to any young women starting out in a creative field today, Emin quipped: \"Smoking is the biggest regret of my whole life... and thinking about all the things I've done in my life, that's embarrassing!\"\n\nAnd in true Emin style, she also gave one suggestion which is unrepeatable, delighting the audience, who later gave her a standing ovation.\n\nLast year, Emin returned with a show in Edinburgh and she's since opened an art school in her hometown of Margate, which also has a kitchen to train local people in hospitality and provides artists with fair rent studio space.\n\n\"It's like a whole little creative universe in Margate,\" she explained.\n\n\"In London, you can't just say 'I'm going to open an art school' but in Margate you can, if you have the money. The whole community is thriving and helping each other.\n\n\"We are living in weird, destitute, dystopian times, it's getting worse and worse and worse… everybody needs to be pulled up and if you can help someone right now, you need to help them. And I don't mean it in a socialist-type way or a political way. It's human kindness.\"\n\nShe also said she worried about the future of art on the school curriculum, which is currently compulsory until the age of 14.\n\n\"Art's always saved me. My mother always said: 'If Tracey didn't have art, she'd be dead by now.'\n\n\"I wasn't considered to be academic but I was bright in an artistic, visual way.\n\n\"I'd like the government to know there is not a car, there's not a fork, there's not a knife that doesn't come with some kind of design or some kind of art.\"", "Twitter's second head of trust and safety under owner Elon Musk has resigned, according to reports.\n\nElla Irwin took the post when previous head Yoel Roth left in November 2022 - a month after Mr Musk took over the company.\n\nThe head of trust and safety is tasked with content moderation, a topic which has come under the spotlight since Mr Musk's takeover.\n\nThe BBC has approached Twitter and Ms Irwin for comment.\n\nShe confirmed to both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal that she has stepped down. The reason for her resignation is unclear.\n\nHowever, it comes a day after Mr Musk publicly criticised a content moderation decision made at Twitter.\n\nHe called the decision to limit the visibility of a video over allegations of misgendering, \"a mistake by many people at Twitter\".\n\n\"Whether or not you agree with using someone's preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws,\" he wrote.\n\nIt comes a week after the social media platform pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation.\n\nMr Musk announced last month that Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would become Twitter's new chief executive. She has not yet started her role.\n\nIn-depth studies have indicated hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure, with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a London-based campaign group, finding slurs increased substantially after the takeover.\n\nAnd in December 2022, Twitter disbanded the volunteer group which advised it on self-harm, child abuse and hate speech.\n\nBut there have been moves to moderate the accuracy of content, with Mr Musk announcing the platform's Community Notes feature would be expanded to images.\n\nCommunity Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking system, in which Twitter users can add comments which provide context to tweets - often labelling them as false or misleading.\n\nThe platform wants to expand this feature to include video in the future.", "Sophie Ellis-Bextor has addressed rumours she's been shortlisted to be the UK's Eurovision entry for 2024.\n\nShe was put on the spot by BBC Breakfast presenters about her willingness to create Murder on the Dancefloor.\n\nHere's what she had to say.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales were among the guests at the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Saudi architect Rajwa Al Saif. The occasion was marked by music, dancing and clapping. Jordanians took to the streets in celebration.", "Diesel prices fell by a record 12p per litre on average in the UK last month, according to the RAC.\n\nPump prices dropped from about £1.59 to £1.47, the group said, cutting the cost of filling up a family car by £6.50.\n\nThe RAC said the reduction was the largest monthly drop it had seen since it began monitoring prices in 2000.\n\nBut the motoring group argued the drop in price was \"both long overdue and smaller than it should be\" due to wholesale prices being lower.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium, which represents supermarkets, said \"big cuts\" had been made to diesel prices in response to falling wholesale costs.\n\nDiesel prices are now down more than 25% from 2022 highs, after falling for seven months in a row.\n\nThe fuel hit a £1.99 per litre high last summer after oil prices soared following Russian's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nPetrol prices have also been falling steadily since then and dropped from £1.46 to £1.43 on average last month, figures from the RAC said.\n\nThe motoring group has suggested that prices have not come down as fast or by as much as they should have, noting that prices were significantly lower in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe RAC said the cut should have been more significant to fully reflect changes in the wholesale market because diesel wholesale costs had been lower than petrol for 10 weeks.\n\nIn May, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced it was investigating fuel prices and whether a \"failure in competition\" had meant drivers overpaid.\n\nThe watchdog said it was \"concerned about the sustained higher margins on diesel compared to petrol\" so far this year.\n\nIt said evidence it had gathered so far suggested at least one supermarket had set a higher target for its profit margin on fuel prices in 2022, which could have led rivals to follow suit and raise prices too.\n\nThe RAC said after calling for prices to fall in recent months, it seemed \"ironic that the latest price cuts have finally come in the two weeks following the Competition and Markets Authority's announcement\".\n\n\"What's happened to the price of diesel in May will no doubt give the CMA something to think about,\" Mr Williams said. \"We strongly hope the pump price reductions continue as they should.\"\n\nGordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retailers Association, which represents thousands of independent forecourts, said its advice to drivers was to \"shop around\".\n\n\"As noted by the CMA, petrol and diesel prices are still volatile due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The market is very dynamic and independent forecourts are in many cases undercutting supermarkets on price,\" he added.\n\nA separate review of the fuel market has been ongoing for several months, over initial concerns that retailers and forecourts were failing to pass on a 5p fuel duty cut to motorists.", "Friday marks the 29th day of rail strikes since the current set of disputes began.\n\nMembers of the rail unions have been regularly bringing much of the network to a halt for nearly a year.\n\nThe leisure industry has been hard-hit as people cancel trips and holidays, or avoid city centre shops, pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe RMT union, whose members are walking out on strike on Friday, claims that the strikes have cost the UK economy £5bn, with the leisure sector taking the biggest hit from lost sales.\n\nBut with the majority of rail commuters able to work from home, the impact elsewhere has been limited.\n\nTo understand how the UK has adapted to almost a year of rail strikes, take a look at the experience of Colin Bezant.\n\nA cycling-mad 58-year-old, train strikes don't stop him from doing his job as a consultant helping companies manage big IT projects.\n\nHe either works from home or cycles around 50 miles from his home in Basingstoke to the London office or to his client's office in Oxford.\n\nBut it completely messes up his weekend travels to cycling events around the country. He had booked a train on Friday to get to Carlisle ahead of a 600km cycle event.\n\nCyclist Colin Bezant can hop on his bike to work but train strikes mess up his weekends\n\nThe train he booked was cancelled, because of the strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, which is expected to put a halt to half of Friday's scheduled trains.\n\nHe can't depend on getting space for his bike on the trains that are running. So he'll be getting up at 07:00 to drive 300 miles instead.\n\nThe leisure industry has protested the loudest about the impact of train strikes.\n\n\"We've seen time and time again that rail strikes put a significant dampener on any sales as visitors are deterred from booking visits or eating and drinking out,\" Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said in a statement.\n\nThe industry group reckons strikes this week, during the half-term school holiday, will cost the sector £132m, bringing the total impact on the sector to an \"eye-watering\" £3.25bn.\n\nHaving to cancel leisure activities was by far the most frequently mentioned impact of the strikes, according to the most recent study from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nBusinesses that are in stations obviously suffer particularly. The ONS tracks weekly sales from 400 Pret a Manger sandwich shops around the country, and the branches in stations see a noticeable dip in sales on strike weeks.\n\nAnd retailers were acutely affected by the wave of strikes in the key shopping days ahead of Christmas last year.\n\nBut the impact of strikes on people getting to work is relatively limited, the ONS's work suggests.\n\nOnly one in 10 people actually travel to work by train, according to a different ONS survey.\n\nAnd of those who do travel by train, 70% said they could work from home.\n\nThe rest could get to work by other means - though not necessarily a 50-mile bike ride - and very few respondents said they couldn't work at all because of the train strike.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the RMT's assistant general secretary John Leach said: \"We regret the inconvenience caused by industrial action.\n\n\"We would much rather be doing what we do every other day of the year, which is keeping Britain moving, our members coming to work to do that. It's an obvious regret but it's also our responsibility to represent our people, our members, and we will never apologise for doing that.\"\n\nRail strikes have had much less impact since the signallers and other Network Rail staff agreed a pay deal to end their campaign. When the signallers joined the strikes, up to 90% of trains would be cancelled.\n\nTrain strikes will affect the Epsom Derby this weekend, as well as the FA Cup final at Wembley\n\nThe sector most hurt by the strikes may in fact be the railway industry itself.\n\nMr Bezant says the strikes, and cancellations caused by engineering works, have shaken his faith in the rail network.\n\n\"I expect that any events I book in the future, I will consider driving. There's not much point trusting the trains. It will change the way I travel,\" he says.\n\nEven if the strikes were resolved tomorrow, he would still be uncertain. \"It has been going on for so long. It will affect me for quite some time I think.\"\n\nHe estimates the train journeys he has not made because of strikes add up to around £700 - lost revenue for an industry that is already in a serious financial condition.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents the train operating companies, reckons the dispute has cost the rail industry around £580m so far, a sum which increases with every new day of strike action. The bill is ultimately met by the government, which now picks up the tab for any shortfall in ticket sales.\n\nAnd Mr Bezant is unlikely to be the only one who will take some time to regain his faith in the railways, even when the disputes are over.\n\nHow are you affected by the latest train strikes? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say.\n\nThe test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptoms, in England or Wales.\n\nIn 85% of those positive cases, it also pinpointed the original site of cancer.\n\nThe Galleri test looks for distinct changes in bits of genetic code that leak from different cancers. Spotting treatable cancer early can save lives.\n\nThe test remains very much a \"work in progress\", the researchers, from Oxford University, say, but could increase the number of cancers identified.\n\nOften, patients have symptoms, such as weight loss, with a range of possible causes and require multiple tests and hospital visits.\n\nMore than 350 of those in the study - the biggest of its kind in patients with suspected cancer symptoms - were subsequently diagnosed with cancer, using traditional methods such as scans and biopsies. About:\n\nAlthough not accurate enough to \"rule in or rule out cancer\", the test was really useful for patients lead researcher Prof Mark Middleton told BBC News.\n\n\"The test was 85% accurate in detecting the source of the cancer - and that can be really helpful because so many times it is not immediately obvious when you have got the patient in front of you what test is needed to see whether their symptoms are down to cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"With that prediction from the test, we can decide whether to order a scope or a scan and make sure we are giving the right test the first time.\"\n\nThe findings will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, in Chicago.\n\nThe NHS has also been using the Galleri test, developed by Californian company Grail, in thousands of people without symptoms, to see if it can detect hidden cancers.\n\nInitial results are expected next year - and, if successful, the NHS in England plans to extend the rollout to a further one million people in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe test is particularly good at finding hard-to-spot cancers such as head and neck, bowel, lung, pancreatic, and throat cancers.\n\nDr David Crosby, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"The findings from the study suggest this test could be used to support GPs to make clinical assessments - but much more research is needed, in a larger trial, to see if it could improve GP assessment and ultimately patient outcomes.\"\n\nNHS national director for cancer Prof Peter Johnson said: \"This study is the first step in testing a new way to identify cancer as quickly as possible, being pioneered by the NHS - earlier detection of cancer is vital and this test could help us to catch more cancers at an earlier stage and help save thousands of lives.\"", "The UK government is to launch an unprecedented legal challenge over the Covid inquiry's demand for WhatsApp messages and documents.\n\nThe government missed a 16:00 deadline to share Boris Johnson's messages and notebooks from during the pandemic.\n\nIt is thought to be the first time a government has taken legal action against its own public inquiry.\n\nMr Johnson said he would be \"more than happy\" to give the unredacted material directly to the inquiry's chair.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - the department that supports the prime minister in running the government - had until 16:00 on Thursday to hand over all documents requested by the Covid inquiry.\n\nBut the government refused to disclose some of the material by arguing it was not relevant to the inquiry, it would compromise ministers' right to privacy, and would set a precedent that could prevent ministers discussing policy matters in future.\n\nCrossbench peer and retired judge Baroness Hallett, who is the inquiry's chair, says it is up to her to decide what material is relevant.\n\nMr Johnson has not disclosed any WhatsApp messages sent before April 2021 because his mobile phone was involved in a security breach and has not been turned on since, his spokesman said.\n\nThe former prime minister has written to the Cabinet Office asking whether security and technical support can be given so that content can be retrieved without compromising security, the spokesman added.\n\nIn a highly unusual move announced after the 16:00 deadline had passed, the Cabinet Office said it would seek a judicial review of Baroness Hallett's order to release the documents.\n\nThis means a judge will have to decide whether the inquiry has overreached its legal powers - setting up a potential legal showdown in court just weeks before the inquiry is due to hold its first public hearings.\n\nMinisters set up the Covid inquiry in 2022 and tasked Baroness Hallett with identifying lessons from the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nElkan Abrahamson, the lawyer representing the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, said: \"The Cabinet Office is showing utter disregard for the inquiry in maintaining their belief that they are the higher power and arbiter of what is relevant material and what is not.\n\n\"It raises questions about the integrity of the inquiry and how open and transparent it will be if the chair is unable to see all of the material.\"\n\nOpposition parties have accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government of trying to obstruct the Covid inquiry and urged him to comply with its requests.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, branded the legal challenge a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\" and said \"these latest smoke-and-mirror tactics serve only to undermine the Covid Inquiry\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said the legal challenge was \"a kick in the teeth for bereaved families who've already waited far too long for answers\".\n\nSome senior Conservative MPs had urged the government to back down to avoid a lengthy legal battle with the Covid inquiry.\n\nScience minister George Freeman defended the decision to take legal action, while conceding he personally thought a defeat in the courts was likely.\n\nBut when speaking during a visit to Moldova earlier, Mr Sunak said he was \"confident\" in the government's position.\n\nOutlining its grounds for legal action, the Cabinet Office said ministers and officials \"should not be required to provide material that is irrelevant to the inquiry's work\".\n\nIt said \"irrelevant material\" requested by the inquiry included \"references to personal and family information, including illness and disciplinary matters\", and \"comments of a personal nature about identified or identifiable individuals which are unrelated to Covid-19\".\n\nBut the danger for the government is that it exposes it to the charge - already levelled by Labour - that ministers are trying to cover something up.\n\nThe legal action will test the ability of public inquiries to get hold of messages on WhatsApp, which has become an increasingly popular means of communication between ministers in recent years.\n\nBaroness Hallett has previously warned that a failure to disclose material requested by the inquiry would be a criminal offence.\n\nJonathan Jones, a former head of the government's legal department, said the Cabinet Office had \"a plausible case\" but faced \"an uphill challenge to overturn what are very wide powers of the inquiry\".\n\nHe told the BBC the matter could be settled in court \"within weeks, if not sooner\".", "King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, with Phillip Schofield at the annual Prince's Trust Awards in 2019\n\nThe Prince's Trust has dropped Phillip Schofield as an ambassador after he admitted he had an affair with a young male colleague and lied to cover it up.\n\nThe charity, founded by the King, said it was \"no longer appropriate\" for it to work with the presenter.\n\nSchofield, 61, issued a statement last Friday about the relationship and announced he was leaving ITV.\n\nIt came a week after he quit his role at ITV's This Morning after reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nA Prince's Trust spokesperson said: \"In light of Phillip's recent admissions, we have agreed with him that it is no longer appropriate to work together.\"\n\nThe Prince's Trust has a number of celebrity ambassadors who support the charity through fundraising or promoting its work.\n\nRepresentatives from ITV and other channels are due to appear in front of the Commons' culture, media and sports committee next Tuesday to discuss reforms to the laws governing public broadcasting.\n\nMP John Nicolson, a former BBC journalist who sits on the committee and is also the SNP's culture spokesman, said on Twitter that recent events at ITV were a \"cause for concern\" and that he was looking forward to \"getting some answers\" from ITV bosses.\n\nIn a statement last Friday, Schofield apologised for lying repeatedly to hide the relationship with the male employee, calling it \"unwise but not illegal\".\n\nITV said it was \"deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit\" made by Schofield and confirmed it had cut all ties with the host.\n\nThe network said it had investigated rumours of a relationship between Phillip and a younger employee in 2020 - but both \"repeatedly denied\" it.\n\nSchofield was also dropped by his talent agency YMU.\n\nITV said Schofield's statement \"reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship\".\n\nHis exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network said last week they were developing with him.", "Lina E (R) was seen as the ringleader of the radical left group\n\nA jail term for a far-left extremist who took part in violent attacks on neo-Nazis has caused uproar on both the left and right of German politics.\n\nLina E was given a sentence of five years and three months - but was also told she is now free pending an appeal, having been in custody since 2020.\n\nThree men convicted with her were also given jail sentences on Wednesday.\n\nLeft-wing protesters demonstrated in several cities against the verdicts. A big rally has been banned in Leipzig.\n\nOther Germans were angered by the decision to release Lina E - criminal defendants' second names are not made public - after two and a half years in custody - believing this sends a signal to the left that violence against the extreme right is acceptable.\n\nThe judge, Hans Schlüter-Staats, said Lina E would be allowed out pending the result of her appeal. She is said to be unwell and has had to hand in her identity card and passport.\n\nDelivering his verdict, the judge said that \"opposing right-wing extremists is a respectable motive\", but use of force was only for the state and her actions were still \"serious criminal acts\". He criticised her defence lawyers' argument that the case was politically motivated.\n\nLina E was seen as the ringleader of her far-left group which waged a brutal campaign of violence against the extreme right for several years - using hammers, iron bars and baseball bats.\n\nLeft-wing protesters took to the streets targeting police with bottles and fireworks after the verdict\n\nIn one attack in 2019, the gang attacked a well-known neo-Nazi pub called the Bull's Eye in the town of Eisenach, beating its owner Leon R. They attacked him again weeks later. Leon R was later arrested in a police operation targeting neo-Nazis across Germany.\n\nThe far-left militant group gained notoriety for its violence, attracting the name \"hammer gang\". Lina E's partner Johann G is also suspected of attacks and has since gone to ground.\n\nIn another incident in 2020 involving at least 15 people, a group were beaten up as they returned from a ceremony marking the firebombing of Dresden during World War Two. Several victims suffered serious injuries.\n\nLina E was detained in November 2020. Her surname has not been made public. Three men who joined her gang were given sentences of 27 to 39 months in jail.\n\nSabine Volk, a researcher on the far right from the University of Passau, said that the crimes committed by the gang were horrible but that there appeared to be a \"power imbalance\" in eastern Germany against the far left.\n\n\"In radical left circles there's this perception and narrative that the state isn't doing anything against the neo-Nazi scene and that's why they have to take over their duties,\" she told the BBC. \"It's not entirely true but it's not far-fetched either.\"\n\nLast December, after years of being dismissed as harmless cranks, 25 people were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the German government on behalf of the far-right Reichsbürger (Citizens of the Reich) movement.\n\nAfter Lina E was found guilty, there were far-left protests in several cities and police were targeted with bottles and fireworks.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the police union, Jochen Kopelke, said officers were shaking their heads that she had been released: \"It was clear to us as officers that we would also be the focus of extremists.\"\n\nInterior Minister Nancy Faeser has warned of an increasing willingness among the far left to resort to violence. However, she said last week that right-wing extremism remained the biggest radical threat to German democracy and that attacks last year rose by 12%.\n\nAn anti-fascist \"Day X\" march planned for Saturday has been banned in Leipzig, where Lina E was a student, because police are concerned it could descend into violence. But a major police operation is planned anyway, as several major events are due to take place in the city.\n\nThe far-right AfD party condemned the decision to release Lina E as \"soft\" and complained there had been a failure of the rule of law.\n\nThe AfD has risen in German opinion polls in recent months as dissatisfaction grows with the coalition government. The latest poll puts them neck and neck with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left SPD on 18%.\n\nThe AfD has also benefited from a backlash among German voters from climate activist protests that have blockaded streets in key cities.\n\nHans-Georg Maassen, a former German spy chief who is seen as a right-wing conservative, ridiculed Lina E's sentence as giving free rein to far-left activists to stage further violent attacks.", "A cheese rolling extreme sport event put a strain on the emergency services, a safety advisory group has said.\n\nHundreds of competitors chased a 7lb (3kg) cheese down Coopers Hill, near Gloucester, on Monday.\n\nThe Tewkesbury Borough Safety Group (SAG) said police and fire services would no longer staff the event until organisers came up with a safety plan.\n\nIn a statement, the SAG, which monitors safety at public events, said six people were taken to hospital by ambulance after Monday's event.\n\n\"Double-crewed ambulances and rapid response vehicles needed a police escort to gain access to the site, in order to clear a path through the crowds.\n\n\"This put a strain on the resources of both Gloucestershire Constabulary and South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust for a considerable time,\" the SAG added.\n\nThe world-famous event went ahead despite safety fears\n\nThe group, which advises on safety at events, said it had \"no desire or power\" to stop the event but called for organisers to come up with a decent safety plan.\n\n\"In the interim, police, fire and ambulance services will not be in attendance at the event, though of course will respond to any emergencies,\" the SAG statement added.\n\nThe annual event attracts thousands of spectators, including some from across the world.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The Prince of Wales has met a road crash survivor who he helped save while working as an air ambulance pilot.\n\nJack Beeton was in a van driven by his uncle when it crashed with a lorry near Cambridge in October 2015, killing his uncle and leaving Mr Beeton with life-threatening injuries.\n\nPrince William invited Mr Beeton to Windsor Castle after receiving a letter from his girlfriend.\n\n\"I was saved by these guys and everyone else on the shift,\" said Mr Beeton.\n\n\"It's been lovely to see William, be able to shake his hand and thank him for what he did for me that day.\"\n\nPrince William worked for the East Anglian Air Ambulance for two years\n\nPrince William joined the East Anglian Air Ambulance as a helicopter pilot in March 2015 and began his first operational missions four months later.\n\nUpon finishing his job in July 2017, he wrote a public letter singling out the day when his crewmates saved Mr Beeton's life following the collision on the A10.\n\nJack Beeton got the chance to meet Prince William after his girlfriend sent the palace a letter\n\nPrince William's crew were the first on scene at the collision aftermath in October 2015\n\nThe prince wrote at the time: \"We were first on scene and in such circumstances we all had to pitch in to fight to save the young man's life.\n\n\"It is days like this, when you know you have made a difference, that give you the determination to keep going.\"\n\nMr Beeton's girlfriend wrote to Prince William to say her partner had managed to thank all the crew from that day, apart from him.\n\nOther members of the crew joined Mr Beeton to reunite once again at Windsor Castle.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The video shows the driver pointing what appears to be a gun\n\nA 48-year-old man has been charged in connection with a video circulating online showing a man with a suspected firearm.\n\nIn the video posted on social media, a driver for Belfast firm FonaCab points what appears to be a gun.\n\nA man was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of a number offences.\n\nHe is charged with possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, threats to kill and common assault.\n\nThe man is also charged with having a Class A controlled drug.\n\nHe is due to appear before Laganside Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nFonaCab said on Thursday that it had terminated the employment of a driver over the video.\n\nA spokesperson for the company said it was liaising with the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) Northern Ireland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).", "The former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemic\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is giving unredacted WhatsApp messages dating back to May 2021 directly to the Covid inquiry, bypassing the government which has refused to hand them over.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand for texts from the former PM and officials.\n\nIt argues that many of the messages are irrelevant to the investigation.\n\nHowever, the head of the inquiry, Baroness Hallett, has said it's her job to decide what is and is not relevant.\n\nIn a letter to Baroness Hallett, Mr Johnson said that he understood why the government was taking legal action, but that he was \"perfectly content\" to release messages he had already sent to the Cabinet Office.\n\nMr Johnson added he would like to send messages pre-dating April 2021, but that he had been told he could no longer access his phone from that period \"safely\".\n\nSecurity concerns were raised over the phone, after it emerged the number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years.\n\nThe messages received before this date would be likely to cover discussions about the coronavirus lockdowns implemented in 2020.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted to \"test\" the advice received from the security services and had asked the Cabinet Office for assistance in turning his old phone on securely.\n\nHe added he no longer had access to his contemporaneous notebooks as he had handed these to the Cabinet Office.\n\n\"I have asked that the Cabinet Office pass these to you. If the government chooses not to do so, I will ask for these to be returned to my office so that I can provide them to you directly.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward said the risk of turning on Mr Johnson's old phone was \"minimal\", adding: \"It is perfectly possible to do that without exposing it to the potential threat.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the inquiry told the government to submit messages sent between Mr Johnson and 40 other ministers and officials during the pandemic by 16:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"more than happy\" to give the unredacted material to the inquiry.\n\nThe Cabinet Office - which supports the prime minister in running the government - also holds communications between ministers and civil servants which do not involve Mr Johnson.\n\nOn Thursday, it missed the deadline and said it would \"with regret\" be launching a judicial review of the demand, but promised to \"continue to co-operate fully with the inquiry\".\n\nDefending its decision not to hand over certain messages, the Cabinet Office argued that many of the communications were \"unambiguously irrelevant\", and that to submit them to the inquiry would compromise ministers' privacy and hamper future decision-making.\n\n\"It represents an unwarranted intrusion into other aspects of the work of government. It also represents an intrusion into their legitimate expectations of privacy and protection of their personal information,\" the Cabinet Office said, in a letter to the inquiry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC One's Question Time on Thursday, science minister George Freeman said he thought the \"courts will probably take the view\" that Baroness Hallett was entitled to decide \"what evidence she deems relevant\".\n\nBut he added \"people's privacy is really important\" and that the question of how private correspondence should be handled was a \"point worth testing\".\n\n\"I would like to see a situation where the inquiry says: 'Listen, we will wholly respect the privacy of anything that's not related to Covid. We will redact it',\" he said.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the government's legal action as a \"desperate attempt to withhold evidence\". The Liberal Democrats called it a \"kick in the teeth for bereaved families\".\n\nLord Barwell, who worked as chief of staff to former Prime Minister Theresa May, told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought the government was making a \"bad mistake\".\n\nHe added: \"We're having the inquiry to give people confidence we're getting to the truth. And if the government is controlling what the inquiry can and can't see, then people are not going to get confidence in the outcome.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nRoma coach Jose Mourinho has been charged by Uefa for using insulting or abusive language against an official after Wednesday's Europa League final.\n\nThe charge relates to an incident in a car park after the game, when Mourinho, 60, directed a foul-mouthed rant at English referee Anthony Taylor.\n\nThe Portuguese had been booked by Taylor in Budapest, where Sevilla beat Roma on penalties after a 1-1 draw.\n\nBoth clubs also face several charges over their fans' and players' conduct.\n\nSevilla and Roma have been charged with throwing of objects, lighting of fireworks and improper conduct of their team.\n\nSpanish side Sevilla have an additional charge for invasion of the field of play, while Roma were also charged with acts of damage and crowd disturbances.\n\nUefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body (CEDB) will decide on the matter in due course.\n\nWhat did Mourinho do?\n\nMourinho criticised Taylor in his news conference and was later captured confronting the Englishman and other officials as they boarded a minibus in the car park under the stadium.\n\nThe former Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham boss repeatedly swore and twice shouted about a \"disgrace\", before talking further in Italian.\n\nTaylor and his family were then shouted at by angry fans in Budapest Airport.\n\nDuring the game, the Manchester-based official, 44, was repeatedly called to the benches to take action as fourth official Michael Oliver struggled to keep control.\n\nTaylor issued yellow cards to 13 players, the most bookings in a Europa League game. Seven of them were to Roma players, which was a record for a final.\n\nDelays and injuries saw more than 25 minutes of injury time played across the four halves of the game, which went to extra time and then a shootout.\n\nUefa says it \"vehemently condemns\" the \"violent behaviour\" directed towards Taylor and his family at the airport, adding \"such actions are unacceptable and undermine the spirit of fair play and respect that Uefa upholds\".\n\nA video shared on social media showed Taylor and his family being accosted as they were escorted through the airport. Scuffles then broke out as they disappeared through a secure door, while a chair was thrown.\n\nBudapest airport officials said an Italian citizen involved in the incident had been charged with affray.\n\nA Budapest Airport statement read: \"Fans of the losing Roma team recognised the referee in the food court of the airport, where he was waiting for his flight to depart.\n\n\"Thanks to the airport operator's close co-operation with the police and the increased police presence at the airport during the arrival and departure of the fans, the authorities intervened immediately, and the referee was escorted to a lounge and boarded his flight safely, accompanied by police officers.\n\n\"The Italian citizen involved in the incident was apprehended by the police and criminal proceedings have been initiated on charges of affray.\"\n\nReferees' body PGMOL said in a statement: \"We are appalled at the unjustified and abhorrent abuse directed at Anthony and his family as he tries to make his way home from refereeing the Uefa Europa League final.\n\n\"We will continue to provide our full support to Anthony and his family.\"\n\nThe Premier League said it was \"shocked and appalled by the unacceptable abuse\". A spokesperson added: \"No-one should have to suffer the inexcusable behaviour they had to endure.\n\n\"Anthony is one of our most experienced and accomplished match officials and we fully support him and his family.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, whose side play Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday in Prague, said: \"All referees have a really difficult job and shouldn't be put through any difficult situations. That's not correct.\"\n\n'Mourinho should be banned for 10 games'\n\nBefore Mourinho was charged, former Premier League referee Keith Hackett called on Uefa to give him a 10-game ban and take tougher action against clubs.\n\n\"What is appalling here is that a referee has gone out and done his job,\" Hackett told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It is a prestigious game for him - for an English referee to be appointed to the final.\n\n\"He was looking forward to that, he spent years of refereeing to get to the level he is at - he is a world-class referee. He delivers a very difficult game without much contention and then he is faced with this particular problem as he is in the airport.\n\n\"It is unprecedented and Uefa have got to take action. The sanction for Mourinho? They have got to come down with a 10-game ban.\n\n\"They have also got to ban the teams from Europe. They have got to be tough - throw them out of the competition.\"\n\nHackett said Uefa must also take \"responsibility for the security of match officials right up to the time that they leave the airport\".\n\nUefa said it \"maintains a close collaboration with local police and airport security, starting from the referees' arrival in host cities.\n\nIt added: \"However, we are constantly striving to enhance the security measures for officials in co-ordination with local authorities. We will carefully assess the incidents and incorporate valuable insights into our future event planning processes.\"", "Alexander Malkevich (pictured) is a close associate of the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin\n\nWhile Russia's notorious Wagner mercenaries have been at the forefront of fighting in Ukraine's ravaged eastern town of Bakhmut, a close associate of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been involved in another battle - for the hearts and minds of people in occupied areas behind the front lines.\n\nAlexander Malkevich has helped set up pro-Russian TV stations in key areas captured since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nThrough his links to Prigozhin the media boss has been involved in projects spreading Russian influence from Africa to the US and he is under Western sanctions for spreading disinformation.\n\nFormally, Malkevich's job is running state-funded TV in Prigozhin's home city, St Petersburg. But in the summer of 2022 he moved to then-occupied parts of Ukraine, making the southern city of Kherson his base.\n\nHis main task was to set up pro-Russian television stations in regions captured since the start of the full-scale invasion. He has masterminded Tavria TV in Kherson, Za TV in Melitopol and Mariupol 24 in the eastern Donetsk region.\n\nAlexander Malkevich (right) has recruited underage reporters for his propaganda channels\n\nThe channels' reporting strictly follows the Kremlin's propaganda narratives. For example, a recent programme aired by Tavria TV reminded its viewers of the reasons given by Moscow to justify its war against Ukraine. \"Russian President Vladimir Putin says the special military operation was a forced step, because Moscow had been left with no other choice. Such security risks had been created for Russia that no other reaction was possible,\" it said.\n\nOne major obstacle facing Malkevich was an acute shortage of people willing and able to work for his channels.\n\nTo train staff, he opened a \"media school\" in Kherson, became head of the journalism department at the local university and authored a textbook for aspiring media workers in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, called \"Real Russian journalism for new regions\".\n\nSome of his students joined his TV stations before becoming legally adults. Two reporters who started working for Za TV and Tavria TV respectively were both employed at the age of just 16. The BBC has chosen not to identify the two girls because of their age.\n\nOne of the teens is known as \"Russia's youngest war reporter\" and got an award from President Vladimir Putin\n\nBut Malkevich's stint in Kherson was short-lived. Shortly before the city was retaken by Ukrainian forces in November, he fled along with some equipment and staff. While evacuating, they came under fire, and one staff member (a Russian journalist and former FSB operative) was killed.\n\nOne of the teen reporters was wounded during the shelling, and was later presented with an Order of Bravery by President Putin at a ceremony in the Kremlin.\n\nMalkevich first rose to relative prominence in 2018, when he launched USA Really - a website set up in the US by RIA FAN, which, in turn, is the most prominent outlet in the stable of propaganda and disinformation media associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner head once dubbed \"Putin's chef\" because he supplied food to the Kremlin.\n\nPRIGOZHIN: From Putin's chef to head of Russia's private army\n\nRIA FAN grew out of Prigozhin's infamous \"troll factory\", which spread pro-Kremlin views across social media and the internet from offices in St Petersburg.\n\nBut USA Really failed to take off, and Malkevich was briefly detained and questioned by the US authorities and later sanctioned for \"facilitating Prigozhin's global influence operations\".\n\nA year after launching USA Really, Malkevich was back in St Petersburg, where he set up another propaganda venture, a foundation, reportedly with a spin doctor linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nMelkevich is a close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin (left), the Wagner chief known as \"Putin's chef\"\n\nThe Foundation for National Values Protection sent a man named Maxim Shugalei to Libya, ostensibly to research public opinion. The same man had been involved the previous year in Russian meddling in presidential elections in Madagascar, which saw one candidate offered a suitcase stuffed with cash, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nWhile in Libya, one of Shugalei's engagements included a meeting with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late deposed leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Soon afterwards, in May 2019, he was arrested on suspicion of interfering in Libya's affairs on Prigozhin's behalf.\n\nOne Libyan intelligence officer told the BBC: \"If Russia had its way, we would have had Saif Gaddafi giving his victory speech in Tripoli's famous Martyrs' Square.\"\n\nShugalei was freed in December 2020 and claimed in an interview that he had only been released because Prigozhin had sent \"several thousand fighters\" to Tripoli.\n\nWhile in charge of the propaganda foundation, Malkevich also campaigned for the release of Maria Butina, a Russian agent sentenced to 18 months in jail in the US for attempting to infiltrate American political groups.\n\nWhen she returned to Russia, Butina became an \"expert\" at the foundation, and when Shugalei came back from Libyan captivity, he replaced Malkevich as its head.\n\nBut Malkevich's links to Prigozhin's organisations remained. For example, his video programme for RIA FAN, called \"Just A Minute\", continued at least until September 2022, and the latest of his numerous interviews with the outlet is dated February 2023.\n\nMalkevich's work in Ukraine did not go unnoticed by the Russian government. In January 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin rewarded him for \"organising TV broadcasting in territories which are being liberated.\"", "A video posted online shows a sandstorm surrounding the Suez Canal, which led to authorities closing two ports.\n\nParts of Egypt have been hit by clouds of dust and sand.\n\nOne person died and five others were injured on Thursday, when a billboard collapsed as a result of the sandstorm sweeping through Egypt's capital city Cairo.\n\nThe Suez Canal is one of the busiest waterways in the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"It was consensual, but it was my fault,\" says Phillip Schofield.\n\nPhillip Schofield has said he is \"not a groomer\" after admitting to having an affair with a younger male colleague.\n\nThe former This Morning presenter left ITV last week after he confirmed the relationship and he had lied about it.\n\nThe TV star told the Sun: \"I did a bad thing: I will die sorry - I've brought the greatest misery into his totally innocent life.\"\n\nSchofield has also spoken to the BBC's Amol Rajan, whose interview will be broadcast from 06:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe full interview will be available on iPlayer.\n\nThe 61-year-old first met the man he would go on to have an affair with when he was invited to appear at an event at a drama school.\n\nHe said he knew people had found some elements of the story shocking, but said: \"I am not a groomer.\"\n\nThe affair began, Schofield said, when the man was 20 years old and working alongside him at ITV.\n\n\"He worked on the show for a bit, and we became mates,\" Schofield told the newspaper.\n\n\"And then one day something happened that just changed it. And that is the moment I look back on, and regret so deeply.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about ITV's handling of the situation, how much bosses knew of the affair, and whether its own investigation went far enough.\n\nITV's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has been asked to attend the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 14 June to answer questions about the broadcaster's approach to safeguarding following the controversy.\n\nSchofield told the Sun that his first romantic encounter with the man was in his dressing room at ITV.\n\n\"It was a consensual moment, it was mutual,\" he said. \"It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates.\"\n\n\"Over a period of time it happened maybe five or six times. We just didn't think anyone knew, there was no lying, we thought, stupidly, that nobody knew.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"You look at yourself, and I absolutely know there is no question I did a bad thing. I was unprofessional, one time, in a 41-year career.\n\n\"I know I did that. And there is no excuse. I don't have an excuse. I won't put forward an excuse. No-one did anything wrong apart from me.\"\n\nSchofield also apologised to his former lover.\n\n\"It has brought the greatest misery into his totally innocent life, his totally innocent family, his totally innocent friends,\" he said. \"It has brought the greatest grief to them.\"\n\nITV has instructed a barrister to carry out an external review to establish the facts about how the broadcast network handled its own investigation into rumours of the affair in 2020.\n\nThe full BBC interview will be available on BBC iPlayer from 0600 on Friday morning", "An artist's impression of the tunnel which would run for nearly a mile to protect vehicles from falling rocks\n\nA mile-long tunnel is to be built to protect vehicles from landslips on one of Scotland's most famous tourist roads.\n\nThe A83 Rest and be Thankful in Argyll has regularly been closed by falling rocks and debris in recent years.\n\nThe closures can leave motorists facing long detours while the route is cleared.\n\nTransport Scotland has now unveiled plans for an open-sided shelter costing up to £470m as its preferred solution.\n\nThe A83 is an almost 100-mile (161km) major trunk road connecting the Mull of Kintyre and southern Argyll to the shores of Loch Lomond.\n\nAbout 1.3 million vehicles travel the route every year and it acts as an important transport link for mainland Argyll as well as the Inner Hebrides.\n\nBut the Rest and Be Thankful section - a steep climb out of Glen Croe near Arrochar - is vulnerable to landslides and was closed for a total of 200 days in 2020.\n\nThe route got its name because travellers and drovers would stop at the top of the 800ft climb to catch their breath.\n\nWhen the road is closed, an old military road beneath that was originally built by General George Wade in response to the Jacobite uprisings in the 18th Century is opened to traffic.\n\nBut if both roads are closed then a 59-mile (95km) diversion via Crianlarich has to be put in place.\n\nTransport Scotland said the debris flow shelter, which would be about 0.9 miles (1.4km) long, had been chosen ahead of four other design options and would cost between £405m and £470m.\n\nTransport Minister Kevin Stewart said the government had been \"working tirelessly to find a long-term solution to the landslip risks\".\n\nHe said: \"The identification of the preferred route option through the Glen Croe valley is a very important milestone in finding a solution to this long-standing problem.\n\n\"The proposed new debris flow shelter will help protect the road and road users from future landslides.\"\n\nThe Rest and be Thankful section of the A83 has been regularly damaged by falling rocks and debris\n\nPublic exhibitions of the new tunnel plan will be held for four days from 12 June in Arrochar and then Lochgilphead. An online exhibition is also be available.\n\nThe transport minister said: \"Work will now be taken forward at pace to further develop our proposals, including the detailed development and assessment of the preferred option along with the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment, draft Road Orders and draft Compulsory Purchase Orders.\n\n\"At the same time as progressing the long-term solution, we are looking to increase the resilience of the temporary diversion route along the existing Old Military Road, having identified the preferred route solution for it late last year.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker 'will do everything for Treble' Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City: Erling Haaland tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan he will do everything he can to win the Treble Manchester City striker Erling Haaland says he \"will do everything\" to help the club to a historic Treble. City have won this season's Premier League and can add to that if they beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final on Saturday and Inter Milan in the Champions League final on 10 June. United won each of those trophies in 1999 and are the only English club to have done such a Treble. \"It would be unreal to make this history,\" said 22-year-old Haaland. Despite City's domestic dominance, they are yet to win the Champions League and Haaland hopes he can be the missing piece to secure success in European football's biggest tournament. \"This is why they bought me of course, to get this, we don't have to hide that,\" Haaland told BBC sports editor Dan Roan. \"It would mean everything. I will do everything I possibly can to try to make it happen. It's my biggest dream and hopefully dreams do come true.\" He added: \"But as well it's not easy - it's two finals against two good teams that will do everything they can to try to destroy that. \"They will be motivated, they will be ready and we have to play at our best, because if we play at our best we have a really good chance of achieving exactly that.\" City overtook Arsenal this season to win a third Premier League title in a row under manager Pep Guardiola. \"We've been chasing the whole season so when we won the Premier League it was a big relief,\" said Haaland, who scored 36 top-flight goals this season. \"Now we've got two finals left and now the only thing we can focus on is these two finals before the vacation.\" 'I'm 196cm tall and have got long blonde hair - people are going to see me' Haaland has had a stunning first season in English football since joining City from Borussia Dortmund last summer. He has broken the Premier League record for most goals in a season with his tally and, overall, has scored 52 goals during the campaign. The Norway international has been named the Football Writers' Association (FWA) men's footballer of the year and is the first player to win the Premier League player and young player of the year awards in the same season. Haaland's exploits have made him one of the most recognisable players in the game and he says his way of dealing with the fame is to embrace it. \"It's nice, it means I've done something right,\" said Haaland. \"My life has changed of course, I can't live so normally any more. That's how my life is, I can't complain. \"I try to enjoy every single moment of it and that's how it is. \"I'm 196cm tall and have got long blonde hair so wherever I go people are going to see me. So that's how my life is. What can I do? \"There's nothing I can do, that's my life. I just have to try to enjoy it as much as I can. Try to relax when I'm home with good people around me, that's really important. Just try to enjoy my life.\" Haaland believes he has improved \"a lot\" this season but that he can get better \"from my right foot to my left foot to my heading, from the build-up play - everything\". \"I've been developing in a really positive way and that's really important for me because I'm still really young,\" he said. \"I'm 22, I've got a long career ahead of me and I still have to develop. That's also something I was thinking of over one year ago when I was thinking about my next move.\" Haaland knows Manchester United will be \"motivated\" as they will not only want to beat their local rivals to add to their Carabao Cup success this season, but also stop City from matching their Treble. \"It will not be an easy game,\" said Haaland. \"We have to play our game. We have to not think too much, we have to focus on ourselves and we have to play the game we should play. \"In the end we'll see. It's a 90-minute football game and the ones who do it best in these games can win.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Graduate engineer Youssef Mikhaiel is being treated for Fabry disease\n\nAn Egyptian man with a rare genetic disorder has won a last-ditch attempt to prevent his removal from the UK.\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel, 28, was due to be deported on Monday - but that was postponed after his case was taken to the Court of Session in Edinburgh.\n\nThe graduate engineer has Fabry disease, which damages the heart, kidneys and nervous system, and cannot access treatment in his home country.\n\nThe Home Office says it still intends to remove him from the UK.\n\nMr Mikhaiel had been held at Dungavel House detention centre in Lanarkshire for the last two weeks, but was released on bail on Friday afternoon.\n\nA petition for his release had gathered 21,000 signatures within 48 hours.\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel was met by his partner Sarah after he left Dungavel\n\nMr Mikhaiel told BBC Scotland that he was still anxious because the threat of deportation was still on the table.\n\n\"I don't want anything to affect my family or myself, because I still care about my medication condition, how it will affect my lifespan, my career and my future.\n\n\"I hope it gets sorted soon,\" he said.\n\nFabry disease in an inherited condition in which enzymes cannot break down fatty materials known as lipids, allowing them to build up in the body.\n\nThe disorder causes symptoms including chronic pain and high temperatures and can shorten a person's lifespan.\n\nMr Mikhaiel claims that if he were sent back to Egypt, he would not be able to access a drug called migalastat, which is used in Scotland to treat Fabry disease.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Scotland, officials at Misr International Hospital in Egypt confirmed that the country's drug authority does not provide the medicine.\n\nIt said: \"Undoubtedly, the absence of his required treatment for his rare disorder in Egypt would cause intense suffering or death.\"\n\nThe letter added that life expectancy in untreated men was just over 50 years.\n\nMr Mikhaiel said that returning to Egypt would affect his health, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"I didn't ask for this,\" he added.\n\n\"I came here legally for study on a student visa, until I was diagnosed by the NHS in Glasgow.\n\n\"It took them almost a year before they knew what I had.\"\n\nMr Mikhaiel arrived on a student visa in 2016 and graduated in aeronautical engineering at Glasgow University in 2019.\n\nHis visa expired the same year and he applied for leave to remain after he was diagnosed with Fabry disease.\n\nHowever, his application was refused over a failure to provide evidence in December 2021.\n\nFor the last year, he has been reporting to immigration officials in Glasgow.\n\nHis solicitor Usman Aslam obtained the letter from Misr Hospital on 15 May. However, Mr Mikhaiel was detained by Home Officials the following day.\n\nOn 19 May, Mr Aslam applied to get his client out of detention. He said that he showed the Home Office the letter from the hospital to demonstrate the seriousness of Mr Mikhaiel's condition.\n\nWhen the Home Office then ordered that he should be removed from the UK, he applied for leave to remain on medical grounds.\n\nSuch claims rely on Article 3 - freedom from torture or inhuman treatment - and Article 8 - the right to a family life - under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nMr Aslam said: \"That should have stopped that removal. End of story.\n\n\"Instead, they continued to say they were going to remove him on Monday 5 June.\n\n\"That forced my hand to go to the highest civil court in Scotland.\"\n\nMr Mikhaeil's petition for a judicial review was accepted by the Court of Session on Thursday. The court will now have to decide whether the Home Office was right to attempt to remove him from the UK while there was an application pending.\n\nHe was released from Dungavel the following day, and was met at the gates by his partner Sarah Bradley.\n\nThe Home Office said it does not comment on individual cases.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Detention plays a key role in maintaining effective immigration controls and securing the UK's borders, particularly in connection with the removal of people who have no right to remain in the UK but who refuse to leave voluntarily.\n\n\"We take the welfare of people in our care extremely seriously and have a range of safeguards in place, including round the clock access to healthcare professionals for those in detention.\"", "The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee was tough, but the BBC's test really put these whizz kids through their paces.", "The idea of a default is nearly inconceivable\n\nThe US faces dire warnings that a political stand-off over the debt ceiling could unleash unprecedented economic chaos. But few in the country, where nearly half the population relies on money from the government to help make ends meet, are making any backup plans.\n\nIn the base of a tower near the Brooklyn Bridge, half a dozen white-haired men and women assembled for their monthly book club.\n\nThe members are among the nearly 70 million Americans who receive monthly payments from Social Security, the government's assistance for pensioners and the disabled.\n\nThe programme pays out more than $115m (£92m) each month - about $1,700 on average per person - support that is at risk if President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cannot reach a deal before the US runs out of money to pay its bills.\n\nAuthorities have warned that moment could arrive in less than two weeks.\n\nThe seniors at Southbridge Towers said they were following the talks - and feel worried. But asked if they had taken any precautions in case the US defaults and their Social Security benefits do not arrive, the seniors seated around the plastic table responded with a sea of blank looks.\n\n\"That will never happen,\" declared 82-year-old Norman Manning. \"It would be disastrous.\"\n\nMr Manning is hardly alone in betting that a deal allowing the US to borrow money will get done.\n\nFinancial markets also appear largely confident, despite some signs of anxiety among investors, including a drop in demand for some kinds of US debt.\n\nEven after the lead Republican negotiator last week walked out of a closed-door meeting with White House representatives during talks aimed at avoiding a default, shares only flinched.\n\nBut Ian Bremmer, president of political consultancy the Eurasia Group, warned that even if both sides can agree to a deal, it will probably take significant wrangling before Republicans in Congress will vote for it - which could push the US into risky territory.\n\n\"This is going to get worse before it gets fixed,\" he said.\n\nWithout a deal, the White House has warned that if the government defaults, there would be severe disruption to government functions as well as pay for pensioners, government employees and members of the military. Financial markets are expected to go haywire.\n\nAnalysts say a prolonged stand-off could spark an economic downturn on the scale of the 2008 financial crisis, when millions of people lost their jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth was wiped out in financial markets.\n\nA recent poll by Ipsos/Reuters found that three in four Americans fear personal financial fallout from such an event.\n\nBut dire predictions aside, no-one is exactly sure what would happen in a default - nor are government agencies providing many clues about if or how they are preparing.\n\nWhen asked if it had alerted Social Security recipients about the risks, the Social Security Administration referred questions to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers food benefits for the poor and other programmes.\n\nUnions representing government workers said their members had received no guidance about what staff should expect.\n\n\"I don't think the government itself knows quite what would happen,\" said Daniel Horowitz, deputy legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 750,000 federal and DC government workers. \"It is the Titanic heading for the iceberg right now.\"\n\nMax Richtman, president and chief executive of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said he was not surprised that the government would not want to unnecessarily alarm seniors if some kind of agreement to raise the debt ceiling is a foregone conclusion.\n\nArzu Deiker says she is worried about what could happen to her if the government defaults\n\nBut his organisation has still been trying to raise awareness among its millions of members and supporters about the potential risks.\n\n\"What we're telling our members is save some money, have a cushion in case things don't work out in the next couple of weeks,\" he said, noting that those on fixed incomes tend to have limited financial flexibility.\n\nRobin Warshay, one of the book club members, said without her Social Security payment arriving on time, she would have to dip into savings.\n\nShe was also concerned about the ripple impact on businesses and the economy, should people's ability to spend suddenly freeze. But she said she remained \"hopefully optimistic\" talks in Washington would yield an agreement.\n\n\"If they want to get re-elected, they better make up,\" she said.\n\nEven a deal could bring economic pain, depending on what it includes, analysts warn.\n\nRepublicans are seeking steep spending restrictions and changes to some benefits programmes.\n\nWhile Mr Biden has rejected many of their proposals, he has also laid the ground for compromise, saying: \"We're going to come together, because there's no alternative.\"\n\nArzu Deiker, a home health aide in New York who receives assistance from the government to buy groceries for herself and her three children, said she was worried about the threat to that support - whether it comes in the form of default or a deal.\n\n\"I'm scared,\" said the 29-year-old. \"It would affect me a lot.\"", "Apolonia Mbondiya said a police officer visited the family home to tell them of the threat against her daughter\n\nA threat has been made against a teenage girl who called for a novel containing racial slurs to be removed from the GCSE curriculum.\n\nOf Mice and Men is one of seven books that schools in Northern Ireland and Wales can pick for teaching.\n\nIn a BBC News NI interview, Angel said hearing the slurs and the N-word in the classroom made her uncomfortable.\n\nThe girl's mother, Apolonia Mbondiya said a police officer visited their Belfast home earlier this week.\n\nThe police said they do not comment on an individual's security.\n\nThe family are now having to put security measures in place at home and at Angel's school.\n\nThe John Steinbeck novel, which is set in California in the 1930s, has a character who faces discrimination because he is black.\n\n\"It's a very violent book to begin with but it's mostly just to do with racism and how that affects me and some other black students in my class,\" Angel told BBC News NI last week.\n\n\"It's just really uncomfortable sitting in a classroom where we have to listen to racist slurs and comments.\n\n\"I understand the history behind it and stuff but you can learn that in history about slavery.\"\n\nApolonia said she and her daughter were shocked at what had happened.\n\n\"I didn't think that the interview... what she said, how she felt, would cause anyone to put a threat on her life,\" said Apolonia.\n\n\"Difference of opinion is allowed but you don't threaten someone, especially a child, when they're expressing what is affecting them in school.\"\n\nApolonia said she was worried about her daughter's safety but felt she had to speak out and condemn those behind the threat.\n\n\"Are we saying we shouldn't speak about issues that are affecting us in this society?\n\n\"I believe we are in a democratic society - we are allowed to express how we feel in a proper way,\n\n\"What are we teaching children that you can't express yourself - you cannot speak up?\n\n\"Are we saying that they should just keep holding things in?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrew Tate has denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation in a combative interview with the BBC.\n\nWhen the BBC put a range of allegations to him - including specific accusations of rape, human trafficking and exploiting women, for which he is being investigated by Romanian prosecutors - he dismissed them.\n\nWhen pushed on whether his controversial views on women harmed young people, the influencer claimed he was a \"force for good\" and that he was \"acting under the instruction of God to do good things\".\n\nThis was Mr Tate's first television interview with a major broadcaster since being released into house arrest from police custody in Romania in April.\n\nMr Tate, who has repeatedly expressed his mistrust of traditional media, has a huge following online but his views have until now gone unchallenged in a direct interview like this.\n\nHe agreed to our interview with no set conditions.\n\nHe dismissed the testimonies of individual women involved in the current investigation who have accused him of rape and exploitation.\n\nAnd he described another woman, interviewed anonymously by the BBC earlier this year, as \"imaginary\", saying she had been invented by the BBC.\n\nThe woman in question, given the pseudonym Sophie to protect her identity, told BBC Radio 4's File on Four that she followed Mr Tate to Romania believing he was in love with her. There, she was pressured into webcam work and into having Mr Tate's name tattooed on her body, she said.\n\nWhen questioned about Sophie's testimony, Mr Tate told the BBC: \"I'm doing you the favour as legacy media, giving you relevance, by speaking to you. And I'm telling you now, this Sophie, which the BBC has invented, who has no face. Nobody knows who she is. I know.\"\n\nSophie is now helping Romanian prosecutors with the investigation.\n\nI also put to him the concerns of schoolteachers, senior police figures and rights campaigners about the influence of his views.\n\nThese concerns include comments by the chief executive of Rape Crisis in England and Wales, who said she was \"deeply concerned by the dangerous ideology of misogynistic rape culture that Mr Tate spreads\".\n\nSitting across from me in a small armchair, Mr Tate said those accusations were \"absolute garbage\".\n\nLater in the interview, he said it was \"completely disingenuous\" to \"pretend\" that he was damaging young people.\n\nAndrew Tate denied fuelling a culture of misogyny and defended his reputation.\n\nWhen asked about organisations that blamed him for increased incidents of girls being attacked, and female teachers being harassed, he said: \"I have never, ever encouraged a student to attack a teacher, male or female, ever.\n\n\"I preach hard work, discipline. I'm an athlete, I preach anti-drugs, I preach religion, I preach no alcohol, I preach no knife crime. Every single problem with modern society I'm against.\"\n\nMr Tate suggested that some of his comments had been taken out of context or intended as \"jokes\" - including a video discussion in which he said that a woman's intimate parts belonged to her male partner.\n\n\"I don't know if you understand what sarcasm is. I don't know if you understand what context is. I don't know if you understand what's satirical content,\" he told me when challenged over the comment.\n\nHis description does not match the tone in an online video seen by the BBC.\n\nHe also denied admitting to emotional manipulation of women, despite comments made on a previous version of his online coaching course, Hustlers University.\n\nAn introduction on that site began: \"My name is Andrew Tate… and I'm the most competent person on the entire planet to teach you about male-female interactions.\"\n\nIt goes on to say that Mr Tate's job was to \"meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on a webcam so we could become rich together\".\n\nThe page has since been taken down.\n\nWhen asked about it in our interview, Mr Tate replied, \"I've never said that.\"\n\nI suggested that making controversial statements had brought him a lot of money by attracting followers who then signed up for a paid course on how to become a successful man.\n\nMr Tate replied: \"I genuinely am a force for good in the world. You may not understand that yet, but you will eventually. And I genuinely believe I am acting under the instruction of God to do good things, and I want to make the world a better place.\"\n\nDuring our conversation, which lasted nearly forty minutes, Mr Tate pointed several times to what he called the \"little pieces of paper\" I had brought with me, telling me I was \"saying silly things\" and should \"do some research\".\n\nIn a sign of his mistrust of traditional media, our visit and interview were filmed by his team for their own use - and after we left he claimed that the BBC had promised only to ask \"sanitised questions\".\n\nWhile the BBC did provide topics of discussion before the interview as a matter of courtesy, as per our editorial guidelines, we did not agree the questions we would ask in advance and were clear that our interview would be a wide-ranging, dynamic discussion with challenging questions.\n\nBefore we had even left the building, Mr Tate posted a message on social media promising to publish his own version of the interview, which he did shortly after.\n\nThe BBC has followed his case closely since the end of last year, when the Tate brothers were taken into custody, and has spoken to witnesses, former employees, neighbours and associates, and those involved in the investigation, to piece together an accurate picture of the Tate brothers' time in Romania.\n\nThe brothers are now in their sixth - and last - month under judicial control in this investigation, and any indictment is expected within the next few weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Scottish Greens minister Lorna Slater's charter of a private boat for an official island visit cost £1,200.\n\nA Scottish Conservatives freedom of information request revealed the cost, which was covered by government agency NatureScot.\n\nMs Slater visited the Isle of Rum, off the west coast, for five hours on 12 May. A return ferry ticket costs £9.40.\n\nShe was criticised at the time for using a private hire instead of a government-owned CalMac service.\n\nThe ministerial visit was arranged to discuss the future of the island and Kinloch Castle.\n\nCity financier and former Tory donor Jeremy Hosking had said he was interested in buying the castle, but blamed Ms Slater's intervention when he withdrew his bid.\n\nRum, the largest of the Small Isles in the inner Hebrides, is mostly owned by Nature Scot and has a population of about 40 in its off-grid community 30 miles from the mainland.\n\nThe Scottish government said at the time that hiring a boat, instead of taking a ferry, allowed the minister to spend more time on the island.\n\nEight passengers - Ms Slater, three NatureScot staff, two government staff and two islanders - travelled on the 42-berth MV Larven, leaving Mallaig before 09:00.\n\nThe Scottish government said they returned to the mainland later that afternoon, having spent five hours on Rum.\n\nThe catamaran is owned by Western Isles Cruises Ltd but has also been chartered by Calmac to cover Small Island routes between Mallaig and the small isles since 2019.\n\nCalMac runs a return service between Rum and Mallaig on three weekdays and at weekends during the summer season, costing £9.40 per passenger.\n\nThe cost for Ms Slater and her party would have been £75.20 had they been able to use the ferry.\n\nMs Slater was due to discuss the future of Kinloch Castle which was built in the 1890s as a hunting lodge\n\nOn Fridays the MV Lochnevis leaves Mallaig at 12:45, arriving at 14:10. That gives three hours and 10 minutes on the island before the return crossing departs at 17:20.\n\nA longer day trip is possible on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. On Saturdays the ferry timetable allows a stop on the island of seven hours and 25 minutes.\n\nNatureScot said it uses private boats if required to access the island.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"As owners of most the island, we use charters as circumstances demand.\"\n\nShe added: \"As we move forward to try and find a solution to the complicated issues around Kinloch Castle, it was important to ensure [Ms Slater] had as much time as possible on the island and we appreciated the minister fitting the visit into her busy schedule.\"\n\nSteve Robertson from the island's community trust previously described the row as \"a storm in a teacup\" but confirmed that the CalMac ferry service did not meet the island's needs.\n\nRum Community Trust's Steve Robertson said charter boats were needed to make the island sustainable\n\nOn Friday he told BBC Scotland the key story for islanders was that Ms Slater \"came to see us, to hear us\" and she took a \"normal method of transport\" that is also used for doctors, tradesmen and to transport children to school each week.\n\n\"We have to use charters to make things work,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the Scottish Conservatives accused the minister of having \"no shame\".\n\nTheir transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: \"This revelation is a further kick in the teeth to Scotland's betrayed island communities - as well as taxpayers footing the enormous bill for the SNP-Greens' ferries scandal.\"\n\nHe added: \"The government she's a member of has created mayhem on Scotland's ferry network through their incompetence, and yet she thought it appropriate to shun a CalMac ferry at less than a tenner a head return to shell out £1,200 of public money on a chartered boat to take her and her team to Rum.\n\n\"It's utterly tone deaf to the plight of islanders, who have to make do with a pitiful ferry service. It's also the height of hypocrisy from a Green minister who's forever demanding a greater use of public transport.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said Ms Slater's visit was \"warmly welcomed by the community\" and was an opportunity to discuss its \"vision for the future of the island and Kinloch Castle\".\n\nThe former Edwardian pleasure palace is at risk of deteriorating as it is no longer being used as a hostel.\n\n\"The minister's visit on 12 May was well received by residents and community groups,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The crossing to Rum was arranged by NatureScot, with the agreement of the Scottish government, to maximise time on the island speaking to residents and fit with Ms Slater's ministerial schedule.\"", "Jess Waterman \"was beautiful inside and out\", her family said\n\nA driver without a licence who crashed his car and abandoned his fatally injured girlfriend at the scene has been jailed for more than four years.\n\nEssex Police were called to Epping, at about 22:30 GMT on 19 February 2022 and found Jess Waterman, 20, in the passenger seat of a Mini.\n\nShe died in hospital less than 24 hours after the crash on Houblons Hill.\n\nNathan Towers, 33, of Broadoaks in Epping, admitted causing death by careless driving and other offences.\n\nJess Waterman's family said they could \"never forgive or forget the cold, calm and calculated actions of Nathan Towers\"\n\nPolice said they received four 999 calls about the crash from a man who said he had come across a single-vehicle collision.\n\nThey traced the calls to Towers' address, and found him washing muddy clothes at 01:30 the following day.\n\nAfter his arrest, they discovered his mobile phone which matched the phone number used to call the police.\n\nDoorbell footage showed him arriving to pick up Ms Waterman, from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, in the Mini and it recorded him arriving in the clothes recovered from the washing machine, police said.\n\nTowers also pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and fraud.\n\nJess was also described as a \"treasured, older sister\"\n\nIn a statement issued via the police, the Waterman family said: \"We have seen some justice for our beloved daughter Jess, but we can never forgive or forget the cold, calm and calculated actions of Nathan Towers.\n\n\"Our Jess was a beautiful, vibrant, and caring young woman who had touched the lives of so many.\n\n\"She was our light, and our world is a darker place without her.\"\n\nInsp Mark Fraser said Towers had never passed a driving test.\n\n\"That night, after losing control of his vehicle in a collision which tragically caused Jess to lose her life, he callously and selfishly fled the scene to avoid arrest, with no regard for Jess or her injuries,\" he said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alison Hammond: \"As a [TV] family we're all really struggling to process everything\"\n\nThis Morning presenter Alison Hammond has broken down live on the programme while reacting to the departure of ex-colleague Phillip Schofield.\n\nSchofield told the BBC he feels his \"career is over\" following the affair he had with a young male colleague.\n\nSpeaking on Friday's show, Hammond said he had apologised and urged people not to judge his actions too harshly.\n\n\"I'm just finding it really painful because obviously I loved Phillip Schofield,\" she said.\n\n\"And it's weird because I still love Phillip Schofield. However what he's done is wrong, he's admitted it, he's said sorry.\n\n\"But as a [TV] family we're all really struggling to process everything and I never know what to say.\"\n\nShe continued: \"But I remember what my mum always said: 'Use your Bible as your Sat Nav in life Al', and in the Bible it says 'he without sin, cast the first stone'.\n\n\"And I just don't want to say anything bad because obviously I'm in conflict.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Phillip Schofield said the affair was his \"biggest, sorriest secret\"\n\nSchofield, 61, left the ITV show last week after he admitted lying about the affair with a male colleague, who he first met at the age of 15 and helped to get into the industry.\n\nThe network has asked a barrister to lead a review into its handling of the short-lived relationship.\n\nThis week, instead of its usual presenters Schofield and Holly Willoughby, This Morning has been fronted by Hammond alongside Dermot O'Leary.\n\nO'Leary noted that \"what Phil has done is wrong\" but offered, given the widespread coverage, there should now be concerns about his mental health.\n\nClutching a small green vape during an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan, Schofield suggested recent events had left him feeling suicidal, drawing a parallel with the media treatment and online abuse of the late Caroline Flack.\n\nFormer Love Island presenter Flack's death prompted an outpouring of grief as well as a demand for it to become a turning point for the treatment of celebrities on social media and the press.\n\nShe took her own life in 2020, having stood down from the dating show after she was charged with assaulting her partner in December.\n\nSeveral Twitter users commented that Schofield's comparison was \"distasteful\".\n\nO'Leary said on This Morning: \"As a society, quite rightly we talk about mental health all the time but that can't be the preserve of people who are on the right side of history.\"\n\nHammond added: \"There's [only] so much a man can take, isn't there? And I don't want any death in this situation.\"\n\nSchofield, who is married with two children, received an outpouring of support in 2020 after revealing he is gay.\n\nAnother This Morning regular, Gyles Brandreth, said the controversy around him was \"a human story but with public implications\".\n\n\"The point is, the public implication is to do with broadcasting and to do with workplace rules, regulations, good behaviour [and] that is going to be dealt with by the review and we'll learn the consequences of that,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, we are dealing with the human being that all of us here have known and liked over many years, so it makes it difficult for us.\n\n\"And really, what I'm saying is that the reaction to it has been in some ways disproportionate at the human level.\"\n\nThe former This Morning presenter speaks about his affair and the subsequent fall out, with the BBC's Amol Rajan.\n\nFellow broadcaster Richard Bacon also lent his support, tweeting it was \"time to stop piling in on this human being\". The former Blue Peter presenter was sacked from the show in 1998 after admitting taking cocaine.\n\nFormer Good Morning Britain presenter and broadcaster Piers Morgan agreed it was \"time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who's lost everything and looks right on the edge to me.\n\n\"He doesn't seem to have committed any crime, and he's not a govt minister.\"\n\nBut Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of the Sun, disputed Schofield's claim that public scrutiny on his relationship with a younger man was homophobic.\n\n\"Don't agree,\" he posted. \"Suspect it would have been even worse had he met a girl of 15, arranged for her to have a job with him at 18 and then at some stage turned the 'friendship' into an affair.\"\n\n\"He's only 'sad' because his dirty secret came out,\" said political commentator Bushra Shaikh, \"Otherwise he'd still be sat presenting on that sofa.\n\nITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has been asked to face questions from MPs on the situation at ITV and This morning, at a session of the committee on 14 June.\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage, chair of Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Schofield's interview was \"very hard to listen to\".\n\n\"This is two lives blown apart by this incident,\" she said.\n\n\"This is two careers devastated by this and not to mention all the families and loved ones that are going to be impacted as well. It's a very difficult interview to listen to.\"\n\nHolly Willoughby is back on the The Morning sofa on Monday\n\nLauren Beeching, founder of crisis management agency Honest London, told the BBC the public response to his interview had \"picked out certain parts that Phillip has said, and disagreed with and shared, pushing even more of a 'witch hunt'\".\n\n\"It's clear that Phillip felt the urge to respond to the hate, but right now, very little can be said to improve his situation. I would have advised him to stay silent until public anger calmed down.\"\n\nBut she disagreed with Schofield saying his career was over, adding: \"I've worked with celebrities experiencing similar levels of public outrage, and in every instance, with time, the public backlash lessens. This is when Phillip can begin rebuilding his reputation.\"\n\nSimon Wadsworth, founder of Igniyte, a reputations management consultancy, told the BBC he saw the interview as a \"positive step\" which could \"help sway public opinion in his favour\", adding: \"Phillip Schofield was right to come out with his side of the story, which must have been very difficult. The interview will help to balance the narrative.\"\n\nHe also thought the presenter's TV career was not over, saying: \"At the moment yes it would seem so but in the long term no... No presenter is irreplaceable. He needs to take himself away to rebuild and reassess.\"\n\nAt the end of This Morning's Friday show, Hammond also confirmed that Holly Willoughby would return to the sofa to present it on Monday, alongside Josie Gibson.\n\nITV told the BBC it was not issuing any further statements, referring back to the independent review into its handling of a relationship between Schofield and his colleague, set up earlier this week.\n\nFor more reaction to the Phillip Schofield interview, listen on BBC Sounds to 5 Live's Voice of the UK with Nicky Campbell.", "The beach was cleared, along with the nearby Pier Approach, and a cordon set up\n\nA 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who died after being pulled from the sea off Bournemouth beach were not hit by any vessels, police have said.\n\nOfficers released more information regarding what happened on Wednesday when 10 swimmers got into difficulty.\n\nA man in his 40s arrested on suspicion of manslaughter has been released under investigation.\n\nDorset Police said there was no contact with a jet ski or boat and no-one jumped from the pier.\n\nThe force stressed investigations were still in the early stages and it was only releasing certain details to address speculation. What exactly happened is still unclear.\n\nOfficers said members of the public rushed to help the 10 swimmers struggling in the water.\n\nThe girl and boy, from Buckinghamshire and Southampton respectively, sustained critical injuries and died later in hospital.\n\nPolice said they were from separate groups visiting the beach and the arrested man was not known to them.\n\nThe eight other people were rescued and treated on the beach.\n\nPolice confirmed on Thursday the arrested man was \"on the water\" at the time of the incident.\n\nIn a statement Dorset Police said: \"Following initial enquiries, a man aged in his 40s who was on the water at the time was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. He has now been released under investigation while enquiries continue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said pier jumping had been ruled out as a cause of the tragedy\n\nEmergency services were called to the beach off Bournemouth Pier, which was packed with people on half-term holidays, at 16:32 BST.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Dorset Police said: \"Early investigation indicates that there was no physical contact between a vessel and any swimmers at the time of the incident.\"\n\nSpeaking during a later press conference, Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Farrell thanked members of the public who helped people in trouble in the water, as well as beachgoers who \"quickly moved and let the emergency services do their jobs\".\n\nDr Rob Rosa was on the beach and helped emergency service crews trying to resuscitate the 12-year-old girl.\n\nIn a post on social media, he said: \"Many of the lifeguards on the beach were teenagers themselves and despite their training would not have encountered such a scene, let alone having to resuscitate two children simultaneously whilst actively searching for others in a crowded sea.\n\n\"These young lifeguards did everything asked of them, they didn't panic, there was no hysteria, they were exceptional and they followed instruction to the letter whilst taking their own initiative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two students described seeing emergency services descend on the seafront on Wednesday\n\nAir ambulances landed on the beach, while a lifeguard attended on a jet ski in a bid to rescue those who were in the water.\n\nThe coastguard also conducted a search to make sure no other people were missing and said it was \"satisfied there are not\".\n\nA section of the beach and the nearby Pier Approach were cleared and a cordon was put in place.\n\nThe RNLI is now offering support to the lifeguards who were on the scene.\n\nThe beach was cleared along with nearby Pier Approach in Bournemouth\n\nTobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, said protocols on the pier could be reviewed after the \"terrible tragedy\".\n\nHe said Bournemouth prided itself on being a family resort and the incident had taken \"everybody by shock\".\n\nLeader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, Vikki Slade, told members of the press making sure the beach is safe would be a \"top priority\" for the authority.\n\nShe said extra staff would be on at the scene this weekend and lifeboat support from the RNLI would be visible.\n\nWhen asked about the protocols in place for water safety, she said the team \"is always looking at these issues, but today isn't the day for that\".\n\nDorset Police is appealing for witnesses to come forward and has said further information will be released \"as the investigation progresses\".\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency are also involved in the investigation.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 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